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: Benjamin Grimm is a stubborn, smart mouthed, loyal, somewhat gruff but eternally dependable man. While Reed is the mind of the Fantastic Four and Sue the Heart, Ben's more of the anchor of the group. He understands what it is that they are, what they stand for, and how they all relate to one another and does his part to see that his family stays safe and sane. He knocks Reed upside the head when he can, keeps the man fed when Sue's busy with the kids, and drags Johnny down by the ankles when he starts to fly too close to the sun. Ben has his feet set firmly into the concrete of his native Brooklyn and doesn't mind pulling the rest back down they they start to stray. He loves what they do, the exploration, the learning, seeing new dimensions, new worlds, and has come to enjoy boxing with the Hulk or wrestling with Hercules.

It's bizarre, it's surreal, but it's what Reed does. What his family does. And Ben's more than happy to tag along to keep Reed alive and Sue smiling. There's terribly little he won't do to keep his family happy, even if it means continuing to take the bullet whenever an opportunity arrives to give him back his human form, whenever Reed offers to take that cosmic power and shape from him so that Ben can have his old life back. Grimm's stubborn and selfless in it; no one else should have to be what he is. He doesn't always like it, some days it lays him down low and he doesn't even want to get out of bed in the morning, but it's his power. His gift, his burden. No one else should have to live with it. So he does, without too much complaint. It's a gift that allows him to fight and protect not only his family, but the people of New York, of Yancy Street and of the Earth or any other group of people that are hard up wherever it is that Reed's taken them. His selflessness and determination to stay with his family, to keep them happy and safe has Ben giving up a paradise in Heaven. The Heaven. With a capital H.

He fights off Doom when possessed, takes a hit he knows that will kill him just to take that man with him. And doesn't blame Reed for pulling the trigger. Ben knows the risks of their actions, knows he's not entirely invulnerable even with his rocky hide and increased durability, and fights anyway. Puts himself between the worst of the danger and Johnny, Reed, or Sue whenever he can. He heads into a fight first to gauge how bad the brawl is going to be and pushes through no matter how high the stakes or powerful his foe. Sometimes it's business. Sometimes he's gleeful. A chance to work out his frustrations on an acceptable target is always an excellent change of pace, since he can't very well spar with anyone. Going toe to toe with Thor or the Hulk always has him smiling- getting a change to thrash Doom brings a darker, more vicious sort of satisfaction.

Exploration and fighting aside, Ben's settled into the life the Fantastic Four leads fairly well. He's laid back and has a flair for the more obvious means of sarcasm. He takes particular pleasure in squabbling with Johnny and getting involved in the odd exchange of pranks; he's not at all without a sense of humor. Though it an be on the crude side. He's photocopied his butt to mail to Bill Gates along with a letter once he's made aware of his substantial fortune. Which he does, admittedly, lord over Johnny and indulge in for a few days. Even the fancy suits and attention he gets from wearing 'rocks' as he calls them, doesn't sit well after a day or two. He knows what people are really looking at, and why.

Ben abandons the suits other than for special occasions after that, sticking to the casual wear or the suit of unstable molecules provided by Reed. His innate disgust with himself had him frustrated, even if it was more due to his sense of integrity that he abandoned the grandeur of a more wealthy lifestyle. He's a simple man with simple tastes. Hot dogs, a good beer, football, family, and the good fight. He has his dark days, his bright days, and as long as he has his family? The brighter days outweigh the dark.