I N F O ; A P P L I C A T I O N S

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APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED They will open on 01/08

RESERVES ARE OPEN They will close on 01/08

app and character limits

Players may app up to two characters per app round, and can play up to a maximum of ten. Moderators reserve the right to restrict how many characters a current player may apply for if it appears they are having difficulty maintaining activity with their existing characters. While not an absolutely immutable rule, before a player applies for further characters, we would like to see one post a month from all their characters already in the game or regular commenting on other characters' posts. This is not an AC requirement and no one will be removed from the game for not meeting it. It is a guideline to help ensure that our players can keep up with their character load. Since we accept AU characters and characters with CR from other games, we have a restriction on how many copies of a character can be in the game at a time before they become unavailable. As such, only one canon, one AU, and one other game CR AU will be accepted, for a total of three different versions. In the case of malleable protagonists, we allow three different versions. That could be three "canon" versions, or two canon and a CR AU, or any other combination. This is still the same effective cap in number as for other character types, but includes a little flexibility about how we define AUs for the purposes of the game, since any two Couriers or Grey Wardens can be very different, yet equally canonical. During the app round, a mod will reply with acceptance, rejection, or request for revisions as soon as possible. Please note that the mods and app team make a strong effort to respond to apps in the order received, but the mods may appear to skip over some apps depending on their familiarity with the canon or because of ongoing discussion amongst the team. Some apps are easier calls than others, but no app is ignored. If you would like to know the status of your application at any time, please ask a mod. When apps are closed, (stated in the status block at the top of this page) reserves will open here.

what is appable

For the most part, any character is appable, provided the player can demonstrate the ability to play them. Singularity accepts characters from all media, with a few exceptions: Media not available in English in any form, even fan translations. Fan characters. Real people, unless deceased and from a fictionalized portrayal. (Examples: The American Founding Fathers from 1776, Nicola Tesla from The Prestige, William Shakespeare from Shakespeare in Love.) Mythological/folkloric characters, unless taken from a specific adaptation. (Examples: Hades from Disney's Hercules, the Archangel Gabriel from Hellblazer, Constantine, or The Prophecy, Amaterasu from Okami.) Singularity does accept minor characters with little canon, but we require that the application thoroughly flesh out their personalities with well-reasoned extrapolation from what canon information is available. Occasionally, a rapidly-developing canon like Homestuck or Red vs Blue may throw plot curveballs. For well-established characters, this is not usually a problem, but minor characters may be substantially altered by new information. While not strictly banned, if your character is likely to be affected by revelations in the near future, we ask that you hold off on an application until the story arc is resolved.

original characters

Original characters are welcome, but only from existing players. This might seem unfair to some applicants, but we'd like to see how a player performs with someone else's character before playing their own. OC apps are given closer scrutiny than fandom apps, because we are essentially serving as editors in their case. Fandom characters have already been through the editorial process, and have been vetted for inconsistencies and implausibility. (Some more successfully than others, but we work with what we have.)

playing closely-related characters

As a general rule, a single player is not allowed to app two closely-associated characters. These would be siblings, lovers, close companions or rivals, etc, regardless of whether one is canon and one is AU. An exception is made for characters who naturally "go together." For example, 3 and 4 from 9, or Doc infected with O'Malley from Red vs Blue (since O'Malley has a different personality inside Doc as opposed to inside someone else). Players don't have to app pairs like these together, but they have the option. Additionally, both characters will count toward your character limit, so please app wisely. Another exception: characters with multiple personalities, whether perfectly healthy and functional or resulting from a psychological condition like Dissociative Identity Disorder can arrive with those personalities intact, and will count as only one character, regardless of how many identities they have.

playing physically-incompatible characters

Characters that are physically incompatible with the human-scaled, O2 environment of the station may be converted to a more compatible state--for instance, Na'vi from Avatar would be able to breathe oxygen, and Omega Supreme from Transformers might find himself only as tall as Optimus Prime. Characters without independent bodies (for example, the AI Cortana from Halo) have the option of being inserted into a mechanical body or some sort of mobile platform. They can always switch out to another body later. If you have a character with attributes not covered here and are not sure how they might live in Singularity, please visit the Contact page to speak to a mod or app team member.

apping from alternate universes or timelines

Singularity accepts multiples of all characters, but only one "canon"/original universe (OU) version of anyone. All others have to be alternate universe (AU). The least complicated AUs are the canon AUs, like the Kingdom Hearts versions of Square Enix characters or the various Commanders Shepard from Mass Effect. "Canon AU" is something of a misnomer; malleable protagonists and canons with multiple continuities are equally canonical and the apps are judged as such, but any duplicates are considered AUs for game bookkeeping purposes, such as community tags and caps on the number of multiples. Player-made AUs are also appable. However, this doesn't mean that any given player-created AU is going to be a good match for the game. You should be able to explain convincingly why your version of the character fits and will be playable while remaining recognizably a canon character. For instance, Commander Shepard can plausibly be male or female because the setting of Mass Effect is gender-egalitarian and the story does not change more than superficially with the player's choice of gender for their Shepard. On the other hand, an AU where Commander Shepard was not human--say, a Turian--would require the plot of the Mass Effect games to be entirely rewritten because it would change everything about the background and motivations of the character, and would make no sense without substantially altering the sociopolitics of the universe. A case where gender would matter is for a Disney princess like Ariel from The Little Mermaid or Belle from Beauty and the Beast. Because of the gender roles assumed by the setting and the major effect this would have on the character's relationships and the story itself, it goes beyond the scope of an RP character to simply do a gender change. Players may find it easier to app from AUs where one key event from after the story is well underway is altered--for example, if Luke Skywalker had accepted Darth Vader's offer at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. It is a challenge, but not an insurmountable one, to explain why Luke would have chosen differently in the AU. Star Wars would still be recognizable as Star Wars, and Luke as Luke. However, an AU where Luke and Leia were raised by Vader fundamentally alters the premise of the story; the plot of the Star Wars trilogy would be entirely different in a universe where Leia hadn't grown up on Alderaan as the adopted child of a Rebel leader and Luke had never been a farmer on Tatooine or met Ben Kenobi. The idea, while compelling, is material better suited for a fanfic than RP, where you as writer control not only your character, but other characters' reactions to them, and have the opportunity to set the stage for the reader and guide their expectations. RP is a collaborative exercise for creating and exploring stories jointly, and intricate AUs are a bad vehicle for this. Mods and app team members do reserve the right to reject or ask for revisions on an AU app if that app includes AU information that does not seem to make sense for the character/canon being apped. If you are trying to AU a children's movie into an unnecessarily dark scenario with cannibalism and murder and what have you, or you've turned a serious, philosophically-inclined canon with adult themes into a lighthearted slapstick AU universe, you may be asked to change the AU to fit the canon better, or have your application rejected entirely if the mods can't see how the AU could be made acceptable. Keep in mind that canonmates and gamemates in general will be directly affected by your AU, and not everyone may be comfortable with what you've chosen. Signing up your character's canon friends to interact with someone from a world either substantially more horrifying or substantially sillier than their own is not particularly considerate to their existing players, or to any who may app in the future. As a rule of thumb, the more extreme an AU is, the harder it will be for castmates to interact with, and a good AU for the game should not deliberately put castmates off from interacting. Plausibility and interaction dynamics are especially important in AU applications. An individual player is not allowed to app two versions of the same characters, no matter how distinct the AUs may be. If you are at all unsure whether an AU concept is suitable or not for the game, visit the Contact page to discuss it with a mod or app team member.

apping from other game canons

"Can I app a character I used to play at another RP and keep their memories of having been there?" Yes! Singularity considers game-canon RP characters as acceptable AUs. Just include all relevant character development under Setting, Personality, and the AU justification section. It's especially helpful if you can provide links to CR charts, threads and screencaps that help to illustrate how your character has changed. Characters with CR imported from other games come with a few restrictions: Any game devices (like microchips, collars, curses of gradual insanity, etc.) cease to function while in Singularity, but are not removed either. They might still become active during events. On the other hand, any game-specific accessories, like that game's communicators, animal companions, or other equipment or resources they've accrued, do not accompany them unless carried on their person. These items will be nerfed as necessary upon the chracter’s arrival in Sacrosanct. characters can recognize anyone they had CR with in a previous game, but only provided the other player consents. Players found to be using past CR to corner a different player into filling the same role will be subject to mod action. ICness is still required. While your character no doubt has grown from their time spent in another game, it should not be so dramatic that they aren't recognizable. Finally, while characters can obtain items and critters from their homeworlds in Zone 00, they can't obtain specific items from other RP worlds. This is still a game, not a pan-RP dressing room.

other guidelines

Players are expected to familiarize themselves with all of the game's information pages (linked at the bottom of each page) before playing. If anything is unclear, use the Contact & FAQ page to answer any questions prior to apping. Serial apping, character squatting, and other activity issues can result in a warning, a strike, or the boot. Lying on the application in any capacity is grounds for expulsion. The same goes for plagiarism. After you submit your app, the mods will evaluate it and come back with one of three responses: ACCEPTED, DECLINED, or REVISIONS. Instructions for any necessary revisions will be included in the response. Apps posted during closed periods will be ignored until the next app round. Likewise, revisions submitted after the 72-hour window do not result in an automatic rejection, but will not be judged until the next round.

to apply
The application is divided into four parts: Player Information, Character Information, OC/AU Justification, and Samples. There is no upper limit on the length of apps.
	Player Information Your Nickname: OOC Journal: A sock is fine. Under 18? Singularity does not have an age limit; this is just for reference. Please be honest. Lying about your age is grounds for expulsion from the game. Email/IM: Characters Played at Singularity:
	Character Information Name: Personal name - family name, aka Western order. Name of Canon: If apping an OC, just put "original." Canon/AU/Other Game CR: Reference: Links to a wikia page, fansite, scanlations, etc. For obscure characters without a lot of information available, the more references the better. For OCs, a link to any place containing an applicable run-down of their story is helpful. Canon Point: Please don't just say "end of S4, E26." "Right after he finds out his mother's dead at the end of S4, E26" is much easier to understand for those not canon-familiar. Setting: Please describe your character's canon setting in a way that would help someone who is not already familiar gain an understanding of the universe. This doesn't mean the plot, but rather the major factors which shape their world and make it [if at all] different from ours. Is it our modern-day Earth with a slight twist? Is it the 22nd century and humans are part of a galactic community? What are the political bodies? Does magic exist? How is it used and by whom? You are encouraged to describe your character's role in the context of this world, so we can get a better perspective of who they are. Are they a normal high school girl? An adviser to a king? The leader of the Autobots? This is especially important for OCs and AUs, so please take all the space you need. This section should not necessarily be identical for characters from the same canon. Just as one character's highlight episode may not be important to another character's history section, not all details of the universe are equally relevant to all characters who share a universe. Any Star Wars app should at least mention the Force and the Jedi, but they are far more important for Luke Skywalker than they are for Han Solo, and the setting writeup should reflect that. Conversely, details about underworld are important for Han, but not for Luke. Please be aware: We do not want a plot summary. This is not a history section. If you would like to write a summary and include it in the reference section, please feel free to do so, but it is not required. Applications that go into detail about plot yet do not provide a solid explanation of the universe itself will be sent back for revisions. This is by far the most common reason we request revisions on otherwise good applications; before including plot events in this section, please consider whether they are relevant to an explanation of the setting rather than the story. A decent rule of thumb for which plot details are necessary for this section is to think about what events in the history of the canon universe brought it to the state it's in at the point in the timeline from which you're taking your character. Those are the pieces of information that help explain the setting. Events which have a significant impact on your character but not on the universe are better covered in the personality section. Events which are not watersheds for the world or your character are better left out entirely. We request setting rather than history because a plot summary provides little insight into character. Being able to explain the setting and your character's role in it in a coherent fashion demonstrates your understanding of both canon and character. Personality: Describe your character's personality. This would include their outlook, motivations, general experiences, and anything you feel necessary in order to communicate who they are as a person. Referencing events in their canon to support your interpretation is encouraged, but please don't provide pure summary without analysis. For characters with little canon information, this section is especially important. Without much canon to fall back on, we need to see that you've thought out the character in a consistent way that's well-supported by whatever information is available. Minor characters almost invariably require extrapolation from pure canon to become fully-realized; this is the section where you should lay out that extrapolation. Abilities and Weaknesses: Please outline, even if just in list format, your character's skills and/or capabilities, as well as their weaknesses. We would also like to see suggestions for power limitations if applicable. Please see below for details about what this entails. Notes On Power Limitations: If your character has extraordinary and game-breaking abilities, such as teleportation, time manipulation, magic, telepathy, a gun that blows up planets, or anything that puts them at a significant advantage over every other character in the game, we would like to see your suggestions for power limitations. Singularity does not forbid powers, but we would like players to think of this as the setting for stories. Every character should have their ways of triumphing and every character should have ways of being defeated, even if they were the most powerful individual in their original setting, because we want to create plots and CR that are more than just ‘this guy is the most powerful guy ever and no one can stop him from doing what he wants.’ This goes for heroes as well as villains. We want to see your suggestions for limitations because you, the player, would know best how to level down a character without making them unrecognizable or unplayable. You are welcome to lock abilities, downgrade overpowered weapons or items, or even AU weaknesses that don’t exist in canon--for example, playing a vampire character who suddenly finds the blood of willing victims far more nourishing than that of the unwilling. Another suggestion would be a ‘shot limit,’ where some ability that used to come naturally to the character in canon suddenly becomes extremely difficult and physically taxing and can only be used so many times a day. For powers like teleportation and telepathy, we have in the past asked players to keep these abilities confined to whatever zone or city the character is currently in. As a rule of thumb, if your character has any kind of destructive ability that would damage the station significantly, like a hull breach, or kill another character without them being able to stop it, you want to limit that ability. Blowing up buildings is fine, as any involved characters may be able to escape such damage. Instant kills and blowing up entire cities are not fine. Please note: If your character has any kind of ability that would directly affect another character in a way that can’t be countered, such as a telepath who always knows where everyone is all the time, you the player must always ask OOC permission of the other involved player(s) when your character uses that ability, whether or not that ability is being limited. An example of an ability that can can be countered is super strength, and this would not require OOC permission from other players to use. Mind powers, reading the future, telekinesis, and abilities like time manipulation cannot be countered and thus require OOC permission before they are used in-game. The mods and app team reserve the right to recommend greater power limitations than what has been suggested by the player when they deem appropriate. Inventory: There is no real limit to what characters can come in with, but please provide their starting inventory, including any weapons or other devices. Players can always acquire other items from the Junkyard. As with powers, if your character regularly carries a conventional item of ridiculous destructive capability around (is that a canister of anti-matter in your pocket, or are you just happy to see us?), we ask that it not come through the Rift with them, or that it be damaged or reduced in power. Appearance: This is most relevant for characters who do not have a canon appearance, or who are altered when brought to Sacrosanct. If using a PB, please provide the name and a link to a photo in addition to a description. Characters without bodies may be given them, or some other kind of mobile platform. Characters with unconventional appearances, like the tachikoma from Ghost in the Shell or some of the more out-there Transformers designs also benefit from having a visual aid. Age:
	OC/AU Justification If AU, how is your version different from canon, and how will that come across? Again, AU versions need to make sense. We don't need a doctoral dissertation, but please take the time to walk us through your AU and how they fit together. If OC, did you run your character through a Mary Sue litmust test? Here's one, for reference: http://www.springhole.net/quizzes/marysue.htm And another: http://www.ponylandpress.com/ms-test.html And what did you score? There is no hard and fast score for rejection. It's just one factor we'll be looking at in regards to your application as a whole.
	Samples Log Sample: 200 words minimum. The setting can be their transition from their canon setting to Sacrosanct, a purely canon setting, or anything else really, as long as it shows how you will be playing them in the game. If you would like, you can use a sample thread or log in place of a log sample, but please clear it with a mod first. Please write your sample to focus on your character's thoughts and motivations, rather than as a miniature fanfiction featuring multiple other characters. It's fine if other characters feature, but the majority of the sample should involve insight into your character. We have gotten some very good fic-like samples, but this section isn't just a test of your writing ability; we would like you to demonstrate understanding of the character, as well, sort of the "show" to the personality section's "tell." Network Sample: Describe your character's first experience using the station's network. It can be text, voice, video, hologram, or game; intentional or accidental. Keep in mind that "the device turned on by itself!" just doesn't happen here.
sample applications
Several of our players were kind enough to grant us permission to use their applications as examples of what we're looking for: Canon character: Charles Xavier, X-Men First Class [thanks to Roy] Minor canon character: Poniko, Yume Nikki [thanks to Pen] Other game CR AU: Terezi Pyrope, Homestuck, a_facility CR [thanks to Michi] AU: Chell, Portal [thanks to DC] OC: Ismene [thanks to Siri]
Fill out the following application and submit it below:
<b><u><i>Player Information</i></u> ;</b> <b>Your Nickname:</b> <b>OOC Journal:</b> <b>Under 18?</b> <b>Email/IM:</b> <b>Characters Played at Singularity:</b> <b><u><i>Character Information</i></u></b> ; <b>Name:</b> <b>Name of Canon:</b> (if OC, just put "original.") <b>Canon/AU/Other Game CR:</b> (please state one. If OC, put N/A.) <b>Reference:</b> <b>Canon Point:</b> <b>Setting:</b> <b>Personality:</b> <b>Abilities, Weaknesses, and Power Limitation Suggestions:</b> <b>Inventory:</b> <b>Appearance:</b> <b>Age:</b> <b><u><i>OC/AU Justification</i></u></b> ; <b>If AU, How is Your Version Different From Canon, and How Will That Come Across?</b> <b>If OC, Did You Run Your Character Through a Mary-Sue Litmus Test?</b> <b>And What Did You Score?</b> <b><u><i>Samples</i></u></b> ; <b>Log Sample:</b> <b>Network Sample:</b>
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Comments

everyone keeps posting links to their apps, man!

[not-aquaman.livejournal.com]

Player Information ;
Your Nickname: Lisa
OOC Journal: uwaaaah
Under 18? Nope~
Email/IM: email: lyingpieceofcheese@gmail.com // AIM: UnfingSalmon/CommunistCod
Characters Played at Singularity: None.

Character Information ;
Name: Nathan Young
Name of Canon: Misfits
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: canon
Reference: http://misfits.wikia.com/wiki/Nathan_Young
Canon Point: A month after episode 6 of series 2 (but before episode 7)

Setting: Present-day London. The main difference from our world here is the occurrence of a huge fuck-off storm some several months ago which started off normal enough and then started raining enormous chunks of ice that completely trashed cars and cracked sidewalks. Shortly after this, lightning started happening. Our group of five misfits plus their counselor, all of whom were in the middle of their first community service job, ran like hell to try and escape the storm, but were unable to get inside the nearby community center before they were all struck by lightning. The incident granted them all superpowers based on their personalities. The same occurred to many other individuals all across London. The powers range from the conventional—invisibility, telepathy, immortality—to the bugfuck-bizarre—turning people bald, be-my-daddy powers, lactokinesis.

Most people have chosen to hide their powers for a variety of reasons (not wanting to tell your lover you're actually a gorilla, not wanting to tell your lover you're actually an 82-year-old granny, etc.) and superheroes are considered a thing of fiction and fiction alone, so don't expect any spandex antics.

Personality: Prick. Asshole. Douchebag. Jerkass. Inconsiderate young man with no regard for the feelings of others. All of these are valid ways of describing Nathan, who is quite possibly one of the biggest jerks the universe has ever spat out. He will insult you, your existence, and your mother (especially your mother) to kingdom come in the most absurd and often comedic (if you're not the victim) way possible and never take heed of any warnings or requests to shut up. Hell, he won't stop his mocking even if you start hitting or hurting him! Nathan rarely, if ever, lets up on the nastiness and mockery, and even in cases where he can't work up an insult or there are greater things at work, he still approaches everything with an air of arrogance, entitlement, and sarcasm that almost always offends everyone anyway. This is the only side of Nathan most people will ever get to know.

The douchiness actually hints at a much larger problem Nathan has: he's awful at empathizing or sympathizing or just plain reading people well enough to function properly in society. He doesn't seem to understand how much his words can hurt and he can't read the glares or even the punches he receives in response to them as indicators that he should stop. Similarly, he is very self-absorbed and shows a distinct lack of concern for other people's emotions, problems, or needs unless they affect his own directly (usually—there are exceptions, such as his beloved mother and occasionally his fellow misfits, with whom he has become closer and closer). His issues with reading other people become even more obvious when he puts forth an effort to actually be a decent person. Things often go wrong and he usually accidentally makes things worse. He doesn't understand the concept of “personal space” or “TMI” and has outright admitted that pretty much the only way he can get some pussy is by getting the girl drunk enough to tolerate him first. He does improve later on in the series at times, but he's still got a long way to go.

I feel so left out.

[not-aquaman.livejournal.com]

Nathan also has a really bad case of the Daddy Issues. Nathan resents, or even hates, his father greatly due to his father basically being a giant douche to him and his mom during Nathan's childhood (and even though they're trying to patch things up, there's a long road ahead of them). As a result, Nathan trusts practically no one and his father is a very, very touchy subject, and is practically the only way to get Nathan to drop all douche pretenses and get him truly offended, hurt, or even angry. Heck, the only time Nathan ever fights or physically hurts people is when his family situation is under fire, and it appears to be a kneejerk reaction of his.

If, however, you get under this maladjusted guy's skin, you will find that he is surprisingly caring! It's most obvious when he's with his mother, whom he is genuinely concerned about and tries to do right by (which, uh, he often screws up, but he tries, in his own misguided way!) or his half-brother, who he did not approach as an asshole even once and gave as much as advice and help as he could. However, this increasingly becomes the case with his fellow misfits, who he truly tries to help when they need it, be it consoling or taking on the role of the overprotective dad.

TL;DR: Nathan is a raging douchebag with daddy issues, but once you get beyond that, he can be surprisingly caring! Unless you make a snide remark about his family, then prepare to get decked.

Abilities, Weaknesses, and Power Limitation Suggestions: IMMORTALITY, ooooooooh~*~*~ which is, uh, kind of useless here given that everyone comes back after death anyway, but Nathan can do it by a different mechanism, I guess? It could be limited by him reviving more slowly, but otherwise I don't see how else it can be limited... This superpower comes with a secondary one attached—the ability to see the deceased/their ghosts and interact with them. This one will only be used with mun permission and I doubt much will be happening with this, since everyone comes back from the dead perfectly fine anyway (unless there are like deceased NPCs chilling out or something?)

Inventory: ₤5.72. The clothes on his back. A bunch of condoms. Some weed that's been tucked into his shoe. His cell phone.
Appearance: He is a fairly tall white Irish guy with absurdly curly brown hair and green-gray (is that called hazel? I'm...not actually sure) eyes.
Age: 20

also this app is shorter than I thought it would be.

[not-aquaman.livejournal.com]

Samples ;
Log Sample: With community service done, it had become job hunt time for all the misfits, Nathan included. But it wasn't particularly going well—not for Nathan, anyway. Who knew it was so hard to get a job? Nathan's credentials were fine, for the most part (aside from the hand-stapling incident that landed him in community service in the first place), so he'd gotten as far as a few interviews at some places, but it always ended in disaster.

After all, how was he supposed to know that saying the vat of cooking grease could be used as lube wouldn't get him the Chicken Cottage job? Some people just don't have senses of humor, the dull twats!

He was trying for a seventh job now, as a town Santa mascot for the winter. If he got this, he'd win the bet on whether or not he'd be the last of the community service group to get a job.

“Alright. You like kids, yeah?” The lady at the desk facing him leaned on her elbow and chewed her gum loudly between words.

“Oh, I love kids! Just want to wrap my arms around their soft, lovely bellies and show them my lollipop--” Nathan was even beginning to act out the motions of hugging a child, grinning as though showing his lollipop to anyone was his greatest dream.

“Whatever. You got the job.” The disinterested young lady stood up and walked away.

Wow. Who knew that cutting Nathan off before he managed to say something awful would actually get him a job?

Network Sample:
[By the time Nathan manages the communication device in his possession, he's already made it out of Zone 00 and is standing in Garden Zone 01. He's gathered enough of his wits by now to actually manage words, instead of gape at his surroundings and completely freak out.]

Alright, what the fuck?! Can't a man finish his kebab in peace? I paid good money for that! I want my money back! ...And the two girls who were hanging off of me! I was in the middle of something delicate, what kind of arsehole thought that was a good time to dump me on...wherever the fuck this is?!

[A snap of the fingers.]

I bet it's that teleportation twat! Finally worked out how to teleport other people, and decided to send me to some overgrown junkyard, just because I shat on her bed once! Well, she'd better get--

[You might be able to hear the beginning of Hypatia's introductory holographic spiel—but not much more, because Nathan's sudden shrieking and flailing makes her inaudible.]

FUCKING GHOSTS, JESUS!

REVISIONS

[singdemimods.livejournal.com]

Thank you for applying to singularity_rpg. Before we vote on your application, we would like to see revisions for the following.

More information is required in the Settings section, as a single paragraph is not enough for us to get the general feel of the world and its inhabitants. Where does Nathan fit into the world and who does he interact with? What effect does the storm have on the rest of London? Where does the majority of the show actually take place, and what is it like?

Please expand on his immortality ability. We require information on whether or not it comes with any additional benefits (survival of fatal injuries, eternal youth, etc.) and whether or not there are any weaknesses that go along with it.

Revisions to the third person sample, as it reads less like an RP sample than a piece of fanfiction. While this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it is not what we’re looking for in the Samples section.

Revisions to the Appearance section. As is, this section doesn’t give us a good feel of what the character actually looks like.

Please reply with the needed information within 72 hours! Thank you in advance.

part 1 of i don't even know, because the revisions are longer than the original app itself

[not-aquaman.livejournal.com]

((Old info is in small text, added stuff is normal!))

SETTING: To give you an overall sense of the atmosphere of the world Nathan comes from...the easiest way to describe it is 'fucked up.' This is to be expected from a show told from the perspectives of five individuals who are each screwed up and dysfunctional to varying degrees. Morals are twisted or not at all present. Theft, occasional fighting, and drugs are presented as normal or enjoyable to these delinquents. Actually, you know what, the easiest way to give you an idea of this setting is the fact that one of the villains is actually a woman who was lowering teen pregnancy and crime rates.

As for the actual details of the setting... Present-day London. The main difference from our world here is the occurrence of a huge fuck-off storm some several months ago which started off normal enough and then started raining enormous chunks of ice that completely trashed cars and cracked sidewalks. Shortly after this, lightning started happening. Our group of five misfits plus their counselor, all of whom were in the middle of their first community service job (which they were sentenced to by breaking the law and receiving ASBOs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Social_Behaviour_Order)), ran like hell to try and escape the storm, but were unable to get inside the nearby community center before they were all struck by lightning. The incident granted them all superpowers based on their personalities. The same occurred to many other individuals all across London. The powers range from the conventional—invisibility, telepathy, immortality—to the bugfuck-bizarre—turning people bald, be-my-daddy powers, lactokinesis. The storm was apparently so large and unusual that it is referred to universally in the show as "the storm." No other explanation is needed, and it seems to be understood by all that 'the storm' in question was the hail-and-lightning storm that happened (from Nathan's canon point) months prior. However, the number of people affected is fairly low and life, at least on the outside, goes on normally as it always has. Despite the low number of people affected, a wide variety of people seem to have been struck by it, ranging from teenagers to animals to toddlers.

Most people have chosen to hide their powers for a variety of reasons (not wanting to tell your lover you're actually a gorilla, not wanting to tell your lover you're actually an 82-year-old granny, etc.) and superheroes are considered a thing of fiction and fiction alone, so don't expect any spandex antics. In the misfits' case, their main reason for not going public with their superpowers is due to an unfortunate murder incident (actually, they always seem to get into unfortunate murder incidents). In the storm, their probation worker received the superpower of Unstoppable Rage and took out his frustrations by killing off one of the community service kids. The misfits killed him in self-defense, but had to hide the murder of both the kid and the worker because surely no one would believe kids with ASBOs killed in self-defense.

However, there were a few instances where people did go 'public' with their powers later on in the show--such as the case of the unnamed 'Virtue bitch' at the end of the first season, a young woman who rose to fame by using a verbal mind control power to brainwash fellow young adults and teenagers into becoming pristine examples of what 'good children' ought to be. (She did not actually ever mention publicly that she had this power, though.) Or the case of Brian, aka 'Monsieur Grand Fromage' with the power to control milk, and our very own Misfits, who all became wildly famous with the reveal of their powers in an alternate timeline, where more often than not, the superpowered people were treated like regular celebrities (i.e., had fangirls, were broadcast on television for entertainment purposes, given luxurious spaces to live, had an agent to handle PR, etc.)

but I do hope that this is the level of depth you were looking for!

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Nathan himself is considered...well, he'd be a juvenile delinquent, if he wasn't 20 years old. As it is, he's just a delinquent. Because for most of the series Nathan is clad in the bright orange Community Service jumpsuit (which he sadly won't have in the game) that marks him as having an ASBO, he is perceived by the general public as a ne'er-do-well criminal type. Friends and family see him as less of a criminal and more of a giant twat and/or burden, enough so that his mother kicked him out of the house early on in the show. (Thankfully, he gets by without a job by stealing from vending machines and the community center.) So tl;dr, Nathan is not highly respected either by society or those who know him. Strangely, though, he apparently manages to make enough of a good impression that lots of girls end up having sex with him, (even though Nathan pretty much outright admits he has to date rape girls to get any pussy, although Ruth the secretly-82-years-old girl was an exception).

He hangs out most commonly with his fellow community service misfits. He is shown as having several other 'friends' in the first episode, but it's made pretty clear that they dislike him and don't particularly care about him. As a result, he interacts most commonly with his fellow ASBO-receivers, who consist of: Simon Bellamy, an arsonist with delibitating shyness who can turn invisible; Kelly Bailey, a headstrong and sometimes violent not-chav with telepathy; Curtis Donovan, a former Olympic runner who screwed up by having pot once who can time travel; and Alisha Bailey, a seductive but disrespectful girl with the power to make anyone want to have sex with her via skin contact. In particular, Nathan interacts with Kelly the most--he is the most open around her (and not just because she can read his mind), trusts and cares for her the most, and even wanted to enter a relationship with her. He also interacts heavily with Simon, at first by mocking him endlessly (and always thinking his name is 'Barry'), but later by forging a strange but close friendship with him.

The show takes place mostly around Wertham Community Centre, where the misfits are doing their community service, in southwest London in an area full of particularly dreary buildings and council estates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_house). Sometimes, however, there are forays into other areas, like the homes of the misfits or (usually dilapidated) clubs. The show never takes place anywhere in the more 'glamorous' center of London except for that one time when they were all famous (which got retconned as an alternate timeline anyway).

ABILITIES, WEAKNESSES, AND POWER LIMITATIONS: Nathan's power is immortality. In his case, it means Nathan can be killed (and has been already, multiple times), but he comes back to life healed and in perfect physical condition. The first time he was killed, it's implied that it took him about two-three days to revive from his death. Later deaths had him revive much faster--down to what I estimate to be around 8 hours. So in practice, his immortality is more like an absurdly powerful healing factor. However, this only kicks in after his death. Any injury short of death will heal at a normal pace or continue to ail him until death (at which point it would heal). This particular aspect of his power has been used to his detriment before, such as giving Nathan a fate worse than death instead of killing him, from which he would wake up hunky-dory. Also, another weakness of this is that while Nathan is temporarily dead, he's just that: dead. He is essentially a corpse and anyone could have their merry way with him in that state until he wakes up. It also appears that Nathan has a higher pain threshold or...something that makes him withstand life-threatening injuries longer than the average person. So basically, he has to spend a longer time in excruciating pain before he dies. (Or so I think--this is never canonly confirmed, but it took him a good ten minutes of talking after being impaled through the chest until he finally croaked, which I don't think is normal by any means.)

and wow, I almost managed to fit all of that into three comments!

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It has been implied a few times that Nathan would live forever in eternal youth, but nothing is ever stated for certain as to the length of his life span, as it was never particularly relevant (and unless I end up playing Nathan in Singularity for the next 80 or more years, which I kind of doubt, I imagine it will be largely irrelevant here too).

He also has a secondary ability of being able to see and communicate with the dead. Nathan really has no way of telling if these ghosts are dead or not, unless they explicitly tell him or he recognizes them as a dead person he once knew (since the ghosts' physical appearance is exactly identical to what they looked like in life). I'm not sure if Nathan can interact with them physically (i.e. touch), since it never really came up, but I'm going to say for future reference that he can't. There's...not really much of a weakness to this one, aside from Nathan looking like he's completely insane every time he interacts with ghosts, since he's the only one who can see them. Oh, yeah. And if the ghost(s) wanted to, they could haunt him. Forever.

As for limiting these powers...the only way I can really think to limit them is by having Nathan take a longer time to revive from death. More than eight hours, more than two days. Maybe four or five? Maybe even a week, whichever sounds more reasonable to you mods. He could also wake up from death with some pretty nasty occasional phantom pains wherever he was fatally injured, which would last around maybe...two weeks. (Let me know if this sounds unreasonable or you want to change anything about these limitations, mods!)

I don't think his ability to see the dead can be limited, really... will only be used with mun permission and I doubt much will be happening with this, since everyone comes back from the dead perfectly fine anyway (unless there are like deceased NPCs chilling out or something?)

APPEARANCE: He is a fairly tall white Irish guy with absurdly curly brown hair and green-gray (is that called hazel? I'm...not actually sure) eyes. He's approximately 6' 0" and his wardrobe consists of not-exactly-the-cleanest casual clothes, since he doesn't exactly have access to a laundry machine. (Plus one suit, apparently.) He's not exactly a paragon of good posture, but he doesn't slouch either, instead giving off an air of casual nonchalance most of the time (and flailing like a wet noodle at whatever absurd bullshit he gets thrown into the rest of the time). Often, he's either smirking at you mockingly, or smirking at you hoping to get in your pants.

Or, hey! Images are pretty (http://www.themarysue.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Robert-Sheehan-Misfits.jpg) cool (http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/161920_148490788538945_7477087_n.jpg) too!

but not quite, so have a fourth and final comment!

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3RD PERSON SAMPLE: Barry Simon had a girlfriend. Barry Simon, of all people! Seriously? Sure, the guy had loosened up and finally lost his virginity, but the day he had a girlfriend and Nathan didn't was a sorry day indeed. Wasn't Nathan supposed to be the teacher and Simon the student? How on earth was he supposed to show Simon his way around the female body without a girlfriend of his own to demonstrate on?! (The fact that Simon couldn't touch Alisha without being affected by her power did not even occur to Nathan. Besides, the guy was 20 years old and could barely tell a vagina from a ham sandwich! Even if his girlfriend was off-limits, that was practically a cry for help--one that Nathan could not bear to ignore.)

It was on this night--this night where Simon couldn't go out to the club with the rest of them because he and Alisha had a date, of all things--that Nathan decided enough was enough. For both his and Simon's own good, he would find a girlfriend. One that wasn't fussy or demanding, got drunk easily, looked safe, and preferably wasn't an 82-year-old not-granny. (Nathan still had nightmares about that. Not like he'd tell anyone.)

He armed himself. A fresh, unopened pack of Fisherman's Friend (Super Strong Mint variety)? Check. Deodorant? Deployed. Condoms? Check. Extra condoms? Double check. Sleazy nightclubs across London, watch out. Nathan Young is on the hunt, and he won't stop until his duty has been fulfilled.

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