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] Nathan Wallace / The Repo Man || Repo! the Genetic Opera || 1 of 3

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PLAYER
Name: Christine
Personal Journal: myyahelle
E-mail: myyahelle@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: aim: circusofthedamned | plurk: hufflepuffed

CHARACTER
Name: Nathan Wallace
Canon: Repo! the Genetic Opera
Timeline: Immediately after “Let the Monster Rise,” before the onstage confrontation at the opera.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

[CANON] Nathan Wallace / The Repo Man || Repo! the Genetic Opera || 2 of 3

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Personality: Depending on one’s perspective. Dr. Nathan Wallace can be seen as either a tragic victim of circumstance and manipulation, or a ruthless and bloodthirsty monster. In reality, he is a bit of both, and which direction he leans in depends entirely on his current frame of mind. He is a man who has been twisted by loss, guilt and grief, the product of an incredibly harsh and oppressive world, and who has, over time, developed a split personality. He finds himself divided between being a loving father and a coldhearted, sadistic killer who is dedicated to his grisly line of work. He has always considered himself to be responsible for his wife’s death, having supposedly found a cure for the illness that threatened her life. Instead, the medicine killed her, and Nathan was forced to watch Marni die before his eyes, though he managed to save their unborn daughter, Shilo, from dying along with her.

Marni’s passing was the catalyst for a number of things. Nathan is and always has been a devoted father, but the loss of his wife (and his hand in her passing) has pushed him to become both overprotective and overbearing. Painfully aware of how harsh the world beyond their front gate can be, Nathan has gone to extremes to keep Shilo close to him, forbidding her from ever leaving the house for fear of her being exposed to the painful reality of the world they live in. He decided early on that locked doors and barred gates were not enough to keep Shilo safe, and went so far as to tell her she had inherited the same blood disease her mother had died of. In actuality, he has been drugging her medication to keep her weak, using this invented illness to justify her quarantine.

Though his methods are incredibly flawed, his intentions are good. He considers Shilo to be all he has in this world, the only thing worth holding onto, and it’s entirely possible that in his desperation to keep her safe, he doesn’t fully grasp just how warped his mind has become. He’s not entirely unaware, however. He considers himself to be the lesser evil; though he has spent the last seventeen years deceiving his daughter, he still feels that he is doing the right thing by keeping her from becoming a part of their crippled and toxic society. He is both strict and firm with her, but not unkind. He is quick to remind her that he knows best, and that all of his rules are for her own good.

As troubling as his actions performed in the role of father might be, it’s as the Repo Man that he becomes truly monstrous. Though GeneCo has multiple repo men in their employ, Nathan is considered to be their best and brightest, and as such, seen as the leader of this brutal task force. It was a role he was forced into; he had previously worked as a surgeon for GeneCo and was known for being both thorough and precise, a brilliant doctor with immeasurable promise. They offered him a choice: either face incarceration or worse for his part in Marni’s death, leaving his daughter orphaned, or accept their protection – GeneCo would assure that he and Shilo lived both safely and comfortably for the foreseeable future, under the condition that Nathan spend his nights working repossession, and do so without question or argument. His desire to protect Shilo far outweighed any misgivings he might have had about the job, and he was unwilling to allow her to lose both parents. Since then he has faithfully repossessed organs from debtors at Rotti Largo and GeneCo’s orders: a legal assassin.

He’s never had any illusions about what his work costs him. It has caused his humanity as well as his sanity to erode over time. He has always seen himself as a murderer, starting with Marni’s death and reaffirmed with every victim he’s forced to reclaim organs from. For the first few years, it was likely a difficult job, one he had a great deal of trouble coming to terms with, but time and experience has changed him. He has done the job so long and killed so many that he has conditioned himself to survive. While he still feels guilt for what he did to his wife and the life he’s condemned his daughter to, he feels very little for his “patients.” When it’s time to work, Nathan slips away and the Repo Man takes over: cold, ruthless, vicious, precise, and bloodthirsty. The shift in attitude is noticeable, to the few people who realize he plays both roles. Where Nathan is kind but firm, the Repo Man is harsh and unhinged, violent and almost joyfully sadistic as he buries himself in his work. It’s only when the job is done that the Repo Man retreats and Nathan returns, remorseful but intent on repressing his conscience for the sake of his sanity – which is surely questionable.

Nathan is a twisted and broken man, but his love for his daughter and his desire to protect her are his life raft. He’s not blind to the fact that Shilo has begun to resent him for his strict nature, but everything he does is for her. His self-loathing knows no bounds, and he is fully aware that he is the worst monster of all, that he’s the monster Shilo should fear. Assassin. Murderer. Monster. Liar. Demon. He is haunted by his own guilt, harrowed by the fact that Marni would have been ashamed to see what he’s become, but justifies it all by telling himself that he has no choice. He is a man who does what he feels is necessary, as well as a man who feels that the ends always justify the means – no matter how horrible, painful, or bloody those means might be.

[CANON] Nathan Wallace / The Repo Man || Repo! the Genetic Opera || 3 of 3

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First Person: [The watch isn’t entirely unlike the communicators he’s used to, though compared to the device on his wrist, this new one seems a bit technologically lacking. His own watch appears to have been rendered useless, however, as though something inside of it has shorted out, meaning this supposed replacement is his only option. It only takes him a few moments to decipher which button does what, and when the video comes up, it shows a man who is both weary and incredibly tense, every facet of his expression and his body language marking him as being incredibly on edge.

He had been interrupted.]

I do not have time for this.

[His voice is low, terse, edging towards a guttural sort of growl. His Repo Man’s helmet is tucked beneath his arm, having removed it for the sole purpose of addressing the communicator, but the rest of the uniform is still there. It’s hard to escape the persona entirely when he’s still dressed for it.]

My daughter is in danger. I don’t know what this place is, or who’s responsible for bringing me here, but I will not stand for it. I cannot.

[Whoever did this? You’ve caught him at the worst possible time, and his hard, cold expression makes that abundantly clear. These are not idle words, and this is not the petulant foot-stomping of someone who doesn’t grasp the severity of the situation. It’s the cold, hard determination of a man who is dedicated to a cause, one you would be hard-pressed to convince him to abandon.]

I am not a man to be trifled with. I will have answers. I have unfinished business to attend to.

Third Person: He spent many of his evenings this way now: seated in the wide corridor that had come to serve as a shrine to his late wife, its walls lined with her photos, the veiled figure behind glass at the end of the hallway standing as a reminder of his failures both past and present. It was an opportunity to enjoy a few last quiet moments before he set about his night’s work – though perhaps “enjoy” was a term to be used loosely in this case. He removed his glasses, setting them on the table beside the armchair he had chosen to occupy, slumped halfway-down in the seat as he closed his eyes and rubbed at his right temple.

It was an exercise in futility, he knew. It was as if some part of him expected one of the many portraits here to cease simply being lifelike and actually come to life, to offer him advice, guidance on how best to right his wrongs, or perhaps benediction. His gaze turned upwards, towards the ceiling. He could hear Shilo moving about in her room. He would allow it for now, but if it didn’t die down before he left, he would have to intervene. Order her to rest. She had been so obedient once, glad to listen to his instructions, respecting him as both her doctor and her father, but time had changed her.

She was older now. She had questions. She was more willing to challenge him than she had once been. He had worked so hard to protect her from his life beyond these walls, to keep her from ever learning that her own father was the masked horror that so many had come to fear. It was getting harder to keep the secret. He could never tell her, but she was curious. She liked to explore. Even if he allowed such behavior in the confines of their house, it was too much of a risk. She was a smart girl. He was proud of her for that, among other things, but it also meant that she was well-equipped to piece together any clues she might find, no matter how small.

He sighed as he rose from his seat, reclaiming his glasses, turning towards the stairs and reaching to pull a ring of keys from his pocket. He would lock her in before he left. It was for her own good.

Everything he did was for her own good.

ACCEPTED

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