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

Septimus Heap Series | Nicko Heap | No reserve

[sailsthesevenheaps]

PLAYER
Name: Fiona
Age: 25
Personal Journal: blood_winged
E-mail: waytoomanytags@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: littlebritteacup

CHARACTER
Name: Nickolas Benjamin “Nicko” Heap
Canon: Septimus Heap
Age: 16
Timeline: The end of Syren
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality: Nicko, despite being one of the Heap family and therefore exposed to magic from a young age is, in fact, rather uninterested in the discipline. The second youngest Heap boy’s love is for boats and sailing and always has been, though he still has the tell-tale bright green eyes of a person who has been exposed to Magyk. He is a bright and determined young man of sixteen with an alarming tendency to rush into things without thinking when his emotions get the better of him, but he can be equally level-headed when the circumstances call for it.

Like all Heaps, Nicko is stubborn and prone to being bull-headed when he has his mind set on something. More often than not easy-going and good-natured he has a practical mind and a wry sense of humour, enjoying a joke as much as the next person. While not immediately trusting he can be swayed by the opinions of those he already has faith in, though it must be noted that in those cases it is more the case that he trusts that person he was already close to has put their own faith in the right place.

Part of a close family, Nicko values trust and loyalty very highly and reacts badly when either of them is broken. He’s closest to his younger brother Septimus, often believing him even when no one else will and jumping to his aid on several occasions over the course of the book series, sometimes putting himself at serious risk in doing so. He doesn’t like to admit that he’s wrong and when he knows he’s right he’ll stick to his guns like a dog with a particularly tasty bone in a way that can sometimes cloud his judgement, but rest assured that his heart is always in the right place.

He has a fear of enclosed spaces, becoming panicky when he feels trapped. This is something he’s able to control for a limited time, though like all fears it will eventually overcome him if it goes on for too long. Nicko doesn’t like to talk about this and will claim to be fine while trying to control his fears, even when he’s clearly not alright.

While not an unkind boy by nature, he does have the capacity to be cruel as much as any person, especially against individuals or groups who have wronged the people he cares about or himself personally. This is shown most clearly in his initial treatment of Boy 412, later revealed to be his brother Septimus Heap, and DomDaniel’s young apprentice Merrin, whom Nicko despises. How he views his eldest brother Simon is also altered drastically when the young man turns to Darke magyk and against their family and friends. While it may seem that he’s fickle, Nicko’s actions are always with the aim of protecting the important people around him. If that means swiftly changing his opinion on a person, for good or ill, then you’re likely to see him do it.

Background: Here!

Abilities: Nicko is an accomplished boat-builder and like all Heaps save his adopted sister Jenna is able to use magyk, though his lack of interest in it means that he is nowhere near as able as his younger brother.

First Person:

[Nicko sits down on the dock outside his small house by the lake and dips his feet into the water, leaning forwards to watch the dark shapes moving beneath. They don’t bother him anymore, though at first the merpeople took violent exception to his deciding to live on the edge of their territory.

With the warm sun beating down on his head he flicks one of his small braids back, tucking it behind his ear and turning towards a block of wood on the dock, a half-finished carving emerging from it like a living thing. He picks up his knife, resuming the quiet task of creating a figurehead for the small, finally finished boat sat floating beside the jetty. It’s not his best work, but it’s all his and he’s proud of it regardless. The little boat sits low and wide in the water, made for safety over speed and sporting a sail made from patches of spare, sturdy cloth pilfered from the clothing store.

The young man smiles, giving a little nod to no one in particular.]

I still need to think of a name for you. [He muses, rubbing his thumb over one of the fresher cuts in the wood in front of him. He’ll need sandpaper soon, it feels much too rough.]

And I can’t call another boat ‘Muriel’. [He shakes his head, pulling himself up and striding over to the boat, crouching beside her and running his hand along the side.] What about… ‘Cerys’? [Nicko pauses, then grins as the wind gusts and the boat gives a gentle creak.]

I knew you’d like it.

Third Person:

If he was going to sail anywhere, he needed to chart the stars first. The sky here was nothing like back home but he’d managed to draw up some blank charts, one already half completed from the month or so that he had been in this strange place. At least the stars stayed constant, even if everything else sometimes turned completely upside down.

With his eyes feeling gritty and sore from tiredness and spending too long working in light that was too dim for any real progress to be made, Nicko threw himself back onto the grass and let his eyelids drop to half-mast as he idly sucked on the stem of a strand of grass. The puff of seeds at the tip occasionally spiralled into the edge of his vision. Living like this made him think of his four forest-dwelling brothers, though he’d made a point of making sure he didn’t descend into the kinds of habits they did. It wouldn’t suit him, anyway. Nicko just wasn’t built to be lazy.

He frowned as he thought of home. Often, he tried not to. It hurt too much to think of everything that he was missing, even with Septimus here and the assurance that it wasn’t like before and time wasn’t passing while they were gone. Even with those assurances… it didn’t keep him from missing everyone.

He even missed Spit Fyre sometimes.

ACCEPTED

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