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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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Matt (Mail Jeevas) || Death Note || OU (reserved)
Date: 2013-06-10 05:59 am (UTC)Age: I can buy you liquor. For a nominal fee.
Contact: Either PM or Chooseyouralias@aim
Other characters: N/A
Character name: Matt (Mail Jeevas)
Series: Death Note (manga)
Canon point: Pre-manga (in that it will be before his appearance in the manga, not before the manga actually begins). I am bringing him in between the time he left Wammy’s (the age of which is not stated in canon) to where he is shown working along his ex-schoolmate in an attempt to pin down the mass murderer, Kira. I’m going to round his age off to about nineteen.
Summary: Matt’s personality is very open to interpretation, given the little screen/panel time he was given by the creators. There are no definitive rights or wrongs when it comes to fleshing out his character, but there is a way to work with what little you have and develop an intricate personality using these guidelines.
From what we do see, Matt is a distracted individual, having made a few mistakes during the time he was working for/with Mello, an individual that he is stated to have attended Wammy’s, a boarding school for the gifted and training grounds for children set to succeed the world’s greatest detective. One instance is when individuals he was supposed to be keeping surveillance on allegedly slipped right beneath his nose and boarded a plane out of the country without his knowledge. I say “allegedly” because when Mello questions him about the mistake, Matt’s answer is sketchy, at best. This can either be attributed to the possibility that he was trying to cover his own ass from making a mistake, or if one were to be a little extreme, they could go as far as to say that he intentionally let it slip, but there is little to show that he would be motivated in any way to mess things up in that way, and so I’m going to have to go with the first.
So, that being said, while highly intelligent, (It’s stated in How to Read 13 that Matt was 3rd in line to succeed the detective L), Matt can be a little careless. This can also be attributed to the fact that he just has little interest in much that doesn’t pique his curiosity. Working for Mello could have been something out of obligation, and so he didn’t show it the same amount of attention as he might something that had a greater appeal to him.
Along with his carelessness, it’s also shown that recklessness accompanies this. The best example is when he’s literally at the end of his life, surrounded by over a dozen armed bodyguards, Matt steps out of his car, lights a cigarette, and has the gall to attempt to draw his gun, probably knowing that he wasn’t going to make it out of there alive.
This is literally the extent of what’s revealed about his personality in canon.
Now for my interpretation. The way I like to see Matt is as a person who allows himself to be easily distracted from important issues in favor of self-gratification, simply because when he was very young, a giant weight was put on his shoulders, and he simply wasn’t interested. So he let the other two fight it out, knowing that as long as he stayed safely third, he wouldn’t ever have to worry about having that top position.
But why stay in third? Why not just fall all the way to the bottom of the ranks? Because he’s pompous, to an extent. Kind of “Alright, being too good will get me into a position that I don’t wanna be in, but fuck if I’m gonna let these other kids think they’re better than me.” And I see him thinking this way with a kind of quiet smirk, and if nothing else, I would consider that mildly passive-aggressive.
He knows what’s going on around him, is acutely aware of it, even, but he prefers to be more of an observer than a doer. It makes it easier for him to defend himself, if a situation arises in which it’s necessary for him to do so. He feels like he’s being offensive by being defensive, and maybe he’s right. Matt feels it’s very important to take in each and every aspect of his surroundings, the personalities of the people around him, so he can better gauge how his own reactions will affect a situation.
Which brings me to the next aspect of him, which is that he’s extremely skilled at reading people. He has these categories that he puts people in, based on threat levels, and if someone falls into one of the higher levels, they’re immediately assessed as someone who needs to be watched more closely. Being well-acquainted with someone like Mello, Matt is very aware that being around a volatile person will quickly have the ability to fuck up his zen. People who fall into the lower threat levels generally will receive less of his attention, unless he and this other person are the only two people present.
Matt isn’t a very social creature by nature, which is stated vaguely in HTR 13, in which he’s ranked very low in social skills on a numerical scale. No, this doesn’t make him a recluse. Rather, someone who may not be the first to strike up a conversation, or even carry one for long. He enjoys keeping to himself, for the most part, but again, don’t think that just because he isn’t staring at you or speaking to you that he isn’t paying attention. He’s probably watching you more closely than he’s letting on, and by him interrupting with conversation of his own, he would be compromising your natural habitat. Perhaps there’s something specific he would like to know about you. In that case, he might just provoke you to see what kind of reaction you would have, and once you’ve reacted and he’s observed, he will quickly become bored and seek to diffuse the situation.
As a matter of fact, his social ability, or lack thereof, is the only thing that he ranked rather low on. It’s stated that he has a great willingness to act, meaning that he isn’t one to sit by idly and let some shit go down without attempting to intervene in some way, and this would also mean that if there is something that Matt needs to get done, he is at least moderately driven.
He may come off as very muted or disinterested when he speaks, and to the untrained eye, he just appears to be an extremely distracted person. Like he’s always got something more important to focus on, maybe. I would go as far as to say that almost everything he does, in any situation, is completely intentional. No, it may not result in a way that he thought it would, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t give it a shot.
And despite this facade of not really caring about anything, Matt is anything but submissive, personality-wise. He’s very opinionated, maybe even a bit of a conspiracy theorist, and he has a good right to be paranoid. After all, he comes from a world where someone knowing your real name could get you killed. This doesn’t mean that he’s loud or volatile, or quick to act on emotion, only that if something is going on that he’s not exactly cool with, he’ll do what he can to either put an end to it, or forcibly remove himself (or other people) from the situation. He doesn’t like being uncomfortable. If you make him uncomfortable, you’ve fucked with his tranquility, and that’s something that he really has little patience for.
He can be light-hearted at times, meaning that he won’t hesitate to laugh at something that amuses him, or genuinely enjoy someone’s company. The latter can be rare, though, seeing as he’s someone who grew up around a bunch of pompous geniuses, and in turn, is a bit of one, himself.
Powers: None.
Entry: I would prefer for Matt to be discovered on the Skyway, as I’m going to have him arrive after particularly tumultuous incident in which he literally sees his surroundings crumbling in this unreal, movie-like incident that leaves him paralyzed to react, save to watch from his 14th floor flat window on the outskirts of Manhattan. He will be disoriented, prone to a long period of disbelief, and will probably have it in his mind that it’s the last-ditch effort of the very individual he’s hunting to clear the world of his opponents. He’ll be a little banged up—nothing serious—possibly hungover (though he won’t admit it), and ultimately combative until he comes to realize that there is no going back. As a matter of fact, he may never accept that there is no going back, so expect him to roll his eyes and scoff if presented with this fun fact. Needless to say: expect a confused, skeptical, extremely disgruntled individual appearing on the Skyway in not-quite-great condition.
Other: Nothing!
REVISION
Date: 2013-06-13 05:08 am (UTC)Thank you for applying at The Bastion. Before we can accept you, there are a few points we need clarified.
- We have some concerns regarding the canon point you want to take Matt from. We realize that Matt has a limited amount of canon to pull from, but we do not want to set a precedent of accepting characters from pre-canon. We would like to see you bring him from a point in canon he is present for.
- Additionally, because Matt does not have a lot of canon information to go on, we would like to see an example of how you would play him in the Bastion. You can either link us to threads you have already played, or write a new introspective sample for us to read.
You have 72 hours to post your revisions. Please post them as a reply to this comment.
If you have any questions about the revision request, please feel free to contact us.
Re: REVISION
Date: 2013-06-13 07:53 am (UTC)Sample
[There’s something about the possibility of never going home that doesn’t quite bother him as much as it should. Matt figures that he’d have to have a home for it to hit him harder than this—something that he can refer to as a place of comfort and peace and permanence. Or at least that’s how he’s always defined it, considering that a school full of pretentious wankers where he had a room and a bed never really hit him with that fuzzy feeling everyone else seems so fond of.
So there’s “back there,” and there’s “here.” What remains to be seen is which weighs heavier on the scale of I don’t wanna be here.
He wipes at his mouth; he keeps his eyes as alert as possible considering he’s still got at least a fifth of some cheap shit settling in his blood stream, working its way out through the occasional piss and constant sweat that tells him he’s in this one for the long haul.
Or at least until he goes back to sleep. Which doesn’t look like it’s happening any time soon.]
Fuck me. [A half-mutter under his breath; an exhalation that hardly makes it past his lips before he’s slipping the filter of a partially lit smoke between them. He doesn’t fish for a lighter, only inhales until the cherry burns even, keeps keen as possible considering that (much like “back there”) everything here can be considered a threat until proven otherwise.
What everything comes down to is the lesser of two evils. And considering that for the first time in almost seven months, he can actually breathe, this place isn’t looking so bad. Maybe it’s the air, maybe it’s the unfamiliarity, maybe it’s the fact that he doesn’t have a deadline. Whatever it is, it may just be worth the world falling apart around him.
A fucked train of thought, he knows. He mutters again to himself between drags, something along the lines of bullshite and always something before finally resigning enough to take a few steps into what he assumes is a decently populated area. Someone here has got to have more info than what he’s already dragged out of a few people, and the pungent smell of food turning his stomach proves he’s not dead.
Well.
That and the fact that his head feels like someone took a sledgehammer to his temples a few times.
It’s gonna be a long fucking night.]
ACCEPTED
Date: 2013-06-13 11:31 pm (UTC)Congratulations, your character have been accepted into The Bastion!
Please follow these steps:
- Comment to the taken page.
- Join
- 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
Because of the event occurring this weekend, we would like to give you two options for introing Matt.
Option 1: Backdate his entry to Day 76 so he can participate in the event.
Option 2: Wait until Day 78 to intro him.
Please specify whichever you are choosing in a reply to this comment.
If you have any other questions, feel free to post them here.
Thank you for applying, and enjoy your stay at The Bastion!
Re: ACCEPTED
Date: 2013-06-14 12:04 am (UTC)