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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

PLAYER
Name: Cnd
Age: 35
Personal Journal:

jessicasteiner
E-mail: chichirinoda@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: hellbreakercnd,

Chichirinoda

CHARACTER
Name: Orphaner Dualscar
Canon: Homestuck
Age: Not established in canon, but I think he's probably a couple of hundred sweeps old.
Timeline: Immediately after his death at the hands of the Grand Highblood.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality:

Dualscar is an intelligent troll, with centuries of battle experience, making him an excellent tactician and commander. He is a loyal - possibly fanatically loyal - subject of the Empire, and definitely loves his power and prestige. He is a sea dweller, making him second in blood only to the Condesce herself, and that is a fact that he takes great pride and pleasure in.

He believes strongly in the essential rightness of the hemospectrum, in the inherent superiority of his blood over others, and that lowbloods are essentially intelligent animals who need a strong hand to guide them. They are tools to be used for the purpose for which they were created - to serve, to fight where directed, to die if they are not useful, or become unmanageable. Part of this belief is simply due to his upbringing, and partly because if he were to accept that lowbloods - in their numbers - were equal to sea dwellers, he would lose everything that he has in life. After all, he stands at the pinnacle of troll society, and he will push off anyone who tries to threaten his position, and not care if they fall to their deaths. His moral compass is survival of the fittest, and he is very fit.

Dualscar, being a highblood troll, has little to no conscience when it comes to murder or destruction. If someone annoys him, he may kill them. He has the inherent right to do so, because of who he is, and by the moral compass of his race there is no reason for him to feel guilty. He has murdered thousands of lusi, orphaning an equal number of trolls - and likely dooming them if they can't take care of themselves - as well as many thousands of trolls, either directly or indirectly in battle. It's possible that he has wiped out entire civilizations, as his armies conquered worlds and brought them under his Empress' heel.

All that being said, Dualscar is certainly not devoid of emotion or personal pain of his own. He is a very lonely person, isolated because of his position and because of the demands of his society. He doesn't really understand redrom - so focused on being the strongest and keeping his position against war, competition, and potential assassination, that he can't imagine how someone could weaken themselves enough to be pitied, and not be killed. He sees betrayal at every turn, and is honestly frightened of intimacy. So the only way in which he can feel a connection with another individual is through hatred and violence, yet this only fulfils him to a certain degree. Though he doesn't understand why, his life is empty and lonely, which only makes him more emotionally messed up.

This loneliness makes him an extremely jealous, needy lover. He can't stand that someone who is literally his whole world - Mindfang - seems to be happy to throw him aside on a whim. She has had many lovers, while he has had very few, and he is far more devoted to the relationship than she seems to be. Part of this disparity is played up by Mindfang purely because she knows it gets to him, but a lot of it is real. She enjoys her rivalry with him, but is fine with tossing him aside, while Dualscar's jealousy that she might choose a worthless slave over him (even though she actually HASN'T) drives him straight to his death. Though it is not normal for trolls to be exclusive - they are supposed to have romance in four different categories with a total of five different other trolls! - Dualscar is a monogamist in a polygamist society. At least, he demands monogamy from his multiple partners, and in that he's inevitably disappointed.

Background: General plot info Info on Dualscar on this page

Abilities: Dualscar is an experienced military commander, and an accomplished fighter, both with the sword (headcanonly) and his rifle, Ahab's Crosshairs (canonly). He can breathe water, as he has gills, and (unlike Eridan) he is at home in both the water and the air.

Note: Before I link my samples, I want to add a note. When I began playing Dualscar at Vatheon, we had not yet seen Cronus in Homestuck. Accordingly, I developed Dualscar purely with reference to Eridan's personality and extrapolated from there.

When Cronus was introduced, I was pleased to see that my interpretation of Dualscar answered well with the way Cronus was, and I didn't have to throw out my headcanon. However, there was a major difference in quirk. As such, the quirk shown in these samples will not be exactly the way I will play him at Ruby City. I will be using Cronus' quirk, with vw and wv, I will not be dropping terminal g's as Eridan does, and but I will use proper grammar and capitalization in text posts, because he is an adult, though Cronus and Eridan both use all lower case.

Otherwise, you can take these samples as an accurate reflection of how I intend to play Dualscar in Ruby City. Personality-wise, he's the same.

First Person: First Person Sample

Third Person: Prose Sample

And just to show his quirk, because I'm lazy but I happen to have this available, which I wrote for another app that didn't work out:

Bonus Sample

[The video has obviously been staged. Dualscar stands before the camera, in full battle regalia. His armour has been polished - by Eridan, most likely - to a high purple sheen. His fins are hung with gold rings, and his fingers glitter with rings as well.

He folds his arms across his chest and inhales]

People of this prison vworld, I'm here to address those vwho, like me, vwhere abducted from your owvn hivwes. I'm not in the least bit interested in hearing from our prison guards, or the current 'rules' of this freakish place. So listen to me, prisoners.

Vwe may not vwant to be here, but here is vwhere vwe are, and vwhere vwe'll stay until vwe find a vway off this messed up vworld. There are many dangers here, including vwarious monsters vwho periodically decide to attack the place.

[He leans in closer]

There must be one or twvo of you with courage. I'm Orphaner Dualscar, a General of the glorious Vworld-conquering Alternian Empire. I havwe extensivwe military experience, and leadership ability. If you're vwilling to risk yourselvwes, I vwill lead you to glory.

I propose creating a militia, to protect the city. [His violet eyes glitter. Is that really what he is proposing? A militia? Or is he looking to create his own personal army, to rival that of the city's?] This is our home until vwe can escape it. Are any of you courageous enough to followv me into battle?

Vwe'll see.

[He clicks off the video, but there's a locked text message communicated to Eridan alone]

Eridan, meet me at the usual place.
It's time for you to begin your intensivwe military and leadership training.
You'll be commanding the second platoon, after all.
Assuming enough of these filthy aliens is vwilling to accept the leadership of a Vwiolet-blooded troll to MAKE twvo platoons.
If not, vwe'll have to devwise another plan to topple the Emperor.

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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Mode Note: Please be aware that your Third Person Sample jumps around in tense more than we would ordinarily like to see; Third Person writing, used in the Ruby City Logs community, is meant to be entirely in past-tense prose format. We understand that slip-ups happen, but please do try to be careful during any actual gameplay! Thank you, and feel free to contact us if you have any questions. c:

Edited 2013-11-17 09:15 (UTC)

Eee, thank you!

And re tense dumbassery: whoops no problem. GD action tagging has ruined me for past tense in RP for some reason, but I'll make sure to be extra careful.

APPLICATIONS

{ [CANON] Orphaner Dualscar || Homestuck || reserve || 1 of 3 }

{ [CANON] Orphaner Dualscar || Homestuck || reserve || 2 of 3 }

{ [CANON] Orphaner Dualscar || Homestuck || reserve || 3 of 3 }

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