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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

Personality: Madoka Kaname on the whole comes off as a bubbly, cheerful and friendly girl; she has a sweet, often humble, disposition and an easy way with most people that make her an easy person to befriend. She’s someone who tends to wear her heart on her sleeve more often than not; this may sometimes make her come across as childish or even a little helpless, although those making such an assumption would soon find that nothing could be further from the truth. Enthusiastic and affectionate with her friends, you could be forgiven for finding it a little unlikely that this was the girl that became a literal embodiment of the concept of Hope before rewriting several universes with a single wish.

The most unfailingly constant thing about Madoka is her kindness and compassion for others; those looking for proof need only look to the original timeline, when she used her wish to revive a dead stray cat that had been run over moments before. Madoka is a kind and gentle soul, and when she was human, one of her greatest wishes in life was for the people around her to get along and be happy. She was and still remains the kind of person who would lend a fair and listening ear to everyone, even making attempts to if not befriend than at least understand those who may seem at odds with her at first. This makes her a natural mediator and an emotional support for many, something that she demonstrates time and again in her interactions with the other Puella Magi in multiple timelines. Particularly in a world like the one Madoka was originally from, her kindness was both her greatest asset and her biggest flaw – she simply cares too easily and too much. This goes hand in hand with her optimism, her belief in the power of friendship, and her seemingly unending supply of faith and hope. Although seeming like more of a hindrance than a help in a world where being a magical girl essentially means becoming a lich doomed to fall into despair and trusting others is more likely to get you killed, it was Madoka’s kindness and determination to help others even at the cost of herself that eventually proved key to ending the timeloops for good when she made her final wish, creating a much kinder universe and improving the fate of all magical girls to boot.

As a human, Madoka suffered from extremely low self-esteem. She was painfully aware of her own insignificance and desperately longed for some sort of purpose to her life; she once said that her own deepest wish was for nothing more than to be useful to other people and to live being able to be proud of herself. Madoka didn’t particularly see herself as intelligent or worth bothering with, but nothing could have been further from the truth. Madoka had and still has a lot of inner strength and courage; she will walk into danger to support her friends or what she believes is right, regardless of her own fear or her perceived lack of skills; even in timelines where she didn’t become a Puella Magi, Madoka would often accompany Sayaka or the other girls as moral support. Madoka is also a lot more intelligent than she gives herself credit for; for all her idealism, she is actually very grounded, and has a good head on her shoulders. Her instincts and her initiative in the heat of the moment have occasionally saved lives, such as when she intervened to stop the group suicide in episode four. However, it should also be noted that rash actions like this have also lead to less than ideal outcomes, such as when she threw Sayaka’s Soul Gem away in an effort to stop her and Kyouko fighting – an action that could have lead to dire consequences for Sayaka had Homura not retrieved the gem in time. Madoka also has a great desire to protect the things she loves, a strong sense of justice and of right and wrong, and an inability to understand how anyone could act deliberately and unfeelingly in a way that would harm others. When it comes down to it, Madoka has a core of steel, and once she finally has all the pieces to decide which path she is taking, can look her destiny unflinchingly in the face.

Now that she has become a nigh-omniscient being of hope whose only real interaction with the physical world is when she collects the souls of exhausted magical girls, Madoka has acquired a somewhat different perspective than the one she had as a human girl. She retains almost all of the personality traits she had as an ordinary fourteen year old girl, and in many ways still acts like a fourteen year old, but she is also the sum of all the experiences she had in every timeline leading up to her final wish, and then some. Since she is Hope itself, she logically has no reason to despair even in the face of her own erasure from existence, and this makes her rather more mellow: if someone tells her that it’s wrong to hope, she will tell them that they are wrong every time. Her empathy and compassion for others’ suffering is still there, but it’s less likely to bring the outwardly tearful or horrified reaction it would have when she was human. Instead, she will offer all the help and comfort that it is within her power to give. Having finally been able to make more of a difference to the universe than she ever dreamed she would be able to, Madoka is much more self-assured and at peace with herself and everything else; even so, her desire to protect everything else remains.

APPLICATIONS

[ CANON ] Madoka Kaname || Puella Magi Madoka Magica || reserved || 2 of 3