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APPLICATIONS!

Currently: Open!
Applications are checked roughly weekly unless otherwise stated.

We 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.

While players are welcome to play multiple characters (five characters maximum are allowed per player!), please only apply for one character at a time, and wait for a decision before submitting another application!

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!

Please use the form below to apply! If you have any questions, feel free to ask any of the mods.

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Starter Pokémon!
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Preferred Contact: Plurk, AIM, personal journal, PM, etc.
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Current Characters in Victory Road:

Character
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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.

Original Character Background: THIS SECTION IS FOR ORIGINAL CHARACTERS AND CUSTOMIZABLE/SILENT PROTAGONISTS ONLY! In lieu of canon resources, please write for us at minimum 2-3 full paragraphs describing the following for your character:
- Their world (OCs): Is it magic? Medieval? Futuristic? An Earth like ours?
- Their history (OCs and customizable/silent protagonists): What have been the key events in their lives to date? What kind of background do they have?
- For customizable/silent protagonists: How are you justifying your portrayal of the character? What is your in-canon evidence? Please explain how, if your character lacks dialogue or a set background, you determined their history and personality.

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, strengths and weaknesses, and anything else you can think of that shows off your knowledge of this character.

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.

Samples
RP Sample: The sample must be a thread, with at least five comments from you, that you have made anywhere with this character in the last four months at the canon point you have chosen for said character. Linking to a post or log containing multiple threads will also suffice, as long as at least one of the threads has the required number of comments. This thread sample can be in any format (e.g. network post, prose log, actionspam, Dear Mun post, and so on). While it does not have to be set in Victory Road's setting, you can use a Victory Road test drive thread for this sample, as long as it's a different thread than one used for the second sample below. What we are looking for here is grasp of your character's voice and a sense of how you operate as a role-player. If we feel that the sample provided is not adequate, we reserve the right to ask for another.

Victory Road Sample: This sample must take place in Victory Road's setting and can be EITHER a written post OR another thread if you would prefer not to write a post. The minimum is 300 words for a prose sample, eight sentences for a network post/actionspam sample, or ten comments total (five from you) in an RP sample. What we are looking for here is how the character responds to the Pokéworld's setting. You can also use a Victory Road test drive thread for this sample, but you cannot use the same top-level for the first sample above.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Player
Name: Silas
E-mail: twilightforestlullaby@gmail.com
Preferred Contact:

chromatus
Timezone: PST
Current Characters in Victory Road: N/A

Character
Name: Cloud Strife
Series: Final Fantasy VII Remake
Timeline: Leaving Midgar
Canon Resource Links: here

Personality:
Cloud, despite his gruff and cold demeanor he tries to portray, is incredibly caring. There is quite a few times where he shows how much he cares for those around him. He gives his own brand of encouragement to Wedge to get the other to be more confident and is willing to help out Tifa and Barret around the neighborhood even if he grumbles about pay. Some of his side quests involve children, whom he seems to have a sort of soft spot for.

Being rather open-minded, Cloud isn’t really shaken by what people do. Cloud takes to being flirted with by men and women about the same, which is awkwardly, yet he doesn’t really tell anyone to knock it off. As is shown with some of his dialogue with Jesse, Cloud is sort of capable of being able to flirt back. He is rather accepting of his friends even if he makes comments to the contrary. They also are most likely to come across Cloud’s dry and ironic sense of humor.

Cloud is rather intelligent and retains a lot of what he learns. For the group, he is the go-to guy for information about SHINRA and their enemies. Due to his time working for SHINRA, he knows the general layouts and the some of the internal logistics of the company. Everything new presented to him is of course remembered for later as well, such as the tunnel Aerith shows Cloud that leads to Sector 7 through the playground by the gate.

He can be very dismissive as part of his colder attitude towards others. For a good part of the first half of the game, Cloud refuses to admit he’s friends with anyone. This is due to him trying to remain the mercenary who doesn’t anyone. Cloud also hides his emotions and dismisses them when he’s asked how he feels. His face is like an open book though, so his friends can tell when something is bothering him despite him trying his best to remain unreadable. The hardest emotion for him to hide is his confusion when presented with new social situations.

Which leads to Cloud being awkward in general. One of the biggest displays in the entire game is with Aerith when they are traveling towards Sector 7. She tries to give him a high five and receives confusion in return. This goes on for a few tries before Cloud really tires and they are finally successful when they reach the end of the tunnel. This is a good example of how bad Cloud can be with people, yet does his best to try and be better.

Ruthlessness is something displayed in the Remake more as he is shown to be more than willing to kill Johnny for the perceived betrayal of Avalanche. Cloud makes no secret that he is willing to do anything to get a job done, including killing, though he draws a line at sacrifice of his friends.

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Rockruff
Password: Atomic Fireball

Samples
RP Sample: TDM Toplevel

Victory Road Sample:
[Waking in this new place was starting to become more of a getting used to it situation over a “can I please just leave” one. Cloud can feel his Rockruff curled up tightly against his side. A comfort when everything else felt too surreal. Even as he tries to deny that he likes things like animals, he can’t get himself to treat his Rockruff badly. She was his partner and the only thing in this world he could depend on at the moment.

He sighs as he sits up for another day of “adventure”. Mercenary work didn’t seem to be much of a thing here. Apparently, he was a trainer, and was meant to get his Rockruff to be strong for gym challenges. He was okay with part of that. Battles got him money, and money was something he understood.

Reaching over, he pats his Pokemon till she wakes with a squeaking yawn. Her big stretch gets a rare smile from the blond mercenary. No one was here to see it so no one could say he was even capable of it. Aerith would be jealous that a puppy was getting more out of Cloud than she and the others could. Cloud wouldn’t mind his friends being here, yet it better they weren’t. They could make it out of the Midgar outlying area and to the new town on their own…. Or so he hopes.]

Come on. We need to get going.

[Another day, another chance for a Pokedollar. Should he find more Pokemon to add to his team? Probably. There had been an Espurr following them. A Psychic type from the looks of it, and his Rockruff seemed to like it well enough. It was strange that it had followed them into the hotel room but wouldn’t come near their camp.

Cloud wouldn’t question it for the moment. Breakfast was more important. The next time they would be in a city, he would make sure to stop up on Pokepuffs if he could. Then he would figure out what Pokemon to catch next. Train them up to get ready to face the first gym battle and get a badge. There still was some questions as to why badges were relevant, but he knows they will help him travel around in the end.]

Eat fast. We don’t have a lot of daylight to work with.

Unfortunately, we can't accept your application at this time.

While the Final Fantasy VII remake is an incomplete work, and we are aware that events or characters in the canon will change in unknown ways, we still cannot accept an application that excludes an exploration into his character's motives and history, including his relationships with other characters in his canon. Inference and extrapolation from the original canon are fine; speculative treatment of pivotal features of Cloud's character (as the main/playable character and nexus of major plot elements) such as issues of identity, trauma, and memory are preferred to no mention or treatment at all.

For these reasons, we cannot accept your application at this time. Please feel free to reapply as many times as you like.

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Cloud Strife | Final Fantasy VII Remake | Not Reserved

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