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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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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.

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Player
Name: Fae
E-mail: afarawayrose@gmail.com
Preferred Contact: email
Timezone: Central
Current Characters in Victory Road: None

Character
Name: Ienzo, previously Zexion
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Timeline: Some time after Lea leaves Radiant Garden in KH3D, after establishing that Isa and Braig aren't there.
Canon Resource Links: Ienzo and Zexion, his Nobody and who he spent much of his life as.

Personality: Ienzo has been through two huge and rather unique changes over the course of his life, first when he lost his heart and became apparently emotionless the Nobody Zexion as a child and then, years later, regaining his heart and becoming the human Ienzo again. What we see of the human Ienzo is a smart and observant young man prone to either speaking little or babbling if given half the chance to explain, hypothesize, or theorize about something. Everything else about him is largely drawn from what we see of Zexion, his Nobody, since we've seen from the Lea/Axel situation that Nobodies and Others are largely the same person unless bodysnatching is involved or you're Roxas.

Despite being the youngest apprentice by a fair bit, there is no sign that Ienzo was ever terribly naive and was in fact quite the opposite. He disobeyed his teachers and guardians when he explored Radiant Garden and was very persuasive as a child, able to talk Ansem the Wise into making an underground lab to perform their experiments on the darkness in people's hearts (admittedly at Xehanort's urging, but it was still Ienzo who did it). Given that his title in the Organization was "Cloaked Schemer", it's likely this persuasiveness remained as he grew up while Zexion; though never stated outright, Ienzo and Zexion are both extraordinarily intelligent and great tactical thinkers, and his persuasive abilities could possibly come from his ability to observe the situation and determine how best to make it work for him.

As Zexion, he was the leader of the loyal members of the Organization in Castle Oblivion, likely due to this ability to make things work for him and general skill level. However, that didn't mean he was above snarking at Vexen one of the men who raised him and his "numerical superior", lecturing Xigbar (another elder and superior) about his laziness and eavesdropping, or expressing disgust at how the Organization had fallen apart recently. Still, he held those bonds tightly, crossing both his loss of heart and his restoration as a human, like with his sort-of friendship with Vexen who was one of his guardians as Even and his acceptance of Lea despite having been killed by him as Axel, though that might have been because Ienzo knew what Axel did was for the best in the end.

He likes things being in control and he likes being in control. He does not tolerate laziness, though at the same time he isn't a jerk about having to explain things to people who don't understand it, though he may get carried away and babble about it. That being said, things going out of control tend to get one of two reactions: full blown panic or complete shut down. As Zexion, a supposedly emotionless being, he goes into a full-blown panic when his plans for Riku fails and as Axel prompts the replica Riku to kill him. Meanwhile, as a child Ienzo hardly spoke to anyone and didn’t even react when three Unversed were surrounding him, staying perfectly still and just staring at them until Ven rushed in and told him to run...and then just staring at Ven when Even found the two boys. While it is possible that as a child he was simply too curious and had a severely underdeveloped sense of danger for someone his age, the fact that he did run away when told says he knew he was in danger. He just didn't know what to do about it.

Much like emotions. As Zexion, Ienzo grew up with severely stunted or completely absent emotions beyond what he could remember from being human...and since he was at most ten when he was human, he didn’t exactly remember too many complicated emotions or at least how to express them. While he’s happy to be human again, it’s very likely that he has next to no ability to process emotions like someone his age should.

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: I would like to give Ienzo a Ralts. I know they're hard-to-find Pokemon, but given that Ralts's powers and Pokedex can be dependent on emotions I feel that it'd be interesting to give a person who spent much of his life emotionless and is suddenly feeling everything an empathetic Pokémon.
Password: Atomic Fireball

Samples
RP Sample: Here.

Victory Road Sample: Finally free from that demented woman who called herself his mother and the strange and remarkably unhelpful "professor", Ienzo glanced down at the small thing clinging desperately to his legs and shaking. Compared to the other "Pokémon" he could see around him, this one seemed almost sick. There was one other like his paired with a human and that one seemed to be excited, making soft "ra" noises as they poked and prodded their human.

They were also taller than his, but honestly Ienzo wasn't surprised that his "Pokémon" was short. Besides, shortness was rarely a health concern. It was the shaking, clinging, and soft crying that concerned him. Ienzo wasn't an expert in...Poké-Biology or whatever, but common sense said that this wasn't normal.

"Here, let go for a moment." He bent down and began to pry the little creature off his leg. For something so small and fragile looking, they had a strong grip and it took a minute before Ienzo could finally lift the little thing up to get a proper look at it. Comparing the color to the other creature nearby told him nothing was wrong with it there....and that was about as much as Ienzo could determine from just looking at it. He had no idea what this creature's normal body temperature was or how to tell if it had an upset stomach, or even what it was called.

Carefully setting them back on the ground, he dug out the strange cell phone he'd been handed along with the backpack. Surely this world had internet, right? It looked advanced enough to, at any rate, and there was bound to be someone who could help him figure out what was wrong.

The device started up and promptly booted up the "PokéDex" app. It flashed instructions at Ienzo (point it at the Pokémon and wait) before going blank; curious, he pointed the device at his little creature and waited. The screen flashed again, this time showing the Pokémon and various stats.

"Ralts," read a calm voice, causing Ienzo to nearly drop his device. "The Feeling Pokémon. Ralts has the ability to sense the emotions of people. If its Trainer is in a cheerful mood, this Pokémon grows cheerful and joyous in the same way."

Ienzo just stared at the device before glancing back to the Ralts and sighing. "Empathy. This world has a very odd sense of humor." At least he was capable of emotions now; he dreaded to imagine how the Ralts would react if he were still Zexion. (And why was he concerned about this tiny creature, anyway? Some faint empathy thanks to the few memories he had of his life pre-Zexion? Or was the Ralts just that pathetic?)

He shoved the gear back in his pocket, picked up the Ralts, and glanced towards the way out of town. "I hope you don't mind traveling with me a little," he murmured, trying to mimic the way he remembered Ansem or Aeleus speaking to him when he was scared as a child. "If someone can help you or find you someone you're not utterly terrified to be around, it won't be here." The Ralts nodded with a soft "al" and seemed to settle down as they headed off. They were still shaking, but there was nothing to be done about that.

That music, though. That music was going to get annoying.

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