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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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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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Player
Name: Ouji
Personal Journal:

byakkun
E-mail: thegartender[at]gmail[dot]com
AIM: the gartender
Timezone: PST
Current Characters in Route: n/a

Character
Name: Mikasa Ackerman
Series: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
Timeline: Chapter 45, right after she gets knocked out by the Colossal Titan.
Canon Resource Links: Here

**WARNING FOR POTENTIALLY SPOILERY THINGS AHEAD**

Personality:
“This world is merciless… and it’s also very beautiful.”

To understand the sort of person Mikasa is, you must first take into consideration the sort of world she comes from. Growing up she has borne witness to not only the deaths of her family, but also that of her friends and comrades-in-arms, not to mention the countless lives that were lost to the titans that assaulted her city. When she was young she had her eyes opened to the truth of the world; that is, she had a first-hand experience of the age-old idiom dictating that the strong survived at the cost of the weak. In order to survive, in order to become strong, in order to win, she had to fight. It was Eren that showed her this simple truth, and it is to him that she is the most loyal to and that she safeguards the most. She has become noticeably withdrawn and quiet since that incident, but around her family she is nurturing and a bit more open, most notably to Eren and Armin.

“I’m strong. Stronger than all of you. Extremely strong. I can kill all those titans here, even if I’m alone.”

Ever since that time – and she will not hesitate to admit that Eren saved her life – she has retained perfect control over herself physically, mentally, and emotionally. To Mikasa, her family is the most important thing and she will do anything to keep them from being torn away from her. She has already lost them once; why should she have to lose them again, and the few instances where she has been seen losing her cool is when the people close to her have been threatened and/or harmed. In situations like that she is prone to rashness and fits of desperation, pushing herself to her limits and beyond so that she can keep her family close and protected even at the cost of her own life. She is hailed as a military genius and a prodigy, and is classed as being worth as many as a hundred soldiers alone, so it is not as though she doesn't have the skills and the power to achieve this. She has been shown able to flip men larger than her several feet, and has punched Eren more than once. If not for her fierce, blind loyalty to Eren she would be the perfect soldier.

“If only I had cut off their heads when I had the chance.”

Despite this – or perhaps because of this – Mikasa is far from being a ruthless killer. She is supportive and protective of the people that she cares about; she comforted Armin and in turn, was comforted by him when Eren was taken. She has no qualms when it comes to slaying titans. That is what she was trained to do, after all. However, when it comes to people she has fought alongside, while she did not hesitate to raise her swords to the soldiers that would take Eren from her, when it came to killing Reiner and Bertholdt – despite knowing what they were – she could not find it in herself to deal the killing blow. These were people she had spent her years training with; these were familiar faces, big brothers to Eren and the rest of their squad. Mikasa may be a lethal titan slayer, able to dispatch a majority of them with ease, but in this instance she finds herself questioning her inability to kill. It isn't just because it's taking another human life that throws her into turmoil - she has experience in that, unfortunately (in one instance she even threatened to kill a merchant who was impeding the escape of civilians with his greed) - but rather, it's taking a life that she knows.

“I’m sorry, Eren. I won’t give up. I’ll never give up again. If I died, I won’t be able to remember you.”

Eren can be seen as both her Achilles Heel and the force that drives her to fight on. If it were not for Eren, she would not be where she is. She would not even be alive if it were not for him. She has stated that she will follow him wherever he wishes to go, whether that is in the Scouting Legion, in the factories, or even outside of the city, where lesser men have gone to die. She values his opinion so much that when he offhandedly commented on how long her hair was getting, she cut it the next day without question. Her only wish is to remain at his side no matter what may happen and to watch over him. To Mikasa, he and Armin represent the last vestiges of family she has left, and she will stop at virtually nothing to ensure their safety, Eren most of all. She has placed herself between them and the soldiers she fought alongside and even chased after a titan alone in order to retrieve him.

Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Perfect self-control
+ Physically strong
+/- Loyal
+/- Protective
- Self-sacrificing
- Rash and irrational (when her friends/family are threatened)

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Ponyta
Password: Ginger Snaps

Samples
First Person Sample:
[ it is around noon when her face appears on the screen, and despite the situation she remains ever calm and composed. ]

It's hurt. [ the feed pans to a view of her Ponyta, lying half in the sun and half in the shade of the trees by the side of the road. the contents of her bag lies scattered around it. ]

There was another-- thing -- [ she's struggling to remember the name of it. ] -- like a snake. It got like this...

[ poison.

Mikasa glances up, then dips her head in thanks. ]

If anyone knows how to help it... please. Thank you.

[ and the feed cuts off ]

Third Person Sample:

When she arrived at the PokeCenter, the reason for Ponyta's restlessness became all too clear when the first few drops of rain began to sizzle against his mane. She dismounted, leading the pokemon into the center just as his flames began to flare up, hot and angry, against her palm.

It did not hurt; Ponyta was simply scared, and Mikasa pet him gently in soothing motions until the flames were like whispers against her palm.

She wondered if it hurt. Fire was extinguished by water, after all, and while she didn't have any true desire to be the trainer that so many others here were aspiring to be, she did take into account the weaknesses of her pokemon. Not for the first time did she find herself thinking over this choice; if she were to become stronger, would it be possible to return home?

The choice as to whether or not she wanted to return home was never an issue. This was not where she was supposed to be, and not a day passed that she didn't wonder over Eren, worry over him. She had considered the possibility of this being a dream, and that the passage of time here was different than that of the real world. But even so, she should have woken up by now, right?

Eren was not here. She had checked. She had asked around, she had ridden from town to town to look for him herself. If he was not here, then why was she?

What was her purpose in being here, if Eren was not? To fight? To train?

To live?

There were no titans here. There were only pokemon, scores and scores and scores of them. The people here did not battle to survive, the battled to become the best.

Mikasa didn't have any need to be the best in a world where Eren was not.

Before we make our final decision on your application, we would like a revised strengths/weaknesses section, as the one provided is very shallow. We'd like to see further description on why they are listed as they are. You will have one week to complete these requests before the character is available again.

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