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APPLICATIONS

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

PLAYER
Name: Rekla
Personal Journal:

bedpostqueen
E-mail: skipthedramabb@gmail.com
AIM: sodisquietingly |

rekla

CHARACTER
Name: Regina Mills
Canon: Once Upon A Time
Timeline: Season 2, Episode 5. {Before Daniel dies again.}
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: ///

Personality: Someone who first meets Regina is unlikely to get a downright negative impression of her, at least not right away. She appears polite enough, if a bit harsh - depending on the subject. She seems to have a solid grasp on her job and the tasks that come with it, and, when talking about her son, she sounds like an ordinary, loving single mom. If you're lucky, you'll get a piece of pretty decent apple pie. Voilà, you have survived your first encounter with a woman who has trapped thousands of people in another world, literally taken the hearts of more people than she could keep track of - just to name some of her crimes - and if you don't know the story, you wouldn't even believe it.

As stated, this is merely a first impression. Towards some, she might be able to keep it up, but that is an unlikely scenario on the long run for several reasons. For one, those who cross her are going to be seen as a disturbance and/or danger - which will result in her threatening that person; efficiency depending on how well she knows them. Her threats are not always empty. She has no moral objections whatsoever if properly enraged, and she can and will fight dirty. She has sent many children into the cottage of a cannibalistic witch to get something back that once belonged to her (only two of which came back). She has framed Mary Margaret for a murder; never mind the many occasions on which Emma had been set up.

She is power-hungry, but this hunger for power is trumped as well as caused by her need to be in control. With her mother having controlled her throughout her childhood and teenage years, followed by being severely limited in her freedom by King Leopold, the need to be in charge of her own life is understandable, however, the need to control everything else came much later. It isn't exactly shown how good a ruler she is in the fairytale world, but given how people seem to fear her, she certainly wasn't a kind queen by far. She did seem to be focused more on her personal vengeance than her kingdom. This changed drastically during the twenty-eight years in Storybrooke, when her main way of being in control was her curse. This change only truly surfaces when Emma comes to Storybrooke and Regina beings to see her curse in grave danger. Losing control of the curse would mean losing control of Storybrooke, the people - in short, everything she views as 'hers'.

To put it mildly, she has an anger management problem, which frequently results in overreactions - this can be something as minor as a mirror being smashed or something as major as the murder of a man who rejected her.
The many years she has spent grieving Daniel haven't just left her sufficiently bitter and vengeful, but also incredibly self-centered. In her mind, she deserved to be happy, and this once sane thought turned not nearly sane once she reached the point where her own happiness wasn't enough - everybody else needed to be miserable. To achieve this (quite crazy) goal, she had been willing to sacrifice her beloved father's life as well as risking 'a void inside that can never be filled' (as pointed out by several characters). Then, she gave whatever it took to get her revenge - now, one could say that it wasn't all that different.

Nowadays, she still is selfish and perfectly willing to ignore the consequences her actions have on innocent bystanders as long as she reaches whatever goal she has set for herself. Even when these things are pointed out to her, she views them as mere collateral damage.

All this points out pretty clearly that Regina is not a mentally stable, rational person. Part of this can be blamed on Cora, who had manipulated her daughter from the start. The best example of how damaging this was would be Regina's hatred for Snow White. Yes, Snow White gave away her secret, which prompted Cora to murder David.
But: Snow White was a child, something between eight and ten years old. She had quite obviously meant no harm in any form or way. Cora was the one to kill Daniel, yet Regina was not able to place the major part of the blame on her mother right away - instead, she wishes death upon a child. And this was before she lost her mind Evil Queen Style.
Another part was the sort of 'trauma' she suffered from losing Daniel. Adding to that the things she put herself through by hoping to be able to revive him, (keeping his magically-not-decaying corpse around for decades), and holding on to the memory of having lost him and the belief to never be able to love again (which may or may not be true in canon)... The parts of her sanity that she didn't lose to her mother or Rumplestilskin, she lost to herself.

Aside from being a self-centered, cold-hearted, vengeful witch with a capital B, Regina has yet another big issue: love. And for one, that is not solely tied to Daniel.

Point is, Regina does not understand how love works. In her head, it is something that can be bought, owned, even traded at will, and this believe clashes painfully with reality. The irony in this is that, while she would be one to claim that love is a weakness, in her native world, ~love conquers all~. True loves kiss breaks any curse, true love is forever... not understanding it, not being fully able to understand it, is a weakness.

There are several example for her either abusing or failing to understand love and friendship.

The Genie. He genuinely loved her and that did not stop her from manipulating him, bringing him to kill her husband, making sure that he would be the one to be blamed for it - thus willingly selling him out - and all that with a smile.
Hänsel and Gretel. Whom she sent into the ~~lion's~~ Blind Witch's den, and by that endangering their lives, and then asked to stay with her at the castle, offering wealth and a noble life - just to get rejected, since they rather wanted to return to their father. This is an excellent example for frustrated overreactions as well, since she had them thrown into some godforsaken forest. To boot, she asked the father, whom she had held captive, what made the children react that way, and, not satisfied with his answer, threw him into the same forest (nowhere near his children, though).
Malificent. Probably the weirdest example of them all. She fights Maleficent to get the Dark Curse back when the other woman had refused to give it to her, and when Maleficent states that she thinks Regina will kill her, Regina replies in all earnest that she would not, since Maleficent is 'her only friend'.
Much later, Maleficent was trapped in dragon form and locked in a secret lair beneath Storybrooke for the next twenty-eight years. Why? Because that was convenient for Regina, and Regina has no talent whatsoever when it comes to caring for other people.
Graham. The Huntsman/later Sheriff who has suffered an incredible lot at her hands. From being send out to murder Snow White, over having his heart torn out, over being sexually abused, his fairytale life hadn't been pleasant due to Regina. His life in Storybrooke wasn't much better - the lack of a heart meant the partial lack of feelings, and the fact that Regina continued to maintain a sexual relationship with him despite being fully aware that he would never consent to this, were his memories intact is downright skeevy. And in spite of all that, she is still hurt, angry (and murderous) when he rejects her once his memories begin to return.
Kathryn Nolan and Sidney Glass make for more excellent examples, but the story essentially remains the same: they are friends, they are allies, all is well - until Regina finds that they are more use dead/gone/as scapegoats.

Never to mention her own father.

Despite all that, there is an exception: her son, Henry. While it isn't entirely clear how far exactly she would go to protect him, she is shown to not only care deeply for him, but in later episodes even willing to give up magic for his sake. She has a hard time putting his needs before hers, often mixing up 'what is best for him' with 'what is best for her'. She is seen acting towards him as she acts towards her 'friends' - attempting to bribe him into loving her - but there are times when her feelings for him appear to be genuine, particularly when he is in danger. She was even willing to work with Emma on those occasions, which says a lot, given her intense hatred for that woman. Still, she has difficulties letting him close, in the same way she has trouble with letting anyone close. There is this image she has created of herself - the queen who is powerful, not because the people love her but because they fear her, and dropping that isn't quite within her abilities at this point.

First Person: Introduction post at ThoughtFormed

Third Person: Regina in "How not to deal with your emotions" and "this is not how relationships are meant to work". Warning: (impending) character death.

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APPLICATIONS

[CANON] Regina Mills || Once Upon A Time || Reserved.

[CANON] Regina Mills || Once Upon A Time || Reserved.

[CANON] Regina Mills || Once Upon A Time || Reserved.

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