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APPLICATIONS!
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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!

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<u><b>Player</u></b> <b>Name:</b> <b>Personal Journal:</b> <user name=""> <b>E-mail:</b> <b>AIM/Plurk/Etc.:</b> <b>Timezone:</b> <b>Current Characters in Route:</b> <b><u>Character</u></b> <b>Name:</b> <b>Series:</b> <b>Timeline:</b> <b>Canon Resource Links:</b> 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. <b>Personality:</b> 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. <b>Strengths/Weaknesses:</b> 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. <b><u>Pokémon Information</u></b> <b>Affiliation:</b> 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.) <b>Starter:</b> 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. <b>Password:</b> 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. <b><u>Samples</u></b> <b>First Person Sample:</b> 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. <b>Third Person Sample:</b> 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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Sakura Haruno ✿ Naruto ✿ Not reserved 2/2

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Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Happiny
Password: Strawberry Marmalade

Samples
First Person Sample: [ TEXT ]
[ Sometime during the afternoon, the following message comes through: ]

There are poisonous Pokemon in this forest, aren't there?

I'm curious if there have been any studies on the various types of poisons they carry and if so, is there any way for someone to access that information? If not, is there anyone else willing to volunteer to study it with me?

I assure you it won't be used as a weapon. My intent is to better understand it in case of a wild Pokemon attacking an individual and how to administer proper first aid to someone who might have been in that situation.

Thank you in advance for your responses. I wait for them eagerly with an open mind to learn.

[ Even after sending it, she wonders if most of the replies she'll receive will be favorable. Something of that nature in text might be frowned upon, but the thought of speaking to someone face-to-face still sends shivers down her spine. There are some things she's still not able to find the strength for. Not yet at least. ]

Third Person Sample: [ PROSE ]
Despite meeting those who came from different parts of the world back in her own, Sakura's never had to deal with what she does currently here. People not only from different parts of their world, but from completely different ones as well? If it were Naruto or some of her other peers, Sakura's certain that they might struggle with digesting the information. Her though? It was getting easier to keep up once she devised a system in her mind. Associating the worlds by the first person she thinks of and naming them after that was sure to bite her in the ass one of these days.

After all, it was strange to call her world Naruto.

"Geez." Embarrassing enough to admit that in her mind, she keeps her thoughts to herself. There's a lot else about this world that she's yet to understand and it isn't from a lack of a trying; there were so many people from different points of time and worlds that she fears saying the wrong thing. What if she tells someone they're dead or that they're fighting a war or that they grow up to become Konoha's greatest enemy?

What a load of responsibility that weighs down on her shoulders. Was this the same amount of pressure that the great Tsunade often felt when it came to everything going on back home? Even though this world itself is peaceful (so much that she can only hear the rustle of leaves from wandering Pokemon from time to time), she did find trouble in falling asleep easily. When her eyes close, heavy from exhaustion, all she can see is the sight of many fallen men and women with blood pooling around their...

"Hap!" A sudden noise causes her to bolt upright and look towards her Pokemon. Even here she thinks it's a joke, a creature with a weird forehead just to remind her of her own. It was unusual for the baby Pokemon to be awake at this hour, so immediately her trainer is on guard as her eyes shift to the side to take full advantage of her peripherals.

"What is it?" She whispers to her in an attempt to better understand the situation. Before she can even object to it, the Pokemon was placing herself into her lap and curling up with softer sounds meant to... soothe her?

Sakura's had a number of strange partners (Naruto, of course, reigning supreme in all that he does), but this one definitely was starting to work her way up the ladder. With a small sigh of defeat, her shoulders relax and she moves in to hold her closer.

Strange partners, stranger worlds, the strangest music out of nowhere, and with even stranger things left to discover? The strangest above all was this moment; being able to find another peace and quiet in her mind to fall asleep was a blessing she'll not forget anytime soon.

ACCEPTED!

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Thank you! See you in the Pokémon world!

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