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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.

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.

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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.

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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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Player
Name: Lauren
Personal Journal:

kivaember
E-mail: kivaember@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: kivaember@hotmail.co.uk & kivaember@gmail.com (for AIM)
Timezone: GMT

Character
Name: Prussia (Gilbert Weillschmidt)
Series: Axis Powers - Hetalia
Timeline: Modern Era - 2012
Canon Resource Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_Knights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_of_Prussia_(1933%E2%80%931947)
http://hetalia.livejournal.com/474207.html

Personality:

Gilbert’s a brash, hot-blooded person with a very blunt outlook on life and who leaps before he thinks. He has squaddie humour, and is a soldier through and through. As he was first born as the avatar of the Teutonic Knights, which was in medieval times a crusading military order, Gilbert’s personality was shaped by this. He responds well to authority, and is very punctual and straight-forward, with very little patience for beating around the bush. He does lie, but he prefers uncomplicated white lies where he doesn’t have to think up convoluted plots to cover himself. He has a widely unappreciated cunning streak and political/diplomatic savvy (Bismarck, anyone?).

Gilbert still retains some of the religious teachings of the Teutonic Order in terms of modesty and being a decent human being. He’s very bashful around scantily clad women, and is a bit chivalrous towards them (unless they’re Hungary). He can be very defensive of his pride, as well, and any needling or teasing or even innocent questions that hit too close to home (such as comments about him being alone), will always garner a blustering, hasty defensive retort, as well as plenty of sulking and glowering depending on the severity of the 'insult'. Despite his militaristic upbringing, he's not quick to violence, and is more likely to get into a verbal argument, or storm away when angered.

Not sure what else to put…um, brash, impulsive, blunt, cunning, bashful, shy…ah! Gilbert also retains some insecurity about his existence. Being dissolved and having most of the world forget or ignore about him has made him fearful of disappearing entirely, so if he feels that not enough attention is being paid to him, he’ll be flashier and louder, drawing mostly annoyance towards his way. But any attention is better than no attention. At least he knows he exists if people look at him. Needless to say he can also be a bit immature, despite his old age.

Strengths/Weaknesses:

His strength lies in his stubbornness and forward-thinking. He rarely allows himself to be crippled with indecisions, and will make snap decisions and go at it one hundred per cent. This is a double-edged sword however, as this means he’ll leap to conclusions before thinking it through, and charge into situations blindly more often than not. He does have a good military sense though, so he usually makes the right choices in situations like those. In social ones…ehhh not so much.

He’s very loyal and compassionate, although his compassion only lies towards small, cute animals. If you’re a person, your misery and unfortunate plight would mostly draw laughter from him. Needless to say this doesn’t get him many friends. He has an Alone-Complex because of this; prone to latching onto anyone who shows him kindness or positive attention. He doesn’t respond well to direct criticisms either, always blustering to the defence of his character or pride.

Um, what else…he’s got an overly aggressive personality, meaning he’ll put more faith into his own opinions and rarely take into account others’ perspective on things, since /he/ is always correct in his mind. So if people try to contradict him or speak over him, he’ll just shout them down into submission and assert himself as the dominant person of the conversation/group/whatever.

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

Samples
First Person Sample:

[When the video flickers to life, the screen shows a rather fluffy, drowsy looking Torchic pressed up close against the screen. A low coo sounds out – but if definitely didn’t come from the Pokémon.]

Look at this! Look at it – it’s Gilbird Phoenix Version! He can breathe fire and everything and he looks so friggin’ cute!

[The screen shakes then moves to show the Torchic – ‘Gilbird Phoenix Version’ - from all angles. The Pokémon follows the Pokégear’s movements with curious chirps, his little clawed feet dancing on the grassy ground]

Aw, he’s even dancing – oh god, I’m not going to survive, people. I can’t even, oh, Gilbird Phoenix Version, my life is now complete. Oh shit- wait [Gilbert realised that this was actually recording, as in, people would see the great and awesome Prussia dissolved into uncontrollable cooing over a small fire breathing bird]

Er, so, yeah anyway- [screen now shows Prussia’s faintly embarrassed face] Anyone know what’s going on? I’m not complaining about the cute lil’ bird, but being kidnapped and then released into a place with annoying background music is kind of creeping me out. Hey, hey, are there any other nations out there? Heey, guuuuys…?

Third Person Sample:

Gilbert was no stranger to sleeping out in the woods with nothing but a tarp and cardboard that could tentatively be called food, but that didn’t mean he liked it. If anything, he viewed it with an intense hatred, a period of time that he had happily left behind to be replaced with nights of sleeping on a memory foam mattress and a thick quilt and comfort. Oh yes. Comfort indeed. So of course, when he had been kidnapped and essentially kicked out into the woods to apparently live there, Gilbert had whined and complained to his apparently upgraded Gilbird and received only sympathetic chirps for his woes.

And, of course, as per Murphy’s Law, it had decided to rain.

He took stock of his supplies, as any good soldier would, and out of everything he had, there was no tarp or anything waterproof to cower under (unless this weird ass apron they gave him could be used as one). He resorted to sitting under a thick canopy of trees, sitting on his backpack in an effort to keep it dry, with Torchic bundled up in the green apron and cuddled up close on his lap. It wasn’t a manly position to be in, but there was no one but him and Gilbird and the woods, so who the hell would remark on it? That shrub there? Hah.

“This is the weirdest situation I’ve ever been in,” Gilbert told Gilbird, and all he got was a sleepy chirp in response. “Okay, so maybe not the weirdest, but…it’s certainly in the top five. Pokemon… I’m starting to wonder if Japan’s hooked me up to a virtual reality machine or something. Wouldn’t put it past him.”

Gilbird gave him a tiny peck then – nothing painful – but the meaning was clear. Shush! It was naptime! Gilbert mumbled an apology and curled up a bit more, thumping his head against the tree trunk. Ever since he got his upgrade to Phoenix form, Gilbird was certainly grumpier… man, he hoped someone told him what the hell was going on soon. He hated not knowing.

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