APPLICATIONS

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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
<B><I><BIG><BIG>PLAYER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Name:</b> <b>Age:</b> If you would prefer not to be specific, just let us know that you're over 18! <b>Personal Journal:</b> <b>E-mail:</b> <b>AIM/etc:</b> <B><I><BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Name:</b> First, Last (Western order) <b>Canon:</b> Name only. <b>Age:</b> Real / Apparent, if applicable <b>Timeline:</b> At which point of the canon were they taken from? <b>Items with character at canon point</b>: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions. <b>If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?</b>: 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, <b>how will you handle their interactions without playercesting?</b> Depending on your answer, you may be refused the character you are apping for. <b>Personality:</b> 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. <b>Background:</b> 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. <b>Abilities:</b> 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. <b>Network/Actionspam Sample:</b> 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. <b>Prose Log Sample:</b> 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
<B><I><BIG><BIG>PLAYER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Name:</b> <b>Age:</b> If you would prefer not to be specific, just let us know that you're over 18! <b>Personal Journal:</b> <b>E-mail:</b> <b>AIM/etc:</b> <B><I><BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Character Name:</b> First, Last (Western order) <b>Canon:</b> Name only <b>Age:</b> Real / Apparent, if applicable <b>Timeline:</b> At which point in the canon were they taken from? <b>Items with character at canon point</b>: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions. <b>If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?</b>: 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, <b>how will you handle their interactions without playercesting?</b> Depending on your answer, you may be refused the character you are apping for. <b>Personality:</b> 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. <b>History:</b> Three well-written paragraphs minimum, detail our your characters’ history. <b>Abilities:</b> 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. <b>Relationships to Canon Characters:</b> If any, if not applicable please put N/A. <b>Network/Actionspam Sample:</b> 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. <b>Prose Log Sample:</b> 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
<B><I><BIG><BIG>PLAYER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Name:</b> <b>Age:</b> If you would prefer not to be specific, just let us know that you're over 18! <b>Personal Journal:</b> <b>E-mail:</b> <b>AIM/etc:</b> <B><I><BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG></B></I> <b>Name:</b> First, Last. (Western order) <b>Age:</b> Real / Apparent, if applicable <b>Appearance:</b> 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. <b>Chosen PB:</b> 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. <b>Items with character at canon point</b>: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions. <b>Personality:</b> 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. <b>World Information:</b> 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. <b>History:</b> Your characters’ history in their world. Be sure to be detailed. This section should be a minimum of three paragraphs. <b>Abilities:</b> 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. <b>Network/Actionspam Sample:</b> 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. <b>Prose Log Sample:</b> 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.


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 ✧

Comments

[Canon] Caster of Red | Fate/Apocrypha | No reserve

[arttoenchant]

PLAYER
Name: Kelsey
Age: 20
Personal Journal: turtleen
E-mail: kelseycunningham[at]hotmail[dot]com
AIM/MSN/etc: mortalstampede [aim] turtleen [plurk]

CHARACTER
Name: Caster of Red, William Shakespeare
Canon: Fate/Apocrypha
Age: Looks about 35, died at 52, technically 449
Timeline: After tipping off Berserker

[arttoenchant]

Personality: Caster's personality seems to correspond quite well with accounts of Shakespeare's personality historically. A flippant attitude, prideful, quite often mocking, yet quiet and extremely private. He knows how to rub superiors or influental people the right way to gain favour, and has a tendency to gravitate towards such people. In fact, in Fate, he is said to have little interest in anyone who would be deemed a 'supporting character', ignoring them almost entirely, and focusing all his attention on 'protagonists'. He'll do anything to study interesting people, and will even intervene for better or for worse, to experience new trains of thought, mental states and actions in them. He puts his writing and potential for it above all else and doesn't seem to take the war seriously at all, to the point of being almost entirely detached, as if he was watching a play, rather than being one of the actors. He gives away a secret location to Berserker, knowing he'll go there without thinking twice about it, and instigate a battle. This is going against his Master's orders and being something of a detriment to his own faction, all for the sake of witnessing the story that will unfold. He's quite weak as a Servant and has no interest in taking part in battle anyway, so, he looks only to keep himself from danger, and he'll only do the bare minimum he must to keep his Master safe as well. Though even that is really only to keep himself alive, as without a Master, he won't last long.

Generally Caster's quite amicable, though much of the time it's mocking, he's sarcastic and isn't terribly serious. He also seems to think it's great fun to act overly dramatic. Coupled with his pride and self-indulgence in referencing his own works, he definitely comes across as eccentric to others. But he was a stage actor in life, and stage actors are generally known for being eccentric, so it's only fitting, right? He insists the other Servants in his faction read his works and is incredibly offended when many only know he's an important writer, but aren't directly familiar with his work. So much so that he goes out to buy a copy of the complete works of Shakespeare to shove at Shirou and Assassin, begging his Master and comrade to read it. He also takes interest in modern writing, be it in books, film, games, or, of course, theatre and poetry. He has a particular fascination with the concept of tropes and the like. His favourite genre is the revenge tragedy, as seen in many of his own works such as Hamlet and better still, Titus Andronicus. Despite his unwillingness to fight himself, there is no better entertainment than a bloodbath.
When giving a dramatic display, he switches to 'the queen's english' - or rather archaic speech in Japanese, though normally he uses plain or polite speech. Spoken aloud, this would also mean switching accent, what we know as an American accent for normal speech, and switching to a British accent for dramatic displays.

He is, however, such a private person that there are very few accounts of his life outside the theatre and legal documentation. He fears slander and dislikes having his own life put on display. If he were asked about himself, he would almost certainly tell each person something different, if he didn't dodge the question entirely. He'll only show himself to people he's close with and can trust, the rest of the world gets the writer, actor and Servant, consisting of his personality and skills, but no insight.

Being looked down upon by contemporaries for lack of education, Shakespeare often sought to outdo them in debates, which he did. He has something of a deepseated hatred for school, particularly classes in Latin, and makes no secret of it, often writing of pupils who are far superior to tutors. When it does come down to writing another language, he makes a joke of it, most notably using innuendo and making plays on the similarity between sexual words in one language, and completely innocent ones in the other. Just because he can. Similarly, he has been looked down upon for being a player, despite accumulating more wealth in his lifetime than much of the nobility. A particularly sore spot is of an affair in which he felt the other could never see them as equals. Despite being a great romantic writer, he was not happy in his marriage and went out of his way to keep his wife from him in both life and death. From his writing, it seems he genuinely yearned for a happy marriage and one single great love, but none could satisfy his desire for someone he could admire fully. He idealised the youth of the sonnets, but could not ultimately have him and was wronged, the dark lady gave excitement and could be his potentially, but he could not admire the rest of her. And his wife, content to be a mother and housewife, certainly something he couldn't admire or respect. He feared no one person could offer fulfillment for him, although he wrote of characters who could be his ideal. In that way he lives vicariously through his writing in some cases, and pours his own experiences into others.

[arttoenchant]

Background: Character wiki, canon wiki, actual Shakespeare wiki

Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths
-Intelligence, cleverness, words, writing
-mental strength
-deception, acting
-cheerful, optimist

Weaknesses
-Languages
-fighting, physical strength
-one-track-mind for creating an interesting story, reckless for the sake of it
-love and romance~~~

Abilities: He can make gloves real good!! Which likely extends to general leatherworking and such. Also a great actor. And I guess he's like the greatest writer of the english language ever or something? His favourite sport is fencing and he's actually really good at it too!

As far as abilities as a Servant go, he's not very strong at all...his main ability is self preservation, which basically means if something goes down and he's in danger, he can get the fuck out of there. His other basic ability is enchant, which allows him to reinforce things like weapons to strengthen his Master or other allies so he doesn't have to fight and can instead watch.
As for his Noble Phantasms, there are two:

The Globe - this basically allows him to be the single greatest actor ever. He assumes the role of anyone he wishes, and would fool even their own mother without any trouble. He's absolutely indistinguishable from the real thing. He uses this for stirring up trouble and not actually fighting...

First Folio - and this is his only fighting ability, one for an instant win....so long as the party he uses it against is weaker than him. If they are, it's an instant KO, if not, it does absolutely nothing.

First Person: Test drive meme

Third Person: Caster stood among the shelves marked 'literature', having found a shop claiming to hold the greatest collection in the city. The worker had said the books were ordered alphabetically by the author's family name, but it seemed to jump straight from Sedgwick to Shaw. Truthfully he was getting tired of seeing Shaw everywhere. The Royal Shakespeare Company was performing The Doctor's Dilemma, a look inside Shaw's The Dark Lady of the Sonnets showed a preface speaking of some concept of 'bardolotry'. So, was the man a fan, or wasn't he?

He sighed. Really, how could it be that in London, players calling themselves The Royal Shakespeare Company could perform something written by a man opposed to him - how could a book shop boasting of such a great collection ignore him entirely? He, Shakespeare, the greatest writer of the English language, cast out of his own city! It was all too much, he felt light-headed - or perhaps that was due to all the layers he wore inside a heated store...

But then, he saw it. As if a gift from God, but no, it had been there all along, they really did love him still, he was only looking in the wrong section! He had underestimated himself, expecting to find his works listed merely under 'literature'! A few feet away, a sign hung from the ceiling, 'Shakespeare', it said. Of course his great accomplishments should have their own set of shelves entirely! Stick it, Shaw. You too, Jonson...especially Jonson.

He hurried to the shelves, debating which volume of the complete works to purchase before he settled on the most elaborate cover. The price was the highest, but surely Kotomine wouldn't mind once he started reading it. Should he buy a few extra copies for his fellow Servants to share among themselves as well? His Master would become much too absorbed to allow the rest a turn at reading, so perhaps a few individual copies of plays. What would each most enjoy...Titus Andronicus for Berserker, naturally. Macbeth for Assassin. Possibly Pericles for Rider...or would he prefer a history? Inevitably Caster would spend the rest of the day making the decision of what to gift his comrades. What would they each enjoy the most, and therefore be most impressed with him?

Accepted

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