[mod] (ls_mod) wrote,
@ 2009-05-14 18:48:00

Entry tags:

[applications]
[ application ]

.o1 There is a limit to two characters per person.

.o2 Please remember that this roleplay is based in modern-day Tokyo, Japan.

.o3 If you're having trouble deciding on a character, here's a list of needed/requested characters. There's also a reservations post here.

.o4 Make sure you read both the faq and rules before applying!

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Name: {real, alias, or nickname}
LJ Username: (a real journal is required here. a code is provided for you.)
Age: {your age}
AIM Screename: {required}
Past RP Experience: {you can use any example here. a snip from past logs or links to other communities you've been in. anything that shows us you've roleplayed before.

Character's Name:
Character's Age:
Character's Model: {whom you wish to portray your character; also known as your PB. please supply name and a sample image}
Year in School: {freshman, sophomore, junior, senior. if character is not in college, what are they doing that keeps them in the surrounding area?}
Major / Minor: {if applicable; if your character hasn't decided, say so} [see below]*
Clubs / Activities / Job?: [see below]*

Background History: {minimum 300 words - nothing is truly 'canon' in an alternate universe setting such as this. so feel free to go wild and use your imagination to it's fullest capability! creativity is very important here. if you plan on playing a character that depends on another for some aspects of plot [ex: Hyuuga / Zabuza-Haku / Orochimaru-Kabuto / Madara-Tobi-Izuna] do not write them in unless the character exists already in the community and you have planned something out with them. with that in mind, keep mentioning of another character in your application down to a minimum. your application is all about your numero uno character and that is the one we want to see the most out of.}

Personality/Likes & Dislikes: {minimum 300 words - there's bound to be quite a bit about your character that makes them a special snowflake. you have your chance to tell us about it right here. what are their talents or aspirations? details and more details, please. what makes them who they are and why? describe their personality to a tee. paint a picture with your summary and assume that you are the only one who knows everything about this character.}

Writing Sample: {minimum 300 words each - our requirement is for you to write both a first and third person sample in order to show your grasp on the character in the two formats that dominate the community. prompts are optional as they are only there to help aid you with the writing examples. feel free to be as imaginative as possible.}

Prompts:
- Interview
- Out past curfew
- This one time at ___ camp...
- First day of class / work / etc,.

First Person

Third Person

Other Notes:
Any Questions:

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Copy this:
Name: LJ Username: [For Scribbled: <lj user="Scribbld Username"> / For Livejournal: <a href="url for journal goes here">Username</a>] Age: AIM Screename: Character's Name: Character's Age: Character's Model: ( <a href="image url">link</a> ) Year in School: Major / Minor: Clubs / Activities / Job?: Background History: Personality/Likes & Dislikes: First person writing sample: Third person writing sample: Other Notes: Any Questions:

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*Any and all actual college majors and club/sports can be found here.

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zetsu app.

dontfeedthe_
2009-09-12 12:36 am UTC (link)

Name: Q
LJ Username: semchance
Age: 18+
AIM Screename: AburameS
Past RP Experience: Shino and Zetsu at Nixcore before it imploded.

Character's Name: Zetsu
Character's Age: 29
Character's Model: Andy Lau
Year in School: Pff. College dean.
Major / Minor: Military Arts & Science major/ Life Science minor
Clubs / Activities / Job?: College dean (administrative), part-time protection interest work

Background History: Everyone is fairly certain that at some point, Zetsu had a family. He probably had a mother and a father; chances are he even had an younger brother. The most anyone can get out of him about that part of his life is that his family is no longer a factor in his life.

Zetsu does security. From a very young age he was raised to protect certain things by destroying other things. It’s not clear whether this began before or after his family ceased to have importance to him. He spent the majority of his younger years in rural Japan, training at a prestigious (but for all intents and purposes, nameless per a need-to-know basis) security academy. Spending so much time destroying things brought on an appreciation of simple living things. Plants hold a particular fascination for him; in his spare time Zetsu studied up on biology and botany. When he was allowed to keep them in his quarters, he spent time raising Venus flytraps, taking particular interest in the theory that talking to plants helped them grow.

That was when Zetsu began talking not only to his plants but also to himself.

Before graduating from the security academy, he was diagnosed with manic behavioral disorder and mild schizophrenia. There were no signs that this diagnosis had any actual implications on his ability to serve—Zetsu was considered among the top of his class—but rested heavily on his life from that point onward. It was difficult to get work with that flag in his file, most people unwilling to trust their lives in the hands of a vaguely mentally unstable individual, no matter how capable he might be otherwise. Frustrated with his life, Zetsu began pulling his tendrils out of society, accepting work for the seedy underbelly of society while becoming more and more of a recluse.

That was when he met the man who changed his life.

Through connections better not discussed in polite company, Zetsu was able to offer his services to a member of the Tokyo ‘elite,’ who accepted them without qualm. Initially he remained transient, taking care of little leftover bits of business that still needed to be cleaned up. Before too long, however, he was imported to Tokyo into the city proper and placed in an administrative position at an influential centre of academia, where he could be both more closely monitored and more proactively useful. Zetsu bounces around now as he is needed—recruiting talent when he sees it, breaking knees when he’s asked to, and generally keeping the fear of god in his employer’s employees.

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zetsu app.

dontfeedthe_
2009-09-12 12:37 am UTC (link)

Personality/Likes & Dislikes: It’s not really a question of “Who is Zetsu?” It’s more of a question of “Which Zetsu will you talk to this time?”

There are at least two sides to the coin of who Zetsu is. On the one hand, he’s a diligent worker, someone who can be counted on when things need to be brought back under control from careening too near the edge. On the other hand, he eats people. No, really; there are actually rumours that he’s cannibalized a man before.

Zetsu has a very serious side. When being given orders or completing a task, he becomes very driven and focused, comparatively single-minded in the completion of his objective. In this ‘go mode,’ he is usually calmly deferential to his superiors and has no trouble taking those below him to task. Things tend to get done when he wants them to get done. It is his public face, the one most people meet when they first encounter him. Once he relaxes from that mode, however, he tends to flit back and forth between something serious and something much more childish. During particularly difficult weeks, he can sometimes be found muttering to himself in a vaguely schizophrenic fashion. It’s a part of him seen primarily by those he considers his superiors, as well as by a few very unfortunate persons before their imminent disappearance from the face of the Earth. Then again, he’s been loosening up lately. He’s found it vaguely beneficial to keep those below him on the food chain guessing.

No matter which part of his persona is “active” at the moment, Zetsu has his own sense of humour. Little things amuse him, although it’s sometimes hard to tell what the rationale for his amusement is, in part because what he finds amusing changes from one second to the next. The only universal is the amusement he gets from being able to cause people small amounts of harm… or large amounts, although that tends to be more business than pleasure.

The final word concerning Zetsu really ought to be ‘respect.’ His superiors respect him enough to give him freedom and his underlings respect him enough to know to fear him. There’s something about a half-faced smile that simply commands esteem. Or maybe it’s the fact that knowing him for more than a few seconds gives you the distinct impression he’s eyeing you for a side-dish.

First person writing sample: [It’s a little short; another could be forced but he’s really not much of a communicator in this sort of medium.]

The plants have noticed, even if the people haven’t. They’ve begun to brood, because they know. The winter is going to be particularly difficult this year.

This is always the way of things. The land understands. It feels, notices, reflects. It isn’t as obvious in the city like this. Concrete and steel and other unnatural things choke the land off from its understanding of itself. People live here like a blight, thoughtlessly. Not that it will matter in the end; everything can be pruned back into a state of nature. It simply means spending more nights out and about like a good gardener.

Difficult winters are so different in the city. There’s very little to prepare. We might get a lamp at the office meant to encourage growth during the decreased season of light. It seems like a foolishly vain attempt to combat natural selection. If, however, it keeps productivity up, I don’t suppose we can really object to it. It’s certainly nothing to encourage. Much of life here is like that—permissible at best. It’s likely that’s why he wanted to have me here. There’s a lot of work to be done. More than any single person could manage, most likely.

Such an honour to be that person who gets to trim the hedges.

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zetsu app.

dontfeedthe_
2009-09-12 12:38 am UTC (link)

Third person writing sample: There were bullet holes in his office wall. They were all clustered fairly close together, only one standing apart from the others; the one at the approximate height of the average adult male’s kidney, a slight stain still surrounding it. The others were higher up, just above where his head was while he was seated. Warning shot level. When he couldn’t concentrate, he tended to stare at them, one eye drifting a little lazily while the other traced patterns between the dots.

“…stupid.”

Zetsu’s left eyebrow twitched without intention, a simple facial tick he was glad he didn’t have to explain to anyone. Life was so much easier when he was by himself. Other people than himself complicated things unnecessarily.

“It’s stupid,” he caught himself repeating, nose wrinkling in disgust half a second before his entire face fell. It was stupid, after all. Sitting behind a desk staring at a pile of paperwork, unable to complete it because it was absolutely absurd and staring into space at the reminders of past failure, was idiotic. There were much better things he could be doing at the moment.

“That doesn’t matter,” came the anticipated reply, from the same mouth which had just spoken. “It’s what he asked us to do.”

Half of his face curled into a petulant frown, almost a pout… or it would have been, if his entire face had been committed to the action. Instead it was simply something of a grimace, indicative on any face of self-disappointment.

“This isn’t how it used to-- this isn’t how it will be.”

A beat of silence passed in a coil of tension.

“If you’d been paying attention,” Zetsu chided softly, reaching over to the pile of papers to lift the top one listlessly, “you’d know that he promised us dinner tonight.”

The hand that wasn’t holding up the paperwork twitched , the sort of physical tick he was glad he didn’t have to explain to anyone. Other people only asked why someone settled behind a desk always twitched like he anticipated the need to draw and fire.

Other Notes: + Zetsu is blood-type B, typically a sign of people who are wild, active and considered to be ‘doers’ by others.
+ Although there are records indicating he was born in Hokkaido and lived in Honshu, there is nothing to indicate where Zetsu was or what he was doing from ages 9 to 13. There are also no remaining records of his birthday, which he has never celebrated.
+ Coming from a security academy, Zetsu has basic grappling knowledge of quite a few forms of martial arts, both eastern and western, but has a marked preference for armed combat (knives and guns interchangeably preferred, depending on who you ask).
+ Perhaps because of his affinity to plants, Zetsu has a complicated relationship with vegetarians. The idea of killing twice as many plants in order to save animals is strange and moderately distasteful to him.
+ Zetsu has no family name. ~~He ate it. :|~~

Any Questions: …why the mind control. Why. :|||

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ls_mod
2009-09-12 05:06 am UTC (link)

Because it's so bloody easy. ♥

Welcome! Be sure to do the following with your character journal:

o1. Join both the IC (

last_stretch) and the OOC (

reach_for_ooc) communities as well as

sticky_noto and add

ls_mod as a friend here. Only then will you be able to comment to the friend add/remove entry. Here, you will also add all the players to your IC journal.

o2. Once you are friended, you'll be able to view certain friends-locked entries. Next, you will go here and fill out the player contact information. When we dot all the "i's" and cross the "t's," we will promptly add you to the official taken characters list.

o3. Please also take the time to add a phone post to your character journal. The phone posts are used for characters to communicate outside of the company journals. Once done, please comment to this post with your information.

o4. And finally, please disable the custom comment pages on your character journal. Information on how to do and and why we do it can be found here. Also there is how to work out layouts on Scribbld, if you're new to this. ♥

And you're done! You are also free to write an introductory post in the OOC community, and write up a character info post in your journal!

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