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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

First Person:
[ Another evening, another train. The line of smoke and the screech from the tracks were familiar sights and sounds for the city, but not for him.
He wakes up when the train came to a halt, falling off the seat he was laying across. Sitting up quickly, he takes a look at his surroundings… where is he? A ...train cabin?
He stands and leaves the cabin in careful steps. The train is dark and apparently empty…there’s a door open, and it leads to the station.

Where’s…this? It looks so different. So… clean, in a way.

What happened here?

He narrows his eyes and calls out, but not too loud.]

Hello?

[ He reaches into his jacket, waiting for some sort of response, some sign of life, preparing for some sort of ambush.
Could someone have just grabbed him out of his hideout and shoved him into a train to…wherever this is?
But things didn’t work that way.
It doesn’t make any sense.

Huh. Nothing there.

Time to take a look around and hope this isn’t some elaborate mouse trap.]

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Musebox thread example. (Content warning: drug selling and usage.)

Third Person:
He had gotten too used to living in alleyways. Not that he hadn’t considered looking for shelter in one of those apparently empty buildings; but he had yet checked how things worked around here. Debts were something one from his world would learn to avoid, especially those that might spring up on you out of nowhere. So a fire in a barrel would suffice, for now, if the cold didn’t suddenly take a turn for the worse.

Looking for a way back had proven fruitless. Then again, it was hard to know which direction you should be headed when you have no idea where you are. The city looked stuck in time, from a time long before he was born, and some of the things around there weren’t… human.

He couldn’t tell what was real or what was not, anymore. Many ideas passed through his mind; that that was some kind of overrealistic nightmare, some kind of new mind-control torture by GeneCo, some kind of terrifying trip, or maybe he was just dead. All of these ideas seemed ridiculous once he was over them, but so did his situation. So did that place.

From a world where people were barely human anymore, where technology took over, where Nature failed, where changed was not only revered, but forced, to this city lost in time (and, apparently, in space), by the mysterious hands of fate, together with humans and monsters and creatures never before seen, he wondered if his mind had not simply broken apart.
But no. It was too real, as ridiculous as it seemed.

To a world of monsters from a world of barely-men; was there that much of a difference?

His gloves weren’t doing much for warming his hands. He just stared into the fire, sunken into his coat. He started to think that, between here or going “home”, neither of the options seemed to be of great value. Sinking his hands into his coat, he almost hissed at the cold—before turning his head.

Voices. Someone in the city—when they came into view, he realized that they were some of the non-human residents. He watched them; they seemed happy. Some joyful conversation about something meaningless, he assumed. He raised an eyebrow… how can these…people, these things be so happy here? Trapped in some God forsaken city in the middle of nowhere. How did those things even come to be?

Once they were gone, he stepped out of the alleyway. His breath fumed in front of him and he mentally cursed the cold, but he watched them. Watched them walk through the streets like it was nothing. Humans and non-humans, conversations and lives abound. Windows lit and life invading the night. Nothing like “home”. Death didn’t haunt this place and he wasn’t sure if he loathed it or not. It just felt…different.

He found himself stepping into a...bar of some sort. The bright lights and clean environment was nothing sort of odd. He looked around and stepped up to the counter while he brushed the snow off his sleeves. Amazingly non-threatening locale. He took a seat by the bar and considered his options. Maybe staying here wouldn’t be so bad after all.

Welcome to Ruby City! Go ahead and join

rubycity_ooc,

rubycity_rp and

rubycity_logs with your character journal!

After you have done this, post to the Contacts page, Tag Request page, the Taken Characters page and, if you know where your character will be living, the Residences page! Familiarise yourself with the Rules and FAQ and introduce yourself at

rubycity_ooc

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APPLICATIONS

[Canon] Graverobber || Repo! The Genetic Opera || Reserve || 2 of 2

ACCEPTED