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 ✧

Comments

[Canon] Mitsuru Kirijo | Persona 3 | Reserved | 1/3

[iceandwhips]

PLAYER
Name: Mako
Age: 30
Personal Journal: makochanupdates
E-mail: makotosagara1@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc.:lightningsenshi/ makotos

CHARACTER
Name: Mitsuru Kirijo
Canon: Persona 3 FES
Age: 18
Timeline: January 1st, 2010
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

2/3

[iceandwhips]

Personality: Intelligent. Calculating. Aloof. Naïve. Driven. Guilt-ridden. These words are things that stand out most about the only child of Takeharu Kirijo, CEO of the Kirijo Group. Because that’s who she is to those who see her from the outside, that is how Mitsuru conducts herself. She is top of her class, the student council president, and she also is the leader of the extra-curricular group known as SEES to the school board.

What only her friends get to see is the caring, compassionate young woman who is so riddled with guilt over what her grandfather started with the family’s company that she pushes herself to near-exhaustion to make amends. She was a small child when the events occurred, but she knows enough to feel that as a Kirijo it is her responsibility to take care of the issue with the Dark Hour, Tartarus, and, later, Nyx.

The only time her indelible will wavers is when Shuji Ikutsuki reveals that he’d been using the SEES to bring about The Fall that her grandfather worked towards and the murders her father in front of her. The light that pushes her forward, that allowed her to support the rest of the team after Shinjirou Aragaki’s murder, is extinguished. Even when she returns to school and the team, she’s merely going through the motions, doing what she’s supposed to do. And it isn’t until Yukari literally slaps sense into her that she resolves to fight once more. (It is after this that you can start the Empress S.Link with her.)

Since she is really the Ojou-sama of an important family, Mitsuru has some trouble relating to things that would be normal to those around her like Yukari or Junpei (who are decidedly the most normal members of SEES). She is extremely sheltered and naïve, as the secret recordings in the Chairman’s office that you can watch show you. She has a person who picks out her clothes and keeps them together in outfits for her so she doesn’t have to worry about that. She called the police officer associated with the group because she thought Junpei had been kidnapped. (She found out that he is only a horrendous slob.)

During her S.Link progression, you find out that she also has a practical, cold look on love. As the product of an arranged marriage that grew into love and respect, she sees nothing wrong with that for herself. That is, until she grows closer to the MC and the other teens. Eventually she comes to terms with the fact that she wants to have her own life, and that includes who she loves.

Background: Mitsuru on the SMT Wiki

Abilities:Mitsuru incorporates her classical fencing training with some good old fashion kicks to the face to finish out her combos for actual physical damage. She is an ice user, with the Bufudyne and Mabufudyne spells in her repertoire. She also has Tentarafoo (which acts as a confuse), Marin Karin (which is definitely a charm), Spirit Drain, Ice Boost, Ice Break (which lowers an enemy’s resistance to ice spells, Mind Charge (a magic boosting spell for short amounts of time), and lastly Diarahan, the most powerful single-target healing spell.

She is also incredibly intelligent, a great strategist, and fluent in French.

3/3

[iceandwhips]

First Person: On the December Test Drive

Third Person: It was difficult for Mitsuru to reconcile herself to the idea that even though her mind and body were gearing up towards the final stretch in the fight for her life, the lives of all living things on the planet, she wasn’t actually going to do that. Nyx wasn’t a factor here. Not even a hint of the goddess of Death could be found. Nor her Appraiser, the entity that called himself Ryoji Mochizuki and claimed to have been born from inside the teen she’d relinquished leadership of the SEES to.

Instead, what she found was her childhood friend, suddenly aged two years ahead of her. Akihiko was different on the surface, but the changes were superficial. He was still the strong, kind, resourceful young man she’d relied on whole-heartedly, whether he actually knew that or not. Arisato was also there, both a male and female version, which was, admittedly, difficult to process for a while. That simply meant she spent the better part of an evening locked in the room given to her, trying to figure out how she felt about a girl she’d never met but thought they were good friends and a boy who barely acknowledged her outside of basic friendship.

Labrys, in comparison, was much easier for her to deal with, considering her relationship with Aigis. The android was intelligent and friendly, open and brash. She… Mitsuru liked her for all of that. Even Satonaka, Hanamura and Narukami were easy to get along with and friendly.

It wasn’t a difficult life. It was just different. And if there was one thing that Mitsuru had learned in the year since she met Arisato Minato, it was that being flexible was better than rigidity. So, she would continue to be fluid and to keep an open mind. Not everything could run smoothly, right?

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

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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Mod Note: Please be aware that your First Person Sample jumps around in tense more than we would ordinarily like to see; First Person writing, used in the Ruby City RP community, is meant to be entirely in present-tense/"bracket-spam" 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: