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To apply, choose the applicable form below and fill it out. Please post it as a comment (or a string of comments) to this page, or you can link to your application. Feel free to check out the Application FAQ if you have any questions, or you can contact a mod at

kismet_loop_mods or KLMods (at) yahoo (dot) com. Please also note that some applications may take longer to process than others; while we strive to go in the order they are received, certain canons may require additional research on the mods' behalves and thus may be delayed. If this is the case, we will leave a note saying so!

Canon, CRAU, and Obscure Canon Characters

Player Information Name/Alias: (Give us something to call you) Your Journal: <user name="YOUR JOURNAL"> (Do you have a personal journal account on DW? If not, put "N/A") Age: (If you don't want to give a specific age, please note whether or not you're over 16.) Contact Information: (Please give us a way to contact you!) Characters already in the game: (If you have or have had characters in the game already, please list them here and indicate if they are current or former characters. If you're new to KL, please put "N/A") Character Information Character Journal: <user name="YOUR CHARACTER'S JOURNAL HERE"> Character Name: (Full name please, first, middle, last, and any canon nicknames as applicable.) Character Canon: (Please be specific. Some canons have more than one continuity. For example, Transformers G1 Cartoon is different from Transformers IDW comics) Age: (If you don't know a specific age, then give us a general idea. Are they young for their kind, old, etc.) Race: (Are they Cybertronian? Human? Something else? Let us know) Timeline Pull Point: (Please give us as much context as possible, such as including a short summary in addition to the episode/issue number.) Canon History: (We will accept links to a wiki for Canon Characters. However, in lieu of a link (for characters with short wikis or without much canon information), we would like to see a summary of the character's past in your own words. Try to include as little headcanon as possible. In the case of OCCs, we will obviously need more than just a wiki link!) CRAU History: (If your character is coming to KL with previous game history (CRAU), then we need to know what their history has been since pulled from canon. If your character is straight from the regular canon, you can ignore this section.) Personality: (Please be clear, concise, and complete. We're looking for at least two or three paragraphs to show you know this character well.) Powers/Abilities: (What special abilities does you character have? Assume we know nothing about them or their species. Please include any skills or qualities of note, ex: "experienced sniper", "genius level intelligence", etc. Please note that overly powerful characters will have some of their power dampened. Please still list ALL powers and abilities, and if you have suggestions on limitations or how to dampen the character's power, please include that as well (they may not be necessary). We will inform you of any further changes needed to powers if it is deemed necessary.) Inventory: (What is your character coming in with. If these items do special things, be detailed in describing them! And be reasonable regarding size, Haven is massive, but it still has limits. Refer to the App FAQ for more details.) Writing Samples (These should be stand-alone samples. You may re-use samples from other applications you have written, but we will not be accepting links to previous threads/museboxes/dear-mun posts or other such things. The samples should be visible on your app.) First Person Sample: (A first person sample should show us how your character communicates, be that text, audio, or video. This could be their reaction to waking here, them calling for assistance, or some other such scenario. We're not looking to just see reactions, though, we want to know how they talk to others, so this sample should be one in which they're aware they're talking to others on a network, or at least trying to communicate with a certain person.) Third Person Sample: (This should be a few paragraphs of prose-style action. It should focus on your character, and should offer some insight into their thought patterns, the way they interact with the world, and overall should give us an idea of both them and your own writing style. We like to see creativity used here in preference to the rehashing of a canon scene. This is your opportunity to show us how your character thinks and acts within a scenario of your choice.) Final Notes: (Need to cover anything that hasn't already been covered? Use this spot. Or just ignore it if you've already gotten everything.)

Canon AU or Fandom OC

Player Information Name/Alias: (Give us something to call you) Your Journal: <user name="YOUR JOURNAL"> (Do you have a personal journal account on DW? If not, put "N/A") Age: (If you don't want to give a specific age, please note whether or not you're over 16.) Contact Information: (Please give us a way to contact you!) Characters already in the game: (If you have or have had characters in the game already, please list them here and indicate if they are current or former characters. If you're new to KL, please put "N/A") Character Information Character Journal: <user name="YOUR CHARACTER'S JOURNAL HERE"> Character Name: (Full name please, first, middle, last, and any canon nicknames as applicable.) Character Canon: (Please be specific. Some canons have more than one continuity. For example, Transformers G1 Cartoon is different from Transformers IDW comics. Also specify here that the character is a CAU or FOC.) Age: (If you don't know a specific age, then give us a general idea. Are they young for their kind, old, etc.) Race: (Are they Cybertronian? Human? Something else? Let us know) Timeline Change Point: (Please give us a much context as possible, such as including a short summary in addition to the episode/issue number.) World: (Be as detailed as possible. Tell us a bit about the original canon world and the world as it stands now, or where in time your character fits. Canon AU? What does the world look like now? What sorts of changes have occurred since that one big change in canon? Was your character's best friend murdered in episode 4 instead of becoming their biggest support and inspiration? Have they become the villain instead of the hero? What's their story now? Fandom OC? Where do they fit into canon? Remember, a Fandom OC is allowed only minimal contact/relations with canon characters, and should have little to no affect on the canon timeline. We would still like to know when/where they're from, canon-wise. Describe the world they're from, be it before, during, or after canon.) History: (Be as detailed as possible. Your character is either from a completely changed canon, or fits into an existing one in ways that leaves it unchanged. Tell us about their experiences, their impressions of canon events (unless they're from before canon), and what their plans for the future are. Make sure you're clear on their pull point - what is the last thing they remember before they ended up pulled into KL?) Personality: (Please be clear, concise, and complete. We're looking for at least two or three paragraphs to show you know this character well.) Powers/Abilities: (What special abilities does you character have? Assume we know nothing about them or their species. Please include any skills or qualities of note, ex: "experienced sniper", "genius level intelligence", etc. Please note that overly powerful characters will have some of their power dampened. Please still list ALL powers and abilities, and if you have suggestions on limitations or how to dampen the character's power, please include that as well (they may not be necessary). We will inform you of any further changes needed to powers if it is deemed necessary.) Inventory: (What is your character coming in with. If these items do special things, be detailed in describing them! And be reasonable regarding size, Haven is massive, but it still has limits. Refer to the App FAQ for more details.) Writing Samples (These should be stand-alone samples. You may re-use samples from other applications you have written, but we will not be accepting links to previous threads/museboxes/dear-mun posts or other such things. The samples should be visible on your app.) First Person Sample: (A first person sample should show us how your character communicates, be that text, audio, or video. This could be their reaction to waking here, them calling for assistance, or some other such scenario. We're not looking to just see reactions, though, we want to know how they talk to others, so this sample should be one in which they're aware they're talking to others on a network, or at least trying to communicate with a certain person.) Third Person Sample: (This should be a few paragraphs of prose-style action. It should focus on your character, and should offer some insight into their thought patterns, the way they interact with the world, and overall should give us an idea of both them and your own writing style. We like to see creativity used here in preference to the rehashing of a canon scene. This is your opportunity to show us how your character thinks and acts within a scenario of your choice.) Final Notes: (Need to cover anything that hasn't already been covered? Use this spot. Or just ignore it if you've already gotten everything.)

Original Characters

Player Information Name/Alias: (Give us something to call you) Your Journal: <user name="YOUR JOURNAL"> (Do you have a personal journal account on DW? If not, put "N/A") Age: (If you don't want to give a specific age, please note whether or not you're over 16.) Contact Information: (Please give us a way to contact you!) Characters already in the game: (If you have or have had characters in the game already, please list them here and indicate if they are current or former characters. If you're new to KL please put "N/A") Character Information Character Journal: <user name="YOUR CHARACTER'S JOURNAL HERE"> Character Name: (Full name please, first, middle, last, and any canon nicknames as applicable.) Age: (If you don't know a specific age, then give us a general idea. Are they young for their kind, old, etc.) Race: (Are they human? Fairy? Were-creature? Something else? Let us know) World: (Be as detailed as possible. Is the world modern, fantasy, or sci-fi? What is the political and social scene like? Especially for your character? What else in their world is relevant to them? Give as much detail as you can think of, as you are our only real source of knowledge for this setting.) History: (Be as detailed as possible. Tell us about their experiences and what their plans for the future are. Make sure you're clear on their pull point, what is the last thing they remember before they ended up pulled into KL?) Personality: (Please be clear, concise, and complete. We're looking for at least two or three paragraphs to show you know this character well.) Powers/Abilities: (What special abilities does you character have? Assume we know nothing about them or their species. Please include any skills or qualities of note, ex: "experienced sniper", "genius level intelligence", etc. Please note that overly powerful characters will have some of their power dampened. Please still list ALL powers and abilities, and if you have suggestions on limitations or how to dampen the character's power, please include that as well (they may not be necessary). We will inform you of any further changes needed to powers if it is deemed necessary.) Inventory: (What is your character coming in with. If these items do special things, be detailed in describing them! And be reasonable regarding size, Haven is massive, but it still has limits. Refer to the App FAQ for more details.) Writing Samples (These should be stand-alone samples. You may re-use samples from other applications you have written, but we will not be accepting links to previous threads/museboxes/dear-mun posts or other such things. The samples should be visible on your app.) First Person Sample: (A first person sample should show us how your character communicates, be that text, audio, or video. This could be their reaction to waking here, them calling for assistance, or some other such scenario. We're not looking to just see reactions, though, we want to know how they talk to others, so this sample should be one in which they're aware they're talking to others on a network, or at least trying to communicate with a certain person.) Third Person Sample: (This should be a few paragraphs of prose-style action. It should focus on your character, and should offer some insight into their thought patterns, the way they interact with the world, and overall should give us an idea of both them and your own writing style. We like to see creativity used here in preference to the rehashing of a canon scene. This is your opportunity to show us how your character thinks and acts within a scenario of your choice.) Final Notes: (Need to cover anything that hasn't already been covered? Use this spot. Or just ignore it if you've already gotten everything.)

Please note, mod staff will most often review apps on the weekends. We promise to do our best to get to all apps within a week, but if we do not, know that we will get the app reviewed as quickly as possible. We thank you for your patience with us.

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Personality
Compared to other Decpticons, like Megatron and Starscream who just want to watch the world burn, Knock Out seems significantly laid back and indifferent to anything. Sure, he likes running weird experiments and mocking his victims before buzz-sawing them in half, but he's also perfectly content with goofing around and being a sarcastic douchebag. He slacks off in his own ways, like leaving the Nemesis to go racing or fussing over his appearance. And damn does he ever fuss over his appearance. When people damage his paint job, he reacts violently, and then bitches about it endlessly until he'd finally get himself patched up. Yeah, he's one of those guys. All about looking out for number one.

Knock Out is known better for his brains (usually) and beauty than his prowess on the battlefield. That doesn't mean he can't hold his own if the situation calls for it. Even if he is a half way decent and persistent fighter, he's still only like half the size of the other Decepticons. Before Breakdown was killed, he'd had his big burly bodyguard and life was good, but after losing him, Knock Out was pretty much useless for big missions. At least as far as Megatron was concerned. To make up for Knock Out's tiny wimpy partnerlessness, Megatron sent a giant, horrible insecticon bug robot to act as Knock Out's new bodyguard once. Knock Out was not amused and his poor self esteem took a nutshot. Baww.

He may be brilliant in his own way, but Knock Out has a bad habit of running his mouth and occasionally speaks without thinking, like when he accidentally spilled the beans about the Predacon clones in front of Ratchet, or accidentally caused a zombie invasion. Pretty much the only reason Megatron tolerates his shenanigans is because he's the only medic, and when he actually does take his work seriously, he usually produces good results. Usually. When there's no zombies.

While on Earth, Knock Out seemed to develop a fondness for human culture. Not so much humans themselves, but he often voiced his admiration for human automobiles and engineering, and even confessed to sneaking out to watch human cinema at drive in theaters. Given his position and the fact that he had Cylas around to poke at for a while, it's likely that he at least has a basic understanding of human anatomy. At the very least he knows how they reproduce, and seemed to be pretty grossed out by the concept of human "interfacing". He wasn't as fond of humans as say, the Autobots, but he wasn't as likely as other Decepticons to go smashing them if it wasn't necessary. The only human he actively wanted to hurt was Cylas, and that was because he was kind of living off of his partner's dead body.

Speaking of said partner, Breakdown was quite possibly the only person Knock Out placed any real degree of trust in, except for maybe Starscream on occasion (not that that ever actually ended well). Knock Out won't hesitate to be totally casual and chat anybody up, generally treating them all the same, but Breakdown was the only one he was comfortable going on missions with. He even acted as the doctor's assistant in the medibay and buffed his finish for him if it became damaged. Losing Breakdown marked a bit of a turning point in Knock out's development, even if his actions weren't always noticeably different from when he was still around. when Knock Out ran into Cylas thinking he was Breakdown, he was overjoyed to see his partner again, but once Cylas reviled his true identity, he was visibly disturbed. Knock Out ended up taking Cylas back to the Nemesis to see Megatron, and he wasted no time in asking the warlord to let him get back at the human who had butchered his partner. When Knock out finally got his wish he made it no secret how thrilled he was to get back at Cylas, and then kept him alive for a while to torture him with his sick experiments. When Starscream asked him if experimenting on the body of his dead partner bothered him, Knock Out's reply was "not really", and he explained that Breakdown would have appreciated the irony of the situation. So, he was weirdly loyal to his partner in kind of a creepy, mad scientist way.

Knock Out has his own insecurities, not that he ever deliberately lets them show. While he knows he's clearly fabulous and amazing looking, he craves recognition from his superiors, even from Starscream back when Megatron was all comatose. It probably has something to do with the fact that fucking up resulted in harsh punishments. That, and the Decepticons in general weren't generally known for being nice to each other unless it was for their own personal gain, with the exception of Knock Out and Breakdown's relationship where they were legit buddies. Knock Out is so accustomed to everyone treating each other like shit within the Decepticon ranks that he's genuinely surprised when Ratchet is actually polite to him and thanks him for something (Y'know that one time he was all captured). One of his reasons for leaving the Decepticons in the first place was the fact that he found Starscream "rude".

Knock Out may have been an asshole a lot of the time, but there were a few occasions where he was shown to have at least some semblance of sympathy or caring. His situation with Breakdown being the big one, the other one happening at the end of the movie when Optimus Prime sacrificed himself to save Cybertron. Though Knock Out had only been an Autobot for like, a day, Prime included him among the Autobot's ranks in his final "brb pulling a Jesus Christ" speech, and Knock out seemed genuinely upset to see him go.

Powers/Abilities:
Knock Out has training as a cybertronian medic, and apparently he's pretty damn good seeing as he served Megatron directly. He does, however, prefer taking bots apart over putting them back together. He's also something of a mad scientist, though some of his experiments yielded questionable results. He likely has a basic understanding of human anatomy as well, seeing as he worked on Earth for so long and spent some time studying the little buggers. Kind of. If running weird experiments on one counts as "experience".

While he prefers to avoid a fight for the sake of his paint job, Knock Out is a fairly skilled combatant. His weapon of choice is an energon prod, which is basically just a stick that zaps the fuck out of people, and hands transform into buzz-saws and drills and shit.

Being Cybertronian, Knock Out has a vehicle alt-mode. He transforms into a fancy ass car.

Inventory:
nothing he is not cool enough to have neat shit

Writing Samples both totally recycled look at me GO

First Person Sample:
[What up NERDS, there's a very shiny, very red, and very annoyed looking robot looking at the camera-- actually no, he's looking at his fingers like a chick that just smudged her fresh nail polish. The annoyed part though, that's accurate. After a few seconds of grumbling to himself, he finally turns his attention to the camera.]

You know, I really wouldn't mind a little more information about this place, or why I'm even here when I should be on Cybertron, but I've suddenly found myself in desperate need of a rotary buffer and a few gallons of high grade. If anyone would be so kind as to point me in the general direction of either of these things, you would have my eternal gratitude.

Well, maybe not eternal, but I'm sure you get the idea.

Third Person Sample:

Considering Knock Out was stuck in some weirdo dimension or something and unable to contact Cybertron or... anyone, really, one would think he'd be a little more concerned about his current predicament. Not that he wasn't concerned, but he was still a little caught up on the events leading up to waking up in bizarro creepy fucked up world. The whole war being over thing, helping save Cybertron from Unicron and his army of undead zombie things, kind of a big deal. Oh, and cracking Starscream across the face, that had been pretty funny. Very satisfying. Maybe not quite as big a deal as saving a planet, but Knock Out was pretty damn happy with himself over it.

Ditching the Decepticons for the Autobots had really only been out of convenience, the whole looking out for number one angle. Now that he had time to sit and think about it, though, he couldn't help but wonder why he'd never considered switching sides sooner. Just during his short time working with them, the Autobots treated him a hundred times better than the Decepticons ever had. Not that anyone really had a chance to be outright douchebags to him yet considering everything else that had been going on, but even Optimus Prime himself had treated him with respect. It was no wonder the Autobots always seemed to be in high spirits, it must have been nice having a leader who didn't treat his subordinates like scrap. Shame he had to sacrifice himself in quite literally the most dramatic way possible.

Ah well, Knock Out wasn't the sentimental sort. In fact, he was a little annoyed with himself for still being caught up on any of that at all. At the very least it was better than panicking, which was something he was practically on the verge of. At least internally. Thankfully he'd found something to sort of distract himself with. He has this old datapad, which could apparently function as some sort of communication device. Caught up in his weird thoughts or not, he'd still needed something to do with his hands, so he'd been tinkering with the thing for a while. All things considered, he should probably start focusing on the here and now anyway, and figuring out how to get in touch with the natives so he could relentlessly drill them for information was a good starting point.

Well, he'd drill them for information about this place after he'd had a chance to buff a few dings out of his plating. He didn't even remember getting these! Granted he'd been a little preoccupied with slightly more important things, but still. Okay, information later, right now his priority was getting his hands on a rotary buffer before he went out of his mind.

A+ priorities.

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WE'RE NOT BUYING

Thank you for applying to Kismet Loop. The mod staff is happy to let you know that your application has been accepted! Please be sure to do all of the following:

++ Add your character to the Taken Page.
++ Join the game comms:

kismet_loop,

kismet_loop_logs,

kismet_loop_ooc
++ Be sure to grant access to the mod journal:

kismet_loop_mods.
++ You might also wish to join the crack comm

fates_lemonade and/or the adult comm

tempting_fate.
++ Upon gaining friend-access to the mod journal, enter or update your information on the Player Contact Page even if you are already listed (have a character already in game).
++ If you have Plurk, be sure to friend or follow the mod account:

KismetLoopMods
++ Make sure there’s a public version of your application in your journal. It doesn’t have to include the Player Information or Samples, but the rest of it should be there!
++ Also make sure there’s an HMD in your journal.
++ Introduce yourself in the OOC comm!

Finally your character will wake in the Northeast Sector!

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