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Application Post

THIS POST IS FOR ARCHIVE PURPOSES ONLY. YOU CAN FIND THE NEW APPLICATION POST HERE.

Applications are currently OPEN.

Interested in applying to Brave New World? Simply fill out the form below and submit it! We do have some rules, though.

-Brave New World is an Alternate Universe game. All canon characters must be crafted specifically into the setting in order to be applied. Additionally, Original Characters may be applied, they too must be specifically crafted to the setting.

-You are permitted to either post the application directly to this page in a comment or to post the application elsewhere (preferably your character's journal) and link it in a comment here.

-Applications may take up to one week to process, and revisions up to three days. We'll do our best to get to them as soon as possible, however.

-If you are asked for revisions, please re-submit them within 72 hours of mod response. If no revisions are received within that period of time, your character will be made available again and someone else may submit an application for them.

-If you are rejected, don't worry, you can always try again! We currently have no limits on how many times a person may apply for a character; however, we do reserve the right to ban a person from apping a certain character if it gets too far out of hand.

-We do not accept application challenges. If you apply for a character that already has been applied for or reserved by somebody else, the other person will receive due consideration first. If they are rejected, their reserve expires, or they fail to re-submit revisions within 72 hours of a mod revision request, then, and only then, will we consider your application.

A Guide to Ease the Process of Applying - Skip if You Feel Prepared
As there is quite a bit of information to get through, we do encourage everyone to read through all the pages in the Directory before applying. However, pages that absolutely need to be read include the following:

Premise: A description of the game, and an introduction to the history of Union (the city in which the characters live) and what it means to be Enlightened.
Rules and FAQ: A basic Q&A addressing game mechanics can be found in the FAQ, including a basic outline concerning Bonding with Pokémon and rules concerning levels and Pokémon attacks, a description of our communication network (Warp Bands), and a description of Enlightened and Enhanced Items.
The City of Union: A post describing the physical locations within the City of Union. New areas may be added by players as they wish.
Society & Culture: A post describing the culture and the social mores of the civilization within Union as well as a listing of important Union-specific professions. You may choose to have your character serve as one of these professions or as another less Pokémon-specific profession like 'waiter' or 'chef'. This post may be of particular importance for crafting a working AU for your character.
The Enlightened: A post describing what it means to be Enlightened as well as Enlightened abilities you may choose for your character and how they affect game mechanics. As a note, any character who does not want to have special skills should choose the skill 'Far from Ordinary', which essentially means they do not have powers.
Training, Bonding, and Leveling: While this post is not essential for reading before the app, the details given on bonding with Pokémon will need to be understood to get the most out of the game.
Starter Pokémon: A list of all the starter Pokémon that may be chosen. Please pick one and note it in your application. Your starter does not have to share one of your character's types.
AU Planning: Before applying, it may be helpful to glance through this post and see if you can make plans with someone to have prior CR or to otherwise plan for future CR. You may also post on our Plotting Comm, which is open to all, to see if anyone would be willing to hash out some AU details with you.
Plot Timeline: As the game has been running now for several months, it may be helpful to glance through to see which events your character would logically have experienced as a citizen of Union before you begin to play them.

Prior to February 3rd, 2014, we asked that anyone who wished to apply a character from outside Union contact us first for approval. However, this no longer requires approval as long as the character is from a small, outside settlement and does not intend to return. If you intend to make use of a large civilization outside of Union, please still do contact us so we can discuss details. We generally prefer characters to come from settlements already established in game. We also ask that you contact us to talk things over if you plan to include any major actions by the NPCs of the city of Union in your application: for example, if you are attempting to app a murderer and you need to talk about how Union would respond to his crime.

Whenever in doubt, please feel free to contact the mods with any questions you may have! If your application includes some detail that conflicts with the established societal norms of Union, we'll respond to let you know. This does not mean your app is unacceptable! We absolutely want to work with everyone to make sure they can get an AU that they can enjoy. At the most extreme end, we can even accommodate things like people who want to work to bring down Union, but again, please do contact us to hash out details.

To submit an application, fill out the form below and submit it:

<big>PLAYER INFO</big>

Name: (What you go by online.)
Contact Information: (How other people can reach you. Personal journal, e-mail, AIM, Plurk, etc.)
Time Zone: (What time zone do you live in?)
Characters Played: (What other characters, if any, do you play already in Brave New World?)

<big>CHARACTER INFO</big>

Character Name:
Character Canon:

History: (A wiki link to your character’s history can suffice. However, if there is no wiki or there isn’t enough information on it, we will require you to write it out. OCs are exempt from this section)

AU History: (This is required for all characters to integrate them into the setting. It can be reasonably simple, or it can be more complex. You may integrate other characters into your history with their permission.)

Canon Personality: (We want to see how well you know your character’s personality. We expect at least four full paragraphs of information about them that encompasses a solid overview of their motivations, strengths, and weaknesses. This personality should be based on their original canon appearance.)

AU Deviation: (The nature of the AU is such that the character's personal history will be different, be it in simple or dramatic ways. Due to a much different upbringing, we expect there to be at least some variation, even if small. Spend at least one paragraph detailing in what ways the character differs from their canon incarnation.)

Canon Abilities: (Please list their abilities, be they mundane and supernatural. This includes items of power such as giant robots or magic weapons, and what they can do.)

Enlightened Abilities: (While your character will not have access to their canon abilities, they will instead gain access to up to two Pokémon types as outlined here: http://www.serebii.net/xy/typechart.shtml

Through these types, they will be able to take on an ability set that can mimic their canon abilities. Additionally, they will gain access to special trainer abilities as detailed here: http://bravenewmods.dreamwidth.org/715.html

While filling out this section, a good format would be to describe initial abilities and the way the abilities will develop after the first and second evolutions.

If your character has no canon powers, they may still be an Enlightened.  However, we ask that the abilities you choose generally make some sense for the character, whether it's related to personality or other canon considerations.

While complex vehicles are beyond the technology level of Union, characters may, as part of their overall composition, use Enhanced items that have aspects of an available Pokémon. A character may begin with a single Enhanced item, such as a sword that contains the Fire type. This is generally recommended to be similar to something they use in canon.)

Starter Pokémon: (Pick one from the list found here: http://bravenewmods.dreamwidth.org/968.html. Additionally, you may pick a single common Pokémon from the map post found here: http://bravenewmods.dreamwidth.org/5884.html from any of the Verdant Forest or Old City areas.

If you have the "Far from Ordinary" perk, you may pick two starters and one Verdant Forest/Old City Common. Starter Pokémon need not share your type. You are not required to pick a starter; you may start with no Pokémon if desired.)

Notes/Special Considerations: If you have special things you want to do with your character that can potentially impact the plot such as giving them an ancient power from a clan thought long extinct, this is the place to put it. It's suggested that you contact the moderators beforehand to hash things out if you want to do anything dramatic. You may also PM or IM one of the moderators beforehand if you wish to get the section pre-approved or ask questions on what is and is not allowed.

<big>SAMPLES</big>
(NOTE: You may link a previous entry or thread, including testrun or musebox threads (but NOT Dear Mun), for one or both samples. However, we want to see the character in the setting of Brave New World and specifically in their AU for at least one sample.)

First-Person: (Also known as “commentspam.” This is from the character’s perspective and helps us determine how well you grasp your character’s voice. The minimum is six sentences. If we deem that there is not enough spoken or written dialogue, we will ask you for more. If you link an outside entry or thread, the minimum is 10 comments from your character in one thread/with one character.)

Third-Person: (This is written in prose from an independent narrator’s perspective. Here we want to see an insight into your character’s unspoken behavior -- actions, thoughts, their view of their world, etc. The minimum here is two paragraphs. If we do not get a good sense of your character’s behavior, we will ask for more. If you link an outside entry or thread, the minimum is 20 comments from your character in two threads/with two characters.)

If desired, you may answer some of the following questions in lieu of samples. The questions must be answered in-character, as if they are being asked by a teacher, mentor, or superior. If your character is lying in their answer, please identify it as a lie.  The purpose of these is to get an idea of how you will play your character in lieu of the other sample options. 4 questions answered can be used as a substitute for a first-person sample, and 6 questions answered can be used as a substitute for a third-person sample. Both samples may be replaced in this manner. If the character doesn't say enough in their answer, we may request a few more answers for an acceptable sample.

-What would you say the role of Pokémon is in your life?
-What do you feel your role in your city is?
-What do you seek for humanity’s future?
-To what lengths would you go to rescue your allies if they were lost in the wilderness?
-What would you say the most important occupation is within your city?
-What does the story of the Savior mean to you?
-What aspects and traits do you respect most in your individual fellow man?
-What do you look for in the Pokémon with whom you bond?
-What do you think your Pokémon respect most about you?
-The gods of old have returned.  How would you be judged if you were chosen as a representative of humanity?
-A human has attacked a wild Pokémon who retaliates in defense.  How do you respond and whom do you defend?
-You are alone and bereft of your Pokémon allies; upon what strengths do you rely on to see yourself safely home?
-What would you say is your greatest duty, and why?
-You plunge into the depths of ruins of an ancient civilization. What is it that you seek from the past?  Treasure, technology, wisdom?
-When encountering a rare and powerful Pokémon, what is most important? Researching it, bonding with it, or defeating it? Why?
-What do you do to ensure we never again awaken the wrath of the gods upon humanity?
-What strengths make you most qualified for your role within your city?
-In your eyes, what is absolutely unforgivable?
-No Enlightened chooses their abilities - and not all are Enlightened.  What type abilities would you most desire to manifest and why?
-What area do you seek to explore?  The peaceful forest, in search of new, previously overlooked discoveries; the uncharted caves, in search of the unknown; or the wildest of mountain terrain, in search of danger, adventure, and thrills?

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Congratulations! You have been accepted into Brave New World! Here’s what to do next:

-Join

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zubatopia
-Make a post in

bravenewmeta to introduce yourself and your character
-Alphabetically by player name, add your information to the Contact Page.
-Add your information to the Taken Page by filling out the form.
-If your character is part of an organization like the City Guard, go to the Organization page and fill out the form there. If your character is from an area outside Union, please go to the Outside Civilizations page and fill out that form.
-If you haven’t already, swing by

bravenewstories and put up a plotting post to get your character in on the action.
-As the game progresses, please keep track of your Pokémon and other acquisitions/statistics on a post within your own journal. An example template may be seen here.
-You may read the Game Timeline and Information Collective to get a feel for what’s happened in the game so far.
-Your character tag for use on the IC comm is [dc comics: tim drake].

Edited 2014-12-22 22:41 (UTC)

Take me lightly and you'll get burned

Edited 2014-12-23 02:31 (UTC)

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Supreme Thunder Dragon!

Before we can approve this application, we would like to see you expand a bit on the AU History and Personality section.

We feel that the AU History can touch more on Makoto's life after her parents passed, but before she met Usagi and friends.

The personality section gives a few canon examples, but we do not feel that it actually gives us a glimpse into what sort of character Makoto is. Please consider looking into what some of her motivations are, personality characteristics and quirks, or other factors that would flesh her out more.

AU History: (Already discussed with the other members of the Sailor Moon cast and brought to speed on their AU.) Makoto is, like the rest of her cast, a reincarnation of one of the warriors in the final battle during the Savior-Era of Union’s history. She’s unaware of her former life, but only that some things feel familiar for some reason. And she gets that funny feeling around some people that she knew formerly.

Her in-game history is as follows: In what was supposed to be a quick day trip for Makoto’s parents, a date alone while she was at school, the Fearow they were riding on ran into huge gusts of winds and the Kino parents fell from off the back of their Pokémon companion, dying upon impact, mercifully. They were able to leave her a tidy nest egg that a ten year old girl could comfortably subsist on until she graduated, if she was frugal. Since then, Mako has been alone and would have stayed that way if she hadn’t met, and bonded, with a newly hatched Mareep.

While she was alone with Cotton, Mako attended school but had trouble connecting with others for a while because she was grieving so much. She loved her parents and was very happy with them, but with their sudden deaths and her lack of an extended family, she grew disenchanted with those around her, pushing former friends away and causing some of them to be angry and pick fights that ended quickly. Instead of friends, she spent time learning how to cook and fight hand-to-hand. Her schoolwork suffered a little, since it didn’t interest her much, but she always managed to just barely squeak by to the next level. Over time, the Pokémon reminded her that it was okay to be happy again and she slowly made friends again, first with Usagi, Rei Ami and Minako at school and later Michiru and Haruka.

Upon meeting the others, she begins to have dreams. They make little sense to her, dealing with scenes that seem to be from history books, but have happened to her. But that they hardly seem like they’re real, except for the feelings she has about her new friends that she can’t really explain either.

Canon Personality: Makoto is a good-natured, kind girl at heart. However, her above-average height, slightly gang-like looks, and rumors made it hard for her to make friends. While some people, like Umino and Naru, said that she was scary and was expelled from her former school, the truth of the fact is that Makoto was lonely and following what she felt was her destiny when she transferred to the school where Usagi and Ami attended. (Granted, her actions of pulling on the guidance counsellor’s tie and telling him frankly that her hair was natural and that she wasn’t wearing the uniform of the new school because it was too small didn’t help her ‘scary’ rep.)

Her parents, from what we later find out, died in a plane accident, leaving Makoto to fend for herself from a relatively early age—though with what means is never touched upon. She outwardly doesn’t seem to mind it, but it does impact a lot of things she does. Her loneliness is also a weakness that the enemy has exploited. In the first chapter of the manga where she appears, the enemy has brainwashed the handsome, older boy who runs Crown Arcade who Makoto has a slight crush on to make her vulnerable. It’s only the quick actions of Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon that keep her from falling victim to the ploy.

In retaliation, she picks up the monster du jour (a bride of all things!) and body slams it to the ground before receiving her transformation pen and becoming Sailor Jupiter for the first time. After dispatching General Nephrite with her powers, she is welcomed as the fourth member of the team. She then tells the other scouts about a boy who broke her heart at her last school, a boy who Motoki (Andrew) reminded her greatly of, but she admits that transferring to Juuban was to find something more important than a lost love, something that was waiting for her to show up.

However, when she transforms into Sailor Jupiter, she becomes a force to be reckoned with. She uses her physical prowess and lightning-based attacks to protect the denizens of Earth and her friends, putting special focus on Sailor Moon since she is actually the princess of the former Moon Kingdom. She works in tandem with the other members of the team quite well, despite their outward differences, often combining their powers to do things like teleport to and from the moon or to channel their life force through the Crystal Sword so that Princess Serenity could use it to defeat Queen Metallia.

To make up for the fact that she is the tallest of the Inner Scouts and participates in martial arts (lending to her tomboyish, violent reputation), Makoto has gone the exact opposite way in her personal hobbies. She prefers things like the very girly shade of candy pink. She loves to bake and cook. In fact, that is exactly how she manages to befriend Usagi—by sharing her very excellently prepared bento with the ever-hungry Usagi after saving her at least twice in the same day. She dreams of being a bride and wishes to put her talents of cooking and growing plants into working in a bakery and/or flower shop. She wears the very distinct and pretty rose earrings that are her signature.

Keeping in that vein, once Makoto allows Usagi to persuade her to be friends, she is steadfast and extremely loyal. She shows her gentler, calmer side to the other girls and, eventually, allowing those they go to school with to see that side of her as well. She teases Usagi about her terrible grades, all the while admitting that her own aren’t much better with a bit of a laugh. However, when the chance to study with Ami and Rei, the best students of the Inners, presents itself, she tries to take advantage of it as best she can. With mixed results.

While Makoto can be scary due to her size and her somewhat short temper, she balances it out with hobbies that she pursues both out of a love of them and because they are more feminine than she is typically perceived. She finds it difficult to make friends, but once she has, they are friends that she will lay her life on the line for.

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Before we can approve this app, we would like to see what your plans are for Franziska's Enlightened abilities. While we do allow a bit of wiggle room to change and adapt, we would like to see a clear layout of what you have in mind.

Looks like Team Minor Land is blasting off again~!

Sure!! I'll get too it ASAP!

As Franziska progresses, she will gain an ability as well as various moves. Her ability will be Heatproof; this reflects her ability to keep a cool head in situations in court, as well as provides a boon to her Steel typing. She will begin with moves such as Confusion, Iron Tail (in this case, her whip), and Iron Defense. When she reaches level fifty, she will learn Telekinesis and Psycho Cut, again using her whip as the medium to inflict damage. When she reaches level 55, she will learn Psyshock and Doom Desire.

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Thank you for submitting your application! Due to some of the material addressed in this application, it will need further discussion with the mod team. Currently, one of our moderators is on hiatus until the beginning of the year, so we apologize that this application will take longer than usual to process.

This is just a courtesy message to let you know that we have not forgotten about your application and that it is currently in queue. Thank you for your patience!

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Edited 2014-12-31 02:38 (UTC)

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Commissioner Grump

Edited 2014-12-31 09:47 (UTC)

Heya! Thanks for applying to the game!

Your app looks good, but I just wanted to make sure you were aware of a certain point since there seems to be some slight misunderstanding - the war with Gigas referenced in the Timeline was actually between Caldera and Gigas, with Union intervening partway through and forcing a temporary withdrawal over the course of about three weeks. It's perfectly fine for you to have Gordon as playing a role in aiding that particular crisis, of course. Would you be able to edit the paragraph beginning with, "Decades of 'boxing outside his weight class' served him well when the war with Gigas began" to reflect this? Thank you!

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There are a few items on this one that we're going to need to request some changes on for this to be made workable.

First, we cannot allow a PC-created and run doomsday cult of that nature and caliber. Our suggestion is, instead, a smaller group of Pokemon and shifters who are against the idea of human and Pokemon cooperation or prefer a world in which Pokemon are dominant. They can be working toward contacting some kind of Legendary although their capability to succeed will likely be slim to none in context of the game outside of specific action taken by Siren.

On that note, we also would like to see a bit more poignant reason as to why Siren would take on such an extreme philosophy. Losing such a contest seems an odd reason to set her on a path toward entropy and destruction. The somewhat softer proposal as above may help this, but right now we're having a difficult time seeing where the justification for such a character shift is.

Finally, the Enhanced Item request is for something a bit more powerful than we are typically comfortable allowing for Enhanced items, especially mono-type items. It duplicates the unique ability of a Pokemon which is something we've traditionally avoided. That said, we think Siren might work fairly well as a Zorua shifter, as they have a lot of the same physical attributes you're looking for, have the typing you want, and can use the illusion ability which would cover that problem as well. If that doesn't work, we'll need to look at some other options.

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Application Post

Approved!

Yukiko Amagi | Persona 4 | Reserved

Approved!

Makoto Kino | Sailor Moon | Reserved

Pending Revisions

Revisions (sorry about cutting it so close.)

Franziska von Karma | Ace Attorney | Reserved

Approved!

Pending Revisions

| Siren | Suite Precure♪ | Reserved

Re: Pending Revisions

Re: Pending Revisions

Approved!

Pending special considerations

no subject

Sanae Kochiya | Touhou Project | Reserved

Approved!

Approved!

James Gordon | DC Comics | Not Reserved

Clarification!

Re: Clarification!

Approved!

Revision Request

Ruby || Pokemon Special || No Reserve (Reapp)

Approved!