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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!

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- 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: Jefferson
E-mail: oampora@gmail.com
Preferred Contact: plurk

jeffurson
Timezone: GMT
Current Characters in Victory Road: N/A

Character
Name: Gaige
Series: Borderlands
Timeline: Borderlands 2 post-game, after listening to Athena’s recount of the events of the Pre-sequel.
Canon Resource Links: Character + General canon

Personality: Gaige, first and foremost is hardcore. She’s a self proclaimed woman of science and ass-kickery (and not of children’s beverages) that built her very own badass anti-bullying defense robot: D374-TP, or DT, or Deathtrap. Aesthetics and badassery are important to her; demonstrated most clearly in the stumbling block in building DT of putting together a digistruct spawning rod. She complained it was “inelegant, and ugly” (and too clunky and heavy to carry around) and her solution was to cut off her own arm and replace it with a mechanical one that could summon him instead. This was a decision that brought nothing but benefits for her; she gleefully spoke about how metal it was. Gaige really goes to the most lengths for her scientific passions, doing this all for a science fair project (and for showing up Marcie).

Part of her hardcore sensibilities includes being an anarchist. She’s anti-bourgeois, anti-cop, anti-capitalist, and is all about smashing the system. This isn’t entirely for aesthetics; she has a genuine interest in political dynamics and their overlaps with scientific advancements, critical of the Hyperion occupation of Pandora. The anger felt from her rival Marcie Holloway stealing her Deathtrap design was only doubled when she found out she stole it to sell to the police force as a “fascist security bot” and renamed it the “crime buster bot”, which she also hates because it’s incredibly uncreative - innovation and originality and creativity and style are just as important as politics when it comes to invention. Gaige has her heart in the right place...mostly. She objects to corruption, cheating, and Jack’s actions. Deathtrap was initially designed as an anti-bullying bot, showing she does care about the downtrodden and persecuted...it’s just that she thinks the best way to take down bullies is with claws and lasers.

Her experiences over the course of canon have only served to toughen her up and make her far more chaotic. From being freaked out at accidentally murdering Marcie at the science fair and being upset at the prospect of saying goodbye to her family, she quickly adjusted to the idea of becoming a vault hunter (forcing herself, at least for her ECHOcast, to look on the bright side of the situation) and was gleefully electrocuting, immolating, and slaughtering bandits with Deathtrap in no time, eventually boasting about her escapades (to the corpse of an assassin sent to kill her). However, as hardcore as she is, she’s still not that hardcore, ending her big victory rant against the Holloway’s assassin with an apology for killing their daughter, and apologizing to a loader robot for stealing their wig that will cause their untimely self-destruction.

Robots are super important to Gaige, Deathtrap being at the absolute top of the pyramid in her heart. She’s incredibly proud of him (he is SO MUCH more than third-place prize quality, thank you very much), chatting to him and piling on the praise whenever he gets a kill. She puts a lot of effort into his upgrades and making him as badass as possible, and treats him more as a companion than a tool or weapon. This is emphasised when, in listening to a story about an A.I. having to be forcibly erased, Gaige states she would never ever never do that to Deathtrap; his robot personality is very real and she cares about him maintaining his identity and individuality. Also, in this very same story she was listening to, as soon as robots were brought up Gaige was hooked, excitedly barging in with questions and, like the high-energy teen she is, demanding Athena get back to talking about the robot bits. Gaige is, on a wider scale, deeply interested in science and technology and especially advances in such; she thinks that she’s living in the most awesome of time periods right now with the discovery of Eridium and the Vaults and all the things to discover from that.

As far as her mannerisms go, Gaige can tend to be a little boastful, not shying away from showing off her own strengths, which lends to her developing quite the ego. (An example in one of her voicelines: “It's cool everybody. I'm here…”) However, bigger egos are easily bruised, and with her rivalry with Marcie and how she still brings it up and stings about it even after she’s dead, it’s clear that it takes a while for her to get over that kind of hurt. She is quite competitive when it comes to proving herself and her capabilities, becoming increasingly more intense in proving to the judges that her project is better than Marcie’s rip-off. Her inflated ego, at times, is also a little performative. She tries to look cool; telling her dad not to interrupt her ECHOcasts and pretending to be too mature for hot chocolate, but underneath it all she does love her dad and also that hot chocolate.

In spite of everything, in spite of being on Pandora, Gaige is still a kid after all. She gets excitable, goes off on long verbal tangents, and goofs off (cracking jokes on the battlefield, plans to build an arm for Deathtrap just for high-fives). She also takes things personally easily and is prone to hyperbole (calling Marcie laughing at and shoving her a “traumatic” experience), as well as reacting quite loudly in anger and frustration, breaking things and yelling and just having a tantrum with that reckless teen impulsiveness. And, as much as she acts like she’s too cool for them, she does care a lot about her parents in the end. Too bad their kid ended up having to flee the planet. At least she found companionship with the other vault hunters. Stopping a world takeover really brings people together.

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

Samples
RP Sample: CRIMES

Victory Road Sample:

[The video flickers to life, and there's a young redhead leaning up against a bright red shell, throwing up a peace sign with a metal hand and the practiced familiarity of someone used to taking selfies.]

Hey guys, what's up. It's Gaige coming to you live from - [She looks around.] - Route...one? It's really just one? Ugh, I feel like we've been walking for hours! What kind of place doesn't have fast travel?

[She looks up to Turtonator, face cut off from the screen, who gives a non-committal grunt in response.]

Right, a place that's not a post-capitalist wasteland and full of people trying to kill you everywhere.

[She sighs, and shifts herself to a more comfortable position.]

I guess this planet has, like, a BIG cultural past-time of animal fighting. So far I’ve only seen guys with little worm dudes and rats but I have this big, bad-ass flamespewing Turtonator, and that’s his scientific name! It’s friggin’ TURTONATOR! AND HE BREATHES FIRE!

[The camera catches just a glimpse of the wild look in her eyes as she holds the gear up to catch the Pokemon’s face.]

Isn’t that the COOLEST. FREAKING. THING. EVER?! [She brings the camera back down to her eye level, face now set in confident determination.] Let this be a heads-up. I’m gonna assemble a team of only the most hardcore, bad-ass, metal - sometimes literally - Pokemon on this planet, and then I’m coming for all of y’all!

[She points at the screen, and fires off a finger-gun.]

Gaige OUT!

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