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

Re: [REVISION REQUESTED]

[not_a_tsundere]

Personality: Roberto's most outstanding feature is probably that he has a hard time to talk about how he truly feels - especially when it comes to Sieg, of whom he had a rather low opinion at the start but started to respect him during the course of their journey. He has difficulty to show his concern and care for other people and often hides it with biting, slightly snarky and rude remarks - though from time to time, the expression on his face gives away his true feelings, like when his princess decided to join Sieg's army, Roberto commented on how he has to go along with the decisions of her and how he had to tolerate Sieg now, but looked completely happy about it. Generally, Roberto is quick to raise his temper when things go wrongly and he fully expresses his anger without any second thoughts, but sometimes he can be surprisingly levelheaded. An example would be when Sieg was getting all heated up that the leader of the Furious Roar didn't remember a member that was part of his clan, it was Roberto who asked Sieg to back down.

Roberto also lacks a bit when it comes to manners when he encounters complete strangers. He doesn't make any effort to talk politely to them, like when he just met Moana and she was squealing about the princess of the Magedom, Roberto asked if she never shuts up. On the other hand, he can be very obedient when it comes to the leaders of his own country Astrasia. He listens and obeys to all of their orders. He is also extremely loyal and dedicated towards them and his country and would pretty much do everything for them, as they are very important to him.

Roberto is also a very skilled swordsman and he is - with 16 years - the youngest member of the elite brigade from Astrasia, the Blades of Night's Veil. It shows he has a lot of courage to back up this talent, as he is someone who wants to fight on the front lines quite often. He doesn't let his talent go towards his head, so one could say he is pretty down to earth. His strength doesn't come alone from his talent, as he had put a lot of hard work in his training ever since his country had been taken over by The Order. Despite having trouble in expressing his emotions, he is able to reflect himself and feels increasingly bad when he realizes he made a mistake and wants to make up for it, for example when Roberto called Cougar, a 'beast man', a monster, he decided to accompany Sieg on a journey just to apologize to him. He also hates the thought of being indebted to anyone, so he often tends to refuse to accept any help or complains about receiving it.

When he isn't in battle Roberto seems to do a lot of thinking about what is happening in their world or what their enemies might try to achieve and once mentions envy towards Sieg's behavior, who is just able to jump into situations without much thought. Roberto is also very proud, which easily made him fall into the trap King Danash had set up for the Blades as well as Sieg's army, as he compared the feats that had been accomplished in battle from both groups, making Roberto see Sieg's army more as rivals rather than comrades.




First Person: [A young man with short, light brown hair, wearing a blue bandana and blue armor wanders through the streets. He looks less than pleased, actually, it looks like he is about to explode. A town - nice and fine, but so far he hadn't seen a trace of anyone he knew and it was nagging on his nerves. Once he reaches the bridge, he stops and his look follows the flow of the river.]

Damn, this is leading nowhere! What do I need this river for!

[He rams a fist on the railing to emphasize his anger.]

I need to get back to the castle of that idiot. We have to talk to the Princess...

[He lets out a sigh. Well, stopping here would accomplish even less than searching around. Time to act like said idiot and continue searching. He starts walking again. Hopefully there were any leads somewhere.]

Third Person: Roberto stepped down from that strange, fast-moving thing. It wasn't the first time he has traveled to another world, so his surprise wasn't all that huge, but something was fishy about this. Firstly, he couldn't remember going through a corridor to reach another world. Secondly, he couldn't remember boarding such a strange thing in the first place.

The thing behind him departed again, leaving him a bit dumbfounded. If the corridor was in it, he was pretty screwed. He had no idea if it would come back or not, so waiting seemed to be the smartest thing - for now at least - not without some exploring, though. Perhaps he wasn't the only one here. He had just gotten back with Sieg from Cragbark after checking out what happened to the mountains - after all, a part of them had just disappeared. That brought another thought to him - Astrasia! He had to know if his country had been affected by the change of the area, considering his native country just lied north of the mountains. There was no point in wasting time here.

His walking became faster - perhaps there was another entrance to the corridor if he was lucky, but in and outside the house was nothing. Nothing except a sign that was welcoming him, at that. "Just what kind of nonsense is this!", Roberto crossed his arms, a clearly unpleased expression was gracing his face. He didn't really want to walk away in case the thing came back, but something told him he was going to wait a long time if he did that. No, he had to search for the others. He started to walk away from the house to see what he could find out.

ACCEPTED

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