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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

<BIG><BIG>PLAYER</BIG></BIG>
Name:
Age: If you would prefer not to be specific, just let us know that you're over 18!
Personal Journal:
E-mail:
AIM/etc:
 
<BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG>
Name: First, Last (Western order)
Canon: Name only.
Age: Real / Apparent, if applicable
Timeline: At which point of the canon were they taken from?
Items with character at canon point: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: 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, how will you handle their interactions without playercesting? Depending on your answer, you may be refused the character you are apping for.
 
Personality: 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.
 
Background: 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.
 
Abilities: 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.
 
Network/Actionspam Sample: 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.
 
Prose Log Sample: 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

<BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG>
Character Name: First, Last (Western order)
Canon: Name only
Age: Real / Apparent, if applicable
Timeline: At which point in the canon were they taken from?
Items with character at canon point: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: 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, how will you handle their interactions without playercesting? Depending on your answer, you may be refused the character you are apping for.

Personality: 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.

History: Three well-written paragraphs minimum, detail our your characters’ history.

Abilities: 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.

Relationships to Canon Characters: If any, if not applicable please put N/A.

Network/Actionspam Sample: 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.
 
Prose Log Sample: 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

<BIG><BIG>CHARACTER</BIG></BIG>
Name: First, Last. (Western order)
Age: Real / Apparent, if applicable
Appearance: 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.
Chosen PB: 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.
Items with character at canon point: Tell us what your character has with them at the point you have pulled them from - this includes any animal companions.

Personality: 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.

World Information: 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.

History: Your characters’ history in their world. Be sure to be detailed. This section should be a minimum of three paragraphs.

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 ✧

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Her final, absolute independence came after the Battle of São Mamede, on June 24, 1128. This is where Afonso I proclaimed himself Prince of Portugal – eleven years later he would declare himself King. In 1143 Portugal's independence was recognized by the Holy See and in 1179 the Pope confirmed Afonso as King.

In 1386 came the Treaty of Windsor, the start of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance and her first time meeting England. The two hit it off immediately, the start of a romance that would last until the time of the Iberian Union in the latter part of the 16th and into the 17th century.

Portugal was there at the start of her empire, when her King John and his entire family traveled to the Islamic trading city Ceuta on the North African coast across from Gibraltar. It was a family-affair conquest, the first of Portuguese imperial holdings. One of the royal sons on that first trip, Prince Henry the Navigator, later became the pioneer of maritime exploration – he is remembered today as Henry the Navigator, and Portugal traveled with as many of his captains as she could, learning everything they had to teach. After Henry's death, she had trouble involving herself in later expeditions – his support had been crucial – but she got around this by dressing as a boy and sneaking aboard anyway, to the frustration of whoever happened to be her king at the time. In this way she was directly involved in some of the conquests of her people, though few ever realized it. One who did was Brazil – Brazil was her little brother, who she named Afonso, and hoped to have a second chance at a proper sibling bond with. (By this time her relations with her brother, Spain, were abysmal.)

As noted above, the Iberian Union temporarily broke the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance. The reason for this is because in 1580, Portugal's king died without a clear heir. Philip II of Spain, a claimant through his mother, a Portuguese princess, claimed the throne. Though Portugal was technically autonomous, all foreign policy was made to match that of Spain, and at the time Spain and England were enemies. Centuries later, that is the one thing she won't forgive Spain for, though she is trying to forgive the other things.

The Iberian Union broke in 1640, after later Spanish kings treated the Portuguese – particularly the nobles – worse and worse. They lost Ceuta when the city refused to give up allegiance to Spain, and Spain did not recognize Portuguese independence until 1668. During this century, enough Portuguese citizens emigrated to Brazil that such emigration was banned, and Brazil gained enough importance to be elevated to vice-kingdom status rather than just being a colony. Portugal herself was thrilled to see her brother growing up, and with her people there she assumed he would grow to be like her.

Throughout the 1700s and 1800s Portugal's power slowly began to erode. Her first dictatorship came under Sebastião de Melo, first minister to the king at the time, Joseph I. Melo gathered more and more power to himself during a series of crises, including an earthquake that destroyed the capital, Lisbon, and an assassination attempt on the King. But Joseph's heir, Queen Maria I, disliked Melo and there his power ended. Also in the 1700s, Spain and France tried to force Portugal into the Bourbon Contract, meant to counter the power of Britain – Portugal and her leaders agreed that they didn't care about this; Spain invaded but was pushed back with British help. (Seven Years' War) An interesting side note is that, despite an alliance with Britain, Portugal was the first non-involved nation to acknowledge American independence after the Revolutionary War ended.

Portugal was invaded by Napoleon during his conquests – and she was furious at having to bow to France's short little boss. In 1820 she lost Brazil, and in 1890 she was betrayed by England's bosses, her military forced out of Mozambique and Angola in order to further British interests. The only reason she doesn't blame England for this is because as far as she knows, it was not his idea. She believes this fully – if it's true or not, who can say? This, however, led eventually to such discontent among her people that her government collapsed.

The 20th century was a time of upheaval for her. She had a republic starting from the October 1910 Revolution, but her politics remained fractured. It only got worse when she involved herself in WWI, officially joining in 1916. The infighting continued afterwards – there was a brief civil war in 1918 – eventually ending in the New State (Estado Novo) a dictatorship that lasted until the 1970s. In the last decades of the 20th century, Portugal let go of the last of her colonies, ending with Macau, who returned to China with Hong Kong (let go of by Britain) in 1997.

Today she is part of the European Union, NATO, the UN, and still recovering from decades of a dictatorship that quashed development and forced a conservative regression. But she is getting there, and is very much a modern country. She;s just still trying to adapt herself to being such.

Strengths/Weaknesses: Portugal is a skilled fighter, having spent time as an empire and more recently as a soldier for her compulsory military service. As noted above, she is an extremely good navigator, and has a nearly photographic memory. She has a very good head for money and business – much of her influence at its height was based in being a trading power. However, she can be used by anyone who she cares about – she simply will not believe they're in the wrong unless forced to, and even then she will try to find some excuse. In this she is very good at self-delusion. Her pride can also be used against her since she can't stand to be mocked or to look foolish. However, if she can keep her pride out of a situation she is very practical.

Abilities: She has no supernatural abilities, save that she can see magical creatures when around England.

Relationships to Canon Characters: She was previously in a relationship with England (Anglo-Portuguese Alliance) and they're still friends today, though she tends to be a bit flirty with him. She knows Austria, as they were once in-laws.
First Person: [When Portugal wakes up on the train, her first thought is that she is not supposed to be here. Is this some kind of prank being pulled on her by her aggravating brother and his friends? It's possible – the hostility of previous centuries is reduced to that now, after all. But... Something tells her no, especially when she is propelled off the train by an unseen force. Glancing around at what appears to be a ghost town, she frowns, eyes sharp.]

Mãe de Deus... What is this place?

[She starts walking, and this is when she notices the fact that there's something in her pocket besides her cell phone. She takes that out first, though, only to find that it doesn't work. Then she takes out the pocketwatch, frowning at it.]

This is not mine... How did I get this?

[For now she keeps walking, though – it's likely that the town isn't entirely deserted or else a train wouldn't come here, so she just has to keep going until she finds someone.]

Third Person: So. Portugal wasn't sure how she felt about – once again – being confined against her will. At least, while she had no ability to leave, within the city she was more or less free to exercise her free will. That was an improvement over her other experiences of being forced into things. But at the same time, she couldn't deny that the situation was unsettling. And not just unsettling, but possibly dangerous.

And, all right, she had to admit that bit didn't bother her at all. Truth to tell, she'd been insanely bored at home, and a bored Madalena was never a good thing. She tended to get up to mischief at such times. Well, for now it was too early to decide what she really thought of this place, anyway. She liked the fact that there were others here from home – it was good not to be alone.

So, she would wait and see how things played out here. If nothing else, it was a break from the stresses that came with being a country, and it was a new adventure. It couldn't be completely bad, now could it?

If Portugal gets in, this is the account for her - I forgot to app with it, sorry, I was running late last night. :)

APPLICATIONS

Re: [Fandom OC] Portugal/Madalena Almeida|| Axis Powers Hetalia || no reserve || 1 of ?

Re: [Fandom OC] Portugal/Madalena Almeida|| Axis Powers Hetalia || no reserve || 1 of ?

Re: [Fandom OC] Portugal/Madalena Almeida|| Axis Powers Hetalia || no reserve || 1 of ?

Re: [Fandom OC] Portugal/Madalena Almeida|| Axis Powers Hetalia || no reserve || 1 of ?