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APPLICATIONS

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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In the end they did things Maedhros's way, so they killed the guards and stole the jewels. Unfortunately for the two of them, that whole "committed genocide multiple times" et al had left them fairly unequivocally evil, and that just didn't work for the silmarils. The silmarils were holy gems, which burned things of evil to touch, and they now burned the last sons of Fëanor when they tried to pick them up.

Maedhros was just SO TORN UP over all of this that he went and THREW HIMSELF INTO A VOLCANO (hey have you ever had your hand hurt so bad that you'd throw yourself into a volcano? yeah me neither) and Maglor ran with his for a while until he finally couldn't take it any more and chucked it into the sea. He proceeded to spend the rest of eternity crying about it.
Abilities:

Before we start: I am so sorry. I know it's ridiculous, I didn't write this.

Tolkien never really explained what his version of magic was (other than 'not your normal magic' thanks Mr Tolkien) and, in fact, specifically mentioned that words in English don't actually exist to describe it properly. To make matters even better Tolkien contradicted himself on the hows and whats and wherefores a lot, and Word of God actually contradicts what's in text. For that matter, what is actually in the text contradicts what's in the text.

Tolkien.

Let's start with the more or less sane and consistent part of the ridiculous things he can do just by virtue of being an elf. Here is a brief list.

- Immortal unless killed
- Difficult to actually kill! If you don't manage it in the first five minutes odds are he'll be fine in the morning, excepting cases of poisoning. He can recover from wounds that would kill humans without too much difficulty.
- Unless he dies of the sads or is raped, which would cause his spirit to nope right out of his body (this is rare)
- Or suffers extreme wounds of the spirit (which is also very rare)
- Doesn't get sick. Ever. Common Colds are for lesser creatures
- Highly resistant to extreme cold and pppprobably extreme heat
- Excessively, stupidly light of foot, to the point where he can walk on top of snow without leaving a footprint and move absolutely silently. PROBABLY.
- Ambidextrous
- Perfect recall (though presumably not everything he has ever learned is instantly 'on tap', meaning some has been filed away and it could take a while to find the right file. He's kinda old, after all)
- Super duper good senses. He can see like way far away we don't know how far but far, and his ears are also very keen.
- Does not actually need to sleep! Presumably he can, but when he needs/wants to (and presumably isn't tired enough to actually need to lie down) he can find all the rest he needs by thinking about/looking at beautiful/pleasant things. He can therefore multitask and do things like run hard and 'sleep' at the same time. Don't ask me how, but it works.
- Tires less easily than other races to begin with.
- Fleet of foot
- Faster/stronger than other races
- Extreme connection to nature! He can like, talk to the trees and rocks and animals and so on. Probably. Probably not so well as the laiquendi? Maybe? I'm sorry all of this is very vague. Generally good with animals too.
- He can somehow impart a portion of his virtue to things he makes or places he hangs out a lot, which burns and repels minor evil things. Doesn't really work with major evil, but can fend off anything but concentrated evil fairly well usually. This takes a while and the effect from just him would probably be minimal as far as places that he just lived - it would be stronger in things that he worked.
- He glows. Like. Gently? I'm sorry I don't know apparently his soul is shiny and you can see that, especially in his eyes. ELVES.
- Magic. Sort of. Which is where things start to get hairy.

Tolkien's views on magic are probably best summed up by Galadriel in LotR - who, when asked to show off some magic, basically reacts with "lol what's that whachu mean magic". Odds are that, given his canon point, Nelyafinwë will never have even heard of magic, and so may or may not just roll with the word (IS THAT WHAT YOU GUYS CALL IT? YEAH OKAY MAGIC. ... WHAT'S MAGIC?) but officially it's a little more complicated than that, as Tolkien was too good for the classification that every other fantasy writer who has written fantasy ever used to make things simpler.

Magic is not correctly magic but Art, or the act of subcreation, which is separated from the act of Creation as the use of things which are pre-created in new and relevant ways. He divides this Art up into two categories, magia and goeteia. Unfortunately as he seems to have only mentioned this this one time in this one letter the definitions there are a little hazy. Neither magia nor goeteia is inherently good or evil (evil magic is just different, period, we don't really know how, he never actually tells us) but instead the divide seems to be 'active' magic vs 'passive' magic, or possibly things that do vs knowledge so deep and intense that it appears to be magic, or maybe physical change vs illusary/deceptive change weeeee don't really know. It was never exactly detailed. The operative point, however, is that elves instinctively know the difference between them and also the difference between it and life, much as humans know the difference between a sculpture or a painting and life. Elvish goeteia is primarily artistic, and not intended to be deceptive, but still could deceive by accident, or deceive people who did not know what they were seeing. Magia, by contrast, seems to have a great deal to do with will, by which I mean willpower. It's goal is immediacy, a reduction in time or labor needed to accomplish a specific end. Will is focused on one particular action, and Creation is straightened, made not otherwise, quite, but how it could have been all along. It's not a twisting but rather a perfecting, all to the glory of the original Creation, which is how it is different from the arts and devices of the enemy, who twists and corrupts.

Magia having, apparently, more to do with will than words, magic spells actually supposedly aren't a thing except, canonically, they actually are. I don't even know.

Clear as mud? Yeah, I think so too! Let's move on.

What elves do/have isn't strictly speaking magic, instead it's just kind of what they do; they do, individually, because everyone had different talents in different things and Tolkien was apparently too good for categories and specific spells and all the other things that every other fantasy writer who ever lived used to simplify things.

On top of this is the who-even-knows that is the result of the light of Lauerlin and Telperion, which basically as far as we know made the elves who had seen it more elf-y. I dunno. Elves who saw the trees are more powerful that's all I got.

As far as Nelyafinwë in particular goes, we don't have anything that he really can explicitly do (other than 'be the responsible one', at least) however there is a decent amount that can be inferred from canon. First off, with Fëanor as his father, there's precisely no chance that he doesn't know his way around the inside of a forge. Fëanor was one of the most skilled smiths and greatest inventors of the elves ever, and did little things like invent a writing system because he was bored or something idek and invent the prettiest jewels in creation. Which basically went on to destroy the world, but really, that's not their fault. Nelyafinwë didn't have his father's passion for invention and forging and such, but he does really enjoy a job well done, and as such I assume that he is extremely skilled in the art of creation and so forth. Making for its own sake isn't as much his thing, so he's not as creative as his parents generally speaking, but he gets a great deal of satisfaction out of a job well done, and there's a joy in beauty for the sake of beauty that he appreciates just fine. I mean really, with Nerdanel on one hand and Fëanor on the other there's no real way to avoid that.

In addition to his parents, odds are good that he studied some of the art of creation of various things with the "gods" who actually created the entire world, so. That's a thing. Aulë, who is a god of the earth and smithwork and such things, is right at the top of the list of candidates, but he's also fairly likely to have hung out with others like Orome.

Given who his brothers are, what he goes on to do, and kinda just elves it's also likely that he's at least passably good about just about everything else he puts his hand to, because if he's not he'll work until he is. He's very good at most of what he can do, because he's very task-orientated.

And um.

Given that he goes on to commit genocide multiple times and fight in wars and command armies and such it's obvious that he's got a head for tactics and strategy, is a commander at need, and is good with weapons. His favored weapon appears to be a sword, but odds seem good that he'd be fairly good with a number of others as well, perhaps especially the spear and the bow. After all, some of his brothers were avid hunters, and those weapons are necessary in those situations.

Network/Actionspam Sample:

[A very, very tall person is staring with some interest at the face of the watch, apparently having just finished an in-depth examination of it. He's handsome, though his expression is slightly bemused, and he has long red hair falling over his shoulders.

Did I mention he's tall? It's less apparent in a video than in person, of course, but the height of the landmarks around him is certainly greater than average.]

What is this place, that I have been brought to? O my brothers, o my cousins, my mother and father, my uncles and aunts, if thou art close enough to hear me, I would beg an explanation. All that has happened is....

[He trails off then, unable to find quite the right word to describe it, though he tries grasping at one for a moment before discarding the notion. He shakes his head a little, as though to shake himself free, and settles more comfortably into looking into the watch. His eyes clear, as he does, and are bright with treelight.]

Father? Provided, at least, that thou canst hear me, and I have not misunderstood wholly this device and its purposes - I assume that thou art its creator? I pray an explanation, if I am correct.

[It seemed logical, Fëanor was the greatest inventor of the Eldar, if anyone might have invented these, it was him. And, well, clearly someone had.]

I should also desire of thee an explanation of where I am and why thou hast done... [he gestures a little vaguely] ...this, if thou wouldst oblige me.

Prose Log Sample: Sample thread

Note: the thread has a different canon point than the one I'm apping, if this is a problem I can write a new one.

Side note: In The Silmarillion, there are multiple dialects of elvish spoken. Quenya, which is what Nelyafinwë speaks, is differentiated in-text by using more shakespearean speech - thees and thous and so forth. I've elected to go with this. It's likely to change as he gets more up to speed.

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APPLICATIONS

{ Nelyafinwë || Tolkien's Legendarium || reserve || 4 of ? }

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