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rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
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APPLICATIONS
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✗ 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.
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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.
[OC] | Marius Eldritch
Strengths
Like many other vampires, even those newly turned, Marius is possessed of superhuman strength, speed, balance and agility. He has highly advanced senses, able to hear and see better than the average mortal, and holds a wealth of experience, both academic and military, due to his long life. Marius also has several talents (detailed in the next section) thanks to his vampiric nature.
Thanks to his age, he needs to feed very little – perhaps once or twice a year. This helps immensely in ‘fitting in’ with local human populations, though he still feels the want to feed, despite not needing to.
He finds it very easy to gain the trust of most people, as he is highly perceptive to verbal clues and physical tics that less observant people may miss.
Weaknesses
Silver will not hurt him if he touches it (nor will a crucifix, or garlic), but if it is introduced into his body in some way it causes serious damage. A silver dagger plunged into his heart would not kill him, but would put him into a coma-like state which he would not wake from until someone removed the dagger.
An ancient vampire such as Marius is not physically harmed by sunlight, but it does reduce his abilities to leave him about equal in strength and stamina to a human. It would be foolish to make the mistake of thinking him weak in this state, as he is still more than capable of defending himself, but he is harmed more easily and must wait until nightfall before his healing abilities properly kick in.
Fire will harm him easily, as well or better than it would harm a mortal, and any wounds caused by it would take rather longer to heal than any other.
Abilities:
The most obvious benefit of vampirism is that of immortality. Marius has not aged a day physically since he was first turned, though he has changed his hair and clothing as the years have gone by.
As a vampire, Marius heals quickly, with most wounds healing themselves within minutes. There is of course a limit to this, and very serious wounds will incapacitate him as well as any mortal. His healing abilities also do not work during the day, when he is out in sunlight, making him much easier to kill during those times.
His level of observation, as well as making it easier to judge people, also gives him an altered perception of time. When properly employed this ability can allow him to slow his own perception of how time is passing, making things seem many times slower. This does not, however, give him the ability to dodge bullets. He is not Neo, after all.
Being an ancient vampire grants Marius some more select talents, including those of invisibility and mesmerisation. They are both illusions, the former being a case of a very powerful suggestion being placed within the mind of the other to simply ignore him (making it more difficult in crowds, or on a very sunny day when his shadow is dark), and the latter a kind of hypnotism employed to bend others to his will.
[OC] | Marius Eldritch
[Marius clutches his rosary tightly in his hand, feeling the wooden cross digging into his palm, as he looks up at the cathedral of Ruby City. There’s nothing holy about this place and he’s almost wary to go inside, but he swallows his concerns and pushes open the heavy door, fingers lingering on the deep scratch marks presumably caused by some creature from the ‘event’ that he had been told happened only days before his arrival to this place]
Avē Marīa, grātiā plēna, Dominus tēcum.
[The old words come naturally within such a setting, even one with so strange an aura as this. Dark things have happened here, he can sense that much, and the smell of blood lingers in the air even now from events long since past]
Benedicta tū in mulieribus, et benedictus frūctus ventris tuī, Iēsus.
[He reaches the chancel, beyond which he would normally expect to see an altar, but instead there is nothing. This in itself is unsettling. He draws a candle and a small box of matches from his pocket]
Sāncta Marīa, Māter Deī, ōrā prō nōbīs peccātōribus, nunc et in hōrā mortis nostrae.
[Placing the candle down, on the floor for the lack of anywhere else, he lights it, and smiles gently]
Āmēn.
Third Person:
“And, you understand, I have no comprehension of how something like this works.” Poring over said contraption, Marius carefully pulled out a small cog with his long fingers, and winced as something inside the thing creaked in protest. Quickly, he stepped back, then tapped the cog gently against his lower lip. Perhaps he should have employed someone to help him before he started taking a clock apart, but he could learn by doing, and he still remembered where everything went.
The small feline that he was engaged in conversation with simply blinked slowly at him, and he let out a long, slow sigh, rubbing one hand over his hair. When he had become immersed in dealing antiques he had been utterly ignorant of the kind of work it would involve, it had simply been a vocation that had called to him. Now, looking at the mass of cogs and delicate pieces of clockwork spread out over the tablecloth in front of him, he had to wonder if he had really made the right decision.
“Heavens help me,” he muttered, setting the cog down. He crossed himself and turned from the table, moments later hearing the unmistakeable sound of the clock falling apart. Marius closed his eyes, and lifted his eyes heavenwards. “… That is not funny…”
[ACCEPTED]
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