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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: Terra
Personal Journal:

terraminuit
E-mail: cjanderson88@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: terra2point0

CHARACTER
Character Name: The Disciple
Canon: Homestuck
Timeline: Just before her 'execution'
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?:N/A

Personality:

Disciple is Nepeta's Ancestor and as such is similar to her in many ways. She is loyal to a fault, lively and happy, and is a competent huntress. Unlike her descendant, she refuses to use violence against her fellow trolls. It's noteworthy that even though the e%cutioner killed the Signless and the Disciple is griefstricken, she does not attempt to hurt him or attack her. Her love for the Signless and her utter grief at his death do not overshadow the teachings he instilled in her and she refuses to attack.

Before his capture, she was a bright and lively individual. She was unafraid of what lay ahead as she traveled, even after the attack by woofbeasts. Her favorite activity was always reaching the next hill or the next town. Every day was a new adventure and it was all the better for having her lover at her side. Even when they were in trouble from highbloods at various times before their capture, the Disciple bounced back quickest of all. Her ability to look on the bright side and take a lighter tone was invaluable in a group of somewhat serious individuals. In fact it could be, on occasion, somewhat grating because she insisted on taking the 'look on the bright side' thing a bit too far. Which is to say, Disciple almost entirely lacked the ability to read the atmosphere. She says the wrong thing at the wrong time quite often and is quick to assume.

She enjoyed writing almost obsessively, taking it upon herself to write down all of his sermons and often carried around her book of his teachings. She recorded nearly everything in fact, from the towns they visited to conversations their group had. She can be extremely talkative but is equally able to be a great listener. Catch her interest and she will sit there listening to you go on and on. She was very adept at making fires, skinning and preparing animals, and finding new plants for them to eat. She loves to be useful, going out of her way to figure out tiny ways she can help her friends or random trolls.

She could be a little defensive at times and was quick to uphold her honor and those of the rest of her little group of friends. Before becoming his Disciple, she got into a few fights but that occasional temper or pride has calmed down. She was a bit sheepish about her habit of slipping into catpuns, since she considered them to be somewhat childish and she tried to curb them whenever she can.

History:

Very little is known about the Disciple in canon so I had to fill in many blanks. What is known is that she was the most faithful disciple of Signless and they were lovers of some sort. I filled in some blanks of her back ground with ideas from Mater Dolorosa. The following background is mostly filled in with ideas from that fanfiction. If that's unacceptable, please let me know.

Like all trolls at this time on Alternia, Bastet was found in the caverns by her lusus, brought to the surface and raised and protected until she was near maturity. Unlike most, she was brought to the caverns by a meteor and in another lifetime she played and lost a game that destroyed her world. This new life was her chance to prepare this world anew for a new set of children who would play the same game.

Bastet took after her feline lusus in many ways, taking up claws to hunt and defend herself and learning the ways to survive in the jungle. When her lusus was killed some time in her eighth sweep, she was saddened but felt herself quite able to take care of herself.

Unfortunately, Alternia is not a safe place to roam alone and she was nearly killed by a pack of howlbeasts. It was then that a woman and a boy her age leapt in and saved her. She was both enchanted and grateful and clung to them for a few days. When they inevitably moved on, she followed from a distance. It was a combination of loneliness and attraction that led her on this path, following them for a lack of a better option. She witnessed the boy speaking several times and his words touched her. The world without violence that he spoke of...it was mesmerizing.

She has to get closer to them. She wants to follow them, to hear the words from his lips, to go wherever they will take her. It does not matter so long as it is with them. She follows, asks to join them and is thrilled to be invited. The words he speaks are now written, carefully in her book. She is his ever faithful scribe and with them, she journeys to spread his word to the people of Alternia. As he gained the name 'Signless' she gains her own, 'Disciple' and she takes to it with eagerness, almost entirely abandoning her old name. She finds it a far more fitting name for herself and will give it as her own if asked

Disciple provides them with new ways to survive and new methods of patience and things of that sort, and becomes invaluable in her own time. Her new thoughts and her traditional upbringing give the Signless a new perspective on their society and her open mind and heart allow them to become close. It's later, after many perigrees that he and she fall for each other in a way that trolls have no word for.
They travel on, over waters in their ship, even after it becomes obvious that the highbloods are learning what is going on under the surface of their planet. The Signless and his words have spread over the planet and he is greeted with recognition from those he has never met. The undercurrent of rebellion forces them to be fast on their feet and quick with their weapons. They don't kill other trolls. It isn't their way, but they won't allow themselves to be caught or scared into hiding. They run and speak until the very last day before the highbloods catch them.

Disciple watches them force her lover into irons so hot they burn and bleed and watches his mutant red blood displayed for the world to see and they are all bound as well.

She, his most faithful, cannot save him, but she steals what is left on his body, a pair of leggings, the only thing left. She awaits her execution with glaring eyes.

Strengths/Weaknesses: Disciple is a skilled huntress and tracker with a gift for listening and putting down words to paper. She is an optimist--and even with death staring her in the face she still is. She beleives that people can change and good can come from those you least expect.
Her pacifist outlook clashes with her temper and she has been known to get into arguments, especially with those who disgree with Signless' message. She also tends to overlook her friend's faults which is the other half of the optimism coin. By trying to see the best she ignores the worst.
Abilities: Disciple is a skilled hunter and writer.

Relationships to Canon Characters: She is the matesprit of Signless, companion to Dolorosa and Psiionic, and ancestor of Nepeta Leijon.

First Person:

If this is the afterlife, it's one I've never heard of. [There is video but it's dark. She's speaking aloud to herself, a habit she has from being alone sweeps ago.] All these strange hives and the many-wheeled device that brought me here. Unless this is some other planet. Though she was going to kill me so why would she send me somewhere else...

...Oh what is this? Oh oh is it food? [There's sounds of pawing through something and then a resigned noise] Well then, I'll look somewhere else. Hey, at least it looks like it can't be the afterlife. I'm furly sure you won't get hungry when you're dead.

Third Person:

Her eyes blinked open then narrowed. There was light, but just barely. Like the hour before twilight when it poured and the sun was hidden enough to stand in the warm water. The times when it was almost safe to go outside but not quite. There's a glimpse of flat wide plains. She's dreaming, of rolling along them and her eyes shut again. She remember crouching and waiting for death to come. Or was that a dream too?

Disciple wakes again and this time her body aches with staying in one spot. The movements to stretch out her limbs are automatic and as she does them, she scans her surroundings. There's a sudden dangerous moment of panic. She had been facing death. She was somewhere she didn't recognize.

And the sensation of movement she hadn't been paying attention to stopped. Whatever had been moving her had come to a halt and she felt this urge to move. She had never been one to deny her instincts and her scramble from the train was with less than her usual grace. Her claws at ready and her heart pounding, she was ready for a fight.

But there was nothing. Hives taller than ten of her and empty abandoned places. Her body relaxed. Was she dead? Had she come to her afterlife? She took slow steps into this place, not noticing the pocket watch tucked in her pocket.

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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PLEASE BE AWARE: THE CITY IS CURRENTLY ENTERING AN EVENT.

For more information, check the event post here! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Have fun!

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APPLICATIONS

[Fandom OC] The Disciple || Homestuck || no reserve || 1/2

[Fandom OC] The Disciple || Homestuck || no reserve || 2/2

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