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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!
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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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Player
Name: Nick
Personal Journal: [Unknown site tag]
E-mail: mightyneonfraa@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: YamiKuja
Timezone: EST
Current Characters in Route: None

Character
Name: Vin
Series: Mistborn
Timeline: Post book one
Canon Resource Links: http://coppermind.net/wiki/Vin
http://mistborn.wikia.com/wiki/Vin

Personality: Vin is an odd girl of contradictions. Three different people seem at war within her at any given moment, the lonely street urchin, the powerful Mistborn hero and the noblewoman.

The first thing anybody might notice about her is her near constant paranoia. Even if she has grown, she’s never quite lost the habits learned from her childhood on the streets. And while she’s not longer constantly peeking around corners and under beds for knife-wielding assassins, she still has a bit of distrust for people right off the bat. How long it takes to earn her trust depends on the person and whether or not she gets a good feeling about them quickly or not, and if she gets a bad feeling about somebody it will take a long time for her to ever trust them, if it happens at all.

Vin is primarily a creature of instinct and relies on them entirely. She isn’t much for forward thinking or long term plans, preferring to dive right in and get things done. She’s a quick-thinker and very good on her feet but sometimes these quick decisions will get her into trouble.

Deep down, after a life spent alone and afraid Vin has finally had a taste of companionship and love and is horribly afraid of losing it again, a fear that has come true in Chicago, at least in the beginning. Anybody who befriends her will find a fiercely loyal and protective friend who is willing to carve a path through any danger to come to their aid. A protectiveness that recently has extended to nearly everyone in her sight as well after seeing the lengths Kelsier and the others went to make life better for a million faceless skaa. She has no mercy in her heart for people who lord their power over the powerless and abuse them and will not hesitate to bring them down however she can.

She has a blunt and straightforward personality, speaking what she believes is the truth whenever asked and often times without having to be asked. She doesn’t mince words when telling somebody what they’re doing is insane or stupid but she’s also always there in the thick of it when push comes to shove. She has a deadpan sarcastic sense of humor and can be nearly obsessively studious when a topic catches her attention.

Though she’d never, ever, admit it Vin’s time as a noblewoman has also instilled a love of the “finer” things in life in her. She secretly misses her time at court, wearing pretty dresses and dancing amid the splendor of it all. She’ll often add jewelry or other pretty things she finds (never anything metal though) and occasionally wears scents, even if she only ever wore them around Elend on her world.

Vin may not know who she’ll finally grow to be just yet but one thing is for certain: she’s already become a formidable enemy, a powerful warrior and a devoted friend.

Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Vin is a survivor. She knows how to take care of herself and is surprisingly capable.
+ She might be a bit paranoid, but she does have a good ability to read people. She can pick out dishonesty from a mile away.
+ She’s very quick on her feet and has sharp instincts both in people and in a fight. She’s a natural fighter and knows how to deal with bigger and stronger opponents.

- Her aforementioned distrust of people can often get her into trouble. She does tend to have a good idea of people but she can be fooled and that can get her into trouble.
- Friends and loved ones can be used against her easily. Vin is afraid of the idea of losing people and will throw herself into danger to stop it from happening.
- Less of a mental weakness but more of a physical one, but Vin is tiny. Barely five feet tall, her ability to beat larger enemies comes from a combination of skill and thinking. Locked in a contest of brute strength or one where her skill and mind are somehow negated she will lose nine times out of ten.

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer

Starter: Riolu. I thought for awhile about this choice and haven’t come up with a better one for a few reasons. First: Vin is a fighter, first and foremost, so she would have the easiest time starting out and training a fighting Pokemon.
Second: Riolu will eventually evolve into Lucario, a combination of fighting/steel. In Vin’s canon she uses “magic” derived from certain metals to increase her fighting ability so they’re a good match, thematically.
Third: Vin’s trademark is an enhanced ability to sense when people around her are using magic. Again, this is a thematic fit with Riolu and Lucario’s status as an aura Pokemon.

Password: Scrambled. Eggs.

Samples
First Person Sample:
[The video clicks on to the oddly distant sounds of a very confused woman shouting from somewhere far away.

It’s far away because the video is currently upside-down and on the roof of a house. Also it’s upside down. The owner of it is just in sight, a small dark-haired girl, crouching with a suspicious look down toward the window she had just climbed out of. She waits quietly until the house goes quiet before turning her attention to the mess of items laid out in front of her.]

Now, what are you supposed to be...?

[She sifts through the gear for another few seconds, giving a curious glance at the red and white balls before pocketing them and sifting through the Pokedex.]

Pokemon, huh...?

[She casts one last glance around herself before quickly packing her gear up and setting her sights on the treeline, before beating a hasty retreat down the drain pipe.]

Third Person Sample:

The music woke her up.

This wasn’t her bed, Vin knew that before her eyes had even opened her eyes. Another second or two of thought to ascertain that she was alone in the room and Vin jumped up, tossing the blankets aside and dashing to put her back against the wall to take in her surroundings.

Sunlight poured in through an open window next to the bed and she blinked, not expecting the sight that greeted her. Green plants flourished outside under the rays of a beautiful yellow sun, without even a single cloud in the sky and none of the thick, heavy ash that coated the ground she was used to. Wherever she had woken up, it was most certainly not home.

She didn't get a whole lot of time to admire the scenery when a voice called from outside the door.

"Vin, honey? You overslept." Followed by approaching footsteps.

Instantly, she was in motion. Whoever the woman speaking to her was, it was clear that she was somehow involved and between her and the door out of this house. The window seemed like the best bet and she made a beeline to it, pausing as she passed by a backpack on the floor next to the bed.

Vin paused, frowning before scooping it up and shoving the window open. A quick search of her pockets told her that she didn't have any of her metals on her. She'd have to do this the hard way....

Climbing out carefully, she managed to balance on the windowsill and reach up, snagging the edge of the roof. Grunting, she hauled herself up and over just as that bedroom door opened with an exclamation of surprise.

Quickly, she rolled over onto the roof, laying there quietly as she heard the strange women go to the window and look out, calling her name once or twice. After a long few minutes, the stranger apparently decided she was already gone and retreated back into the house.

In the clear, Vin let herself have a moment of quiet relief before getting to business and dumping the contents of the backpack out onto the roof and spreading them out.

"Now, what are you supposed to be...?

Before we make our final decision on your application, we would like a revised first person sample, as it is too generic and doesn’t give us a clear understanding of your character’s voice. You will have one week to complete these requests before the character is available again.

[The video comes on showing a small, dark-haired girl giving the camera an annoyed frown. She's down in one of the caves connecting routes, along with a Riolu mimicking her frown.]

Does anybody know the way out of here? I heard it was a shortcut but all I've found-- [She looks up at a shriek from somewhere up above, a Zubat diving down.] Riolu!

[The Pokemon jumps into action, intercepting the Zubat in midair and smacking it aside with a force palm attack. She watches the small Pokemon flutter away, a little wobbly but mostly uninjured. She sighs a little.]

All I've found is about a thousand of these bats. I've already got one.

[She looks up again at another series of chitters off in the darkness.]

If anybody knows a quicker way out, get in touch with me. [She lowers the camera, shouting one last command before switching the feed off.]

Let's go, Riolu!

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