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Applications are currently OPEN and will be processed on weekends. Please note that players who had an app declined must wait two weeks to resubmit an app for the same character, while players who have idled out for the first time must wait a week.
An sample application can be found here!
Application Guidelines
Player name: Your name.
Contact info: Your preferred method of contact.
Other characters currently played: Please include other Soulgemmed characters only.
Character name: Your character's full name in Western order (given name, then surname).
Age: Your character's age. If unknown, please give us a rough estimate.
Canon: Your character's canon. CRAUs and AUs must specify.
Canonpoint: A brief description of which point in their canon the character is being taken from.
Background:
Wiki links are allowed. OCs will need to go in-depth and provide a description of the world that they are from so that a greater understanding of its culture and history can be gleaned.
CRAUs must provide a bullet point list of their previous game history and explain how their characters have been affected by these new experiences.
Personality:
Describe your character's personality in detail - their motivations, their worldview, their strengths and flaws. Use evidence from canon to support your points. Please try not to exceed 1500 words.
Wish:
What wish does your character make to end up here? How do you want it granted? The wish is the most important part of the application. Please describe the thoughts and feelings behind the wish in as much detail as possible, as well as what led the character to making this wish and how it will be granted. Be sure to choose a wish suited to your character's personality or else you will be asked to revise. Please provide the exact wording of the wish in quotation marks. Refer to the wishes section of this entry for more information.
Passive ability & Active ability:
Which abilities would you like your character to be given on arrival? Your character gets both an active and passive ability. The nature of the abilities must relate in some way to the wish made. Please explain how your abilities relate to your wish, even if you feel that the correlation is obvious. If your abilities are meant to be versatile, please be thorough in describing the ways in which you intend to utilize said powers. Describe its limitations in depth. You will be expected to rigidly adhere to the description you give here of the power's utility.
Please look under "power breakdown" for information on this. If you're in need of ideas, try the superpower wiki!
Weapon:
The weapon your character gains the ability to summon. No need to go into detail. It would just be a regular weapon with no additional abilities, unless you want to dedicate a power to infusing it with magical abilities later.
Sample:
Both threads and third person samples are allowed. Threads must contain at least ten comments from your character. Third person samples must contain at least two lines of character dialogue so that we can determine your grasp on your character's voice.
Application Form
Please do not edit your application after it has been submitted.
An sample application can be found here!
Application Guidelines
Player name: Your name.
Contact info: Your preferred method of contact.
Other characters currently played: Please include other Soulgemmed characters only.
Character name: Your character's full name in Western order (given name, then surname).
Age: Your character's age. If unknown, please give us a rough estimate.
Canon: Your character's canon. CRAUs and AUs must specify.
Canonpoint: A brief description of which point in their canon the character is being taken from.
Background:
Wiki links are allowed. OCs will need to go in-depth and provide a description of the world that they are from so that a greater understanding of its culture and history can be gleaned.
CRAUs must provide a bullet point list of their previous game history and explain how their characters have been affected by these new experiences.
Personality:
Describe your character's personality in detail - their motivations, their worldview, their strengths and flaws. Use evidence from canon to support your points. Please try not to exceed 1500 words.
Wish:
What wish does your character make to end up here? How do you want it granted? The wish is the most important part of the application. Please describe the thoughts and feelings behind the wish in as much detail as possible, as well as what led the character to making this wish and how it will be granted. Be sure to choose a wish suited to your character's personality or else you will be asked to revise. Please provide the exact wording of the wish in quotation marks. Refer to the wishes section of this entry for more information.
Passive ability & Active ability:
Which abilities would you like your character to be given on arrival? Your character gets both an active and passive ability. The nature of the abilities must relate in some way to the wish made. Please explain how your abilities relate to your wish, even if you feel that the correlation is obvious. If your abilities are meant to be versatile, please be thorough in describing the ways in which you intend to utilize said powers. Describe its limitations in depth. You will be expected to rigidly adhere to the description you give here of the power's utility.
Please look under "power breakdown" for information on this. If you're in need of ideas, try the superpower wiki!
Weapon:
The weapon your character gains the ability to summon. No need to go into detail. It would just be a regular weapon with no additional abilities, unless you want to dedicate a power to infusing it with magical abilities later.
Sample:
Both threads and third person samples are allowed. Threads must contain at least ten comments from your character. Third person samples must contain at least two lines of character dialogue so that we can determine your grasp on your character's voice.
Application Form
Please do not edit your application after it has been submitted.
Osomatsu Matsuno | Osomatsu-san | reserved
REVISIONS
Revisions
You're almost there! While your application is mostly acceptable, there are still a few areas where tweaking is needed.
» We would like to see an expanded Wish section that explains the thoughts and feelings behind the wish in more depth.
» We would like further explanation on how Osomatsu's active ability relates specifically to his wish.
You have 72 hours to get back to us with the necessary revisions, or your application will be rejected.
Re: REVISIONS
Osomatsu has spent his entire life as part of a big family. His parents had sextuplets, and when you have five brothers, your life is never your own. There is no such thing as privacy. Not only must Osomatsu spend every waking moment with these other boys, but he is also the oldest (by a few minutes) sibling, which means he feels a certain sense of responsibility to look out for the younger ones. As they get older, that feeling does not leave. Sometimes, it is dimmed when Osomatsu gets annoyed or angry. But, for the most part, he wants to be a reliable older brother. He wants the others to cherish and confide in him, and he wants to always be there for them.
The brothers live in the same house with their parents until they are adults in their twenties. They eat together, they bathe together, they go out drinking together. The young men even sleep in the same futon together. This kind of scenario may look cute to outsiders, but it is also extremely unhealthy. It makes them all dependent on one another. In Osomatsu's case, he loses all sense of identity when he's not with his brothers.
So it is no wonder that when they decide to leave the house and make it on their own, Osomatsu snaps. As each brother moves out, Osomatsu spirals further into depression. He cannot imagine living life without these other men. He does not want to. When he makes his wish, Osomatsu is at his breaking point, probably the lowest point in his life. He is desperate for things to be the way they were before. From that desperation, the wish is born.
It should be mentioned that Osomatsu is not above begging or groveling or whining to get what he wants. When Kyuubey offers to grant his wish, he agrees without hesitation. He promises he will do anything, and he means it. His wish is entirely selfish, because it may only make him happy, and to hell with everyone else.
Active ability: Clone - the power to create five other copies of himself to confuse the enemy. These copies are hollow, though, and cannot do any damage. He mostly uses them so that he can run away. With this ability, we are supposed to see that Osomatsu has a difficult time working alone. He makes copies of himself, that are meant to represent his brothers, and he uses his "brothers" to shield his cowardly self—even though he is supposed to be the responsible older brother—so that he may run away. This ability echoes the selfishness and desperation of his wish.
ACCEPTED
Accepted
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