Understand the secrets and have some fun

[these_balls]

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


<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

Mitsuzane "Micchy" Kureshima | Kamen Rider Gaim | Not Reserved

[grapeeater]

Samples
First Person Sample:

[The video opens to… a paw. A small reddish paw, and the owner is picked up by the scruff of the neck. A voice drifts down to the 'Gear, calm and cold.]

I told you to stop playing with my things. I'm not going to warn you again.

[Is it… dammit, it's recording. Micchy sets the Vulpix down and picks up the Pokegear. He looks slightly disheveled and his hair is matted down to one side as if he just got up. Or maybe it's always that way - it's hard to tell from the way he squares his shoulders and does his best to project an air of confidence.]

Sorry about that. Hopefully she didn't send any weird messages to anyone.

[He smiles a little, though it's pretty obviously strained.]

Ah, aside from the gym battles, what else is there to do for trainers here? I'm not terribly interested in pitting creatures against each other just for a piece of shiny jewelry. Even if it does let me fly around… none of my Pokemon are flying types and most of the ones around here don't seem very… strong.

[He does his best not to flinch as he hears something, though his gaze flicks offscreen before returning to the camera.]

And I'm afraid I don't have anything suitable for trading right now either. It's been… a little rough getting started. I've never had a pet before, and these creatures are more intelligent than the normal sort of pet. I -

[He cuts himself off as he looks offscreen again, this time for a few seconds.]

Go away.

[He clears his throat and looks back down at the 'Gear, obviously distressed.]

… Maybe I'll - continue this conversation another time. Feel free to leave suggestions until I come back, though.

[Shakily, he turns the video off. He's going to have to find somewhere to seclude himself until the hallucination leaves him alone this time. Or at least find something to distract himself with. He's not real. He's not here. And he can't let other people know - they'll think he's crazy.]

Third Person Sample:

Train, eat, sleep. It wasn't really that different of a routine for him, though it was different from the one he'd had in recent months. Training was the easy part - either sitting and waiting to be instructed in another useless task from someone he didn't care about or finding someone in the base to battle against. It wasn't exactly difficult, and the strategy involved in both really wasn't hard. Eating was a little more difficult - he'd gotten used to wearing one Driver or another for so long that he'd simply forgotten to have regular meals.

Sleep… that was the hardest one. Between the occasional hallucination of Takatora berating him for everything - 'how could you join an organization like this? They must have seen what kind of person you are' - and nightmares filled with blood, Inves, Overlords, and Mai sleep was really just a period where he fell unconscious after hours of tossing and turning. He'd kept his mouth shut while in the shared dorms, but sometimes they happened during the day when he was alone.

He knew. He knew what he did was wrong, and even with everything he'd tried he'd just caused more pain and suffering for the person he cared about. It didn't really matter anymore, not here. Not anywhere. He couldn't save her. He couldn't save anyone. Maybe that was why he'd ended up here - a personal purgatory of being on the bottom rung. He'd work through it. Just keep a cool demeanor to the Team and a smile to everyone else, and no one would know the difference. No one would care, really. No one knew his family name, no one knew about Riders or Inves or Yggdrasill.

Maybe it was better that way. He was just like everyone else. Wasn't that what he'd wanted, joining the Beat Riders and hiding his family name? It was just a different sort of normalcy here. Even so… when his Vulpix looked up at him with happiness in her eyes, he couldn't help but feel a pang of guilt.

[these_balls]

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 slowpoke_gif!
[○] You can also find our mod plurk at RouteMods; if you have a Plurk, we suggest you become a fan!

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!

[grapeeater]

Here!