AGE WARNING:
This RPG is PG-15. Players under 15 need not apply. You can have a little bit of sexual content, some adult language, and for crying out loud this is a Brawl RPG of course a little violence is allowed. HOWEVER! Chatroom and OOC tomfoolery might climb up to an R (18 and above) rating.

BEFORE YOU APPLY:
Know your characters.
This doesn't mean you need to have play the game 47 times, but please DO YOUR RESEARCH if you want to play a character in a game you've never touched before. Before you settle down and get ready to wrote, make sure you check the acceptable series list. If you're unsure of you how you're going to play a character, head on over to our DRESSING ROOM where you can try out your potential character with other potential characters, characters already in the game, or just plain joke characters!

Make Your Apps Long Enough.
We don't want epic novels either, but please have at least one paragraph in both the backstory and personality. If the backstory seems to vague or the personality is too flat, it might mean rejection.

Only One Playable Brawl Character Per Fandom.
If, for example, you wanted to play Fox and Falco, you wouldn't be allowed because they're both playable characters in Brawl AND from the same game. You could, however, play Fox and Luigi-- in fact that is an excellent idea and you should capitalize on it.

Applying and Dropping:
Dropping a character is hard to do, but sometimes you've gotta do what you gotta do. If it's your first time dropping a guy, you can instantly pick up another character if your heart desires (and if you have the slot for it). If you drop again, however, you're going to have to wait ONE MONTH before you apply for another character. This applies the same way no matter how many characters you drop in the same drop post. If you had 4 characters and dropped one, don't worry! Your fourth slot is permanent. You are going to have to reapply for a slot if you had five+ characters before you dropped, though.

Reservations:
Reservations last for TWO WEEKS. This means you have two whole weeks to write your best application ever and nobody else is able to apply for that same character while the reserve is in play. If you don't finish before your reserve runs out, the character you reserved will be fair game and applicable to anyone again. You have to wait a week before you're allowed to place another reserve for the same character, though; give other folks a chance!

Hold Your Pants On, Geeze:
Please be patient while waiting to be accepted. Sorry for the inconvenience, but not all of us mods are online 24/7. We have lives too, you know. 8( We aren't encyclopedias, either; we aren't familiar with every single video game ever so it might take us a while to do adequate research and/or evaluate OC-like characters, like Pikmin or Pokemon. Generally, the mods meet <b>THURSDAYS</b> to discuss applications and slots. 

Relationships With Characters Already in the Game:
Potential canonmates might have plans! This applies to relationships, canon, etc. The Canon Listing can help you out with a few games, but if you don't see one for the game you're going to apply from, get in contact with your potential castmates! In fact, get in contact with them anyway, it's good to talk things out face-to-face. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE WHEN YOU ARE APPLYING FOR 'VILLAIN' characters. Most players aren't shy and would love to help you out! If you can't seem to get in contact with your castmates, ask a mod for some help!

Abilities:
For the most part, your character can retain all of their abilities. Kirby is still able to copy abilities like he does in the games, Ganondorf still has his magic, etc. Just keep it under the godmod limit, think like a Smash Brother, and don't overdo it. Seriously, don't. There aren't three billion Smash Balls or invincibility stars in the food and Porky Minch can't turn into Optimus Prime and smash everything in sight. DON'T DO IT. If you apply for a non-human character and humanize them, they might not retain all of their abilities. (Example: Meta Knight can't turn into a giant tornado with a swoop of his cape or anything like that if he's human.) You know, be a little realistic with it, it varies for every character.

HOW DOES I GET SLOTS?
You can apply for your first three characters at any time. Your fourth character and up, though, will be based on a couple of different things: 1.) ACTIVITY. You have to be active with all of your characters. Not just one or two, but all of them, so that we know you can balance a fourth, fifth, or even a sixth character on top of the ones you already have. 2.) SENIORITY. You can't apply three characters and then ask for a fourth one rapid-fire. You have to be in the game for four and a half months before you can apply for a fourth slot. This is to ensure that you can maintain activity over time. A short burst of posts in a week before you ask for a slot will not work. For a fifth slot you must be in the game for six months, for a sixth seven and a half months, and so on. Want another slot? Ask in the apps post! The mods will get together (4 for a 4th, 5 for a 5th, all 5 plus a mod-chosen player for a 6th, etc.) and approve/deny your request.

Pokemon:
There are 150 or more to see a lot of Pokemon. No, seriously, they have what, almost 500 now? Needless to say, this is not a Pokemon-centric game and we really don't want 500 Pokemon in the game. There's a cap on this, so no more than 30 POKEMON are in the game at one time. Pikachu, Pichu, Squirtle, Ivysaur, Charizard, Lucario, Jigglypuff, Mewtwo, Rayquaza do NOT count towards this number, because they appear in Brawl. Pokemon that appeared in Pokeballs like Manaphy or Mew DO count towards this limit.

TWO POKEMON CHARACTERS PER PLAYER.
Give everyone else a chance. If we allowed people to have more than two Pokemon, it'd limit the number of players who would be able to play Pokemon characters. This applies to both Pokemon that appeared in Brawl and those that didn't.

Godmoding and You:
Godmoding is bad. And wrong. Like... Some combination of the two. Ba-dong? Brong? Wronad? Something. It's not good and you should stay away from it. Nobody wants to play with you when you say stuff like "MY GUY IS A 16-FOOT TALL ANGEL DEMON WIZARD AND HE HAS A 16-FOOT GOLDEN LIGHTNING SWORD AND HE'S TOTALLY BUFF AND YOU CAN'T ATTACK HIM BECAUSE HE IS MADE OUT OF BULLETS AND OH NO HE JUST KILLED YOUR GUY BY LOOKING AT HIM." Seriously, though, godmoding is frowned upon and nobody's totally invincible. Be a little realistic, even if this is a wacky Brawl-based game.

Player Interaction:
PLAY NICE. We're all adults (or at least pretend to be hurr hurr) here. Your character being a jerk is no excuse to be a jerk to other players OOCly. Keep it civil, please. We trust you guys enough not to make a big scene and/or fight with other players, but if you think something's getting out of hand, PLEASE contact a mod.

The Four Sacred Rules of Applying:
Rule # 1 - Make sure your app is 100% finished.
Don't submit half of an app. Check, check and check a 3rd time to make sure everything is there.
Rule #2 - SPELL CHECK.
Use it. Love it. Don't submit an app that looks like you just text-messaged it to somebody.
Rule #3 - Three strikes and you're out.
If you submit an app for a character and you get rejected all three times, you cannot apply for that same character for a month. This is so you can do your canon reviews and make sure that your app is 100% up to par. I mean, nobody likes spam. The rule's mostly to ensure that you don't submit the same app three times in a row with just a single change, like "this is my invisible shiny Bulbasaur," "this is my invisible shiny Bulbasaur with a mustache," "this is my invisible shiny Bulbasaur with a top hat," "this is my invisible shiny Bulbasaur with a monocle" and so on all in the span of a month.
Rule #4 - Every character is fair game.
It's okay to apply for a character as long as there isn't a reserve for them. Don't feel bad for applying a character someone else is interested in, it happens!

TWO DOLLARS DAYS.
If you take longer than 48 hours to reply you're gonna have to apply again. It's not fair to other people if you're sitting on a character and you're not even in the game yet, bro. In the event that your approval's voided, you'll have to wait two days to re-apply. If you don't think you're going to be around to see your app get approved (like if you're going on vacation or something), DON'T APPLY. Put up a reserve instead so you've got the time to write an app!

ONE WEEK to Make an IC Post.
SEVEN DAAAAYS You have one week to make your first IC journal/log post. Either is fine, so long as you've got one up. Posts to the OOC communities (, , and ) don't count. The ONLY exception to this rule is if you have to take an emergency hiatus or something; in that case just put up a hiatus notice and you're a-ok.

No AIM, No Service.
We will not accept your app if you don't give us any form of contact. AIM is a requirement and has been since the beginning. Our OOC chatroom is AIM-based and it's the mods' preferred means of contact. Can't download AIM? No worries! There are other IM clients out there that can handle AIM, like Trillian, Pidgin, or Adium. If none of those work, try a web-based IM client, like Meebo or AIM Express.

NO BLOCKING.
Do NOT block a fellow player, mod, or otherwise on LJ, AIM, dA, MSN, email or ANYTHING. It's not fair to both parties and if you block people on LJ you can't see their posts, anyway. If you have a personal vendetta, settle it elsewhere or don't join the game. We're here to have fun, not to settle your arguments.

GEEZE HAVE FUN This is a game, after all. We're here to play and have a good time. Don't, you know, be an asshat. Asshats aren't fun.