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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

<BIG><BIG>PLAYER</BIG></BIG>
Name:
Age: If you would prefer not to be specific, just let us know that you're over 18!
Personal Journal:
E-mail:
AIM/etc:
 
<BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG>
Name: First, Last (Western order)
Canon: Name only.
Age: Real / Apparent, if applicable
Timeline: At which point of the canon were they taken from?
Items with character at canon point: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: 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, how will you handle their interactions without playercesting? Depending on your answer, you may be refused the character you are apping for.
 
Personality: 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.
 
Background: 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.
 
Abilities: 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.
 
Network/Actionspam Sample: 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.
 
Prose Log Sample: 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

<BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG>
Character Name: First, Last (Western order)
Canon: Name only
Age: Real / Apparent, if applicable
Timeline: At which point in the canon were they taken from?
Items with character at canon point: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: 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, how will you handle their interactions without playercesting? Depending on your answer, you may be refused the character you are apping for.

Personality: 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.

History: Three well-written paragraphs minimum, detail our your characters’ history.

Abilities: 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.

Relationships to Canon Characters: If any, if not applicable please put N/A.

Network/Actionspam Sample: 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.
 
Prose Log Sample: 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

<BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG>
Name: First, Last. (Western order)
Age: Real / Apparent, if applicable
Appearance: 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.
Chosen PB: 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.
Items with character at canon point: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions.

Personality: 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.

World Information: 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.

History: Your characters’ history in their world. Be sure to be detailed. This section should be a minimum of three paragraphs.

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 ✧

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Personality: At first glance, Mikoshiba might look intimidating and serious, standing at a height of 6’2” (and this is Japan, after all), as well as he’s the captain for a swimming team that’s nationally renowned as a swimming powerehouse. However, he’s actually far from, though while of course as a captain - he has his moments where he’s will be taken seriously. He has to make tough calls, but he’ll do it because it’s his duty.

Other than that Mikoshiba’s a good guy, always grinning and acting friendly with everyone, always keeping an eye out for his team mates. In the drama CDs he’ll joke with Nitori and Rin on a very close level, implying that he has a good relationship with his team mates. He also seems to have an affection for cute girls, quick to casually flirt with Rin’s little sister when he first meets her. (Sadly, he doesn’t have the permission to date her. - Yet. One day…..)

He shows good leadership in the way he manages a quite large swim team, staying serious when it matters as well as he shows great skill and knowledge of what he does. It’s also shown that his team actually respects him, so he’s no joke. When it comes to decisions he’s precise and thinks of what’s best for the team, like for example when Rin shows poor team spirit, Mikoshiba makes the decision to take him off the relay because while Rin is a good swimmer, a relay is a team sport. But, in the end, when Rin swims for Iwatobi in the relay instead and comes to Mikoshiba apologizing, he offers him mercy and doesn’t kick him off the team as long as he does it for their team, next time. He might make ruthless decisions, but he’s not heartless. It’s what makes him a good captain.

Much like the rest of the people in this show, he seems to be really enjoying swimming. In the episode you do get to see him swim he breaks the pool record, looking genuinely thrilled at the announcement. In the end, though, Mikoshiba’s your normal teenage guy. A bit on the tall side with lots of muscles, but still coming up with dumb jokes and hitting on girls. He’s helpful and always has good intentions, though they sometimes might seem a little weird -- is him calling Kou “Gou-kun” a really terrible way of teasing her? We just don’t know.

Background:
Not much is known about Mikoshiba’s background as he’s a minor character. He’s the captain of Samezuka’s swim club and a senior at the high school. He’s first introduced when Kou first visits Samezuka in order to find her brother, seeming intimidating at first but actually turning out to be a good guy who just happens to like cute girls. Since then he pops up every time Samezuka appears, though nothing’s stated about his past, at least yet.

In the swimming competition, however, he’s shown to be an incredibly skilled swimmer, to prove why he’s the captain of the Samezuka’s powerhouse. In the Drama CD, it’s mentioned that he lives with his family, and has a younger sister at the same age as Kou -- this coming from a misunderstanding between Rin and him, where Rin thinks Mikoshiba went on a date with his precious sister.

[let me know and i could fill in empty spaces with headcanon, but.. ]

Abilities:
- Swims really well
- Captain of one of the biggest high school swim teams in Japan, good leadership
~~- does being handsome count~~

APPLICATIONS

[CANON] Seijuurou Mikoshiba | Free! | Reserved | 2/3