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 ] Kariya Matou || Fate/zero || reserved || 3 of 4

[trashkind]

Personality (continued): About that: as has already been mentioned Kariya’s quest to save Sakura from becoming the heir to the Matou brand of thaumaturgy has horrific consequences for him. The deal he makes with Zouken during the prologue is simple; a straightforward exchange of Kariya for Sakura, with the condition that Sakura will only be released if Kariya manages to win the Fourth Holy Grail War. The catch – and there is literally no way to put this delicately – is that since Kariya has never trained a day in his life, the only way for him to become enough of a magus in the space of a single year to summon a Servant to fight for him during this war is to have numerous Crest Worms implanted in his body. While expanding his magic circuits greatly, the worms also eat away at his body from the inside, and ironically place more strain on him whenever he casts magic.

It goes without saying, then, that after a year of enduring such pain, it’s not just Kariya’s body that changes for the worse. Though still fundamentally a decent person, he is outwardly more reserved and taciturn than before and tends to avoid people, if only for the problems his now somewhat terrifying appearance would cause. Thanks to the constant pain he is in and also Crest Worms having literally eaten parts of his brain, Kariya is also now more prone to emotional outbursts when triggered and is on a much shorter fuse, having much less of a hold on his temper. Since he knows all too well that he’s existing on borrowed time, he also becomes a lot more reckless when it comes to trying to get what he set out to do done, caring little for any sort of strategy.

His determination to accomplish this becomes frighteningly single-minded, to the point where saving Sakura from her fate and killing Tokiomi become the only real purposes he has for what’s left of his life – to the extent of ignoring the threat of a large monster created by one of the other Servants in favour of sending his own Servant to fight Tokiomi’s while confronting Tokiomi himself at the same time. Whether it was his original intention or not, by the time of the Grail War, getting revenge on Tokiomi by killing him becomes just as important to Kariya as his goal of rescuing Sakura. It’s easier to survive putting yourself through terrible pain if you have someone to blame and get angry at, and other than Zouken, Tokiomi, who gave away his own daughter to the Matou, is the obvious choice. What started as small seeds of resentment becomes fully-fledged hatred, and the Kariya of the Grail War now takes a vicious and unstable kind of pleasure in causing any kind of humiliation or throwing any kind of spanner in the works for the Tohsaka magus. Kariya also develops a certain amount of loathing towards himself; he blames himself just as harshly for Sakura’s situation as he does Zouken and Tokiomi, reasoning that if he had just accepted his fate eleven years beforehand instead of running away, Sakura could have carried on living happily with her mother and sister.

Ultimately as the Grail War wears on, Kariya progressively loses more and more of his grip on his own sanity to the point where he begins losing sight of himself and everything that he once held dear, with only his twin goals of Save Sakura And Kill Tokiomi Before I Die to cling to. His fragile mental and emotional state combined with his single-minded desire to see these two goals through makes him an easy target for manipulation by others since he no longer has the ability to really perceive when he’s being duped, something that Kirei Kotomine is able to mercilessly exploit to increase Kariya’s suffering and unhinge his mind even further. Once Kariya’s mind starts breaking down completely, he even becomes capable of hurting those closest to him when triggered the wrong way; all it takes during a moment of Kotomine-engineered misunderstanding is for Aoi to say something that is so out of place with Kariya’s remaining perception of her that his mind briefly snaps – for long enough to lead to some truly tragic consequences.

The real tragedy of Kariya Matou is that his slow descent into insanity reveals as much about him as it destroys; although it could never be denied that his self-sacrificial efforts were genuine and whole-heartedly meant, there are more selfish layers to his actions that Kariya himself neglects, practicing some pretty thorough self-deception as a protective measure. It’s only during his final moments when his body and mind finally give out completely that his deepest, suppressed wish for himself – to be a family with Aoi, Sakura and Rin – is embraced in the form of a final, delusional vision.

Perhaps it’s kinder that way.

[ CANON ] Kariya Matou || Fate/zero || reserved || 4 of 4

[trashkind]

First Person: Thread samples: one and two!

Third Person: Shinto was just as busy as he remembered it. Well. “Remembered it,” was hardly the right phrase, considering Kariya had just been here not even two hours ago. The crowds bustling about the place on their comings and goings even as the sun was going down gave the whole place the feel of an overactive beehive.

It was a perfect match for his own agitated restlessness.

The area down by the suspension bridge was a little quieter, just as it always was, but it didn’t help. He’d come down here to think, to try and clear his head, but his thoughts weren’t so much ticking as they were racing.

He couldn’t get the tears he’d seen in Aoi’s eyes out of his mind. Nor Rin’s miserable attempts to mask her sadness by playing her troubles away. Trying their hardest to accept something unacceptable, because that was what was expected of them.

And Sakura…

Kariya didn’t want to imagine what Sakura could be going through even at that very instant; trying to made his stomach turn. He knew better than almost anyone else what Zouken was capable of – the thought of Sakura’s shy smile and soft voice bearing the full brunt of that vampire’s malice was too much to bear.

It can’t even have been that long, Kariya thought bitterly, his hands balling into fists. If he’d come back even a few days earlier, he could have put a stop to this. He was sure of it. He would have planted himself in front of the Tohsaka house and refused to let them hand Sakura over—

No. Maybe he could still put a stop to this.

There wasn’t any other option, not for him. He needed to. Aoi and Rin’s hands were tied through no fault of their own, but Kariya – he was the one with the Matou blood flowing through his veins. He couldn’t stand idly by and let the Matou family drag an innocent child into their disgusting affairs. Especially when she was just being forced into the hole he’d forced his own way out of. (Aoi hadn’t said so in so many words, but he knew she was right all the same.) If he walked away from this, how could he say he was any better than the rest of his whole rotten bloodline?

Kariya took a deep breath. Pushing himself off the riverside railing, he turned towards the suspension bridge.

For the first time in ten years, he began to cross it.

ACCEPTED

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