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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

<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

First Person: [TEXT]

thanks but no thanks
i dont need a watch
or a clinic
or any kind of human companionship during my unplanned vacation to ghost town limbo county
its mind boggling given the statistical evidence but some thirteen year olds dont need constant vigilance twenty four seven to keep from randomly dying like stupid assholes
go figure
step off my grill im good
ill walk it off
all i really want is some kind of news update so i can get my bearings
so
question
has the world ever ended here
you know even a little bit
inquiring canaries must know

Third Person:

There was a flash of green, and it was all over.

Davesprite hovered over the Battlefield--now deafening in the sudden silence after the Reckoning, after Jade's and Rose's and his other self's ascension--and thought of exactly nothing. He had nothing left to think, for a time. It was a merciful quiet.

He was done.

He sank slowly to the broken, checkered tiles below him and tried to hold that well of silence inside him, but already reality was trickling in again. Just echoes, at first. They did it. You're done. It's over. He pressed his hot cheek to the swell of the ground and tried to immerse himself in only the sick, unending torture of his torn wing and stomach, but even that didn't stave off the next round of returning awareness.

They were done, and Bro was still dead.

Davesprite was out of tries. He wasn't the time guy no more, he couldn't go back and fix it. Not even Dave could, apparently, because here they were and Bro was still gone, and something inside him knew that that was how it was supposed to be. Not for some kind of terrible justice, not because it was part of his--or Dave's, since Davesprite's path probably didn't matter anymore--not because it was part of Dave's epic bildungsroman (thanks, Rose), but because that "supposed to" was supposed by some sadistic gods of space and time who didn't give a syphilic shart about four kids and their dead, doomed Guardians.

Drifting in his wounded, bitter haze, he felt a pang of pity for Jadesprite, who'd been so unhappy only for alpha Jade to subsume her personality, and didn't have the heart--though he did have the perspective, that much was given him as Dave's sprite and spirit guide--to recognize that it was a pang of pity for himself. Poor, doomed Davesprite. She left him all alone on a battered, busted planet.

Not that it mattered. He was just going to have a lie down for a while. It's not like he had anything else to do. He'd done what he came back to do, and everyone was alive, except for the people who'd ever given half a fuck about him after he'd prototyped himself.

When he opened his eyes again, his bleeding torso still ached but his cheek was pressed against a pane of cool glass instead of the cracked chessboard tile of the Battlefield. He frowned, then lifted his head from the window. He was on a train?

"Motherfuckers," he croaked, then let his head thump back against the glass with a groan. In a minute, he'd get up and reconnoiter. For Dave. For the game.

He still had shit to make transpire.

While we're happy with your app as a whole, we would like to request a revision on your first-person sample so as to gain a better understanding of how well you grasp the character's personality and mannerisms.

Would a link to a musebox entry be okay? If so, here: http://cinderbox.dreamwidth.org/655.html

If not, I can edit the sample in my app, I just have to wait until I'm not on my phone.

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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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

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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!

APPLICATIONS

[CANON] DAVESPRITE || Homestuck || reserve || 2 of 2

REVISION REQUESTED

Re: REVISION REQUESTED

ACCEPTED