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Before you app

Applications are always open, but are processed every other Saturday. You can apply for any character from any canon as an OU or AU. You can also apply for an OCs. Be sure to copy the correct form below when you go to write your app.

Currently there can be only one version of each character within the Bastion. That character can be either OU or AU. This is subject to change at a later date.

The character limit is currently three. You can app up to two characters from the same canon, so long as the characters do not interact in canon and would not interact within the game. Exceptions to this rule will be allowed for special cases, so if you think you have a possible exception please contact a mod about it.

If you would like to app a fourth character, you must have passed the previous two ACs in order to do so. If you did not pass the previous two ACs, then we will reject your application.

Apps will be read in the order they are posted. If two people app the same character, we will make a decision on the first application before reading the second. The only exception to this rule is in the case of a reserve, where we will read the app from whoever has the reserve first. There are no app challenges.

Please read the rules, FAQ, and setting pages before applying. Also be sure to check the reserves page and taken page.

Please finish your app before posting. Once you are finished, post your application here. If you need more than one comment to post it, then respond to your first comment to finish your application.

If your application is accepted, be sure to read all the information and follow all of the steps in the acceptance post. If we ask you for revisions, you will have 72 hours to post those revisions. If you are rejected, you must wait two weeks before applying again.

As a note, OCs will be held to high standards. Do not skimp on details in any section of the application if you are planning to app an OC.

Application: OU

Player name: whatever name you want to go by OOCly
Age: 17 and up please!
Contact: A personal journal, a plurk name, an email, whatever. We just need some way to contact you.
Other characters: Please list all the characters you currently play.

Character name:
Series: If there is more than one version of canon, please specify which one you will be playing from.
Canon point: Please keep in mind that there is no way to canon-update your character when you choose a canon point to take them from.
Summary: Sum up the character's history and personality. This doesn't have to be long, a few paragraphs should be fine.
Powers: If your character has canon powers, please describe them and how they will be changing to fit within the setting. More information on powers can be found here.
Entry: How will your character be entering the game? They can either find their way to the Bastion on their own, or they can be found on the Skyway by someone else. This is not a sample! This is to tell us if your character will need to be rescued from the Skyway, so we can arrange that. Don't put the day of entry in your app, we will do that for you.

Player name: whatever name you want to go by OOCly
Age: 18 and up please!
Contact: A personal journal, a plurk name, an email, whatever. We just need some way to contact you.
Other characters: Please list all the characters you currently play.

Character name:
Series: If there is more than one version of canon, please specify which one you will be playing from.
Canon point: Please keep in mind that there is no way to canon-update your character when you choose a canon point to take them from.
Summary: Sum up the character's history and personality. This doesn't have to be long, a few paragraphs should be fine.
Powers: If your character has canon powers, please describe them and how they will be changing to fit within the setting. More information on powers can be found <a href="http://bastionmods.dreamwidth.org/2549.html">here</a>.
Entry: How will your character be entering the game? They can either find their way to the Bastion on their own, or they can be found on the Skyway by someone else. This is not a sample! This is to tell us if your character will need to be rescued from the Skyway, so we can arrange that. Don't put the day of entry in your app, we will do that for you.
Other: Any other information you think we will need can go here.

Application: AU

Player name: whatever name you want to go by OOCly
Age: 18 and up please!
Contact: A personal journal, a plurk name, an email, whatever. We just need some way to contact you.
Other characters: Please list all the characters you currently play.

Character name:
Series: If there is more than one version of canon, please specify which one you will be playing from.
AU info: Please describe how the AU differs from canon
Summary: Sum up the character's history and personality. Be sure to include how the AU has affected the character you are apping.
Powers: If your character has canon powers, please describe them and how they will be changing to fit within the setting. More information on powers can be found here.
Entry: How will your character be entering the game? They can either find their way to the Bastion on their own, or they can be found on the Skyway by someone else. This is not a sample! This is to tell us if your character will need to be rescued from the Skyway, so we can arrange that. Don't put the day of entry in your app, we will do that for you.

Character name:
Series: If there is more than one version of canon, please specify which one you will be playing from.
AU info: Please describe how the AU differs from canon
Summary: Sum up the character's history and personality. Be sure to include how the AU has affected the character you are apping.
Powers: If your character has canon powers, please describe them and how they will be changing to fit within the setting. More information on powers can be found <a href="http://bastionmods.dreamwidth.org/2549.html">here</a>.
Entry: How will your character be entering the game? They can either find their way to the Bastion on their own, or they can be found on the Skyway by someone else. This is not a sample! This is to tell us if your character will need to be rescued from the Skyway, so we can arrange that. Don't put the day of entry in your app, we will do that for you.

Application: OC

Player name: whatever name you want to go by OOCly
Age: 18 and up please!
Contact: A personal journal, a plurk name, an email, whatever. We just need some way to contact you.
Other characters: Please list all the characters you currently play.

Character name:
OC info: Please describe the world the OC is from. This section should be a couple paragraphs long at a minimum.
Summary: Describe the character's history and personality. Both should be covered in this section, but more attention should be paid to personality.
Powers: If your character has canon powers, please describe them and how they will be changing to fit within the setting. More information on powers can be found here.
Entry: How will your character be entering the game? They can either find their way to the Bastion on their own, or they can be found on the Skyway by someone else. This is not a sample! This is to tell us if your character will need to be rescued from the Skyway, so we can arrange that. Don't put the day of entry in your app, we will do that for you.

Character name:
OC info: Please describe the world the OC is from. This section should be a couple paragraphs long at a minimum.
Summary: Describe the character's history and personality. Both should be covered in this section, but more attention should be paid to personality.
Powers: If your character has canon powers, please describe them and how they will be changing to fit within the setting. More information on powers can be found <a href="http://bastionmods.dreamwidth.org/2549.html">here</a>.
Entry: How will your character be entering the game? They can either find their way to the Bastion on their own, or they can be found on the Skyway by someone else. This is not a sample! This is to tell us if your character will need to be rescued from the Skyway, so we can arrange that. Don't put the day of entry in your app, we will do that for you.

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History: Jason's story in the series started when he woke up in a bus, a pretty girl holding his hand, and with no memories whatsoever, other than his name. He had no idea who the girl or the guy claiming to be his best friend were, and he was pretty sure that he wasn't supposed to be there. The teen quickly found out that they were going to the Grand Canyon for an educational field trip, with a vertically challenged gym teacher named Hedge as their chaperone. While they were on the skywalk, Jason confronted Coach Hedge, since he seemed to be the only person who knew that Jason didn't belong there. The Coach told him that he'd been smelling a monster in the group, and suspected that Jason was the 'special package' that some team had been dispatched to pick up, along with two other powerful demigods.

They couldn't get into much more discussion, since that was when the storm spirits attacked. The mortals were able to be taken to safety, but Jason, Coach Hedge, and the boy and girl from before (Leo Valdez and Piper McLean respectively) weren't so lucky. They were trapped on the skywalk with what looked like an evil angel made of storm clouds. Oh boy. A battle broke out, and by the end of it the Coach had been captured by the storm spirits. In the aftermath, a girl named Annabeth and a dude named Butch came to take them to Camp Half-Blood. It was then that they revealed that they were looking for a missing camper named Percy Jackson.

Well, immediately after the three of them got to camp, they were chosen to go on a quest to free Hera, Queen of the Gods, before the Winter Solstice. With her missing, it would throw the other gods in disarray and set them arguing. Jason, Piper, and Leo were expected to leave the next morning and make their way to Boreas' palace in Quebec. Boreas would be able to tell them where the storm spirits had gone, since one of them had mentioned being summoned by their mistress to return to base. Leo provided the transportation in the form of a bronze metal dragon the morning of the quest.

Going there had proved very fruitful. First, they learned that Aeolus had put out an order for all of the other winds to kill demigods on sight. Second, they learned that the storm spirits' base was in Chicago, of all places. Armed with this knowledge, the trio set off for Chicago! Unfortunately, Festus the bronze dragon crashed into an abandoned car manufacturing plant in Detroit. Even worse, it was a place where three Cyclopes lived. Piper and Jason got captured by them, though the guy was knocked unconscious for all of it. Leo had saved them from being eaten, and had fixed Festus so that they could resume the journey to Chicago. Jason, meanwhile, got a dream vision from Hera about a place called the Wolf House, which was where she was being held at. Not only that, but Gaea was using her power to cause the rise of the giant king Porphyrion.

When Jason woke up, he relayed that information to his two friends. They couldn't do much else about it, except to find the mistress who was controlling the storm spirits. Luckily, that wasn't the hard part. All they had to do was follow the storm spirits in Chicago, which led them to a sewer. The trio immediately went inside, and followed it to the end. The weird part? Not only was the sewer abnormally clean, but at the end of the tunnel there was an entrance to a department store. After entering the elevator, they took it to the top floor, where they were greeted by a weird saleswoman. She insisted on being called Your Majesty or Princess, and her words were charged with magic. Leo and Jason were helpless to her charm speak, which meant that it was up to Piper to save their sorry hides. It took a lot of frustration and desperation on Piper's part, but she was eventually able to break the spell over them and correctly identify the Princess as Medea, a mortal who should've been dead for thousands of years. Piper was the one who defeated Medea and accidentally blew up the department store, which they managed to escape thanks to Festus the amazing dragon.

They didn't leave the department store with nothing to show for, at least. Not only were they able to take the cage of trapped storm spirits, but they also found Coach Hedge! There was just one setback. Festus couldn't carry a load of two cages and three people. In fact, the poor dragon had to make another emergency crash landing into some guy's mansion's lawn. The security system on it was extremely advanced, with automatic lasers that could cut through celestial bronze and practically disintegrated Festus. The only thing Leo could save was his faithful dragon's head, which he asked his father, Hephaestus, to send back to camp.

The three of them had little choice but to enter the mansion. Leo was able to navigate them through the traps with ease, and they were able to crash in the entrance. It wasn't very long that Leo had sprung Coach Hedge's cage, which caused a ruckus. Before they could do much else besides bring the Coach up to speed, they were found by King Midas, another mortal who shouldn't be alive. Like Medea, he'd had a patron bring him back to life, and turned Leo and Piper to gold. Jason, though, challenged Midas' son to combat, and tricked the King into turning his son to gold.

After that lovely encounter, Jason and Hedge turned their friends back to flesh with the river nearby. Then, Jason used the storm spirits to get them to Colorado, where Aeolus' palace was going to dock on Pike's Peak. The four of them decided to make camp in a cave, since that was when they got hit with a snowstorm. There, Piper finally told them that her father had been taken by a giant named Enceladus. He'd told her that if she wanted to save her father, then she had to divert the quest to somewhere in the Bay Area in California. Instead of kicking Piper out or being angry with her, they just felt incredibly sorry for her and told her that they would help her get her father back. They just had to figure out a way to save both Piper's dad and Hera by the deadline.

They were interrupted by Lycaon, who was sent to kill the entire group, except for Jason. He said that Jason was spoken for already, and that he was just sent to retrieve him. It was going to be a hopeless battle if they tried to take on the King of Wolves and his pack, but luckily that was when the Hunters of Artemis started raining down their silver arrows on them. Lycaon made a getaway, and Thalia Grace, Jason's sister, appeared. After introductions were made, Jason, Thalia, and Leo discussed the Grace siblings' past. How their mother had been driven to insanity after learning that she'd attracted Zeus and Jupiter. How she'd offered Jason to the wolves at Hera's insistence when he was only two. How Thalia had left that household shortly after.

Afterward, the group set out, led by Thalia, to Aeolus' palace. While crossing the bridge of ice and wind, Leo shared the sudden thought that perhaps Jason's appearance and Percy's disappearance were meant to be an exchange of some sort. Perhaps there were two camps that historically couldn't get along very well. Thalia ran off to hold the Wolf House after that, excited with the news. It gave hope that Percy was alive, just somewhere else. Meanwhile, the quest group had to go see Aeolus about the storm spirits, among other things.

Once they met Aeolus, they were successfully able to deliver the storm spirits and get him to rescind the order to have demigods killed on sight. The four of them also learned that Enceladus was on Mount Diablo, but he had no idea where the Wolf House was exactly. There was strong magic obscuring the area where Hera was being held. Before the four of them could congratulate themselves on a job well done with gaining Aeolus' help to get them to Mount Diablo, the Master of the Winds got new orders from someone far more ancient and powerful than the Olympians. He used the storm spirits against them, but luckily with the help of a wind nymph named Melly, they were able to survive the encounter. It was also thanks to Melly that the four of them got landed in a city close to Mount Diablo.

Piper then told them that she'd been able to figure out some things in her dreams. She told them that their true adversary was Gaea, the Earth itself. Coach Hedge also told them some disturbing facts about Gaea, like how she used her son Kronos to kill Ouranos, the god of the sky and father of the Titans. After all of that, the group of four paid a cab to get as far up the mountain as they could, and then walked the rest of the way to where Enceladus was. Once there, it pretty quickly devolved into a fight for their lives. Jason took on Enceladus while Leo and Piper dealt with the Earth Born and getting Piper's dad to safety. He was only able to defeat the giant with the help of some godly lightning his father provided him. Most giants were only able to be killed with the combined power of a god and a hero, and Jason had proved that to be true.

After the battle, they noticed that a ranger helicopter was flying overhead, checking out the carnage. Piper managed to get the pilot to land and take them to the airport. She gave her father a potion to erase all of the memories of what had taken place, and then got an Iris Message from Thalia. She provided the final clue for Jason to remember where the Wolf House was. Coach Hedge decided to take Piper's dad home, and the rest of them took the helicopter to the Wolf House.

Upon reaching the Wolf House, they heard the sounds of battle all around them. Thalia came and collected them, then took them to where Hera was being kept. Unfortunately, they were then attacked by storm spirits, wolves, and a snow goddess named Khione. Once they'd won that battle, Leo and Piper started working on getting Hera free. The downside was that they were unable to prevent Porphyrion's rising. Jason took on the task of fighting the giant, if only to at least give his friends time to free Hera. They were able to free the goddess, and in thanks, she transported them back to Camp Half-Blood.

Back at camp, they all had a discussion on what they had to do next. Leo had been assigned with the task of building the Argo II, a flying Greek trireme with Festus' head serving as its control center. They planned on setting off on the Summer Solstice, where the powers of the gods would be strongest. In the meantime, they would have to keep up the search for Percy, and Jason would work on getting his memories back. After all, Jason was the only one who knew the location of the Roman camp, where Percy would no doubt be. It was the entire point of Hera's exchange of leaders from both camps.

All in all, it took until near the end of June before Jason, Piper, Leo, and Annabeth made it to Camp Jupiter. There, they met up with the last three of the seven demigods needed for their quest: Percy, Hazel Levesque, and Frank Zhang. Things were going well, until Leo opened fire on the Roman camp. Jason was knocked unconscious for most of this, but after Leo did repairs on their ship, Piper suggested they go to Topeka, Kansas. She'd had a vision in her knife about Bacchus, or Dionysus.

Once they reached their destination, Jason, Percy, and Piper headed out to meet up with Bacchus. Piper was suddenly struck with an epiphany after talking to the god. She figured out that they needed Bacchus in particular to help them defeat the twin giants, Otis and Ephialtes. Unfortunately, the god disagreed, and then fled when he realized he'd been led to a trap. Gaea told Piper to choose willingly between Percy or Jason, or she'd choose for the daughter of Aphrodite. When Piper refused, Jason and Percy got possessed by evil spirits, and then tried to fight to the death.

Luckily, they got KO'd big time by Percy's pegasus friend, Black Jack, and suffered no serious damage. With Black Jack's help, Piper was able to get the two unconscious demigods back to the ship. After they woke up, they all held a meeting, and during that meeting Piper was able to get the spirits to not only vacate the bodies of Jason, Percy, and Leo, but to make them swear a binding oath to never possess anyone on the ship. After that, they went to Atlanta, Georgia to get some information out of an old sea god.

That was a job for Coach Hedge, Frank, and Percy. When they got back, they told them that the next place they needed to go was to Charleston. Jason said that there were two possible places that would be important to them, since Annabeth was following the Mark of Athena. One was an old ship from the Civil War, and the other was a park where a ghost would only show itself to girls. Jason, Leo, and Frank went to see the ship, while the three ladies went off to find the ghost. Unfortunately, on the way back to the ship, they got attacked by the Romans that Leo pissed off. There was a huge battle at Fort Sumter, but the seven were able to get away mostly intact. Annabeth had also been successful with getting what she would need to follow the Mark of Athena in Rome, Italy.

Finally, the group was on their way to Rome. Near the end of their journey, they had to deal with Hercules, since he was the gatekeeper of the ancient lands. Piper and Jason went to talk to him, but when Jason told Hercules that they were on a quest by Hera's orders, the asshole sent them to get the last horn of plenty from a nearby river god. The two of them were able to get it, but they refused to give it to Hercules. After tricking him to allow them into the ancient lands, Piper buried him in a mountain of food and they were able to get away safely. Despite Hercules throwing coconuts at them at high velocity.