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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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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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Sorry it took me a bit to get back to this, but hopefully this is satisfactory!

Personality: One does not gain the title of “No Name” by having much of his past being discovered. To that end, he can be considered quite the secretive person. Not much is known about his life before becoming a Heroic Spirit, but he is generally seen as something of a cynical individual, many of his conversations with his Master throughout the Holy Grail War ending in mostly harmless verbal abuse. At times this nature of his can make him come off as a grumpy old man as he reminisces about pieces of his past and about other topics not to do with himself, such as discussing vampires. Though he’s sarcastic at times, it’s also how he tends to give advice. He is not much of a liar but he keeps many secrets (such as his mysterious connection with Tohsaka Rin; when asked if he knew her or that she was his girlfriend, he denied it. a truthful response, but only because this isn't the same Rin that he may have known in the past). Despite these tendencies, however, Archer is one who is all too familiar with the battlefield and when to be straightforward. Grasping the severity of most situations, this comes from the fact that his Master is dependant on him for protection. As she's an easy target because of that, it's up to Archer to do whatever it takes to protect her. To that end his devotion to his allies (particularly his Master) is unprecedented. As a Servant his life is dedicated to the one that commands him, ready to protect his Master with his life if needed be. That being said, in the Holy Grail War, losing one’s Servant is equal to losing your own life as a Master; with a strong fighting spirit and great wisdom and skill in his class, he always carries forward to the best of his abilities to obtain victory. Over time his overall attitude around his Master shifts to a more kind and protective role. Though there is an edge to his words from time to time, this shows that he is a soft-hearted hero deep down that can open up to the people he trusts and cares about. Along with opening up comes an easier time in actually teasing or getting Archer flustered. Though still difficult to do at times, his Master had learned to “bark back” so to speak and even nearly caused him to fall off his chair at one point (to which he tried to play off like it was nothing). To his enemies, however, he can be downright insulting and has a tendency to goad them on and taunt them. As for those he is impartial to, though he isn't exactly indifferent to them, he can at times be difficult in his attitude, some people offput by his sarcastic nature.

It can be speculated, however, that his softer side is a shadow of his previous life. As a Heroic Spirit, Archer can be considered almost fictional in a sense. As Heroic Spirits are considered legendary in history, he is a rather unorthodox case as he is not a natural born hero. His name was long since forgotten by time, hence his identity is considered “No Name”, but he willingly sold over "his self after death" to the Moon Cell as a compensation for a miracle. This miracle was to save the lives of many people that he otherwise could not have done with his own power. To that end, Archer is considered the personification of an ideal. The “Ally of Justice”, a superhero that would save everyone even at the cost of his own life. Employed as a concept after his death, though Archer is shaped as the “Ally of Justice” people desired, he is considered a Servant instead of a hero.

The source of his ideal was once a young man who walked the path of a superhero. Though it isn’t concretely stated in Fate/Extra, it is speculated that the life that Archer lead as a Servant is similar to the one he lived in the main series, Fate/Stay Night. Betrayed by his own ideal after being forced to kill to save many more people, it could be one of the many reasons why Archer is the aged, cynical man that he is in the Moon Cell’s Holy Grail War.

And yet despite being betrayed by the very ideal he devoted himself to, he genuinely wanted to be an "Ally of Justice" and save everyone. To that end, it's a showing of just how kind Archer is deep down inside, masked by shades of cynicism and sarcasm due to the confliction and hypocrisy in his ideals. Archer knows he can't save everyone, further cemented by how he lives with regret in his heart and approaches most things in life with the conscience of a realist. Remnants of the "Ally of Justice" remain however, as shown in how he will still do his best to protect those that he can (most importantly, his Master and by extension, her allies if prompted to).

With regret weighing heavily on his mind, his ideals only "borrowed" from someone who saved him in his past life, Archer continues to walk a tragic yet neverending path, marching through the countless "borrowed" blades upon the hill.

Ultimately, he remains devoted to his Master despite what is speculated of his past life, summoned to win the Holy Grail. In fact, though subtle, his sympathetic side is best brought out of him through his Master. In his past life, he was once a magus who competed for the Holy Grail. Much like the protagonist of Fate/Extra, he was lost and inexperienced; yet despite his flaws and initial incompetence as a Master, it was because of the support of his Servant that he made it as far as he did. Though he would complain about his Master at first, he continued to do his best to support her just the same as his own Servant did for him. He also rewards persistence and hard work because his whole life had been that tenet of practicing on that hard work alone.

In his past life and even as the powerful Heroic Spirit that he is today, he was inadequate as a magus. His prowess isn't a showing of his natural skill, but single-mindedly refining what very little he had in the art of Projection and Reinforcement.

A hero with no name.
A fictional Heroic Spirit.
Faker.

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