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rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
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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.
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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.
[CANON] Castiel || Supernatural || no reserve || 2 of 3
Castiel is, as his name indicates, an angel of the Lord, the first introduced in the show, and he was the one to raise Dean from the grips of Hell. As an angel, he shows little to no ability to understand and express basic human emotions. He also displays a severe lack of empathy towards human beings, and is quick to show his often lack of care for the species as anything other than a creation of his father.
At first, he gives little room for feelings or disobedience; he finds both, much like free will, to be frivolous and unnecessary. In time, he starts expressing doubt in the orders he's given, and the morality of these same orders. Although it is often hinted that angels probably don't have the ability to truly feel emotion, he gradually displays something akin to friendly affection towards Dean - even if he still has little patience for his whines and complaints. The more he interacts with the Winchester brothers, the more he develops an empathy and affection for not only Dean, Sam and others who are close to him, but also for the human race in general. This attachment gets his superiors to begin questioning his loyalty, as they fear that his feelings are clouding his judgements and that he is no longer reliable to carry on his mission.
Eventually he rebels against heaven and is stripped of his angelic abilities, and finds himself forced to interact more with humans. It's during this period that he develops the most in a humanistic sense. He is shown to be inadequate, improper and socially awkward, and to have a lack of understanding for social normatives. He displays a cold, distant behavior towards others, and he keeps a tense and stoic presence at all times. He often shows confusion and inability in processing the nuances in human behavior and interaction. His responses, if any, are unbalanced to what others say and do in casual circumstances. More often than not he will not understand jokes or pranks, and hints, metaphors and manners of speech are completely lost on him - this, along with the fact that he's extremely technologically challenged, makes for some strange yet awkwardly funny moments.
Castiel is a creature of faith; even after being rejected by heaven, and being proven that his father and brothers don't care nearly as much as he thought they did, he still aims to stop the Apocalypse. He joins the Winchesters in their fight, and truly believes in their methods and that there are always other paths, other ways to solve things. He is loyal and dedicated, both when he follows his father's orders and when he leaves Heaven to fight alongside the brothers. He trusts others, sometimes too easily, and he can sometimes be gullible and naive, unable to see past the facade of some when they are trying to trick him - especially if he cares for or trusts them. He is honest and blunt with his words, and has a hard time lying when necessary.
Although he shows to have a conscience, and to care about humanity's well being, he is still willing to kill innocents if the need arises. On occasion, he even comes close to expressing feelings of regret, hesitance and anger. His intentions are nothing but good and honest, but he doesn't always foresee the most nefarious consequences of his actions, even when these are obvious.
By exposing himself to humanity, he rediscovers his own. Throughout the story, he goes through a humanizing process of sorts. He is a deeply conflicted character who shows incredible strength in his beliefs at times, yet at others it is shown that his faith and trust stands unbalanced on the tip of a sharp blade. In that sense, he can be a little volatile and unpredictable, and his own abilities seem to be affected by how shaken his faith is at that particular moment. He will, most of all, always hold inner struggles on what's normal or not, sane or crazy, right or wrong, good or evil - and try to find a ground that's stable enough for him to stand on. Even if, most of the times, he can't.
[CANON] Castiel || Supernatural || no reserve || 3 of 3
[The feed starts, and... there's only an eye - maybe one can see the bridge of a nose, a wrinkled eyebrow even. Is he holding the watch too close to his face? He thinks not.]
Who is this? [His voice is deep and grave as he continues unceremoniously.] Gabriel, if this is another one of your pranks, I have no time to lose. There are things that need to be done, and I will not be dragg--
[There's a thud and the watch goes flying through the air as Castiel walks straight into a street sign. It lands a few meters away, now capturing the man in a suit and a trenchcoat as he winces and walks over to pick the watch up from the floor... and holds it upside down.]
Stop this right this instant. What have you done to Dean and Sam? [And now he's staring at the watch, waiting for a reply.]
... how do I disconnect this? [Cue Castiel closing and reopening the watch several times before the feed eventually cuts out.]
Third Person:
He opened his eyes.
He didn't know why he closed them in the first place. He did not require sleep after all, but still he felt the need to try and shut everything out. It only made him more tired in the end; he didn't understand why humans would call something like this rest.
With a single thought, he was outside. The streets were deserted, and the night lights were flickering, casting his shadow across the ground. He could see a glimpse of wings crawling its way out of the shadow's back. Dean would find some irony to it, probably, although Castiel wouldn't understand the joke. Once again, he conjured his thoughts, and in the blink of an eye he was no longer surrounded by buildings and pavement, but trees, grass and humidity. It still wasn't good enough. This was as far as his powers got him, apparently, but he was still trapped inside the city.
He didn't appreciate being here. He did not like the distraction. It got in the way of his faith.
He surveyed the entire area; once he would have admired its beauty, but now... he was not sure what to even admire anymore. This was not even his Father's creation - he could tell by the brushstrokes and the color palette that this was not one of His works. This itched at the back of his brain, at a place he couldn't reach, and for reasons he couldn't quite comprehend. He was never so naive as to think He was the only God in a Universe so vast - or in a myriad of Universes, as it seemed to be the case. Or was he?
He returned to the city by foot, his mind plagued with questions, doubts - plans. Tomorrow he would find Dean, and they would think of something else. Maybe they could try one of Dean's plans. Those seemed to work... sometimes.
Soon he was back inside - a room that wasn't really his, with a bed he didn't use next to a table with a lamp that he hadn't turned on yet, and a chair he had never sat on before. He closed a door he hadn't even touched until then, and lied in the rough mattress. He hoped that if he closed his eyes enough times at night, he would be able to experience something close to sleep, and then maybe his thoughts wouldn't be so jumbled, his mind would be clearer, and his powers restored for long enough that he could pull them out of there.
[ACCEPTED]
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