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

Sirius Black | Harry Potter | Reserved

[maraudinggrim]

PLAYER
Name: Lysoke
Personal Journal: lysoke
E-mail: lysoke@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: lysoke

CHARACTER
Name: Sirius Black
Canon: Harry Potter
Timeline: During the war, before James and Lily's deaths.

Personality:
Due to the fact that his friends are the only real family he has, Sirius will do anything to protect them, both from physical and verbal attacks. He always seems uncaring and aloof to everything around him, largely due to his arrogance, but Sirius can actually be very perceptive, and truly is concerned with the state of things around him. He’s not one to stand by and let some injustice happen to others, although this is a part of the hypocrisy that laces his personality as he, himself, often performs injustices towards Severus Snape, though he’d never admit to it.

Sirius’ arrogance stems largely from the fact that he is a gifted student, with things coming very easily to him; this combined with his good looks have given him an arrogant streak that some people have a hard time looking past. Other than the obvious tendency to be a bit of a troublemaker, the things that get him into real trouble are his stubbornness and his explosive temper, the only things he ever had in common with his family. Generally speaking, Sirius can be fairly laid back and easy-going. Rarely does he ever worry about ‘superfluous’ things - such as grades or opinions of others - and will ignore anything he doesn’t deem ‘worthy’ of his attention, another Black trait.

Sirius is the type who hates anything that could even possibly be considered dull; consequently, he’s always looking for something to entertain him, which often leads him into trouble. His pranks generally only end up in property damage and surprise for the unlucky target, but Sirius has been known to take things too far, as with his near fatal prank on Snape while they were in school.

While he is often considered a big flirt - because he is - his flirting is more often than not just a playful past time: something he does more for entertainment and attention than anything. Unfortunately, it often leads to dashed hopes and broken hearts in the female population (and some males). Despite his flirting, if Sirius were to ever be in an actual relationship he’d be very loyal to that person, considering he’d have to trust them very much to actually consider being with them. The fact his parents betrayed his trust at such an early age has given Sirius major trust issues while growing up. While he may be a social person and have several friends, he only really has a few close friends. Because dating someone requires a lot of exposing of oneself, getting close, and reliability, Sirius would be very picky about whom he chose to share that much of himself with.


First Person:

I didn’t mean for it to be like this.
It was just supposed to be…..I don’t know, it was supposed to be fun, I didn’t think the git would actually try to go and see Remus. I didn’t think he’d go so far; he was supposed to get scared and turn around.

[ He sighs.]

Instead everything just went wrong. Not as wrong as it could’ve been, but wrong enough. It was stupid, I know that now…wish I could’ve thought of that sooner, but, I was just too…wrapped up in the game of it. I could’ve gotten Snape killed, not that I care what happens to him, but, what that would’ve meant for Moony…it wasn’t worth it.

The worst part isn’t knowing I was a stupid bloody twat and it’s not the things James and Remus sad to me…it’s the fact they’ve stopped saying things to me. It’s like….I don’t exist anymore…and I hate that feeling. But not as much as I hate the fact that I know I betrayed them. For that reason, I know I deserve what I’m getting…I just wish I could change the whole thing.

Third Person:
Sirius stared out the window in the 7th year Gryffindor boy’s dorm. This was it. Most of his things were already packed away and ready for when he and the rest of the Marauders get on the train the next day. This was his last night in the place that was more of a home than anywhere else ever had been. Sure, he wasn’t going to miss the rules and most of the teachers, certainly not the homework, but those were only a fraction of what he’d done here.
Staring out over the grounds of the school, watching as some people lay out on the grass or near the lake; it only served to remind him of all the adventures he’d been through with James, Remus, and Peter. He’d miss it. The nights of the full moon, laying out under the tree by the lake, sneaking around at night, trying their damnedest not to get caught, there were just too many memories. He’d miss Hogwarts.

However, he still had things to look forward too. Yeah, the war was coming, it was one of the hottest topics on everyone’s mind, but that didn’t mean Sirius couldn’t think of some of the good things he had to look forward to. He’d never have to go home; he could even get his own place if he wanted. He and the others could go visit each other anytime they wanted, especially once Sirius finished his bike.

It might not be perfect, and there were definitely things about being a ‘kid’ that he was going to miss badly, but at least there was some hope and anticipation when he looked out at the horizon.

“Shouldn’t be so bad.” He smirked and stood from the window seat. Might as well finish packing.

ACCEPTED

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