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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

Player
Name: 
Personal Journal: <user name="">
E-mail:
AIM/Plurk/Etc.:
Timezone:
Current Characters in Route:

Character
Name:
Series:
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.

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Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: I'd like for her to get her Elgyem back if that's ok!
Password: Pumpkin seeds!

Samples
First Person Sample:

[ The video feed starts with her face veerrryy close to the camera. She readjusts before starting: ]

Alright, which one of you dolts wants a horrible obnoxious bird--?

[ She’s cut off by the distinct voice of a chatot, which is echoing her last few words from where it’s perched in the background: “Obnoxious bird, obnoxious bird!” Peridot whips her head from the camera to glare over her shoulder at it. ]

GaaaaaAAHHHH, SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!!

[ “Shut up! Shut up!” The chatot chimes right back, making Peridot wince. She turns back to the camera, looking even more hassled than before. ]

Look, I caught this horrible beaked menace because it was following me around, mocking me and loudly repeating private conversations for everyone in the vicinity to hear. I had no choice. There was no other way to get rid of it!

[ “Get rid of it! Get rid of it!” Peridot pauses to take a deep, shaky breath before continuing, dragging her hands down her face.] Please… Please, someone just take it from me. [ When she removes her hands from her eyes the look on her face is one of sheer, pained desperation, a miserable grin plastered on her face. ] We don’t even have to trade, I’ll just give it to you! For free! [ “For free! For free!” Says chatot. The gem kind of looks like she wants to cry. ] The only condition is that you just get it as far away from me as possible. My number is attached to this message. PLEASE HELP ME--

[ Chatot takes this moment to launch itself at the camera, squawking raucously. Peridot is shrieking obscenities, unseen behind a wall of fluttering feathers. The video cuts off there. ]

Third Person Sample:

Gems don’t really do ghost stories. Gems don’t really do ghosts, because death is not as much of an inevitable conclusion for members of their race like it is for humans. Thus, Peridot has little context for these so called “ghost type” Pokemon that she’s been sent out to catch from Burnt Tower, of all places, in the middle of the flipping night, because apparently that’s the only time of day in which they’re guaranteed to appear.

She so misses the days when she didn’t need to sleep to survive.

“Diamonds it’s dark in here,” she grumbles to herself, eyes adjusting slowly to the inky black. She also misses the days when she still had her limb enhancers, instead of having to rely on multiple separate devices. She could have sworn that she packed a flashlight for this expedition, but when she’d dug through her bag to look for it moments ago, she’d come up empty handed. And so, instead of nice, reliable technology, she has…

“Can’t you do something about this?” she waspishly demands of her Elgyem, who is dutifully floating at her side as usual. It turns its expressionless gaze up toward her, blinking slowly, and then lifts up its stubby little multi-colored fingers. They glow softly and blink, casting an eerie, technicolor halo in a short radius around itself. It’s not very effective.

“...Wow. Thanks,” Peridot growls sarcastically, rolling her eyes. She hates this. Having to rely on other gems to do things for her was bad enough, but have to rely on these tiny little organic creatures that aren’t even sapient? She’s really out of her element in this world.

“What else what else what-- a-hah!” She gropes at her belt for another Pokeball, releasing the monster inside as soon as it’s in her grasp; Houndour emerges, nearly impossible to see against the gloom. “What about you. Can you lighten things up in here?”

There’s a pause, shortly followed by a burst of flame that illuminates the whole room. It just throws its head back and starts spewing fire straight up in the air??? Unbelievable??? WHY WASN’T SHE MORE SPECIFIC WITH HER ORDERS? Tongues of flame lick at the already burnt rafters above, and Peridot’s too shocked by her blunder to act for a moment.

“No no no no no no no no!!” the gem hisses frantically, voice cracking with panic, brain finally catching up. She forces Houndour back into its pokeball and stands there, stock still, bathed in darkness once more as she strains her ears, listening to see if that idiotic display managed to wake up one of the caretakers. Are those footsteps? Those sound like footsteps.

Screw it, she’ll take a failure for this job. It’s time to go.

She snatches Elgyem up under her arm and books it back outside, swearing under her breath and berating herself the whole way...

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!

Please note: Route 29 will be changing at the end of the month. Please read here for more details. In addition, we have an event starting today!

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