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APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN.
they will close on october 12th, at 12:00 am cst.Before applying to Knowhere, please read the Rules and FAQ. Look over the Taken and Reserved lists before deciding on a character to apply for. Remember that Knowhere does not accept CR AUs, Fandom OCs, Fandom AUs, or characters whose personality and background would be more than 1/4 headcanon. Original characters are appable to Knowhere by players who have a canon character currently in game. You may apply for 2 characters per application cycle and play no more than 4 characters at any given time. Fill out your application completely and post it to a journal here on Dreamwidth as an entry. Please remember to denote which parts of your application are purely headcanon. Then comment to this entry with a link to your application, and a header formatted as such: CHARACTER NAME | CANON. Note if your application is a reserve or challenge where applicable. Applications are judged on four criteria. (1) Display of distinct and consistent character voice. (2) Depth and basis of characterization. (3) Quality of writing, including grammar and syntax. (4) Completeness of application and adherence to Knowhere's guidelines. The application team will respond to your comment within a week with one of three responses: APPROVED, REVISIONS, or DECLINED. Applications requiring revisions will have 3 days to submit said revisions before their application expires. The application team will always try to explain thoroughly why an application requires revisions or has been declined. If you have any questions about the status or verdict of your application, please contact the moderators.
CANON CHARACTER APPLICATIONS
( OOC INFORMATION )
name: Your name/nickname/handle.
age: You must be at least 15 to apply to Knowhere.
contact: An email, dreamwidth or plurk account.
other characters: Who else do you play at Knowhere?
( IC INFORMATION )
name: Your character's full name in western order (first name last name). Note that this is the spelling and order we will use to create your character's community tags. If there is no consensus about the spelling of your character's name (for instance, if you are playing from an anime or manga with no official translation), we trust you to choose one spelling and remain consistent.
canon: What show/book/movie/webcomic/etc is this character from?
reference: Please include two links: one as a reference for your character, specifically, and one for your canon as a whole. If you feel that there is no adequate source, you are welcome to link us your own summaries of canon and character history.
canon point: From when are you taking your character? This can be an episode or chapter number, or a descriptor such as "the end of the film" or "between the second and third books." Also, please describe the last significant event to occur for your character in at least a sentence.
background: In at least two paragraphs (300 words), please explain the setting of your character's canon and their place within it.
Setting should give context for the world your character inhabits and how their world impacts them. Is this a world run off magic or futuristic technology? Did your character live under a totalitarian government or matrix-like conspiracy? What rules or laws were at play? Who are the most significant figures and what are the most significant events?
Your character's place in their canon should explain how they impact their world. Are they the leader of a country or a common thief? Are they the last of their species or do they have unique powers? How visible would they have been in canon? How many people would recognize them? What actions have they taken that have affected the world? What are their most important relationships?
This section need not cover each of these questions, but must explain your canon's world and your character's part in it. Essentially, think of this section as giving the app team context for the rest of your application.
personality: In at least 500 words, explain your character's personality and how you intend to play them. A thorough personality section will explain both a character's strengths and weaknesses, as well as their morality, motivations and how they interact with others. Additionally, if your character has undergone significant changes or character growth, explain how this has occurred and what they are like as a result.
powers and abilities: Please list your character’s canon abilities. Anything that would be considered abnormal for a civilian human to have in terms of skillset, physiology, magical powers, etc. should be listed. Additionally, if any of these abilities can be considered “game-breaking,” please explain how you intend to limit these abilities in-game.
( GAME INFORMATION )
infinity gem: Select one of the six Infinity Gems, as detailed here. This gem should line up with your characters’ motivations and desires. How these match up is open to interpretation, so please explain in at least one paragraph how your character’s soul matches up with this gem’s predilections.
power: Select one of the two powers associated with your character’s chosen Infinity Gem. This is the ability your character will gain upon entering Knowhere.
housing: Please select two numbers between 1 and 16. These numbers are associated with barracks in Knowhere, and one of these numbers will be assigned to your character for housing. Please be aware that as there are a limited amount of spots per round, your character may end up in your second choice.
inventory: Please list what your character will be bringing with them to Knowhere. This is limited to what a character would have had on their person at their canon point. Please note that pets cannot be brought in immediately, but can be acquired through item regains later on. This inventory list should not exceed 5 items. Grouped items, such as a quiver of arrows, a set of clothing or a set of paints, would count as 1 item.
thread sample: Please link us to at thread of at least 10 comments between your character and another. A good sample will display a distinct and consistent character voice and provide a good example of a character's reactions. Samples may be linked from the Knowhere test drive meme, another meme or musebox post, a dear_mun/dear_player/voicetest sample or past game samples. Smut, AU, and TFLN threads are not acceptable samples. Single entries are not acceptable for this sample-- it must be a thread between your character and at least one other.
log sample: Your log sample should be written originally for the game and respond to one of the following prompts: (1) A brawl has broken out at Starlin’s Bar! How does your character respond? (2) Your character has been granted a conversation with one of the Continuum Cortex Staff. How does this go? A good log sample will include both introspection and action. How does your character act and why do they act that way? Log samples should be at least 200 words.
ORIGINAL CHARACTER APPLICATIONS
( OOC INFORMATION )
name: Your name/nickname/handle.
age: You must be at least 15 to apply to Knowhere.
contact: An email, dreamwidth or plurk account.
other characters: Who else do you play at Knowhere?
( IC INFORMATION )
name: Your character's full name in western order (first name last name). Note that this is the spelling and order we will use to create your character's community tags. If there is no consensus about the spelling of your character's name (for instance, if you are playing from an anime or manga with no official translation), we trust you to choose one spelling and remain consistent.
canon point: From what chronology are you taking your character? Please describe the last significant event to occur for your character in at least a sentence.
setting: In at least two paragraphs (300 words), please explain the setting of your character's world.
Setting should give context for the world your character inhabits and how their world impacts them. Is this a world run off magic or futuristic technology? Did your character live under a totalitarian government or matrix-like conspiracy? What rules or laws were at play? Who are the most significant figures and what are the most significant events?
history: In at least two paragraphs (300 words), please explain your character’s history. How have they interacted with their home setting up to this point? What challenges have they faced, and how did they respond to them? What was their life like before they arrived at Knowhere? Please note that any canon events used as details for other portions of the application (specifically personality) should be explained in this section.
personality: In at least 500 words, explain your character's personality and how you intend to play them. A thorough personality section will explain both a character's strengths and weaknesses, as well as their morality, motivations and how they interact with others. Additionally, if your character has undergone significant changes or character growth, explain how this has occurred and what they are like as a result.
powers and abilities: Please list your character’s canon abilities. Anything that would be considered abnormal for a civilian human to have in terms of skillset, physiology, magical powers, etc. should be listed. Additionally, if any of these abilities can be considered “game-breaking,” please explain how you intend to limit these abilities in-game.
( GAME INFORMATION )
infinity gem: Select one of the six Infinity Gems, as detailed here. This gem should line up with your characters’ motivations and desires. How these match up is open to interpretation, so please explain in at least one paragraph how your character’s soul matches up with this gem’s predilections.
power: Select one of the two powers associated with your character’s chosen Infinity Gem. This is the ability your character will gain upon entering Knowhere.
housing: Please select two numbers between 1 and 16. These numbers are associated with barracks in Knowhere, and one of these numbers will be assigned to your character for housing. Please be aware that as there are a limited amount of spots per round, your character may end up in your second choice.
inventory: Please list what your character will be bringing with them to Knowhere. This is limited to what a character would have had on their person at their canon point. Please note that pets cannot be brought in immediately, but can be acquired through item regains later on. This inventory list should not exceed 5 items. Grouped items, such as a quiver of arrows, a set of clothing or a set of paints, would count as 1 item.
thread sample: Please link us to at thread of at least 10 comments between your character and another. A good sample will display a distinct and consistent character voice and provide a good example of a character's reactions. Samples may be linked from the Knowhere test drive meme, another meme or musebox post, a dear_mun/dear_player/voicetest sample or past game samples. Smut, AU, and TFLN threads are not acceptable samples. Single entries are not acceptable for this sample-- it must be a thread between your character and at least one other.
log sample: Your log sample should be written originally for the game and respond to one of the following prompts: (1) A brawl has broken out at Starlin’s Bar! How does your character respond? (2) Your character has been granted a conversation with one of the Continuum Cortex Staff. How does this go? A good log sample will include both introspection and action. How does your character act and why do they act that way? Log samples should be at least 200 words. |
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Revisions;
Thank you for your interest in Knowhere! We appreciate your application. However, the mods would like clarification and revisions on the following:
(1) Please elaborate on Setsuna's personality. How does she come across to people who meet her, beyond being quiet? What are the particulars of how she speaks to and interacts with others? What are the Three Taboos, and how have these impacted her personality? Essentially, we are asking for more depth of characterization-- any additional information on how you intend to play Setsuna would be helpful.
Please post these revisions as a comment in response to this one. You have 3 days to complete these revisions, but should you need an extension or additional clarification please feel free to let us know.
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Setsuna was always a solitary figure due to her duty as the guardian of the gates of time (a position that would not allow her to interact with anyone else other than Queen Serenity). Queen Serenity is the one that originally placed the three taboos on Pluto when she was given this position, when she was still very young. The taboos were as followed: she must not travel through time, she must not abandon her post at the Door, and she must never cause time to stop. While no punishment is expressly defined for her, she was told that if she were to break the last taboo (stopping time) that her life would end. Putting such a heavy rule on one so young, is what contributed to Pluto’s serious nature. She does not abide by those who would break the rules or flaunt them in her face. She can be very ruthless in that regard, although since all of the taboos were broken at one point or another she isn’t completely black and white in her interpretation of the rules. However, tell a girl she’ll die if she uses a power, and she is going to seriously think things through before utilizing them. Within the manga, Pluto only makes use of the final taboo once and it was to sacrifice her to save Small Lady and to prevent the collapse of the universe itself. So, she’ll break the rules, but only as a last resort and she’ll be willing to die for it if that is what is meant to be.
The Outers Senshi, including Pluto, was placed on the far edges of space to guard the Silver Millennium from outside invaders. As such, Pluto did not get many opportunities to make friends in her past life and certainly that continued into the future when her only friend turned out to be Small Lady who saw her only loneliness reflected in Pluto’s existence. After all that time, Setsuna is used to being on her own. This makes it difficult for her to open up to others, although because of Small Lady's interaction with her and the companionship of the Outer sailor soldiers, she has learned to be a little more open. She is certainly not as emotional as most people, but her love and compassion for others runs very deep within her. She does not always let it show and even tells Small Lady that one way of showing your love for others is by watching over them from afar. Setsuna may not show her affection and concern in overt ways, but that does not mean she is completely as cold and distant as her guardian planet would demonstrate.
The people she does make friends with become very dear to her because they are so few and far between. She’s not used to having people in her life so this can be a new experience and one she actually seems to enjoy. Contrary to her introverted nature, she does not enjoy the isolation her duty demands of her. However, she also understands deeply the weight of her duty and puts that above all else. When they are tasked with stopping Sailor Saturn from awakening, Setsuna aligns herself with Haruka and Michiru in killing Hotaru, even though she knows the others do not approve. Setsuna does not sway in her task in killing Hotaru until it is proven that Sailor Saturn is not the entity they believe her to be.
Thankfully, Setsuna has warmed up some since being allowed to live as a human with the other Outer sailor soldiers. She has a strong compassion for the other girls that make her come across as almost a maternal figure. She also has a "weakness" to small children and will often act motherly towards them (ie Hotaru and Small Lady). It's not a surprise then that inside Setsuna can be a very warm person. She does like to help other people, even if she cannot always do so directly. She is a very good listener and, being as old as she is, her wisdom also aids in her ability to help others. Unfortunately her sadness comes through in that sometimes she is unable to or even forbidden to help those she cares about due to her duties as a guardian of time. She is not supposed to change the past or stop time for any reason and the price is high if she uses these powers. As such, Setsuna spends a lot of time watching events happen and sadly doing nothing to stop them unless the need is great enough for her to make that sacrifice.
Her quiet nature aside, Setsuna does have passions that might seem odd for someone of her type. She is very much interested in fashion and sewing. She does not often have the chance to put this interest to practice, but it is an interest of hers none-the-less. It is because of this that Setsuna strives to be elegant and dresses such, even when the need might not call for it. This elegance is reflected not only in her dress but also in her behavior. She speaks to people with a great deal of politeness and does not raise her voice very often at all.
She also has a strong love for history (obviously) and science. She has spent her time as a human both as a nurse at a high school and as a Physics student at university. Setsuna spends a lot of her free time, when she isn't designing clothes, to read a variety of books and keep up-to-date on current science theories. Setsuna may not share the IQ of Ami, but she is a very knowledgeable and experienced woman. She is an excellent resource in any number of areas, not just the ones mentioned above. She’s worked with scientists on a number of occasions in her new life and, as such, when she talks she comes across as a very intelligent and well-informed individual.
Unfortunately, canon does not provide many examples of what Setsuna is like when she meets someone new as there are not many instances of characters outside of the sailor senshi and the few supporting characters involved with them (ie the cats, a few parents, etc). However, based on her first encounters with Small Lady and later the college students that work with Setsuna, one can assume a few things. First, most people when they meet Setsuna are immediately struck by her dark complexion and beauty. She is a naturally gorgeous and elegant woman that carries herself as such. Some have even gone so far as to use the term goddess. This can come across as intimating to some or just put them in awe, but it’s not something that Setsuna focuses on when thinking about herself. She does concern herself with other people’s problems, often before her own, since the nature of her duty as a soldier is to rescue other people. The example here is supported by her encounter with Small Lady who first meets her when she was upset. Pluto’s concern is not that a young girl has broken into the gates of time, but that the Small Lady is not harmed.
Interesting to note, despite her powers and strength, Setsuna's greatest fear is of cockroaches.
When Setsuna arrives in Knowhere it is likely that she will do all in her power to investigate the anomalies that are causing the breaks in time and space. She is a naturally inquisitive person that would find such events extremely troubling. She might throw herself more into this problem than anything else simply because she would feel it is her duty to solve these kinds of problems. Of course, eventually she would start socializing in other kinds of ways, mostly to get to know people that might have some insight on the problem and to relieve her own loneliness now that she is no longer around the other girls. Also being the maternal figure that she is to many of the girls, she would easily step into this role aboard the station as well. She would want to help people, though her main goal would be returning to her own time and place to continue her duty as a guardian soldier.
Accepted!
Welcome to Knowhere! Your application for Setsuna Meioh has been accepted!
They are now a host of the Soul Gem with the ability of Psychic Constructs,
and will be housed in Green 09!
Please complete the following steps in order to officially register for the game.
(1) Respond to the taken page with all relevant character information.
(2) Join
(3) Fill out the form on the player contact page with at least one way of reliably reaching you out of character.
(4) Use the ooc mingle page to get to introduce yourself and get to know your fellow players.
(5) Optionally, you can friend or follow the mods at
Remember that gameplay does not begin until June 21! Relevant plot information about the game's start will be available in the following days. For now, we recommend that you get to know your fellow players. You can also set up your journal-- you should have a contact or HMD page, a permissions post, and an information page with as much of your app as you feel comfortable posting.