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

Bela Talbot | Supernatural (reserved) 1/?

[onsilksheets]

Note: I'm the same reserver from before but I reserved under a different alias. Hope it's okay!

PLAYER
Name: Mary
Personal Journal: fresleyforever
E-mail: angeladdict@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: totaldeangirl plurk: marymoo

CHARACTER
Name: Bela Talbot
Canon: Supernatural
Timeline: 3.12 (Jus in Bello)
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality:

Bela is sarcastic, witty and can come off as quite cold when you first meet her. Always wanting to get one up on people, she uses her charm to flatter them and massage their ego so she can get what she wants. Fiercely independent, she has always relied on herself to get by and this is mostly driven by her occupation. She is confident and outgoing when it comes to social events, but doesn't seek to be the centre of attention. Bela likes to manipulate people to achieve her goals, not caring about the consequences of her actions. Pride is important to Bela, she would never normally ask someone for help unless it was an emergency. She also hates being indebted to people and likes to settle a score either through payment or information. If you're on her side, she'll treat you well; cross her, and you're asking for trouble.

She is quite intelligent and has a solid knowledge of the supernatural world, which is very important in her line of work. She shows a keen interest in anything to do with the arts or history, which also made her choose her career path; she is also very articulate and scholarly, having a great love for literature. Bela likes money as it fulfils the lifestyle that she leads and would do almost anything to get it. She is very elegant in her mannerisms and the way that she carries herself in front of others, maintaining a polite persona when it is required.

Not only is Bela a thief, she is a con artist: easily slipping into different roles and aliases, using this tactic for when she is on a job for a client. Using her charm and wit to lull people into a false sense of security is something that she likes to do if needed. Bela is not above using her beauty or seduction skills to complete a task; she understands that it is a method that can have quite effective results. She has even played the 'damsel in distress' card, faking a swoon in order to obtain a particularly valuable item. Essentially, Bela uses all the tools and skills that she has to achieve her goals, even if she wouldn't like some of her actions at times.

However, there is a quiet and vulnerable side to Bela that most people don't get to see because she doesn't like to show it; she finds it hard to let others in. Due to what happened to her as a child, Bela doesn't trust people easily and has trouble building up relationships. She has built walls around herself and maintains a front to deceive people, afraid to show her true nature. This would explain why she abandoned her original name and life; Bela Talbot is this persona that she has created to hide behind. When she was Abby, she never got the love she craved from her parents. They abused her and this played an important part in shaping who she was.

She seems to substitute money for love, always wanting to acquire luxuries and drive around in her upmarket car. There is not much known about Bela's love life or how she views sexual relationships. However, she's not afraid to use her wiles or her forwardness to achieve what she wants.

Her encounters with the Winchesters are certainly interesting; little by little it unveils some more of her personality and how she views the world. They can't believe that she would exploit her knowledge of the supernatural world to gain money and she doesn't share a very favourable view on hunters, telling them: "Come on! You do this out of vengeance and obsession. You're a stone's throw from being a serial killer." She is willing to sell people out if it saved her own skin and she did this once to the Winchesters, when she told Gordon Walker (a hunter driven to kill Sam) their location. Bela even went as far to call the FBI on the brothers as a way of leading them off her trail after she stole the Colt from them. There isn't a limit to what Bela would do to survive; she was willing to kill Sam to get out of her deal.

Bela Talbot | Supernatural (reserved) 2/2 (done)

[onsilksheets]

First Person:

[After snooping around a little, Bela hadn't yielded much information about where she was or how she could leave. Normally, she was quite good at getting people to talk-either through charm or threats but Bela came up empty today. There was no one else around and all she could remember was a train journey, fog and then the station.

She tapped at the pocketwatch she held in her hand and the object sprung to life, much to Bela's surprise. She thought it was broken; it wasn't like any other watch she had seen because it had a screen. It reminded Bela of something from a spy film..curiouser and curiouser...]

Well, isn't this a treat? Stuck in some unknown place with no familiar landmarks and only a bloody pocketwatch for my trouble. Not exactly a welcome gift I expected to receive.

[After fiddling with the watch, Bela manages to switch the feed from audio to video. She's a striking young woman with long, light brown hair and piercing green eyes. From her accent, one can tell that she was born and bred in England, her words pronounced and crisp. It's safe to say that she's displeased with the situation, judging by her annoyed expression.]

I'm beginning to wonder if there is anyone actually here but if my kidnapper is out there, please step forward. If it's money you want, I can provide that. I'll be on my best behaviour. No tricks. Just business.

[The feed times out and Bela is left wondering if anyone is going to respond because she's doubtful. What she does know is that she doesn't want to stay here.]

Third Person:

The French diplomat's gaze was too fixated on her chest to notice Bela's hand slipping into his pocket to retrieve the key card she needed to get into the vault and retrieve the cursed dagger she was after. The item itself was worth about two million dollars ( five million if you sold it on the black market) and Bela already had a client lined up to buy it. Everything had gone to plan so far and it seemed that this was going to be an easy job. When it was over, she was going to leave the diplomat's home, catch the next flight back to America and hand deliver the dagger to the buyer.

A simple case of get it, then get out.

Choosing a life of crime wasn't the path that Bela had set herself on when she was younger. If anything, she didn't have any real ambition beyond surviving the hell that her parents had put her through ever since she was a child. Her father was abusive and her mother chose to ignore it, deciding that drinking herself into a stupor was a far better use of her time rather than protecting her own daughter. When the opportunity presented itself to end the suffering, Bela seized it and her parents were gone, despite Bela not fully understanding the implications of the deal she made until much later. That was her first encounter with the world of the supernatural and it had piqued Bela's interest from then on.

She began researching not long after that, finding out everything she could about demons, ghosts and whatever else existed in her world. Bela soon discovered the lore about supernatural items: some of them were ancient and cursed, others were more recent but had incredible value. What better way to throw off the shackles of her oppression by doing something spontaneous and profitable like stealing -or acquiring as she liked to call it now- rare items that could earn her a tidy income as well as bringing out a more confident side.

After a few years of research and hands on experience, Bela had learned the tricks of the trade, becoming a master thief and con-artist. Charming her way into people's hearts then robbing them blind. Using her beauty and wit to fool people into trusting her. This was the person that she had become now. A façade yes, but it was something that Bela could hide behind without letting anyone know about the scared little girl who remained underneath.

Bidding farewell to the diplomat, Bela turned on her heel and headed off towards the vault, head held high, her hips sashaying just a little. She had to give off a certain allure after all to convince people of the alias she had undertaken for the job: incredibly flirtatious and a bit of a bad girl. Not a far stretch from her normal persona but Bela was pretending to be an American this time around.

In just a few short hours, Bela would be a few million dollars richer and back in her apartment in New York. Sipping the finest champagne to celebrate her victory. Forget about the deal hanging over her head and enjoy life to the fullest while she was still around to live it. Yes, it was definitely going to be a good couple of days for her when she returned home. Maybe she could share it with someone else, find a handsome stranger in a cocktail bar then take him home and show him a good time. Kick him out the next day and promise to call but never actually go through with it. That was how Bela lived and she wasn't going to change it.

Living like that forced away any negative thoughts or feelings of emptiness. It helped Bela to forget about her anxiety, the fear she felt about dying within a few months.

No. That simply wouldn't do.

Life was for living with no regrets.

It was the motto that Bela had stuck to for quite some time.

[REVISION REQUESTED]

[rubycitymods]

Thank you for your application.

Before we can accept your application, we would like to see a revision of the first person sample, as it needs to be in the present tense.

If you have any questions, feel free to respond here or contact someone from the mod team.

REVISION

[onsilksheets]

[After fiddling with the pocketwatch in her hand, Bela manages to switch the video feed on, revealing herself: she's a striking young woman with long, light brown hair and piercing green eyes. Her lips purse for a moment before she begins to speak, sounding a little ticked off.]

I'm beginning to wonder if there is anyone actually around but if my kidnapper is out there, please step forward. If it's money you want, I can provide that. Everyone has a price after all, don't they? [Bela quirks a brow at that before continuing.] I'll be on my best behaviour. No tricks. Just business.

[Her tone is precise and almost clipped, her accent clearly English. Bela decides to not beat around the bush and be straight forward with what she wants, under a veneer of calm. She can't allow herself to panic and Bela knows it won't do her any good now. Her next sentence comes out as sarcastic, with a little mocking thrown in for fun. It helps her to cope.]

You may want to come up with a different form of communication. Just a suggestion really. While I have an eye for antiques, a smartphone is much better.

Ciao.

[Bela smirks and then the feed ends there, leaving her to wonder if anyone is going to respond at all. It's a long shot but she knows that she can't stay here and she requires more information before she can figure out a way back home. ]

ACCEPTED

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