APPLICATIONS

[rubycitymods]

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
<B><I><BIG><BIG>PLAYER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Name:</b> <b>Age:</b> If you would prefer not to be specific, just let us know that you're over 18! <b>Personal Journal:</b> <b>E-mail:</b> <b>AIM/etc:</b> <B><I><BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Name:</b> First, Last (Western order) <b>Canon:</b> Name only. <b>Age:</b> Real / Apparent, if applicable <b>Timeline:</b> At which point of the canon were they taken from? <b>Items with character at canon point</b>: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions. <b>If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?</b>: 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, <b>how will you handle their interactions without playercesting?</b> Depending on your answer, you may be refused the character you are apping for. <b>Personality:</b> 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. <b>Background:</b> 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. <b>Abilities:</b> 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. <b>Network/Actionspam Sample:</b> 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. <b>Prose Log Sample:</b> 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
<B><I><BIG><BIG>PLAYER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Name:</b> <b>Age:</b> If you would prefer not to be specific, just let us know that you're over 18! <b>Personal Journal:</b> <b>E-mail:</b> <b>AIM/etc:</b> <B><I><BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Character Name:</b> First, Last (Western order) <b>Canon:</b> Name only <b>Age:</b> Real / Apparent, if applicable <b>Timeline:</b> At which point in the canon were they taken from? <b>Items with character at canon point</b>: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions. <b>If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?</b>: 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, <b>how will you handle their interactions without playercesting?</b> Depending on your answer, you may be refused the character you are apping for. <b>Personality:</b> 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. <b>History:</b> Three well-written paragraphs minimum, detail our your characters’ history. <b>Abilities:</b> 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. <b>Relationships to Canon Characters:</b> If any, if not applicable please put N/A. <b>Network/Actionspam Sample:</b> 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. <b>Prose Log Sample:</b> 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
<B><I><BIG><BIG>PLAYER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Name:</b> <b>Age:</b> If you would prefer not to be specific, just let us know that you're over 18! <b>Personal Journal:</b> <b>E-mail:</b> <b>AIM/etc:</b> <B><I><BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Name:</b> First, Last. (Western order) <b>Age:</b> Real / Apparent, if applicable <b>Appearance:</b> 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. <b>Chosen PB:</b> 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. <b>Items with character at canon point</b>: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions. <b>Personality:</b> 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. <b>World Information:</b> 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. <b>History:</b> Your characters’ history in their world. Be sure to be detailed. This section should be a minimum of three paragraphs. <b>Abilities:</b> 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. <b>Network/Actionspam Sample:</b> 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. <b>Prose Log Sample:</b> 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.


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 ✧

Comments

Miko Toyosatomimi | Touhou Project | Reserved | Re-app

[shoutoku_administrator]

http://shoutoku-administrator.dreamwidth.org/300.html

I played her here before briefly, so this is a re-app. Consider this to be an additional sample.

I'm re-apping with the intent of taking her in a slightly different direction that I think will be more game-sustainable - less of her early-canon take-charge dictatorial self and more of her laid-back understands-how-Gensokyo-works self.

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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[CANON OC] Minako Arisato | Persona 3 Portable | Reserved

[quaesitum]

You, who wish to safeguard the future, however limited it may be...

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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[OC] Isaac Acker | No reserve

[deathwailart]

It will have blood, they say blood will have blood

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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[Canon] James Buchanan Barnes / The Winter Soldier | MCU | Reserved

[disassembling]

I don't need you to save me. I need you to stand with me while I save myself.

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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[Canon] Sephiroth | Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core | No Reserve

[sixth_sefira]

Application

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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[canon] Tohru Adachi | Persona 4 | Reserved

[denialism]

Anyway, blah blah blah .... it all sounds pretty stupid, really.

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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Casimiro | Hanna is Not a Boy's Name | Reserved | Re-app

[fouledhand]

Seems like you're more into paranormal charity than any real sleuthing, though.

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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[CANON] Irisviel von Einzbern | Fate/Zero | Reserved

[thescabbard]

"That impulse... is love."

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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[Canon] Dipper Pines | Gravity Falls | Not reserved

[ursa_minor]

The natural predator of gnomes is the dreaded leaf blower.

REVISION REQUESTED

[rubycitymods]

Thank you for your application.

At this time, we are requesting a revision of the personality section. Specifically, we feel that there is not enough given at current to substantiate Dipper being one of the main characters of "Gravity Falls," and would like to see more information on what drives his decisions as a character. We would also like to see some information on his character development, along with canon examples added as reference points.

Feel free to submit your revisions at any time before the next app cycle, and your application will be processed as soon as possible!

{ canon } Levi Ackerman | Shingeki no Kyojin | Reserved

[cleansliness]

the only thing we are allowed to do is to believe that we won't regret the choice we made.

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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[Canon OC] The Inu no Taishou || InuYasha || No Reserve

[honorabledogfather]

Do you...have someone to protect?

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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[Canon] Elrond | Tolkien Legendarium | Unreserved

[rivendell_lord]

Pointy-eared life ruiner just wants to be listened to.

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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[canon oc] Celebrian | Tolkien's Legendarium | not reserved

[silvergift]

'Silver Queen' they called her.

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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[canon] Pekoyama Peko | Super Dangan Ronpa 2 | not reserved

[rambunctiousgirl]

As long as I am a tool, I will not fall into despair.

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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( canon ) shirou emiya | fate/stay night | reserved

[moes]

KEEP CALM, AND TRACE ON

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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[Canon] Duane Adelier | Unsounded | Not reserved

[metaphorical_snakes]

Duane!? That's the worst name for I ever heard on an attack zombie in me life!

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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Skyla Arkin - Magical Girl Eudaemonics (OC) - Not Reserved

[magisperica]

That tiny piece of over-chewed raspberry gum - whatcha waiting for? Spit it out!

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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[Canon] The Tenth Doctor | Doctor Who | Reserved

[reallygreathair]

Well I woke up today...

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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[Canon]Amy Pond|| Doctor Who|| Reserve||

[alwayspond]

Amy Pond’s Application

DECLINED

[rubycitymods]

Thank you for your application.

At this time, we have chosen to decline it. While you provided us several examples of how and why Amy behaves as she does throughout the series, what we're looking for in the personality section is a description of how and why she acts the way she does at this point in her timeline, and we do not feel that you have provided that.

Additionally, we do not feel that the samples you provided accurately reflect and portray Amy Pond as she appears in the series from the canon point you are pulling her from.

You may apply again in two weeks if you so wish, and if you have any questions, feel free to pm the mod account.

[Canon] Rose Tyler || Doctor Who || Reserved

[missrosetyler]

Rose Tyler's Application

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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[CANON] Vriska Serket | Homestuck | No Reserve | 1 of ?

[eyefortreasure]

PLAYER
Name: Raile
Age: 26
Personal Journal: N/A
E-mail: railerat@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: Railerat on AIM, Railehatesfun on Plurk

CHARACTER
Name: Vriska Serket
Canon: Homestuck
Age: 13
Timeline: Shortly after she's begun trolling the John Human
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality: Vriska is... a crazy manipulative backstabbing bitch. No, really. That's who she is. It's what she does. She's aggressive, she's unpredictable, and she is, quite possibly, the most dangerous of the trolls. She's literally verging on becoming the big bad of her canon, even over the demon that's trying to kill them all. Nobody likes her, everybody thinks she's crazy, and she's incredibly stubborn. She's easily bored or distracted, and tends to be dangerously ambitious and incredibly destructive--she prefers mindgames or open manipulation, and by the time her own canon had begun, she'd killed one of her canonmates and permanently crippled two others. Ultimately left frustrated, ignored, and unsatisfied by everything she does, Vriska swaps alternatively between being grossly egotistical and perversely insecure, especially when she decides that nobody likes her--or worse, that they don't hate her as much as she wants them to (or thinks they should.) She's almost aggressively positive, but in case the rest of this app doesn't make it obvious, Vriska really hates being ignored.

Intelligent, capricious, methodical, and thorough, Vriska Serket is nothing if not always busy. When not pursuing some nefarious end, she's obnoxoious and actively malicious, going out of her way to make sure the irons in her coveted fire are not only cruel but diabolical and often (quite honestly) downright evil. She openly gloats about much of the torment she causes--at one point she builds a series of stairs for a Troll she herself had paralysed from the waist down and tried to force him to climb it, "for his own improvement," and tries to make him apologise to her for being crippled to begin with. In the end, she only relented and actually did something helpful because Kanaya threatened to upend a toilet over her head, and then with the disclaimer she'd meant to do it from the beginning. Few Trolls would trust her farther than they could throw her, and many of those wouldn't trust her as far as that. And yet she still reaps her rewards. She shows no remorse, and repents nothing; as far as Vriska is concerned, she's at the top, and it hardly matters what colour blood is what. She is the top of the food chain. She is convinced of her own incredible skill and superiority, but suffers from what seems to be a hidden, debilitating need to constantly convince this to everyone else.

Re: [CANON] Vriska Serket | Homestuck | No Reserve | 2 of ?

[eyefortreasure]

She is a predator, however, and it shows. Viciously competitive, she is constantly seeking new accomplishments; she is never content to just sit, to rest or even appreciate what she has. She's insatiable. In canon, she hoards piles of jewels and weapons and treaure, rooms upon rooms filled to bursting with the loot seized in her endless and violent campaigns. Often the threat of being outclassed in any qualification--any at all--is enough to galvanise her into action, sometimes to the point of absurdity or paranoia. And it's not just material goods. It's the hint, the merest taste or possibility of gratification that puts her most in focus, and it is when she's pursuing something that she believes might achieve that, however minor, that her interest is held most completely. It is then, too, that she may be the most dangerous. She may be hurt or lonely, or she may just be insecure, but though she is dismissive and flippant and callous to other people, she seeks them out regardless, relying on them for external stimulation and validation. Unable to relate to them normally (even by Troll standards), she instead abuses and manipulates them to get the results she wants. Sometimes she even helps them, although often this seems to be arbitrary and may begin or end for no apparent reason; the number of irons she has in the fire at any given point is a point of great pride to her, and she goes to great lengths to make and keep an ever-increasing number of plans, even seeing most of them to fruition.

Manipulation is Vriska's game, and she's damn good at it. Or so she likes to think. It's a little complicated. Even though the other trolls are widely suspicious of her--or even outright aversive--she still manages to get them tangled in her deceitful webs, alternating between helping those around her (or pretending to) and seriously injuring or actively hindering them. She's capable of being perfectly nice, even friendly, if it suits her mood or her ends, and can string people along for miles, proverbially speaking, before getting what she wants and dumping them or exacting revenge for some perceived slight or offence. Unfortunately for her, she's prone to irrational beliefs and relies heavily on her mind powers to achieve these ends, putting a great deal of stock in what she considers 'luck'--this does appear to be a real thing, according to recent canon, but can't account for all of it, and often it just seems to be Vriska's own stubbornness and refusal to accept responsibility for her circumstances. It's as though she refuses to see how anything can be her fault, and her hubris is immense. She's got a vindictive streak a mile wide, though, and actually has a pretty jealous nature, purporting (amongst many other things) to be jealous of another troll, Terezi, just for being able to manipulate with even greater skill despite having no powers at all; more rarely, she can be deeply vengeful and outright deranged when enraged or wronged in some way--she's capable of murder, and much, much worse given the opportunity to stoop to it. Usually she's just petty.

She's also a pretty hateful person. You'll need this here. In theory, all Troll emotions can be boiled down to one of two things: hate and pity. Hate, obviously, is what drives kismesis relationships and is a pretty major part of every Troll's personality. In most Trolls, however, their hate is mitigated and stabilised by their pity; without it, society wouldn't work. According to one theory, this is not the case with Vriska; instead, she appears to be more or less completely lacking pity, possessing only one half of the essential scale--she acts out hate and only hate--erratically, incessantly, and to varying degrees--which is exactly what makes her so unpredictable, vicious, and dangerous.

There are a few possible reasons for her terrible behaviour, all of them equally unsolvable. It could simply be inherent to Vriska--a characteristic or quirk of her nature and/or psychology, no more mysterious than the shape of her horns. It could be related to her lusus. It might be related to her emotional instability, preventing her from pitying completely, just as she is unpitiable.

Or it could just be that she is, in fact, trying way too hard.

As a young troll, Vriska acquired the personal journal of her venerable ancestor, the (in)famous Marquise Spinneret Mindfang. She was only a sweep or two old, just shy of the age where she was expected to begin providing for her monstrous lusus, a massive spider that fed upon the flesh of trolls; were she to be too weak (physically, mentally, psychically) to give her arachnoid guardian what it needed, it would have summarily devoured her. Needless to say, it was an intimidating prospect. Reading the journal, however, change that. Some might say she came into possession of this item too young, but she'd say she came upon it at just the right time. Either way, inspired by the graphic, detailed descriptions of Mindfang's vicious betrayals, violent conquests, and lurid sexual relationships, Vriska found the aggression and confidence she needed to be the best she could be and more, modelling herself on the improbable feats and grandoise narrative of her forebear.

Her obsessive drive to come out on top in every situation, her almost pathological need to be in control, her incredibly inappropriate mix of immaturity and overly mature overtures... in her mind, she is everything her ancestor was and more.

Basically, Vriska thinks she is six sweeps going on thirty.

In a lot of ways, she's really more like two sweeps going on six.

She's frustrated in all things, but none so much as this. Vriska may be trying to pick up the pieces of her life now that there's no lusus to take care of, but it's honestly impossible to say--she may have 'toned down' since the days predating the events of canon, but that's a little bit like saying 'well, the continent-devouring volcanic eruption isn't AS violent as it was before.' If she is, she's doing the worst job of it ever.

Her ego remains her Achilles heel. Her fits of insufficiency drive her to manic, almost neurotic levels of competition, and her egotism makes her overconfident, even dangerously so. Unfortunately, the two can coexist, and even cohabitate, making her personality not only abrasive but potentially deadly--to herself as well as to others. It's not hate or affection she's looking for, specifically--it's attention. She needs it, and she doesn't appreciate not being noticed for her incredibly awesome personality and obvious talents.

[CANON] Archer | Fate/stay night | No reserve

[reforgeries]

"If you can only live by holding onto that ideal, drown in your ideals."

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Alastor | Viewtiful Joe | Re-app and canon update

[superstylishsquid]

I dream of defeating Viewitiful Joe, that is my purpose!

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[CANON] Ibuki Mioda || Super Dangan Ronpa 2 || Reserved

[scary_music]

Please listen to Ibuki's song! She calls this one, "I submitted an application, and now I'm full of nervous feels!"

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[CANON] Henry Mills || Once Upon a Time || no reserve || 1 of 1

[truestsweeper]

Don't you think it's time I learnt something a bit more...magical?

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