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

Physically, Harry Dresden's height and appearance can work against him, lending him a look that is at best unpleasant and at worst outright frightening. The sorts of threats he typically faces rarely are intimidated by this appearance, but those he might otherwise consider allies are frequently put off by it, rendering this far more of a drawback than an asset.
Additionally, he is just a normal wizard, and one with little physical training outside of regular running and a few hours a week with Murphy at the gym- when he remembers and isn't too busy. He is, therefore, a pretty squishy guy, and if you take away his magic there isn't a whole lot left. Just a tall, smartish guy who runs a lot and fights dirty.
Mentally, Harry lacks any sort of special education, and can frequently lack in knowledge of the modern world. He is not a genius-level intellect, nor is he an expert in any particular field- even his magical theory, outside of practical knowledge, is far outstripped by that of other wizards. Additionally, his judgement can become heavily impaired by his emotions.
Emotionally, as mentioned, Harry is very temperamental. He's capable of anything from blind, wrath-of-god rage to blind self-sacrificial chivalry to blind self-deprecating misery, with few pit-stops inbetween. Note the use of the word blind in all three cases- his incredible perception is one of his most valuable assets, and it is frequently the first victim of his emotional nature. He can also be quite socially inept, unable to deal with people on any sort of subtle or intuitive level.
Magically, Harry's power essentially makes him little more than a thug. As mentioned before, anything requiring extreme power is right up his alley- and anything else is right out. Precision, flexibility, control, sensitivity, these words want nothing to do with Harry's magic in any way. His time working with his apprentice, Molly Carpenter, has helped him to work on some of his more subtle Illusion magic- and only now, after years of training with her, has he even managed what for other practitioners would be a rudimentary veil. His use of magic is powerful and flashy, but it is also inefficient, as much energy going into the bright light and the big noise as actually into the magical effect he's trying to achieve.
This also extends to his entropy field. All wizards have an entropy field that they emit which renders electronics and other advanced technology in the area prone to instability and malfunction, but Harry's is commonly cited as among the most severe. It affects a larger area, it has a more consistent- and more powerfully detrimental- negative effect on technology, and the breadth of technology vulnerable to it is far wider than that of many other wizards. While this occasionally serves as an asset, as it allows him to more easily disable said technology deliberately, even that is unreliable- hexing a video camera is as likely to cause every device on the same electrical circuit to short out and even combust as it is to simply disable that one device.
Note: Harry's entropy field, like his power, will be severely curtailed by the power regulators in Luceti, to the point where he's unlikely to be a danger to technology- or to technologically-inclined residents. It will still interfere with his own attempts to utilize said technology, however.