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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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Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Team Rocket
Starter: Budew. Although Budews aren't usually open for Rockets to start with, I truly feel that Budew is the perfect fit for Dist's starter. Dist's motif in the game is roses. His preferred title is Dist the Rose, and he constantly refers to himself as a rose. It would be very fitting for him to end up with a Roselia, or even a Roserade down the line.
Password: raspberry lemonade

Samples
First Person Sample:

[The feed begins with a close-up of Dist's face. He's looking extremely smug today. Or maybe that's supposed to be his accomplished expression. A wide grin spreads across his purple lips.]

Denizens of Johto, the elegant Dist the Rose has created his finest piece of work yet! It is so magnificent, I just couldn't go without displaying it for all to see.

[He backs away from the screen, revealing...

A chair. To be specific, it's a large brown Victorian style chair with plush purple cushioning. But that isn't even the most jarring part about it. It's floating. Attached to the bottom of the chair, in the areas between the chair's legs, are several Magnemites. Dist then walks around the chair to reveal the back, where a Magnezone is seemingly melded to the back.]

Isn't it wonderful? I've even tested it myself, and it works like a dream. The Magnemites are programmed to move with a simple program command. It's not as practical as my chair at home in Auldrant, but it sure beats walking everywhere. I just couldn't get used to it again!

[He then hands the 'Gear off to an off-screen Pokemon, and the feed continues as he gets into the chair to show its ability to actually hold weight. He neatly crosses his legs and leans against one of the arm rests.]

Go on, tell me all about how absolutely jealous you are. I eagerly await your responses.

Third Person Sample:

The last thing Dist remembered was nothing but hazy skies, and them boom. He truly thought that was the end, and that he would finally be reunited with Professor Nebilim.

He did not expect to awaken in a dark room with a black uniform, a strange red and white capsule, and a note beside him.

Immediately upon waking up, he frantically looked around the room, and then down to his body. He even felt it to make sure this was real. No injuries, and not even a tear in his suit... How could that be possible? He had exploded with his robot back at the Tower of Rem. And where was he? Even if he had somehow survived that explosion, how did he end up in this room? Did someone find him? So many questions, and no answers...

But wait, that note. He had made note of it when he did an initial scan of the room, but he was more concerned with his lack of injuries at the time. He quickly turned to the table beside his bed and and grabbed for the note.

"Welcome, new Team Rocket member..." He read the note in its entirety out loud. He sneered when he was finished. "Team Rocket? What in the world is Team Rocket? Some upstart organization?" Well he had never heard of them, and that alone didn't generate any positive feelings from him. And that ugly uniform certainly wasn't winning any points either. But at the moment, this "Team Rocket" was the only source of possible answers, so he would just have to play along. He was always good at playing along anyway.

His eyes wandered back to the round capsule. And what was this? He set the note aside and picked the capsule up. To his surprise, when he touched the circle in the center, it expanded. But that wasn't the end of the surprises. After fiddling with it some more, it opened and a white light flashed out in front of him, revealing a cute little bud of a creature. The two stared at each other for a good few moments, before the creature happily chirped at its new master, "Dew! Budew!"

A small smile spread across Dist's lips. "Well I'll be damned, they're monster tamers." And the best part was, out of all the monsters in Auldrant, he had never seen such a creature. At least this "Team Rocket" proved to have an interesting taste in rare creatures.

Little did he know that there would be much more interesting creatures to examine in the near future.

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