Sample Application

Thanks to Mon, who has allowed us to use her application for Catseye as an example.

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Basic Information

Character: Catseye

Proposed Character LiveJournal name: (This must start with "x_", as in "x_avier","x_juggernaut", "x_storm" or "x_coldhands".) We prefer that you use a name that will easily make the character journal recognizable, usually this is the character's name from the canon movie or comics. However, this is not a hard and fast rule (for example, Jamie Madrox's journal is x_crowdofone, and Paige Guthrie's is x_foliate)

I'd keep x_catseye.

Player name: Mon

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Character description:

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Details:

Real Name: Gabrielle Elizabeth Smith

Codename: Catseye

Aliases: Sharon Smith

Date of Birth: 1 August, 1989

Place of Birth: New York

Citizenship: American

Relatives: Harold (dad), Rebecca (mom), Evan (older brother), Harrison (younger brother)

Education: Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters (2004-2006), home-schooled by brother Evan (2006-2008)

Relationship Status: Single, though she is very much in love with her MiniSquid.

Occupation: Cat, student at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters (entering high school as a freshman?)

Team Affiliation: none at present, hopefully future X-Man.

Physical Description:

Height: 6'0"

Weight: 155lbs

Eyes: Purple

Hair: Purple

Other Features: Retractable claws on her hands and feet, plus a prehensile tail, even while in human form.

Mental/Emotional/Social Description:

(How does your character think? How does s/he deal with others? How about him/herself? Does s/he handle stress well? What is his/her base emotional state? Is s/he usually sad, happy, sullen, depressed, angry...? Is s/he very clever, or a little slow? What is s/he particularly good at? How about what s/he's bad at? How well adjusted is your character? Does s/he handle one-on-one situations well? How about small crowds? Large crowds? Formal affairs? Authority figures? What does your character fear?)

Catseye thinks like a cat. She's always considered herself a cat who morphs into a girl, and not the other way around. As such, she thinks a lot in terms of personal fulfillment- keeping herself fed, warm, and happy. Her animalistic need to fulfill those goals can make her seem a little bit emotionally detached from her fellow students at times. She'll run away from problems that seem too complex to tackle at first glance and only return once she's worked out a strategy.

Catseye will oftentimes hang back and watch events happening around her without participating. Her base emotional state is very typical of a cat- very relaxed and laid back, almost dismissive so long as she doesn't want anything from anyone. When she wants something, however, she can be a shameful flirt. She also has the tendency to anger easily if she is having trouble getting through to a friend. She can be very blunt to others and because of her tendency to think of herself as a cat and not a human, she can display a teeny bit of a superiority complex, being condescending to 'humans' at times. Despite this, however, Catseye is fiercely protective of 'her humans' at the Mansion and cares for them very deeply. She treats them as her kittens a lot of the time. She has adjusted well to mansion life, so well that after being away from the mansion for two years she is missing the place very much and wishes to return.

She thinks of herself as incredibly clever, especially when it comes to disciplining unruly or silly humans with her five pointy ends, and she is by no means stupid when it comes to working out the moods and problems of her friends. She is rather cunning and sneaky, as well. It's mostly in human academics where Catseye falls short of 'clever'.

Catseye handles people and crowds of all sizes very well in cat form, her preferred shape, but when forced to be human, she can be incredibly self-conscious and can become nervous in any social situation, though she has made some progress with coming to terms with her human form since she first came to the mansion, and doesn't get nearly as self-conscious as she once did. Her curiosity makes her likely to set aside her nervousness about appearing in crowds in human form if she has the promise of experiencing something new.

Background:

(Where did your character grow up? What kind of family was it, large or small, formal or close-knit? What was his/her socio-economic status? How many languages does s/he speak/read/write and what is his/her fluency level in those languages?)

Catesye grew up on the streets of New York. Her family owned a house very far upstate but her father was put off by his infant daughter's physical mutation and when at less than a year old she developed the ability to change into a tiny purple kitten, Harold Smith abandoned his daughter in Manhattan in a snowstorm that stranded the rest of the family in the house for a month. He told his wife and young son Evan that Gabrielle, the baby, had died in her crib. The rest of the family, presumably, is very close-knit. Older brother Evan clearly cares a great deal about all members of his family since even after discovering that his baby sister hadn't perished as an infant, he chose to keep her existence a secret from his parents (his father a member of the FoH) and younger brother Harrison, instead meeting Catseye in public places by himself.

Catseye, after being left in the snow for dead, was raised on the streets by a pack of alley cats, although the pack died out while Catseye was still young since she did not age as a regular cat did, but rather as a human. Catseye wandered about alone until she was informally adopted by an older woman dubbed The Cat Lady. During her tenure with the Cat Lady, Catseye discovered she could change into a girl. When the Cat Lady was incapacitated by a stroke, her animals, including Catseye, were taken to a local animal shelter, where Catseye was discovered to be a feline metamorph and taken to Xavier's. She remained at Xavier's for nearly two years.

After Forge discovered Catseye's true identity and located her family, Catseye went with him to reunite with them but found a FoH sticker on the car and fled instead. Brother Evan spotted purple hair he recognized as being his sister's and tracked the car she'd been in back to Xavier's, where he reunited with Catseye. After several months Catseye went to live with Evan to try to rebuild connections with her family.

In the two years that followed Catseye has met with her mother, but her younger brother and father still don't know of her existence. She has been schooled at home by Evan, but has come to realize that Evan has his own life and can't spend it teaching her all by himself. BigBrother needs to go out, he needs to see his friends and while Catseye enjoys her solitude to a degree, she finds Evan's place lonely at times. She misses her humans at Xavier's very much and after discussing it with Evan has decided to return to the school to finish her education.

Powers:

(What are your character's mutations? How good is s/he at targeting/using/controlling the power? Have the powers manifested yet? How did they manifest? If the power can do damage, how effective is it? What is the range, speed, flexibility of the power? Is there a physical manifestation? What does it look like? Can s/he control when it appears and when it recedes?)

Catseye is a human/feline metamorph. She has complete control over her powers, which manifested at birth. Her powers allow her to inflict considerable damage with teeth and claws. When in her regular (housecat) cat form she retains human intellegence except for the ability to speak, while also demonstrating all the typical abilities of a cat. Catseye can also shift into a mountain lion/cougar-sized feline. She has little human intelligence in this form, however, and instead operates on animal instinct. The physical (human) manifestation of Catseye's powers are her retractable claws (on hands and feet) and her prehensile tail.

Character aims:

(What does your character plan to do while at Xavier's? Why is s/he here? Which other characters do you think s/he'll interact with most? Who do you expect s/he'll like? Hate? Can you envisage any future relationships, romantic or platonic, for this character?)

While at Xavier's, Catseye plans on completing her high school education. She also plans to volunteer at the animal shelter. She's returning to the school to keep an eye on her friends as well, to help keep them safe. She'll most likely interact with Forge, Kyle, Rahne, Dani, Paige, Marius, Jay... everyone who has pastrami or a warm bed, really, as well as the younger students. I expect she'll like her old friends and some of the younger students like Yvette, Inez, Cessily, Callie... she likes Scott, Cain... in reading all her logs and journal posts, I can't seem to find people she _won't_ interact with, even if she likes certain people more than others.

Player Information

Player Experience:

(Please list your previous experience with RPGs, fics, writing, etc. If any part of this experience is anonymous, and you'd like to include it, feel free to do so and we'll keep it in the strictest confidence. Just drop us a note.)

Player aims:

(What do you want out of your game experience? What do you envision for your character - do you want them to be an X-Man or join X-Force or Elpis or just graduate without blowing themselves up or become the only guidance counsellor to not need stress leave? What sort of plots do you like? Are you into action? Suspense/horror? Political thrillers? Romance? Slice of life type scenarios?)

Plot ideas:

(Please briefly describe at least one possible plot idea. It can be directly for your character, or something for the game as a whole - possible X-Men, X-Force or Red X missions, character interaction opportunities like a school dance or a field trip (with or without the field trip curse!), an event that leads to powers or other development for your character or just a little two-character adventure. Don't worry about it necessarily fitting into our universe -- it's just to give us an idea of your independent plot-writing abilities.)

Have you guys ever done an Ani-Men thing? I was gonna say "Days Of Future Past" but since Nute had it in the 30 Days thing I will go with Ani-Men instead since I'm apping a catgirl and the Ani-Men have Cat-Man. Could be something Nate comes across with Elpis? Instead of mutant-child- soldiers they find a bunch of half-animals, half-men are being created as superstrong soldiers by crazy Count Nefaria?

I'd love to see Catseye's family involved in some FoH stuff as well.

Sample entries:

(Please write two sample entries for your character. Think of this as a chance to let us see inside the mindset of the character as you perceive them. These should be public entries and not personal introspectives as there are no 'locked posts' on the character journals in-game. At least one entry should be to the character's personal journal, whilst the other can be to x_journal, x_staff, x_students, x_snowvalley or x_team.)

Personal journal:

Meep. Catseye has come back! Catesye thinks that the mansion looks mostly the same but that it smells of many New People. Probably this means there are lots of new warm beds to sleep in. Catseye must go investigate the new beds right after visiting the kitchen to make sure there is pastrami and that it is still delicious.

x_journal

All your warm laundry belongs to Catseye!