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rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
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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.
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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.
Chizuru Yukimura | Hakuouki | Reserved
Chizuru Yukimura grew up an only child in Edo, daughter to a well-regarded doctor named Koudou Yukimura, who specialized in Western medicine. She often isolated herself as a child, afraid to go out and play with her peers due to a habored secret - she healed remarkably fast. Shallow cuts would heal within moments, deeper injuries hours, or overnight. As such, she imposed upon herself a very sheltered childhood out of fear that upon discovery of her ability, she would be regarded as a monster and would have her family chased out of town. This developed into a deeply-rooted fear of blades and battle. Therefore, she spent most of her life at home with her father, assisting in minor medical procedures and keeping up the house occupied by just the two of them until he was summoned to Kyoto.
Her upbringing and devotion to her father invoked in Chizuru a strong sense of responsibility and filial piety. She is diligent in whatever chores she is tasked with, never considering anything beneath her, and grateful for the opportunity to be useful. She imposes upon herself a lot of limitations, due to her wish to conceal her remarkable healing ability. When her father's daily letters stopped coming, she doesn't hesitate to leave her place of comfort in Edo to search for him, and confirm his safety. She goes so far as to disguise herself as a boy upon her trek to Kyoto in order to avoid any possible confrontation with rabble-rousing ronin looking for an easy target. This desire of hers, however, is eventually challenged when she encounters the famously ruthless Shinsengumi. Upon the discovery that she is the doctor Yukimura's daughter, they offer her shelter in hopes that her search will lead them to the man who was behind their top-secret experiment.
Chizuru spent the next two years chasing dead-end leads and serving as a page for the Shinsengumi. She carries out the housekeeping duties usually done at home at the headquarters with dutiful compliance, grateful for the hospitality and, at times, protection they offered. As she befriends the captains and soldiers, however, she begins to wish she could somehow be more useful. In haphazard attempts to prove herself and help the captains, she often made rash decisions such as throwing herself between several ronin harassing a beautiful young woman named Senhime. Her confrontation was without teeth, however, as she was still terrified of blades and fighting. While she carried a kodachi with her, her aim was to protect it--as it was a precious family heirloom from her long since deceased mother--rather than the other way around. Luckily, she was on patrol with a Shinsengumi captain, and he was able to back her up...but not without subsequent scolding for carelessly putting herself in danger. As often as Chizuru meant well, she often did find herself running into the heat of battle with little more than the kodachi that she was unable--or unwilling--to wield.
In all ways but one, Chizuru is an entirely average girl. She has a habit of mixing up what things she should mull over, and what things she should stop over-thinking and simply act upon. She often finds herself getting up in her head, dwelling on the doubts that so readily plague her at every turn. She has both moments of foolish recklessness and crippling insecurity. When push comes to shove, however, she is often a wild card, serving as a distraction to adversaries and turning the tables so her allies can gain the upper hand. For that reason alone, she is often seen as a good luck charm to the Shinsengumi, and true to her namesake, which literally means "thousand cranes."
In spite of her apparent high-maintenance, Chizuru has several redeeming qualities that make her presence at Shinsengumi headquarters as much a pleasure as a duty. Her friendliness and nurturing nature are a welcome change in a building full of loud, fierce warriors. She does her best to stay out of their way when duty calls, and frequently volunteers herself to carry out the less glorious errands, such as running across town to deliver messages inconspicuously. She is free of judgement, willing to put up with each of the captain's eccentricities and shenanigans--from Okita's constant death threats, to Saitou's stoicism, to Harada and Nakagura's red-light district misadventures. While initally withdrawn, once Chizuru is shown a little bit of warmth, she easily opens up and is often approachable.
One of her best qualities, especially in the eyes of the Shinsengumi, is her ability to keep secrets. Just as she kept her healing capabilites a secret for her entire life, she keeps the secrets of the Shinsengumi--namely, that of the rasetsu. Spawned by an elixir formed by her father called ochimizu, rasetsu are vampire-like monsters with supernatural regenrative capabilities. In exchange for this super-human power, however, is the cost of the person's sanity. Plagued with bloodlust for the duration of their unlives, rasetsu are driven to madness unless they are able to satiate their need. The Shinsengumi maintain a unit of these creatures, originally fallen comrades in battle. Outside of the Shinsengumi, Chizuru is one of the only people to know of its existence.
Another secret Chizuru discovers during her time in the Shinsengumi is that of her true origin. She is actually one of the last pure-blooded oni of the Yukimura clan - a now-exinct family of oni, save for her and her twin brother Kaoru, who was separated at a very early age. Shocked that everything she knew - her father, her upbringing, her very own existence - is a lie, Chizuru finds herself aimless, and at the mercy of those who have all the answers...on whichever side of the war they are on.
Chizuru Yukimura | Hakuouki | Reserved
Uwaaaaah~~! [Chizuru couldn't help herself. She had her fingers pressed up against the pristine glass pane of the window neighboring her seat on the locomotive she found herself lucky enough to gain passage on.
She had heard of trains, even seen drawings of them in letters that her father received back when she was a child. They were things of far-away lands, however. It was a wonder that she had never even noticed ground being broken in Edo to make way for the railways that followed.]
Well, come to think of it...[She began to muse out loud, but stopped herself to see if anyone was around to over-hear her. She was so used to being confined to her room at the Shinsengumi headquarters, she'd forgotten what it was like not to have the place to herself.
Once she had confirmed that she was, in fact, alone, she continued, comforted by the sound of her own voice breaking the silence.] ...come to think of it, I hadn't been in Edo for all that long, I wouldn't have deemed to even look, really...[Maybe she needed to be a bit more observant.]
Mm? [Pulling away from the window, she noticed the train lull to a stop in the station. She waited to see if others were beginning to unboard before she too gathered what she had--her kodachi, not much else, really--and walked to the train entrance.
A rush of anxiety filled her lungs like a gust of winter's first chill. Here she was. In this city, all on her own. She let out an uneasy whimper.]
...what was I thinking, getting myself into this...?
Third Person:
Chizuru kept herself at least five to six paces back behind the man she saw, though unaware, she was still a dead give-away. She was quite obviously following him, something evidenced by the determined stare she gave him, her eyes sinking into the unaware man's back. How he couldn't tell she was staring so intently at him was anyone's guess, but there she was, a young woman dressed in hakama, pacing down the street and not letting anyone deter her path. Still, at this point, she didn't care. She recognized him, and she had to see what he was doing here.
Should she call out to him? No, what if he was carrying out some command ordered by the Commander? She didn't think Kondou-san was here, but, then again, she hadn't seen any of the Shinsengumi up until now. And here--here he was! Saitou-san! But...what could be wrong? Surely he could sense her by now....
"Excu--ah!!" She hadn't paid close enough to where she was going, and she tripped over a subtle rise in the street. Waving her arms in attempt to maintain her footing, she fell forward and felt the fierce heat of the cobblestone scraping against the palm of her hands. "Ow, ow, ow--!" She hissed between her teeth. She looked up, gasping when she realized that she might have drawn unwanted attention, and here she was, her hands and knees scraped open and bleeding.
If this was Saitou-san, and he was out in the daylight...what was even worse, if people noticed her wounds suddenly healing...
Clumsily, she tucked her knees beneath her, drawing her hands to her chest and bringing herself back to her feet. If she stood up straight, the blood shouldn't brush against the hakama. "Uhm...S-Saitou-san!" Her cover blown, she might as well call out to her companion, in hopes that their reunion would consist of something more than scolding.
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