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

[starspangledheart]

Part of what makes him such a good person is the fact that he had a rough childhood, persevered through bad times, and never sacrificed any of his ideals. He was orphaned at a young age and was sickly and weak as a child and young man. During the height of the Great Depression, he had no family and only one person in the world to rely on--his best friend, Bucky Barnes. When Steve looked around and saw the horrible conditions people were forced to live in, he couldn't do a thing to make it better. People were suffering, and later during the War, men were dying overseas. He was dead set on joining the Army, because in his mind, that was how he could make a difference. In the end, he was right about that; just not in the way he'd originally imagined.

Captain America first became the poster boy for War Bonds, and then was finally able to prove himself a hero when he rescued four hundred prisoners of war from HYDRA, including Bucky. Despite saving so many people, Steve never saw himself as a hero, and still does not voluntarily take up that label. It's not about fame or glory. He helps people because he can, and because he genuinely wants to. He knows what it's like to stand up to people who are bigger and stronger, and have his ass handed to him. It's not fun, but that never stopped him before and it sure as Hell won't stop him now that he can actually do something about all of the bullies out there.

He is an incredibly stubborn person who places great value on his ideals and morals. Even when he'd repeatedly get beaten up by bullies, it never stopped him from standing up for what he believed to be right. His stubbornness is also evident in the numerous attempts to join the army. It is against the law to lie on an enlistment form, but Steve made up information and visited multiple recruiting centers in his attempt to join. He sometimes butts heads with people who are just as stubborn about their ideals, and has no qualms about dishing out judgment--as seen when he first met Tony Stark.

Socially, he is a quiet man. After having spent so many years being ignored, it is taking time for him to get used to the fact that people care about what he has to say. When it's something important, though-- when it's time to step up and fight for what he believes to be right--he will make himself heard. So, Steve isn't shy, but he is awkward in certain situations--mainly social situations involving the fairer sex. Peggy was the first woman he was ever close to, and now that she is beyond his reach, he needs time to accept that and move on. Both she and Bucky were taken from him abruptly, and he still blames himself for not being able to save Bucky. When he wakes up after being frozen for seventy years, he is literally alone in a strange world.

In the 21st Century, his ideals and quiet charm serve to make him seem old fashioned. He isn't a prude. He's simply out of his element in a world where underwear models are twenty feet tall on billboards in the middle of the city, and people walk around with tiny computers in their pockets. He's smart enough to eventually learn how to handle one of those tiny computers that sometimes are also phones, and given time, the culture-shock will start to lessen as well. As long as he keeps himself busy, Steve can get through pretty much anything.

[starspangledheart]

First Person:
[Steve examines the watch before tucking it into his pocket and starting off away from the train station. The thought that it might be a communication device doesn't even cross his mind. It's not until he's making his way down a street in the middle of the city and he starts to see people talking into their watches that he thinks to look at it more closely. After situating his shield to lean against a bench, he takes a seat beside it and then flicks open the watch as he starts to press the buttons on the side. He speaks experimentally, not quite sure if it's actually broadcasting or not. He has little enough experience with cell phones that video and text functions are not things that he thinks to look for.]

Hello? This is Captain Steve Rogers, does anybody read me? I'm not sure what happened, but I woke up on a train, and now I'm stuck in a place called Ruby City.

[If only he had some way of contacting SHIELD, it would be much easier to figure out what the hell is going on.]

If someone could tell me when the next train leaves for New York, that would be great.

Third Person: It might not have been the most heroic of deeds. Nobody's life depended upon Steve accomplishing this task, nor did the fate of nations rest upon his shoulders. But even so, sweat beaded on his brow as he worked in the afternoon sun; his arm, much more used to wielding a shield in battle, now moving with repetitive sweeps of a paint brush. The house wasn't derelict, it was just in need of a bit of sprucing up. He'd lived in worse places, but with nothing better to do, it was at least something to keep him occupied. He had never been one to enjoy sitting still for long, even before he had been a soldier.

The strokes he made along the side of the house were careful, because Steve took any job he invested himself in seriously; but they were wide and required no true skill on his part. It was different than painting on canvas--using the medium to bring life to the images in his mind. Certain of his teammates had been surprised to learn that he'd attended art school before he became Captain America, but to Steve, it was just another chapter in his life. During his time in the army there had hardly been much opportunity to sit down and do more than the occasional sketching, but it was still something he enjoyed doing, even if it was more of a hobby these days.

He paused to wipe his forehead with the back of his hand, unintentionally smearing a bit of white paint there. When he looked down at his hands, he found them speckled with it as well. The sight triggered a feeling of nostalgia, recalling the days when he'd been a student in New York. Bucky had been alive, and had accompanied him to lessons once in a while. There had been an occasion when a paint battle had occurred, which was the day he was thinking about as he considered the paint currently staining his hands. A sad smile curved his lips for a brief moment, until another memory crept in. A similar occasion, when Bucky had tagged along for a figure drawing class and bemoaned the fact that the female model had been clothed, on December 7, 1941.

Everything had changed after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Young men from all across the nation had clamored to enlist: Steve's friends and classmates, and thousands of strangers. He had longed to join them. To prove himself. To stand up for what was right and good. He was turned away at almost every attempt, but his stubbornness and refusal to give up had eventually paid off.

...If only it had been enough to keep his best friend safe.



Question for you lovely mods: can he have his shield if it was on his person at the time of his kidnapping?

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