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wonderful_mods) wrote2012-06-08 11:26 pm
wonderful_mods) wrote2012-06-08 11:26 pm
APPLICATIONS
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History: (For OU characters, a link will suffice. Otherwise, please go into reasonable detail about your character's background, including important events. Additionally, if you're applying as a Player or a Reaper, but your character didn't die in canon, feel free to make something up and put it here for reference.)
Personality: (There is no required length, but please go into heavy detail, backing it up with canon when possible. Really pick the character's brain for motivation and so on.)
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Pending
The history in particular feels sort of thrown together and confusing in terms of the canon. We really don't get a sense for what they were doing before and after the fight with Riku and between that and the subsequent fight with the whole island trio. Other than eating spirits, what was happening? Since nothing was really expounded upon, it looks like there's nothing much to the AU besides the existence of these characters. We understand that it's alternate, but the "universe" part is just not well crafted.
Another thing that's puzzling is that your version of ABC is a "Nightmare" form of Riku, but this is never really touched upon in the app beyond a passing mention. Does he have any 'Riku' traits? This is a point that could use some clarifying, since your sample seems to show something like that.
There's also the fact that this character is more similar to a fandom OC than an AU, and yet because he was an endgame boss, was born from Sora's nightmares, and looks like Riku, he's likely to have a strong IC response from the existing KH cast. We understand that all of these things are technically plausible in KH though, so this is a pretty unusual case in terms of acceptability. Because of that, we'd like to ask how you envision his reactions to the characters in-game.
Hope this covers it! \o/;
While they were within Sora's dreams, they were confined. Which was fine for awhile. They had whatever worlds Sora dreamed up as their playground. But this got boring, since Sora would only dream of worlds he'd been to--limiting them to wherever he had been. They wanted to explore, to see things and experience things for themselves, so there was a growing sense of restlessness. They could explore what worlds he dreamed up, which meant days at Twilight Town's beach or exploring places like Radiant Garden or Wonderland. But it was all filtered through Sora's experiences, and eventually they ran out of world. It was all the same few worlds within Sora's memories, and there just didn't feel like enough room with both them and their eating habits.
The three, after leaving, began to explore like children. They'd never been outside of Sora's dreams, so the Realm of Sleep was like a carnival and they had tickets and never had to leave. Dreams were the carnival food, and the worlds were their varying attractions. They got to explore--really explore--for the first time in their lives. They traverse each and every world they could, enjoying the scenery in Traverse Town, taking strolls through La Cite de Cloches, riding the rides at Prankster's Paradise, tearing through the Grid on light cycles, enjoying the countryside in the Country of Musketeers. Things like that. They were basically children, set loose on the worlds with an unending appetite and no reason or idea of how to stop. They were finally able to explore and fill in the edges of the map for themselves instead of only what Sora experienced.
This had some major consequences, of course, because as they traveled, consuming dreams, it effected the outside worlds. As dreams were consumed by these powerful nightmares, it left bad ones in their place, and nightmares began to spread through the worlds. Spirits tried to fight back, of course, but it was like throwing pebbles at a boulder rolling down a hill.
Eventually, Sora, Riku and Kairi were sent after them. In Prankster's Paradise, because the three Nightmares so enjoyed the rides, they were hunted down. There was a grand battle, each taking on their counterpart. However, it was doomed to failure, and the three Nightmares were slain, allowing the Spirits to rise in population and balance to shift back into place.
Personality: Again, my bad. I was worried about seeming dependent on similarities to Riku and so tried to include as much to make him stand on his own as I could.
ABC is like Riku, but most noticeably, like Riku in KH1. When he perceives a threat to his friends, he overcompensates by becoming quite nasty. They're his big insecurity as well as his point of strength. As he is based off of Sora's fears of leaving them behind, he clings ever tighter to his two friends, acting as their fierce guardian. As well, while he does not fear darkness, and in fact freely uses it, he is cautious and favors a shallow but devastating move pool that utilizes it. Of his five or six attacks, most of them use darkness, but in a way that maximizes potential damage.
His loyalty is definitely very Riku, in that he feels an intense amount of guilt for leading them from Sora's dreams and into the worlds since it ultimately lead to their downfall. At the same time, he understands that they wouldn't like this, and tries (and often fails) to keep that guilt in check.
As well, he has the potential to be just as snarky and sarcastic as Riku from Riku's own previous defense mechanisms shown in the first games, which would tie strongly to Sora's perceptions of when Riku left--bleeding over into ABC, as it were.
Castmates: As for how he would react to castmates, there would be bitter and underhanded resentment toward the Destiny Trio, but he would control himself as he's very aware he's alone and Riku alone killed him. It wouldn't stop the snark on their situations, and it wouldn't stop him from being extremely jealous that the trio has each other while he's utterly alone and will probably never see his friends again. He'll be more passive-aggressive towards the trio than outright aggressive due to the rules of the Game, such as remarking that Riku must be an excellent Reaper given his experiences as a Dream Eater (implying that the two aren't really all that different). But beyond that, he'll still have the fear of being brought down by them and keep a careful distance, choosing to aggravate but not push the boundaries too far beyond the occasional snark when he sees the opening.
As for the rest of the cast, he has... Actually very little reason to care for them outside of the job (and would probably remark on things such as Xion being too nice to serve as a Reaper), but these kinds of remarks would hardly be cast specific and he would treat them the same as he does other Reapers and Players.
Declined
However, the bigger problem is that the AU still reads a lot more like turning a canon character with no information into an OC, but if we were putting him on the same level as a fandom OC, then he wouldn't be applicable as of the rule that states fandom OCs can't be closely related to the canon cast. The fact that the island trio killed his friends, even in an AU, would give him a close personal tie to them in the form of enmity, and that could potentially inconvenience the players of those characters.
Because of the lack of canon support, the line between AU and OC is very blurred in this case, but we've decided to judge him like an OC since the AU was still based entirely around the characters and not really any specific world changes. This is perhaps unavoidable with what you were trying to do, which we should have realized sooner, and so we apologize for the inconvenience.