Application

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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. <b>Player name:</b> whatever name you want to go by OOCly <b>Age:</b> 18 and up please! <b>Contact:</b> A personal journal, a plurk name, an email, whatever. We just need some way to contact you. <b>Other characters:</b> Please list all the characters you currently play. <b>Character name:</b> <b>Series:</b> If there is more than one version of canon, please specify which one you will be playing from. <b>Canon point:</b> Please keep in mind that there is no way to canon-update your character when you choose a canon point to take them from. <b>Summary:</b> Sum up the character's history and personality. This doesn't have to be long, a few paragraphs should be fine. <b>Powers:</b> 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>. <b>Entry:</b> 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. <b>This is not a sample!</b> 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. <b>Other:</b> 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. <b>Player name:</b> whatever name you want to go by OOCly <b>Age:</b> 18 and up please! <b>Contact:</b> A personal journal, a plurk name, an email, whatever. We just need some way to contact you. <b>Other characters:</b> Please list all the characters you currently play. <b>Character name:</b> <b>Series:</b> If there is more than one version of canon, please specify which one you will be playing from. <b>AU info:</b> Please describe how the AU differs from canon <b>Summary:</b> Sum up the character's history and personality. Be sure to include how the AU has affected the character you are apping. <b>Powers:</b> 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>. <b>Entry:</b> 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. <b>This is not a sample!</b> 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. <b>Player name:</b> whatever name you want to go by OOCly <b>Age:</b> 18 and up please! <b>Contact:</b> A personal journal, a plurk name, an email, whatever. We just need some way to contact you. <b>Other characters:</b> Please list all the characters you currently play. <b>Character name:</b> <b>OC info:</b> Please describe the world the OC is from. This section should be a couple paragraphs long at a minimum. <b>Summary:</b> Describe the character's history and personality. Both should be covered in this section, but more attention should be paid to personality. <b>Powers:</b> 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>. <b>Entry:</b> 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. <b>This is not a sample!</b> 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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Re: REVISION

[superdrowningskills]

For all intents and purposes, the most important event in Alucard's life was the day his mother died. In fact, his entire life thereafter is almost completely based around upholding her last words to him: n"Do not hate humans. If you cannot live with them, then at least do them no harm. For theirs is already a hard lot." And indeed, even his eternal mission to keep his father from destroying humanity is born of the wish to uphold that final promise, for the words were as much for Dracula as for Alucard.

Still, even with his allegiance firmly on the side of humanity, he does not trust them enough as a whole to willingly live among them. Given what they did to his mother, how could a creature such as he, far less a creature of the light than Lisa had been, possibly live amongst those that had extinguished her radiance because they suspected her of being a witch? And even if he were to find someone amongst the humans that he could trust as anything more than a ally in battle, they would only die long before him, whether through violence, sickness, or simply old age. Much better to close off his heart and focus only on the goal at hand, no matter the cost. Although it doesn't happen on the timeline this particular Alucard is from (multiple endings and all), this single-mindedness is demonstrated in the event that conditions to see the spirit controlling Richter are not met, which end with Alucard killing the Belmont. In the worst ending, he expresses no remorse over this; in the bad ending, he expresses a small amount, but only in the sense of "what unfortunate circumstances these were" rather than any particular care for the fact that he'd had to kill what was once a good man. Even on the timeline set for the True Ending (the canon ending, and the one he's from), Alucard sees no point in refraining from returning to his eternal sleep until the world needs him again until Maria somehow manages to convince him otherwise in the post-game. He's from before that time though, so... not a whole lot of emotion expressed. He's marginally more emotional inwardly, but not by all that much.

He's not completely a cold fish though. Just as his mother is the driving reason behind his eternal battle to protect humanity from the forces of darkness, so too is she the one subject that is guaranteed to get him to show emotion. This is most evident throughout the entire event where a succubus draws him into a nightmare and poses as his mother on the day she burned to convince him back to the side of Dracula. He begins with a frantic attempt to free her, although the moment she starts telling him to take vengeance for her, he realizes that the succubus is not his beloved mother. Thereafter is the only boss battle that Alucard ever enters in a state of anger. He doesn't even simply kill her at the end, but makes sure that her soul will be forever trapped within the dream world despite her pleading for her life. Long story short, disrespecting Alucard's mother is a horrible idea.

ACCEPTED

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ACCEPTED

Congratulations, your character have been accepted into The Bastion! They will be entering the game on DAY 61.

Please follow these steps:

- Comment to the taken page.
- Join thebastion and thebastionooc, and friend the mod journal.
- Re-read the FAQ, rules, and timeline .
- Go to the housing post and fill out the form there.
- Check the calendar to see what day it is in-game.
- Make an entry in your journal to keep track of all Shards, Abilities, Talents, and Items your character acquires within the game.
- Introduce yourself in thebastionooc.
- Go participate in the opening event log.

If you have any other questions, feel free to post them here.
Thank you for applying, and enjoy your stay at The Bastion!