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✗ 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.

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[Canon] Gailardia Galan Gardios/Guy Cecil || Tales of the Abyss || Reserved || 1/3

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PLAYER
Name: Kitten
Personal Journal: hollowrussian
E-mail: inu_taiyoukai_@hotmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: inu_taiyoukai_@hotmail.com (MSN), silvercrusnik (AIM), Grimmkitty (Plurk)

CHARACTER
Name: Gailardia Galan Gardios / Guy Cecil
Canon: Tales of the Abyss
Timeline: End of the game (aged 23)
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: n/a

[Canon] Gailardia Galan Gardios/Guy Cecil || Tales of the Abyss || Reserved || 2/3

[brilliant_gardios]

Personality: Guy Cecil has, since he was a young child, served House Fabre of the Kingdom of Kimlasca-Lanvaldear. He has played a part in raising Duke Crymzon Herzog fon Fabre’s son, Luke fon Fabre, during his childhood. This was even before Luke was supposedly kidnapped by the Malkuth Empire. He was around seven when he first began his service, and as he was too young to help his caretaker Pere in the garden, he was instead left to entertain the Duke’s son.

In the year ND 2011, the true Luke was kidnapped from his manor home, and replaced with an almost exact replica. Stripped of his memories, the only ones he could depend on were Guy and the crown princess of Kimlasca-Lanvaldear, and Guy found himself growing close to the young boy more and more. This is important to remember, given Guy’s true reason for serving under Duke Fabre.

Through most of the game, it is assumed that Guy has always been Kimlascan and of a low class, when really, he was born of the rivaling Malkuth Empire as Gailardia Galan Gardios (and to be honest how could no one notice that he didn’t have the dark hair and eyes of a typical Kimlascan citizen, but instead the light hair and blue eyes of a Malkuthian? I mean really). His parents were Count Zygmunt Bazan Gardios and Eugenie Cecille-Gardios (His father true Malkuthian and living on the then-existent island of Hod, while his mother was a citizen of Kimlasca who married the Count shortly before the onset of the Hod war. Seeing as Malkuth and Kimlasca were pitted against each other in this war, the marriage brought much shame to his mother’s line). Young Gailardia was born on the Isle of Hod, a truly tragic circumstance since when he was five, the eventual catalyst to the Hod War took place. Kimlasca and Malkuth had always held a tense relationship with one another, and it was only a matter of time before an invasion was imminent, though the building of fomicry technology on the island probably didn’t help to ease matters. Hod was attacked, perhaps due to its isolation from the mainland and primarily Grand Chokmah, the fortress capital of the Empire of Malkuth, and the entire House Gardios was decimated. The order was given by Duke Fabre to spare no one, which the soldiers took very deeply to heart, killing even the women and children in the manor. Gailardia’s sister Marybelle sought to protect him from harm, and with a small contingent of maids, shooed the five year old boy into a fireplace, hiding behind the grate with the express order that he was not to move or make any noise. The fright of approaching Kimlascan soldiers presumably rendered the young noble unconscious, leaving his sister and the remaining maids to protect him. By the time Gailardia came to, there were no survivors. More traumatizing still, he had ended up surrounded by the dead, bloodied bodies of his sister and all the maids that had protected him, the horror of such triggering his lifelong gynophobia. His mind repressed the event, however. So he doesn’t remember the one important thing that gave him his fear, at least not for most of the game.

His personal caretaker/servant Pere, who was not present during the slaughter, eventually arrives at the manor, too late to have saved anyone but the young heir to the House Gardios, and so takes him from the island as fast as he can. This turns out to be for the best, as the island was soon destroyed and sank into the ocean, something Gailardia would not learn the true reasoning for until he became older…which was that one of his closest friends was used for such a dark purpose.

For some time, Gailardia and Pere stayed in the Malkuthian citadel town of St. Binah, until the young noble expressed a wish to work in the House of Duke Fabre. He was, even at this age (or perhaps due to it), overtaken with the want for vengeance. To make the Duke suffer as he had suffered, he planned to kill the man’s son. Hired by one of the Duke’s servants for gardening, Pere introduced Gailardia—or rather Guy Cecil—as a relative. At some point during his long servitude, he encounters another servant of his old home: Vandesdelca Musto Fende, who now goes by Van Grants, probably to hide their true lineages from the Kimlascan family they served. Between the two of them, they intended to kill Luke and destroy House Fabre from the inside.

However, Guy’s plans did not go quite as intended, as after Luke was kidnapped, he was charged with taking care of the boy and reteaching him everything he had forgotten, from his memories to the simple tasks of learning the everyday language and taking care of himself. The inner hatred however, did still exist for some time, as evidenced by his affliction with a Curse Slot. This Curse removes all inhibition and triggers certain feelings in the subconscious, and under it’s influence, Guy attacks Luke several times. Upon the removal and the explanation of what a Curse Slot truly is, Guy is forced to admit his lineage and why he harbored his feelings. He states, however, that he no longer truly feels that way, as Luke did him no harm. Throughout the game, Guy also reveals his plans with Van, and tells the man that he no longer wants any part in what he is doing, as it will result in the death of the world. He also faces his gynophobic tendencies with increasing ease as time passes, at least until he finally remembers why it is that he fears women, and becomes introverted over it. Eventually he realizes that he should not fear the sacrifice his sister and the maids took to save him, and while his phobia is not entirely resolved, he does find it easier to manage.

Upon the resolution of the game, Guy is presumed to have reclaimed his royal lineage and now lives in his home country working for His Majesty Peony Upala Malkuth IX

As far as his personality goes, Guy has always come across as a charismatic and chivalrous character. He tends to be upbeat and positive to counter Luke’s negativity, and has a hard time focusing on the flaws of others. Despite Luke utterly destroying the city of Akzeriuth in a blind and misguided attempt to curry heroic favor, and therefore killing the already-suffering people, Guy was the least harsh of all the party members, instead saying “Don’t make me think any less of you than I already do.” And even despite this, he meets Luke partway through his journey through the Aramis Cavern and expresses a desire to be a part of his group once more, along with Tear. Guy’s not ostentatious, but he can be a little over the top. His first appearance and joining of the party consisted of him vaulting off of a land dreadnaught and freeing Luke, Tear, and Jade from the grips of the enemy after announcing “Enter the Amazing Guy!”

Aside from Jade, Guy tends to be the most observant and perceptive character in the party, and maybe because of that, Jade often asks Guy to explain everything to anyone in-game who needs a synopsis. Guy is also somewhat of a pushover, and not only allows himself to be bullied by Jade, Anise, and Princess Natalia, but he has also been assigned before as the keeper of Emperor Peony’s pet rappigs.

As previously mentioned, Guy has a very acute fear of women, also known as gynophobia. He states in-game that he “Loves women!” but when approached too closely or touched, he reacts by screaming and cowering, as evidenced when Anise jumped onto his back in fear of a mouse, and he pushed her away, protectively covering his head and shaking badly while shouting for her to “get away!” or even when he was introduced to Tear and refused to shake her hand. Eventually it becomes a point of teasing and he doesn’t seem to take terribly to it, though he does beg that the women please stop doing it.

As far as his chivalry goes, Guy does indeed care about the women of the party enough to defend them just as easily as he defends Luke, and has done so for Natalia on more than one occasion. In particular, despite his gynophobia, he has rescued Anise from certain death falling over the edge of a cliff by catching her hand and pulling her up over the edge. It becomes clear then, that when dire circumstances arise, he knows when to put aside his fears and help those he cares about.

Though he’s already bright and cheerful, Guy tends to be even moreso around technology. His room at House Fabre is littered with fontech, and he describes himself as a “fontech buff.” Whether this means he is skilled in assembling said fontech remains to be seen, but he does understand the basics, enough to either spazz or explain the way things work to some of the other party members. Mostly…it’s just spazzing out at how cool he finds it.

Another thing to take note of is that Guy has a special sword-fighting style known as the Sigmund style, which utilizes both the sword and sheath. The former is offensive, while the latter doubles as both but is mainly defensive. He is a master of this style, which requires a katana-like blade rather than the bulky blade of the typical Albert style swordsman, but never drew much attention to it as the Sigimund style is passed down secretly, and links back to his particular house. His blows in this style are less powerful than the Albert style teaches, but they are also swifter and more numerous.

[Canon] Gailardia Galan Gardios/Guy Cecil || Tales of the Abyss || Reserved || 3/3

[brilliant_gardios]

First Person: [Well, this isn’t what he expected. Guy has ridden and driven land dreadnaughts and cargo ships, taken carriages, and he’s even flown in the first functioning airship of his world.

A train is something new to him though. Very impressive actually, as he’s never seen that caliber of fontech before.

But the fact still stands that this doesn’t look like Grand Chokmah, or any part of Malkuth or Kimlasca. He’s unsure of where he is, and that’s saying something! He’s been across the whole of Auldrant!

It doesn’t take him long to find that he’s got a watch clenched in his gloved hand, and he prods at the object, causing it to open. Bright blue eyes widen, and he peers into the thing curiously.]

This place is loaded with fontech I haven’t seen before. I wonder if I can take this apart and have a look inside…
Third Person: Guy had never suspected that he would eventually come to terms with his hatred for House Fabre. He’d always depended on his hatred to lead him on the path of vengeance, and even now he wondered what had changed.

It didn’t take long, it never did, to realize that if Van had never kidnapped Asch from his home and left a replica in his place…that Guy probably would never have diverted from his intended path. If he hadn’t needed to teach and raise the young man with no memories up, and if he hadn’t been treated so fondly by Luke as he learned more and more, then things would have been very, very different. He probably wouldn’t be alive today, for grand treason and impersonation of a Kimlascan all in the same go. Van might have been successful in destroying the world…because then who would help talk sense into that red-haired idiot?

“Ah, it’s not even worth thinking about, is it?” he said quietly, laughing to himself as he reached out and ran a hand across one of Emperor Peony’s rather large pet rappigs. The fingers reached up to scratch between the creature’s long rabbit ears, causing it to grunt in approval of his attention. “Is it, Guy?”

Really, His Majesty was something else, naming a rappig after him. He could understand now why this was always awkward to Jade.

[ACCEPTED]

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