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

Daenerys Targaryen | A Song of Ice and Fire | Reserved | Part 3

[gelenka]

Background: First Book to the end of the Third Book.

Abilities: ♕ Her control over her trio of dragons is her greatest power.

♕ She has also proved that she is immune to fire.

♕ Other than that, she is a skilled ruler with a sharp wit (and a sharp tongue) who is not afraid to make hard decisions,

♕ a skilled rider (in both the horse sense and sexual sense after marrying Khal Drogo)

♕ and a woman who has no trouble using any weapon at her disposal should one try to corner her or harm her and her children.

Network/Actionspam Sample: [Written for another game. If you want a fresh sample, I can give you one.]

[Her anger over having been separated from her children has dissipated. It will never fully disappear until she is reunited with them - no matter what the Drabwurld offers her. She has partaken of the wine and some of the finer dishes, but it takes more than baubles to distract a Targaryen Queen.]

To those who met me at the feast, we need not repeat introductions. However for those who either did not attend the feast or missed a grand opportunity... [Those words are said with a playful air rather than a serious one.] I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen. I hail from a city called Astapor. It is not my true home, but it, along with other, less known, places has served me well.

[She can thank Astapor for all of their Unsullied in particular. And at such a reasonable price!]

I am interested to meet all of those who call Westeros home. [There is a new spark in her eyes and she lifts her chin.] I do not seek conflict - [Initially.] But I think we can make use of this rare opportunity. You need not fear me.

[Unless you're a Baratheon or Lannister and she isn't entirely comfortable with the Starks either.]

Dragons once frequented this land, did they not? [The questions is off-handed - nothing to see here, move on - but her gaze is fixed.] What became of them?

Who saw to their demise?

[Her soft tone is transforming into one of steel. A mother does not take kindly to the deaths of other children - even if they are not her own.]

Prose Log Sample: The night air was blessedly cooler than the searing heat of the day, yet Daenerys found she was not soothed. Obtaining the loyalty of the Unsullied had been a huge accomplishment and she swelled with pride each time she thought back on how they had agreed, first as one and then as many, to follow her freely. But they were but one step on a long journey that would, with any luck whatsoever, return her to Westeros and the Iron Throne.

"Khaleesi, you must get some sleep." she glanced over her shoulder to see one of her handmaidens turning down the blankets on her bed.

"Soon." she promised the young woman, "I want to enjoy the night air a little longer."

Sensing rather than seeing her handmaiden bow in acquiescence, Daenerys moved closer to the edge of the tents, her arms crossed over her chest. Fires burned here and there and, if she listened closely enough, she could hear the sounds of dreaming Dragons. Her children need only rest, eat and grow. She would ask nothing else of them.

Not until they are grown.

Then she would ride them into battle and right the wrong that had been perpetrated years ago. But that seemed like such a distant dream - especially as she took in her surroundings. The distance between Westeros and herself was staggering. It made her impatient. She wanted her children to grow faster; her army to expand and there to be no doubt in anyone's mind or heart that she was the rightful Queen of the Seven Kingdoms.

Control the present.

Daenerys refused to lose her pride (or her bravery) in the face of an unknown future. Viserys had taught her to submit and listen to everything he said without argument. She knew she couldn't live that way, so the idea of a man entering her life and trying to be her equal - or better - left a sour taste in her mouth. However, and quite unfortunately, there was a certain comfort that came with finding herself wrapped in strong arms. If the man was as talented as Drogo in bed, she knew she could quickly forget her agitations.

What she wouldn't give for a good...

One of her Dragons was calling for her. She smiled to herself and turned back to her tent. There was something ironic about hearing Viserion's voice after she thought of his namesake.

He was needy too.

Pushing back her tent flap, she walked over to the cream and gold beauty, her expression tender.

"Your voice is stronger." she murmured approvingly, scratching behind his ear as he leaned against her hand, "Soon your body will follow. But, first, rest."

More for his sake than her own, she slipped into bed and blew out her candle. A happy sigh followed and she knew her children were content. If only she could say she felt the same.

ACCEPTED

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