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

Italy Romana | Axis Powers Hetalia; Nyotalia | Reserved | 5/5

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Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths
Physical; As a nation, Romana is much stronger than the average human. She is also a much faster healed, when the wound is one that has been caused on her human body and not on her land or her people or economy. E.g.; A bullet wound or a cut will heal quickly, while the damage from an earthquake will leave much longer lasting damage. In canon, a nation gets a cold from having their economy crash. Her nationhood status leaves her practically immortal, or until such time as she herself is forgotten by her people, or Italy is destroyed or no longer needed.

She is also prone to greater bursts of strength when angry or trying to protect someone she cares greatly about. Like a sort of Hysterical strength thing.

Psychological; As a nation, and one of her age, Romana naturally has to have a very strong mind. She's stubborn and determined, both which have helped her to never truly gve up fighting and always climb back up to help her people and make things better for them.

Emotional; While she doesn't open up to many, when she does care for someone Romana is very attentive, very motherly. Children are a massive weakspot for her and automatically bring this out in her. She protects her feelings under layers of snark and sass but at the same time she loves deeply.

Weaknesses
Physical; The Bombings of Naples have left her with scars and wounds along her left side. At her time of arrival in Ruby City one of these will be fresh. The others have begun to heal, and the scar tissue has caused it's own issues, making it harder for Romana to move her left side.

And without her nation strength, Romana would be like any other petite 5' woman and not very strong.

Psychological; Her natural nature of being suspicious can often cause problems, as she becomes unwilling to trust people. She also cares far too much about her sister's wellbeing, to the point that she will risk her own safety with little thought to protect Venezia.

Emotional; Romana is quick to sass and even quicker to burst into a temper when she feels she has been wrong. Her anger is harsh, and can be often undeserved. She is also prone to holding grudges, unwilling to let things go, like Germany getting Italy involved in the war, or even as far back to Germania killing Ancient Rome.

Abilities: As a nation Romana is effectively immortal, and also a quick healer to human based wounds. She also possess an instinctive connection to her people, as they often influence her in decisions. It has also been implied in certain strips that Nations can hop from one country to another, like teleporting, rather then using more human transport like planes or trains.

In more human based abilities, she's fluent in many languages, including Italian, Sicilian, French, Spanish, with passable English and German. She's also very good with a gun, trained in first aid and all that of the traditional war time roles for women. She's also handy with a sword though that is a much older form of battle and it's starting to get rusty.

Relationships to Canon Characters:
Romano; The male version of herself.
Veneziano; The male version of her younger sister.
All the other damn nations; Are all in her world but naturally genderbent, eg; males are females and females are males to her.

First Person:
I do not understand where I am...
What is this... who...

[The speaker of this watch doesn't seem to realise she's being recorded, her voice loud as she tries to make her words carry, tough her confusion is obvious. The question of where she was, was much more important than a silly old watch of course]

England, if this is a trick of yours, I swear it, I'll make you pay! I don't need you! I don't need help from a stupid little heathen witch who never learned the common courtesy of respect!
I can fix this all myself... I can...
You and America can go straight to hell!
And you can say hello to Germany when I send her there as well. Uppity little bitc- [And the connection seems to cut out]

Third Person:
War is hard.

This is something Romana has always known, the daughter of two great empires, the charge of others that followed after the originals fell. She's seen what power, land, all of it costs, how it drains the land, the people, the nation itself. She's seen her grandmother, back lined with scars, Spain with fresh cuts oozing red, France, her eyes tired and still half crazed.

She's fought herself, many times. For independence. For family, her sister. For her people, who needed freedom, who needed a nation of Italy, one whole and strong and not split and strewn between so many. For growth, to give her people land to spread into, though in the end they never got that.

But this war, the second great war is different. It is nothing like the first she thinks, this one is far greater, the gain so much more and the risks even higher. This war consumes, erases and fear crept in early. Fear and disconntent, the voices of her people stirring in her, her own voice silenced as she tried to speak up, by her leader, by her sister.

Venezia had been so sure that Germany would help them to greatness. And Romana wishes she had been right. The words "I told you so" are ash in her mouth, and what does it matter when there is no sister beside her to say them to. For the first time since their independance, the first time since Romana stole her sister back from Austria they are seperated, Mussolini forming another Italy and Romana feels a hole inside her that she hasn't felt for decades.

It hurts. It hurts more than the pain in her side, the ache that flares into a sharp flare of hurt with even small movement. Bombs leave their mark on land, and her body is little more than a human manifestation of land. Perhaps if she was larger, taller, wider, the marks wouldn't be so bad. But she is small, delicate in body and it hurts.

The callouses on her hands in feet, where blisters have formed and burst and scarred can be ignored, but the blood that soaks through bandages can not. Romana wants to keep marching, take Rome back with her own hands, hands of the descendant of Ancient Rome, Italian hands, strong hands, but she can't. The loss of blood makes her feel more human than ever, the wounds left by the bombs in Naples unable to heal. As much as she hates stopping, as much as she hates the time wasted, time that leaves Venezia with that bastard longer, she must. She can feel the tips of sunset reaching the land and she knows it's time for rest.

Setting up the bare minimum of a camp she settles down to check her wounds, feeling the stickiness of blood soaked cloth sticking to her skin. Slowly she unwind the bandages from around her torso, the ones pressing her breasts down being slowly pull off. For once she ignores the embarrassment of being naked, cleaning the wound that covers her side with slow gentle soaks, the warmth of the water seeping into her skin.

The water turns red.

The bandages are tossed into a small pot to rinse them, new ones being wrapped around her body. The ache remains, but she bites down hard, tugging the bandages tight. She needs to stop the blood flow, she needs to be flat. She needs to be a man, because according to the men this is no place for her. Even if she feels the pain of all them dying, even if her sister needs her.

The wind sweeps across her neck, ruffling shorn down locks.

And like every night, Romana lets herself cry, just for a few moments. Tomorrow she'll be strong, tomorrow she'll be a cold, hard man, who can and will kill anyone. Tomorrow she'll keep marching, and soon she'll find her sister. Get rid of the Nazis. Get rid of Mussolini. It won't be tomorrow, but it will be soon.

Tonight she'll cry. For the people she's lost, for the sister that's being held from her. For Naples, half ruined, for her body, marked forever. For the blood that she's spilled, and for the hair she's cut off. She'll cry for many reasons, logical, illogical, emotional and rational.

Tomorrow she'll be strong.

ACCEPTED

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