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extinctmods) wrote2014-05-23 01:22 am
extinctmods) wrote2014-05-23 01:22 am
Applications
Before applying, please make sure you have read the Rules and FAQ thoroughly.
Applications will be checked as soon as possible after they are received. Please give us up to a week to get back to you.
OOC:
Player name: What you would like to go by.
Age: We need to know you're old enough to play here!
Personal journal: For reference.
Other contact info: How else can we get a hold of you?
IC:
Character name: Just who is it you're bringing to the game?
Canon: What series are they from?
Age: How old is your character? If no canon age is given, give us your best guess.
Sex/Gender: If your character identifies as something besides their sex assigned at birth, please put that instead.
Abilities & skills: What they're good at!
Personality: Please write at least a minimum of 250 words describing your character's personality traits. We don't need a full-on analysis, but we want to know what to expect from them. And if for example the way they act around people is vastly different from how they actually feel, we want to hear about both of these things.
This section is meant to be about how your character will act in the game, so it mostly refers to your character's AU self. However, if there is a necessity to make any significant changes from canon, please make note of it.
AU history: No need to get in-depth, but as this is an AU we need a basic rundown of your characters history.
Third or first person sample: Pick the one you like most. You are more than welcome to give us links as long as the thread in question is of a decent length. If we feel the sample given is too short, we might request an additional one.
If you don't put a link and instead write your own sample, please make sure it is long enough to judge your characters voice.
Re: Teru Mikami | Death Note | Reserved
From early childhood on, Mikami is raised by his single mother. The whereabouts of his father remain unknown. Ever since he is little, Mikami has a strong sense of morals and high ambitions for himself and the people around him. From elementary school on he is consistently class rep at school and aims to get his class to the top of Japan.
In elementary school, Mikami also has to witness bullying for the first time. It goes entirely against what he believes in and he begins to fight back and protect the victims. Despite the fact that he gets himself beat up pretty bad, he continues to serve as a protector and receives the gratitude of the victims. This keeps him going. Eventually his elementary school class joins his side and the bullies get shunned and need to stop their wrong-doings.
Things don't continue to go as well in middle school and Teru goes from protector to bullying victim himself. Nobody is willing to do for him what he did for other victims before and he finds himself stuck in a world of bullies and bystanders.
As the bullying becomes more and more severe, his mother confronts him on it. She claims that he doesn't have to always take the bullet for someone else and be hurt this much. Teru can't understand her point of view as her attempt to protect him - he thinks she is wrong for not understanding the importance of acting righteous and going against evil. From then on, he distances himself from his mother entirely.
As he suffers more and more abuse from his classmates, Teru becomes more and more bitter a person. He begins to think that all evil needs punishment. While he previously was fine with forgiving and letting people change their ways, he now starts to think that the world would be better off when all evil people are permanently erased.
Just as these thoughts begin to form in his mind, an accident happens. Some of the bullies from his class get involved in a car crash and take one innocent person to their death with them - Teru's mother.
This is the turning point in his life - having lost the sole person he could somewhat rely on in his life, Mikami has to find a way to justify what happened to him. There is no way the world is such a chaotic and unfair place that would just let him suffer and suffer and take everything from him for no reason at all. So of course there is a reason. None of the people who died were righteous. So this is the punishment. Their deaths are part of a bigger plan.
To Teru that is the only thought that makes sense and he clings to it with all he has - it's the only thing that keeps him going. And he feels that he is validated in this belief. Again and again people he dislike die - which is actually not very hard because Mikami disapproves of almost everyone around him at that time. But he doesn't realize that. They obviously all deserve their death.
And the world keeps on smiling - nobody in his class missed those bullies much. The world is better off without evil. Evil people deserve to be eliminated.
This belief firmly etched into his mind, Mikami suffers through the rest of his school education and goes to college. He feels destined to become a prosecutor - if God punished criminals from above, a prosecutor is the closest a human can get to doing that. Rid a world of crime. With no social life or hobbies to speak off he aces his studies and soon gets to start the job of his dreams.
By now obsessive about the keeping of schedules, order and cleanliness in his life, Mikami moves into an apartment in Kyoto and lives the literal most boring life you could think off. He doesn't have any friends, he works excessively and he doesn't pay any attention to holidays in his keeping of schedule. That's all he does. That's literally all he does until he is 27, what do you expect me to write here. Why Mikami. Why.
Then he wins a ticket to Jurassic Park and he honestly doesn't feel like going, but the prosecution had their eyes on InGen for a while because suspiciously many Japanese companies invest in them for some sort of secret business. Mikami is ordered to semi-officially check that out if he already got a legal chance to go. Mikami is not very happy but he obeys and goes and then a lot of dinosaurs ruin his life.
Third or first person sample:
Mikami is not the kind of person who would visit an amusement park. He can vaguely understand why it's appealing to other people and he doesn't judge them much for it, but his own desire for entertainment is extraordinarily low. He doesn't really want to be here - it's far from home, far from the work that actually needs him. The work-related use of this half-vacation is questionable and Mikami doesn't think he can listen to any more of John Hammond praising himself. As soon as it's socially acceptable, he distances himself from the trip's opening party and heads for the Safari Lodge.
The entire set-up of this island is giving him a headache - cloning extinct creatures wasn't on the list of things he had considered possible before. It has nothing to do with him and he wants nothing to do with it. Riding a crowded train to work is more suitable for Mikami than flying towards adventure in a shaky helicopter.
The only thing he has left to do is to figure out whether or not investing in this project is legal and whether or not the project itself is conform to law. In his head, he goes over possible ways to press charges against both Hammond and the investors - there's complications with international law of course, but he'd check on that soon.
He stops short in front of the Lodge and looks around at the jungle of the island surrounding him. No, criminal court suits him better. He doesn't know the first and last thing about animals, let alone dinosaurs.
Three weeks normally go by fast, following schedule step by step, but here there is no normal schedule and the timespan never seemed as long before. Mikami sighs and steps inside to go up to his room. He hardly notices who he passes on the way upstairs but he gives a short not in greeting at each person. A dark figure with a dark expression, he seems entirely out of place between the safari patterns.
Have you read the Rules and FAQ? They are etched into the darkest corners of my brain, I wrote them and then I reread them approximately 80 times.
Accepted!
Welcome to the Park and enjoy your stay! To get started, here are a few things you need to do:
•join![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
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extinctlogs (Log Comm) and ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fleacircus (OOC Comm)
•comment with the form here to be added to the Taken list
•check if your AU has any details that should be added to the AU Masterpost
•if you already know where your character will be staying, comment to the Housing list
•introduce yourself in the OOC comm and meet your fellow players
The game's opening log will go up on July 14. If there are any changes to this date, it will be posted in the OOC comm. After the opening log, you can make posts in the communities whenever you like. Just make sure to tag them with your character's full name in western order. We look forward to having you here!