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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 ✧

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((Please note to anyone who may read this that there are series spoilers everywhere!))

PLAYER
Name: Katana
Age: Twenty-seven
Personal Journal:

katana
E-mail: phantomblues at gmail dot com
AIM/MSN/etc: PMs to journals or emails are preferred

CHARACTER
Name: Dean Winchester
Canon: Supernatural
Age: Late twenties. Dean is 29 from his canon point.
Timeline: Season 3, Episode 9: “Malleus Maleficarum.”

Dean made a deal with a crossroads demon to trade his soul for his brother's life, giving himself one year to live before the ticket's cashed in on his eternity. His brother found out and they have been alternating between hunting baddies and Sam trying to find a way to get Dean out of his deal. Dean doesn't want Sam to save him, as he was told that fudging the demon deal would put Sam back in the ground.

In this episode, the brothers are hunting witches who are killing people around a town. At his canon point, Dean was just stabbing the demon that was the heart of the issue.

If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality:
When he was four years old, Dean used to play t-ball (noted in his dad's journal). Later, while he was still four, Dean's mother burned to a supernatural death on the ceiling of their home. During this time, Dean's father put his baby brother in his arms and sent him out of their house as the flames grew. This event resulted in his father obsessively hunting for the creature that murdered Mary Winchester, and killing monsters along the way, effectively changing the Winchesters' lives forever.

Dean and his brother were raised as children of a strict, ex-marine, sometimes-alcoholic hunter. When Dean was between the age of 6 and 7, his father gave him his first hands-on lesson with firearms. At age ten, he was already being left alone to protect Sam, and practicing with a shotgun. Two years later, he made his first sawed-off shotgun - something he is proud of years later. Fun and games were severely lacking in his life as a boy. Circumstances forced him to grow up at a very early age in order to take care of both his little brother and his father, but it's noted by John that Dean never complained. He took the cards he was dealt and he made the best of it, keeping any resentment he felt locked inside.

Despite the obvious flaws of John after Mary's death, Dean idolized his father, hanging onto his every word. He is described as a "good soldier" for always doing as his father ordered. While Sam began to rebel against John's poor parenting at a young age, Dean persistently justified John's neglect. As John spent more and more time away from the brothers hunting, Dean constantly worked to make up for their father's absence. When he was twelve, he tried to provide a makeshift Christmas for Sam that involved stealing presents, lights, and a sad-looking branch for a tree. Though Dean realized their dad wasn't going to show up for Christmas with them, Dean swore he would, and then tried to convince Sam that the gifts and tree were set up by John while Sam was asleep.
When they were young, Dean told Sam that their dad was a superhero; that monsters were real and he fought them. In typical child fashion, he believed his father to be invincible, even though his mother was killed by the things his father hunted. He tried to protect Sam from the "truth" (monsters are real) for as long as possible, and went above and beyond to take care of his brother. From the time he was four, Sam had been the priority given to him by his father and he had embraced it. Watching out for his brother was burned into his personality so deeply that he didn't hesitate to sell his soul in order to save Sam's life. At an earlier point, he admitted to Sam that there were times the things he was willing to do for his family scare him. After Sam started to change and act more careless and similar to Dean, Dean wanted his brother to continue to protest killing, be the sympathetic, gentle one, and was concerned by this loss of innocence.

The love for his family is the very core of Dean's being. It's why he feels guilt so strongly when he believes he has let them down, and it's why he makes sacrifices without complaint. Though he tries to portray himself as a rough-around-the-edges "cool guy" type who doesn't do emotional "chick-flick moments," he is sensitive and feels things deeply, carefully hidden away. A girl in highschool psychoanalyzed Dean, saying his attitude was his way of hiding his loneliness and she wasn't entirely wrong. Dean told Sam once that he believed everyone would leave him, at some point. Their mom did (though her death wasn't her choice), Sam had left him and John to attend college on his own (noted as one of the worst days of Dean's life), and Dean felt abandoned by John when John left him to hunt, saying that he "did everything Dad asked and still got ditched." After his father left to hunt solo, Dean went to get Sam because he didn't want to look for John alone. All said and done, he continues to want his brother by his side as the seasons pass. Although he is very capable of taking care of himself in even the worst situations, he is very co-dependent on his dad and brother, wanting nothing more than to have them united and getting along as a family.

Growing up, he adopted part of the idolization towards his father into himself and used to consider himself a hero who saved people. Despite growing colder with age and more prone to killing (example being killing possessed victims instead of taking the time to exorcize the demons), Dean feels guilt for every innocent life he takes, a fact that is brought up as a reoccurring theme for his character. In a way, he feels responsible to take action against the supernatural world, since he knows it exists while others are oblivious. This thought was engrained into him by his father, who considered their happiness in exchange for the lives of others to be an obvious choice. Though he will rarely admit it, Dean finds it unfair that he should have to sacrifice everything he has ever had and questions why it has to be his job to fight everyone else's battles and not have a normal life with his family. It becomes apparent by what he admits that he finds it unfair that he was the one comforting his father instead of vice versa, that he had to stay and give up his dreams while Sam went to college because John needed him, that he had to protect their family, struggling to hold them together in place of John who was too obsessed with revenge to manage it. There are times when he feels broken down under the weight of responsibility on his shoulders and wants to be out of the "family business," but, as he doesn't see an out for himself, he always gets back up and carries on.

While both John and Sam are capable of heading in their own directions with direct intent, Dean is lost without them. He considers them selfish for focusing single-mindedly on their revenge and not thinking about the remaining, living family that is hurt as a result. His sense of self most often doesn't extend beyond his family and he is unable to see himself changing his ways or ignoring hunting. At one point, Dean tells Sam that his family is all he has and he is nothing without them, which shows that he feels no sense of purpose if he is alone. Taking this into consideration, it is easy to see how Dean would sell his soul for Sam. It is noteworthy to mention that Dean's idolization of his father also led to him adopting a similar style; he wears his father's coat, drives his father's car, listens to the same music as his father, and often preaches to Sam in the same manner about hunting, as it was drilled into his head more successfully than it was in Sam's.

Personality Continued:
Although he is still young, Dean dismisses the concept of a "normal" life for himself, believing he is only good at what he grew up to be: a hunter of supernatural creatures. It was when he was 16, after killing a creature and watching its corpse burn to ash, that Dean embraced the fact that monster hunting was his life; he saw and knew things that would never cross the minds of other kids his age, and he knew he would never have the same, simpleminded worries as them. That said, it doesn't mean a buried part of Dean doesn't wish he could have a normal, peaceful life, a family with kid(s), he just doesn't think it is a life meant to work for him. After growing attached to a girl he dated for weeks and getting dumped for confessing what he did for a living, Dean thought it best to remain unattached and stick to one-night stands, of which he has had plenty.

When faced with emotional situations, Dean tries to turn the other way to avoid facing it. Once emotion rises to the surface in him, he becomes an open book and he doesn't want people reading into his fears and weaknesses. Often times, he will drink to cope with ugly situations. It's difficult for him to talk about his mother, as he still has tiny, precious memories of her. He would outright grow angry if Sam asked about her as a child because missing her was painful. Rather than respond in an acceptable or expected way to emotion, Dean regularly reacts with anger as a defense mechanism for being uncomfortable. Growing distant and cocky is another way that he will respond when he is feeling guilty or hurt. An example of this is seen in how he coldly talks back to a man damned to death by hellhound for selling his soul for his wife. He is upset by this because he has figured out that John gave his life to save him, and stonily harasses the man about not considering how the one left behind would feel, knowing what was given up for them. This is now ironic, as Dean has done the same for Sam and his tune has pulled a 180 flip. As Dean tells a friend, however, he feels he was supposed to be dead and selling his soul for Sam gives meaning to his otherwise empty life.

Though he basically stepped into his father's shoes and took over responsibility for taking care of his family, he also treated Sam like an older brother should, meaning he teased and tormented Sam at every good opportunity. He plays his music purposefully too loud, tries to embarrass Sam in public, pulls childish pranks on him. A hard life hasn't removed Dean's goofy sense of humor or given him the ability to form a proper insult. When he's not required to be serious on a job or with his brother, Dean is immature in many of his words and actions. He is also knowledgeable in the area of pop culture, most specifically in television shows from the 80s like Transformers and Star Trek, and often makes references to old movies, songs, and TV programs. He is resourceful and, despite what he will argue, quite clever. He develops his own weapons and devices to help him hunt, such as the homemade EMF reader to detect ghosts, the base of which was an old Walkman.

Though Dean struggles with self-worth, it doesn't stop him from being a strong, caring individual. May heaven help any person who threatens his family or friends. He is trained to kill and he will hurt anyone who does. He is fiercely loyal once he lets someone into his life enough that he becomes attached to them, and will jump to help anyone who is in danger. He will always be there if needed, but if he feels betrayed it will take effort on the other party's part to repair the damaged relationship. Even with all the bumps in his life, he does generally express an attitude that is surprisingly upbeat. For a small semblance of happiness, Dean Winchester is a man of simple needs: pie, women, and rock and roll.

Background: Wikia and Wiki

Abilities: Dean is adept with lock picking, weapons of all types, including guns, knives, homemade explosives, and flame throwers. His alcohol tolerance is quite high. He possesses a growing knowledge of supernatural nasties and the monsters that go bump in the night, and ways to dispatch them (often including salt, iron, or exorcism). He can trick the average person into giving him information with some sweet, fabricated lies.

Fundamentally, he's good at assessing a bad situation, and real good at killing things. He's good with mechanics and fixing cars. Since a young age, he has had to patch wounds for himself and his family, which means he has a strong basic knowledge of first aid. He is resourceful, be it closing a wound with a needle and dental floss or using items in his surroundings as makeshift weapons if he is caught unarmed. Dean's most prominent skill is likely his ability to feel guilt in nearly any affair, and then soldier on with that weight on his shoulders. He's a hunter (of supernatural creatures), and, most of the time, he has himself convinced that it's the only thing he is good at.

First Person:
This thing on? [Dean's voice is accompanied by the sound of tapping as he taps a finger against the watch front repeatedly. It's totally weird talking to a watch and expecting something to happen, but he's been here long enough to know that it does. Or, that it is supposed to, at least. It doesn't always do what he wants. This would be so much easier if it was a communicator from The Original Series.

He clears his throat, puts on his game face, though it can't be seen.]

Look--whoever's listening out there? This is Dean Winchester. If you're livin' here then you know by now the boogie man is real. What's out there goin' bump in the night isn't good. Thing is, huntin' evil's what I do. Seen some of these things before, but now I'm lookin' for information on a monster.

[He pauses and almost audibly shifts his stance. It's strange to say this to the public and think the majority will get it.]

Hellhounds. They serve demons. Now, I've seen several uglyass dogs in town but they don't quite fit the bill for these pooches and I'm wondering if any are around.

[His voice is calm, level, displaying none of the anxiety he feels with the questioning. Only a few months separate him from the end of his deal. He isn't about to get his hopes up that being dropped off the map in "Ruby City" was going to stop the clock from ticking down. Simple matter is that his time will be up and hellhounds will come for him.]

Anything you, uh, know about it, I'd like to hear. Leave a message at the watch.

[There's a loud click as he snaps the pocket watch closed and ends his call.]

Third Person:
The transition wasn’t exactly smooth. At least, it should not have been. Stabbing a demon in the heart didn't usually put you on a train... right? All Dean knew was he was killing the demon-witch one moment, blinking his mind out of a haze on a moving train the next, and that the shift was too coincidental to be unrelated.

Friggin' witches. Friggin' demons!

It would be his luck to be devil-mojo'd to Timbuktu before he ganked her, not that it made him curse any less about it. Arrival by train was apparently common entrance to the city, but Dean was certain the demon-witch had sent him here before she died. One last laugh from the hellbitch, and all that. Hilarious. He would remember to laugh later, after he found his way back to Sam and made sure the demon was good and dead.

Considering the life he lived, it was no surprise to Dean that he fit into this dysfunctional city so well. Ruby City was dangerous. Ironic, considering the name. He'd issued a bitter laugh after learning the name. Ruby was bad news as a demon chick; he figured there was no reason to expect a city to be any different. The worst part was that he was mojo'd off here solo. Samless. He wanted to keep hunting, yeah, but he wanted to do it with his brother at his side where he could keep an eye on Sam. Who knew what trouble the kid would get into without Dean around. He'd make a joke that this time there would be no soul for him to sell in order to save Sam from his stupidity, but no one would be there to listen to the poor crack and give him a bitchface so he kept it to himself. At the very start of all this, a very small part of Dean wondered if the demon had found a way to cash his ticket early and he was on a one-way train ride to the Pit. He would not admit aloud that in that brief moment he had been afraid, and had buried the thought deep inside himself soon after, marking it off as absurd to think that Ruby City, or the train for that matter, could be Hell. Hell it was not, though the supernatural were clearly active.

Monsters were a'plenty for him to hunt, a task Dean Winchester easily accepted as a side-duty, but his number one priority was finding a way back to Sam with the time he had left. He refused to be unsettled by the fact that the city wasn't on the map, but it was just freaking weird how he couldn't seem to leave. He tried, and how hard was it to leave a city? Pick a direction and walk; however, it didn't quite work here, and there were monsters and ghouls and... other things he hadn't had the chance to identify lurking everywhere. He had to be careful without his little brother at his six. It was reminiscent to the period of time after Dad went hunting by himself up until Dean went to selfishly drag Sam out of his perfect apple pie Stanford life. A stab of guilt often accompanied this line of thought hand-in-hand so Dean would take the hardass path and not think about it. Not now. Now, he had a job to do, and that was to get his ass the hell out of Dodge.

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PLAYER
Name: Suki
Age: 24
Personal Journal:

esper
E-mail: dreamoflife02@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: gingerybiscuit @ AIM

CHARACTER
Name: Mileina Vashti
Canon: Gundam 00
Age: 14
Timeline: Just before the beginning of season 2.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality: Mileina's personality seems to be completely incongruous to her setting. She's a mechanical engineer and tactical operator (read: bridge bunny) for a team that definitely leans to the terrorism side of freedom fighting, she spends her days elbow-deep in sprockets and engine oil, and she was most likely brought up in space, without the benefit of many other children, or playgrounds, or school. You would expect a certain sort of personality to come out of that, and Mileina is the polar opposite. She's bubbly, exuberant, and just a little naïve, greeting anyone that comes her way with good cheer and friendliness.

Mileina's natural happiness level seems to run about twice as high as anyone else's. In a situation where her family or friends are in immediate danger, she gets nervous and worried just like anyone else, although her training necessitates her being able to function somewhat better under pressure. But if everyone's safe and accounted for, she immediately starts looking on the bright side. She might get anxious when the ship's hull is breached and her father is injured, but once he's safe in his healing coma and repairs are started, there's nothing to worry about!

One of her biggest peculiarities is her tendency to constantly assume romance is in the air. Not directed at her-- at fourteen she's a bit young for her age in a lot of ways, and doesn't seem particularly concerned about her own love life-- but between fellow pilots? Pilots and beautiful enemy soldiers who have defected? Robots, probably? Sure! She trusts utterly in her own “maiden's intuition”, even though she's only right about half the time. This could come from the fact that her parents are very obviously in love, making Mileina literally the only person in the show with a happy family life, or it could come from the fact that space kids are a little weird. Probably some of both. It's true that she enjoys a good bit of scandalous drama like any teenage girl, but also, she genuinely values and cares for the rest of the crew, and is always happy to see them happy. And what could make them happier than finding love? Nothing, clearly!

All that being said, Mileina is extremely capable and bright, and takes her job seriously. Like any kid, she sighs and moans over having to do boring busy work-- but on the other hand, when lives are on the line, she's happy to work through the night and sleep in the engineering bay. The ship Ptolemaios II, on which she spends most of her time, runs with an extremely small crew-- aside from the four Gundam pilots, there are only five to seven crew members at any given time. This means that at the age of fourteen Mileina not only relays orders and maintains communications during battles, but helps maintain the ship's systems during downtime, as well as improving and repairing the Gundams-- and those are only the skills shown on-screen. Given the skeleton nature of the crew, and the fact that the ship's entire design lends itself to functioning in emergency situations, it's very possible that she would be able to help out in the medical bay or even perform some basic piloting duties in a pinch. What should be taken away from this is that although at first glance Mileina seems like a silly, cheerful teenage girl-- and is, in fact, a silly, cheerful teenage girl-- she's also incredibly smart and dedicated.

Background: Mileina belongs to the paramilitary group named Celestial Being. Here's a general overview of what they're all about, but basically, what they're all about is ending warfare through attacking anyone who attempts to start a war. This may sound counter-productive and just as terrorist-y as the terrorists they're fighting, but on the other hand, what brings people together more than a common enemy?

Mileina herself is a tactical operator on the ship Ptolemaios II, which essentially serves as a floating base for the Gundams to launch from, as well as command central for their various missions. Her main focuses are relaying orders and communications in battle situations, as well as general engineering and upkeep. Her father, Ian, is chief engineer aboard the Ptolemaios, which may explain why a fourteen year old is allowed in these sorts of situations... but on the other hand, the whole Gundam franchise is pretty notorious for skewing young when it comes to pilots and operators, so maybe no reason is needed.

Not much is explicitly stated about Mileina's history prior to the series, but we know enough to make some educated guesses. Both her parents are Celestial Being members-- her father was a mechanical officer in the European Union's military when he was given the choice to join after seeing some things he shouldn't have, while her mother was recruited at sixteen or so, because of her presumable scientific and engineering prowess. This means that Mileina has been raised in the environment of Celestial Being all her life, most likely on Krung Thep, their secret space colony. Likewise, it can be assumed that she has such an advanced skillset for her age because of her parents teaching her-- it's unlikely that she ever went to any sort of organized school, what with being in a secret organization, and probably learned piecemeal from whatever her parents deemed important. (It begs the question of how much of subjects like spelling and history she was ever taught, despite knowing postgraduate level physics.)

Abilities: Mileina has knowledge of computer operations, communications, mechanical engineering, and quantum physics. Of course, since she's used to 24th century technology, it's debatable how useful those skills would be in Ruby City.

First Person: [ The watch is pointed at a fairly nondescript building. Nothing would catch anyone's eyes about the video at all, except that the view shakes up and down two or three times. A sigh is heard, and then a small hand comes into view and lifts the watch up so Mileina can peer at it. ]

Oh! That's a little bit embarrassing! It must have come on while I was jumping. I was testing the gravity, you see. It's going to be very difficult to get used to!

[ She smiles at the video, and shakes her head, pigtails bouncing. ]

Oh, not that I mean that this is a bad place. For instance, I've never had as many blueberries as I want to eat before! Somehow persuading plants to grow in zero-gravity conditions causes some very peculiar mutations, so they were really only imported for special occasions...

[ But she's apparently a little preoccupied, because her voice trails off and she bites her lip. Her eyes focus somewhere offscreen for a moment, and she seems thoughtful. ]

You know, there are so many design features about these watches that really aren't very practical... Maybe I could add a locking mechanism? I understand the need for user-intuitive design, but there's really nothing to prevent it from turning on at will, and there are many people who I'm sure value their privacy very much!

[ She continues to tilt the watch back and forth and press buttons, muttering to herself, until it turns off. ]

Third Person: Mileina peered out from behind the building, breathing a little heavily. She had just run across the street, and was currently eying the opposing rooftop closely. She was doing everything her parents had told her to do if she found herself in a hostile situation, but so far she didn't think the situation was hostile at all, which was even more perplexing! She hadn't seen anyone at all in her walk from the strange, old-fashioned train station, which was probably better than seeing any combatants, but didn't help her one bit.

She didn't bother to run across the next street, taking the time to peer into some of the windows, cupping her eyes around her hands to see through the darkened glass. They were all empty of anything but furniture, and told her absolutely nothing. Crouching down on the doorstep of one of them, she reached into her pocket and pulled out her communicator, her constant companion on the ship. She knew what it would say, but she couldn't help turning the screen on again, just to make sure that the blinking OUT OF RANGE indicator was still there. The battery had dropped to 39%, maybe because of the effort it was putting into locating a signal, so, biting her lip, she powered it off. It was undoubtedly how her parents would get hold of her, once they realized she was missing, but...

Tears prickled at the corner of her eyes, but she wiped them away before they could get any ideas. She was a certified tactical operator, and practically a real adult by now, and trained to perform under any sort of dire situation! It was just that, well, she was trained to perform on a ship's bridge during dire situations, or maybe in an engineering bay, and Papa was almost always within shouting distance, and the bridge was always staffed with at least two, and she was starting to realize that working in stressful situations was easier when you knew what you were supposed to be doing.

She stood up, and started down the street until she came to a crossroads. Down one way, a few people were sitting outside a cafe; she was too relieved to be nervous, even though they were wearing very peculiar clothing. Besides, this was a situation she knew how to deal with, her parents had drilled her very certainly in this! She had a codename and a cover story all memorized, and surely those people would know where they were, and from there it was perhaps a short ride to a city, where she'd be on much firmer ground!

She nodded to herself firmly as she set off. She had just known that if she kept walking she'd find something, and here it was! Things were looking up already.

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