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OC APPLICATION
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Please make sure that you read over the FAQ and the HP canon guide to clear anything up, and if you feel like something has not been mentioned, post a comment and someone will get back to you as soon as possible. If having difficulty with your application, we recommend you give the Application Guide a look over as well.
Wondering what the guidelines are for Original Characters? Not sure if your character counts as Canon OC or what that even is? In addition to the normal application rules, you're expected to follow the guidelines we have listed below:
O R I G I N A L C H A R A C T E R R U L E S;
Canon OC rules:
1. No Fandom OC's. What is a Fandom OC? A Fandom OC is, for example, an X-Men character you created for that world and you want to bring them here. Not allowed, unfortunately.
2. Has to be a legitimate character. What does this mean? A random passerby character with no lines does not count.
3. In the personality section please make sure to let us know how you came to some of your own choices on the personality. This means naming canon examples.
4. If you're unsure whether your character qualifies as a Canon OC or not, make sure to ASK A MODERATOR before submitting your application.
OC Rules in General:
1. The same rules that we have for regular applications still apply. So check with us first about half Veela, Animagus, Vampire or Werewolf things.
2. Your character is not a descendant or related to ANY canon Harry Potter character. There are no exceptions to this rule.
3. Please be thorough with your personality section. We want a very solid idea of this. Since we don't have another place to look up their correct personality, the last thing we want is a character who is vague enough for this to change at a whim.
4. Applications with sparkly characters who are flawless orphans who are perfect at every subject and can do no wrong and everyone falls in love with them at every moment will be rejected.
Examples of Canon OC's:
- Fionna/Prince Gumball/Marshall Lee & canon genderswapped characters (Adventure Time)
- Matt (Death Note)
- Obscure Disney Prince/Characters (i.e: Prince from Cinderella/Snow White or the Feather Duster from Beauty & the Beast)
- Nyotalia (Hetalia)
- Ancestors (Homestuck)
- Foxface (Hunger Games)
- Ditzy Doo (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
- Femio (Princess Tutu)
- Silent Protagonists (video games)
T H I N G S T O T A K E N O T E O F;
1. The mods have the jurisdiction to approve or deny any application submitted.
2. Post your application with your personal journal on the application page itself instead of linking it! If you don't have a personal journal, that's okay, but we strongly prefer it for keeping track of people. Remember to PUT THE TYPE OF APPLICATION IN THE HEADER so we know whether this is a OC or a Canon OC.
3. Your application will need to include two specific words; these words can be found hidden in the rules and information pages linked in the community profile.
4. You may only apply for ONE character at a time. Once that character is approved than you may choose another. A player is not allowed more than one un-responded to application on the application forum. For all new players to the RP, we ask you wait one week before applying as a new character, this will give you time to settle in to the community.
5. If the character's canon is ongoing and it's still early in their introduction, rather than applying them as a canon OC, we will advise you to postpone your application until you can get more information on them.
6. KEEP IN MIND. This is Hogwarts, and it's a British school. There shouldn't be a huge flood of "DESU DESU DESU" at any point in time. Thus, your characters should be British, or at the very least European. If they aren't, you MUST have a GOOD reason for it! The UK is very diverse and has many nationalities, so if you want them to be a different ethnicity, they can still be British! Here are some locations where characters reside.
7. When applying for a Hetalia Character, we request that you phrase the Canon history in the context of the comic, as opposed to the actual history of the country. This is so we can see how the history translates in to the anthropomorphic character.
8. PLEASE KEEP OOC CONVERSATION OUT OF THE APP POST! At least keep it to a minimum if you are going to say something such as 'huzzah for [fill in character name here]', get their AIM and tell them in person. I am sure they would rather hear it that way.
9. We don't have App Cycles at this rp. If applying for a:
→ Student: The most important thing to remember for students is that they are students who go to school. Be prepared to observe all student rules, meaning there are IC consequences for fighting, sneaking out after curfew, and pranks. That doesn't mean not to have fun, just know your character can get in trouble for it! There are also classes with homework, but signing up and doing school work is optional. More info on student rules are here and these spots will always be open.
→ Teacher/TA: Keep in mind what characters are suitable to teach, and pick a subject that makes sense for them (and for Hogwarts if it's a non- canon class). There is a maximum of two teachers and two TAs on any given subject and occupied teacher and TA spots can be seen there. Teacher characters should do Homework often, which can be posted here. Teachers are encouraged to give out detentions, house points, and overall, remember that they're teachers. More info on teacher rules are here. Currently: OPEN TO CANON CLASSES
→ Staff Member: Similar to professors, minus the assignments, they have a degree of authority as well, but not as much as teachers. They focus on working in the hospital wing, library, grounds, etc. Just like professors, they shouldn't entirely neglect their jobs for social interaction and will use the same application form as teachers. Occupied staff positions can be seen here. Currently: OPEN TO CANON POSITIONS
10. If your application is:
→Accepted: Congratulations! Follow the instructions, add yourself to all the lists, and welcome to Sorting Hat!
→Wavered: We think your application could use a few improvements to be up to the quality of our roleplay. You have a week to adjust these issues before the character is up for grabs again. If you reapply and we still don't find it up to par, you will be rejected.
→Rejected: There are significant problems with the application, so you must wait one week before reapplying or reserving that character (unless you already have a hold on that character, but you can't renew it if the hold expires). However, if you want to apply a different character, you can do so whenever.
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[CANON OC] The Psiioniic/Helmsman | Homestuck
Name: Amanda
Timezone: US Central
Personal Journal:
Players Contact/AIM/MSN/YAHOO: AIM – man grit
Email Address: speakforthetruffalas@gmail.com
Former/Other Characters in the RP: Marquise Spinneret Mindfang/Sybille Matteris, Veser Amaker Hatch (dropped), Steve Rogers, Sam Winchester
How did you hear about us?: HOW CAN I HEAR ABOUT THIS GAME WHEN I WAS ALREADY HEREEEE
Character Information
Name: Cephas Captor (The Psiioniic/Helmsman)
Canon Origin/Series: Homestuck
Teaching Position and why it suits them: Flying. Flight has had a large influence on the Psiioniic’s life in canon, considering his psychic abilities enabled him to propel himself through the air, and that up to his death he was forced to fly. Cephas was also an extremely skilled flyer during his school years, and retained his love and ability for flight after graduation.
Suitability: Cephas is stubborn and strong-willed, and this will help him with teaching because he will do his best to make every student do their very best in class, regardless of how much work or how much resistance he meets. He wants everyone to be able to succeed, and to avoid mistakes his made. He’s caring, even if he can be standoffish and awkward, but he wants the best.
Gender: Male
Age: 33
Out of school living location: Cambridge, England
Blood status: Muggleborn.
Personality: Psiioniic is both similar and dissimilar to his descendant (and clone), Sollux. The two are extremely similar, but due to living in different times and in different circumstances, the two have developed differently.
One of the traits he shares with Sollux is duality. He didn’t spend quite as much time over come with self-loathing once he freed himself from bondage, but he was still remarkably temperamental, and it didn’t take much to send him into a fit of rage. Despite these fits, he was still mostly nonviolent, and he did believe that kindness is a good way to rebel. While his snarkiness and snippiness might not have automatically translated to some as kindness, he preferred teasing (not always as gentle as it could be) and playful barbs versus the cloying sweetness of his cohorts. He has a different brand of affection, and he likes it that way.
Not to say he never disliked anyone, and not to say he’s never got upset or depressed. Psiioniic could be overcome with bitterness, and an unbearable amount of anger and rage towards the hierarchy of Alternia, and the oppression faced by so called “low”blood trolls. Sometimes, though the occasions became rarer and rarer, he was so overcome by his loathing and despair he would doubt the success of the rebellion the Signless was leading, and he couldn’t help but dwell on how futile dismantling the caste system seemed to be. He learned how to drag himself out of these bleak moments, due mostly to the kind, yet stern, teachings of the Dolorosa.
He is remarkably stubborn, and was never one to back down from a fight. Of course, not all fights are or were serious, and he didn’t always pick his battles wisely. He would always react poorly to losing, whether it was a fist fight or a battle of wits, and he would spend hours or days sulking over it. (He insisted it wasn’t sulking, but he’d occasionally spend hours imagining how it they should have gone and how it was unfair, so on and so forth.)
While he does snark, and insults and jabs coming to him quite naturally, he’s not really the best at talking about things like gratitude or how he feels (without being sarcastic, at least). He prefers to show affection with things like small gifts or notes. Anything he can leave with the person and then leave without having to see their reaction first hand. He’s not shy, really, just easily flustered and always afraid that people will react negatively to his sincerity. It’s one of the few nasty thoughts that appears for him most often – that everyone secretly hates him and wants him gone. That’s why he’s hesitant to be sincere or kind in the first place, as he believes it will help the pain of losing them be less severe. He’s afraid of losing everyone he holds dear, because it’s always been such a very real possibility. He’s had to prevent himself from becoming close to other slaves, and holding friendships isn’t something he could say he’s very skilled at. He tries, though, even if he doesn’t find himself very successful.
Another difference between Sollux and the Psiioniic is how the Psiioniic treats higherblood trolls. While Sollux can be flippant and rude to anyone, the Psiioniic is far more cautious. It can be hard for him to be anything but obedient to a highblood, and after years and years in service it’s even harder. He’d never really been overtly disrespectful, preferring to keep to subtle insults, but he really prefers avoiding contact with his betters.
In the AU, Cephas is not that much different from his alien counterpart. While he’s a tiny fraction of the age, he’s just as intelligent and stubborn. He’s skittish and wary after his ordeal, and can be prone to getting caught up in his thoughts. He’s closed off for the most part, but after he begins to trust a person, or if he gets comfortable in his new position, people will have to deal with his mouthiness.
Canon Background: The Psiioniic was raised a slave, which Doc Scratch says is typical for his “mentally gifted class”. He was one of the strongest psychics at the time, but he managed to keep the full extent of his powers unknown to the slave keepers as he worked. The labor was still hard, and his life was still incredibly painful and filled with suffering. After all, he was a yellow blood. There were two castes below him, yes, but there were eight above him. He had to serve them, and his psionic abilities were useful, but they were not the only ones he had. He could hear the voices of the dying sometimes. Not the dead, no, but the voices of those that were well on the way to their graves. It was something he tried to ignore, because his masters didn’t like him pausing in his work to think on the voices he heard.
It wouldn’t be his abilities, or his curses as he would sometimes call them, that would inspire him to escape from his life of bondage. It would be a troll, who wasn’t even on the hemospectrum - a mutant, with blood that was far too red to be natural, and who had no sign. The Signless, or Sufferer as he would later be known to his followers, before being erased from history completely, had radical ideas of equality between bloods, that color should not dictate someone’s worth in society. These ideas were so absurd, and so just plain impossible, that any sane troll should have ignored him. But the Psiioniic was intrigued. He couldn’t deny that freedom and equality were appealing, something that he had longed for, and he escaped from slavery to join the troll without a sign and the jade blood troll who had raised him from grubhood, who was known as the Dolorosa. There was also a green blooded troll called the Disciple, who wrote down all of the Signless’ visions and teachings.
Together, the four trolls travelled Alternia, spreading the Signless’ message of acceptance and equality. Not all trolls were accepting, but some were. They were sparking a rebellion. Alternia was almost on the brink of a revolution. Displeased, the Empress lashed out. The four were captured, and split up. The Signless was publicly tortured and executed, earning the name Sufferer, and the Disciple was to be executed as well, but the executioner showed mercy on her and she fled with the remains of Signless’ clothing. The Dolorosa was sold into slavery. His punishment for the rebellion would be, in the words of Scratch, “far worse, if not more prestigious”. He was made to serve as the Helmsman for Her Condescension’s personal battleship, making it the fastest ship in the imperial fleet. The Condesce was so pleased with this, she granted her new Helmsman life that would match hers.
Now, a troll’s life expectancy correlates to their blood color. As a yellowblood, the Psiioniic had a life expectancy close to that of a reasonably healthy human, or between 90 and a 100 years (roughly 40 to 50 sweeps). As the highest on the hemospectrum, the Condesce has a lifespan well in the thousands. This meant the Helmsman would be alive for well more than ten, or even twenty, times what he would have lived normally. Though perhaps “alive” isn’t really the best word to use. While not much about Helmsmen is known, what we do know is that a Helmsman is that psychics with powers similar to the Psiioniic/Helmsman are exploited for travel, and that they are essentially living engines. We can also see that they power the ship by actually being a part of the ship.
It’s never explicitly stated exactly how many thousands of years the Helmsman served, but his story ends in death. He, along with the Condesce, is one of the ancestors we know for certain was alive at the same time during the trolls’ introduction and entrance into SGRUB, which means he is alive at the same time as his technical descendent and paradox clone. He is, however, the only ancestor to die at the same time as his descendent.
The trolls’ session began as most SGRUB/SBURB sessions do, with meteors coming down and striking their home planet. This would, naturally, upset Gl'bgolyb, who was the Condesce and Feferi’s mutual lusus, and something of a guardian of the planet. She could kill trolls with just her voice, even just a whisper. The lower classes were especially susceptible to death by Gl'bgolyb, but if her voice raised too high, she would kill every troll in the universe in an event known as the Vast Glub. (Tyrian trolls are an exception.) When news reached the Condesce, she instructed the Helmsman and all other ships in the fleet to Alternia. The strain of flying the battleship so quickly would more than likely have killed the Helmsman in the end in the end, but Gl'bgolyb released the Vast Glub far before they reached the planet, and the Helmsman died along with the Alternian empire.
Background (AU!Canon; HP): paranomal Cephas Captor was born in a small town in China. He didn’t have the name of Cephas Captor at the time, but that’s okay. He would be adopted as a child, and given a name to match his new life in England. Cephas was adopted by Julian Captor and his wife Annabelle, due to the fact that the couple could not have children of their own. However, the stress of raising a child as temperamental and needy as Cephas proved to be too much for Annabelle, and she left Julian soon after Cephas turned five, leaving the boy with his adoptive father.
Julian was distraught, but he and his son managed to pull through. Then, when Cephas was eight, the family changed again. Julian met a man named Jason a little more than a year after his wife left, and the two got along splendidly. Julian, who was bisexual, quickly became enamored with Jason, who responded in kind. The two worried about what Cephas would think of their relationship, but they had nothing to worry about. He accepted Jason into his family, even if it took him some time to stop referring to him as his “new mommy”.
The three of them lived quite happily, even if the two men worried about the strange things that happened around their son. It turned out to be nothing to worry about, and Cephas made his way to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with very little drama. There, the boy bloomed. He quickly became friends with a loud Gryffindor, despite the fact that he was in Ravenclaw and a bit of an asshole. He and the boy were very close, and the two of them were almost inseparable. He excelled in school and made top marks, and after graduation he began to work in the Ministry. He also managed to juggle a life in the Muggle world, meeting a kind, loving women he would have two children with. Mituna was born when he was young and stupid, with Sollux following a year after his brother.
The couple struggled, but Cephas moved to a nicer, if more dangerous, position as an Unspeakable in the Department of Ministry and was able to support them all financially. However, his girlfriend was unable to handle Cephas’s irritability alongside two small boys, and she left when the two were still too young to be able to properly remember their mother. Cephas was devastated by the loss, but he managed to pull through with help from his Gryffindor friend and his fathers, even if his work in the Department of Mysteries was more than a little dangerous.
It proved to be extremely dangerous during the height of the war. During Mituna’s fourth year, a group of Death Eaters found Cephas and his family. They wanted him to use his position as an Unpseakable to find things for them, to help with Voldemort’s cause, but he vehemently refused to help. The group would not take no for an answer. They tortured Mituna, and Cephas agreed to help if only to get them to leave him alone. (It turned out to be too late, and Mituna’s mind was damaged from the spell.)
However, for the longest time Cephas did not know about that. He didn’t know much about what happened to his sons at all. The group was mistrustful of him, for good reason, and they placed Cephas under the Imperious Curse to guarantee that he wouldn’t leave or divulge any secrets. He wasn’t the first or only wizard that would be cursed to do the bidding of Death Eaters, but he would be one that would occasionally have the will to overcome the curse. He would always be forced back into working for them, however, and it wasn’t until Voldemort’s defeat that he would be able to join his family without the fog from the Imperious Curse. He was mortified over what he had done and what had happened to his sons, and he knew he couldn’t return to the Ministry, even if he could not be blamed for his actions. He approached Dumbledore for help, because he knew the wizard was wise and helpful beyond what any one person had the right to be. He was offered a position at Hogwarts, so he could stay close to his children and so he could be safe, and he accepted the position of Flying teacher with little hesitation. He had always been an exceptionally talent flyer, and it seemed like the position he was most capable for. apptivity
RP Samples: Dressrobes post here.
And a musebox post here!
I'm so tired I forgot the words were even a thing, wow.
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