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

[unhealing]

History:
Here is what we know about her in canon.

In many ways, the Benedetta's life was already dictated by the circumstances she was born into. Two factors in particular were immensely influential: her family's affiliation with the Holy Church, and the psychic power she was born with. "Masochistic pneumatic automatism diathesis" is an ability that is both rare and given particular value by the Church, as it allows the person possessing it to serve as a demon detector. When the fact that she had been born with it became apparent at the time of her birth, her parents saw it as a blessing that she had the ability to serve the Church in such a unique and vital way. Even though being in the presence of an evil spirit causes a person with Benedetta's gift pain, she was never really given any choice otherwise.

Which isn't to say her parents didn't care about her or that she was mistreated. She was a happy child, told that she would bear a great burden for the sake of God at a young age, and in reply she threw herself into her training and education with eager enthusiasm. Her body was weak and had difficulty healing, but she refused to let that be a barrier between herself and what she knew to be her purpose in life. Even if it hurt, she wanted to serve that role for the Church, perfectly willing to endure pain for the sake of others.

Her naive resolve was only damaged a little when it came time for her to actually be put to use in that manner. She didn't just feel the pain of people possessed—cuts, bruises, and burns all appeared on her skin as well, with no apparent cause. With her immune deficient body, the wounds remained there long after they would have healed on anyone else, and as a result she spent much of her time cloistered away inside hospitals when she wasn't doing her work. This served only to isolate her from the "real world" and lead to her growing into a sheltered adult. She saw people leading normal lives and came to idealize such as lives without pain and suffering, not really having enough contact with people outside the Church to know otherwise.

But she didn't grow resentful—or, more accurately, she didn't let herself grow resentful. She was performing a great service to God. How could she let something like that make her bitter? She squashed down her negative feelings and denied them even to herself. No wonder her loving family never realized she was unhappy—she never realized she was unhappy herself. Ultimately, she was used until her body broke down beyond repair. Any more than that would kill her. Whether she liked it or not, she was made to retire and told of her last duty to the Church. It was a simple one: get married and start a family.

Of course, the reason for that was the hope that she would pass on her rare ability to her child, but she took the order as an opportunity to start a new life. A happy life—one of those idealized ones she had wondered about as she lay in her hospital bed. Of course, not knowing any other life, she decided she would marry within the Church. This decision proved to cause a few problems, as most of the men she met through those channels seemed to be only interested in her for diathesis. Eventually, she found the man she would marry through a foreign priest introducing her to his son.

Kirei Kotomine wasn't interested in seeing her pass on that valued psychic power of hers. He didn't look on her condition with condescending pity. That was enough to pique her interest in him, so she sought to understand him. Even with naive as she was, Benedetta was an empathetic woman and perceptive of other people's moods, so she picked up on things his father and the other people around him missed. He was troubled. She wanted to support him and help him find happiness. And she wanted a happy family of her own, too. So, they married.

Married life wasn't quite as idyllic as she had thought it would be, but she didn't let herself become disenchanted. Kirei confessed that he wasn't like other people and couldn't feel normal emotions, but Benedetta only redoubled her efforts to bring him happiness, her faith in him and in God never wavering. Her condition gradually deteriorated, her body become weaker and weaker as she grew sicker and sicker, but she refused to despair at her limited time. And she did have a child with Kirei—a girl named Caren. Caring for a child was difficult with their circumstance, but she didn't let that sour the experience for her. In the end, she was happy, pain or not.

Their marriage only lasted two years. When Benedetta was on her deathbed and severely weakened, Kirei confessed that he had been unable to love her—and, therefore, couldn't go on living. Her response was to tell him that she loved him and kill herself in front of him, trying to evoke grief from him in the hopes that this would allow him to see that he could love and that he deserved to live. She died with a smile on her face, believing that the tears he shed at that time were for her.