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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

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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:

Bilbo can be very set in his ways and a creature of habit. He dislikes disruptions, most particularly unexpected ones such as thirteen dwarves and a wizard turning up on his doorstep. He rises to that particular occasion simply because he is also a homebody, proud of simple virtues such as hospitality and obliging his guests. To be honest, he can be stuffy and overly concerned with the minor, proper details of daily life. This is a hobbit seriously prepared to halt an entire company's journey because he forgot a pocket handkercheif, and laments the loss of his buttons for quite some time.

He wasn't always like this. As a child, he grew up on stories of adventures and lands beyond the Shire, and elves. He wanted to explore and experience the world, and it's that part of Bilbo that Gandalf wants to rekindle when he rigs Bilbo's role in this adventure.

Whether then or now, he is brave when he has to be. While normally timid, he has faced down terrible goblins and trolls if it means protecting someone important to him. He has gained a sword, and he will eventually name it once he has done great deeds with it; these are within his capability even if he's not fully sure of that fact himself. He's good in a tight spot and rises to the occasion.

He is also loyal. He is spurred to his greatest acts by his concern for his comrades and friends. Even his decision to stick with the dwarves on their quest is motivated by loyalty - and kindness, recognizing that he wants to help their situation. This is the mercy and compassion that ultimately makes him choose to spare Gollum. It also makes him prefer to think his way out of a problem and find another solution, rather than defaulting to battle. He's no warrior.

Alongside this loyalty and mercy, Bilbo has a strong conscience. This will eventually compel him to repay the elvenking for the food stolen during the time he was trying to free the dwarves. It will also push him to look for a win-win scenario once the situation at the mountain becomes a standoff - even at the price of alienating his comrades if it will bring a larger settlement and peace.

He also has a strong sense of personal pride. As soon as the others doubt, even while he's unsure of himself, he sets out to prove himself. This ocacsionally gets him intro trouble as he's been known to face danger simply to show that he is, in fact a 'real burglar' and asset to the company.

However, Bilbo feels out of his depth a lot. He is out of his depth a lot, whether on this grandiose adventure throughout the lands of Middle Earth when he's a homebody hobbit, or whether in a place like Luceti where nothing is like anything he's ever heard of. He is prone to self-doubt, and doubt of his own skills and abilities, until he grows in confidence.

Strengths:

Bilbo makes a better 'burglar' type than he'd admit. Hobbits are capable of moving very quietly, so quietly as to be unnoticed. They are also resilient, especially mentally. Bilbo is, ultimately, able to resist the One Ring's corruption not perfectly, but remarkably well.

He's better at quick thinking than fighting. He's the one who thinks to play for time when facing the trolls (and let the morning light do the work), and when pressed, he's the one of the group who tends to have more creative solutions. He can be somewhat ingenious. He enjoys riddles and knows them very well.

Growing up, Bilbo relates that he enjoyed conkers, which has given him at least some accuracy with thrown projectiles: stones. He's also slowly learning to use a sword... but at this point, he has no especial skill with it. It's something he may be willing to work at in Luceti in the hopes it will stand him in good stead if he returns to his world and quest.

While it's not his own power, it should be noted he does have the One Ring, which he knows he can use to seem to vanish. In reality, it draws him into the Twilight World, but this is unknown to him, and he is unaware of its vast other potential. He is equally unaware of the danger it represents, and thus feels able to use it freely.

Although this is also largely irrelevant in Luceti, Bilbo is from a wealthy background, wealthy enough that relatives are hopeful of inheritance (and his nice hobbit hole) and that he can live as a gentleman of leisure. This can also be a drawback in that it makes him unfamiliar with hardship until his journey.

Weaknesses:

Bilbo is small, not strong, and untrained. As he says himself, he is no warrior. Actually, he has no combat skill at all to begin with, and is very shaky and awkward with the sword he does begin to use. He's more dependable in avoiding a fight than in helping during one.

Hobbit feet are very durable and tough, to the point they need to shoes. This would be an advantage, and sometimes is, but it has proven to be very detrimenal over some terrain such as the goblin halls that sorely bruised them.

Typically, hobbits are not good with heights, preferring to live in holes and with no second floors. However, so far, Bilbo has seemed to keep his head.

Bilbo's comfortable rut and self-doubt have kept him stationary, even almost stagnant. Fortunately, he's quickly growing out of this thanks to his experiences on his journey, and Luceti is likely to provide a similar push towards growth.

The One Ring is a double-edged power. While Bilbo only knows it as a convenience, the more he uses it, the more susceptible to its corruption he will become.

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