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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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

My apologies if the above request wasn't clear. The kind of expansion I'm looking for requires you to do a little more justifying of his strengths and his weaknesses. For example, you mention he's strong willed and steadfast in his decision making. A claim like this should be accompanied by a concrete example from the film or -- alternatively -- from well-reasoned headcanon. Please provide evidence for as many of the strengths and weaknesses as you can.

Although we do accept bullet points, it looks like you might have better luck with this section if you tried to work through it in paragraphs -- especially considering the comparative strength of your personality section. How do you feel about attemping to explain Holmes's strengths and weaknesses with sections separated into his physical, mental, and emotional atributes?

Strengths:
The first thing to note about Sherlock Holmes is his intelligence. There's a reason he's known as the best literary figure throughout history; his logical mind is nothing to scoff at. He has the power to recall images without a single fault, he can recall words and how they're pronounced whilst simultaneously running through a dictionary in several different languages and he can link up logical facts from obvious clues scattered around the crime scene, and this is all within the confines of his own mind. Furthermore, he has the ability to observe things with an obsessive amount of detail; for instance, he's able to see and understand whether someone's left handed by taking a quick sweeping glance through their apartment, he can determine whether someone is lying by a series of mental cues he's trained himself to take notice of, and he can catch people out by listening to the phrases they've chosen to use.   

Sherlock holds the ability to slip into people's personalities as though they were a new wardrobe. He can change his mannerisms completely, the name Sherlock Holmes completely disappears in lieu of this 'new' character. It's definitely a skill worth mentioning here, as he really does change everything about him, from the way that he walks to the formidable air that seems to follow his every step. He can push out certain believable flaws, allowing him to act as though he's awkward or uncomfortable. He constructs a storyline within his head based upon the people he's talking with, and he can create everything up from the ground, such as his characters likes and dislikes, little quirks and the things that make them enthusiastic. He can (and will) drop these masks without any notice, becoming his stoic and expressionless self once he holds the information he set out to gain.  

He has extremely steady hands, thanks to the more scientific side of Sherlock. He needs his hands to be as steady as possible, especially when working with dangerous chemicals and using pipettes to drop an exact amount of liquid into a certain other chemical. As a result of meticulously forcing his hands to be steady, when holding a gun, his aim is near perfect. He's also studied a special type of martial arts called 'Bartitsu'. The general idea is that you assess your enemies' strengths and use them against them, whilst simultaneously using the element of surprise.

  Sherlock Holmes has always had a gift with music. When he was a child, he picked up the violin and had found that playing was second nature to him; he's a modern day virtuoso, able to play anything by ear with skilled musician's fingers. The most interesting thing about Sherlock is that he could hear something playing in the background and only subconsciously take it in, and the next time he picks his violin up, he could be playing it with intricate additions of his own.  

Not only can Sherlock use the language of music, he's very apt at multiple languages, though he's mostly keen and more accurate on the languages spoken in Europe.  

At the end of his extensive list of amazing abilities is his innate knowledge of all things technical and his modern day science. He can touch type, he can somehow use the phone networks to text an entire room of people, and he's intelligent enough to be able to crack computer passwords with ease.

Weaknesses:

Prone to fits of moodiness and lethargy, Holmes hates having nothing to do. He craves intellectual stimulation. To this end, he fights addictions with cocaine, morphine and tobacco. If this keeps up, he will damage his brain, but he finds the stimulation well worth the risk.

  He also is very reluctant to let others in on his plans, and has a habit of keeping any allies he works with in the dark until the last moment - even the closest to him. This can be very infuriating for said allies. He has a soft spot for the theatrical and for dramatic reveals, and will also hold back his movements until he's positive he has his man. This has caused unnecessary risk several times, but it almost always works out for the best.   

When investigating or experimenting, Sherlock Holmes is not above testing something on himself. He's been known to burn a poison whose fumes he had reason to believe killed three people to test its effects for certain during the course of one of his mysteries.   

He also doesn’t care about any knowledge not relating to him. That has no effect on his day-to-day work. He will attempt to forget any trivial knowledge in order to keep his memory banks operating at maximum efficiency.

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