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

Personality: Brooke calls himself the gentleman skeleton and tries to be polite and courteous, yet fails miserably at it. He's almost always seen wearing a suit and drinking tea, lending to his 'gentlemanly' appearance. When we first meet Brooke, Luffy, Nami, and Sanji encounter him on his ship. Brooke comments about how he is simply astounded by Nami's beauty, and then asked if he might please see her panties, which was quite rude of him. His laugh is a cheery Yohohoho! And he's almost always cracking jokes about how he's already dead such as, “You sure are a beauty to my eyes, although as a skeleton I don't have any eyes, Yohohoho!” Brooke has a bit of a lecherous streak as is evidenced by the fact that whenever he sees a girl he asks if he can see her panties. He even manages to have nosebleeds without any blood, such is the power of his dirty thoughts.

Brooke's social awkwardness is not simply rooted in lecherousness though, as he had been trapped alone for 50 years without any social interactions. Before Brooke died he was a bit of a social butterfly, having quite a large crew of musicians that he spent all his time with. Then when he was suddenly all by himself, he started to go mad with the lack of human interaction. He grew a habit of saying his thoughts out loud, just to hear the sound of somebody's voice. As such he can be quite socially awkward, with a mix of etiquette that is dated by at least 50 years, and slight madness from being alone all those years.

Brooke has a firm belief that the best way to make people happy or smile, is through music, and humor. As such, he will often sing songs and make horrible, and occasionally funny jokes. Brooke is often self-contradictory, such as when he states that a man should be patient and polite while waiting for dinner, and then acting in the opposite manner himself. To further his impoliteness, he will often fart in public, quite loudly, but he will always say “Excuse me” afterwords. All these ironies and contradictions of himself, are part of his way of being humorous, as well as him simply being too old to control his own body.

This doesn't mean he lost everything about himself during those fifty years though, and before he died he was a pirate in his own right. Being part of a large crew of musicians, they were often loud, boisterous, and fun loving, encouraging each other in their music. When Brooke's captain, captain Yorke was dying and they had to part ways, Brooke managed to keep the crew together uniting them in their common cause. They had all made a promise that they would return to Laboon one day after sailing through the grand line. To cope with the saddness of leaving behind their beloved captain, Brooke focused his crew on their music, relying on the strength of song to keep them going through all of this. Music is very important to Brooke, and it was what his crew had been all about before their untimely demise.

As part of the Rumbar pirates, their motto was that they could make even a crying child laugh and smile, and so Brooke lives that motto to the fullest. He's happiest when he's trying to make others happy, and will try his hardest to make people smile... Even if that means making a complete fool out of himself. While Brooke is almost always trying to be cheerful, he does have a very dark and slightly tortured past. This past effects him heavily, and as much as his jokes and lighthearted attitude are to cheer people up, he's also trying to cheer himself up. He had originally lost his captain to sickness, and tried to keep his crew cheerful with his bright and cheery personality, and music. However, his crew also died a few years later, and he watched as his closest friends died one by one around him, until he too eventually died. Then he spent a good 50 years trapped on a ship going nowhere with only the corpses of his old friends to keep him company.

Still he had one goal in mind that kept him going through all of this, and that was that he had a friend waiting for him to return one day to fulfill his promise. Brooke takes promises very seriously because of this, especially promises he makes to friends. He even knew that his friend might not have been waiting for him all those years, and may had even forgotten him, but he pushed himself to carry on if there was even the smallest chance he'd still be waiting. His friend was a baby whale named Laboon, and Brooke grew quite the fondness for whales afterwords, as they would always remind Brooke of Laboon. While Brooke might come off as always being a bundle of hyperactive humor and good cheer, he can also be quite laid back and mellow as well. For instance, when Keimi was kidnapped rather than panic and get lost, he pointed out to Chopper that the only thing they could do was wait until somebody could find them. So rather than running off, they simply relaxed there despite the desperate situation, as there wasn't much else they could do anyways. This way when the time to act came, they could both remain rather level headed about it.

Brooke can be quite emotional, which is rather apropos for a musician, and he uses music as an outlet for his emotions. Because of this, he also understands the emotions of others quite well, and how to calm some of the more extreme emotions, or even to excite them. It is simply the social norms he cannot comprehend the majority of the time. Still, his music isn't a perfect outlet for his music, making him level headed all the time. He'll laugh, he'll cry, he'll get angry, over some of the most ridiculous things, and even though he tried to make princess Shirahoshi laugh in the middle of his battle, he laughed at just being able to be given the chance. He's very grateful for his chance at a second life, and the fact that he can still make people laugh even though he's dead. It's a chance not many people have ever had, and his joy at living his life again is where all his good humor comes from.

Having already died himself, and watched his closest friends of the past die as well, he is much more keenly aware of what death is like. As such, when he first was offered to join Luffy's crew he immediately accepted, so glad to be around people once more. However, he knew the foes he had to face were quite terrible, and he didn't want to see them hurt as well. So he declined shortly after his acceptance, knowing he had to try to deal with this himself rather than getting others involved in his problems. It was not until Franky and Zoro respectively helped him fight that he was truly willing to awknowledge them as his Nakama. He will always try his hardest to protect those he cares about, even if it means sacrificing his own life.