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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 ✧

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Background: Éponine grew up the oldest of three children at The Sergeant at Waterloo inn in Montfermiel, France. When she was no older than three, her parents took in a young girl named Cosette, in order to help Cosette's mother out. But the Thenardier's were a selfish bunch, and soon put Cosette to work, acting as her mother's servant, and scapegoat for the Thenardier girls. This continued until Eponine was seven, and Cosette was taken away by a man sent by her mother. Her mother and father's rages turned on to Eponine and her sister, Azelma, and soon thereafter, they lost the inn and were forced to move to Paris for work.

Business never did well for the Thenardiers, and M. Thenardier found it easiest to choose a less-than-honorable way to make ends meet, bringing his whole family into a life of crime. They lived together in Gorbeau House, a boarding house, and that is where Eponine met the love of her life, Marius Pontmercy. Marius was a boy a few years older than her, and Eponine fell madly in love with him, though he never viewed her as more than a friend, remaining oblivious to her affections.

One day, while Eponine and Marius were together, Marius bumped into a young woman dressed in black with an older man beside her. Marius was instantly stricken, and demanded that Eponine do her best to find her. Eponine recognized the girl as a ghost from her past, Cosette, come back to haunt her. In an effort to keep Marius' attention, and to see him smile at her, Eponine lead Marius to the home where Cosette lived with her 'father'.

That same night, Eponine's father and the Patron-Minette, who had also recognized Cosette and her father, moved to rob the house. Eponine spotted them, and knowing that Marius was in the garden, stood up to her father, and screamed to warn Marius and the Fauchelevants that they were in danger. Patron-Minette scattered, and Valjean, Cosette's father, panicked, believing that his past as a convict and parole breaker had been discovered, promised to spirit Cosette away to England. Hearing this, Cosette left a letter for Marius, which Eponine intercepted.

Reading the letter, she learned of Valjean's plan, and knew what that if Marius ever received this letter, he would know where to find Cosette, and leave to live with her forever. Having nothing to live for if Marius was gone, she kept the letter from Marius. Believing that Cosette had abandoned him, Marius resolved to join the revolution that his fellow-students had been planning, with the express plans to get shot and die.

Luckily, Eponine had the same thing in mind for the both of them. Disguising herself as a boy, Eponine joined Marius at the barricade, deciding to get herself killed first, for Marius would certainly fall after. She saw her chance when a member of the French National Guard aimed a musket at Marius. Acting quickly, she grabbed the barrel of the gun, and turned it towards herself. The shot was fatal.

But not instantly. Not before Eponine had time to confess her feelings to Marius, and give him Cosette's letter. In turn, she asked for Marius to kiss her on the forehead after she died, which he obliged.

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eponine_Thenardier

Strengths/Weaknesses: STRENGTHS: - Manipulative
- Stealthy when she is in the mood for it
- Screaming, she has a full set of pipes
- Lying
- Eponine can hold her liquor like few others can.
- Wonderful at climbing anything, from trees to gates.
- Very street smart
- Tracking and stalking people.

WEAKNESSES: - Well, she's 5' 1'' and hardly weighs 90 pounds, so her physical size is quite a weakness.
- Marius Pontmercy
- Often lacks common sense
- Unstable
- Socially awkward, often unable to pick up social cues.
- Doesn't know when to back down

Abilities: Eponine is literate, a somewhat rare quality for girls in her situation, and is very proud of this. She's a wonderful climber, and can steal and pick-pocket with the best. If you need someone to be found, feel free to ask Eponine.

Other than that, Eponine really has no special skills that would set her apart from the usual person on the street. She's an impoverished human girl who has learned to survive on the streets.

First Person: [The image on the screen moves around shakily, the young woman holding the pocket-watch trying to make sense of it. Finally, there's a close up of her dark eye before she pulls back, frowning at it, and the image seems to still.] This isn't a pocket-watch I've ever seen. It doesn't wind, there's just-- What does-- oh! [She's pushed a button, an an image of herself, as she appears in the watch, pops up. After a moment, she smiles at it, pushing her hair out of her eyes and straightening out her hat.]

It's a small mirror. With more buttons, but it's a watch. Wonder where it came from. I didn't bring it with me to the barricade, and I didn't loot any corpses. I was the-- [She stills, glancing around her.] I was the first to die.

Perhaps this place is hell. [She laughs, tossing her head back.] What a fine thing it is! Me, in hell, with only a mirror to look at myself with and think of all the things I've done! And here I thought my fate would be worse!

Third Person: The last thing Eponine remembered, before the train, was looking up into the eyes of Marius Pontmercy, shivering as blood left her body to mingle with the rain that fell. She remembered, she was sure Marius had kissed her on the forehead, but perhaps, that was just the jolt of the train coming to a stop.

Eponine opened her eyes and looked around as she stood up, assessing her surroundings. She was on a train and had apparently been laying down on one of the benches. Looking down, she realized the dark stain of her own blood on her chemise was only just beginning to dry. But… She reached down and gingerly touched it. Her skin, where the bullet had pierced her, was solid.

Where the hell was she?

She was the only person here, was the next thing she noticed, followed shortly by the darkening skies and mist outside. Adjusting her hat, she made up her mind then and there to find a way out of this train. It didn't take long, marching in a straight line till she found a door leading out to the platform.

"Hello?" She called, her voice low and hoarse. This was not Paris. This was… nowhere she'd ever been. Pulling her coat tighter around her, she began to search for some sort of indication where she was. Or, better yet, how the hell she was still alive. She'd taken a bullet to the stomach. She'd felt her life leaving her. She had her blood on her shirt, and yet, she was living, breathing.

"Hello? Is anyone here?" She called louder this time, slowly beginning to traverse the platform. "This isn't a place I've ever been, and I'd like to know where I am! Or if I'm alone- which is hardly unusual- Then, I--!" she cut off with a small shriek as the train behind her blows the whistle and speeds off into the blackness.

Eponine watched the train as it disappeared, hardly daring to breathe in the intense silence that followed the departure of the train. Once again, she realized, as she stuffed her hands into what was now her over-sized coat, she was completely and utterly alone. Despite that grim fact, she couldn't help but smile into the blackness, a hoarse laugh bubbling from her throat. Alone. Of course. She was always alone, why should death be any different?

Edited (changed fandom to canon because I'm an idiot today.) 2013-06-29 02:36 (UTC)

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APPLICATIONS

[FANDOM] ÉPONINE THÉNARDIER || Les Misérables || reserve || 3 of 4

[CANON] ÉPONINE THÉNARDIER || Les Misérables || reserve || 4 of 4

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