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] Steve Rogers/Captain America || Marvel Cinematic Universe || reserve || 1 of 3 }

[captain_asthmatic]

PLAYER
Name: Cnd
Age: 35
Personal Journal: jessicasteiner
E-mail: chichirinoda@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: hellbreakercnd Chichirinoda

CHARACTER
Name: Steve Rogers (aka Captain America)
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Age: 25 apparent age, though if you take into account the years he was frozen, he is nearly 100 years old.
Timeline: He's going to arrive in Ruby City shortly after the events in Avengers 1.

{ [CANON] Steve Rogers/Captain America || Marvel Cinematic Universe || reserve || 2 of 3 }

[captain_asthmatic]

Personality:

It seems to me (since I was one of them) that most people who don't really know much about Captain America assume that he's a pretty one-note stereotypical hero - just the embodiment of the most irritating kind of good-old American patriotism, smashing bad guys and obsessed with the greatness of 'Merika. I mean, his superhero name is Captain America. It's hokey as shit.

How wrong I was. Steve Rogers isn't the kind of hypocritical idealized gun-toting man's man that we all roll our eyes at. He's the kind of very human person that everyone should aspire to be.

Even before he underwent the experiment that gave him the strength and power to do so much good in the world, Steve was already a kind, generous and determined person, who was willing to put himself in danger, risk death or torture, to defend those who couldn't defend themselves. A 98 lb asthmatic weakling, he stood up to bullies and got himself beaten down over and over, and just kept standing right back up.

When he became a superhero, that core personality, that kindness and caring for others, didn't change. He just gained the ability to actually do something about the injustices that he sees in the world. He always comes from a position of wanting to do right, and to protect others, rather than being motivated by seeking vengeance or wanting to kill bad people.

Growing up in the 1930s and 1940s, one might expect Steve to be quite prejudiced and sexist, but Steve is pretty special, in that he judges each person on their own merits, and reacts to them based on their own unique attributes and behaviour. Sure, he has old-fashioned ideals and values. He's chivalrous towards women and respectful of others, particularly elders and those in positions of authority. But he doesn't look down on people for being of a different race, or for being a woman. After an initial curiosity at Peggy Carter, for example, he fully accepted that she was a military woman and outranked him, and that was the end of that. He also accepted Bruce Banner at their first meeting and showed him respect without any outward wariness, putting aside what he was told and giving Bruce the benefit of the doubt no matter what he'd been told about the Hulk.

Steve is a natural leader, and without any real posturing, ego or arrogance, he is capable of taking charge in most situations and making good decisions. This is partly a function of his considerable military experience fighting in WWII, but it's also a natural ability of his. Within a short time of being in his presence, people tend to gravitate towards him and he commands respect without trying. He naturally grasps the personalities of those around him, and their strengths and weaknesses, and puts them in the places where they can do the most good. It's this personality trait that resulted in him slipping in a natural, unspoken manner, into the role of leader of the Avengers, even given the complex dynamics there. If you think about it, it's amazing that in a group that includes Tony Stark, who is basically a creature of pure ego, and Thor, who is a god and future king, STEVE wound up the leader, and by the end of the first Avengers movie everyone just naturally does what he tells them without questioning it.

Despite all of his accomplishments and abilities, there's still a part of Steve that has low confidence and still thinks of himself as just some normal kid from Brooklyn. On the one hand, this keeps him humble, and ensures that he doesn't start to become the kind of person that he hates. But more than that, it makes him hesitate at times. He hates to make a mistake, especially if people get hurt because of him. He has a tendency to brood on his mistakes, and to want to be busy and take action to prevent himself from dwelling too much on the things he's lost. He feels uncomfortable in the future, and gravitates towards solitude and familiar things, baffled by this strange, fast-paced and technological new world.

Yet, he's selling himself short. With his versatility and intelligence, there's no doubt that he could come to understand things like the internet and new pop culture, but he is self-conscious of his lack of scientific education and his unfamiliarity with things that come naturally to others. For example, when Tony is trying to get him to help restart one of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier's engines, he tries to play off his confusion as a joke: "It appears to use some form of electricity", because he feels helpless and uncomfortable with what Tony is asking him to do. Though one thing that's significant about Steve as that unlike many people, he doesn't get angry when he's placed in uncomfortable situations. Instead, though he might make light of the situation, he'll always just put his head down, cope and do his best with whatever resources he has available. No matter the odds or the obstacles, the one thing Captain America never does, is give up.

Background: Gotta love comics nerds and their thorough documentation

{ [CANON] Steve Rogers/Captain America || Marvel Cinematic Universe || reserve || 3 of 3 }

[captain_asthmatic]

Abilities: As superheros go, the Cap's abilities aren't that flashy. The experiment that was performed on him enhanced all of his physical and mental abilities to the peak of human potential, or perhaps slightly higher. He is exceptionally strong and fast, and quite tough compared to a normal human. Though he's not impervious to bullets or anything, he can clearly take a lot of damage and survive great deprivation without dying. His metabolism is so fast that he's incapable of getting drunk, and his mental powers have also been enhanced, making him more intelligent and able to think faster than average as well. Matching these abilities with his natural intelligence and tenacity, his ability to think strategically and consider unorthodox options, makes him one of the greatest heros in the world.

First Person:

[Video]

[At first, the video is pointed at the sky and blurry, then it moves crazily as a distant voice speaks] I dunno how to use this thing-- oh, I guess I talk into it this way.

[Suddenly the handsome blond-haired blue-eyed face comes into view, looking more than a little shy and uncertain of what he's doing. He's not wearing his mask right now, but you might see a bit of blue shoulder, since he is wearing his suit.]

I hope this is working. [He straightens his shoulders, his expression growing more serious and somehow exuding a little more confidence. He's never been a fabulous or confident public speaker, but he has enough experience to fake it when he wants to] My name's Steve Rogers. If you're from 21st century Earth, you might know me as Captain America. [He pauses. He still feels a bit silly pulling that card, but if there is anyone from his world, his time, his fame might help him get in touch with them, so he has no choice. He takes a breath, and continues]

I just arrived here, and I'm looking for some information. Mostly, I'd like to know more about where - and when - I am. Not to mention, the local dangers, and what's been done so far to find out how we got here, and why.

[He sighs, eyes flicking down, then up again] I understand that the general consensus is that we're here to stay, but I'm not about to just accept that. I've been in some pretty tight spots before, and if anyone else is looking to get home... let's talk.

Third Person:

Steve was no stranger to waking up in strange and unusual places. Compared to when he awoke in a fake facsimile of a 1940s bedroom - which turned out to be in 21st century New York - arriving in Ruby City was quite calming and pleasant.

Once he got off the train and the fog that kept him from really questioning things had lifted, he found himself stepping out of the train station into an oddly familiar world. No flashing billboards, no honking horns, no rushing crowds all staring fixedly at their "smart" phones. In fact, he didn't see a single vehicle, modern or old-fashioned. Not a single smart phone, for that matter.

Steve investigated the watch in his pocket, and confirmed that he still had all of his things. He had been carrying a duffle with a change of clothes, a few necessaries, when he left the rest of the Avengers. The bike was missing, but everything else was still there - including his shield and suit, which was almost baffling. Why would someone abduct him and stick him on a train, giving him no idea what they wanted, and leave him with his weapons? Of course, he was a weapon, so maybe they just didn't care.

He slung the duffle next to his shield on his back, ensuring that he could easily grab the shield if he needed to, and walked down the cobbled street. There didn't seem to be anyone to ask nearby, but somewhere in the city there had to be answers.

As he walked, he lifted his head and looked up and around, studying the sky, the ground, each building as he passed. Was this an alien world? If it was, it sure had a lot of familiar-looking things. Though he didn't know Thor well, he was pretty sure this wasn't Asgard. It just didn't seem his style.

Though his tension was snapping high at first, as he walked he slowly found himself relaxing into a stroll. There was no sign of danger, and those few people he passed seemed calm and happy as well. And most of them were human. He chatted with a few of them, and none of them seemed to have definitive answers about why they were there or how to get home. Though most of them had been here for months or even years, they still had no clue why.

Frustrating as this was, eventually he took a seat on a park bench and leaned back, arm stretched across the back and his legs crossed, a smile playing about his lips. If he were going to get kidnapped to some alien world, he supposed it would be a heck of a lot worse. He knew he wasn't about to just give up on getting back - but the fact was, he had no idea where to begin. Might as well enjoy a bit of sunshine before he got back on his mission.

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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Re: ACCEPTED

[captain_asthmatic]

SCREAM THANK YOU.