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 ✧

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[archimagus]

Personality: Merlin is by design a very mysterious character and not much is revealed of his actual motives or background in the series. It is hinted on several occasions that he might in fact be rather a lot older than what he appears to be, an example of this being the fact that Igraine remarks that he has not aged a day since she last saw him, which was twenty years earlier. One is never given a proper perspective on just how old he is, but another hint given in canon leads me to believe that it’s not too far-fetched to imagine that he might be centuries old. He takes Arthur to a place where the “Sword of the Gods” is lodged between some rocks at the top of a waterfall, and apparently there is some sort of legend/prophecy connected to this sword that makes pulling it out a good “publicity stunt” in Arthur’s quest to get himself recognized as the true king.

Well, it is in fact suggested that Merlin might have been the one who put the sword there and spread the legend around.

Now I’m not saying one necessarily needs a hundred years or more to get a story to spread and take root and for the origins of it to get lost, but for it to gain enough significance to affect the opinion of a whole country in regards to their king? That might take some time in medieval Britain.

But anything of a more substantial nature when it comes to Merlin is hard to verify because the man is incredibly secretive and does everything he can to not share information about himself. Very probably it’s partly out of shame since he has done plenty of bad things in his long life. Canon examples being assisting Uther in the rape of Igraine (he changes Uther’s appearance so that he looks like her husband) and the accidental killing of a swordsmith and his daughter.

But apart from his rather obvious guilt and self-loathing, there is also a very calculating part of him who has his eyes firmly set on one goal. To create a kingdom of peace and hope. And with that goal in mind he’s probably aware that if anyone is to listen to him in matters of achieving that goal it might not be the best idea to reveal his many dark deeds. Better to be seen as questionable and at times suspicious than downright evil, which is a risk he might run if he revealed himself completely. At least that is what he seems to think, whether it’s true or not.

In Camelot canon, magic is a highly addictive and very dangerous thing. Using it leaves you feeling elated and powerful, but it also makes you sick and at times wounded. Canon shows the two magic users Morgan and Merlin getting suddenly appearing bruises, bleeding from nose and eyes, doubling over in pain, having fevers… Merlin has in the series sworn off magic (though he breaks that vow on several occasions) and mentions several times that magic costs, and that he considers the price too high to pay. Basically in matters of magic he is a recovering addict, and he doesn’t really have much support in this struggle because everyone around him thinks he should use his powers to help people around him, not understanding the price Merlin and to an extent the people around him might have to pay if he uses magic too much. He struggles every day with not using his powers, the temptation a constant in his life. He loves the power, and he fears it. He believes that it pulls him into the dark, that it calls to the fore all in him that is in opposition to the world he’s trying to build.

His ideals are definitely noble, and he does try to make sure that as few people as possible get hurt in the process of making them reality, but he has deliberately closed himself off emotionally and on a personal level doesn’t care much for most people. He mostly does this to protect others from himself, as he is convinced that anyone who is close to him will end up getting hurt. If nothing else the fact that when he touches people their secrets are sometimes revealed to him through visions only serves to create a greater barrier between him and others. Sometimes it is painful to know things, and most of us don’t want our secrets involuntarily revealed.

He sees the big picture but at times struggles with understanding individuals, which is often why his plans don’t always go as he wants them to however masterfully laid out they are.
He is a very intelligent man and it does show that he is aware of being on another intellectual level than most people around him. To put it bluntly he can come off as being rather smug, sometimes annoyingly so.

However, in spite of all his emotional distance and his focus on what one might call the greater good, one can sometimes see glimpses of the man he perhaps was once, or the man he could have been. He is tender, good with children and has a good sense of humor that he enjoys sharing with those he likes. He rarely lets anyone close enough for much of that side to truly appear, but when it happens it tends to draw people in because he can be very charismatic, and there is an appeal in the possibility of revealing some of his mysteries.

He is a very convinced atheist and can sometimes be a bit dismissive of people’s faith, to the point where he seems to be almost a little angry with the concept of religion.

All things told he is an incredibly secretive idealist who wants to make the world a better place and is frustrated that the people in it insist on making it so difficult.

First Person: Here
Third Person: Here

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