Characters applying to the group will be Combatant exam-taker hopefuls employed at any of the 5 playable factions. At time of application, characters should not already be Combatants, though they may have been employed at a faction for as long as they’d like.
The entry event, held upon acceptance, will canonically guide characters through the process of obtaining their Combatant license.
For more information about combatants, see:
> written application template.
> visual application template.
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Your visual application should include a half-body of your character. Lines should be relatively clean and art should be colored in some way.
Feel free to personalize or decorate your application in any empty space.
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NAME: your character's full name. PRONOUNS: DOB: AGE: a minimum of 21 years old. HEIGHT: in ft and cm, no taller than 6’5”. FACTION: choosing a division, if your faction has division information, is not required. Divisions are purely for flavor. PROFESSION: WEAPON: BRIEF PROFILE: HEART COLOR: Heart colors should be unique. exceptions can appear in the case of biologically related family.
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*SIMILAR TO: TEGAMI BACHI heart powers, HONKAI STAR RAIL ultimates*
The effect of their Heart. At this time in Locus City, almost everyone is born with one.
Please include information about how their power would scale.
Heart abilities and colors may be re-balanced and tweaked further after group acceptance.
Detailed Heart mechanics will be announced later.
For more information about Heart, see:
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A small item (handheld or smaller) with sentimental value that served as the catalyst for your character’s Heart awakening.
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A minimum of 5 personality traits, with at least 2 being positive and 2 being negative.
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Please keep the character’s background to under 1500 words.
Please include a tl;dr under 250 words.
When writing character backstories, please ensure they mostly stand on their own. Pre-established relationships in apps will only be accepted if both muns list each other as ride-or-dies.
The application assessment process will place emphasis on thoughtful engagement with the universe's lore, character motivation, and potential for personal narrative.
Characters are expected to have signed up for their faction / as a combatant somewhat willingly, and to have a strong personal motivation beyond the mundane negative, like:
These things can be part of their motivation, but there should be more to the story.
They should either have, or have the capacity to grow into having, some kind of positive motivation:
Characters having additional, secret motivations is also encouraged.
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Characters have 15 points to allocate between all stats. Each stat should be a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 6.
| STR physical strength. | moving an object carrying someone pulling yourself up from a cliff | | --- | --- | | AGL full-body agility. | doing an obstacle course jumping over barriers running from Echoes | | DEX fine-motor dexterity. | shooting a gun wielding a knife playing a videogame | | CON constitution. | taking a blow falling from a height |
| INT memory & knowledge. | recalling facts memorizing information conducting research | | --- | --- | | WIS perception & reasoning. | solving a mystery connecting the dots investigating evidence | | CHA charisma & charm. | persuading someone of something hyping up a party giving a performance | | SPN supernatural compatibility. | sensing and communicating with Echoes being affected by Endling energy and Heart resisting mind-control | </aside>
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Mostly for flavor. Who would they have as their emergency contacts?
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These questions are not mandatory and do not need to be explicitly pasted and answered in the application, but they can help provide additional insight into your character while writing your background.