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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

PLAYER
Name: Fox
Personal Journal: foxysquid
E-mail: fuschiafox at yahoo dot com
AIM/MSN/etc: aim: steals your covers; plurk: teacuppity

CHARACTER
Name: Colias Palaeno
Canon: Ace Attorney
Timeline: Post Ace Attorney: Investigations
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

Personality: Colias has a sunny disposition, and he is outgoing, earnest, and honest to a fault. Even when it's not in his own best interest, he feels driven to tell the truth, as he does during Edgeworth's investigation, though not everything he admits puts his embassy and his staff in the best light. He strives to be helpful, whenever he can. He takes his job as ambassador very seriously, and he sees himself as a goodwill messenger representing his beloved homeland. Though he is a patriot, he's very much against isolationism or jingoism of any kind. He's in favor of celebrating differences while focusing on similarities. He believes one should always maintain free and open relationships with other countries. After all, there's a great deal to be learned from them.

Colias is, in many ways, well-suited to be a diplomat. He's polite and likes people, is enthusiastic and friendly. He takes quickly to Edgeworth, Gumshoe, and Kay, and by the end of the game is fond of all of them and doesn't hesitate to show it. He loves his country and does everything he can, within reason, to promote it. He has made a study of tourism, and he takes it very seriously, collecting souvenirs from all over. He's quick to distribute coupons for travel and various goods, to encourage people to visit and appreciate his homeland. He might be a little too fond of coupons, and one might say he can go overboard when distributing them. He has a generous heart, and he's eager to give. Sometimes, instead of coupons, he gives gifts outright. He's eager to extend his generosity to Miles Edgeworth after all the help he gave the embassy in solving the murder that took place there, but he doesn't feel so much beholden to him as admiring and pleased to know him.

On the negative side, Colias does have a huge problem with organization, and he can be quite forgetful and easily distracted. A little on the clumsy side, he has been known to spill his share of Babahlese ink.

Colias has a forgiving nature, which is not a negative trait in and of itself, but he can be blind and naive where the people he associates with are concerned. He's willing to make excuses for others and give them the benefit of the doubt. He tends to be drawn to people with strong personalities, and he can become dependent on them; he is vulnerable to being manipulated by someone controlling or demanding. This is clearly illustrated by his relationship with his secretary Manny Coachen, who was, behind his back, one of the key members of an international smuggling ring. In many ways, Manny ran the embassy in truth, as he could do virtually whatever he wanted, without having to consider Colias. For all the time Manny worked for him, Colias believed Manny was respectable and was acting in the best interests of the embassy and Babahl.

Though Colias has his failings, he is not an incompetent diplomat. He rose through the ranks to gain his current position because of his way with people and his creative and dedicated approach to diplomacy. He may have been deceived, but he is not a pushover. When the time comes, he's willing to stand up to his fellow ambassador, Quercus Alba, and do what he can to assist Edgeworth's investigation. He buys time for Edgeworth, and without his assistance, the investigation would not have been a success. Once he realizes that something dishonest is afoot, he does his best to correct it. He has learned, too, from his experience with Manny, and he's not likely to be as blindly trusting as he was in the past. He's a little older and a little wiser.

He does have a slight mischievous side. When disposing of the fake version of Cohdophia's famous Primidux statue, he sells it to the rather grating art dealer Zinc Lablanc. In a move unlike his usual honesty, he rather tellingly doesn't mention that the statue is a fake. Of course, he sold it for a greatly discounted price, so he considers that no harm was done.

Colias loves music and the arts. He never misses a chance to attend or sponsor a cultural event, and he has a great deal of respect for actors, artists, musicians and writers. He hopes that now the Theatrum Neutralis can serve as a venue for all kinds of performers.

A gentle man, he's saddened that so much suffering came about because of events that took place at his beloved embassy. He is determined to run the embassy with integrity from now on and leave those awful events in the past.

First Person:

Ah--! A communications device?

[Colias is examining the rather handsome pocket watch after being informed by a poster that it's not a watch at all, but something else altogether. How clever! He's never seen anything like it. A smile lights up his face. This warrants further investigation. It's enough to distract him from his current predicament, if only temporarily. If there's one thing he's interested in (though there are many), it's new products. He fiddles with the controls and makes an attempt to send a message.]

How fascinating! Am I to understand this is a communicator? If anyone is listening, I am Colias Palaeno, Cohdopia's Ambassador to the United States.

Are there any other Cohdopians here? [As their ambassador, he should help any fellow citizens, if they're here.] If there is anything I can do to assist you, please contact me at once.

[Oh, that's right, he's the one in trouble here. He should be in the embassy, not in a completely unfamiliar train station. Obviously, he has been kidnapped. He would say this could be an international incident if not for the utter strangeness of it.]

Thanks to the very helpful posters, I'm aware of where I am, but if I could trouble someone to provide me with further information? Thank you very much.

Third Person:

Yes, it was very clear to him now what Ruby City needed, the one thing it didn't have: tourism. How could he not have realized it sooner? It was a clear lack. Now, one might have said that since no one came to Ruby City except those who had been abducted and since there was no currency, there was little point in creating tourism, but such a person would simply be displaying an improper understanding of the concept of tourism. Tourism wasn't only for visitors from foreign climes, and it wasn't only about money. It was about goodwill, happiness, people enjoying themselves. What was wrong with that? In spite of the circumstances, feeling a little more at home and a little happier in Ruby City could only benefit everyone.

Colias had learned a great deal about tourism in his tireless efforts to promote first Babahl, and now Cohdopia. There were many things one needed, but there were three key components. First: attractions. Second: merchandise. Third: advertising for the first two components. With only the resources already in place, he already had the means to create all three. Yes, it would take work, but he was willing to work. It was for a good cause.

With that in mind, Colias was sitting down at his desk and had begun to write a list of ideas. So far, it read thus:

Attractions?
Theatre (performances)
Guided tours
Souvenirs: model clock towers
t-shirts (possibly humorous)
brainstorm slogans
toy monsters

He tapped his pen on the desk, reading over what he'd written. So far, it was a promising list, and he felt hopeful about it, but he was sure there was yet much to be added to it. He would need help, too, the ideas and industry of other people. There was a great deal to be done, but he had faith that with hard work, he would succeed. Someday, perhaps not too far in the future, Ruby City would have its own tourism board.

Colias smiled.

Welcome to Ruby City! Go ahead and join

rubycity_ooc,

rubycity_rp and

rubycity_logs with your character journal!

After you have done this, post to the Contacts page, Tag Request page, the Taken Characters page and, if you know where your character will be living, the Residences page! Familiarise yourself with the Rules and FAQ and introduce yourself at

rubycity_ooc

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