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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

PLAYER
Name: Elizabeth R. Miller-Mosher
Personal Journal: http://neurotic-insect.dreamwidth.org/
E-mail: missfluffy100@aol.com
AIM/MSN/etc: missfluffy100

CHARACTER
Name: Death (also known as Bill Door to some)
Canon: Discworld
Timeline: Between Soul Music and Hogfather

Personality:

Death, as you can imagine, is a complicated and very unusual person to write for. He isn’t really a person, when you get down to it. He is more of the End. Not the end like the end of a piece of music, but the end of everything that is. It is his job and his one true specialty in life.

As he exists on the planet upon the back of four elephants upon the back of a turtle that is Discworld, Death is usually regarded with resentment at the worst of times, respect at the best, and generally gets treated as someone who is to be neither trifled with nor ignored. He makes his rounds usually by collecting and sending off the souls of people, but has been known to collect the souls of animals. And, as far as animals are concerned, he has a soft spot for kittens and his beloved steed, the pale horse Binky.

Those who find themselves able to speak to Death (as a client or otherwise) usually note that he has a peculiar way of using tenses and referring to things that have not strictly happened yet. It is partly to do with the fact that Death can see the past, present, and future all at once, and thus sometimes finds himself having a chuckle over the confusion in his conversational partners. Aside from that, he is probably one of the more amicable people to talk to in the entirety of Discworld. He harbors an intense compassion for humanity and considers it to be far more beautiful than anyone might think. He rarely ever loses his temper, but when he does…well, you best make your peace quickly. Death is nothing if not absolute, and when he is absolutely pissed off, something will very likely die to rectify that.

Another thing that sets Death apart from others who have used his name is that he has occasionally taken it upon himself to try and adopt a habit of humanity. Whether he does so for curiosities sake (such as with Isabelle or Mort) or for more personal reasons (like in Soul Music), the results are usually mixed and tend to leave his business in disarray. He always manages to come back to his job, of course, but the things he learns as part of his experiments with human ways have left their mark. Ysabel (pronounced like Isabelle) and Mort are perhaps his two greatest accomplishments in this regard.

Edited 2013-02-22 22:28 (UTC)

This brings up another important aspect about Death: his family. Ysabel is his daughter through adoption and his first true experimentation with human nature. He, of course, got a fair share of things wrong in trying to raise her, but she ultimately became a fiercely independent woman willing to actually stand up to Death himself for love and personal freedom. Mort was Death’s one and only apprentice who eventually mucked up his master’s business enough that Death literally slapped his cheek so hard his child would feel it. Mort and Ysabel, following the events of Mort’s apprenticeship, were allowed to return to the human world and managed to take over a Duchy as Duke and Duchess. This led to his most important and ongoing relationship: that with his granddaughter, Susan. She is a precocious but good-natured young woman bearing a birthmark in the shape of the scar Death left upon her father’s face. The two met following the passing of Susan’s parents and bonded over the process of grieving and assuring themselves that the job of Death is one that must be taken with the greatest severity. She is quite possibly his most favorite person in the world, and it is because of her that he can find comfort in the death of his daughter and son-in-law.

Apart from these things, there is not much that truly needs being said about Death. He is a living skeleton in a black cloak, and carries a scythe that can cut through the very words in the air. His eyes glow blue with the color of infinity, and he is both the most terrifying and perhaps most loving person to ever walk the Disc. He shows mercy and compassion in leaps and bounds, but never strays from his Duty. As Death, he is to end all things in time, including the universe itself.

And as a final note: HE ALWAYS SPEAKS IN CAPITALS LIKE THIS. IT IS MEANT TO SHOW WHAT HIS VOICE SOUNDS LIKE, WHICH IS SAID TO BE LIKE THE LID OF A STONE COFFIN DROPPING INTO PLACE. Wizards, witches, and cats usually seem him clearly, although anyone could. There is usually a glamor effect in place to make him seem more like something the human mind can deal with, although he can just as easily appear as himself. And on a whole, most liken him to sounding like Christopher Lee.

Edited 2013-02-22 22:29 (UTC)

First Person:

CURIOUS.

[Death has found himself in a number of situations people would describe as odd or worrisome, but this is neither of those nor any word that a thesaurus would declare as being similar. It was certainly not the Disc, and that was all he really needed to know for the moment.]

VERY CURIOUS.

[He summons his scythe as he reads the various signs and postings along the train station. The food and blankets were useless to him, of course, but the sentiment told him good things about the people who lived in this…Ruby City.

And then there is the matter of the pocket watch. There are other worlds where such…technology, that was the word, is common place, but such worlds are not the one he has just been taken from. Very, very odd, as it were.]

VERY WELL. [And he flips the watch open and works it on with little trouble.] I DO NOT SUPPOSE IT WOULD BE AN EASY MANNER TO MAKE CONVERSATION WITH THE ONE WHO HAS BROUGHT ME HERE? THERE ARE APPOINTMENTS I MUST KEEP, AND I CANNOT KEEP THEM FROM WHEREVER HERE IS.

Third Person:

Death, as he sometimes did, did a little decorating. He was not perfect about it, and it certainly showed that he had little proper understanding about what it meant to actually put function into a place. At his office, everything only looked like it had a function.

NOW WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS THING? The “thing” in question was a bit of potpourri sitting by the window, and he held it between two fingers as one might a diseased carcass. Dead flowers and other plant parts dried up so that they could make a home smell good. Oh, this was most certainly a dwelling better suited for humans. It would have to do.

Heaving a sigh as well as one could without lungs; Death did another turn around to get a view of the apartment. No doubt, he would find a bed with a proper mattress and some sheets to put upon it. Even Binky didn’t seem able to find him here. That distressed him more than anything. He would actually have to…walk to places. The passage of time would be more absolute than merely a flow that went in all directions.

Nodding, Death came to a simple conclusion. PERHAPS A DRINK…

Edited 2013-02-22 22:30 (UTC)

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