Potential (?!) applicant here~ ... Well, hopeful-to-be-player, really. My application is done; it's more a few things I'd like to ask before I send it in because I worry too much forever. I'm sure in retrospect this all sounds very silly, but... yeah. Here goes ;;
1) Regarding applications... is it acceptable if they're fairly, ah... long? The character I'm applying for is very complex, you see, as is his canon, and I don't think I could shorten the psychology/personality at all. And I also really doubt it will fit into an email if I copypaste, and I'd prefer not to spam your Inbox.
I-if not, I... might find some kind of way to maybe post this in a bunch of comments somewhere and link you guys to that (I have a musebox I can dump it in), so I could link to it that way through the email? I guess what I'm asking is this: is it okay if your app is very detailed and lengthy?2) On that note, is it okay if, say, instead, I send it with the email as an attachment instead of pasting it into the email? ^^;;; It's really so long that even LJ
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Hi! :D Don't worry about sounding silly, getting clarification early on is way better than stumbling along awkwardly later. <3
1) Yep! If you want to make your app be the next great american novel, go wild! If it takes 50 pages to describe his canon/personality/history/his love of potato chips, then by god it takes 50 pages. :D
2) Yep! Attachments are fine.
3) Also yes! God knows I'd never get any apps done myself if I had to delete the html. It's simply too tedious. :P
4) You can interact with the buildings and people on the plane, mhm. Some characters do stay on the plane to sleep there, eat, and whatever, usually if they have a really shitty home world (like, say, it was a zombie apocalypse. I know I'd rather stay on the plane to sleep than sleep in zombie land!). So the answer to your bolded question is they can stay as long or as short as they like. If your character decides he doesn't want to hang around in his world for a while, he could spend a month on the plane if he wanted.
<3 I hope this clears everything up, and it
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It clears everything up very nicely. Thank you so much, oh my gosh. For being so understanding. And don't be that way at all; it sounded quite professional but also very nice and welcoming since you used emotes and stuff. ;_;
YOU GUYS SEEM REALLY NICE, JUST SAYING. I totally chose the right place to apply to, I'm thinking. <3 /sends app! :DDDD
No need to apologize! Spam makes for interesting sandwiches.
We do not allow players to use wiki links, even for non-AU characters, because we partially use the history section to see what part of characters' histories players choose to highlight and what they find important. It doesn't have to be very long, and if a canon is complicated, not every detail has to be thrown in. This gives a longer history, but what's important about it is that it cuts out all the details extraneous to the major plot and the character's involvement in it. This is another good brief history. It is less a request for a plot summary and more a request for you to tell us how your character got where they are.
bob_fraser_snr dies in the first episode of the canon. And then carries on as a guest star ghost. In fact, he becomes a costar in his own right and incites reactions from his environment, most measurably in his relationship with his son who learns more about him than he ever did alive. Would it be all right to app him if I make him killable/solid on the Plane?
I suppose I can make him deviant two if it wasn't.
That would be fine! We've had characters granted bodies after death before, so it is perfectly fine for him to be solid on the Plane. His On-Plane body would have Plane Blood, but he wouldn't have the reality/ability changes that come from the first death.
If I, say, apped for genderbent Canada/Marguerite (IDK how to spell orz), and someone apped for normal male Canada/Matthew, it'd be possible to them to hang out, become friends, and (damn my shipper's mind) possibly date for the sake of hilarity?
Also is it possible to app for deviances portrayed in fangames, such as the brave and melancholy Italy seen in HetaOni or the evil Japan from RomaHeta?
Also I'd assume if a character usually sits in their room and bitches at people via chat (*cough* Karkat from MSPA *cough*) then they'll be forced to physically interact with people here?
Aaaaand how are silent protagonists dealt with? Like if I apped Souji from Persona 4, he's supposedly a mellow guy but I have a habit of choosing the "be an ass and leave" option when it pops up. So I could see him as a guy who's brave and kind-hearted but really doesn't want to get his hands dirty with certain situations. That's okay?
I have a question about Deviances and canon, it's stated that a character that comes strictly from canon belongs to D1. But what if said canon keeps expanding and someone apps from a later point of time in said canon while the first character has deviated to a different take of events
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I'm very, very sorry for the delay on getting back to you. Deviance labelling works on two levels--one, which is a technical organizational matter to separate the canon characters from different AUs, while the other way is actually denoting distinct universes. In this case, apping your character as d1 would be completely valid and correct because of the first part, which is that your character is fully canon compliant. It might cause problems down the road with changes in history. When characters aren't fully canon compliant because of what happens in game, we always let players have a choice: they can 'shift' deviances (several of the Abyss cast characters just shifted deviances because of changes in history made in game) or they can stay in their deviance despite the changes. It makes no major gameplay difference, which is why we leave it primarily to the discretion of what players are comfortable with.
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1) Regarding applications... is it acceptable if they're fairly, ah... long? The character I'm applying for is very complex, you see, as is his canon, and I don't think I could shorten the psychology/personality at all. And I also really doubt it will fit into an email if I copypaste, and I'd prefer not to spam your Inbox.
I-if not, I... might find some kind of way to maybe post this in a bunch of comments somewhere and link you guys to that (I have a musebox I can dump it in), so I could link to it that way through the email? I guess what I'm asking is this: is it okay if your app is very detailed and lengthy?2) On that note, is it okay if, say, instead, I send it with the email as an attachment instead of pasting it into the email? ^^;;; It's really so long that even LJ ( ... )
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1) Yep! If you want to make your app be the next great american novel, go wild! If it takes 50 pages to describe his canon/personality/history/his love of potato chips, then by god it takes 50 pages. :D
2) Yep! Attachments are fine.
3) Also yes! God knows I'd never get any apps done myself if I had to delete the html. It's simply too tedious. :P
4) You can interact with the buildings and people on the plane, mhm. Some characters do stay on the plane to sleep there, eat, and whatever, usually if they have a really shitty home world (like, say, it was a zombie apocalypse. I know I'd rather stay on the plane to sleep than sleep in zombie land!). So the answer to your bolded question is they can stay as long or as short as they like. If your character decides he doesn't want to hang around in his world for a while, he could spend a month on the plane if he wanted.
<3 I hope this clears everything up, and it ( ... )
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YOU GUYS SEEM REALLY NICE, JUST SAYING. I totally chose the right place to apply to, I'm thinking. <3 /sends app! :DDDD
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We do not allow players to use wiki links, even for non-AU characters, because we partially use the history section to see what part of characters' histories players choose to highlight and what they find important. It doesn't have to be very long, and if a canon is complicated, not every detail has to be thrown in. This gives a longer history, but what's important about it is that it cuts out all the details extraneous to the major plot and the character's involvement in it. This is another good brief history. It is less a request for a plot summary and more a request for you to tell us how your character got where they are.
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I suppose I can make him deviant two if it wasn't.
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If I, say, apped for genderbent Canada/Marguerite (IDK how to spell orz), and someone apped for normal male Canada/Matthew, it'd be possible to them to hang out, become friends, and (damn my shipper's mind) possibly date for the sake of hilarity?
Also is it possible to app for deviances portrayed in fangames, such as the brave and melancholy Italy seen in HetaOni or the evil Japan from RomaHeta?
Also I'd assume if a character usually sits in their room and bitches at people via chat (*cough* Karkat from MSPA *cough*) then they'll be forced to physically interact with people here?
Aaaaand how are silent protagonists dealt with? Like if I apped Souji from Persona 4, he's supposedly a mellow guy but I have a habit of choosing the "be an ass and leave" option when it pops up. So I could see him as a guy who's brave and kind-hearted but really doesn't want to get his hands dirty with certain situations. That's okay?
Just trying out my options here.
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