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 ] Pearl Fey || Ace Attorney || reserved || 3/3

[ghostshippingly]

Background: at the ace attorney wiki here!

Abilities:
--> spiritual power: As mentioned, Pearl is a spirit channelling prodigy; although she's only eight years old, she has an immense amount of raw spiritual power and is training in the Kurain Channeling Technique. She has enough raw talent to be able to channel Mia's spirit for Phoenix without much preparation or prompting, although if someone with more experience (such as Maya) calls the spirit away, Pearl's raw ability is not yet refined enough to allow her to hold onto it. In addition, Pearl is incredibly knowledgable about the lore and history surrounding her village and its traditions.
--> athletic ability: Pearl was able to run the distance between Kurain Village and the Los Angeles courthouse where Phoenix runs his trials - a distance that, quite apart from anything else, takes two hours to travel by train. It's pretty evident just from that display that Pearl is absurdly physically fit for her age, although it's more in stamina than in strength. (That said, she also has a pretty good right hook for a girl as tiny as she is).
--> basic culinary skills: She isn't a gourmet chef by any means, but she knows enough to prepare a salad or a sandwich.

First Person: [ Pearl looks somewhat bashful when she turns the feed on today; she's getting used to the city and even to the watch, but the idea of talking to an entire city full of people is still something she's getting used to. she sounds as polite as ever, though, folding her hands on her lap in front of her. ]

Good morning, Ruby City! I hope that you are all feeling well today! Um... I really hope that I'm not bothering anybody, but there's something I'm wondering about. Mystic Maya has been showing me the lybe-bra-ry [ she stumbles for a moment over the unfamiliar word ] and all the books inside it, and... it's amazing! I've never seen so many books before in all my life! [ she laughs, and although it's sheepish, almost, it sounds more like the laugh of a sophisticated 20-something aristocrat than a small child. ] I can't really read most of them, though... when it comes to reading and writing, I am really not that skilled. And Mystic Maya said something about having to wait until I was older, for some reason... I didn't really understand, but I'm sure that she must have a good reason for it.

But! Seeing so many stories in one place got me thinking. There must be soooooo many books about romance inside that building, right? [ she sighs dreamily, both hands going to her face. ] Aahh, I wish that I could read them all... I'm sure that they must all be wonderful stories. But, since I can't read any of them, I thought I would ask about it instead, if that's okay. So, ummm... do any of you have a favourite love story? And, could you tell me what makes it so great? Thank you very much!

Third Person: She'd said good night and tucked herself up under her futon almost an hour ago, but try as she might, Pearl couldn't sleep. Her hands clutched firmly over the edge of her blanket, she stared up at the dark ceiling, finally giving up on keeping her eyes closed.

She knew it was a bad thing. Sleep was important for keeping her mind and body healthy, and since she had to get back to her training as soon as possible after being away from the village for a while, she needed all the rest she could get. She hadn't slept much at all, the past few nights. In fact, she'd almost fallen asleep against Mystic Maya's arm when they were on the train back to the manor. Staying awake like this was bad.

But she still couldn't sleep.

Rolling onto her side, Pearl bit her lip, counted to ten, and then pushed aside her blankets before rolling out of the futon.

Fey Manor was dark at night, and the moonlight cast shadows against the walls that made Pearl's tiny heart thump in her chest as the wooden floors creaked under her footsteps. But she knew her way around even in the dark, and-- and it was only down the hallway to get to Mystic Maya's room, she reminded herself, hands clasped together so tight her knuckles turned white as she crept down the hall. Once she saw Mystic Maya, everything would be okay.

The door to Mystic Maya's room slid open as easily as it ever had, and Pearl hesitated on the threshold, one hand still clutching the door frame. For some reason... she was scared. It wasn't just because of the dark house. What if Mystic Maya wasn't there after all, and what Mr. Nick had done... what if that had all been a dream? What then?

There was really only one way to find out. Tiptoeing inside, she edged her way towards where she thought the futon was - and stopped short after only a couple of steps, jumping in surprise as a loud, guttural sound came from ahead of her. It took her a moment of confusion before it suddenly became clear, and she had to press both her hands over her mouth to stop herself from laughing out loud in relief. That was Mystic Maya's snoring she was hearing. It was such a funny sound, she almost couldn't help herself, but-- she mustn't wake her cousin up. After everything she'd been through over the past few days, with that terrible man keeping her locked up, it wouldn't be fair.

But most of all, that meant that Mystic Maya was here - really, truly here, which was the most important thing. Pearl already felt better just from knowing that, like she'd been holding onto something heavy up until now without even realising it. Shuffling closer, she knelt down next to her sleeping cousin, a small hand groping at the air in front of her until she found Maya's shoulder. Good. Good. She really was here.

Pearl let out a quiet sigh and closed her eyes, trying to hold back tears. It was okay now. Everything was okay. Slowly, careful not to disturb her, she lay down and curled up against Maya's back.

She'd go back to her own room tomorrow. She promised. But for now, the only place Pearl wanted to be was right here.

[ACCEPTED]

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