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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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Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Team Rocket member
Starter: Darumaka (+ Magikarp)
Password: Strawberry Marmalade

Samples
First Person Sample:
[Well, good afternoon, everyone! The video feed today flickers on to what appears to be a hotel room, judging from the scenery just visible behind Ishimaru's shoulder; it seems that at the very least he has worked out that he does not really need to be directly up in the device's equivalent of a grill, and while he still hasn't figured out what an indoor voice is, at least he sounds a bit less like he's going to blow the internal mic out with his usual amount of volume.

He seems a little fired up, but that's pretty much just implying that it's a day ending in Y...]

My fellow residents of this region, I come to you today with a question that's been troubling me for quite some time now!

[He folds his arms across his chest, glancing down briefly at something sitting beside him on the bed, just out of view of the camera.]

I understand that raising certain fishlike species of this world is difficult, and I'm not unwilling to put forth the hard work and effort required to raise them to their full potential! However, it seems that one of them requires procedures that I'm not familiar with - I've attempted to encourage her to no avail, and as such I've begun utilizing other tactics, but...

[Another glance downward, before he looks back at the device, his gaze piercing, as he picks up what was next to him and plunks it in his lap.

"What was next to him" being a completely confused-looking Feebas, covered in enough ribbon and glitter to make even the Super High-School Level Fashion Girl say he's being just a little bit over-the-top. No, seriously, he might as well have taken a Bedazzler to this thing as it'd have about the same effect, and the entire...sparkling fish-shaped package here comes complete with a rather elaborate bow perched at a jaunty angle on its head because of course it does.]

I understand that this species requires beauty of some sort to evolve - however, my attempts at making her appreciate the lovely gifts her parents have bestowed upon her have only been met with confusion thus far! Clearly, there's some aspect of it I'm failing at, and I would like to invite discussion regarding what should be done about this.

...however, any critique should be aimed at me and not the Pokémon, as she's very sensitive!

Third Person Sample: While Ishimaru may have been rash, acting out against the organization was, clearly, a very bad idea - as much as he detested the idea, it seemed, for the time being, that he was stuck here. He didn't have enough contacts to attempt to change the organization from within, either; it was something that had perplexed him for a while, simply because he had never been the sort to believe that justice would simply not prevail - it was just a matter of figuring out how to encourage the prevailing.

It was during his second week of frustration and listlessness that something occurred to him - while Team Rocket may have been full of criminals, it most certainly was an organization. The solution was so simple that it was almost laughable; while he wasn't going to be able to take them down, especially not on his own, not so soon after arriving, there were still things to be done to make his stance known - something that his skills were ridiculously well-suited for.

He was quite simply going to kill them with bureaucracy.

The first report sent in was an incredibly simple one: "Rocket Grunt Sarah's skirt is short to the point of being an embarrassment to the organization's integrity; it's at least an inch shorter than regulations specify." This received a lot of eyerolling when he handed it in (in person, of course, and with a rather smart salute in the process!), but he was told it would be looked into.

This, of course, was only the beginning.

"The wiring in the common rooms is arrayed in such a manner that poses a risk to health and safety, and through a lack of desire to see any of our agents suffer grievous bodily harm, I would like to request that this issue be assessed."

"Rocket Grunt Aidan was caught playing Tetris while on duty standing guard outside the elevators. Obviously, playing Tetris is not conducive to standing guard."

"Rocket Grunt Alice wasted approximately an hour of company time loitering about in the hallways outside the conference rooms. When asked to state her business, she made flustered excuses; the only possible conclusion drawn is that she was seeking Rocket Executive Proton's attention and was, in the process, being paid to waste company time."

"While I understand that working for this esteemed company bears with it a certain degree of risk, I don't believe running in the hallways to be permissible or adhering to proper rules of conduct and basic decency, particularly around the laboratory areas. I would like to request that Rocket Grunt Jeremy be reprimanded for this behavior."

"That wiring is still really awkwardly arrayed; did my previous request not process properly?"

As little as he could actually do here for the time being, Ishimaru had to admit that there was something remarkably satisfying about filling out complaint forms in triplicate.

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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 G, H thru O, or P thru Z.
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[○] 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.
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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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