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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[CANON] Aranea Serket || Homestuck || no reserve || 1 of 2

[cant8itch]

PLAYER
Name: Annie
Personal Journal: patatafrites
E-mail: oriental.dark.flight@hotmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: bakyura. @ skype, uhvatar @ aim

CHARACTER
Name: Aranea Serket
Canon: Homestuck
Timeline: After using her psychic power to wake Dirk up
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality:

Aranea is mostly a kind and pacifist troll, compared to the ones from the same species as her. Even when she was disliked by most of the cast of her player mates when she entered the sgurb server, she would see them all as friends anyway, though Meenah was the only one she was able to call a real and close friend, to the point Aranea is not able to fully comprehend Meenah (ie wondering if she’s being honest under certain occasions) and get influenced into making fish puns.

She likes to talk with people and get to know them better, though most of the times she talks too much and leads conversations around herself. She’s however aware of these flaws, but considering she’s from a more gentle nature, it’s not as abusive and cockish as Vriska’s personality.

She’s really caring and tries to help people to solve their problems, mostly using the expression “healing”. She is as well the Sylph of Light, and she’s able to make people see things, metaphorically and literally. It may also be noticed she might have healing powers as she offered herself to restore Terezi’s eyesight.

Besides her hero aspect powers, as a pure blue blood, she has psychic powers like Vriska. She even calls herself a “fairly gifted psychic”, being able to access and control one’s mind, after fully exploited. Though her power is weaker when dealing with humans, being only able to sense their emotions (like Jake’s flushed feelings for her) and make them wake up (like she woke Dirk when he wanted to leave the dream bubble), as well as probably make them sleep.

Though she has such strong powers, she’s not able to abuse them anyway to anyone’s doom; instead, she mentions to Jake once how those powers can be unpleasant to the point as much as she can hear people getting flushed for her, she can also hear negative emotions about her, making people with such powers delude themselves into trying to fix themselves so people won't think so badly of them. Therefore, she seems to be completely capable to control her emotions and not get herself too involved.

However, as much of a peaceful creature Aranea is, under the normal standards in her planet before provoking the scratch, she wouldn’t be considered nice but instead boring. She seems to be disappointed about her own personality to the point she wish she was more confident, outgoing and dramatic, resulting in becoming Mindfand in her post-scratch life, being exactly what she wished she was, though it came along with their people’s enslavement and almost extinction.

[CANON] Aranea Serket || Homestuck || no reserve || 2 of 2

[cant8itch]

First Person:

[It is not entirely dark; actually there is a high probability of twilight arriving soon, when yet another train arrives to the mysterious town. Slightly puzzled, the female troll walks out of the train, wondering about her whereabouts. Is this yet again the gods’ work? Even now, she can’t tell it herself. Examining the posters, she immediately recognizes that is not the afterlife anymore.

Ruby City.

Sauntering off the train station, she glances around, trying to figure out where she could lead so she wouldn’t get lost. However, it didn’t take her long to feel a watch on her wrist, confusing her at first but not taking her much time to recognize it as a communication device. And so the troll turns on the video feed and starts speaking]

Pardon me, but would you mind telling me where am I located? I might be considered fairly new around these corners, so a helpful hand would be more than welcomed.

Third Person:

She didn’t want to admit it, but the troll was already tired of it. After all those millenniums waiting to finally be able to meet Meenah and guide her in the afterlife, she lost her yet again. Yes, that definitely was the best time to be thrown in that damn city. Couldn’t the gods wait a little longer, letting her stay some time with her? Is being selfish for once asking a little too much?

But honestly, she was already giving up on the idea of believing all this world belonged to any of the gods who’ve assisted her so far. She couldn’t even speak with them anymore. And all those thoughts were exhausting. Probably she could learn with Meenah for once and feel ---EXCIT---ED!! for being alive again.

Well, what is done is done. Time to move on. She cleaned the single tear that fell off from her left eye. Probably that was the right time to experience life once again. A sylph like herself couldn’t only help others; she had to help herself as well, and have a balanced mind to heal those in need.
Soon she noticed her watch was recording her all that time, leaving her startled in the start. For how long was it turned on?

“Greetings”, she slightly blushed, as she found it embarrassing anyone seeing her so weak and vulnerable. “It seems the watch decided to have a malfunction on the worse occasion. I’m sorry you had to witness me like this. I hope I’ve not worried you in any way”.

ACCEPTED

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