Application Format & Example

[Mama Oak]

So, you've read the rules, perused the informational threads, got your account registered, and now you're ready to begin your character's journey here at FourClans? Sweet. To get started, copy one of the codes at the end of this post, paste it in your own thread beneath the "Character Creation" board, and fill out all the required fields! After you've posted it, a staff member will give it a look! Once the application meets all the requirements and is accepted, you're released to roleplay and have fun!

We have a default template that you can use, but only if you wish to. Also, feel 100% free to make your own template or find one you like better from a resource site, so long as your application contains all of the fields/information that are listed below. You're allowed to edit/format these codes any way to your liking, so long as all the information is there in the end.

Lastly, make sure to check the Bans & Encouragements before submitting your application.

REQUIRED FIELDS

Name: What your cat is called.
Name Reasoning: Explain the meaning of prefix and suffix.
Gender: Tom/She-Cat
Age: Number in moons.
Position: Rank in pecking order.
Clan: Where your cat currently lives.

Capability Stats:

• Speed: #/5
• Stamina: #/5
• Physical Strength: #/5
• Mental Strength: #/5

Strengths: Give at least three abilities and a description of each. Some abilities may include, but are not limited to: longer fangs, exceptional speed, strength, or stamina. Try to match your number of weaknesses.

Weaknesses: Give at least three weaknesses and a description of each. Some weaknesses may include, but are not limited to: short attention span, unintelligent, slow, weak, poor stamina, lack of limbs, or fears. Try to match your number of strengths.

Type # (Clan: The severity and breakdown of your cat's adaptions. List and describe the specific adaptions that correspond with the clan's general adaptions (gills for RiverClan, extra long, thick fur for SkyClan, long, flat claws for ShadowClan, etc.), Check the Clan Adaptions Informational thread for ideas and guidelines. If you need help, feel free to contact an admin or say something in the chat-box — we are all more than willing to work with you and help design your character!


Picture: Optional; you can find a picture of your cat or draw one.
Description: Five sentence minimum. This can include, but is not limited to, possible breeds your character was derived from, any scars, prominent adaptions, fur color/length/texture, size and weight, distinctive features, markings, or deformities.


Personality: Five sentence minimum. Can include, but not limited to, mental stability, loyalty, character traits, behavior tendencies, perspective, view on other clans. aggression, illnesses, and quirks. Depth is highly recommended. A well-developed cat is a fun cat.

Specific Moral Values: Everyone has something they're fighting for, whether it be simple (like staying alive) or elaborate (such as to take over the world). Select a phrase that represents the idea that pertains to your character. Something that they live by, a quote that inspires them, or just some ethic code! (Examples: True happiness cannot be bought. Family is the most important thing in the world.


History: Events that have shaped your character into who they are today, such as deaths, romantic relationships, betrayals, epiphanies, and such. Unique histories are the best histories, so long as they're reasonable. You could write this out in paragraphs, or give a shortened version in the form of a brief, bulleted list. So long as you're thorough, we should have no problem.


Relationships: As your character establishes relationships, add them onto your bio to keep t rack of them. This is optional, but helpful if you start having many relationships with multiple characters.

Featured In: You can put links to threads, artwork, and other places your character has been featured in or mentioned. This is good for reference and once it gets long enough, will give others an insight into how your character behaves. You might earn a new roleplaying partner.

Assignments: FourClans will periodically give out assignments that every single character must complete. For an admin to easily find and make sure that you have done them, link them here along with the month the challenge was given. At the end of the assignment deadline, if your cat has not completed the assignment they will be added to the "Kill Off" list utilized to promote site-wide plots or happenings. If you're having trouble here, contact an admin and they'll help you.

***The below text only has to be included in your first application. Omit the below portion for any characters created after your initial.

Writing Sample: This can be any piece of writing, but it should represent your skill level accurately. You can make up a new one or copy and paste one you've already done (a link to where the post is featured is preferable, but not necessary).

Password Phrase: He wondered if the springs served any actual purpose. (The phrase needed to get your application accepted is located in the rules. Skim through them again if you don't notice them the first time. Contact a staff member if you really can't find it, and we will point you in the right direction, but not give you the password phrase. This is to prove that you have at least taken a glimpse at the rules. Hence, we can hold you accountable for them (*wink*).

How/where did you find us?: What brought you to FourClans?

Anything you'd like us to know?: Something to share, maybe?

TEMPLATE PREVIEW

basic identity •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Name: Name Reasoning: Gender: Age: Position: Clan: capabilities •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Capability Stats: Speed: #/5 Stamina: #/5 Physical Strength: #/5 Mental Strength: #/5 Strengths: Weaknesses: Type # (Clan): appearance •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Description: personality •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Personality: Specific Moral Values: history •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• (history content here) tracking •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Relationships: Featured In: Assignments: roleplayer •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Writing Sample: Password Phrase: How did you find us?: Anything you would like us to know?:

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[b]Type # (Clan:[/b]

[b]Picture:[/b]
[b]Description:[/b]


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[b]Specific Moral Values:[/b]


[b]History:[/b]


[b]Relationships:[/b]
[b]Featured In:[/b]
[b]Assignments:[/b]

[b]Writing Sample:[/b][blockquote][/blockquote]
[b]Password Phrase:[/b]
[b]How/where did you find us?:[/b]
[b]Anything you'd like us to know?:[/b][/blockquote]



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[Mama Oak]

Here is an example of a completed and acceptable application:

basic identity •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Name: Furzepaw (formerly Furzekit) Name Reasoning: Furze (synonymous with 'gorse') is a yellow flower; the prefix represents the points of orange/yellow in Furzepaw's pelt; also meant to be an honor given to him by his mother, for her father's prefix was 'Gorse' Gender: Tom Age: 9 moons Position: Apprentice Clan: SkyClan capabilities •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Capability Stats: Speed: 1/5 Stamina: 1/5 Physical Strength: 3/5 Mental Strength: 3/5 Strengths: There certainly aren't many of them, because the tom has done little to sculpt himself into a feline of great strength or admirable shape. His large size, however, does supply him with a great potential for power. This, coupled with his weight, makes him a tom of brute strength. His extra weight also provides him with more padding for warmth. His pelt is a snowy white, which helps him blend in with SkyClan territory. Weaknesses: Furzepaw's lifestyle of loafing around and disregarding his responsibilities has had a notable impact on his physique. The tom's weight is a bit of a problem, making him slower and clumsier than most. His tread is heavy and not at all stealthy. His heavy-set boy hinders his speed and he can't run for long without getting tired. Only a small amount of physical exertion can leave him panting. Type 1 SkyClan: Like the majority of his clanmates, Furzepaw has a notably thick and fluffy pelt that — in addition to his "additional padding" — insures him warmth in even the worst temperatures of leaf-bare. His paws are large, but his step is very heavy and prone to clumsiness. Also, as he is less active than his clanmates, they aren't as calloused or hardened. appearance •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Description: Furzepaw is a large cat naturally, descending from a line of warriors known for their thick bone-structures and sturdy frames. The apprentice is much thicker than most of his clanmates though in terms of weight; he's notably plump with a belly that nearly brushes the ground when he walks. Contributing even more to his size is the long, fluffy white fur that adorns his pelt; adding further to his appearance of an overweight oaf. The only variations from white are the pale, ginger points on his face, ears, tail, and paws. Despite being quite overweight, Furzepaw has the potential of a handsome tom. Shave off the extra roundness to his face, and there is a strong, masculine jawline. Look past the extra pounds and there is a burly, rock-like frame capable of much muscular capacity. Top it all off with his soft, searching gaze of amber-green, and there is a feline of good features. Perhaps, if he ever breaks from his behavior and shakes his bad habits, he'll fulfill this potential. personality •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Personality: Furzepaw is a loaf. He sleeps in, naps when he should be hunting, and eats more fresh-kill than he catches. Despite the entire clan thinking this behavior as useless, pathetic, and dishonorable, it isn't a lifestyle he has adopted out of sheer laziness. It goes much deeper than a lack of desire for physical exertion, but instead is more of a mental and emotional coping. The young tom is actually riddled with many social anxieties that he turns to sleep in order to run away from. When unconscious and unaware, nothing can bother Furzepaw. His problems and the stress of the day is all gone for as long as he can keep his eyes shut. He sleeps and naps in order to stop thinking and to stop feeling. He clings to the warm comfort of unconsciousness to drag himself from despair. Of these various social anxieties, there is a great feeling of unimportance. He frequently compares himself to his clanmates and realizes that he'll never amount to the successful members of SkyClan that they have made themselves. He's insignficant, and while it does bother him, he makes no effort to try and better himself. He has no desire to move forward in his life, and at times, seems content to sleep all his moons away. Unfortunately, he can only sleep for so long before an angry clanmate (specifically his mentor) drags him from his nest and forces him to work. Either that or there really is a limit to how much the body can sleep before it completely rejects it and Furzepaw has to drag himself through the day (sometimes unable to sleep for days on end). He'll always dive back into the warm darkness whenever he can, even if it means abandoning his duties and pissing everyone off; even if it means he'll be awake each night, unable to sleep any more, painfully and horribly aware. When awake, Furzepaw still seeks comfort from reality. Even when conscious, he prefers to float through dreams. With an amazingly-vivid imagination and fantasy-based thoughts, he creates and takes solace in small hallucinations or fabrications when everyday situations prove too overwhelming. When he is incapable of sleep and being awake becomes too much for him, he recedes into his delusions, where the line between reality and "fairy-tale" blurs. To his clanmates, as far as his exterior personality goes, Furzepaw foots the bill of a loaf pretty well. He's easy to dislike for his laziness, his constant mopiness, and his frequent complaining. Perhaps he would be able to change if he could find a friend or two who would tolerate him and help him see the point of everything. He might be able to change, but not by himself. Specific Moral Values: "Fighting for nothing is what you were born for". He doesn't align himself with much, as he doesn't see the point in anything. He's prepared to sleep through his life and hide away from responsibility. history •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• The product of a quick and silly love that was never meant to bear fruit, Furzepaw was delivered to a young queen of full-blooded SkyClan descent. Quickstep was one of two daughters in a litter of well-respected warriors. Her kittens were a disgrace, their father a tom of dirty blood; a loner-turned-clan-cat who captured Quickstep’s heart and her family’s disdain. Particularly, the disdain of her father, Gorsepelt (the then-deputy of SkyClan) who despised both his daughter and her kittens for staining their names and tainting their blood. In fact, Gorsepelt forbid the father from claiming his kittens; he forced his daughter to keep the identity of the disgraceful tom a secret. Quickstep then quickly grew ill; a terrible, fast sickness that baffled the medicine cats and yielded to no treatment. She died not even a moon after birthing her kittens, leaving them for another queen's to care. To say that this queen's love was lacking and that her disposition was unfriendly would be an understatement. Unfortunately, whatever illness claimed Quicksteps' life, seemed to pass to a few of her kittens and half of them succumbed in a similar manner. The rest spent their first six moons in a kittenhood untouched by love, aside from the filial support of siblings. All they ever knew of their parents was gathered from the unhappy, disdainful grumblings of their adoptive queen and their grandfather. So the kittens learned to regard their parents with mother and father with a heavy — though curious — shame; a stray sentiment that was impressed upon them since they could first comprehend that their heritage was one not to be proud of. In truth, however, they hardly knew much of anything about either parent. Only that they had never and never would know their love. When Furzepaw was apprenticed to his grandfather, he was hopeful. But he never found love in Gorsepelt either. As Quickstep had before him, Furzepaw did not grow up as his grandfather desired. Although he went into his apprenticeship with a great potential, he quickly became quite the loaf. He often set aside his duties in favor of napping, would wake up much later than his fellow denmates, and ate more fresh-kill than he brought to the clan. In the eyes of the clan, he became a no-good, lazy nuisance who refused to carry his weight (a quite significant weight). Whenever one questioned Gorsepelt about his apprentice's disreputable conduct, he would claim that the boy had too much ’bad blood’; that his no-good mother was ’too potent within him’. Really, Furzepaw only misbehaved because his grandfather — who did not love him — wanted a child of stern obedience. It was an act of defiance that turned into a lifestyle; a lifestyle that he miserably continues to live. Gorsepelt tightened his grip, became much more harsh on his apprentice, and channeled all his resources into shaping the lazy tom into something remotely respectful and respectable. Unfortunately, Gorsepelt died a few moons into Furzepaw's apprenticeship, replaced by Gorsehawk. tracking •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Relationships: Mother ⇨ Quickstep [Deceased] Father ⇨ Unknown Grandfather, Ex-mentor ⇨ Gorsepelt [Deceased] Brother ⇨ Hailpaw Sister ⇨ Frostpaw Mentor ⇨ Gorsehawk Featured In: Company, Anyone? Ceremonies I Just Wanted to Have Fun Assignments: I Just Wanted to Have Fun (June/July) roleplayer •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Writing Sample: When Furzepaw’s brilliant amber eyes blinked themselves open, Stealthstar’s words were lingering in the air, already spoken and only just echoing from the camp’s frozen walls. With a quiet, irritated groan, the plump SkyClan apprentice shifted his weight and allowed his heavy eyelids to slide lazily over his optics once more. However, as his lingering drowsiness — the dark, clouding confusion of unconsciousness — began to clear from his mind, comprehension sunk slowly through his thick skull and his eyes promptly snapped back open. In a rush of self-horror, the tom scrambled to his paws and peeked out from behind the massive, icy stalagmite, where he had been peacefully napping. Had the newly-appointed leader just spoken his name? His heart thudded audibly in his ears, his breath hitching with panic, as he realized that the clan had already assembled beneath Stealthstar’s authoritative perch and were waiting expectantly. He had slept through the assembly’s call and it was his ceremony! For a moment, Furzepaw was incapable of moving forward; his paws one with the ice, glued there by a sudden and terrible social anxiety. How foolish he would look, sprinting up there — no, bumbling up there! He’d been dozing most of the morning, taking advantage of the short period he was mentorless by hiding himself away and burying himself in the inky oblivion of sleep. His pelt was a ruffled mess of bristling white, notably and undismissably cowlicked by his oafish stagnancy, and he had no time at all to groom himself. Oh, StarClan have mercy, his hiding place was not even behind his assembled clan-mates. They would see him emerge, slink guiltily up there, and know immediately that he had wasted the morning away. But then again, not one of them would be surprised. He had a reputation, after all. Had the other apprentices rolled their eyes disdainfully at the call of his name? He had already damned himself to the distasteful view of his clanmates; this mishap would only justify their thoughts of him. Stealthstar continued and Gorsehawk’s name relieved the silence, bringing Furzepaw from his castigating thoughts and forcing his paws to move. As the deputy, his new mentor, moved toward the ledge beneath their leader, Furzepaw clumsily bounded to meet him, the fur of his plump belly brushing the ice with each step. Silently he prayed that he would not trip over his large paws, for he could already feel the eyes of his clanmates boring into his messy, snow-white pelt. In his mind, he could hear their voices. The insults, the names, the disdain — he imagined the endless scorn and it assaulted him. His own thoughts... they were already pushing him back to the shadows and to the warm, empty darkness of sleep; the only place he could escape his fierce self-loathing. His head was bent shamefully, his pelt hot and flushed beneath his fur despite the cold. He only lifted his sunburst gaze to Gorsehawk’s for a fleeting moment; the dismay he saw in the older tom’s eyes quickly coaxing his own once-more downcast. How long before that dismay became frustration? And then that frustration, anger? Disappointment? He had made quick work finding such sentiments in the eyes of his grandfather and previous mentor, Gorsepelt. He couldn’t make Gorsepelt proud, he wouldn’t make Gorsehawk proud, and this ceremony was a joke. They both would be miserable and, as usual, Furzepaw found himself considering each and every corner and shadow of the camp and territory where he could hide himself when this embarrassment was over; where he would be undisturbed and swallowed by darkness. His gaze flitted upward to Stealthstar, and for a moment tried to fix itself there. But humility burned at his eartips and he had to focus his sight beyond the new leader, hoping the ceremony would be mercifully swift. Password Phrase: *bandersnatched by Oakey* How did you find us?: I've been on FourClans since November 2009! Found v1, I think... probably through Google! Anything you would like us to know?: Anyone, feel free to make one of his siblings, Frostpaw (f) or Hailpaw (m)! ^__^ I'd be delighted to have either of them!