Application

[DENVER]

Basilius Academie

the royal American academy of gifted individuals

	( MR, MS, MRS) FULL NAME HERE
DATE OF BIRTH:	DD/MM/YYYY ( AGE - NUMBERS )	MALE/FEMALE
PHYSICAL:	First or third person appearance. Try to give it some individual flair! It doesn't have to be long - even a short paragraph is fine. The minimum is one hundred words. Remember to include any distinguishing features (scars, tattoos, piercings, ect)*	GRADE (if applicable)
ABILITIES:	Provide weaknesses and include a few strengths/common uses. On this site you're limited to two powers -- they can be elemental, mental, physical, or any variation. Similar powers (both water based, or water and ice, ect) are preferred but not mandatory. Characters who control two dissimilar elements (fire and Earth, fire and water, so on, so forth) will not be accepted. Staff of BASILIUS reserve the right to review and outline any problems we anticipate from powers that we deem too over powered as well as any we don't feel would fit into the BASILIUS universe.	ABILITY NAME
ASSESSMENT:	First or third person personality, must be at least 200 words. Try to include at least five traits. At least two should be negative. This cannot just be a bulleted list (unless your bulleted list contains two hundred words) but you can use a list and explanations for each bullet point/trait. *	SEXUALITY
COMMENTS:	First or third person history. It doesn't have to be long, but the minimum length is 200 words. Powers can be hereditary or spontaneous mutations.*	CLASSIFICATION (Member group)
SIGNED:	OUT OF CHARACTER NAME

* To be completely honest, the staff here don't care if you put it in first person or not. If you write better in third person, fine. Ultimately, your character application will not be denied based on if you write in first or third person. However, here at BASILIUS, our application and OOC boards are the only place we want to see first person posts. If you don't know what first or third person are, to make it simple it's when you use "I" instead of "he" or "she" to refer to your character.

Further note: Feel free to change the colors if you know how. I like the way it looks, and I suggest you just change the blue if you do change it, but I don't care unless it's impossible for me or my staff to read after you've finished.

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[div style="font-family:times;font-size:13px;padding-left:5px;"]Provide [b]weaknesses[/b] and include a few [b]strengths[/b]/common uses. On this site you're limited to [b]two powers[/b] -- they can be elemental, mental, physical, or any variation. Similar powers (both water based, or water and ice, ect) are preferred but not mandatory. Characters who control two dissimilar elements (fire and Earth, fire and water, so on, so forth) will not be accepted. Staff of BASILIUS reserve the right to review and outline any problems we anticipate from powers that we deem too over powered as well as any we don't feel would fit into the BASILIUS universe.[/div][/td][td][div style="font-family:times;font-size:12px;padding-left:5px;text-align:center;"][font color="0a53a6"]ABILITY NAME[/font][/div][/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[div style="font-family:times;font-size:13px;padding-left:5px;"]First or third person [b]personality[/b], must be at least 200 words. Try to include at least five traits. At least two should be negative. This cannot just be a bulleted list (unless your bulleted list contains two hundred words) but you can use a list and explanations for each bullet point/trait.[/div][/td][td][div style="font-family:times;font-size:12px;padding-left:5px;text-align:center;"][font color="0a53a6"]SEXUALITY[font color="9a2f16"][/font][/font][/div][/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[DENVER]

Want to know what'll this look like? I'm going to post my character's application on this topic as an example. However, you have to create your own topic in the pending board, under the characters header. Do not post it here. In fact, you can't. It's locked. So, pending board, capeesh? Post it in this area, pretty pretty please?

Basilius Academie

the royal American academy of gifted individuals

	( MR ) LELAND ISIAH HOLT
DATE OF BIRTH:	03/09/1987 ( 26 )	MALE
PHYSICAL:	Blond hair and golden eyes define the boyish appeal Leland possesses. He's always been a bit of a charmer, able to earn attention with a smirk or a playful grin. But the glint in his eyes, the way you can tell when he's sincerely feeling an emotion, or when that smile's just put on to please you, is what really lasts when people know him well. The fact is, his expression usually doesn't show in his golden eyes. Coldness instead holds its place steadily. Just as tension and reluctance often define his posture in crowds. No, no, if you know what to look for, the charmer isn't very good at concealing his disinterest. As far as attire goes, Leland is one for intimidation. He'll don a scientist's coat just to inspire fear, or wear a suit if he thinks it'll bother those he encounters at some benefit to himself. But with manipulations aside, he's comfortable in baggy jeans and novelty t-shirts that, years ago, used to impress his little brother. Leland hasn't bothered with piercings. He thinks they look foolish, but he doesn't feel that inking his skin is anything to shy away from. So at nineteen he got a tattoo of a killer whale on his shoulder blade. People call it a dolphin- it's best if you refrain from doing so, even if technically it is. Scars and such, while he has them, are hardly noticeable. He has a few on his hands from knives and working with his father, and one deep gash along his left forearm, close to his elbow from a dive into a lake that went badly.
ABILITIES:	Squirt him with a squirt gun filled with water. Seriously. He'll freak out. Just point it at him, and he'll get scared. Honest. Not a real gun, he's way too cool to fear a bullet, but water hurts. No rain dancing for him. So, then, how does he manage bathing? Well, he hates it. He'll only take a shower and even then, he has a shower head that sprays a mist and a rubber bath mat beneath him. But the point stands, water and him have a testy relationship. As intimidating as he may seem, you can shock him, or even place him in a circuit which can leave burns on him. It wouldn't kill him, but it isn't pleasant. WIth water being his biggest weakness, he also doesn't like conductive metals. You can redirect his electricity if you're holding something that provides less resistance than flesh. So stand behind a fence and he'll have to chase you to harm you at a distance. Distance itself is another weakness of him. The farther away he is, the more the electricity is weakened as it travels through the air. But surging a light or computer is his specialty. He can send small amounts of electricity into electronic devices and render them useless. Or in combat, he's one to touch your skin, then let the electricity flow.	ELECTRICITY MANIPULATION
ASSESSMENT:	The truth is, Leland seems to be missing a few morals. The key deficit is in his ability to empathize with others. Maybe it's a lack of oxytocin, but more likely, he just prefers not to. And for a good enough reason if you ask him. Leland has always been idealistic to a fault. Empathy gets in the way. He's always believed that he, and he alone, was entitled to solve major problems among family members and friends. As Leland grew older his delusion extended to the entire world. Which makes him a suitable scientist in the eyes of the Administration. He's able to compartmentalize and all but torture innocent citizens 'for the greater good'. Leland wasn't always someone you'd consider cruel. He's never displayed signs of interest in torturing animals and he's never openly derived sadistic pleasure from someone else's pain. The coldness that enables him to move unfeelingly into torture territory, though, that's been a lifelong trait. Leland was always well-liked. He was Mr. Popular. He'd begun dating when he was thirteen and hasn't yet stopped. None of the relationships reach the one year mark. Few reach the six months mark. Leland's just a little bit too... cold. When things get serious, he gets distant. So the once charming, polite man becomes someone who seems annoyed by your presence. And in that lies his vulnerability: Leland can't commit. For all his brilliance and charisma, he's not ready to say 'I love you' and think it's worth anything more than a one night stand. But when the day is through, Leland's still the brother who cared enough to take in his little brother and raise him as his own, even though he was young himself. So no matter his bad traits, he's got some redeeming quality in his actions.	HETEROSEXUAL
COMMENTS:	Leland had already celebrated his ninth birthday by the time Chase was born. His father had divorced his mother and remarried Chase's. Nearly a decade of being the only child, only to begin the new year with a wailing baby brother and a new step mother. Leland, naively, embraced the infant into his life and treated his step mother with indifference. He was constantly taking his brother on adventures with him. No matter how many times his parents-- he considered them his parents, even though she wasn't properly his mother-- explained that infants shouldn't be drug around outside before they reached a year, Leland would still sneak Chase outside. As a result, Chase spent the first nine months of his life seeming to catch every bug out there. There was more than one hospital visit for the infant. In spite of that, Chase grew quite attached to Leland. By the time he could crawl, he was so used to being with Leland that he'd crawl to him to offer him toys. Something was different about Chase, though. It didn't take long for Leland to notice it. He just couldn't put it into words. At age ten, Leland's electricity manipulation manifested. Meanwhile, Chase mastered walking and began speaking understandably, impressing their parents. At age eleven, Leland could charge cell phones for friends and would often torment teachers by surging power through outlets and lights, shutting things off and sending panic through the classroom. Chase was beginning to read before he'd begun school. At age thirteen, Leland was almost always with his latest girlfriend or his other friends, only seeming to turn up for food. Chase, on the other hand, was drawn into cello lessons by their parents. When Leland was fifteen, Chase was six. It was 2003. February, but the snow hadn't thawed. Icy roads, late nights, drunk drivers, the story is far too common. Chase would later point out that his parents were two of the 226 drunk driving deaths recorded in Colorado. The numbers helped Chase through his teenage years but did nothing for Leland. For a few months bills went unpaid. But the siblings had savings and a stocked cupboard. Then reality kicked in. The phone calls started first, before the phone was disconnected. Then it was the power. The boys made due, up until the water stopped running. That was when they knew Colorado, at least Denver, couldn't be their home any longer. So they hitched a ride on a train and began their traveling. It didn't take long to get taken into custody for not paying the fare. Instead of jail time or a fine, U.S. government agents showed up at the train station. Chase was terrified. Leland? He handled it with calm indifference. The government sent the boys away, to Mercer. Leland lead the way, joining up with the Keller Institute and dragging his brother along with him once they arrived. The two shared a room and soon, the sixteen year old was on track to become a scientist. His brother was spared from experimentation on the basis that Leland was doing what the administration wanted. Leland's life revolved around becoming a scientist. He was almost always shadowing someone when he wasn't in class at Basilius. Chase, only a child, was sent to the elementary school. He was an average child. Intelligent, but not by Mercer standards. In Mercer, genius could be measured by degree. When he wasn't in school, he was tagging along with Leland in the laboratories. When Leland turned twenty-one, they moved to an apartment together. There they remained.	SCIENTIST
SIGNED:	DENVER