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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.

Helpful links!
Taken / Reserves
Please do not app a character from either of these unless you reserved them!
Starter Pokémon!
A compiled list of the starter Pokémon to choose from offered in Victory Road!
Word Count Tool!
Word count! It has other pointless stats too.
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Player
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Preferred Contact: Plurk, AIM, personal journal, PM, etc.
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Current Characters in Victory Road:

Character
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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

Player
Name: Rose
E-mail: vampire_prince_belial@hotmail.com
Preferred Contact: Discord: Rose#6095
Timezone: AZ Time/GMT -7
Current Characters in Victory Road: N/A

Character
Name: Rick Sanchez
Series: Rick and Morty
Timeline: End of season 3
Canon Resource Links: here and here

Personality: When it comes to Rick Sanchez, Morty Smith says it best: 'When Rick's around, everything real is fake and everything right is wrong. All you know is that you know nothing and he knows everything. He's not a villain, but he shouldn't be your hero. He's more like a demon or a super fucked up god. And if you think my Rick's dead, he's alive, and if you think you're safe, he's coming for you.' Rick possesses super-genius levels of intelligence, is considered the smartest man in the universe across multiple dimensions and the only known person to have invented inter-dimensional travel. Rick knows this, and he makes damn sure everyone around him knows it. 'I'm not the nicest guy in the universe, I'm the smartest and being nice is something stupid people do to hedge their bets.'

According to himself, Rick's most toxic traits are his entitlement, narcissism, irrational attachments, and crippling loneliness. He has delusions of grandeur on a regular basis, comparing himself to a God who can act as he pleases, never taking consequences into account and even goes as far as pinning his crimes on innocent people who either had nothing to do with it or looked at him wrong. However, he is very self-aware. He knows he's smart, knows he's a bad person. He willingly admits to his daughter he was a terrible father, admits to Morty when he's the one who fucked up or why he shouldn't be allowed to do certain things. He sees himself for what he is, and he hates it. No one hates Rick like Rick hates Rick. His addictive personality has him covering up this self-hate and loathing with copious amounts of alcohol and drugs and anything else he can get his hands on or create.

And like a vengeful God even his grandson sees him as, he enacts swift and harsh revenge on anyone who crosses him. Rick's determination knows no bounds, and he will go to ridiculously large lengths to get revenge against someone for even the most minor of scoffs. Both the Galactic Government and the Citadel of Ricks pissed him off, so he teleported the entire Citadel inside the Galactic Federation prison HQ, killing most of the Citadel and also collapsing the entire government while he was there. Hand in hand with that is his attachments to his family and his desire to never be alone. Be it Beth, Summer or Morty, anytime someone threatens to take one of his family members attention away from him, he goes to psychotic lengths to force them back to his side or completely destroy whoever it is that's taking them away from him. When Morty said the Vindicators were his heroes, Rick got blackout drunk and went SAW on them, tearing them down one by one until they were all dead and shown for how weak and horrible they really were. When Summer started hanging out with the Devil more than him, he ruined the Devil's entire business to the point of making him try to kill himself. 'I may be the Devil, but your grandfather is the Devil.'

Despite how much he hurts others and tries to force them to see only him, he does want what's best for those he loves. So long as they're happy, he'll do absolutely anything he can, sacrifice whatever he's able, just to give them what they want. He actually cares a great deal about those around him. He's described by the rest of the Citadel of Ricks as the rogue Rick, the irrational emotional one who loves his grandkids and his family more than almost any other Rick out there. He will do anything for his family, from the most minor things like getting them dates to the prom or an A in math, to saving their lives from dangers that he's usually the one responsible for getting them into. He sees these attachments as a bad part of himself, just as dangerous to him as his god complex, and as such half the time he does his damnedest to hide them. But, in times when he's in a good mood, he has no issues cheerfully showing affection and love towards his family and friends.

With all of his horrible personality traits he sees clear as day, and knowing how toxic and hateful he is to his own family, Rick holds a staggering amount of depression on his shoulders that he generally drowns in constant alcohol and drug abuse. His most famous catchphrase, "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub" is revealed by his best friend to mean "I am in great pain, please help me," and after events involving one of his ex-girlfriends leaving him for good because of his toxic behavior, immediately followed by a chastising of his family towards his dangerous ways, Rick went into his garage and attempted to commit suicide, before stopping himself at the last second. Anytime he's hurt, or upset, he gets blackout drunk and converts all of his hurt and sadness to a boiling rage.

That's another of his biggest flaws: his temper. Everything negative is always channeled into a violent rage, making him verbally and sometimes even physically abusive to those around him. He'll hurt and kill and maim anyone who's in his path that's not related to him, and for those that are close to him, they have to deal with the screaming insults and various mental and emotional abuse as he lashes out to hide his own pain. This can't even be attributed to his drinking, because he has the same tendencies when he's angry and sober. Even Rick himself commented 'Man, I overthink things when I'm angry.' Because it's when he's pissed off his when his most spontaneous and genius ideas come to him on a whim. It's implied this is how he invented interdimensional travel, and when his Toxic self was trapped, he was so pissed off he managed to invent a brand new element that was an equivalent of electricity. He rarely apologizes for these actions, but if he knows he went too far or hurt someone more than he intended to, he'll try his own awkward ways about trying to make it up to them in whatever manner they wish.

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

Samples
RP Sample: Here

Victory Road Sample: Here

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

Now that you've been accepted...
[○] Respond to this with your character's journal. This is a must!
[○] Comment in the Taken Characters post, alphabetized by series: Here.
[○] Join the following communities:

victory_road,

the_plateau, and

ohmyarceus. Only Team Rocket personnel should join

silph_co, but we ask that all Victory Road members subscribe to it.
Note! You will not be accepted to the main or logs community until you've commented in the aforementioned places.
[○] If you're still on the reserved list, please let us know that they've been accepted.
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[○] You can also find our mod plurk at

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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!

Thank you! See you in the Pokémon world!

Rick's journal! \o/

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