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APPLICATIONS

APPLICATIONS

✗ Applications are processed weekly, every weekend. The cut-off time for the submission of applications is 11:59PST on Saturday.
✗ Before applying, please read the FAQ and Rules pages.
✗ Please submit your application with the journal you plan to use if you have one made already. If not, another journal is fine, but we prefer your intended journal so it makes for an easier time in granting access to the mod journal and the contacts page.
✗ For very long applications, we would ask you to please separate them into various comments so that they will not take up too much of the page.
✗ Please title your application as { [CANON/CANON OC/OC]CHARACTER NAME || Series Title || reserve/no reserve || X of X } in the subect header
✗ IMPORTANT: Our application form was edited on September 07, 2015. Please use the revised form.
✗ If you are looking for an example of what an application should be like, please refer to the application here for an example of a canon character application, and here for an original character application.

✗ Canon Application

<BIG><BIG>PLAYER</BIG></BIG>
Name:
Age: If you would prefer not to be specific, just let us know that you're over 18!
Personal Journal:
E-mail:
AIM/etc:
 
<BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG>
Name: First, Last (Western order)
Canon: Name only.
Age: Real / Apparent, if applicable
Timeline: At which point of the canon were they taken from?
Items with character at canon point: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: This is only to be used if are already playing another character from the canon you are applying for. For example, if you are apping Mario and you already play Princess Peach in the game, how will you handle their interactions without playercesting? Depending on your answer, you may be refused the character you are apping for.
 
Personality: We are expecting at least THREE well-written paragraphs minimum, with references to canon examples of your character’s personality where available. Please provide us with insight to your character and their behaviour, their likes, dislikes and fears, as well as your understanding of them. We would also like to see details of your character's strengths and weaknesses, which may include physical, psychological and emotional.
 
Background: Here is where we would like to see information about your character's history and their place within their canon. This can be written if you wish, or you can link to any wikis and relevant resources.
 
Abilities: Is your character an accomplished carpenter? Can they shoot laser beams from their eyes or travel through time? If they possess any abilities, learned or otherwise, they need to go in this section.
 
Network/Actionspam Sample: This is the format that will be used in rubycity_rp and must be in action form (brackets). We are looking for a minimum of 6 to 10 lines that give us an idea of how your character speaks/acts. This sample may be linked, either from a musebox, different game or our test drive, provided that the linked example was written within the last six months.
 
Prose Log Sample: This is the format that will be used in rubycity_logs and must be a minimum length of 250 words. This sample must be in prose format (paragraphs, no brackets) and should show character reactions/introspection. It does not need to be in game's setting, but it must demonstrate your character as you are apping them. This sample may be linked, either from a musebox, different game or our test drive, provided that the linked example was written within the last six months.

✗ Canon OC Application

<BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG>
Character Name: First, Last (Western order)
Canon: Name only
Age: Real / Apparent, if applicable
Timeline: At which point in the canon were they taken from?
Items with character at canon point: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: This is only to be used if are already playing another character from the canon you are applying for. For example, if you are apping Mario and you already play Princess Peach in the game, how will you handle their interactions without playercesting? Depending on your answer, you may be refused the character you are apping for.

Personality: We are expecting at least THREE well-written paragraphs minimum, with references to canon examples of your character’s personality if available. Please provide us with insight to your character and their behaviour, their likes, dislikes and fears, as well as your understanding of them. We would also like to see details of your character's strengths and weaknesses, which may include physical, psychological and emotional.

History: Three well-written paragraphs minimum, detail our your characters’ history.

Abilities: Is your character an accomplished carpenter? Can they shoot laser beams from their eyes or travel through time? If they possess any abilities, learned or otherwise, they need to go in this section.

Relationships to Canon Characters: If any, if not applicable please put N/A.

Network/Actionspam Sample: This is the format that will be used in rubycity_rp and must be in action form (brackets). We are looking for a minimum of 6 to 10 lines that give us an idea of how your character speaks/acts. This sample may be linked, either from a musebox, different game or our test drive, provided that the linked example was written within the last six months.
 
Prose Log Sample: This is the format that will be used in rubycity_logs and must be a minimum length of 250 words. This sample must be in prose format (paragraphs, no brackets) and should show character reactions/introspection. It does not need to be in game's setting, but it must demonstrate your character as you are apping them. This sample may be linked, either from a musebox, different game or our test drive, provided that the linked example was written within the last six months.

✗ OC Application

<BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG>
Name: First, Last. (Western order)
Age: Real / Apparent, if applicable
Appearance: The sorts of things included in this section should be the character’s height, build, clothing style, hair, accessories. As well as their general posture and mannerisms as well, like quirks or vocal tics.
Chosen PB: First come, first serve. Please check the taken PB page. You are also welcome to use your own or commissioned art, or icons that do not depict your characters face but facets of their personality as well.
Items with character at canon point: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions.

Personality: This should be self explanatory. However, when discussing personality please include why they have particular personality traits, how this effects their lives and interactions. Please provide us with insight to your character and their behaviour, their likes, dislikes and fears, as well as your understanding of them. We would also like to see details of your character's strengths and weaknesses, which may include physical, psychological and emotional. The minimum will be three well-written paragraphs, but you should be able to write more.

World Information: Please go as in depth as you can about the world. There is no wiki or website for us to reference, and we need to know as much as we can about the place your character comes from so that we can understand the character when reviewing the application.

History: Your characters’ history in their world. Be sure to be detailed. This section should be a minimum of three paragraphs.

A note for CR AU applications
Ruby City does allow previous game history/CR to be brought over on a case by case basis. If you want to include this in your application please add additional sections for PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT and PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY beneath the Personality and Background/History sections.

In these additional sections we would like to see a brief outline of your character's previous game history and how it potentially impacted on and altered their canon personality.

✧ N A V I G A T I O N ✧

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

PLAYER
Name: Yumi
Age: 22
Personal Journal: yumileighhazen
E-mail: yumi-muto[at]gmx[dot]de
AIM/MSN/etc: Plurk: Yzaksama

CHARACTER
Name: The Doctor
Canon: Doctor Who
Age: Unknown, claims to be about 1200 years old, looks about 27
Timeline: Series 7, at the end of “The Name Of The Doctor”, after having reached Clara in his timestream
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality:

The Doctor can be best described as quirky. He leaves no doubt about the fact that he is a mad man with a box, travelling time and space for fun. But that is just the outer layer of his personality and there clearly is more to him than meets the eye. Being an ancient alien, he has seen vast parts of the universe and is therefore very knowledgeable about the workings of not only Earth but most other worlds in existence, too.

As his name “Doctor”, which he chose for himself, indicates he wants to make people better, to help them and while he claims to not interfere with the locals’ problems during his visits, he throws those good intentions right out of the window upon seeing a child cry. Generally his most defining quality can be said to be his kindness, as his companions Amy and Clara have pointed out. While he tries to help people though, there are times when he instead unwittingly makes things worse, like when he helped restore the Daleks or when he encounters fixed points in time and tries to stop them from happening. He knows best that fixed points in time cannot be changed, but sometimes he bends the rules just a bit anyway, as he did when he gave River Song his sonic screwdriver to enable his earlier incarnation to save her as data on a computer, when she sacrificed herself to save his life.

As River, who effectively is his wife, points out, he is not fond of goodbyes, which is the reason he never visited her after her “saving” and also why he usually does not come back to see his companions age once he has left them behind. If he would, it just would remind him of his own loneliness and the fact that while they age and eventually die, he just lives on and cannot possibly grow old with any of them. His loneliness is also a result of the Time War, during which he committed genocide on his own species, the Time Lords, just to end the war, which made him the last of his kind.

The Doctor is furthermore very protective of his travelling companions, as they are the only family he has. He needs them, as he once said himself, to see the beauty of the universe, since he is so old and has witnessed so much pain and sadness that he is not able to really appreciate and marvel at the wonders of the universe anymore. (“When you make all of time and space your backyard, all you have is a yard.”) He also needs his companions to keep him grounded, since he sometimes overdoes things in a fit of rage and needs someone to stay close to him and tell him when to stop. While sometimes the situation may call for a much more careful evaluation, he, just like his former incarnation, likes to stop and marvel at alien life forms or mechanisms he never encountered before and occasionally needs to be reminded of their prospective danger.

This however is not the only part of him that tends to surprise people when they first meet him. He has the rather unusual tendency to act rather helpless when being kissed unexpectedly, such as when Amy Pond kissed him or when he shared his first kiss with later wife River Song. As the brief , admittedly unreciprocated, encounter with Amy shows, he is mostly rather slow to notice that someone is interested in him, as he fails to notice her flirting right until she kisses him. Nevertheless he clearly enjoys to constantly flirt with River Song whenever their paths cross and never fails to notice it, which shows that his ability to recognize romantic feelings towards his own person depends on whether he returns them or not.

The Doctor’s eleventh incarnation is furthermore widely known to kiss more people than any other before. As a result he has kissed or been kissed by all of his companions and even kissed non-companions such as Jenny. The kiss with Jenny or even with Amy’s husband Rory however is no indication of romantic feelings, but rather as an affectionate display of friendship and, in both instances, to celebrate being alive or as a means to express his thankfulness towards the respective other person. It can generally be noted that the Doctor does neither seem to care about human concepts such as “straight” or “gay” nor being labeled as either, which can be noticed in his encounters with Craig. The two of them whilst on an outing with Craig’s infant son Alfie constantly get mistaken for a gay couple and later when they come across a group of Cybermen, one of the Doctor’s most prominent enemies, the Doctor attempts to kiss Craig and passionately declares his love for the man, just to distract him from the fact that they are surrounded by the enemy. The latter of course is an action of the Doctor’s which clearly shows his unyielding caring for his companions and friends.

Another of the Doctor’s quirks can be said to be his dress sense. He mostly dresses in tweed jackets along with braces and bow ties, the latter of which he constantly describes as cool and is generally very proud of. After he lost long term companions Amy and Rory one could notice that he did not wear his usual bowtie while mourning for them in Victorian London. When he left his temporary retirement to solve the riddle presented to him by his new companion Clara’s mere existence, he changed back to wear his bow tie but now combined it with a three piece suit, which showed his maturing process triggered by the loss of Amy and Rory on the outside. The Doctor also harbors a fondness for all kinds of hats, as he can be seen to wear a fez (which he also claims is cool), a Stetson and a top hat whenever the occasion should arise.

Background: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Doctor

Abilities:

As a Time Lord the Doctor has the ability to regenerate upon being fatally wounded, during which all cells in his body heal themselves and as a result he has a completely different body, i.e. looks different afterwards. His biology is also different from that of humans as he has two hearts, which enable him to survive situations that would kill other species, such as lack of oxygen.

He owns a dimensionally transcendent (i.e. bigger on the inside) space ship called the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space), with which he is able to travel anywhere in time and space and which is permanently stuck to look like a 1963 police box. The TARDIS is sentient and makes conscious decisions on her own, most notably bringing the Doctor where he is needed rather than where he wants to go. He also uses a sonic screwdriver, a device which can open nearly any lock, scan individuals and objects and do many more things. The only thing it does not do is wood, i.e. it cannot open doors made of wood and would be absolutely useless against enemies made from wood.

As a 1200 year old alien, the Doctor holds great amounts of knowledge about different species, planets, technology and even simple things like pop culture and literature. He also is rather able when it comes to taking care of children, as he speaks ‘Baby’ along a lot of other languages, and is good at connecting to them on an emotional level.

While not exactly an ability, the Doctor furthermore possesses huge amounts of charisma, which enable him to get away with lots of things others could not, since people tend to trust him more easily.

First Person:

[A man in a tweed suit can be seen sitting on one of the cabin’s benches. He seems to have fallen asleep briefly. When the train takes a sudden turn, he wakes suddenly and rapidly rises from his seat, turning on the spot a couple of times as he takes in his surroundings, looking more than irritated. He stops at one of the windows to marvel at the world outside and seemingly forgets everything else for a long moment. A grin passes his face, but disappears rather quickly again.]

Why, this place is marvelous, but …

[He stops, takes a moment to think.]

I am forgetting something. Something important. Something obvious.
How did I get here? What was I doing before … ?

[He ruffles his hair and pinches his nose, closing his eyes and seemingly focusing on his thoughts. When he opens them again, he slaps his own forehead.]

Oh no … Clara?

[The man calls out, under his breath, looking both worried and confused, as he turns around once more.]

Clara!?

[He drops to his knees to look for ‘Clara’ underneath one of the benches and ruffles his hair in an agitated manner again as he gets up once more.]

Where … is this? This … Where am I?

[Still looking confused and more than a bit lost, he scratches his chin, walking up and down the aisle between the benches, clearly lost in thought. Then he suddenly spots a big blue box, standing outside the cabin next to the exit and hurries towards it.]

I will find you, Clara, just wait.

[And with that he disappears inside the box.]

Third Person:

The Doctor could not wrap his mind around what just must have happened. He did not remember anything happening at all. And that was more than a bit worrying. These things never happened to him, they happened to his companions. Well, he said never. More like rarely. Anyway.

He just had been hugging Clara; that was what he was certain of. He had found her after following her into the time stream. After bidding his goodbye to … Never mind, he could not think of her now. No, he had to focus. Focus on Clara. She had rescued him, saved him from dying all those deaths that never happened, thankfully.

Just where was she? And where was he, now that he thought about it. He was certain that he had never seen this train before in his life, so it could not possibly be a location in his time stream. Visiting his future before it happened? No, that was impossible, he was sure of that much.

He scratched his chin in wonder, leaning back against the bench. And just as he was making up what surely would develop into a clever little plan, he absentmindedly rummaged the pockets of his jacket. He got out a pocket watch he had never seen before. He sonic-ed it and looked at the result. It was inconclusive and did not match any readings he had ever had, so it could hardly be human-made or even Gallifreyan.

Taking in his surroundings once more, he noticed that the train had reached its destination. He straightened his bow tie, pocketed the freshly obtained watch and got up, with that strange tingling excitement in his stomach, which could only mean one thing: It was time to go out and poke everything unusual with a stick.

ACCEPTED

rubycitymods - 2013-08-11 19:56 (UTC) - Expand

Re: ACCEPTED

gallifreytotrenzalore - 2013-08-11 21:35 (UTC) - Expand

Right this way~

Edited 2013-08-11 03:00 (UTC)

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[CANON] ARCUEID BRUNESTUD || Tsukihime || no reserve

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