Why was my application rejected?

Obvious errors, from grammar, spelling, and format; or a blatant disregard of the rules in any way. For example, if you're underage. We will not make exceptions. If you have sections of your application that are not filled out with the requirements we have, you're going to get rejected. We try to state clearly our requirements in the application, and expect them to be followed.

Lack of balance as a character - particularly in the weaknesses and strengths. Simply put, if your character has far more strengths than weaknesses, or if your weaknesses are all very small in light of their strengths, then we're going to at least ask that this be edited for consideration. To clear one thing up, 'selfless, cares too much, emotional' will never be an acceptable three weaknesses for a character.

We're also not looking for factual characters. They might sound fun to you, you might have put in a lot of work, but we are not accepting any character who is descended from an actual historical figure, or current celebrity. There's a whole host of interesting history and backstory out there which doesn't have to involve real, actual people. We put a great deal of stock in imagination here and we shouldn't need to rely on factual people for your character backstory (i.e. 'My character's father was [insert historical figure/famous person here]'. Or 'My character started [insert world war here]'). If you feel you cannot create an interesting character without relying heavily on living or historical real people or events? This isn't the game for you.