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rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
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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.
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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]JEFFERSON || Once Upon A Time || reserve || 1 of 1 }
Name: Tempest
Personal Journal: n/a
E-mail: razor_thin_wire@yahoo.com
AIM/MSN/etc: tempestofthepast (AIM)
CHARACTER
Name: Jefferson
Canon: Once Upon A Time
Timeline: Post "Lady of the Lake"
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: n/a
Personality: Jefferson's personality shifts dramatically over the course of the series, giving us a fuller image of who he is as a whole.
In flashbacks to his youth, he's shown to be confident and smooth-talking, with highly animated expressions and a restless energy. It's clear he enjoys what he does as well as the freedom afforded to him by having a hat that can transport him anywhere he wants. This is a Jefferson that is very devil-may-care, more daring than sense, likely out of lack of anything or anyone to come back to and therefore very little to lose. He's on the move too often to be tied down to any one place, and with his odd jobs procuring a good amount of gold he can live comfortably wherever he chooses. He's obviously used to being on the move, as he claims he's made many enemies in his travels. One expects he never willingly stays someplace for long. He's got a definite sense of style, his attire rather dramatic and sleek with a touch of dandy to it. Though he consorts with more nefarious sorts he's more a flight-than-fight individual, and not malicious unless the job calls for it. Being ruthless and self-serving at the cost of someone's else's feelings doesn't appear to trouble him at all, however. Indeed, conning Regina only to dash her hopes seems to bring him amusement ("You should have seen her tears!") though this is probably a lack of empathy more than active malice. He also shows an overt level of flirtatiousness and a disregard for personal boundaries, given by how close he stands to people or how easily he touches even a complete stranger, and it's hard to tell if this is for shock value, him being cheeky on principle, or just not understanding the concept of 'personal space'.
The Jefferson we see as a single parent is much more subtle creature, as well as utterly devoted to his daughter Grace and her well-being. Having loved and lost has taken its toll on him, and becoming a parent has seriously reshuffled his priorities. He's considerably poorer and in shabbier shape, the obviously colorful clothing he still favors very worn and faded from hard living. He's shown to be resourceful in his poverty, selling mushrooms from the forest for coin and crafting toys for his daughter when he can't afford the real thing, though it obviously pains him not to provide for her in the way he thinks he should. He also seems to have sacrificed his world-jumping habits, claiming that doing so cost them Grace's mother and he doesn't want her to lose her father as well. He's matured quite a bit in his willingness to settle down somewhere for the long haul and care for someone else's needs above his own, though he is still obviously very impulsive and emotional, as seen in the way he offers a vendor at market every copper in his pocket to get Grace a white rabbit toy. He still has no concept of personal space, or else has grown beyond caring, readily getting into Regina's space even when preparing to send her packing. Regina claims that hard living has strengthened his resolve, but it seems a part of him still falls under the sway of others if it means he gets what he wants: in this case, the means to care for his daughter.
The Jefferson that is then seen in Storybrooke is a very broken individual, with only small pieces of his former personas still clinging. What he loves most has been taken from him, and he has spent a good deal of time in captivity, being forced over and over again to try and make a hat that will work when he knows the task is pointless. His determination to see his daughter again trumps all else. The repetition of his task, his imprisonment, and his status in the town as a recluse and one of the only people to realize that they're time-locked has resulted in him becoming unhinged over the course of nearly three decades, watching the same day recycle itself again and again, and watching his daughter in the capable hands of a family that, in truth, might have the better resources to care for her. He readily voices bitterness, particularly towards her new father, implying a great deal of possessiveness. This Jefferson is above all other things desperate. He retains some of that twitchy energy from his youth, but is better at channeling it, and skilled at putting up a friendly face even when his intentions are anything but. He is bitter, angry, and violent when he feels he has cause, and he is more willing to fight now with his daughter on the line. There are still lines he will not cross, and he is told repeatedly by the woman who betrayed him that as much as he may want to kill, he does not have the capacity to kill in him. He does, however, trigger a set of events that give another character motivation to kill her instead, so it may be less nobility than a lack of stomach for doing it himself. He certainly doesn't have any qualms about threatening violence, holding Emma at gunpoint in order to earn her cooperation, as well as physically grappling with her later when she and Mary-Margaret try to escape his house. He's also developed definite self-loathing for the poor decisions he's made, blaming himself in part for his inability to return to his daughter's side, a fear he projects onto her when the curse is broken and he has the opportunity to go to her at long last. He falters, voicing the fear that she'll hate him for leaving her. It is a fear that turns out to be wholly unfounded as the two tearfully reunite.
First Person: [ This is all too familiar, stuck in a strange world with no way out. God knows he's tested the boundaries enough in the past hour. Finally desperation has him reaching out, dialing into the network until it appears the video has gone live. Weariness lines his face, shadows his eyes, his mouth set in a thin, grave line. ]
Does anyone know what they want with us here? How long are we to be kept here?
[ There's an urgency to his voice, as level as he tries to keep it. He's not doing very well at hiding his anxiety...but then after almost three decades, there are bound to be cracks in the facade. ]
I have to get home. Now. My daughter, she's waiting for me...
[ He almost stops there, biting the inside of his lip and glancing upwards. After a moment to compose himself he goes on, almost more to himself than the network. ]
I'm not leaving her again.
[ The feed promptly goes dead. ]
Third Person: The days passed as they ever had. Day in, day out, always the same. Jefferson dined alone, drank alone. He sat in the hat room staring at his creations, searching for their faults, sometimes for hours. When he needed mindless distraction he turned to the piano, the manic melody that sprawled across the keys somewhat cathartic. Later that day he broke a mirror in the bathroom in a sudden blind rush of frustration. He made the mistake of doing it with a bare fist. The mess gave him something to do for the next few hours, at least.
Now he'd taken to watching the town from his window once again. It was how he kept up with everything despite never being seen in town, observing who talked to whom, and where, and when. He turned his gaze to his daughter, chatting happily with her new family at the dinner table. How well cared for she looked, happy, and oblivious to his existence entirely. Reach out to her, Emma had said, but he wasn't that cruel. Learning you had been eleven years old for twenty-eight years...how could a person even begin to cope? How could he take that smile of hers away?
Jaw working tightly, he focused his gaze elsewhere in the town. He'd seen Emma walking the street with August, and whatever conversation they'd been having, it wasn't a happy one. He couldn't know for certain what was being said, but given that night at Granny's and August's quest to make Emma believe? He was reasonably sure he could guess. Drawing away from the telescope he set his sights nearer, watching the birds in the forest outside.
He could go down into town, but what would be the point? No one knew him, no one that knew him wanted him, and you could feel every bit as alone in a crowd as you could on your own. Maybe he'd go back to the piano tonight, grab a drink from the cabinet, and play until he couldn't feel his fingers.
[ACCEPTED]
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