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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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Strengths and Weaknesses:
For Otoya's strengths, he would tell you that his talents are his strengths. His dogma is to make people happy and help them in any way he can. Because his singing, dancing, and entertaining bring people happiness, he uses them as strengths in order to fulfill his personal goal in bringing people joy. He was also accepted at an elite performing arts academy in the top .05%. His talents are definitely something to be viewed as strengths with that amount of skill, even if it's mostly raw potential.

His athleticism will assist him more tasking trials such as long stints of travel, climbing, swimming, and having to keep up with any of the general requirements of energy and physical need of journeying.

His strong personality and ability to get along with people will allow him to build long-lasting and positive bonds that could help him in the future. He may get an egg to raise as a new companion from a new friend, a tip on how to train a certain type of pokemon, or learning some kind of shortcut through towns from a person he was able to charm with his genuine smile. In any situation in which information is vital to succeeding in a goal such as trying to catch pokemon and gain badges, having a good personality is definitely a good strength to have.

As for weaknesses that hinder him, well, when it comes to doing the right thing or helping someone in need, he wouldn't allow his weaknesses to hinder him. Or try to not let them at least.

Being inexperienced in survival situations can allow him to get lost, be hungry, get him hurt, sick, or perhaps worse. If one doesn't have the right now how for certain situations, the outcome can be less than stellar. In this case, he will need a lot of help from people with more knowledge in the world of adventure than others may.

Acting first and thinking later can lead him into horrible situations. He may find himself up a creek without a paddle. He is the type to get so wrapped up in the excitement of something that he doesn't stop to think of the consequences that may arise from those actions. For example, he may think that since his fire-type pokemon is strong against grass type that it would be a piece of cake to beat an opponent that has one, but he doesn't stop to think that maybe the other opponent has another pokemon up their sleeve or that maybe that grass type is as a level far, far higher than his own. That could get his own pokemon hurt in the process which would leave him in a bad situation.

Which directly leads into getting flustered easily. Say his pokemon was unexpectedly hurt. His inexperience in basic survival skills as well as his racing mind would lead him into a short burst of panic where every second counts and he needs to cool down, think, then act. Each weakness leads into the other and in situations where a cool, calm, thoughtful head is in order, this could be troublesome when a crisis arises and he would need someone to be there for him and help him out some.

But again, he isn't the type to let his weaknesses hinder him and he would do his best to overcome them especially if someone were in danger. He'd have to get by with a little help from his friends.