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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Yosuke Hanamura | Persona 4 Arena

[nobugs]

PLAYER
Name: Yume
Age: 27
Personal Journal: yumenonozomi
E-mail: Yume_no_Nozomi@web.de
AIM/MSN/etc: jestemkosc

CHARACTER
Name: Yosuke Hanamura
Canon: Persona 4
Age: 17
Timeline: after Persona 4 Arena
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality: One of the first things you'll notice when you meet Yosuke is probably that he appears to be a pretty cheerful boy and his attitude is pretty much the one of a typical happy-go-lucky guy, which can help others to cheer up. He often tries to joke or tease to relax a tense or serious situation, but they are often at the expenses of his friends. Still, Yosuke shows to be a gentle and caring boy, as can be seen when he stands up to Mitsuru (even though he is scared to do so) so that she won't use terms that are commonly used for objects for Labrys, a robot girl with a heart. He also likes to take care of others, as can be seen when he adopts Teddie without hesitation and gives him a home.

Unfortunately, this also makes him an easy target for being used, so many people approach him to complain about their situation and expect him to magically do something about it. Additionally, as the son of the manager of Junes (a shopping center which drives the local shops into ruin) people tend to talk a lot behind his back about him, but even when he hears them doing that he never really stands up for himself and just tries to play it down. It probably is tied to the fact that he has a rather "fragile ego" as he puts it and has trouble with believing in himself, as can be seen through the fact that he temporary lost his ability to summon his persona after his supposed shadow toys with his emotions and insecurities. That is likely the reason why somewhere deep down in his heart he wishes to be special and grows envious and jealous of others, as he as a person feels kind of overlooked by most people.

His outer self is also a bit of a facade, though. He forces himself to be cheerful because he is scared of being alone and lonely. What he also hides is the fact that he is quite easily bored, and that the reason he jumped so easily on the murder case was that it gave him the chance to do something different and dangerous, which is anything but noble. His judgment is also easily clouded by his emotions and can lead up to a murderous intent, as he is the one who wants to kill Namatame the most when evidence made him seem the murderer.

Yosuke is generally someone who has a rather quick temper and his friends enjoy teasing him or to get him riled up. It doesn't help that he is rather clumsy, since he even managed to crash into and land in a trash can while riding his bike. This makes him an easy target for verbal jabs. Even his tendency to overthink and read too much into a situation lead him to make rather rude or insensitive remarks from time to time, as Yu notices.

Like your typical teenage boy, Yosuke has a great weakness for pretty girls and tries to hit on them, though that usually also ends in failure. He also shows signs of being a homophobe and is for example scared of the fact that Kanji, who has an ambiguous sexuality, might try to molest him. Yet Yosuke isn't really one who really has prejudices and is very accepting as can be seen in the way he treats Teddie, a shadow, or Aigis and Labrys, two robot girls. He can also be very understanding, shown when despite his worry what Aigis might do to Labrys, he doesn't hold it against Aigis that she can't tell an outsider such information.

Background: http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Yosuke_Hanamura

Abilities: Supervisor - thanks to the fact that people always complain to him, he has acquired skills to handle such conflicting situations and acts sometimes as the supervisor in Junes.
Kunai - Yosuke usually wields two kunais when he fights and does decent damage. He uses them a bit more like swords rather than like throwing weapons.
Persona - Yosuke can summon a persona, a being that has shown that he has accepted his weakness, though he has only done so in the TV-world and never in the real one. With his Persona, Yosuke is able to use wind magic and a bit of healing magic, can buff his allies and debuff his enemies.

First Person: Man, what's wrong here? I've never seen this stupid city. Huh? Why is a watch in my pocket?

[Finally, a face can be seen - it shows a boy with brown hair and brown eyes and said face comes closer to the screen.]

Wait, that's no ordinary watch. Is this that communication system that was written about? Does it work like the internet?

[He takes another closer look at the watch.]

No! Don't tell me it has been recording me! [Man, that was embarrassing. Hopefully nobody saw him conversing with himself. Well, anyways, perhaps he could still use it. It wouldn't hurt to try it, at least.]

Hey, can anybody hear me?

Third Person: Yosuke could recognize the distinct sound of a train stopping. He let out a small yawn as he opened his eyes. It was just then when it dawned to him - he hadn't boarded a train. He went so rarely to the bigger city, he'd know it if he had stepped inside a train to go there. Just what was going on here? This was more than fishy - but more importantly, he had to leave this train. He wouldn't get back if he stayed on it.

He took a good look at the surroundings. Whoa, whoa! What was that place? That station looked even more abandoned than the one in Inaba. That wasn't too important now, though, he needed to find the timetable. He went inside the building, but he found nothing. No timetables, nobody at the reception, not one damn sign that could help him out. Ohhh, that was just his luck. He let out a sigh as he leaned with his back on one of the walls outside of the building.

Something about this place seemed not quite normal. He couldn't exactly point his finger on it, though. This looked like a train station, but everything that belonged to a normal train station was nowhere to be found here. Yosuke took out his cellphone - as he had expected, there was no net. Was it perhaps the world inside the TV? He shook his head. Even if the fog reminded him of the many times they were in the TV and the fact he couldn't help but feeling watched, that place should look differently again. Then again, who- or whatever had been the cause of the last Midnight Channel did say that he would be back. Yeah, that thought made Yosuke definitely feel uneasy. First things first, though. He had to find out - wait, there was a poster with information. How had he overlooked that before? That was a start for now.

REVISION REQUESTED

[rubycitymods]

Thank you for your application.

At this time we would like to see more detail in your First Person Sample, as we feel that what has been shown is not adequately displaying Yosuke's character.

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

[nobugs]

Ouch!

[Yosuke lets out a pained shout before he doubles over from the kick, dropping the Evoker to the ground and grabbing for his nads, in hope for some kind of pain relief in that. He'd ask what that was for, except he totally knows what she probably is feeling considering he had pulled a gun on her head. After all, he had been scared shitless when Akihiko did the same thing to him.]

Are you crazy?! I've just tried to see if you can summon your Persona.

[Yes, he does have an unbearable pained look on his face. At this rate, he will probably become impotent. Probably. It hurts that badly. Not cool, Chie.]

ACCEPTED

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