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CHARACTER APPLICATION
If you want to apply for a character at Digital Dive, simply take one of the forms below and reply to this post.
Applications will now be judged on a rotation cycle. Applications can be submitted throughout the entire month, but they will only be judged, rejected, or sent back for revision in the last two weeks of any calendar month.
New to Digital Dive, you can now use the Dive Tests Network to act in place of the RP Sample or D-Comm Network Post. You can only use it for one, however! Further details for how this works can be found here.
Before you apply, there are a few points we'd like to make known:
If you wish to app a character from a movie, video game, or other work released in individual (read, not regular), we'd like to ask that you wait for 30 days out of consideration for spoilers.
Most applications are judged on a two strikes your out policy, with applicants being given one chance to correct aspects of an app that the moderators feel are lacking or in error. However, if the majority of the application has numerous faults, the moderators reserve the right to reject an app wholesale. In the case of a rejected application, you must wait a full month before applying or reserving for them again, and in that time, the character you have applied for is still considered up for grabs.
Because all situations and canons are different, the moderators reserve the rights to question an application's merit and communicate with the applicant about the matter. This can range from how long the canon has been running, the point in which the character is being applied for, concerns of potential canon-mates, and whatever other necessary situations may arise.
We've provided explanations for each section, so please read over them before you apply!
Name and personal journal: List the name you'd like to be called along with your personal journal, if you have one.
Contact: List the methods by which you can be contacted here, including email, instant messagers, or anything else. We must have some means of getting hold of you outside Dreamwidth itself.
Player's Age: Please list your personal age. We ask presently that players be over the age of 16.
Character/Canon: List the character's name and the canon they originate from. If your character is an original creation, regardless of origin, please indicate this.
Character Type: Is your character a main character, a secondary character, a background character, or an OC?
Tamer Class: Please specify whether you are applying for a Soul Tamer, Matrix Tamer, Spirit Tamer, Xros Tamer, or a Digimon on its own. If you are uncertain of which to select, refer to the respective write-ups on Tamer classes.
Furthermore, if you are applying for a Spirit OR Xros Tamer, we would like you to explain why you believe it would fit your character.
Understand that we can and will, if necessary, deny or ask you change your Tamer Class if it is deemed ill-fitting of the character. This does not count as a strike towards rejection, however, except under circumstances when we determine the Class to be ill-fitting and the applicant doesn't comply.
If you don't understand the Class System well and are uncertain of what to pick, you can either ask a moderator, or simply choose "Soul Tamer" as the default option as it is the easiest to manage. You can always change you Class later!
Character appearance: Post an image of your character's appearance, or post a description if you don't have one.
Character age: List your character's age.
Digimon partner(s)/Spirit/Xros Army: If you are applying for a Soul or Matrix Tamer, please list the digimon you have selected for your partner. This digimon must be at the Child level or lower. You need not determine the rest of its evolution line at this time, and even if you do, you may change it at any time provided you haven't already depicted it as evolving into something else. If your Digimon is a fan creation, please indicate this.
If you are applying for a Spirit Tamer, simply state whether you have chosen the Spirit of Fire, Light, Wind, Ice, Thunder, Steel, Water, Wood, Earth, Darkness, or Corrupted Darkness.
If you are applying for a Xros Tamer, due to the fact that these require more information, we require you to list your army's main partner, their super evolution, and the remaining members of their army.
If you are applying for a character who is a Digimon, feel free to leave this blank. However, if said Digimon is an original creation, please indicate this. We are also not accepting applications for Digimon characters who are the Ultimate/Mega level that do not originate from an existing canon - simply put, you would be allowed to apply for BlackWarGreymon from the Digimon Adventure 02 anime, but not an original character who is a BlackWarGreymon.
In general, if you have trouble coming up with a Digimon Partner, you can feel free to ask the community over AIM, the moderators, or refer to sites such as the Digital Monster Almanac or Wikimon.
Xros Ups: If you are applying for a Xros Tamer, we need to know the Xros Ups your Tamer will be able to form from your Primary Partner, what they're called, and what they can do, including attacks and any other special abilities. Note, that this section is also important for determining you have a grasp of the Digi-Xros concept, so this is where you will show that knowledge. This section is not on the app for non-Xros Tamers.
Character history: Describe your character's history. If you're going to go into great, extensive detail, you won't be denied, but note that we do not need a novel written. Quality comes before quantity, and we simply want to know you understand and grasp the canon you are apping from, as well as give us context so we can better understand the following sections. So, please write it out in a concise, but informative manner.
Note however, that for original characters we will hold this section up to much higher standards. An original character can be rejected based on factors ranging from background quality or just seeming to be a poorly conceived character.
Character personality: Describe your character's personality in an informative, but concise, manner. This is one of the most important aspects of the application, to really show you understand the character and where they might be coming from. The raised standards for original characters also applies here.
Digimon partner personality: Describe your Digimon's personality in an informative, but concise manner. Your Digimon are characters too, and just as important as their Tamer. If you are applying for a Xros Tamer or a Tamer with multiple partners, you must list personality for ALL Digimon. Each one will be held up to the same standards as a single partner. If you are apping a Spirit Tamer, you can skip or remove this section.
Character abilities: Describe your character's abilities. Keep in mind that all offensive powers must be scaled down to the Adult level. Most powers that rely on external sources outside the Digital World generally won't function, though there can be the occasional exception depending on how it's described. Keep in mind this is also an important part of determining whether or not the Tamer Class you have selected for your character is right for them.
Please focus on the character's primary, distinct abilities. If the character has a multitude of attacks or spells, free to link to a wiki or other listing that covers said arsenal of powers, but this cannot substitute for the entire ability write-up.
If your character's abilities exceed that which is deemed fair towards the role play in general, you may be asked to tone them down.
On another note, Dive does consider allowing characters to arrive with piloted mecha. This is subject to certain scrutiny, of course, and is judged in comparison to the character's personal abilities outside of the suit and how much their character revolves around the use of said machine.
Sample RP: Please give us a third person role-play sample, depicting your character and their partner(s) interacting. Both sample sections are very important to show your character's voice, and your ability to write your character from a prose perspective, as this will make up a large potential chunk of your role playing in the Logs community.
Sample D-Comm Network Post: Please give us a role play sample from the perspective of posting from the D-Comm Network. It is, effectively, like posting in an online journal or social networking site. Again, we are trying to get a feel for your character's voice.
This is the app for Soul, Spirit, and Matrix Tamers, as well as standalone digimon characters.
This is the app for Xros Tamers:
Banned Digimon partners:
Keep in mind that some digimon are not allowed as digimon partners or components in an evolution line. These digimon are as follows:
Lucemon (all forms)
Arkadimon (all forms)
Apocalymon
Death-X-mon
Ogudamon
Omegamon
Susanoomon
Chaosmon
UltimateChaosmon
Millenniummon
Moon=Millenniumon
ZeedMillenniumon
Gizmon (all forms)
DarknessBagramon
Quartzmon
In addition, with a few notable exceptions, most "Mode Changes" are not acceptable at this time, and you must select the basic version of those Ultimates. The exceptions are Imperialdramon Dragon Mode and Fighter Mode, both of which can be selected as indvidual Digimon, and Duftmon Leopard Mode, which is a component of Duftmon's abilities.
You may reply to this post with your application.
Applications will now be judged on a rotation cycle. Applications can be submitted throughout the entire month, but they will only be judged, rejected, or sent back for revision in the last two weeks of any calendar month.
New to Digital Dive, you can now use the Dive Tests Network to act in place of the RP Sample or D-Comm Network Post. You can only use it for one, however! Further details for how this works can be found here.
Before you apply, there are a few points we'd like to make known:
We've provided explanations for each section, so please read over them before you apply!
Name and personal journal: List the name you'd like to be called along with your personal journal, if you have one.
Contact: List the methods by which you can be contacted here, including email, instant messagers, or anything else. We must have some means of getting hold of you outside Dreamwidth itself.
Player's Age: Please list your personal age. We ask presently that players be over the age of 16.
Character/Canon: List the character's name and the canon they originate from. If your character is an original creation, regardless of origin, please indicate this.
Character Type: Is your character a main character, a secondary character, a background character, or an OC?
Tamer Class: Please specify whether you are applying for a Soul Tamer, Matrix Tamer, Spirit Tamer, Xros Tamer, or a Digimon on its own. If you are uncertain of which to select, refer to the respective write-ups on Tamer classes.
Furthermore, if you are applying for a Spirit OR Xros Tamer, we would like you to explain why you believe it would fit your character.
Understand that we can and will, if necessary, deny or ask you change your Tamer Class if it is deemed ill-fitting of the character. This does not count as a strike towards rejection, however, except under circumstances when we determine the Class to be ill-fitting and the applicant doesn't comply.
If you don't understand the Class System well and are uncertain of what to pick, you can either ask a moderator, or simply choose "Soul Tamer" as the default option as it is the easiest to manage. You can always change you Class later!
Character appearance: Post an image of your character's appearance, or post a description if you don't have one.
Character age: List your character's age.
Digimon partner(s)/Spirit/Xros Army: If you are applying for a Soul or Matrix Tamer, please list the digimon you have selected for your partner. This digimon must be at the Child level or lower. You need not determine the rest of its evolution line at this time, and even if you do, you may change it at any time provided you haven't already depicted it as evolving into something else. If your Digimon is a fan creation, please indicate this.
If you are applying for a Spirit Tamer, simply state whether you have chosen the Spirit of Fire, Light, Wind, Ice, Thunder, Steel, Water, Wood, Earth, Darkness, or Corrupted Darkness.
If you are applying for a Xros Tamer, due to the fact that these require more information, we require you to list your army's main partner, their super evolution, and the remaining members of their army.
If you are applying for a character who is a Digimon, feel free to leave this blank. However, if said Digimon is an original creation, please indicate this. We are also not accepting applications for Digimon characters who are the Ultimate/Mega level that do not originate from an existing canon - simply put, you would be allowed to apply for BlackWarGreymon from the Digimon Adventure 02 anime, but not an original character who is a BlackWarGreymon.
In general, if you have trouble coming up with a Digimon Partner, you can feel free to ask the community over AIM, the moderators, or refer to sites such as the Digital Monster Almanac or Wikimon.
Xros Ups: If you are applying for a Xros Tamer, we need to know the Xros Ups your Tamer will be able to form from your Primary Partner, what they're called, and what they can do, including attacks and any other special abilities. Note, that this section is also important for determining you have a grasp of the Digi-Xros concept, so this is where you will show that knowledge. This section is not on the app for non-Xros Tamers.
Character history: Describe your character's history. If you're going to go into great, extensive detail, you won't be denied, but note that we do not need a novel written. Quality comes before quantity, and we simply want to know you understand and grasp the canon you are apping from, as well as give us context so we can better understand the following sections. So, please write it out in a concise, but informative manner.
Note however, that for original characters we will hold this section up to much higher standards. An original character can be rejected based on factors ranging from background quality or just seeming to be a poorly conceived character.
Character personality: Describe your character's personality in an informative, but concise, manner. This is one of the most important aspects of the application, to really show you understand the character and where they might be coming from. The raised standards for original characters also applies here.
Digimon partner personality: Describe your Digimon's personality in an informative, but concise manner. Your Digimon are characters too, and just as important as their Tamer. If you are applying for a Xros Tamer or a Tamer with multiple partners, you must list personality for ALL Digimon. Each one will be held up to the same standards as a single partner. If you are apping a Spirit Tamer, you can skip or remove this section.
Character abilities: Describe your character's abilities. Keep in mind that all offensive powers must be scaled down to the Adult level. Most powers that rely on external sources outside the Digital World generally won't function, though there can be the occasional exception depending on how it's described. Keep in mind this is also an important part of determining whether or not the Tamer Class you have selected for your character is right for them.
Please focus on the character's primary, distinct abilities. If the character has a multitude of attacks or spells, free to link to a wiki or other listing that covers said arsenal of powers, but this cannot substitute for the entire ability write-up.
If your character's abilities exceed that which is deemed fair towards the role play in general, you may be asked to tone them down.
On another note, Dive does consider allowing characters to arrive with piloted mecha. This is subject to certain scrutiny, of course, and is judged in comparison to the character's personal abilities outside of the suit and how much their character revolves around the use of said machine.
Sample RP: Please give us a third person role-play sample, depicting your character and their partner(s) interacting. Both sample sections are very important to show your character's voice, and your ability to write your character from a prose perspective, as this will make up a large potential chunk of your role playing in the Logs community.
Sample D-Comm Network Post: Please give us a role play sample from the perspective of posting from the D-Comm Network. It is, effectively, like posting in an online journal or social networking site. Again, we are trying to get a feel for your character's voice.
This is the app for Soul, Spirit, and Matrix Tamers, as well as standalone digimon characters.
This is the app for Xros Tamers:
Banned Digimon partners:
Keep in mind that some digimon are not allowed as digimon partners or components in an evolution line. These digimon are as follows:
Lucemon (all forms)
Arkadimon (all forms)
Apocalymon
Death-X-mon
Ogudamon
Omegamon
Susanoomon
Chaosmon
UltimateChaosmon
Millenniummon
Moon=Millenniumon
ZeedMillenniumon
Gizmon (all forms)
DarknessBagramon
Quartzmon
In addition, with a few notable exceptions, most "Mode Changes" are not acceptable at this time, and you must select the basic version of those Ultimates. The exceptions are Imperialdramon Dragon Mode and Fighter Mode, both of which can be selected as indvidual Digimon, and Duftmon Leopard Mode, which is a component of Duftmon's abilities.
You may reply to this post with your application.
Vivio Takamachi | Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha 2/2
Vivio is a normal young girl with a strong sense of justice and studious nature. Between the way that her mothers raised her and the early trauma of the Jail Scagletti incident, Vivio refuses to let any injustice she sees go unpunished. She especially has issues finds out about someone using mind control to force others to do things. So if she finds out about that, she's going to go into a righteous fury. And beat the crap out of said person. And then blow them up with magic, and beat them up some more. Or would if she still had her magic
Vivio is also intensely devoted to her friends, which does includes people she just became friends with recently. If any of her friends are sad, she'll try as hard as possible to find out the problem and fix it, no matter what it is. Also, she likes physical contact, and will hug her friends a lot. And if said friend is chronically sad for whatever reason, she'd just have Vivio hovering around her trying to make her happy for as long as it takes for it to happen (which has been shown quite well in the case of Einhard Stratos in canon Vivid).
She also takes her studies, martial arts and magic training very seriously. As far as her studies are concerned, she studies as hard as she can and she enjoys learning and researching new things. As for her martial arts training and magic training, she works just as hard there as she does with her studies, practicing strike arts under Nove Nakajima and magic under her mother Nanoha and then later Hayate Yagami.
But there is one thing that Vivio hates, and that's being treated like a little kid and not being trusted to be responsible. And even now, if something important would come up and she was told that she couldn't help out because she was a child, she would be rather annoyed. And probably sneak out to go help anyway. This isn’t going to be that much of a problem in the Digital World, as she has already more than proven herself there, but it is a big issue for her back in her home.
Digimon partner personality:
Sorcerymon
Eager to learn anything and everything about the world, Sorcerymon is a rather studious individual who takes scholarly pursuits extremely seriously. Even as a Plotmon she's always been fascinated by knowledge and did whatever she could to study. At the same time, she always wants to better herself and get stronger, which for her powers and magical inclination pretty much means studying all the time. Being partnered to Vivio was one of the best chances she had ever gotten, because Vivio wants to study and learn almost as much as she does.
While she has finally regained her adult form of Sorcerymon on her own, loosing Vivio due to Yggdrasil's whims was not something that she took well at all. Sorcerymon threw herself into her studies even more than she already had, avoiding people and Digimon alike. Sorcerymon hadn't had many friends growing up in Witchleny, and loosing Vivio hurt her more than she realized at first.
Starmon and Pickmonz
Starmon sees himself as a general of an army, commanding his Pickmon. Minions to beat the ever loving crap out of whoever he thinks is an enemy. Which is almost anything that moves. Starmon's kinda a dick. He barely even needs a reason to do it other than "because he can." Which is ridiculous because Starmon doesn't even have ambitions to rule the Digital World or anything like that. He just sees something, decides it’s a threat, and sends the Pickmonz after it.
The Pickmonz are rather simple Digimon, eagerly following Starmon's orders no matter who or what he decides to attack this week. They've been following Starmon for what seems to be forever. That said, they're really friendly to anyone that Starmon doesn't send them after. Not that making friends with them is really a way to get them to avoid attacking you. But they'll say sorry while doing it at least.
Magnamon
Ever hear of the standard standoffish rival guy from most action stories? That's Magnamon in a one sentence description. A former member of the Virus Busters, Magnamon eventually got sick and bored with a cause that he didn't believe in and left. He began touring the Digital World, fighting and beating most of what he came across. Magnamon will still fight against virus types, but it's solely to test his own strength and to prove that despite being weaker than most Magnamon, that he'll still come out on top.
He'll even go out of the way to protect those that he sees as being weak when they're being terrorized, no matter who they are. But it’s only so that he can fight someone who seems strong. According to him, anyway.
Knightmon
A rather joyous individual, Knightmon doesn't fit the normal standard for his species beyond being a chivalrous knight. In fact, he is just a wandering knight at the moment, not forking for a single master or lord after being removed from service from his lord in Albion. And that was just for one reason.
Knightmon loves the ladies just a wee bit too much. He's a complete pervert, which unnerves quite a few female Digimon whenever he comes across them. He'll be perfectly fine propositioning a woman that he first met within ten minutes of meeting her, which very little standard to her digimon species. He'll even hit on humans if they'll old enough.
Character abilities:
Magical transformation into a teenager form with black skintight armor. She has her own device called Sacred Heart or nicknamed Kris, which is a floating stuffed bunny. She also possesses ridiculously strong magical power, to the point that when transformed into her teenage form and fully powered, can be as powerful if not possibly stronger than Nanoha in Blaster Mode. She also knows how to use Nanoha's Divine Buster attack, and has the standard telepathy powers of most Nanoha-verse mages, although with flight and more magical shooting.
Sample RP:
Vivio sighed as she lay against the grass after she and her team had been run out of yet another town just hours after they saved it and were praised as it's "heroes".
All because of the fact that her team could not get along for more than three minutes at the most.
Vivio was really starting to get sick of it. Then only one she didn't that many issues with was Sorcerymon. Even if she did drag too many people into the crossfire whenever she attacked Knightmon for his perverted antics when they were directed at the only girl Digimon of the team.
Magnamon would only help out whenever he thought the enemy was worth his time. Starmon attacked everything and the Pickmonz just followed his every word.
Oh, and Knightmon got them run out of town by hitting on the woman of every town they had come across, sometimes several at once.
The only reason they were even still welcome in Sanctity was because Vivio barely went there unless she needed to report to DATS or see her mother's. Not even DATS Commander Nanoha Takamachi would be able to keep her welcome in that city if her team got up to its usual antics.
Vivio was, quite frankly, sick of it. She cared about all her Digimon, but for the billionth time she wondered why Yggdrasil saw fit to take away her powers and give her everyone here to deal with. Weren't they just fine when it was her and Sorcerymon fighting together with Vivio's magic and digisoul? Did even Yggdrasil think that her magic was better suited to being a scholar rather than being on the battlefield?
She sighed again, looking up and seeing Sorcerymon standing over her. Vivio blinked, sitting up and turning over to the digimon. "Knightmon being a perv again?"
Sorcerymon shuddered. "Yep. Not here. There's a couple of woman he's failing to impress over there."
Vivio just shoved her face in her hand. "We won't see him for a while then. Where's Magnamon?"
"Fighting a swarm off Flymon."
"And Starmon?"
Before Sorcerymon could even answer, a Monochromon ran by being chased by several Pickmonz with Starmon shouting and chasing behind them.
"... You ever think we're the reason Yggdrasil doesn't have more Xros Tamers?" Vivio asked.
Sorcerymon nodded, and Vivio sighed before falling back onto the ground. "If only we could be sure they would kill the world if we went on vacation..."
Sorcerymon could do more than just laugh at that.
Sample D-Comm Network Post:
*There's quite a bit of commotion in the background as Vivio's face comes on the screen, a rather liberal amount of dirt splashed all over her face.*
Hi everyone! That fight was harder than we thought it was going to be, but we won! This down doesn't need to worry about that Vamdemon anymore.
*She frowns a bit though.*
But we have a bit of a problem here...
GET YOUR HAND OFF MY ASS! CRYSTAL CLOUD!
Sorcerymon! You're reacting a bit too harshly!
NO I'm NOT! YOU WILL KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF!
*There's the sound of more magic flying around before a cry of "Attack Men!" And the sound of screams from neighboring digimon. Vivio turns away from the screen for a moment.*
Magnamon! Stop Starmon!
No. They're not strong enough to prove a challenge to me.
*Vivio sighs, turning back to the screen as she bites her lip.*
I think my team might be worse than him...
Can anyone give me some help?
Re: Vivio Takamachi | Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha 2/2
In addition, please tell us the journal name for your character and make a IC contact page in it as well.