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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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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.

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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.

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Player
Name: wolf
E-mail: tauromaquina at gmail
Preferred Contact:

swordfaire
Timezone: CST
Current Characters in Victory Road: N/A

Character
Name: Lance
Series: Voltron: Legendary Defenders
Timeline: End of Episode 9: Crystal Venom
Canon Resource Links: wiki

Personality:
Lance is all that and a bag of chips.

At least, if you ask him, that’s what he’ll say. He’s very self-assured and overly confident in his own abilities to the point that he’s often arrogant and egotistical. He talks about himself and his capabilities as though he’s capable of practically anything and everything. However, this mostly comes out of Lance’s desire to prove himself. He wants to prove to everyone watching that he’s capable of anything and everything, but his bragging leads to him shoving his own foot so far into his mouth that its in his stomach when something goes wrong beacuse of something he did. This can definitely be seen in his self proclaimed rivalry with Keith, as it’s pointed out to him that he was only able to transfer to the fighter pilot program from the cargo pilot program at the military academy due to a certain mulleted individual flunking out.

But there is more to Lance than just this. He can be pretty sensitive and reflective at times. He desperately misses Earth and his family. His bravado serves as an attempt to cover that up, even if doesn’t always work. Just as well, Lance can also be aware of himself and his surroundings, especially when he’s in the middle of a mission. For as impulsive as Lance is, he himself is capable of recognizing when it’s better to hold back and think things through. At the same time however, Lance is not the most perceptive and can miss things that are right in front of his face.

Lance is incredibly friendly and amicable. He has a sense of humor, even if at times it most often involves sarcasm and literal fart jokes. Unless he has “legitimate” reason not to, he will treat any new person with kindness, and if it’s a cute girl, he will most definitely flirt with them. But even if he has a “legitimate” reason to not be kind to someone right away, he will also be entirely willing to change that whole way of dealing with someone if he gets legitimate reason to get over it. So even while Lance maintains a rivalry with Keith, it quickly goes from something Lance does to compensate for his jealousy to something Lance does as a way to bond with a new friend.

As the pilot of the blue lion, Lance embodies the water element of his lion very well. Much like water, Lance isn’t static. Water is ever changing, going from form to form constantly and there is more to it than just what’s seen at first. Like water, Lance adapts to the situation that he’s thrown in. He may not enjoy it, but Lance will do what he thinks is best. And in the end, he’ll do it in the most Lance way possible. After all, just because water becomes ice when it’s cold, doesn’t mean it’s any different from water when it’s a liquid.

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

Samples
RP Sample:
here

Victory Road Sample:
Lance sits on the ground and watches the… Shinx? That’s what it’s called again, right? He watches the Shinx play on the ground in front of him. He’s still not used to this whole pokemon thing, to be honest. But then again, it was a whirlwind of events that forced him out of the house he suddenly woke up again to going out into the wild to start a journey of his own into the world of pokemon. To be honest, he feels like he just experienced the openning sequence of some sort of video game. There were no real choices, just press play and watch the game start.

But that’s just silly.

He has a moment to finally breathe and try to catch up. One minute, he just finished having the most terrible, no good, very bad day that just happened because of the castle being corrupted by a Galran crystal and now he’s here. Shinx is doing well stalking a blade of grass. It’s low to the ground, eyes focused on that surely dangerous blade of grass.

...At least he got a blue lion pokemon for a starter. It’s a small comfort, to be honest. While it’s not any replacement for his regular blue lion. For one thing, it’s about one thousand times too small to be his Blue but it’s still nice.

“So, you’re... Shinx, right?”

Shinx stops stalking the blade of grass to look at him, joy evident on its face. Lance offers his own smile back to it, reaching out to scratch the Shinx behind its ears.

“Alright, this won’t be so bad. Especially if I have you for a partner. I’m sure with us both working together, we’ll be an unbeatable team!”

Shinx nods and jumps onto Lance’s shoulder. It lets out what Lance assumes to be an attempt at a roar and if asked, Lance will flat out say that it was the fiercest roar that has ever been heard in the entire Pokemon world.

Because it totally was.

“Good, glad you agree.”

And there’s a beat of silence.

“So, how do we start?”

Edited 2016-08-29 14:57 (UTC)

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