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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

Thank you for your application! Before we can accept it, we would like to see a more recent third person sample, as we're not happy to accept a three year old sample as an accurate display of your current RP ability with this character.

You may submit your revision at any time in the next two weeks, and if you have any questions please feel free to contact one of the mods.

Johan rested his elbows on the table's edge, his eyes partially closed, his chin resting on folded hands. A passing soul would suppose he was at peace, a restful vision of contemplation in afternoon repose, but no one--no one save his other self--could hope to glimpse the truth of his vision and the macabre maelstrom of thought that wound between his ears.

And his thoughts were on Ruby City.

He could hardly claim to be thrilled with his relocation here, but he nor could he claim to find it boring. It was almost a dilemma. He was as curious as he was provoked, intrigued as much as inconvenienced. Ruby City... it was an interesting name. It reminded him, obliquely, of the Emerald City, fabled destination of The Wizard of Oz--a story he wasn't treated to until the Wall came down. It was a wonderful fantasy.

A pair of slippers featured in it. Ruby ones. Gorgeous items gifted to the precocious young heroine by a benevolent witch, they were taken from the corpse of the witch's evil sister, to whom they belonged. The witch had been killed by the heroine's falling house--lifted by a tornado into a fantastic land, through which she must then journey to return home. Upon the completion of the girl's journey, it is revealed by the same witch that the shoes had been the key to returning home all along. Or were they? A very neat ending--the power to go home was with her the entire time. Of course, this raised the question of why the benevolent witch didn't tell her this information to begin with.

Perhaps she was not so good after all.

He smiled faintly.

The Emerald City itself was a lie--it appeared to be a glorious, beautiful city of green, so brilliant as to be blinding to all who beheld it. Visitors were mandated to wear a pair of special glasses to protect them from the intensity of its splendour and beauty. A true wonder indeed. Once the glasses were taken off, however, the lie was revealed: it was revealed to be a perfectly ordinary city encircled by green walls, no more marvellous or splendid than any other.

So was this Ruby City, too, a lie?

He leaned back in his chair, opening his eyes and crossing one leg over the other as he began to watch the residents strolling by, talking in the warm afternoon sun. It was almost idyllic here. Very pretty.

But who was Dorothy? He wondered. Who was the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow? Who was the Wizard? The Good Witch?

Toto?

He wondered if it wouldn't be revealing to see the city burn itself to the ground. He would see the walls themselves come down, and the monsters of the outside pour in, driving the people inward even as they destroyed themselves from the inside. He would bear witness the waves of fear and paranoia radiating out from the centre obelisk, unfolding in each person like the petals of a flower--a cascading trail of terror and flame, death after death...

And then?

Perhaps he would walk to the edge of the world.

It was an idle thought, and not very practical. There would be more constructive ways to bring this city to its knees. Ways more conducive to his goals. There was no need to burn this city to the ground, or let itself do that. But as fun as this had been, his tea was done, and he really ought to get going.

There was a lot to today.

Perhaps he would meet the Wizard.

Edited 2013-09-23 09:34 (UTC)

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APPLICATIONS

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