APPLICATIONS

[rubycitymods]

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

The Eighth Doctor | Doctor Who | Reserved (2/2)

[calmbefore]

Abilities: First and foremost is the fact that all appearances aside, the Doctor is in fact not actually human. As such, there are more than a few differences when it comes to the more biological side of things. The most noticeable - and familiar - of these is the fact that he has two hearts instead of one. This has, on occasion, confused medical professionals who haven’t been expecting it, especially given that his heart(s)beat runs to a four-beat instead of the much more standard two-beat found in most humans. He is also capable of surviving with only a single working heart, although this is neither particular comfortable nor necessarily feasible for any particular stretch of time. In addition to this, he is also generally more resilient than the average human, and can better tolerate extremes of both heat and cold, as well as being able to survive electrical shocks that would be fatal to humans. Likewise, all of his senses are distinctly better than human average - this includes proprioception, which makes him generally harder to disorient. Alongside these, he has a nebulously defined “time sense” which allows him to sense the flow of time as well as disruptions and jumps in the time stream.

Like all Gallifreyans, he is also mildly telepathic. This mostly extends to a sort of telepathic link with other Time Lords, he is also capable of using it to read - and sometimes alter people’s minds - as well transfer memories. With effort, he can also communicate telepathically at long range, but this appears to be limited to specifically other Time Lords.

Rounding out the various biological quirks is the fact that his biochemistry is different enough that various poisons either affect him differently - in his later incarnations, he’s been shown to be able to counteract the effects of cyanide poisoning given a few extra bit and pieces, and X-ray radiation affects Time Lords so little as to be very nearly harmless - or take longer to actually kill him. On the flip side, aspirin is toxic to him, even in small doses.

Finally, like all Time Lords he’s capable of regenerating into a new form - and a new personality - in order to escape death.

Alongside this, the Doctor knows in a number of languages. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to, Old High Gallifreyan, Gallifreyan (his native tongue), Judoon, Delphon, several Chinese dialects, Ancient North Martian, Tritovore, French, English, and some Sycoraxic. Anything he’s not familiar with is usually taken care of by the TARDIS’s translation circuits.

He also naturally smells like honey, for reasons that have never really been explained.

First Person: [There’s a brief moment of silence, and then a voice speaks up. What he was doing prior to speaking - and it is most definitely a male voice - isn’t quite so certain, although presumably some of it was spent working out the approximate workings of the communicator.]

Ah, there we are. Strange sort of thing though, isn’t it? Communicator inside a pocket watch - almost mistook it for mine. Not quite the same design though. Similar, yes, but not quite. Either someone’s done a very poor job of duplicating it or it’s a very common design for these sort of things.

Still, the question is - just what sort of network is this. Watch-based, yes, but what is it actually for? Who else is here, and more importantly, why does whoever made these in the first place want to be so sure we stayed in contact?

[Yeah, he’s... pretty much talking to himself at this point. Distractions or interruptions are probably a good idea.]

Third Person: By most circumstances, there were certain things that were fairly common to time travel. New locations, occasionally new alien species, and an awful lot of problems to get into. Most of them, however, tended not to come with quite such interesting transport. True, it looked like a train, but any train that could pull him out of the TARDIS itself was a very impressive train and no mistake.

Unfortunately for the Doctor, any attempts at curiosity were not really going to be feasible. Not when the train was already pulling into what seemed to be a station. Not one he knew, of course, but that was at least not anything new. New places were part of the fun, and given that the train was now stationary there was certainly nothing stopping him from seeing what he could find about the train. Or at least, that was his intent. The train, meanwhile, seemed to have other ideas, and he wasn’t really certain what to make of it.

The fact the train also vanished shortly after he finally bent to the pressure attempting to shoo him off the train was simply another oddity. Of course, with train now gone there wasn’t anything he could actually observe, but well. Sooner or later it would be back. Or at least, presumably it would be back. For now, there was at least something else to look at. What could be made of this new city... well, that would be something to find out and with one last look at where the train had been, the Doctor set out into the city at large. He had a TARDIS to find, at the very least, to say nothing of Charley.

The only question then, was what this particular world - or city - happened to have in store for him.

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

Welcome to Ruby City! Go ahead and join rubycity_ooc, rubycity_rp and rubycity_logs with your character journal!

After you have done this, post to the Contacts page, Tag Request page, the Taken Characters page and, if you know where your character will be living, the Residences page! Familiarise yourself with the Rules and FAQ and introduce yourself at rubycity_ooc

If you have a plurk account, please add the rubycitymods plurk to be included in future updates, information and feedback. We are on plurk at rubycitymods.