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] william 'billy' kaplan ll young avengers ll reserved (god i hope this isn't too late.) [1/3]

[selfhelpedhero]

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

CHARACTER
Name: William 'Billy' Kaplan
Canon: Young Avengers
Timeline: post children's crusade
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: okay so technically Billy is from a marvel verse. Technically Tony is taken from the movie verse and wouldn't even know who Billy is. And for Billy? After certain run ins with Tony and Steve, he has no real desire to approach Iron Man at all. He'd be more interested in Loki (or Thor if we ever get one) given the fact that they weren't jerks to him, and he was going with the code name 'Asgardian' at the start, after all. So yes, Tony isn't one of his favorite people, and Billy isn't even on Tony's radar.

[2/3]

[selfhelpedhero]

Personality: Billy isn't your average teenager, unless your average teenager also has super powers, then that's... certainly a thing. Raised by the Kaplan family, he lived a relatively normal life until his teen years. When we're first introduced to Billy, he was seen as a younger version of Thor, and going by the name 'Asgardian'. Even his costume was relatively similar, and he had the ability to call down thunder, and we didn't know that was just one of his many different traits. He comes off as a bit quiet and tends to shake his head at the shenanigans and in-fighting that happens within the Young Avengers group, at the start. Because at the start things were more simple. He was just this kid with powers, trying to impress the Avengers- men and women he looked up to since he was a kid.

I'd like to say Billy is one of the more mature teens in the group, and in ways he is yet there are ways he isn't. He is prone to child-like idiocy like all the others, his just tends to be more thought out. He is usually quite obedient as well, and tries to take orders accordingly, unless he has a real problem with said orders and who happens to be giving those orders. But if he doesn't agree and his temper is getting the best of him, he has no problems with turning things around and rebelling against whomever he needs to.

Billy is also driven and loyal. Both of these things plus his temper can often lead to dangerous things, but his intentions are always good. When his boyfriend, Teddy, was being attacked and threatened by a supremecist terrorist group, he found himself whiting out, and when he awoke the entire group of baddies were presumed dead, but actually they were just rendered unconcious. His magic is still quite unsteady, and his rage got the better of him. He was considered, and probably still is considered a low threat on the Avenger's radar. Something he doesn't like at all.

They do have their rights to be suspicious, given his family. In reality he is William Maximoff, the daughter of Wanda Maximoff, that's right... the Scarlet Witch. That means Magneto is his grandfather, Quicksilver his uncle. Once he and his twin brother, Tommy, found out who their mother really was, they went through all they could to find her. Billy went more than out of his way to do this, and this meant turning his back on the Avengers and the X-Men to do it. But she is family. He has no problems with his adopted parents, but there is so much he needs from her- like controlling his magic. Not to mention his favorite Avenger had always been the Scarlet Witch (she helped him stand up for himself once, when he was younger, and he never forgot her kind words and wise advice.)

Billy is also prone to mood swings. He can be dark, quite and broody when things go wrong and he doesn't think there is any way to make things better. The surest way to get him back on his feet is usually a little tough love from Teddy, whom he has always cared for deeply.

[3/3]

[selfhelpedhero]

First Person: Well, this is most certainly new. I guess I'm not on some kind of field trip or anything, am I? I never had my parents sign anything, certainly not for this. I don't even remember getting on a train? I don't remember... uh, much of anything, actually. So... this is kind of awkward.

I am really tempted to throw a Wizard of Oz reference wildly into the wind right now, but I'm guessing now isn't the time... It wouldn't be very appropriate, I guess.

The watch is cool, though. Kind of small for texting, I can't see Teddy using one of these. His fingers would be too big. I can see video being more of his option.

Anyway... besides panicking and asking a lot of questions I'm sure the locals have heard way too many times, what else am I supposed to... do here? Is this a kidnapping attempt? Dudes, my family isn't exactly rich and I'm nothing special, believe me. This is either a mistake or you're looking for my brother, Tommy. He's more the... uh... type you would usually want to cart off to god-knows-where? I can get the mistake, we are twins after all. But here's a rule of thumb for you guys: him? unnaturally white hair. Me? Black hair. The differences are literally as simple as day and night.

So... If you don't mind me, I'll just uhm... be sitting right here. At the station. Waiting for this to fix itself. And I don't mean to rush you or anything? But can you hurry this up a bit?

I have a date.

Third Person: There, he hoped he sounded convincingly... normal? He didn't want to out himself as anything more than a teenager right now. As soon as he got off the train he could feel that something was off. It made the hair on the back of his neck stand on end, and he felt just... a general unease about the situation. The past month had been rocky at the very least, and he and Teddy were just starting to get back into a regularly normal routine again, when this happens. Curse him and his luck, he just wanted some normal teenage bliss with his boyfriend... was that really so much to ask for?

He also had to wonder if the people who kidnapped him knew just who he was and the force they will be met with when his boyfriend and family found out what happened to him. Teddy would probably tear half of this city apart looking for him, that he knew for a fact. A twist in his gut did make him worry that perhaps the Avengers would be looking for him as well. Things had... been starting to patch up, but he knew they were still wary about his magic and the power he possessed, which wasn't his fault, but they seem to think it was.

Ugh. It was all too much, and to top it all off he was going to be late for Algebra, and he was trying so hard to catch up in his studies after being away for so long, wallowing in self pity and depression. Running his hand through his hair he bites his bottom lip, wondering if he should risk a fly around to scout out his surroundings. Ah... maybe not now, he should probably wait for more information before turning Wiccan on these people and having them give him information the hard way.

Billy was not fond of the hard way.

[REVISION REQUESTED]

[rubycitymods]

Thank you for your application.

At this time we are requesting a revision before we consider your application for acceptance. Specifically, we would like you to please examine and revise your application's First Person writing sample, as it does not offer a very comprehensive view of what we would like to see. While once a character is in-game they are welcome to make strictly text-based broadcasts, for the purpose of a writing sample we would like to see some action and/or speech as well, just to get a grasp of your character's behavior.

Please feel free to submit your revision at your convenience, and we will be happy to look it over as soon as it comes in.

We look forward to hearing back from you!

Re: [REVISION REQUESTED]

[selfhelpedhero]

[Hello, Ruby City. You are greeted by the very unimpressed look of a teenager right now. The view shifts momentarily as he tries to make himself comfortable, which was growing increasingly more difficult with how cold it was getting.]

Hello? Is this thing on? It looks like it's on, so let's just go with that, then.

[His tone has a bit of a bite to it, more than he actually intended.]

Look, I don't know why I'm still here? Mistakes happen all the time, I can get that. Hell, I make mistakes every day and people usually don't hold that against me. But it's kind of chilly out here and I really do need to get back home. As it stands I'm super late and my boyfriend may or may not kill me for it.

[Okay so he was being a little over dramatic there. Teddy would be disappointed at best. Puffing out a breath he holds up an arm, showing that he was just in a t-shirt presently.]

I'm also not dressed for winter, as you can plainly see. At the very least if I can be directed to a warm place with hot chocolate optional? I would really like that. If this place also had decent cell reception it would be even more wonderful.

[He tried phoning everyone on his contact list twice now, to no avail. He knew there must be something bigger at work here, because nothing else made sense. But he had to play the part of a confused and very normal teenager a little bit longer.]

I'll still be riiiiiight here. Freezing to death.

[ACCEPTED]

[rubycitymods]

Welcome to Ruby City! Go ahead and join rubycity_ooc, rubycity_rp and rubycity_logs with your character journal!

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