APPLICATIONS

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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
<B><I><BIG><BIG>PLAYER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Name:</b> <b>Age:</b> If you would prefer not to be specific, just let us know that you're over 18! <b>Personal Journal:</b> <b>E-mail:</b> <b>AIM/etc:</b> <B><I><BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Name:</b> First, Last (Western order) <b>Canon:</b> Name only. <b>Age:</b> Real / Apparent, if applicable <b>Timeline:</b> At which point of the canon were they taken from? <b>Items with character at canon point</b>: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions. <b>If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?</b>: 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, <b>how will you handle their interactions without playercesting?</b> Depending on your answer, you may be refused the character you are apping for. <b>Personality:</b> 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. <b>Background:</b> 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. <b>Abilities:</b> 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. <b>Network/Actionspam Sample:</b> 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. <b>Prose Log Sample:</b> 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
<B><I><BIG><BIG>PLAYER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Name:</b> <b>Age:</b> If you would prefer not to be specific, just let us know that you're over 18! <b>Personal Journal:</b> <b>E-mail:</b> <b>AIM/etc:</b> <B><I><BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Character Name:</b> First, Last (Western order) <b>Canon:</b> Name only <b>Age:</b> Real / Apparent, if applicable <b>Timeline:</b> At which point in the canon were they taken from? <b>Items with character at canon point</b>: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions. <b>If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?</b>: 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, <b>how will you handle their interactions without playercesting?</b> Depending on your answer, you may be refused the character you are apping for. <b>Personality:</b> 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. <b>History:</b> Three well-written paragraphs minimum, detail our your characters’ history. <b>Abilities:</b> 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. <b>Relationships to Canon Characters:</b> If any, if not applicable please put N/A. <b>Network/Actionspam Sample:</b> 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. <b>Prose Log Sample:</b> 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
<B><I><BIG><BIG>PLAYER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Name:</b> <b>Age:</b> If you would prefer not to be specific, just let us know that you're over 18! <b>Personal Journal:</b> <b>E-mail:</b> <b>AIM/etc:</b> <B><I><BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Name:</b> First, Last. (Western order) <b>Age:</b> Real / Apparent, if applicable <b>Appearance:</b> 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. <b>Chosen PB:</b> 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. <b>Items with character at canon point</b>: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions. <b>Personality:</b> 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. <b>World Information:</b> 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. <b>History:</b> Your characters’ history in their world. Be sure to be detailed. This section should be a minimum of three paragraphs. <b>Abilities:</b> 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. <b>Network/Actionspam Sample:</b> 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. <b>Prose Log Sample:</b> 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.


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 ✧

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[CANON] The Great Warrior Calgara || One Piece || No Reserve || 1 of ?]

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PLAYER
Name: Charli
Personal Journal: [Bad username or unknown identity: ”youshi_semenjyu”]
E-mail: raela_brandybuck@yahoo.com
AIM/MSN/etc: MamaAustria - AIM

CHARACTER
Name: The Great Warrior Calgara
Canon: One Piece
Timeline: After the Knock Up Stream has carried Jaya into the Sky Islands, and the Skypieans are attacking the Shandorians for their land.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality: Calgara is a complex man despite his brief time we see him in the series, and a man of deeply passionate and powerful emotion. When we first come across him, he is driving a group of sailors from his island, slaughtering them and destroying their ship in a quite brutal manner. He comes off as nearly insane, demonic in strength, and massively bloodthirsty. It is this reputation among the sailors that has given him the dubious honor of being called the Demon of Shandora, Shandora being a massive city of gold that he is sworn to protect. But as we see him interact with his tribe, we find that he is greatly troubled by a plague that has been ravaging the crops and killing off his people in a slow, steady fashion. He is devoted to his people and his deities, to the point that he will defend even the sacrifice of his own daughter if it will heal the island of what he feels is his god’s rage. We find later that he was deeply troubled by the fact that he had to order his daughter to take her own life, and will later shed great tears over his relief that she will be spared.

However, it is an outsider who is able to appeal to him, the explorer Montblanc Norland, and is able to break him of the fear of gods to see the disease for what it truly is. When he learns that his village can be saved by a simple vaccine, he goes as far as to break the sacred law and kill one of the gods of his people to save Norland, whom he realizes is his only hope. There, on the corpse of a massive snake, we see him weep for the first time, in the hope and relief that there was a way to save his precious village.

The two become unlikely friends, the explorer and the warrior, and learn much from one another. Such is Calgara’s new faith and loyalty in Norland that he shows him just what it is that he is bound to protect aside from his people, and shows him the ancient lost city of Shandora. A great city of gold built by his ancestors centuries before, but it was hardly the gold he was bound to protect. A great stone of history sat in the center, behind the great golden bell known as the ‘Fire of Shandora’, and that was what was far more important than any amount of gold. It was this bell that they rang to summon the spirits of their ancestors back to this island of Jaya, so that they will never be lost in the afterlife. Incidentally, it was also the tolling of this bell that brought Norland to this island in the middle of a great storm. The two exchange information, treasures both golden and not, and even the villagers note that Calgara never made friends save for this one man.

Re: [CANON] The Great Warrior Calgara || One Piece || No Reserve || 2 of ?]

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However, in Norland’s desire to completely cure Calgara’s island of Tree Fever, he chopped down a grove of white trees that turned out to be sacred trees where it was said that the Shandorians’ ancestors dwelled. Unknowing of the reason for Norland’s destruction of the grove, Calgara and his warriors turn against Norland and his crew, and Calgara’s rage cannot be ebbed. It is all he can do to not kill his friend when Norland comes to ask about why this sudden hostility. It was only by the courage of Calgara’s daughter Muse that they were able to understand what had happened, and when Calgara realized his grave mistake, it was too late. Norland was setting sail that morning, and had left behind the gifts of gold in penance for the destruction of the Shandorians’ sacred grove.

Calgara stands in the surf as he watches Norland’s ship sail off, and shouts to him to one day return. He swears that he will remain on this island, and await his return. He will ring the bell daily so that Norland’s ship will never be lost in a storm, and vows that they will meet again. Such was the bond between these two honorable men.

It was not meant to be, however. Jaya is an island in the Grand Line, where the sea is unpredictable, and Jaya had often been plagued by earthquakes. Five years after Norland’s departure, a geological phenomenon known as the Knock Up Stream shattered the island in half, sending the populated half high into the Sky Islands, where it was lodged adjacent to the land known as Skypeia. The golden bell was knocked loose of its foundations and lost to time. To the Skypieans, earth from the sea below was considered sacred, and such am amount was truly a gift from God. A war began between the Shandorians and the Skypeians, and eventually, the Shandorians were driven from their ancestral home. It was during this battle that Calgara lost his life, fighting for not only his village, but to keep his promise to his friend. It would be his greatest regret, that he could never ring the bell again and tell Norland where he was; that they would never meet again. He died wondering what Norland would think when he found them gone, and how there was much he wanted to tell him.

When Norland finally returned to Jaya, it was with his King and many soldiers who had come under the ruse of exploration in order to take the gold. When Norland found the city gone, he was left wondering where the village was, while the King demanded to know where the gold was. In the end, Norland was branded a liar and was executed by the king for treason. Both men died never knowing what became of the other.

Calgara is at once violent and cruel, and also unwaveringly loyal and devoted. A proud man, he never forgets a promise made to a friend, and never forgets great wrongs, including those he committed himself. He is quick to anger and judge, but can be reasonable once his rage has ebbed. Intelligent but primitive, there is much about the more modern and civilized world he does not understand, but he is a curious man, and seeks to understand now that Norland has introduced him to much. He is a wary man who does not quickly or easily make friends, but once you have gained his trust, he will be loyal to the end. He is a man of extremes, which is both an asset and a curse at times.

Re: [CANON] The Great Warrior Calgara || One Piece || No Reserve || 3 of 3]

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First Person: [The train station was silent as the vehicle sits there, waiting for its lone passenger to disembark. Within, there is a bit of erratic movement, but nothing for several seconds. Suddenly, there is a massive smashing sound as a figure crashes through the glass and metal doors, sending shards and shrapnel all through the terminal. The figure at first hardly seems a man, all wild red hair and tribal tattoos, and when he lands upon the cool concrete, he peers through matted strands of red with wild, primitive eyes, crouched not unlike a tiger ready to spring. He’s seething, his hands gripping a long spear that has seen exceptional use, and growls lowly before he finally speaks. While most people are alarmed upon their initial arrival in the city, this man is furious beyond reason, and begins to shout]


Show yourself, coward! [His voice is bellowing and rough] You will pay for this! Pray that your gods have mercy, because you will receive none from me!

Third Person: Rage. Defiance. Pride and duty. These were the things that flashed through the warrior’s mind in the seconds after he broke free of his glass and metal prison. Gripping his trusted spear, he crouched on the ground, eyes narrowed. A mass of rich crimson hair, long and thick, curved down the length of his back and ended just where his feet were planted on the ground. Unlike many of the other arrivals to the train station, he wore only primitive leather pants and a sash of tropical fronds about his waist. His tanned skin was adorned with intricate tattoos; there was hardly a part of his body that was not covered, but perhaps the most striking feature of this man was the pair of delicate feathered wings, just visible behind the mane of hair.

He narrowed his dark eyes, refusing to panic in light of this new development. Where were his warriors? Where were those winged invaders with their wretched bows, trying to take his precious island? Were they responsible? Their leader had claimed to be God, but he appeared nothing more than a wretched man, an outsider! Inhaling in a dangerous sort of way, he let out a loud shout, defying whoever was responsible.

“Show yourself, coward! You will pay for this! Pray that your gods have mercy, because you will receive none from me!” His bellowing voice echoed off of the austere walls, but he received no reply but the silence. Bristling at the audacity of someone to spirit him away and not face him, he let out a violent shout and swung his spear wide, knocking aside the benches that sat there and shattering them into splinters. Robbed of his battle, his homeland stolen from him, cheated of a warrior’s death, and now brought here by cowardly unseen assailants…They WILL be punished, Calgara would be sure of it.

ACCEPTED

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