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 ✧

Comments

Dirk Strider | Homestuck | Reserved

[thepuppetmaster]

PLAYER
Name: Fiona
Personal Journal: blood_winged
E-mail: littlebritteacup@aim.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: littlebritteacup; Plurk: hardtostarboard

CHARACTER
Name: Dirk Strider
Canon: Homestuck
Timeline: Act Six, after telling Jake English that he comes from the future.
N/A

Dirk Strider | Homestuck | Reserved

[thepuppetmaster]

Personality:

Although a definite show-off when it comes to the things he’s done – particularly making robots, Dirk doesn’t tend to overplay his personal thoughts and preferences. Like pre-Scratch Dave, Dirk favours irony, but in contrast to Dave does not pepper it with curses, preferring to lean more towards intellectual quips leading to him often coming off as obnoxious. Laid back by nature, he is very invested in the welfare and personal development of his friends, to the point that he will openly insult them (as he often does with Jake, ironically of course) in an effort to change their perceptions. He encourages his friend Jake to be more cynical and sceptical, thinking him too naïve, while at the same time criticising how distrustful Jane is. He will also encourage Jake to work things out for himself instead of relying on him for help, for example when he insists that Jake fight Brobot as a consequence of having wasted uranium.

Dirk’s dream self on Derse has been awake for years, but unlike Dave (who was unaware of his own conscious dream self), Dirk is fully aware and in control of his own. He has spent most of his conscious time on Derse in hiding, while looking out for Roxy’s sleepwalking dream self, and when he finally chose to reveal himself after a foiled assassination attempt by the Batterwitch, he did so in spectacular fashion, publically impaling the agent’s head on a spike and parading it through the streets of Derse. He has the ability to quickly switch between his normal and dream selves, and has been known to enjoy “legendary infinite showers”, presumably taken when he is focusing on his dream self.

He is a fan of horses, having many horse and pony themed posters in his bedroom, and also watches “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”, claiming that it is purely for academic reasons. However, he will admit to liking Rainbow Dash, because ‘she is so spunky <3’. Despite this, he often makes fun of Jake’s apparent infatuation with the character Neytiri from Avatar, calling her a ‘gigantic shitty space furry’. Whether this observation can be taken ironically given Dirk’s already established love of anthropomorphic candy-coloured ponies is anybody’s guess.

Like his pre-scratch self, Bro Strider, Dirk has a big interest in smuppets and puppets in general. Lil’ Cal is his favourite puppet, and, Dirk claims, his best friend. His own older brother had been dead for well over a century before Dirk came along, though he had left the means for Dirk’s survival behind. While he idolises his bro, Jane believes that he is bitter about his successes with Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff. Dirk has a Hella Jeff tattoo, with jpeg artefacts, on his shoulder.

Illustrating his proficiency with robots and computer programming, Dirk is in possession of a home-made auto-responder which is designed to mimic his speech patterns, personality and typing style while he isn’t at his computer. The auto-responder is based on his thirteen year old self, and by the time he is fifteen still retains a 98% margin of accuracy (though this was reduced to 92% after some pressure from Jake). The auto-responder has implied that Dirk has a romantic interest in Jake, which would seem to be backed up by conversations that have been had between the two. Jake, however, seems to be utterly unaware of the fact.

Dirk Strider | Homestuck | Reserved

[thepuppetmaster]

First Person:

[He misses Jake.

Of course, Dirk would never outwardly admit to such a mess of tender feelings but the fact that he had spent the last half an hour slowly carving the initials J.E. into his desk with the sharp end of a compass would have given him away to anyone. When he finally realises what he was doing, he feels his stomach twist in alarm, and quickly scratches it out, then dumps a book on top of it]

You ain’t got time for this, Dirk.

[Picking up his glasses, he pushes them on, hiding sunset-orange eyes. Since he arrived in this place called Ruby City, everything has been messed up. The previous night he had found himself stalling in the middle of a quip, to Roxy of all people. Luckily for him she’d been far too drunk to notice, but it had brought to startling attention just how much he misses the buck-toothed, naïve almost-idiot.

Rather more than that he can’t help but wonder if Jake is able to manage by himself]

Third Person:

Dirk stored his katana back in his strife specibus and moved closer to look over the damage he’d done. The creature he’d been battling was still breathing, though from the amount of blood slowly spreading over the ground around it, it wouldn’t be for much longer. He kneeled down, sliding his glasses off and hooking them over the collar of his shirt.

There were beasts in this place that would have been nightmares even on Derse. He had to wonder, with an army of such things, could his long-dead bro have turned the tide of battle against the invading fish alien queen. He frowned. It wasn’t like anything he’d ever seen before. Even now, half dead, it was still glaring at him like it wanted to chew off his face.

He was merciful, and pulled a small, thin blade from his specibus, sliding it up into the soft part at the back of the creature’s skull. It shuddered, then fell still.

“Like someone took every damn nightmare a bro ever had and stuck it right here,” he muttered as he cleaned the blade off on the grass. The thing looked like a wolf, but gone all wrong, like it was trying to be a human and a horse at the same time. He was sure he’d seen it in a book, and though he couldn’t recall said book saying how to kill it, it seemed that spilling enough of its blood worked just fine. Dirk winced, and gripped his arm. Damn thing had managed to get out a fair amount of his own blood, too.

[ACCEPTED]

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