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: Xander
Personal Journal:

der_glitzkrieg
Contact Info: AIM - derglitzkrieg
Other Characters Played: n/a
Preferred Housing: n/a

Character Name: Sol Badguy
Character Series: Guilty Gear
Character Age: Unknown, but an adult.
Background: http://guilty-gear.wikia.com/wiki/Sol_Badguy
Personality: Sol is typically a man of few words. Even people he's known for a long time are lucky to get more than a sentence out of him. He will be a man of even fewer words if you ask him about what he's doing or about his past. In canon, when asked by Crow about why he came to all the way to where he is, Sol responded with "I don't like you" and nothing else. He tells Ky that it's none of his business what he's doing.

He's very aloof to people he doesn't know and tends to barely respond to them at all. When approached by Bridget in canon, he ignores any questions directed at him. He's also very direct to those that are in his way. When Jam thinks Sol is responsible for burning down her restaurant, Sol just tells her to move. He doesn't mince words with people, making his dislike of them known. He tells people to their face that they're trouble or that he finds their existence grating. He constantly tries to get Axl to leave him alone in canon by either being rude to him or flat out ignoring him.

In spite of his usual disposition, Sol can be caring, it's just caring in a very Sol-like manner. He tells Millia to give up and go away when she says she's chasing I-no. He does this not out of arrogance, but out of concern for her well-being. He's also not ungrateful to people who give him information. He investigates a PWAB branch on the request of Potemkin after he's given info, even though he didn't really want to. He's also a man of his word and keeps promises, especially to those he's somewhat close to.

He's also fearless. He himself is nigh indestructible so he has little fear of being hurt. He is considered by the Post-War Administration Bureau to be an extreme threat and is noted as having powers surpassing all known limits. This is probably why he will fight anybody if given enough reason to.
Abilities: Sol is the prototype Gear, meaning that he's even more powerful than command-type Gears, which are already more powerful than an ordinary Gear. He can't be controlled by command-type Gears at all. He has extremely fast regenerative capabilities, he's physically stronger than any human, and he has powerful fire magic. The fire magic partially stems from the sword he wields, the Fuuenken. He can call on his Gear powers when in need and that makes him even more powerful. To put things in perspective, in canon he's viewed as more dangerous than a woman who destroyed an entire country by herself.
Sample Entry: http://gearbox.dreamwidth.org/1551.html

Your application is looking good so far, we would like to see more added to the personality section - while you've made mention of his various interactions with other characters through speech, considering expanding on his canon relationships and how they might show his personality.

Expanded personality: There are four characters that Sol interacts with most that show facets of his personality: Dizzy, I-no, Axl, and Ky.

With Dizzy, he shows an almost gentle side. He's certainly much nicer to her than to anyone else and tries to keep her best interests in mind. He understands and empathizes with what Dizzy is going through when she loses control of her Gear powers. Even when Necro takes over as a defense mechanism after Dizzy is knocked off of the Jellyfish Pirates' airship by I-no, he speaks to Dizzy directly and never addresses her "systems" (Necro, in this case, being the active one). He knows that she's still in there and can hear him, even if she won't remember it. He tells her to never lose her spirit; he sees in her the hope of the world.

I-no inspires absolute hatred in Sol. He holds nothing back when speaking to her or fighting her. In the story mode of Guilty Gear XX, he is made so intensely angry by I-no that he goes berserk and activates his Gear abilities. She embodies everything that Sol hates. Her completely careless nature of screwing around in the lives of others (and Sol -- she tries to eliminate his past self) infuriates him. He responds to her taunting with aggressive, direct, and rude insults and/or threats of violence.

His relationship with Axl is a good indication of how he treats his friends. Sol's irritated a lot by Axl, but never tells him to go away. He lets him tag along for however long he wants to, so long as Sol never feels that Axl is in danger. He seems to enjoy the company, even though he'll never admit it. They also get into what can be called "friendly" fights. In Sol's story mode in Guilty Gear XX, Axl gets the first hit in on him and Sol responds by giving a thumbs up as a sign of respect. Sol shows his concern in a strange way, mostly telling Axl to leave or go away so he doesn't get hurt.

How he treats Ky is an interesting facet to him. Sol made a promise to Ky in Accent Core+ to not interfere with his business in dealing with the Post-War Administration Bureau because, unlike most anyone else, Sol trusts Ky to be able to handle it on his own. He respects Ky in spite of the way he talks to him. Sol also trusts Ky enough to leave Dizzy in the care of the Jellyfish Pirates, which was a suggestion made by Ky. They have a very strong rivalry, but it's obvious that Sol cares about Ky; he doesn't have the patience to deal with Ky's lack of patience with him.

Welcome to 1124 Taylor Road, Sol Badguy! 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: sol badguy

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

Yes, I'm everbody's Mr. Badguy~

Applications

Sol Badguy | Guilty Gear

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