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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.
{ [CANON] DEAN WINCHESTER || Supernatural || RESERVED || 2 of X }
When he was four years old, Dean used to play t-ball (noted in his dad's journal). Later, while he was still four, Dean's mother burned to a supernatural death on the ceiling of their home. During this time, Dean's father put his baby brother in his arms and sent him out of their house as the flames grew. This event resulted in his father obsessively hunting for the creature that murdered Mary Winchester, and killing monsters along the way, effectively changing the Winchesters' lives forever.
Dean and his brother were raised as children of a strict, ex-marine, sometimes-alcoholic hunter. When Dean was between the age of 6 and 7, his father gave him his first hands-on lesson with firearms. At age ten, he was already being left alone to protect Sam, and practicing with a shotgun. Two years later, he made his first sawed-off shotgun - something he is proud of years later. Fun and games were severely lacking in his life as a boy. Circumstances forced him to grow up at a very early age in order to take care of both his little brother and his father, but it's noted by John that Dean never complained. He took the cards he was dealt and he made the best of it, keeping any resentment he felt locked inside.
Despite the obvious flaws of John after Mary's death, Dean idolized his father, hanging onto his every word. He is described as a "good soldier" for always doing as his father ordered. While Sam began to rebel against John's poor parenting at a young age, Dean persistently justified John's neglect. As John spent more and more time away from the brothers hunting, Dean constantly worked to make up for their father's absence. When he was twelve, he tried to provide a makeshift Christmas for Sam that involved stealing presents, lights, and a sad-looking branch for a tree. Though Dean realized their dad wasn't going to show up for Christmas with them, Dean swore he would, and then tried to convince Sam that the gifts and tree were set up by John while Sam was asleep.
When they were young, Dean told Sam that their dad was a superhero; that monsters were real and he fought them. In typical child fashion, he believed his father to be invincible, even though his mother was killed by the things his father hunted. He tried to protect Sam from the "truth" (monsters are real) for as long as possible, and went above and beyond to take care of his brother. From the time he was four, Sam had been the priority given to him by his father and he had embraced it. Watching out for his brother was burned into his personality so deeply that he didn't hesitate to sell his soul in order to save Sam's life. At an earlier point, he admitted to Sam that there were times the things he was willing to do for his family scare him. After Sam started to change and act more careless and similar to Dean, Dean wanted his brother to continue to protest killing, be the sympathetic, gentle one, and was concerned by this loss of innocence.
The love for his family is the very core of Dean's being. It's why he feels guilt so strongly when he believes he has let them down, and it's why he makes sacrifices without complaint. Though he tries to portray himself as a rough-around-the-edges "cool guy" type who doesn't do emotional "chick-flick moments," he is sensitive and feels things deeply, carefully hidden away. A girl in highschool psychoanalyzed Dean, saying his attitude was his way of hiding his loneliness and she wasn't entirely wrong. Dean told Sam once that he believed everyone would leave him, at some point. Their mom did (though her death wasn't her choice), Sam had left him and John to attend college on his own (noted as one of the worst days of Dean's life), and Dean felt abandoned by John when John left him to hunt, saying that he "did everything Dad asked and still got ditched." After his father left to hunt solo, Dean went to get Sam because he didn't want to look for John alone. All said and done, he continues to want his brother by his side as the seasons pass. Although he is very capable of taking care of himself in even the worst situations, he is very co-dependent on his dad and brother, wanting nothing more than to have them united and getting along as a family.
Growing up, he adopted part of the idolization towards his father into himself and used to consider himself a hero who saved people. Despite growing colder with age and more prone to killing (example being killing possessed victims instead of taking the time to exorcize the demons), Dean feels guilt for every innocent life he takes, a fact that is brought up as a reoccurring theme for his character. In a way, he feels responsible to take action against the supernatural world, since he knows it exists while others are oblivious. This thought was engrained into him by his father, who considered their happiness in exchange for the lives of others to be an obvious choice. Though he will rarely admit it, Dean finds it unfair that he should have to sacrifice everything he has ever had and questions why it has to be his job to fight everyone else's battles and not have a normal life with his family. It becomes apparent by what he admits that he finds it unfair that he was the one comforting his father instead of vice versa, that he had to stay and give up his dreams while Sam went to college because John needed him, that he had to protect their family, struggling to hold them together in place of John who was too obsessed with revenge to manage it. There are times when he feels broken down under the weight of responsibility on his shoulders and wants to be out of the "family business," but, as he doesn't see an out for himself, he always gets back up and carries on.
While both John and Sam are capable of heading in their own directions with direct intent, Dean is lost without them. He considers them selfish for focusing single-mindedly on their revenge and not thinking about the remaining, living family that is hurt as a result. His sense of self most often doesn't extend beyond his family and he is unable to see himself changing his ways or ignoring hunting. At one point, Dean tells Sam that his family is all he has and he is nothing without them, which shows that he feels no sense of purpose if he is alone. Taking this into consideration, it is easy to see how Dean would sell his soul for Sam. It is noteworthy to mention that Dean's idolization of his father also led to him adopting a similar style; he wears his father's coat, drives his father's car, listens to the same music as his father, and often preaches to Sam in the same manner about hunting, as it was drilled into his head more successfully than it was in Sam's.