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 ✧

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Revised Personality

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Leopold “Leo” Fitz was one of the youngest students to ever enter into the S.H.I.E.L.D. science academy, his intellect and genius setting him apart from almost every other human being. Due to his intellect he was unable to develop relationships normally, and growing up developed a sense of social avoidance; he is not anti-social but simply does not seek it out. Due to having excelled at academics from a young age when he found himself in competition with another equally bright and young student, Simmons, the two were bitter rivals feeling a need to prove themselves better than the other. Each showing promise and advances in their respective fields but never quite getting an edge on the other, until eventually they came to the conclusion that rather than working against once another they should work together. This was one of the first occasions that Fitz was able to connect with another person on the same intellectual and personal level and lead to his first friendship and relationship with another person.

It was his friendship with Simmons that opened the world to Fitz, though he still relies heavily on Simmons to act as a buffer. Early on he was reliant on Simmons, depending on her to help him to connect with others while his feelings for her continued to grow and mature. While he remains socially awkward, Fitz has learned to open up to others and make friends, choosing only a select few individuals whom he will allow himself connect to, once Fitz allows someone in then he trusts them completely. As a result, once someone who is close to him does anything that shatters that trust it leads to a feeling of absolute betrayal that results in a complete rejection of that person. While he may tolerate and be forced to work alongside them once more he will never fully trust them, and if pushed may act rashly in a manner that is proportional to his feelings of betrayal. Despite his genius and advanced mental development, emotionally he is infantile and struggles with expressing his emotions and developing relationships; most likely due to his reliance on logic throughout his development and not being able to seemingly hold conversations with others. In Season One Episode twelve he points out that even though she tried her best there were times when he spoke to his mother that it might as well have been Japanese, showing that even from a young age he had trouble with communicating and talking with others.

To compensate for the lack of relationships and social skills, Fitz has developed a pride and reliance on his inventions and being able to solve problems. Seeing his awkward socialization and physique as shortcomings, he compensates by placing a disproportionate amount of importance on his intellect and mind. This is due to the fact that the only praise and acceptance that Fitz received during his developmental years was connected to these achievements. As such he associates his own worth with that of his work, taking each project and problem as an extension and means of self-actualization; their failure is his failure and a result of inadequate thinking or flawed design. Due to the praise though and being one of the smartest to have gone through the academy there is a certain pride that he has in his intelligence that can at times cause him to be a bit stubborn or short sighted, insisting that someone touched something they weren’t supposed to or that a calibration is wrong. When a problem is presented that he can’t find a solution for he can become consumed by it, but also become increasing frustrated if he is not able to figure out a solution; a condition that has been amplified by the cerebral hypoxia and the limitation of vocabulary.

Throughout everything though Fitz is dedicated to science, but more so to his own moral code of right and wrong; one thing that has come to distinguish him from Simmons and has led to one of the few instances on which the two do not seem to be in agreement. His belief in doing what is right is one of the reasons that he has stayed on with SHIELD despite everything and has refused to join other organizations even under threat of death.

All of these traits can easily be seen in the relationships that Fitz has developed through his life and the way that they have changed through the series.

Jemma Simmons: When Fitz and Simmons first became aware of one another it was in competition with each other for the top position in their class at the academy. The two were brilliant geniuses that were far advanced for their age, and who had likely never been intellectually outdone, and as such saw one another as an obstacle to overcome. However, eventually the two began working with one another and were able to connect on an intellectual level that they had not had before. Their partnership lead to a deep friendship in which they learned more and more about one another as they advanced their studies. Their friendship grows as they become the most important person to the other and the best of friends, both unable to really work out just how deep or what they feel for the other; only that they wouldn’t know what to do without the other and would never want to see them suffer or hurting.

Skye: Fitz feels somewhat protective over sky, seeing her almost in a manner almost similar to a little sister or underclassman. Someone that he will be able to show how to do cool things but also is pretty bright herself. While he does recognize that Skye isn’t a genius in the sense that he and Simmons are, he can tell that she’s smart enough and has a great personality. His protectiveness of her goes so far as to even over-ride his sense of scientific obligation and understanding as shown when he switches out the blood samples and still supports her even after her powers are revealed and develop.

Coulson: With Coulson, Fitz has come to trust him to have everyone’s best interest in mind and believes that the other will always do what is right for mankind. It is likely that for Fitz, Coulson has become the father figure that he lacked and offers numerous opportunities for Fitz; always expressing his believe in Fitz to come up with a solution to any technical problems.

Ward: His relationship with Ward shows just what happens to those who break the trust that Fitz places in someone as well as the seriousness of how far he will go to those who endanger those important to him. For Fitz, what Ward did by betraying the team and dumping both him and Simmons in the ocean to die was the ultimate betrayal. To him there is no redeemable qualities or chance that he will trust the man again, in fact if he can he will make Ward pay for the damage the he did. It is likely that the only thing that kept him from killing Ward or at the very least leaving him with the same brain damage Fitz wound up with was that Ward gave him information to save the rest of the team.

The examples continue to play out in his interactions with all of the other agents throughout the series. While he does not immediately join Mac and the others for drinks, Fitz does eventually come around and has a seat with them while they talk about women in their past. His time spent playing video games and even the instance in the tunnels when he can’t bring himself to shoot a possessed Mac, show his connection to those he works with and considers family. So though he may be awkward in the way that he connects to them, and struggles to express himself emotionally it is the safety of others that influences his actions. For Fitz, science, reason, and logic are the primary driving forces, but his bonds to others and sense of right and wrong will always drive him to do what he can for humanity and for those he is close to.

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