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] Pitch Black || Rise of the Guardians || Reserve ||

[prettylittlenightmare]

PLAYER
Name: Justine
Personal Journal: onetruesikorsky
E-mail: Justine.Dillenbeck@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: SilverRustBucket

CHARACTER
Name: Pitch Black
Canon: Rise of the Guardians
Timeline: Post-Antarctica


Personality: Pitch Black is a creature of simple outward appearance - he is the Nightmare King, or as children more often call him: the Boogeyman. He thrives on spreading fear and belief to children through the use of darkness and shadow and his personal favorite: nightmares. As a spirit in the world of Rise of the Guardians, this is his purpose for existence, and it is thus what drives him the most throughout the movie.

But that is not the only side of the Nightmare King. After all, spreading fear and darkness is his job, but not what rules his every thought. There are other facets of him as well, including a lonely bitterness at being shunned for his need for fear, born from the Guardians' existence in driving back the Dark Ages, because why should he be hated for what he was brought into existence to do? It is a part of who he is, why can't anyone accept that? Shouldn't he be allowed a family just as much as anyone else?

Because of this loneliness and centuries of rejection, Pitch has grown to be incredibly cynical. He's tired and weary of being forced into the shadows of belief for so long, and he'll let you know it, too. And even right to the other Guardians when they ask why he's making a fuss. He even says, "Maybe I want what you have. To be believed in! Maybe I'm tired of hiding under beds!" And when Bunnymund tells him that's exactly where he belongs, Pitch responds with a flat 'Go suck an egg, rabbit'. He's not willing to take any more crap from the Guardians.

But that's not all, either. He can recognize a person's greatest fears with nothing more than a glance - reading them like an open book. How else would he know how to strike fear into so many children if he didn't know the greatest, easiest way to scare them? He knows the fears of all the Guardians as well as anyone else he meets. He'll exploit a person's fears to his benefit, manipulating them to his whims. The one in particular that receives the brunt of this manipulation is Jack Frost. He immediately touches upon the fact that Jack has been ignored for centuries, and when he meets up with him down in Pitch's lair he only cuts deeper, luring him in with the draw for his memories, locked away in the teeth Pitch had stolen. Driving home that he'll never be accepted by the other Guardians, they'll never understand, that Jack only makes a mess wherever he goes. He knows exactly what makes Jack tick, what will make him break, what will make him upset and defensive. He knows, and he plans accordingly. He's not entirely heartless in his manipulation, however. The urge, the longing to have a family or to be cared about is still with him, and his attempts to sway Jack to his side are earnest and sincere. It's the rejection for his earned sincerity that causes trouble and makes those walls slam right back closed again.

Surround him in fear and power and Pitch turns near joyous, dancing about and hopping around with such glee and carefree thought that it's almost like seeing an entirely different spirit. He's manipulative and not above lying to get his way, including tricking Jack into handing over his staff - the object that gives him his powers - in trade for Baby Tooth's return and then not holding up his end of the bargain, instead literally chucking Baby Tooth against a far cliff face then breaking the staff over his knee.

Take away his power and control and he becomes defensive and quick to strike, using all of his tricks of the light and shadows to his advantage. And when even those fail, all that's left is the same fear he aimed to give the Guardians - the fear of not being believed in. Of being invisible. And when that fear strikes, even the Nightmare King will run from the nightmares.

First Person:

Dear_Mun post with Pitch is here

Third Person:

It hadn't gone the way he'd planned.

Jack was supposed to join him, him, not fight, not... force Pitch into such a corner so as to attack him as he had. He'd thought he'd timed himself perfectly, manipulated the winter spirit in just the right way to turn the tide in his favor... to force Jack's teetering alliance with the Guardians on the downslope and push him out of the equation entirely.

They'll never accept you, not really.

It hadn't been a lie - Pitch knew that, but Jack clearly hadn't believed it. The Guardians were so set in their ways, so stubborn and self-righteous, the thought of another Guardian in their ranks was almost laughable. Jack belonged at Pitch's side, for the Guardians had never known suffering, not in the way Pitch had, not in the way Jack understood.

But he'd lost his chance down in the icy fortress of Antarctica, where the stunning culmination of cold and dark would forever remain like a resolute statue. He'd never know what it's like to have a family, but that was alright. ...Why? Because finally, finally Jack Frost was out of the picture, which left Pitch free to dispose of the Guardians once and for all. His plan was nearing fruition, and it was time to make one final trip to cinch closed his victory.

To the North Pole.

Added Notes: Pitch would ordinarily be equipped with his nightmare sand, which can take the shape of just about anything, including his Nightmares, which are literal black horses. There is one in particular named Onyx that I would like him to have with him if that's okay (she can be broken down into just sand too). His power increases and decreases depending on how much fear there is around him, or how many Nightmares can spread to children. I can keep his power limited for the sake of the game - it would make sense considering how few children are in the city - I just wanted to run that by you first in case you had any limits you wanted to place on him! Thanks!

[ACCEPTED]

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MOD NOTE: There shouldn't be any problem with Pitch keeping his nightmare sand, and all that it entails, but thanks for checking! As for limiting his power, we'll leave that up to you.