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 OC | Cronus Ampora | Homestuck | Reserved

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PLAYER
Name: James
Personal Journal: vastexpletive
E-mail: floridiancheese@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: itsasekrit1993


CHARACTER
Character Name: Cronus Ampora
Canon: Homestuck
Timeline: After his talk with Kankri
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: Cronus is the second worst character in Homestuck by far.

Alright no, but he's pretty horrible. At first glance, he might not seem like the worst person you could meet. In fact, he even seems rather nice! Claiming to be a sensitive artist, Cronus is a nice, well meaning kind of guy. He understands your problems and can sympathise with them and is just overall there for you. No ulterior motives or anything!

That's what he wants you to believe, at any rate. The truth is that this is all very much an act, and the dude is actually pretty scummy. He's clearly only nice to get close to people and to lead into making inappropriate advances on them more often than not. Cronus is somewhat obsessed with filling his quadrants and having sex. It's clear that he wouldn't admit to it, but he is rather desperate in this regard and it shows through his interactions with people.

The thing about him is though, it's not his fault! It's other people's faults. He is very much based on the 'nice guy' stereotype, and he lives up to that by blaming other people for not wanting to be with him. He alluded to this multiple times throughout his appearance in the comic, and not only that but he also made inappropriate advances on Mituna captor, before proceeding to heavily victim blame and make Mituna feel bad for it. In fact, this conversation also revealed what a manipulative bastard and jerk Cronus can be. Not only is he a jerk, but it also showed what an ableist he is by the way he blamed Mituna and insulted him over his mental problems.

Really, his conversation with Cronus made a lot of things clear. Like the fact that he just has no personal boundaries what so ever and doesn't see anything wrong with violating people's personal space. As mentioned above, he even went as far as to make Mituna feel bad for being uncomfortable about it. And, going back to a point above, it also revealed more about how he tries to manipulate people through drama and lies to try and garner pity; the biggest example being threatening to commit suicide.

Cronus is a very dramatic troll in that regard. He plays up his feelings in a way to try and get people to sympathise with him. Most interactions with him involve talking about his feelings in a pretty dramatic fashion. Additionally, he also claims to be humankin; a human born in a troll body- specifically a 1950s human greaser. Whether or not this is genuine or a ploy to get people interested in him remains to be seen, though it seems fairly genuine given his discussion about it with Kankri, who enabled this behaviour.

He is also rather egotistical, another of his negative traits that he tends to hide under his ~nice guy~ facade. He claims that his blood colour is not a big deal to him, but the opposite is pretty obvious given the way he talks about it. The truth of the matter is he puts about as much stock in blood colour as most snobbish highbloods do and really does expect to be treated better for it. TL;DR he is a privileged jerk with no respect for other people, who really needs a punch in the nose.

History: Harry PotterCronus is the pre-scratch version of the Orphaner Dualscar and, like all of the pre-scratch trolls, was born on the planet called Beforus, the pre-scratch version of the Troll planet Alternia. Whereas Alternia was a ruthless and violent place, Beforus was much more peaceful in comparison and the blood caste system not nearly as bad. However, Cronus is still a rather privileged high blood at any rate.

According to Aranea Serket, Cronus was once a wizard, believing himself to have been born to defeat an evil wizard as 'the angels foretold'. It's said that he had a lot of faith in magic and that he was very dedicated to the job of being a wizard and defeating this evil one. It was said that he believed this wizard tried to kill him, though the spell backfired and left Cronus with the two scars he has on his forehead instead.

However, at some point in his life he lost his faith in magic completely. No one seems to know why, and Cronus certainly doesn't seem to volunteer the information readily. It can be assumed that since Ahab's Crosshairs is found in a chest near him, he switched his focus from magic to marksmanship as his main source of fighting.

He and a group of other trolls would then go on to play sgrub, with Cronus as the Bard of Hope. Of course they ended up losing the game and having to scratch it, though this wasn't done right away and they spent far longer in their null session than they actually needed to, during which there was a lot of romance drama. Cronus wasn't really a part of any of that, however, considering the fact he is a complete and utter failure at filling any of his quadrants.

In the afterlife of the dream bubbles, Cronus still wasn't successful in that regard. Certainly not after learning of humans and realizing he's humankin. Which is a thing he definitely did. In fact it's safe to say that Cronus has gotten worse at filling quadrants in death, having had the opportunity to try and perfect his nice guy facade and attempt to perfect his 1950s greaser persona., as well as his music. Which seems to be rather inappropriate and very offputting, if Meenah is any indication.

Strengths/Weaknesses: As shown by his personality, Cronus is a manipulative douchebag. This might not work on everyone, but if it does it can be quite effective. His weaknesses tend to outweigh his strengths however. His personality as a whole is a huge weakness, making it difficult to become close to people and get what he wants. Mainly, getting laid.
Abilities: Not much is really shown about Cronus's abilities. A chest a few feet away from him has Ahab's Crosshairs, which would indicate that he's proficient in the art of shooting a gun. Also he is the best at romance. Only not really.

Relationships to Canon Characters: His biggest relation would be with the other violet bloods; Eridan Ampora and Dualscar. Even then it's not a very close relation other than the fact that they are sort of related in the confusing sense that Cronus is the pre-scratch version of Dualscar, who is Eridan Ampora's Ancestor.

First Person: This post has several threads that hopefully meet the requirements!

Third Person: You would think that suddenly being dragged away from the only place he knew for years would have been an inconvenience. Something to be annoyed or angry at. And maybe in a way it was an inconvenience. But honestly? The perks definitely outweighed everything else.

How long, exactly, had he been stuck in that dream bubble with the same old people? Way too long, in Cronus's opinion, now that he was somewhere new. With so many possibilities. And what was even better was he was surrounded by humans. He was with his own kind! That part was pretty damn exciting, if he were honest. Especially since he was still dealing his confusion over the whole humankin thing. It would help with that and he was eager to learn more about them.

But honestly what really had him excited was the fact no one knew him in this strange place called Ruby City. If he played his cards right, he would certainly have better luck here than he did back in the dream bubble. He just had to be careful, he realized. But obviously it wasn't going to be an issue, because who wouldn't like him?

That's right. You couldn't not love him. Just look at all the swag he had. At least that's what he told himself. And he believed it, too. But only time would tell if he would ever actually have any luck here like he wanted to believe he would.

ACCEPTED

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