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

Touko Fukawa | Dangan Ronpa | No Reserve

[originalscissorsister]

App here!

Reapplying, Touko would keep her previous memories of RC! Thanks for the consideration!

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

Welcome to Ruby City! Go ahead and join rubycity_ooc, rubycity_rp and rubycity_logs with your character journal!

After you have done this, post to the Contacts page, Tag Request page, the Taken Characters page and, if you know where your character will be living, the Residences page! Familiarise yourself with the Rules and FAQ and introduce yourself at rubycity_ooc

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Loki Laufeyson | Marvel 616 | Reserved

[mischiefsmith]

You must be our wannabe Buddha wrapped up tight in spandex. You must be Odin on the worldtree. You must be Scott Pilgrim at the end of the film.

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

Welcome to Ruby City! Go ahead and join rubycity_ooc, rubycity_rp and rubycity_logs with your character journal!

After you have done this, post to the Contacts page, Tag Request page, the Taken Characters page and, if you know where your character will be living, the Residences page! Familiarise yourself with the Rules and FAQ and introduce yourself at rubycity_ooc

If you have a plurk account, please add the rubycitymods plurk to be included in future updates, information and feedback. We are on plurk at rubycitymods.

Belldandy | Aa Megamisama | Not Reserved

[1_800_goddess]

Fingers crossed!

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

Welcome to Ruby City! Go ahead and join rubycity_ooc, rubycity_rp and rubycity_logs with your character journal!

After you have done this, post to the Contacts page, Tag Request page, the Taken Characters page and, if you know where your character will be living, the Residences page! Familiarise yourself with the Rules and FAQ and introduce yourself at rubycity_ooc

If you have a plurk account, please add the rubycitymods plurk to be included in future updates, information and feedback. We are on plurk at rubycitymods.

Zelda | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | Not Reserved

[wisdominshadows]

Time passes, people move...Like a river's flow, it never ends.

REVISIONS

[rubycitymods]

Thank you for your application! We would like to see a few clarifications before we can accept you into the game.

• There are two items in the inventory section, Ocarina of Time and Goddess's Harp, which are not described in a way that make sense out of canon context. Please elaborate on these two items and their powers so that mods can make a judgment of their game-appropriateness.
  
• Please describe Zelda's time travel abilities in detail. While we're largely very permissive with OP characters, we do need details of any time travel abilities to ensure that they aren't game-breaking. If you feel they might be game-breaking, please detail how you'll scale them down playing Zelda in-game.
  
• We would like to see a rewritten personality section, as the one presented reads more like a history section rather than a personality. We'd also like to see more depth regarding Zelda's current traits, how she thinks and how she acts rather than what has happened in her life.
  
• We would also like to see a new prose sample that displays introspection and reactions rather than just reminiscence.
  
• Finally, please submit these revisions with appropriate spacing between paragraphs for ease of mod review and to facilitate our quick response.

We look forward to seeing your response within 72 hours.

Re: REVISIONS

[wisdominshadows]

Thank you for the critique. I'm afraid I've had some trouble with getting it all sorted in time, but if you don't mind I'll reapply soon with the changes suggested.

Re: REVISIONS

[rubycitymods]

Not a problem! You're welcome to reapply at any time, and we look forward to seeing your app.

Urd | Ah! My Goddess! | Not reserved

[mistressurd]

http://mistressurd.dreamwidth.org/2137.html

The app may say 2015 on it but I edited it recently to add a few things and add new examples.

DECLINED

[rubycitymods]

Thank you for your application.

At this time, we have chosen to decline it. Among other reasons, we have made this choice due to errors in the application (sections not filled out, links not working, etc.) and insufficient demonstration of Urd's personality, both in the personality section itself and the samples presented.

Re: DECLINED

[mistressurd]

Huh that second link was working when I last checked posting this... Oh and I see I somehow didn't have the items section... what the hell I thought I checked and had everything... maybe I looked at the wrong app section.

I'll redo it and post again. But what parts weren't I showing her personality right?

Re: DECLINED

[rubycitymods]

Regarding the personality section, we noticed a number of errors that would require a complete rewrite for acceptance. The personality section (along with the application as a whole, including samples) contained a large number of technical errors. It also read more as a bullet-points list of traits than a comprehensive overview of Urd's personality. The points provided are not backed up with canon evidence or extrapolation. Finally, the majority of traits presented in the personality section are surface traits; they speak, albeit briefly, to what Urd does without answering the "why". These issues in combination with weak samples, missing sections, and the number of overall errors contributed to our decision to reject the application at this time.

Re: DECLINED

[mistressurd]

thank you for the comments and advice. I will redo it and make sure it sounds better and feels better at displaying her personality.

[CANON]Zarek of Moesia || Dark-Hunter Series || no reserve || 1 of 3

[psychoassz]

PLAYER
Name: Bry
Age: 28
Personal Journal: none
E-mail: batesoleb@oh.rr.com
AIM/etc: none

CHARACTER
Name: Zarek of Moesia
Canon: Dark-Hunter Series
Age: 2,164. Appears 25
Timeline: Between Dance with the Devil and Seize the Night
Items with character at canon point:
Zarek is wearing black leather pants, a charcoal gray polo shirt, and a light black jacket. A sheathed dagger and his silver hand claws are hidden inside the jacket.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: Technically Kyrian and Zarek are from the same canon. This shouldn’t be an issue given Kyrian only knows Zarek by name and from the internet. They definitely aren’t friends, and Kyrian would have no reason to seek him out. Zarek hates pretty much everyone, so he won’t be seeking out Kyrian either.

[CANON]Zarek of Moesia || Dark-Hunter Series || no reserve || 2 of 3

[psychoassz]

Personality:

Hated and taught that he was worthless from the moment of his birth, Zarek has a huge inferiority complex. He doesn’t think anything of himself and continues to view himself as a useless slave even years into being a Dark-Hunter. He expects to be served with beatings and betrayal, so he learned to handle any type of pain without crying out. This has served him well over the years since there is very little pain he can’t keep fighting through. Given nobody was ever there to help him when he was hurt, Zarek is completely self sufficient. He hates people trying to help him because he knows nothing ever comes for free. There’s always a catch somewhere, and usually it’s one he pays for. Help also feels a lot like patronizing pity to him. Because of his life as a child, he hates people with wealth, being touched, and being lied to. All of these things can set his temper off in a flash.

Once Zarek became a Dark-Hunter, his opinion about himself didn’t increase. However, now that he was capable of protecting himself, he no longer took the hatred of the world in silence. Instead he built a shield around himself with his caustic attitude and hardened his heart. He lashes out at people before they can lash out at him. As long as he keeps people at a distance, there is less pain involved. Zarek hates the whole world and everyone in it. The only reason he continues to live is because it pisses people off. Pissing people off as much as possible has become his goal in life. Because of that and his desire to drive everyone away, Zarek is rude and hostile to everyone. He lives off hatred and biting sarcasm. Overall, Zarek became like the Alaskan wilderness he’d been banished to: hard, frozen, and desolate. Nearly everyone describes Zarek as completely insane because he acts like a rabid animal.

Inside Zarek hates being cold and abandoned. Knowing everyone hates him and rejects him is painful. Instead of showing that, however, he lashes out more. Zarek truly wants to feel love and warmth for once in his life, but he also accepts the fact that he isn’t worthy of that. It’s why he initially chooses to leave Astrid even though he loves her. He actually does care about some people. He donates his wood carvings to charity auctions and shovels the driveways of elderly Fairbanks residents in the dead of night. If anyone were to tell him he was kind, however, he would bite their head off and tell them they’re insane. His attitude and acidity protect him from the world.

Despite Zarek’s upbringing and his typical asshole personality, he actually has solid morals. The only time he’s ever hurt a woman or child is when he accidentally killed the Apollite woman battling the man who destroyed his village. Given the guy used her as a shieled, it wasn’t even Zarek’s fault (though he still feels intense guilt over it). After selling his soul to Artemis he was allowed vengeance against those who had betrayed and wronged him, but even then he couldn’t harm the woman who’d falsely accused him of rape. Zarek even fights bears with nothing but his hand claws because it wouldn’t be fair to the bear to use a long distance weapon. His life was never fair, but he still tries not to destroy the lives of others. At least those who are innocent and leave him alone. Once someone messes with him payback is fair game, and his payback is extreme so that a lesson is learned and he can get some pleasure from pissing the person off.

Astrid’s love has slowly begun changing him. He is beginning to see himself as less inferior. She’s also starting to teach him how to be civil and use manners, though it will never take completely. Now that Zarek has experienced some happiness, he’s actually able to joke a little bit too. Despite this, he still lives to fight and loves pissing off anyone he possibly can. While his wife might want him to try and make friends, Zarek usually rubs people the wrong way… and he loves that.

Background:

Born the child of rape between his father and his uncle’s slave, Zarek’s mother tried to have him killed at birth. Instead the slave she gave him to brought him to his father. Just as unwelcome there, Zarek became the whipping boy for his half brothers. He was used to teach his brothers how to be strong and brutal. Hated by his family and by his fellow slaves for having their master’s blood in him, Zarek was beaten by everyone. Sometimes as punishment, sometimes to release anger, and sometimes just for fun. If he got any food, it was only the scraps the other slaves wouldn’t eat. By age fourteen he was completely disfigured from scarring. Completely blind in one eye and partially blind in the other with his right arm completely useless and a severe limp from continuously broken and unset bones, nobody even wanted to look at him. He was viewed as completely disgusting and the lowest of the low.

At fourteen Zarek’s father tried to sell him to a slaver, but instead needed to pay the slaver to take Zarek off his hands. Zarek was thrown into the worst jobs in the slave holdings, generally cleaning up the cesspit they all lived in. He lived there for five years until a woman bought him. His job was to alert her and her lover when her husband had returned home. Zarek spent six years with her until one day he went to alert her and found her lover beating her. He stepped in and saved her, taking a beating in the process. Little did he knew she would use him as her scapegoat. When he husband saw her bruises, she accused Zarek of trying to rape her to protect herself and her lover. Her husband beat Zarek and turned him over to the Roman government. After being tortured for a week Zarek eventually confessed and was stoned to death by the public.

His master’s betrayal led him to reach out to Artemis for vengeance and he became a Dark-Hunter. Stationed in Taberleigh, Scotland, Zarek’s life became a little bit better. At least until he saw flames while he was out on patrol. Returning back to the town, he found everyone dead and the whole village destroyed. Zarek went after Thanatos, the one responsible. The battle was incredibly messy, and by the end Zarek had killed multiple Apollites. While they had been attacking him, Dark-Hunters were still not supposed to kill them. The last Apollite woman especially stayed with him. Zarek’s memories of that night were altered, and he was banished to Alaska, thinking he had killed his whole village.

He spent 900 years living on the outskirts of what eventually became Fairbanks. His existence wasn’t much different than when he’d been a slave. Often times he starved in the winter, and during the near 24 hours of daylight Alaska experienced, he was trapped in his tiny cabin. His solitude was total. Not even the Dark-Hunters online would speak to him, knowing he’d been banished.

Eventually Zarek was called into New Orleans as a reinforcement, but a few bad choices led him to revealing himself to the public and killing a few police officers. Zarek was returned to Alaska, where Artemis wanted him killed. Acheron bargained for him to be judged instead, and Astrid was sent in to be his judge. Unfortunately Artemis also sent Thanatos, her executioner, in to kill Zarek. In the end Zarek managed to stop a rampaging Thanatos and protect Astrid. After gaining his true memories of his night in the village, and the fact that Zarek hadn’t killed Thanatos, Astrid judged him innocent.

The two of them fell in love, and Astrid fed Zarek ambrosia and nectar to make him a demigod so he could live with her on Olympus. They’ve been together since then. Occasionally Zarek will help Acheron protect the humans, but most of his free time is spent hitting his half brother (who became a Dark-Hunter as well) with lightning bolts.

Abilities:

While he was a Dark-Hunter Zarek had multiple abilities. He had heightened sight and more strength and speed than ordinary people. He also had supernatural hearing and an ability to hide his presence even beyond the level of a typical Dark-Hunter. Zarek can also use telekinesis to move objects or pin people against a wall. His skills with this range through a whole variety of things, including forcing a snowmobile to run a full speed in one direction even when he can no longer see it. Another ability is using ion energy blasts. Zarek can gather energy into his hands and shoot a blast at someone or something. He can also use this energy to destroy nearby objects. While he doesn’t use it often, Zarek also had the ability to heal another by taking their injury onto himself.

As a demigod, Zarek still has all the same abilities he had previously. He also has some control over the weather now as well. As before, he’s completely immortal and can only be killed by dismemberment or beheading. He also has the ability to teleport himself to places he’s been before.

Aside from supernatural abilities, Zarek can take pretty much any amount of pain without letting it stop him or make him cry out. This is from all of his years being beaten. He is also an incredibly talented artist who can make intricately detailed wood and ice carvings.

[CANON]Zarek of Moesia || Dark-Hunter Series || no reserve || 3 of 3

[psychoassz]

Zarek does swear a lot, so there is quite a bit of swearing in his sample posts. I can try to tone this done in game if necessary when it's not behind a cut with a warning in the logs.

Network/Actionspam Sample:

[The feed flicks on to Zarek looking like he’s about to set the entire world on fire. His eyes blaze with rage and fury snaps off every word he growls. The growl is more like a shout, however. The cause of all this may not be directly listening, but he’s going to make sure the creep hears him anyway.]

Alright, which freaking idiot decided it was a good idea to drag me here and then lock me in? I swear, you bastard, you better lift the block on my teleportation. If you don’t, then I hope you run really fucking fast because I’ll be coming for you. And trust me, when I find you, you’ll regret this stupid decision even more than you would sitting on a cactus. Your ass will never have been kicked so hard once I’m done with you. You can count on it.

[His voice drops to a lower volume, though he sounds no more polite.]

Someone at least tell me this place doesn’t get cold as shit.

[No sooner had he quieted down then he’s shouting out into the ether again.]

You better hope the answer is “no,” you coward, or I’ll be kicking your ass twice as hard. Or maybe three times. You’d deserve it.

Prose Log Sample:

Sprawled across the beach and soaking up the sun, Zarek was attempting to make the most of his forced imprisonment here. He’d dealt with years of banishment and solitude before, and they’d been in freaking Alaska. If truth be told, he didn’t have a whole lot of complaints at the moment. Aside from, of course, being here against his will – which he was still going to pay someone back for. Big time.

After being screwed over so many times in his life, Zarek had long since developed an innate warning system for when he was about to be f-ed. When that sense of foreboding came over him, he wasn’t expecting to look up and find tentacles creeping out of the shoreline and coming closer and closer to him. He sprang to his feet, automatically balancing himself for a fight.

“What the fuck is that?”

Clearly this was not Bora Bora. A slow smile slid across his face. No, it was something better. Bora Bora-esque plus a good fight. What more could he ask for really? Well, going home to his wife, but this would do in the interim. His claws were never far from reach, and he slipped them onto his hand without taking his eyes off those tentacles.

“Bring it on, ugly. I’ve heard sashimi’s pretty good.”

Hopefully this would at least turn out to be a decent fight. It had been a few years since he’d had a good one of those. Oh yeah, he was definitely going to enjoy chopping this gold fish into a million itty bitty pieces. Bring it on, baby.

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

Welcome to Ruby City! Go ahead and join rubycity_ooc, rubycity_rp and rubycity_logs with your character journal!

After you have done this, post to the Contacts page, Tag Request page, the Taken Characters page and, if you know where your character will be living, the Residences page! Familiarise yourself with the Rules and FAQ and introduce yourself at rubycity_ooc

If you have a plurk account, please add the rubycitymods plurk to be included in future updates, information and feedback. We are on plurk at rubycitymods.

Re: ACCEPTED

[betrayedbylove]

How do you want the contacts updated if it's a second character? Just a post with that character or redo the whole thing?

[rubycitymods]

Just post with your name and the character!