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rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
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APPLICATIONS
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✗ 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.
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✗ 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.
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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.
Jade Harley | Homestuck | Unreserved
Name: Autumn
Age: 26
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E-mail: duckfeathers@gmail.com
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CHARACTER
Name: Jade Harley
Canon: Homestuck
Age: 15
Timeline: During the journey to the Alpha session in the new timeline.
Personality: Sweet and energetic, Jade initially gives off an impression of extreme childishness and maybe even naivety: it was evident by her bedroom at home that part of her, at heart, was once an excitable thirteen year old girl. She adored Squiddles (little smiling squid dolls that come complete with built-in magnets so that when brought close enough to each other that they actively -cuddle- each other), enjoyed having tea parties with her Manthro Plushies (darling toy manimal chaps that are probably actively disturbing to anyone who doesn't find them adorable), and is fond of furries (the cute, big-eyed, non-sexual variety.) Her room was a mess of her eclectic interests, with piles of Squiddles in one corner, an electric bass in another, and an assortmet of firearms in the third. She enjoys old cartoons, loves animals of all kinds, and while she is a crack shot with a rifle (which will be expanded upon later), Jade is also a pacifist. Though not always possible, she will always do whatever she can to achieve a nonviolent means to accomplish the goals set out before her.
Jade's adoptive grandfather - and the only real parent she ever knew - was a "world-renowned explorer, naturalist, treasure hunter, archeologist, scientist, adventurer, big game hunter, and billionaire." As such, Jade has never wanted for anything material: her home was enormous and filled with ancient artifacts and ridiculous gizmos suggested to have been built by her grandfather. She rarely had to take the stairs thanks to the transporter that he put on each floor of the house. I only mention this because Jade has also picked up his knack for science; she is not only an enthusiastic gardener but also has an uncanny knack for nuclear physics and general gadgetry based more on sheer intuition more than any sort of concrete knowledge or studies.
Having grown up on a volcanic island with no one but her dog Becquerel (a "fucking devilbeast" as her friend Dave puts it - Bec is actually the First Guardian of Earth, a dog-shaped creature with the power to warp space, among others) to keep her company after the death of her grandfather when she was just a little girl, Jade can sometimes be kind of "weird." When she connected as Dave's server player in Sburb (the world-changing game that she and her friends were playing that gave her the ability to physically manipulate his environment), she decided to do some housecleaning for him and his bro... and immediately dunked a towel in the toilet and got to work. Ignoring the fact that she then uprooted the toilet and dropped it directly into Dave's bedroom, her social blunders (such as referring to her dead, taxidermied grandfather as if he were still alive) are usually mild and inoffensive.
Her sometimes easily excitable nature is reflected by the way that she types: bold green text!!! peppered with lots of exclamation points and emoticons when appropriate. Computer-based chat has been her main method of communication with her friends and the rest of humanity in general for most of her life. Due to her easygoing and generally pleasant attitude, she tends to get along easily with most people that she meets. She is strongly devoted to her friends, too; at one point, she sacrifices her dream-self in order to save the life of John's and later expresses zero regret about the decision.
Though silly and excitable, I’d like to take a moment to mention her self-sufficiency. Instead of going all Lord of the Flies with her dog after the death of her grandfather, she managed to grow into a pleasant if slightly odd young girl with a passion for gardening and all sorts of other unusual things. Being a silly thirteen year old and being able to take care of oneself aren’t mutually exclusive, and with the help of her guardian dog, she was apparently able to look after herself without too much incident. She certainly wasn’t starving or living in squalor, at least.
None of this is to say that she is constantly upbeat and unflappably cheerful: Jade can become short and frustrated with people who actively antagonize her (it took her months to forgive Karkat after he spent so long trolling her) or when she is upset (she verbally sniped at Feferi, one of the trolls, when Feferi approached her after a confusing and frightening nightmare). While Jade is arguably the most childish of the group, and certainly the most aggressively friendly one, she shows her serious and no-nonsense side more and more as the game they play goes on. She certainly never hesitated to call Karkat out on his bullshit when he exasperated her, at least.
Jade's stubbornness occasionally presents as a problem for her. As mentioned earlier, it took months to forgive one of the trolls that antagonized her, despite him needing to talk to her to help her with the game. She also occasionally has issues when it comes to thinking things through; Jade spent most of her life guided by the psychic visions of the past and future that she had while sleeping. Without those to guide her, she sometimes makes egregious blunders without fully considering what she is about to do, such as resurrecting the long-dead body of her dream self to terrible consequences.
In short, Jade is a clever, brave girl. Though a bit odd, she does not balk at her destiny (if you want to call it that) of being a player in a game that heralds the end of the world. Usually playful and amiable, she is more than capable of getting down to business and making difficult sacrifices when the situation calls for it. Even when faced with what seemed like unavoidable failure in Sburb, she maintained a positive attitude out of sheer conviction, not just desperation, and continued to work hard to achieve the goals set before her.
Background: This provides a pretty thorough background for her, but I'd of course be happy to expand on anything as needed.
Abilities: Jade is a godtier Witch of Space, which mostly means two things: 1) she can't die unless the death is heroic or "just," which mostly means "if she dies rescuing puppies from a certain death or turns evil and someone stabs her in the face to stop her, she'll stay dead." It also means 2) that she has control and domain over most things "space" related – she can travel really fast through space! And do things like grow and shrink planets and people, and also teleport and phase through walls and fly and float cake to eat it instead of getting a fork dirty.
As detailed in her personality section, she's also an accomplished markswoman, and is a pretty sharp junior scientist and gadgeteer.
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