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Please read the rules regarding character appability.

CONTACT/TEAM PREFERENCES

A comment separate from your app with your name, email, and team preferences. Making it a separate comment lets us keep it screened, thus keeping your team preferences private.

For the time zone field, feel free to make a note if working bizarre hours makes you effectively on a different time zone than stated.

"Team preferences" is a catch-all field for any thoughts you might have regarding your character's placement. For example, you might want a team that will put up with your character's sociopathy, or has a certain "feel" to it, or is friendly to your time zone, or maybe you don't think your character looks good in orange, and so on! This is also the spot to let us know if there are teams you DON'T want to be on. While you're not required to put anything here, don't say you have no preference unless you really, honestly have NOTHING to say on the subject! If you've already apped and realized you'd forgotten something? Make another comment!

THE APP

Character Name: self-explanatory
Canon: If the canon has multiple versions, please be specific.
Reference Link: A wiki link is preferable, but anything that has a summary of the canon works. If there is no picture on your link, please provide a reference picture as well. If there is really nothing to link, write a short (no more than 200 words) description of the canon and character appearance.

Character History: A brief summary of your character's background. Only the highlights, please! This section should not be more than 300 words long.
Personality: Can be longer than the history, if necessary, but again, please try to be succinct.

Writing Sample: For this section, you have two choices:

1. Fill out an IC survey (copypaste below)
2. Write a first or third person sample on the subject of your choice. (~300-500 words)

C&P

THE SURVEY

REAPPS

If you want to pick up a character you dropped, just fill out the following:

Character Name:
IC day they were dropped:
Transfer or desynchronization: Which option you took when you dropped
(If you picked transfer) Reaction to product testing: The product testing area of the lab is somewhat different from the RP area! Details can be worked out with the mods, but in general:
- It's light 24/7
- Subjects live in solitary Relaxation Vaults
- You were testing one specific product (the product will be provided when your app is accepted)
- You probably saw these two bozos running around

Apps are OPEN!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Character Name: Orihara Izaya
Canon: Durarara!!
Reference Link: Durarara!!

Character History: Once upon a time there was a very normal family. Alas, this was the normal family that decided to name their child the unique name of Izaya and ended up with a child who was just as unique. Since a very young age, Izaya had a strong interest in the people around him--to be more exact, he loved to watch them. This was how he would spend most of his free time until some weirdo decided to pester him into joining a biology club. It all changed, however, the moment said weirdo decided to jump in front of a knife intended for Izaya, not to save him but to impress some girl. Strangely enough, not only did Izaya claim responsibility for the stabbing, but he made sure to make the shanker’s life a living hell for ten years afterward.

When Izaya makes his way to Raijin Academy, he is very much a different sort of human observationalist who actively dabbles in people’s lives and affairs to watch how they will react. Instigating gangs wars and causing the volatile Heiwajima Shizou explode into rages are just a couple of examples of the things that he pulled in his high school career. Some time after university, Izaya follows the predictable career of being a pretty well-off informant. He spends most of his time selling information he’s gained through his network of various aliases. Izaya eventually takes an interest in the internet group calling themselves the “Dollars”, who allows anyone to become a member as long as they admit to being one if asked. More than this, he decides to take an active hand in the evolution of its leader while simultaneously instigating a three-way turf war all for some plot of his involving Valkyries and the head of a Dullahan.

Personality As a person, Izaya is obviously no saint. Since taking a more proactive role in gaining reactions from the people he claims to adore simply because they are human, Izaya takes on habits and hobbies such as trolling around on the internet and luring out suicidal people just to see if they really would go through with the deed. He is very much a cool and mercurial type of person who remains calm in most situations--sociopathic in the manner of not being able to relate to his fellow man normally but instead views himself as apart from them, often calling himself “the worst” there is. However, Izaya does also have a manic side to himself, most especially when celebrating the joy of witnessing something so very human in the people he pushes--whether it be predicted or completely a surprise. The exception to this being Heiwajima Shizou who Izaya has mutually loathed since the moment they laid eyes on each other.

He is very much an intelligent person, able to set up a Xanatos plot or two and watching all the pieces click into place. An example of this being how he sets up the “pieces” for the three-way turf war and watching as they tumble into each other until the conflict erupts in Ikebukuro. He often prefers to keep his hands clean of any direct interaction with his “pieces” (just a nudge here or there to get them moving in the intended direction) and observes the situation from a distance. Sometimes while also relaying to his assistant Namie where to move shogi, go, and chess pieces on a triangular board. While not a completely vain person, this concept of keeping his hands clean also extends to his own appearance, where he prefers to the more fashionable of things and often acts the part of the kindly senpai who wants to help his juniors with their troubles. The truth being, of course, that he could be purposefully steering them in a rather terrible direction.

Writing Sample:
01. If given a choice, what would you like to be called?
By my name, of course. I am rather fond of and attached to it.

02. Do you require socks to be part of your uniform?
My feet would get cold otherwise. Ah--could there also be shoes with that? In fact, if you’re giving me clothing options, I do have preferences.

03. Not including mandatory periods of silence, what is the longest you have gone without talking?
Hmmm... does chatting on the internet count as talking, I wonder...

04. Are you plagued by suspicions that other people, including coworkers and relatives, may be doing things behind your back that will hurt you?
Not really plagued. I fully expect it. It’s all right if they do. It just means they care enough to bother with it~

05. Other than a large egret, what wild animal would you like to domesticate?
. . . who tames egrets? Why not a cassowary if you’re going to go with birds? I think I want to go with the Bird Eating Spider for this one.

06. Are you functionally incapacitated by witnessing other people's misery?
Hahaha--! What an odd question~

07. What is your favorite flatware for, purely as an example, eating cake?
What kind of cake...? I don’t really like sweet things.

08. Do you trust yourself?
Should I?

09. Please list a crime that only you would know that you have committed.
That would be telling. Not that I have committed a crime. Technically.

10. If you disappeared tomorrow would anyone miss you?
My assistant would miss her paycheck.

CONGRATULATIONS.
Your application to be a test candidate for the Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center has been accepted.

Join the main comm (

enrichment_center) and OOC comm (

relaxation_vault), and then reply to this

comment with your character journal and add yourself to the contact doc (don't worry about the team field for now).

Our chat room is #enrichment_center at irc.lunarnet.org!

Afterward, watch the OOC comm for your team assignment!

In the meantime, please fill out a Stats/Permissions meme and

put it in your journal. You can also comment here

if you'd like some extra trolling from GLaDOS.

Apps

Orihara Izaya 1/2

Orihara Izaya 2/2

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