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

I'd like to see some more of your thinking on Aragorn's weaknesses. Although you did a good job of covering his strengths, I find the weaknesses portion to be a bit sparse. Could you try and work through a few more facets of his personality, especially alongside pertinent examples from the books? (I'm assuming your Aragorn is bookverse rather than movieverse, as you mention the books in your app itself.)

Some food for thought: although you claim he has no particular physical weaknesses, you should consider (perhaps) which forms of combat he would be less familiar with, or what physical trade-offs are incurred by virtue of his dexterity? Mentally, are there any gaps in his knowledge? Remember that in his own world, there are many much more intelligent and knowledgeable than he is -- try describing some of those gaps in what he knows in comparison to other characters who obviously know more. Well-supported head canon could be applicable, but mostly I want to see you commit to some tangible weaknesses.

Note: My Aragorn tends to be a mix of Tolkien's original, the movie version and a touch of head canon. I hope that's ok.

Weaknesses:
Physical: Aragorn has no particular physical weaknesses; he's human, and therefore prone to all of the injuries and sicknesses that affect humans, though his elven blood probably gives him some immunity to illness. As he's lean rather than musclebound he's not particularly strong - in hand to hand combat he would easily be overpowered by an Uruk-hai; it's only his swordsmanship which gives him an advantage over the strong but less skilled orcs. Although he's an experienced fighter, without a sword or bow in his hands Aragorn would be fairly useless in a serious fight - though he could probably hold his own in a bar fight. Of course, due to his setting, he has no knowledge of modern combat styles (like eastern martial arts) or, more importantly, weapons. His idea of the finest weapons available is an elven-forged sword and a good yew bow: any firearm would be completely alien to him, so no matter how skilled he is he'll be in trouble if he brings a sword to a gunfight.

Mental: Aragorn isn't a genius by any means, but he's not stupid, either. In dangerous situations he might be accused of thinking with his sword first and his mind second, but both blade and brain are fairly sharp. His friend Gandalf described him as 'the greatest traveller and huntsman in this age of the world', but Aragorn isn't much of a scholar - he knows what he needs to know, but doesn't waste time learning thins which will not be of use to him; Faramir is far more scholarly and well-read, as is Elrond. He speaks Westron (the Common Tongue) and Sindarin Elvish, but cannot speak, understand or read Dwarvish or the Black Speech of Mordor, which Gandalf can, nor Rohirric, despite spending some time in Rohan earlier in his life. Transported to a modern setting like Luceti, Aragorn would be utterly perplexed by all modern technology.

Emotional: Many of the emotional strengths listed above could also be considered weaknesses. Aragorn's deep-seated sense of duty and honour forces him to go out into the world as a ranger and adventurer when he'd be happier to sit by a warm fire with a book and a pipe. He suffers from bouts of self-doubt and deep melancholy, especially when he feels that he has failed him companions (when his friend and advisor Gandalf is lost at Kazadum he is almost unable to continue, so racked with guilt at the great loss). He is also prone to angry outbursts when he believes that others are being foolish (he snapped angrily at Boromir at the council of Elrond when the Gondorian insisted that the Ring should be used as a weapon).

Aragorn only learned of his true identity and destiny when he was twenty years old and did not take the news well, feeling betrayed by Elrond and his mother for their parts in the lie. Rather than let his anger fester, Aragorn took his leave from Rivendell (some might say 'flounced off in a strop') to spend several years out in the wilds rather than deal with the issue of his revealed identity.

There's nothing wrong with delving into some headcanon! However, we will require that you settle conclusively on either a book or a movie version. Making a conclusive choice for one does not necessarily mean you must exclude all influences from the other; however, when it comes to discrepancies, we will require you to remain most faithful to one version instead of picking and choosing potentially conflicting plot/characterization elements from both.

I'll say that I'm primarily going with Movie!Aragorn, so where there's conflicting information I'll stick to movie canon, but where the movies give no/limited info I'll fill the gaps from the books.

You're accepted, have some delicious copypasta.

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