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rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
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APPLICATIONS
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✗ 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.
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✗ 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.
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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.
[CANON] JACK VESSALIUS || Pandora Hearts || no reserve || 1 of 1
Name: Aya
Age: XXXIII
Personal Journal:
E-mail: disposable_ninja [at] hotmail [dot] com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: Anryuu Nata / Plurk: trilobite_punch
CHARACTER
Name: Jack Vessalius
Canon: Pandora Hearts
Age: 24
Timeline: Some time after the events at Sablier have settled.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality:
A charismatic young man with a pleasant, outgoing personality, Jack Vessalius is quite the likeable fellow. Even if he had not a penny in the world, one would probably believe that Jack would still be as carefree as he is. He has a cheerful persona, practically sunshine incarnate, with a great love for socializing. Perhaps that's why people don't take him seriously. He's very friendly, and so open is he that many find it hard not to like him. When it comes to people, in fact, Jack doesn't let reputations nor introvertive personalities keep him from getting to know a person. He believes in giving everyone a chance, and would rather make friends than enemies.
The man can be a bit of a mischief maker, not afraid to be casual with the nobles, but perhaps it's because it's such a natural thing for him that it's been excused by even the higher houses of the dukedom. Still, his being raised in the aristocracy haven't been entirely wasted. Jack is quite a charmer, undeniably handsome and fairly bold when it comes to offering compliments to pretty ladies, even if they sometimes borderline cheesiness that it's hard to say if he's being serious or playing. He really does seem like a hapless flirt, in that respect.
His demeanor is so sincere and open that it isn't difficult for anyone to trust him. He's passionate and caring, although ultimately his true passion is for something far darker and out of reach than anyone may ever know. His smiles and amiability are so genuine that one wouldn't realize how twisted a man he has become, beneath it all. They have compared his gaze to calm waters, but only one has ever marked how disturbing the stillness of those waters were, and how one could not see anything but their own reflection, knowing nothing for what lay beyond the surface.
The events at Sablier had shaken him, but when something is already broken, there's little more damage that can be done save to jostle the pieces. His sadness and dismay over what he had done and what had happened was redirected towards his failure in what he had attempted to accomplish. It was not enough to dissuade him, and if there's one constant thing about Jack Vessalius, it is his patience. Through deceit and careful thought, he had everyone believe something entirely different of the Tragedy of Sablier. As a hero he brought the Vessalius household up as one of the four dukedoms and cast the Baskervilles into shadow.
To survive, he did what he needed to. During those years that he had spent seeking Lacie, Jack had taken her words to heart. He became what people looked for and wanted, not concerned for how stained his hands would become, how he might be used by others. He's shaped himself into something that the houses of nobility had accepted and essentially became someone that no one was ashamed of calling an acquaintance or friend. One can't really call it a mask- Jack is genuine in all his actions, and just as twisted as he might be, he's equally pure for his desires. He's conniving and very careful in his planning, and can be very manipulative in order to get what he needs. He will only let you know what he wants you to know and never completely show his hand. Yet at the same time, he almost carries a semblance of innocence. His wish, for how twisted and extreme it might be, is born from a simple thought and desire. His obsession with Lacie may be unhealthy but no one but Jack alone knows how much it had meant to him to be looked at like another human being.
Background: A wiki link
Abilities:
Jack is, for the most part, a normal human being. If there's anything unusual about him, it's his general amiability towards others. He seems to bear an irresistible charisma when it comes to being around others.
He's a music box maker by trade, which in turn extends to clocks and watches. The music box pocket watch he has on his person is an example of his finest work, elegantly crafted and housing a lovely if haunting tune as written by his dear friend, Glen Baskerville. His musical skills are not merely in the creation of devices to play tunes, but Jack is also an excellent pianist. Perhaps it's one of the few things he'd appreciated for all the tutelage nobles are expected to go through. Climbing trees is another of his favorite pasttimes, and a skill most certainly not standard of the noble package.
He has some experience in wielding a sword, and for a brief time, he had control of a deadly Chain known as B. Rabbit and still holds that link. Jack was not left unscathed from the conflict between him and Alice and the Will of the Abyss when Sablier fell to the Abyss. He's cursed in a way, his body slowly de-aging, an affect of being exposed to the powers of the Abyss. Once he becomes an infant, the natural growth process begins anew, and will continue until he reaches the age he was at the time of Sablier's tragedy. He will never be able to die naturally, this way. Unfortunately with each rewind, his soul is torn apart, so little by little it becomes lost. It would be much later that any of this is revealed, however, and that he would be called a "living ghost." As it is, he might not be aware of it himself just yet.
First Person:
...this isn't...
[It's a handsome face with eyes of brilliant emerald that peers down into the watch's boundaries. Those eyes slowly widen.]
I remember... This place then, could it be...?
[It seems like it's a struggle as to whether he should smile or not, given the circumstances. He steps farther from the train station, eyes still wide as he marvels at the surroundings.]
It looks a little different than I remember, but I'm sure there can be no other. I'd feel a little silly if I were talking to a mere pocket watch though.
[He laughs, scratching the back of his head as he looks down again.]
If someone is there, please do respond! Ah! Chari! Are you still here as well, you and your siblings?
Third Person:
When he'd first felt the shift of the train as it stopped, he had wondered if it was a dream. It was all vaguely familiar to him, and with each step he took until he set foot upon the solid ground of the train station's landing, the memories trickled back to him.
He remembered a great city with old structures, and a wall that surrounded it all. This place looked a little different, stylistically, and yet there were still signs of familiarity that lingered. The placement of buildings, the towers that yet stood though the encircling wall that joined them was nowhere to be seen. Jack brought a hand up to his brow as he hurried along down the street a bit, seeking out- "Ah!" A smile bloomed across his face as he spied the clock tower. He was more pleased to hear its distant toll.
His joy was short-lived. His face fell as he reminded himself that this was a place far from where he wanted, where he needed to be. Fingers curled tightly around the golden pocket watch, then slowly relaxed.
"Time means nothing here," he said under his breath. "Much like the Abyss..." He let the thought trail off with his words, his eyes widening along with the slow smile that began to whisper across his lips. "...whenever I am called back, wait for me, Lacie. And if you are called here, I'll wait for you."
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