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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.
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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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Before we make our final decision on your application, we would like a revised personality section. Your current personality section relies heavily on Blake's history and covers it extensively; we would like to see more about Blake in particular, and what his history demonstrates about his personality. You will have one week to complete these requests before the character is available again.

Personality: Carter Blake is a bad guy on the side of good. He's an asshole for a cause, but doesn't pretend not to enjoy the asshole part. He's focused on results above all else, and doesn't give up until he gets what he wants. He's a cop first and foremost, and he's been at this long enough that any last patina of idealism has long since been scoured off. What matters is keeping a little kid from getting murdered, and if anybody gets in his way, what happens is their own fault. He's a cynic who thinks he's a realist and a crazy bastard who'd call it pragmatism.

Blake is single-minded and impatient, and will ignore the law when it suits his purpose. He doesn't give a second thought to breaking down a suspect's door and busting in. Getting a warrant would take time, and when a kid's going to die in a few days, time's what he doesn't have. He'll try talking to people, but if there's resistance, he goes straight to violence. He cares about what works, not what's nice, and that the ends justify the means. If somebody has something he needs to know, he doesn't hesitate to beat it out of them. He sees it as doing his job. Can't make an omelette without breaking a few faces.

He depends a lot on his ego, so he snaps when it's undercut. He believes in the way he does things, so when Jayden comes around in Kick-Off Meeting and starts lecturing about what they should be doing to catch the killer, instead of considering that it could help, he takes it as an insult. Since the killer's been at large for two years, he has to know that his methods aren't working, and it's a huge sore point. Kids are dying on his watch, and this guy waltzes in and acts like he could do better. This is emphasized if Jayden points out specifically that he's failing, and Blake reacts with immediate violent rage, showing that he's hit a nerve. Any threat to his authority is taken very badly, hinting that he's hiding a rich vein of insecurity.

He puts a lot of stock in his intuition, though it unfortunately turns out to be completely wrong. He never doubts himself. Once there's evidence that points at Ethan Mars being the Origami Killer, he believes it wholeheartedly and throws everything into catching him. He takes pride in his years of experience on the streets and believes wholly in the instincts and judgment he's gotten on the job, making him unable to consider that he might be wrong. If Norman helps Ethan escape when he's arrested and is caught on camera, Blake's fury demonstrates how invested he is in stopping the killer, and the way he insists he's had Norman pegged from day one shows his belief in his judgment of people. Killer or asshole, once he's decided what you are, nothing can sway him.

Despite his usual behavior, Blake is capable of empathy and flashes of humanity. When he's not immediately under the pressure of a high-stakes, high-pressure, high-profile case, he can be reasonable and even sympathetic. When Ethan first comes in to report Shaun missing, he's calm and helpful, showing that he's comfortable and in his element in the cop routine. He assures Ethan that Shaun probably just ran off and will turn up soon, but when pressed, says that if it is the Origami Killer they've got four days to find him alive; Blake's dealt with a lot of hard truths and isn't going to sugarcoat it. He helps Scott Shelby when he gets arrested, "for old time's sake," demonstrating a capacity for loyalty to his friends, and a sense that while he sure as hell keeps grudges, he also respects any favors he owes.

Blake takes a "shit happens" approach to people dying, indicating that he's seen it a lot and can't let it bother him anymore. Going by what he says if Jayden shoots Nathaniel, he's killed at least a few people himself, and claims to have gotten used to it. He treats Nathaniel's death as not much of a loss, since he was crazy and stupid enough to grab for something in his jacket when there was a gun pointed at him. Blake copes by filing a lot of things under "suicide by cop." He does what he has to do without wasting time feeling guilty about it, and expects other cops to do the same.

He was absolutely determined to save Shaun Mars, and some of the extents he went to would be heroic if they weren't focused in the completely wrong direction. It's interesting to note that if Heavy Rain were a different kind of game, or a Charles Bronson movie, Blake would be the protagonist. While he is undeniably an unbalanced, psychopathic asshole, to him every part of it is necessary and justified. Just don't ask the guy he's punching.

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.
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We'd also like to take this moment to inform you of the Eastern Kanto Ferry! For only P2000, you can take a three day, all-inclusive ferry ride from New Bark Town to Pallet Town and begin a new pokémon journey in the Kanto region! Otherwise, feel free to start in Johto!

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