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Before applying for a character, make sure you've read the rules and FAQ. You should also refer to the application guide to see what we're looking for in our applications. You may apply for one character per application cycle and three characters total. Please put your character's name and canon in the subject line of your application comment. Applications must be posted directly to this post and cannot be links. We will screen your application if you request it of us after we review it.

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In the event of us nearing our application cap and having more applications than slots, we will attempt to choose the most well-written applications. First-time applicants will be processed first, then applications for second characters, and finally applications for third characters. We may allow more applications to be submitted than we have slots for in the name of greater selection. We will clarify in our response if an application is not being allowed into the game because of the cap or because of issues with the application not meeting the standards of the game.

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REVISION REQUEST

[personal profile] snowblindmods 2015-07-07 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for your interest in our game! Before we can accept you into Snowblind, we would like to see the following revisions:

We feel that the samples showcase a disproportionate amount of Draco's geniality and socially acceptable behavior compared to the rudeness and bullying he exhibits throughout most of the series. We would like to see more of how his less acceptable behavior will come across in your playing.

Additionally, though Draco's tendency to bully and look down on people has been touched upon, we would like to see more about his prejudices against muggles and muggleborns specifically. These are values that he was raised on and spent much of his life acting in accordance with, so we would like more detail about the development of these values and how they still affect his life and behavior at his canon point.

Please reply to this comment with your revisions within three days or your slot will be forfeit.
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Re: REVISION REQUEST

[personal profile] alphaophiuchi 2015-07-08 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Personality:
Through the duration of the Second Wizarding War, Draco’s gone through a large number of changes. Perhaps not all of them were great, but they were certainly great enough to him to open his eyes up to some of the things he’d always been purposefully blind to. He spent the vast majority of his life taught to hate Muggles and Muggleborns - those he and his family believed to be ‘less worthy of magic’ for not having it in their family to begin with - and with the war, he slowly began to realise that perhaps that wasn’t the best way of looking at them. By no means is he accepting of Muggles or Muggleborns during or after the war, but he most certainly does begin to slowly regard them as human as well. With his personal experiences of Voldemort and the more extreme Death Eaters, his own belief system was thoroughly shaken, teaching him that perhaps it’s high time he gain a little perspective of his own, and form his own opinions. Needless to say, though truly accepting them as peers is a far-off pipe dream for Draco, he doesn’t quite revile them the same way after the war.

In fact, it’s more likely that he would actually avoid them entirely, so as to never bring matters up. After the war, it became more and more obvious to Draco that some of the Muggleborns he had grown up with (and, naturally, had treated poorly) were growing more and more vocal in their own defence, and that - having been on the wrong side of things all throughout - he was no longer in any position to talk back to them. Regardless of his own personal beliefs, he was a Death Eater as much as the others, having had at least some hand in the torture of Muggles and Muggleborns; to everyone around him, that made him as bad as the rest. Therefore, in the true form of a coward, he began preferring to hide himself away. There is no doubt that this action is done out of fear, a desire to have his much more normal life back, but also as a way to try and dissociate himself from the more vocal and hateful Death Eaters he had once been lumped in with.

Suffice to say, though it may not be entirely obvious that Draco’s mind had been changed by the Second Wizarding War, it most certainly has. Even so, there are some habits that are hard to break, and his knee-jerk reaction will always be that magic is the best, and that those without are not only missing out, but are somewhat lesser individuals than himself. Perhaps eventually, he’ll be open to coming around to everyone having their own talents, but that day is far from immediate, even if he one day realises that perhaps a little outside help is necessary, no matter how much he despises relying upon others and showing weakness around them. There’s little doubt that, given how much he hides himself away, he’ll need others to do things for him at some point in his life.


Sample:
It had been a couple of days since he found himself waking up in a strange place, his wand present but apparently unwilling to cooperate with him. It had taken over an hour before he realised that no, he wasn’t capable of magic any more, save perhaps the most basic spells; it had taken another three after that to come to terms with the idea that this was reality and not just some horrendous nightmare. The idea of being without his magic had a knot tightening in Draco’s throat, his stomach tying in knots until he wanted to throw up what little he’d been eating. Reality or not, it was still a nightmare, and he wanted out of it. He wanted nothing to do with this bloody town or exploring or leaving his stupid house. He wanted nothing to do with any of this.

The network had proven difficult to figure out; there had been more than one angry muttering of bloody Muggle technology along with innumerable other epithets, none of which were nice. He’d hesitated to respond to anyone as of yet too, mostly regarding the screen with a sneer. Muggles, the lot of them. They had to be. Even the magic-users, if there were any at all, were probably in the same boat as him, and what could any of them do then? He was useless without his magic. He doubted any of the others were much better off.

But sooner or later, he got hungry. Too hungry to just sit around and wallow in his own miserable life and the turns it had taken since his father was sent to Azkaban. Too hungry, apparently, to realise that going out in the chill would inevitably have him running into someone.

It wasn’t even the hunger that had him so irritated when they offered to help him; it was the fact that he was being condescended to. As though he was incapable of taking care of himself. And perhaps that wasn’t what was actually happening, but it certainly sank into Draco’s mind that way when paired with the knowledge that the person before him couldn’t possibly have magic, and that made them a Muggle. How could a Muggle possibly know what was best for him?

“Get the hell away from me,” Draco all but snarled, his teeth threatening to chatter as he drew his robes a little tighter around him, wishing for not the first time that he had a warming charm to keep the worst of the chill out, instead of letting it sink into his bones.
Edited 2015-07-08 23:56 (UTC)
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ACCEPTED, NOTE

[personal profile] snowblindmods 2015-07-09 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations, you’ve been accepted into [community profile] snowblindrpg! Your character’s tag will be draco malfoy (harry potter). Your character will wake up at six AM on day 13 in a building on square M1. The description for this building is as follows:

A standard single-story house with a kitchen, living room, dining room, bathroom, and bedroom. There's a desk in the bedroom that holds a very old-fashioned typewriter that doesn't require electricity, although there's no paper for it nearby.

Please reply to this comment with the journal you will be using for the game. After that, join [community profile] snowblindrpg, [community profile] snowblindooc, and optionally [community profile] snowblindmemes with your character journal. After that, reply to the taken character list and player contact list and make a top level thread for your character on the search page. If you have not replied to these lists within three days you will be removed from the game and will have to apply again.

Thank you for your interest in our game!

NOTE: Draco will not be able to use summoning spells, will not be able to lift anything with magic that he couldn't lift physically himself, and cannot use any offensive magic.
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[personal profile] alphaophiuchi 2015-07-09 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
This is the journal I'll be using for the game! Thank you for the notes; I'll make sure to keep them in mind.
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