APPLICATION
➤ The Sanctum is a game that accepts the following:
• Canon Characters
• Original Characters
• Fan Characters. Provided they have NO relationship to the characters already established in canon. For example, a Homestuck Fan Troll would be alright but the character cannot be directly related to say: Karkat.
• Fan based AUs - such as modern adaptations, genderbends, etc. We also allow canonmashes - combining two existing fandoms together as AUs (For example: A Hunger Games AU of Sansa Stark). We advise to strongly consider how the events of those particular universes would affect your character.
• Silent Protagonists.
• Characters with CR/Memories from other games.
• Characters who are native to the setting. ( AUs and OCs )
• Any combination of the above.
➤ You will be allotted THREE DAYS for revisions. Failure to do so will result in an automatic decline. Applications that have been declined will also have to wait ONE MONTH before reapplying.
➤ Applications and samples can be both linked or pasted into the comments.
➤ Because of the delicate nature of some events that occur within game, you must be over 18 years old to apply.
➤ When posting your app, we prefer it in the body of the comments, and with the character's name, canon, and whether they were reserved or not reserved in the subject line.
➤ Go ahead and re-use an old app to fill in the formatting below. Applications submitted with alternative formatting will not be processed.
➤ Everything else will be detailed within the application, feel free to ask us questions should the need arise.
OOC INFORMATION
Name: Your handle/name.
Contact Information: PMs, e-mail addresses, plurk, aim, etc. whatever method you prefer so we can reach you.
Personal Journal: if applicable, not required.
Age: You must be over the age of 18, you feel uncomfortable giving out your age an "Over Eighteen" will suffice.
Characters Played: State anyone else you're playing in game.
IN-CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Your characters full name.
Fandom: Please be specific! For example: If applying from the Marvel Cinematic Universe please state which movie. If you're applying for an original character, place: 'Original Character' in this field.
Age: A rough estimate will suffice.
Canon Point: The point in your characters history before they wake up in the Sanctum.
Original Universe or Alternate Universe? Any variations - such as game-memories, and modifications ( genderbending, modern adaptations, etc ) will have to be stated.
Is this character immune? Do you want this character to actually be immune to the Dystrophy virus or not? It will be assumed by all in game that they are until proven otherwise. The majority of the Immune are, but anyone native is not.
Personality: The personality featured here must reflect on the samples. What we look for mainly is an understanding of your characters motivations and thought process. Please focus on the strengths as well as weaknesses of your character. This section can also be in bullets.
Background: This is a mix of your characters setting + history section. Links to wikipedia will suffice for fandom characters. Bullet points are a-ok. AU Characters will have to state any significant changes in their history from the original canon variation. This section is required for original characters.
Other Notables: Anything else?
Inventory: The characters have the ability to receive some items in their room, with them when they wake up. Please limit this to SMALL items, personal valuables and clothing. If you're including pets/familiars/etc, feel free to add them here. Note that the mods have a long and proud tradition of stripping weapons and powerful items of said powers and replacing them with nerf guns and/or other toys. Trolling is common. The more specific the item requests are, the more specific the trolling.
SAMPLES
NETWORK SAMPLE : Can be links from dear-mun, meme, musebox or previous game threads. What we are looking for is your grip on your characters' voice.
LOG SAMPLE Can be links from dear-mun, meme, musebox or previous game threads. What we are looking for is your grip on your characters' voice. This can be prose based or brackets. What we're looking for is how your character would physically interact with others.
CALLSIGN APPLICATION
For the time being Callsign applications are OPEN, but limited to players who have
been in-game for more than three months.
APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN.
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REVISIONS
Thank you for your interest in the game! Your application has been reviewed, and we would like to request some revisions in the following areas:
Booker's personality section reads a little more like a summary of game events than a description of the character. You don't need to edit anything existing, but please add more to elaborate on what he's like independent of Elizabeth in his day-to-day interactions. It's something you begin to describe in the last two paragraphs but don't expound upon.
If you have any questions or would like any sort of clarification on what we would like to see, please don't hesitate to ask! Revisions should be either edited into the existing application in a different font color or in a comment as a response to this revision request.
Thank you again for your interest.
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Booker is incredibly stubborn, to good and ill effect. He tells Comstock that he doesn’t know him when he starts to peg every aspect of Booker’s personality, he insists on following his job through to the end by whatever means necessary - even lies to Elizabeth, telling her they’re going to Paris instead of New York, and goes through all the pains of the game to ensure that he does his job. Even in the face of a concept like fate or destiny, Booker simply states: “No one tells me where to go.”
While Booker doesn’t seem to frown upon a higher education, he doesn’t take any steps to be book learned himself. He’s comfortable being a man with a talent for violence instead of science or the like, often sounding amused when Elizabeth begins to wax poetic about theoretical physics, or simply quoting Mark Twain. The phrase: ‘Ignorance is bliss’ is closer to a personal motto for Booker DeWitt in more ways than one. His mind concocts a new past and reason for him to be in Columbia, and he believes what he sees rather than what he’s told. When the means that keep the city floating are explained to him, Booker replies: “So...not giant balloons?”
Booker has a very personal final encounter with Comstock towards the end of the game. Booker becomes enraged when Comstock blames Elizabeth’s missing joint of her pinky on him and tells her to ask Booker about it, accusing him of being responsible. This sends him into a blind rage and he smashes Comstock’s head repeatedly against the edge of a fountain screaming:
before he finally drowns the man.
He doesn't realize even after having done it why he did it, with his mind in disarray the deep-seated anger towards himself only occurs out of the remnants of the guilt he harbored for twenty years after having sold Anna and manifests in the murder of Comstock.
Beneath being a deeply troubled and angry individual, Booker’s sense of humor extends to sarcasm and irony and self-deprecation. As you may expect as a result of a hard life, he’s also very cynical person. At one point in the game he darkly remarks that the world needs more people like Daisy Fitzroy because of people like him. Booker doesn’t think too highly of those who exploit people who are less fortunate than themselves - equating Daisy to Comstock based simply on how violent her methods seem to be and how ruthless her Vox Populi are. He doesn’t think highly of Fink at all, from how he treats and uses his laborers. There is sympathy for Daisy’s cause and yet there is also disgust for how far she is willing to go.
To further dismantle the idea of the tormented bad-ass that Booker comes off as, he is incredibly awkward in more social situations versus the action of battle. He stammers and responds hesitantly to anyone who acts normal around him (friendly). This is a consistent problem Booker has throughout Columbia where the people are overly chipper and polite in manner. In fact it seems the only time he’s sure of himself is when he’s in the middle of a fight or having a tense conversation. Anything lighter and he doesn't seem to know what to do with himself. When it comes to attempting to negotiate with Slate or Daisy Fitzroy, Booker is able to both sound as if he is in a position of authority and that of a submissive party. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work well, but Booker has better skills trying to parlay or reason with someone than simply making polite conversation.
He's more of a loner than someone who has friends, the most I could expect of him to have would be work related relationships that are somewhat friendly. Booker has a caustic and incredibly irritable personality and is someone who has no time for foolishness or riddles when it comes to getting business done; as a result, he comes off as a hard and bitter man (which he is) without any lick of redeeming features. In truth, the only redeeming quality Booker has is that he somehow still has a conscience that beats him over the head with guilt and self-loathing.
ACCEPTED
Thank you for your interest and application to the Sanctum. Your application has been reviewed and is accepted. Booker DeWitt has been assigned housing in DISTRICT 4, FLOOR 5.
There are just a few things you need to complete:
01 :: Reply to this comment with the journal you plan on using.
02 :: Join the following communities:
SANCTUMSLOGS ( LOGS )
SPACEZOMBIES ( OOC & CRACK )
03 :: Fill out the form at THE TAKEN LIST.
04 :: Once your character has been accepted and given access to the communities, feel free to introduce yourself at SPACEZOMBIES.
05 :: Optionally, you can leave your contact details at the PLAYER CONTACT LIST after access to the mod journal is given.
06 :: Fan the ModPlurk @
NOTE: Booker's original inventory comes in untouched, but he'll also find a voucher for a real D1 steak and a bottle of lemon juice along with them. Probably a salt misunderstanding. Beyond that, there's a balloon shaped like a train with multiple cars that sings a couple bars of the same song over and over again if you tag on the string.
Re: ACCEPTED