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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[CANON] Korra || Avatar: The Legend of Korra || No Reserve || 1 of 1

[ugottadealwithit]

PLAYER
Name:Dan
Personal Journal:N/A
E-mail:Strawhatgamer@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc:LuffyDan

CHARACTER
Name: Korra
Canon: The Legend of Korra
Timeline: Post Episode 8.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality:

Korra is, at times, a bit of a meathead. And by bit, I mean, a lot. She prefers solve her problems by punching them, and she gets flustered and frustrated when a head-on approach doesn't work out for her. Any case that calls for Korra to actually plot and sit and think things out usually ends with her blowing up if she doesn't get a solution instantly. Patience is certainly not one of her best qualities.

As a child, she spent a great deal of her founding years training to master the four elements of water, earth, fire, and air, in order to be properly prepared for her to take hold of her role as the Avatar. Korra has achieved leaps and bounds of progress in every type of core bending, and is a skilled and fierce fighter, but when it ccomes to the spiritual practice of Avatar training, she fails as if she were being paid by the hour. When it finally came time for her to study air bending, Tenzin (the former Avatar's son and renowned Master of air bending), it was like running head first into a wall for Korra. For what may have been the first time in her life, things were not proceeding easily to Korra. For someone who can learn quickly and excel at whatever she puts her mind to, Korra is living day to day with constant frustrations. It can't also help the fact that she is also surrounded by other air benders, whom hold a better grasp of the art than she can, especially since a lot of them are also children.

She has also, up until recently, been unable to communicate with her previous lives. At her age, most Avatars had either already mastered all four elements, been able to communicate into the spiritual side of their being, or both. It is a great pain for Korra to not have a hold on these things, knowing that her previous life, in the form of Avatar Aang, that a boy much younger than her had saved the world from the Fire Nation. In Korra's worries, it seems as though she feels inadequate, having nothing to show for her being the Avatar at seventeen years of age, especially when the city continues to look to her for an answer. When Tarlock began instituting a curfew and rounding up non-bending citizens, Korra could not do anything more than watch in vain as her friends (benders and non-bending alike) were arrested for trying to aide innocent people. Knowing that she holds great power, and yet, being unable to do anything, it can do a heap of damage to some one's ego. As for Korra, it certainly struck a blow.

Having moved from her isolated village to the busy life of Republic City, Korra's personality has grown in a very short time. She had grown up some what sheltered, believing that the city was a pristine paradise of class and approach. Sadly, her ideals were nothing more than a dream. The city wasn't filled with style or prestige. Instead, thugs and gangs roam the streets and bully non-bending citizens with the practice she had been raised with, homeless people lived in bushes in the park, and she quickly learned that not everyone had a team of teachers and advisers to seek when life became tough, or for that matter, a family. In the case of her team mates Bo-Lin and Mako, Korra learned that in some cases people have to sink low in order to survive, discovering that her new friends used to run with a local gang. The world Korra knew was no longer black and white, but clouded and unfair. This was the sound of a gun going off in Korra's head, causing her to finally see the city for what it really was. This, and many other discoveries became the driving force for Korra to begin training harder, in order to fulfill her duties as Avatar and to restore balance to the city she dreamed of. There are parts of Korra that are still sheltered, and she can still be a little gruff. She some times does the wrong things in her attempts to help, but her heart is in the right place. She means well, she is compassionate, and she strives to help those who need her as not only a friend, but as the Avatar.

Fear is very new, and surely very real for Korra. Living under the careful and protective watch of the White Lotus, Korra never needed to fear anything about her way of life. In Republic City, an activist named Amon began a series of attacks against benders in the city. Calling his group the Equalists, Amon possesses the frightful ability of robbing benders of their powers. Fear has become a very difficult emotion for Korra to cope with, and when she first confronted it, she at once pushed it away, not wanting to appear weak in the eyes of the people she has sworn to serve. Despite some reoccurring issues, Korra discovered that having fear is no where near the same things as being weak. Through opening up to Tenzin, Korra was able to discover that it is okay to be afraid, for as long as we have support, we can face any fear that comes our way. Though she still fears Amon, she still prefers to retreat when face to face with him, rather than try to fight him head on.

Korra is naturally very friendly, and she is able to make new friends with ease. On the flip side, she can make judgements rather quick. She isn't too stubborn to change her opinions of people once they've proven that they're different than she first presumed them to be. Once someone has earned her trust, there isn't much she won't do for them. If you're on Korra's bad-side though, pray night and day that you'll live to see next week. She is one to hold deep grudges, and never for anything petty or cheap. She does not back down easily in a fight, whether verbal or with fists. If some one has ever crossed her, and more importantly those that she cares for, Korra will not hesitate to make it known that you've wronged her. This usually comes in the form of a vicious beat down, a la her fight with Counsel-man Tarlock. When Korra's friends were wrongfully imprisoned, Korra had to struggle to not raise her hands against Tarlock, who held the decision to let them free or remain jailed. Discovering that Tarlock had no intention of releasing them, but only held on to them in order to use Korra, she delivered a swift and just assault against him. Unfortunately, Korra (infamous for leaping before thinking) was caught by surprise as she soon discovered Tarlock's secret bending art: blood bending.

First Person:

[It had taken a great deal of effort to accomplish, but finally Korra had secure herself a place she could call home. Though she may lack a sense of style and refinery, at least her housing would be "cozy".

With a sign of accomplishment, Korra fell backwards onto her newly built bed. Though she had been able to lift the weight of it to the top floor of her building, she couldn't curse how wonderful it felt to finally lie down.

Sinking into the mattress, she looked to her ceiling with a dazed and tired pair of eyes. She began to close her eyes slowly, mumbling as she began her descent into sleep.]

"Mmrmm.. Sleep.. Rules.."

Third Person:

[She couldn't believe it! Korra was beside herself in rage! She was usually quick to anger, but this was at least some thing valid! Her lips were in danger of being stuck in a curl as her eyebrows twitched with fury. Snatching up her communicator, Korra flipped on the device. She started screaming so suddenly that the first part of her voice was cut off.]

"-OU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT TIME IT IS?! IF YOU MAKE US LATE FOR THE BIG GAME, SO HELP ME I WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOU EAT ALL OF YOUR MEALS THROUGH A STRAW! This is it! This is our big chance! Do you really wanna' blow it for us because you can't peel yourself away from your.. your.. YOUR GIRLFRIEND?!"

[She stares into the device with an intent that suggests castration. Since not being able to compete in professional bending, Korra had held a great deal of importance in playing soccer with the other denizens of the city. The fact that she was quite good at it didn't help much in making her calm down, but now that her victory over the other teams was in jeopardy, she felt her anger was appropriate.]

"Seriously! If you wanna' be on this team, be here like.. like.. TEN MINUTES AGO! Uggh~!"

[With a heavy sigh, she rubbed her temples as she set the device down on the table in front of her.]

"Look.. I'm.. I'm sorry! This is just really important to me, okay? I really wanna' play and this isn't helping at all so just get her quick, please?!"

[REVISION REQUESTED]

[rubycitymods]

Thank you for your application.

At this time we are requesting a revision before we consider your application for acceptance. Specifically, we would like you to please examine and revise your application's First- and Third-Person writing samples, as the samples you have provided do not match with the game's specifications. First-Person samples are to be composed of present-tense, script-style writing("bracket spam"), whereas Third-Person samples are to be composed of past-tense, prose-style writing("logs").

Please feel free to submit your revision at your convenience, and we will be happy to look it over as soon as it comes in.

We look forward to hearing back from you!

Re: [REVISION REQUESTED]

[ugottadealwithit]

First Person:

[She can't believe it! It figures that some thing like this is happening! Korra is usually quick to anger without provocation, but this is at least some thing valid! Her lips are in danger of being stuck in a curl as her eyebrows twitch with fury as the camera on her watch records her.]

"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT TIME IT IS?! IF YOU MAKE US LATE FOR THE BIG GAME, SO HELP ME I WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOU EAT ALL OF YOUR MEALS THROUGH A STRAW! This is it! This is our big chance! Do you really wanna' blow it for us because you can't peel yourself away from your.. your.. YOUR GIRLFRIEND?!"

Seriously! If you wanna' be on this team, be here like.. like.. TEN MINUTES AGO! Uggh~!"

[She pushes out a heavy sigh, rubbing her temples just after setting the device down on the table in front of her.]

"Look.. I'm.. I'm sorry! This is just really important to me, okay? I really wanna' play and this isn't helping at all so just get her quick, please?!"


Third Person:

[It had taken a great deal of effort to accomplish, but finally Korra had secured herself a place that she could call home. Though she may lack a sense of style and refinery, at least her housing would be "cozy" by her own standards.

Korra fell backwards onto her newly built bed, landing with a deep and pillow cushioned "THUD". She had been able to lift the weight of her new bed to the top floor of her building, and for as much of a struggle as it had been for her (even with bending at her aide) she couldn't curse her furniture now that she knew how wonderful it felt to finally lie down in it.

Sinking into the mattress, she looked to her ceiling with a dazed and tired pair of eyes. No longer able to fight her exhaustion, Korra began to close her eyelids, mumbling as she began her descent into sleep.]

"Mmrmm.. This bed.. Rules.."

[REVISION REQUESTED]

[rubycitymods]

Thank you for your application.

At this time we are requesting a revision before we consider your application for acceptance. Specifically, we would like you to please examine and revise your application's Third-Person writing sample, as the sample you have provided does not match with the game's specifications. Third-Person samples are to be composed of past-tense, prose-style writing("logs").

Please feel free to submit your revision at your convenience, and we will be happy to look it over as soon as it comes in.

We look forward to hearing back from you!