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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

Abilities: The Dolorosa is a good listener, and often has just the right kind of advice to give to someone who is willing to listen. If an ability to reduce someone to their rawest emotions can be counted, it is definitely one that she possesses. She is also able to put everything aside, even her own morals, in order to do the right thing, and is a capable fighter when necessary.

Relationships to Canon Characters: The Signless is a redblooded troll she raised from a grub she found abandoned, and she acts as a lusus towards him, though certainly feels emotions towards him more akin to those of a human mother. The Disciple and the Psiioniic are companions of hers within the Signless’ inner circle. She was a slave to Orphaner Dualscar and later captured by Marquise Spinneret Mindfang, who seemed to show a romantic interest in her. Kanaya Maryam is her descendent, and Porrim Maryam is her Pre-Scratch self.

First Person:
[Her abrupt awakening is almost as jarring as the blow which had ended her life. She sits up with a gasp, jade eyes flashing yellow in sudden fear and one hand gripping at her chest. There’s nothing there, not even a stain of blood, and she doesn’t understand. It takes her some moments to realise that the thing she’s sitting in is moving, and she leans towards the window, touching the glass with fascination. What manner of material is this, she thinks, but there’s little time to ponder on it as a structure and platform slide into view.

Suddenly, she’s struck with an urge for fresh air, and finds her legs shaking as she quickly departs the wheeled device, barely giving it a second glance as she hurries to the wall across from her, leaning against it. She presses her forehead to the cold, damp stone and covers her mouth with one hand, swallowing down nausea and the burning anger rising in her throat. The weight of the watch in her pocket goes unnoticed, but her voice broadcasts over the network. There’s a tremble in it, and it’s tired, softly muffled against her hand]

What new manner of hellish torment is this, Marquise? Must you plague my death as well?

[She tries to straighten, to draw some of that long-lost pride into her posture, but she’s so, so weary, and instead, she turns and rests her back against the wall. It will do, for now, until she can regain her strength. Her death… haha… The thought brings a momentary grim smile to her lips. She had thought she would be able to re-join her loved ones… but it seems the cosmos has different plans for her]

Third Person:
The initial pain had exploded across her chest like a firebrand when the bolt had hit her, and she had stood for a moment in shock, looking down at the shaft protruding from her chest as jade seeped out in a dark stain around it. It only hurt for a moment, then she simply felt cold, and barely registered the jarring sensation of her knees hitting the deck of the ship. She heard something – a voice – but it was distant, muffled, and each hitching breath she took ached in a way that had nothing to do with the bolt piercing through her.

She swayed, then the world seemed to tilt, and suddenly she was leaning against the deck… or had she fallen? Black edged her vision and her heart thudded dully in her ears as she closed her eyes and felt something wet and warm running down her face. Her lips moved, but no sound came out, and all she could think of was how many ways she had failed those whom she’d sworn to protect.

Blood filled her mouth, but she was no longer breathing to choke on it. Her eyes glassed over, and her fingers twitched. It didn’t hurt anymore, and somehow, she felt cheated by that, but everything in her was spent and there was no more anger, no fear, only a soul-deep grief that struck deeper than any weapon could reach.

Kankri... My little Kankri... I’m so sorry...

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For more information, check the event post here! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Have fun!

Edited 2012-10-07 00:42 (UTC)

APPLICATIONS

[Fandom OC] The Dolorosa | Homestuck | Reserved

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