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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.
Re: [CANON] Tom Riddle || Harry Potter || reserve || 2 of 3
Born and raised in an orphanage, Tom knew from an early age that he was different to the other children, able to perform feats of magic that he used to torment and torture the other orphans, to the point that he once took two of them to a cave and performed an act so horrifying that they were traumatised into silence. Even before enrolling in Hogwarts, Tom was capable of Legilimency and Occlumency, using his talents to toy with people’s minds while keeping his own shielded. He was also able to ‘speak’ to animals, and is a Parselmouth – possessing an ability to speak to snakes passed down through the bloodline of his mother’s side.
Tom’s personality is composed of two facets – the side the he presents to everyone, and the reality.
On the surface, he would seem to be a charming, handsome and polite young man. He gained a reputation in Hogwarts through his intelligence and appearance of being a model student, seen as ‘poor, but brilliant’. His lack of parents inspired a sympathy in others, leading to him being viewed as brave, with only Albus Dumbledore remaining suspicious of him.
However, behind that quiet, charismatic façade, Tom Riddle is an ambitious, cruel and sadistic young man believing in the superiority of pure-blood wizards and witches despite being a half-blood himself. This hypocritical view comes from his being ashamed of his family, from his muggle father to his pure-blood mother, who he sees as weak and unworthy. He clings to his familial connection with Salazar Slytherin as a conformation of his own self-worth, after discovering that he is descended from the House founder.
Arrogant and megalomaniacal to the point of sociopathic, Tom is possessed of a Machiavellian personality which he uses to its utmost to manipulate those around him. He is a liar, and a hypocrite, often expecting of others what he would not do himself, putting his ‘allies’ into harms’ way and disposing of them like toys when he has no further use for them, having very little concern for the effects that his actions may have upon others – only whether or not they will be beneficial to him. He easily dismisses things which have no (perceived) value, such as softer emotions like kindness and love, a trait which would be to his detriment later in his life.
He will keep his word when it suits him to do so and as long as it doesn’t get in his way, or if the person asking is of a certain level of usefulness to him at that given moment. While he can acknowledge the mistakes that he makes he doesn’t seem to learn from them, and he will become very unpredictable when angry, swinging from calm and composed to an explosion of fiery rage within moments. He becomes uncomfortable, even fearful when things around him begin to slip beyond his control, and is not above cowardice in situations where it would benefit him.
Tom has an almost pathological fear of death, believing it to be the utmost of human weakness. While attending Hogwarts he became obsessed with the idea of immortality and how he could attain it, and he also discovered his lineage and his status as the Heir of Slytherin. It was through this revelation that he found the entrance to Salazar Slytherin’s Chamber of Secrets.
Unfortunately, he has found himself whisked away to Ruby City before he was able to open it…
Re: [CANON] Tom Riddle || Harry Potter || reserve || 3 of 3
[Tom is frustrated. The early morning finds him, as usual, stalking the dusty corridors of the city’s library, searching for something. Any questions as to what he is looking for thus far have been met with a snarl and a sneer]
I hate it here.
[He spits out the words out to the empty, silent space with all the ferocity that a sixteen year old adolescent can muster, and drops another armful of books onto one of the large tables. The dust that the weight of the tomes creates swirls around him for a moment, until he wafts at it.
This would simply not do. He was going to get out of here. Somewhere in this library there had to be a way. There had to be]
Third Person:
Getting out of the city had become something that was almost necessary for Tom Riddle. He’d taken to spending hours outside the city walls, exploring, seeing how far he could get before hunger and exhaustion pushed him back to the apartment that he’d taken to living in. He would never call it his home, but it had four walls and a comfortable bed, and it kept him clear of the various irritating people he’d managed to find in this place. His investigations through the hundreds of books in the library had thus far given him no insight into the nature of where he was being held, and he was becoming more agitated by the day.
He had been so close. So close. He knew where the Chamber was, the sacred, secret place beneath the castle built by Salazar Slytherin himself to house the means to cleanse the muggle-born from the school. Tom had found it, and now it seemed that it was forever out of his reach. It was enough to drive him to anger, and as he walked beside the lake he kicked a stone with enough force to send it skimming out over the water.
Tom was feeling more and more like a rat in a very elaborate trap. The longer he was stuck here, the more fervently he wanted to escape, and the more he came to realise that it was very unlikely that he’d be able to do so. Whoever was running this place, they were far more powerful than he… and it stuck in his throat to even think it.
[ACCEPTED]
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