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Hello everyone!

As you may know, applications open once again on June 1st. That's in...precisely two weeks! New crew members abound! They don't actually get to play until July, but it's never too early to start thinking about characters you may want to apply for. If you already have your idea, great!

If not, well, sit back and allow us to provide some suggestions.

For this...is...ENABLING NIGHT! ((Offer does not expire at midnight. Enable as long as necessary.))

Use this post to tell us why the canon you love and character you want are so spectacularly fantastic that they deserve another chance. That this ship will wither and die without their vital, life-giving presence. That they are worthy of being picked up and applied for.

How can you accomplish this? However you like! Essays extolling their virtues, your very best pictures of them, your favorite music videos, EXTREME ADVERTISING, and whatever else you have are all welcomed here! Let's make this ~fun~.

Good luck and happy apping! I'll have example comments up very shortly.

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You know it, you love it (or if you don't yet, you just might) Just a pair of good old boys who never meant any harm....

Nope. Pair of brothers who kick ass and take down monsters. Aw yeah. With more badass people than you can shake a shotgun full of rock salt at!

You know who they could use?

This grizzled BAMF right here, Bobby Singer:

Just looky here (end of clip's got S6 spoilers, so might want to pause/stop about 1:20): http://youtu.be/6m-FLZbpVmY

He's good at setting the boys straight.

For badass females? Take your pick, Hunters (Jo, Ellen), Psychics (Pam, Missouri), Demons (Ruby/Meg), Thieves (Bela)

Wanted: One Abe Sapien. He's an amphibious fishy-looking dude who's a good marksman, damn good at fighting in water, and has psychic-ey kinda powers. Abe is also hella good at supernatural knowledge and lore. He has lived probably his whole life in a government facility call the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense. Like his best buds, Abe has spent most of his time there fighting thing that go bump in the night.

Personality Snapshot: Well-read, inquisitive, calm and easy-going, with a dry wit. He was voiced in the one movie by David Hyde Pierce, if that gives you any idea of the type of character.

He'd be arriving in the company of his two best buddies, Hellboy and Liz Sherman, who will need his support so much that they might even forgive him for nearly selling out the whole world. Oh right, nearly forgot that part: Abe almost sold out humanity for a girl. He's a good guy who made a bad choice.

Canon review: TWO MOVIES. And some wiki-ing for background since Abe's origins weren't revealed in the movies yet. That's it.

Why you should app Abe: In his own words: "If there's trouble, all us freaks have is each other." You'd have a chance to play a character that's regarded in his society as a freak in a place where he and his friends wouldn't be. Abe, Hellboy, and Liz have something of a chance at a normal life, which says a lot about how bizarre their lives are that like on Stacy can be normal in comparison.

Which books specifically?

There are four short stories, and two novels, and some info in the sourcebooks.

...all of which I can provide, if you don't have them/can't find them. I have e-books and scans.

Dragon Magazine Oct. 2000 issue - Kang's Command
The Dragons of Krynn - The First Dragonarmy Bridging Company
The Dragons at War - The First Dragonarmy Engineers' Secret Weapon
The Doom Brigade
Heroes and Fools - To Convince the Righteous of the Right
Draconian Measures

Edited 2011-05-19 03:52 (UTC)

SO GUYS. The magical girls we have on board Stacy right now are badass and all, but there's ALWAYS room for more badass young girls, right? RIGHT! SO THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING YOU, YES, YOU, TO APP FROM PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA!

You might be asking me "but Kiyuu, what other badasses in this series are there for me to play?" WELL I HAVE YOUR ANSWER RIGHT HERE.

First up we have Kyouko Sakura, the awesome lancer (no, not the trope) of the group. She's not exactly the friendliest person in the world, but damn is she loyal. She's also one of those "stab first, as questions later" types.

Not the character for you? WELL THAT'S OKAY, WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE.

Before I say anything, yes. That is a magical girl with a machine gun. IF THAT'S NOT ENOUGH TO GET SOMEONE TO APP HER, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.

Anyway, this here is Homura Akemi, and I really can't get into her much without a buttload of spoilers, so I'll just say she's a ~DARK AND MYSTERIOUS~ girl who is crazy-awesome and has powers to match. There's also the spoilerific version (http://i52.tinypic.com/ka5ru0.png) of her, if you want something... different.

COME ON, GUYS, ONLY TWO MORE. BE A PART OF THE AWESOME CAST OF THE OFFSPRING OF NANOHA AND EVANGELION.

Seriously. You know you want to make this happen (http://i54.tinypic.com/ze9z.jpg).

... And okay, I guess you can app this douche (http://i52.tinypic.com/2ltcsx.png) if you want to. I guess.

Edited 2011-05-19 03:51 (UTC)

No but seriously. Allenby would love, love, love any other Gundam Fighters to be around. Whether it's Domon Kasshu, George de Sand, Michelo Chariot--okay so she'd get into a fight with him in five seconds; IT WOULD STILL BE FUN--you should totally app one of 'em. HERE IS A BRIEF RUNDOWN OF THE MAINS.

Domon Kasshu: The main character. He's got burning spirit like nobody's business, communicates his soul through his fists!!! and well... he fails pretty hard at social. Social that does not involve being a martial artist. Can be horribly childish; real kids are like, magnetically attracted to him.

Rain Mikamura: who manages to be at Domon's side through the whole series and remain a rational human being by the end. THIS DESERVES A MEDAL. She is nice, does not put up with crap, is a super-combination of doctor and mechanic, and she borrows the Rising Gundam when nobody's using it, should another Gundam be needed on the scene. AND SHE KICKS ASS.

The Shuffle Alliance:

-- Chibodee Crockett of Neo-America: boxing champ, fun personified, wants to show the universe THE AMERICAN DREAM! Also hates clowns.
-- George de Sand of Neo-France: Made of chivalry and refinement, pilots Gundam Rose and uses roses in his specialty technique, and don't ever cancel a match on him, seriously....
-- Sai Saici of Neo-China: Obnoxious kid, amazing cook, can fail pretty hard, damn smart on the battlefield and if you think you can beat him, think again.
-- Argo Gulskii of Neo-Russia: Like seven feet high and almost as broad, former pirate, pretty stoic, not too refined but really looks out for his friends.

AND ANY OTHER GUNDAM FIGHTER YOU'D WANT TO APP IS FINE BY ME TOO.

And if you need more motivation, check out some of the amazing things G Gundam has to offer in the comment below!

I think we have The Dragons of Krynn, The Dragons at War, The Doom Brigade and Heroes and Fools. My brother and I split the series basically in half and those were probably his so I'd have to do some digging to see if we still own them somewhere.

I will look around, and see if can find them. I'd probably need help for the rest though.

German ninjas!

Moments like this!

Exploding rainbows!

MANLY TEARS OF MANLINESS!!!

Dialogue like this!

Saran-wrap flightsuits!

And a Frenchman who attacks people with roses.

SERIOUSLY. WHAT IS NOT TO LOVE HERE.

I've got a bit of headcanon too (because Weis and Perrin stopped writing together after they divorced D: )! Just let me know what you need, and I'll be more than happy to provide it. <3

And finally...

Please consider Cyborg so that we may hear this beautiful singing.

Apply for Raven, please. The waffles demand it.

And finally...c'mon, it's Robin. Another member of an alternate Bat-family to cause confusion! Badass who doesn't need powers to keep up with his friends? Stops ridiculousness in its tracks? Mystery of the mask?

Pleeeeeease? Don't make me break out the begging Star.

O.K. I can't really enable people who don't know the canon for this. But.

Magneto.

Also any of the Lensherr/Maximoff family (including Billy and Tommy) would be great. But duuuude Magneto. Wanda's still adjusting to the news that she's Magneto's daughter.

...Chris Mustang? I don't remember that name.

Roy's awesome mom. She runs an awesome bar and is awesome in every way.

OH RIGHT.

...yes. I can see them definitely getting along.

I really wish I finished my everything awesome in Xenosaga pimp post I am slowly working on. Need to do that soon. THAT SAID Xenosaga probably has something YOU will like in it, because it's a huge ass canon with an entire universe gone into and ahh. It has science and religion and sexy lady robots (seriously, KOS-MOS unf), geeky scientists, loveable loser sidekicks, hilarious ship crews, clones, clone emo, lolis, loli emo, bridgebunny lolis! Cyborgs, synthetic humans and fights about their rights, samurai, MECHA (of both the small and Gundam and also omgwtf huge size), epic space battles with gorgeous backgrounds and badass spaceships, magical girl transformations, crazy insane scientists, psychos antagonists that are so screwed in the head it's borderline creepy but has so much background and reasoning for it, it has Jesus-type characters, more shipping options than you can imagine (got a type? Xenosaga has pretty much all of them). GOT A CHARACTER TYPE? I can totally try to pimp one that suits you. |D

But Tara I don't have a PS2/don't play video games/whatever NO EXCUSES LOOK I HAVE AN ENTIRE CANON COMPILATION HERE TO WATCH ONLINE! (http://carrieswar.livejournal.com/2171.html) And the game is very story-heavy so while in the end I really do suggest giving the game a go (because they are really fun, especially III and its mecha battles), going to that link is a great great GREAT alternative for those who cannot. \o/ Xenosaga is a great series with an awesome (if not sometimes confusing because woah sciece and religion) story and absolutely amazing and deep characters. I don't even care who APPS from it, I just love spreading the love of the series because it's one I hold near and dear to my heart.

AND WITH THE GENERAL PIMPING I will come back to do subthreads for characters who would be awesome in this game.

Disgaea.

Because your canon can't do this:

Page two and page three!

But I apparently decided to make this post Batgirl-centric. Now with cheesy 60's theme music!

And now, if you've ever felt cowed by the sheer amount of history there is in comics, you have it summarized! In entertaining adorable comic form! In-comic comic written by the particularly awesome Stephanie Brown (the current Batgirl. The second trade of her series came out today! Convenient!). Who is unsinkable. And generally amazing.

Missing from this, of note, is Cassandra Cain, the previous Batgirl. One of the deadliest fighters in the DCU! Who is awesome. Also this.. Also awesome.

And, now that I've shown off those two, there is no avoiding mentioning the original. Barbara used to be Batgirl but now is Oracle, infojock supreme. Who kicks literal ass as well as figurative.

Receiving honourable mention is Huntress! She had a brief stint as Batgirl, so it fits. She's a teacher by day and a bad ass vigilante by night. Misfit would get honourable mention too, but I am enabling someone privately for her. ;)

There are lots of easy to get trades out for all of these lovely, ass kicking ladies! And a few of them have been in the animated shows too, trufax (well Babs and Huntress have been). I can also provide ~~issues~~ scans if you want some quick reading to see if you'd like to see more. c:

Now that you've seen way more Batgirl in a day than you wanted to...

Of course, being comics it'd have to be a crash course to learn new characters by the end of app period, sob.

Edited 2011-05-19 04:26 (UTC)

AND NOW FOR SOME PEOPLE YOU MIGHT APP!

The Clan -

I'm starting with Elisa because I would be lying if I said I didn't want her most.

Elisa Maza is one of the very few humans to reach out to and befriend a clan of gargoyles. She's a detective of the NYPD, and is a badass normal in a world where you can have wings and claws and still be normal. This is a woman who, when cornered by a werewolf without her gun, doesn't scream for her monster buddies to come save her - she grabs whatever happens to be nearest and hits the werewolf in the face.

At the same time, she's also a warm, compassionate, humorous person. She's a detective because she cares about people, and believes in upholding justice to make the city a safer place for upstanding, moral citizens to live.

Elisa and Goliath have pretty much been in love with each other since night two. They spend most of the series dancing around their UST, being best friends who love and support each other even when they disagree and generally having THE LONGEST Disney courtship, while still also having this strangely mature and functional relationship-that's-not-a-relationship, since, you know, interspecies. It's kind of a complication.

If Elisa was on the ship, she and Goliath would be the most awesome badass normal battle couple, and also he would be about a 110% less sad. Also, the Meatship would be about 10% more awesome by my count, since Elisa is easily one of the greatest female characters in western animation, and I would totally play her myself, if I wasn't already playing her not-boyfriend.

THE TRIO

They're very confused as to why nobody's apped them yet, when they're so great.

Left to right, Broadway, Brooklyn, and Lexington. These guys are the younger members of Wyvern Clan. They each range across being serious young warriors and gargoyle youths with their own foibles and areas of interest.

Broadway, the big guy, is the group sweetheart. He likes westerns and detective noir films, and is the most interested in Elisa's job as a detective, going so far as to follow her around on duty once every now and then. He's also got a hate-on for guns, and is surprisingly scary when he's angry, in a beware-the-nice-ones kind of way.

Brooklyn is the fan-favorite, a bit of an adrenaline junkie, and probably the one of the trio who has the most problems with Manhattan, where humans are even more scared of gargoyles than they were in Scotland. He just wants to fit in and chill out, bros. =\ Brooklyn is the second-in-command after Goliath, and has skills as a military tactician. Also, sarcasm.

Lexington is word-of-Gay and the Smart Guy of the trio. He's a genius-level engineer, and picks up mechanics and computer science really quickly. He's somehow learned to type with four fingers. Also, surprisingly good with kids. But probably not as good as he is at building motorcycles after riding them once.

HUDSON.

He's old, and he's a badass. Kinda more into staying back and guarding the castle/clocktower/whatever we're guarding these days while the younger clan goes out on patrol, but still. He's an old badass. Every game needs more of these.

Look at this sexy mofo.

This is Gaignun Kukai and the character I want more than anything! he is Jr.'s ... "father" (except not exactly) and shares an emo cloney bioweapony past with him. But Gaignun's inner demons go a little beyond that when the past quite literally comes creeping up behind him in the most unusual (and OH NO) way.

He owns a WHOLE SPACE COLONY that many other clones/sub-humans/outcasts live in harmony harmony oh love. Because they understannnnnnd the paaaain. Gaignun is smart and sophisticated but can be funny and laid back as well.

And he's voiced by Crispin Freeman so listening to him is just. ♥_♥ Here is his/the space colony's introduction (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TbQw0mmG24), watch him be so suave.

Also I have like. Billions and billions of icons for any Gaignun appers. :x Don't you want an icon sugar-mama?

I'm committed to Ed for this app cycle, but I'll see what I can get covered between now and the next app period - and I'll definitely be in touch about any progress (or help I might need) in the meantime.

YES.

It would be fabulous.

Also any of the minor characters omg.

I find this comment to be misleading.

I find your mom to be misleading.

DEMONA.

AKA WORST. EX-MATE. EVER.

So yeah this is Demona. She is Goliath's ex. They kind of broke up when she wanted him to help her destroy all humans, and he decided genocide really wasn't his bag, so she shot him. A couple times. And tricked Brooklyn into putting him under a mind-control spell. And tried to kill Hudson. And tried to kill Elisa. And tried to commit genocide of the human race. A COUPLE OF TIMES.

She's crazy, immortal, driven by vengeance and hatred, has a complicated past, and is generally really good at making Goliath's life complicated. Mostly involving shooting.

She is a pretty awesome villain, and man, if you could play her on a ship CONSTANTLY SURROUNDED by humans, all of whom she hates with a passion, hey, that could be pretty awesome.

DAVID XANATOS.

App him for the beard.

App him for the motherfucking beard.

But seriously, Xanatos is a schemer, to the core. Everything is part of his plan. You reading this post is part of his plan. You being in your seat at the time you are now in your seat to read this post is part of his plan. YEAH. IT'S LIKE THAT.

I mean, look at the trope named after him.

He's also a self-made millionaire thanks to a time loop. Because that is how Xanatos rolls.

Back to some non-villains with ANGELA.

Angela is Goliath and Demona's biological daughter. She was raised by humans on the island of Avalon, on which time moves much more slowly than in the real world, meaning she reached adulthood by the time the clan woke up in Manhattan, as opposed to being long dead. She and Goliath have an interesting relationship, mostly involving her wanting him to acknowledge her as his daughter, and him being more comfortable with the gargoyle method of parenting, in which all adult gargoyles raise all gargoyle children communally. She's clever and sweet, on the inexperienced side due to being raised in fairyland (you heard me), and can still crumple a car like a beercan.

There are more characters - like Matt Bluestone, Elisa's partner, and Owen, Xanatos' Assistant-with-a-Secret, and Thailog, Goliath's evil clone, but you should probably watch the show to get a handle on these awesome dudes.

Do you like sexy godmode androids?

Then app her. Materialize weapons out of thin air! Beat up aliens! Godmode the hell out of everything because that is seriously what KOS-MOS does. She's an anti-Gnosis combat android, but as the story goes on you find out she's much more than that. If you like fighting and being sexy and using big words, KOS-MOS is your girl!

Here have an epic fight scene. :D (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI7RaRZkE0w)

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