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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: Chris
E-mail: canadia.dayo@gmail.com
Preferred Contact:

millennialfalcon
Timezone: EST
Current Characters in Victory Road: N/A

Character
Name: Adaine Abernant
Series: Dimension 20: Fantasy High
Timeline: End of Sophomore Year, during the pool party at Strongtower Luxury Apartments, but before

SPOILER (click to expand)

Sklonda Gukgak invokes the name of the Night Yorb, summoning it forth from Riz's tattoos, plunging all of Spyre into eternal night.

Canon Resource Links: Canon wiki link, which covers the events of freshman year. During sophomore year, the Bad Kids spent their spring break going on a wild mission to recover the Nightmare King’s crown, which was stolen during the fight against Kalvaxus at the end of freshman year. Some important points for Adaine include:

Adaine moves into Mordred Manor along with Fig, Kristen, Tracker, Sandra-Lynn, and Jawbone.
She summons a frog to be her emotional support familiar, whom she names Bogarial Frogariel, or Boggy the Froggy for short. Sometimes, Boggy is summoned as an owl instead of a frog, in which case he is called Bogowlriel Frogowlriel.
Her mother, Arianwen, helped steal the crown and is spearheading the effort to revive the Nightmare King, alongside a mysterious tabaxi named Kalina.
Adaine is kidnapped by her father, Angwyn, and other elves, and forcibly brought back to Fallinel, with the hopes that she will stop shirking her (perceived) duties as the Elven Oracle.
While in Fallinel, Adaine is reunited with her older sister, Aelwyn, who has been subject to torture which didn’t allow her to sleep for the better part of a year, slowly driving her to lose her mind.
When the Bad Kids come to rescue Adaine, she brings Aelwyn with them, and helps to restore her mind. However, Aelwyn tricks them, and escapes to go join their mother.
Adaine meets Ayda Aguefort, the immortal half-phoenix daughter of Principal Aguefort. Ayda is also 1) a divination wizard, and 2) neurodivergent, and the two quickly become best friends.
Adaine is forced to confront her greatest fear, that as an elf, she will outlive all of her friends. She speaks with a vision of her future self, and the two of them question why their parents never loved them. Adaine comes to the conclusion that her friends do love her, so maybe she isn't completely unlovable.
When Adaine comes face to face with her parents and sister in the Nightmare King’s forest, Aelwyn stands up for Adaine, which causes Angwyn to attack her, knocking her out. Adaine retaliates by punching her father to death using a new spell which Ayda wrote just for her.
The Bad Kids foil Arianwen’s plan by realizing that the Nightmare King was actually an ancient goddess of mystery and doubt, who Kristen becomes the sole worshiper of and restores to her true self, naming her Cassandra.
Cassandra permanently removes Arianwen’s magic, and sends her running off into the forest, being chased by a nightmarish van with human hands instead of wheels.
Back home in Mordred Manor, Jawbone surprises Adaine with adoption papers, to become her legal guardian. Within one year of meeting him, Jawbone already shows Adaine more love than her parents ever did in the sixteen years prior.

Personality:

"Many questions I can answer, and yet one remains, as early as any in my life. I do not know why I was so easy to discard."

Adaine is the younger of two girls, and for her entire life has lived in her older sister Aelwyn's shadow. Aelwyn was the golden child, her parents' perfect daughter, who could do no wrong in their eyes. Anything Adaine did or sais was minimized, criticized, or even outright ignored. Even once Adaine makes friends at Aguefort, their wild shenanigans often barrel forward despite Adaine's logical protestations. She is by no means quiet, but she still has to struggle to be heard, even among the people who do, or should love her.

"I was at Hudol but unfortunately, I failed the entrance exam to get into the upper school because I had... a little bit of a panic attack."

The scorn from her parents, and Adaine's desperation to earn their approval, let Adaine to develop an anxiety disorder. Often, after doing something Adaine knew would disappoint her parents, she would fall into a panic attack. While anxiety like Adaine's is a mental illness, and not necessarily a personality trait, the way that it informed the way that she lived her life— in constant fear of disapproval and criticism— makes it worth mentioning. Once Adaine opened up to Jawbone O'Shaughnessy about her panic attacks and was able to get on anti-anxiety medication, she started to be able to live a freer, more authentic life. She even goes on to face her greatest obstacle and confront a monster that embodies the shy, solitary person she once was, at Zelda's 16th birthday rager, the Sphinx of Solitude, declaring as she attacked it, "I don't want to be you anymore!"

"I'm honestly very relieved to have work to do."

Adaine has always dedicated herself to her studies, fiercely and dutifully. Before high school, she felt a pressure to excel, to prove herself worthy of her parent's approval, but after failing Hudol's entrance exams and enrolling at Aguefort, Adaine began to discover how much she actually enjoys learning for the sake of learning. She is much more suited to practical spellcasting than the theoretical study that Hudol focuses on, and has even learned enough about wizardry that she wrote a brand new spell for her best friend, Ayda. Whereas some of her friends enjoy raucous parties, it takes Adaine a while to warm up to the idea of letting loose, and she would still prefer to spend her time doing more "indoor kid" activities than she would going out and getting drunk.
MINOR JUNIOR YEAR SPOILER (click to expand)
(She does later get drunk at Fabian's house party, but that's partly because by junior year she's lightened up a bit more, and also largely because at that point she is under a great deal of stress, and desperately needs an outlet.)

"How does [Aelwyn] cast her spells?"
"Like a little bitch."

When not reacting to her parents' abuse with fear and anxiety, Adaine's response was to become petty and vindictive. Most of the time, she directed her anger towards her sister, slinging offensive spells at Aelwyn under the table when her parents weren't looking. Adaine's fury doesn't show often, but when she does allow herself to be derisive, she is merciless. Any time that Biz Glitterdew spoke, she spared not one single thought for his feelings, and made it perfectly clear to him just how much she thought his fedora-tipping, "m'lady" behavior to be completely repulsive.
JUNIOR YEAR SPOILER (click to expand)
During a fight in junior year, when the rage-enducing "shatterstars" are possessing people in the Synod of Spire, one almost inhabits Adaine, and we get a glimpse of what the world would look like if Adaine gave into her rage. We hear that Fallinel would be completely destroyed, and that she would tear apart the forest of Sylvaire in order to find and enact revenge on her mother. This shows that if Adaine were to lose herself to her most wrathful urges, she would focus all of her anger on destroying the parents who abused her, and the systems that informed and promoted their abusive behavior.

"Will you be my big sister? I'd really like for you to be my big sister."

Even though Adaine is petty, she is not without the capacity to forgive those that have wronged her. The first time the Bad Kids met Jawbone, when he was still working at the Black Pit, the werewolf bouncer bit Adaine and came close to infecting her with lycanthropy. However, once Adaine got to know Jawbone, not only did she forgive him, but the two would eventually grow so close that Jawbone officially filed to adopt Adaine as his daughter after the death and disappearance of her birth parents. Even Aelwyn, her greatest nemesis, earned Adaine's forgiveness, when Adaine finally saw clearly how she, too, had been a subject of their parents' abuse, albeit in a different form. In the end, Adaine and Aelwyn were able to bury the hatchet and grow closer as sisters.

"Guess what, bitch: I'm strong now!"

Overall, Adaine has proven herself to be remarkably resilient, able to adapt to and overcome all of the adversities of her upbringing. She needed the help of her friends and newfound family to do so, but with their support and encouragement, Adaine has grown into a poweful wizard, a loyal friend, and a truly happy teen.

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Spoink
Password: 1. Atomic, 2. Fireball

Samples
RP Sample: different game TDM top-level + Bakerstreet meme thread

Victory Road Sample: Victory Road TDM top-level

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APPLICATIONS

Adaine Abernant | Dimension 20: Fantasy High | Reserved

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