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

[fandom oc] Emma Overland || Rise of the Guardians || Reserved

[skatingonthinice]

PLAYER
Name: Tracy
Personal Journal: yeshallbeasgods
E-mail: die.wiederkehr@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: turbotracy14


CHARACTER
Character Name: Emma Overland
Canon: Rise of the Guardians
Timeline: Just when Jack falls through the ice
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality:

Emma is still a young and youth girl, full of life, love and innocent curiosity. She loves to spend time with her brother but hates his tricks. Despite all that though, she trusts him. Especially at the most important time to them both. And because she’s so young, she hasn’t lost her belief in certain figures and wouldn’t be difficult if someone tried to get her believe.

She loves having fun and playing, her scenes showing her laughing and clapping while watching her brother mess around with fake horns, hanging upside down in a tree and excitedly pulling him along on the fateful ice skating trip. And, like any child, she’s very trusting and that can be both a good and bad thing since children aren’t very good judges of character. In addition is the complete lack of fear that she and most other children exhibit, jumping into any activity that looks entertaining. She’s not completely fearless though, nobody is and that’s true with her. We see that in Jack’s memories when she tells him that she’s afraid as the ice cracks.

This event has caused her to develop a fear of ice skating and going over frozen water. Every time that she sees it, she can’t help but think of Jack falling into the water and not coming out. While people grow out of fears and overcome them, this is one that will stick with her.

Emma enjoys having fun, which I mentioned earlier but I’ll expand on here. Having fun is one of the ways her brother can get her to do most things, including his way of saving her by turning the cracking ice into a game of hopscotch. This also shows that she can be forgiving, due to their dialogue:

Jack: “Would I trick you?”
Emma: “Yes! You always play tricks!”

And he assures her that he won’t this time and makes it a game. It shows that she’s willing to forgive people, give them another chance (probably more chances than they deserve) and trust them.

In addition, Emma is very well-behaved. Children from her time had to be, they were raised to be honest god-fearing people and to know what duties their life would entail. She does everything she’s told to when she’s told to and never disobeys the rules set down by her parents and other elders. This shows that she’s fairly skilled as well since children, young girls specifically, in colonial times were expected to help their mothers with housework. So Emma can cook, sew, churn butter and other necessary chores that were expected of women at the time. Perhaps not as well as other people but she can.

Lastly, since she’s still quite young, she’s very open to learning new things and much more easily than teenagers or adults. Overall, she’s a young and impressionable little girl, very innocent and easily trusting who loves to have fun with her brother and friends.

History:

Emma and Jack both come from the town of Burgess, 300 years before the movie starts. She was born during the settling of the United States and to a pair of unnamed parents who appeared to have a low position in the towns society. It was a small colonial settlement surrounded by woods and with a lake nearby. There were plenty of children Emma’s age, few that appeared Jack’s age, so she had plenty of chances to make friends and go to play with them as she grew up. Their family was not aristocratic as aristocrats tended not to settle permanently and the similar character designs for Jamie, his sister and Emma lead to the implication that Jamie is one of Emma’s descendants.

Emma was Jack’s younger sister, a very cheerful and naïve little girl who looked up to her big brother like any kid. They were raised well despite Jack’s love for mischief. Emma was always happy in the briefs scenes she appeared in and always appeared to be having fun.

From the movies screencaps, it appears that Burgess is in the vicinity of West Virginia, closer off to Ohio, further west than the Plymouth or London Company had been able to reach. Which implies that it was one of the proprietary colonies, which had greater civil and religious liberties. Even so, she lived there during a religious awakening among the colonies and at the time, basic education in literacy and numeracy was widely available so that they could read the bible. Both boys and girls attended the elementary schools (though sometimes at different hours or different seasons), and there they learned to read, write, and cipher. So Emma has some ability to read and write but her skills are not the greatest due to her families social standing and how young she is. This is something that she may be encouraged to continue in the game.

So, like all of the colonial settlements, it had very distinctive social, religious, political and economic styles.

Emma helped her mother, each day when she wasn‘t at school, with whatever tasks were expected of women at that time. Since there’s no indication of what kind of settlers they were, Puritan or otherwise, there’s no way to be sure if she helped with housework, farming or something else but she likely did learn how to spin yarn from wool and knitting sweaters and stockings, making candles and soap from ashes, and churning milk into butter.

The death of Jack took quite a toll on Emma and for awhile, she wasn’t the same happy and outgoing little girl she had been before that. It took awhile for her family and friends to get her to open up again and ever then, she was never quite the same as she had been. She avoided the lake unless she went to leave flowers there for Jack, which she did every year on his birthday and the anniversary of his death.

Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths: Believes in most anything, excitable spirit, butter churning, wool spinning, sewing to a degree, general cooking, etc.

Weaknesses: Easily convinced to do things when promised fun, a paralyzing fear of ice skating.

Abilities: Believing in Guardians.

Relationships to Canon Characters: Jack Frost is her much much much older brother.

First Person:

Test-Drive Meme.

Third Person:

Emma was focused, completely focused really, on her current task. In her hand was a sewing needle and in the other, string. And the task she was so focused on was threading it. Normally this would be easy but the lights were dimmed so that she didn’t wake anyone up or alert them to her being awake before she was finished. Nearby was small bundle of fabric which, unfolded, would reveal that it was a shirt. A shirt that was carefully sewn by the hands of a child, her skill level obvious as some points but it, at least, resembled a shirt. There were a couple of others, already finished, nearby as well but this one was special. This one was for her brother. So the care she had taken in making it was noticeable. Not to say that her others were carefully done as well.

It took a few minutes more, lots of sighing and almost giving up but she threaded it before grabbing the shirt and starting to work. Normally Emma managed to sleep at a decent time and slept normal hours but this was the best time to do something sneaky. Silver thread started to make the pattern (and it had taken her awhile to find silver thread,) of a child’s render of a forest. Over and over again she sewed until it covered most of the front of the shirt and then she knotted it and clipped the string to rethread her needle. And then she added a moon.

Task completed, Emma put her sewing things away and folded it up with the others she’d made during her late nights. Now that they were all done, she could start sleeping normally again and no one would be the wiser about how she had the time to make the shirts. Even with how much she tried to help out each day. The shops in town really lessened the kind of work she tried to help with, she could go out and play more than she had been able to when her mother needed help.

ACCEPTED

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