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APPLICATIONS

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 ✧

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PLAYER

Name: Luciano
Personal Journal:

je_ri_cho
E-mail: puppyfacemccall@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: colibriprince

CHARACTER

Name: Arthur Pendragon, Saber Class
Canon: Fate/Zero
Timeline: Directly after the events of Episode 25

Personality:

To understand Arthur Pendragon truly, one must bear in mind that above all, Arthur is King. From the day she was born she understood that to become king was indeed her destiny and accepted it with grace; unfortunately, she also accepted and never questioned a fair number of ideals that would lead to her fall. Rather than be raised by her father, Uther Pendragon, Arthur was raised as a squire by Sir Ector alongside foster brother Kay. Disregarding gender, Arthur was taught to be a knight and Merlin himself knew that the signs pointed to Arthur’s becoming king-- the king Britain had been promised. Arthur would eventually choose to pull the sword from the stone despite Merlin’s warnings that her life would never be the same; she knew that to be the king was her destiny no matter her sex and she would do all in her power to be the king that Britain then needed.

Her response to gender as a king can very easily be interpreted as Arthur being bigender, so it is the mun's choice to do so. Without outright objecting to her female physical form, Arthur adopted the masculine role of king and became so in spirit, ‘posing’ as male during her rule though she was completely sure that no one who learned of her sex would abandon their fealty to her. Arthur will respond to being gendered by either male or female pronouns but for the sake of simplicity mun will use female pronouns for her in her posts, though she prefers to wear masculine clothing, is rather androgynous, and has an androgynous vocal quality. She is uncomfortable with people treating her as one would traditionally a girl, likely because she was raised as a squire and king and is not used to such actions. The fact that so many react as though she is a joke (or other bad reactions) once they learn that King Arthur’s biological sex was female bothers her intensely. She is not afraid to resort to harsh words and actions to prove her worth, as seen when she challenges Alexander when he gleefully exclaims “who would have thought that the king of knights was a little girl?”

“King of Knights” seems to be the favoured title of Arthur Pendragon in Fate/Zero, and she certainly does take her role as king very seriously. Alexander the Great says of her:

"You saved them, but you never led them. You never showed them what a king should be. You abandoned your men when they lost their way. Then, alone and untroubled, you followed your own petty little ideals. Thus, you are no true king. You are only a little girl, enraptured by a false idol of the king who serves others, but not themselves."

His assessment of her is not far from the truth. Though she has a heart dedicated to Britannia and the people, her ideals keep her from being the king she could have been. She expects people to act honourably and seems disappointed when they don’t, as though no cynicism has had the common sense to enter her mind. She believes in chivalry and honour and seems not to understand that such ideals are not the top of everyone’s agenda. Arthur abandons herself as a human when she becomes king and takes on the persona in full, but does not truly understand that she must both serve and be served as king. The selflessness she shows becomes selfish; rather than work for a real Britannia, she worked only toward an ideal one-- one that could never be. This and distrust among the Knights of the Round Table only contributed to their fall, a mistake Arthur believes herself responsible for fixing and at complete fault for. She can be and often is a machine of her own guilt.

Edited 2013-04-12 20:25 (UTC)

On a lighter note, Arthur’s personality isn’t entirely insufferably chivalric. She tends not to get the sexual implications of jokes, but can sometimes poke fun at her peers. She had a very close friendship with Lancelot as well as her foster-brother Kay; while she usually seems straight-faced and unwavering, Arthur is very capable of laughing happily and enjoying life with a friend. For someone so kingly she can be surprisingly sassy at times as well, but is usually genuine in her intentions and optimism. There are also a number of things she likes, so it isn’t as though her dedication to kinghood left her devoid of personality, and food is definitely one of Arthur’s favourite things. She has an absolutely voracious appetite and a seemingly infallible metabolism, likely one of the effects of Excalibur’s magic.

In canon Arthur is usually referred to by her fighting class, “saber” (referring to her position as swordsman) to protect her identity, as identities can be used in battles during the Holy Grail War to reveal weapons and other such fallibilities. She is likely to avoid using her real name at first in Ruby City (and will likely use earlier translations of the name) as she won’t know the status of the Grail War and does not expect most to know all translations of the name of the legend.

In the beginning of her stay in Ruby City Arthur will be dealing with the final events of the Fourth Grail War. It is revealed to Arthur that the insane of the servants, Berserker, is actually Lancelot, her dearest friend. After she defeats him he explains that he went mad because though Arthur knew of his affair with Gwenivere, she never raised a hand to punish him:

"Because I could not stop myself from loving Gwenivere, I was unable to forgive myself. But King Arthur, you never so much as questioned me or sought recompense. You simply stood before us in your righteousness. But I wished for judgement at your hand. Had your anger punished me, I might not have fallen into madness in my quest for atonement."

He continues on to tell her that though this occurred, he could say with certainty that Arthur was the greatest of kings. This statement does not stay with her; she still feels the need to fight for the grail and fix the mistakes she has made. When her master orders her to destroy the grail, she is unable to do so, instead perishing before the grail is destroyed. As she delivers the attack of her Noble Phantasm, she states

"What could [my master] have learned about me from issuing a mere three orders? After all, I never even knew my closest companions. Perhaps this is my punishment for being the king who could not understand the feelings of others."

And upon Arthur's return to her place at the lost battlefield at Camlenn, she weeps heavily for her loss and believes herself unworthy, stating that she was never meant to become king. This is where Arthur's canonpoint will be taken, at a time when she is beyond recompense herself and believes herself to be unworthy. She still believes she must redeem herself for the sake of her people and fight for the grail.

It's a shame for her, honestly, as she is not completely to blame. Lancelot says of her again in a post-death short,

"One of the knights left the castle for good, saying the king did not understand how others felt. I believe those words were what triggered my madness. Who was the one unable to understand? Did he not know she loved her people until the end, even as it isolated her people in Camelot? Who really was the one who nobody loved, from beginning to end?"

In this and a prior assessment from Arthur's dearest companion we learn that though Arthur struggled to understand the feelings of others, she loved her people regardless of any fault and loved them to the point it isolated her. In her selflessness she lost herself, becoming less than human and more of a tool, doing all she could for everyone else and taking nothing for herself. This brings about her isolated end at Camlann, and a selflessness that becomes selfishness at the end of the fourth grail war. By forfeiting any blame from any of her people and taking it all upon herself, she brings the almost frenzied pain she experiences after losing the grail war.

First Person:

Good evening.

[Arthur’s voice resonates clear and level across the voice communication. With no means of disguising herself, Arthur doesn't dare use the video setting-- though it takes a bit more tampering with the device than Arthur is comfortable with. She ought to know how this works, after all.]

...My name is Artorius Pendraig.

I don’t know by what force I have been brought here, nor where this location is. Should anyone know and care to share the whereabouts of this location as well as by what means, it would be much appreciated.

[She is not so naïve as to expect that whatever force has brought her here will let her free easily by any means. All she knows for sure is that she is not here by the force of the Throne of Heroes, nor is any master present, and this is more than worrying.

It's almost terrifying.]

Third Person:

When Arthur slept, she dreamt. Most servants didn't share the so-called luxury-- though she supposed that in Ruby City, they all must dream again. It was not a dream she awakened from that morning but a nightmare, though she supposed they must both share a common form.

She didn't move from the bed, for once, where she lay flat on her back like the dead. There was no war to attend to, no grail to fight for. Arthur felt stripped of everything, truly, and laying on her side, she listened to the drumming of raindrops on the window pane absently as she contemplated.

How could it be that her efforts would be for naught? The thought troubled her; the destiny she assumed herself set for had been turned over and denied. She was not the king she thought herself destined to be, and had suddenly become a captive of some strange city beyond the reaches of her Earth. The weight of it pressed on her heart, one that was not a copy or phantasm but wholly present in Ruby City.

She was not the king she'd thought herself to be and, so long as she was here, would never obtain the grail-- and according to the words of others, might never obtain it at all. A king without a throne, a knight without a kingdom to defend, and it was fitting; Arthur had never truly understood what it meant to be king, after all. Had never understood people, the way they felt. Had saved them, but had never led them.

If she were going to continue to be alive, King or not, Arthur was going to remedy this mistake.

Getting to her feet, Arthur shed the emotional veil of her mourning and slipped herself into the fitted suit she had obtained, tied her hair back low, and lifted the pocket watch from the desk.

She had heard many refer to Ruby City as a prison, and many residents held it in disdain. As Arthur left the flat she'd claimed, however, she couldn't help but feel that a hopefully temporary stay in a world without a Grail War was nothing but a blessing.

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

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