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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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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: Bethany
Personal Journal:

halffinishedloveaffair
E-mail: bond.bethany.bond@gmail.com
AIM/Plurk/Etc.: Plurk: halffinishedloveaffair
Timezone: CST
Current Characters in Route: N/A

Character
Name: Benton Fraser
Series: Due South
Timeline: Post “Mountie on the Bounty”
Canon Resource Links: Benton Fraser
Due South

Personality:
Fraser is polite to a fault. He can easily end up trapped holding the door for others because it never hurts to be courteous. He remains polite and considerate even when others are rude. He doesn’t complain or acknowledge things that bother him. He eventually admits he occasionally, very occasionally feels unappreciated, which he only admitted when it seemed likely he and Ray would drown. He’s also very friendly. He is willing to stop and talk to anyone. He is willing and ready to help anyone to the best of his ability.

Fraser is a compulsive truth teller. This tends to cause him problems both because people don’t believe he’s telling the truth, particularly because a lot of the truths are rather far fetched and because, as Ray said, people don’t want to hear the truth. Sometimes his truths give criminals an advantage, such as acknowledging that he doesn’t have a gun or at least it doesn’t have bullets. He also tends to believe that other people will tell the truth. He's not so naive that he thinks no one lies, but he gives people the benefit of the doubt more often than he should. That said, his blatant honesty has also convinced people to help with cases and that they should trust him.

Fraser doesn’t express emotions, at least not where people can see. He didn’t cry at his father’s funeral, he just focused on finding his killer. He doesn’t get angry; he gets concerned or worried. Even when his live is at stake he keeps his emotions in check. He does occasionally talk about his feelings but only when he has an ulterior motive. He confessed that he when he was little he had always wished that his father’s murderer was his dad. He then said that Gerrard broke his heart by killing his father. He later said he only said that because he was trying to unnerve the other men and nothing more unnerving to men than discussing feelings.

Fraser is an extremely loyal friend. He can be blind to the faults of his friends. One example is Mark Smithbauer, who Fraser is sure would never throw a hockey game even though he hadn’t seen him since they were 13. Ultimately he did come to realize that Mark took the money even if Mark couldn’t bring himself to throw the game. He was still proud of Mark for coming clean about the bet. A much more extreme case is Victoria. He described Victoria as having a darkness in her, but he was still willing to give her everything. But what happened with Victoria was less a matter of loyalty and more a matter of misplaced guilt.

Victoria is the first case where Fraser puts something before his duty. When he first fell for Victoria, he could have let her go, but instead he arrested her because it was his duty. Arresting Victoria was something he regretted. It was such a regret that he let her nearly destroy him. It wasn’t even just him he let her drag down. Ray was dragged into the whole revenge plot as well. Up until Victoria plants evidence in Ray’s house that would suggest he had the stolen money, Fraser was constantly trying to justify Victoria’s actions. Even after he set her up to get caught he still let her go and nearly ran away with her. It’s interesting that he was willing to go to such lengths for her since he was willing to have Diefenbaker, his best friend who had saved his life, be put to sleep when he started to act out and it was the judges orders, going so far as being the one to shoot him if need be.

He can be reckless with his and his friends’ lives. He has a tendency to jump on moving vehicles and has nearly been responsible for both Rays drowning at different points. When Ray Vecchio told Fraser how many times he had nearly gotten Ray killed, he seemed honestly surprised both by the number and the fact that Ray kept count.

Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Wilderness survival
+ Tracking
+ Excellent aim with guns, knives or other objects
+ Good at whittling
+ Excellent manners
+ Polite
+/- Loyal occasionally to his and others detriment
+/- Stubborn to the point of reckless and stupid
- Unable to say no unless it’s something he has a moral objection to, such as stealing
- Cannot lie no matter how dire the circumstances and if he does it’s blatantly obvious
- Can be very gullible
- Afraid to take risks in his personal life

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Houndour
Password: Swedish Fish

Samples
First Person Sample:
[Fraser stands up straight, smiling. He seems awfully cheerful for someone who just woke up in a strange new place.]
Hello, I’m Constable Benton Fraser, Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For reasons that do not need exploring at this juncture, I have spent that past few years in Chicago. For reasons I do not understand, I am now in a town called New Bark Town. In fact, I have understood very little of what has happened since I woke up in a home of a very kind but confused woman. She seemed to be under the impression that I was her son. Since leaving her home, I have been talking to the town folks and trying to get a better idea of where I am. Now, I was wondering if any of you know how I can get back to Chicago. I’ve already been missing to much this week for my boss’s health. Thank you, kindly.
[He pauses for a moment, then adds]
Do you hear that music?

Third Person Sample:
Fraser had offered to help the woman who kept claiming he was her son find her actual son, but she simply gave him his pack and pushed him out the door, locking it behind him. She didn’t seem afraid or confused. She also didn’t appear to be lying. She had been confident that he was her son and he wasn’t sure what to make of that. When he asked the neighbors around town, they told him about the same thing she had said. He was her son and wasn’t he excited about starting his pokémon adventure. He had figured out that he had a small ball in his bag that held his pokémon. He wasn’t even going to attempt to figure out how the dog, or rather dog-like creature, fit in such a tiny space. At least not right now. He also wasn’t about to put the creature back into the small space.
Once it became obvious that he would not be getting back to Chicago in a timely manner, nor could he call the consulate to let them know he was safe, Fraser decided that he should try to fit in. Not in New Bark Town, but in Johto and Kanto. And that meant being a Pokémon trainer. That meant he needed to start on the trail to Cherrygrove City. Besides camping and a hike was just what he needed. He tried not to think about how much more fun this would be with Ray before remembering that Ray would probably hate hiking. That didn’t stop him from missing Ray, both of them. And he definitely missed Diefenbaker. Tupper was sweet and energetic, but he wasn’t Dief. He glanced down at the Houndour. “Do you want to go catch some pokémon?” Tupper barked. Fraser smiled. He might be missing his friends, but he wasn’t alone. He would be okay.

Before we make our final decision on your application, we would like a revised personality section for Fraser. We feel that the current personality section is a good start, presenting a series of traits that Fraser displays; in the revised sample, we would like to see more analysis of how those traits come together and interweave to create a multifaceted, in-depth character. In doing so, we would also ask that canon references be elaborated on where necessary to make the discussion of Fraser's personality accessible even to a reader that is not canon-familiar.

Also, you have provided us with the wrong application password. Before we can process your application, we will have to ask that you provide us with the correct set of application passwords! You can find these passwords on our Rules and F.A.Q. pages, which we ask all applicants to read and familiarize themselves with before submitting an application.

You will have one week to complete these requests before the character is available again.

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