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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.
Navigation

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Character
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Timeline:
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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Samples
First Person Sample:

This is ridiculous.

[The Pokégear is set in front of Vegeta with the content of the backpack spewed across the ground in front of him. Arms are folded across his chest and he isn't looking too happy.]

First I find myself in a strange house with a woman I've never seen before, throws me this infernal backpack, claims to be my mother, and sends me on my way? What kind of circus is this!? I've not even been given enough supplies to last me the rest of the day! And to top it all off, someone explain to me why there is an insect following me everywhere I go. It's shocked me more than once and I swear before the end of the day I'll be having bug soup. It better hope its lucky streak doesn't end because if I catch it it's lights out for that little lightning bug.

And will someone please shut the music off?! It's driving me insane!

Third Person Sample:

Well, isn't this just perfect. Can't fly, can't blast anything, can't do anything at all. Stuck in this little town with no where to go but down that route right outside of town. After ransacking the backpack he'd been given and angrily expressing himself over the Pokégear, he shoulders his pack with the express purpose of finding how the hell he was going to get himself home, though that sinking feeling in his stomach told him that he probably wasn't going to be going anywhere that was remotely close to West City. Never mind that his stomach was also rumbling because he still hadn't eaten yet, which he is trying to gracefully ignore. Ugh, food, who was going to do the cooking now, Bulma was back at home so that means he'd have to learn how to cook on his own. The last time he tried that it didn't go over so well, but it looks like it was finally time to learn and deal with the consequences.

Plus there was that bug. He'd been trying to ditch it all day to no avail.

He toys with the Pokégear, flipping through the options on it. Pokédex, what in the galaxy was that. He's holding it right in front of him when it decides to suddenly come to life on its own, a robotic voice startling him as it announces its message. "Joltik, the Attaching Pokémon. Joltik cling to larger Pokémon, and absorb static electricity, storing the energy in a special pouch." He gives the device a strange look, until he notices that little flash of yellow behind it- the insect was back, and it hadn't gone unnoticed by the Saiyan that the bug in front of him now matched the picture of the bug on the Pokédex. "So, you're a little freeloader are you? And what's your interest in me then? I'm no Pokémon, whatever those are."

He's not expecting the thing to understand what he's saying, of course, as he watches it approach him. He's got half a mind just to step on it and be done with it, but a small part of him is interested to know what exactly a Pokémon is. Joltik takes advantage of this, zipping up his pant leg, up his back and lands safely into his hair before he's got the chance to change his mind, happily poking out the front to get a nice view. An angry glare gets shot up at it and Vegeta sighs; looks like he's stuck with this thing no matter what he does.

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 G, H thru O, or P 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.
[○] Please make sure to check out the Calendar for the weather and upcoming plots and swarms!
[○] Route 29 has an optional spam/meme community; it's

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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!

Thank you! See you in the Pokémon world!

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