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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

PLAYER
Name: Amanda
Personal Journal:

daintily
E-mail: speakforthetruffalas@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM – man grit

CHARACTER
Name: Jane Crocker
Canon: Homestuck
Timeline: After [S] Dirk: Unite, but before entering the medium.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: Asides from the fact that Jane has no reason to talk with a troll who’s a billion years older than her, Jane is relatively exclusive and shy. She sticks to those she trusts, and the chances of her interacting with Psiioniic are slim to none.

Personality: Jane is a horribly skeptical character. Her skepticism is one of the things that set her apart from the rest of the Alpha timeline, and she’s always been a bit doubtful. She doubts things unless she can see them for herself, even when she’s being told by her closest friends. She realized, slowly, that she shouldn’t doubt everything, and is making a better effort at believing things at face value. She told Roxy she would believe anything the girl told her, but she still seemed to doubt many of the things she was told. She is hesitant to believe the fantastic, and refused to believe that Betty Crocker was an evil corporation. It was all just so silly!

Jane is a straightforward girl, but she’s not all serious all the time. She comes from a long line of pranksters, and she loves situational comedies and pulling pranks on others. Silly pranks, though, because she wouldn’t want to harm anyone! Despite this love for jokes, Jane can’t really handle the absurd or unexpected. She was baffled and unsettled by Gamzee’s appearance, which really isn’t weird, but when stressed and surprised she tends to become even more defensive and resistant than she usually is, and way more on edge.

Another thing that puts Jane on edge is the topic of her feelings. She tends to avoid the topic, and gets very flustered, very, very easily. She hates to impose on others, and she really can’t express herself. She has a tendency of shutting down and not speaking her mind, and then kicks herself for that later. It doesn’t really help her the next time she has to talk, and she kicks herself again. This extends into more than just romance, because Jane can get very overwhelmed very, very easily, and she wishes she could have handled things better.

She is remarkably stubborn and curious, which seems like a common trait in her family. Instead of listening to Dirk’s AR about staying put. She felt like she had to go and solve a mystery, and couldn’t just keep her ass put. She didn’t seem to understand that she could be walking into danger, and really just wanted to see if her Father was there, or if she could possibly find more. She was worried about her friends, and her family, and she couldn’t just stand around when she could do so much more. Perhaps because she gets excited, as she is a very excitable girl, and perhaps it was her love of mysteries, because she’s always wanted to be a detective and wants to be hardboiled, but whatever the reason there is, Jane can’t stay in one place for long, or obey people when they tell her to drop things.

She loves baking, and can be just as sweet as the cakes she makes. She’s not a pushover, but she is very kind and caring, even if she can’t express herself without feeling like a fool. She can be very down on herself, and she thinks she can do better. She feels like she has expectations she has to meet, and she’s afraid of never reaching them and of failure, and she refuses to speak of them. She tried to be a gardener, but she got frustrated at her plants disappearing and now refuses to talk about it. Jane feels like she has to make her family and friends proud. She can spend ages lost in her thoughts, and she entertains many daydreams, and even more worries. She worries that she doesn’t know anything, and she kicks herself for thinking that she could ever assume that she was as smart as she is.

First Person: [She can't remember how she had gotten on this train. She stares out the window, brows furrowed as she tries to remember what had happened. She remembers Dirk, Jake, Roxy, Dirk’s head…

She swallows, nervous and scared and unable to shake the feeling that something was horribly wrong. She has to get off of this train. She is up and out of this door as soon as the urge comes over her, and she stares around the station with barely contained awe. Had they succeeded? Were they in the game? If so, where was everyone else?]

Jake? Are you here? Dirk, Roxy?

[She calls out into the empty station, staring around. She hasn’t noticed anything new on her person, so she has no idea she’s currently being recorded.]

Anyone? This isn’t really funny, guys…

Third Person: The city never ceased to amaze Jane. She had done reasonably well at settling in (or, well, she certainly hoped she was doing well at settling in, but she had her doubts about precisely how well she was adjusting), but the city was so remarkably different from the life she had led beforehand. She had spent so much time locked up or caged into her home, but the suburb she lived in wasn’t anything like Ruby City. It was so large and sprawling, Jane thought it would be so easy to get lost and forgotten.

Though, the most unsettling thing about the city for Jane was how much freedom she had. Her father wasn’t there, and while she did miss him terribly, the freedom she had in the city was novel. She enjoyed it, for the most part, but it she couldn’t help but feel like bringing a bunch of minors to a city without their guardians was more than a little underhanded. Maybe she was thinking into it too much, but she couldn’t help but feel suspicious over their so-called captors’ intents by bringing children to this place. It was bizarre.

Jane was trying not to let it get to her, but it could be hard to go from living your life in one way to something so radically different. Not to mention that after everything that had happened, and everything she had seen beforehand made this experience all the more jarring. It was hard to forget the sight of your friend’s severed head, hard to forget dying and rocketboards and everything else that had happened. She couldn’t help but feel that Ruby City was a horrible, disgusting prank against the world and everything she held dear, and she had been thoroughly duped.

She would handle it, though. She would make it through any ordeal this place would throw at her, because she didn’t have a choice. She would survive, and as she walked through the streets she kept her head held high.

Edited (fixes oopsies) 2012-10-11 19:46 (UTC)

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