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ALBATROSS - SHSL AIRBOARDER; played by zetaken BEAUTY - SHSL MURALIST; played by ellie DOMINO - SHSL SCULPTOR; played by ag DUKE - SHSL POKER CHAMPION; played by squid EMBLEM - SHSL MECHA PILOT; played by charlie JONES - SHSL ELDER ADVOCATE; played by shout KELSO - SHSL PHILANTHROPIST; played by rhy LADY - SHSL HARPIST; played by bibi LI’L SEBASTIAN - SHSL STAGE MAGICIAN; played by meg MERRYLEGS - SHSL VETERINARIAN; played by sera MONET - SHSL PORTRAIT ARTIST; played by sarah ORCHID - SHSL COSMETOLOGIST; played by jade RED RUM - SHSL PHOTOGRAPHER; played by noot SOMBRA - SHSL PATISSIER; player by han STEEL - SHSL EXORCIST; played by cy SUNDAY - SHSL ANTIQUE APPRAISER; played by katie TWILIGHT - SHSL WEALTH MANAGEMENT ADVISOR; played by art VOLTAIRE - SHSL FIGURE SKATER; played by athena

If we make it onto the roster and want to make slight revisions to our strengths and weaknesses, will that be okay with moderator approval or will that not be allowed?

That's absolutely fine, anon! We tend to have a grace period where people can make small adjustments before the game kicks off.

ROSTER DATE SETTLED.

Hi everyone!

For one, Shout and I would like to thank you all for your enduring patience with us as we have been settling up our roster. We’ve both been extremely busy, but I promise that we’ve really enjoyed reading each and every one of the fantastic applications that you all sent in. We could not be more grateful to all of you who have made it possible for us to run this game with your characters.

With that said, we are finishing up some odds and ends with the maps, finalizing some plot details, and getting everything set to go in advance of our roster date. Even with the roster chosen, BOUN ANIMA still requires a few extra steps for the roster OCs that we’re still settling up.

All of this to say, our roster will be posted on AUGUST 24, @ 3PM EST.

Again, we thank you all sincerely for your continued interest and for allowing us to meet your OCs, especially during such an application season.

General Applications Closed

With that, part one of our application period has officially ended.

Extensions are due by July 3, at 11:59PM EST. Our hopeful page is updated with our current received applications and our list of extensions. If you do not see your hopeful on the list, please send an ask to the blog and we’ll fix it for you.

Thank you all again for your continued interest! We really appreciate every single one of you who has sent in an app or is currently intending to.

One Day Remains

Hi everyone -- we hope your application period is going well.

The Hopefuls page will be updated by 5PM EST. Today is the last day for general applications -- they’re due by 11:59PM EST, tonight.

If you need an extension, you can send an ask to the blog anytime today with the name of your hopeful, their age, their gender, and their talent. You must request an extension to receive one, at this time.

Thank you all very much for your continued interest in our little project here. And good luck finishing your apps!

Does lassie translate supernatural languages as well? Like elvish, or dwarfish, or whatever fantasy language that we come up with?

Case by case -- usually if you think it should be, fine! If not, it can be left out.

What is SUMMIT's public take/opinion on supernaturals compared to what they actually do? I.E. do they say they support supernaturals yet there are rumors and circumstantial evidence that they mistreat or hate supernaturals or discriminate against them or are they true to their word and actually treat them well? Or are they simply accepting them to study them or use them for their own purposes and then discard them? Etc

I'll be completely honest, we haven't thought about that too much! As GMs, we figure that there would probably be rumors about Summit's treatment of Supernaturals, for both good and bad. Having your OC believe any one of these rumors is definitely okay.

What I will say isn't okay is completely confirming/denying any one of those rumors. Summit is intended, for all intents and purposes, to be a "grey" institution. While they may actively be trying to help, the journey to their goals can sometimes create a 'worse' situation for some.

It would not be unreasonable for any OC -- supernatural, affiliated, or completely normal -- to have queasy feelings about Summit for that reason, and Shout and I are willing to entertain applications where there seems to be some "reasoning" behind that ill-ease. However, given that it is a secretive institution. and is not typically overt in what it does to people, nothing should be confirmed for your character. Think about it from a reasonable pov -- if Summit is an overpowered university that knows everything about your chracter (and please, assume everything on the application besides your OC's "true feelings" are what Summit knows about your OC), why would they invite someone to their special scary university on a mountain if they had even the slightest inkling that they might have proof of wrongdoing? Sounds like a potential headache!

Extension Notice

Hi everyone, we hope your application period is progressing smoothly.

After some deliberation, the GMs have decided to not extend the deadline out past the June 28 @ 11:59PM EST deadline. We believe that it is better for the health of all games going on right now to keep to this deadline for the time being. We may re-evaluate next week, but for the time being, we are sticking with our due date.

If you know you will need an extension, we are offering a small extension period until JULY 3, 11:59PM EST. To secure the extension, please send an ask or DM with your OC’s title, gender, and age. We will record all extensions on the hopeful page in advance, with three asterisks attached. It will only be added to the final totals once the application is in, but is included in the list for our reference.

Thank you all so much for your interest and your wonderful applications!

Do the clothes have to BE styled after clothes from 300-800 A.D. or can it just be clothing style from civlizations that existed between 300-800 A.D. or from any point between 300-800 A.D. until their demise even if it went way beyond the 8th century?

The best answer I can give you is that we would prefer the sylization to be kept to 300-800 A.D., even if the civilization continued past it and developed different styles.

With that said, however, a few notes:

Shout and I are not historians, and we are not cross-checking your designs. If it varies by a few hundred years, we aren't going to really do much digging. We're more looking for things that fit the feel, not necessarily the particulars.

With that said, if we know that it'll clash... well. We might ask you to redesign the outfit if we like the OC!

Please use common sense. You can use different colors and patterns for your clothing than would be period accurate, including things like hearts or diamonds or other simple symbols, but please don't design your character so it is effectively wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt.

No robots are allowed, so does that mean robot adjacent supernatural aren't allowed either? Like golems or other artificial life that are created by a scientist even if the artificial life themselves have a talent that's benefitted the world?

Simplest answer is that any OC you app to us needs to have a soul, and needs to be able to "die" in a real sense. The previous two BOUN games have ocurred in the afterlife, so the robot-restriction is one part Summit standards, and one part game logistics.

We're not really interested in having the game explore "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"/Bladerunner/what makes human life types of questions, so we would prefer artificial life be limited to things such as clones -- no AI, no 'created' life by a wizard, etc. We really need to keep it simple for the purposes of game logistics.

All of that said, using that example, the scientist would be determined to be the one creating the purpose of the artificial life and therefore the one responsible for the talent, not the robot. Summit is slightly technophobic about sentient tech (probably because they deal so much with highly advanced robotics/etc and are threatened by it), and the world in BOUN's worldstate is still coming around to Supernaturals, so taking a Supernatural's creation might be a step too far, as well. If you have a question about a specific concept because you're not sure where it fits, please send a private ask to the blog.

in motive where it says to only fill it up if no rp experience can be linked, is the link that it's referring to the one on the very bottom of the app? on the ooc section where it says roleplay blog sample?

Yeah! Or if you've made other arrangements with us, you can likely skip that motive portion. We also accept screenshots of Discord roleplay replies and Googledocs of samples.

If we include electronic items in our gacha that require a charge/batteries will there be some means to power them? Or will they be more or less on a timer before they lose juice?

More or less a timer. Feel free to try to write around this if you'd like (ever-lasting charge, magic-powered, etc)!

How many pages would the mods recommend the backstory be?

The short answer is there is no recommendation. What is a good length for a backstory will depend heavily on who you are, how you write, and what your OC demands. Naturally, an OC who has had a relatively normal life might take a lot less space up in explanation than someone who was kidnapped by vampires, saved by werewolves, and settled a werewolf v. fae property dispute before finding their long-lost mother in Neverland and saving her from some deranged version of Captain Hook. It all depends on what you need to effectively communicate the character -- we have accepted applications that range from simple one page backstories, to applications that give us a full-on short-story of over ten pages.

...That's the short explanation. The long explanation includes all of that, but with heavy caveats. Applications are best understood as your pitch or initial communication with the mods about what makes up your character. We trust that almost everyone who applies to BOUN ANIMA is an incredibly gifted, engaging writer who would be a pleasure to have with us. But an application is not the space to show us how good of a writer you are. We want applications that communicate the intent of the character clearly so that we can envision how they will act in games.

In truth, it is almost always easier to get a handle on a character when their backstories do not exceeed 10 pages. When backstories get too long, information gets lost in the "weeds" and it becomes confusing to determine just what the "point" of the concept is. We are most interested in determining what you're looking to explore with the character. While it would be cool to understand every aspect of the character, from their childhood best friends to their current work issues, these tidbits tend to bog applications down and muddy the waters for a neutral audience (that would be us, the mods!).

The best way to approach the backstory is to consider what is essential to what makes up your character, and writing to hit those points. A great way to circumvent a lot of the issues of a longer backstory is to attach a TL;DR at the top of the backstory (NOT the bottom) that "primes" the mod for what you consider the "overall concept" of the OC, so the mod can read with this pitch in mind and fill it in mentally.

Short answer is, write to communicate your idea. Long answer, do the same, but please be mindful that mods are more likely to be confused by too many details and the more you write, the more chances there are for the mods to "misread" a portion of your application. It is therefore best practice to take steps to ensure we fully understand your concept, should you choose to write an extremely long backstory.

Will supernaturals be balanced if there are a lot of 'shifter' types? Say if you have a werewolf that shifts, and a dog-person that shifts, and maybe a mermaid that shifts, and so on so forth... would you end up taking less of them as a whole even if their whole deal is less about them having to shift between forms? As in it's more a thing to fit into the boundaries of a humanoid form in the game?

All of those concepts would be based on their "core" concept, which would be the thing they are shifting into, if that makes sense. So, a concept that shifted into a mermaid and one that shifted into a werewolf would be treated as wholly different, even if both "shifted," technically speaking.

We do anticipate a high number of "shifter-like" OCs, both because of our limitations on visible supernaturals and because they are traditionally popular. We've already had some! Please do be mindful especially when you are applying animal concepts. While we are willing to take multiple animal shifters into a game, if we end up having to limit them, they will likely be limited by species (so, "okay, we can take one dog shifter, one cat shifter, one Beast Boy, and one reptile, for a hard limit of four (mod note: that would be on the incredible upper-end, unlikely) -- which ones do we want?"). When it comes to having things like two werewolves or two mermaids, we would only take two if the concepts were very different, and were trying to tell very different stories with the concepts.

If this is another question I can see from this ask -- that being, "Is apping an OC who is actually a magical dog with a human form ok?" -- the answer is a hard no. We wll not be taking any concepts that are actually full animals with a human form, instead of human with an animal form. There is SOME wiggle room with concepts such as selkies and werewolves (where does beast end and man begin, etc etc), but if we, at any point, believe the OC could have squicky elements either in play or in their backstories, we will deny the OC. Please be mindful.

If none of that answered your question, as I am not 100% sure as to what this is asking, please feel free to send a follow-up!

If we wanted could we make more than just three lore items as long as we keep it in the 15 items limit

Absolutely! Just try to make sure the last three items on the list (the ones designated as "lore items") are the most personal, dear, and special to your OC.

Are we allowed to app talents from a previous game?

Sure! We don't even mind the same talent in the same game, haha.

do we have to fill out the spn attachment if our oc isn’t technically “supernatural”, but touches on themes that might have similar ic consequences (e.g. apping a clone, which is more sci-if than anything?)

I'll make the call and say no for clones, specifically. If it's like, a person modified to become "basically" a supernatural (a super-soldier, for instance), that would be a great candidate for using the Supernatural attachment! If you need specific guidance, let us know off-anon!

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