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] Harry Potter || Harry Potter || no reserve || 1 of 3

[moralfibre]

PLAYER
Name: Meg
Personal Journal: pillowsofwind
E-mail: eight_ofhearts at hotmail dot com
AIM/MSN/etc: burntxscones @AIM, pillowsofwind @PLURK

CHARACTER
Name: Harry Potter
Canon: Harry Potter
Timeline: Post Deathly Hallows (but before the epilogue)
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: n/a

Personality: For having grown up in a neglectful household and then suddenly being thrust into a life of fame, friends, tragedy and danger; Harry Potter is, for the most part, a well-adjusted teenage boy. Everybody in the Wizarding World knows his name, but he doesn't let that go to his head. In fact, he would love nothing more than to have a quiet life where nobody recognises him and he's left to hang out with his friends and have fun like a normal kid. It seems, however, that fate isn't content to allow him to keep anybody who closely resembles a parental figure, save the Weasley's. So many people around him have died, and a part of him can't help but feel responsible. First his parents, who died protecting him during Voldemort's first reign. Then the godfather he grew up not realising he even had; and Dumbledore, who had taken Harry under his wing. Even Remus, who had been a teacher first and whom Harry had developed a close friendship with afterwards. Snape, who showed his true colours in the end. His friends--Fred, Dobby, Tonks, Cedric, Moody, and even his owl Hedwig. So many people he knows, and even more whom he never met.

He's faced down one of the most dangerous dark wizards ever known multiple times, accepted his own inevitable death, lived in an environment of ever-present danger the past few years, and has managed to overcome all of it. However, it has added up and puts a weight on his shoulders heavier than anything he's had to bear in his earlier years at Hogwarts. For this reason, he'll be experiencing some very mild PTSD, mostly in the form of nightmares and flashes. (Canonically, he's been experiencing this since at least the fourth/fifth book, because he had nightmares all summer long after Cedric's death.) It won't get out of hand in his case, however, because he's a naturally open person and isn't averse to talking about his emotions and experiences with people he trusts. I don't want it to become a focus that all of his interactions are going to hinge on, because he's strong enough to work through it, and he's not the sort of person to let it consume him; but I legitimately can't see him coming out of the events of Deathly Hallows without a few demons.

[CANON] Harry Potter || Harry Potter || no reserve || 2 of 3

[moralfibre]

NOT EVERYTHING IS HORRIBLE, THOUGH! Harry is far from a miserable, tortured soul; he's just been through a hell of a lot more than even most adults twice his age. Among the people who have survived alongside him are his closest friends--Ron and Hermione--and his girlfriend Ginny. They have been the rocks he's clung to during his tumultuous adolescence and part of what gives him such strength and courage to overcome the seemingly endless obstacles he's endured. Sure, they've had their ups and downs like any group of friends is going to see, but the bond he shares with them is unbreakable. Love, courage, and loyalty, through the good and the bad: these are the things that truly define Harry Potter. They make him so much stronger than Voldemort and allow him to accept the fact that, for Voldemort to be defeated, he must sacrifice himself. It is for his friends. For the people who have given up so much already, made the ultimate sacrifice, and for those they've left behind. The Weasleys and the Dursleys, the Wizarding World, and Muggles--Harry doesn't want anyone else to have to suffer because of him.

Among his less than perfect attributes are his stubbornness, and the tendency to make snap judgments. He had Snape pegged as a villain from the start of his first year, for instance, and not even Dumbledore's unwavering faith in Snape was able to convince Harry that he was anything but a slimy evil git. It didn't help that Snape seemed to always see more of James in Harry than he did of Lily, but Harry did nothing to fix Snape's perception once his assessment had been made. That stubbornness he probably inherited from his father, as well as a penchant for finding mischief even when it wasn't actively finding him. The number of times Harry has been out of bed past midnight, sneaking about the halls of Hogwarts, are uncountable unless one actually keeps track of them while reading. He's not above playing tricks on people, but he doesn't bully for sport. He's also not above bending or outright breaking rules if he doesn't agree with them, especially if he's convinced that it's the right thing to do.

The fact that he is ruled by his emotions in most instances can be a double-edged sword. It allows him to be honest with people and not bottle up what he is feeling, provided that someone is around who he is willing to talk to. His emotions are usually pretty readable--he wears them right out on his sleeve most of the time; and like any teenager, he is prone to his ups and downs. The problem this causes, on occasion, is that if he is feeling something strongly enough, he may act on it without thinking things through. The best example of this is after Sirius is killed by Bellatrix, Harry is in complete emotional upheaval and chases after her with the intention of killing her for what she's done. He is blind with grief and anger, but he still can't muster enough hatred to kill or torture her because that is not who he is; that is not who Sirius would have wanted him to become. Even through the end of the series, he never casts a killing curse. When defending himself, Harry's repertoire consists mainly of disarming spells or spells to stun or otherwise disable his enemies.

[CANON] Harry Potter || Harry Potter || no reserve || 3 of 3

[moralfibre]

First Person: [Why does a watch that doesn't tell time have all of these buttons? The least someone could have done on that boring train ride was show him what he was supposed to do with it.

Since no answer seems to be forthcoming, he does what any normal person would do in this situation: push all of them to see what happens.]

Do something.

[The watch doesn't respond. Inanimate objects rarely do. However, now the audio function has been enabled, and anyone can hear him muttering to himself as he tries to figure this out.

Finally, he pushes the button to turn on the video function, and his own image shows up on the tiny screen. Now this is familiar. He had a communication device similar to this, at home.]

Hello? Is anyone there?

Third Person: How odd, Harry first thought, that this journey should be taking place aboard a train. He liked trains. He associated them with new beginnings, for the most part.

The last time he had been in a train station, however, he had been dead and had the option of going on or going back. Back had been the only choice, then. He'd had unfinished business and people who were counting on him; but now, he was not being presented with options. The train was taking him to some undisclosed location, and the strangest thing was he didn't even remember getting on board.

Was he dead, after all? He didn't really think that was the case. He had definitely survived that killing curse, to see his destiny through to the end. And what an end it had been---just as it had began, really. Voldemort's own curse rebounding, doing him in for a second time. But this time for good.

Harry rubbed absently at the scar on his forehead. It wasn't that he felt anything there. He most definitely did not, and that was the weird part. He had grown used to the twinges and the occasional searing pain. Now it was just a scar, as lifeless as the being that had put it there. These were things that he was sure of, and it irked him just a bit that he now had no idea of what was going on.

After several failed attempts at forcing his way off the train, he begrudgingly resigned himself to this passage. Perhaps there would be answers upon his arrival.

ACCEPTED

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