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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



✗ Canon OC Application



✗ OC Application



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 ✧
whatitis: (love)

canon // carlos the scientist // welcome to night vale // no reserve

[personal profile] whatitis 2015-08-23 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
unluckyclover: (line'em up)

Guido Mista | Jojo's Bizarre Adventure | Reserved

[personal profile] unluckyclover 2015-08-28 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
beatofmyblood: (fortitude and skill)

Jonathan Joestar | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure | No reserve

[personal profile] beatofmyblood 2015-09-04 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
seashell_memory: (dream drop)

Xion|Kingdom Hearts|Reserve

[personal profile] seashell_memory 2015-09-11 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
I went to a new world today
Edited 2015-09-11 02:43 (UTC)
beunbroken: (chill)

Elizabeth | BioShock: Infinite | Reserved

[personal profile] beunbroken 2015-09-13 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
sunsetsitter: (no ass to kick)

[canon] Izabel | Saga | no reserve

[personal profile] sunsetsitter 2015-09-17 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
us floaty types are masters of misdirection, remember?

+ a note/implied question marked by a "***".
Edited 2015-09-18 00:10 (UTC)
lookpastthem: (051 ◇ Sing it for the ones)

Agent Cherri Cola | The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys | No Reserve

[personal profile] lookpastthem 2015-09-19 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER
Name: Fiona
Age: 26
Personal Journal: [personal profile] hardtostarboard
E-mail: waytoomanytags@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: [plurk.com profile] hardtostarboard

CHARACTER
Name: Cherri Cola
Canon: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys PLUS The Box CRAU
Age: Early thirties, around 34 years old
Timeline: Canon: after his death| Previous game: post-endgame
Items with character at canon point: One bright pink blaster, one pink killjoy mask with lightning bolt patterns, one very pink cat/octopus hybrid, one white husky
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality:
"We can’t make out our friends in the darkness. We can’t see our enemies.
To the friends we lost… and to those that lost us—
Don’t let the night take you. Find your way."


Agent Cherri Cola hails from the futuristic dystopian world laid out in My Chemical Romance’s album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys and the following music videos and comic book series, the latter in which he plays a pivotal part. After the Analogue Wars of 2014, the unspecified area of California in which the story takes place is laid out in wasteland with Battery City at its heart, a city run and controlled by the insidious Better Living Industries (BLI or BL/Ind for short).

(Delving too much into Cherri Cola’s life pre-canon would venture far too deeply into headcanon. This history section will begin with known canon and go on from there.)

Before the events of the comic and during the lives of the Four Fabulous Killjoys – Party Poison, Fun Ghoul, Jet Star and Kobra Kid – Agent Cherri Cola was an ally and DJ working with Doctor Death Defying, speaking out truth and warnings over the Zones for those living in them, away from the restrictive and emotionless life inside the city walls. Living as Killjoy wasn’t without its dangers but they revelled in it, making as much of a nuisance of themselves as possible, constantly dodging the agents sent out after them by BLI. It wasn’t an easy way to live but they wouldn’t have changed it for the world in the faith that somehow, some day, they’d make a difference. It had to be worth something, right?

When the young girl who travelled around with Party Poison and his crew (known only as ‘The Girl’) was kidnapped by BLI and taken into Battery City, they asked Cherri Cola to go with them to rescue her. The best shooter of any of them, he would have been a valuable asset, but he refused and ran, not wanting to kill even for such a noble cause, only finding out later that the four of them had gone to their deaths and the Girl had only been saved by the interference of Doctor Death Defying. The last he saw of her was her back as she ran off into the wasteland and left him there, powerless to stop her.

Things changed for Cola after that. Unable to reconcile the death of his friends and allies with the idea – no, worse, the knowledge - that he might have been able to do something to prevent it he first lost himself in a haze of narcotics, then afterwards became quiet and solitary, getting himself off drugs and keeping Death Defying company as he continued his radio show. Cola did little to contribute – the music had died for him when they did, when he’d failed them, and his heart was no longer in it. He set up his own radio station in the Zones, quietly offering advice and hope to those others living out their lives dancing at the fingertips of Better Living Industries.

His chance to redeem himself came years later, when he found the Girl a captive at the hands of Val Velocity and the Ultra Vs. Pulling her out of their clutches, he took her back to his radio station and intended to keep her safe, but the Girl had other ideas. She asked him to teach her to shoot, then snuck off to meet up with the Ultra Vs. Once again he’d lost her, and he’d just let her walk away from him despite knowing in the pit of his stomach that she wasn’t going where she told him she was.

We next see Cherri Cola after the death of Doctor Death Defying at the hands of Val Velocity, finally overcoming his fears and diving into the middle of a shootout between the Ultra Vs and Draculoids to protect the Girl as he had failed to do before. This last effort of nobility, however, was short lived as he took a ray gun blast to the back, dying instantly.

This is the point in the Danger Days canon that I’ll be taking him from, moments after his final breaths when he believes that despite everything and despite trying, in the end, he failed her, and he failed them.

Again.

Personality Development [THE BOX CRAU]:

Though he would probably try to claim that his time in Box didn’t change him too much, what it definitely did was reawaken a side of him that he had thought to be long dead - that reckless, daredevil side that had been so prevalent in his youth. Though he would still prefer not to kill a person, he won’t hesitate to do so if his own life or the lives of those he cares about are threatened.

He has also been able to lighten the load of his guilt with the time he was able to spend around his old friends and the Girl, as well as through his relationship with Show Pony and the close friendships that he gained (and lost) along the way. He’s become more confident in himself and more sure of who he is, losing a great deal of that uncertainty that had plagued him throughout the latter half of his life.

Background:
"It’s what you don’t see. The auras, the spirits—waves and frequencies.
Everyone and everything has one.
But you have to find them."


As much of a hellraiser and crash queen as any killjoy in his youth, age and experience have mellowed Cherri Cola into a quiet, thoughtful man with a penchant for metaphor and a view of the world that focuses primarily on ‘do no harm’. The death of his friends and allies, Party Poison &Co. and the loss of the Girl many years previously affected him greatly, changing him from one who would run with the killjoys to one who seemed to go out of his way to avoid having anything to do with them. It wasn’t from a lack of respect or any such thing, rather that he had lost his own way and was reaching in the dark to find it again.

Cola is highly introspective and tends towards thinking before he speaks, judging before he acts and rarely loses his temper over anything. There are few things that can truly get him riled, though speaking ill of the dead – and four particular dead – would certainly be one of them. He’s an intelligent man with his own particular rough charm and an easy smile if you happen to say the right thing to prompt it, steadfast and loyal as any you might meet in the Zones.

Though, given the younger inhabitants, something like that probably isn’t worth a lot.

He’s something of a relic now, dated back to the days when the name ‘killjoy’ really stood for something, when it stood for something honourable and decent and when loyalty was more than just skin deep. A DJ and activist in the heart of the Zones in his youth he still carries some of that over to the present day, though his enthusiasm for the good fight has been tempered and dulled by grief and repeated loss. Though he tries, more often than not, to keep up a cheerful front it’s clear that his past failures still haunt him even if he never gives them voice.

In a habit brought over from the days and weeks he spent completely outside his own head and despite being completely clean now, he has a tendency towards talking in metaphor at times without really explaining what he means unless prompted. It all means something, but it’s yet another thing drawn from the past that has little meaning anymore.

There’s still some hope left in him, though. Hope that one day, everything that all of them have been through will come to mean something and that’s what keeps him going. It can’t all be for nothing. They can’t have died for nothing. They saw something special in the Girl and though Cola never found out what it was he keeps hold of it just like they did. He cares about people, in his own way, though it often comes back to bite him in the ass and even gets him mocked (one wavehead calling him a ‘pansy’ in a particular confrontation). It’s hard to give a damn in the Zones where most don’t seem to give a damn about themselves, let alone other people.

Killing goes against everything he stands for, even to the point that he’s hesitant to be an accessory to other people doing so. He is able to put it aside at times, for example when he agrees to teach the Girl how to accurately shoot a ray gun, but it’s a strong part of who he is. Cola isn’t a soft touch, but there’s already too much killing. Adding to it isn’t something he wants to do.

Previous Game History [THE BOX CRAU]:

Over his year-and-a-bit in Box, Cola went through more horror than most people would in a lifetime. He has been shot, stabbed, inflicted with a sickness that basically liquefied his insides and has still managed to keep himself from going completely crazy. He’d call that an achievement, if he really thought that it was anything to be proud of.

Due to old friends being pulled in from a different time period to his own he was able to reconcile with Party Poison - the one who blamed him the most for what had happened to all of them - and even become friendly with him again. It was hard work to regain the trust of the people that felt he'd betrayed them (and he would never deny that he had), but he wasn't willing to give up on it. Though he was never able to return to the kind of friendship that he'd had with them when they were all young before the younger killjoys' time in Box was ended, that Party would speak to him without sneering was an accomplishment in itself.

Box pushed him, forcing him to question himself and everything that he has spent most of his life believing in, but he remained a spiritual soul throughout it all. He was able to continue his work as an on-again-off-again radio broadcaster using the patched together system in the northern settlement and tried to keep the hopes of his fellow captives up even as his own were failing. Loss wasn’t a thing that was strange to him but it was still hard to take, particularly when such losses began to come thick and fast and there was never anything that he could have done. He lost close friends, people he had come to regard as family and even someone he loved very dearly (despite the circumstances), but though it tried very hard, Box didn’t manage to break him.

Abilities: Agent Cherri Cola is a highly accomplished marksman, owing to a particular talent that he has. Rather than focusing on what he’s shooting at he looks around it, sees the auras – waves and frequencies that everything and everyone in the world gives off – and he uses what he sees to make a perfect shot every time. He’s also a good speaker, having hosted an on-and-off radio show for over a decade.

Network/Actionspam Sample: LINK

Prose Log Sample: LINK
Edited 2015-09-20 17:03 (UTC)
rollerbunny: (Default)

Canon OC | Show Pony | Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys | No Reserve

[personal profile] rollerbunny 2015-09-20 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
dragonawakes: (Default)

A Song of Ice and Fire / Viserys Targaryen / Reserved

[personal profile] dragonawakes 2015-09-20 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)

Re: ACCEPTED

[personal profile] dragonawakes - 2015-09-28 03:56 (UTC) - Expand
floweroftheslums: (Cloud: This was almost perfect.)

[Canon] Aerith Gainsborough | Final Fantasy VII Compilation | Reserved

[personal profile] floweroftheslums 2015-09-24 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
berrynice: (i felt connected with my son just now!)

[Canon] Holly Kujo | Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders | no reserve

[personal profile] berrynice 2015-09-26 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
watermelogisty: (Default)

[CANON] Steven Quartz Universe | Steven Universe | Reserve

[personal profile] watermelogisty 2015-09-27 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
becauseichooseto: miles richardson holding up a nice cup of tea and smiling cheekily (Default)

[CANON] Irving Braxiatel || Bernice Summerfield || no reserve || 1 of 1

[personal profile] becauseichooseto 2015-10-02 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
mallgoth: (god it's so stupid)

(canon) leone abbacchio | jojo's bizarre adventure: vento aureo | reserved

[personal profile] mallgoth 2015-10-03 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
missrosetyler: (What)

canon |Rose Tyler | Doctor Who| Not Reserved

[personal profile] missrosetyler 2015-10-06 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
kaylinneya: (Default)

Kaylin Neya - Elantra - Reapp

[personal profile] kaylinneya 2015-10-08 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
Reposting Kaylin's app, as instructed.
Edited 2015-10-08 08:02 (UTC)
manga_goddess_skuld: (Urk what?)

Skuld || Aa Megami-sama || reapp || 1 of 1

[personal profile] manga_goddess_skuld 2015-10-08 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
nadenagi: (Nagihiko sweat bead)

Nagihiko and Nadeshiko Fujisaki | Shugo Chara | reapp

[personal profile] nadenagi 2015-10-08 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
brokencopy: (laughing with a mouth of blood)

[CANON] beyond birthday || death note: another note || no reserve

[personal profile] brokencopy 2015-10-12 01:21 am (UTC)(link)

(no subject)

[personal profile] brokencopy - 2015-10-18 16:39 (UTC) - Expand
kinglyapprentice: (What's done)

Prince Kit | Cinderella (2015) | Reserved

[personal profile] kinglyapprentice 2015-10-15 02:40 am (UTC)(link)

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