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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

Personality: At the beginning of the game, Lightning presents herself as a tough, no nonsense (and perhaps even callous) soldier. She seems to look at life as if every step/every meeting might lead to a battle. Because of said outlook, she knows that she (along with all of those around her) need to be prepared 24/7/365. If she is caught off-guard (or if her acquaintances are caught off-guard), the future, in her book, is grim indeed. (In fact, her strong feelings on being prepared/not showing weakness were the catalyst for summoning Odin.)

Yet, despite her strength, there is something almost childish about Lightning. While she does have strong ideals, she doesn't always hold her temper in check. In fact, she can be downright cruel when her buttons are pushed. And she is far too proud to come out and apologize, of course.

However, as the game progresses and more of her back-story is revealed, Lightning is shown to be a complicated woman. Underneath her cold resolve to never give into meaningless/useless emotion (and her bratty temper), "Lightning" is not as callous as she might seem. She does have softer feelings. At times, it seems like she faults herself for being weak in that regard. (Or perhaps she just becomes annoyed with herself for feeling softer/weaker emotions in the first place.)

But, when it comes to Serah especially, she can't help herself. In the few flashbacks we see of her interacting with her little sister - as well as her reaction to those memories in the present - Lightning shows a wider range of emotions. When Serah tells Lightning of her fate (that she is a l'Cie) as well as her desire to marry Snow, Lightning loses her temper and says some things that she seems to regret later. She realizes that she was too harsh to her sister and that she is the reason Serah ran away - this becomes especially apparent when Lightning too becomes a l'Cie.

Another situation where Lightning shows softer/more vulnerable emotions is when she is speaking to one of her superiors. Again, this memory is a flashback during the long journey she shares with Sazh, Hope, Snow, Vanille and, later, Fang. During said memory, one of her superiors compliments her and tells her to loosen up now and then and enjoy herself. Lightning seems caught off-guard by both actions and she looks quite young in this particular scene - though it's easy to tell that she looks up to the General and that she takes his words to heart.

Despite those scenes, Lightning retains her rock-solid facade. She doesn't know what Fate/Destiny/whatever has in store for her, but she sure as hell isn't going to lay down and take it. Now that she has been marked as a l'Cie, (the very group she had once hunted so ambitiously), she knows she can only rely on herself to save Serah from her terrible fate. When Hope comes to rely on her - in order to make himself stronger - all of the pressure builds up and becomes too much for her to handle. Her temper is set off and that is when (and why) she is able to Summon Odin.

Yet that burst of temper is a temporary thing and, as time passes, it's clear that she is even beginning to rely on and open up to her companions. Hope in particular seems to earn her affection rather than the contempt she showed him when they first crossed paths. By the end of the game, Lightning has grown damn fond of her companions and she vows to free Vanille and Fang from their crystallized fate too. In a way, that vow becomes her new Focus - especially since Serah is in good hands with Snow at the end of the game.

Thus, over the course of the game, Lightning matures and realizes that she can count on others and that there are others who are nearly as important to her as her sister in her life. Thanks to that realization, she softens and becomes less short-tempered. However she will always be a quick-witted soldier with a sharp tongue - especially if you happen to be her enemy. But her heart is in the right place and she is finally able to speak out and tell others when she needs help.

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