application & reserves

[karuramods]

🌠 initial character limit, 2; after a month of activity, 3; after two months of activity, 4
🌠 bold = taken
🌠 italic = reserved

Please check out the sections on setting, game play/rules, and FAQ before you apply.

Seigaku Echizen Ryoma Fuji Syuusuke Kaidou Kaoru Kawamura Takashi Kikumaru Eiji Momoshiro Takeshi Oishi Shuuichirou Inui Sadaharu Tezuka Kunimitsu			Hyotei Akutagawa Jirou Atobe Keigo Hiyoshi Wakashi Kabaji Munehiro Mukahi Gakuto Oshitari Yuushi Ohtori Choutarou Shishido Ryou Taki Haginosuke			Rikkai Kirihara Akaya Kuwahara Jackal Marui Bunta Niou Masaharu Sanada Genichirou Yagyuu Hiroshi Yanagi Renji Yukimura Seiichi			Shitenhouji Chitose Senri Ishida Gin Hitouji Yuuji Koishikawa Kenjirou Konjiki Koharu Oshitari Kenya Shiraishi Kuranosuke Tooyama Kintarou Zaizen Hikaru
Higa Aragaki Kouichi Chinen Hiroshi Hirakoba Rin Kai Yuujirou Kite Eishirou Tanishi Kei Shiranui Tomoya			Rokkaku Amane Hikaru Aoi Kentarou Itsuki Marehiko Kisarazu Ryou Kurobane Harukaze Saeki Kojirou Shudou Satoshi			Fudomine Ibu Shinji Ishida Tetsu Kamio Akira Mori Tatsunori Sakurai Masaya Tachibana Kippei Uchimura Kyousuke			St. Rudolph Akazawa Yoshirou Fuji Yuuta Kaneda Ichirou Kisarazu Atsushi Mizuki Hajime Nomura Takuya Yanagisawa Shinya
Yamabuki Akutsu Jin Dan Taichi Higashikata Masami Kita Ichiuma Minami Kentarou Muromachi Touji Nitobe Inakichi Sengoku Kiyosumi			Jyousei Shonen Kajimoto Takahisa Kiriyama Daichi Oota Kakeru Shinjou Reiji Tanaka Kouhei Tanaka Youhei Wakato Hiroshi			Others Arai Masashi Chitose Miyuki Echizen Ryoga Horio Satoshi Katou Kachirou Mizuno Katsuo Osakada Tomoka Ryuuzaki Sakuno Tachibana An Yamato Yuudai			Nagoya Seitoku Liliadent Krauser

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Notes:

🌠 Upon reserving a character, you have one week to get your application in. After that time, if you haven't submitted, you lose your reservation.
🌠 Along the same lines, a reservation does not guarantee that you will be accepted for that character.
🌠 Character ages: 10+ years from canon.
🌠 If you want to reference another character in your app, please talk to that player before you do so.
🌠 If you need to contact a mod, please message karuramods.

Application! (just copy & paste)

<b>Your name:</b> <b>Journal:</b> <b>Age:</b> (at least 18, please) <b>Timezone:</b> <b>Character name:</b> <b>Character journal:</b> <b>Age:</b> <b>Ship role and justification?</b> <b>History:</b> (What is their background? How did they come to be on the Karura?) <b>Journal sample:</b> <b>Tag sample:</b> <b>Anything else:</b>

(For example applications, check out those for Atobe, Tezuka and Yukimura.)

Comments

[fulminata]

Reserving Yukimura & Tezuka.

[karuramods]

Reserved.

Tezuka Kunimitsu

[fulminata]

Your name: Amber
Journal: fulminata
Age: (at least 18, please) 31
Timezone: GMT -6 (US CST)

Character name: Tezuka Kunimitsu
Character journal: TBD
Age: 25, 26 on 10/7

Ship role and justification? Captain. Tezuka is hardworking, responsible, and calm under pressure. He has the capability of dealing with all the different personalities that come aboard the Karura with respect, poise, ease, and authority.
History: (What is their background? How did they come to be on the Karura?)
Tezuka came from a long line of Earth Aerospace Alliance officers. His grandfather was a Fleet Admiral, now retired, but still offering advice to the new executive command. His father had risen slowly through the ranks and was now Deputy Chief of Earth Aerospace Alliance Operations. Tezuka attended Earth Aerospace Alliance Academy with the sole intention of becoming a liaison officer, but a series of aptitude tests shifted his course of study into flight command. However, on a mission shadowing other flight officers, the Nebula-class starship he was on took on considerable damage from -- according to the flight officers -- an unavoidable asteroid field and he sustained a severe injury to his shoulder due to the severe turbulence. Not letting the injury slow him down, Tezuka used the experience to increase his flight skills and successfully navigated a starship through a similar event with no damage a year later.

Upon graduating as one of the youngest graduates in Earth Aerospace Alliance Academy's history, Tezuka was commissioned as a junior flight officer onto a Sovereign-class starship for a four-year tour of duty on the outer reaches of the galaxy. When he completed his mission as a senior flight officer, no one was surprised when Admiral Sakaki commissioned him to be the captain of the newest luxury starship in the galaxy.

After one year on board, Tezuka had had firm control of the ship and seen no significant catastrophes much to the delight of the Earth Aerospace Alliance executives.

Journal sample: The latest report from the scientists was acceptable. I would like more detail next time, but this is sufficient.

We will be setting into orbit around the planet Vespa in the next two days. If you would like to go to the planet, please prepare your travel plans at this time. The orbit will last approximately one week as we resupply.

Direct any questions you may have to the first officer.
Tag sample: Tezuka sat in the captain's chair on the bridge, watching as the spaceship travelled closer to its destination. He wouldn't admit it out loud, but he was looking forward to the stop. Vespa was known for its beauty - clear skies and water, lush vegetation - and he was quite keen on taking a long hike in the forest.

"Captain, we are about to enter into Vespa's orbit. Would you like to contact their space command?"

"Aa. Set up the link."

Anything else: Captain Jean-Luc Picard is the best. TNG FOREVER!

Yukimura Seiichi

[fulminata]

Your name: Amber
Journal: fulminata
Age: (at least 18, please) 31
Timezone: GMT -6 (US CST)

Character name: Yukimura Seiichi
Character journal: TBD
Age: 25

Ship role and justification? lol no Bounty hunter. Yukimura isn't the kind of person who likes taking orders. He'd much rather be his own boss than follow rules or whatever.
History: (What is their background? How did they come to be on the Karura?)
Yukimura grew up in a well-to-do family on Earth-8 Prime. He enrolled in Earth Aerospace Alliance Academy a year behind Tezuka (only because an illness set him back considerably) and graduated. Barely. Not that Yukimura isn't smart, no. He's quite skilled in many areas. It's just... developing those areas of expertise was frowned upon by Earth Aerospace Alliance Command. What do a bunch of old people know about space flight anyway?

Anyway, Yukimura accomplished his tour of duty as a junior tactical officer. Sure, he was fantastic at flying, but he was far better at tactics during battle and aiming for opponent's weak spots before they knew what hit them. Instead, after he was decommissioned, Yukimura was recruited by a shadow league of bounty hunters on the edge of the galaxy. Within six months, he'd delivered fifty fugitives and decided he would set out on his own. The shadow league was a bunch of lazy asses and he didn't like being bored. Besides, when you take the entire league's business, people start to dislike you for some reason.

Three years in and everyone knows him by name. Suck on that, EAA Command.

Journal sample: I'm back~!

A quick visit. I just happened to be on Vespa when I heard the Karura was going to be in orbit. How lucky for me! It's been ages since I last docked aboard.

I'll make my normal rounds, but Atobe, I have something for the bar I think you'll just die for. When would be a good time to bring it to you? Actually, forget that. I'll bring it with me when I inevitably stop by. We'll talk over drinks. See you soon~
Tag sample:Yukimura stepped off his shuttle and waved to one of the cargo inspectors.

"It's all yours," he said cheerfully. Of course, they'd never actually find anything. Yukimura was far too clever to let Earth Aerospace Alliance's lackeys confiscate his equipment.

He took the long way around to get to The Ice Bar, stopping by the gardens to make sure they were well taken care of. Satisfied that they were, Yukimura arrived at the bar and unzipped his flight jacket. He was going to stay awhile, might as well be comfortable.

He found a seat towards the back with a lovely view of everyone. His bounty was currently sitting at the bar nursing some neon beverage -- he didn't want to know -- and the owner of the establishment was doing his usual, paranoid rounds. Now things would get exciting.

Anything else: Sorry not sorry, Atobe.

[kin_chan_takoyaki]

I'm so going to regret this

Give me my special children, Niou and Kin.

[karuramods]

Perhaps.

Reserved.

Niou Masasharu

[kin_chan_takoyaki]

Your name: Mathias Hyde

Journal: mallard @ livejournal

Age: 24

Timezone: + 10



Character name: Niou Masaharu

Character journal: to be made

Age: 24 (omg)



Ship role and justification? Niou claims he is the Royal Official Executive Chief Cat Overseer on the ship, but really he’s just a scientist whose research at the moment is mostly centred around cats. Fitting with his ability to adapt well to new situations and his intelligence, Niou is looking at the effects of different environments on life forms, but his inbuilt laziness and preference for fun things and whimsy leads to more days just lounging around playing with the subjects of his studies than actually doing anything useful.

History: Always interested in science with a particular proclivity for the subject as he grew up, Niou ended up pursuing it. He made his application to work in space, stating that it gave him greater freedom to conduct his experiments under a variety of environmental conditions, with regular stops to other planets as further extensions of his research.

As a result, he’s been in space for a couple of years, with his menagerie of cats (and those of anyone else nearby), conducting ‘research’. Perhaps for a day or so, Niou was dedicated to his actual area of research, but it quickly descended into just logging daily cat behaviours that he nonetheless publishes and pretends like he’s doing work. As long as it keeps the funding coming in (which it does), he’s happy.



Journal sample:Day 53 of observation of subject M-27.

9:00 - M-27 was sleeping under the covers
9:27 - M-27 made huffing noises and rolled onto her side
9:30 - M-27 responded well to pats
10:00 - Still in bed. What is this hell
11:47 - Finally out of bed. M-27 stretched downward facing dog followed by upward facing dog before getting up to get food
12:04 - it was a lie. M-27 is back in bed. Now sleeping on her left side, curled into a donut shape.
12:06 - turned up the temperature in the room in the hopes that M-27 stops being a donut
12:24 - Room has warmed up sufficiently. M-27 is now a sausage
16:57 - Fell asleep. M-27 has not moved.
18:25 - M-27 is sniffing curiously at a carefully placed red ball. This seems to be an item of interest
18:27 - M-27 might actually play!
18:31 - False alarm. Back to bed.


A cat’s life is riveting. I feel like a newly wrung out sponge every day as I absorb the new information they present me.



Tag sample: He was going to do work today, he was absolutely determined. There was a deadline approaching for his next paper and he’d even written a sentence or two. Motivation was high.

At least until there as a soft prrrrp next to him and one of the cats - M-21 as he’d been officially named - jumped onto Niou’s lap and proceeded to sit down and get comfortable. Niou sighed and patted it, looking sadly over to the other side of the room. The rest of his notes were over there, but he simply couldn’t just get up right now with a cat on his lap… he was very aware of who he had to cater to their trust and how rude it was to disturb them.

What a shame, he’d just have to sit here and pat it until the cat got bored and left.



Anything else: I’m sorry he’s an awful child orz

Tooyama Kintarou

[kin_chan_takoyaki]

Your name: Mathias Hyde

Journal: mallard @ livejournal

Age: 24

Timezone: + 10



Character name: Tooyama Kintarou

Character journal: to be made

Age: 23 (WAT)



Ship role and justification? Undercover Security. With his small stature and his almost inhuman strength, Tooyama was employed as undercover security on the ship. He’s very impressionable and maybe with threats sometimes takes orders from people and generally easy to get along with. Just don’t annoy him or you’ll be facing Kin-chan brand justice where he slams you to the ground and tries to break your face like he cracks walnuts :D

History: Tooyama was originally enrolled at the Earth Aerospace Alliance Academy to become a flight officer, but as he was much more interested in challenging people to arm wrestle and body slamming them into the ground partway through, the academy thought it wise to reassign him into security training instead. He topped his year, his ridiculous physical scores making up for his rather abysmal scores in any sort of subtlety and deduction.

He’s newly assigned to the Karura, with some hope of the firm control Captain Tezuka has over his ship extending to Tooyama instead. His role is primarily that of undercover security, as he’s (hopefully) able to interact with the passengers without being detected to be able to have first hand access to passenger incidents. The higher-ups are so optimistic and hopeful.



Journal sample: WHOWOAOWOWOW this ship is so SUPER HUGE i tryed to RUN AROUND IT COX ITS A CIRLCE RIGHT??????

but there is a GYM does everyone kno about the GYM cox its SUPER GOOD SUPER RECOMMEND EVERYONE GO THERE AND GET SUPER GOOD MUSCLES OKEY cox muscles are good for SPACE I DID RLY GOOD ON THE WEIGHTS the person there recommmmed that i do YOGAcox this is ment to help me i dunno???? ????

????

??????????? S?@!??!>>?>??



Tag sample: Tooyama grunted and lifted up the heavy weights, huffing and puffing as he started squatting in time to the poppy music that he could hear over the speakers. There was a man standing just a few paces away who was staring at him in shock and Tooyama preened, showing off a bit as he lifted the barbell up over his head.

Maybe this place wasn't so bad with the FREE ACCESS GYM that was super impressive and Tooyama bounced a bit to the music some more.

As he went down for his next squat though, there was a rumble in his stomach and an accidental pfbbbttttt of air from him and Tooyama's mouth went into an O. Oops! "SORRY SORRY I DIDNT MEAN TO DO THAT OKEY IT JUST HAPPENED SORRY SORRY" he said loudly to the man who was still staring at him.



Anything else: This lulzy idea of “undercover security” will be busted within his first post. Let’s be real here.

Re: Tooyama Kintarou

[karuramods]

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Welcome aboard the Karura. Please enjoy your flight.

[pergamond]

Reserving Atobe.

[karuramods]

Reserved.

Atobe Application

[pergamond]

Your name: El
Journal: pergamond
Age: (at least 18, please) 36
Timezone: JST

Character name: Atobe Keigo
Character journal: worldofice
Age: 25


Ship role and justification? Bar proprietor. With a family fortune delving well into billions of yen, Atobe knows how to run a business. An exclusive venue on a major space vessel allows Atobe both the capital from an interstellar clientele base, and the opportunity to ensure the family name remains part of high society, regardless of the planet.



History: (What is their background? How did they come to be on the Karura?)

The arrival of interstellar travel caused many to dream of tea with their alien neighbours. It caused Atobe’s grandfather to dream of money; a fact that made no difference to his sleep patterns whatsoever. The family’s international business interests expanded to neighbouring habitable worlds, but the new distances presented a problem: how could such subsidiaries be properly monitored?

The solution came from Atobe himself. As expected, Atobe Keigo graduated from business school with top grades and several years early. It was commendable, but hardly surprising for the scion of the company that featured in every textbook. His youth meant the top roles in the family cooperation on Earth were not yet free, so he proposed the bar on Karura.

Karura’s journey between planets allowed Atobe to personally check on the affairs of the most distant branches of his family business, and provide the only drink that came in a glass more expensive than a ship’s engine. The bar’s clientele came to talk business, meet the young heir bartender, and be seen in an establishment bearing the Atobe name. Deals were discussed, money exchanged and the Atobe hand remained firmly on the galaxy’s pulse.



Journal sample:

To the individuals who graced my bar with their presence early last night, if you have to ask the prices of the drinks it is safe to assume they are more than your pocket money. We also do not prepare ‘sex on the beach’ in any definition of that phrase.

The Ice Bar has taken a delivery of Baltimeone ice wine. The crates appear to be padded with small packets of unidentified crystals. Tezuka, if these transpire not to be drying salts then you really should work on your security.



Tag sample:

Atobe wiped down the glass with practiced ease. Despite being behind the bar from 7 pm until 2 am, his black silk shirt still looked as if it had been freshly pressed ten minutes before. He scanned the space for his remaining customers.

The nervous looking man at the end of the bar had been sipping the same gin and tonic for the last four hours. No doubt he was a junior salary man, trying desperately to be seen in all the right places. When one of the Ice Bar’s underling bar tenders had passed him his drink at 10 pm, the man had swallowed half of it in a nervous gulp, before recalling it was his ticket to keeping his seat and imbibing the rest in minute dribbles. His last month’s paycheque had likely gone into that beverage.

In the middle of bar sat three of the executive managers for the Atobe cooperation based on the planet Karura was presently orbiting. They were having a loud financial meeting, keen to ensure their successes reached the ears of the elegant bar manager. Atobe’s lips curled: he had already been through the subsidiary’s figures and knew their profits to be mediocre at best. Not enough to get involved, but enough to let them know he was watching.

Sitting back from the bar at one of the softly lit tables was a final figure. Atobe exhaled through his nose as he finally allowed his gaze to sweep in the man’s direction. That customer was a problem.




Anything else: Ice... ice ... baby?

[pergamond]

And reserving Fuji.

[karuramods]

Reserved.

[balloyarn]

>______________>

Reserving Eiji and Yuushi, please.

>____________________________________>

[karuramods]

Reserved!

[balloyarn]

Your name: Laxmi
Journal: This one!
Age: 31
Timezone: GMT +5.30

Character name: Oshitari Yuushi
Character journal:
Age: 26 in October

Ship role and justification? Senior Medical Officer

Yuushi likes to think that he made his way up the ranks from lowly junior medical staff through his genius intellect and charming bedside manner, and not because his family owns a large chunk of the healthcare industry on several planets. The former is probably true, but the latter didn’t hurt his cause.

History:
If anyone had told young Oshitari Yuushi that he was going to grow up and become a Medical Officer on a shiny new spacecraft, he would’ve scoffed and gone back to reading whatever book of medieval poetry he was indulging in at the moment. The son of one of the foremost Earth-based healthcare-pharmaceutical companies with a rapidly growing inter-planetary presence, gifted with what many called a genius intellect, the only thing Yuushi had to do was outlive his parents to inherit a fortune. That was the plan until sometime around middle school, when Yuushi realised a very important fact about his pre-planned future as a pharma-magnate. It was going to be boring, and if there was one thing that Yuushi loved, it was a challenge.

Yuushi enrolled in the EAA’s medical academy and, as was the case when he actually decided to apply himself to something, he graduated top of his class. In keeping with his desire to go against expectations, he turned down the opportunity to work in one of his family’s premier hospitals and took up an internship with on board a space station, his skill allowing him to quickly rise up the ranks, before being granted assignment on board the Karura as their Medical Officer.

Journal sample:
For the attention of our human residents and crewmembers: yes, we have perfected interstellar travel and live in a bright new future, but no, we do not yet have a cure for the common cold. My prescription is try and convince your replicators to produce chicken soup.
For our non human residents: If you’re experiencing symptoms similar to the human common cold, I suggest you come down to med-bay immediately.
Atobe: I will need a drink soon and it won’t be chicken soup.

Tag sample:
If Yuushi was perfectly honest, one of the reasons he'd joined the EAA was to meet fascinating new members of alien civilizations, and he'd always had an interest in xenolinguistics. What he didn’t have as much of an interest in, was the mucous membranes of said alien civilizations and culturing distinctly unfascinating fluids to understand whether viruses that were harmless for humans would lead to some kind of Black Death for their planet.

A nurse handed him the newest set of reports and Yuushi sighed as he turned away from the microscope, slipping on glasses that he still didn’t need but still wore because apparently people across planetary systems trusted doctors who wore glasses.
“So...” he murmured as he scanned through them, half to himself and half to the still hovering nurse (who Yuushi would admit was attractive if he wasn’t put off by the mucous). “We might have a problem.”

Anything else: Yuushi promises not to sleep with his medical staff.

[izen]

Reserving Echizen Ryoma and Zaizen Hikaru, please :)

[karuramods]

Reserved.

[lunaluna]

Reserving Inui and Mizuki.

[karuramods]

Reserved!

[tezuka_kunimitsu]

Could I reserve Shishido, please?

[karuramods]

Indeed.

[zombieroadtrip]

lemme reserve Oishi >_>;

[karuramods]

Reserved!