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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: Once there was a little duck who wished she could do anything to save a lonely prince, a girl who dreamed of becoming a ballerina, and a cursed princess that would turn into a speck of light and vanish if she confessed her feelings to the prince. Ahiru embodies all three.

Sometimes a duck, sometimes a girl, Ahiru is skittish, yet bubbly and excitable, with a reputation of being a klutz. With that reputation, there comes a sense of doubt (particularly in her confidence as a dancer, or not thinking of herself as ‘brave’ when she’s Princess Tutu). She feels she lacks the grace and tranquility for ballet, traits which she admires—even envies, in that of Mytho and Rue. She also has a stubborn streak. Early on this causes her to quarrel with Fakir, mainly because of her interest in Mytho. As they spend more time together, she comes to an understanding with Fakir, as they learn how to work together in order to save their friend.

In lieu of her skittish nature, Ahiru is very perceptive. She will often times be the first person in the village to notice something is wrong; like pointing out the weirdness of having a talking cat as a teacher (despite being a duck herself), or sensing the feelings of those around her.

Apologizing is something Ahiru does regularly, often times when it’s not even her own fault, or for things that couldn’t even be controlled. She will even put herself down, by calling herself ‘stupid’ or ‘a bother’.

Any number of things can fluster Ahiru, either causing her to quack or flap her arms as if they were wings, which in turn will transform her back into her duck state. Other times she may blush, stutter, or carry on an entire conversation by herself. Despite this, her friends will often praise her for her cheerful disposition, even when she’s going through trouble (like when she remained upbeat after being demoted to the probationary class).

Ahiru abhors violence, which becomes a prominent theme within the series. She asks “Will you dance with me” when faced with challenges, such as collecting the heart shards from those possessed, or will continue to dance (while injured, and her human form is stripped away) in the battle against Raven’s minions. She draws her strength from will and determination to protect her friends, and when she puts her mind to it, not even fate can stop her from accomplishing her goals.

To Ahiru, her friends mean everything to her. She considers most everyone she meets as a friend, whether the feeling is mutual or not (like feeling terrible after Mytho called her ‘scary and thought he was hurting her on her quest to return the pieces of his heart). She will go to above and beyond to protect them (even if that means putting her life on the line), and will put their needs and wants above her own, taking their sorrows to heart.

First Person: Example A: Ahiru at the test drive meme.

Example B - Text: Hi, I’m Ahiru, and I’m new here. Is there anywhere in the city where I can practice my ballet? I don’t think my teacher would like it very much if I didn’t at least train while I’m gone.

Third Person: From the train station, Ahiru bolted with her bundle of clothes. She needed to find water and fast. Unfortunately, it was late, and she didn’t know where anything was!

After running haplessly for about a good hour, she found herself at the fountain in the middle of the city. Flapping her wings, she dropped the bundle of clothes, and flew into the fountain. Earnestly, she hoped nobody was around to see.

”Stupid, stupid, stupid!” she thought to herself. “I'm just a duck. I'll never make it in a creepy place like this.” Now transformed back into a girl, she picked up her clothes from the ground, and threw them back on, hurriedly. Oh, what is a poor little duck to do?

Edited 2013-04-07 06:28 (UTC)

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APPLICATIONS

[Canon] Ahiru || Princess Tutu || Not Reserved || 2/2

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