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

Personality:
Equius is a very Serious, Mature, Refined Gentleman, if only in his own mind. His rich blue colored blood means that he is a member of Alternia's upper class, and it is not something he takes lightly. He is a firm believer in the principals of the Hemospectrum, and looks down upon those lower on the scale than he is while regarding those above him a sort of reverence that boarders on fetishistic. However, he also seems to have a fetish for "rustbloods," those trolls at the very bottom of the hemospectrum. He finds fraternizing with them to be scandalous and depraved, two words whose very meanings make him sweat more than an ice cold glass of milk on a hot day. Then again, it's very easy to fluster him and get him sweating because he takes everything so seriously. He has a hard time distinguishing jokes, teasing, or sarcasm from sincerity, and takes everything at face value. He frowns upon the use of facetious insincerity, however he's not above blatant lies, as highbloods are expected to be duplicitous and backstabbing at all times. He also believes in maintaining a high level of dignity, and doesn't like to tolerate lewd language and unbecoming behavior, though he's learned to deal with it - most people he admonishes only swear more when he tries.

Because of his high standing, he is also highly educated, with a fairly impressive vocabulary and a keen interest engineering and programming. Although he isn't a hacker software wizard like Sollux, he does builds robots in his spare time, which would require some knowledge of programming in order to make them move and present a challenge to him during his daily cage matches. He has also made and installed prosthetic limbs for two of his fellow SGRUB players, implying that he has a basic, if not in depth, understanding of anatomy. His hobbies also include collecting traditional (yet disturbing) musclebeast artwork, the noble art of archery (though he's never successfully fired a single arrow), and Alternian Slam Poetry (which is very private for good reasons).

As much as he would like to maintain an air of stoic refinement, he's easily upset and prone to leaping before he looks. He's easily discouraged by failure, criticism, not getting his way, and sometimes even his own strength causing him to fly off into rages. When frustrated, the only things that calm him down are random acts of violence or his moirail, Nepeta. She is the most important person in his life, and he watches over her with fierce devotion, protecting her from the many dangers of the Alternia, whether it's physical harm or simply poor manners. And despite the way he belittles her for roleplaying, he has an active imagination himself, often playing with his robots as if they were other people, talking to them and playing out little fantasies. He also likes roleplaying himself, after a fashion. Specifically, the kind where he is put into a position of subjugation by a superior. But that's a far cry from the childish games Nepeta indulges in, let him tell you, and it's not really roleplay.

Because his instabilities bother him, he prefers to be left alone with his machines. There, the worst that can upset him is when he accidentally breaks a part, or if he runs out of fresh towels. It also reduces the risk of him accidentally hurting someone else with his freakish strength – Oddly enough, despite the fact that he could easily get away with it because of his blood status, he never, ever raises a hand to anyone. He always takes his anger out on inanimate objects, such as his robots, or his bows. Though no one torments him out of fear, there are a few trolls who consistently yell at him, and the most he'll do is yell back. Or sweat. Mostly, he sweats. He's greatly embarrassed by this, especially since it leads people to think that he's “getting off,” but there's very little he can do about it, except shower or wipe himself down with towels. Still, it's gross, and he's self-conscious about it.

He's incredibly awkward in social situations, preferring to keep to himself and observe others interacting. It's kind of creepy. When he is engaged in conversation, he's highly condescending to those below him, or the biggest brown-noser in existence to those above him. He takes a lot of hate in stride, holding his head high and proud even though he knows the others laugh at him behind his back. He believes very strongly in STRENGTH, not just of the body, but of mind and conviction as well. It does bother him that he is hated and looked down upon, and he's well aware of the faults of the hemospectrum (noting that (dead)Aradia is graceful and well behaved, while Gamzee is a useless degenerate), but he doesn't allow himself the flexibility to change, feeling that it is better to stand by what you believe, and endure all criticism stoically than to bend to the will of others (unless they are of higherblood, but as that is one of his strongly held principles, it sort of doesn't count).

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Equius Zahhak ♐ Homestuck ♐ Unreserved