nextgen_mod (nextgen_mod) wrote in nextgen_ooc,
@ 2009-05-08 23:27:00

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Application Post
So, you want to apply to marvel_nextgen? Great!

A few things first.

Alternate Universe and Time displaced kids are welcome. As are totally original characters. Not every mutant or Avenger is going to have parents that were mutants or Avengers. So feel free to use your imagination!

While we gladly accept applications for X-Men and Avengers, we encourage applications for Eternals, Defenders, Inhumans, Asgardians, and other characters off the beaten path.

We also welcome Canon kids. IE Franklin Richards, Luna Maximoff and older versions of any super kid. Like say, Power Pack, Valeria Richards, Kevin Masterson, Ahura Boltagon and the like. Also adult versions of any Canon Teenagers are welcome. As are canon characters and villains in their adult incarnations. (Ie: Julian Keller, Kate Bishop, Tommy Shepherd, Billy Kaplan, Nico Minoru...)

We're taking advantage of the wonderful sliding timeline policy of Marvel, so if your character's birth date/age doesn't quite work out, it can easily be modified.

Please give us at least 24 hours to look at your application. We will email you when the app is approved. Once it's accepted, you can jump right in. If we have any problems or questions with any applications we'll contact you for clarification.

In some situations a sample with another player may be required.

The game focuses on the next generation of heroes and the kids are the ones out being the superheroes. The adults for the most part are starting to retire and passing the torch to the kids, so if you are looking to play an adult, be advised that in this game they are mostly support roles and plot devices.

The process:
The first step is to fill out an application.(Please check with the team admin to see if there is room on the team you want to join)
Your application will be reviewed by the mods.
In the case that you are applying for a character on a team, the application will be reviewed by the team members.
If your character is related to another character in the game, the relatives will also get to review the app.
A mod will notify you if it has been accepted, declined or if more information is needed.
The mods may ask you to clarify certain things (concept, powers, purpose) in your app. This is nothing personal, it is just the mods and team members trying to better understand the app.

Some basic rules:

1. If you are apping a sibling/parent of a character in the game, the player(s) of those characters get approval/veto rights on the app. We require you to discuss the character idea with the other players before apping the character you want to play. If you don't know who is playing a certain character please ask a mod. The list of characters and their relatives is here

2. If you are apping a cousin or other distant relative to a character/characters already in game, the player(s) of the character gets to review the app and provide feedback.

If you can't contact a player, feel free to contact the mods and we'll answer any questions you have!

3. Please do not give names, gender or ages to siblings of canon-pairing characters. This is to allow greater flexibility for people interested in picking up a sibling or parent. A vague reference like "Character X has three other siblings." is fine.

It is okay to give names, gender and ages to siblings of characters who have non-canon parents.

4. Apping Characters just to "hook up with someone" - Please do it somewhere else. This is a game for people who are interested in more than just hooking their character up with another character. While it is natural for characters to start dating and otherwise participate in physical relationships, it should not be the main purpose of the character and it is not the main focus of the game.

We accept applications for heroes, villains, parents and other adults.

We will accept applications for Original NPCs (Next generation of - Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Masters of Evil, Serpent Societly, MLF, etc) seen here.

Notes:
Xavier's is not publicly known as a place for mutants. There is an underground in place to direct mutants to Xavier's.

Avengers are listed in the phone book and publicly known. Characters can directly contact them.

List of used PBs http://marvelnextgen.wetpaint.com/page/PBs

NextGen Application (Canon and OC)

Player (nickname, handle)/ LJ:
Email:
AIM (if you have one):
Character Name:
Character LJ (if applicable):
Physical description (face, build, weight):
Age:
Birthday:
PB: (If using one.)
Abilities:
Weaknesses and flaws:
Character location/Home:
Alignment (villain, hero etc):
Relatives (living/dead?):
Backstory:
How do you plan to introduce the character to the game?:
What are you planning to do with this character?
What do you want to see happen with this character?:

Sample post:

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vicious_cycle
2009-12-15 12:46 am UTC (link)

Player (nickname, handle)/ LJ: Jeff
Email: Chasejyd@blarg.net
AIM (if you have one): dajyd
Character Name: Nicholas Salem/Ghost Rider
Character LJ (if applicable): Vicious_Cycle
Physical description (face, build, weight):
Age: 19
Birthday: October 31
PB: Alex Gaskarth
Abilities:
Nicholas/Either-form:
1. Willpower: Nicholas has an extremely strong will, built up over a difficult life time, though it is also certainly a family trait of the line of Harkness and Scratch. He has more control over the Rider than most of his previous incarnations and has mostly subdued Zarathos and overcome Mephisto's enchantments.
2. Hellfire: Even without becoming the Rider, Nicholas can manifest and control limited amounts of Hellfire, wielding it as a weapon from his pentagram-marked hand, though he usually uses it to light cigarettes.
3. Prediliction for magic: Nicholas has studied the occult, but not a lot of real magic. He has a genetic talent for it, however, and has a very easy time using most magical artifacts which are not specifically white-magic, which he cannot use. The closer a ritual or item is to black magic the more easily he can master it, but he tries to be very careful with such things. He cannot currently cast any spells or the like, but if he began to study he would find it as easy as his father and grandmother did, though it remains a dangerous path.
4. Immune to possession/psychic phenomena: Like all Ghost Rider's, Nicholas is first of all already possessed. He cannot be further possessed or controlled by other possessing entities. Similarly, like all the riders, he is virtually immune to telepathy, mind control, mental blasts and other mind-affecting psychic powers that are not specifically attuned to control over demonic entities.

Ghost Rider only:
1. Hell's Rider: Nicholas can transform any motorcycle into the Ghost Rider's bike as needed, but prefers his own, and can call either the Rider's Bike or his custom 2004 Harley Davidson FatBoy to him. The bike can travel up walls, over water, along even very thin surfaces and make impressive leaps. It also travels faster than any normal motorcycle, at least 250 mph. He can control the bike even when not riding on it, and its wheels can manifest most of the powers and effects of hellfire.
2. Chains: The Ghost Rider can manifest and somewhat control lengths of chain made of a nearly unbreakable black iron for use as a weapon, including making minor alterations to these chains such as giving them a hooked end or making the links bladed.
3. Immunities: Ghost Rider is immune to all levels of fire and heat, does not need to breathe, eat, drink or sleep, and is resistant but not immune to most other forms of physical harm. Small caliber arms do nothing to the Rider, and past manifestations have gone toe to toe with vampires, the Wrecking Crew and other similarly strong opponents and come to relatively little physical harm. He is also resistant to, but not entirely immune to magic, with limitations listed in weaknesses.
4. Super Strength: The Ghost Rider possesses limited physical strength, letting him lift about fifteen tons, a little over Spider-Man level.
5. Penance Stare: The most powerful weapon of the Riders, the Penance stare requires eye contact with another being, so it cannot usually be done casually. It forces the victim to face their own sins. The greater that being's sins, the more devastating the stare is, and can leave many people as little more than burned out husks, damned by their own past.

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vicious_cycle
2009-12-15 12:47 am UTC (link)

Weaknesses and flaws: First and foremost, through no fault or signing of his own, Nicholas' soul was promised to Mephisto as a sacrifice. While hardly a sole focus, this puts him squarely in the midst of all sorts of potential problems with Mephisto, Blackheart and other powerful evil entities.
While he has mostly overcome Zarathos, he remains vulnerable as well to various black magical spells intended to bond and control or manipulate demons and he can be bound in magical circles, summoned by people performing the proper rituals, etc.
In the presence of powerful supernatural evil, he may also be compelled to transform into the Ghost Rider, whether he wishes to or not. While he has somewhat more control over this than many rookie Ghost Riders he still cannot always control the change, especially on nights of the full moon or times of mystical importance.
He cannot become the rider or use any of his powers when on hallowed ground.
While magic resistant for the most part, white magic has especially pronounced effects on the Rider, like most demonic entities, and a skilled user who has not tainted himself with use of any black magic can banish, ward off or otherwise affect the Rider with ease.

Character location/Home: Mobile
Alignment (villain, hero etc): Hero
Relatives (living/dead?): Kaitlyn LaVey (genetic mother, living), Nicholas Scratch (father, temporarily banished to hell), Salem's Seven/Brutacus, Gazelle, Hydron, Reptilla, Thornn, Vakuum and Vertigo (brothers and sisters, deceased and banished), Agatha Harkness (Grandmother, deceased)
Backstory: Nicholas Salem was never intended to live long. Nicholas Scratch and diabolist Kaitlyn LaVey used ritual magic along with their coupling to ensure a child born on Halloween, promised from the same day to be sacrificed to Mephisto to resurrect and empower Salem's Seven. The plot was foiled by the Scarlet Witch and Doctor Strange, with some help from the Avengers, after Wanda was contacted by Agatha Harkness' spirit. He was put into the foster care system after that, given the name Salem in designation of where he was taken from, but kept the name his birth mother had given to him, in honor of his father. He has never known either of his parents.
He never did well in the foster system, as a troubled and willful child, particularly when he began to report hearing vague whispers when no one was about, as well as having some difficulties in the heavily Christian biased fostering system over the pentagram shaped scar on the palm of one hand from his mother's preparations for sacrifice. While never abused, he also never had a regular home, being shuffled about all his life until he was beyond the age when most children are adopted.
Between his scar, rumors of his background, and having lots of time on his hands and an otherwise inconsistent education he became a voracious reader, taking an interest in the occult whenever he was able to get his own books. The thing that really caught his attention, however, was Kerouac. He began to dream of the day he could just go his own way, free from the foster system, various odd homes and parents and all the rest. Through hard work and study he got his GED, and when he turned 18 he went to work at whatever he could get, saving and scrimping until he could afford his own motorcycle, then set out on the road, working where he could for gas money and living day to day, but free.
Until the most recent Halloween - eventually, when Mephisto needed a new agent, he sought out a soul that technically belonged to him, roaming the Earth, and Nicholas was bonded with Zarathos. However, not having signed anything of his own will, and being a strong willed individual in the first place, Nicholas battled Zarathos into near submission, and took his power for his own. This did not sit well with Mephisto, and rather than having another rogue rider, he banished Nicholas into a hell dimension.

How do you plan to introduce the character to the game?: The child of Darkstar is going to accidentally free Nicholas from his banishment.

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