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Okay so application is a very strong word and not entirely accurate, but it's a term we all know so bear with me. This is the page where you officially submit your character information for the game! Apps will not really be judged on its contents but more making sure everything fits into the setting of the game. If you want more information on the setting, please check out the FAQ!
How do I join the game?
This app page is currently open! Apps can be submitted by players at anytime. Apps are reviewed by the mod on Sundays.
To join the game, the only big thing is you'll require an invite from another player. Players can invite up to 2 people per month. Just be sure to list their name and have the person confirm that they did invite you either by contacting the mods directly or commenting to your app. Apps that do not have a invitation confirmation will not be looked at by the mods. If a confirmation does not come within two Sundays of the app's submission, it'll be automatically rejected.
A new player must be in the game one full month from their app acceptance date before they can invite another player (meaning if their app was approved on September 18th, they can invite people starting October 18th). This is so the new player has a chance to get acclimated to the game and community enough to assist any friends they later invite to the game.
Players who were in the game but who dropped/were swept will not need an invite to rejoin the game for up to one month after their drop date. After that month, they will require an invite to rejoin.
Once you submit your app, you'll get a welcome comment confirming that everything is a-okay. The only times I'll ask for revisions is if there needs to be a fix with power purchases or possessions.
Is there a player cap?
There is a player cap! Kaisou allows a total of 75 players. Should we ever reach cap, apps will close until openings become available.
PLAYER SLOTS: 46/75 filled.
What kind of characters do you allow?
Most things! Canon characters, Original characters, CRAU, AU characters - the list goes on. Double characters are also allowed so long as the doubles are notably different from one another (examples: MCU Peter Parker and Into the Spider-verse Peter Parker would be fine as they are two clearly different interpretations of the character. Alternatively, a canon version of a character and an AU version of the same character would be fine as long as the AU causes a notable difference in the character). Customizable protagonists and characters from canons with different story routes are allowed, and any characters with differing story routes would be considered AUs from one another.
The only requirement for a character is that they do require a consistent canon history. This is because many of the plot events and mechanics deal with memories and connections to their previous life (or current life if an OU). If you wish to app a mascot character that doesn't have a specific canon background (a vocalid, clippy, the trix rabbit, etc) - you are welcome to write an OC that's inspired by the character with a clear established background to work from. Characters who have multiple canon iterations (like Link from Legend of Zelda or Sonic the Hedgehog) will need to pick a single iteration to pull their canon background from. Characters must also have been properly introduced (not just a quick cameo) in their canon for at least one month at the time of apping.
How many characters can I play at a time?
You can play up to four active characters at a time! Only two of these characters are allowed to be Original Universe and there is a player cap of 25 OU players.
OU PLAYER SLOTS: 24/35 filled.
At the start of each month, we will make sure there are at least 2 OU player slots open whether it be through drops, or adding extra slots. But to keep from one cast from dominating the limited OU slots, there is a OU cast cap of 6 characters per cast. There's no cap on AUs from the canon at this time, just OUs!
Casts near Cap:
Final Fantasy XIV - 6/6, OUS CAPPED
How frequently can I submit an app?
There is no time restraint on the first two characters you app. If you join the game with the intent of playing two characters, you can app them both immediately or wait it out! However after you app your second character, you will require to wait one month between each new character app (so if you app your second character on March 2nd, you will need to wait until April 2nd to app a new character).
What type of characters can I play in this setting?
You have three options for characters!
- Normal Modern AU: These characters have lived normal lives in a modern Earth setting, completely oblivious to anything strange up until their entry into the game. Anything in their backstory should be events that could reasonably happen in the real world. Upon acceptance, Normal AUs will be allowed to pick one free regain (canon regain or an elemental power) worth up to 3 points that will come into effect after they join the game.
- Paranormal Modern AU: These are characters who have grown up in a modern Earth setting, but throughout their lives have experienced supernatural occurrences. These characters will get 3 extra points when they app to use for powers that the acquired at some point in their lives (if they so choose). Characters are also allowed to be apped as possessed status. Please refer to the FAQ for more information on that!
- Original Universe Characters: Characters who hail from their original world and find themselves waking up in this world. These characters will not lose any memories, and are allowed to have any items that would reasonably be on their person when they arrive. They are allowed to retain one ability that's been weakened to beginner levels, otherwise they've been completely depowered.
Applications
Please fill out the corresponding application and comment below! Subject should be "PLAYER NAME | CHARACTER NAME | APP TYPE".
| Normal Modern AU | Paranormal Modern AU | Original Universe |
Pasqualo Trianglini | Please Forgive Me!!! | Original Universe
Contact:
Invited by: Usagi
Other Characters: N/A
Character Name: Pasqualo Trianglini
Canon: Please Forgive Me!!!
Canon Point: Comic #200, "Mother Night, Sweep Me Away"
History: Pasqualo is a relatively ordinary high-school student in the extremely un-ordinary New Jersey town of Runoff Falls, a place where a snake person can be the student council president, there's a witch with a tumultuous relationship with the school janitor hiding in the woods, and a giant magma spider is the beloved new transfer student. Pasqualo was raised by her father, the brilliant scientist and garbage human being Obtusangelo Trianglini, and without another parental figure she had to learn how to fend for herself and withstand her father's never-ending verbal abuse.
Despite her dismal home situation, Pasqualo's made a number of friends, is a serial volunteer, and is popular around town for her relentlessly helpful attitude and cheery disposition. However, ever since her first year of high school her mental health has been on a rapidly accelerating downslide due to various Wacky Teenage Shenanigans* straining her relationship with her best friend Ally and imperiling her self-appointed position as Nicest Person in Runoff Falls. Even while her bond with her new friend Katie blossoms, Pasqualo is realizing that she can't imagine herself having a future because she'd always figured she'd die before she became a proper adult, and was contemplating her lack of a fate on a lonely hillside at night before she got swept away into one of Kaisou's Labyrinths. The head injury she sustained in her "fight" with a mutated dreadbear that escaped from Runoff Falls' abandoned uranium mines likely isn't helping matters.
*(Wacky Teenage Shenanigans including but not limited to as of her canon point: hunting for the L'il Jersey Debbil in the haunted woods outside of town lest she and her friends be made the student council's "pages," a task that she notably failed at, stalking and befriending an acclaimed YA author going to their school on the student council's presidents orders, a failed attempt to bust her best friend out of a mental institution that fumbled at the last second because Ally wanted to be there, going on a disastrous date with the lead singer of a metal band, helping the student council president with her younger sister's "bullying problem" and stopping said younger sister from bullying the rest of the school, [REDACTED] during a snowstorm, realizing that she was no longer the most important person in her best friend's life after Ally got together with their mutual childhood friend and spiraling about it, a failed attempt to rescue her friend Patience from her family's religious compound that succeeded by accident by drawing the attention of her father who knew Patience's dad, bettering her writing skills with Katie, and helping the volunteer militia contain an escaped dreadbear.)
It's worth noting that Pasqualo's existential position within the world of Please Forgive Me!!! is somewhat unique compared to the other characters. In the universe of the previous comic, It Hurts!!, a lonely middle school boy named Pasqualo made a prayer to an anonymous deity to give him whatever part of himself he was missing that would make him happy, and the cosmic force of Harmony granted his wish by creating an idealized girlfriend for him that was the incarnation of his missing self-love and repressed desires: Aurora. Unfortunately, when Pasqualo and Aurora fell in true love, it triggered the apocalypse (and Pasqualo's transformation into a superhuman cyborg courtesy of his father's modifications to his body). At the end of It Hurts!!, Pasqualo completed the journey to the end of the universe assigned to him by God after the deaths of everyone he knew and loved—notably a different event from the initial apocalypse—and as such was given the privilege of determining the nature of the next universe by Harmony and her counterpart, Chaos. When he was informed that Aurora couldn't exist as a separate entity from Pasqualo without causing the apocalypse, he made the universe of Please Forgive Me!!! and had "Aurora," the physical manifestation of his self-love and capacity to be confident, take "Pasqualo's" place, erasing the boy Pasqualo from existence in the process. i.e. Pasqualo 2.0 is a trans girl.
Personality: In Please Forgive Me!!!, the chief narrative tension lies in the carefully constructed front Pasqualo puts on for her friends slowly falling to pieces to reveal the deep, yawning abyss of depression and self-loathing that she wallows in. As far as the rest of the world is concerned, Pasqualo is a model citizen most of the time: always happy to help with whatever her friends are going through (to a fault, she's later referred to as "that white girl who gets herself involved in everyone else's problems" and that description is painfully accurate), perpetually energetic and upbeat to an almost uncanny degree, and a rock-solid pillar for all of her friends to rely on. In fact, the worse she's feeling, the more Pasqualo doubles down on her "genki girl" image and the more selfless and energetic she acts. This has legitimately adverse effects on her health, as Pasqualo is so invested in being as nice as possible that she takes on dangerous jobs like holding the line against radioactive bears just to be even more helpful, and refusing to take care of herself so that it doesn't seem like she's having a bad time—even though this ultimately worsens her visible state. Her mask is so precious to her that she takes any criticism of anything that she's remotely involved in extremely personally and obsessively works to fix whatever fault that's perceived; such as staying up for forty-eight consecutive hours furiously working on her comic thanks to Katie's legitimate constructive criticism of it.
Pasqualo is so invested in maintaining this image that she almost never lets anyone see how wretched she really feels all the time. She's practically a living mass of self-loathing kept shambling along through sheer discipline and force of habit, both of which are starting to fail her. Pasqualo even berates herself for being nice to people, arguing with herself in the mirror that she's doing it to just make herself feel better and if she was really a "good person" she wouldn't feel jealous of Ally and would try and help her get together with their mutual childhood best friend early on in the comic. Pasqualo's self-loathing is so evident that her "shadow self" conjured by a witch was a depressed, sobbing, broken mess who begged for help from her friends while the real Pasqualo gleefully murdered her and made jokes about it. Said shadow self's final words were, "I'm so... lonely..." as Pasqualo's desperation to keep up appearances has ended up creating a nigh-impassable barrier between her and her friends, making it difficult to truly connect with them.
It's important to note that while Pasqualo is obsessed with being as nice as possible, there's a hidden well of anger that's almost as deep as her self-loathing that turns into a geyser whenever she's pressed too hard. She fantasizes about brutally beating her abusive father to death with a bat and erupts into a rage when he smoothly solves problems that she'd failed to work out herself, but her anger isn't limited to Obtusangelo. Whenever she feels like someone is talking down to her or making her facade of the Nicest Person in Runoff Falls fall apart, she can become a relentless bitch in a number of ways. This fury can manifest positively, though, as a fierce protectiveness of all her friends and a desire to see justice done.
Time of Arrival to Kaisou: Mid-February 2022
Items: Nothing but the clothes on her back and her art notebooks.
Retained Ability: N/A, this version of Pasqualo is a perfectly ordinary human... but she may be able to regain the previous version of Pasqualo's cyborg abilities.
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Additionally, if you want to make a personal inbox for your character, feel free to do so!
Pasqualo will find herself either in a labyrinth (an endless haunted forest, where there's a constant unnerving vibe) OR she can awaken somewhere in the realm in February's event log. Either way, once she manages to exit the spirit realm, she'll find a smart phone along with a book of instructions how to use it.
You now have 4 points that can be spent on any Regains for the month. These regains will ICly take effect after the Libra app appears on the phone.
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