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] Shinjiro Aragaki || Persona 3 || Reserve

[adios_comma_asshole]

PLAYER
Name: matt / mattnificent
Personal Journal: matt-doyle
E-mail: c (dot) matthew (dot) smit (at) gmail
AIM/MSN/etc: japhethtrisko on AIM, mattnificent on Plurk

CHARACTER
Name: Shinjiro Aragaki
Canon: Persona 3
Timeline: After the October Full Moon mission.

Personality: Shinjiro grew up in an orphanage, and that has always made him wary of affection. Jaded from the beginning, while he was still quite young a fire burned down the orphanage, killing his best friend's little sister and cementing in his mind the basic unfairness of the world. From then on out, it was he and his best friend against the world, an adversarial mindset that never faded, and that wouldn't expand to include anyone else until middle school. Only Akihiko -- more his brother than his friend -- got to see Shinjiro's secret, cheerful side, the side that still cared, that loved pets and cooking shows and the trappings of domestic life and family. To everyone else, he was terse, foul-mouthed, confrontational -- ready for rejection and disappointment.

When, along with Mitsuru Kirijo, they doscovered the ability to use their Personas, some of that changed. Mitsuru was brough into that little circle of people who really meant something. Shinjiro had a purpose, a family... and now he had a way to lash out more safely. Fighting Shadows was an outlet for years of bottled-up anger and resentment, and he became aggressive, driven... until the day when one of his attacks mid-battle struck a nearby civilian woman and killed her, leaving her son orphaned.

Regardless of endless arguments over whether or not he was responsible, or how responsible he was, Shinjiro was devastated. He stopped fighting Shadows, stopped attending school, headed back out onto the streets. He took drugs to suppress his Persona, although he knew that using those drugs would also damage his health severely -- and maybe kill him. Full of self loathing and despair at having destroyed a family and orphaned a child, Shinjiro accepted cold and hunger and scorn and his probable, eventual death as just punishment, and did nothing to avoid them.

He did, however, have some responsibilities keeping him going. He had to make sure that kid was all right. And he knew what his death would do to Akihiko. Those things, if nothing else, kept him alive for the next few years.

When, eventually, he rejoined the team and began fighting Shadows again, it wasn't because he'd overcome his self-hate. Instead, it was because those nurturing instincts were too strong. Akihiko had been injured badly not too long ago. Someone knew, someone he didn't know or trust, was leading the team into danger. And a driven young boy had jojned the team -- Ken. Shinjiro had killed ken's mother, and now the kid was risking everything to figth alongside them? It wasn't right. Ken had to be kept safe -- nevermind that Ken knew who he was and hated him (and was in fact plotting to kill him). If he could protect him, he had to do it.

Fighting alongside Akihiko, getting to know the Protagonist, living with friends again, people who were slowly knitting into something like a family -- very slowly, and because of the protagonist's attention especially, that began to heal something in Shinjiro. He was still gruff, avoidant, angry -- but he had people to take care of. To cook for. He had a dog to feed. The nurturing side of him became more visible to others...

Those three impulses are the core of Shinjiro's personality. First, to protect and nurture the people that matter to him -- and to some extent, *everyone* matters, because no-one should have their lives damaged the way his life has been. Second, to duck hurt and rejection by putting up a front of callousness, finding reasons to be distant and alone so he doesn't have to risk becoming distant and alone because of others. Third, to do some damage. When it comes to the things in the world he perceives as threats, Shinjiro has an endless store of bottled-up fury and frustration to unleash. He knows it for what it is, and he's careful about letting it out -- now more than ever -- but that pressure is still there, fueling everything.

First Person:
[The initial camera view is spinning dizzily -- the watch is being turned at the end of its chain, and so only brief flashes of a dark, maroon-purple coat are visible, and a hoarse, gravelly voice talking, sounding almost amused.]

A watch, huh? Thought I already had one. This supposed to be a retirement gift or something?

[The spinning stops abruptly and a disreputable, greasy-haired figure is scowling into the camera.]

Look. You can't fool me about what this place is. No need to sugar-coat it. There's only one thing that matters. I got off that train alone, didn't I? Nobody else coming from my direction yet. At least, there sure as Hell better not be, or they;re gonna answer for it.

[As a hand reaches to switch the camera off, he finishes the thought in an audible mutter, half cantankerous, half proud.]

I didn't die for nothin', at least.

Third Person: Shinjiro would almost rather die than admit it, but he liked people-watching. The weather was too warm for the coat he was wearing, and the wall he was leaning against wasn't exactly comfortable, but that was the kind of shit that was easy to ignore. Especially when he had a crowd to watch. This time of day, downtown was busy, filled with all kinds of unlikely, mismatched groups of people, little groups that hung together was they moved in a way that clearly said 'family.' It was kinda fun to see what he could figure out about them, and make up stories based on that.

For example -- three kids over there, a little younger than him. Two boys, one with silvery hair and one with dark blue, both wearing the same black uniform jacket. One girl in green, bouncing around them, full of energy. They'd caught his eye at first because the two guys looked almost familiar. For a moment he'd thought they might even be -- well, forget that. The silver-haired boy moved with a relaxed sort of confidence, and the girl in green almost seemed like she was orbiting him, the way she moved. He was the center of that little group. He bet anything the narrow-shouldered, fussy-looking blue-haired kid called him sempai, and looked up to him, but wouldn't like to admit it. The blue-haired kid was sharp, too -- looking around them constantly,. not exactly nervous but paying attention. He'd seen Shinji lurking by the alleyway, looked a little disgusted, and moved on -- noticed him watching, but didn't mention it to sempai. Didn't want to waste his time. They were all a little tense, a little driven, doing something important to 'em. Headed to cram school to study for an exam? Nah, probably not. Worried about making rent was more likely, since they weren't stopping anywhere to shop but were scanning the area. Lookin' for jobs, then.

As they passed close by, he froze. Everything in his body went tense and cold all at once.
The silver-haired kid had just said something about Shadows. Gotta be a coincidence, but...

"Hey!" he called, voice hoarse and angry as he stepped out of the alley. "Hey, you! Wait up!"

ACCEPTED

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