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] Sherlock Holmes || Guy Ritchie Movieverse || Reserved || 1 of 2?

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PLAYER
Name: Kayla
Personal Journal: crimsonseastorm
E-mail: kihle11@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: kihle2011

CHARACTER
Name: Sherlock Holmes
Canon: Guy Ritchie Movieverse
Timeline: Beginning of Game of Shadows, just after he’s told Watson about Moriarty
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality:
Sherlock Holmes is an eccentric genius and consulting detective, oftentimes his work is private cases but he also works alongside Scotland Yard. His eccentricism lies in a number of places--including his use of drugs, his drinking things like formaldehyde or stuff for eye surgery, his manner of dress (which is often a hodge-podge of clothing) and his secluding himself away for months at a time. He also has a tendency to use a number of outrageous disguises to conceal himself for cases, including false noses, beards and even dressing as a woman.

His genius lies in his talent for observation; he can see the smallest details, from a speck of ink on a person’s ear to the smell of a certain type of glaze on bread. He then takes these minute details--which he believes more important than the big picture--to form assumptions about people or the actions they’ve taken. He’s exceptionally good at it and he’s dedicated a number of years of his life to perfecting it.

This is for a number of reasons. Firstly, he gets quite the kick out of it. He finds it incredibly entertaining. Boredom does not suit him at all. In the first movie, after his case was finished he’d spent three months locked in a room in his house and eventually ended up shooting holes in the wall because he couldn’t find anything else to do with his time. Boredom also leads him to ingesting nothing but tobacco, coffee and coca leaves (the plant cocaine is made from).

He also strives for a challenge and going mind to mind with other brilliant people. People like Moriarty, who might be evil and Sherlock might detest what he does, but he also has the capacity to respect and admire the skill that had been required to nearly start a world war. Intelligent people draw his interest because they function on the same level mentally as he does. He tends to insult people he thinks are ridiculously less intelligent, Lestrade for example but it is typically all in good fun. It is not meant to be scathing or hurtful. Watson even claims that Irene Adler is the only woman he likes because she’s the only one that’s ever outsmarted him.

For all his genius, or maybe because of it, Sherlock is difficult for most people to get along with because he’s rather full of himself and cares very little for what other people think of him. There are only a handful of people that he would ever admit caring for (and even then, it would never be out loud) and getting him to show it would be nigh impossible. His care for people is shown in crazy, roundabout ways like getting Watson into a fight on accident the night before his wedding. Normally, he wouldn’t bother himself with things like stag parties for people and he’d actually forgotten, but he’d done his best to make a night of it anyway.

[Canon] Sherlock Holmes || Guy Ritchie Movieverse || Reserved || 2 of 2

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His greatest and dearest companion is Dr. John Watson. The man had begun as simply his roommate and quickly morphed into someone that Sherlock has difficulty managing without. He sees the other man as intelligent and has gone so far as to begin to teach him how to observe things the way he does. He has a great deal of respect for him and Watson is one of the few people who has the capacity to deal with him for any length of time. However, Sherlock rarely tells him the extent of his plans. This may be to keep Watson from any more danger and to keep him out of as much trouble as possible.

He is incredibly possessive of the doctor as well and expresses a large amount of disdain for Mary Morstan, Watson’s new fiance. He spent weeks just avoiding meeting her and when they did get married, Sherlock appears rather heartbroken. He knows that she will take Watson’s time away from him and he’s grown rather fond of his company. Sherlock likes to have him around on cases and she is making Watson retire from the detective business. He is often simply fake polite around her and the doctor is forever telling him to behave himself. In order to gain him back, Sherlock tries rather unhanded methods like leaving the stove on or leaving his revolver where he knows Watson will see it or going where he knows he’ll get in trouble.

The law is not entirely black and white for him. He’ll break and enter if he feels it is necessary to catch the culprit of his case or to find clues. It doesn’t bother him to get into any sort of trouble and even when he ends up getting himself and Watson thrown in jail he doesn’t show remorse for it. To Sherlock, it’s just a thing that happens and it comes with the job. He seems to get himself in this sort of trouble rather often as the regulars in the holding yard spoke to him by name and requested he provide jokes to them.

Sherlock has a fondness for learning and technology. He remarks with amazement about a bridge being built and again at the machine that Blackwell built using radio waves. It excites him because it gives him something else to fill his mind with and in turn, likely gives him more ideas of his own to try out. He is quite the tinkerer, constantly fiddling with things like a gun silencer and creating his own medications. He can also be innovative during fights, using things as weapons without knowing what it does but trying it out anyway.

There are things he is not interested in and those often fall by the wayside. He tends to know a lot about certain subjects, like chemistry and almost nothing about others, like art. He is also rather skeptical when it comes to supernatural things and religious beings. He prefers to work in the literal and tangible but he has gone out on a limb with Lord Blackwell because he hadn’t wanted to discount anything. This lead him to the answer he was looking for.

First Person:
There is a link here!

Third Person:

This was clearly a dream or some odd hallucination as a result of taking--what was that again? Some bizarre concoction of coffee and something Watson left in his office when he abandoned Sherlock. Something he wasn’t meant to imbibe obviously, given his current state. This train felt a little too real to be simply a dream though he didn’t have the faintest idea how he would have gotten here. This wasn’t like any train that he knew.

He was tempted to stay--it needed to return to its origin at some point, did it not?--but no, he needed to disembark, for what purpose he couldn’t say in the slightest, but he was meant to be here. If this was a dream, he would simply let it play out. Yes, that was it exactly. He needed to let it work itself out. As soon as he stepped from the train, he was nearly jolted with the realization that this was not as much of a dream as he believed. There was a realness to it that dreams didn’t hold, a physicality that was impossible in the unconscious mind and not to mention, this wasn’t skipping around at all like his dreams normally would.

As he stood on the platform, he stuffed his hands in his pockets and came out with a small, round watch. One that decidedly wasn’t his or borrowed from Watson. Sherlock looked up again to scan the area, his eyes flitted over every last detail of where he was standing and his attention caught on one of the posters on the wall.

“This is meant to allow communication with others? It hasn’t any wires attached,” What a grand notion that was--if it were true. He didn’t know of any type of communication that could possibly be housed within something so small as a watch.

He flipped it open curiously and eyed what was within, pushing the buttons along the side at random to test just what reaction he received from the watch.

[ACCEPTED]

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