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

Re: Mondo Oowada | Dangan Ronpa | not reserved

[mustlovedogs]

Personality: Oowada is the leader of a motorcycle gang, the sort that modifies their bikes in illegal ways. Most members are under twenty and come from financially struggling families. Their group rides can become violent, not with eachother but against bystanders, police and other gangs. They typically use weapons such as metal pipes, wooden practice swords and baseball bats. Many members move on to become low rank yakuza. Many of their activities are in fact in protest against modern Japanese life and government.
Basically, they’re thugs. Mondo’s gang is called the Crazy Diamonds – Diamonds being spelled ‘daiyamondo’, his and his brother’s names pushed together – and happens to be the largest gang in Japan. If there was any doubt, Mondo confirms that he has participated in fights and says he never loses a fight and aims straight for the other gang leaders, which has made him a popular target. He has even been to prison at least once. It also goes without saying, he loves motorcycles, modifications and riding. He often offers to let people ride with him, assume people own a motorcycle or otherwise speaks as if others know what it’s like to ride a motorcycle far above the speed limit, or at least want to know. He just takes great pride in his gang and enjoyment in riding.

Mondo has something of a complex over the perception of strength and weakness. He worries others think he’s weak, both physically and in spirit and desperately wants to come across as ‘strong’. He thinks a group is only as strong as its leader, and so must be as strong as possible for his gang to be strong as well. Several times he’s shown repeating “I’m strong strong strong strong strong strong strong”. When he was about to succeed his brother as gang leader, he feared the members saw him as weak, nothing compared to Daiya, because he was only the younger brother. This causes him to challenge Daiya to a race in hopes of surpassing him – which leads to Daiya’s death, saving Mondo from an oncoming truck and causes greater anger with himself, that his weakness killed his brother. Chihiro confides the secret of his sex in Mondo and expresses a deep desire and commitment to ‘changing himself in order to stop lying’. Because of Mondo’s own secret, he thought Chihiro was mocking him by saying he was strong, and became jealous of Chihiro’s own strength. While Mondo couldn’t face his lie and hides his weakness, Chihiro found the strength to face his own lie and weakness. If no one was killed, or he told Chihiro, his secret would be announced, and everyone would realize he isn’t strong – his gang would realize it and split up, breaking his promise to his brother. His fears and jealousy were strong enough to cause him to black out and kill Chihiro. Even as he admits this he berates himself for being unable to beat his weakness.
Similarly, appearing tough and ‘manly’ is important to him. At one point he gets into a fight with Ishimaru over who has more willpower which leads to a contest, and in fact any jab at him would yield the same results, whether it’s to his intelligence, strength – even something like cooking skills, he just wouldn’t be able to stand someone calling him weak in some area, even if there’s no doubt he is.

However, this example works to another point of his personality. He believes ‘a man’s word is absolute’, if he gives his word, he will protect it by any means necessary. For his promise to his brother about keeping the gang together, it meant lying and murder. For his promise to Chihiro to keep his secret, he moved the body and crime scene to the girls’ locker room when it in fact happened in the boys’ and destroyed Chihiro’s male student ID card. The moment before his execution, he apologizes for being unable to keep his promise with his brother.
He invests a great deal in the things his brother taught him about ‘being a man’, such as protecting the weak, respecting women, etc. and idolizes Daiya. Not only does he base his own creed on Daiya’s, he used to follow his brother around and imitate him. However ‘a man’s promise’ has left a particularly strong impression on him as they were Daiya’s last words.

Despite his image as a thug, he is actually a pretty good guy. He’s amicable and ready to offer help where he can. He agrees to the rules the students set among themselves and guards the crime scenes. He’s appalled by the idea of killing anyone to get out, or the possibility of anyone else among them killing a fellow student. Even though he doesn’t have the best social skills (often saying things that come out all wrong as well, such as “We’re spreading good feeling all around, aren’t we!? Say it! Say we make you feel good!!” to Asahina, to which she replies, “Hey, isn’t this sexual harassment?!”), he is usually pretty friendly with the other students – discounting his outbursts, of course. He sticks up for others several times, in particular when Togami bullies Chihiro. In particular he bonds over manly men doing manly things, even if it’s only the promise to do that as with Naegi, though after his contest with Ishimaru they become inseparable and call eachother 'kyoudai', which is used to refer to siblings. Even something that started as a fight turns into a friendship, because to him fighting really is just another way of bonding. Not to mention the set of morals his brother taught him.

He does, however, have a bad temper and trouble controlling it as well as swearing a lot and having a harsh way of speaking. This also factors into his aggression, because of his quick temper and being used to fighting and running around with his gang, inside Hope’s Peak Mondo asks Naegi to have a fight with him just to blow off steam. It’s suggested he spar with Sakura, but he shoots it down right away, because he “will never hit a woman”. Mondo also tends to make not-so-subtle threats if he wants someone to say or do something. Some are the ‘pound his fist and repeat the order’ sort, others are ‘do it or I’ll beat your face in’. In addition, he’s impulsive and rushes into things. He runs into the gym for the opening ceremony only because he thought Sakura was implying he was afraid, and during the ‘opening ceremony’, grabs Monobear, meaning to break him and is only saved from Monobear self-destructing by Kirigiri’s quick thinking.

He always yells when he’s nervous – he says he ends up yelling whenever he tries to ask a girl out and is continuously rejected because of it. In addition, he has a particularly soft spot for things he deems cute. Though he says he likes dogs, he’s sure to add that he thinks cats are cute too. He had a dog once, a Maltese named Chuck, and shows deep sympathy in hearing Naegi’s own dog had died years ago as well. When talking about Chuck he really brightens up, then appears in pain, almost as if he’ll cry, upon remembering Chuck is no more.

Mondo admits he isn’t very smart, and is often proven right, misunderstanding words or jumping to conclusions that are obvious to everyone else to be completely incorrect, and worries about what he’ll do when he has to leave the bike gang. Because he has invested all his energy to it, he hadn’t thought about the future and upon realizing that, accepted admission to Hope’s Peak as a means of escape. This is further proof he tends to run from his problems and lie to cover them up rather than facing them. He does, however, have a career goal, he wants to be a carpenter and looks forward to it, so he can make things instead of what he has been doing until then, breaking them.