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 ✧

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[ CANON ] Akihiko Sanada || Persona 3 Portable || Reserve || 1/4

[southpaw_senpai]

PLAYER
Name: Cody
Age: 26
Personal Journal: devil_within
E-mail: codward333@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: starwolfe123

CHARACTER
Name: Akihiko Sanada
Canon: Persona 3 Portable
Age: 20
Timeline: Post Persona 4 Arena
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A

[ CANON ] Akihiko Sanada || Persona 3 Portable || Reserve || 2/4

[southpaw_senpai]

Personality:
Akihiko is the very definition of calm and collected 90% of the time. He approaches virtually every situation as a potential challenge and eagerly deconstructs it in order to find the most efficient solution. This conflict-oriented mindset has served him well in the past and has become second nature to him. As such he's very fast to react in response to challenges or a fight, but this also has its drawbacks. Outside of fights or direct challenges, he gives off an aloof air and can be downright oblivious to many things. His idea of 'not drawing attention to oneself' - for instance - is not doing anything that would normally draw attention to himself, regardless of what he may or may not be wearing. This obliviousness is most observable during his interactions with women. In high school, he had a fairly large group of girls that would repeatedly make advances toward him, and he never took the hint.

When in the company of friends, Akihiko is very much the big-brother figure. He is constantly checking up on the younger members of SEES to make sure they weren't neglecting their studies, or helping where he can with homework and the like. He will occasionally crack a joke, but his attempts at humor usually fall flat. He tries to be as good a role model as possible, but can be easily manipulated when someone phrases what he would consider a really bad idea in terms of a challenge. He often gets roped into the antics of Junpei - a fellow SEES member - into doing things he normally wouldn't. When talked into these situations, he's quick to get flustered or even panic depending on just how far out of his normal comfort zone he's straying.

Throughout his live, Akihiko has lost many people close to him. He and his sister were orphaned at an extremely early age, his sister later died in a fire at their orphanage, his best friend - Shinjiro Aragaki - died protecting another friend, and then his girlfriend at the time sacrificed herself to save the world from a Death Goddess. How he handled these losses slightly changed over time, but the basic procedure is the same. He begins to internalize the loss as somehow being his fault, leading him to chastise himself for not being strong enough to protect them. He then begins to train harder than ever, until he is close to collapsing from exhaustion. With the death of Shinjiro, however, he realized that his training was an attempt to run away and distance himself from others so as not to be hurt when something happened again. After this realization, he copes with loss quite a bit better. He came to terms with why and how both Shinjiro and Minako sacrificed themselves, though keeping up his training - though not to the extremes he would push himself before - as pledges to them that he wasn't going to let similar things happen to anyone else if he could help it.

All in all, Akihiko is an extremely sensitive and sentimental young man. He cherishes his friends above all, going so far as to think of them as extended family, and would gladly do anything for each and every one of them. His rough exterior was originally an attempt to distance himself from others to keep from getting hurt if something should happen, but he has since done away with that line of thinking. The aloof air and rough exterior is now more of a byproduct of his near obsessive training regimen and challenge-oriented outlook. He has accepted that he will eventually lose some of the people he cares for, and while he strives to protect them with all his power, he has learned to cherish every moment he can get as well.

Background: http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Akihiko_Sanada

[ CANON ] Akihiko Sanada || Persona 3 Portable || Reserve || 3/4

[southpaw_senpai]

Strengths/Weaknesses: Akihiko has spent most of his free time honing his mind and body to as close to perfect as he can get them. He is an extremely skilled boxer, and has learned to read the movements of his opponents to anticipate their moves and react accordingly. He is fairly agile, and can easily close distances between himself an an opponent, though once within arm's reach he tends to focus more on trading blows rather than avoiding attacks. His training regimen does border on obsession, and a lot of times he tends to equate otherwise unrelated scenarios to tactical advantages or somehow relate them to a fight. As such, he can be pretty oblivious to subtle nuances in social interactions.

Abilities: In addition to being an extremely skilled boxer, he can summon a Persona to augment his skills. His Persona, Caesar, can summon lightning strikes that can strike with surgical precision, or blanket an area with lightning. However, because of Akihiko's focus on physical prowess, his lightning strikes are not as powerful as the physical side of his Persona's abilities. Caesar can augment Akihiko's physical strength, but at the cost of his physical endurance.

[ CANON ] Akihiko Sanada || Persona 3 Portable || Reserve || 4/4

[southpaw_senpai]

First Person:

[Akihiko steps off the train, taking quick stock of his surroundings before checking that all his belongings are still on him. When he notices the pocketwatch, he takes it out and inspects it. Upon opening the watch, he notices it's not a normal pocket watch. He fiddles with the device for a moment before just sighing in confusion and dropping his arm, despite having activated the video recording by accident.]

Something is wrong here... I was in the limo heading back to Iwatodai... [He goes silent as if realizing something. He puts a finger to his ear more out of habit than any real necessity.] Mitsuru? Fuuka? ...Anyone there? ...Damn... looks like I'm on my own for the moment. Just gotta hope they're alright. What am I saying? Of course they're fine. Aigis and Labrys were with them too... not to mention Mitsuru's gotten better since I saw her in action last... A lot faster too... If I'm not careful, she might actually surpass me. Still... first thing's first... Better get a better idea of just where I am first.

Third Person: Akihiko was never one t sit still for very long. After a couple minutes of trying to piece together just what happened to have him wake up on a train, and subsequently find himself here, he had no satisfactory answer and his muscles were starting to ache for action. As such, he picked a direction and broke off into a jog, shadowboxing as he ran. He ignored the looks he got as he passed by. He reasoned that there must not be any serious boxers around. That was the reason people were looking at him weird. Not like his cape or lack of clothes other than his pants were what was turning heads. After some aimless wandering, Akihiko turned a corner and was greeted with the park.

Figuring it would be easier for him to think without causing too much of a scene while running in the park, he eagerly entered. It wasn't long, however, before he slowed his pace into a walk. There was something... off here. Sure the park looked normal enough at first, but he couldn't help thinking he was being watched, or followed. Every so often, he would glance over his shoulder, thinking he heard a twig breaking or a bush rustling behind him. He scolded himself for being paranoid before picking up his pace once again.

After another couple minutes of jogging, he was convinced that something was following him. Now that his pace had picked up, he could hear clearly heavy footfalls behind him matching his pace. Whatever it was following him, it was big. Much bigger than any normal person. When he decided to confront his pursuer, he couldn't help but feel a smirk form on his face as he saw the large wolf-man like creature lumbering toward him. The two squared off for a moment, the Park Monster roaring as it came to a full stop.

"Tch, such bad breath you have," Aki said, with a smirk as he pulled his Evoker from where it was holstered under his arm. "Looks like this place will be more interesting than I thought..." He paused as he put the muzzle of the 'gun' to his head and pulled the trigger. "Let's show this overgrown fur-ball what we're made of, Caesar!"

ACCEPTED

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