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Jun 28, 2009 05:47

SINCE THE BATCHES ARE GOING LIKE MOLASSES, I will split the last one in two and another mod will post the last four apps later this afternoon. :|d

Remember!
- Applicants, respond anonymously.
- If you're going to do the whole "ask me if I voted you out!" thing, please state who you voted out.
- No speculating about the identity of the applicants!

Now VOTE. Closed!


Character: Vivian
Series: Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
Character Age: Unknown. Appears to be somewhere in her teens.

Canon: You'd think that after about a million kidnapping attempts on his girlfriend, Mario would keep closer tabs on her. Instead, no one bats an eye when the princess heads off alone, following an ancient myth about a treasure to a seedy port town in a distant corner of the Mushroom Kingdom. Is it any wonder when she gets kidnapped again? However, in a surprise twist of events, it is not Bowser who is making off with her, but the X-nauts, an evil organization looking for the same thing that Peach was: the keys to the Thousand Year Door, behind which is said to lie a legendary treasure.

Working for the X-nauts is a coven of three witches calling themselves the Shadow Sirens. With the ability to control shadow and the four elements, the sinister trio is bent on doing whatever it takes to open the Thousand Year Door... with the exception of Vivian, who apparently missed the memo about the "sinister" part. Easygoing and somewhat airheaded, Vivian would rather admire that pretty necklace she found than plot Mario's death with her sisters, and when a stranger helps her out, she drops everything to help him in return. Unfortunately for her, her differences make her the scapegoat of the group: if something goes wrong with one of their schemes, it's always somehow her fault. Because of this, Vivian's developed a huge inferiority complex, and she only starts to stand up for herself after Mario shows her more kindness than her siblings ever had. Despite her amiable personality, she's no pushover in battle; in fact, she is commonly considered one of the best fighters in the game.

Note: Battles in The Thousand Year Door are set on stage, in front of an audience. During the fight, the spectators will throw items at you... sometimes powerups, but usually trash. If you're lucky, they'll throw Mushrooms, which are healing items in the Mario RPG world.

Sample Post:

Wow, I got really lucky today! I was so worried when we started running low on supplies. We did find a little shop in the last town, but the shopkeeper there charged an arm and a leg for what we needed... although I guess that wouldn't have been so bad if it didn't look like he meant it literally! But then I overheard those pretty birds talking about Mushrooms while I was looking at some flowers, and I knew that they wouldn't mind if I took a little look at the place they were talking about. I don't think I've ever seen so many Mushrooms in one place before! Now I have more than enough, but while I was picking them I wandered a bit too far away. Oooh, I hope I'm not lost... I'm pretty sure I took a right past those serious-looking poles before, so maybe if I keep heading in this direction--

--eep! Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry! I should have watched where I was going. Are you alright? No, I guess not-- you're greener than a Koopa shell! I wouldn't travel in that state; it's dangerous to go alone! Take this. I've got bunches of Mushrooms now, and it looks like you need them more than I do. Five or six of them should help you feel better... or maybe not. Gee whiz, you must be pretty ill if even that many of them haven't patched you back up. At least you don't look like you'll fall apart anymore-- hey! What are you... um. Would you please give me those Mushrooms back? I know they've got "pretty colors, man," but I need the rest of these for my friends. I left plenty back there that you can have, though! If you'd like, I'll show you where they are, and we can pick them together.

Do you think you can make it? You're starting to look really pale.... have you been poisoned? Maybe we can find something to cure it where the Mushrooms were; there were a lot of herbs growing there, too. Or maybe if we could get into a battle, one of the spectators would be kind enough to throw us something... no, what am I thinking? The audience is never helpful. In the meantime, I guess you can have a few more of these-- uh oh. These aren't red, they're fuchsia! No wonder you're so sick, these are Poison Mushrooms! And I gave you so many... I guess I really can't do anything right. I'm so, so sorry! Oh, this is really turning out to be a bad trip.

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Character: Chouno “Papillon” Koushaku
Series: Busou Renkin
Character Age: 19, now immortal.

Canon: Busou Renkin is a typical shounen series: there’s fighting, BOILING SHOUNEN SPIRIT!, protecting your friends and loved ones, and so on. The story follows the lead shounen retard and the girl who saves him, alongside others who can use a special type of alchemic weapon (known as kakugane) to destroy homunculi; homunculi must eat humans to survive, and only the alchemic weapons created by the kakugane can kill them (as they are otherwise immortal and will consume humans forevermore). It’s about fighting to save the Earth, save humanity, and so on. Of course, with every story like this, we have at least one villain.

And this app is indeed about our most ~*FABULOUS*~ of archenemies, Papillon! He’s flamboyant, reckless, narcissistic, egotistical, self-absorbed, and a genius to boot! A genius who makes himself into a homunculus and eats his entire family, thank you very much. This fantastic villain is quirky, loves attention, and has no shame at all - his outfit is made entirely out of spandex, and he keeps his kakugane (along with a spare costume and mask!) in his crotch. Aside from being ridiculous, Papillon likes to be in complete control, and he only plays by his rules; it’s all about him, unless he finds you a challenge or of interest. It may sound like he’s quite obnoxious - and he can be - but Papillon is eloquent, clever, and if you play by his rules, you’ll find out he’s not 100% horrible. Just don’t take away his mask; it’s incredibly important to him, as it's a symbol of his transformation.

Papi here is taken from before the last episode of the series/final battle in the manga, meaning he’s still that magnificent jerk he is for most of the series.

Sample Post:

CAMP! Get your cameras and cell phones out, because the beautiful legend himself has decided to appear before you! Shining wings of black, radiant mask of style, and a fan~tast~ic body clad in a magnificent suit! Green, black and blue may make the colours of the sky, but it’s my orange, black and purple that colour your hearts! Yes, the amazing legend, the Butterfly Man from the land of Japan has descended upon you! I came from far away to be with you here today, to dazzle you with the ULTIMATE BEAUTY! But you’d best be quick - butterflies will indeed fly away, so appreciate them before they escape~

But no mere net can capture a fantastic symbol of metamorphosis such as I! While Kafka’s Gregor transformed into something ugly, I shed my cocoon and became something majestic, something no one can look away from! Even you, with the eye that you can’t keep in your head. Ah, zombies, you mindless, reeking creatures; such a waste of brains, brains that could be attached to eyes that could be looking at me.

Even your eyes that could be staring at me, once you’ve popped that dangling one back into your skull. Staring very intensely indeed!~ I wonder, you poor decaying waste, what is it that you are looking for? If it is my mask that you have your undead heart set on, only I am worthy enough to wear something so beautiful - so get back in with the rest of the crowd and admire me from a ten foot distance. Or, is it the butterfly that lies lower?~ Oho, wouldn’t you like to know what’s in my front pocket~! It is a symbol of true perfection and beauty, much like myself; a precious treasure and a useful tool! You want to see it? HEY, you don’t simply GRAB the great Papillon like that! But if you’re that excited, I’ll just have to make~ you~ wait~ until a better time. It builds excitement! And I can’t take it out in front of all these people - speculation and mystery is important!

I’m afraid I must bid you all adieu, as there are many other places I want to visit. But I am always present, watching you sleep, eat, and even when you’re in the bathroom. Just call for me: shout up to the sky and the magnificent butterfly will appear. PAPILLON! Ugh, how DARE you say my name in such a disgusting moan - you have to say it with much more love! Say it with hearts: Pa-pi-llon~♥ Mmm! Yes, let me hear your affection! And don’t forget to sparkles and the purple! They’re just as important as the hearts. Now! One, two:

PA♥PI♥LLON♥!

See? It’s perfect, like myself.

Poll Vote!

Character: Asamura Kengo
Series: Monochrome Factor (manga)
Age: 16

Canon: Monochrome Factor is the story of one boy's struggles to overcome the trials of life, like school, boredom, street fights, and creatures invading the world from the shadow realm. As the main character, Nikaidou Akira faces them all with a casual air of heroic disdain. In fact, he looks pretty awesome doing it. And we can't have that. Every good hero needs a faithful sidekick... or a manservant, random villager, lackey, what-have-you to follow him around everywhere he goes and ruin his cool.

Loyal, obedient, tolerant, trusting to the point of pure gullibility, and spazzy about being ignored, Asamura Kengo has the perfect temperament for being be the straight-man and the butt of everyone's jokes. Luckily for him, he doesn't seem to truly mind that all his friends are kind of sadistic, or he'd be pretty discouraged by the daily teasing and constant tsunful rejection of his friendship. Despite his lot in life as a punching bag and the fuss he may make about being mocked for being useless, Kengo tends to be unfailingly cheerful, bouncing back quickly from insults and beatings dished out by friends and foes alike. This "unique sort of idiot" handles serious situations by laughing or making over-dramatic complaints to disguise any hurt. But seeing as he's about as transparent as glass, his real emotions and his self-depreciating side show through pretty clearly. Complain as he might, he's always trying his best not to be a burden. Having accepted being an underling as his natural place, Kengo works hard to be worthy of watching Akira's back, resulting in this nice, friendly boy-next-door developing into a rather formidable boxer.

Other than that, Kengo seems like a pretty ordinary guy: interested in anime and videogames, likes action movies and comedy, and just wants to have fun and be accepted. He is a hard worker, a little dense, a little bit insecure, and a lot childish, but strong and stubbornly cheerful in the face of adversity and friendly fire.

Sample:

Man, this is the ninth time I've had to tell someone there's a tentacle monster in the lake troubling the "village". I haven't even seen the "village" or the lake myself yet! I wonder why people keep stopping to ask me? Maybe because I look like a knowledgeable and trustworthy guy! Haha... or is that just wishful thinking...? But I'm really not sure what I'm doing at all... The instructions in this brochure are pretty weird, and kind of bland now that I'm looking at it again. Why would this camper activity manual tell me to stand by a robot-cow pasture and answer all questions with the same phrase about a tentacle monster in the lake? I thought maybe the cows were a plot point but it turns out they're pretty boring, even if they are mechanical...

This is supposed to be an RPG-themed camp activity, isn't it? Then shouldn't the instructions be more exciting, or at least have some clue about where I can start gathering a party? I thought there might be more to it but this thing really only says I have to stay at the pasture and give that one answer... Maybe if I stay here long enough someone will come recruit me into their party. But didn't nine parties just pass me up...? Haha, I feel kind of like a pointless NPC, now that I think about it. T-that's what this is, isn't it. This is just sad...

But there're definitely people that are actively participating in some kind of plot event! So why do I have to be an NPC?! And the most useless of useless NPCs too! Haven't I just been standing around repeating the same news over and over? Shouldn't that be left up to someone that actually knows what's going on with the plot?! Ah, I know, I must've been given a copy of the camp staff instructions by mistake! Right. Then all I need to do is ask to switch my role assignment. The camp staff must be playing the monster encounters, right? So I guess I'll ask those zombies...

Uh, excuse me but who's running this game? Is it okay if I ask to switch my role assignment? I was hoping that maybe I could have a role where I actually get to do stuff. Um, I know I'm probably not main-character or party-leader material, but I'd definitely be able to contribute to the team I'm assigned! I'm stronger than I look and my endurance for pain is above average because of, uh, special training! And if anyone needs someone to punch things for them I'm their man! Of course I wouldn't really hurt the monsters since this is just a game, but we could pretend, right? Anyway, the point is I want to help more!

O-oh, the assignments were tailored to our personalities? B-but that's... W-well, maybe I'm most suited to being an inconsequential villager, ahaha...but can't I at least have a chance to try something different...? ...I can? For real!? Awesome!! Lead the way, then!

Oooh, a castle. So just step into this cage and tie the rope around my-- W-wait a minute! You mean I'm standing in for the damsel in distress?! But that's even more useless than the useless villager!! Aah!--don't lock the door! Waaait!! Forgive me! I'll go back and be good villager, I swear!

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Character: Isayama Yomi
Series: Ga-rei (Zero)
Character Age: Is in High School, so around 17.

Canon: Ga-rei -Zero- is the story about the Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Division and their work to rid the world from evil spirits using things like briefcases, wheelchairs, drills or why not a giant anti-evil boiler? Yomi, heir to the spiritually powerful Isayama family, is content with just a sword though, though she’s not half-bad with an iron. While she takes her work very seriously, especially since she was adopted into the family, outside of it she’s a very laid-back person who likes to joke around, and she has a penchant to tease those who she likes.

In fact her family, which just consists of her adopted father and little sister-figure Kagura, is easily the most important people to her, to the point she will keep chatting about her sister while spending time with her boyfriend. And hurting her family would be the easiest way to get on her bad side, and if anything that is not something you would want. In almost all situations Yomi is the kind of person who tries to keep her spirits high and keep smiling and she will try not to show it when she’s hurt herself. But keeping things like jealousy and hatred at bay gets harder when everything starts to go wrong in her life.

Note: Yomi is taken from the earlier parts of the anime. And Category D is pretty much a codeword in canon for zombie.

Sample Post:

Destroying the evil spirits that bring death and filth to the living world, that’s our mission as exorcists …And there’s really no shortage of them here. As a daughter of the Isayama family and part-timer of the Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Division it really wouldn’t be right to not help. So don’t worry, we’ll take care of this infection for you. Really it’s odd that with such a huge scale infection no one noticed this sooner. Actually, it might be better to call for back-up with this many.

Anyway, since it’s just category D this should be really fast once we can get started, and don’t worry even if they look human, they’ve long since departed from this world. See? No actual human with their mind intact would just continue on just like that with an arm missing… and especially not while publicly wearing a swimsuit with that pattern, really what if there are children around? Well, holy water helps a lot with cutting down work, and you’ve got a lake here, so using that would cut down a lot of time, too.

Also, you might want to do some things about those save points, which are so cool, by the way. It’s like you’re in a real video game, and I’m really good at those, you know. It’s really such an advantage when you place a bet about that, and Kagura is really so cute when she keeps agreeing to them. She should really just let me adopt her, and we’d be happily ever after …Oh yes, but those save points can get really dangerous, you know. I just wanted to take a photo of them with my phone and they reach after you. Really, you’d think they were some hentai tentacle monster. Did you know the real tentacle demons don’t actually look like that?

Huh? There’s supposed to be a real one, too? In the lake? Geez, it’s like you have been piling up work here, you really need to learn to call for help before it gets too much. What was that? If I go to the lake I should take my own advice? “You’re shouting “no”, but your body says otherwise.”

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