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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.

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<u><b>Player</u></b> <b>Name:</b> <b>Personal Journal:</b> <user name=""> <b>E-mail:</b> <b>AIM/Plurk/Etc.:</b> <b>Timezone:</b> <b>Current Characters in Route:</b> <b><u>Character</u></b> <b>Name:</b> <b>Series:</b> <b>Timeline:</b> <b>Canon Resource Links:</b> 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. <b>Personality:</b> 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. <b>Strengths/Weaknesses:</b> 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. <b><u>Pokémon Information</u></b> <b>Affiliation:</b> 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.) <b>Starter:</b> 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. <b>Password:</b> 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. <b><u>Samples</u></b> <b>First Person Sample:</b> 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. <b>Third Person Sample:</b> 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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Jyou Kido | Digimon | Not Reserved 1/3?

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Player
Name: Jean
Personal Journal: vendingmachine
E-mail: icecreamapocalypse@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: vendingmachinedd @AIM
Timezone: EST
Current Characters in Route: N/A

Character
Name: Jyou "Joe" Kido
Series: Digimon Adventure
Timeline: Post-Myotismon Arc
Canon Resource Links: Digimon canon information page and character page

Jyou Kido | Digimon | Not Reserved 2/3?

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Personality: Jyou is… Jyou. As descriptive as that is, that's probably how most of his friends, the other six DigiDestined, would describe him. Jyou is the kind of guy who bumps into you accidentally on the street, and yet your coffee winds up all over him without a single drop landing on the ground, and then he apologizes. He's the kind of guy who is so much of a hypochondriac, he'll complain he's allergic to the dark. But he's also the kind of guy that will put himself in danger to protect someone who just spent the last five minutes insulting him. So, as dumb as the phrase "Jyou is Jyou" seems, it's pretty accurate.

At first glance, Jyou is a complainer. A whiner. Always going on about how his pants are riding up, or his shoes not offering the right kind of arch support for five hundred miles of walking, or about how his allergies and hay fever are acting up, especially in reaction to physical labor or things that frighten him. He's just that kind of guy. And that's not the end of it either, he's Number One at nagging on the team, known to scold and rag on the others if he think they are being too reckless. Being a worrywart is his default setting, and something he'll probably never grow out of. But it's not that he's trying to intentionally nag others into the ground, it's his overactive concern and need to protect them that brings out his worrying to such a high point. During the first Arc, the group of seven find several refrigerators with eggs, of which everyone (except Jyou) decides to eat immediately. He doesn't trust the food, and says to himself, "we'd be in real trouble if someone got sick. Why am I the only one to think of these things?" The eggs turn out to be fine and don't make anyone sick in the end, but his concern is in the right place. The same can be said for how suspicious he is of nearly every individual they meet outside of their team. Nearly every time the trust of a foreign Digimon is required, you can count on Jyou to chime in with a "can we trust this guy?" Not that one can blame him, more than half of the Digimon they meet who try to garter trust from the DigiDestined wind up stabbing them in the back.

Despite his tendency to overreact, typically in a loud and panicked manner, Jyou is more likely to be classified as an introvert. He doesn't like adventure, (or at least says he doesn't), he doesn't like fighting, sports are not fun to him, etc, etc. He'd rather sit at home and read a book or do homework, that is his idea of fun. No, really. One of the top things he says he misses when trapped in the digital world is doing homework. He tried to get his parents to send him to summer school instead of summer camp. To say the least, Jyou is a weird kid. But even for his introverted demeanor, he won't let it keep him from throwing himself into the middle of a fight, be it physical or just an argument between friends (most commonly Taichi and Yamato). Often times he (as well as Sora, for that matter) try to mediate between their group in an attempt to keep everyone calm and level. Not that he's exactly successful all the time, but he tries. As for throwing himself into a fight of the physical manner, if his friends are in trouble, particularly Takeru, he will, quite literally, throw himself at the enemy. The first example of this is when Unimon is infected with a black gear, and flying around causing destruction, Jyou's idea of solving the problem… is literally jumping off a cliff to try and land on a flying horse's back and pull out the gear. Which really, is one of the dumbest ideas he's ever had, right next to "jumping off a roof to once again tackle some enemy that could kill him in seconds, only to wind up nearly being choked to death", and then third place goes to "dive into water in an attempt to rescue Takeru. but forget he can't swim." All very brave decisions, yes, but also very stupid.

In contrast to what one would expect of an introverted, anxiety-ridden, overprotective kid, he's also very sarcastic. He's no stranger to making fun of his friends (in a non-malevolent manner, of course), nor name-calling, particularly of strange looking Digimon. It's mostly in defense, in order to try and make the Digital World seem less weird and frightening than it is. He'll admit that the Digiworld scares him more frankly than most. While his crest, the Crest of Reliability (in english) can also translate to meaning Faith or Honesty, Jyou is pretty ace in all three.

He knows very well he's the butt end of most jokes, his clumsiness and overreactions to things make him an easy target. Even with the character development he goes through throughout the series, he still struggles with his place in the team, and in life. He says to himself, "I'm a doormat. Good for a laugh. A joke. Yeah, good old Jyou. You can always rely on him to fall into the mud or off a cliff." Not exactly the confident words of one of the heroic DigiDestined. The problem is, for Jyou, it's easy to have faith in his friends, because they always seem to know what they're doing, they're confident. He still struggles with having faith in himself.

Strengths/Weaknesses:

Strengths:
+ RELIABLE
+ Studious
+ Careful/Cautious
+ Loyal
+ Dedicated
+ Considerate
+ Knows first aid/some medical knowledge.

Weaknesses:
+ Constantly worried
+ Hypochondriac
+ Cowardly (sometimes)
+ Clumsy
+ Unconfident
+ Terrible at cooking. HE TRIES THOUGH. He really tries…
+ Can't swim to save his life.

Jyou Kido | Digimon | Not Reserved 3/3

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Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: Spheal
Password: Raspberry + Lemonade

Samples
First Person Sample: [Audio]

[Beep. Beep beep beep. Jyou is repeatedly pressing buttons on his PokéGear.]

Operator? Hello?

…

Yeah okay, that's not working. This probably isn't like a phone. No dial tone… So this is… probably being posted live somewhere. Well, wherever this is going…

I'm looking for the closest ferry to Odaiba, please. I'm in a place called… New Bark Town? I think I'm being too hopeful here. Anyway, that would be helpful, if anyone could--

[And cue the sound of a pokéball opening. Accidentally, considering how clumsy Jyou is, it's possibly he just simply dropped it. And oh look it's his starter Pokémon! … To which he reacts--]

AGHHHH, WHERE DID YOU EVEN COME FROM??


Third Person Sample:

This was too bizarre. Not the first time he's woken up in a strange world with monsters everywhere, but this is the first time he's done so entirely alone. At least the first time he'd entered the Digital World, he had friends with him. And from that point on, he always had Gomamon with him, even when the group of DigiDestined split up. But… not now. Gomamon wasn't anywhere to be found, and he couldn't even find his Digivice. He had no way of knowing where the other was, or even knowing where he was. There were other people around, but when asked too much, they never said anything really useful. No information on how he got here, nothing on where the closest form of transportation was…

He was really, really lost this time. And the more time that passed… the more alone he felt.

"Okay, Jyou. You can handle this. So what if you woke up somewhere completely different again and Gomamon isn't here? Everything's under control! Everything's fine!" He says, trying to convince himself. "…And that is one of the biggest lies you've told yourself. …Why am I still talking outloud?" He sighs, his shoulders slumping and he leans against a tree, slowly sliding down it and sitting at the base of the trunk. He notices, then, that his bag feels different. Not like the bag he had before. … Definitely not the bag he had before. Jyou quickly searches through it, hoping there's some sort of clue within it to help him find his way back home. Sadly, after dumping all of the contents out on the floor, the closest thing he's finding useful are the two handbooks that fall out of the messenger bag. One, titled "Trainer Handbook," which he quickly skims through the table of contents.

"Rules, Tips, Map- …Map!"

Although, for all the good it does, it's an are he's completely unfamiliar, all names and route numbers entirely foreign. He sighs, and drops the Handbook back into his bag. Jyou then looks back to the other handbook.

"Guide to Pokemon Breeding."

A pause.

"…BREEDING?"

ACCEPTED

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