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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

Background: Marco's wiki here!

Strengths/Weaknesses: Marco's biggest strength, and the one he is frequently called upon to use in canon, is his ability to see point A to point B. He has a strong, logical mind and he uses that to the best of his ability. One of the more memorable things he states in canon is that "People misunderstand the word 'ruthless', they think it means mean". Marco can see the holes in a plan and does his best to correct them. An extreme pessimist, Marco uses the mentality to draw out the worst-case scenario and do his best to avoid it. He's a tactician.

His biggest weakness is that he's emotionally constipated on some levels and can be a Big Freaking Coward occasionally. He has a lot of avoidance issues, and doesn't face things head-on for the most part. Where some people rise to challenges, Marco gingerly sidesteps them and often uses humor to deflect things he isn't comfortable with.

Abilities:

Marco has the ability to morph into any living creature he "acquires" the DNA from. This ability was given to Marco and four other Earth humans that Marco later coins the "Animorphs". Morphing is "stolen" alien technology, developed by the Andalites and given to the Animorphs from a dying Andalite named Elfangor as a last stand against the invading yeerks (brain slugs, basically). The specifics of morphing are as follows:

* Morphing works basically like shape-shifting. Marco just has to think about the animal he wants to morph into for it to work, and mentally picture himself to morph back

* In order to morph an animal, Marco needs to make physical contact with it first. This is known as "acquiring", and it puts whatever animal Marco is touching into a brief, trance-like state

* Marco can remain in any morph for a maximum of two hours. If he goes over the two hour time limit, he becomes stuck in that animal form forever.

* While in morph, Marco has a limited telepathy that is just used communication. It's known as thought-speak, and it only covers small distances before breaking up - similar to a two-way radio

* If injured, when Marco morphs into an animal and morphs back, the injuries will disappear since his DNA reassembles. This gives him minor regenerative abilities.

* Marco CAN morph into sentient creatures such as humans, Andalites, elves, etc. This won't be done without mun permission and he only uses it for the most extreme circumstances.

Samples

First Person: First person sample! and another!

Third Person:

When Marco told Leno that the next thing he was doing was some traveling, this certainly hadn't been what he had in mind. For one, it was freezing. Freezing implied wearing a sweater. Wearing a sweater meant no primo tanning or an opportunity to showcase his biceps or rocking abs. Two, he had left his vacation all-white linen suit ensemble at home as well as his Italian loafers. Marco might have been a hardened veteran of intergalactic warfare, but he still had his endorsements to protect. One of which was with Galbana, who would probably find a way to succeed where the Yeerks had failed if they noticed he was being photographed wearing outlet mall sneakers. Three, the train was creepy, the town was ominous, a lot of the people here looked like they might want to kill someone, and the seats were this weird material that kept sticking to his butt. Marco had it up to here with creepy. And things that were ominous. And hell, might as well throw upholstery in there too for the record.

Marco could only come to the conclusion that he was being subjected to one of the following:

A. Z-Space Shenanigans, including but not limited to: Body proportion displacement, time travel, omniscient interference, dinosaurs, or the complete massacre of the major laws of physics

B. An alternate universe

C. Alien technology gone awry (their fault for experimenting on Andalite toilets of all things)

D. Kidnapping. Possibly by an omniscient being as referenced in option A.

or

E. Some weird Canadian tourist thing.

Neither of the options were looking good at the moment. A guy saves the world, puts out a best seller, preserves the fragility of the human spirit, and gets rewarded with sticky butt. Typical.

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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Thanks! Here's the journal :D

APPLICATIONS

[CANON] Marco || Animorphs || Reserve [3/3]

ACCEPTED

Re: ACCEPTED