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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.

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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
<b><u>Mun</b></u> <b>Name</b>: (This is your nickname, or whatever you wish to be called) <b>Livejournal/Dreamwidth Username</b>: <b>E-mail</b>: <b>AIM/MSN</b>: <b>Current Characters at Luceti:</b> (If you already have characters at this roleplay, list their names and journals here. If you're a newcomer, state N/A.) <b><u>Character</b></u> <b>Name</b>: <b>Fandom</b>: <b>Gender</b>: <b>Age</b>: <b>Time Period</b>: <b>Wing Color</b>: <b>History</b>: (Here you may link to an outside source, such as Wikipedia, a pre-existing written biography or an official site.) <b>Personality</b>: (Please consider here things such as habits, likes and dislikes, thought patterns, experiences and so on. This section should be fairly detailed!) <small><b>Strengths:</b></small> (Physical, mental and emotional; PLEASE PROVIDE CANON EXAMPLES) <small><b>Weaknesses</b></small>: (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.) <b><u>Samples</b></u> (ALL samples must be set in Luceti-verse.) <b>First Person</b>: (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 <i>not</i> 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. <b>Third Person</b>: (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
<b><u>Mun</b></u> <b>Name</b> (This is your nickname, or whatever you wish to be called): <b>Livejournal/Dreamwidth Username</b>: <b>E-mail</b>: <b>AIM/MSN</b>: <b>Current Characters at Luceti:</b> (If you already have characters at this roleplay, list their names/and journals here. If you're a newcomer, state N/A.) <b><u>Character</b></u> <b>Name</b>: <b>Gender</b>: <b>Age</b>: <b>Wing Color</b>: <b>Physical Appearance</b> (Here you can either link us to a picture or provide descriptive text): <b>History</b>: (Please be thorough!) <b>Personality</b>: (Please consider here things such as habits, likes and dislikes, thought patterns, experiences and so on. This section should be fairly detailed!) <small><b>Strengths:</b></small> (Physical, mental and emotional) <small><b>Weaknesses</b></small>: (Physical, mental and emotional) (For the strengths and weaknesses section, feel free to include powers or special abilities if they apply.) <b><u>Samples</b></u> (ALL samples must be set in Luceti-verse.) <b>First Person</b>: (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 <i>not</i> 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. <b>Third Person</b>: (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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[frequent_flyer]

Character

Name: Hideki Hinata
Fandom: Angel Beats!
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Time Period: Episode 7 (including the bonus OVA episode)
Wing Color: Bluebird
History:
Angel Beats! Wiki
MyAnimeList
Wikipedia

Personality:
Note: fanon/headcanon information will be in italics. More detail can be found in my headcanon write-up here.

Hinata is the co-founder of the Afterlife Battlefront, but he doesn't go on about it, nor does he try to boss others around with that fact. He's perfectly content to allow the self-proclaimed leader, Yuri, to take all the credit and attention while he remains a dependable subordinate. Hinata is the relaxed, charismatic friend that's always there when you need him. If there is some way Hinata can offer himself up for the good of his friends, it's a certainty that he'll be there to do it. You could even say that Hinata is the Good Guy Greg of anime.

Even if he's not usually the one doing the leading, he'll jump into a leadership position if he feels nothing will get done without some direction. Being the co-founder, he's perfectly equipped to give orders and accurately assess a battle situation, as he's seen them all before. However, if someone else is around that can fill the role of the leader, he's more than happy to relinquish control to them, seeming to be more comfortable in a supporting role. For example, he doesn't bat an eyelash when Otonashi unexpectedly jumps into the role of leader, following his orders without a second thought and trusting him completely.

The one exception to this is baseball. When it comes to baseball, he's the professional among them and knows how to put together and lead a solid team, even if he doesn't get the star players he wants and who he's left with are completely incompetent. Even when dealt a crappy hand as far as teammates go, he manages to do pretty well as a baseball coach. He guides his team to the top of the bracket, even winning against the starting lineup of the school's proper baseball team, until he's abruptly stopped from catching the ball that would win the game. Had that not happened, he would have successfully led his ragtag team to the top.

He seems to like his position as a third-year student, as he's willing and ready to help those younger or newer than him get settled. He appears to enjoy explaining things to those who don't yet understand and sticking by them until they're acclimated, at which point he backs off a little to let them find their own way. He isn't overbearing or pushy, he just gives little friendly nudges in the right direction. Of course, if that mentoring turns into a solid friendship, that's all the better!

As friendly and social as he is, he's not perfect friends with everyone. He may drop a snarky comment here and there, but nothing downright cruel or malicious. If that agitates the other person into saying something to him, it's not unlike Hinata to get into a minor verbal fight until the score is settled or they're forcibly stopped by more important matters. Despite this, he doesn't seem to hold grudges against anyone. He might not like the person any more or less, but he won't bring up past arguments and torment them with it. It's all water under the bridge, no?

Of course, he's not perfect. Even if he doesn't hold a grudge, he'll be quick to retaliate toward someone who is mistreating him. When verbally abused in front of others, he'll often retaliate with a comeback of his own rather than just laugh it off. When being physically abused, don't expect to get away unscathed. Hinata is shown to be quite athletic and knows a handful of wrestling moves to incapacitate anyone trying to mess with him. He's also proficient with a handgun and sniper rifle, thankfully, he doesn't use serious weaponry in petty squabbles. But try to hurt one of his friends? He'll sooner punch you than allow that to happen.

One exception to this rule is the leader of the Afterlife Battlefront, Yuri. She's done all manner of terrible things to him, from kicking him off a roof to his death, to attaching a rocket engine to his chair and firing him into the ceiling where his head gets stuck. He takes all manner of abuses from her without holding a grudge, even if he verbally retaliates the first few times and insists he won't take this abuse... he does it anyway. Over and over. Eventually, he just stops complaining.

Unless, of course, Yuri is obviously upset about something. If she's at the end of her rope, frustrated and upset and crying, he'll run to her side and hold her, even if all she wants to do is beat him. He'll passively take the abuse, smiling and promising never to leave her side, even as she reduces him to a bloody mess.

Even if he personally will take abuse from her, that doesn't mean he'll allow other people to feel her iron fist. He once explains to her that being so violent and confrontational will make people stop following her as a leader, and she should think about toning it down. At first she refuses his advice, disbanding the battlefront and having a breakdown, but eventually does come to her senses, slowly becoming a better leader with his gentle advice and suggestions.

Hinata may not exactly be a ladies man, but he's definitely flirtatious.  He shows no qualms when it comes to flirting with a girl to see what she says, or even teasing a girl about her sex appeal just to get a reaction. Despite his flirtatious tendencies and occasional over-friendliness with his male friends, Hinata wears his heart on his sleeve and takes true love very seriously. When he's serious, Hinata can be a very understanding, compassionate lover. If his love is not returned? He seems content enough to just stay by their side and help them achieve their goals in any way he can, even if they move on and find someone else, he'll say he's happy for them and not get in the way of their chosen love.

Similarly, if there is something he can do to help all of his friends find peace, even if that means being separated from them permanently, he'll do it. He's a remarkably unselfish friend, offering much in exchange for simple human companionship. The one exception to this is his relationship with Otonashi. Whenever Naoi tries to wiggle in and seemingly replace Hinata as Otonashi's best friend, Hinata is shown to get kind of uppity and possessive, getting into consistent fights with Naoi over who deserves Otonashi's favor.


Strengths:

• In life, Hinata played on his highschool's baseball team, primarily as second baseman. Therefore, he's pretty athletic and gets very excited about playing baseball with others, immediately jumping into a leadership position to try and lead his team to victory... even if the team is totally incompetent.
• Hinata is incredibly loyal to those he considers close to him. Even if he's not exactly friends with someone, he won't let them hang out to dry if he feels they could benefit from companionship.
  
  • In the manga, he and the other battlefront members are traversing a network of underground caves. They meet Noda in these caves who wrongly assumes Yuri to be married, running away crying due to his sudden love-at-first-sight going unrequited. Hinata is initially dismissive, but when he thinks about it, he insists to Yuri that they go find him and recruit him, simply so he doesn't have to be alone anymore.
• He's pretty handy with picking locks, and can handle a handgun and sniper rifle proficiently.
• Hinata is quite charismatic and a social butterfly. He enjoys meeting new people and helping them get settled, even if no one else is being warm and welcoming to that person. He'll go against the crowd to help a loner feel welcome.
  • When Otonashi arrives in the afterlife and joins the battlefront, Hinata and Yuri are the only two who are trying to be kind and accommodating to him. When Yuri is busy doing other things, Hinata continues to be very friendly towards him, hanging back with him and explaining the things that might be confusing or overwhelming to help him get acclimated. Even after he's gotten comfortable, Hinata remains there as a loyal friend.
• Hinata can be selfless when he thinks it's for the greater good, not hesitating to sacrifice himself.
  • In one instance, the battlefront members get caught falling into a pit, grabbing hold of each other to avoid falling, creating a human ladder up to the ledge. Hinata and Otonashi are at the bottom of the chain, and Hinata is holding Yuri's ankles. The weight is too much, so she complains that they're too heavy. Without a moment's hesitation, Hinata asks if she wants him to let go so the weight is relieved from her and she can climb to safety. Even if the fall would be fatal to himself and Otonashi.

Weaknesses:

• Despite his good intentions, he's gullible and easy to sway. If someone with some form of superiority over him tells him something, he's likely to believe it.
  • When Hinata was alive, he was told he was responsible for his team losing a massively important baseball game. Stricken with self-hatred and at a complete loss for words, his upperclassman offered him some type of drug to relieve the emotional pain he was feeling. He took it, leading to him becoming a junkie while he slowly let all of his friends, his family, and his happiness slip away from him. When finally trying to seek help for his debilitating addiction, he was hit by a truck and killed.
  • Once in the afterlife, he meets Yuri, who has been there for a while before he arrived, and she seems to have a handle on what's going on. He immediately latches onto her and for a little while, he hangs on her every word, until he's comfortable enough to challenge her.
• He can't allow himself to think that someone is a lost cause.
  
  • When Takamatsu becomes an NPC, turning into an emotionless husk, Hinata confronts him and tries to get him to understand. However, it becomes obvious to everyone else that he's become a lost cause and will not be able to understand who they are. Yuri firmly tells him to leave the situation alone several times before he hesitantly does it.
  • Later on, when Yuri explains that Takamatsu has become an NPC, Hinata does not take this well. He starts shouting and swearing about how unfair it is, showing a rare glimpse of true anger before punching the wall in frustration. He just can't fathom the idea of someone he considered a friend being lost to him.
• Hinata tends to space out when he should be paying attention, daydreaming or thinking deeply about something important to him. Having died a miserable death, he often thinks back to his life, wondering what he could have done differently and wishing he could fix what was irreparably broken.
  • In episode 4, he is consistently staring off into space and becoming distant, daydreaming about the one mistake that led to ruining the rest of his life.
• He has very little patience for people he thinks are a nuisance.
  • Noda has little to no social graces, often being too confrontational and making an idiot of himself. Hinata doesn't hesitate to call him an idiot, both to his face and among others. It probably doesn't help that they share a mutual, unrequited love interest, the two vying for her attention in their own ways.
  • When Yui comes to them, applying for the position of vocalist since Iwasawa has disappeared, Hinata is quick to tell her that she's fired when she starts gushing about how much she loves the members of the band. Later on, when she gives herself a cute nickname, he tackles her and starts wrestling her, obviously not having any patience for it.
• He plays serious situations off with humor, not taking them as seriously as they should be taken.
  • When Naoi has incapacitated most of the battlefront, leaving them shot up and bloody on the ground, Otonashi comes to their aid, understandably horrified. Naoi kicks a severely injured Hinata onto his back, whose legs are injured to the point of not being able to get up. Otonashi cries out to him and runs to his side, asking if he's alright in a blind panic. The first thing Hinata does is comment on how Otonashi came running to him first... and then jokingly asking him if he's gay. Despite the fact that most of his friends are bleeding and dying around him, he still manages to find room for humor.