mythmakers | ❅ 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!

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Personality:

Simon, for all his talent and role within his fairy-tale story, is a rather quiet individual. Partially because of his place as the youngest of seven children, partially because of his ‘talent’ for theft, and partially because it is simply in his nature to think humbly of himself, Simon has made a habit of being unnoticeable. He isn’t a particularly noticeable individual to begin with, so the fact that he goes out of his way to stay unnoticed makes him incredibly easy to overlook or forget about. He takes being unremarkable to an art form, and is very inwardly focused, unlikely to speak much or share his own motives. King Archidej nearly forgot about him altogether when the King was questing the Simons about their talents/trades.

This is not to say, however, that Simon cannot be eloquent in his speech, however. When he speaks he can be very persuasive, even as he strives to speak only truthfully. His cleverness aids in this, that he seeks first to persuade. When being unnoticed doesn’t work, Simon seeks to see if his own cleverness might. His first instinct when King Archidej questions him is to sidestep the issue entirely, in a surprisingly eloquent but evasive answer. When this fails he firsts extracts a promise from the King that then saves his life not but a few minutes later.

Simon’s plan to ‘steal’ the Princess Helena best showcases his cleverness. He almost immediately comes upon a plan to retrieve her, and it leaves all parties satisfied. The King does not trust him, so he leaves his two eldest brothers as ‘hostages’, which satisfies King Archidej by giving him ‘leverage’ against Simon, but also keeps his older brothers safe and out of the way as their talents would not be helpful during his trip. He takes the remaining brothers, to plan for the actual ‘theft’ of the princess as well as covering his bases in the ‘magical fairy-tale shape shifting’ department. Once they arrive, his clever words and actions convince her to board his brother’s ship to view the goods he asked King Archidej supply (some of which end up left behind for the Princess’s ladies, which may or may not give Simon the slightest bit of selfish satisfaction, even if King Archidej doesn’t care).

While it seems a strange thing for a supernaturally talented thief, Simon is actually extremely moral, for the most part. His parents and brothers raised him right is the answer he would give if anyone asked him, but however he comes by it, it’s very evident in his words and deeds. Simon is almost painfully honest; he tries to fend King Archidej off with a misdirection, but he never lies, and when the King calls him on his non-answer, he does answer truthfully, even knowing that theft is a crime often punished by death in King Archidej’s kingdom. Speaking of his talent for theft, just because he can steal doesn’t mean he does. In fact, he makes a point of not doing so. (Since his knowledge of this skill comes form somewhere, however, I have it that the few times he has stolen things, it was more to prove to those who doubted him that he could, and he always returned said items as quickly as possible.) Even though Simon could likely get away with it quite easily, he still does the right thing and avoids it.

Given this, Simon is not one to care for injustice, and though he strives to do the ‘good’ thing and forgive and forget, he knows that he often struggles with resentment for things that have happened for what he considers unjust reasons. The foremost of these would be his time spent imprisoned, especially since he had committed no crime—his preferred and primary way of living is one of honest labour—but was imprisoned because he had the ability to commit one. Even though it is hard for him to let such things go, he does strive his best to do so, and when it becomes too much of a struggle, or influences him in a way that goes against things generally considered good (loyalty to one’s king, etc.) he seeks to avoid confrontation with the subject of his anger and resentment.

However, now he’s lost his family due to the fading of most of the fairy tales, and it leaves him somewhat at loose ends. His bond with his family was very strong, and he cared for them as much as they did for him. He was never particularly happy with the way everything ended as if it was all ‘fine’, and he’s skeptical about the way they are drawing people in to preserve the tales. For two reasons. The first, is that he finds it somewhat uncomfortable that they are all, to a certain extent, considered so easily expendable, as though any random joe could replace people he knows and cares for as if they were the same people. The second is that he tends to think it pretty awful that they are just shoving poor, unsuspecting bastards in to sucky situations to fix their own problems. It is a poor situation, and he would speak more against it were he not deal already with his own grief.

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