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APPLICATIONS

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

PLAYER
Name: Tracy
Age: 23
Personal Journal:

yeshallbeasgods
E-mail: die.wiederkehr@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: already on the contact page

CHARACTER
Name: Rosaline
Canon: SUPER MARIO GALAXYYYYYY, WOO HOO!
Age: Appears somewhere in her teens (actually old as dirt though because she visits her home planet every 100 years)
Timeline: Just after the Comet Observatory has enough power to go to the Center of the Universe (but hasn’t gone yet)
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality:

Rosalina is a kind young princess who takes care of the Lumas and has a duty as the protector of the cosmos. All of which she takes very seriously. When she first meets Mario, her concern is, besides helping him safe his ‘special one’ is that the core of the Comet Observatory be rekindled so that her Lumas will survive. Beyond that, she wasn’t to see it capable of traveling the cosmos again. In this way, we notice that it’s not just out of the goodness of her heart that she helps Mario but because it would be mutually beneficial if he were to collect Grand Stars. And when the time comes that it is able to be used as a starship again, Rosalina holds up her end of the bargain rather than booting Mario back down to Mushroom World.

She’s also very motherly but tends to be mothered herself by her companion, Polari. She takes care of her Lumas and her friends, making sure that Mario can’t fall to his death from the Comet Observatory. Rosalina even reads to her Lumas every night, never objecting when Mario sits and listens as well. As she was growing up, she left with a baby Luma to help find their mothers and eventually stayed with all of the Lumas rather than returning to her world and her brother and father. This shows that she can love very deeply and understood from an early age that she was need more there than back home and stargazing.

However, Rosalina is often described as being lonely. Traveling the stars with just the Luma and only ever returning to her home world to look at it once every one hundred years would make someone very lonely As such, she very rarely has any outward signs of joy or sadness. Rosalina would have to hide it to keep her children from worrying about her. Still her emotions do seep through in her voice, even if it doesn’t show well in her expressions. But this also shows her strength because despite all this, she stays with them all because she does love them. She loves them and that is far stronger than any sadness she feels.

But she also has to be calm all the time, calm and collected, in control of herself. Rosalina is the adoptive mother of all the Luma that exist, she has to protect them so they can become what they’re meant to be. She also has an entire cosmos to look after, a responsibility that would be heavy on the shoulders of literally anyone else.

She does form strong bonds though, becoming close friends to Mario, Luigi and even Peach who she became fast friends with at one point. One of her closest friends though is Polari who, despite being fatherly to her, has stuck by her for a long time rather than moving on to become a star, comet or planet.

Not only that but she’s wise. She knows who she can or can’t trust, she knows that it’s a great task she places on Mario and Luigi’s shoulders but she has to. And she knows that she doesn’t know absolutely everything. Looking forward to coming to her home world every one hundred years, she never expected all the Grand Stars and Power Stars to be stolen or for Bowser to create a galaxy of his own with that kind of power. Rosalina knows that she doesn’t know everything but she can keep up with it, determine what can or must be done. That’s her duty, after all.

And finally, she doesn’t need the help of others. It’s clear from her display of power that she could reclaim all the Power Stars and Grand Stars on her own but she couldn’t leave the Comet Observatory, her home, or leave her children unprotected.

Background: Rosalina’s Storybook which tells all we really ever find out about her early life.

Beyond that, we know she’s been flying the Comet Observatory for several hundred years, becoming the adoptive mother of and caring for all the Luma until they grow up and become stars, comet, planets, etc.

When the Mushroom Kingdom was attacked by Bowser during the Star Festival and Peach (Mario’s ‘special one’) was kidnapped, Rosalina became an ally to Mario, lending him her help by giving him a Luma and offering to take her ship to the Center of the Universe (where Bowser had taken Peach) once they were able to recover all the Grand Stars, the power source for the Comet Observatory.

After Bowser was defeated, the star of his new galaxy went supernova and became a black hole, sucking everything into it. The Lumas of the Comet Observatory threw themselves into it to neutralize it. Mario appeared then in front of Rosalina (who saved him) and she promised him that it wasn’t the end but a new beginning, that nothing ever happens the same way. He later woke up back home in a new ‘remade’ galaxy.

In the Gateway Galaxy, Rosalina stood there and watched, promising that she would look after them from beyond the stars.

She does not appear in Super Mario Galaxy 2 until the end. Lubba reveals that he and Rosalina have met before (the details go unmentioned but considering she’s the adoptive mother of all Luma’s, it can probably be assumed that she raised Lubba.) when she appears on the Starship Mario and is relieved to see Baby Luma safe. The Luma goes home with her then, back to the Comet Observatory. Lubba also calls her the “Lady of the Shooting Stars” when she appears.

In the credits though, it shows that Rosalina knows all the details of the second adventure since she was telling that very story to all her Lumas.

Abilities:

Rosalina is old. Very old. She visits her home planet every one-hundred years despite being human. So something in her early travels gave her either an incredibly long life or immortality. Due to the fact that she looks like a teenager (or at least a young adult) immortality is more likely of the two. So she’s immortal.

Secondly, once power is restored to the observatory, Rosalina can use her own powers to shield and protect the starship. Her powers don’t stem from the Power Stars as far as can be told but the fact that, when it’s not acting as a starship, the Comet Observatory is static and has no need for a shield against the things it might slam into while traveling. This can be observed by the fact that, during gametal, any attacks or objects thrown at her are easily deflected by a personal shield.

There’s also the fact that, while flying the observatory (physically, with the power restored, she physically flies the ship) and with the shield in place, the Comet Observatory blasts Bowser’s fleet to bits if they get in the way. She can also form a bridge from her ship to Peach’s castle in the Center of the Universe out of thin air. (Presumably at least, but I didn’t see chunks of what the bridge were made out of anywhere in the Comet Observatory and I looked.)

She can also place a bubble around individuals and levitate them elsewhere. This is shown in the game, whenever Mario falls off the Comet Observatory. And speaking of levitation, Rosalina is almost always seen floating in the air like Lumas which means she is capable of flying.

Other than that, she can do the same spin move that Mario displays through the game. And the fact that she has these abilities and carries a wand, it can be assumed that she’s capable of regular magic like how Kamek and the Magikoopa’s use. Though she wouldn’t use these abilities in the same way.

First Person: Test Drive.

Third Person:

Rosalina stood before the train as it departed, a sigh on her lips as she clutched her Lumas close to her, wand in hand and Polari floating right beside her. All of her children waiting back at the Comet Observatory, Mario waiting for her to fly the ship to the Center of the Universe, Peach waiting to be rescued, all of this already weighed heavily on her mind but not a sign of it showed on her face and she made sure not to squeeze her children in any more of a panic.

Polari knew her well though and he floated just a bit closer to her to wordlessly tell her that it would be alright. They had faced greater challenges than this before. She would see them through it.

“Mama? Where are we?” Of the two Lumas in her arms, the blue one spoke. That was what was important now. Finding out where they were and finding a way home. Her heels clicked as she turned, glancing around the train station for a hint and spotting the poster.

“Ruby City, it says.” Her voice is soft, carrying little of the emotion she feels and there’s a hint of power behind it, betraying that she’s not a regular human girl. “I don’t recall any galaxies having such a name. Polari?”

But the black Luma didn’t have any better an answer. Rosalina knew far more than he did, she knew everything they would ever need to know about the cosmos as its protector. With a sigh, she released the Luma so they could float along beside her and stepped toward the entrance of the station, catching the watch as she did so.

“Hm? A watch?” She kneels down, a pale hand plucking it from the ground. It was silver and unblemished despite being on the ground and almost being stepped on. Fitting though, that the color should match her brooch and crown.

Thank you for your application.

At this time we are requesting a revision of your third person sample. Specifically, we have noticed a bit of tense-shifting between present and past tense, where the third person sample should be entirely in third person, past tense prose.

Feel free to submit your revisions any time before the next app round and they will be processed asap!

Whoops! Never write apps while tired, lesson learned. Should I just rewrite it and correct the tense changes or a new one?

Whichever you prefer!

Third Person:

Rosalina stood before the train as it departed, a sigh on her lips as she clutched her Lumas close to her, wand in hand and Polari floating right beside her. All of her children waiting back at the Comet Observatory, Mario waiting for her to fly the ship to the Center of the Universe, Peach waiting to be rescued, all of this already weighed heavily on her mind but not a sign of it showed on her face and she made sure not to squeeze her children in any more of a panic.

Polari knew her well though and he floated just a bit closer to her to wordlessly tell her that it would be alright. They had faced greater challenges than this before. She would see them through it.

“Mama? Where are we?” Of the two Lumas in her arms, the blue one spoke. That was what was important now. Finding out where they were and finding a way home. Her heels clicked as she turned, glancing around the train station for a hint and spotting the poster.

“Ruby City, it says.” Her voice was soft, carrying little of the emotion she felt and there was a hint of power behind it, betraying that she wasn’t a regular human girl. “I don’t recall any galaxies having such a name. Polari?”

But the black Luma didn’t have any better an answer. Rosalina knew far more than he did, she knew everything they would ever need to know about the cosmos as its protector. With a sigh, she released the Lumas so they could float along beside her and stepped toward the entrance of the station, catching the watch as she did so.

“Hm? A watch?” She knelt down, a pale hand plucking it from the ground. It was silver and unblemished despite being on the ground and almost being stepped on. Fitting though, that the color should match her brooch and crown.

Welcome to Ruby City! Go ahead and join

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