Application

[the_overseers]

Application Rules:
-Certain characters canonically have great influence over dimensional travel (such as Yuuko from xxxHolic or one of the Data Integration Thought Entity humanoid interfaces from Haruhi Suzumiya, i.e. Yuki and Ryoko) will have a greater influence in the setting than normal, or are just extremely high-powered and can potentially affect the game in major ways. Playing one often requires some special plot integration, and require a player to have established themselves by playing another character before they will be accepted.

-AU settings are generally allowed on a case-to-case basis, but no more than one of the same character can be a permanent member of Planeocracy. If the AU is significantly different and established (such as the Genderbend of Haruhi Suzumiya) then it is generally allowed, as the characters are different enough from the main source to be distinct. Apping an AU character uses the standard application procedure, but if the AU doesn't meet our requirements, we may deny them on that basis. Here are the qualifications for if your AU is acceptable:

1. Significantly different from the source material. Minor tweaks to history and/or personality don't make an AU different enough to really be worth accepting for us. For an AU to be accepted it needs to have something major different to differentiate it from the canon.
2. Internally consistent. In most cases you'll be coming up with the AU yourself, so you need to make sure it all makes sense within the setting. So, if something changes, the whole setting obviously has to change as a result, and we need to know how.
3. This isn't absolutely necessary, but if at all possible the character will look at least somewhat different from their canon counterpart. This is primarily to help differentiate if we have both.

If you are thinking of apping an AU of a character, please get a hold of all potential castmates as well as any person playing the same character (if this is applicable). This is required for your application to be accepted.

-Original characters are permitted, they use the same application form but require far more detail as far as background and setting. If they are a part of an existing canon, they cannot have any ties to actual canonical characters or visible connection to events (attributing events in-canon to the character that are otherwise unattributed may be permissible but is generally discouraged). As with canon characters, you are limited to two OCs, even if the OCs are from different universes. Planeocracy canon originals can use any of the settings posted in the setting information post that specifically say they are open, and must conform to the general concepts of the world. It is HIGHLY advised to speak to the mod team before making the character, these characters can be rejected automatically if they do not follow the general concepts of the established world.

-You may only have one application in queue at a time. If you would like to submit a second app, you must wait until your first has been processed.

Application Template:
Looked over the community? Brushed up on all 31,561,021 Confuto Ordinatio rules and regulations? Filled out all your forms in triplicate? Looks like you're ready to get that Gate Key! Just fill out the following form and submit it to the Executive Subcommittee of Other-Planar Affairs! That Gate Key should be yours in 5-7 business days!

<b>Player Name</b>: (An alias or online name is perfectly fine) <b>Character Name</b>: <b>Canon</b>: <b>Background</b>: (This can be a simple background link to a wiki or otherwise, so long as it's of reasonable depth. If one is not available, try to give us a good general idea. You can be brief, but give us enough information so we know where you're coming from.) <b>Setting Information</b>: (fill out the World Description posted below. If your world is already represented, you may skip this step.) <b><big>World Name</big></b> <i>Canon Name</i> <u>Ability Changes:</u> (Describe how a character's abilities change here, such as manifesting differently, turning into magical creatures, or even being totally removed) <u>Ability Limitations:</u> (Describe the general power level of the world and how much or how little a character would be limited) <u>Form Restrictions:</u> (Describe the forms people will take, such as human only, or whatever different races there are) <u>Social Restrictions:</u> (Describe any particular social quirks or things that are important to know about the world.) <u>Notes:</u> (Silly warnings and anything else you might want to add) <u>Additional Information:</u> (This can be a link, or it can be a larger description of the setting at large. For original settings, this section will need to be expansive and descriptive.) <b>Portal Location</b>: (Where did your character enter Confuto Ordinatio from? This can be something simple like their house, or something more interesting like the site of a dramatic battle. Even if another character from your canon is apped in, please choose a portal, the organization seals up newly discovered portals so they can only be crossed by those with Gate Keys. Thus, every person enters through a newly discovered portal.) <b>Personality</b>: (This can't be copied from or linked to a wiki, we want you to say, in your own words, who this character is. Ideally, four solid paragraphs should be the bottom range for length, if you can't write that much on the character's personality you should probably think twice about applying with them. Exploring their motivations and quirks is generally a good idea, give us a solid idea of who this character is and why.) <b>Abilities and Powers</b>: (Summarize the stuff your character can do, outlining both strengths and weaknesses within their ability/power set. Note: characters with extremely high power levels and the ability to affect things on a high level cannot be apped as a first character) <b>Reason for Joining</b>: (As a character in Planeocracy, you are joining the Agents, a group dedicated to keeping the different worlds from collapsing and merging with each other. Why did your character join? Did they do it willfully? Did some corporate douchebag shanghai them into it? The reasons are totally up to you, so long as they're plausible, but we want you to have an IC reason for being here instead of just going home and never returning.) <b>Position Desired</b>: (normally, a character comes in as an Agent, but if you think they should be an Enforcer or Councilor, say why here. Characters worthy of being Enforcers should generally be the cream of the crop. Leaders, especially combat-oriented leaders make good Enforcers, Enforcers are much like Agents but with added prestige, responsibility, and power that Agents do not have. If your character is a strong leader, ideally with some sort of military or command experience, they are qualified to be an Enforcer. Characters worthy of being Councilors are those of high rank and social standing in their own world. They are not required to be extremely competent, but they must have high social standing in their own world. This usually includes characters of noble families and characters of high wealth and affluence. Councilors must have SOME experience with ruling and politics, the child of a noble who eschews their position is not qualified while the pampered princess who rules from her father's side is.) <b>Point in Canon</b>: (What part of canon are you taking them from? Updating characters can be done in-game by simply contacting the mods and letting them know what's up, so you are encouraged to apply from earlier in canon if it suits you and update them over the course of the game) <b>Notes</b>: (This is completely optional, you can put things like suggestions for the humorous warnings put in the World descriptions, mention any special things about your character that need a special mod ruling, or whatever. If you have anything else to say, say it here) <b>Sample Post</b>: (You can do this one of two ways. Either give us a musebox post, or by filling out the form and interview questions below. Our official shared musebox is <lj site="livejournal.com" user="testrun_box"> which you may join and use to create a sample. If desired, you may instead fill out the form found below. Dear_Mun or equivalent are not acceptable samples, but a link to IC journals or posts you have m made playing the character in the past is an acceptable sample)

The following is an alternate form that can be used in place of a musebox sample post. It takes the form of an application and interview as if the character were applying for a job. Respond to the questions in-character, if you or your character doesn't know what they're asking for indicate it in some way. The character can lie if doing so is in character, but indicate they are doing it by writing "[LIE]" before the answer to the question.

OPO-25A
Gatekey Requisition Request Form
Executive Subcommittee of Other-Planar Affairs

<b>Name</b>: <b>Gender</b>: <b>Age</b>: <b>Home Plane Identification Number</b>: <b>Visitor Identification Number</b>: <b>Reason for requisitioning a Gate Key</b>: <b>Intended use of the Gate Key</b>: <b>Favorite Color</b>: <b>Measurements (Female applicants only)</b>: <b>Relevant World-Shattering Abilities</b>: <b>Relevant Non-World-Shattering Abilities</b>: <b>Psychiatric Evaluation Code</b>: <b>Hobbies</b>: <b>Education Background</b>: <b>Work Experience</b>: <b>Favorite Plant and/or Animal</b>: <i>Interview</i>: <b>What brings you to Confuto Ordinatio?</b>: <b>What family members do you think were most influential into making you who you are today?</b>: <b>So how 'bout them Tenbraks eh? Eh? Catch the game? 52-7, I told Janice in Accounting, I said "those Balthims, they're just not up to snuff this year," but no, she said "I'll bet you 20 plat they're gonna take the banner." Take that bet I did, she still insists they'll turn it around though. Ain't that a riot?</b>: <b>What inspired you to apply for an Agent Position?</b>: <b>What would you say are your greatest strengths?</b>: <b>What would you say are your greatest weaknesses?</b>: <b>What skills do you think you'll bring to this agency?</b>: <b>Tell me about some of your prior work experience.</b>: <b>How would you say your prior work experiences shaped you as a person?</b>: <b>You sound like you'll be a wonderful match, but you know, rules and procedures and all that so I've got a few more questions for you.</b>: <b>Do you have a history of meddling in affairs you shouldn't be meddling in?</b>: <b>Do you consider yourself a hero of justice?</b>: <b>Have you ever wanted to work for something bigger than yourself?</b>: <b>Looks like I was right. You're a great fit here, glad to have you on board!</b>:

Comments

[gimmegamedammit.livejournal.com]

Player Name: AJ/zferolie/ zferolie
Character Name: Asagi
Canon: Nippon Ichi

Background: http://disgaea.wikia.com/wiki/Asagi

Setting Information: Asgai comes from a world that no longer exists/was never published. She spends her time traveling the different Nippon Ichi worlds, trying to find her game, or to steal the main character spot from others. She has been seen most in the Disgaea worlds, but first Appear in the Makai Kingdom world. She was also seen in the Soul Nomad world. How Asagi can travel to all these different places is never explained. One reason is that she got some sort of power from Zetta, that lets her travel these worlds.

Portal Location: Since she the world she is from is gone/never published, Asagi found this one in the Disgaea Universe. It was in the Netherworld book store, next to the books on "How to be a better Main CHaracter".

Personality: Asagi has had a rough life. She has had her game canceled, she was forced to work for a book, and when she thought she might have gotten a game, Baal stole it from her. As such, she thinks the world is out to get her. She is very paranoid, and if she even thinks you are trying to steal her game, or take her role as main character, she will attack you. Though after she loses, she gets depressed and starts crying, saying she will never find her own game, and the programmers are just toying with her, making her a gag character.

Saying Asagi is obsessed with being a main character would be a huge understatement. Her whole life and existence revolves on her finding her own game and becoming a main character. Because of this, she talks about main characters, plot points, extra bosses, and anything else game related constantly, and anyone who isn't from a world with 4th wall breaking will think she is crazy. She also Studies from books on how to be a main character, plays games to see what the best main character would be, and even tries to hack the programing of the game she is in to max out her levels, all to make her a better main character. She often will reference other games, but not by exact name. An example of this is Asagi went ant played some fighting games(most likely Dead or Alive) and found that the females should have huge boobs. So, she ate a mushroom(Mario) to make her boobs grow big. This did not work of course.

While Asagi deep down is a good person who just wants her own game, she can have moments when she acts like a bad guy, and just starts bad mouthing other main characters. In Soul Nomad, she acted like a bad guy, because she just thought that maybe she needed to change her image, and a bad ass main character would help her chances in getting her own game. In the Prinny games, she is shown to have burst of anger, yelling at the prinny on how he's just a god damn demon and he got lucky in getting that role. She then snaps out of it, wondering where that anger came from.

Reason for Joining: Asagi see's this as an opportunity to become a main character. No more does she have to hop from game to game, trying to find her main character role. She feels that she can show the world how amazing she can be, and can experience what it feels like to be a main character on all these missions. Her dream is someone will notice her, and make a game based off her exploits.

Position Desired: Agent would be best

Point in Canon: Since Asagi's canon is, well, just her guest appearances so it's hard to tell what officially happens, I am going to say it is during the Prinny PSP game, before she blows up and dies.

Notes: Just warning people that while she might not recognize any non-Nippon Ichi people, she might say she has seen someone like you in a game or anime. Also, she has convinced herself that she is the main character, or deserves to be the main character, and this will have her clash with people at times.

Sample Post: http://community.livejournal.com/testrun_box/53701.html

[the-overseers.livejournal.com]

All right, after reviewing this I think the way I'm going to handle it is as such:

Pick one continuity that Asagi appears in and stick with that for the world and personality details. So, if you pick Soul Nomad, she's a Soul Nomad character, if you pick Disgaea she's a Disgaea character and so on. I am going to suggest using Prinny for the continuity since I believe that's where she has the most canon, but the choice is yours.

Unfortunately that will mean I will need a revised personality section based on that one continuity you pick. With the sample, if her personality is consistent enough with the continuity you're picking, then go ahead and go with that, otherwise, I'll need an additional one.

[gimmegamedammit.livejournal.com]

Canon: Disgaea Universe, but from the Prinny Canon
Setting Information: http://disgaea.wikia.com/wiki/Prinny:_Can_I_Really_Be_the_Hero%3F
Personality: Asagi has had a rough life. She has had her game canceled, she was forced to work for a book, and when she thought she might have gotten a game, Baal stole it from her. As such, she thinks the world is out to get her. She is very paranoid, and if she even thinks you are trying to steal her game, or take her role as main character, she will attack you. Though after she loses, she gets depressed and starts crying, saying she will never find her own game, and the programmers are just toying with her, making her a gag character.

Saying Asagi is obsessed with being a main character would be a huge understatement. Her whole life and existence revolves on her finding her own game and becoming a main character. Because of this, she talks about main characters, plot points, extra bosses, and anything else game related constantly, and anyone who isn't from a world with 4th wall breaking will think she is crazy. She also Studies from books on how to be a main character, plays games to see what the best main character would be, and even tries to hack the programing of the game she is in to max out her levels, all to make her a better main character. She often will reference other games, but not by exact name. An example of this is Asagi went ant played some fighting games(most likely Dead or Alive) and found that the females should have huge boobs. So, she ate a mushroom(Mario) to make her boobs grow big. This did not work of course.

Asgai, while generally a nice person, also is seen to of moments when she flips out, and starts letting all of her anger out at people. In the Prinny game, she had a Brooklyn, and would badmouth the main character, the game itself, and even the people playing the game. After a few moments of this, she reverts to her regular speech, confused on why shy talks that way, and worried if this is something new to make her a gag character. She mainly gets angry if someone points out how crazy she is acting, or when she loses a fight, or if she gets frustrated that she when she fails at something.

*Note, the following is what I view to be her past, since very little is shown about Asagi* Now, why Asagi tries so desperately to be a main character comes from her tragic past. Asagi was an orphan, never knowing her parents. She was raised in an orphanage her whole life. She grew up reading stories about great heroes, and how they were loved by all and remembered for all time. Asgai dreamed of one day becoming such a hero, so people would know she existed, love her, and remember her. So, she trained to become the greatest hero ever, but not just strength, but in how a main character in any book and story should act. She might not have always used the best examples, like fighting games and comic books, but she worked hard at it, till one day she was promised her own game. Just when she thought she reached her dream, the game was canceled in favor of a game based on demons. Asagi was crushed, but she would not give up. She went to the Netherworld, determined to she the world that she could be better main character then any demon could.

Point in Canon: I'm taking Asagi right before the final battle in her mode in the Prinny game, because at the end she dies and becomes a prinny, and I don't want to play Prinny Asagi, even though she is cute. In the second game she is a playable character, but only in a hidden mode and only as a prinny. If I found out she become human again after that, then I'll move her up to that point.

Notes: Only thing I ca say that different in this Netherworld compared to the regular Netherworld is that Prinnies can actually be dangerous, if they are wearing a magic scarf. Also, do not steal Pudding if you don't want to be killed by a crazed Loli demon.

[the-overseers.livejournal.com]

Approved! Welcome Agent Asagi! Please comment here with your character journal and be sure to join/watch planeocracy and planeooc as well as friend the_overseers for future updates and contact info! You are also welcome to join our for-fun community planeocracky for memes and general silliness.

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Currently, your housing assignment is Agent housing room number 304. You will be rooming with Snake Man.

[gimmegamedammit.livejournal.com]

Yes! My day as a main character has arrived!!