mayfield_ooc | Applications

• Please read over all the rules and information before applying in order to minimize any confusion before joining.

• If applying for a character that has already been dropped, it would be a good idea, though not required, to know something of their previous interactions. You are also free to pick up a dropped character with no memories of their previous time in Mayfield.

• All content for the personality and sample entry in your app must be written or roleplayed by you; for the personality section in particular, we do not accept copied text from wikis or other sources. Obviously, you may not copy your app from other players, whether in Mayfield or other games. Application plagiarism will result in a ban from the game.

• If you wish for your character to be placed in a specific house, please mention this in the relevant section of the application and specify that permission was obtained by the PCs already residing in that house. We will be operating by the Honor System for this, and there is no need for others to comment their permission in this post!

• Other special requests would also best go in the beginning of the application. Remember, grammar and spelling are important -- if your app contains errors, you will be asked to revise.

• Please post all applications or canon updates in this post; posting them elsewhere and linking to them from here may cause them to get changed later. Posting them here keeps us from having to save them.

When Applying, Fill Out the Following:

Name: Not the character's name, but yours or however you'd like us to refer to you.
Personal Journal: If you have one; a journal on another website is fine.
Contact Info: Any other way of contacting you. IM screen names, e-mail address, etc. AIM appears to be the common link between most players, so having a handle on AIM is preferable.
Other Characters Played: Any other characters you play at Mayfield, if applicable.
Preferred Housing: We encourage random matches, but if there is a particular house you want, you will need to contact every person in the house for permission. Please post your app AFTER doing this. If you cannot get in contact with any one person, please wait a week after contact and we'll accept it as a good faith effort. It is not necessary for those you received permission from to comment; we believe you! If you have no housing preference, simply put "N/A".

Character Name: Names, nicknames, whatever is applicable. In western order, please. If the character has no last name (adult males especially), you are free to either make one up or let us do it.
Character Series: 
Character Age: 
Background: We will accept copy/pastes or links to Wikipedia or another source, provided that the source reasonably explains the canon. This section is necessary, so if you can't find an explanatory source, you'll have to write something up yourself.
Personality: The more detailed here, the better. This lets us get a good feel for the character. Please try to back up your details with canon examples when you're getting past their basic character and more in-depth. Generally, we want to see at least four good-sized paragraphs.
Abilities: This section may end up being optional for you. If your character has any abilities or powers, such as magic, they'll be taken away upon arrival in Mayfield. These will come back over time, though.
Sample Entry: Please write as if you've already been accepted and writing an ordinary post from your character during their stay in Mayfield. Using an "introduction" post is fine, but we tend to discourage it, as the typical "who am I where am I what is this crazy place" format doesn't really give us a good grasp of how your character will behave on a daily basis. If you have trouble writing sample posts, we allow links to museboxes or other RPs to demonstrate as a sample. However, you'll want to post with the account you'll be linking to in that situation. Please make sure that your app is written in first person (!!!), as that's the format that will be used in the roleplay. Generally, we want to see at least five sentences, if not more. Prose log style samples will not be accepted. If you're confused about the distinction, we will be happy to explain. Remember, we're looking for FIRST-PERSON format; prose narration is fine, but it cannot make up the bulk of the entry.

When Applying for an Original Character, Fill Out the Following

Name: Not the character's name, but yours or however you'd like us to refer to you.
Personal Journal:
Contact Info: Any other way of contacting you. IM screen names, e-mail address, etc. AIM appears to be the common link between most players, so having a handle on AIM is preferable.
Other Characters Played: Any other characters you play at Mayfield, if applicable.
Preferred Housing: We encourage random matches, but if there is a particular house you want, you will need to contact every person in the house for permission. Please post your app AFTER doing this. If you cannot get in contact with any one person, please wait a week after contact and we'll accept it as a good faith effort. It is not necessary for those you received permission from to comment; we believe you! If you have no housing preference, simply put "N/A".

Character Name: Names, nicknames, whatever is applicable. In western order, please. If the character has no last name (adult males especially), you are free to either make one up or let us do it. 
Character Age: 
Background: For OCs, we require a detailed background to be fully written out. Please make sure to describe both the character's specific, personal background, and the world the character is from. If it is exactly like the real world, you'll still need to describe the location and the specifics of the society the character lives in (also please note here that we no longer accept 'Canon OCs,' so if this world is not one invented by you, the character is not appable).

This section will need to be somewhat long; there's no specific length we want, but we want to have a very clear feel of the character's backstory, so that we can compare it to the personality section.
Personality: This section is probably the most important. We're looking for at least six or seven paragraphs, but what's more important is that this be comprehensive and detailed. We want to see what makes your character tick, and we want to see that you understand what makes them tick and have fleshed them out as a character. Some things we will need to see include their important relationships and the major events in their lives and how these have shaped them, how they tend to interact with others and the world around them, their strengths and weaknesses, and what motivates them, among others.

If we do not have a strong sense of personality or it doesn't seem to match up with the background or sample, we will not accept the character even if your writing is strong.
Abilities: This section may end up being optional for you. If your character has any abilities or powers, such as magic, they'll be taken away upon arrival in Mayfield. These will come back over time, though.
Sample Entry 1: We're looking for a first person sample here; prose or action log format is not acceptable. If you write a sample, please write as though your character has already been accepted and is in Mayfield. You may write an introduction or first post, but we tend to discourage this, as the typical "who am I where am I what is this crazy place" format doesn't really give us a good grasp of how your character will behave on a daily basis. You may also use a link to a post in a dressing room, another game, or a musebox. We're looking specifically for a clear sense of character voice; spelling and grammar are important, but showing strong voice and characterization is more important than anything else. Remember, we're looking for FIRST-PERSON format; prose narration is fine, but it cannot make up the bulk of the entry.
Sample Entry 2: In this sample, we'd like to see a different side of your character than we saw in your first sample. This sample also needs to be in first person, but you may do a sample heavily based on introspection and action as long as it shows us a different side of your character and your first sample was strongly focused on speaking voice. For this sample, we will ask you to write something out as though your character is already in Mayfield. Please do not link to a sample elsewhere or use their first post/waking up in Mayfield here. That can go in the first sample instead.

• Before applying, please look over any applications that were recently accepted to get an idea of what we're looking for.

• If you apply for a character that has already been reserved, we will inform you and ignore the application until the reserve runs out. You may not apply for more than two characters from the same canon. For the sample entry, you may write your own entry, or use a post from a musebox, dressing room, or other game. We recommend testrun_box if you prefer the latter!

• After you're accepted, please follow all of the instructions given. You will need to reply to the acceptance, post your journal to the friend add page and your canon post, join the communities, and use the friend add page to update your journal. Once you're accepted, please introduce yourself on the community when you're ready to play.

• If your app is "Pending", do not freak out! This means that we need you to make some revisions, and does not mean you're rejected. We generally give players a chance to revise before rejecting them, but we will reject apps that do not address the concerns stated when we asked for a revision. If you have been rejected, our reply will clearly state this to be the case. If we have not gotten back to you yet, under no circumstance does this mean you are rejected. If it has been over a week since our last reply, it would be a good idea to contact us with a reminder, otherwise, please be patient!

• If you have received a "Pending" notice, you will have one week to supply us with your revisions, or your reserve will be considered expired and that someone else is free to apply for the character.

• The typical wait for a reply on apps may be anywhere from a day to a little over a week. If any part of your application requires a pending, it may be another week after your reply to that before we can get to you. We process a high volume of apps every round, so please be patient.

• If you have not heard back on a pending for over a week after apps close, please send a PM directly to the mod account.

APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Name: Kobayashi
Personal LJ: Kobayashi89
Contact Info: MindtheSukima on AIM
Other Characters Played: Remilia Scarlet, Naze Youka, Davesprite
Preferred Housing:

Character Name: Diamonds Droog
Character Series: Homestuck
Character Age: Unknown (Over 18)
Background: http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Diamonds_Droog
Personality: Diamonds Droog is a very violent kind of person. This is not, however, to say that he is wild, rowdy, loud or unrefined like certain one-eyed partners in crime though. Even when considering who stole his hat and the terrible, terrible things he plans to do to them, dead or alive, he is nothing if not cool and collected and dangerously intelligent. It is noted that it takes a savvy kind of psychopath to tread the line between obeying a clear superior and facilitating a perfectly useless genocide – something that the Draconian Dignitary in the kids’ session does quite competently (though they are two separate people, Draconian Dignitary in the kids’ session and Diamonds Droog, who was Draconian Dignitary in the trolls’ session are practically identical in personality). To put it simply, with revenge and violence as his motivations and intelligence and cunning as his mode of operation, he is efficient, professional, sadistic and ruthless in his endeavors. Though he’s always willing to make room for a well-deserved comeuppance.

Despite exuding the presence of the calm, collected brains of the operation who keeps his dumber and/or angrier counterparts on the ball and in line, Droog is still quite capable of violent outbursts, including against his fellows, as seen when he gives Hearts Boxcars a sound drubbing for suggesting stupid wardrobe changes, something that may be of particular offense to DD given his own fashion preferences. Unlike Deuce and Boxcars, he shares Slick’s need to exact painful, bloody revenge on people who slight him, and is far more competent at it, smoothly taking out two of the Felt’s trickier members, Fin and Trace, with deadly efficiency. He also seems to take a deep satisfaction in Aradia taking violent, bloody revenge on Vriska at his direction as her Exile, seeming quite proud of that show of violence, as well as approving of her independent, sharp responses to his attempts to further command her. His weapon of choice is his Ultra-Violence Cuestick, a reference to A Clockwork Orange like his name is.

Of course, none of that isn’t to say he isn’t the brains of the operation. In the kids’ session, the Draconian Dignitary handles the running of an entire kingdom while the Sovereign Slayer is busy destroying things, as well as craftily stealing the books necessary to create Becquerel (who would eventually power up the Sovereign Slayer to nigh-unstoppable). Droog himself outwits the future- and past-trailing duo of Fin and Trace and in the same ploys dispose of Doze and captures Stitch, one of the actually competent members of the Felt. He also demonstrates a good ability to make sense of the Felt’s complicated time-shenanigans and also know when not to over-think things.

Still, as efficient, ruthless and business-like as Droog is, he’s still a member of the Midnight Crew and prone to a fair share of eccentricities – though his run a little darker than some of the others. On the brighter side, he likes Swedish fish, which he keeps a pair of in his back-up hat. He also has multiple back-up hats, and everything really – his immaculate wardrobe that he keeps in his Brawlsoleum is evidence to his interest in being fashionable and sharply dressed – he’s the only member of the midnight crew who bothers to wear a tie. His sordid literature of choice is a pinup print of black-and-white monochrome beauties that he conceals within a normal newspaper. He can be seen reading it while also watching Aradia make Vriska pay – implying he either has no problem mixing sexual gratification and violence, or actually finds this preferable. Also, when he shoves Stitch into his brawlsoleum, he notes that carrying around his own person imprisoned tailor is gratifying for personal reasons – either an enjoyment of kidnapping and hostages, an extension of his care for fashion, or both.

Abilities: He doesn’t particularly have any abilities. But he plays a mean saxophone.
Sample Entry:
[Phone]

[The phone call starts with silence. Maybe the quiet sound of someone taking a sharp drag from a cigarette, hard to tell over these old phones. What is easily heard is the long, sighing exhale from after it. A pause, and then measured, steady voice whose words betray a mind bent on bloody murder.]

I’m gonna cut you a deal here. I’m gonna ask a question. You can answer now and I’ll do some things with you. Or you can refuse to answer, and then I’m gonna find you, drag the answers out of your broken jaws and then do some things with you twice. Do you understand the terms?

[Another pause as he takes a drag of his cigarette. And doesn’t give a fuck that he’s already smoking at 7 in the morning.]

Alright, so tell me: who are you and what the hell is this pink monkey suit you put me in?

[Action; House]

[This is some real crazy shit. Weird city, weird houses, full of all these weird pinkos. Well, no point in worrying about those details. Gotta find the guy behind this and give him the business.

Course, everyone knows the giving someone the business requires a decent armory, and preferably a decent wardrobe too, so securing those are the first priorities, not necessarily in that order. Fake wife, fake kids, don’t mind as your new daddy starts casually ransacking the room and picking out what he likes so he can do this thing armed, dangerous and dressed to kill.]

[Action; Town]

[You spot a man interrogating a drone, by which we mean giving him a senseless drubbing with a pool cue! The guy doing it doesn’t seem particularly enraged, rather just going about his (rather violent) business. And possibly smirking.

What do you do?]

Welcome to 340 Brady Lane, Diamonds Droog! Please reply here with your character journal. Once you've done that, complete the following:

• Join

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mayfield_ooc,

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• Add your info to your canon post
• Add your info to your household! Use the street list to find your house.
• Make sure to tag your first post with the !intro tag, as well as your character's personal tag: c: diamonds droog

Go ahead and introduce yourself in the main comm and tell people where your character will be living!

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