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: Minki
Personal LJ: None
Contact Info: minki.kim.585@my.csun.edu
Other Characters Played: Clod, Nyarlathotep, the Doctor, Sage Barnes, Rip van Winkle
Preferred Housing: Another character, Satoru Uujishima, will be apped into the game in this session and I'd like Irisu to be paired with him.

Character Name: Kyouko Irisu
Character Series: Irisu Syndrome
Character Age: 19 years old
Background: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DarthWiki/IrisuSyndrome

Personality: Irisu overall is a bit of a loner. She distances herself from other people at all costs and earnestly wishes nothing to do with them at all. One of her themes in the game are titled “I Didn't Talk to Anyone Again Today” hinting at just how much of a recluse she has become from her peers. Even when she genuinely likes someone or has feelings for another person, there is a great chance that she wouldn't make the effort to interact with him. Irisu is able to show herself in public, but beyond that, she's a virtual recluse and feels that it's bothersome to deal with people that she doesn't know and earnestly could not care for.

Her love for rabbits and her loneliness actually go hand in hand together. She likes rabbits, seeing them as gentle, quiet, and lonely creatures after her experiences with the class' injured rabbit during grade school. Irisu associates herself with them and feels at ease whenever she has one around her. However, Irisu despises cats with all her heart. After seeing the class' cat lick at the rabbit's decapitated head, she left school and closed herself off from people. Irisu associates cats as destructive animals after one of them was responsible for killing “a part of her”. Anybody that might show the same interest in rabbits or hate for cats as Uujishima hinted at can earn her interest, but that doesn't mean she quite has the power to be courageous enough to converse. Until now, though, Irisu has been nothing but a lonely girl.

The ways she deals with her loneliness are often unhealthy. She should simply stare out at the ceiling for ten hours or play puzzle video games. Incidentally, her puzzle games often make the tools that she uses to keep herself sane and busy. The more it occupies her mind, the more she would feel less inclined to act on her more violent tendencies. Often what has an adverse effect compared to her puzzle games is her addiction to cough syrup and “white powder”, ephedrine and codeine. She is accustomed to taking thirty packets a day and with each use, she feels more willing to act on impulse than hold herself back. She has an addictive personality with little capacity for self-restraint unless another person would find out and call her out on it.

Irisu, behind others backs, has little regard for personal space. Out of curiosity at times when nobody is looking, she would rummage through others' notebooks or belongings if something has caught her attention. She looked through Uujishima's drawings and fell in love with him after seeing all the illustrations of cats committing suicide. When people aren't looking, Irisu finds that she is capable of dangerous, extraordinary things. She's normally a recluse, but she found herself able to plan and organize together a cabin trip among peers. On her own terms, Irisu has little problem dealing with or interacting with people, making her more bold than people would give credit for. She is able to put on a face and act out roles that she has assigned herself.

One of such roles would be that of a murderer. Irisu was capable of planning out the cabin trip as a part of her plan and use her own stocking as a dangerous murder weapon to hide the evidence. In a bad ending, Irisu got away with several murders without any clues to point towards her. She escaped investigation and watched the news reports of her crimes on television. Irisu can be dangerously cunning if left on her own and unstable with only a puzzle game holding her actions back. Being left alone for nearly all her life has allowed Irisu to become cold and calculating, characteristics beyond what a mere recluse might have. She plans ahead and thinks of ways to act without endangering herself. These talents partly stem from her experience with writing and studying scenarios both in fiction and real life.

All of her motivations for murder stem from trying to be with one person, Satoru Uujishima. She isn't a murderer who kills indiscriminately. She is willing to kill anyone that stands in her way from becoming more intimate with a person that caught her eye. Irisu harbors special hate for Ageha for having feelings for Uujishima, but also hates Edogawa for keeping Uuji away from her. While she can make efforts to join the group, Irisu's way of thinking is too unstable and she is immediately tempted with murder if just to become closer to Uujishima.

Of course, this doesn't mean that Irisu has no chance of opening herself towards friends. When conditions are right and she chooses against taking the extremes, Irisu can open herself up to others that she didn't think she could interact with. These sorts of people are mostly the socially active types like Edogawa and Ageha who first began interacting with Uuji. If they take initiative, then she will begin to open herself up and consider them as good friends. Irisu is afraid of people, but at the same time, she wishes for friends and companionship. Loneliness is something that she is terrified of hence her drastic efforts to preserve her closeness with Uuji. Irisu has the potential to become a sweet girl and find stability inside her mind.

Abilities: None
Sample Entry: http://planeocracy.livejournal.com/651808.html?thread=34271264#t34271264

http://planeocracy.livejournal.com/662512.html?thread=34750704#t34750704

http://planeocracy.livejournal.com/664741.html?thread=34893733#t34893733

Welcome to 748 Partridge, Kyouko Irisu! Please reply here with your character journal. Once you've done that, complete the following:

• Join

mayfield_rpg,

mayfield_ooc,

mayfield_logs, and optionally

junefield
• 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: kyouko irisu

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

The game will be open for new entries on January 16th

Applications

Kyouko Irisu | Irisu Syndrome | Not Reserved

Kyouko Irisu | Irisu Syndrome | Not Reserved

Kyouko Irisu | Irisu Syndrome | Not Reserved

Accepted!