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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

Strengths:

Physical:
John is capable of defending himself and others in physical altercations, using standard military techniques combined with personal experience. Because he’s physically fit, it’s assumed that he has some strength in these situations, though he prefers to use his opponent’s movements against them rather than brute force. Specific fighting examples can be found in The Blind Banker, in which he fights against a masked assailant to save Sherlock's life, and a decent example of his trained style can be seen when he successfully topples Sherlock (a man a good head taller than him) and puts him into a headlock (ASiB).

He is adept at firing several types of guns and is considered to be a crack shot with a pistol. Despite being a building away, he managed to shoot a man through the heart even after the bullet had passed between two windows (ASiP). Even under the effects of a neurotoxin-induced fear, he doesn't miss a bounding, rabid dog on his first or second shots and successfully kills the beast when Detective Inspector Lestrade fails the task (HoB).

Mental:
John is a trained medical doctor and army medic. It’s assumed that he has a professional grip on human anatomy, pharmacology, diagnosis, and medical treatment. He is suited for repairing wounds sustained in and out of combat situations or otherwise preserving life until in a more equipped facility. He has exhibited the ability to determine general time and cause of death in murder victims in numerous cases, including ASiP and TGG.

Emotional:
Truly, an impressive amount of patience and tolerance is exuded by Doctor Watson, especially toward his flatmate. Everyone that knows Sherlock in the series has, at one point or another, expressed their amazement for John's ability to live with the detective and it's clear, to the viewer, that the drama of their living together is just the tip of the iceberg for what their colleagues know. Whether he's politely enduring the obvious flirting of the same sex for the sake of evidence (TBB) or staring down a man who is effectively telling him he's single-handedly put Sherlock at the mercy of his greatest enemy (TRF), John keeps his cool.

This also applies when John is put under stress. While we do see that John has expressed a genuine fear of dying (ASiP), he does not hesitate to put himself on the line for Sherlock when guns start firing or stand up to a kidnapper that has every possibility to kill him without leaving a trace (any episode and ASiP). John is courageous, then, and loyal. It is a popular trope by the series to suggest that his loyalty to Sherlock is what ends his relationships with his girlfriends (Blog and ASiB).

Weaknesses:

Physical:
John is on the shorter side of average for a male, standing at about 5’7 (170cm). He is solid for his build, but he can still be overpowered. He is also a simple human, with no special powers or invulnerability to speak of.

His left shoulder has a large amount of scar tissue on it. He may become stiff there at times and it's probably a good place to hit if you want to knock him off his guard.

Mental:
John is not technology savvy. (TBB, Blog)

He also does suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. Previously, this manifested in a psychosomatic limp. However, as of late it has been compressed to nightmares (ASiP).

Emotional:
Again, the issue of trust should be mentioned. John holds people at arm's length for the most part. He's sympathetic toward humanity as a whole, but he never shares about himself outside of tidbits in his blog. Even then, it's mostly in relation to his friend, Sherlock. A very good personal example would be that John never seems especially put out when his girlfriends leave him. In fact, at one point, he even confuses his current girlfriend with one of his exes. He makes no attempt to make amends and lets them go instead (ASiB, Blog). If he were serious about them, he could have done more; certainly his level of dedication to other activities shows he's capable of it.

His friends are a great emotional weakness for him. Not only does he prove that he'll put himself in life-threatening situations for Sherlock and Sherlock's cause (any episode), but he's also shows that he's allowing some of his morals to be bent by them. Sherlock has successfully convinced him to tolerate vandalism, to commit crimes such as trespassing, breaking and entering, burglary, and minor theft. Granted, all of these things are done in the pursuit of solving a crime, and that sometimes means working outside of the law, but these are almost certainly things that John would never do without a case and Sherlock's behest. When his landlady, Mrs. Hudson, is beaten and interrogated by American agents in A Scandal in Belgravia, his first concern is to see to her injuries. He clearly knows that leaving Sherlock in a room with one of those agents cannot be a good thing, but he leaves Sherlock to do whatever he sees fit.

John is still a soldier in ways that extend beyond his spartan personal space and his discipline. In the first episode, it is suggested that he misses the war as much as he is haunted by it ("When you walk with Sherlock Holmes, you see the battlefield." - Mycroft in ASiP). Indeed, John shows a level of excitement when the case is getting 'good' and they're closing in on their suspect. It is, in fact, the notion of chasing a suspect in the first episode that makes John forget about the limp everyone was telling him was psychosomatic. It has not returned in any further episodes.

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