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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

Strengths/Weaknesses:
Physically, Benedetta is extremely weak and sickly. She is immune deficient, which causes her to be chronically ill. It's stated that even a "tiny wound" can kill her if it's left untreated, hence the reason she appears "tattered" and is covered in bandages.

Mentally and emotionally, however, she seems almost untouchable. She doesn't lose hope and her faith in God is all but unshakable. It's not hard for her to carry on even in dire circumstances. However, as this ultimately stems from her lacking a sense of self-worth, it's just as much a weakness as a strength; she will allow other people to take advantage of her and even sacrifice her own health and happiness for flimsy reasons because she doesn't truly believe she deserves it.

Abilities:
Masochistic Pneumatic Automatism Diathesis- Caren was stated to have inherited her psychic ability from her mother. This is basically a rare power that allows a person to act as a radar for demons, as when they're near a person who is possessed, they experience pain and even physical wounds. This can even happen when they're simply around someone whose thoughts and actions are sufficiently "dark" or "evil."

Relationships to Canon Characters:

Kirei Kotomine- Her husband. She is stated to be the only person who ever understood him, and she loves him deeply. Because of her lack of a sense of self-worth, she views his happiness as worth more than her own life.
Caren Hortensia- Her daughter. She died when Caren was less than two years old, and also has a deep motherly love for her. Probably also views her happiness as worth more than her life.
Risei Kotomine- Her father-in-law. She's fond of Risei, who introduced her and Kirei to one another, and they get along well.

First Person: Musebox thread

Third Person:
Benedetta arrived barefoot and in a dress far too thin for winter. That made sense, seeing as until a few minutes ago it had been summertime and she had been bedridden from illness, and also dead. The alive-after-death thing wasn't what bothered her about the situation, though. She had always believed in an afterlife, after all. But if she had died, why was her body still marked with never-healing wounds?

She ignored the buildings highlighted on the train station's map—barely paid attention to the sign but for the words written there, her still-numb mind turning them over again and again. They didn't make half as much sense as she would have liked them to. But the cold was setting in, radiating up from her toes, so rather than dwelling on those cryptic words further, she turned and walked toward the nearby buildings.

She didn't stop at the clinic, despite her form being plainly peppered with bandages still. Instead, she walked directly to the cathedral she saw in the distance. She was drawn there almost instinctively—after all, what better place to go when her mind was troubled? When she pushed its doors open, her knees gave out beside the pew nearest to the entrance, and she didn't fight the urge to let her aching body collapse against it, drawing her legs up and huddling to warm herself.

Her dead limbs had no right to ache like this. Was she in purgatory, or was this hell itself...?

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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Aww yis. I have a couple of questions about clerical things, though! (I'm sorry, this is probably annoying.)

1. What name would you prefer I use for tagging/the taken characters list? There's no widely accepted fanon name for her, alas, so would you prefer I list the headcanon one I'm using, or something more general like Hortensia/Kotomine's wife/both?
2. Similarly, is it okay if I just stick her under the Fate/Zero heading on the taken list? She never appears directly in any part of the series, hence why I'm asking.
3. Aaand lastly, this is something I was going to ask on the FAQ, but I'm already asking things here so I figure why give you another comment to respond to: Is there any place in the city that might cause her diathesis to flare up? (I'm going to set up a permissions post for player characters, no worries there!)

Thanks for bringing these up! It's always good to double-check, and we'll try to address your questions accordingly.

1. Your headcanon name should be just fine for the purposes of playing in Ruby City, at least until any sort of "official" name comes to light.

2. You can absolutely stick her there, since it would probably be the most appropriate.

3. It's possible that if she got stuck too deep in the catacombs she might experience some issues, though there's nothing actually "demonic" there so much as it is an excess of residual, malevolent energy. Feel free to contact us directly if this ever seems likely and we can clarify further for you if need be.

Haha yeah, residual malevolent energy would do it. Thank you!

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