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PLAYER COUNT: 18/55
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OOC INFORMATION
NAME: It's you!
AGE: Are you older than 18 Y/N
PREFERRED CONTACT: Plurk? PM? Skype? Email? Whatever you want people to use
CHARACTERS IN GAME: Put N/A if this doesn't apply
IC INFORMATION
NAME: The character's name as well as important nicknames or aliases
AGE: If their appearance vastly differs from their age (the old "10-year-old is actually 1,000") then mention it
CANON: Just what it says! If you're an OC, just put Original. If you're specifically going with manga or anime or a mix of medias assuming no contradictions also note that
CANON POINT: This only applies for canon characters. Just a simple "Chapter 23", "Episode 50", "Pre-[Specific Boss Battle]" will be enough.
CANON INFORMATION: A link to a wiki, fan translations or whatever will give us the background of the canon/character you're apping. If you're apping an OC, please summarize the world they come from and their role in it.
PERSONALITY: What drives your character? What do they fear? What do they believe in? What makes them angry? What makes them happy? If they're a coward, tell us why. If they're obsessed with cooking, explain how that impacts their decisions. We ask for several solid paragraphs at least that cover what's truly important about and to your character.
ABILITIES: Keep it short and sweet. Mention if you're depowering anything for the game. If they have special talents you think are worth mentioning that would apply to the game - a knack for building, swimming, cooking, biology, anything - then also put that here.
INVENTORY: Just a list here will be fine. Includes pets and anything noteworthy or of interest. Things like the clothes they're wearing don't need to be here but if you wish to list them that's fine.
MEMORY ALTERATION: Here you should describe how their memories have been altered to make them believe they came here willingly, accidentally, or by force. It should be as detailed or as simple as you need it to be to explain their arrival. If you are collaborating with a canonmate or even a cross-canon friend, please note it here so that we know toes aren't being stepped on.
SAMPLE: Link a thread within the past six months. It should be about 15 comments from your character displaying both a solid grasp of the character's voice and introspection. If you wish, you can also write up a sample, as long as it displays both of the requirements.
FORM
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PLAYER COUNT: 18/55
QUEUE
Subnautica runs on a player cap of 55 players as we feel this is the maximum number of players we can handle with this size of mod team. Applicants can submit at any time, but applications will not be judged until there are fewer than 55 players in the game. Applications will be judged on a first-come, first-serve basis. To be sure that applicants are still interested when a slot is available, we will contact them with a request to reply within 72 hours regarding their interest.Please send us your application as a comment to this page! The subject line should be CHARACTER NAME | FANDOM | RESERVED/UNRESERVED. Put the OOC information in the first comment. Reply to that comment with the rest of the information or a link to your app.
OOC INFORMATION
NAME: It's you!
AGE: Are you older than 18 Y/N
PREFERRED CONTACT: Plurk? PM? Skype? Email? Whatever you want people to use
CHARACTERS IN GAME: Put N/A if this doesn't apply
IC INFORMATION
NAME: The character's name as well as important nicknames or aliases
AGE: If their appearance vastly differs from their age (the old "10-year-old is actually 1,000") then mention it
CANON: Just what it says! If you're an OC, just put Original. If you're specifically going with manga or anime or a mix of medias assuming no contradictions also note that
CANON POINT: This only applies for canon characters. Just a simple "Chapter 23", "Episode 50", "Pre-[Specific Boss Battle]" will be enough.
CANON INFORMATION: A link to a wiki, fan translations or whatever will give us the background of the canon/character you're apping. If you're apping an OC, please summarize the world they come from and their role in it.
PERSONALITY: What drives your character? What do they fear? What do they believe in? What makes them angry? What makes them happy? If they're a coward, tell us why. If they're obsessed with cooking, explain how that impacts their decisions. We ask for several solid paragraphs at least that cover what's truly important about and to your character.
ABILITIES: Keep it short and sweet. Mention if you're depowering anything for the game. If they have special talents you think are worth mentioning that would apply to the game - a knack for building, swimming, cooking, biology, anything - then also put that here.
INVENTORY: Just a list here will be fine. Includes pets and anything noteworthy or of interest. Things like the clothes they're wearing don't need to be here but if you wish to list them that's fine.
MEMORY ALTERATION: Here you should describe how their memories have been altered to make them believe they came here willingly, accidentally, or by force. It should be as detailed or as simple as you need it to be to explain their arrival. If you are collaborating with a canonmate or even a cross-canon friend, please note it here so that we know toes aren't being stepped on.
SAMPLE: Link a thread within the past six months. It should be about 15 comments from your character displaying both a solid grasp of the character's voice and introspection. If you wish, you can also write up a sample, as long as it displays both of the requirements.
FORM
Feel free to remove the formatting if you prefer it plain!
Asgore Dreemurr | Undertale | Not Reserved
NAME: Rosh
AGE: Y
PREFERRED CONTACT:
CHARACTERS IN GAME: Valentine (
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NAME: King Asgore Dreemurr (King Fluffybuns, King Fluffyboy, Mr Dreamy, Gorey, Mr Dad Guy)
AGE: Literally thousands of years old; appears to be in his fifties or sixties.
CANON: Undertale
CANON POINT: Post True Pacifist End.
CANON INFORMATION: Undertale Wiki | Asgore’s Page
PERSONALITY: Asgore is a man with a lot of regret. After the death of his children, he declared war on the humans who had trapped his people underground and promised to break the barrier keeping them there. To do this, he needed seven human souls – which meant killing anyone who came into the Underground. At heart a gentle soul, he was pushed by anger to promise his people salvation he found he couldn’t actively pursue. This wracked him with guilt, but he doggedly continued to inch his plan along in the most passive way possible, alienating his wife and keeping his people in a perpetual state of false hope.
Nevertheless, his people love him. As Frisk travelled through the Underground, every person they encountered after Toriel was quick to tell them what a good man Asgore is. Papyrus refers to him as ‘a big fuzzy pushover’. Undyne sings his praises while calling him a ‘total weenie’. Monster Kid says that he came to their class and brought in flowers from his own garden for the children to study. Gerson refers to him as ‘Fluffybuns’ and laughed about him like an old friend teasing another. These are hardly the claims someone would make of a heartless child murderer, but rather a good man for whom everyone has affection. Every monster’s opinion of him made Toriel’s claim that Frisk would need protected from him seem more and more unlikely. It wasn’t until Frisk fought Mettaton that the idea of Asgore being a threat to them came back up, and considering Mettaton was trying to kill them, you could forgive many players for not believing him.
When Frisk finally arrived in Asgore’s throne, they were met with a man who was steeling himself to do something unspeakable. He hesitates in the throne room, and greets them kindly, albeit sadly. In fact, one of the first things he says upon realizing Frisk is human are ‘I so badly want to say, "would you like a cup of tea?" But... You know how it is.’ He doesn’t pretend to Frisk that he isn’t going to try to kill them. He is kind as he leads them to the barrier, and kind as he tries to reassure them as they approach – ‘How tense... Just think of it like... A visit to the dentist.’ It’s something unpleasant that must be done, and he tries to address that on a term he thinks a child can understand. And, finally, when he asks if they are ready, he smiles and says ‘I am not ready either.’ These are not the words of a brutal murderer or a cold-hearted killer. Despite the entire set up for the scene being Asgore telling Frisk that he is going to kill them and take their soul, he comes across as purely kind, gentle, and even fatherly. There is nothing threatening about him regardless of the setting.
The battle beings. He tells Frisk that it was nice to have met them, tells them ‘Goodbye’, and then breaks the MERCY option on their interface. Players up until this point have found a pacifistic reason to end any battle – even with Undyne, they realized that they could grant her mercy by escaping from the battle. Asgore breaks the user interface so that they can’t even do that. Frisk has no choice but to fight him or die. Their ACT menu, as with all bosses, does not give them a prompt that will result in the boss offering MERCY – but it does give us many prompts that tell us about Asgore. If you tell him that you don’t want to fight, ‘his hands tremble for a moment’ and ‘his breathing gets funny for a moment’. The third time – ‘recognition flashes in his eyes… ASGORE’S ATTACK dropped! ASGORE’S DEFENSE dropped!’. He emphatically does not want to fight Frisk. He forces himself to do it for the sake of his people. And if he does kill Frisk? Going back to the ACT menu when trying the fight again has him nodding ‘sadly’, ‘grievously’, and ‘pitifully’ when Frisk tells him how many times he has killed them. This is not a course of action he relishes, nor one he desires, but it is one he has convinced himself he must do.
When the human defeats Asgore, he admits to them that this is not what he wants. He doesn’t want to become godlike. He doesn’t even want to kill the humans who took everything from him and his people anymore – ‘I just wanted to give everyone hope…’ He begs Frisk to take his soul and pass through the barrier rather than remain and be killed by him.
There isn’t a wicked bone in Asgore’s body. However, he isn’t simply a caring king with a dark and bloody task to perform. The course of action he took – waiting for people to fall into the Underground and taking their souls then – is a long game. A long, arduous, and cowardly one. The barrier could let the combined power of a monster and human soul through. Had Asgore taken the first soul he collected, he could have passed through the barrier, taken six more, and then come back to free his people. His fault was kindness. His fault was meekness. His fault was that he couldn’t bear to take lives actively. He would rather kill any who fell into the underground – even children – until he had enough souls to break the monsters free than actively seek out death. It’s for this reason that Toriel, his wife, left him. She couldn’t bear to see him being so cruel out of kindness, nor so cowardly in the face of his proclamation. He loves and mourns for her leaving to this day – to the point that if you eat the butterscotch pie she gave you during his fight that he loses concentration and drops his attack and defence again. Seeing her again fills him with joy, even if she is harsh with him. He accepts her wrath – ‘I truly am a miserable creature’ – and understands that she doesn’t want to be with him as husband and wife again. He asks, hopefully, for friends, and when she refuses he is sad but accepts it. Family is hugely important to him. In fact, when he defeated, he says ‘I just want to see my wife… I just want to see my child’. His house is a memorial to them – Toriel’s room is locked and undisturbed. Asriel and Chara’s rooms are untouched, with their last presents to each other wrapped carefully on each other’s sides of the room. He kept a sweater that Chara may have made for him many, many years after Chara’s death. On Chara’s deathbed, he continuously told them to stay strong, to have faith and be determined – and it’s Asgore’s voice who coaxes the player to continue playing during every game over screen, too. He even tells Frisk that they could be a family when Frisk refuses to kill him and leave the Underground.
Even with his faults, there’s no mistaking why his people love him. When Undyne wanted to fight him to prove her strength, he all but adopted her and taught her how to fight. When she finally landed a hit on him, he was proud of her – and she didn’t feel good, showing that some of his pacifistic gentleness had rubbed off in his teachings. When Alphys was keeping the Amalgamates from their families, he found time between calling her for updates to give her a little teacup in the shape of a dinosaur. He might even be the Santa who leaves presents under the tree in Snowdin, considering that he has a Santa Claus outfit in his bureau. When the terrain of the Underground was too dangerous to traverse, he put steps into making it safer… even if the younger monsters (like Papyrus, for example) didn’t thank him for it! He is kind, he is loving, he is respectful, and even if he takes the longest possible route to freeing his people, he still devotes himself utterly to doing so.
He might not be the killer Toriel painted him as, but he’s not the ‘big fuzzy pushover’ he’s thought to be either. Asgore is a good man at heart, who, through his own rage and grief, pushed himself into a situation he deeply regretted, but was determined to see to the end.
ABILITIES: As with all monsters in the Underground, Asgore is able to draw a soul out a body and use magical attacks to damage it. While he’s able to use normal monster magic, he favours fire and the use of his magical trident, which he can summon out of thin air. He’s huge and hulking, but surprisingly fast and agile. His strength is impressive for a monster, and he seems to have some understanding of the resets and time loops that humans in his world can produce. Furthermore, he’s functionally immortal and won’t age.
INVENTORY: A pair of garden shears.
Golden Flower tea leaves.
A pink Hawaiian shirt.
His royal regalia.
MEMORY ALTERATION: Asgore came of his own free will, as a gesture of goodwill to the humans his people are trying to mingle with, to see if they could find out anything about a supposed call sent out from the planet.
SAMPLE: A fourth wall thread at the game Forest Covered!
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