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panopte ([personal profile] panopte) wrote2024-08-15 02:12 pm

applications.

NOTE

Applications are currently OPEN.
Player cap: 21/30

Players are allowed one character in the game to start, and may app a second character after being active for at least two consecutive months with their first. Please check the taken list to make sure the character is available before applying.

APPLICATION

PLAYER INFORMATION
Name: player name
Preferred pronoun(s):
Contact: plurk, discord, pm (default)

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: western order (firstname lastname)
Canon: wiki link appreciated if available!
Canon point: include any notable injuries/abnormal state of being
Age: both actual age and apparent age if there is a discrepancy

Personality: Please answer the following questions:
» What traits do your character admire in a person?
» What do they dislike most about themself?
» What discrepancies are there between their inner self (who they feel they are) and their outer self (how they present themselves to others)?
» Who are two influential people in their life (can be positive or negative)?
» What do they get excited about?
» What is something they are very bad at?
» What is one thing they would tell their younger self if they had the chance?
» How do they want to be remembered?

Powers/abilities: either link to a wiki page or write out as succinctly as possible. may include magical powers, species-specific abilities, mundane skills, etc as you see fit. please note that all characters will be nerfed upon arrival, but can regain powers through bonus activity.

Inventory: characters may arrive with the clothing and items (including weapons) on their immediate person, excluding anything alive. for characters with hammerspace, please choose up to five items. anything magical will be nerfed upon arrival, but can be regained through bonus activity.

Sentimental item: please choose one small (i.e. portable) item the character did not have on them at their canonpoint and which belongs to a different character from their canon. briefly explain the character's feelings towards the item and/or its owner.

Gemstone: please choose one primary color and one secondary color, and optionally describe the gemstone in terms of pattern, size, amount of polish, etc. it should be no larger than the palm of one's hand.

Lost memory #1: briefly describe a memory that the character will lose, which may be an event, a person, a concept, etc and does not have to be a major memory. explain the effect this loss will have on the character's beliefs, personality, etc.

Lost memory #2: same as above.

Altered memory: briefly describe a memory that will be altered, both the original memory and what's changed in it. explain the effect this alteration will have on the character's beliefs, personality, etc.

Sample: samples must be within the last 12 months, with a minimum of five comments from your character.


Please use the subject header "PLAYER | CHARACTER | CANON" and post the app in the comments below.
Also, for your copypasting convenience:
finalbows: (i'm shining like midas)

[personal profile] finalbows 2024-08-30 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
ON IT BOSS

Garland is Kuja's creator, and could technically be called his father-- but in truth he styles himself as a distant and untouchable master to Kuja, his most unruly servant, and the product of a promising, yet flawed design process.

There is no hatred from Garland towards him. Only ruthless pragmatism; any and all cruelties born from the fact that Kuja is just an experimental tool to him, the Genome's strong sense of individuality an endless inconvenience.

What Kuja feels --or, hee, hee, FELT! he's fuckin' dead now!-- about him back, is all fire, to match the sheer volume of Garland's ice. Kuja hates his Master, down to his bones, but perhaps greater than that hate is a need to prove himself to the man. While he found the mission Garland gave him, to usher in the end of an entire world, an intolerable prospect-- he nonetheless made it, uh, pretty much his whole identity. He labored to prove he COULD end the world, but that he also had the much greater power to keep it as his cherished treasure forever and ever and rule with an iron fist, and no one would ever doubt HIS reign of terror was anything less than passionate, personal, and meaningful--

Ahem.

Basically, the entirety of Kuja's identity hinges on proving it doesn't MATTER his shitty dad doesn't (didn't!) care about him and never will, because he himself is sooooo cool and beautiful and amazing and hey what a great time to start talking about

ZIDANE TRIBAL

Zidane is his (not by blood, but in essence) little brother, and in every way was made to succeed and replace Kuja when he was, like, chronologically 8. We have very little canon info about how this time period played out, no matter how many headcanons I may have, but Kuja had enough access to him to kidnap him and drop him off on another planet where he couldn't be found, before promptly getting caught and b& from his homeworld.

Zidane is his failures. Zidane is the creeping dread he will one day be disposed. Zidane is the measuring stick for "how well am I doing" in life, and he was also once this weird tiny vulnerable thing sharing the same horrifying, emotionally hollowing origin he'd had, but slower and longer this time, and maybe that's why he turned him into a statue that's technically still alive in there to watch him rule the world forever in the seat of power in his castle* instead of obliterating him completely with a wave of his hand when he achieved Ultimate Power.

*this did not happen in reality but he will sure now remember it as having had happened.

So like. Lots of jealousy and envy. But where he has resolved to rid himself of Garland, Zidane also serves a critical purpose to him-- because his existence is a crucial piece, to appreciate just how great a height he's climbed, to be the formidable, untouchable lord he is today.

And maybe it's power, to decide the fate of something that is pathetic, and lowly, in the ways he hates in himself. Maybe he can't let go having that, because then he is all alone in it.
Edited 2024-08-30 21:26 (UTC)
finalbows: (i hear the anguish of the street)

[personal profile] finalbows 2024-08-30 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm going to make myself stop adding more now but it is very difficult to stop once I've started. There are just so many angles. Kuja doesn't know how to love or have friends and yet he tells Zidane he loves him with his full manic chest. I'm gonna tear my hair out over this guy.

Thank U
Edited 2024-08-30 21:30 (UTC)