luceti | Applications

PLEASE USE THE NEW APPLICATION POST!

Please be aware that apps are only open from the 1st (12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time) to the 7th (11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time) of any given month. This means that as of 12:01 AM, the 1st, apps are open and that as of 11:59 PM the 7th, they are closed. If you post an application after that time, it will be deleted and ignored. Please pay attention to the application times and the status at the top of this page!

PLEASE READ THE RULES BEFORE APPLYING! Especially the last few, as they establish what characters can or cannot be accepted.

If you want to canon-update your character, you must re-apply for said character with the relevant changes (history, personality, strengths and weaknesses, etc). For re-apps and canon updates, samples must be rewritten; we do not accept recycled samples.

The old application posts can be found on Livejournal, using the Applications tag.

Here's the application. Copy and paste the text box info into a comment and fill it out. You must apply with the following format, otherwise your application will not be accepted.

FANDOM CHARACTERS

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Name: (This is your nickname, or whatever you wish to be called)
Livejournal/Dreamwidth Username:
E-mail:
AIM/MSN:
Current Characters at Luceti: (If you already have characters at this roleplay, list their names and journals here. If you're a newcomer, state N/A.)

Character

Name:
Fandom:
Gender:
Age:
Time Period:
Wing Color:
History: (Here you may link to an outside source, such as Wikipedia, a pre-existing written biography or an official site.)
Personality: (Please consider here things such as habits, likes and dislikes, thought patterns, experiences and so on. This section should be fairly detailed!)

Strengths: (Physical, mental and emotional; PLEASE PROVIDE CANON EXAMPLES)

Weaknesses: (Physical, mental and emotional; PLEASE PROVIDE CANON EXAMPLES)

(For the strengths and weaknesses section, feel free to include powers or special abilities if they apply.)

Samples (ALL samples must be set in Luceti-verse.)

First Person: (Please make this a total of ten complete sentences or longer; a complete sentence contains at least one subject, one object and one verb. This sentence count does not include action text, though you may include action as well. We count spoken dialogue only.)

[IF YOU FEEL THE FIRST-PERSON IS TOO DAUNTING BECAUSE YOU HAVE A LESS TALKATIVE CHARACTER, YOU MAY EITHER WRITE AN INTROSPECTIVE PIECE CONCERNING LUCETI OR REQUEST A Q&A TO BE RESPONDED TO ICLY. PLEASE SPECIFY IF YOUR SAMPLE IS INTROSPECTIVE.]

You may also link to a thread or post on the Training Wings community to use for your first sample.

Third Person: (Samples must be 300 words or above. Remember to write using proper grammar, verb tenses, and paragraphs.)

Confused? HERE is a quick explanation of how to fill out our fandom applications.

ORIGINAL CHARACTERS

Mun

Name (This is your nickname, or whatever you wish to be called):
Livejournal/Dreamwidth Username:
E-mail:
AIM/MSN:
Current Characters at Luceti: (If you already have characters at this roleplay, list their names/and journals here. If you're a newcomer, state N/A.)

Character

Name:
Gender:
Age:
Wing Color:
Physical Appearance (Here you can either link us to a picture or provide descriptive text):
History: (Please be thorough!)
Personality: (Please consider here things such as habits, likes and dislikes, thought patterns, experiences and so on. This section should be fairly detailed!)

Strengths: (Physical, mental and emotional)

Weaknesses: (Physical, mental and emotional)

(For the strengths and weaknesses section, feel free to include powers or special abilities if they apply.)

Samples (ALL samples must be set in Luceti-verse.)

You may also link to a thread or post on the Training Wings community to use for your first sample.

Third Person: (Samples must be 300 words or above. Remember to write using proper grammar, verb tenses, and paragraphs.)

Confused? HERE is a quick explanation of how to fill out our OC applications.

You may link to threads on the

trainingwings community for your first person samples, as long as the thread in question is no older than three months. The thread or post must still have at least ten lines of dialog from your character to be considered.

HERE is a word-counting tool to check your 3rd person samples.

If a mod does not accept your app right away, please be patient. We all have our own personal and busy lives to attend to, and there might be a period of time when it might take us days to get to the applications. There is also the possibility that we do not know the canon you are applying for, and we need time to study it. So please be patient and we will work as fast as we can to get you an answer. If it has been a week with no word, please feel free to message Akai (guynophobic), Masamune (masamune3x), or Emily (spark memories) on AIM, or email them at their respective email addresses found in the

luceti profile page.

Note: Applications are not always processed in the order they are received, due to the way they are divvied up between the moderators. If your application has been skipped, do not fret. Another mod will be getting to it soon enough. Additionally, you now have ONE WEEK to complete revision requests and Q&A's. You will be reminded of this deadline three days before it's up. After that week has passed, your application will no longer be considered for the current round. We apologize, but please be patient with us!

A note for applying here on Dreamwidth: Due to the character count limit being higher on DW, it might be tempting to toss the whole thing in one comment and leave it. However, we ask that you split the application up into at least two comments- the first containing your player information and (if you want) basic character info, the rest in another comment (or more, if you wish). This is to avoid having entire applications spanning the page and making it huge.

Splitting them up will make it easier for mods to process the applications. Thank you!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Strengths: (Physical, mental and emotional; PLEASE PROVIDE CANON EXAMPLES) True canon for Touhou is scarce. Much of what is in this section is widespread fanon, or extrapolated from her behavior in game or from real spiders.

Physical: Yamame's natural form is a large brown-and-yellow spider, roughly resembling Argiope bruennichi. Her bite is painful, but not lethal, and she can spin webs. In the shape of a human-like girl, she has the approximate physical abilities of a healthy, athletic human, and her webs extend from somewhere beneath her skirt (no peeking!). She can hang upside down, but it's more difficult in her human shape because she's heavier.

Powers: Yamame Kurodani is a tsuchi-gumo, a spider youkai. As part of her youkai nature, she has powers of illusion and shapeshifting, and like everybody in Gensokyo she can fly and cast spells for spellcard combat. Her greatest and signature power, however, is her command of disease, which she herself refuses to use without cause. It is possible that she can not only inflict diseases but also dispel them, but whether this is true is unknown (mentioned by Grimoire of Marisa, actually, so it may be canon).

Spellcards: The power reduction of Luceti has reduced the power and danger of all Yamame's spellcards to Easy. Anybody who keeps their wits about them can probably avoid these spellcards.

Trap Sign - Capture Web: Yamame spreads sticky strands of webbing in all directions to trap enemies. It is a fairly slow spell and not overly difficult to evade.

Miasma Sign - Filled Miasma: Yamame fills the area around her with diseased miasma, then scatters it to infect enemies. This is a quicker and more random spell than Capture Web, but Yamame usually loads the miasma with a relatively harmless disease, so the worst her opponent gets is a little nausea, a sore throat, or a case of the sniffles.

Small Thread - Kandata's Rope: Yamame shoots a continuous string of webbing at a single enemy to snare them. The string bounces off nearby obstacles, so she can catch them with the ricochet as well as the shot itself. Severing the string is a good countertechnique. *This spellcard is from Double Spoiler and doesn't have difficulty settings per se; I'm using the first form of the card as "Easy", compared to the later difficulties which add speed, strange angles, and bullets spawning from the points where the string bounces off something.

Mental: Because of her powers, Yamame knows a lot about sickness and health, and if she weren't so careless, she would actually be a pretty good doctor. She also knows a lot about other arthropods from having to correct misidentifications, and a baffling amount of modern knowledge, culture, and trivia for someone who is not only from the magical (and low-tech) kingdom of Gensokyo, but has been sealed in former Hell for an untold number of centuries.

Emotional: Once one gets to know her, Yamame is cheerful, sociable, and very helpful to others. She takes surprises in stride very well, and almost always looks on the bright side of situations.

Weaknesses: (Physical, mental and emotional; PLEASE PROVIDE CANON EXAMPLES) True canon for Touhou is scarce. Much of what is in this section is widespread fanon, or extrapolated from her behavior in game.

Physical: Yamame is not very tough defensively, and not very agile. She has no tolerance for cold weather and cannot generate her own body heat, so she has to find someplace warm whenever it gets cold. As a spider, she can be threatened by large shoes or insecticide.

Powers: Yamame's shapeshifting and illusions can be identified and even seen through by anybody with extrasensory powers, or even by normal people with good intuition (Reimu's powers are not sensory, but she could tell right away that Yamame was an arthropod of some sort and not human). Animals can smell what she is, and most aren't thrilled with the thought of a human-sized spider. She also hates to use her disease powers without cause, because of how dangerous they are; if she uses them at all, she will usually pick a temporary disease that doesn't have any long-term effects, like the common cold or chicken pox. Lastly, her normally spectacular spellcards have been checked by the power reduction over Luceti, rendering them easy to avoid.

Mental: Yamame can be a scatterbrain if the subject is not directly relevant to her and her interests. In particular, she has little understanding of manners, especially the part where attending parties without permission from the person having the party is rude, and so is inviting friends without permission. Living in the Underworld also means that she doesn't know much about current events on the world's surface-- for all she knows, Luceti is still part of Gensokyo.

Emotional: Yamame is unintentionally very scary to others, since she can evoke the fear of spiders and the fear of disease. Because of her optimism and good nature, she can be oblivious to the dislike or fear others have towards her, or to her lack of manners offending someone and making her unwelcome.

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