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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!

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Starter Pokémon!
A compiled list of the starter pokémon to choose from offered in Route 29!
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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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Personality:
At a glance, looking at the fun, flirty, trouble making girl who occasionally finds herself modeling, Houka might appear to just be another airhead in a crowd of airheads - and, to a degree, the girl can be fairly... whimsical. Flighty. Always a dreamer, you might call it optimism or just being childish, she does whatever she feels like without much regard to... well, anything. She believes herself to be a master of love, loves how love makes her feel. She's often known to have multiple boyfriends at once - in fact before she finally decided she wanted to feel the passion of "real" love, she felt fifteen at once wasn't many. Incredibly, despite her constant oversleeping, not-at-all studious attitude, she can perfectly manage a schedule to keep all of them even so. Luckily she's since gotten over wanting that many at once... But she still loves cute guys and loves love, so watch out. Even if she's settled down into waiting for love to strike her, she's not against dating to find that person and she loves meddling in the love lives of others. Her youngest brother, Kai, can speak to that.

It is said that wind mages are always kind hearted, and Houka is no exception. Houka tries to see the positive side in almost everything, from people to trash she brings home and decides she wants to keep and even to her enemies - the epitome of this being Titan, one of ten Gods of her world's equivalent of Hell, who was sent to kill everyone in the name of his lord. Believing him to be a kind hearted being, despite her older brother going as far as fighting her to get at the would-be enemy that was going to harm his sister (or so he believed), Houka stood - unarmed and untransformed - before the God and told him if he was going to pass judgement on humanity, then he could start there and kill her first, not breaking a sweat or flinching once. And her judgement wasn't wrong.

In being a Magiranger, well, you might think it's not a big deal, oh okay she dresses up and beats up monsters - but it's put Houka and her family through the ringer, and given her quite the backbone. She's faced down demons, monsters, and again, even Gods all to protect humanity - she's watched her mother, father, and siblings get hurt and even (temporarily ~~not that she knew at the time~~) killed and still brought herself through to help save the day. It is said what powers magic is courage herself, and if there's one thing the Ozu family has in truckloads, it's courage. This might not be the kind of courage that carries over into her everyday life, but given how often courage ties into the morals of things and learning new magic, you'd be surprised where and how often the Ozus find their bravery.

With great bravery, in Houka's case at least, comes great shenanigans. As stated, she loves meddling in the love lives of others, mostly those of her brothers and friends. If she thinks something would be fun or cute, she'll go for it, and her idea of "love" can be... interesting, even now with her having sort-of realized that maybe dating fifteen people at once isn't the best way to find The One. It does say something about her that she managed to woo all fifteen, keep them calling, and had them to the point where at least one was ready to propose while knowing full well there were fourteen other men.

... Or maybe it just says something about the guys.

Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Courage! Like any good Magiranger, she's got a load of it. It doesn't necessarily carry over into her "regular" life, but for the most part, Houka is brave, and will do whatever she needs to for her family.
+ With that courage, and even without, she's extremely confident in herself and her image. She doesn't have any doubts (which you might think a bad thing given the... rest of her personality) and if she wants to do something, the girl goes for it without any question. In a way it might come off as spoiled sometimes, but it's really just how she is - and besides, you can't spoil one kid when you've got five.
+ Despite how she can be selfish, she really loves her family/friends/whoever, and when she wants to do something good for them, she'll try to do something good for them and she'll try her best. This might not go well at all given this is Houka we're walking about, but she'll go in with nothing but good intentions. Her siblings can just put "being related to Houka" as a weakness - especially Kai.
+ / - Though Houka can really see the good in everything, especially things that you might not suspect to find it (say a chair falling apart or a God sent from Infersia to wipe out humanity), the trouble it might bring her doesn't really cross her mind like it should - when she sees good, she believes in it. Now, it's not that her perception is wrong, she doesn't see good when it's not there, but... there are certain concequences in trying to do things like convincing a Hellsent God to be nice with a bunch of other Hellsent Gods waiting for him to Kill All Humans so he can offer his body to their leader God, you know?
- Houka has a habit of "fluttering around" (as her brother puts her bouncing from thing to thing, be it boyfriends or other topics), which goes in line with her not taking her life as seriously as, say, her life as a Magiranger or her life with her family. She doesn't necessarily take things as seriously should, and she can be, well, childish sometimes. Girl has a mean puppy dog look too.
- She's also a bit of a hoarder, collecting things she finds "cute" from wherever and just... bringing them home. This once included a chair that literally fell apart before she could set it down. This sort of ties into her "can see the good in everything" on one hand, but... on the other it's also something to speak of on its own.
- She can be rather selfish sometimes! Hijacking Hikaru-sensei off to go to Kyoto, while in part to be nice to him and show him an awesome train exhibit (he loves trains, dat wacky God him) and also to find a temple where she and her family went to in the past... in the end, as her sister knew exactly where the temple was, it was really just an excuse to go on a date with her cute teacher.

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: Ditto
Password: Raspberry Lemonade

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