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,

mythmemes, the same day reserves open!

✒ 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:
→ AIM:
→ 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!

Canon Characters

Original Characters

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✒ OOC
Name: Kiki
Contact:
→ DW: kikibug13
→ AIM:
→ Plurk: kikibug13
Do you play anyone in Myth Making?: Nooope.

✒ IC
Name: Dick Grayson
Canon: Young Justice
Canon Point: After the end of season 1
Age: 14

Personality:
Dick Grayson is a fourteen-year-old with an extraordinary life. And he knows it.

To begin with, his life started in the circus. And not by chance, either - he was the youngest member of the Flying Graysons, a family of acrobats/trapeze artists that were part of Haly's Circus. He grew up among the animals and the lifers, the barkers and the audiences, traveling all over the world, in the midst of close relatives and the whole troupe caring for him...

And, above all, in the air. He learned to walk on the tightrope, more or less; he lived and breathed flight, or as close to an unaided human could get. And, to Dick, this was feeling things right. He was always full of energy and, as appropriate to the circus, with good cheer. He was an artist born, not made, and a charming little troll.

His travels gave him a lot of knowledge about the world, in ways that most people that young never get to see; his family also gave him the confident knowledge that he was loved, cared for, protected. And special. Fast on his feet, fast on his hands, quick-witted and graceful, Dick Grayson was an enchanted boy.

However, the perfect life (or as close to it as one can get) didn't last. When Dick was nine, his Haly's circus performed in Gotham - and the circus owner refused to pay for 'protection' to a local. The revenge? Well. The Flying Graysons performed without a safety network for their crown act - one that their youngest member was excluded from. It took Tony Zucco only to sabotage the rig a little, and the five acrobats fell.

In one truly fell swoop, Dick lost his parents, his aunt, and his cousin; his uncle, the only one who survived the fall, was paralyzed for life. Dick couldn't even stay with the circus, the extended family he'd grown up with. Out of the enchanted life and a lonely orphan, in a night.

But, while Dick's life changed - while his confidence in the goodness of the world shattered - his life did not become a full-on tragedy. He got adopted by a Gotham billionaire, Bruce Wayne. From the constant travels and on-the-go, kaleidoscopic life with the circus, Dick moved into the vast Wayne Manor, with a guardian who cared for him, in all his rich-boy-company-owner busy-ness, and a butler.

And nobody else.

The change was hard on him, and a lot of the confidence, the cheer, left him for a while. But he didn't stop working out - even with acrobatic equipment, because that was not an impossibility at Wayne Manor. The transition probably would have been more difficult for him if Dick didn't have one thing very firmly in mind.

He wanted to get back to Tony Zucco for taking everyone from him. Revenge his family.

And that goal brought the other change in Dick's life.

Because Bruce Wayne had a secret. By day, he was a businessman, in the evening, he was a glittering, empty-headed socialite. But by night, he was Batman.

And Batman... took a very peculiar view of his young ward's drive for vengeance. Because he knew enough about the cheerful, bright-eyed boy to want one thing most of all for him - that Dick did not become like him.

Bruce recognized the fact that Dick wouldn't give up, not until his goal was accomplished. So, instead of trying to get in the way and alienate the boy, he took Dick under his wing. Dick chose the persona (and the outfit) himself, but the fact was that he became Robin, Batman's sidekick, a crimefighter, at the age of nine.

Now, nearly five years later, he is still doing it.

On the upside, he again has family that he trusts completely, both with Bruce and Alfred, and with the team that formed months ago among him and his fellow sidekicks (older, but, on the overall, less experienced). He once again flies at night, keeping the acrobatics he was born into alive and in perfect shape. His mind is developed to keep pace with his body - he is fast, witty, and an extraordinary hacker-- uh. Extraordinarily skilled with technology individual. In school, the kind of academy that he couldn't ever have dreamed to attend, while with the circus, he is a mathlete, a star student, and that's on top of all the work that he does. His sunny disposition has reasserted itself, and he cracks jokes, good and somewhat less so (some of them slaughtering the English language rather creatively), to keep up the morale of his allies and distract his enemies or lure them into angry mistakes.

On the downside... in five years, he has seen a lot of the worst that humanity can dish out to each other. He is a vigilante in Gotham, the city of the worst crazies. Like Joker, or Poison Ivy, or any number of them. And Dick has survived those encounters, not unscathed, either physically or mentally. Or emotionally.

The bright facade that he puts up to the world covers a little too much hurt than a kid his age should have borne. To boot, Dick is a sensitive child, incapable - or unwilling, possibly with the support of his guardian/mentor - to shut himself away from what is happening around him. He cares about people, he cares about what he does and why he does it. So all the horror that he has seen has left deep scars on him - scars that he laughs away but ambush him sometimes. Scars that he cannot ignore.

But he is way too determined - too stubborn - to let any of that stop him. To let any of that hurt those he cares about again.

Like his mentor, he's a baseline human without any meta abilities - his acrobatics almost suggest such, but it's all hard work and inborn affinity - among a team of metas, facing enemies who frequently possess or control such extra options, too. He's good enough at what he does to avoid being the weakest link, making up for the lack of power or speed by quick thinking, providing all the possible information at the soonest possible moment, and by feats of personal heroism that would have been impressive in an adult - in a fourteen-year-old, they are downright amazing.

That is not to say that he's flawless. To the contrary, he makes mistakes. They are only few and far between, both because it's important to him to make his mentor proud and because he knows way too well how a mistake he makes might cost people their lives. He is sometimes too rash, not fully considering and weighing all the options he has, especially the ones that pertain to the best of his team - which is why, despite his attempt, he did not become the leader of that team, leaving the honor to the much more mature Aqualad. Dick's humor is also a little too sharp, sometimes poking fun more deeply than he should. His confidence sometimes borders on arrogance, though those occasions are often concealing insecurities that the swift change in his life - as well as the not-always-positive experience in the years since became Robin - caused.

In the end, though, he is Robin. The laughing, brightly-clad, somersaulting little troll in the night. Batman's partner, the boy wonder who never gives up, no matter how sticky the situation, and whose cackle can herald the rapid change of bad guys' luck for the worse. He's a mostly-ordinary boy who's had an extraordinary life, and he's fully aware of that - and will make sure all that he's been given, he gives freely back, helping as much of the world as he can, any way he can.

History: http://youngjustice.wikia.com/wiki/Nightwing (note: Dick is taken from the end of season 1, when he is still Robin - the very first and only one - and has recently turned fourteen.)

Canon Abilities or Powers:
* Olympic-level acrobat.
* Martial artist - he's beet crime fighting for the last five years. Hand to hand, eskrima sticks, and birdarangs are his weapons of choice.
* Hacker (not very useful in the setting, but still)
* Working knowledge of history and sciences, as needed by the sidekick of the world's greatest detective.

Fairy Tale Role: Cupid, from the Cupid and Psyche mythos
Fairy Tale Powers or Abilities:
* Extraordinary beauty (not that Dick Grayson needs much enhancement, for that)
* Flight... yeah, with wings, apparently. They are feathery wings and can carry him pretty fast around.
* Archery. He is, possibly, Apollo's equal with the bow - only he doesn't shoot to kill.
* Oh, and the whole god of love thing. I'm going to limit the bulk of his power this way to his arrows - going with the two-flavor version, sharp-tipped to enflame desire, and blunt, to stop it. He can probably also encourage those already into each other/maybe give them some sort of blessing.

Personal Items:
* Clothes on his back - skinny jeans, shoes, t-shirt, and a black hoodie
* Shades
* Wristwatch-shaped computer with holo display/keyboard
* ... utility belt with birdarangs and other necessary things in pouches, since he basically doesn't go around with it.

First Person Sample:
[ The writing is neat and legible, if a little hurried, like the person writing it is always in motion, never stopping long enough to shape the letters fully patiently. ]

So, guys. Hi. I'm curious about some things. For one thing, how many of us are here, yet? Will we resort to talking with the fairies, or something like that?

Another thing. Should we, introduce ourselves with our proper names, or are we supposed to ~live our roles~ and talk - and think - of ourselves as whoever we're here as?

And, most importantly, how many people are freaking out and/or hating this, and does anybody need any help?

Third Person Sample:
"You have got to be kidding me."

Dick was looking around himself. He was sitting in the street... a cobbled street. All right, he hadn't seen one of those in a long time, but not out of his range of experience. With a book in his lap, ditto on the range. But... he was not somewhere he should have woken up - five years behind superb security should have assured that.

Well. No, it hadn't, because both Robin and Dick Grayson had been targets of kidnapping, but those didn't look or feel like this. They usually involved being tied up, roughed up, and possibly his head being almost too muzzy to properly think. None of these were present at the moment, and the street seemed... free, in fact.

Except he spotted that he had a bow and a quiver of arrows.

That made Dick bounce off to his feet to examine them, calling out, out of reflex, "Spee-- Red Arrow? Artemis? Anyone?"

Which is when he became aware of the wings. He was still gaping at them over his shoulder when a pixie stopped to look at him, shaking her head and saying that there was no Artemis, besides, he should probably call her Diana (what? Why would I be calling for Wonder Woman instead of Artemis?!). The pixie (oh, man, Wally'd have a fit, here!) had no answers.

Well. He'd have to find them some other way, right? Clutching the book in his hand (he'd look at it later, it was a book, of course he would!) he set off to explore.

Congratulations and welcome to Myth Making! Your role is sealed and your true destiny awaits. The current season is Autumn, and your character will awaken in the city of Märchenstraße with their book and quill. Your personal tag is young justice: dick grayson. Please use this tag when you post a journal entry or log, and when you tag into someone else's.

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❅ Applications

Dick Grayson / Robin | Young Justice | Not reserved

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