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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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A compiled list of the starter Pokémon to choose from offered in Victory Road!
Word Count Tool!
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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

Before we make our final decision on your application, we would like a revised personality section.

As it is, the personality section goes into detail on his recklessness, but is sparse on other aspects of Magnus' personality (for example, his dead wife being mentioned only briefly when that would affect/motivate him in multiple ways). We like that Magnus' evolution as a character has been mentioned, but we don't feel we've gotten enough information about who he is currently. Particularly given his post-ending canonpoint, we would like more details about the kind of person he's grown into by the conclusion of his story, and who he is as he enters the game.

You will have one week to complete these requests before the character is available again.

Personality:
Magnus tries to do good, recklessly. From a very early age he’s tried to dedicate himself to helping those who need it, without obvious benefit to himself. While he’s nearly as chaotic as the rest of his adventuring group and he’s never going to turn down payment in exchange for services rendered, he’s more likely to take action to do what seems right without a lot of prompting. As early as their first recorded adventure together, Magnus was inclined to rush in; to the point of rushing to the aid of a woman who had previously tried to kill him and his partners for reasons they couldn’t understand and had no control over, or risking death by immolation to try evacuating a town about to literally explode rather than seeking the immediate safe shelter of a well. He can be very stubborn about this, such as refusing to kill one probably-non-sapient creature that was innocent but still threatening the entire plane by its existence. If anything, he gets more stubborn about this over time; at the very start of his journey, he’s more interested in action for action’s sake, spending his last night at home actively seeking out a bar fight to join. While even then he did so with the intention of defending someone who needed it, this theoretical person’s existence was framed as secondary to getting into a really good fight. On the first new world he and the rest of IPRE found, Magnus’ primary goal was literally fighting a giant, sapient bear. While this did dovetail with IPRE’s goals as a group on this world, Magnus’ main concern was just getting to wrestle that bear and see if he could beat it. When trapped in a seemingly-eternal series of time loops and resets, he’s largely at peace with the constant deaths and redos because it feels like a chance to undo past mistakes and protect those he couldn’t the first time around. He’s not an unintelligent man, and he’s been shown to make some very smart tactical decisions in combat, but he lives more by his gut than anything; his biggest weakness is a tendency to shield others and take the big hits so they don’t have to.

Despite his do-gooder tendencies, Magnus can easily be abrasive to those around him. On first meetings he tends towards throwing out jokes and goofs, often at the expense of whoever he’s interacting with, or at least without a great deal of respect for whatever the situation might be. Sometimes this is a genuine attempt at bonding with people; his first meeting with the perpetually depressed bard, Johann, for example, was a whole lot of dumb jokes trying to cheer him up that didn’t necessarily land for numerous reasons. On the opposite end of the spectrum, there is the group’s first meeting with the “wizard attendant” Jenkins, which rapidly devolved into nonstop jokes about Jenkins’ voice and alleged incompetence at magic, entirely because Magnus, Merle, and Taako found it funny. They made the big bad of that chapter cry, it was a pretty bad time. Even Magnus’ good-natured ribbing can easily cross a line; Magnus frequently engages in what he characterizes as brotherly teasing with the young Angus McDonald (boy detective), but it takes the form of activities like playing keep-away with Agnus’ books or belongings, to the point that a holiday “gift” of a promise to avoid doing so for a period of time genuinely brings Angus to tears.

The life of a walking, adventuring hero complex aside, Magnus’ happiest period came from living a simple life, and he deeply wants the chance to return to that. He spent years as a carpenter in a small town, happily married. The reckless, danger-happy Magnus we see for most of canon is the result of his wife’s death and the destruction of the town they had lived in. He found himself pitched (back, but he wasn’t aware of that for a long time) into a wandering, fighting life, and consciously or not sought death as a way to be reunited with Julia. While he wasn’t suicidal, he doubled down on his previous action-first mindset, seeking dangerous work and a hero’s death. Early on in canon he’s perfectly okay with, for example, jumping out of a moving train while magically rendered super light and tethered only with a rope (and later on just straight up jumping off the back of a moving train to exit it). It’s by bonding with those around him- or re-discovering those bonds, in the case of his crewmates from IPRE- that he slowly shifts to wanting to survive. By the time he actually does die, or at least get the chance to die (it’s Dungeons and Dragons, shit gets weird) he’s determined to return to his body and help fight alongside his friends; first against the immediate threat of the necromancers that killed him and stole his body, and then against the larger threat to their entire reality they were only just becoming aware of. Perhaps the ultimate culmination of his growth is the moment he fully understands that he doesn’t need to rush in alone, and that he doesn’t always have to be the one doing the protecting; when he finally asks for help against an enemy that was simply too overwhelming for him to face alone. While Magnus does still see death and a reunion with his wife as his ultimate reward, he’s also willing to find things to live for; his friends, and the simple life he’d been forcibly taken from multiple times before. When he finally dies years after the conclusion of canon, it’s of old age, peacefully, surrounded by the people he loves.

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Pokemon!
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Now that you've been accepted...
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We'd also like to take this moment to inform you of the Eastern Kanto Ferry! For only P2000, you can take a three day, all-inclusive ferry ride from New Bark Town to Pallet Town and begin a new pokémon journey in the Kanto region! Otherwise, feel free to start in Johto!

There is currently a long-running "scavenger hunt" event going on, with information here! New arrivals to the game will get this booklet along with the rest of their items upon arrival in the world.

Thank you! See you in the Pokémon world!

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