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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: Gilgamesh
Canon: Fate/Zero
Reference Link: Character Wiki

Character History: Gilgamesh is an ancient babylonian king. He was loved for his wisdom, power, beauty, and hated for his tyranny, arrogance, and tendency to bang every woman in his city before she was allowed to get married. The gods created for him an equal and balancer, Enkidu, and the two were megabros, going on epic demi-god murdering adventures up until Gil spurned the affections of a goddess and she arranged to have Enkidu killed. From there, Gil had to to do some grieving, some exploring the underworld, and eventually died of his grief.

A few thousands years later, Gilgamesh is summoned as a heroic spirit and Servant to do battle in a magus war for the Holy Grail and the chance to win a wish. Gil is pretty much uninterested in the war and amuses himself instead turning his Master's student against him, flying around thought powered jets, and hitting on the virgin hero Saber. Eventually he succeeds in getting his boring Master offed and takes a sociopathic priest for his new one, kills Alexander the great, proposes marriage to girl!King Arthur, and is yoinked to the Enrichment Center before the corrupted grail can drive him to genocide.

Personality: All Heroic Spirits are essentially some of the biggest personalities the world has ever seen, crystallized at the height of what makes them who they are. For Gilgamesh, this means being the most epically arrogant bag of dicks ever. He believes everything in the world to already be his, and that he is the ultimate king and the only one whose title has any real meaning. He also feels that humanity has devolved since his rule and is generally unimpressed with everyone and everything. Outside of the occasional insult taken too much too heart, he's a relatively difficult person to excite, preferring to lounge around in luxury and be at ease even around his enemies, because really, what could threaten anyone as awesome as him?

But, while Gil's arrogance is definitely his fatal flaw, and the reason he did not easily win the war in under a day, there is a lot of underlying complexity to him. He is really every inch a regal king, unconflicted by self doubt and generally disinclined toward proving himself. Though blind to his own failings, and with a tendency to underestimate... everyone. He is otherwise quite intelligent, and can not only carry on deep philosophical conversation, but can be quite effectively manipulative. He has an interest in watching people who have unique natures, particularly if it causes them conflict. Despite being so full of himself, he also quickly gets bored with people who don't have the strength of will to stand up to him, and will only acknowledge those who have the courage to assert their reality against his own.

With a supremely hedonistic nature, Gil's interests narrow down to sex, fighting, treasure, and mongling. But since he refuses to bother with boring fights, has little interest acquiring things he believes are already his, and thinks most people are boring, he tends to just come off as really fucking lazy. Also, despite his many many flaws, Gilgamesh is far from incapable of dealing with others. Since his ego is secure, people doubting him is an offense but far from a true bother. He will explore potential interest in people before dismissing them, and if they prove curious to him bother them regularly. Also, despite viewing most people as little more than worms, he doesn't consider crushing worms his job and is rarely any kind of threat unless motivated by interest or fury.

Writing Sample:

01. If given a choice, what would you like to be called?

If you can't discern my name by looking at me you aren't worthy of speaking it. I'd prefer it not be tarnished by any mongrels today.

02. Do you require socks to be part of your uniform?

I am no one's soldier to be put in uniform.

03. Not including mandatory periods of silence, what is the longest you have gone without talking?

As long as I desired.

04. Are you plagued by suspicions that other people, including coworkers and relatives, may be doing things behind your back that will hurt you?

There are inherently few that a king can trust, but the occasional outright disloyal fool is hardly worthy of paranoia.

05. Other than a large egret, what wild animal would you like to domesticate?

Not overly domesticated, or they're no better than any ordinary kept beast. But in the past I was fond of large cats.

06. Are you functionally incapacitated by witnessing other people's misery?

If such a person exactly exists they should show themselves to me. Testing that thoroughly might entertain me for a bit.

07. What is your favorite flatware for, purely as an example, eating cake?

That last question wasn't bad, see if you can at least manage ones less foolish than this.

08. Do you trust yourself?

That is even worse. Any wretch that calls himself a king but does not trust himself should quickly fall on his blade for tarnishing my title.

09. Please list a crime that only you would know that you have committed.

The king's word is law. How, then, could I possibly be guilty of any crime?

10. If you disappeared tomorrow would anyone miss you?

I disappeared thousands of years ago, and civilization itself still mourns me.

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.

Apps

Gilgamesh | Fate/Zero

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