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

Powers/Abilities:
Amagasa is a tsukumogami, which in his world’s terms means he’s essentially a lich. Amagasa has two bodies -- a humonoid form which is a representation of his spirit, and the original paper umbrella which is his “true” body. His human form is basically spiritual energy formed together to give itself a solid shape, and as such he doesn’t have an actual biology -- he has no real organs and mimics bodily functions based on what he knows about that. His “blood” is not actual blood, for example, just bits of energy that look like it. Since his humanoid body has no biology to it, he cannot be affected by physical ailments nor does he have to worry about physical needs.

Since he has two bodies, Amagasa cannot truly die if only his humanoid body is destroyed; he will respawn within a week. Similarly, injuries to this body will also regenerate slowly, with minor injuries healing over completely within a few hours to a more severe injuries taking three days or longer. On the other hand, destroying his umbrella will kill him instantly. For purposes of Luceti, deaths caused by removing the wings on his humanoid body or destroying his umbrella will count as “true” deaths and incur Death Penalties, while deaths via other methods will have him simply respawning a week or more later. If he doesn’t get his umbrella destroyed first in the meantime.

As a youkai he is overall somewhat stronger, faster and hardier than the average human, though compared to other supernatural creatures he’s actually on the weaker end of the scale. He also has two other abilities, the first of them being that as long as he’s holding onto his umbrella, it will be impervious to most forms of damage, barring fire, electricity and techniques specifically designed to harm spiritual creatures like demons and youkai. He can create rain that has a soothing, calming effect to those within its presence, however prolonged exposure will induce lethargy, melancholy and possibly depression. Under the powercap the area of the rain will be highly localized, at largest taking up an area equivalent to the village square.

While this largely does not apply to Luceti, Amagasa can be “contracted” by a human, a process which basically entails the contractee acting a supplementary energy tank to him so that he can maintain his form in the physical realm while still having access to his supernatural abilities, in exchange for providing services to them. Obviously there will be no such need for this in Luceti since there is no spirit realm and physical realm like in his world, and it is highly unlikely he will ever get contracted here.

Strengths: Most of what’s been mentioned in his abilities are strengths, so this will be a bit short!

Physically, he’s...an umbrella, and therefore technically not quite a living being. Though he has a humanoid body, he has no need for those nice things like eating or breathing to “live”, unlike actual fleshy people.

Amagasa is actually rather intelligent and surprisingly knowledgeable, by virtue of technically being an old man in terms of age. Admittedly, some of the stuff he knows is a little trivial. He’s also pretty open-minded and incredibly non-judgmental, since he is pretty mild-mannered and curious about the world.

He’s emotionally stable and...well, as mentioned earlier, pretty mellow! Amagasa is calm, if melancholic, and isn’t the type to flip out unless you give a damn good reason to, which you’ll be hardpressed to find.

Weaknesses:
He’s an umbrella. When his umbrella is not in his hands, it’s just an ordinary umbrella made out of wood and oil-coated paper, which means that it is easy to destroy (and thus kill him). Even disregarding that, any damage to his umbrella will be permanently reflected on his humanoid body, unless said damage can be repaired. Although he’s somewhat stronger than an average human, a well-trained one can easily match him, and most other supernatural beings will likely surpass his abilities as tsukumogami really aren’t very powerful in general. Though he has an innate respawn for deaths that would not incur a penalty, it’s still inconvenient and leaves him vulnerable since his spirit will remained confined to his umbrella, unable to do much else.

He also has zero depth perception, since he only has one eye and wouldn’t even know what having depth perception would be like. Similarly, his dulled sense of pain and heat and cold can actually work against him, since it doesn’t necessarily mean he’s not getting hurt from whatever’s causing them.

Mentally, Amagasa is old-fashioned and out-of-touch with the modern world! He tries to learn, god bless him, but the fact remains that he isn’t used to it and will remained confused by it for a while yet. And although he’s polite, he hasn’t had a lot of experience socializing, so he can sometimes be tactless or offensive without realizing it. He can also be rather naive thanks to said lack of actual experience.

Emotionally, Amagasa is very bad at emoting, with his general expression range being lineface. He’s not used to having a face, and since he also doesn’t tend to feel strongly there isn’t exactly much to express -- it can be hard trying to guess his feelings because of this. He doesn’t actually understand intense negative feelings like anger and hate, although he tries his best to be able to relate, since he hasn’t experienced something negative enough to induce that sort of feeling. If he were to somehow ever actually experience them for himself he probably wouldn’t be sure how to handle them and just repress them instead, which can be a bad thing.

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Amagasa | Original Character | 4/5