Apps

[modified_device]

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!

<b>Player</b>: <b>E-mail</b>: <b>Journal/Plurk</b>: <b>Time Zone</b>: <b>Team Preferences</b>:

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

<b>Character Name</b>: <b>Canon</b>: <b>Reference Link</b>: <b>Character History</b>: <b>Personality</b>: <b>Writing Sample</b>:

THE SURVEY

<b>01. If given a choice, what would you like to be called?</b> <b>02. Do you require socks to be part of your uniform?</b> <b>03. Not including mandatory periods of silence, what is the longest you have gone without talking?</b> <b>04. Are you plagued by suspicions that other people, including coworkers and relatives, may be doing things behind your back that will hurt you?</b> <b>05. Other than a large egret, what wild animal would you like to domesticate?</b> <b>06. Are you functionally incapacitated by witnessing other people's misery?</b> <b>07. What is your favorite flatware for, purely as an example, eating cake?</b> <b>08. Do you trust yourself?</b> <b>09. Please list a crime that only you would know that you have committed.</b> <b>10. If you disappeared tomorrow would anyone miss you?</b>

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

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>IC day they were dropped:</b> <b>Transfer or desynchronization:</b> <b>(If you picked transfer) Reaction to product testing:</b>

Apps are OPEN!

Comments

Edward Elric: Application

[nometal_alchemist]

Character Name: Edward Elric
Canon: Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga/Brotherhood version, including novels, movie/OAVs, and side story chapters that have been translated.)
Reference Link: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullmetal_alchemist

Character History: Edward and his younger brother Alphonse grew up in a single-parent home after their alchemist father left when both were very young. While the two showed themselves to be prodigies in the same science, they otherwise lived a rather ordinary life until the death of their mother when Ed was five. Driven by grief, the brothers pursued forbidden alchemy said to be able to bring someone back to life. Their inevitable failure cost Ed his leg and Al his entire body; Ed sacrificed his arm to bind his brother's soul back to the world.

This mistake has haunted Ed ever since, driving him to seek a way to undo what he blames himself for entirely, and restore Al's soul to his physical body. His desire to put things right led him to become the youngest alchemist in the state military, granting him access to its resources and giving him enough freedom to pursue research and leads that might give him the answers he seeks. Unfortunately, his research only uncovered a greater threat to everyone around him, from within the military itself.

While the urgency of restoring Al's body continued to weigh on him, Edward found himself putting aside his own needs for the greater good of protecting everyone. He allied himself with those he knew he could trust, preparing himself as much as he could, and hoping that in the process of fighting the difficult battle he might finally be lead to the answer he's sought for four years.

Personality: Edward is a rather spirited individual with a fiery temper. He can be rather brusque and abrupt, and even a bit violent when he feels offended. This also makes him a very determined and stubborn individual, who often responds to conflict by digging his heels in harder instead of working toward compromise. That stubborn side manifests itself as an intense focus when dealing with matters other than conflict, and a drive to find answers even where none may exist.

He's a child who was forced to grow up early, and who is surrounded most often by other adults, which made him feel a need to prove himself as one of them even while physically still very young. Reaching adulthood hasn't dampened that urge; he will still push himself to prove that he's capable. In spite of that, however, he refuses to give up on his idealistic moral code and, while he'll fight someone, he refuses to kill them, for any reason.

Incredibly loyal and dedicated to those he cares about, Ed strives to protect them in any way he can, so long as those ways don't violate his personal moral code. When faced with a situation where the easy answer would be to break that code, he'll instead search as hard as he can for another answer. Intelligent and brightly optimistic, he forges ahead past setbacks and failures, striving to find new solutions and refusing to submit to failure or defeat as long as moving forward remains an option.

Writing Sample:
Threads from Sabra La Tau:
1. Stubbornly opposing a teammate, then backing down when the voice of reason speaks up.
2. Concern for someone he considered family, and her bad decisions.
3. Fighting a losing battle against a difficult opponent.

ACCEPTED

[modified_device]

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).

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.