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] Nico di Angelo || Percy Jackson Series || reserve || 1 of 3

[shadowtraveller]

PLAYER
Name: Cnd
Age: 35
Personal Journal: chichirinoda
E-mail: chichirinoda@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: hellbreakercnd, Chichirinoda

CHARACTER
Name: Nico di Angelo
Canon: Percy Jackson Series
Age: Physically, he's 14 years old, however he was born in approximately 1932, and spent 70 years in the Lotus Hotel, experiencing the time subjectively as taking only a month or so, and coming out without having aged.
Timeline: Taken from just prior to the beginning of the House of Hades book.

[CANON] Nico di Angelo || Percy Jackson Series || reserve || 2 of 3

[shadowtraveller]

Personality:

At his core, Nico has a big heart, and an inquisitive personality. His sister was his world, and he and she had already been through a lot together by the time he meets Percy, but he doesn't come off as a damaged boy, protecting his heart. He's immediately curious about the demigods and excited to become a part of their lives. He's smart, nerdy, and pretty self-sufficient. He's also a fountain of questions. But that sweetness and innocence are short-lived.

Nico quickly becomes the character in the series who has probably been through the most, and it changes him profoundly. The loss of Bianca affects him deeply. From the point at which she dies, he begins to pull away, but he's unable to find acceptance from his father, and living in Hades, obsessively chasing Bianca's shade, brings him no happiness. Nico tries to be the lone wolf, the dark, brooding hero who doesn't need anyone. But in the end his heart won't allow it. He begins to put away his anger, and reach out again.

But while Nico starts to form friendships once more, he continues to maintain deep walls around himself. He cares about Hazel as a sister (though nothing can supercede Bianca), loves Percy, and grows to care for the rest of the Seven as friends and comrades. He would willingly sacrifice his life for them, and he doesn't want to see them suffer on any level. But at the same time, he believes that he can truly never be one of them, and that if they knew him, really knew him and who he was, that they would hate him. He's aware that most people find him creepy, just generally, and as a child of Hades, the outcast god, he simply doesn't fit in properly with the children of other Olympians. After spending 70 years in the Lotus Hotel, he is a child out of time. And even worse, he's gay, but grew up in the 1930s. On some level, he has internalized the values of that time, and he feels shame and self-loathing for his sexuality.

By the time I have chosen to draw Nico from, while he is kind and caring, he is quiet, brooding, and creepy. He often fades into the background, startling everyone when he suddenly puts some input into the conversation. He's very bright, and knowledgable about Greek and Roman myth. He has a knack for getting into places, including becoming an accepted part of Camp Jupiter and generally seen by the Romans as generally harmless, despite his creepy demeanor and status as a child of Pluto. He's incredibly self-sufficient and resourceful, surviving things that no other person has. But he hasn't come out of it unscathed. Though he is generally calm, if he feels threatened (for example, when Jason found out about his feelings for Percy), he can still react with anger, and will lash out to protect himself, like a cornered animal. He is scarred deeply by his experiences. His time in Tartarus nearly drove him insane.

But I think that's why he's drawn back to spending time with his friends, despite his self-loathing and his fears of rejection. He can't bring himself to isolate himself completely. He needs connection, needs love in his life. So he seeks his father's love, and failing that, he makes connections with a new sister - Hazel - and continues to follow Percy, protecting him when he can, and going to incredible measures to help him without any consideration for his own safety and sanity. He forms friendships with other demigods even though he believes they would hate him if they knew his heart. Because he can't stand to be alone.

Background: http://camphalfblood.wikia.com/wiki/Nico_di_Angelo

[CANON] Nico di Angelo || Percy Jackson Series || reserve || 3 of 3

[shadowtraveller]

Abilities:

Nico is a son of Hades, the Greek God of the Underworld. He can talk to ghosts, and summon the dead to do his bidding. In fact, he has a whole suite of death-related powers, including being able to sense death or people's life auras, control the dead, communicate with nearby spirits by sending out "vibes", or banish the dead. He can also send out a powerful aura of fear that affects the living.

He can enter a Death Trance, that allows him to survive a long period of time without food, water, or even air. With just a handful of pomegranate seeds, he survived in an airless box for over a week, eating just one seed per day to regenerate his strength.

He has the ability to shadow travel, which allows him to travel large distances in a short period of time, by moving from shadow to shadow. This ability is very draining, and he can't do it too much. He also has the ability to travel to the Underworld at will, and move through the Underworld without dying. In a general sense, he can control darkness and shadows in other ways, summoning it and even shaping it into solid shapes.

He has the ability to levitate rocks and turn them into sharp obsidian shards, then throw them at people.

All demigods in this world have ADHD. In the case of demigods in the Percy Jackson universe, what is diagnosed as ADHD is actually extremely powerful reflexes and reaction-time. Compared to regular humans, they seem to have a hard time focusing and sitting still, and this is because of their heightened senses and energy compared to humans. Nico has this ability.

He carries a sword made of stygian iron, which can basically suck the life out of anyone it pierces. And he's pretty good with it. Using this weapon, he can block and control darkness attacks even more than his natural ability to control shadows.

He can speak fluent Italian (because he was born in Italy), English, and ancient Greek (because he's a Greek demigod), as well as reading in all three languages. (As a note, demigods are hardwired to speak and read ancient Greek without being taught. This makes it more difficult for them to read their native tongue, which is often diagnosed as dyslexia).

He's a very good Mythomagic player! Which is a kind of pokemon card game with Greek gods and demigods. In addition to being a cool hobby, he knows a great deal about Greek mythical figures and monsters because of this hobby. He seems to have an encyclopedic knowledge of the cards, which might seem like a photographic memory but is actually just the fact that he's a huge nerd.

First Person:

[At first, the video might not seem to show anything. Dim light and shifting shadows, and then the person holding it comes into focus, as he pulls back and obviously stares at the picture in front of him, first with confusion, then a slight smile. He's got dark hair that is rumpled, as if he just rolled out of bed. Though his skin has an olive tone, he's so pale it looks as if he hasn't seen the sun in many years.]

Oh cool.

[Then his eyes widen and the smile instantly vanishes. His brows come together in an uncertain frown]

Hey wait, can people see me on this thing?

[He abruptly shuts the watch, and everything goes dark. A few moments later, he reappears, his face completely serious and half-hidden in shadow]

Uh…hi. Sorry about that, before. It didn't look like a cellphone, and I didn't realize it was-- [He stops, eyes flicking away for a moment, and he purses his lips, irritated with himself] Anyway, you don't care about that.

I'm looking for some people. You know who you are. Contact me, okay?

[He hesitates for a moment, then shuts the watch again]

Third Person:

Nico was no stranger to weird places. He had spent quite a while in Hades, after all, and even made his way, alone, through the very depths of Tartarus. He had been captured by giants and kept in an airless jar for over a week with nothing to keep him alive but pomegranate seeds.

So unlike many people who came here, he didn't freak out or anything. In fact, he stepped off the train in relatively good possession of his faculties, and spent some time reading posters before moving on.

Even when he left the train station, he kept to the shadows. He saw people, but didn't consider approaching them, at least, not at first. He didn't know what to expect, but the people here, they might be enemies, or they could just be innocent people who wouldn't have answers to any questions. Maybe some of them might be potential friends, but he wasn't exactly comfortable with just walking up to some random person and asking questions.

So he shadow travelled until he knew the layout of the town. In all his travels, he didn't see one monster. Not one demigod, either - at least, none he knew by sight.

But there were a lot of ghosts. He had a few good conversations with them, and that calmed his fears and gave him a better grounding for what to expect.

Finally, when he felt confident, he approached his first actual living person in the city.

"Hi," he said, melting out of the shadows in what was probably a startling way - it wasn't intentional, he was just a bit shy and didn't realize he was hiding as he approached. "I'm new here."

ACCEPTED

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