Reboot Application v. 2
Welcome to Digilife, here's your latest application. For the newbies, we're a Digimon Adventure/02 game based in the real world, which means we sometimes refer to real world topics. As such, we expect these topics to be treated with maturity and grace as they arise
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Over-all, Michael is a kind, loyal individual with his fair share of issues and insecurities. He means well, but often times the way he goes about things hurts people or causes misunderstandings. Despite that, he's a fairly likable guy with his head up in the clouds half of the time.
History since 02:
After 02, Michael continued his high school life with Mimi quite happily; This life eventually coming to include Wallace, and for a while, Hikari. He became friends with all of said Chosens, although slowly their numbers seemed to dwindle down until he became the only one left in New York.
Once it became time, Michael graduated high school with mostly average grades, and went right from there into an art college. To do this, he moved out of his parent's home and into an apartment that his father bought for him as a graduation present. For the first time in his life, Michael was totally alone. He wasn't far from his parents' house, but it was still a big change for him. He makes an effort to go home and see his mother at least once a week, though, and he calls his mom almost every day to check in.
Before his first college semester began, Michael got his first job working in a restaurant, as a waiter. While he didn't actually need the job, he felt that he should at least pay for some of his own things, even if he didn't have to. Through his work, he met a lot of new people and the experience, he will tell you, was helpful for learning about the real world. To this day, he's still working there.
That being said, this is currently his second college semester in art college, where he's studying a variety of art forms, including: Painting, illustrating, animation, and sculpting. He's a bit skeptical about his chances of getting famous, or even getting a high paying job, but he loves what he does and tries his best to live in the moment and not worry so much about the future.
Other hobbies of his include: karaoke ( thanks to Mimi), skiing, surfing, snowboarding, water skiing, poetry (both reading it and writing it), hanging out with friends, and chilling out at home with a good book, Betamon, and his cat, Emily (named after Emily Bronte). As for things like t.v and movies, he's mostly into comedy and rom-coms, although he has a secret love for those detective shows. While he likes action movies, he tends to avoid them because of his father.
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Not that it matters too much to Michael. Although he has romantic tendencies, he tends to find one person to focus his affections on, and even then, as mentioned, he tends to hide in the background. He spends most of his free time at home painting and reading, in the company of his loyal Digimon and his cat.
Sadly, free time isn't something he has a ton of anyways. School, work, and homework have a way of keeping the blonde busy most of the week, not to mention that he visits home often, normally on Sundays. This would be the reason that he didn't get an account sooner, although he'd heard whispers about the community from other people before.
Sample post, 1st person:
Michael felt the remote in his hands tremble, threatening to slip from free his grasp as he stared wide-eyed at the television screen.
So much destruction! For a moment he felt like he wasn't even able to breath and he placed his shaky free hand on his flat-screen t.v to try and keep himself from crumpling to his knees. The scenes on the screen, from the earth quake that had just happened to Japan... It seemed unreal and he felt such a mixture of emotions that for a moment he wasn't able to say anything, despite the fact he felt Betamon's eyes on him from back on the couch.
His fear only heightened as the faces of the Japanese chosen floated through his head until one face stood out in his mind. Mimi.... Mimi had gone back to Japan not long ago. Mimi was there. Mimi was somewhere amidst this destruction!
It had been years since he'd felt this much fear and panic and for a split second, he just stared, not sure what to do. His throat seemed too dry to say anything, although he didn't know what to say anyways. As much as he wanted to say something intelligible to Betamon, his brain seemed unable to form any words, all that he was able to think about just then was the destruction on the screen. And Mimi.
Mimi, one of his best friends for years. Mimi, the sweet girl who he'd liked through high school. Mimi, who'd helped him trust people.
"Michael, do you think Mimi and Palmon are okay?"
Suddenly it seemed like everything became crystal clear, as if Betamon's voice had been the slap in the face that he had been waiting for. He turned his head to look over his shoulders, blue eyes searching for the amphibious Digimon that was his partner. The red-eyed Digimon looked back at him with soft eyes, quiet as he waited to see what Michael was going to say, although it was obvious by his frown that he was worried himself.
And then he realized something else - not only was Mimi in Japan, with the other Chosen children, Wallace was there right now, too. This just made it all the worse and he stared at Betamon for a moment before dropping his gaze, a feeling of helplessness washing over him. "I.. Don't know... I sure hope so..."
"What are we going to do, Michael?"
Eyes of cerulean returned their attention to Betamon then and he took a deep breath, trying to get himself composed for the both of them. Panicking like this wasn't going to help anyone. Instead, he reached into the pocket of his jeans with a still trembling hand and fumbled with his cell phone. "The only thing we really can do right now.. I'm going to try and call Mimi."
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I really wish I had made this journal sooner, I actually feel bad that it took an earthquake and a tsunami to get me online looking for everyone on Livejournal.... Better late than never, I guess? Is everyone over there okay?! I see that a lot of you have posted journals, but...
What about Mimi? Can anyone tell me that she's okay?! The fact I haven't heard from her has me really worried, so.. I'd appreciate any information you might have for me...
Wallace, I'm relieved to see that you're still in one piece over there. It seems strange that I'm so far away and am unable to help you out at all.. I hope you're keeping an eye on Mimi for me at least.
I've donated some money to the Red Cross already, but really, it feels like I should be able to do more. I'm tempted to fly over, but since I'm in the middle of my school semester, I can't really get away with just up and leaving. I'm in a bit of a dilemma, you might say.
Before I go, Betamon has asked that I say hi to you guys for him. I think he misses everyone. Now that Mimi and Wallace have abandoned me, he hasn't had any Digimon to play with in a while. (That was a joke, in case it wasn't obvious enough... ^^;)
Anyways, please contact me soon! If there's anything I can do, please let me know immediately.
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By the way, to the Digidestined/Chosen Children/Whatever you call yourselves, that I haven't met, I'm Michael Barton. I'm Mimi's friends from New York. I... Guess I should have said that before hand... Oh well.
Nice to meet you all.
Sample post: 3rd person limited (digimon partner integration):
Hello everyone, this is Betamon, Michael's Digimon.
Michael got me some voice software thingy so that I can talk with you on this journal, since it's too hard for me to type.
I've been watching the t.v a lot lately, watching the news about all of the scary stuff in Japan. Are all of you Digimon doing your best to help the humans? I know if I was there, I would be helping as much as possible, but Michael says we can't just up and fly to Japan. I guess he's right, but I wish I could go and help you guys...
Speaking of which, how many other Digimon get to post on here? I think Michael said Palmon was here. Is that true?
Palmon, if you're there, how are you doing? Are you happy to be back in Japan? Mike and I miss you here in New York... When are you coming back to visit us?
It's lonely here now that Wallace and Mimi are gone. I miss seeing other Digimon... Maybe you guys can get your humans to take you to the Digital World, and I can get Mike to find a way for us to go there. I'd like to visit again.
I'd also like to go there as Seadramon, so I could go for another long swim. The bathtub here just isn't as fun... There's nowhere to swim to, and it's too cold to go swimming outside here in New York. I wish Mike had time off, so we could go to Florida again or something. I like it there, it's so hot!
But I guess I have been talking on here for a long time, huh? Well, I will stop talking here for now... But I'll be back, so you guys better talk back to me! I miss talking to other Digimon.
Bye for now!
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