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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:

[Edward had found the silver pocketwatch on his first inventory, examined it as closely as he could, and then left it strictly alone for the next four days. It was a cute toy, and he was looking forward to it, but it was bad policy to trust someone else’s toys until you knew a little about them.

On day four, he switched it on, tilted his cowboy hat back on his head, and flashed the camera a feel-good grin. It was a little smug, that girn, but genuinely pleased too, and inclusive -- whatever the joke was, you were in on it. It was relaxed, and it had swagger. His voice matches it, an easy Texas drawl.]

I should be neighborly sooner or later, and now’s as good as ever. Name’s Ted, Ted Forrester. I’m looking for a place to stay and a way to kill some time. If you’ve got a lead on either, I’d like to hear it. When it comes to work, I’m good with my hands, and I’m good with tools. I’d like to hear what’s available before I settle. When it comes to rooms... I like my space, but I’m easy to please.

Appreciate the help.

Third Person:

He’d been in the city three days. Three days was the minimum he allowed himself for canvassing a new location. In this case, he wasn’t sure he’d gotten a feel for it yet, so it was too soon to start hunting except as necessary for protection. But he’d talked to the locals, charmed a few of them. Confirmed some suspicions, discarded some theories... and come across one piece of information too interesting to pass up any longer.

It was breaking a rule. But sometimes the rules needed breaking, if you were good enough to be sure you knew better. He was good enough. That wasn’t ego.

No-one on the street had seen him, and the locks on the building had been laughable. Finding the right room would have been a matter of instinct, not methodical search -- but neither was necessary. He’d spent the last evening keeping the place under surveillance. He knew where he was going.

Once he was in the right room, he took off his hat, and just like that he was Edward, not Ted. He set it on a chair, where she’d see it as soon as she came in. Then he moved to the corner, unobtrusive, just out of the natural sight line from the door,leaning back against the wall, shifting until he was comfortable. If she kept to routine, he’d have half an hour’s wait.

It was better not to make this a pissing contest, something where she’d feel the need to prove herself, so after a moment’s thought he un-holstered, setting his 9 mm on the bed.

He didn’t bother to do anything about the hold-out up his sleeve. She’d never noticed it before, and he wouldn’t make himself defenseless for anyone’s comfort.

Besides. There was always a chance that today was the day.

Thank you for your application!

While your application is good, we would like your first person sample to be written in the present tense. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the mod team or respond here.

[Edward finds the silver pocket-watch on his first inventory, examines it as closely as he can.

Then he leaves it strictly alone for the next four days. It's a cute toy, and he's looking forward to it, but it's bad policy to trust someone else’s toys until you know a little about them.

On day four, he switches it on, tilting his cowboy hat back on his head, and flashes the camera a feel-good grin. It's a little smug, that grin, but genuinely pleased too, and inclusive -- whatever the joke is, you're in on it. It's relaxed, and it has swagger. His voice matches it, an easy Texas drawl.]

I should be neighborly sooner or later, and now’s as good as ever. Name’s Ted, Ted Forrester. I’m looking for a place to stay and a way to kill some time. If you’ve got a lead on either, I’d like to hear it. When it comes to work, I’m good with my hands, and I’m good with tools. I’d like to hear what’s available before I settle. When it comes to rooms... I like my space, but I’m easy to please.

Appreciate the help.

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

If you have a plurk account, please add the rubycitymods plurk to be included in future updates, information and feedback. We are on plurk at

rubycitymods.

Thanks!

Quick question: since Edward would keep a low profile for the first couple days in town, is it cool if I handwave and assume he's been here a while when I make my IC intro?

That's absolutely fine :)

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