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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

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:
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!

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Strengths: ~~Writing porn is a strength, right?~~

There is a lot to the negative to be said about Jiraiya's moral fiber -- but above all, he has managed to survive with not only his skin and his sanity, but also at least the core of his ethics intact. This isn't played up very strongly in the series -- he spends most of his visible screen time playing the buffoon -- but in flashbacks, and in Naruto's comments about his time with Jiraiya, it slowly becomes clear that Jiraiya did his best to instill not only the knowledge of ninja business, but also the desire for peace, into all his students. No matter that he's managed to claw his way to middle age through a haze of war, betrayals, and bloodshed -- Jiraiya still has a strong core of being simply, essentially good that is elusive but perhaps his strongest driving force.

In terms of combat abilities, both sheerly physical and magical, Jiraiya is a powerhouse. Even in his fifties, he's built like a tank, and in the times when his shirt comes off, it's very clear that not a bit of it is fat! He's a six-foot-two solid slab of muscle and surprisingly deadly hair, and packs a commensurate punch. Beyond that, he shows talent with the core element of fire, as well as summoning and manipulating oil as a secondary element, using it singly as well as to enhance the power of his flames. He's also an expert in chakra seals, which are a complicated art that allows chakra, the body's inherent, internal energy, to be shaped and formed into a variety of ongoing techniques that don't need to be maintained. For example, the work holding the fox demon inside Naruto is a seal created by his dead parents; it's been holding strong for 16 years thus far. Jiraiya is a master of those seals, the guardian of the second half of Naruto's seal until his death.

By far Jiraiya's greatest specialty is summoning; he is contracted with a clan of ninja toads who have trained him in their secret ways, and come to his aid whenever he calls them. Many of his techniques are named as Toad techniques, even those that don't directly require summoning one of the toads -- they're techniques that the toads have pioneered, and that rightfully go to the ninja trained by them. He has techniques such as the Toad Flatness: Shadow Manipulation technique, which is essentially a combination of invisibility and mind control, he can transport an area around him such as a hallway or room into the belly of a toad, he can create dimensional space inside of toads to hide himself, interrogate prisoners, and generally take care of business -- and, oh right, he can summon the toads, who are themselves ninja, as battle partners.

Some of them are really big. That isn't grass the toad is crouching in. That's the tops of trees. Trees that are themselves several stories tall.

Good thing he can't summon in Luceti, eh?

He also possesses sage techniques, which allow him (with assistance) to draw on the vast energy of the world around him, resulting in a multiplication of his level of power -- but presumably, that won't be an issue in Luceti, since again, it requires him to summon toads for assistance, and he can't do that.

Weaknesses: Although it is never openly stated canonically, Jiraiya's behavior and past history show a strong indication that his biggest weakness is cowardice. Not in the face of battle -- he'll leap into combat when needed, no matter how strong the enemy, and as a younger man he was perhaps even brash about it -- but rather, in the face of difficult emotional circumstances.

That's a benefit to Obfuscating Stupidity, after all. It lets you run away from things, and claim it all in the name of simple irresponsibility.

After all, he was named as Naruto's godfather -- but actually staying in Konoha to raise his godson? Too difficult to face the ghosts that lingered there. Easier to go off and be a spy, be a drunk, be a popular author of a popular series of bodice-ripping pap.

When he actually came back and became Naruto's teacher, did he mention 'Oh, by the way, I knew your parents, they were actually very close to me and let me tell you all about them, as I know you're desperate to know anything about your origins'? Nope. He says once, maybe twice, that Naruto reminds him of the Fourth Hokage, and that's it. Too difficult to actually admit to Naruto that he knew and should have been there all along. Easier to drop a single line about Minato and then just do something ridiculous and possibly perverted to distract Naruto.

Because it's never openly acknowledged in the series (probably because Jiraiya's dead by the time Naruto learns anything about his family), Jiraiya never openly gives a canon rationalization for what he did. There's no Obi-Wan-style "From a certain point of view" lecture. But looking at Jiraiya's behavior, looking at the way he tackles the entire world, it's easy to figure the things he is and isn't willing to tackle.

He barely talks about Orochimaru, despite the immense interest of that topic -- and when he does, it's mostly to try and persuade Naruto to give up on Sasuke. Run away from your difficult emotions, don't give them power over you. Don't hold strong, painful emotional attachments -- or at least, if you still hold them, sure as hell don't acknowledge that you hold them!

In terms of abilities, it's hard to find weaknesses in Jiraiya's powers. Going by the skill statistics the author of Naruto has published, Jiraiya is tied for being the highest-statted character (indicating not only immense power but immensely well-rounded power; he's no specialist with areas of weakness). However, the greatest weakness that can be identified is his reliance on his summons; many of his abilities require their assistance, and without them, he'll be considerably diminished.

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