Application Rules
From the day you send in your application, please allow 1~6 days for the council to review your application before you bug us or go to the forums and question the status of your application. That is why we have a results page and a place in the forum to view the status of your application. We will post the status for you, we do not slack off in this department so prospective players, do not worry. Once we receive your application in our inbox, we will post it as received on the status page right away. 1. Poetic, flowery writing should be kept to a minimum. It is generally gorgeous in actual roleplay, but for the application please be brief and down-to-the-point. If you or a friend or even a current game member cannot read your application in one sitting, it is probably too lengthy. 2. If your application is not within the range of 8~12 pages, it will most likely not be accepted. But if you feel you can create a character in say, 6 pages, feel free to do so and the council will be the judges of that. Also remember that length is not everything and if your application reaches 16~20 pages, you know you are getting to the point where it is too long. 3. Side notes pertaining to your character do not earn points with us. Remember the cliché “show, don’t tell?” This applies here, please avoid putting anything in parenthesis and simply just write it in the application so it flows. 4. If your personality is not written in the proper format of listing 10~15 of his or her most important traits and backing each one up with a small paragraph, you will automatically be rejected and forced to revise. If you cannot think of any personality traits, look into your characters likes, dislikes and astrological sign or even consider what your character would think of worldwide issues. This tends to help a lot if you ask yourself questions such as: If your character was a scent, what scent would he or she be? What is your character’s take on the War in Iraq? Does your character prefer to speak or listen? Even the minutest questions can add much to your character’s personality. 5. Exciting histories score major points with us, we are sick of rape victims, dead family members, and emo kids. Unless it is relevant to your genre, please do not include any run-of-the-mill RP overlaps. 6. Likes and dislikes do not need to be explained for each, please just list these out. Usually by listing out the likes, dislikes, and hobbies, you can tell if they are relevant or up to par with your genre better. 7. Sweet-talking the council members does not work. We know the fine difference between the terms flattery and complimenting, generally doing this will not make the council members love you any more or judge you any more kindly than we already would. 8. If your character already has some sort of relation to a character already accepted in-game, make sure you get their consent first. Even if both of you fill out your applications and are linked to one another, this could be dangerous if your characters are too closely related being one character may get accepted while the other may not. 9. So what if someone else is applying for the character you want! Just because someone else has already applied does not mean you cannot challenge them. Sometimes a challenge motivates prospective players to do a better job on their applications and could be the key to getting accepted. 10. I have seen this happen so many times in roleplays, just because you already submitted your application that is currently under review does not mean the senshi has been held for you. This is not a first-come, first-serve game. If someone else submits an application while yours is reviewed, then consider it as another applicant challenging your application. One of you may be accepted or neither of you; it does not matter who sends in the application first, period. 11. There is no need to rush an application. Generally, players spend 1 to 2 weeks creating their character to his or her fullest potential. It is unnecessary to sculpt an entire character in one sitting and often we can tell how rushed the application was just by reading it. Take your time! 12. By submitting an application, you are also allowing us to post your application up for everyone else to see with our review comments. This is not meant to embarrass players but to allow prospective applicants to learn from your mistakes. |