Apps Page v.2 [OLD]
ATTENTION: THIS IS THE OLD APPLICATIONS POST. THE NEW ONE IS HERE.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Applications are only open for the first two weeks of the month. That is, from the 1st through the 14th. Applications close at exactly 12:00 AM (CST) on the 15th of the month. Any applications ( Read more... )
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Applications are only open for the first two weeks of the month. That is, from the 1st through the 14th. Applications close at exactly 12:00 AM (CST) on the 15th of the month. Any applications ( Read more... )
[Age] 25
[Personal Journal] zully
[Other characters currently played] N/A
[Character name] Lina Inverse
[Age] 17
[Canon] Slayers
[Point in time taken from canon] Directly after TRY.
[Background]Lina grew up the daughter of a working class merchant family. She has an older sister, Luna, who was the village darling. She excelled at martial arts while Lina grew an appreciation for food and money while working with her parents in their store, which was in effect the village's "general goods" store.
Lina constantly pulled pranks on her older "perfect" sister. She set up a magical device that projected an image over the entire town of her sister while she was in the bath. Luna's wrath was great, and Lina quickly fled from the town and has been terrified of even the mention of her sister ever since. This is likely why she started attending a prestigious magic academy far away from home. Lina did very well there, well enough to be assigned a color. In the world of Slayers, mages of great power or importance are awarded colors rather like titles, and most make a really big deal about this, dressing in the color and introducing themselves with the full title. Lina, however, was mortified by the title she was given (Lina the Pink) and keeps both her assignment of the title and the actual title itself a closely guarded secret.
After graduating she wandered around, and by the age of 15 got quite the name for herself. So much so that she was already getting admirer/stalker following her around named Naga the Serpent (who later turned out to be Seiryuun's runaway princess and Amelia's older sister) who she eventually befriended. They split off shortly before The Slayers season one starts, where she runs into Gourry. She travels with him, plus and minus others over the course of the next three years.
She's rough, rowdy, and essentially the opposite of what you'd expect out of a female protagonist. Her morals are low and her scruples are even lower. She'll save any kingdom for a price, and believe me, her prices are high. She rarely does things out of the kindness of her heart, or because they're "right." She does however believe in a sense of an overall good or rightness despite pledging herself consistently to darkness with the various spells she casts. She'll also do damn near anything to save a friend, especially Gourry to whom she's grown especially close to.
[Personality] Lina's a hothead. She's not at all "ladylike" and has been known to shoot fireballs first, ask questions later. She's painfully intelligent, though, which makes it a shame when she lets her anger get ahead of the rest of her. She's perfectly capable of thinking things through rationally as she's had to do when fighting "big bosses," but she's also a fan of overkill. When not out searching for treasure she buries herself in libraries of books, always looking up new ways to learn how to do what she does better. New spells are especially interesting to her. She also loves working out puzzles. Lina loves a challenge and is more than a little competitive.
She doesn't handle change well. She freaks out when she wakes up somewhere she didn't fall asleep in as demonstrated in canon. There have been a few times where she's been knocked out by a spell of some sort and woken up somewhere strange. She gets angry and frustrated when she's confused and usually confrontational. She's been known to march up to the nearest person and demand to know what's going on. Once she figures out what's happened, though, she adjusts pretty quickly. Part of being a traveler is that she can fairly easily adapt to wherever it is she finds herself.
Reply
Lina's also pretty emotionally immature. She'll tease someone else to no end about sex or having a crush on someone, but the second anyone so much as IMPLIES the same with her, she'll turn bright red, fluster, and possibly hit you. She's not out to find some great romance or fall in love and settle down and get married. This girl's all about money, though she'll take the occasional side detour to save the world if she ends up having to. She is a good person, she's just so selfish that she often lets greed overshadow that aspect of herself more often than not.
[Abilities] She uses magic, and is especially strong with black magic. She's the only known human who can control the Giga Slave, a spell that calls upon the creator of all universes herself, The Lord of Nightmares, and is essentially pure chaos energy. If not controlled carefully it could consume the world, and it actually killed her once. She also is pretty good at shamanistic magic, specifically Fire-based spells. Her knowledge of white magic is limited more or less to the weaker spells. Light healing (a sword slash on the arm if not too deep, could cure itchy poison ivy, stuff like that), some self healing (a little more than what she can do for others, but not much), the ability to create a small ball of light to see when it's dark, and a sleeping spell. Any more than that is seriously taxing on her. If she gets too drained her hair color starts to fade, acting as a kind of power meter, from it's normal vibrant red to shades of pinkish orange to white when she's completely on empty.
[Other important stuff] Because Lina's from the Slayers universe, she's extremely overpowered. I'm going to do my best to moderate this, though, and hopefully it won't cause a problem.
[Sample post] (This takes place in a setting for a game I played previously. If you need me to post a different sample, let me know!) She felt the snap of energy around the rented room. It was like shutting a second thick, steel door over a fortified wall-- "just in case." Lina understood the paranoia. The things they were speaking about could get them both killed before either of them were even aware of the leak.
Her face went from toying to serious just as quickly. "You don't get to have your cake and eat it too," Lina folded her arms over her chest. "I don't trust you, and for damn good reason. I need to know that if I risk my life to help you do this that you won't use your new found freedom to rip a hole in this pretty planet I've come to love and live on." She held out a quick finger, "And no, I won't just take your word on it."
Lina kept her gloved finger raised. "First. I don't trust a mazoku to play nice. If you want to play with the rest of the masterless marionettes, you're going to have to cut off some of your strings. As a mazoku you have access to too much that you shouldn't-- a half mazoku wouldn't have nearly so much power. Pick something mortal. Human, elf, beastman. I don't care. And since you'll have to help me fight Zelas, you'll be able to harness whatever power isn't mazoku related to help me. But we'll get to that later."
She held up a second finger. "Second. You're too strong. I don't know how and frankly, I don't care. You're going to have to give it up. Consider it the price of freedom. I'll even let you pick what part of you we seal off, cut off or destroy."
A third finger. "Finally, you'll have to help me kill Zelas. And you of all people know exactly what that'll mean."
Lina's eyes met open violet once more. It was bizarre seeing his eyes look at her so intently, so directly. Was that.. anxiousness she saw?
"What do you say, Xellos? You game?"
[Which rule was your favorite and why?] One of the application rules, about not applying for characters under ten. THANK YOU. I have been in so many games where this has caused serious creep-factor.
[Any questions?] Nada! Holy crap, you have a La Corda Cast. If I get in I might have to app Yunoki next round.
Reply
We don't want a recap of the entire series, but there were a few key events that occurred in each season that should be mentioned. Just give a more detailed, short summary of each one and also mention the rest of the characters, that should be good!
If you could reply to this comment with the revised background section, we will review it and give you a response ASAP!
You have until July 23.
Reply
After meeting Gourry (who she decides to keep around so she can steal the Sword of Light, a legendary weapon worth a great deal of money), several key things happen at once. She meets Zelgadis, and though initially he works against her they eventually join forces to combat both Rezo the Red Priest, who has gone corrupt and seems to harbor Shabranigdo behind those closed eyes of his, Shabranigdo himself, and a second incarnation of Rezo. A copied clone gone renegade. She also encounters Silphiel, a girl who seemed to know Gourry previously and a user of white magic, and Amelia who is the princess of a foreign kingdom and also a user of white magic, if a bit more enthusiastic about her particular definitions of justice.
At the end of the first series they split apart for a time, but are reunited (somewhat regretfully on the parts of some) at the beginning of the second. Key to this series is also the introduction of Xellos, a character who introduces himself as the priest of a local temple and an expert on the Claire Bible. It's eventually learned that Xellos is in fact a member of the Mazoku, or demon, race and has just been using them as pawns towards his own unknown ends. Somehow the group gets caught up inbetween a struggle between two of the Mazoku Lords, Gaav and Phibrizzo. Lina learns that a spell she had to cast in the previous season, the Giga Slave, has a true form that is actually the Lord of Nightmares and vows not to use it again. The group manages to defeat Gaav, but Phibrizzo turns out to be a bit more of a challenge. He wants to return the world to it's natural form, revert it to chaos. He wants Lina to cast the Giga Slave since she could easily lose control of it and end up doing just that. Lina refuses. To compel her to do so, Phibrizzo kidnaps Gourry and eventually the rest of her group, threatening to kill her if she doesn't. She does, loses control of the spell, and her body is possessed by the Lord of Nightmares. The Lord of Nightmares tells the now-saved group, after destroying Phibrizzo herself, that Lina has died to save them. Unable to accept this, Gourry dives after the retreating Lord of Nightmares and demands Lina back. For an unknown reason, the Lord of Nightmares grants his request and Lina is returned to him at the expense of his Sword of Light. They share a kiss which Lina and Gourry forget about for the most part, though they come to kissing and Lina gives him a good smack for it. Xellos returns the Sword of Light to Gourry, and the group splits up once again, Gourry and Lina going off on their own.
Reply
You stated in the application that you were taking her out after the end of TRY, but here you said you're taking her out of the second season, which is NEXT.
If you could tell us, that would be great!
Reply
Leave a comment