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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.
Navigation

Player
Name: 
Personal Journal: <user name="">
E-mail:
AIM/Plurk/Etc.:
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Current Characters in Route:

Character
Name:
Series:
Timeline:
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

Before we make our final decision on your application, we would like a revised strengths and weaknesses section actually listing out the weaknesses. Although you included them in the personality section, both sections still need to be filled out. You will have one week to complete these requests before the character is available again.

Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths:
✓ He's smart. Freakishly smart. He jumped several levels while in school, which most likely led to early graduation in both high school and college. He has an affinity for science and machines and was able to get a few of them up and running even as a child, so it's not surprising that he was the one who made Serah and Noel's lives easier (and harder, in a way) with inventions and findings. Not to mention he became director of the best research unit of the Academy at about 24 (possibly even younger with the way he commands everything), and is regarded as the de facto boss of the whole institute.

✓ Hope is very clearly an academic who works with his hands only when machines and robotics are involved.

✓ In another side of strength, he's not the scrawny, squishy kid he used to be. He can throw a boomerang and have it pack a wallop, and even leap from an airship onto the back of another one that's below it while they're both flying. It's clear that he's learned quite a lot while growing up, and he can stand a bit of hurt now.

Weaknesses:
✗ He's not as powerful as he used to be in terms of magic and superpowers. He may have learned a lot and has enough swag to hop airships and build whole cities, but he's nowhere on par with the likes of Snow, Lightning or Noel in terms of physical strength. Hit him hard enough and he'll fall.

✗ His memories as a l'Cie still haunt him, particularly his mother's death, Fang and Vanille's sacrifice and Lightning's disappearance. Every time the topic switches over to any of them, his strong, leader-like persona drops a little to show just how vulnerable he is on the inside. He's sad that the most important people in his life are gone.

✗ Even as an adult in his late 20's, Hope is still a little awkward in situations that require him to be social, such as parties and whatnot. He's more of a wallflower than anything if the environment is not something academic or professional. And in that line: flirting? Goes right over his head.

✗ In relation to the above, Hope's practically married to his work. Of course, considering his situation, it's understandable, but this trait is really a double-edged sword. He's so focused in his work that he's probably had no time in dating or simply partying with friends, leading to his awkwardness in social interaction. Remember, he's been at it since he was a teenager, which is a good 10+ years of his life.

✗ He's so smart that you'll probably need help understanding him, and it can get him into trouble. Serah and Noel learned that the hard way when one of his inventions just kept kicking the crap out of them over and over.

Edited 2012-07-08 07:05 (UTC)

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Pokemon!
Congratulations, you have a fun and exciting adventure awaiting you.

Now that you've been accepted...
[○] Respond to this with your character's journal. This is a must!
[○] Comment in the Taken Characters post, alphabetized by series: # thru H, I thru R, or S thru Z.
[○] Comment to the Friend Add/Remove, and update your friends list.
[○] Join the following communities:

route_29,

route_006,

route_1065,

pokedaycare. Only Team Rocket personnel should join

rocket_hq, but we ask that all Route members subscribe to it.
Note! You will not be accepted to the main or logs community until you've commented in the aforementioned places.
[○] If you're still on the reserved list, please let us know that they've been accepted.
[○] Please make sure to check out the Calendar for the weather and upcoming plots and swarms!
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