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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

PLAYER
Name: Charli
Personal Journal: N/A
E-mail: raela_brandybuck@yahoo.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: MamaAustria

CHARACTER
Name: Roderich Edelstein / Austria
Canon: Axis Powers Hetalia
Timeline: In the late 19th century, during the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Elisabeth of Austria. The cultural height of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality:

As stated by Himaruya, Austria was born in 976 AD. This was the year that the Babenburgs came into power and unified the territories under the name that would eventually be Austria. As a child, he was close friends with Switzerland, and often harassed by Hungary and Prussia. Despite always being weak and easily defeated in his youth, he was tenacious and brave, and eventually was able to conquer Hungary and take his place as a growing empire. The great and beautiful Danube River flows through his veins, and the famed Austrian Alps are his backbone. His heart is Vienna, and his soul is the music of the centuries.

Throughout his history, Austria has been a world power of sorts, up into the 20th century when the Austro-Hungarian Empire finally fell. As an Empire, Austria was married to first Spain, by the marriage of Philip and Joanna in 1496, which brought the Spanish Empire under Hapsburg rule. This marriage proved lasting and powerful, and was not dissolved until 1700 when the War of Spanish Succession took place.

This was a political alliance at first, as most of Austria's marriages were, but he and Spain eventually were able to come to an agreement, and were quite a close couple during their long marriage. It would be France that dissolved their marriage, with the French Bourbon dynasty taking over in Spain. This divorce was painful for Austria as a person, and the fighting would eventually lead to the War of Austrian Succession as well, in which Austria lost territory to Prussia, and it would eventually lead itself to the Seven Years' War in which he would lose the Holy Roman Empire as well.

His marriage to Hungary began in 1867, and was tumultuous from the start. Revolts, dissent, and other unpleasant political struggles made the empire weak and unstable. However, it was during the 18th and 19th century that Austria's musical dynasty began. Vienna was the heart of the musical world, and the height of culture. Grand balls, sparkling waltzes by Strauss, the great Viennese Romantics, all soothed Austria's artistic soul. Music was his first mistress before all others, and his greatest love.

Any great musician that has passed once through Vienna, Austria knew. He called many of them friends, and adored them for their work and passion. Mozart he loved beyond measure, Strauss was his dearest friend. Schubert, Schumann, Beethoven, Liszt, and of course, Chopin, though he only met Chopin twice. He has befriended them all, and mourned their passing. There are statues of some of these great men erected in palace gardens around Vienna to mark his remembrance.

However, he still mostly enjoys his personal time. His pastries are impeccable as is his coffee, and his music is still at his heart and soul. His devotion to the arts has made him a meticulous man. Each year, as if in member of the old days of the Empire, a ball season is held to usher in the opera season, with waltzes and dancing, fine dress and all that made his imperial days full of splendor. He is ever a gentleman, finely groomed and well-dressed. Soft spoken unless risen to ire, at which point a flare of the old Empire becomes evident in his mannerisms and speech. He does not deal with impertinence or foolish behavior well; it always gets a Look of Extreme Disapproval.

He remains an elegant and sophisticated gentleman, cultured and well-spoken. His accent is that of the Viennese dialect, which varies from the German in many ways. I've provided an example of the late Archduke Otto von Habsburg speaking, who died this past year and was interred with his imperial relatives in Vienna.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilb7VvGx1Is

Because I’ve taken Austria from the late 19th century, he carries himself a dignity and elegance, but he is always a gentleman first. He has a huge respect for women due to who his wife is, unlike many men of the time period. He is humble despite the many great and glorious things about his Empire, but that is because a gentleman who has power does not need arrogance to prove it, and a man who has arrogance has little power. He is, however, aware that his empire is beginning to decline, after a few decades of infighting and instability despite the growth of high culture. He is a man trying to keep control of the prestige he still has, despite the way it continues to slip through his elegantly gloved fingers.

First Person:[The train, in and of itself, was not unfamiliar – with the recent innovations in steam engines, he had been travelling by them since 1837. That was not the alarming part. The alarming part was that he, the Austrian Empire, had until recently been attending a lavish ball with his wife, in celebration of the Advent Season. Even his fine attire reflected this, from the lavish overcoat and sash to the fine breeches tucked into elegant black boots.

Now, he was stepping off of this unfamiliar train, onto an unfamiliar platform, and while the chill in the air did not bother him, he narrowed his violet eyes in suspicion. Was he in danger? Was this a prank? It was likely a prank, and Heaven help Prussia when Hungary finds out.

He steps about the platform, reading the signs, in English, about this ‘Ruby City’. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out an ornate pocket watch, unaware that his own watch had been completely modified to suit his newfound needs in the city.

His face, when it appears on the Network, appears mostly unaware of the broadcast as he checks the time. He makes a hum of discontent. His face is wholly familiar to most in Ruby City, but there is something different about this Austria. Something in the way he carries himself, in the stride of his walk and the squaring of his shoulders. Also, that he is wholly unaware of his situation and where he is.]

Hello? Good evening? [He calls out into the empty station, sounding mildly perturbed.] This was all quite clever, but I need to be returning shortly, lest my wife catch ear of this charade.

Third Person:

Well, this certainly was not Vienna, despite the brisk winter wind that blew through the dark train station.

The man who stepped off the train moved with a certain grace that seemed lost to the centuries; even his attire, elegant and old-fashioned, seemed otherworldly. He stood on the platform for a moment, his dark hair cast about with the wind, and regarded his surroundings with a certain air of irritated aristocracy. Though his breeches and knee high boots were simple and polished, his overcoat was richly embroidered golds and blues, and the cravat and pin he wore were just as lavish. These were not the clothing of a poor man, or a man out for a simple stroll.

In fact, this man, the Austrian Empire, had been at an Advent Ball not moments ago, where he’d just enjoyed a waltz with his wife. They had their spats, of course…but tonight had been enjoyable, and he did not look forward to the tongue-lashing he’d receive if he never returned. Surely, this was a prank, and he knitted his brow further.

“A prank. How juvenile of him,” he murmured as he checked the time on his pocket watch. “And of all nights to pull one…but how did he do this without my even noticing…hrm. Perhaps he slipped something into the wine…”

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APPLICATIONS

[CANON] Austria/Roderich Edelstein | Axis Powers Hetalia | Reserved | 1 of ??

Re: [CANON] Austria/Roderich Edelstein | Axis Powers Hetalia | Reserved | 2 of ??

Re: [CANON] Austria/Roderich Edelstein | Axis Powers Hetalia | Reserved | 3 of 3

ACCEPTED