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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.

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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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Re: PENDING

[stressed]

Here you go!

Personality:

"You're really kind and really strong. Too kind and too strong. You're so kind that you're tired of life. You're so strong that you sold your soul to an oddity. You're so righteous that you overwhelm others."
At first glance, Tsubasa Hanekawa may appear like the perfect example of a class president. She's always on time for school, she keeps up with her studies, she makes sure that everyone else in class is in line and she never has a bad reputation at school. Things are not as they appear, however there is more bubbling under the surface. Tsubasa Hanekawa is far more complex than just the average "class pres". To Koyomi Araragi, Tsubasa is the perfect wife. She's the perfect example of what a woman should be.

That is what Tsubasa believes too. That she should be exactly that - she should be the perfect young woman. She holds that to herself almost to an unnatural degree. You see, her family situation is not like anyone else's. When she was young, her father ran off and then her mother remarried. Her mother then committed suicide, and later her stepfather remarried. Then, her stepfather died and her stepmother remarried-- those are her current parents. Now they are no longer people she can even recognize. The only thing that she has that relates her to them is her last name "Hanekawa". Her parents only associate with her because that is what is expected of them as parents. In turn, she believes that above all else, she should be what is expected of a young woman like herself. That is why she puts up the facade of the "perfect class president".

Tsubasa rarely shows anger toward anyone and if she does, it's with a smile. This is the first sign of her passive personality. Instead of standing up for herself and dealing with it, she will say what she thinks she should say and smile. She might give that person constructive criticism and scold them rather than showing how she really feels. Tsubasa is the kind of person who would help out anyone, show kindness to a stranger, and give anything of herself as long as it was able to be of use to someone. This, of course, isn't for the reasons that you think they would be for. She's not actually doing them for kindness, love, or affection. She does not hold any of the sentiments attached with her actions. It's simply that performing those actions are things she believes are expected of her. In reality, she's just going along with the flow and taking things as they come, dealing with them as she sees fit. She does not help people because she necessarily wants to, she does it because she thinks that is what is expected of her. It's because of this personality, that if you're around her long enough you might realize that you're not all you're cracked up to be. She overshadows you, and makes you realize all of your imperfections.

As a result of this type of behavior, she has a horrible relationship with her parents. Her stepfather can't stand that part of her personality, that twisted view on the world, and he often hits her. The first time he does so, Tsubasa says how she didn't even get mad at him for hitting her. She didn't stand up for herself, she gave him friendly advice with a smile and said "Father, you shouldn't hit young girls like that". Her having a bad life at home causes her to want to leave whenever she has the opportunity. The wanderlust that she has developed keeps her satisfied and away from home long enough for her to keep herself in a stable state of mind. She is the type of person who would rather run away from her problems than face them. For Tsubasa, staying far away from home is a way for her to cope with what she has to go through, she even has a dream of traveling the world by herself after she is finished with High School. In fact, she avoids going home at all costs on a daily basis. She so desperately does not wish to return home every day that she sees a "lost cow" oddity because she feels she has no home to return to. She feels lost. In Tsubasa Tiger this is solidified even further by Hitagi noticing that Tsubasa does not know what a home cooked meal is. All of the meals she prepares lack a feeling of warmth and love, something that Tsubasa never received.

After all, she didn't even own a room to sleep in. She would sleep in the hallways and be woken up every morning by their automatic cleaning vacuum, Roomba. This shows that Tsubasa lives a very solitary life and that she is actually a very lonely person. Furthermore, despite her having an almost celebrity-status at school and for being well-known as the "perfect class rep" she didn't have any friends. Instead, she spent all of her time alone. It wasn't until she met Koyomi Araragi in high school that she made her first friend.

When she is possessed by the hindering cat oddity we witness the most violent side of Tsubasa. It shows her pent up stress, her rage, her frustration. Because when Tsubasa is being possessed by the cat it's implied that they share a consciousness. The cat is simply taking everything that Tsubasa feels and dealing with it in the most hostile ways possible. The cat reacts to anything that is stressing Tsubasa. In Tsubasa Family it was her family, and in Tsubasa Cat it was her unrequited love and jealousy. It even goes as far as to try and kill the people responsible for Tsubasa's stress, putting her parents into a coma at one point. That is how badly her emotions that she has been stuffing down affect her.

In Tsubasa Cat we learn that Tsubasa has been hiding her feelings for Koyomi while she helps him with his relationship troubles. She is further shown to be very passive when it comes to her feelings with others, hiding them and silently dealing with them on her own. She believes it to be the most efficient way possible to deal with her feelings. It's kind of a martyr complex. She cares so little about herself that she puts everyone else's needs on top of hers. Her self esteem isn't very high, and so if she has negative feelings involving someone else she will keep it from them and smile. She never stands up for herself, ever. However it should be known that she's still very capable of a lot of nasty feelings and emotions! Especially when it comes to other people. She was even spiteful of Kanbaru, an underclassman of hers, when she received a message from Koyomi - but Tsubasa didn't. Tsubasa is the kind of person who will pile all of her emotions until they boil over and it becomes a huge mess. Her sadness, jealousy and bitterness all boil over once again in Tsubasa Tiger after she sees her parents reconcile and eat breakfast together without her. Her pent up emotions are so bad that they create a giant tiger who hates everything and burns things down, including her house. I'm serious.

In the end, Tsubasa really isn't your average class president.

She's just a girl who has got a lot of inner turmoil along with a cat oddity.

ACCEPTED!

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Re: ACCEPTED!

[stressed]

Thanks! This will be her journal. C: