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] ROXY LALONDE || Homestuck || reserve

[zuipperpips]

PLAYER
Name: Suki
Age: 24
Personal Journal: esper
E-mail: dreamoflife02@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: gingerybiscuit

CHARACTER
Name: Roxy Lalonde
Canon: Homestuck
Age: 16
Timeline: current with canon (in a derse jail, making perfectly generic objects)

Personality: In a lot of ways, Roxy is a typical teenage girl. She likes cute boys, pink, her BFF, and kittens. Specifically, cloning them.

Wait, what?

Yeah, add to that an interest in technology and science. She's an ace hacker, and can remotely access Dirk's robots and program windows to think with portals. She's a gamer with a preference for the classics. And she's also excellent at ectobiology. She experimented with cloning her cat, and ended up with a bunch of mutant kittens at first; she got the hang of it eventually, but she keeps the kittens preserved and on display because they're totes adorbs.

She's talkative and flirty, even though she's surrounted* with inelegible* fuckin bachelors. (Yeah, did I mention she types like shit? Not so much when she's sober these days, but she still has a general disregard for spelling and fixing typos.) She's outgoing and extroverted, and will strike up a conversation with just about anyone.

Her best friend is Jane Crocker, and you can tell three very important things about Roxy from their friendship. First off, she's loyal as anything-- both girls are crushing on Jake, but Roxy considers him to be off limits because of her affection for Jane. She feels awful when she accidentally comes close to spilling the beans to him, and when she finds out about Dirk's probable plan to confess his own crush (yeah for a sixteen year old dork Jake is pretty popular), her first thought is Jane, not herself.

Second of all, Roxy can be pretty sneaky and ruthless when she wants to be. She sends Jane a fake copy of the SBurb alpha rigged to explode to convince her that the game is bad news-- essentially, lying to make Jane see the truth. It's because of loyalty, sure, but it's not the most sensible, reasoned plan.

Third of all, Roxy is very, very lonely. She's alone in her house besides her cats, has no romantic prospects to speak of, and her best friend doesn't believe her when she tells the truth about her life. She's almost stopped even trying to convince her, because what's the point? She'd rather have a best friend than not, and it hurts too much to keep getting shot down. So she's the silly drunkie who talks about boys and swears a lot, but when push comes to shove, she will not let go of that batterwitch thing, because it's important, and because if nothing else, at least she can save her best friend.

And then there's Dirk. Roxy might have a bit of an innocent crush on Jake, but she is head-over-heels for Dirk. This is bad news for pretty much everyone, because while Dirk loves Roxy as a friend, he has zero attraction to her. Roxy is pretty pushy with him, telling him about her feelings pretty much every day; she does honestly love him, but she's also lonely and needy and desperate for human contact. Later on she does admit that it was a shitty thing for her to do-- it's not that she has a complete disregard for other people's feelings, it's just that her own tend to take precedence when she doesn't take the time to stop and think about how she's treating other people.

On the other hand, though, she has the ability to be very generous and thoughtful. She uses her appearifier to materialize pumpkins to feed the citizens of her world, seeming to feel almost motherly towards them-- she's concerned that they aren't able to feed themselves, and takes that task upon herself even though it's often dangerous to venture outside.

And then there's her alcoholism. At first she treats it as her just being a fun + flirty party girl havin a few drinks cuz its totes fun, but it actually is a real problem. It's partially to try and connect with her absent mother, and partially a crutch to deal with her loneliness, and when she makes the decision to quit it's a real struggle for her-- something she doesn't admit lightly.

Background: wiki link

Abilities: + accomplished hacker and geneticist
+ the standard god tier immortality-- the only way she can die is if the death is just or heroic
+ her title of Rogue of Void, through a twisty sort of logic, gives her the ability to appearify anything by stealing the nothingness from it. As it stands now she's not very good at it, and the only thing she can appearify are perfectly generic objects (green cubes).

First Person: [ The video clicks on to show a teenage girl from a very unflattering angle. It seems she was holding the communicator on her lap to fiddle with, and turned the video on in such a way that you have a great view of her nostrils. She realizes her mistake, and quickly brings it up to eye level, flashing a grin ]

Yo, for real, that's basically a universal constant for camera phones, right? Even, like, eighteenth century camera phones or whatever the hell this is. I can't find the wi-fi settings but it looks like this is on now, so I hope you guys can see this.

[ she bites her lip a bit, thinking ]

I mean, specifically Jane slash Dirk slash Jake slash someone who's not gonna slice me up into totally awful-tasting Rolal sushi, but I guess I'll take what I can get. I am just so happy to be somewhere not some creepy-ass prison, you have no idea. I might gotta turn this off to get replies, I dunno yet, so see ya!

[ video end ]

Third Person: At first, she thought it was a hangover. She had that same misty recollection followed by amnesia followed by sun that was way too goddamn bright to exist, and she groaned, half in expectation of the headache and nausea to come, half in the dismal realization that she'd fallen off the wagon and didn't even remember the fun part.

Then the last of the fog cleared, and pieces started falling into place. The sun was bright because she'd spent the last few days in prison; the misty recollection was because... well, who the hell knows, but whatever kinda wizard magykk had abracadabra'd her out of that dank-ass dog-girl's appearifying funhouse of a prison was probably responsible. She wasn't going to question it too much; instead, she pumped the air and yelled "Suck it, batterwitch!"

Rubbing her hands together, she started walking through the early-morning emptiness of the city. It didn't look like any of the planets in the medium, and it sure as hell didn't look like where she'd been before everything went to dog poo, but she'd been in enough freaky places recently that she was going to take care of some basic needs before getting suspicious. Step one: some actually edible breakfast. Yeah. Something way better than hopefully nibbling on a green block in hopes that this one came out chocolate. Step two: find Dirk, or Jane, or Jake, or all three, or any combination thereof. Step three, and the one she was looking forward to the most: time to gird some loins and go punch sea hitler in the face.

[ACCEPTED]

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