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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

GAME IMPORT:

With permission from Fee, JW will be bringing over his memories from both Es War Einmal and Holloways Keep. These are both games set in medieval-type settings with low tech. Being dumped from one world to the next twice now has made JW sort of 'genre savy' but also grumpy as all get out. I think this will spark his interaction with the others in the setting and will also make him curious about what has been causing these weird 'hops'. He spent a collective three IC months in these other worlds.

Strengths/Weaknesses:

STRENGTHS
-JW is a very convincing liar most of the time
-finding ways to do stuff faster with less effort and sometimes duct tape
-loyal once befriended. He'll stab a guy for you, man. Right in the face.
-good at saving money
-not half bad at killing monsters.

WEAKNESSES
-thanks to the ghoul eye, he can also be possessed by spirits as easily as he can see them.
-only possesses beginner driving skills.
-the ghoul eye also murders his depth perception.
-has eaten live snakes for money and will probably do it again
-poor sense of tact
-not good at making decisions under pressure
-physically weak

MEDICAL NOTE- JW suffers from schizophrenia. His symptoms are mild even when not medicated, but are exhausting to deal with day after day. These symptoms are amplified by his drug use. He exhibits hallucinations (detailed below), ritualism going down stairs, paranoia concerning the mail, and a singular delusion that has caused an eating disorder.

Audio Hallucinations: Hearing voices not unlike a talk radio station being left on in another room, crackling sounds like paper packaging, barking or whining dogs, thumps, cars in the driveway, the voices of familiar people calling his name, door chimes, locks or door latches coming undone.

Visual Hallucinations: Text in books and woodgrain on furniture will 'jiggle', doorknobs and handles are offset a few inches from where they actually exist, doorways feel shorter than they actually are, reflections and small shadows caused by glass or tree branches can be mistaken for insects or mice, crumbs or bits of dirt where there aren't any, etc...

JW rarely hallucinates full figures. The closest he usually comes is having trouble recalling conversations or events because he was seeing somebody else's face in place of the person's he was actually with.

Abilities:

MUNDANE SKILLS

-carpentry
-baking
-gardening
-wilderness survival
-ice skating
-horseback riding

SUPERNATURAL SKILLS

Ghoul Eye- JW's left eye is cursed. It's sickly and yellow and bares a cut that refuses to heal, but can also see spirits when others cannot. He also tends to get nosebleeds in the presence of ghosts which is a messy, annoying alternate way of detecting them.

First Person:

_{[The feed opens to blackness. The blackness. The edge of the world stretches on and on and anybody who hasn't seen the edge of the world might think that the video was defective until a hand comes into the frame.]}

So I found this bullshit. Check it out.

_{[The hand turns over to reveal a small stone and the video shakes as JW hurls the rock as hard and as far as he can into the nothing. Then he waits. And waits.]}

Nothin'. There's nothin' out there, man. I sure as hell aint stickin' my head over the edge, but I think we're either an island or up against some kinda intergalactic curtain.

Am I just high?

Third Person:

It had happened again.

James E. Walter sat in the very back of the train car. He had slid down so far that only a pair of narrowed, mismatched eyes were peering over the backrest in front of him and his behind was hanging off the seat. He dared somebody, anybody to walk through that door and into the full brunt of his glare. His hands were busy unbuttoning and rebuttnoning the top three buttons on his overshirt. His knuckles had worked themselves white.

One minute you're bitching about robots, the next you're on the crazy train. Oh, boy.

When was he going to learn to just keep his mouth shut and count his blessings? He stopped pouting at the car door long enough to look out the window. It was hard to make out exactly what kind of countryside he was passing through and the jostling car wasn't doing a thing for his stomach. He actually kind of missed that robot. JW stopped fiddling with his shirt and thatched his hands together over his stomach. Nobody was around to hear the tiny worried sound that worked its way out of his nose. It had been a while since he'd had any kind of medicine, but he couldn't even pretend this was a side effect to make himself feel better. He was off on one of those A-words again. Adventures. Ugh.

Blessings. Right. Let's see.... He was on a train. A train was technology. Wherever he was going probably had toilets. Real ones that flushed. That was something to look forward to, right? He reached up to scratch at the base of one of his antlers. They had arched backward to end in three points each but were still covered in thick, living velvet. It was hard to keep from bumping them against the back wall of the train car. The last thing he needed was to break one on a trip he didn't know the duration of.

JW leaned a little and squinted back down the long row. "Jesus, isn't there supposed to be a meal served on these things? Is that just for airplanes? Man..."

Welcome to Ruby City! Go ahead and join

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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

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APPLICATIONS

[OC] JW || No Reserve || 3 of 3

[ACCEPTED]

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