Victory Road Application 2025
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Name: Wolfy
Preferred Contact: quesadillawizard on plurk
Timezone: CST
Current Characters in Victory Road: Beetlejuice, Henry Townshend, JW
Character
Name: Jack Skellington
Series: The Nightmare Before Christmas (Film + Tokyopop Comics)
Timeline: Post Battle for the Pumpkin King (that book is a flashback, technically i THINK the latest in the timeline is Mirror Moon)
Canon Resource Links:
Film: https://the-nightmare-before-christmas.fandom.com/wiki/Tim_Burton%27s_The_Nightmare_Before_Christmas
Zero's Journey: https://the-nightmare-before-christmas.fandom.com/wiki/Zero%27s_Journey
Mirror Moon: https://the-nightmare-before-christmas.fandom.com/wiki/Mirror_Moon
The Battle for the Pumpkin King: https://the-nightmare-before-christmas.fandom.com/wiki/The_Battle_for_Pumpkin_King
the wiki is not great
Personality:
He's a man of big emotions. When he's excited about something, he wants to get the whole town involved, complete with power point presentation on why. When he's sad, he is utterly lost in his melancholy and allows himself to fall into trouble like the time he got so sad he just walked out of town into the woods in a random direction until the sun came up. When he's focused on something, forgets to eat and sleep until he's puzzled out what he's trying to discover. Others often have to step in to bring Jack down to earth. He loves to play as much as anyone and loves a spectacle.
If something catches Jack's curiosity, he will pursue it until he feels he fully understands it. This can manifest in many ways: exploration, book study, the scientific method. He's only got a limited scope of understanding though. Jack knows ghosts and ghouls and graveyards and screams. Horrible is wonderful! Scary is spectacular! He was hand-trained by the previous Pumpkin King, Edgar, and taught all he knows about making sure Halloween goes the way it ought to. While he is not part of the governing body of the town, he is still a leader. The townspeople look at him for inspiration. It's a lot to carry on your shoulders, but it's something Jack does with dignity and pride.
Although he delights in scaring the masses, as being scary is very important in Halloween Town, Jack is above all a polite and decent fellow. He treats every citizen of Halloween Town as his equal and appreciates all their talents and gifts. His friends are his whole world. When Zero went missing due to his careless placement of one of his inventions, he did not rest until his dog was back in his arms. He enlisted the strongest and bravest monsters to be part of the rescue team. When he saw that his dear friend Sally, who had supported him even in his wildest antics, was being held against her will and tortured, he saw red. His loyalty threw him into action and he did battle with Oogie Boogie until not a bug was left. This is important because Oogie and Jack have a history. He must have already fallen pretty darn far in Jack's eyes. Sometimes you have to kill your childhood best friend. :(
Jack is very hands-on when talking to people, patting shoulders and tugging people in the direction of whatever he's talking about. If he thinks your tongue is important to the conversation, he just might pull it out of your mouth. He's a bit scattered though and does have a tendency to talk over people without meaning to, often missing things that are right in front of him, such as Sally's affection for him or Santa not into being sent on "vacation" via kidnapping in a plastic garbage bag. His intentions really are for the best, he just gets lost in his own whimsy. He can talk himself into anything. This thoughtlessness almost ruined Christmas entirely and since then, he's tried to be more thoughtful when it comes to other realms' customs. His friends won't let him forget, that's for sure.
Jack is very creative. For example, in the contest to become the new Pumpkin King in Training, Oogie sabotages him and makes him drop all his pumpkins. Thinking quickly, Jack pieces the smashed shells together into one big jack-o-lantern and wins points for his efforts. He's known to tinker and invent things on whims as flimsy as a dream (creating the magic mirror) or even pouring months of hard work into furthering the technology of the holiday realms (the portal in zero's journey). He admires Dr. Finklestein and often goes to him for advice on scientific matters.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Edgar the Murkrow
Samples
RP Sample: TDM Thread
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.
TBA