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APPLICATION
We're so glad you're interested in us! Please copy the text box into a new comment and fill out our application. It's pretty long, we know, but that's because this is for your original work. If you're not sure where to start with your character we have a Bio of Doom shamelessly found years ago online, the origins of which we can't remember (but if you know where it came from, we will add in credit). The Bio of Doom is absolutely not required. Not even one bit. It's just there to help jump-start your thoughts.
A couple of notes for the application:
1) Your character will be assigned a roommate based on the gender they identify as. A transman will get a man for a roommate, just like a cis man.
2) There is a fully funded scholarship for as many people who need it. The donor is anonymous. If your character comes from a poor family, they will be granted tuition, food, and housing. For spending money they should check out the Work Study Opportunities.
You can submit an application whenever you like, however they will only be reviewed and accepted during the 1st through the 7th of the month.
For our opening set of applications we will be accepting people ALL OF JUNE through JULY 7TH.
Comments should have Player Name + Character Name in the title.
If you are REAPPLYING for a dropped character please put "ReApp" in the comment title along with player name + character name. If not everything fits, just character name + ReApp.
A couple of notes for the application:
1) Your character will be assigned a roommate based on the gender they identify as. A transman will get a man for a roommate, just like a cis man.
2) There is a fully funded scholarship for as many people who need it. The donor is anonymous. If your character comes from a poor family, they will be granted tuition, food, and housing. For spending money they should check out the Work Study Opportunities.
You can submit an application whenever you like, however they will only be reviewed and accepted during the 1st through the 7th of the month.
For our opening set of applications we will be accepting people ALL OF JUNE through JULY 7TH.
Comments should have Player Name + Character Name in the title.
If you are REAPPLYING for a dropped character please put "ReApp" in the comment title along with player name + character name. If not everything fits, just character name + ReApp.
Madb - Danaien Ysgolhaig
Character Name: Danaien Ysgolhaig
Identified Gender/pronouns: Female
Species: Gwragedd Annwn
Age: 17
Basics (IC)
Full Name: Daniean Marie Ysgolhaig
Family: David Ysgolhaig, Myfanwy Ysgolhaig. They met when father was ten and on vacation in Wales. Pen-pals through the years she moved to this country when he was eighteen and they dated for several years before marrying. Mother simply says “Older than your father” when asked her age. Gwragedd Annwn age when they want to, so she could be anything from a year older than him to a thousand years.
David has retired from farming and runs a produce stall in the Pike Place Market selling the organic produce that his sons grow. He is a loud, boisterous man with firey red hair, brown eyes, an amazing amount of freckles, and a face that makes up for it's ugliness by the force of his cheerful, happy personality.
Myfanwy edits textbooks online. She's just as loud and boisterous as her husband, but while he's ugly she's preternaturally beautiful with silken silver hair, a lithe body that looks like a centerfold even as she's chosen to grow old with her husband, glittering green eyes, and pre-Rahpaelite features. Due to her preternatural beauty, and the fact that it was passed to her daughters and one son, she, her daughters, and Ian all wear glamours to keep themselves safe.
Erik, Ian, and Tegeirian are my brothers. Erik is the eldest and like our father in looks and personality, Ian can only be described as dour with looks that favour our mother down the the preternaturally pretty aspects, and Tegeirian is a good middle between them. Erik and Tegeirian run an organic produce farm that is decently large and provides not only for our father's produce stall but also supplies a couple of fancy little grocery shops around the greater Seattle area. Ian is my twin and is in high-school. He's not popular, but well respected and included in our friend circle's activities even when I'm not around.
Alaw and Christine are my sisters. They are identical twins three years younger than my seventeen. The two are cheerful, good-natured troublemakers who delight in pranks. They have mother's good looks, but father's colouring and already attract far too much attention from adult men. They avoid the stereotypical one shy/one outgoing personality traits, instead both being outgoing and cheerful.
Friends: Alyssa is a cheerleader who decided on day one of kindergarten that I might be picked on and she was by God going to keep that from happening. She looks like a farm-girl, and floats like an angel when she moves.
Ellen is a six foot tall nerd of a girl who has a cheerful and open relationship with her sexuality and is gay as the day is long.
Eli, is an inch taller than she is, exactly ten months younger, and an excellent basketball player and member of a choir. Ellen and Eli are from a Hispanic human magical family with a gift for air magics.
Johnathon (never John or Jon) is African – not African American. He's from Kenya and only moved to America when he was sixteen. His family is very, very mixed blood in that there are at least six kinds of paranormal bloodlines in there along with a generous heaping of human. He's beautiful and already works as a professional model. Johnathon is in love with me, but understands that I don't share his feelings. It was awkward for several months but we got past it.
Sebastian is a werewolf whose family came from another world generations back, they're convergent evolution rather than infection. He's very pack-oriented and has claimed us as “his people”. I honestly worry about him, with me leaving Seattle for an indeterminate amount of time.
Where did you grow up?: Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
What was your childhood like?: Happy! As the first girl I was doted on by both parents and both of my older brothers. This is not to say that Ian was neglected, we were inseparable from early on. He and I got literally everything the same, if a “gendered” toy was brought into the house it was a gift for both of us. Ian, for instance, got much more use out of the pretend kitchen than I was ever interested in. My father taught me most of my practical knowledge, such as vehicle maintenance, cooking, how to shop in a smart way, how to communicate with humans. My mother taught me how to communicate with the local paranormal community, about my heritage as a Gwragedd Annwn, magics, and how to use fashion to get the desired reaction. Not necessarily how to attract someone, but also how to repel, how to present desired aspects of the self, etc.
What are your plans for the future?: Get a degree in library sciences, get a job at a library.
Personality (IC)
What do you feel are your greatest strengths: Once I get to know people I'm very good with them. I'm analytical. I'm very determined to do what is right.
What are your greatest flaws: Meeting new people makes my hands sweat. I don't always understand other people's emotions.
How do you treat others: I am awkward with people. I never know how to stand, how to talk to new people, what to talk about. I don't try to be rude, but sometimes it just happens and I don't know how to make it stop. I get less awkward, but also less polite, when I know and like someone. I'm painfully polite to people I dislike.
What do you look for in friends: People who are driven to do something. Even if it's something small, it doesn't have to be "change the world". They just need to have some kind of drive. People who are okay with how awkward I can be. People who like to laugh.
How do you handle confrontation: I am extremely conflict avoidant. That said I will argue for my principals if people are actively bashing them. If it's something about me personally, however, I just let it go.
What is a day off like for you: painfully get out of bed, after reading as much of the night as I can manage to sneak. Breakfast with my family, although it's usually something quick like cereal sometimes my father gets up early enough to make something special. Mother doesn't cook very well, and when it's her turn to provide food for the family she tends to either order in or magic up something.
Addictions: (anything from actual substances to adrenaline and popcorn addiction)
Are you a leader type, explain: No nope no way nu uh. I don't want to be around groups of people. I just want to do my thing, alone or with a very small group of people I already know.
Are you curious or cautious, explain: Both. I am both. I want to know, but I want to go about it safely. No charging in, just finding the safest way to get what I want.
School (IC)
Major: Library Sciences
Financial Assistance: Mostly paid for by family, but with a fairly decent amount of help from the school.
Are you going home for the holidays: Yes!
Any objects of Power you need faculty to be aware of/store: I have a magical diary, but it's not a big enchantment.
Any powers faculty need to handle: Nothing that needs to be handled.
Pets or familiars you need to house: I don't have a pet or familiar.
Powers (IC)
Abilities: I can live underwater perfectly well. I have a gift for languages - I don't know if it's a power or not. Now that I'm fully grown I'll only age when I want to. I can control water of up to a lake's size.
Are these hereditary: My species is water spirits, a form of fae wife for the women most of the time.
Do you know how to use these abilities: Mother taught me from a young age.
Are you a hero or have a Fated Destiny: I have dreams of an endless library...
Powers (OOC)
Abilities: Her gift for languages is a power. She gets it from her impending Destiny. The only one of her powers that she doesn't know she has is the ability to create about a bucket's worth of fresh water. She doesn't really have a lot going for her on the paranormal side of things, she's going to get through her Destiny with a lot of work mostly.
Do you know how to use these abilities: Her mother started teaching her how to use her powers from around the age of two. She's mostly got as good a grip on them as she's going to get, with the exception of creating water. When her gift for languages presented itself her parents enrolled her in as many language classes as she wanted. She's got a decent grip on Spanish, French, Latin, Russian, and Greek, and is fluent in Welsh, English, German, and Swedish.
Are you a hero or have a Fated Destiny: D is going to, one day, be snagged by the Ur-Library and pressed into service as it's Librarian. She'll spend the rest of her very, very long life trying to fill every library that exists in every world that exits with every book ever written. This will include many dangers, including being stuck in dungeons as she tries to fill the libraries of the people who created them, being snuck into wizard's homes, and so on and so forth.
What are your hopes for your character: She needs to open up, she needs to learn all the things that will keep her alive when her Destiny catches up with her. That includes making friends and allies on the fly, hunting, swords work, firearms training, offensive use of her ability to control water, how to create water, any cantrips that people can learn without much magical ability.
Re: Madb - Danaien Ysgolhaig
Daniean has been assigned to floor 2A (2nd floor, tower A quad), their roommate is TBD.
There will be an orientation post in the main community iif you wish to play out orientation, and each new student should get a library card!