I haven't got a set limit on how many people I'll accept, I'd love to get 5-6 dedicated people. Since I'll already be the GM my character will be either a Toon leader or a soldier, as well as a boy. This will leave room for some of you guys to play fun parts as well
Spots open:
Commander: (Age 12-13, you can try for 11 but you better have a good reason! There will only be 1.)
Toon Leaders: (Age 10-11. Again, you can go for 9, but you'll need to have a good reason. I'll accept up to 2 toon leaders)
Soldiers: (Age 8-9, most people will need to play soldiers.)
Launchies: (Age 6-7, I'm hoping for at least 1 launchie...)
The commander will have to be someone who is quite experienced and is willing to get private messages from me in advance about certain game mechanics, they will have a certain amount of power IC, so I might be requiring a writing sample if you're interested in this role. PM me if you're interested in being the Commander and we'll chat

(If no one wants it then the commander will become and NPC powered by me...but I think it'd be fun to play him.)
There are approximately 880 students in BattleSchool at one time, only 11 of those be girls. Because of this I will only be selecting one female application, and she'd better be good. Feel free to try for it, but I'll be picking the best applicant. (I always like a bit of a challenge

) I have no particular preference for what rank the female is, but make sure you try to justify it in your char sheet. (And you'll have to pick whether you'll be female OR younger than average. I won't accept both.)
I think it's worth mentioning that even though you love the books as much as I do you may not play an Ender or Bean type character. Realistically there might be one child in the entire school that is anywhere near that...maybe. Also it makes things less fun for everyone else if I pick who gets that sort of role, IMO. I won't be playing one of those either...just your normal, average, genius child. lol
As per the usual, I placed this OOC in the Advanced section for a reason. Since we will be playing as super smart children I would like us to be able to follow the basic rules of grammar. I'm not going to be searching through every post for errors, but please spell check and watch your p's and q's to a reasonable extent. Thanks.
Also, activity..Ideally I'd love this to be super active, realistically I hope you post a minimum of 2-3 per week. If life catches up to you, as sometimes happens, please let me know and we'll assume you character is just following along until you're return. If you vanish without notice for more the 2 weeks you can pretty much expect that your character will have been transferred to another army. Luckily, in the case that your absence happens for a valid reason, sometimes transfers aren't permanent and you'll be able to come back with a great story for your character to tell!
No Mary Sue's, or in this case John Doe's, or power playing. If, in my role as GM, I say your character was flashed and is now frozen...then that's what happened. if another player says the same thing, feel free to duck. Since there won't be any actual dying (that I have planned) we won't need to deal with more than hurt feelings over having to float around aimlessly for a bit.
A slight modification to this rule, though, is that if you have been flashed in the battleroom other players are more than welcome to fling you around as they like...you're frozen after all and it might need to happen for the tactics of the game. Feel free to have your character upset though, that's fair to a certain extent.