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rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
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.
Revision!
Veda is the sticking point, here. It's clearly shown that Tieria takes failure extremely poorly - whether his own or other people's - and the first time Tieria makes what he considers a critical error on a mission he's left sobbing brokenly in his Gundam. Things really start to go badly wrong for him when he starts to notice that there are parts of Veda that he is being denied access to - parts that he previously thought were open to him. What starts off as a sickly suspicion coiling in his gut rapidly becomes a full-blown crisis. Due to the mounting problems surrounding Veda, the bridge crew of the Ptolemaios create a back-up OS to replace it should anything go wrong. Mid-battle, something does go wrong - the connection to Veda is completely shut down, leaving the Gundams without power, controls, anything. Fortunately, the back-up OS works, but that's only for 3 of the Gundams. Tieria's connection to Veda (that he thought made him oh so special) hampers the reboot of his Gundam, leaving him dead in the water. His comrade, Lockon Stratos, is forced to make a self-sacrificing leap in front of him. Lockon's machine is heavily damaged while trying to defend Tieria, resulting in Lockon being blinded in one eye.
The loss of Veda is not the only thing that's had a dramatic effect on Tieria's personality, however. Being exposed to "normal" life amongst the crew and his fellow Meisters has meant that slowly but surely, Tieria has come to certain realisations about humanity and about himself. He learns that it's okay to make mistakes, and to have more faith in other people. He even learns that he can come to his own conclusions and that he doesn't have to wait for Veda to tell him everything - this is clear in the way he follows Setsuna into battle against the Trinity siblings. It was not a mission or something specifically required of him, and yet because he felt that their actions were "wrong" of his own accord, he could fight them. He demands to be reprimanded for his disobedience after the fact, of course, and is mystified by the way Sumeragi (their tactical forecaster) shrugs it off. Tieria is present when Lockon finds out that Setsuna is indirectly responsible for the death of Lockon's parents, and sees the way that Lockon chooses not to hold Setsuna accountable for the sake of forgiveness, the success of the mission and humanity. Humans frequently confuse him - initially causing him irritation and aggravation at how unpredictable they can be - but eventually he becomes charmed by their ways, and strives to be more like them.
Where these two issues overlap, however, sits Lockon Stratos. It would be incorrect to say that he's the only person that's had a direct effect on Tieria's personality - after all, he grows much closer to Setsuna, Allelujah and all of the Ptolemaios crew throughout the course of the series. However, Tieria himself starts to center his opinion of the world around Lockon. It's Lockon that guesses that Tieria isn't human, it's Lockon that throws himself into harm's way to save Tieria when Veda abandons them, and it's Lockon that Tieria feels a crushing guilt over when he finds out that Lockon was hurt for his sake.
When Lockon then dies only days later, it's too much for Tieria to take. Even if he hadn't realised it himself, this was the man that Tieria has placed his faith in after Veda was lost to him. He lashes out at those around him before eventually deciding the fault is his own, and fights recklessly to avenge Lockon. His once uptight, entirely logical personality has been broken and reforged into something that's, yes, softer, but also wilder and more unpredictable as he struggles to come to terms with his emotions.
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