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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[CANON] Taokaka || Blazeblue || No Reserve || 1 of 3

[tao_is_taokaka]

PLAYER
Name: Gaa
Personal Journal: berwaldox
E-mail: roronoazoro33@hotmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: Aim: thegaathing | MSN: roronoazoro33@hotmail.com

CHARACTER
Name: Taokaka
Canon: Blazblue
Timeline: Just after following Ragna outside her village in Continuum Shift
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

[CANON] Taokaka || Blazeblue || No Reserve || 2 of 3

[tao_is_taokaka]

Personality:
Taokaka is a member of the Kaka clan, which are a group of genetically-modified beings who live underneath the main city called the Kagutsuchi. She’s a well-respected warrior, and most certainly one of the strongest members of the Kaka tribe. She comes across as fairly brainless and ditzy, refusing to call anyone she meets by their actual name. Suggesting that she doesn’t have the ability to remember them, or she is just far too easy going to do such. Instead, she comes up with a unique nickname for every person that she meets, basing them on their appearance, or, perhaps even their personality. She calls her teacher and friend, Litchi, ‘Boobie Lady’ thanks to the woman’s quite notable chest, as well as giving ‘Ragna’ the nickname of ‘Good-guy’ based on his personality, as well as the fact that he gave her free food.

Tao is very much a cat, despite her humanlike stature; the appearance of a tail, as well as moveable catlike ears atop the hood she wears are rather hard to miss. Besides that, Taokaka’s only desires in life seem to be to eat well, sleep a lot, and spend time with people who are nice to her. If she isn’t out and about, hunting for food or bugging her many friends for something to eat, she can be found flaked out in any available patch of sun, sleeping her life away. She’s incredibly easy-going and simple to get along with, as shown many times in the series that she will talk to and play with just about anyone. Regardless of appearance, attitude, or even how dangerous they might be. She is first sent out of her village to find and capture ‘Ragna the Bloodedge’ by her elder; a dangerous criminal whose bounty would help the Kaka clan to secure a new home. She finds Ragna, or, ‘Rawrgnya’, as she messes his name up as, and instead of fighting and capturing him, she manages to befriend him and even comes to enjoy his company quite a lot.

Tao seems to be a personification of pure innocence in many ways. A ditzy outlook, forgetful to a fault, and completely trusting of everyone she comes across, she only wishes the best for those around her. Fighting with her natural talent to protect them without any real care, or even thought, that what she could get herself into could be damaging, or even fatal, to her own well-being. So long as she sees reason to fight, she will keep going to protect those dear to her. Though, really, she’d much prefer to just share and eat food with everyone instead of fighting. Fighting, to Taokaka, isn’t something that she really actively thinks about as bad. She often refers to fighting as ‘playing’, going so far to full-on attacking her teacher, Litchi, just because she’s bored and wants something to do. Her extreme speed and stamina usually means she comes out on top, but very often she finds herself easily beaten by those who rely on pure power, like Hazama and Iron Tager, who oftentimes always manage to defeat her in battle.

Despite how brainless Tao often comes across as, she isn’t completely unable to learn. She is able to harnesses a power called ‘Siethr,’ which, described to her by her teacher, Miss Litchi, is a very powerful substance in the air throughout the world. Litchi says only very highly skilled beings with lots of training in the ways of Ars Magus can draw off the seithr in the air, and use it to utilize hellishly powerful spells and abilities. However, with no formal training nor prior knowledge to the stuff, she can use it with startling skill. It’s also notable that anyone exposed to too much siethr are at risk to being tainted by it, and almost always die. However, the members of the Kaka clan are completely unaffected by the negative effects, and it’s suggested that the natural immunity to its deadly effects might be a reason to why Tao can harness its power so naturally. Untrained in the art of fighting, her attacks are extremely unpredictable, her moves lightning-fast and without real skill. She relies on her speed and pure natural instincts to win against her opponents.

[CANON] Taokaka || Blazeblue || No Reserve || 3 of 3

[tao_is_taokaka]

First Person:
Hey! Heeeeeyyy, Good-guy, wait up!
[The first sound on a small hand-held, pocketwatch-like device would be the sound of a rather cheerful, bubbly individual calling out for someone. She had followed him, the man in red with the really funny hair, outside her village. He had been so badly hurt, what was he thinking of going out and wandering out when he was still all banged up? He should stay behind and eat more to get better, she thought. And walking around certainly wasn’t How you got all healed up!]
Hey, Good--

[She pauses, poking her head out of the train she had followed the good-guy onto. He was gone. Her ears flicked, a rather blank look coming over her mostly-hidden, red-eyed face. It was sunny. And bright! Not at all like that of the Kaka village, nor even the cities right above her home! Oh, it was AMAZING! She took a big step out of the train, her long-sleeved arms hanging at her sides. All memory of what she was doing three seconds prior… was gone.]
What a beautiful place—Oh, the sun! The SUN!
[Long arms come up, as the catlike… thing did a spin… before promptly flaking out on the ground right there in the middle of the train station, in a particularly nice patch of sunlight, a really very pleased look coming over her face, as she seemed to get comfortable. There was not a care in the world to where she was, or if this place could be dangerous.]

Third Person:
In the background, there was the sound of someone talking. It was a somewhat posh, scolding voice. It had said the catlike female’s name a good six or seven times, now, but the hooded cat-thing hadn’t been listening. The sound had gone over her head every single time, and she was either actively ignoring the sound—or she just couldn’t hear it. She was on her haunches, tail in the air. The bleached-white tip flicking back and forth as the grinning Kaka stalked her prey…. A single blue-winged butterfly. Both paws sat on the ground in front of her, a sharklike grill of teeth grinning as she wiggled her bottom in preparation to pounce. There was another call of her name. It went completely unheard, and the catlike woman jumped.
A loud, mewling yell escaped her, as both paws lashed forward to try to catch the single bluebell coloured insect that had been calmly sitting on the grassy patch Tao had been sleeping on moments before. The sound made the creature’s antennae flicker, and just before Tao’s paws could grab and crush the poor little bug—it flitted up and out of her reach.
Taokaka lands, belly down in the grass. Red eyes looking up as the little insect flitted away, far too out of reach for the playfully innocent cat-girl to catch it. She sits up, her shoulders slumping. Two long braids of hair curling over her shoulders. “Oh, phooey. The flutterbugs are always too gosh-darn quick for Tao. That’s hardly fair.” She complains, turning her head for the first time to look back at the woman who had been calling her. Miss Litchi—or, rather, Boobie lady, as Tao had so gracefully nicknamed her, looked rather disgruntled and upset for the fact that she had been ignored. “…Whoooa, Boobie Lady! When did you get here? Tao didn’t even see you approach! Are you getting lessons off the Scruffy man to be a ninja? Ohh-hoh-ho, It’s pre-t-ty impressive if you’re asking Tao!” she giggles, a giant paw reaching up to cover her mouth with a giggle.
Litchi was yelling again. Tao’s ears folded down, and she grinned. What the big-breasted lady was saying... It seemed like all of it was all pretty well going to fly over the young Kaka’ head. Oh well.

[ACCEPTED]

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