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APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED
Current cap: 25/25

Thank you for your interest!
APPLICATION FORM
PLAYER
Name: Your name.
Contact: Your preferred contact
Invited by: Tell us who invited you.
Reservation: Link to your reserve comment.

CHARACTER
Name: Your character's name. Please have it in Firstname-Lastname order.
Canon: Where they come from.
Canon point: Point from which they are drawn.
Age: The minimum character age is 15. If your character is of a species that is born or constructed with adult mental capacities and they are chronologically under 15, then please let us know and tell us their mental age equivalent.

History: Instead of linking us to a wiki, please describe three defining events that make the character who they are today. Please keep each event under 150 words.

Powers: Please write down any magic, supernatural powers, or extraordinary abilities your character might have.

CHARACTER SURVEY
Please fill out the following IN CHARACTER. There are three mandatory questions you must answer, and a small pool from which you answer at least an additional five of your choosing. You may use brackets as a supplement if you feel your character isn't talkative enough.

MANDATORY QUESTIONS: These questions are to help you start thinking about your character as a wizard.
- Of all the things you own or have owned, what is the most important to you?
- Where is it you feel most at peace, or most whole?
- Describe what gives you the most strength.

OPTIONAL QUESTIONS: These questions help us understand your character better so we can assign them a team and partner appropriately.
- What is more important to you: embracing your individuality, or preserving the status quo?
- Ultimate power comes at the cost of community. Being a part of a community comes at the cost of great power. Which would you choose?
- Do you consider the rules and laws to be an important part of society? How so?
- Do you forgive easily, or do you hold grudges?
- Have you ever made a promise you can't keep?
- What are you most proud of?
- What would you describe as your weakness?
- Name one thing you refuse to compromise on, and why.
- What is your one wish or greatest desire?
- What piece of classical literature best represents you, and why?
- What animal would you want to be?
- What is your favorite color? Why?
- What is your favorite flower? Why?
- What arcana best represents you? Why?
- Cats or dogs?

LUNAE CALAMITAS
Inventory: Your character can bring up to five items that they have on them at their canon point. Animal companions/pets take up an inventory slot.

Sage Crest: As a signifier of their duty, every one of the Sage's wizards has a mark on their body. Please tell us where you want your character's crest to be (anywhere goes). If you want to leave it up to us mods, that's fine too.

Questions?: If you have any questions for us, we will answer!

PAIR CLAUSE: Lunae Calamitas is a mod pair game, which means we are assigning your character a pair in secret. These fated pairs are not meant to be romantic. Please be aware that the basis for the pairing may mean that your character may be challenged in some way, and in some cases they might not even get along.



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[personal profile] fellheart 2024-04-06 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER
Name: mauyn
Contact: unidentify @ discord, ellipsesinaction @ plurk
Invited by: lav!
Reservation: here!

CHARACTER
Name: Robin (the hierophant one. the one who's also grima and aware of it. the one without amnesia.)
Canon: Fire Emblem: Awakening
Canon point: post-Chapter 23: Invisible Ties
Age: unknown, 30+. he's a robin, who is already an adult of ??? age in awakening, from an alternate future over 10 years in the future, plus at least 2 years plus however long the valm arc lasts in the past (his past, which is the present of the game) doing schemes and nonsense before you start accounting for also having been awakened to the whole immortal millennia old dragon deity thing. despite this age difference he looks identical to the robin in awakening proper because other characters recognize him as looking like robin's twin rather than an older sibling or something, because awakening to your immortal dragon deity self i guess grants you flawless skin or something. anyway what's a quantifiable age can you eat it, weeps into hands

History:

  1. Being spirited away from the Grimleal as an infant by his mother. Robin was born into a cult seeking the rebirth of their god, of which his father was the head cultist. He is specifically the result of cult breeding medieval eugenics nonsense, as they were seeking to birth a child who would be able to house said god. His mother, not wanting any of this for her child, steals Robin away and raises him in seclusion, where he grows up lonely, isolated, curious, and keenly aware that he must never mention the mark on the back of his hand to people.

  2. Meeting Chrom, and becoming his friend and tactician. While the events of the original timeline differ from the ones of the timeline we play through in Awakening proper to some degree due to the lack of future time travelers intervening and meddling history and a lack of amnesia on Robin's part, it can more or less be concluded that the bond between these two plays out much the same, with them being two halves of a greater whole, do not separate sort of deal, no homo tho because IS hadn't started allowing same-sex S supports yet. Lucina says that her father was killed by his closest friend, and even the first memory we see of the Robin who became Grima is of him shoving Chrom out of the way of an enemy's attack, except...

  3. Being forced to kill Chrom. This is probably the most pivotal difference between the doomed future and the new timeline. Chrom dying, and Robin being the one to cause it not of his own will immediately after just having taken a hit for him, is probably the key moment where 'Robin' dies and 'Grima' takes hold. Whether or not you think Grima and Robin were separate beings and the former's simply possessing the latter or whether Robin is more or less Grima's reborn soul without memories prior to them merging, it's clear enough that the entity who calls themselves both Grima and Robin did, and still does, care deeply for Chrom. The version from the Future Past timeline says they buried Chrom themselves, and the Risen King Chrom that crops up in various extra materials is significantly better preserved than the other risen that Grima has control over.

Powers:
Magic. Honestly the worst thing about Robin is that he has the FFXIV WOL problem of being able to swap to and learn the skills of any of the job classes ingame, but for the sake of having a reasonable skillset and not one that's geared up to challenge the hardest challenge DLC on the highest difficulty, we're keeping mostly to what he's displayed with commonly in materials outside of the game. Ergo, Robin is primarily a mage who's good with a sword. Or a swordsman who's good with magic? Either or. He can use both anima (elemental magic like wind, fire, thunder, ice) and dark magic with a clear degree of skill, with some amount of favor for thunder and dark. No light magic though, because it doesn't seem to exist in Awakening.

Veteran. That said, with the whole 'can do any job classes he likes' thing, Robin's innate passive in canon is essentially 1.5x exp gain as long as he's paired to someone. Basically he's a pretty quick study if he needs to learn how to ride a horse or start throwing knives fast, or something. This is the only one of his passives... well, only one of two I can really easily figure in a narrative sense instead of a purely game mechanics one, though I can probably get creative for a couple more.

Swordsmanship. Is it magical or supernatural if sometimes the sword is a magic lightning sword?

Reviving the dead??? It's unclear, okay. He either got to a guy right as he was dying and told the reaper no or something because he still needed the guy, or he got to the guy when he was very newly dead and yoinked him back to life (because he still needed the guy). I have no idea if this was healing fatal wounds from right at the cusp of death, resuscitation, or just flat out resurrection. The dialogue says the guy was straight up killed, so I? Guess????? Also this is somewhat complicated by but not to be mixed up or confused with-

Control over Risen. The Risen are masked (usually) zombies animated by bugs called thanatophages. He can command these. Yeah.

Dragonskin. Not literal, probably, but like. He's more generally resistant to damage and other ailments than he otherwise would appear. In Awakening this is a passive that cuts all damage received in half, nullifies statuses and instakills, etc etc, and its occurrences in other games in the series are pretty much along the same lines. This applies to the human body, I mean. I haven't started on the dragon one yet. Speaking of...

The Whole. Dragon God Thing. In Shadows of Valentia he's one of two enemies classed as a God unit, which ... functionally in that particular game just means he's weak to Anti-God weaponry and skills, but hey. In Awakening Future Robin awakens the present Grima's body and more or less has the human body serve as proxy to the giant dragon one! Because the giant dragon one is really big which is probably unwieldy when you want to deliver dramatic speeches and monologues. The dragon is him and he is the dragon. He can fly! He can breath dark fire and or control spiky nonsense? He was created from the blood of a divine dragon and there is so much bullshit the dragons who have the power to be considered as gods in Awakening are capable of, including but not limited to: talking into the minds of people who share their blood! Facilitating time travel! Jumping dimensions! Not dying when killed! Oh, right, Grima doesn't die when killed by anyone other than himself, he just falls into a 1000 year slumber, and even that's difficult to achieve considering the descendants of a specific bloodline sourcing from the OTHER local dragon god have to be baptized in fire from said god to gain the power to do this. Anyway have I mentioned that Dragon Big. Dragon is so big. Entire army can fit on back big. Bigger than an entire capital city big. Imagine a humongous ass dragon. Okay, now make it bigger.

War Tactics. Anyway this one isn't magical or supernatural but it sure is notable so it's probably extraordinary. He's still Robin. He still knows strategy. He might not have as much use of it when he's a giant lizard with overwhelming amounts of sheer power compared to his opposition, but he's still entirely capable of strategizing his way through engagements of various sizes, as well as generally knowing what to look out for in terms of assessing locations and others for possible threats, routes of ingress/egress, ambush points, the serving staff in the palace who are trying real hard to conceal their weapons, etc etc.

His sheer sense of drama should also be in a class of its own, honestly. Stupid chuuni lizard. Maybe if he acts and performs hard enough he can even manage to fool himself, most of the time. I mean, what? What regrets does he have. None, obviously. He doesn't care. Don't dare pity him, he doesn't need it.

CHARACTER SURVEY
MANDATORY QUESTIONS
- Of all the things you own or have owned, what is the most important to you?
Material items cease to be of concern in the face of eternity, especially when it will all be destroyed someday. Perhaps one might be able to muster a token argument about my books, whether tomes, tactics, or otherwise... but those too, I have passed on. I've hardly any need of them anymore.

- Where is it you feel most at peace, or most whole?
What a ridiculous question to ask a being of destruction. Do you realize how absurd that sounds? As if the Breath of Ruin knows anything of peace. Hah.

It is fleeting, regardless. Any periods of peace are simply the result of humanity deluding itself that their base instincts aren't to struggle fitfully against each other for the pettiest of reasons after trying and failing to maintain their fragile peace.

- Describe what gives you the most strength.
Hahaha. Now, what is it that would motivate you to ask such a question, I wonder? Do you ask this, hoping to glean some form of weakness with which to assail me with? Or perhaps you wish to gain some sort of insight on what it is that fuels a god?

But very well, I am in an indulging mood. It isn't so pithy as faith, I will tell you that much. I am what humanity created me to be, but I will be their ruin regardless of whether or not they believe in it.

OPTIONAL QUESTIONS
- What is more important to you: embracing your individuality, or preserving the status quo?
The status quo? At the end of all things, all are equal in death, but somehow, I don't quite believe that is what you're speaking of.

- Ultimate power comes at the cost of community. Being a part of a community comes at the cost of great power. Which would you choose?
I have already chosen godhood, and all those I once called friend lie dead in the ruins of their countries now. Is that not answer enough for you?

- Do you consider the rules and laws to be an important part of society? How so?
Societies rise and fall through the ages, and the rules they create with them. The only laws that persist are those that exist in nature: for one to gain something, someone else must lose it. One man's happiness is built on the sorrow of another's. Yet people will so quickly forget these simple truths, or worse think themselves above them.

- Do you forgive easily, or do you hold grudges?
The Fell Dragon does not forget. Remember that, lest you make an enemy you'll soon regret.

- Have you ever made a promise you can't keep?
[ perhaps tellingly, he does not answer this question at all, and will answer any attempts to prod him about it with a dark look... or a dangerously sharp, mirthless grin.

probably better not to press. ]

- What are you most proud of?
Oh? Do you wish for me to regale you with a list of my achievements? Shall I talk about the wars I've waged, the kingdoms I've toppled? The blood I've spilled? Go on, tell me. Exactly what is it that you'd like to hear about?

- What would you describe as your weakness?
Oh, so you are seeking to divine a deity's weaknesses after all! I might almost be impressed by the sheer audacity of it. But perhaps it might also behoove you to learn that fortune doesn't always favor the bold.

- What animal would you want to be?
Is a dragon not sufficiently inhuman for you now? If it must be anything at all, then a predator of some sort at the very lest. I have no desire to attempt to present myself convincingly as a prey species.

- What arcana best represents you? Why?
[ we are pretending he either has a passing knowledge about them or that someone explained them briefly to him for this ] Is it a little too ... on the nose, one might say, if I claim 'Death' as the arcana that best represents me for this exercise?

As for why? Surely you can divine the answer to that one yourself. Perhaps seek counsel from the rest of these cards for assistance; that is how they're meant to be used, is it not?

- Cats or dogs?
... Dogs, if I must. I suppose I can understand the appeal in a creature who will so faithfully follow orders regardless of what is done to it. That sort of loyalty can be considered quite endearing, can't it?

LUNAE CALAMITAS
Inventory:
- sword (probably a Levin Sword since they love making the magic lightning sword Robin's Thing as opposed to any other sword he could use)
- spell tome (Grima's Truth, probably)
- the clothes on his back?

Sage Crest: up to you where his second special magical brand is! please note that the back of his right hand is already taken by the six eyes of the brand of the defile, see icon, so it might get a little crowded there if it ends up anywhere near.

Questions?: none at the moment but if anything comes up I am prepared to run screaming to the mods. he is also apparently, as I have discovered, very much a dramatic ass performer and liar who refuses to give a straight answer so if y'all need me to expand on some of these answers just holler at me and I will do so.

PAIR CLAUSE: I am preemptively so sorry for whoever gets paired to this bastard and am preparing my formal apologies now.
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ACCEPTED

[personal profile] promittere 2024-04-06 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
ACCEPTED
Congratulations, your character has been accepted!

Please do the following:
Robin will be representing the Northern Country.

Robin's crest will be on his left shoulder.

Welcome to Lunae Calamitas!
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[personal profile] fellheart 2024-04-06 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
nyooms through housekeeping- also the disco link i think expired lkfdmsglkfdj, this is the journal!
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