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: (Neku Sakuraba is not good with people.

Well, that's not completely true. Neku Sakuraba thinks that he isn't good with people -- and for a long time, he was more than content with that fact. He preferred to drown out the noise of a city that he thought was boring, confining, and constricting with noise from his headphones instead. Eyes down, hands in his pockets, and music blasting, he was content to keep to himself, seeking out as little human interaction as possible to get by day-to-day. Neku earnestly believed that people weren't worth his time: they were fickle liars, each person looking out for themselves and no one else, and simply not worth his time. His world began and ended with him, and he trusted no one but himself.

Sullen, withdrawn, and spiteful, Neku was one of the most withdrawn people in the city of Shibuya. The only thing in life that gave him a real sense of joy was the art done by an enigmatic individual who went only by CAT. CAT's art and proverbs ("expand your world," "live each day to its fullest") touched something in Neku. He hated people, but he loved the art that he saw, and despite his dour attitude on humanity in general, that love for art fostered a large, incredible imagination within him. He wanted to emulate CAT, to be him. The secretive artist was everything that Neku wanted to be.

Most of canon deals with Neku changing, confronting his own ideals and coming to terms with what people are -- and what they could really mean to him. To survive in the Reaper's Game that he plays, he is forced to make a pact with a girl, Shiki Masaki, and initially Neku resents every second of it. At first, he rarely calls her by her name, preferring to refer to her as 'Stalker' or a simpler 'Hey.' He neither respects nor trusts her, and during the second day of the Game, is almost willing to kill her just for a chance to get out of the Game. Eventually, though, over the course of the first week, Neku discovers that in order to survive the game that he's going to need to open up -- and he does, if somewhat reluctantly. He begins to trust in and rely on Shiki, slowly realizing that the fact that people are flawed doesn't make them bad.

Over the course of the second and third weeks of the game, Neku forces himself to trust and eventually befriend his partners. It's not initially easy for him; opening himself up, especially with his life on the line, is hard for him, and feels counter-intuitive to everything that he believes. He eventually does, though, and even begins really enjoying the odd friendships that he finds with the other players.

I realize that is a bit longwinded, but Neku is an incredibly dynamic character. While he begins the game as reserved and misanthropic, by the end, he has befriended those that he played alongside. He has for the first time in his life really began to expand his world, opening it to let others in. Though he still prefers to listen instead of talk most of the time, he is more receptive to people than before (even if he does sometimes get short or impatient with Beat and Joshua's antics.) When he comes into the game, he will have just begun trusting people again, and while he's hardly the most social butterfly in the world, he openly enjoys spending time with the friends that he's made. (Scenes during the end credits of the game showcase him teasing Rhyme, and getting put into a headlock by Beat. This really highlights the change in him -- he's gone from being willing to kill to preserve himself to that, laughing and smiling like a normal teenage boy.)

Though Neku suffers from amnesia at the beginning of the game and therefore can't remember why he detests people so much, a lot of his issues stem from the fact that, years before, his one friend was killed in a car accident on his way to meet with him. Neku was hurt deeply by the loss, and responded by feeling betrayed. His friend had left him, abandoned him, and thus the seed for all of his trust issues were planted by that one accident and death.

Once Neku finally begins to open up to his friends, a playful side of him emerges, too, even in the heat of the Reaper's Game. He sometimes teases Josh and openly ridicules Beat, though it is never in a scathing or seriously derogatory manner. Despite Neku's ribbing, he is more than willing to give his all to help Beat fight to become the Composer and to rescue the friends that they both care about. Though he finds the other boy inexplicable and sometimes really annoying, he definitely feels a connection and friendship between them.

In short, Neku is a complex character who faces a lot of adversity in the Reaper's Game, but manages to not only adapt to his environment, but to grow because of it. While still occasionally sullen and introspective, he no longer considers life and the people in it stifling and troublesome. He acknowledges how important it is to care about people, and how necessary it is to give it your all when fighting for something that you care about. He is stubborn and sometimes childish, but he has a good heart and is willing to risk everything to protect the people close to it. He is quickly exasperated, occasionally short-tempered, but above all, dedicated to his cause and his friends.