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Before applying, please be sure to read the following:
⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player:
Contact: Journal/Plurk/AIM — anything to help identify since someone might share your name handle.
Age: You must be at least 13 years old to apply.
Current Characters: If a new player, just put "N/A"
⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character:
Age:
Canon:
Canon Point:
Background: We do not need a play by play of their life. You can of course provide one, but it's not necessary. A summary of their role in the canon and important events involving their character will suffice. Wiki links are allowed.
Personality: Tell us everything you can about how the character works. What are their quirks, reasons for thinking, habits, and flaws—basically we want to know not only how they act, but also why they act that way. You are free to use canon as examples, but be sure to explain why you are referencing the event.
Abilities: If there are any particular abilities the character has supernatural or otherwise, list them here. Referencing to a wiki list is acceptable. However, if there are any particular abilities that need to be weakened or removed, note them here.
Alignment: Please refer to the Alignment entry to choose which alignment your character would most likely fall under. Include a brief (a couple of sentences max) just to help explain why you think your choice is the best fit.
Other: Anything else you'd like to mention.
⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
Sample: We have two requirements for the sample:
The sample can be "written" in three different ways and you can choose which one will work best for you:
Format wise, you can use either [ brackets ] OR narrative prose. We do require that the writing at least be coherent, have proper sentence structure, and is mostly grammatically correct (we realize that writing styles can be loose/creative in [ bracket ] form so we're giving a bit more leeway). One last suggestion we have is try to have the character interacting with the environment and try thinking of the sample less of a narrative piece but more like a post or thread prompt you might make in the game. That will help the sample show not only how you will write the character, but also how you will play them in practice.
Questions: If you have any questions, ask them here.
Clean copy and paste form here:
Before applying, please be sure to read the following:
- Read the Rules and the Game Information.
- Double check the Reserves and Taken Characters lists to make sure the character you're applying for is not on the list. Also check the comments in case the entry has yet to be updated, as well as any pending applications.
- Feel free to use the most recent test drive both for practice as well as to use for samples. IMPORTANT! If you submit threads as samples, you must submit the application with that character journal. This is the only way we can ensure that the samples are from you and not someone else.
- Linked samples must have been made within the past year.
- You may apply for up to two characters per cycle.
- Application challenges are allowed. Reserves will have priority, but it's not definitive. We will choose the better application regardless.
- Do not plagiarize. If we find that the information provided was directly taken by either another player or source material such a wiki, the application will be rejected immediately. If we find this after processing the application, we will revoke the application and have you removed from the game with potential ban.
- Reusing your own applications from other games is allowed. We only ask any original written samples to conform to our game. That is, we don't want to read samples that are set specifically for another game's premise. Note: this does not apply to threads linked from other games used as samples.
- If you are rejected, you cannot reapply for the same character until the next cycle. However, you can apply for a different character in the same cycle.
- Those accepted must fill out all of the required entries within a week to be considered part of the game. Otherwise, we will consider it a revocation of the application.
- Fill out the form and comment to this entry! You can either paste the application directly to the entry or link it from your own journal/musebox.
Player:
Contact: Journal/Plurk/AIM — anything to help identify since someone might share your name handle.
Age: You must be at least 13 years old to apply.
Current Characters: If a new player, just put "N/A"
Character:
Age:
Canon:
Canon Point:
Background: We do not need a play by play of their life. You can of course provide one, but it's not necessary. A summary of their role in the canon and important events involving their character will suffice. Wiki links are allowed.
Personality: Tell us everything you can about how the character works. What are their quirks, reasons for thinking, habits, and flaws—basically we want to know not only how they act, but also why they act that way. You are free to use canon as examples, but be sure to explain why you are referencing the event.
Abilities: If there are any particular abilities the character has supernatural or otherwise, list them here. Referencing to a wiki list is acceptable. However, if there are any particular abilities that need to be weakened or removed, note them here.
Alignment: Please refer to the Alignment entry to choose which alignment your character would most likely fall under. Include a brief (a couple of sentences max) just to help explain why you think your choice is the best fit.
Other: Anything else you'd like to mention.
Sample: We have two requirements for the sample:
- Character Portrayal. We should see examples of the character's dialogue as well as some introspection or additional narrative to further show how you intend to write the character. This is the most important part of the sample and where most of the weight will be.
- Use of Emotions. This is our "game setting" requirement. Essentially we want to ensure that you have a basic grasp of the game's premise, especially with the use of emotions. It can be a small scene, even incidental to the main sample. For apathetic characters or those who do not exhibit emotions easily, an alternative is to describe what the character is doing instead and essentially show how they behave in such a manner. For example, if a character is set in a scenario that would normally provoke an emotional response, what do they do instead? What is their mindset and their reaction instead? This portion doesn't have to be lengthy and can even be a couple of sentences to a paragraph. Also keep in mind that subtle and passive effects count, so you do not have to try and create something exuberant or extreme. A calm wind will work just as well as a raging storm, so feel free to be as simple or creative as you want.
The sample can be "written" in three different ways and you can choose which one will work best for you:
- Test Drive. You can utilize our test drive to cover both requirements of the sample. So long as there is enough character portrayal and a scene with an emotional reaction, be it within the prompt or done during the thread, then it will satisfy both requirements.
- Link out + Written. You can link to threads/entries from other games, memes, or museboxes to show character portrayal, and then write an additional short scene for the emotion portion of the sample.
- Original Sample. You can write a complete sample that shows both character portrayal and a scene involving emotion use. This can be one sample or two separate samples. If you opt to write an original sample, you are welcome to use any prompts from any of our Test Drives, Intro Logs, Task Board, and even past events. You are also free to change things up and are not restricted to any of these prompts. They are just here to help offer ideas.
Format wise, you can use either [ brackets ] OR narrative prose. We do require that the writing at least be coherent, have proper sentence structure, and is mostly grammatically correct (we realize that writing styles can be loose/creative in [ bracket ] form so we're giving a bit more leeway). One last suggestion we have is try to have the character interacting with the environment and try thinking of the sample less of a narrative piece but more like a post or thread prompt you might make in the game. That will help the sample show not only how you will write the character, but also how you will play them in practice.
Questions: If you have any questions, ask them here.
Satori Komeiji | Touhou Project | Unreserved
Player: Duo
Contact: karakasafever @ AIM
Age: 23
Current Characters: Run & Susanoo from Akame ga Kill!, Yuuna Yuuki from Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru
Character: Satori Komeiji
Age: Unstated, but presumably very old.
Canon: Touhou Project
Canon Point: Post- Urban Legend in Limbo, the newest fighting game
Background: The Backstory section is so dismally small but that's about the most concise way to sum it up. If you need something else I can try writing it out for you, but that's the important stuff.
Personality: The one thing that's made the most abundantly clear from her dialogue is that Satori Komeiji really likes to fuck with people.
Touhou Project is largely about a bunch of girls beating each other up over literally nothing important, so the basis of her personality as far as this app is concerned is based on things she says, supplemented with guidebook material, and all of that points to Satori getting her kicks out of tormenting people. She can read minds, and has no qualms about interrupting the people she's talking to in order to parrot their thoughts aloud or answer them directly, sometimes having an entire conversation by herself by combining these two things, either greatly disturbing or irritating everyone involved. She's stated by several characters to be stubborn and difficult to deal with; one character, a literal god, goes behind Satori's back to cause some trouble because she doesn't think she'd be able to come out on top through honest negotiation. This is not only a good example of Satori's difficult personality, but another important aspect of her being: her species.
Satori is perhaps the least creatively named character in the series. She is a satori (so, it's like the equivalent of naming your child Human), a being from Japanese mythology that has the ability to read minds; the third eye wrapped around her body is where this ability comes from. If she can see you, she can read your surface thoughts, and she's capable of using a special kind of hypnotism to drudge up bad memories in people around her to take advantage of them. Satori are detested for these abilities, and this Satori especially so, because she doesn't have any reservations about using and abusing these powers to their full extent. Her gimmick in the fights against her is that she uses the special attacks from characters in previous games, slightly altered, after finding them in the protagonists' memories, and this is her most feared ability. This goes far beyond a need for self-defense and crosses the line into sadism, because when Satori first reveals this ability in-game, she remarks on how traumatic it will be for the protagonist. In other words, she's doing it not just to win the fight, but to begin mental warfare with her opponent by bringing up their own memories to use against them. People have shown her no love, so she has no fondness for them, either, especially when they come barging into her house all of a sudden. Even most other youkai are terrified of Satori, to such an extent that she had no other option but to live underground, where Hell used to be before it packed up and moved - and the denizens of Former Hell, all of whom were rejected by above-ground society for whatever reason, all avoid her. In other words, she is so reviled that even the outcasts have deemed her an outcast. Despite her apathetic-at-best attitude toward other people and the surface in general, she seemed to be against the idea of it being destroyed when she found out what was going on, so at the very least, she's not so irredeemable as to want the surface to die for wronging her.
She does have some good points, though, and the most obvious is that she loves animals. She has numerous pets, though at least one of them is so intimidated by the thought of her getting angry that she lies and avoids her whenever possible after her friend swallows a sun god and goes nuts, so it's probably safe to say her temper is terrifying. However, since Satori had no intention of getting mad or punishing the pet in question, it's just as safe to say she rarely, if ever, brings this temper out toward her beloved animals. She seems upset, almost distraught when she mentions her pet cat avoiding her, and her character bio mentions she had so many pets it became difficult to keep up with her responsibilities - she was devoting so much time to them that she let her job of maintaining the fires of Former Hell slip by the wayside. Patchouli mentions that it seems like she doesn't take very good care of them, but her pets adore her, and Satori generally lets them run around and do what they want, so occasionally they get into trouble. Rather than not taking good care of them, it seems more like she just doesn't discipline them very often.
She is also fiercely devoted to her sister, who sealed her third eye some time ago. Satori has lots of Thoughts and Opinions on this which can be summed up as "Koishi needs to open herself up to others again." (Somewhat ironic, coming from a shut-in.) Koishi sealed her personality and conscience away when she sealed her third eye, and as a result, she can only be seen by people when she's right in front of their faces, and they forget her the instant they look away, or she leaves. Satori, however, is one of the only people in Gensokyo who remembers her clearly at all times, despite the fact that it is not an exaggeration to say that Koishi only exists to someone when she's right in front of them. That speaks volumes about her love for her sister - she remembers her even when it shouldn't be possible.
Moving out of the dialogue and into the more solid information books, we know that Satori's favorite pastime is to read. This is one of the only ways a mind-reader like herself can be entertained, because books have no mind to read. It's such a favored hobby of hers that she's written several books, as well, and it's implied some of them, written anonymously, have made it to the surface. Her preference is the kind of story that goes deep into psychologically profiling the characters, further cementing the importance she places on her third eye and the workings of the minds of the people around her. Aside from reading and spending time with her pets, she doesn't really like to do anything else. She's a shut-in, completely avoiding all contact with people, having given up on communicating with them completely a long time ago. In that sense, she is just as broken as her sister. While her sister sealed her abilities away, Satori sealed herself away, but rather than inside her own consciousness, inside a spacious mansion underground.
Abilities: Aside from standard Touhou danmaku and spell cards, which are basically pretty patterns of bullets, Satori's third eye allows her the ability to read the minds of those in her direct vicinity. She is also capable of employing a sort of hypnosis which she can use to dredge up memories of the people around her, as normally without it she is only capable of reading surface thoughts.
Alignment: Elios. She's hated, so she understands that emotion the best out of any emotion - but she's never lost her ability to love, in spite of being hated and coming to hate so much about the world around her. That she still holds so much love for her pets and Koishi is a testament to that.
Other: n/a
Sample: Test Drive! (there's two threads here, because one is better at showcasing her usual personality but lacks emotional enviromental effects.)
Questions: n/a
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