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Application Cycles While we do not require a reserve to be placed in order to be applied for, if a reserve for the same character exists, you will not be able to submit an application for that character (unless it is a variant media type - see the Application FAQ for details). Therefore, a reserve is highly recommended! APP PROCESSING TIMES The usual time frame for app processing will be 48 hours after the app is received. High app volume or any extenuating real life circumstances may delay these times, but the modteam will make the utmost effort to let people know about the delay and a revised time frame when applicable. GUIDELINES Any player (new or current) may submit up to 2 applications at once. Applications will be responded to with either: Accepted, Revisions or Declined. Acceptance comments will have all the information you need to join the game and introduce yourself and your character, Revision comments will outline the changes we will need to see, and Declined comments will include our issues with the application. Please run the application through a basic spelling, grammar, and formatting check prior to submission. The mods reserve the right to reject an application that is too difficult to make sense of due to any of these areas. Apps may be submitted either in the comments or in a link to a different journal; post the application to this page as a new comment with the following information in the subject line: Character Name | Canon | Reserved/Not Reserved. Please note that we do not accept challenge reserves or challenge apps. Application Template • Player Information • Name: your handle; something to call you Pronouns: Please share your pronouns if you are comfortable doing so. This field is OPTIONAL. Age/18+?: we do require that players be 18 years of age or older. Beyond that, we aren’t particular. Contact: The easiest way to get a hold of you. Many people use plurk, but it isn’t required; all we need is a method of contact to which you typically respond to within 24 hours. Other Characters Played: Any other characters you have at Khu Ioduan. Most Recent AC Link: If you're new, just leave this blank. • Character Information • Name: Their name and any aliases, if applicable Pronouns: Please share the character's pronouns if you are comfortable doing so. This field is OPTIONAL. Canon: Canon name and media type Canon Point: What pull point are you taking them from? Age: Physical and apparent, if they differ significantly Type of Character: Canon, Canon OC, OC, or CRAU Reference: Links to the best references for your canon. Canon wikis preferred. If OC, use this space to tell us a bit about your character’s story and setting conceits, since we won’t have any other references. Personality: The most important section; should be the bulk of the application. Examine the character's motivations, their strengths and flaws, and how they interact with friend and foe, and their world. Appearance: A short description or a link to an image will do. This doesn’t need to be exhaustive. Abilities: What skills or strengths do they have, either both extraordinary abilities and/or notable non-magical ones. Please note that game-breaking abilities may need to be limited, and that abilities which affect other characters against their will (like mind control) will require permissions posts. Suitability: Give us an idea of how best you think your character suits the setting. For example: How will your character handle being in Aifaran? What kind of plots are you interested in pursuing with them? What sort of organizations would you like them to get involved? Do you want them involved in big, overarching stories or are you more interested in slice of life or exploration? Inventory: Are they bringing any special items that they had on them at their pull point? If so, tell us about them. Talent Preferences: What are your (the player) top three choices for Talent schools: Alteration, Conjuration, Destruction, Illusion, or Restoration. Please list them in order of preference. • Writing Sample • Minimum 300 Words We require one sample for an application, and it must be set in-game. This can be structured either as an in-person interaction (whether prose or brackets), or as a network post. Keep in mind that regardless of the formatting, we are looking for a character's introspections, thought processes and reactions to stimuli, and the sample must contain a minimum of 5 dialogue sentences (whether written or typed). This is how we get a feel for your grasp of the character's voice! You may use a link to a Khu Ioduan test drive meme thread, provided it has at least 5 comments from your character. Additional Character Types If you are applying for either a CRAU or Canon OC character, please add the respective field to the bottom of your application. This is not necessary for canon characters or original universe characters.
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REVISIONS
How has being casteless affected him? What aspects of his personality stem from that? Why does he help those in need? Is it because of duty and a selfless nature, or are his reasons more personal and/or selfish? Since he’s from the Dragon Age canon and has been topside for a while, what are some of his opinions on groups outside the Legionnaires?
Why does he have trouble forming attachments? Is he conscious of this part of his personality? If the people he helps have a tendency to want to form a deeper relationship, why does he persist and how does he deal with that pattern?
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Some quick background on the caste system of Orzammar: every dwarf born within the thaig (aka within the city) is born into a caste, which stays with them for the rest of their lives. There is no mobility within the castes except through the birth of the next generation (e.g., someone from a slightly lower caste can have sex with a member of a higher caste, and the child from the union will bear the caste of its same gender parent). Each caste has certain privileges and restrictions placed upon it, and there is a natural hierarchy that positions the nobility at the top, and those born without a caste--those like Kit--at the very bottom. To be born casteless in Orzammar is to be born a non-person, one who is viewed by society as irredeemably bad by virtue of ancestry.
So, taking all of that into consideration, there was definitely a time when Kit would have chafed at the suggestion that being born casteless defined every aspect of his life, because the thought of ceding that much control over his identity to the system of government that decided he was less than nothing even before his birth would have been too much for him to stomach. But as a grown man it is… not easier to look back on the course his life took and recognize that much of it was out of his control, but possible in a way that it just was not when he was a boy in Dust Town, stealing and fighting and killing for the Carta just to keep his head above water. He has self-awareness of the fact his estimation of his own sense of self-worth is mired in the mess that was his formative years, where everything around him reinforced that he was nothing. That he is nothing. This internalized mess of self-loathing is a nightmare to unpack, and he hasn’t yet managed to do it.
Ironically, I think the aspects of his personality that stem from this origin is his ability to spot others who are similarly bogged down by the baggage of an underprivileged or just plain abusive childhood, and to do what he can to pick them up and help them move past it. It’s a little tragic that while he’s able to help others this way, he seems incapable of helping himself--to the point where if others he has helped try to return the favour (or to, in some way, form a deeper friendship or romantic attachment to him), he tends to ghost on those relationships… and leave town, normally. This enables the pattern to start anew: in a new setting without the old baggage behind him, he is yet again confronted by people who need help, who are ignored or spat upon by the people around them, and it’s just not in his nature to turn his back on them. So again he steps in--especially if the victims in question are children.
The inevitable ghosting out of the relationships is not something he consciously does; it’s just that a large part of him does not extend the same kindness, generosity of spirit, and faith in others to himself. When he looks at himself, he sees the same dirt that the rest of Orzammar sees when it looks at Dust Town--and worse. He sees a murderer, and a deserter, because at the end of the Fifth Blight, Kit accidentally killed his closest friend, rather than return to the Deep Roads.
A lot of this is also intimately connected to Kit’s role as a member of the Legion of the Dead. The circumstances that led to him joining the Legion are less important that the life he spent living, fighting, and burying his fellow Legionnaires in the Deep Roads, in an unending battle against the darkspawn. Part of the process involved with joining the Legion involves a figurative ‘death’ of the new Legionnaire; a funeral is held back in Orzammar before the Legionnaire departs Orzammar forever. When the Legionnaire inevitably falls in the battle against the darkspawn, another funeral is held, and the Legionnaire’s remains are returned to the Stone.
Kit took to heart that first funeral--he views himself as figuratively dead, even as he hates Orzammar, hates the caste system, hates that the life of a casteless dwarf gave him only one avenue of escape, and that was to die. But he was deeply loyal to his brothers and sisters in the Legion, and fought and bled for them. He buried their bodies in sarcophagi when they died and said their final rites over them. When he died, he fully intended to have his spirit returned to the Stone. One can imagine how he will feel waking up in Aifaran instead.
Opinions on other groups/organizations in Thedas:
Orzammar: If the Frostbacks were to collapse inward and crush Orzammar into dust, Kit's only regret would be that the thaig would be too far under the rubble for him to find it and take a piss on it. (And in reality, he'd never be able to sleep again thinking of all the Dust Town kids likely killed in the process.) That said, he doesn't take kindly to non-dwarves weighing in on the inequality, oppression, and exploitation created by Orzammar's caste system.
He occasionally wonders about the other last remaining (known) thaig in Thedas, Kal Sharok, and wonders whether they have the same strictly implemented caste system that Orzammar has.
The Grey Wardens: Kit admires and respects the Wardens who ultimately serve the same role as the Legion, though they often combat the darkspawn on the surface during the Blight. He realizes that his hero worship of them likely involves projecting his feelings for the Legion onto them, but otherwise doesn’t interrogate the thought too closely.
Elves: Kit tends to view widespread discrimination against elves with undisguised disgust, and is especially prone to intervene on behalf of city elves struggling to get by in alienages. Their plight probably strikes a little too close to home.
The Chantry: The main human religion on the surface, which seems to cause more trouble than it solves....it's a weird surfacer thing, but it's a weird surfacer thing that's important to a lot of people, so he tries not to belittle it.
ACCEPTED
AFFINITY: Your character's randomized starting ranks for all seven Affinity areas have been added to the tracking spreadsheet! Be sure to bookmark the link for future reference, since Affinity will be part of your Activity Checks.
TALENT: Upon arrival in Aifaran, Kit has received an ability from the school of DESTRUCTION! He will find this image somewhere on their body in a location of your choice, and you're free to decide how your character discovers the specifics of their new power: Thunderwave!
Level 1 Skill: You can cause moderate damage to up to 1 cubic foot of material that you touch. When you do so, it emits a loud bang.
ARRIVAL, HOUSING & NETWORK ACCESS:
Your character will appear somewhere within the city of Aifaran, as it is the concentrated center of the archipelago's power. They should be able to easily find their way to the Dreaming Bridge, since Dreamfolk arriving clueless and confused is a regular occurrence here! Once there, your character has been assigned to the Quayside Wing in Room # 06 and can get settled in. The Dreaming Bridge also provides characters with a basic stipend of various necessities and a small allowance of funds (around the equivalent of $50 worth), since meals are provided at the Bridge for all residents (although it's basically cafeteria food). If your character has any special needs (dietary, mobility, etc), the staff will help them with these requests.
An Opara Core technician on-site will also provide them with their network login information, and will help them with some basic tutorials if they seem unfamiliar with this style of technology. They'll also be issued a mobile handset (a "yimo") at this time and shown how to charge it off the stationary terminals. Remember that your character won't have access to the network without getting a login, so while they may have been able to view some other people's broadcasts, they won't be able to reply or make their own until they've gotten their own login.
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