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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 ✧

Threaded | Flat

Warning: Lots of space talk ahead

Edited (and somehow i screwed up this simple html wow i suck) 2013-11-16 19:45 (UTC)

PLAYER
Name: Minki
Age: 21
Personal Journal:

froncentration
E-mail: froncentrate@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: zeaob

CHARACTER
Name: The Major
Canon: Hellsing
Age: Early 30's in appearance, but he's physically stunted.
Timeline: After being killed by Sir Hellsing.

Personality: The Major loves war. He loves strife and conflict and finds true fulfillment within the battlefield. As countless lives are ended in an instant or traitors are one by one sought after and purged, hung up on the streets for everyone to gawk at, he smiles as he relishes in the utter depravity of the moment. He cares little for which side is victorious, nor does he subscribe to any belief system. The Major's alliance to Germany is more or less just lip service. He may carry the banner of his country somewhere on his clothing, but it really means little to him beyond signifying his role as soldier, one who fights in wars. His interests couldn't be more distant from things like politics, ideology, or the future. They're just decorations that people insist on hiding behind as they give into their primal selves. What makes a soldier a soldier, however, is the inclination to obey and the Major is willing to honor and respect the wishes of whoever he follows. Working under limitations gives him more of a challenge, which he welcomes wholeheartedly.

As a person, the Major is calm and refers to people politely and courteously. Even when the other party is yelling at him, he would feel no reason to stoop to their level. War-obsessed as he is, there's no reason to be rude, right? He is well-read and cultured given how many plays, books, and operas he makes references of. During his fifty years in hiding, it has been hinted that the Major has taken up a hobby in anime, given him singing out the theme song of Fist of the North Star. He follows anything that interests him from high culture to pop culture, demonstrating more of his artistic side. The frightening thing about the Major is that without mentioning his obsession with war, he could pass off as an interesting person in ordinary society, if just somewhat eccentric. Alas, this jolly, pleasant side of him only comes off as condescending in moments of high tension.

The Major respects his men. All he asks for is loyalty. If his men can provide him with it, then he will happily lead them on till the distant end of their struggles. He promises of a reawakening in Valhalla, the paradise for warriors where battles are eternal. While indeed, the man is leading everyone to their deaths, making his men “kindling for his personal bonfire”, this is exactly what he promised he would do. Just the same, he respects his greatest enemies just the same as his allies. He delighted in seeing both Integra and Seras reach their true potentials, never once underestimating them. Even Alucard, who he hates for being a monster, is still someone who doesn't fail to amuse and impress him. Enemy or friend, regardless of alliances, he sees the battlefield as a place where everybody comes together, united under a twisted equality. During a monologue, the Major fondly referred to the soldiers of all sides fighting as his “brethren”.

For all his actions, he truly believes in his own humanity. The only thing that proves one is a human is the soul, regardless of what physical form he takes on. To be a genuine human is to accept the base desires in one's self and work to fulfill it at all costs no matter the sacrifice, including the lives of others and the self. In other words, he hates monsters, vampires in particular, for being entities that live off others' lives, sharing their own in the process. Everything that he has belongs to him and to nobody else. The thought of sharing his existence with another fills him with such contempt that it's almost a testament to how greedy the man is. He doesn't mind killing and being killed, but to share his life with another fills him with genuine hatred. The Major is defined by bloodlust and greed, no better than an axe-swinging barbarian, only with a penchant for vocabulary. He has no capability to regret or to empathize with anybody like at least Alucard can, making him an even greater monster for all his talks of humanity.

I'm fine! We're fine!

Note: App contains spoilers for Dual Destinies.

Here We Go Again...

PLAYER
Name: Will
Age: 33
Personal Journal:

slicknyc
E-mail: n/a
AIM/MSN/etc:

slicknyc

CHARACTER
Name: Setsuna F. Seiei
Canon: Gundam 00
Age: 23
Timeline: Post-series/pre-movie
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: n/a

Personality: He has none.

Okay, that's not true. But to really discuss Setsuna's personality, we have to go back to the beginning.

When Setsuna was eight years old, a religious leader gathered up him and all of the young boys in his village, and told them all about a magnificent God who would save their village. Like all of the other boys, Setsuna listened and decided to follow this man and his God in order to help his village. But, in order to give himself over to God, he had to remove any other authority, specifically, his parents. So, to help with that, that religious gave Setsuna (and every other kid) a handgun, and had them sacrifice their parents to God. He then turned all of the kids into his own terrorist group known as the KPSA. The group waged a campaign of terror for nearly two years, until their neighboring nation of Azadistan finally defeated them. During the final battle, the KPSA had been wiped out except for Setsuna, and he was going to die until, at the last second, he was saved. by a Gundam.

Its those events that lay the foundation for who he is and who he becomes throughout the course of the series. The trauma of being a child terrorist has left Setsuna, at least on the surface, very cold, quiet, and withdrawn. He never says much, rarely smiles, and never jokes with anyone. He doesn't react much to provocation, and can be seen as cold or anti-social by others. He's always very serious, focused, and determined. He rarely shows any emotion, and if he does, he's usually brooding, pensive, bored, tired, or deep in thought. The only exception is anger, as he'll show rage on the battlefield, and only then. Other times, even when he's upset, its more of a subtle cold look than him actually acting out. But underneath that cold exterior, Setsuna is actually a very deep, thoughtful, and caring young man; its just hard to see because most of his personality is never on display. But despite not having much of a outgoing personality, he does have a presence about him, one that allowed him to become the de facto leader of Celestial Being.

For him, it all starts in his belief in Celestial Being's mission, and beyond that, his belief in Gundam. To Setsuna, Gundam isn't just a machine, its the physical embodiment of an idea: "The eradication of war through force," something he witnessed personally during the last stand of the KPSA. Since then, he's strived to be like that, to be strong enough to wipe out war off the face of the earth and leave a peaceful world behind. To him, that's what it means to be a Gundam, and he truly believes in that ideal with all of his heart. It may have started out as a child-like fascination and wonderment; replacing the God that abandoned him with the Gundam that saved him, but over time, its proven that he genuinely believes in that ideal. He also realizes that, to do that, to eradicate war with force, it requires a certain amount of violence, but he's made his own peace with that and accepts that fully.

With his quiet nature, he never gives any major speeches during the series, so it might seem odd that anyone would choose to look to him for direction or inspiration. He tends to communicate more through subtle changes in expression and body language, despite the fact those sorts of things tend to go unnoticed by most people. When he does talk, he says very little, but he tends to pick his words carefully so that they have maximum impact when said. Additionally, his actions say far more than words ever could. At the start of the second season, when Setsuna is reunited with a fractured Celestial Being, he quickly takes the initiative to pull the team back together. He recruits Lyle Dylandy to become a Gundam pilot; he retrieves the team's tactical forecaster, Miss Sumeragi; he's insistent that the group go rescue their captured teammate, Allelujah, and he's even personally the one who breaks him out of jail.

Edited 2013-11-17 07:53 (UTC)

PLAYER
Name: Riddle
Age: 27
Personal Journal:

order_of_the_phoenix
E-mail: Sycophantism@hotmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: iridescentgnome (AIM)

CHARACTER
Name: Claire "Lightning" Farron
Canon: Final Fantasy XIII
Age: 21
Timeline: At end of the first game (FFXIII).

PLAYER
Name: hanshi
Age: 26
Personal Journal: hanshi@dw
E-mail: kyungjhan[at]gmail
AIM/MSN/etc: hankyungju[aim], hanshi[plurk]

CHARACTER
Name: Daryan Crescend
Canon: Ace Attorney
Age: 24
Timeline: Post game
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: n/a

Fire's bad for the complexion. I burn easily, never tan.

An ant has no quarrel with a boot.

What have we here? A devil or a snake?

From that day forward, all who visit this land will be lost to oblivion.

bluh bluh lispy nerd

This'll teach you. Get out of my heart!

"I don't know how anyone else feels. So I don't know how I can connect with them."

Edited 2013-11-23 19:26 (UTC)

"Let slip the dog of war."

PLAYER
Name: Otter
Age: 28
Personal Journal:

literarysupplanter
E-mail: roleplayedotter@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: PalladiumOtter Plurk:

OtterRiverside

CHARACTER
Name: Anthony E. Stark
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Age: 47
Timeline: End of Thor: The Dark world (He wasn't in it, but it's the same continuity)
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: Doesn’t apply

Personality: Tony is a man of many complexities that at times almost seem at odds with each other. He claims to not be sentimental, however the three robots in his movies were built while he was in college and he has always kept them with him. He is impulsive and vain, yet can muster a great deal of foresight and strategy, and is really not afraid to get his hands dirty. Not only that, but as someone who is seen by the world as a play boy, he has a deep sense of romance within himself that few get to see.

Tony Stark is a quick-witted genius, who near compulsively talks over other people in order to justify his own thoughts. While he is also able to come off as rather unflappable and cool headed, most all of Tony’s expressions come straight from his eyes and eyebrows. Once his mind is made up on something his eyes will show it, and if you can see it in his eyes then there is very little point in attempting to dissuade him.
He is also a man of great depth and emotion, however it is all greatly internalised. When learning about the crimes being committed by the 10 rings in Golmera, Tony is furious but very little of it comes to the surface, at most the only thing that truly shows this is the hard expression he wears and his repulsor assault on his windows. Because for Tony, a great deal of his life is based on what he can control of it. Which is shown time and again, when Tony has no control over what is happening around him he can become erratic in his movements has he fights to get back on top of the situation, or he will become self-destructive.

His erratic behaviour is shown in the first movie when he is presented with the events of Golmera, where he take his frustration out on his shop then heads straight to the middle eastern town in his newly machined Mark III armour and takes out all of the insurgents, without telling anyone or any actual training in any way including basic self-defence, Just his relatively untested suit.

Self-destructive behaviour is shown in the second movie when the repeated use of his Iron man armour starts to cause accelerated palladium poisoning, and without a suitable element which at the time couldn’t be found, he would die. Which after a few failed attempts to let those close to him know due to how hard it is for him to express his feelings lead him to become more reckless with his life than usual causing him to become a bigger grandstander, wasting more money than needed and becoming dangerously drunk drastically pushing away Rhodie and Pepper from him.

Even though Tony has been born into money and can be over the top frivolous with it, he is also exceedingly generous with it, with his money going to his own charities like the (Maria*) Stark foundation, and the Boy Scouts of America. Even going so far as to run the Stark Expo for an entire year in order for up and comers the chance to show case their work in order to get additional funding from those attending the expo or just to show off what it on the horizon.

Tony’s genius is currently unparalleled; the only person who rivalled him was his father who died roughly 30 years ago, while Tony was 15. Which is shown in his history with robots, his creating of JARVIS, not to mention his adapting his father’s arc reactor and being able to design a personal full body prosthesis that can achieve flight, is completely self-pressurised and contains an internal waste filtration system, also known as the Iron Man armour.

He is the biggest promoter of his external persona of the ‘Genius billionaire playboy philanthropist’ and while all these things about him are true, he will always play up to it in public, that being said, however, he is loyal to those he considers to be his in various way, and is very protective of them in his own ways. When he was lead to believe that Agent Phil Coulson was dead, it was the moment that Tony had decided that Loki had taken it too far and had made it his mission to make sure that Loki didn’t get away with what he had done, even going so far to tell Loki that not only had his made enemies of all those within the Avengers (While interestingly enough, leaving himself completely out of the equation), that he had also pissed of Phil Coulson.

Before his kidnapping, Tony was never concerned about accountability, but once seeing the effects that his weapons had on the innocent, he became very aware that everything you do has consequences and you should be held responsible for it. To that end when something happened Tony took it upon himself to correct what had happened, from Obadiah Stane becoming the Iron Monger, Ivan Vanko wanting revenge for his wronged father, Justin Hammer’s desperate need to show Tony up with inferior products, even so far as to take on some of the responsibility for Loki’s rampage. Each time he put his life on the line to correct these problems, believing that as long as the correct outcome was achieved his life was negligible. However he would always put his life on the line when he couldn’t formulate any other plan of action. Not one to lay down on the wire himself, but cut the wire, proving that Tony would rather lose no lives, than lose one heroic one.

Due to his father being almost cruelly distant, and his mother barely being mentioned, it is obvious as to why Tony has a hard time being a part of team situations, or even trusting other on a basic level. It is even shown that the only people he will be ‘real’ with are Pepper, Rhodie and to a certain extent Happy. But even then the moment things would get to a certain level of real he would immediately pull back or say something that he knew would cause distance. This is most obviously shown in the first half of Iron Man II. It was only when confronted with a challenge far too big for him to handle on his own that he was actually open to the idea of not only being part of a team, but being in a position that wasn’t the direct leader. However he does seem to stand somewhere between co-leader to Steve Rogers (Captain America) and second in command as the others are more likely to take orders from him than give order to him. For a man like Tony Stark this is probably one of his biggest steps in personal development.

With the events of IM3 behind him. Tony has whipped the slate clean, he has had his reactor and the remaining shrapnel removed from his body, which has left a scar on his chest that still receives Tony’s absent minded tapping, and has since started working on new Iron Man suits that work with their own chest pieces. He has also realised how his previously arrogant ways have managed to effect those that he has previously disregarded in his live, which has further humbled his personality when out of the limelight.

*While it is stated the Tony started the Maria Stark foundation in supplemental data within MCU it is only referred to in the movies as anything more than the Stark Foundation.

Background: MCU history of Tony Stark

Abilities: Tony is a born genius, and has accomplished many great things with that genius in his 48 years of life. From building his own circuit board at four years old to enhancing and miniaturising his father’s original arc reactor design to make it not only work, but support an electro-magnet living within his chest (at least until he had it removed very recently). He even build a particle accelerator in his workshop in order to help physically realise an element his father theorised, which he is in the process of trying to get named ‘Badassium’

There is very little that Tony stark cannot build or design, he even goes to the trouble of designing programs for hacking into specific places just to find out the information being held within. To this end, there is very little that Tony can’t do with the resources he has on hand.

Due to his genius and design ability he is also amazingly creative when he wants or needs to be. The main example of this being the Mark I Iron Man suit and Mark I miniaturised Arc Reactor, as they were developed in a cave somewhere in Afghanistan by retasking the weapons his captors bought from his own company under the table and anything else they brought for him, thinking he was building them more weapons. It’s shown again in IM3, with his home destroyed the only accessible suit having no power and his being thought dead, Tony slips into a hardware store buying several trollies worth of items and then creating himself a mini arsenal to use to get into the Mandarin’s compound, including a stun glove and explosive Christmas baubles.

He’s also a business man and public figure, he knows what deals to make, when to turn on the charm or turn it off, and is skilled at turning things into his favour.

First Person:
[When the feed comes on, Tony is sitting at a chair. He obviously has the camera resting on a table in front of him. He looks lost in thought and is looking off to the top right of the camera in the middle distance, it looks like he's been thinking very hard. After a few moments he licks his lips slowly.]

So, it looks like that I'm not as prepared for everything as I think.
I've made mistakes here. But that's not really new, I've always been a bit of a mess so really that's a statement that shouldn't really surprise anyone, I've never really been perfect, my track record alone really shows that, and even all my character defaults...

[He runs his hand over his lower jaw. while he takes a breath, realising he was going off track.]
I haven't been taking this place seriously. And it nearly cost someone their life, because I wasn't fast enough. So what I'm trying to say here is that. Well, I have to try harder, this.

[He fidgets with his hands]

This isn't a holiday, or a resort, so tell me... What's the best way to take on the gym leaders around here?

[Tony's been trying to post this for days, there have been a few moments where he's started recording only to turn it off again. So he's feeling kind of proud he was able to be more him than his persona to the public for once.]

Third Person:
Tony sat on the end of the bed, his elbows resting on his knees as his head was cradled in his hands. He watches himself in the mirror.
All this talk of Queens and people living on the other side of the mirror. Seemed strange, not impossible or unlikely. After all. Tony had seen a great many things that were a lot less believable than where ever he was now. However it didn’t make it any less strange. So here Tony sat. Staring at his apparent reflection, wondering how he could figure out the world on the other side.

Standing, Tony crossed the palatial room that he had chosen, to stand in front of the mirror. He held his chin between his thumb and forefinger thoughtfully, his eyes searching his own for a hit of being more than it appeared. He tapped the glass, watching as his reflection mimicked him.

“JARVIS, can you run me a diag-...”

Tony turned to look at his suit that stood in the corner quietly. Right now, the suit was the only place that JARVIS could live. So really. This whole different world in the mirrors could wait.

He needed to get JARVIS a proper computer to upload to, he was is right hand program after all. And really, with the characters he found here, including those from the Avengers who were also here. He was going to need JARVIS to keep him from doing something stupider than normal, besides Tony was at his happiest when he was completely lost in building something.

Edited 2013-11-27 06:49 (UTC)

PLAYER
Name: Lucario
Personal Journal:

je_ri_cho
E-mail: puppyfacemccall@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: SKYPE: kinsey-allen; PLURK: gueyprince
Permissions: Here.

CHARACTER
Name: Katherine Shalazar
Canon: The Guardians of Childhood
Age: canonically unknown; estimated 14-16 based on the arc of Emily Jane
Timeline: End of Book 4: Sandman and the War of Dreams

Spoiler warning for all of Dual Destinies.

Aim at someone you don't like... and unleash your annihilation of love!

His law is love and His gospel is peace
Chains shall he break for the slave is our brother
And in his name all oppression shall cease

PLAYER
Name: Wolfy
Age: 26
Personal Journal:

wolfintheattic
E-mail: wolfyttwisted@gmail.com
AIM/SKYPE catfishsuicide
Plurk: wolfyttwisted

CHARACTER
Name: Rudolph
Canon: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Rudolph's Shiny New Year, Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
Age: At least two Christmases old. Early teens human-wise probably.
Timeline: The month of August in the year 19Wonderful (that is actually the year. that is its name. watch the movie....basically a month after the events of the third film.)

Personality:

Rudolph is the picture of childhood innocence. Think of a boyscout with a set of hooves. He is only two Christmases old and has yet to see much of the world. Rudolph is ready to trust and give new friends the benefit of the doubt, though will react properly in the face of obvious danger...like a giant ageless vulture trying to eat his face. The little reindeer is also forgiving when someone proves that their intentions are good. He's a firm believer in second chances and even forgave those who ridiculed him as a child. Growing up at the North pole and hearing so many stories about peace on earth and good will toward men has made him a tad gullible and easy to manipulate. He is an AWFUL liar and has a poker face like a children's pop-up book. Only once has he told a lie and it was for what he thought was a good reason. Terrible things happened and some people almost died. Like that is actually what happened. It's more likely for him to be eaten up with guilt halfway through whatever he's trying to say and spill the beans before a lie to ever makes it out into the open.

He is also very brave, ready to risk life and limb for family and friends and occasionally people who don't even deserve it. Like most wild animals, Rudolph knows how to use his sharp hooves and antlers to defend himself. After running away from home as a youngster, he more or less raised himself and became quite independent. While he's good at making friends, he knows that they come and go. He loves to help out anyone he can, but shudders to think of having to depend on anyone else for too much. The little deer has a bad habit of keeping things bottled up and trying to do everything all by himself. Though he is brave, he can still be frightened as deer are naturally skittish creatures. Talking, flying deer are no different, and in a new and strange hostile world like Ruby City, it might be wise to keep an eye open for flailing hooves.

In a way, Rudolph is glad most everyone he meets already knows his story because he isn't about to burst into song himself. He's modest and sometimes a little shy about the whole hullabaloo. the yearling doesn't know how to be a celebrity.

He's forgiven others for what happened those long Christmases ago, but sometimes it still hurts to think about all the names he was called and how his own father tried to hide his 'deformity'. He finds comfort in the presence other 'misfits' and will stand up for anyone who is being teased about something they have no control over. He does his best to give them encouragement and show them that they are not alone. Just like his nose, hope glows from inside him. Rudolph does not give up when he's made a promise or has been given a mission. He's gone through frozen wastes, sandy deserts, and time itself in order to do his duty. He's ready to take charge and set things right and sometimes this lands him in over his furry little head. Why, if Rudolph doesn't do it, who will? The kid is a Hufflepuff to the core.

Background: You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen. Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen... nah, I'm not gonna do that to you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer_(TV_special)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph%27s_Shiny_New_Year
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_and_Frosty's_Christmas_in_July

This little deer has been through some weird stuff. Battling evil wizards, time travel, talking with gods...

Abilities:

Ole' Neon Nose: After a devastating battle with the evil wizard, Winterbolt, the good Lady Boreal marked the newborn Rudolph with a special symbol on his hoof--a star within a snowflake. Then, she placed the very last of her power within the little reindeer calf in the form of his signature glowing nose.

He has a dead god in his face.

It sheds light and warmth upon anything within range when he thinks good thoughts. It can blaze through fog and melt ice. If he really wanted to, I'm sure he could give somebody a good burn to show he meant business. However, if he ever uses it for evil, this precious gift will go away. It can only be regained by writing the wrong.

Up On the Rooftop: When special magic corn by Santa, all of his reindeer are able to fly for a time! It is assumed that they are always fed this treat since young deer are seen learning to control this ability early on in the first film. Without access to it, they are grounded, as seen in the other two films. When Rudolph is away from home and surviving on roughage, he tends to hoof it, though he can still make very impressive leaps.

First Person:

_{[The feed is filled and obscured with a bright red light.]}

Oh...oh, this is worse than those old telephones they have in the shop. But there's no dial or talk-into or listen-into or anything.

_{[There is a furious scraping as the little caribou tries to work buttons with a cloven hoof. Rudolph dims his nose and his spirits follow. His ears fall alongside his neck and he shivers. His winter coat hadn't had time to grow in.]}

_{[All buttons have to do something, right? Otherwise they wouldn't be on there! Unless they were just painted on...but these sure don't look painted on.]}

Well...maybe I can find a policeman. He'll know what time it is.

_{[Rudolph picks up the watch with his mouth and away he trots.]}

Third Person:

He had to admit that even though the town was strange and he hadn't wanted to end up in it at all, Ruby City sure was pretty with a blanket of snow over it. But then again, Rudolph always thought snow was pretty. It had been nice to go to the seashore and feel the warm summer breezes that one time, but the snow was his favorite. He'd been raised in snow. High above the rooftops and even the towering point of the obelisk, the reindeer's hooves pawed the sky.

He had tried to stay atop the train when it pulled away from the station without him, but a stubborn gust of wind had tumbled him down like a Fall leaf. Rudolph didn't think he had quite enough get-up-and-go left to fly all the way back to the North Pole, but he was sure he had enough flight left in him to get his bearings. On and on he flew. The crumbling wall of the city passed below him and the snowy, monster-filled wilds appeared. He could hear the calls of some terrible-sounding animals echoing up from below, but Rudolph couldn't let himself get distracted.

Trees and rocks and mountain slopes all covered in winter blurred below him. Whenever he looked over his shoulder, no matter the distance, he could always see that red spire standing tall in the little town.

"I wonder why we never stopped in this town before," he mumbled to himself.

Suddenly, a darkness darker than the inside of a polar bear swept over him. Rudolph cried out and reared in mid-air. The scenery had gone. The clouds had gone. The sky had gone! It was like the time Santa had tried showing some old home movies and the tape reel snapped in the middle of the showing. Everything just stopped.

Rudolph wheeled around in place. He could see the edge of the wilderness plain as day a quarter mile behind him. His light blinked on. The reindeer arched his neck and willed the aurora within him to shine into this strange pit. It revealed nothing. Startled to the bone, Rudolph kicked and sprang in the air as he scurried back for the shoreline. Landline? Some kind of line! A place with ground and snow and trees and something he could see. If his flight gave out before he got back, he'd be a goner!

When his hooves touched down on rock, Rudolph instinctively lowered his still-growing antlers against the darkness, as if it were an enormous monster that might suddenly lurch forward. When this stand-off didn't go anywhere, Rudolph gave a wary little snort and turned his back to the void.

"Well...guess I can't go that way." He turned his eyes skyward. Snow drifted down innocently all around him, as if he weren't standing at the very edge of the world. A beep issued up from the strange watch that hung from his neck and he tipped his head down. "And I still don't know what to do with you..."

He sighed and started walking back the way he flew. If he used up all his flight getting back to town, he would have nothing left to find his way home with.

PLAYER
Name: Kelsey
Age: 21
Personal Journal: turtleen
E-mail: kelseycunningham[at]hotmail[dot]com
AIM/MSN/etc: mortalstampede@aim

CHARACTER
Name: Vergil
Canon: Devil May Cry
Age: 25-ish
Timeline: Post-DMC1
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A