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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!
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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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Player
Name: RV/Vee
Personal Journal:

veebox
E-mail: veery.punny[at]gmail.com
AIM/MSN: [AIM] veeroics
Timezone: CST
Current Characters in Route: N/A

Character
Name: Rise Kujikawa
Series: Persona 4
Timeline: After Naoto appears on the Midnight Channel
Canon Resource Links: Rise @ Persona wikia

Personality:

Headstrong, determined, with just enough optimistic pep to her is what mostly defines Rise. She does exactly what she sets out to do, and will do her best to be the best at doing it. If she doesn't, then, well, depending on the situation it would be a good idea to prepare yourself for a shower of crocodile tears. Not to say she uses her acting skills for any kind of cheating, as she believes in fair play, justice, and all that good stuff. She's one for gossip, and loves hearing about any and all of it, adding her opinion in if she feels that it might be helpful.

She's attracted to maturity, and doesn't often appreciate childishness, despite being childish herself. The contrast of calm and collected to her chameleon-like personality might be what's appealing to her, as it provides something strong and stable she can look up to and depend on. While she is immature herself at times, she has enough sense and maturity to keep herself in check. This mainly applies to her mischievous streak, which she represses due to her status as an idol--or, at least in the case of wanting to pull the fire alarm, her status comes into play. She is, also, a party girl and wants to make sure everyone has a good time no matter what.

She has her moments of selfishness, and she's well aware of those moments, even if she doesn't let it be publicly known. Her streak of jealousy also leads into her passive-aggression, which mostly consists of small, backhand comments that can easily go undetected. However, she will gladly tell others exactly what's on her mind if they trigger the response. For example, when the Investigation Team first talked to Naoto extensively, Rise was infuriated when she--then believed to be "he"--referred to the case as a game, and had no qualms in telling her off.

One of Rise's biggest fears is losing everything precious to her. The possible, seemingly inevitable idea can bring her to tears. Not the exaggerated fake ones she conjures up at times, but real, I-need-hugs tears. She puts her all into the relationships she builds with others and the successes she's managed to obtain over time, and to have it all disappear is devastating. She also has a need to be needed, to be useful to others, namely to the main group as they helped her during her own Shadow crisis.

Strengths/Weaknesses:

+ Communication
+ People skills
+ Socialable
+ Strong-willed
+ Headstrong/determined
+ Cheerful/friendly
+ Bold

- Cooking
- Passive agressive
- Boastful
- Insecure
- Clingy

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Audino, "Rosemary"
Password: Raspberry Lemonade

Samples
First Person Sample:

[Rise's face shows up on the network, and it's just dark enough to hide the mess her hair has become on her journey through the Ilex Forest. The light from her Gear's screen is dimmed, so the bags under her eyes are mostly hidden by the darkness surrounding her. She sighs, breathy and ending on a high whimper, and dabs at her eyes before whispering into the Gear.]

Rosemary still isn't feeling well, but at least she's finally able to fall asleep.

[She darts her eyes around her camp site, which was no more than her and her sleeping bag behind a tree at this point, Rosemary having been called into her ball upon unconsciousness. While she expresses her paranoia to the camera, she's feeling swirls of panicked vengeance creeping into her stomach. Poison-types surround her in silence, in the pitch-black dark, and they are exactly the reason why she clutches her bag of PokéBalls to her chest.]

[The coast is clear, and she swallows.]

I let her listen to my heartbeat...it helps calm her down when she's scared or tired, and I could tell she was just...

[No amount of cocooning the Gear in her hands can muffle the string of sobs that she can't stop. It's been two days since Rosemary was poisoned by a Weedle, and three since the rest of her team suffered a similar fate. She's all but alone in the forest, now, and she doesn't know when she'll see the end of this humid maze. Making status reports to her friends in other cities has been helping her cope, and often helpful if they can guide her from days--miles had become useless, time was the best way to measure things now--away. The music drifting through the air taunts her with an apprehension-infested melody that she can't shake, nor stop herself from humming along. Her breathing is shaky; she has to stay strong, but it's getting hard to at this rate.]

I'm so stupid! Why did I come here without Antidotes? I'm supposed to take care of my friends, and how can I ask them to protect me if I can't even--

[She cuts the transmission with a slip of a finger, and it's probably a good thing to not flood the network with her despaired sobbing.]

Third Person Sample:

Rise was perched on the fence, idly watching her Pokémon team play in the tall grass as the day was coming to an end. The route's music hummed and chirped through the air, and by now it was just...normal. Sometimes when it switched from place-to-place, Rise realized how out of the ordinary it was, and then how used to it she had become. This place had wormed its way into her world, and her own sometimes slipped through her memory. Naoto was still in danger back there, and Rise had to remind herself that he--no, she, that's right--was going to be okay, everyone had told her so and the best she could do was to believe them.

She swung her legs back and forth, eyes cast down at the ground. She almost missed the Persona battles at this point, because at least, then, she and her friends were all together. Pokémon battles weren't quite the same, even if she was doing just about the same job as she was before. Rise could cheer her Pokémon on and recite encouragements all she wanted, but it wasn't ever the same sort of support she provided her friends. Here, in this strange melody-infused world of Johto, her friends didn't need her to root them on, tell them weaknesses that she spotted, or to really even be around them.

A tug on her sock snapped her from her zoning out, and she had to smile at the pink-and-white creature looking up at her with blue-eyed concern. Rosemary had been as close a friend as any since day one, and Rise had to admit she couldn't imagine going home without her in tow, now. She sighed and hopped off the fence, sinking to a crouch to reach eye-level with her starter in this big Pokémess. Chin her hands, she offered Rosemary a rueful smile, to which the Pokémon returned with a curious, "Aud?"

"I hope you like tofu, Rosie, just in case you get to come home with me when this is all over."

Unfortunately, we cannot accept your application at this time. We felt that the personality section did not focus on enough of her canon traits that are shown in game—namely, what you learn about her through her Shadow arc and social link. Furthermore, the way her voice and attitude is portrayed through her samples seemed off; there was more attention drawn to her negativity than to her more prevalent optimistic behavior. There were also some points that were off here as well, such as her knowing Naoto as "she" despite that, given the canon point you listed, Rise would not have known that yet. In general it seems that the application was focused on the wrong areas and could use general restructuring. Please feel free to reapply as many times as you like.

Okey dokey, thanks anyway!

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