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rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
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APPLICATIONS
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✗ 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.
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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.
[Canon] The Medicine Seller | Mononoke | Not reserved
He seems very aloof, first of all. The Medicine Seller distances himself from everyone, taking up the position of a quiet spectator of sorts, almost a judge at points, and seems to have a feeling of superiority despite his (usually) flawless politeness. He is a very quiet sort of character, though does like to gossip, and tends to get along well with women, despite his obvious disinterest in romance. He doesn’t ever seem to show any actual hatred for anyone or anything. In fact, he often seems to feel some underlying sort of pity for the mononoke that he slays, though he shows no mercy in killing them. There are occasions that bring out irritation in him, though actual anger seems to be beyond him. Disgust can be obvious, considering the creatures that he must fight and how they are made, and even concern and worry are within his understanding. However, emotions such as love, real affection, and lasting tenderness is beyond what he is usually capable of expressing. Even his smile is painted on, he himself hardly ever shows a real, kindly smile.
The Medicine Seller has endless patience as well. After all, he does have until the end of time to do his job properly, and he can wait for as long as necessary, and usually defend those who hold the information he needs, until he receives what he wants. His slow and careful manner of speech suggests this: he pauses as he talks quite a bit, and his tone is soft and hypnotic, a relaxing and casual drone. He does seem to enjoy telling the odd story every once in a while too, though they are never pleasant and tend to end badly for most parties involved, but he does so like his stories. He doesn't require a very large audience for them, just one person to sit down and listen to a few old (violent) fables every once in a while. He's used to being ignored though, and usually won't hold it against anyone if they decide his tale is a little too boring to sit through.
The Medicine Seller is, in fact, a salesman, and does take that part of his job seriously, despite it being simply a cover up for something greater. He will peddle his wares to those who can trade for them, make suggestions about what to buy, and even be generally sociable, as long as it means a sale. He carries a lot of stuff in that medicine box, and will generally be pretty lax about the sales of what is inside of it. He is happy to delay payments, or assume that it has already been paid and so forth. Some of the things in that box are of a... questionable nature though, and he really doesn't mind whipping these things out every so often to show off what he's got. Things like cures for erection disfunction and honeymoon nights. He seems to take special joy in flustering people via that method, happy to remain out of the realm of proper and natural in that respect.
He is also, however, an exorcist, and is forever travelling the earth in search of mononoke. He is self serving in that aspect, and doesn’t seem to care much about the humans involved. Often times, those who get caught up with the mononoke are the ones that assisted in creating it, though he does show some sympathy towards the few innocents that occur, or unwilling participants in the exorcism. While he is fighting mononoke, and indeed, when he is on the trail of one, is the only time he seems to show excitement, especially when he is close to figuring them out. He enjoys the thrill of the hunt, as one could put it. Too bad annoying, secret holding humans tend to stand in his way.
The Medicine Seller, while normally quite polite, is also perfectly and unashamedly capable of being rude and biting as well, and seems to take a certain amount of enjoying from needling those with large egos, quite happily mocking the people who flaunt their self appointed importance while maintaining his own rather nicely sized ego himself. He also seems to enjoy mild teasing and subtle insults and hints, though such behavior is more often then not quite rare, and centered on those who are either chronically dishonest or blatantly rude towards him. He doesn't seem to tolerate rudeness in any form, and will be more than happy to dish out his form of punishment upon the perpetrator should it be called for. He has a remarkable skill for pissing off men and enchanting women, and seems happy to play the two against one another every now and again.
His Other Self, rumored to be the sword of exorcism that he carries, has only one goal, and that is the destruction of mononoke. He does not appear unless the Truth, Regret, and Form of the mononoke is established, and then vanishes as soon as the mononoke is slain. The Other Self is nearly unstoppable, but is also nearly impossible to summon, as he has no interest in anything other than mononoke, and will only show himself for that.
And… oddly enough, the Medicine Seller seems to enjoy cats.
First Person: Hm...
[The video feed clicks on, to a colorful array of patterns and shifting cloth. A delicate hand passes by the screen, touching the pocket watch curiously]
How curious.
[It shifts around a bit, picking up snatches of other things. A large, wooden box, a gold medallion, other bits of jewelery as it's moved up along the holders form. At last it comes to rest on a ghostly pale face, red marking standing out starkly against bone white flesh]
A western... invention. I suppose it will do.
[He would have liked something else but he's not about to argue. There's a little more fiddling with the device in his hands]
I do not suppose... that anyone here would possess a map? Of sorts? It is not urgent.
Just... preferred.
[He certainly doesn't seem like he's in any rush, his tone relaxed and soft]
Ah... I appear to be... at a train station. If anyone would care to talk face to face.
[Which he prefers, but he isn't about to make any demands here.]
Third Person: He'd been here for one week, and he was... well he was bored. The city, while certainly impressive to most other people, just bored the Medicine Seller. He'd been in larger cities before, and usually didn't remain in them for that long either. This was... it was a cage really. A large, expansive, pretty cage, but a cage nevertheless. He had learned the hard way that one does not simply walk out of town. He had to try, of course he had to try, though he knew if the way out was so simple someone else would have attempted it. Mercifully, he healed quickly from that and was back to business as usual within a few days. Unfortunately it meant he was still stuck here, still with no way out and no explanation as to how he got here to begin with. It was vexing to say the least.
He wasn't used to having no where else to roam, and had taken to wandering the city at any hour of the day or night, just to replicate the sensation of constant travel. He didn't need to sleep or rest, despite the suggestions from other townsfolk he had met. No amount of cajoling or threats would get him to sit inside for a full night. He had been told of all the dangerous areas of the city, and for the most part had been good about not traveling there. If they weren't mononoke, he really didn't care about the monsters present, he didn't need to fight to keep himself entertained (though it certainly would have helped). But tonight, he really was dreadfully bored, the full week here with the same buildings, the same people and the same situation a bit much for him to want to tolerate.
So he headed out for the park, the medicine box filled with a few prepared items of choice for the outing. He ignored the distant growls and threatening shadows, deciding to take up a place on a park bench and get himself situated. It wasn't like him to take unnecessary risks, this place had really messed with him already. He was only patient for so long after all, before something would have to happen to make this all worth while. He sat back, pulling out a long, ornate pipe from the box and casually lighting it, sitting back to enjoy the sweetly scented smoke of his own personal supply. Now all it came down to was waiting. Waiting to see what monstrocities called this park home and see if they lived up to all the hype he had heard. He'd be lying if he said he wasn't at least a little bit excited. The scent of gunpowder was strong from the medicine box, as the threatening growls grew closer and more vicious. He just took another puff from his pipe.
Idle hands were the devils workshop after all. Really, no one would begrudge him a little fun.
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