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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

PLAYER
Name: Mako
Age: 30
Personal Journal:

makochanupdates
E-mail: makotosagara1@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: lightningsenshi/

makotos

CHARACTER
Name: Kanji Tatsumi
Canon: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
Age: Just 16/Looks like he’s 19
Timeline: May 3rd, 2012
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality: Despite his tough appearance, Kanji enjoys to sew and knit. Yep, you read that right. This tall (he’s 6’) and rough looking guy likes to do some decidedly not very masculine hobbies. That could probably be blamed on the fact that his family owns the local textile store in Inaba and he’s the only son. However, he really just enjoys his hobbies and he doesn’t really care what anyone thinks. (Including you.)

At least, that’s what he’d like for you to believe. The fact of the matter is that Kanji cares very much what others think of him. He has tried to balance out his hobbies and his father’s last words to him about being a “real man”. Sadly, he is unable to do this and has thus begun to rebel against the loneliness that his “strange” hobbies have forced him into. Girls find him strange and creepy for doing “girly” things and guys teased and picked on him until he started to fight back.

As such, he spent a lot of time angry at those around him, while really wanting to have friends. When he first shows up as a character of interested in both the anime and the game, it is because he is on a news program, beating up a biker gang. Most of the kids in the school believe that he is now the leader of said gang, but he has nothing to do with them. Really.

~ "Underestimate me, and this is what you get!" ~

When he is later asked about the incident, he tells the Investigation Team that he was only trying to get the gang to go away so his mother could sleep, since the loud noises were keeping her awake at night. In the anime, the protagonist sees Kanji in the halls after seeing him on the Midnight Channel—making him a marked future victim of the killer of Inaba—where the taller boy drops a cute, pink, knitted doll. Kanji is, of course, extremely embarrassed and becomes a little aggressive as he attempts to get away completely. (And though this is a dumbing down of the actual development that his S.Link with the protagonist goes through, it’s not exact and it’s fairly superficial. Therefore, it’s going to be ignored as nothing but an example of his attitude.)

When he meets Naoto, he finds the young detective attractive, but believing she is a guy, Kanji begins to question his sexuality. When he is abducted into the TV world, his dungeon is a steamy, questionable bath house filled with sweaty, well-muscled shadows. The battle with his Shadow is filled with questionably effeminate behaviour, meaning to remark on the fact that he might be homosexual. However, when it came down it, Kanji’s real problem is that he’s terrified of rejection, no matter the gender of the person. When he realizes this, through the help of the protagonist and the rest of the Investigation Team, he punches his Shadow in the face, knocking it out before accepting that as a part of himself. (He is the only member of the team to strike his Shadow.)

~ "It ain't a matter of guys or chicks... I'm just scared shitless of being rejected." ~

During his development with the rest of the team, he learns to become more comfortable with himself. He shows that he is a normal teenage boy with normal desires on the school camp-out by getting a nosebleed when Chie and Yukiko dress up in skimpy bathing suits. He also tries to prove his manliness to Yosuke by rushing into the girls’ side of the encampment, despite the fact that a very hostile teacher (Mr. Morooka, AKA King Moron) was patrolling to keep the boys from being in the girls’ tents. He takes the teasing very well, for all intents and purposes, but it is only when Naoto is involved that it becomes an issue and you can see his shy side come out.

His Social Link is personified by the Emperor Arcana and begins in the game under the rumour of him bullying other students. The Protagonist can find him in the practice building near the sewing room. After asking to speak to Kanji, he then confronts him on the Flood Plains near the River, where Kanji reassures him that the accusations are false and the Emperor S. Link reaches level one.

At level 3 of the S. Link, the Protagonist has the option to encourage Kanji to make dolls for a young boy to help him with a girl he likes. This will also help Kanji to find the courage to sell said dolls at the textile shop his family owns. At the end of the Emperor S. Link (level 10), Kanji has a heart-to-heart talk at the Dojima residence where it is revealed about the complete reason for his sexuality confusion and how he has resolved it within himself—to do everything 100% and that he’s accepted completely his hobbies. He gives the Protagonist a cute phone strap and his Persona evolves to Rokuten Maou. He even teases that he’s going to start a puppet-making class that is to be held in his senpai’s room.

Background: Kanji at the MST wiki

Abilities: Kanji can use his Persona, Rokuten-Maoh, with his lightning-based attacks to inflict damage to enemies or buff allies for three turns in battle. He is a tall, strong and athletically built teen who is used to street fights, as his battle style severely reflects. He uses what are literally found items as weapons, such as a school desk (his gag weapon) or the shield one finds after defeating the special boss in his bath house dungeon.

First Person:
[Accidental Video]

[The young man was sitting in at his table, skeins of many different coloured yarn surrounding him as his hands moved with the ease of one used to the work he was doing. His face, not always the prettiest on a good day, was screwed up in concentration as he worked and talked to himself.]

Knit one row. Perl one row. Skip the last two stitches. Repeat.

I dunno who thought these directions were hard, but I swear this’s gotta be the easiest project out of the ones I’ve started since I got here. By the time I’m done, I’ll have the cutest damn hat and scarf in this entire fucked up city. Yep.

[He puts his yarn and needles down to examine the obvious-to-him hat better.]

If I use green here, I bet Chie-senpai would like it. And an orange one for Yosuke-senpai. I dunno about Sanada or that Labrys girl. Maybe I’ll ask around.

[He looks over and it’s obvious from the way his grey eyes widen that he didn’t know the watch was on. Especially when his cheeks start to turn a bright red before the watch is closed suddenly.]

Third Person:
One of Kanji’s favourite things to do in the entire universe was to use his hands. Whether that was to sit down and create tiny, adorable masterpieces or bashing in the faces of Shadows in the TV world with his friends, Kanji was happiest when he was busy doing something. This sitting around and waiting for things to happen was for someone else.

Not that he was gonna go out and pledge himself for the stupid patrol force either. (Well, he wouldn’t do it on his own, but if Yosuke or Senpai suggested they do it, he might. Eh, that was a different story though.)

Nope, Kanji, after finding out he could use his Persona here in this strange world, went out to find and fight the crazy monsters in that were getting closer and closer to the residential parts of the city. It gave him something to do. Something productive. It kept his mind off of what he was missing back home, who he missed. If he was fighting with his body, mind and spirit, he was so exhausted by the time he got back to the house that he just dropped right to sleep after a meal and shower.

He wasn’t stupid. He knew it couldn’t last as a distraction for much longer, but he’d take advantage of it while he could. That was the smart thing to do, right?

Oops, someone swagged off the train.

Spoils for SNK here!

"We're child mass murderers. Who else could understand?"

PLAYER
Name: Queenie
Age: 20
Personal Journal:

queensbeforekings
E-mail: imaginingautumn@yahoo.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: autumnimagining, Skype: aqueenamongstkings

PLAYER
Name: Tracy
Age: 23
Personal Journal:

yeshallbeasgods
E-mail: die.wiederkehr@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: turbotracy14

CHARACTER
Name: Rose Tyler
Canon: Doctor Who
Age: 19
Timeline: Season 2, School Reunion, when trying to get into the computers, just after Sarah Jane mentions the Loch Ness Monster.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality:

She is much more courageous than she, or most people, give her credit for. When she first met the Doctor, she stuck with him when living plastics were chasing her, saved him from the Nestene Consciousness and joined him in the TARDIS without even thinking about it. She doesn’t hesitate to get involved and help the Doctor, even if it means that she puts herself in danger. While this isn’t something she does for just anyone, she will help who she can and stand up for what she believes in. Even if that means she has to go toe-to-toe against the Doctor in an argument.

She’s also very intelligent for someone that comes from a time that still considers everything the Doctor shows her as science fiction. She catches on quick to the things the Doctor shows her and figures out how to ask the right questions when they get into trouble. Or even when they don’t. She may not be the smarted person he could have taken along but she learns, or makes and effort to learn, and understands what she can. Rose tries and that’s a lot of the charm to her being a companion.

Rose also has her moments of pride but knows when to put it aside as well. Earlier on in her travels with the Doctor, she might have been less inclined to do so but the more she travels, the more she’s willing to admit when she’s wrong and apologize for it. She’s a young woman who, despite society in her own time, understands responsibility, right and wrong. It’s especially noticeable in the episode with the Gelth that she respects human life, whether someone is still alive or not. Something that many people don’t really think about.

She’s also witty and can be sharp or sarcastic at times, which could account for why the Ninth Doctor took to her like he did. She was someone who could keep up with him on several levels. Not only that but she doesn’t hold grudges. She’ll forgive things and people who go against her personal beliefs (a Dalek that learned to feel thanks to her DNA, Cassandra when she finally accepted that she was dying, etc.) and that shows her for what kind of a good, kind person she is. Not that she always is. Like anyone who loves someone (and Rose does love the Doctor) she’s prone to jealousy. Thankfully, not violently so as some people can be/are portrayed.

Background: TARDIS wiki - Rose Tyler.

Abilities: She can work a Sonic Screwdriver! And she once held the entire time vortex in her head (BAD WOLF). She can also use a gun (fairly well) and is a gymnast.

First Person: Test drive.

Third Person:

Ruby City. That was classy and nothing like she’d heard of on Earth. Except this wasn’t Earth where she had been, in an over secured high school with one of the Doctor’s former companions while the two had argued over who had better adventures. Thinking on it now, it was ridiculous. Jealousy driving her to find everything and anything to dislike Sarah Jane. It was so stupid now that she thought about it.

This wasn’t Earth. But it had to be. She hadn’t been on the TARDIS and she hadn’t been on Game Station to be teleported anywhere. It hadn’t felt a transmat beam either. That had left her dazed and barely conscious, confused about where she was and with temporary mild amnesia. While she couldn’t remember how she got there, she could remember everything leading up to it. So how had she gotten here?

“Hello?”

That never helped before. Why is she trying it now? It looked like a harmless train station but… She learned when she first met the Doctor that things can look harmless and be very not-harmless. Like mannequins. At least she had a sonic screwdriver? For whatever good that did her here.

People have said that since I was little... [WARNING for spoilers up to the most recent chapters.]

Edited 2013-12-22 01:38 (UTC)

PLAYER
Name: Fiona
Age: 25
Personal Journal:

blood_winged
E-mail: waytoomanytags@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: littlebritteacup

CHARACTER
Name: Nickolas Benjamin “Nicko” Heap
Canon: Septimus Heap
Age: 16
Timeline: The end of Syren
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality: Nicko, despite being one of the Heap family and therefore exposed to magic from a young age is, in fact, rather uninterested in the discipline. The second youngest Heap boy’s love is for boats and sailing and always has been, though he still has the tell-tale bright green eyes of a person who has been exposed to Magyk. He is a bright and determined young man of sixteen with an alarming tendency to rush into things without thinking when his emotions get the better of him, but he can be equally level-headed when the circumstances call for it.

Like all Heaps, Nicko is stubborn and prone to being bull-headed when he has his mind set on something. More often than not easy-going and good-natured he has a practical mind and a wry sense of humour, enjoying a joke as much as the next person. While not immediately trusting he can be swayed by the opinions of those he already has faith in, though it must be noted that in those cases it is more the case that he trusts that person he was already close to has put their own faith in the right place.

Part of a close family, Nicko values trust and loyalty very highly and reacts badly when either of them is broken. He’s closest to his younger brother Septimus, often believing him even when no one else will and jumping to his aid on several occasions over the course of the book series, sometimes putting himself at serious risk in doing so. He doesn’t like to admit that he’s wrong and when he knows he’s right he’ll stick to his guns like a dog with a particularly tasty bone in a way that can sometimes cloud his judgement, but rest assured that his heart is always in the right place.

He has a fear of enclosed spaces, becoming panicky when he feels trapped. This is something he’s able to control for a limited time, though like all fears it will eventually overcome him if it goes on for too long. Nicko doesn’t like to talk about this and will claim to be fine while trying to control his fears, even when he’s clearly not alright.

While not an unkind boy by nature, he does have the capacity to be cruel as much as any person, especially against individuals or groups who have wronged the people he cares about or himself personally. This is shown most clearly in his initial treatment of Boy 412, later revealed to be his brother Septimus Heap, and DomDaniel’s young apprentice Merrin, whom Nicko despises. How he views his eldest brother Simon is also altered drastically when the young man turns to Darke magyk and against their family and friends. While it may seem that he’s fickle, Nicko’s actions are always with the aim of protecting the important people around him. If that means swiftly changing his opinion on a person, for good or ill, then you’re likely to see him do it.

Background: Here!

Abilities: Nicko is an accomplished boat-builder and like all Heaps save his adopted sister Jenna is able to use magyk, though his lack of interest in it means that he is nowhere near as able as his younger brother.

First Person:

[Nicko sits down on the dock outside his small house by the lake and dips his feet into the water, leaning forwards to watch the dark shapes moving beneath. They don’t bother him anymore, though at first the merpeople took violent exception to his deciding to live on the edge of their territory.

With the warm sun beating down on his head he flicks one of his small braids back, tucking it behind his ear and turning towards a block of wood on the dock, a half-finished carving emerging from it like a living thing. He picks up his knife, resuming the quiet task of creating a figurehead for the small, finally finished boat sat floating beside the jetty. It’s not his best work, but it’s all his and he’s proud of it regardless. The little boat sits low and wide in the water, made for safety over speed and sporting a sail made from patches of spare, sturdy cloth pilfered from the clothing store.

The young man smiles, giving a little nod to no one in particular.]

I still need to think of a name for you. [He muses, rubbing his thumb over one of the fresher cuts in the wood in front of him. He’ll need sandpaper soon, it feels much too rough.]

And I can’t call another boat ‘Muriel’. [He shakes his head, pulling himself up and striding over to the boat, crouching beside her and running his hand along the side.] What about… ‘Cerys’? [Nicko pauses, then grins as the wind gusts and the boat gives a gentle creak.]

I knew you’d like it.

Third Person:

If he was going to sail anywhere, he needed to chart the stars first. The sky here was nothing like back home but he’d managed to draw up some blank charts, one already half completed from the month or so that he had been in this strange place. At least the stars stayed constant, even if everything else sometimes turned completely upside down.

With his eyes feeling gritty and sore from tiredness and spending too long working in light that was too dim for any real progress to be made, Nicko threw himself back onto the grass and let his eyelids drop to half-mast as he idly sucked on the stem of a strand of grass. The puff of seeds at the tip occasionally spiralled into the edge of his vision. Living like this made him think of his four forest-dwelling brothers, though he’d made a point of making sure he didn’t descend into the kinds of habits they did. It wouldn’t suit him, anyway. Nicko just wasn’t built to be lazy.

He frowned as he thought of home. Often, he tried not to. It hurt too much to think of everything that he was missing, even with Septimus here and the assurance that it wasn’t like before and time wasn’t passing while they were gone. Even with those assurances… it didn’t keep him from missing everyone.

He even missed Spit Fyre sometimes.

Nuh uh, I'm driving. Move over!

PLAYER
Name: Cnd
Age: 35
Personal Journal:

chichirinoda
E-mail: chichirinoda@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: hellbreakercnd,

Chichirinoda

CHARACTER
Name: Nico di Angelo
Canon: Percy Jackson Series
Age: Physically, he's 14 years old, however he was born in approximately 1932, and spent 70 years in the Lotus Hotel, experiencing the time subjectively as taking only a month or so, and coming out without having aged.
Timeline: Taken from just prior to the beginning of the House of Hades book.

Application is over here!

Spoilers for The Eccentric Family.

Edited 2013-12-22 07:26 (UTC)

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Let’s play girls bubububububu

† Lost Chair †

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Tiger, tiger, burning bright, in the forests of the night...

PLAYER
Name:Dan
Age:29
Personal Journal:n/a
E-mail:strawhatgamer@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc:luffydan

CHARACTER
Name: Princess Peach Toadstool
Canon: The Mario Bros. Series
Age: 20
Timeline: Post Super Mario Bros 3D World
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: n/a

Personality:

Peach's personality is shown her to be kind and well mannered, a proper Princess for a struggling kingdom. She is also shown as being motherly, in the way that she often looks over her subjects and seems to take care of things for Mario, by either baking him cakes or making sure that his living arrangements and travels are accommodated or comfortable. This is seen during most of the spin-off games, where Peach has constructed game board islands or Baseball islands for Mario and his friends to relax and have fun. In most of the Mario Series games she is portrayed as selfless, perky and generous. She does not show an aggressive nature even when she is fighting (this is shown by her use of quick slaps, graceful high kicks, hip-checks in the air, and other elegant fighting techniques, as seen in the Super Smash Bros., Super Mario RPG, and Super Princess Peach games) or confronting her enemies. Though, however, there are a few games and manga where she displays a fit of temper or deep sadness. In Super Princess Peach, she shows wild mood swings that switch from Joy, Gloom, Happiness, and even Anger; each of which gives her a special ability to use in the game. These changes in emotion are most likely attributed to the "strange powers" of Vibe Island mentioned in the game's booklet and where the game takes place, but also show that Peach is capable of very strong emotions, not previously seen in many of the other Mario stories. In Super Princess Peach, she also shows Bowser that she is capable of taking care of herself, having to save a kidnapped Mario whom is typically her savior and becoming the main character.

Although often kidnapped and sought after by him, Peach has never really been shown to hold any grudges at Bowser/Koopa. She even embraces the thought of having him by her and Mario's side when a bigger villain threatens the kingdom, as per his role in the Super Nintendo game Super Mario RPG: Secret of the Seven Stars. It shows that Peach is compassionate and wise, knowing that a power house like Bowser is greater to have as an ally than to be a victim of his villainy. The Paper Mario series has revealed that she can sometimes succumb to a more bratty like behavior, typically associated with Princess', though this often dissipates as soon as everything gets explained to her by Toad or other members of her court.

It has been shown through the comics published in issues of Nintendo's official Nintendo Power magazine that Peach is very cunning, disguising herself as Luigi in order to make her way past the Mushroom Kingdom's guards in order to pursue Mario and finish off Bowser herself. She has also disguised members of her staff as stand-ins in order to go along with Mario on his journey, displaying a crafty and delinquent side to her otherwise royal upbringing. In Super Paper Mario, Peach states she was taught to help others, so it explains why she is not content to just sit and allow Mario to things all on his own. It also shows that she is much more than a Princess kept behind tall walls, displaying that when things become harsh for her people (going back to the selfless and generous mentions), she will do anything to make things right, even if it means breaking rules and jumping over the castle wall. Her strength and resolve are greater, if not equal, to Mario's. In almost every entry in the Mario series, Peach has never surrendered to Bowser (even when shackled and locked away in a dungeon) and has always been seen as holding on to the hope that Mario and company will do what is right, or at the very least that she herself will make Bowser pay for his evil deeds. Much like her "hero", she too has never been one to give in or surrender, always resolving to do what must be done in order to bring order back to the kingdom, even if it means traveling over 8 treacherous and dangerous worlds.

Peach's one weakness seems to be that she is very suceptible to kidnappings, as well as being drawn away from her throne. Regardless of the villain or the kidnapper, there is little room for error for anyone being able to scoop her off and abscond off with her. In almost every entry of the Mario games (not including the sports, spin-offs, and board game games), Peach is kidnapped by Bowser and is taken away for purposes of being married or for kingdom-bargaining. In all other entries, Peach follows along with Mario to try and aide in his quest. Very few of her fears have been revealed through the years, as Peach has been shown to be more courageous than Luigi, if not as much as Mario. In the Super Mario manga books drawn by Charlie Nozawa, Peach is fearful of most common things that are spooky in the Mushroom Kingdom, such as ghosts or ghastly creatures, having been attacked by a horde of Boo ghosts. During this attack, Peach is seen running away in fear, rather than trying to fight against them. Aside from that, she is rarely seen as being fearful or worrisome about most things, perhaps another pillar of resolve from a Princess' upbringing.

Background: Here.

Abilities: Here.

First Person:

[Peach's eyes open slowly, her hands raising to rub at her temples as her head aches with confusion. The sounds of the locomotive are nothing foreign to her, but the Princess cannot recall how it is that she came to board the train she was now traveling on.]

{Am I.. Still in the Mushroom Kingdom?}

[The decor of the train car looked nothing like the architecture of any kingdom she knew. Rather, the train itself seemed dull and plain, noting extravagant or ornate. The Princess assumes that she is being taken to parts unknown, a feeling she is all too used to, sadly.]

{This cannot be Bowser's doing, can it?}

[She sits up straight, hands running over the lap of her skirt to work out the wrinkles. The train, as far as she can tell, begins to slow its pace. Her mind races, anxious yet excited to see just where her destination may be.

Peach hears the whistle shriek, the churning of pistons and the almost deafening cry of steel grinding against steel. Her eyes can see through the non-obscured windows that she has arrived in a rather drab looking city, her lips turning to a worried frown as she stands from her seat in the now still car.She turns side-to-side, looking down the length of the passenger car to see if she truly is the sole traveler.

There is no sign of a red hat, no hint of a black mustache, or even a pair of denim overalls in her sight. Thankfully, as she steps towards the opening doors, she sees no notice of a spiked, green tyrant, either.]

Third Person:

She had seen the fangs many times before, and every time she saw them she found herself back there when her kingdom was first under siege.

As she looked to the creature now coming upon her, she stood her ground, hands clenching and not bothering to raise themselves in defense. Her mind saw past visions of a time where she cowered in fear, memories of traversing over pits of boiling magma where flimsy bridges were the only escape lest she wait upon foreign plumbers to save her. The shine of its claws under the dim moonlight above did not stir her like they used to, the countless times she felt their grip about her and knowing now that no harm would come to her.

The warmth of his breath, though it was fierce and foul, was almost nostalgic as she looked into the King's terrible, gaping maw. Through his presentation she did no waver, her body remaining stiff and planted as if she were another statue among the fixtures in a castle hall. Her eyebrows did not furrow, her azure orbs showed no malice or despair. She'd looked upon the lizard plainly. She knew his mannerisms and his will, and to those who feared him she could sympathize with very well.

Yet, the brave Princess stood her ground. Just as the fearsome Koopa brought forth a mighty hand to ensnare her, it was then that she raised a firm, open hand and connected with the side of his snout.

"Even after all this time? The least you could do is greet me before you try and snatch me! How rude."

Edited 2013-12-26 16:03 (UTC)

I chooseth this fate of mine own free will.

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Myself I long for love and light / but must it come so cruel, and oh so bright?

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PLAYER
Name: Mako
Age: 30
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CHARACTER
Name: Mitsuru Kirijo
Canon: Persona 3 FES
Age: 18
Timeline: January 1st, 2010
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