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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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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.

Comments

[ossifragant]

Strengths/Weaknesses: Being a homunculus, there is something about Greed that feels fundamentally incomplete. He's not human, and any memories he has of being human are in conflict with his current identity of something that is decidedly different. Because of the cognitive dissonance between indentifying as something not human but also remembering, however vaguely, what it's like to be human, the homunculi are full of self loathing and Greed isn't really that different in that regard. Sure, he may be one of the only homunculi who genuinely doesn't want to become human-- because then he wouldn't be able to be immortal and he wouldn't be able to get everything in the world, but he is also still partially the human he was before. He's still in love with Dante but is in complete denial over this given the fact that Dante is the one who imprisoned him and also created him, giving her extreme power over him that didn't exist when he had been her human lover. He might not even be aware of it entirely himself, but he still finds himself drawn to the woman even after she had kept him imprisoned for 130 years.

There are other weaknesses associated with his being a homunculus-- he is immortal so long as the red stones are in his body. Being killed repeatedly drains his life source as does walking into an alchemical array meant to bind him as it causes the homunculi to vomit the stones back up and leave him extremely weakened and mortal. He is also weakened by being exposed to the remains of the person he's supposed to be. Greed is shown to be capable of moving around them even while he is in obvious discomfort, but other homunculi are shown to be paralyzed when exposed to their remains or outright faint. This is something that won't apply to him in the setting, but it will nevertheless still affect him because he is aware of his weakness-- it's a profound reminder that he isn't human even if there's no actual risk for him.

Another weakness would be how attached to people Greed gets. It doesn't happen often, but when it does happen, he's very protective of the people who have allied with him and he has a tendency to take betrayal extremely personally. It's difficult to gain his trust, but once a person does, he's a fairly trusting man and that is something incredibly exploitable-- he was genuinely blindsided by Kimbley's betrayal despite earlier banter that seemed to hint towards him not entirely trusting the man.

In terms of strengths, Greed is the Ultimate Shield. Even though in terms of the setting he won't have access to such an ability, given that his power is an ability to make himself indestructible, it gives him a sense of confidence and ego. It makes him a formidable opponent and even without his Ultimate Shield, he is clearly an expert a hand to hand combat. Even when extremely vulnerable from both being drained of the stones in his body and exposed to his own remains he is a formidable opponent and would more than likely be capable of holding his own in a fight even without his abilities to alter the chemical makeup of his own body.

He's also extremely charismatic-- moments after breaking free from is prison in the basement of Lab 5, Greed was able to sway the chimera being held into the lab onto his side very quickly by promising the chance to get revenge against the people who experimented on them, and indeed he managed to get more than just the chimera on his side judging by the sheer amount of people who associate with him in his brief time at The Devil's Nest.

Another strength of sorts is how easygoing Greed is. For someone who is hiding out from someone who wants to kill or recapture him, he's extremely relaxed. He's more concern when the military attacked the Devil's Nest that his fight has been interrupted than being caught. Though this could also be easily turned into a weakness because of how overwhelmed he can get when he gets over his head. All sense of that relaxation melts away and he can become very distracted and frantic, eager to protect his allies.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: Meowth
Password: Caramel Popcorn

Samples
First Person Sample: [A man's face appears on the PokeConnect, staring curiously at it. The video shakes as though he's still playing with it, and it's a moment before he speaks.]

This thing on?

[There's a murmur from off camera and the man grins, showing off a row of shark-like teeth.]

Excellent. Hello there. The name's Greed. I've just arrived here in... ah, what was it called? New Bark Town. Yeah, that's it.

I've got a couple of questions.

Are the women here always so stiff? I offered to buy this beautiful woman in a short skirt a drink and I thought she was about to slug me. Something about not bribing "an officer of the law."

[Shrug.]

If someone could be so kind as to tell me if there are any women around here who can have fun I'd appreciate it.

[Where to start? He needs to do something. Dante can't stop him here. The other homunculi can't stop him here. He'll create his very own little kingdom.

Of course, he can't very well broadcast that to a bunch of strangers, can he? No, this is something he'll keep to himself. It'll be his little secret. His little surprise for this place.]

Oh, right. One more question: are there any bars nearby?

A man's gotta have a drink.
Third Person Sample: He had just stepped foot inside Dante's house. That much Greed knew for sure. It had been night out, and he had expected that things were not going to end well for him. But he hadn't even gotten a chance to see the old woman. Whatever happened, he supposed he wasn't going to complain.

More than likely, he would have died. But here, he had a chance. Some sort of chance, anyway. He felt... different somehow. He couldn't exactly tell what felt different, but it was there. And there had been a cat sleeping on the foot of the bed when he had woken up that brightened and meowed at him as soon as it saw he was awake. "Hello there," he said, reaching out to pet at the cat curiously. It had something on its head that looked strangely like a coin, but one brush of a thumb against it revealed that whatever it was, it was firmly attached to the cat's head.

"What's your name?" he asked the cat, smirking.

The cat responded with what Greed thought was a very strange meow. Oh, well. A cat was still a cat as far as Greed was concerned. "Well, if you don't have one, I'm going to call you Marta," he said, smiling just slightly. Hopefully the real Marta was doing fine. He had failed the others. The last thing that he wanted to do was find out that she had gotten hurt, too. If Al didn't keep her safe, he'd...

Well. He couldn't do anything here.

Normally, this sort of thing would bother him, but he was Greed. He had been prepared to die, but now dying didn't sound like such a good idea. He wanted to live. He wanted to find out where he was, and he was going to be taking the cat with him. Hopefully no one would miss it because he wasn't about to give it back.

That and he needed to figure out where the hell that music was coming from.

For now Greed was going to figure out where exactly he was. It wasn't much fun having to start over from the beginning. He didn't even have the opportunity to get help this time. "Say, Marta," Greed said, speaking even though he was certain the cat couldn't really understand him. "What if I were to tell you that I want you to help me find something? Find our very own pile of riches. If it's just between you and me-- well, maybe I won't mind sharing."

It had to be impossible, but he could have sworn the cat's eyes gleamed.

[these_balls]

Hey, there! Thanks so much for your interest in Route; we're looking forward to reading your application! However, because we've got an in-game event running right now, we've made the decision to delay our verdicts on this app round by one day. We apologize for the inconvenience, and you'll be hearing back from us on Monday, April 7!

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[ossifragant]

I'll be using this journal right here!