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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 ✧

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World Information: ...last night, pre-flight, Zero hour, nine a.m...oh wait, that's Rocket Man. Nyte lives on actual Earth, present day, within this reality. There are no supernatural goings on as far as Nyte knows, although her favorite band SeizureWolf is comprised of a trio of "Werewolves" whose superfans insist are"...totally Weres bro, like IRL for serious."

History: Amelia March Thompson was born in Cambridge, just after midnight on March 6, 1997. As her siblings continued to be born during the daytime, she was quickly awarded the nickname of “Nyte.”

Between the ages of 1 and 12 she spent half of every year living in Cambridge where her father was a professor, and the other half of the year in Cyprus, which her parents used as a midpoint for their research in Egypt and Greece. During this time her Maternal grandfather, Zerro acted as a tutor to Nyte and her siblings. Through him she earned a more than sufficient education in math, science, literature, history, and foreign language principles.

At age seven, Zerro asked her--as he had with both of her elder brothers, and would do with the ones who came after her-- what secondary language she wanted to learn. To his surprise, she responded that she wanted to learn both French and Italian. After some hesitation and Nyte’s continual insistence that she would commit to both, he acquiesced. Within the next five years, she did indeed manage to become fluent in both of her selected languages, as well as learning a fair amount of conversational Greek and German.

The Cyprus Years--as they would later become called by the family--were tough on Nyte and her siblings. The severe shortage of water in the area, combined with the hostile attitudes of the Turkish countrymen made it a less than desirable place to raise English children, so when Nyte was twelve, her grandfather made the decision to try and make things more comfortable for his beloved grandchildren. He convinced her parents that he was growing too old and tired to educate the children at the appropriate level, and suggested that they be sent to boarding school. Her parents agreed, and arrangements were made for the children to attend schools appropriate to their education. Nyte’s older brothers ended up in Scotland, her younger sister and second youngest brother in Germany, and her youngest in Cambridge with their Grandfather for another few years. Nyte however, chose Marseille, France.

Prior to her time there, she had always held such romantic notions of life in France. She thought often of bike rides through fragrant fields, fresh coffee on cafe patios, and warm crepes, shared with friends. Her actual experience there was much less pleasant. Her grasp of the language did nothing but allow her to more fully understand the hate behind the horrid things said to her by her classmates. Her roommate was cruel, her teachers were willfully ignorant, and her parents just kept insisting she try harder to fit in.

By age 14, she had grown so miserable that she was regularly running away to Paris on the weekends, to drink and party with people twice her age. Her grades began to slip, and her parents confronted her with the idea that maybe she just wasn’t cut out for such an intense educational environment. Not one to be told she cannot accomplish something, Nyte stood firm. She stayed on another two years, and managed in fact to graduate early, the summer after she turned sixteen.

With her degree in hand, and no strong friendships to keep her there, Nyte decided to visit America. She had seen the hometowns of every of her mother’s family, but had not once set foot in the birthplace of her father. She booked a flight to Tennessee, and readied herself to fly. This flight is the last memory she has. “So there I was, drunk, on a plane, reeking of cat’s piss, clutching a rosary, and about to die.”

APPLICATIONS

Re: Nyte Thompson --OC--No Reserve--3 of ?