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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:

[When he wakes, he’s disoriented, but that is hardly anything new for the lapsed-recovering alcoholic. His first thought, of course, is that he’s gone on another bender and somehow found himself on the other side of the country (again), however when he opens his eyes and looks out of the train window it is immediately clear to him that this is not England, not Britain, not even Europe by the looks of it. Plains, as far as he could see. A strange feeling comes over him, one of being watched and not by a presence that he thought entirely friendly, but a quick turning in his seat reveals nothing other than the undeniable fact that he is utterly alone.]

What the bloody hell did I drink..?

[It is curiosity, more than the strange urge that he has to disembark that pushes him from the train. The clothes he is wearing are familiar at least, save for… wait, what is this? He pats his pocket, hoping for a ticket stub or something to tell him where the devil he is, and draws out a watch, turning it over in his hands as he steps out onto the platform. A watch, it looks like, but not like any watch he’s ever seen before. He frowns, and looks up and down the deserted train platform. His finger slides along the edge of the watch, unwittingly broadcasting communications to anyone who’s listening.]

Where the hell am I…

Third Person:

‘Til now, I always got by on my own, I never really cared until I met y—‘

Arthur made an irritated sound and smacked his hand against the ‘off’ button of the radio. He was sure that song was dogging him and it was only making it more difficult to concentrate on what he was going to do. What he wanted to do. So far he had attempted three times to get the words out but twice nothing had happened and the third time he had been interrupted and simply shot a snide insult instead. It had done very little to help his cause but he supposed that Alfred had to be used to that kind of thing by now.

He didn’t think that the younger man was on to him, but how could he be? Arthur was rather aware that he was no prize catch and he had spent so many years ridiculing the American nation that it was almost second nature for him to do so. Today, he was going to do it. He was going to tell the idiot how he felt once and for all, for better or worse. The consequences didn’t bear thinking about if it went badly – he knew he’d not feel right showing his face for a while – but he was refusing to allow himself to be beaten by such a foolish thing as a crush on a boy.

Gazing up at the high ceiling of his hotel room, Arthur let out a slow sigh and shook his head. He hated being in this country, but he loved it all the same. There was no other land quite like America, no other place made him feel so bloody insignificant and it drove him insane. Yet, he always felt so remarkably comfortable here. Perhaps that was odd considering his history with it but they were far from Virginia now, and such things didn’t bother him as much when there was nothing around to remind him.

Finally, he rolled out of bed and moved to the bathroom to wash his face and shave the slight crop of stubble that was dusting the lower half of his face. Putting on his tie took too long, and it was when he noticed that his hands were shaking that he had to open the minibar and grab a small bottle of whiskey that he downed in one mouthful. As the liquid burned its way down to his stomach and settled there as an uncomfortable heat, he leaned on the dresser and stared at himself. The past two decades had not been terribly kind to Arthur, and it showed when he stopped to look at his reflection. He was a little too thin, he knew that, and the pallor of his skin was just shy of unhealthy. What bothered him the most were the purplish shadows under his eyes, and had he been a vainer man (one did come to mind) he might have used makeup to cover them.

However, Arthur was not that vain of a man and he took one last look at himself before grabbing his jacket and heading out.

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