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APPLICATIONS!

Currently: Closed!
Route 29 has closed as of May 30th. For the continuation of the game, please visit victory_road!

Applications will be normally checked during the weekend following the first and third Sunday of each month unless otherwise stated, and we will allow one application per person during one application cycle. Remember, the most characters one player can have at a time is currently set at five.

Applications received after 11:59 PM EST on Saturday of the first and third weekend of each month will be checked the following app weekend unless otherwise stated.

We now ask that potential applicants post their application in comments rather than linking. If their application contains explicit references to 'hard' spoilers (character death, unforeseen plot twists, big reveals, he was evil all along etc), players should put the application in their own journal or their character's journal and link it, making sure to mention the presence of spoilers within. For further clarification on our spoilers policy and whether or not your application needs to be linked, please check this page. Thank you for your cooperation!

The comment character limit on dreamwidth is 16,000 characters so apps no longer need to be split into multiple comments; however this is at players' discretion.

Please use the form below and post your application in comments rather than linking if you can. If you have any questions, feel free to ask either of the mods. You can reach us through emails, IMs, or PMs.

A reminder for those waiting to hear back, please don't be worried if we skip yours while going through them. It only means we needed a little more time to research!

Helpful links!
Taken: 1|2|3 / Reserves
Please do not app a character from either of these unless you reserved them!
Starter Pokémon!
A compiled list of the starter pokémon to choose from offered in Route 29!
Word Count Tool!
Word count! It has other pointless stats too.
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Canon Resource Links: Here we would have the links to wikis and other information sites. If none of those seem to provide enough information, feel free to add more about the character here. However, please do not use this section as a full history section unless your canon is ridiculously obscure. General rule of thumb: if there are a good amount of descriptive resources, please just link them and use this section to add in what may have been left out, as opposed to writing an entire history section.

Personality: Give us at minimum 2-3 full paragraphs of how you understand your character's personality. Talk about basic characteristics, any major developments over the course of their canon, their motives, their social behavior, and anything else you can think of that shows off your knowledge of this character.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Try to cover the good points of what they can do, their life skills (not necessarily powers, but things they're just good at). Go into their biggest fears and what they just can’t do.

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: What career path will your character be taking? Breeder, Trainer? Or maybe even down the dark path of becoming a member of Team Rocket? Note: All Rocket members start as grunts. (For right now, only those three positions are available, whether your character chooses to follow their assigned path or not.)
Starter: What starter pokémon do you want your character to have? Please use the list linked above to choose from. Certain pokémon have an orange star next to their names; if you choose one of these starters (Deino, Zorua, Litwick, Pikachu, Scyther, Dratini, Bagon, Gible, Axew, Ralts, Riolu, Beldum, Larvitar, Eevee, or Beldum) you must provide reasoning. You do not need to explain your reasoning for pokémon other than those listed above.
Password: This is where you'll put the passwords from the Rules and the F.A.Q. There are two words, to assure you've read both.

Samples
First Person Sample: The sample must take place in Route_29's setting. Eight sentences is the minimum. This is a PokéConnect post--one that will be on the character's journal, broadcast to the network. Although it is short, it needs to show how your character would communicate with others, as well as be descriptive enough to express the character's voice without sounding too generic.

Third Person Sample: The sample must take place in Route_29's setting. The minimum is 300 words. Please note that what we are looking for is an inner working into the character’s thoughts and actions, and how the character responds to the setting, not something that could be taken as an excerpt fanfic. You may use other characters to bounce your characters actions off of, but everything should still be mostly from their point of view.

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Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Unfailingly courageous, he has a heart of gold and a will of steel. Jump off cliffs regularly? Sure, his bird catches him. Go to the land below that no one has been to in over a thousand years? Yeah okay, gonna git mah friend back. Walk into an active volcano after being warned it's hot enough to make your clothes light on fire? RUN REALLY FAST!
+ He's a good swordsman, even before he sets out for the surface. Link has been training since he was old enough to wield a sword, and while he doesn't have the brute strength that his classmate Groose would have, he's faster and has excellent footwork. Backflips and the like are very easy for him.
+ Excellent bird handler, he can fly with his Loftwing very well. This is noted several times in the beginning of the game, that Link's Crimson Loftwing is awesome, but it also takes a very close bond with the rider for the bird to soar as well as it does.
+ Link has no fear of heights after living in the sky all his life; even so, after winning the Wing Ceremony, he is gifted with the Sailcloth. It is an item that he can use to parachute his way down from high places, so really? He's got nothing to worry about, height wise.
+ Good at learning on the fly; he kind of has to all the time. Seriously? "Go down to the surface world and find Zelda" turns into an epic quest to protect his childhood friend from all sorts of crazy dangers. He even picks up all new weapons that he's never seen in his life, and can wield after only a few tries. Plus, playing a harp is very macho :| except he never had done it before, until it was shoved into his hands.
+ Very good with puzzles. He might need a few minutes to really work it out, but in the end, he always gets it. He's kind of always NEEDED to, in terms of 'how does this 3D key rotate to fit in the lock so I can get Zelda the heck out of this volcano'.

- Link looooves to sleep and could snore through just about anything. No, really, Zelda's loftwing had to go wake him up early for the Wing Ceremony; he'd otherwise have slept till the bell rang on it starting (and fall and fail the 'exam' because his loftwing was shoved in a cavern, courtesy of his bully classmate Groose.)
- He's not exactly a heavyweight, so bigger things can knock him off his feet if he's not prepared. He trains in footwork and swordsmanship, not wrestling ~~goats~~ bears. Link is definitely one of the fastest sword swingers of the Knights, probably not too far behind Pipit (a senior of his).
- Daydreamer. He'll let his mind wander unless something very serious is going on (aka Zelda falling to the surface world. brb rescuing!) One of his classmates berates him for living in a dream world, being inattentive. (There's even a guess he sleeps in class.)
- Using his loved ones against him will bring out the rare hotheaded temper. Which would make it easy to beat him up until he calmed down; Ghirahim exploits it in the beginning, catching Link's sword and using it against him a few times during the first fight they have.
- There is actually almost a joke on Link being late that starts with Groose complaining, but it seems to perpetuate through the first levels in the game. Going through Skyview Temple just in time to... fight a bad guy who is after Zelda, who already left. He goes through the Earth Temple next, hot on the trail of Zelda, and finds out partway through that she's been captured. Gets to the end, she's escaped, and he's two steps behind her yet again. Impa berates him rather harshly for it, so one would think he would never wind up being late again... except he winds up late one more time, when Ghirahim finally kidnaps Zelda.

-/+? He may not be as oblivious as his descendants, but Link isn't exactly the smoothest talker. He has some awkward dialogue choices with girls (Zelda, and in the event you feel like hitting on Peatrice), but they definitely sound honest. So, as derpish as he gets, Link can tell when someone is making googoo eyes at him. And take it like a pro. Even if she is making hand hearts at him and saying 'OH DARLING I'M SO GLAD TO SEE YOU, WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU TODAY~~~???'

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter:
I would like to receive an Eevee for Link as while they start as the same creature, each Eevee has different circumstances, different personalities, that make them "who" they are. The ability to change into so many different types is something neat to parallel with how there are many different Links; each Link may wind up with a different type, because while all Links may be courageous, they have a different way of going about their destiny.
Password: raspberry lemonade

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