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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!
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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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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.)
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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: Ryoji sees opportunity in everything, be it in situations or in people. One might call him opportunistic, and maybe he is; he asks every girl he sees out when he first meets them, and manages to still smile if they reject him, since they could still be friends. It's why he's so flirtatious as well - along with the fact that, you know, MC's such a lady killler himself and Ryoji inherits the humanity the MC reflected on to Pharos once the twelve shadows have returned to him. He doesn't think back on the past (until all his memories come back to him -- and even then, he wouldn't worry over it for long here, since he's a full human without any nasty doomsday curse) and prefers to look at the future. Every day is something new and exciting to him, and he definitely tries to live each day to its fullest -- although, in all honesty, he'd be the first to give up his own "life" - in quotations because, as the anthromorphic personification of Death that he now knows he is, he can't actually die. You can't kill Death; you can only delay it, and his "death" would be the delay of the Fall, when Nyx comes to the world and despairs all of humanity into dying out.

And - maybe because he sees opportunity in everything - he's incredibly honest and forthright. If he doesn't know how to read a map for beans, he'll say it -- even somewhat happily. He's definitely not the kind of guy you should tell about your super secret crush on your best friend or whatever, since he'll end up spilling it to him without a second thought -- not with ill intentions, mind, but with only the best for both you and your best friend. He'll lovingly try to hook you two up and act as if you liking your best friend was the most common knowledge in the world. He's a bit of a blabbermouth, too; don't tell him anything you don't want spread around, unless you stress to him the importance of whatever secret it is you're telling him. He's also pretty gullible, despite the fact he has an air about him that says he knows what he's doing. (Spoilers: He doesn't.)

Especially with girls - although, maybe that's the one topic he does know what he's doing. He uses corny lines and genuine smiles to nail his seemingly insincere way of flirting with every girl and they never flop - although, if he were any other person, they would. When he finds a girl he's drawn to - incredibly drawn to, almost as if by fate - he becomes more serious and outright refuses dates with other girls. When he falls in love, he turns a little melancholic and wonders about himself more and - in the end, being the Appriser - feels heartbroken when things go awry because of himself. He doesn't want to hurt the girl he falls for (he's happy just being her friend, too, if she doesn't want to pursue anything romantic with him). Teasing, though, is on the table - in the form of gratuitous noticing of "couples" in the area.

Despite the fact he adores life and all it brings - friendships and love and things like that - he still gets incredibly depressed of being the cause of so much suffering in the days to come-- of why SEES had to fight, why everything's going to end-- he feels incredibly guilty over it, and while he has a great respect for life he doesn't have much respect for his own (considering he wants the easy way out for all of them involved -- that is, giving them an offer he's sure they can't refuse - killing him - in exchange for a peaceful death, unaware of the fact that Nyx is going to apathy them to death). He believes death to be inevitable and that one should just accept it; it happens to all living things, so why fight it? It's an incredibly melancholic look on it, even though he's incredibly upbeat, and surprises even his closest of friends.

And when he gets depressed - he gets depressed. He doesn't see any reason to fight, or any reason to hope, since death comes to all; his existing just brings pain and suffering. He falls down a (figurative) mountain of happiness and slams into a seemingly bottomless pit of despair surrounded by despairing spikes and despairs until he finishes his transformation into the Nyx Avatar by January 31st -- and the only reason he isn't despairing then is because Nyx is a neutral entity; it doesn't feel anything. He only gains the littlest of his humanity when - in battle - he switched to his true arcana, Death, and even then it's not a whole lot; he stays relatively monotone.

Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Charm. He's very charming, charismatic -- what have you. When coupled with his good looks, upbeat outlook on life, and flirtatious attitude, is it any wonder he tends to be popular wherever he goes?
+ Optimism. He's incredibly cheerful; not even rejection gets him down. The only thing that does is remembering he's the Appriser, a being that signals when the end is nigh. He's torn over it, because...
+ Humanity. He loves it. He loves life and all it holds-- despite basically being the anthromorphication of Death.
+ - Honesty. He doesn't like to lie and figures that everything should be known -- after all, we're all friends here, right?
- Hope. When worst comes to worst, he doesn't have it; it's replaced by a bottomless despair. - Coward. He'd rather take the easy way out - having the MC kill him so they forget everything and don't know they're going to be destroyed by Nyx - than try and fight.
- Gullible. Since he doesn't lie (as he has no reason to), he tends to think the same of others.

Along with something that's good to note but not exactly a strength or weakness -- he knows a lot about the tarot (being the personification of the thirteenth arcana, of course).

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