mythmakers | ❅ Applications

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❅ Applications

Applications are: CLOSED
Indefinitely.

To apply for a character, fill out the correct application down below and post it a comment on this entry. Please do not link applications in your journal or delete the comments once your application is processed. Let us know if you would like your application screened.

Apps open on the first of every month and remain open for one week, during which time the mods will begin processing. We're optimistic and hope you'll get the result of your app within a day, but some may take longer depending on the familiarity of the mods with the canon, and the number of apps received in that cycle. If four or more days pass with no response then we suggest you contact a mod.

You can reserve and apply for two characters per app cycle. Currently, players are allowed a maximum of three characters in-game at any given time.

Applications will be judged primarily on the personality section of the character in question, and how the player intends to adapt them into their new role. For this part we're mostly interested in what you plan to do with their powers and new destiny, not how the character will react to it. We'll see that in-game!

Since any OC applications must fall in the range of fairy tales that already exist in the world of Myth Making, these will be held to a higher expectation.

Processing will result in applications being accepted or denied, or revisions requested. Don't worry if you're asked for revisions! It means we're interested in your app, but require more information about something. We'll let you know what that is. If you are asked for revisions, you'll be given one week to provide them.

You are allowed to re-use sections of applications you wrote previously, so don't worry about rewriting your entire personality section. Do NOT plagiarise any part of another player's application for your own, as this will result in an instant ban.

Test drive memes will go up on our meme comm,

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✒ OOC
Name: What do you want us to call you?
Contact: Any of these are fine, we just need a way to contact you!
→ DW:
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→ Plurk:
Do you play anyone in Myth Making?: List any characters you have in the game already.

✒ IC
Name: Your character's name in Western order, please. (Given name, then surname.)
Journal: Your character's journal, so we know what you'll be joining the game with.
Canon: Your character's series. Not listed on OC apps.
Canon Point: The point in canon which you are taking your character from.
Age: Self-explanatory.

Appearance: Not listed on canon apps. For OCs, please give us a short description of your character's appearance.

Personality: The most important part of your application! There's no maximum length requirement, but please provide at least three paragraphs of detail into the inner workings of your character.

History: For canon apps, a link to a wiki page or neutral source is fine if you don't want to write it out. For OCs, please provide 2-3 paragraphs of your personal interpretation of their history.

Canon Abilities or Powers: Give us details, especially if you're applying for an OC! Please keep in mind that for the most part your character will lose any superhuman abilities.

Fairy Tale Role: Which fairy tale, folklore, or fable character will they be assuming the role of?
Fairy Tale Powers or Abilities: How would you interpret that character's abilities? You've got some room for imagination here, but keep it in the realm of possibility!

Personal Items: Your character is allowed to bring up to 5 items with them. They don't need to have the item on their person to bring it along, but try to keep it within reason. Things like pets, summons, and Poké Balls will each count for 1 item. For more information on what is and isn't allowed, you can check our FAQ!

First Person Sample: How would your character make a text post to the network? Give us at least five sentences.
Third Person Sample: Please provide either two paragraphs or a thread of 5 comments. Test drive threads are acceptable, as well as threads from other games!

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✒ OOC
Name: Red
Contact:
→ DW:

citrinitas
→ AIM: arsenic and rum
→ Plurk: I am way too lazy to dig up the coding right now for a plurk link, but wolpertinger.
Do you play anyone in Myth Making?: Nope.

✒ IC
Name: Owain
Canon: Fire Emblem: Awakening
Canon Point: Post-Chapter 25, right before the end game fight against Grima
Age: The guy doesn't have a canonical age, but he's pretty firmly in the later end of the teenaged spectrum so I'm going to say he's 18 because that's a nice and round number. 18. Yes.

Personality:

Things you need to know before we start off: Fire Emblem: Awakening has two generations, first and second, and people from the second generation travel back in time to basically save the world and keep things from becoming a post-apocalyptic shithole and blah blah blah. The details can chill in history.

"But Red," you might ask, "Why are you putting this here? Isn't this something that should go into the history section?" It's because it's really important to understand how Owain ended up the way he did as a person. The future sucks. The future sucks so badly that the kids ultimately ended up willing to gamble and travel back in time (with no guarantees they'll end up even in the right century - one ended up overshooting his friends by three years into the past - or ever see each other again) in an attempt to protect their parents and create a happy future...if not for them, for their alternate universe parents and their alternate universe counterparts. Their future sucks so badly that, when faced by Risen (which are essentially zombies) in DLC one character basically says, "I know I should be really horrified by these innocent villagers being condemned to rise up as Risen, but I've had to kill off enough of my friends and family who ended up zombified that I'm numb to this horror."

More agonized sounding, but basically that. tl;dr their future really sucks.

Why is this important? Because due to this, Awakening's second generation is a group of seemingly normal people, give or take a little, with...issues. Owain's no exception.

To be fair, in Owain's case, when I say seemingly normal I use the term loosely as he's a bit weird. He's basically a dork and a nerd. If he lived in modern day Earth he'd be a LARPer, RPer, and would have his own webcomic. And some terrible OCs. There's even a chance he'd be RPing on Dreamwidth! And actually, he LARPs with a male Morgan in his canon. As in once a week, in a middle of a war, they get together and mock-fire off silly attacks at each other while shouting silly names like 'Flaming Flamingo Punch' and 'Soul Sword Spiritual Slash' and stuff like that. Just to, you know, blow off some steam and have some fun.

Owain's sort of fourth wall aware. He's not Deadpool and he's not aware that he's in a video game. But he taps on the fourth wall. One of his possible lines, when activating an ability called Dual Strike in a fight, is actually shouting, "Dual Strike!" In his book (as he actually has a journal called the Manual of Justice in which he draws and writes fanfics and special moves and did I mention he's basically a nerd yet?) is something he wrote which sounds very suspiciously like the description of a certain in-game skill. His canonical, in-game profile describes him as the most likely to shout, "Level up!" And he makes references to the other games. He shouts, "By the red hair of Eliwood!" or other, similar oaths referencing characters in other installments of the franchise. He even once references Zelda when he uses the attack Skyward Shield. When it comes to Nintendo franchises his fourth wall tappery knows no bounds.

So yeah. You've got this guy. He's a cheerful dumbass that's a large ham. He shouts his attacks and names his weapons. He goes around declaring that he's the son of heroes and makes dramatic speeches to evildoers. His entrance has him basically doing the entire Sailor Moon/shounen hero speech. You know. "Halt, villain! I am the hawk who seeks justice, the wolf that howls for love! Put down your weapons for I cannot stay my sword hand long…it seeks vengeance!" Something like that. Quite honestly, I wouldn't put it past him to do tag team journal fanficcing/RPing with some of his comrades (namely male Morgan, Cynthia) in-between the official LARP sessions. Heck, he admits in one support that part of the reason that he shouts his attacks was to keep training from getting boring.

But remember the entire 'bad future' thing I referenced? Yeah.

All of the kids parents die horrible, untimely deaths. Or if they don't, they vanish mysteriously, but point being they're gone after a point. Owain is no exception. His mother died protecting him at some point, although the how in that case was a little ambiguous. Although she died when he was older opposed to younger, old enough that he felt he should have been able to protect her. Protect Lissa or his father, actually, since his father took an arrow when they were out training. He has a strong bond with his parents, partially because they are strongly implied to have died significantly later than some of the other parents did.

Which isn't to say the other kids didn't love their parents, because they all did. Rather, it's because there's a difference between someone who died before you could form concrete memories of them and someone who died when you were 13, or the difference between someone who died in some far off battle and someone who died right in front of you because they took a blow meant for you.

And he has a very positive bond with Lissa. It's notable that, when recruiting Owain with Lissa, he immediately recognized her even before she managed to finish a sentence. Furthermore, he chose to immediately jump to, "Mom?! Hi! I'm your son from the future!" The rest of the kids generally either needed a few moments before they recognized that the person standing in front of them was their parent or waited until the end of the stage to reveal their identity to them. Some of them required three supports to resolve the issues in their relationships with their parents. Owain and Lissa? They were doing the mother and son thing before they even cleared the map.

So for obvious reasons Owain took the deaths of his parents very hard. The reason Owain goes around boasting about being the son of heroes? Because he is. The heroes are his parents. And his bombastic, over the top personality that indulges in heroic spirits and shouted moves? It's partially his attempt to compensate for the very dark future that he and his friends grew up in and his attempt to keep spirits high and morale going strong.

But only partially. It's genuinely a part of him, not just some facade, but his motivations for the large ham act aren't just being silly and weird and funny and having fun. It's a bit more complicated than that. It's also an act Owain can drop. The most notable moments are during the Harvest Scramble, Hot-Springs Scramble, and the Future Past DLCs.

During the Harvest Scramble he has a conversation with his friend Inigo about death and murder. Did he remember what his first kill felt like in the present time? He talks about how it was different in the future: all life was precious then and murder was non-existent. Humanity had to deal with the ever-present threat of the Risen and Grima. In the present there were enemy soldiers, bandits, and things of that sort and it was harder to be sure that they kept their goal in sight.

During the Hot-Springs Scramble he talks with Yarne, another friend, and questions if perhaps they lost their edge traveling to the present. If their parents had made it harder for them to stay focused on their mission, if perhaps they should be doing more or trying harder. And the entire time Yarne is weirded out by the fact that Owain's being serious and making sense.

And then he tops both of the above in the Future Past by basically going, "In order to complete our mission and save the world I'm going to take one for the team and give my life to buy you guys time to escape. Go save the world. Sorry I can't come with you." To be fair this is an alternate universe version of the Owain featured in the main game with slightly different experiences, but it's basically the same guy.

Layers, in short. To strangers he's the shounen hero in a world that isn't a shounen series at all, a hero who appears out of nowhere to make speeches about justice before having his sword cleave evil. To his friends and comrades he's the dork and weirdo that likes to name his weapons things and come up with special move names, a guy who can lapse into ye olde butchered English or talk like he's eight years old (according to Brady.) And if he really likes and trusts you or the situation is serious, Owain can drop the act and just…you know, cut the crap, but generally speaking he doesn't. But it's all him.

History: Fire Emblem: Awakening in general.
Owain specifically.

Canon Abilities or Powers: He's a swordsman and so his canon abilities entail taking a pointy object and using it to slash at people.

Also, Fire Emblem: Awakening has two generations, Owain coming from the latter. The kids inherit stat distributions and skills from their parents. In Owain's case, despite being a swordsman when he first appears, he actually has a +3 to magic and a -1 to strength thanks to his mom (barring various fathers who can tilt him one way or another in terms of stats but if we factor that in then things get complicated given that there's no canonical fathers besides Chrom to Lucina.) Which I'm going to interpret as Owain having some canonical aptitude with magic that he never explored for various reasons, and while he doesn't know any spells if for some reason he gets hauled into taking magic lessons he's not going to be a total helpless loser in terms of native ability.

In terms of patience, and the willingness to sit down and study, and all that good stuff? Yes, hypothetical magic lessons wouldn't be easy. But he's got an aptitude with magic. I mean, the base classes available to Owain via Lissa is Myrmidon (swordsmen specializing in skill and speed), Barbarian (axe-wielders), and Priest, which is, yeah, the healers/white mages of the game.

Fairy Tale Role: Jack the Giant-Killer
Fairy Tale Powers or Abilities: Absolutely nothing useful in terms of powers, because frankly speaking it would probably be the most entertaining to have him be all, "Hngh! I have a dark curse!" "I turn into a swan by day, what's yours?" "Uh."

However, the fairy tale Jack does acquire a number of useful items which I'll list now:

- A fancy gold belt that makes the wearer look fancy
- A coat that will make whoever wears it invisible
- A sword that cuts anything
- A cap that tells the wearer all that they would want to know
- And shoes of extraordinary swiftness

I'd like him to acquire the belt right off the bat because it's merely gold and basically all it serves is to get giants pissed off at him as they go, "Wait, that belt means that you kill giants! Time to die!" (Potentially have the belt be cursed with a charm that causes giants to get pissed off at whoever wears it aka him. I like this idea. Can I go with this idea? It could be a giant magnet.) Get the sword at some point, maybe, you know, three months down the road. And as for the coat, the cap, and the shoes they're kind of potential game breakers - cap and coat especially - so I'd like for them to be things which he doesn't necessarily get but if I have a fantastic plot idea that would make things super awesome I ping the mods when the time comes with said idea and you guys can approve/disapprove of it then.

Personal Items:

Missiletainn: his sword. He believes (or wants to believe just roll with it, okay?) that it's a legendary sword of great power! And…destiny. It's actually just a very slightly above average iron sword.

His mom's signet ring. It's a memento of his mom, okay? Can't leave that behind.

His MANUAL OF JUSTICE, which is basically just a notebook he writes stuff in. Awesome moves and ideas and things!

First Person Sample:

[The handwriting is loose and quick, the handwriting of a guy who grabbed a notebook to jot down some ideas and accidentally...he...accidentally grabbed the wrong one and hasn't realized it yet.

...]

Awesome Weapon Names of Unlimited Power

- The Infinite Skyclaw Foe-Piercer
- Flamefang Wyverborn the Darkbane [There's flames drawn around this one!]
- ~~Vycewind~~ ~~Vicegard?~~ Vynewyrd?
- ~~Sacred~~ Holy Hevalvar
- Shining Blackbane Giant-Slayer

[Yes, he might've gotten bored and started drawing pictures of stick figures with swords. There's more coming unless he gets interrupted and someone points out that he's on the wrong journal.]

Third Person Sample: Boom.

Edited (I didn't notice I accidentally copy/pasted the top stuff twice and it bothers me. It would haunt me if I didn't edit it.) 2013-12-04 06:45 (UTC)

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❅ Applications

Owain | Fire Emblem: Awakening

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