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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 ✧

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

First Person:
[Stannis passes through the the desolate building across from that strange railed road he came in on, hosting upon it that long, snake-like cart that had now disappeared. There are papers upon the wall around him, supposedly advice for 'newcomers'. And even what looks to be supplies. He snorts bitterly at the notion.]

Send a person to some hell, and act like you're the savior. The gall of them.

[His teeth grind as he ignores the supplies out of pride and suspicion, instead palming against the newfound weight in his trousers.]

Even worse, they slip something into my own leggings. Perhaps next I'll be finding my throne, only for it to be covered in the droppings of birds.

[With a frown deep against his worn and tight face, his hand reaches in to seize the item; something round and brass. Cautiously, he pulls it out, holding it on his open palm and scrutinizing it with a narrow stare.]

Some bauble of one kind or another...

[His thumb flicks over the lock keeping the watch closed, releasing its cover and showing all of foreign information Stannis could only look bewildered by.]

...Another accursed invention of my torturers. Their ingenuity is only matched by their ability to waste my time.

[Baratheon's back leans against the brick of the train station as he peers and tinkers with the watch, murmuring both dissatisfaction and discovery all the while.]

Third Person:
This settlement, a city long-abandoned by most from what he could reckon, was not from his world. Perhaps, as a man of Westeros, he had not seen all that his world had to offer. But the ethereal presence felt here, beyond the ones felt by his priestess' flames, gave him the infuriating impression that he was just a prisoner in this exotic realm. It had the trappings of Storm's End, or of Dragonstone, with the cobblestone roads and rats prowling for crumb or carcass to devour. Even the temple resembled a sept, somewhat, called a 'cathedral' on some of the maps he had found. But this was no land of his.

The king Baratheon thought for that reason, that determining who's land this was, was a matter of primary importance. The threats of danger and adversity were none that he hadn't faced before. Thoughts that struck him as built from hubris. But the longer he was away from his duty in Westeros was the more every party suffered. The security of his stomach and warmth of his body could wait.

From what he had been able to gleam from the scattered bits of information around town, there were two locations to check first: the object called the 'obelisk', apparently a tower of red. Whatever symbolism it had in his home, he doubt it held here, Stannis reminded himself. The second would be the library, needing no explanation other than it being a hub of information. He just cursed the potential fate of it being a foreign tongue. Always suspect the worst of men you do not know.

The town center, as told, contained the great monument Stannis sensed as mystical, but in a manner he was not able to place. Approaching it haughtily, though his heavy steps and grim demeanor betrayed his concern at its power, he stopped only a few feet away from it to peer closer into the crystal, the material of which this tower was made. But what he saw, some morphing shadow, a distorted darkness trying to grow but being kept imprisoned, warded him off soon after.

His feet skirt back, his steps slow and defensive. Before, he had seen such dark magic. That of the shadowbinders, of his own priestess. Now it lays within the grasp of somebody unknown to him, with purposes unknown but surely counter-intuitive. Seconds pass, and his fear hardens into contempt. His short and grounded teeth sneer at the ominous rock.

"Another means to power. Whatever this stone is supposed to conduct... I trust it not."

There would be nothing to gain standing around like an old miser and condemning this unknown force. Stannis would learn about it from a more prudent place, and determine its place in his mind from there. Others may damn or worship, but he simply used as necessary, as beneficial to the realm. The library was not far away now, and as such, that would be his next location. There he could learn.

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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

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APPLICATIONS

[CANON] Stannis Baratheon || A Song of Ice and Fire || No Reserve || 3 of 3

ACCEPTED