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supportadmin) wrote2014-01-18 07:36 pm
supportadmin) wrote2014-01-18 07:36 pm
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As of now, applications will be processed on a rolling basis.→ Directory ←
Should this change at any point in the future, this information will be updated. Please copy the text in the box below and paste it into the comments for this post. We request that all applications be pasted directly into the comments to this post, and not linked in a comment.OOC Information
Handle: Your nick name or preferred internet handle.
Over 18?: Yes or no! For those players under 18, we ask that they refrain from reading or participating in threads that contain explicit gore, violence, or sexual contact.
Preferred means of contact: Please list any and all means of contact you would like people in the game to reach you through, be it on plurk, via AIM or another IM service, or by email. It is mandatory to allow PMs via character journals, so that we have a universal form of contact game wide.Character Information
Character Name: Your character's name, including any adaptation done to fit within the game universe. For characters with only one canon name, please invent a surname. You may also choose to give them an entirely new name and use their canon name as a nick-name they're known to go by.
Character Age & Birthdate: No characters under 14 will be allowed into the Jaeger Academy. The current game year is 2020. We ask for invented birthdates when none are provided in canon for the sake of PPDC (Pan Pacific Defense Corps) Records.
Character Canon: For original characters, put "Original" here. For anyone else, please list their origin source. Canon points are not necessary, as they are largely irrelevant in an AU setting.
Character AU History:
Please keep this brief! In depth translations of canon to an AU are not necessary. What we're looking for is a sense of how this character is in the context of the game world. Where did they grow up? What is their relationship to events before and after the arrival of the Kaiju? How have they been affected by the Kaiju presence on Earth?For example, Eren Jaeger may have grown up in Oakland, California, feeling trapped there by his parent's economic situation and having a tendency to get into fights at school as a kid. His mother worked day jobs, and his father was a doctor at a local clinic that catered to the low income and the illegal immigrants in the area.While canonically characters such as Mikasa Akermann and Armin Arlert are important in Eren's life, keeping details sparse on those relationships in the application process allows for them to be developed in plotting memes and through conversations held with other players later on, or as the need for them arises during the course of playing in game.
When Trespasser hit San Francisco, he was evacuated with the rest of his school inland away from the bay. In the six days of Trespasser's rampage, his whole world was shattered. His father went missing, and his mother was killed in the attack. At eight, Eren and his best friends and schoolmates were kept in emergency shelters until his father was able to locate them. Eren did not handle the loss or destruction well, and his resolve to do something against the Kaiju only increased after the second incident in Milan. In following years, after the development of the PPDC and the Jaeger Program, he felt driven to not only get out of the increasingly more fragile state of existence he and many of the tens of thousands of people displaced by Trespasser and the nuclear radiation and Kaiju Blue that followed to other parts of the state, and other parts of the country, but to be able to do anything to fight back against these aliens destroying his home.
When the public Drift Compatibility Testing Centers opened, Eren put all his energy into getting to one of the centers to participate in the testing. He threw himself head first into the testing, and despite initial adverse reactions in testing, tested out as Drift Compatible. He was a step closer to achieving his goals, even if he had to be on call until the new Jaeger Academy (to be located at the Valparaíso Shatterdome) would open its doors a half year later, in February of 2020.jaegeracademy will have regular CR brainstorming memes in order to help facilitate this process!
Character Personality:
Here we'd like to see the meat and bones of your understanding of your character's personality at the core, and how it translates into the game universe. The main reasonings and logics behind a character's thinking and problem solving processes should be preserved in translation between canon and the game AU. What makes your character who they are? What is their mentality like? How do they face challenges? Do they overcome obstacles in their path, or let those obstacles stop their forward momentum? Are they good studiers, or are they unable to stay focused on subjects that don't interest them?
Show us who your character is in this section. Who they are, what they do, why they do it, and where they plan to end up, or even where they don't.
Why is your character joining the Jaeger Academy?:
The PPDC does not forcibly enlist Cadets into the Jaeger Academy program. What is your character's motivation for entering the Academy? Are they looking to become a Ranger, or do they want to use the JA in order to earn a better education or place in the world for themselves? Are the extra rations of food and support given to volunteer's family a deciding factor for them?
It's important to know your character's motivations for being at the Academy, and can help the modteam be sure to make apparent the different options available for your character(s) in the course of their stay at the Academy.
Link to your 5+ comment Test Drive Thread(s):
Instead of requesting static samples in applications, we're looking for active examples of interactions between your character(s) and others in the game setting. Monthly Test Drive Memes will be put up with different scenarios in order to aid this process.
For characters currently in game, any threads participated in on the Test Drive Meme will count toward AC points (but will not count as "New CR." New CR can only be gained from the first time threading with a new character who has been properly accepted into the game!). It's beneficial to everyone to tag around even in the Test Drive Memes!
Only one thread of at least five comments from you is required, and if no thread has reached that count, then as many threads as needed that collectively add up to five comments from you will be accepted.