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<center>'''Multiverse Crisis MUSH''' - Application Form 4.0</center>
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<center>Multiverse Crisis MUSH - Application Form 5.5.4</center>
  
==A. OOC INFORMATION==
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'''A. OOC INFORMATION'''
  
===1a. Who are you?===
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1a. '''Who are you?''' What is your name or online alias, and what is your age?
  
What is your name, or if you prefer, online alias? What is your age?
 
  
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2a. '''Have you roleplayed before''', and if so, who and where? If you're new, how'd you find us? If you play here or previously played here, please list all of your current or most recent characters.
  
===2a. Where did you come from?===
 
  
Where have you roleplayed before, and who did you play there? If you're new, how did you find out about us? If you play here, list all of your current characters. If you have played here before, but do not at present, list your prior characters here. If you are requesting a 7th or 8th alt slot with this application, say so here.
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3a. '''Do you need a wiki account?''' If so, give us a login name (that is not itself a character name) and an e-mail address to associate with it. If you already have one and want one to preserve a secret alt, specify as much.
  
  
==B. CHARACTER SUMMARY==
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'''B. CHARACTER SUMMARY'''
  
Your Profile/+Finger, +Advantages, and +Disadvantages are your face on the MUSH. They tell people who your character is, what they are capable of, and what their failings are. Please remove the examples/explanations below each of these sections. For example --> '''Name''': Your character's name. 18 character limit, no special letters. <-- Should be trimmed down to --> '''Name''': Link <--
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Your Profile, Advantages, and Disadvantages (Flaws) are your face on the MUSH. They tell people who you are, what you can do, and what you stumble at. Please remove all examples before submitting the application form. (For example --> Name: Your character's name. 18 character limit, no special letters. <-- should simply read --> Name: Link)
  
  
===1b. Profile===
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'''1b. Profile'''
  
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'''Name:''' Your character's name. 18 character limit.
  
'''Name''': Your character's name. 18 character limit, no special letters.
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'''Faction:''' See [[Factions]] for details. Concord, Paladins, Watch, Unaffiliated.
  
'''Faction''': Union, Confederate, or Unaffiliated. See News Factions. If you are applying into the Syndicate, just write down Unaffiliated (Syndicate).
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'''Function:''' What your character does, or a title. Like 'Demon Hunter' or 'Gundam Pilot'. Can be silly or serious.
  
'''Function''': What your character does. For example, 'Demon Hunter', or, 'Gundam Pilot.' Can be silly or serious.
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'''Series:''' Your character's series and themelisting number. For example, Pokemon-6, Star Wars-1, etc. 36 character limit.
  
'''Series''': Your character's series and themelisting number. For example, Pokemon-6, Star Wars-1, etc.
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'''Quote:''' Something your character HAS said, or which they might say.
  
'''Rank''': See [[Ranks]].
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'''Profile:''' A general summary of your character, incorporating elements of personality, history, advantages, and disadvantages. Should be brief.
  
'''Quote''': Something your character HAS said, or which they might say.
 
  
'''Profile''': A general summary of your character, incorporating elements of personality, history, advantages, and disadvantages. Should be brief.
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'''2b. Character Type:''' What kind of character are you applying for? Categories are FCs (Canon Characters), OFCs (AU takes on canon characters), and OCs (Original Characters).
  
  
===2b. Character Type===
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'''3b. Advantages'''
What kind of character are you applying for? Categories are FCs (Canon Characters), OFCs (AU takes on canon characters), and OCs (Original Characters).
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This section is divided into three categories: DEFINING, SIGNIFICANT and MINOR. To see how to fill out Advantages, read:  http://multiversemush.com/mw/index.php?title=Advantages
  
===3b. Advantages===
 
  
This is a lengthy section divided into four categories: '''POWERS''', '''SKILLS''', '''ASSETS''', and '''NPCs'''. If your character doesn't have an advantage in a specific category, just write down None or N/A. Some Advantages may fit multiple categories, in which case you may choose what category to put the advantage in. Wizards or other characters with many minor sub-powers aren't expected to list EVERY spell, but shouldn't have things like Wish, Teleportation, or Resurrection without listing them.
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'''3b-1. Advantages: Defining'''  
  
  
===3b-1. Advantages: Powers===
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'''3b-2. Advantages: Significant '''
List your character's '''POWERS'''. Powers are usually superhuman abilities of some kind, encompassing things like a wizard's spells, super speed, mind control, telepathy, etc. This can sometimes overlap with Skills if your character is superhumanly good at something like crafting.
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('''APP EXAMPLE, REMOVE WHEN FILLING OUT:'''
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'''3b-3. Advantages: Minor '''
  
'''SUPERHUMAN''': Superman has super strength, speed, and durability. He can lift massive weights and tear through metal with his bare hands, outrun airplanes, or get hit by a train without suffering damage.)
 
  
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'''4b. Disadvantages'''
  
===3b-2. Advantages: Skills===
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This is split into three sections: TROUBLE, SIGNIFICANT and MINOR. To see how to fill out Disadvantages, read: http://multiversemush.com/mw/index.php?title=Disadvantages
List your character's '''SKILLS'''. Skills are exactly what they sound like. Things that your character has been taught to do, or which they learned to do themselves.
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('''APP EXAMPLE, REMOVE WHEN FILLING OUT:'''
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'''4b-1. Disadvantages: Trouble'''
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'''SWORDSMANSHIP''': Kenshin is an expert at the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu style of swordsmanship, which pits one against many. Not only does this put him leagues above ordinary swordsmen with special moves that border on the supernatural, it promotes good health and youthful aging.)
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'''4b-2. Disadvantages: Significant'''
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'''4b-3. Disadvantages: Minor'''
  
===3b-3. Advantages: Assets===
 
List your character's '''ASSETS'''. Assets can be their Batcave, Stark Enterprises, their Evil Empire, etc. This can sometimes overlap a bit with NPCs. You aren't expected to list minor assets like owning a home, but if your character's assets are a major part of their advantages, they should definitely be here.
 
  
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'''5b. Themelisting'''
  
('''APP EXAMPLE, REMOVE WHEN FILLING OUT:'''
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If a +themelisting does not already exist for your character, you will have to write one yourself. This should be a concise description of the setting from which the character comes, and if it is a modified/non-canon theme it should usually explain how it diverges from the original. Additionally, we'd be interested in knowing if there are any series -- preferably but not necessarily existing in our standing +themelists -- that you'd be interested in seeing your theme mixing with as neighbors in the Multiverse.
  
'''First Galactic Empire''': Darth Vader is the second-in-command of the Galactic Empire. He has access to as much money as the Empire can afford to give him (which is quite a lot), starships, ground assault crafts, troops, droids, and more specialized personnel in abundance. His personal starship is the EXECUTOR, a monstrously enormous space dreadnought capable of wreaking havoc on planets and fleets alike.)
 
  
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'''C. CHARACTER INFORMATION'''
  
===3b-4. Advantages: NPCs===
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'''1c. Personality'''
  
List your character's '''NPCs''', along with a summary of what they can do and the Power Level you would like them to have. This is a bit more specialized, and is meant for characters with named subordinates from their own series, or characters like pokemon trainers.
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This section describes your character in terms of their personality, motivations, quirks, fears and aspirations. Give us a good idea of why your character is invested in the Multiverse, how they get themselves into RP, and why they’re fun to play with. Each section must be answered in 100 words or more, ideally less than 400. If in need of inspiration, take a look at [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xahEGYIvL5eK-f2IL48jMPeKyNrQxkjvinfvI8a8xU0/edit Nathan Hall's personality guide].  
  
  
('''APP EXAMPLE, REMOVE WHEN FILLING OUT:'''
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'''1c-1. Response to the Multiverse'''
  
'''Pokemon''': Ash can catch and train a wide range of elemental animals called Pokemon. Each Pokemon has abilities and weaknesses based on their element. Aerial and Aquatic Travel, as well as Elemental and Energy attacks are common and readily acquired. His primary Pokemon are PIKACHU, an electric-powered rodent. BULBASAUR, a solar-powered, part-plant war veteran. CHARMANDER, a fire lizard and a scientific genius. BUTTERFREE, a versatile bug pokemon with short-range teleportation, psychic attacks, poison, etc. Major reserve Pokemon include ALAKAZAM, a psychic telekinetic with short-range teleportation, and PORYGON, a digital pokemon that can interact with and hack computers. (PL ##-##))
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If you are applying for an FC: How has the Multiverse changed your character or challenged them in new and different ways? If they’re totally new to the Multiverse at the point of application, how do you expect them to react to the reality of new environments and challenges, and how do you think it will change them?
  
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If you are applying for an OC: What do you feel is the driving force behind the character that would bring them out into the Multiverse, instead of staying within their own theme? What compels them to leave and see what the Multiverse has to offer?
  
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If you are applying for an OFC: What did the changes to the original theme do to  make the character different from their source material? Answer the above question for OCs as well.
  
===4b. Disadvantages===
 
  
Excepting that these are not divided into sub-categories, these are identical to Advantages and represent a character's failings and weaknesses. We would like to see a minimum of three solid Disadvantages, with at least one of them being a deficiency in your character's personality.
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'''1c-2. Motivation'''
  
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What best motivates your character to visit other worlds? What sort of things do they react to by getting out the door and pursuing them? What kind of things excite and intrigue them? What kind of things frighten them or give them pause?
  
('''APP EXAMPLE, REMOVE WHEN FILLING OUT:'''
 
  
'''Terrible Person''': Severus Snape may be on the side of good, but that doesn't make him good OR nice. He is toxically negative, verbally and psychologically abusive, and his only real tether to any kind of morality is his love of Lily Evans. Had his master not killed her after agreeing to spare her for him, Snape would have remained a loyal agent to the most terrible Dark Wizard of his time.)
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'''1c-3. Good Side'''
  
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What would you call the brightest point of your character’s personality? Where do they excel as a person, and what are the upsides of knowing them?
  
===5b. Themelisting===
 
  
If a '''+themelisting''' does not already exist for your character, you will have to write one yourself. This should be a concise description of the setting from which the character comes, and if it is a modified/non-canon theme it should usually explain how it diverges from the original.
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'''1c-4. Bad Side'''
  
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What would you call the lowest point of your character’s personality? What qualities of theirs are less than ideal? Do they recognize these low points? How do they feel about them? Most importantly, why is this side of their personality fun for other players to play off of?
  
==C. CHARACTER INFORMATION==
 
  
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'''1c-5. Faction Relations'''
  
===1c. Personality===
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Why is your character in the faction that they’re in, or failing that, why aren’t they in a faction at all? If you’re in a faction, what sort of conflict might your character have with that faction’s ideology, and how might it be resolved in play?  
Describe your character's '''personality''', in 500 words or more. Give an overview of their motivations, hopes, fears, failings. Why are they in the faction they're in, and why would people enjoy RP with this character? Show that you understand how your character acts, and why. If you give us too little, you'll be asked for more. ('''Need help?''' Take a look at [http://tinyurl.com/poyrw4r|'''Nathan Hall's Personality Guide'''.])
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===2c. Background===
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'''2c. Background'''
  
Give us a short and concise overview of your character's '''background'''. More thorough backgrounds are expected of non-canon takes on characters, high-powered original characters, and some other special cases. Otherwise, keep this shorter than your personality section. (Need help? Take a look at our sample applications at News Applications/Sample.)
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Give us a brief, concise overview of your character's background.  
  
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For OCs and OFCs: Three major moments of your character’s life that shaped them as an individual, explaining how each are important.
  
===3c. Power Level===
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For FCs: A quick rundown of  “the story so far” in your own words, in full or bullet point format, and justify your portrayal of the personality you intend through the most significant moments.
Put your desired '''Power Level''' (see [[Power Levels]]) range here, and justify it to us.
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===4c. Sample Pose===
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'''3c. Combat'''
  
Include a sample pose here, if you like. This field is '''mandatory for Guests''', optional for standing/returning players. If you include a sample pose, it should be at least 150 characters long, should include both action and dialogue, and should not focus on how strong your character is. Do a mini-scene with somebody if you want! Staff may occasionally request a sample pose during the revisions process (if there is one), so it never hurts to put one in anyway.
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This section informs us about your character's ability pertaining to combat RP.
  
  
===5c. Miscellaneous===
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'''3c-1. Archetype'''
  
This is just a miscellaneous field. If you have any notes or special requests (potential defection notices, for example), this is the place to put them.
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Which Archetype do you think fits your character best? For a list of Archetypes, refer to: [[Archetypes and Quirks]]. Optionally, you can leave this space blank and let staff pick one. You can have staff’s choice changed to your own later on.
  
  
===6c. +Info Files (OPTIONAL)===
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'''3c-2. Role'''
If you wish to use our '''+info''' system to have Staff-approved extensions to your Advantages, this is where they should go.
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What role does fighting play in your character’s narrative, and what role do they play in the larger context of their theme’s combat narrative? For example, is your character the flagship protagonist of a combat heavy plot? The team head who leads the heroes to save the world? The scrappy underdog who triumphs through smarts and resourcefulness? The ultimate final boss who seeks world domination? The renegade who gets in everyone’s way, hero and villain alike? Are they a supporting character who rarely fights themselves? Are they from a series where combat barely or never happens? Are they from a series that is overwhelmingly focused on combat? Furthermore, how does this role pan out in the context of MCM as a setting? Is it altered or recontextualized?
  
  
'''EXAMPLE - PLEASE REMOVE THIS NOTE AND EVERYTHING BETWEEN THESE TWO LINES WHEN YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION.'''
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'''3c-3. Style'''
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Where would you say your character’s specialties lie if you had to evaluate them up or down? Is your character glass cannon? A big, slow, heavy hitter? Hard to hit but very fragile? A tank/turtle? Are they just balanced across the board? If they are, where would you say their biggest strength is anyways?
  
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'''3c-3b. Stats'''
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Optionally, split 100 points between Power (how much damage your character can dish out, Precision (how accurate and consistent your character’s attacks are), Endurance (how well your character can resist damage), and Mitigation (how well your character can actively reduce exposure to attacks). The numbers you assign are to inform staff only, and do not translate directly into anything.
  
POWER/FLAW EXTENSION: POWER/FLAW EXTENSION TEXT.
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Precision: 0<br>
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Endurance: 0<br>
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Mitigation: 0<br>
  
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===6c. +Info Files Cont'd. (OPTIONAL)===
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'''4c. Why? (OPTIONAL)''': This question must only be answered if you're applying for a Restricted concept, or if Staff prompts you to answer it. Why do you want to play this character? What do you want to do with them that you can't get out of something else, or something more simple? Can you handle it if it doesn't work out? What do you want to get out of it RP-wise, and what do you expect other people to get out of it in turn? '''This question Must Be Answered if you are applying for a character in '''[[Banned]]''', including Exalted & Fate/ properties.'''
  
  
If you request more than one or two +info files, please include a formatted version of each file that you are requesting. This is so staff does not have to hand-format every file (which are by design allowed more wordiness than regular +powers/+flaws), which can slow processing down considerably. For example:
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'''5c. Miscellaneous:''' This is just a miscellaneous field. If you have any notes or special requests (potential defection notices, for example), this is the place to put them.
  
  
EXAMPLE - PLEASE REMOVE THIS NOTE AND EVERYTHING BETWEEN THESE TWO LINES WHEN YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION.
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Once you're done filling the application form out, submit it in the body of an e-mail to '''mcmush@gmail.com''' with a subject line of: '''Character Application - NAME - FACTION'''
 
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Once you're done filling the application form out, submit it in the body of an e-mail to mcmush@gmail.com with a subject line of: Character Application - NAME - FACTION
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If you have trouble copy/pasting this application form, use this instead: [http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Sf5Zc2R5 Pastebin Application.]
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Revision as of 21:19, 28 October 2018


Multiverse Crisis MUSH - Application Form 5.5.4

A. OOC INFORMATION

1a. Who are you? What is your name or online alias, and what is your age?


2a. Have you roleplayed before, and if so, who and where? If you're new, how'd you find us? If you play here or previously played here, please list all of your current or most recent characters.


3a. Do you need a wiki account? If so, give us a login name (that is not itself a character name) and an e-mail address to associate with it. If you already have one and want one to preserve a secret alt, specify as much.


B. CHARACTER SUMMARY

Your Profile, Advantages, and Disadvantages (Flaws) are your face on the MUSH. They tell people who you are, what you can do, and what you stumble at. Please remove all examples before submitting the application form. (For example --> Name: Your character's name. 18 character limit, no special letters. <-- should simply read --> Name: Link)


1b. Profile

Name: Your character's name. 18 character limit.

Faction: See Factions for details. Concord, Paladins, Watch, Unaffiliated.

Function: What your character does, or a title. Like 'Demon Hunter' or 'Gundam Pilot'. Can be silly or serious.

Series: Your character's series and themelisting number. For example, Pokemon-6, Star Wars-1, etc. 36 character limit.

Quote: Something your character HAS said, or which they might say.

Profile: A general summary of your character, incorporating elements of personality, history, advantages, and disadvantages. Should be brief.


2b. Character Type: What kind of character are you applying for? Categories are FCs (Canon Characters), OFCs (AU takes on canon characters), and OCs (Original Characters).


3b. Advantages

This section is divided into three categories: DEFINING, SIGNIFICANT and MINOR. To see how to fill out Advantages, read: http://multiversemush.com/mw/index.php?title=Advantages


3b-1. Advantages: Defining


3b-2. Advantages: Significant


3b-3. Advantages: Minor


4b. Disadvantages

This is split into three sections: TROUBLE, SIGNIFICANT and MINOR. To see how to fill out Disadvantages, read: http://multiversemush.com/mw/index.php?title=Disadvantages


4b-1. Disadvantages: Trouble


4b-2. Disadvantages: Significant


4b-3. Disadvantages: Minor


5b. Themelisting

If a +themelisting does not already exist for your character, you will have to write one yourself. This should be a concise description of the setting from which the character comes, and if it is a modified/non-canon theme it should usually explain how it diverges from the original. Additionally, we'd be interested in knowing if there are any series -- preferably but not necessarily existing in our standing +themelists -- that you'd be interested in seeing your theme mixing with as neighbors in the Multiverse.


C. CHARACTER INFORMATION

1c. Personality

This section describes your character in terms of their personality, motivations, quirks, fears and aspirations. Give us a good idea of why your character is invested in the Multiverse, how they get themselves into RP, and why they’re fun to play with. Each section must be answered in 100 words or more, ideally less than 400. If in need of inspiration, take a look at Nathan Hall's personality guide.


1c-1. Response to the Multiverse

If you are applying for an FC: How has the Multiverse changed your character or challenged them in new and different ways? If they’re totally new to the Multiverse at the point of application, how do you expect them to react to the reality of new environments and challenges, and how do you think it will change them?

If you are applying for an OC: What do you feel is the driving force behind the character that would bring them out into the Multiverse, instead of staying within their own theme? What compels them to leave and see what the Multiverse has to offer?

If you are applying for an OFC: What did the changes to the original theme do to make the character different from their source material? Answer the above question for OCs as well.


1c-2. Motivation

What best motivates your character to visit other worlds? What sort of things do they react to by getting out the door and pursuing them? What kind of things excite and intrigue them? What kind of things frighten them or give them pause?


1c-3. Good Side

What would you call the brightest point of your character’s personality? Where do they excel as a person, and what are the upsides of knowing them?


1c-4. Bad Side

What would you call the lowest point of your character’s personality? What qualities of theirs are less than ideal? Do they recognize these low points? How do they feel about them? Most importantly, why is this side of their personality fun for other players to play off of?


1c-5. Faction Relations

Why is your character in the faction that they’re in, or failing that, why aren’t they in a faction at all? If you’re in a faction, what sort of conflict might your character have with that faction’s ideology, and how might it be resolved in play?


2c. Background

Give us a brief, concise overview of your character's background.

For OCs and OFCs: Three major moments of your character’s life that shaped them as an individual, explaining how each are important.

For FCs: A quick rundown of “the story so far” in your own words, in full or bullet point format, and justify your portrayal of the personality you intend through the most significant moments.


3c. Combat

This section informs us about your character's ability pertaining to combat RP.


3c-1. Archetype

Which Archetype do you think fits your character best? For a list of Archetypes, refer to: Archetypes and Quirks. Optionally, you can leave this space blank and let staff pick one. You can have staff’s choice changed to your own later on.


3c-2. Role What role does fighting play in your character’s narrative, and what role do they play in the larger context of their theme’s combat narrative? For example, is your character the flagship protagonist of a combat heavy plot? The team head who leads the heroes to save the world? The scrappy underdog who triumphs through smarts and resourcefulness? The ultimate final boss who seeks world domination? The renegade who gets in everyone’s way, hero and villain alike? Are they a supporting character who rarely fights themselves? Are they from a series where combat barely or never happens? Are they from a series that is overwhelmingly focused on combat? Furthermore, how does this role pan out in the context of MCM as a setting? Is it altered or recontextualized?


3c-3. Style Where would you say your character’s specialties lie if you had to evaluate them up or down? Is your character glass cannon? A big, slow, heavy hitter? Hard to hit but very fragile? A tank/turtle? Are they just balanced across the board? If they are, where would you say their biggest strength is anyways?


3c-3b. Stats Optionally, split 100 points between Power (how much damage your character can dish out, Precision (how accurate and consistent your character’s attacks are), Endurance (how well your character can resist damage), and Mitigation (how well your character can actively reduce exposure to attacks). The numbers you assign are to inform staff only, and do not translate directly into anything.

Power: 0
Precision: 0
Endurance: 0
Mitigation: 0


4c. Why? (OPTIONAL): This question must only be answered if you're applying for a Restricted concept, or if Staff prompts you to answer it. Why do you want to play this character? What do you want to do with them that you can't get out of something else, or something more simple? Can you handle it if it doesn't work out? What do you want to get out of it RP-wise, and what do you expect other people to get out of it in turn? This question Must Be Answered if you are applying for a character in Banned, including Exalted & Fate/ properties.


5c. Miscellaneous: This is just a miscellaneous field. If you have any notes or special requests (potential defection notices, for example), this is the place to put them.


Once you're done filling the application form out, submit it in the body of an e-mail to mcmush@gmail.com with a subject line of: Character Application - NAME - FACTION