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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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Personality: Lea is pretty normal in terms of Kingdom Hearts. Sure, we all know how he gets in the future, but back during this time, Lea is just a mildly sarcastic teenager who has some frisbees and acts like he's kind of a big shot. Lea is friendly and in your face and is a total social butterfly compared to... well, most of the other Radiant Garden residents. Something incredibly key to why he's so friendly though, is that Lea wants to be remembered by as many people as possible. He wants to be in 'as many hearts as possible, because it means he will live forever', is what he said in the scene where he meets Ventus. Lea makes it his business to be remembered.

Sometimes, his 'business' makes him leap before he thinks. Lea can be incredibly childish for his age. He complains and gripes and makes excuses when he fails at something, and flails when getting thrown out of castles--I mean. But in all honesty, Lea is a bit of a brat who will do what it takes to get his way; to a degree, anyway. He is also incredibly competitive in that he totally stops what he's doing, aka, heading to the Castle with Isa, to spar with Ven, thinking OH THIS WILL BE EASY. While it was moreso to get Ven to remember him because actions are easier to remember than simple face and name, Lea also makes a friend out of him.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Pretty laid back and friendly.
+ Due to being so friendly, he’s very easy to get along with.
+ Normal teenaged boy has normal teenaged boy abilities as far as strength and such goes. Uh, he can run pretty fast, but that’s with practice in escaping castle guards—
+ I’d say SINCE he is normal teenaged boy with normal teenaged boy abilities, he doesn’t kill and or maim and or physically hurt people. He’s just putting his nose where it doesn't belong, not out to get into serious trouble!
+ He’s nosy and likes knowing what is going on. Secrets? Let me in on them, I promise not to tell anybody! He just wants to knoowww.

- He’s nosy. One of these days, curiosity is going to ~~steal the heart~~ kill the cat.
- He's noisy and loudmouthed and good god what is indoor-voice.
- Lea is sarcastic and kind of blunt, but he’s generally honest.
- Don’t mess with his best friend. I could go the long story route into headcanon on how they became friends (because Isa looks so preppy compared to Lea), but really it comes down to Isa being his best friend and he would do anything for him that was possible. (Having a heart really changes things, huh?)
- His greatest fear is to be forgotten. It would hurt him to meet someone and have them totally forget who he is, and this is why he really emphasizes his name with 'got it memorized?' which carries over into Axel, who people may recognize more.
- Lea is super competitive. If he fails? Excuses excuses.
- He's also pretty childish when it comes to said excuses. He'll kind of smooth talk his way out of real problems but when there's no back up, his excuses fall apart and he whines.

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: trainer
Starter: Eevee (Regaining his starter that became a Flareon, she'd be at level 30.) If unavailable, Ponyta
Password: raspberry lemonade

Understand the secrets and have some fun

this is how okami fails 8D