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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[CANON] Discord | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | Reserved | 1/2

[discordiality]

PLAYER
Name: Kitten
Personal Journal: hollowrussian
E-mail: inu_taiyoukai_@hotmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: Grimmkitty ; SilverCrusnik @ AIM

CHARACTER
Name: Discord
Canon: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Timeline: Sometime after the Return of Harmony episodes, but before his reappearance in Keep Calm and Flutter On. aka Trapped in Stone Time: The sequel.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: Not applicable~

Personality: Discord’s personality matches his name, it’s as simple as that! He’s the spirit of disharmony personified in a form more akin to a chimera than an actual pony like the rest of the denizens of Equestria. Cheerilee describes his statue in the first episode of Season 2 as that of a draconequus, and goes on to explain that a draconequus is a creature with the head of a pony and the body made up of lots of other things. For the most part, Discord has a draconic appearance. However, he sports a lion paw as a right hand and an eagle claw as a left hand, one deer and one goat antler, a hooved leg and a clawed foot, a Pegasus wing and a batlike wing…even his pupils aren’t the same size, and he has one long fang protruding from one side of his elongated but still somewhat ponylike face.

Princess Celestia explains that before Discord was encased in stone, preceding the events of the first episode he appears in, he caused strife and disharmony for the denizens of all Equestria, Earth Ponies, Pegasi and Unicorns alike, until she and her sister Princess Luna were able to seal him away with the Elements of Harmony. Because the Elements no longer reside under their power, the spell that held Discord was broken, freeing him from his stony prison.

Upon being freed, Discord quickly began to wreak havoc on Ponyville, causing cotton candy clouds to rain chocolate milk upon the town and making the corn fields at Sweet Apple Acres erupt into bursts of popcorn.

These phenomenon show Discord’s ability to control nature and bend it to his will, even reverse the natural order of things by exerting his chaotic influence upon them. He’s even able to raise and lower the sun in erratic intervals and engages in increasingly ridiculous behavior, including drinking the glass around his chocolate milk and tossing the form-holding liquid back, only for it to explode.

In addition to his control over phenomena, Discord has both a cunning mind and the twisted sense of humor needed to fuel it. He’s fond of riddles, and even insists that he will only allow the main characters a chance to retrieve the Elements of Harmony so long as they solve his riddle and play his games by his twisted rules. He’s not above cheating either. This is where his silver tongue comes in, for Discord has a way of, while manipulating the surroundings of his enemies with illusions, also using his words to strike at their insecurities and bring disharmony to an otherwise cooperative group of friends. He prefers to use his wiles in order to manipulate others, either by forcing them to do the opposite of what they would do (Causing Applejack, whose Element of Harmony is Honesty, to lie), poking at insecurities (Insisting that Pinkie Pie’s friends don’t laugh with her, but at her and estranging her from her Element, Laughter), magnifying flaws (preying on Rarity’s love of gems by making her hallucinate that a boulder is actually a giant diamond and invalidating her Element of Generosity), or taking advantage of them with unfair choices (Telling Rainbow Dash that Cloudsdale would fall to ruin if she stayed with her friends to break her Element of Loyalty). He becomes frustrated when he can’t use his cunning linguistics against his enemies, and expresses it when he can’t strike Fluttershy’s insecurities. He instead alters her forcibly, and seems displeased that he had to do things that way.

When he feels like he’s at an advantage, Discord tends to become derisive and haughty, and doesn’t believe that he can be overcome. Even when he’s faced by the main characters after their bonds of friendship have been renewed, he doesn’t take their threats seriously, which ultimately leads to his imprisonment in stone once more.

((NOTE: Because of how his magic affects things around him, I’m perfectly alright with his abilities being dampened! I respectfully request the ability for him to affect things to a very small scale however, such as affecting himself or creating illusions that may affect someone within extremely close proximity to him. But even if he can do that, his magic would be limited and he would become tired from overuse, which never occurs in the show.))

Re: [CANON] Discord | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | Reserved | 2/2

[discordiality]

First Person: [Pulling the wool over his eyes is something impressive. After all, he is Discord, and it’s not particularly easy to surprise someone who’s so…chaotic. But alas, the draconequus has to admit he has absolutely no idea where he is, how he’d gotten on this train thing, or why there’s no ponies around. It’s a shame though, because he’d rather like to cause some mischief around here. But if there’s no one to inflict it upon…it’s not quite as fun.]

This isn’t exactly my idea of a party. There’s not even any chocolate milk! I’ll have to fix that!

[Both mismatched forepaws go to his serpentine hips as he stands erect on his back legs, frowning deeply. He doesn’t seem to realize there’s a pocket watch strapped around his neck, nor that its broadcasting audio.]

…Once I figure out where here is.

Third Person: The urge to use his magic for anything but chaos went entirely against everything Discord stood for. How could everypony really expect him to behave, when it was just so much easier to do the opposite. Yes, they had the Elements of Harmony on their side, but quite honestly…bonds were easily broken, and he’d proven that once before. If Celestia thought this little gambit of hers was going to work, then she was sorely mistaken.

The spirit of disharmony does not just stop being the spirit of disharmony because it’s the right thing to do. Friendship is magic? Don’t make him laugh. Except…that’s exactly what they were making him do inside. Laugh. And so as he sat there on the couch, his dragonlike tail flicking idly from side to side while he picked at the pages he’d torn from the library books…he couldn’t begrudge himself a smirk. He used his more dexterous talon-hand to pluck a reforming spell from the bowl of spells, reading it.

“Hopefully nopony thought it was going to be that easy to get rid of me,” he hummed to himself, before taking a bite of the page. How odd was it really? Discord eating paper? He’d done stranger things. By the time Fluttershy came to check on him, he was halfway through his leafy reformation salad, and she was none the wiser…yet!

Try harder, little girls~ He already knew that Twilight Sparkle was on her way here. Ohh, what a laugh she’d get when Fluttershy told her what had happened!

ACCEPTED

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