Welcome to the Alternate Universe contest, a chance to explore what your characters lives could be like in another reality. Every AU contest has a set theme, and each AU contest leads into a virtual reality sim VR game, where your character can experience that life through the space station's VR simulator.
What Kind of Contest is This?
This is a contest to create a character draft for a specified AU or theme. This is not the same thing as an application (the format is different, and it's far shorter), intended to give people an idea of what your character would be like in a given AU. Characters should be a version of one of your (already accepted character), but reimagined! Applications will be judged on creativity, faithfulness to the original character app, and the overall general concept.
For example, if the example was 'werewolf AU', and you made your half-wolf character into a werewolf, that would be faithful, but not terribly creative. If you had a character who had been attacked by an animal in the past as a significant part of their character history, and rewrote it so it was a werewolf attacking them (leading them into their career as a werewolf hunter), that would be both creative and faithful.
For example, if the example was 'werewolf AU', and you made your half-wolf character into a werewolf, that would be faithful, but not terribly creative. If you had a character who had been attacked by an animal in the past as a significant part of their character history, and rewrote it so it was a werewolf attacking them (leading them into their career as a werewolf hunter), that would be both creative and faithful.
How Do I Enter?
To enter, grab the form in the second post, decide your idea, fill it out, and then POST IT IN THIS THREAD: Entry Thread. Please do not post it here or PM it to Romi. Anyone can enter as long as they have at least one accepted character (if you're accepted during the contest period, that's fine), but since mods will be doing the judging, mods cannot win.
Any Other Restrictions?
In order to give everyone time to enter, the contest period will take ten days of entries. The winners will be announced (and all entries posted publically) on the 1st of the following month.
Other Rules:
These apps are intended to be short and to the point. Please don't go heavily past the word count limits, as the idea is to give people who you might ICC with a chance to briefly skim over the essentials of your character.Players can only enter only one application, but can make (and post) as many as they'd like. The first one you post is considered your entry, unless you CLEARLY mark otherwise.
November Alternate Universe Contest: Domestic Animal
Entries Close 23:59 PST on November 14th
Entries Close 23:59 PST on November 14th
Everyone who was once a citizen is now a pet. They might be a dog, a cat, a bird, or anything else that would have been a mundane pet. All pets can communicate, regardless of species, and up until now, they'd been living normal lives, whether living as a stray or with a master, but abruptly, all the masters have gone missing: All of them.
Welcome to a human-free world of animals!
Welcome to a human-free world of animals!