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 ✧

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[albuquerque]

Abilities: Severus is a very accomplished wizard and practitioner of magical craft. He has exemplary strengths in duelling, potion making, spell creation, non-verbal and wandless magic, charms, transfiguration, Dark Arts, Occlumency and Legilimency, healing, and is skilled at flying without the use of a broom (a skill that he learned from the Dark Lord).

First Person:

[The video feed crackles to life with a brief blip of static. Severus is peering into the screen with an unreadably stern expression. He looks tired and deeply, deeply unimpressed.]

A word of advice:

If you must indulge in carnal knowledge with each other in the dead of night, kindly do so at volume which does not subject others to your lascivious debauchery.

Good day.

[The feed crackles again before going dead.]

Third Person:

[ooc: sample taken from a PSL. hope that's okay!]

Severus stepped out in the dungeon corridor and slammed the door after him. He'd had enough of all this stress weighing heavily on his mind and in his heart like an infected wound; he'd been in the middle of restocking his potions inventory, trying with all his might to not think about the way the wizarding world was escalating at an alarming rate towards another war, when it struck him (certainly not for the first time) like a deadweight to his chest that he no longer wanted to do this anymore.

He no longer wanted the burden of knowing Dumbledore's fate rested in his hands. He didn't want yet another night of mental anguish wracking his thoughts while he lay alone in his quarters, which could only ever be temporarily mollified with a strong sleeping potion. Perhaps, he hoped desperately as he'd locked the cupboard to his potion stores with a quick and complicated wave of his wand, there was another way. There had to be another way, even if he knew in his heart of hears that there truly wasn't.

He took the dungeon stairs two at a time, his robes billowing after him, and headed in the direction of Dumbledore's office with a stiff and determined gait. As he crossed the viaduct that led to the Entrance Hall, he heard the echo of angry voices, one of which he immediately recognised as Draco's.

"What is it now?" Severus muttered testily under his breath. Of course, as Head of Slytherin House, he was going to have to tend to whatever the matter was before continuing towards Dumbledore's office. And when he swept into the Great Staircase Tower, he was met with the sight of Draco hitting Finnigan with a right hook square on his jaw.

Pressing his lips together into a thin line, Severus quickened his pace towards the brawl. Just as Draco was about to land another punch on Finnigan's face, Severus reached out and grabbed Draco by the robes just below his left shoulder blade and yanked him back.

"Cut that out, both of you," he commanded. He snatched Finnigan by the scruff of his collar and hauled him away from the wall before the boy could think about attempting to launch himself at Draco. Severus let Finnigan go with a shove. "Ten points from Gryffindor, Finnigan. Report yourself to Professor McGonagall at once."

"But-!" Finnigan began, and Severus knew the Gryffindor was going to attempt to argue that Draco was the one that punched him, but Severus was not in the mood to hear it.

"Silence! This school will not tolerate such puerile behaviour. Report yourself to your Head of House immediately, or I will deduct a further five points." Without waiting to hear another word from Finnigan, Severus snatched Draco's wrist in his hand and started back towards his office, dragging the boy along after him through the viaduct as though the boy was little more than a menace just moments away from receiving a hiding for his misconduct.

Had it been any other student, he'd have been leading them by the ear, making sure every ounce of their contumaciousness was reduced to snivelling and rueful whimpers of pain. Draco was lucky Severus always granted him some measure of mercy, though Draco's increasing outbursts recently were proving harder and harder for Severus to feel merciful towards. While Severus could only imagine the inner turmoil Draco was experiencing at knowing what fate had been carved out for him, it worried Severus terribly that the boy was going to lose control in a way that would jeopardise his safety. And while Severus had no intention of ever mentioning to Draco that he was bound to him by the Unbreakable Vow, he had to find some way of attempting to reign Draco in before the boy did something truly foolish.

When Severus reached his office, he threw the door open and roughly yanked Draco in after him. He released the boy's wrist with a jerk as he slammed the door shut and he whipped around to look Draco squarely in the face.

"What in Merlin's name has gotten into you?"

ACCEPTED

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