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SRWUG@ Applications

Application Rules

Before you can post or comment with a character in either comm, you must apply and be accepted here.
Each player is be limited to 6 characters. However, provided a player has six characters and maintained good activity for all of them, they may request a seventh slot. In the event they drop a character though, they will have to request the seventh slot again. More details on the seventh slot can be found here.
Furthermore, after introducing a new canon to the RP, each player will have to wait at least one full activity cycle before they may do so again.
When posting an app, please put the character name and whether the character was reserved in the comment subject
You may not app characters who are Reserved, Taken or serve a primarily antagonistic role without working something out with the mods first - please read those two entries first, along with the FAQ if you're new.
The template is below, note that depending on what kind of character you are apping you may be able to ignore some portions of the template.
You must fill out all sections marked REQUIRED; other sections are optional or may not be relevant to your character.
Please note that the Unit/Flagship sections are required if you want to have one, and should be written in your own words. Supplemental links to wikis or MAHQ are fine, but only as supplements; we need to know you can play your unit in combat just like we need to know you can play your character in RP.
Before writing the app, it is extremely important that you familiarize yourself with the world of UG@ and read the wiki. The world is not a blank slate for you to work with; it is a specific post-apocalyptic setting with a large amount of predetermined backstory and as a result, there are some things which simply will not be found in it
If you want to app an OC (original character), please view the section below the app template.
Any character for which canon review would be difficult and/or require a large amount of money (such as video games and untranslated works, fan translations are usually okay) requires a full write up, using the rules outlined for Original Characters below.
For notes on each specific section click here.
Due to UG@ entering endgame, limitations on applying new canons come into effect. These affect only already-established players who have characters in the game, not new players. Details are here.

The Application (Copy and paste this, then fill it out.)

Player Name: (Just whatever you want to be called, doesn't have to be your IRL name.)
Personal LJ: (This can be your character Journal)
AIM Contact: (May be switching to IRC or something similar for missions, but we would like some way to contact you in real-time)
Character Name: (Uh... yeah)
Source Canon: (For an original character, it would be good to give your canon a title, otherwise this is pretty self-explanatory)
Community Tag: (So we don't end up with multiple tags for the same character, should be some form of the character's name. If nothing else, “Firstname Lastname”, preferably in Western order, should be satisfactory.)

Notes: (While this is positioned at the top of the app for our convenience, feel free to add things to it as you go along.)

Background: *REQUIRED* (This is a description of your character's background as per canon. This can be a wiki link for a translated canon, or a full text description for anyone. If you are writing it up and want to avoid spoilers you can send it to the mod account. If you do so title the message “[Character's Name]'s Background” and note here that you sent it to the mod account.)

Personality: *REQUIRED* (Show us you know the character. At least 3 or 4 paragraphs is a good length for this section.)

Capabilities and Resources: (We know your character has something to do with robots, otherwise you wouldn't be here. But what else does s/he do? Newtype? Geass powers? Own a company? Member of a military in good standing? That all goes here.)

(*REQUIRED* if you have a robot. Power armor/transformed forms also belong to this section)
Robot Name: (Uh... yeah)
Robot Description: (What weapons does it have and what can they do? Is your mecha a super (superhero-y) robot or a real (military-ish) robot? Does it have any special armor or forcefields? Magical powers? Traits? Can it fly? How? Feel free to link to a wiki or fansite to give an overview, but write the details down here.)
Terrain Stats: (This is optional, but for those who have played SRW, this is a good way to give us a quick judge of how good your mech is overall. For those of you who haven't played the games, they are measured: --, D, C, B, A, S, with -- or D meaning it can't fight there at all and S being the best. Note that only upgrades tend to have an S unless they are entirely gimped or unusable in other areas.)
Land:
Air:
Sea:
Space:

(*REQUIRED* if you captain a flagship)
Flagship Name: (Uh... yeah)
Flagship Description: (Essentially the same as a robot description... except for a flagship instead. What abilities does it have? Does it have any special support capabilities? Is it intended to be used with specific units or kinds of units?)
Terrain Stats: (Same as above.)
Land:
Air:
Sea:
Space:

Upgrades: (if any)

Job: (if any)

Suggested Event List: (The event list should consist of important combat actions that would make good material for missions, or special events and logs that require mod or NPC intervention. Feel free to label an event as a Mission or a Log. For a description of differences between Missions and Logs, please consult the Specific Application Section Notes. At this point, canons should not have more than 20 events total.)

Sample Post: *REQUIRED* (This should be in character, though it could be a journal entry or an action post or what have you. The purpose of this is to get a feel for your writing style and portrayal of the character.)

Original Characters

The most important thing to remember when designing your original character: your OC can't do everything. As well, be reasonable with your character's powers: the "power level" here is pretty high, but try to be self-consistent at least.
Your original character must be detailed enough that we can run a game with them, and show us that you have put enough thought into the character that you know them as well as you would know any other character that someone else made up. While we don't necessarily expect you to not make up anything on the fly while RPing your OC, we do need them to have enough definition in the first place that they don't become your personal "whatever is convenient at the time" spouting device.
The above also means we reserve the right to ask for longer or more detailed Personality and/or Background section, simply to make sure we have a full idea of the character without canon review to fall back on.
The mech/battleship and capabilities/resources sections are just as, if not more, important than background and personality, if they're applicable to your character. Also, a physical description of its appearance is highly encouraged.
If your OC is written using plot devices from another canon, please make sure you ask the player's playing from those canons first. Some things are assumed to be part of the setting as opposed to any particular canon, so being a Coordinator, Newtype, Psychodriver or what not is generally okay so long as you aren't a super special example. Anything more specific, such as being a member of such and such organization or having been at a historical event definitely needs permission.
You need an event list if you want events, and your event list needs to be a little more detailed than for a canon character for the same reasons as personality and background.
The sample post section may take several forms for non-OCs, but for original characters we ask for a post on testrun_box. This is to ensure you have a good grip on your character's personality and how to roleplay them.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Player Name: Ethan
Personal LJ:

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AIM Contact: Captain Gardock/

Character Name: Setsuna F. Seiei
Source Canon: Gundam 00
Community Tag: “Setsuna F. Seiei”

Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundam_00

Notes: Aeolia Schenberg was among the first people to predict the Second Impact. His plan, set into motion after it, has one more official tenet than it did in canon: Celestial Being would rid the world of war in order to prevent what was left of the rebuilding human population from annihilating each other. After one or two adversarial encounters between Celestial Being and the White Chalice, Veda made the prediction that the White Chalice would ultimately serve far more of a role in preventing conflict than promoting it, and issued the Ptolemaios instructions to join its fleet until further notice. Thus, a somewhat uneasy truce was formed.

Personality: Setsuna is an impossible Gundam nut, according to Lockon (Neil). He deifies Gundams about as close to literally as one can use the word “deify” without him literally bowing down and praying to them. He's aware on a surface level that they're machines, but he prefers to think of them as almost an abstract concept, which is how people and organizations (and songs, sometimes) can Be Gundam. To Setsuna, Gundams are something between sacred guardians of peace and the personification of peace itself. Rather iconically, he wants to become one.

He's not a very well-adjusted kid, is the thing. He displays little emotion, but he's not quite the soulless android type even on the surface—he gets angry, for example, just fine, and in extremely dramatic fashion. Aside from the fact that his development was stunted by the whole child soldier thing too early for him to have any social skills, the main problem is his one-track mind. He doesn't shut off his emotions to keep them from interfering with the mission so much as his obsessions and neuroses keep him too busy for most of the appropriate, getting-along-with-people emotions.

There is a scene, early in the series, in which Setsuna is sitting in a public square, minding his own business, where he briefly, vividly hallucinates a bomb striking the area and killing everyone but him. His total lack of reaction suggests it happens frequently; he's almost as haunted by war and his traumatic time in the KPSA as he is obsessed with Gundam's potential to end it. He has an established disdain for people who get melodramatic about problems that don't involve unspeakable death and carnage (Louise).

Setsuna has trouble with conversations. It's not that he doesn't want to talk, it's just that the things he's interested in talking about have a way of silencing everyone else. He's always thinking about war and suffering and religion and human nature and has very little concept of what is or is not a good time to ask someone a deep, difficult philosophical question. Similarly, he tends to relate everything he hears to his heavy musings (which is facilitated by every single subject of discussion in the 00 universe relating to the heavy stuff he muses about, but still).

The specific questions Setsuna is always asking himself and others are what makes the world so twisted—senseless, chaotic, in UGA's case almost destroyed, and full of war and hatred—and what the key is to undoing that distortion. He comes up with a lot of answers for the former, but the latter—aside from Gundam—he ultimately decides is understanding. I guess what I'm saying is that Setsuna is the Heart of Space.

Capabilities and Resources: Aside from basic access to Celestial Being's resources, Setsuna is a normal human. For now. Once he becomes an Innovator, he'll basically be a Newtype. Telepathy, the ability to sense the feelings of others, enhanced reflexes/precognition, the works.

Robot Name: Gundam Exia
Robot Description:
Real Robot
Flying
GN Drive (excellent power source + automatic communications/radar interference)
Trans-AM system (unlocked via plot event; temporary dramatic performance boost, followed by weakened performance until the GN Drive recharges)
High agility; jumps and flips around a lot when on the ground
WEAPONS AND ATTACKS:
GN Beam Pistol
GN Beam Vulcans (on opposite arm)
Seven Swords System (comprising all of the following)
GN Sword (Arm-mounted physical sword, main weapon)
GN Blade x2 (One-handed physical swords, one short, one long)
GN Beam Saber x2
GN Beam Dagger x2 (miniature beam sabers used as throwing weapons)

Terrain Stats:
Land: A
Air: A
Sea: B
Space: A

Upgrades: I will submit the 00 Gundam/-Raiser description along with the Season 2 event list after I canon review Season 2. Also Qan-T and the movie I guess!

Job: Gundam

Suggested Event List: My plan is to skip the very beginning of the series just to have the CB pilots on-base without an intro mission. And as stated above, I'm just worrying about S1 events until S2 rolls around.

MISSION: No particular episode - Celestial Being, along with the White Chalice, carries out an armed intervention against two warring factions. This can be lifted straight from 00 canon or integrated with another series, depending on which is more convenient. Graham Aker and his Flag should probably be involved at the end.

MISSION: Episodes 6-7 – Exia is upgraded with the Seven Swords System pre-mission. The AEU, a European government alliance, holds a joint military exercise with the country of Moralia. Team Protagonists, as I shall henceforth call CB+White Chalice, responds to this obvious challenge. There, Setsuna duels an Enact piloted by Ali al-Saachez, stepping out of his cockpit to confirm the man's identity. Saachez retreats when people start shooting at him to save Setsuna's dumb ass.

LOG/Offscreen?: Setsuna meets Princess Marina Ismail of Azadistan, and they begin imitating Heero and Relena.

MISSION: Episode 8 – A terrorist network begins carrying out random attacks on civilians around the world, delivering an ultimatum to Team Protagonists to surrender and stop intervening in wars and world affairs. Celestial Being pools its resources to identify the network and its bases of operations, and Team Protagonists deploys to two or three separate locations to fight back. The base to which Setsuna is assigned contains an old mobile armor that serves as a miniboss.

MISSION: Episodes 9-10 – A special forces team from the Human Reform League, led by Sergei Smirnov and including Soma Pieres, attacks Team Protagonists via brilliant tactical maneuvers. (Tieria and Allelujah are almost captured, but manage to do their thing.)

MISSION: (Optional I guess? Like the previous log it would probably make more sense with a PC Marina): Episodes 12-13 – An Azadistani religious and political leader who is trying to prevent civil war is kidnapped by Ali al-Saachez's mercenary group, who are trying to start said war. Team Protagonists rescues the man and delivers him safely to the Azadistan royal palace.

MISSION: Episodes 14-16 – At least the three major military factions from 00 (other Gundam villains being integrated is pretty SRW canon) hold a joint military operation involving hundreds of mobile suits to destroy Team Protagonists. A colossal battle of attrition with many named enemies/minibosses ensues, and the player characters are slowly exhausted. They are rescued by Team Trinity in the Gundam Thrones, who, it quickly becomes apparent, are both mysterious and evil as all get-out.

MISSION: Episode 19 – Team Protagonists gives up on tolerating Trinity's ridiculous violence and starts fighting them. (Setsuna, Lockon, and Tieria become Bros 4 Life.)

MISSION: Episode 21 – The three factions from 00 roll out GN-Xes against Team Protagonists; they are scary. The Celestial Being Gundams are officially locked out of Veda and switch to a normal operating system. (Lockon is injured.)

MISSION: Episode 22 – Team Protagonists intervene in a battle between GN-Xes and Team Trinity just as Ali al-Saachez is stealing Throne Zwei and destroying Eins. Meanwhile, Alejandro Corner and Ribbons Almark are taking total control of Veda and killing Aeolia Schenburg, which triggers the activation of the Trans-AM system. Saachez retreats after getting his ass kicked by Setsuna.

MISSION: Episodes 23-25 – Team Protagonists fight off a large wave of GN-Xes, then a GN mobile armor called the Alvatore piloted by Alejandro Corner. Heavy damage is taken (Lockon dies in the first part, unless Deus intends to save him); Setsuna destroys the Alvatore with the Exia's special anti-GN-field capabilities, then fights Graham to a stalemate and disappears for the hypothetical timeskip we may or may not have. (If not, he'll come back whenever the 00 S2 plot starts.)

Sample Post: Here's one from a while back. (http://mecha-dressing.livejournal.com/14026.html) I've done a few threads with him in Testrun since, if it's a bit too tiny.