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

Sgt Calhoun. Wreck-It Ralph

[one_dynamite_gal]

PLAYER
Name: Poshu
Personal Journal: n/a but I can be reached on AIM or by email
E-mail: moranmaumell@yahoo.com
AIM/MSN/etc: Poshueatspancake

CHARACTER
Name: Sgt. Tamora Jean Calhoun
Canon: Wreck-It-Ralph
Timeline: After the film’s plot. [after she is married to Felix]
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
SPOILERS AHEAD!!


Personality: The first thing you notice about Sgt. Calhoun is her intensity. She is not a laid back woman and she makes that very clear from the moment you meet her. Her tone of voice is always on the aggressive side, while not being full on cruel. Her tone of voice is loud, brash, nearly yelling at some points. Her first words in the film are a condescending pep talk to her soldiers before beginning a battle against the Cy-bugs.

“All right, not listen up because I am only going to say this once. Fear is a four letter word ladies. You want to go pee-pee in your big-boy slacks. Keep it to yourself.”

This theme demonstrates a certain sass about her while still showing her seriousness. She is dedicated to her cause [fighting cy-bugs] and demands anyone under her command to follow that. Her authority is unquestioned in her squad despite the fact that Sgt. Calhoun is by far the smallest human character in her game. Her size doesn’t hurt her much, her word is law in her squad and she gets absolute obedience or else she is not afraid to whack it into someone [example being when she mistook Ralph for Markowski and clocked him with her helmet for disobeying the first rule of Hero’s Duty] The discrepancy in size and her unquestioned control over her soldiers implies she is an unrivaled fighter.

She approaches her ongoing mission to kill cy-bugs with absolute responsibility, in fact it could be said that she approaches life that way. She never approaches anything half-heartedly. She is in or she is out and either way she is dedicated to her choice 100%.
She insisted to Felix on first meeting that “nothing gets past me” when he came looking for the runaway Ralph. But once she was proven wrong and realized a cy-bug had escaped with Ralph into Sugar Rush, Calhoun went after it without a second thought. It was simply her duty to go after and destroy the bug before it killed a game full of strangers and eventually the whole power strip’s worth of games. She takes her role as a soldier seriously, from referring to Felix as “Civilian” to forbidding him to join her at first on her mission to kill the cy-bug in Sugar Rush.

“Like fun you are, short stack. You die outside your game you don’t regenerate.”

From the get-go in the story she is all-business and never loses sight of her goal. When Ralph was causing a mess in Hero’s Duty disguised as Markowski she continued to interact with the player after getting Ralph back in formation, she never let the game itself come to a halt.

“Markowski! Back in formation!! [to First Person Shooter]... Alright the kitten whispers and tickle fights stop NOW. The entrance to the lab is straight ahead.”

This can also be a bit of a downfall in that Calhoun focuses ONLY on her goal. She gets a bit of tunnel vision. Her journey to find the Cy-Bug in Sugar Rush was her mission and she really didn’t care what happened to Ralph, the other “survivor” in the meantime. This isn’t to say she is a cold person, she is just very focused and disciplined. On the other hand she was hesitant to continue hitting Felix to the point of injury even though it was what she had to do to encourage the Laffy Taffy down so they could escape the Nesquick sand. It took Felix demanding her to hit him, claiming that the arcade was counting on them to get through this and capture the cy-bug. Once he appealed to her she had little problem. She understands that if she fails her duties, it will cost lives as it has before. The game establishes that she lost her would-be husband at the altar on their wedding day to a cy-bug attack. It was the one day she failed to do a perimeter check.

In her brief flashback and in her brief moments being courted by Felix, she is shown to be softer and more vulnerable. She smiles, she has softer light on her, she appears more warm and open to being charmed. [She breaks the stereotypical mold and kisses Felix back at the end too!] We see her on dates with Brad, her would-be husband and she gets “goo goo eyes” for Felix after he lifts her effortlessly from the Nesquick Sand. Calhoun is not a complete hard-core soldier but she had learned the pain of failing those you love. She is very professional and puts her business first but she is very open to having a personal life too.

Sgt Calhoun. Wreck-It Ralph

[one_dynamite_gal]

First Person: [There is a blaring angry voice over the communicator, it demands your attention. It is accompanied by a twisted grimace on the face of an otherwise lovely woman with short blond hair. Her eyes are glittering with rage. She grit her teeth as if to hiss at her soldiers. She was angry as a trapped bear and about as dangerous as one.]

Where is this! This isn’t the surge protector or Game Central Station. [Clearly she has been game-jumped without her consent or awareness and she’s got an earful for whoever happens to respond to her first. This game was full of some kind of kidnapping thugs and they had another thing coming if they thought she was all goo-goo eyes and no brawn. She wasn’t sergeant for nothing, don’t let the pretty face fool you.]

Whoever is responsible for this better get ready. I’ve got a lot of questions I want answered.

[her tone lowered into a soft sort of threat, almost a whisper, as if calming down but the focus in her eyes didn’t falter.] What game is this and who’s in charge of kidnapping characters around here!? I don’t care how it started or what it’s for. It’s ending right now.

Third Person: It had been a short while since she exited the train. Her hand was still tightly gripping the communicator she’d found on herself. Underneath her armor her knuckles were white and it felt as though she’d break that stupid watch here in a second or two. She’d be happy about sticking it to the man in a small way if it weren’t kind of important. She lost her communicator from home somewhere along the way so she took a few deep breaths and loosened her hand.

She was angry, yes. But under that, more importantly she was scared. This was beyond confusing and so sudden. Tamora couldn’t deny that this was reminding her of the last time her life seemed to be falling into place. Last time she was getting married and Brad was perfect and everything was all right for once. Then the cy-bug came and… well she didn’t want to remember the rest. About how the bug she had to kill contorted and bore Brad’s face in its last moments, seconds after eating him.

She shook her head, pushing that aside. Carefully she lifted the communicator to eye level, examining it yet again. She’d been making quick rounds around this city and poking around with this antique looking watch. It had failed to impress her until she learned it was a discretely high tech device. She kind of liked that.

But back to the worrying. She was in unfamiliar land with no real characters to interact with just yet. It was unnerving and in the wake of her recent marriage to Felix, it rung a certain bell for her. Old memories of Brad and how everything ended up in raging screaming tears. It couldn’t end that way again, she wouldn’t allow it. She had to find a way home, she WOULD find a way home. That was the end of it. She took another sweep of the area before opening the watch again to send another broadcast. Someone would find her, even if to interrogate her or offer some sort of arrangement as the prisoner they brought here. She’d be ready for it one way or another. Because one way or another she was getting out of here.

ACCEPTED

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