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

Johnny Rayflo || Vassalord || Reserved|| 2 of 3

[adamah]

(ooc: I used a few elements of my previous app for the following. I hope this is suitable.)

Background: Johnny Rayflo is a mystery shrouded in secrecy.

There’s virtually nothing known about this man other than the faint trail of bread crumbs he’s left throughout the ages. He changed his name often and wasn't fond discussing his past. Johnny Rayflo can be anyone and everyone. While there’s a few who try to unravel his past, not many succeed. All that’s known is that he once was a devout knight from a nameless kingdom who served as the guardian to a young princess named Marie. Through outstanding circumstances, Johnny soon found himself at the clutches of a demon who was infatuated with him.

On one fateful night, the kingdom was attacked by an unknown enemy. Princess Marie was slain and Johnny left for dead. Upon the hour of his demise, Belial came to him. He promised Johnny a second chance at life that was too tempting to turn down. The demon corrupted his soul and turned him into a creature of darkness; a vampire. He managed to escape death's embrace and saved the princess by turning her into a vampire as well. Marie was his first child and his first mistake.

During this time, Belial became so obsessed with Rayflo that he created an incubus in his likeness to hunt him. Barry, the demon was called, served as Johnny's immortal tormentor on earth. He would break, bite, and tear Johnny’s flesh out of twisted pleasure. Barry even went as far as to break one of Johnny’s ribs and create a woman in Johnny’s likeness called 'Rayfell' as a sick homage to the Book of Genesis. He even goes as far as to refer to Johnny as 'Addie' a diminutive play at the name 'Adam'. The demon would burn entire villages in his name and brutally slaughter anyone Johnny cherished. Their relationship was one based around abuse and violence. Barry would rape and torture Johnny until satisfied. The incubus constantly drove Johnny to the brink of insanity in hopes of breaking him.

Somehow after finally managing to escape from Barry, Johnny wandered the landscape alone drinking the blood of the dead. While Johnny strove to stay away from his beastly urges, Marie succumbed even further into the darkness. She became a monster who committed terrifying acts of great horror. The princess couldn’t resist the evil within her and soon fell further into sin. Johnny knew he couldn't allow this massacre to continue and aligned himself with the Vatican to stop Marie. He betrayed the princess and stabbed her through the heart with a metal stake. Johnny warned the Vatican that Marie had to remain a 'sleeping princess'.

There were no shortage of corpses during the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars. Johnny lived as a scavenger feeding off the dead until one fateful night. During the height of his blood lust, Johnny found a young boy among the dead. He took the boy in as his 'son' and named him Chris. The two were inseparable. While their time together was brief, Chris grew very attached to Johnny and confessed his love for his 'Master' under a starless sky. As much as Johnny wanted to keep Chris at his side; he knew he couldn't. Chris had grown wan and weak thanks to a harsh life out there within the wilderness. Johnny could never find enough food for the boy to eat and feared that he would starve. With the threat of winter approaching, Johnny decided to give Chris to the care of a local church. Just like he mysteriously appeared within Chris's life, Johnny suddenly vanished.

Reunited again years later within the backdrop of a war-torn Europe, Johnny found Chris this time dying on the rain slick streets of a nameless town. Now a man, Chris still remembered his Master's face and begged him to save him. Johnny at the time was masquerading as a priest in hopes of shaking Barry off his trail. He tried to ease Chris's passing into the next life but the man pleaded for him to save him. Asking Chris if this was what he truly wanted, Johnny eventually gave in and turned Chris into a vampire. He knew that sooner than later that Chris would regret his choice, but he hoped for that day to never come. Unfortunately, it did. Feeling utterly betrayed by his master, Chris changed his name to "Charley", and gave his allegiance to the Vatican as a vampire hunter.

Now on the run in this perverse game of cat and mouse, Johnny found himself with more enemies than allies. He managed to throw Barry off his trail when he took up the alias 'Pigeon' in order to find blood donators willing to satisfy his vampiric urges, but that didn't work with Charley. The two would clash often but the outcome was always the same. Charley could never truly kill Johnny. The affection between them was still there despite all the hate and remorse that concealed it. Charley acknowledged Johnny as his 'Master' again, and requested his aid for a mission overseas.

The two traveled to Beijing to investigate vampiric disturbances there. Little did the pair realize that all of it was merely a ruse devised by the slumbering princess. In a message to Charley, Sister Famille revealed to him that they managed to awaken Princess Marie and they wanted to exchange her for Rayflo. Despite knowing this was a trap, Johnny agreed to their negotiations much to Charley's puzzlement. Perhaps Sister Famille and her clergy betrayed the Vatican in hopes of obtaining eternal life, but whatever the reason they soon fell to Marie's wrath. The whole reason behind Marie's summons was for her to have her beloved knight back, and she would kill anyone who got her way---even Charley. However, Johnny had his own ideas. He allowed Charley to feed from him again and take the form of a winged monster in hopes of faking his own death. The two clashed until dawn and Marie turned to ash one the suns rays reached her. She died trying to save Johnny from Charley, a fitting end to the child liege that Johnny once cherished. Johnny also supposedly died as well but because of his dark lineage he transformed into a bat instead. Seven days passed until Johnny would reclaim his human shape, and Charley decided it would be best for them to live together so he could protect his master. Now spending all of his time by Charley's side, Johnny forgot about the enamored incubus who wanted nothing more than to shatter his fragile peace.