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

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[f8tal]

Well after throwing someone off a cliff things went downhill pretty fast for her. From there she manipulated Aradia’s boyfriend to kill her (she deserved it! After bringing up all those ghosts of dead trolls to haunt her…) and then when Terezi ousted her cheating to another player (that resulted in Vriska losing an arm and her seven eyes) she used Tavros’s powers to commune with animals to guide Terezi’s unborn lusii to command Terezi to stare into the Alternian sun and consequently blinding her. Vriska acts on impulse and without hesitation, as her aforementioned actions confirm. She tends to jump the gun in situations and doesn’t think of the consequences of what her actions may bring. If anything bad ever happens she just happens to blame it on her “bad luck” and won’t even think to wonder if there are any other reasons as to why certain things happen to her (such as stepping on the dice littered about in her room; this wouldn’t happen if she just tidied up a bit, but no. It’s her confounded bad luck!). She also hates being ignored – to her any attention is better than no attention, whether it be good or bad. Even if everyone hates her she’d rather have their spite than have nothing at all. Being alone and unnoticed is a great fear for Vriska and one she wants to completely vanquish. On the flip side she is paranoid as well. “What are they saying? Are they talking about her? What are they planning? I need to know I MUST KNOW! They’ll never outsmart me I won’t let them!” And so on and so forth…

Yet Vriska isn’t totally lost to her sociopathic mentality. There are times (as few as they may be) where she feels guilt and a little remorse for the things she’s done. The only problem is that while she may feel these things (sincere as they may be) no one else would believe her if she said so. Why? Well because she’s also a lying bitch. When she isn’t spouting off about her GR8TNESS she’s almost always lying about one thing or another. It’s naturally for her to deny anything that contradicts her own ideas and what she believes about herself, truth or not. She walks the walk and talks the talk to a capital T and she’ll forever deny anything that opposes her own ‘truth’ even when she herself knows it’s true. Admitting that she was wrong is a weakness and a kind of defeat and Vriska is not someone who admits to defeat or weakness. Nope, not ever. Never ever.

She’d faster throw a tantrum than bend for anyone else. Everyone else must bend to HER will. Naturally, no one in their right mind who knows Vriska well enough would do this. This is where Vriska uses her abilities to manipulate people through her mind control to get what she wants. It’s really the only way she CAN make people do what she wants, but there’s a kick. Only those of weak minds are susceptible to her abilities which leaves out the most infuriating people (to her) unaffected by her powers. One such troll is Terezi Pyrope. Even after being blinded by her it seems that Terezi’s abilities to push people into what she wants have only tripled in size and it only furthers Vriska’s anger and jealously. Yes, that’s right, she is terribly, green-in the face jealous of Terezi. She doesn’t understand it and what Vriska doesn’t understand only continues to fuel her anger which pushes her to manipulate more which makes others despise her more which increases her paranoia which… yeah. In the end it just becomes one big vicious cycle that she just can’t seem to break out of.

Reiterating one of my earlier points, Vriska does indeed feel remorse, not for various actions she has committed in the past, but for herself. One such example is killing off Tavros- in her mind she had tried so hard to help him be stronger so that he stood a chance in their society (yet always failing to even come CLOSE to her expectations) that when he finally decided to ‘man up’ and come at her she killed him out of anger. Later she feels bad for this, feeling bad for herself as well for being so ‘messed up’ because of the society she grew up in. Vriska isn’t a bad troll, but good intentions pave the way to Hell and that is what she did. In her own strange way her plan to go and fight Jack Noir, despite knowing that it is a suicide mission, is her way of ‘protecting’ her friends.

First Person: Here is a thread from my musebox with an Eridan! If you need more please let me know.

Third Person:
[ooc; This is an RP sample set in theposthumans.]

After watching the hologram of the weary-looking human explain to her that she was essentially tagged (as if she were some sort of damn experimental furbeast) Vriska took it upon herself to explore her surroundings and fully assess the situation. Luckily (of course), she had woken up with her glasses tucked into the pocket of her pants (it had taken her a few moments to locate them, what with being supremely disoriented by her sudden dislocation). It would have sucked being suddenly thrown into a new place and having not been able to see past a few feet in front of her nose.

This is such bullshit, she thought to herself as she pushed back hair from her face and frowned. Or at least she tried to before she remembered the forming bruise on the side of her face. It was most likely completely blue and swollen by now, ugh! She probably looked like a complete mess, but whatever. Now wasn’t the time to think about that. Kicking around a few boxes causes a lot of junk to fall out, with things that she felt she wouldn’t need because she’s Vriska fucking Serket - although that technical device looked handy.

Moving through the halls with one hand dragging along the wall she was on full alert. How was she so sure this wasn’t still the Veil? It was dark and grimy enough… and yet Vriska knew it wasn’t. Something about this place (beyond the holograph of the weary, old man telling her this wasn’t “home”) just screamed alien. As alien as the pink, wriggling humans. But this place was just another level she had to overcome. That was how she had to look at it, just another land to explore and exploit and conquer along with all the others before it.  Of course she couldn’t just dilly dally around and gather up all the loot this barren wasteland had to offer- she still had to go and fight Jack Noir!

Vriska stopped then, hand still on the wall and now successfully covered in dust and dirt and whatever else was on there. She had to go and fight Jack… She knew she had to; there was no other way around it. Not from the way she saw it, no. Even if it was a suicide mission… No! She couldn’t think like that, psyching herself out with all those weak-y weak notions! Thinking like that would only bring her down and there was no way she’d allow that. She couldn’t afford it, not now.  Lifting her other (clean) hand she pressed it to the emblem on her hoodie and inhaled deeply. Her fingers clutched at the cloth as she closed her eyes. Everything was good, everything was gr8. Just like her. She was great and she could do this no matter what. Even if, deep (deep deep deep deep deep deep deep) down she felt a little (so tiny, hardly noticeable) twinge of fear-

She still had this. Nothing would stop her from facing Jack and putting him through the worst Hell he’d ever get (from her) from anyone. That was a fact.

ACCEPTED

[rubycitymods]

Welcome to Ruby City! Go ahead and join rubycity_ooc, rubycity_rp and rubycity_logs with your character journal!

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 rubycity_ooc

If you have a plurk account, please add the rubycitymods plurk to be included in future updates, information and feedback. We are on plurk at rubycitymods.


PLEASE BE AWARE: THE CITY IS CURRENTLY IN THE MIDST OF AN EVENT.

So, instead of entering via train(as would be normal), this is the scenario all new residents will face if you choose to intro them at this time:

[...You wake up lying on a beach, the sound of the sea in your ears. Above you, the sky is a pure, brilliant blue, with nothing but a few wisps of cloud drifting lazily across it. The city – and indeed the entire world that contained it – is gone, replaced by an idyllic island, surrounded on all sides by a vast, sapphire ocean. The sand on the beach where you find yourself is a pure, almost too-clean white, scattered here and there with perfect conch and auger shells. Upon turning away from the sea to look at the island itself, you will find yourself viewing something which is nothing short of a paradise.

The beach stretches away in both directions until it curves around each side of the island, and borders a lush-looking forest which slowly rises to cover three low mountains. Over the softly rushing sound of waves, birdsong fills the air, accompanied now and then by the sounds of the native animals.

This is no civilisation, however. This island was never built to support a population that so widely depends upon a certain level of comfort for their happiness. No houses or shelters of any kind save for naturally forming caves are to be found here, and no supplies that do not need to be gathered or caught. Although the island looks safe enough in the daylight, beware, for as much as it was not made to be inhabited by the city’s residents, there are creatures that come out at night which may see these sudden new arrivals as a welcome change from their normal diet…]


The event's OOC explanation can be found here, and you're welcome to either intro your character now or at the event's end, as you prefer.

Thank you!