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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

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.

Edited 2014-10-06 04:17 (UTC)

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

It will have blood, they say blood will have blood

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

Application

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

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

"That impulse... is love."

Edited 2014-10-30 21:09 (UTC)

The natural predator of gnomes is the dreaded leaf blower.

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

Do you...have someone to protect?

Edited (forgot to put "canon OC" oops) 2014-11-02 07:34 (UTC)

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

Edited 2014-11-09 07:34 (UTC)

'Silver Queen' they called her.

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

Edited 2014-11-15 17:56 (UTC)

KEEP CALM, AND TRACE ON

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

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

Well I woke up today...

Amy Pond’s Application

Edited 2014-11-21 22:14 (UTC)

Rose Tyler's Application

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.