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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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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: Aki
Personal Journal:

akrous
E-mail: revolutionbegun at gmail
AIM/Plurk/Etc.:

perimones
Timezone: UTC -6
Current Characters in Route: Hitoka Yachi (Haikyuu!!)

donoteat

Character
Name: Mafuyu Kurosaki
Series: Oresama Teacher
Timeline: Chapter 111
Canon Resource Links: character wiki

Personality:
From her spiral into delinquency to the various outward personae she creates, friendship is the driving force behind Mafuyu's motivations and fears. At first glance, she is loud and forceful, honest and good-natured, somewhat empty-headed, but quick to extend friendship to others whether reciprocated or not. But there's a desperation behind the way she latches on to people, stemming from her past-- friendless, and deeply lonely. In her elementary school days, her only friend was a middle school gang leader who forced her to watch bloody battles between rival gangs, and eventually take her as an errand runner and teaching her how to fight. Due to her relationship with him, and that she succeeded him as the school's gang leader, the rest of the student body avoided her in fear and surrounded her with silence. This isolation left a deep mark to the point that friendly good-mornings move her to tears, and she becomes determined to hide her delinquency in order to live normally and make friends.

Mafuyu’s loyalty runs deep, sacrificing her own happiness and safety for the sake of friendship. Although she yearned for a normal life where she is able to fit in with her classmates in peace instead of fear, she ultimately gives up on that dream to fight alongside her club that has given her so much trouble, because these are the people that have always stood by her. To Mafuyu, as long as she has friends, she can endure anything and they become the source of her strength. Whether it’s extending her hand in friendship or forcing it upon others, she finds herself wanting to befriend most anybody she meets, but especially those encased in the same loneliness she knows too well. Even those who are supposed to be her enemies, she becomes interested in them personally and tries to solve why they might push others away or act in a certain way, believing them to be good people despite their differences in opinions. Although she lives simply, Mafuyu goes out of her way to help others who isolate themselves because she pushes her ideals of friendship on others and can't stand to see anybody being alone.

Her fixation on friendship, however, is both a strength and a failing. She remembers the fear in people's eyes when she was a gang leader, and is unable to believe she'll be accepted for who she is. In striving to preserve friendship at all costs, she creates alternate identities to fight without giving herself away, but in return, she is filled with intense guilt in deceiving her friends. She is terrified that revealing her identities will be seen as deceit and betrayal, losing the trust of her friends, and being abandoned once again. Friendship can be used to manipulate her very easily, and revealing her secret has been used as blackmail against her several times throughout the series, but even that fear is discarded to save a person (friend or stranger) in a desperate situation.

Although she was the head of her school's gang, Mafuyu didn't realize she held that title, believing herself to be the one her followers relied on because she acted like an older sister who took looked after people. As a leader, she had unparalleled strength and unwavering confidence, who led by bulldozing the path and never seeing failure. So heavily relied on, she had never given thought to the concept of defeat that when she loses for the first time, her world comes crashing down on her: her followers believe in her strength in absolute, and defeat means disappointing her friends and losing their trust in her. If it's an enemy she can fight, she faces it head on, but it’s when the enemy comes from within-- fears and doubts and desperation to preserve her relationships with others-- that she hesitates. But Mafuyu ultimately gets back on her feet and returns to confront her opponent, acknowledging that losing once does not mean she has failed forever. More than any fear, she refuses to stay down, she refuses to lose.

While she gained many followers due to her strength, Mafuyu became a cherished leader and friend due to her open and frank nature. She grew up bold and carefree in an environment that ignored societal norms and prioritized freedom and having fun, so she is unafraid of approaching either strangers and enemies for friendship and is very childish, fixated on making friends and eating delicious food, quick to anger and quick to forgive. She is rarely serious or critical of others, harboring a nonjudgmental attitude and a stated support of love and peace, mostly because she doesn't think too deeply on things. In a fight, however, Mafuyu cultivates a certain sense of justice. She believes fights should be one-on-one, although she will jump in and take out a group on her own when they are ganging up on one person or if a weapon is brought out against somebody unarmed. Although she can't fight without risking a second expulsion as a student with a criminal record, she fights under the guise of two other people when encountering injustice to aid the disadvantaged or protect those who cannot fight back. Mafuyu claims not to fight out of enjoyment but rather necessity: to protect and to defend. (Pokemon battling's not real batting... she'll have fun with those)

Strengths/Weaknesses:
Due to her days of delinquency, Mafuyu is an efficient fighter with incredible physical strength, and harbors little to no fear of dangerous situations. She has an impressive short term memory for exams and long term memory for names, and knows morse code. As long as people don't know her background and have no reason to be scared of her, Mafuyu makes friends easily even with people who are supposed to be her enemies, since she is normally very laid-back and doesn't hold grudges.

Her greatest weakness is her desperation for friendship, easily falling into despair when she is left out and is terrified of people leaving her out of fear or if they discover her lies. Her academics are terrible, she can't swim, she squanders money on snacks and can't cook anything more than instant noodles, and she gets extremely flustered around pretty girls. She's also a people-pleaser, so she's easy to manipulate and gets worked up when innocent people get involved in dangerous situations.

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

Samples
First Person Sample:
[There are SO MANY NAMES. She's never had so many names in her phonebook-- heck, before transferring schools, all Mafuyu had listed was her home phone number-- so it takes great restraint not to dial all of them up at once. That is. Until she realizes she can dial all of them, at one time, with the same button.] Hello? Hey!! You guys can see me, right!? [If you can't see her, you can certainly hear her]

I've got the best mom, who sent me out with food and a dog. She's cute, right? Super cute!! [The "dog" (actually a Snubbull) looks at the camera, smiling as much as her grouchy-set face can muster without looking like a fearsome grimace. Mafuyu more than makes up for it though, grinning from ear to ear. She punches her fist into her palm excitedly.]

And there's no school or anything, so if you're in the area, come out and play with me!! Let's fight and have fun!

[She's had it all explained to her, and this is a system she's very familiar with. Beat people up and take their money? Win against these Poke-things and they become your followers? It's just like how it was when she was in a gang, and she's going to collect ALL the friends.]

Third Person Sample:
Apparently you're not allowed to go punching Pokemon on your own, but your Pokemon can punch other Pokemon, so once Mafuyu gets her head wrapped around that concept, there are Pidgeys and Rattatas lying around everywhere as she commands her Snubbull to "tackle 'em!" and "bite their face off!!" Throw a ball at them and they become your friends, just like she was told! Making friends has never been so easy, that she's gotten carried away and filled up all six of her Pokeballs in one afternoon.

"Yo, Burun," she calls Pokemon over, sitting down on the grass and spreading the other five balls out around her knees. "C'mere and let's meet all our new friends!" She can just imagine them now: of course they'll want to follow the strongest; she and Burun will protect them and they'll be able to play without worries and have lots of fun together!

What she didn't expect was the Pokemon, the moment they were released from their Pokeballs, scrambling out of the way and trying to hide behind one another when faced with the little Snubbull and her trainer."

"Why--?"

Delinquents are simple people who hit each other to become friends, and when they lose, they get on their hands and knees in front of her and ask to become a lower comrade, isn't that how it always went? So why...? Are they scared of her Snubbull? Her cute little Snubbull who just wanted to make friends? Mafuyu recognizes that look of terror in their eyes. Just because her Snubbull's face is a little scary, and the way she plays is a little rough, doesn't mean she's a bad Pokemon. That's why she went through all of this, and that's why Mafuyu's going to fix it.

"Wrong! You're wrong!" Mafuyu shouts, picking up the other Pokemon so they can't run away. Trapped, really. "I'm the one who gave the command, so at least to her...! At least be friends with Burun!!"

Her words say 'please,' her voice and face say 'or else'... But she's going to make them understand, they'll see.

Edited 2016-06-04 05:38 (UTC)

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Pokemon!
Congratulations, you have a fun and exciting adventure awaiting you.

Now that you've been accepted...
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Thank you! See you in the Pokémon world!

Mafuyu Kurosaki, reporting! o7

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