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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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✗ 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.
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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] Alax || Original || no reserve || 1 of 1 }
Name: Mouse
Personal Journal:
E-mail: mouseguin@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: mouseofguin
CHARACTER
Name: Alax
Age: 15-18 years old
Appearance: Alax is of an average height and build, usually wearing homemade clothing. He prefers wearing long sleeved tops of a darker colour, reds and blues, with long pants which he usually trips on. His hair is short and sometimes sticks up but usually only after a transformation back to human form. When he talks in his human form, he often stutters because his brain is going faster than his mouth. When he has extreme emotion his stutter can become worse or better depending on the emotion.
Chosen PB: Cameron Bright (plus several eagle icons)
Personality: Alax is a very intelligent boy. He learnt to transform before all of the other children born in that cycle. But because of this, he knows more about being a bird than being a human. This leads to a difficulty in communication while in his human form which he finds very frustrating. It also means he finds it difficult understanding others in their human forms. He especially won't understand people not from his world. He has been taught that everyone has an animal and when he finds out that this was wrong, it will be very confusing especially as he won't be able to communicate this to those he talks to very well.
If he's trying to say something and he can't, he can get angry with himself but he usually calms down quickly and tries again. He's part of the minority because he was able to transform so quickly and therefore not as important to the humans in the village. He used to try and work on it, but now he's given up and just stays out of everyone's way, usually in the sky.
Being in such a closed society, and having such a sheltered life due to his problems in his human form, Alax lives almost in the Dark Ages. He has no concept of technology and won't know what the buildings are or what the watch is. He may also find it difficult to work out how to use it since he is used to communicating in person or through his bird calls.
Due to a lack of other activities in his preferred form, Alax tends to fly further afield than the other birds in his clan. He explores more of his world that he’s been told he should and no one believes him when he returns. This shows bravery in the face of the unknown, as well as strength to not let insults of his peers affect him. They do though, slightly.
Alax doesn’t necessarily believe he was meant for greater things, but he doesn’t want to be confined to the village. He stays in his tent when in human form because he isn’t a nuisance there and he is out of the way. But really, he wants a place where he belongs even if it is away from his birth place.
World Information: Millennia ago, Alax’s ancestors learnt to communicate with the animals of their world. They taught them to transform into humans while the animals in turn taught the humans how to become animals. After many generations, they all became one race with the ability to transform, though they could only become one animal beside their human form. As time moved on, the traditions stayed the same and the animal part of the brain was more pronounced. The first word of every new baby was the animal they would learn to become.
Alax’s people are similar to American Indians as they tell time by the cycles of the seasons. Time is measured from when the first humans learn to transform. There is no technology and due to the animals being part of their race, they only eat plants and vegetables that they grow themselves. As with all species, there are some who break from the herd to live their own way and this has happened many times between the first transformation and Alax’s birth. This is what creates the different clans as well the animal groups.
History: Alax was born in the first season of the 131st cycle after the first transformation. His father, Tibin, was a black bear while his mother, Alria, was a bull frog. They had had trouble conceiving a child in the past and so were delighted when Alax came along. Alax was taught the basics of how to survive as a child. How to grow the plants and harvest them, which plants were safe to eat in the forest, and how to tell apart different clans to make sure no feuds broke out.
When he became six cycles of age, Alax was told his first word was ‘bird’. This meant he would one day soar into the skies and become part of that group as well the family he was born into. Unlike most children, who took up to four cycles to learn how to transform, Alax was one of the lucky few who only took two cycles and two seasons to learn. By the beginning of his ninth cycle, he was soaring high and proud as if he was his father’s age. But learning this so fast, came at a price. Due to his success in transformation, he found living as a human much more difficult. Learning the plants and crops to eat was much harder than it was for the rest of his family and he often made mistakes. Eventually, he was told to stay inside the village if he was human and he reluctantly agreed.
Because of this, he spends most of his time as the white-tailed eagle he can transform into rather than as the human he was born as.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Alax’s main strength is his ability to transform seamlessly. He feels safer in his bird form because he knows he can do it. He is very intelligent but his main weakness is that he finds it very hard to communicate with other humans. Their actions and even their speech confuse him and he can seem stupid even when he isn’t. It takes him a while to understand and respond and often he flies around to either calm himself, or think about what he wants to say. Another main weakness is his stutter but he's okay in his bird form because he prefers it and knows he can do it. His speech is easier there too with no chance of a stutter. Due to the lack of technology, Alax cannot read or write.
Abilities: Alax can turn into a white-tailed eagle. When he transforms back, his clothes appear with him.
First Person: [Alax stepped off the train and looked around. He had no idea what had just happened or where he was but he was certain of one thing. He was nowhere near the village. Even with his extensive flying, he’d never seen anything like this before. It worried him.
Looking down, he saw the watch. He touched the face and it sprang to life.]
Ahh...W-W-What are you? [He muttered, not realising what he had done. Picking up the watch, carefully, he explored a little further until he came to the exit from the station. Then he stared at all the buildings.] W-W-Where am I?
Third Person: Alax stepped out of his tent, looking around with a smile. Today was a brilliant day for flying. After checking there was nothing, and no one, he could bump into; he jumped up high and transformed, soaring higher and higher into the skies. It was blissful up here. Just the breeze under his wings and the endless expanse to be explore.
Of course, he had been told many times not to stray beyond the boundaries of the village but he couldn’t help it. He wanted to be free and search for a place that he truly belonged. Maybe today would be that today. Maybe today be would come back to his parents and tell them he would be gone for good. There would be arguments, he knew that. No one ever left the village permanently. But as much as he loved his Mama and Papa, he couldn’t stay somewhere where only they cared about him.
Looking around, he picked a direction and started to fly. Yes, today was certainly starting out to be a good day.
EDIT
[REVISION REQUESTED]
At this time we are requesting a revision before we consider your application for acceptance. Specifically, we would like you to clarify a little bit more about Alax's world and how it is that he fits into it(or not). How/Why is he a "nuisance?" Why is he more comfortable in his bird form, and how/why is that problematic? What is it you mean by "He knows he can do it?" (EG- "He feels safer in his bird form because he knows he can do it.")
Further, please review your first person sample; The sample you provided was in fact written in prose/past tense, whereas first person is meant to be "bracket-spam"/present tense.
Feel free to resubmit your revisions whenever they're completed, and we will be more than happy to review your changes.
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Due to this inability in his human form is the reason he prefers to be in his bird form. As a bird, he has less responsibility and the tasks are much simpler and easy to do. He’s spent more in that form and therefore is more confident in his abilities; hence he knows he can do it. But there are problems with just being a bird. He cannot interact with his parents very easily, and if he was to reproduce then his options would be limited. The other problem lies in his exploration. If he explores too far and gets lost or hurt, none of his family would know and be able to rescue or save him. This is why he needs to learn to be a human as well as a bird.
First Person: [Alax steps off the train and looks around. He has no idea what had just happened or where he is but he was certain of one thing. He is nowhere near the village. Even with his extensive flying, he’s never seen anything like this before. It worries him.
Looking down, he sees the watch. He touches the face and it springs to life.]
Ahh...W-W-What are you? [He mutters, not realising what he had done. Picking up the watch, carefully, he decides to explore a little further until he comes to the exit from the station. Then he stares at all the buildings.] W-W-Where am I?
[ACCEPTED]
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