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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

<BIG><BIG>PLAYER</BIG></BIG>
Name:
Age: If you would prefer not to be specific, just let us know that you're over 18!
Personal Journal:
E-mail:
AIM/etc:
 
<BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG>
Name: First, Last (Western order)
Canon: Name only.
Age: Real / Apparent, if applicable
Timeline: At which point of the canon were they taken from?
Items with character at canon point: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: 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, how will you handle their interactions without playercesting? Depending on your answer, you may be refused the character you are apping for.
 
Personality: 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.
 
Background: 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.
 
Abilities: 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.
 
Network/Actionspam Sample: 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.
 
Prose Log Sample: 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

<BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG>
Character Name: First, Last (Western order)
Canon: Name only
Age: Real / Apparent, if applicable
Timeline: At which point in the canon were they taken from?
Items with character at canon point: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: 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, how will you handle their interactions without playercesting? Depending on your answer, you may be refused the character you are apping for.

Personality: 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.

History: Three well-written paragraphs minimum, detail our your characters’ history.

Abilities: 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.

Relationships to Canon Characters: If any, if not applicable please put N/A.

Network/Actionspam Sample: 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.
 
Prose Log Sample: 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

<BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG>
Name: First, Last. (Western order)
Age: Real / Apparent, if applicable
Appearance: 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.
Chosen PB: 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.
Items with character at canon point: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions.

Personality: 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.

World Information: 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.

History: Your characters’ history in their world. Be sure to be detailed. This section should be a minimum of three paragraphs.

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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No problem!

Kirei's primary conflict comes from a largely black and white view of good and evil, in line with what he would call an ordinary person's morality. For example, acts of charity and kindness being 'good' vs. acts of cruelty and sadism being 'evil'. He recognizes the difference and tries to be a good person because he finds that to be in line with what the world views as acceptable rather than any desire of his own. As far as he's aware at this point in time, Kirei thinks he has no desire of his own, and his disinterest in life and the world around him comes in part from that lack of attachment to anything or anyone around him. All he can do is go through the motions of being a just and moral person though he gains nothing from doing so; in other words, he's less of his own person and more like something self-programmed to do what the world and others expect of him.

And on the subject of others, there are mainly two in Kirei's life up to his current canon point that should be elaborated on: his father Risei Kotomine and his wife Claudia Ortensia. Risei, being a kind and loving father, took pride in the fact that from an early age, his son lived up to all expectations. In reality, Kirei's questioning of his own nature started with a simple realization he had one morning: he did not love his father. There was no reason for that to be true, and in fact he didn't hate Risei either. But the fact remained that he felt nothing for either his father or that which Risei Kotomine regarded as beautiful. Furthermore, the two lived with Risei having no idea of his son's dilemma; Kirei was so thorough in going through the motions of being a good and moral person that his father never once had reason to think he was anything else. To phrase it another way, it would be a safe assumption to make that Kirei was never truly understood by even his own father.

In his attempts to find some source of real happiness, Kirei concluded that any normal individual would be happy to love someone and have a simple family life. So his final attempt--termed by Kirei himself as an 'experiment'--was in marrying a woman named Claudia. A member of his father's congregation, she was a terminally ill woman with only a handful of years left to live at most. He made an honest attempt to care about her for two years, hoping that would be what finally triggered some sense of mundane happiness. Although he made such an attempt and was in turn earnestly loved by Claudia herself, Kirei found he experience neither joy nor anything resembling love. His only interest came in Claudia's suffering and their daughter Caren's despair at her ailing mother's state.

Finally, Kirei determined that the existence of someone like himself--who felt no joy and failed to recognize what others regarded as beautiful--was clearly just a mistake, and resolved to simply end it. As she had been part of his final experiment, Kirei determined it only fair to inform Claudia of his results. Approaching his wife on her deathbed, Kirei calmly informed her that despite all his efforts, he was incapable of loving her. In her final effort to prove to Kirei that he could love someone and that his life was therefore worth living, Claudia chose to disagree with him before killing herself.

Unfortunately, in that moment Kirei Kotomine found his only thought was 'How terrible. If she was going to die, I wanted to kill her myself.'

For reasons he could not comprehend--not knowing if it would be for his own pleasure or to end her suffering--the only grief he felt was that of losing an opportunity. Though he saw Claudia's death as meaningless, Kirei didn't want it to have been worthless; as a result he both continued to live and (for a time) ceased pursuing answers to his existence.

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

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MOD NOTE: To allow full accessibility to the event, the new arrivals will be noticed by the Night Mares when they step off the train. It's up to you if you'd like your character to be drawn into dreaming in the same way as many other residents or if you would like them to be able to fight the creatures off!

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