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

[canon] caliborn ll homestuck ll not-reserved [1/???]

[calibro]

PLAYER
Name: syd
Personal Journal: waffled
E-mail: elchicatigre@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: driedfishies @ aim

CHARACTER
Name: Caliborn
Canon: Homestuck
Timeline: directly after the [s] Caliborn: Enter flash
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: n/a

[2/3]

[calibro]

Personality: Caliborn is many things: rude, crash, abrasive and violent. He doesn't try to be anything he isn't, the thought is absurd to him and is one of the many reasons why he hates his 'sister', Calliope. Where she would hide who she is, fake sentiments that are unheard of with their kind, he is the opposite and from the beginning you have no doubt just what kind of personality he has. He is a twisted young individual and endlessly motivated, he doesn't just make threats, he ultimately goes through with them. Caliborn also loves games, Calliope has said that her brother's love for games is far beyond the human's understanding of the word and it's true, he often starts jeering Dirk asking if he'd like to play a game (which is a callback to SAW, of course.)

Not only is he motivated, he is also clever, which we observe when he beats his sister at her game of choice: chess, by tricking her and switching the pieces and hiding them in a way that was technically not against the rules. That is another thing to point out, Caliborn is very strict when it comes to games and their rules. Despite his love of games, he is apathetic to sburb, only agreeing to play it as a means to escape, which also branches into a personal game with his sister. Sharing the same body with her, he needs to obtain her juju to ultimately win and take over their body as one, and thus escaping the dead planet they live on.

It also seems that Caliborn is impervious to pain, or it doesn't effect him like it would others. During his ultimate 'winning' over their personal game, he ends up chewing off his one leg that was tethered by Calliope's chain (losing a tooth in the process) but he takes it with a grin and proceeds to embed a robotic leg (that Dirk had helped him build) into the still bleeding stump. And once this is accomplished he proceeds to play the game and accomplish a lot with grim determination. What he really accomplishes though isn't the grand escape and fucking everyone's shit up like he wanted, no. He ends up on another dead-like planet, left in silence and with a lot of walking, leaving him to his own devices and thoughts. And when left to his own thoughts he ends up thinking very meta things and doubting whether his thoughts are his own or narrated by someone else, which only proves to confuse him further and grow frustrated.

Another aspect of his personality is something he (unfortunately) shares with his sister: he is also interested in relationships, but he finds it disgusting and pornographic at the same time. And unlike Calliope he tends to like the more tender and emotional side of relationships, like handholding and marriage, he often grows very flustered when presented with these images (that he 'forces' Dirk to draw for him often.) Speaking of Dirk, and Caliborn's hatred for anyone that isn't himself, he tends to show a 'liking' for the Strider, claiming he is the only bearable one of the other kids. Granted, we have never seen him interact with any of the others (in fact, when Roxy starts pestering him, trying to get Calliope to wake up, he just... walks away.)

[3/3]

[calibro]

First Person: HELLO RuBY CITY. WOuLD YOu LIKE TO PLAY A GAME?
WELL TOO FuCKING BAD. YOuR'E GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT. I HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO RIGHT NOW THAN DEAL WITH A BuNCH OF DISGuSTING HuMANS.
TECHNICALLY THIS SHOuLD BE BETTER THAN THAT PISS POOR DEAD PLANET I'VE BEEN STuCK ON. TECHNICALLY. AND TO BE HONEST I SHOuLD PROBABLY BE CELEBRATING MY uLTIMATE VICTORY AND FREEDOM.
ACTuALLY. LET'S DO THAT. LET'S CELEBRATE THE FuCK OVER HOW MuCH BETTER AT GAMES I AM THAN MY EXTREMELY DEAD CAN'T BE DEADER SISTER. DID I MENTION SHE'S DEAD? BECAuSE SHE IS. SHE'S SuPER DEAD.
IT'S AWESOME.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT, BY THE WAY. EVERYONE SHOuLD EXPERIENCE THE LIBERATING FEELING OF HAVING A DEAD SISTER. IF YOu DON'T HAVE THE GuTS YOuRSELF TO ACCOMPLISH SuCH A MAGNIFICENT FEAT. JuST, YOu KNOW. PESTER ME. I WOuLD BE DOWN TO KILLING SOME SISTERS. FREE OF CHARGE.
WHERE WAS I AGAIN??
IT DOESN'T EVEN FuCKING MATTER I GuESS. I HAVE A LOT OF SHIT TO GET TO, IF THIS IS STILL THE GAME. WHICH I AM BEGINNING TO SuSPECT. IT ISN'T.
WHATEVER.
LATER, FuCKERS.
tumut

Third Person: It was a vast improvement, to be honest. Instead of being surrounded by a whole lot of nothing and ugly ruined landscape, he was now surrounded by life? Buildings that weren't crumbling, people that were breathing and where he can interract with them if he felt like it. Or not. That was the beauty of it! He could do whatever he wanted when he wanted and whichever way he wanted, all this freedom... he could barely hold it all. Like this building over there? He was going to walk on over to it and touch it. No one can stop him, sure they would give him strange looks, but what did he care? He didn't. They didn't matter. With a grunt he gets to his feet again, albeit a little wobbly, it was going to take some getting used to, this robotic leg, but it did the trick. Leaning on his cane for added support he moves to the building in question, blood stained claws touching at the brick in awe.

It was amazing. He smears the blood over the brick, amazed at the texture. In the back of his mind he knows he should probably clean up, but the tome he was carrying (full of Calliope's retarded fanfiction and art) was currently not on his person. It was annoying but the sooner he got rid of his garbage the better, he supposed. He feels a grin tug at his lips, and with the blood splattered over his face it looks quite manic. He leans his head back and just... laughs, a truly liberating sound. Yes... Yes! He was finally free.

He does take the moment to quiet down, eyes closing as if searching for something inward. Ah... silence. She was truly gone, this body was his own and he was free to do what he wanted. He may not be in the medium anymore, but that didn't mean his ultimate goal was lost. He only played the game for a handful of reasons after all: to kill her, to be free, to leave that shithole of a planet and... ultimately, and most important? to fuck shit up. It sent a shiver down his spine in anticipation. He knew nothing of Ruby City, of it's workings, it's people and what would be at his immediate disposal. But he was willing to find out, and the sooner the better.

And there was nowhere to run. He is already here

ACCEPTED

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