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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

<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 ✧

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

First Person: [Thor is sort of getting the hang of this communicative device. Though it is a little small for his tastes, it's not the most complicated thing to figure out. Certainly not the hardest thing he's ever had to deal with. There's a brief, warm sort of smile as he greets the feed with a nod but it's quick to fade into a more serious expression. Thor may be a friendly sort of guy, but he knows when to get down to business.]

So, it's been made fact that we cannot escape from our...creative prison. [He flourishes a hand toward the background of the feed.]

However, that does not mean we cannot work together in some fashion. Even if we cannot promise an escape, perhaps it would be wise to consider a means of taking care of each other. I've knowledge that my midgardian comrades are among the captured here, however, I am curious as to whether there are heroes of other realms residing alongside us. Make yourself known to me, and we can become allies.

That being said, I am willing to believe even the most wretched of evil doers have begun to shine in such dark times. [He smiles, just a little as he continues onward, giving the feed a knowing look.] Now is not the time for revenge, now is the time to put the past behind us and work together. Regardless of our wrong doings. That is..if you are willing. [It seems as if that is directed at one person in particular, but he continues to make it a public announcement.]

Third Person: Thor is no stranger to foreign realms. He's ventured from Jötunheimr to Álfheimr in his conquests and travels. However, no realm had ever befuddled and bewildered him in the manner that Midgard had. The inhabitants, though not particularly striking in appearance (the silks they wore were another matter entirely) were curious in their actions. Hailing from a realm of Godly warriors in which he was paid the respect he deserved, the casual tone the mortals took to him always rendered him speechless.

However, in the strangest way, their dialect was endearing. While Thor struggled to talk down to the allies he respected, he had always tried to pick up new words. Never afraid to ask questions, he was begining to catch on to the culture of Midgard. He found the answers to his questions deeply rewarding, for mortals had always seemed so pathetic and low from afar, now that he had walked among them he had come to appreciate both the simplicity and the innovativeness of their creations.

A small, rectangular pastry. Who new the wonders such a small package could hold? Thor had never tasted such a sweetness in all of his years of eating. Popped tarts, as he believed they were referred to, are an expression of the mortal's ability to create their own magic with such unrefined skill.

Though a part of him yearned to reveal the secrets of Midgardian inventions to his fellow warriors of Asgard, he did not want curious and hungry travellers to flock to the realm under his protection. He has learnt the consequences of such actions. Of course, if he had managed to bring back a single box, surely Volstagg would take it from him. A pity.

He sighs and drapes his arms over the ledge of his window, gazing over his eternal priority, Asgard. He knows full well there are things far more important than sweets that cause him to yearn to visit the realm of Midgard again.

Thank you for your application.

At this time we are requesting a revision before we consider your application for acceptance. Specifically, we would like you to please reconsider your "Personality" section. Though you clearly put no small amount of effort into it, all it really shows us is a synopsis of the movie "Thor." When in doubt, just assume that we've never heard of this guy and have no idea who he is or what he's all about. That, more than his recent plotline, is more along the lines of what we'd like to see.

Secondly, please reexamine your Third-Person writing sample; Though generally well-written, your sample fluctuates a fair bit between past- and present-tense, whereas we ask that the Third-Person writing in Ruby City remain strictly in past-tense, "prose" format.

Please feel free to submit your revision at your convenience, and we will be happy to look it over as soon as it comes in.

Thank you for your cooperation!

APPLICATIONS

[CANON] THOR ODINSON || Marvel || Reserved || 3 of 3

[REVISION REQUESTED]