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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: While my decision to pick up Grantaire was more inspired by the recent movie adaptation of the musical than anything else it’s necessary to draw upon what I know of the original novel to give any sort of in-depth explanation of Grantaire’s personality and motivations. In terms of what canon will be followed in game I'm going to do as Grantaire would and follow someone else's lead. I believe an Enjolras will be apping into the game soon and if they are allowed in I'll talk such matters over with them and refer to whichever canon they want to play from since it doesn't really matter all that much to me. If Grantaire ends up being alone I will follow book canon (though if I agree upon a canon with the player of Enjolras and he is later dropped, I will of course stick to what we decided, just to be clear).

Victor Hugo describes Grantaire as a man who only exists in relation to someone else, in this case Enjolras. He doesn’t have a defined sense of self, and no set beliefs. He hates and reviles most of humanity and regards lofty ideals like justice and freedom with sneering skepticism. He is a broken man who seeks refuge in drink to escape from the world he seems unable to stand living in.

Paradoxically, he is still very capable of affection. His heart needs friendship, as it says in the book, and what little true joy he experiences seems to come from being around the friends of the ABC, even if many of them seem to merely tolerate him without really returning his affection.

It’s no surprise that it is that way for him, because he seems to make a sport of making himself absolutely impossible, sitting in a corner and holding drunken monologues on various topics that nobody cares to hear about and being a general let-down.

His sense of humor seems to prefer to take a rather mocking turn, and jokes are made at the expense of people or ideals in an often bitter sort of fashion. He can probably at times come off as incredibly attention-seeking, but it is at the same time clear that he doesn’t really know what to do with said attention if and when he gets it. When asked to take responsibility, to lead, he can have an honest intention to do it but in the end he is likely to falter because he just has no idea where to go after he’s been asked to live up to his brash boasting.

He is, underneath it all, a very well educated man who would be just as capable as any of the other young men to quote famous authors and discuss philosophy until he was blue in the face, but he sees no point in it and prefers to commit himself to more earthly pleasures. Drinking, fighting and most likely the occasional romp with prostitutes, it is presented as rather unlikely that anyone would want to share his bed without compensation.

Part of him seems to want to change, if nothing else so that he might be looked upon with something other than disdain by the man he worships, but he never seems to be able to quite manage it. Even when given chances he tends to mess it up, playing domino rather than convincing people to join the revolution and such things. In the end, not even Enjolras can make him believe that the whole thing is anything but a waste of time.

In his own way, he is just as commited to his beliefs that any of the other students, it is just that his are exactly opposite to theirs. He needs opposition to exist. He needs to be the counter-argument, the dark side. It is the only way he knows how to live, and that is why he can’t free himself from neither his destructive habits, nor his hopeless longing for Enjolras’ affection.

At least in the musical he acts as the voice of opposition, the one who speaks what some of the others might perhaps think but will not say. He gives a voice to the fear that perhaps the whole attempt at a revolution was just an exercise in futility that will come to nothing at all, and their deaths will be empty. In being the one who holds Enjolras in the most fanatically high regard he is in a sense also the one least intimidated by him. He speaks up to him, fights with him, disappoints him. He is a rebel among revolutionaries in his own drunken sort of way. He doesn’t care what system governs society since he will pay equally little heed to them all.

He is a man not complete without someone to attach himself to, he defines himself by what he is not rather than what he is. He is a study in negatives, a bitter cynic with a tender heart somewhere inside that wants to be loved but at the same time does everything he can to make himself utterly unlovable. A paradox of a man, and a tragedy.

In the end all he really wants is to be allowed to watch those he loves be successful, even if he can’t seem to help getting in their way as much as he possibly can. He wants to be with his idealistic friends and he wishes for all of their dreams to come true, he just doesn’t believe that they can. Much as he seems to be constantly attempting to pull those around him down into his darkness, what he truly wants is for them to soar above him. He is compelled to share with the world his opinion that everything is bound to end badly, and that all things are more or less worthless, but he really, really wants to be wrong.

Edited 2013-03-11 01:02 (UTC)

First Person: Here

Third Person: Another day, another gutter. Grantaire woke up with the distinct feeling that his head was about to explode, a state so familiar to him that it’s quite possible he would have gotten worried had he woken up feeling perfectly fine.

For a few moments as he sat up to lean his back against the wall of the building he’d collapsed against, he thought he was still in Paris, vaguely wondering if the disturbing images of corpses that his imagination wanted to strew all around him were just the remnants of a particularly unpleasant dream.

Then, as his head cleared a little and the dream-specter cobwebs were swept aside he remembered where he was.

Hell.

Or Ruby City, but he remained rather convinced that the two were one and the same, because where else could someone like him possibly end up after death? Granted he had expected a bit more fire and brimstone, but at the end of the day it was quite enough to be here, alone, and knowing that his friends had passed on to a place where he could not go. A good thing Satan at least had the courtesy to supply him with drink to numb the pain. He’d always suspected the old bastard was a decent sort. If someone managed to get that much on God’s bad side, they had to be worth knowing.

With a groan he got to his feet and glanced up to find that he’d actually managed to pass out right by the door to the building he was currently occupying. Well, if one was to find a silver lining in that bit of irony it was at least convenient now.

“Would’ve been more convenient to wake up in my bed,” he muttered to himself as he opened the door and stepped inside.

Edited 2013-03-11 01:05 (UTC)

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