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Random Plushie February 4th, 2006 1:17 AM

Region of The West: A Quest Across Ryko
 
Several long years ago, Hoenn dispatched a small group of explorers to search the lands west of their region. They didn’t need to wander as far as planned, however, for across several hundred miles of ocean water, which was merely a fraction of what was expected, the explorers hit land.

It proved to be a region unlike the other four, and within a few weeks of the first humans setting foot on this new land, there was no current resident of the other four regions that didn’t know of this fifth country, which, in no time, had earned itself the name of Ryko.

The explorers, only just beginning to start settlements in Ryko, called more and more people in, towns and cities spreading throughout the region like one giant termite infestation. The humans dominated slowly; settling in one place, becoming familiar with the area, then sending another group of explorers that had been called in to move on to another location, moving away from the relatively safe coastlines and further inland, towards the more remote and unpredictable environments there.

Each settlement became one with the land on which it was built, uniting with the native Pokemon and beginning to live in harmony. Of course, back in the other regions, this meant a longer wait for the signal that it was safe to move in, since there was still much of Ryko that was in need of scouting. The settlers thought nothing of it, conquering Ryko at their own pace and further encouraging impatience among the other regions.

After years of this type of domination, the discovery of Ryko became old news, because it was taking much too long for the explorers to cover the extent of the territory. It became nothing more than a random vacation spot for the future, and the general public lost interest in moving in.

Over time, this allowed the explorers that had made settlements across most of Ryko to live without being bothered by the outside regions. Because of this, the people began developing their own lifestyles within each settlement, which ultimately ended up differing from that of the other regions. These people became the first to be considered true natives of Ryko.

In short, Ryko was allowed to grow on its own without any influence, and as a result, the first line of Gyms (not to mention League) in the region gained unique rules and battlefields unlike those in Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, or Orre.



In the present time, a professor has finally set up a place of Pokemon research on the coastline of Ryko, located in the first town to have been built as a settlement for humans.


This professor goes by Prof. R. Chrysso, and is unknown to the other regions, seeing as how truly isolated Ryko has remained, but nonetheless he claims to be a professional. Indeed, after merely a few years of taking up research in Ryko, he also claims that he has reached a breakthrough in technology.

But the problem is; he’s too much of a nobody. How is he to get anyone outside of Ryko to listen to him? What he needs first of all to prove his theory is test subjects for his technology.

And what could be a better source of such subjects than energetic young trainers and co-ordinators?





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You can be either a Pokemon Trainer or a Pokemon Co-ordinator from one of the four regions neighboring Ryko, with a few years of experience under your belt. Like most residents of these regions, you don’t know much about Ryko other than it’s a land far away that took a long time to explore.

You have recently received a letter from someone who calls himself Prof. R. Chrysso. In this letter, you are invited to attend a presentation by this professor, during which he will reveal to you his ‘special invention’ that he claims will be of great assistance to the well-being of your Pokemon.

He mentions in this letter that transportation has already been arranged, based on where you live (which basically means a boat for everyone); all you have to do is show up on the designated day of the presentation at his lab in Meridian Town, located in far-off Ryko.

Yes, to most this so-called ‘special invention’ already sounds cheesy and weird. But hey--Even if the presentation is as cheap as it sounds, at least you’ll have scored a free vacation.








Rules:


1. Follow all rules of PC and the RP Section. Obvious.

2. I’m going to be very serious about this one; there will be absolutely no powerplaying, godmodding, bunnying, or character control in any way, shape, or form allowed. You have no right to control the character of another person without their consent, and most people should already know this.

3. Please don’t post beneath four lines. If you really can’t do that, then you may as well avoid signing up. Seriously, posts that are that short are no fun..





Sign-Up Form, Y’all:


Name:
Age:
Gender:
Appearance:
(I would appreciate it if you described with lots of detail. ‘Cause detailed appearances that don’t confuse me are good things. ^-^)

Personality: (Seriously, try to be more descriptive than ‘Oh, s/he’s very nice.’ >.> Describe your character’s personality with more than just a few basic adjectives, please. It’s a lot more important than it seems.)

Pokemon: (Your character is allowed to have a maximum of four Pokemon, with SOME evolved forms allowed. Yes, your character does have experience, but I will hardly accept one to four-time Champions/Master Contest winners. And remember, your character’s Pokemon are not just things that come when they’re called and obey your Trainer’s every whim. They have personalities and attitudes of their own, so please don’t butcher that and sign-up with brainless robotic drones.)

History (Optional): (You may describe past events and accomplishments here. Try to be fairly reasonable in this field.)

Other (Optional): (If there’s anything else you’d like to say that doesn’t really fall into the other fields, you may write it down here. Please don’t make your character an inhuman superhero. If your character has a certain talent, there must be a valid reason for it, yes?)

RP Sample: (Yep, I will require a sample of your skills. ‘Tis very important, so do try hard when you fill this out.)





Here is my sign-up:




Name: Oliver Tan
Age: 14
Gender: Male

Appearance: This guy is a red-head, and a spiky-haired red-head at that, although he attempts to keep his hair from spiking directly up by wearing a headband that is a deeper shade of scarlet than his hair. This doesn’t stop his bangs from growing downward, though, which gives him a rather awkward hairstyle. His eyes match this, however, the red shade of his hair being complimented by the green of his eyes. Of course, due to his temper, most of the time you’ll hardly notice that.

As far as clothing goes, the boy is often seen wearing a mustard-yellow colored hooded sweater, which is probably over a shirt of some kind. The sleeves of this sweater are actually so long, though, that you can barely see his finger tips sticking out. Along with this, he wears baggy jeans that seem a bit too large for him, probably a hand-me-down, which is further suggested by the stitches in the left pant leg.

To carry items and such, he is equipped with a fanny pack that is dark blue in color, almost blending in with his pants. However, because his sweater is so big, this fanny pack, not to mention the boy’s Pokeballs, are usually hidden from view.

Overall.. Oliver is short. Very short for his age. Based on height alone, he looks to be about 12 years old. Don’t let this fool you, though, for once he gets ticked off, stopping him can be quite the task.


Personality: The thing about Oliver’s personality that you will probably become familiar with first is his abnormally short temper. He is especially sensitive to remarks about his height, and his constant proclamations that he is indeed not short when the subject comes up will remind you of that.

He is always quick to get angry, and quick to lose his patience, but usually not during Pokemon battles. If he does, it is usually because he has lost his temper at the guy on the opposite end of the field, and not over a situation in the battle itself.

When he is not angry or ranting due to his temper, he is fairly calm and collected, although he does have an attitude, which usually involves sarcasm. Basically, if he hasn’t labeled you ‘friend’, he’s not a very nice person to come across. And even if he does consider you a friend, his temper will stand strong, and so will his sarcasm when he’s calm.

However, he does have a soft spot for his Pokemon. It’s obvious that he cares deeply for them, but he will never admit that to anyone. He tends to be strangely patient with his Pokemon and will rarely lose his temper, however short it may be, over their actions.


History: Oliver was born and grew up in Olivine City, never really exposed to anything outside of his home town, or anything not covered in television programs. His parents own the local Poke Mart, which to this day is their main source of money. It may not seem like a very reliable source, but being the only shop in town that sells Pokemon-related items can seriously rake in the cash.

As a result Oliver lived a quiet, pampered life, enjoying the fact that Olivine was near the coastline, therefore allowing him to take strolls along the beach, the ocean that lay beyond becoming something he frequently enjoyed.

It wasn’t until his ninth birthday that he received his first Pokemon. His mother and father gave him an Eevee as his present, which Oliver named Piro soon afterwards. This immediately squashed his parents’ dreams of him someday taking over the family business, of course, because Oliver immediately became intent on training Piro up to be a champion someday. And who knew, perhaps he’d even manage to train up a whole team!

His parents weren’t too thrilled about that, naturally. They convinced themselves that their son would give up on the ‘becoming a Trainer thing’ because they believed he didn’t want to make that much effort.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending upon whose side you’re on), they were wrong. When Oliver received a Teddiursa for Christmas the next year from a good friend, the boy was dead set on becoming a Trainer. Naming the new Teddiursa Yoku, Oliver continuously asked for his parents’ permission to set off on a journey.

Weeks went by, and through all that time Oliver’s parents refused to let the boy go. During this time, Piro and Yoku took to watching crime investigation dramas together, and soon both of them had become convinced that they were eligible for becoming secret service agents. Or FBI agents. Same difference.

And finally, when Oliver asked for permission again on the twenty-sixth consecutive day, his parents gave him their consent to leave Olivine City with Piro and Yoku in tow. The boy wasted no time with celebrating this, although Piro and Yoku would’ve preferred it because they were going to miss their shows if they left. It wasn’t long before the boy was ready to leave, considering his parents owned the Poke Mart.

And so Oliver left his home town, Piro and Yoku following, while still sulking over the fact that they wouldn’t have television on their journey. Oliver’s first goal once he had set off was to make an attempt at training his team as best he could, and then like a normal Trainer he would set out for badges. And perhaps he’d even manage to catch more Pokemon. Flanked by his two best friends and cloaked in determination, the boy set off into the world.


Two years passed. Oliver still hadn’t completed training to the point where he was satisfied with his progress, or that of his Pokemon. He hadn’t even traveled across much of Johto yet. However, he had made attempts at collecting badges, obtaining the Fog Badge with.. difficulty. He also returned home to challenge Jasmine once, but the result wasn’t too nice. In fact, he was massacred by the Steel Gym Leader, having to endure a brutal loss.

Shocked into an emotionless state (which went away after a few days), Oliver convinced himself that he needed a lot more training before he could even consider challenging a Gym Leader again.

After two years of more training, evolutions among his Pokemon, and also catching two more Pokemon, Oliver hadn’t made another Gym challenge. Even after such a long time since losing to Jasmine so humiliatingly, he refused to muster up the courage to make another Gym challenge. He instead chose to hang around home often, while maintaining a routine of training and raising his Pokemon. He never dared to think about Gyms.

His parents were thrilled at this decision, but they didn’t get as much time to enjoy it as they would have liked, because soon after that, a very strange letter had arrived for their son..



Pokemon:

Espeon (Male), Piro
Oliver’s first Pokemon, usually found patrolling the area near the Trainer’s feet. Otherwise he is scouting the area, attempting to pick out ‘potential threats’ and positioning himself between his Trainer and the ‘threat.’

Piro is rather peculiar, always wearing dark sunglasses and rarely showing emotion other than those revealed in his voice. Through months of watching countless FBI dramas and other related shows, this Espeon has come to develop a sort of “FBI attitude,” which can make him seem quite over-protective of his Trainer.

When he speaks, he tries to maintain seriousness, often containing laughter and forcing himself not to crack even the slightest of smiles. As a result, other Psychics may detect some self-conflict within him. Either that or he just really wants to be a typical stereotyped FBI agent.


Ursaring (Male), Yoku
Yoku became Piro's best friend soon after he was given to Oliver, soon coming to share the Espeon's passion for crime investigation dramas. This results in Yoku wearing the same kind of shades as Piro, and also in the shared passion for 'upholding justice.'

But what makes him different from Piro is his lazy side. Yoku prefers napping and standing around just looking cool rather than seriously promoting their 'official' image. He also tends to show more emotion than his Espeon friend. Instead of trying to be serious and contain all of his emotion, Yoku tends to reveal it more.


Flaaffy (Male), Makamo
Makamo was the first Pokemon that Oliver managed to catch on his own, on the way back to Olivine from Ecruteak. He wasn’t part of a group of Mareep or anything at the time. No, for some reason he was wandering about on his own, but all the same Oliver quickly decided to catch him.

This Flaaffy is actually rather jumpy, and tends to be afraid of.. Well.. everything. As a result, he always seems to be alert, wide-eyed, and shivering, often throwing up Light Screens in self-defense and shocking anything that scares him too suddenly. It is highly advised that one doesn’t sneak up on him from behind. In addition to his ’fraidy-cat personality, he is actually quite gentle-natured and doesn’t like to attack unless it’s necessary, or in other terms, when he’s too scared to care about being gentle.


Houndour (Male), Akeru
Akeru was caught after Makamo, several months after Oliver lost to Jasmine. Found wandering the streets of Olivine City as a pup, the Houndour recalls little of his life prior to living on the streets, but he doesn’t really care. He considers life with Oliver ‘fun,’ and sees no point in trying to remember his past. Akeru’s main priority: Just have fun.

This Houndour practically radiates energy. He simply can’t get rid of all his excess energy, no matter how far or long he may travel in a day. He is innocent enough, and is often a source of annoyance when you combine his optimism and excessive hyper-ness. To top it all off, he has a tendency to be especially curious, and will not hesitate to pry into someone else’s life as soon as he meets them.

He also has a habit of collecting twigs and tree branches, then placing them all in a pile. He usually does this whenever the group he’s in stops to take a break, or he finds that he has nothing else to do/everyone is ignoring him. The latter occurs most often.


Other: N/A


RP Sample:


The skies were clear that day, allowing the full force of the sun’s rays to come streaming down onto the beach, instantly reflected by the ocean water, which created dazzling sparkles of light over the ocean swells that would be potentially blinding if one were to stare at it for too long.

Yes, perfect beach weather.

But for some reason Oliver was the only Trainer sitting on the beach at the moment. In his hand he held a reasonably sized stick, which he had taken from the pile of twigs that Akeru had managed to pile up near him. In fact, the crazy little Houndour was out near the water again, running out as far as he could go in order to reach for a piece of driftwood out on the waves. Of course, as soon as the next wave came in the Houndour was forced to retreat, barking loudly in defiance at the water that dare separate him from his precious wood. He advanced as soon as the water pulled back out, attempting again to retrieve the driftwood floating out on the waves.

Piro was out of his Pokeball, too, as usual. The Espeon was actually laying off his strange attitude for once, basking in the warmth of the sun, curled into a ball and sleeping through Akeru’s barking. Every so often one of his lavender ears would twitch in response to an especially shrill yap or such, but nonetheless he slept on, near that pile of sticks.

Oliver had turned away from that now, letting his Pokemon relax while they could. He had been training them a lot lately. However, he was still sulking over that last battle with Jasmine, and as such he was reluctant to try again. Clutching the stick firmly in his right hand, he began to write a message in the sand, then watched as the ocean water rose up to wash the whole thing away before he was done, although the water never came up as far as to get him wet.

Saying nothing, he began to write again, only to stop and watch as the waves washed it away once more. He sighed mentally, knowing that it would be more sensible to simply write the message someplace in the sand farther up the hill, but then again, he still wasn’t sure if he wanted anyone to read his message anyways.

A howl of joy snapped his mind back to reality, causing him to turn his head towards the source of the noise, his spiky red hair acting accordingly and naturally shifting with his movement.

His deep green eyes instantly lit up a bit at the sight of a blissfully unaware Akeru proudly dragging a the piece of driftwood away from the water, and back towards the pile of sticks. It calmed Oliver to see such innocence.. When you were someone as young and energetic as Akeru, it must’ve been a lot easier to make decisions.

{Look! I got another one!} Akeru yapped, dropping the driftwood onto the pile, then proceeding to look up at Oliver and beam. {That’s better than you’ll ever do! Uh-huh!}

Oliver frowned, having gotten used to the Houndour’s speech patterns by now, while Piro wrinkled up his nose in annoyance. Akeru’s constant jabbering was disrupting his nap. Oliver said nothing, though, nodding at the little Houndour before the Dark-type turned away and began to trot back towards the water. Once more, Akeru searched for wood to add to his latest pile.

Alter Ego February 5th, 2006 9:22 AM

Yay! Congrats on your first very-own RP Plushie! ^0^ *Throws confetti*

Sign-Up Form, Y'all:

Name: Yikari Arikawa
Age: 15
Gender: Male

Appearance: Standing at a good 1,76 meters of height with a slightly skinny bodybuild, Yikari is fairly tall for his age and his skin is of a fairly pale pigment, although not deadman-pale mind you. Yikari's face still has that smooth, somewhat boyish appearance to it that makes him look younger than he is to most people. His hair is dark brown and usually kept at a fairly short length, stopping a fair bit before reaching his shoulders, and usually looking like it has been neatly combed over his head, although wether the boy spends plenty of time in secret with a comb or wether this is just a peculiarity of his hair is unkown. Yikari's eyes are of a slightly lighter shade of brown, and they, combined with his innocent smile, have saved him from a couple of sticky situations during his life. For clothes, the boy usually wears a shirt, usually dark green or dark blue in colour, a pair of greyish white shorts which end a bit above his knees, and a pair of equally coloured, and quite considerably worn, sneakers, although odds are that the sneakers were originally white. The boy usually travels light, carrying whatever possessions he needs in the various pockets, some of them concealed, which his attire posseses as well as a reasonably sized sack of cloth, dark blue in colour and secured with a length of black string around the mouth of the sack and another attached to serve as a strap for carrying it over his shoulder.

Personality: A predominantly cheerful, go-lucky, and extroverted person. Yikari is a sworn opposer of sulking, brooding, depression, and dullness in all their incarnations and is willing to put quite a bit of effort into ensuring that as few of the people near him end up suffering from them as possible. He's practically always willing to play a prank, tell a joke or one of his more or less exaggerated stories, or poke fun at a particularly dour or pompous person in his vicinity. He's also quite often lazy, loves to cheat in small things, has very little regard for authority figures, and can be a bit of a coward when things get too serious. The boy's disrespect for authority figures also translates into a disrespect for rules and regulations in general, and he has no qualms about breaking a law which he finds too restrictive, all in the name of good cheer and curiosity. Sometimes, though, from behind his cheerful, reckless, and rather chaotic behaviour, Yikari can exhibit quite grave seriousness and shame in certain matters, although it is rare in the extreme for him to do so, and indeed, perhaps these concealed emotions of his are partially the reason for his strong conviction to keep everyone from brooding.

Pokemon:

Croconaw "Marco" (Male)

Yikari's first pokémon. The boy ran across this pokémon by pure chance as he was taking a small nap in the shade of a tree by the river running by his hometown. The boy was just about to drift off into blissfull sleep when he suddenly felt a strong tug on his shoelaces and, before he knew it, had been pulled down into the water. Luckily, the river was a fairly calm one, and after a bit of struggle the boy managed to haul himself up, a short investigation of his shoes revealing a small Totodile who was chewing at the boy's shoelaces with a blissful expression on his face. It soon turned out that the little crocodile, whom Yikari soon dubbed 'Marco', wasn't exactly the brightest crayon in the box. Apparently, the water type has developed a very particular taste for noodles and, according to his own words, considered that Yikari's shoelaces were quite exquisite in that regard. Having provided the Totodile with a suitable meal, Yikari had no problem in gaining his trust and the two soon grew to be partners. While Marco, as previously mentioned, isn't particularly bright, he's a very confident and friendly pokémon who always tries his best and has a very strong intuitive belief of what is right and wrong. He is also strong even for a member of his own species, and quite stubborn when he puts his mind to it, and if anything, his evolution has only served to enhance those traits. Luckily, the Croconaw rarely bothers to ponder deeply on matters, usually relying with an almost childish conviction on Yikari's judgement, trusting that the boy always knows what to do.

Haunter "Hagure" (Male)

A playfull and mischievous pokémon quite close in personality to his trainer, Hagure first met up with Yikari and Marco as the two were out on one of their nightly excursions, having, by chance, happened to grow curious about the very same building. Amused by the possibility to cause some mischief, the Haunter promptly proceeded to stalk Yikari, waiting for the right moment, at which point he clasped the boy by both shoulders and screamed into his ears at the top of his voice, startling Yikari and causing him to trigger an alarm in the building they were in, forcing both the boy and his Croconaw to make a hasty retreat with a manically cackling Haunter at their tails. After that incident, Hagure continued to follow the duo, leading to a myriad of precariously placed water buckets, tied together shoelaces, sudden scaring ambushes and other pranks directed towards the boy and his Croconaw. Yikari soon grew to learn the Haunter's patterns however, rigging up a counter-prank so complicated and well executed that the Haunter actually grew to respect the boy, agreeing to join his team so that both could learn from each other. Since then, the two of them have spent plenty of time laughing, joking, conning, and playing pranks on carefully chosen individuals, and generally getting into trouble in any way they can, staying true to their guiding principle 'If it's not fun, it's not worth it.'. Hagure is perhaps the more recklessly mischievous of the two, however, being far less discerning about whom to mess with and how much than his trainer.

Houndoom "Hiro" (Male)

Yikari's latest catch to date. Unlike his companions, Hiro is a quiet, pragmatic, and rather dour pokémon. He rarely smiles, and even then it's usually a gleefull kind of smile, speaks very little and only if he thinks it's necessary, and enjoys being alone with his thoughts most of the time. He is not one to make jokes unless they are sarcastic in nature and hates it when no-one else seems to be taking situations seriously. When Yikari first found Hiro, the Houndoom had been imprisoned n a cage by a professional poacher and his body showed signs of heavy abuse, which is perhaps the reason for Hiro's negative mindset to this day. Regardless, Hiro sees it as his job in the group to make sure that the rest stay alive, a duty which he, like all things in life, takes seriously, and while he and Yikari do have plenty of differences in their opinions and often argue, there is still a bond of trust between them, and both are ready to support each other whenever necessary.

History (Optional): Born in Fuschia City, Kanto, Yikari was always a mischievous child, even in the age when he was barely able to stand, and caused no end of headaches for his parents. His father, a bussinessman and one of the top executives in the Kanto pokémart chain, rarely had time to spend at home, leaving even more of the responsibility of raising the unruly young Yikari to the boy's mother, a former teacher gone housewife who, it soon turned out, didn't have a very good capacity for handling stress. One day when Yikari was hardly older than seven, his mother suddenly collapsed right in the middle of her morning routine. Once doctors had been called to the scene, the woman was quickly diagnosed with over-exhaustion and weak nerves and temporarily called away to a rest home so that she could recover. Now of course, Yikari's father was still by no means ready to take up the scepter, so instead, he chose to delegate responsibility of the boy to his own father, an aged ninja master whom he hoped could teach the boy some discipline.

While at first Yikari thought that living with a stuffy old grandfather would be a real gyp, it soon turned out that the grandfather in question, Hibiki Arikawa, was far from stuffy; an eccentric old man who promptly refused to accept that age was catching up with him. Excited to have a youngin' around the house to teach him about modernity, the old ninja master was more than willing to relate the knowledge of his own skills to the boy, in fact, he insisted, and although Yikari was quite far from a model student, he still grew to learn a thing or three from 'gramps' during the time he spent with him, which soon grew from a couple of months to a year to a couple of years, as it turned out that Yikari's mother was recovering far slower than what had been expected and that they didn't want to over-exert her, although Yikari and his grandfather made a point of making regular visits to see her. Growing up this way, Yikari quickly took up the habit of excercising the skills he had learned by poking around town and getting into all kinds of trouble, and, eventually, grew quite notorious around the parts, up to the point where his grandfather decided that it might have been better for him to...get some distance before certain people in his community got overly ticked, and when Yikari reached the age of twelve, a traditional starting-age for trainers, his grandfather was quite willing to send him out into the world, hoping that the boy's Totodile friend would be enough to keep him safe from his own habit of getting into trouble.

Travelling first through his own home region and later even venturing on brief excursions to Johto and Hoenn, Yikari got to experience a great deal of things and meet many people, people who grew to think of him with more or less fondness, although if the mischievous boy ever got to experience something he didn't find amusing even in retrospect he certainly isn't showing it, always ready to give the curious a friendly smile and relate one of his fantastic tales, half of them half-truths and the rest full-lies.

Other (Optional): Trained by his grandfather as he is, Yikari has mastered a few basic tricks of the ninja trade, possessing a good talent for jumping, climbing, stealth, and pick-pocketing as well as his favourite skill; the creation of smoke bombs.

RP Sample: EDITNESS: Well, the sample is done. Oh, and if your still not convinced then might I direct your attention to Ancient Dynasty and Showgan?

"Yikari Arikawa!"

The loud, authoritan call resounded ominously across the Slateport City market square, like the first roll of thunder before a full storm breaks out. Surveying the effects of his exclamation stood the voice's owner, a rather rotound man who seemed to be in his late forties, his faded brown hair already displaying signs of thinning, despite his best efforts to conceal this by donning a dark brown hat which he thought looked quite smashing in combination with his equally coloured suit and blue tie. The man leaned a bit on his wooden cane, which was painted a blue matching his tie, for a moment before walking over towards the small crowd of people who were gathered around the person he had just adressed, another man, this one far more youthfull and far less obese, dressed in a manner which simply screamed 'hired muscle'.

As the duo approached, the small crowd quickly dispersed, leaving only one person standing to meet the two men; it was a boy, somewhat gangly-looking with his long legs and generally skinny build, his dark blue shirt, greyish white shorts, and sneakers which looked like they had been white in their better days creating a peculiar contrast with his short but healthy-looking, dark brown hair and the white-toothed smile of purest innocence he wore on his face.

"Edwin Palmer!" he exclaimed, throwing his arms out dramatically as if to embrace the older man, "Dearest of all my friends! How are you this fine day?"

"Don't you 'friend' me, Arikawa!" the man who was apparently named Edwin snapped, glaring furiously at the boy, "You've gone too far this time!"

"Gone too far?" Yikari echoed with a look of polite curiosity on his face, "Palmer-san, whatever do you mean?"

"You know bloody well what I mean!" Edwin snapped furiously, a vein bulging treatheningly from his now considerably sweaty face, "And don't try to sidetrack me with that fancy pre-school japanese of yours! It's your cruddy hair tonic!"

"My hair tonic?" the boy repated with a continuously polite, but now slightly hurt, expression on his face, "Ed-kun, are you implying that there is something wrong with my great, great, great grandmother's formula?"

"I ain't implying nothing!" Edwin bellowed, stamping his foot, "I'm saying that you conned me and passed a bottle full of ditch water onto me! And I'm also saying that you'll provide a refund right now!"

The hired muscle-man took this opportunity to crack his knuckles treatheningly.

"Now...Eddie-baby..." Yikari continued in a soothing tone, carefully placing a hand on the man's shoulder, "Of course I'll pay you back if there's something wrong with the tonic, but...dear man, you didn't apply it to your hair, did you?" he asked the last question with the tone of one who had just come to a terrible realization.

"Eh?" Edwin asked, now having been forced to come to a pause, "Well-of course I...I mean...it's a hair tonic-"

"Oh, poor, poor Palmer-sama." the boy replied in a slightly melancholy tone, shaking his head, "What am I to do with you? I shall have a new bottle delivered to your home free of charge, as an apology for the incovenience, and with proper application instructions too. Your poor man, applying hair tonic to your hair..." he finished by giving the older man a compassionate pat on the shoulder.

"I-well...I..." Edwin muttered, now having completely lost the ball, "Erm...that's-that's mighty kind of you." he managed at last, now visibly calmed.

"Don't mention it, Ed-kun." Yikari replied, giving the man another pat on the back and a cheerfull smile, "Now if you would excuse me, I think some of the good ladies over there are waiting for their turn." he cocked his head in the direction of a small group of women who were, indeed, watching the scene with a measure of interest.

"Oh-course', sorry to bother you..." Edwin replied, standing helpless there with his hired muscle by his side while the boy cheerfully skipped over to his next customers, bowing deeply to each one and acting with all of those clichéd little phrases and mannerisms which he knew tended to provoke some giggling and laughter.

Poor, deluded, Palmer-sama... Yikari thought for himself as he started out his negotiations, Why on earth would I have given him ditch water when there was a perfectly good tap available?

Light_Azumarill February 5th, 2006 10:25 AM

Yayness! I actually signed up earlyish for this one! ^-^ Lemme see... should I be a trainer... or a coordinator... oh the decisions!! o.o

And Alter, I just noticed your newest quote. XD


Name: Cynthia Tharnst

Age: 14

Gender: Female

Appearance: Cynthia has long, light blue hair that looks rather curly near the ends. She has a very pale complexion, and light gray eyes. She looks like one of thos girls who if a strong breeze came by, it would blow her over like a piece of paper. She's very skinny, and is of medium height. She wears a pink skirt with a white top that has three pink roses printed on it. Her backpack is quite small and also light blue in color. She usually has her hair down, though sometimes she remembers to put it up. Cynthia's face always seems to have a melancholy expression on it, even when she is happy.

Personality: A quiet person, Cynthia is not one to talk too much. She speaks when needed, and when she feels comfortable, and at first glance she seems somber and weak. However, Cynthia's will-power and extreme loyalty make her a hard person to defeat. She has a strong sense of justice, and when she feels that something is unjust, she will not hesitate to try and right the wrong. Cynthia has many fears. She fears heights, crowds, water, noise, spiders, darkness; pretty much everything. Because of this, she relies heavily upon her pokemon and her friends to help her. These fears are the reason she became a pokemon trainer, so that she could learn how to overcome them, and become a better person.

Pokemon:

Spoink (Wilbur)- Named after a Spoink in a famous children's book, Wilbur is Cynthia's partner pokemon. She simply adores the little piggy, and he adores her back. They have always been inseperable. The Spoink is a kind and gentle pokemon that came to watch over Cynthia when she was very sick once when she was little. The two became good firneds, and Cynthia even helped Wilbur find a beautiful deep blue pearl to place on his head so that he could impress a girl Spoink he had been fond of. She still rejected him though, but Cynthia cheered her friend up in no time.

Doduo (Tic-Tac)- This pokemon was a gift to Cynthia by her father. It was considered rare where she lived, and so she was very happy to recieve her. She appropriately named her "Tic-Tac", derived from the sound that her talons made when she walked on the sidewalk or other smooth surfaces. However, because it is a Doduo, she has two heads to her. One of the heads is serious and angry all of the time, while the other is carefree and almost annoyingly self-centered. Thus when Cynthia refers to the serious head, she calls her "Tic", and when referring to the other, she calls her "Tac".

History: Cynthia grew up on a large farm near the outskirts of Fuschia City. Her family was constantly having to round up escaped Safari Zone pokemon, and return them to the park. But Cynthia got to see many rare pokemon this way that most people only glimpse a few times in her life. She began to feel sorry for the trapped park pokemon, that were always attempting to escape into the wild. Her family didn't share her sentiments though, and so she remained quiet about it. Sometimes she could swear that she could see whip lashes on some of the escaped pokemon, but she figured perhaps they were from poachers. Yes, that had to be it....

Unfortunately, Cynthia wasn't much help to her family. She was so afraid of a great many things. She was afraid of bugs so she was always racing about outside, trying to get them away from her. She was afraid of heights, which didn't help much when it was time to build a new barn. She couldn't even enjoy herself when she went to the beach, afraid that the water would drown her. People, including her family, teased her about her fears, and she always felt bad about it, but what could she do?

Her family's farm had many pokemon on it, Miltank, Tauros, even some grazing Bayleef that they would use to help pull things in addition to their Rapidash. Cynthia was supposed to get a Ponyta for her 10th birthday, but she didn't really want one. She wanted a unique pokemon that would still accurately reflect her country life. Luckily for her, around her 10th brithday, she got very sick with pneumonia, and had to stay in bed for 3 weeks. This may seem unlucky, but it was then that she met her partner pokemon Wilbur the Spoink. Wilbur snuck in her room to watch over her, and he helped cheer up the depressed little girl. After the Spoink agreed to stay with her, she made the decision to become a pokemon trainer in order to overcome her fears. She had to prove to herself that she could accomplish things that would help her family.

Her first year of pokemon training was pretty easy. She caught a Pidgey, and forced herself to train a Caterpie. She went around to the gyms in Kanto and tried her hand at beating them all. When a year had passed, she went home for a while to take a break, and released her two new pokemon, then a Pidgeotto and Butterfree, back into the areas she caught them from. She figured that they would want to go home like she had. Wilbur the Spoink stayed with her of course. Her father gave her a coming home present of a Doduo he had been raising up for her. She happily accepted it, and went out for her second year of training. This time she raised a Poliwag and discovered a new fear of hers-- electric pokemon. A girl's angry Pikachu accidently shocked her with a Thunderbolt, and she actually had to go to the hospital because of it. Cynthia recovered physically, but mentally she became terrified of any electric pokemon. When she released the now Poliwhirl back to its home, and went back to hers, she took a year off, and calmed herself down a bit. Now she is ready for a new challenge, and hopes to somehow curve her fear of electricity.

Other: Nothing much to put here. =P *pokes*

RP Sample: Phwee! It's... Showgan! And... my RP Elemental Knights! Taa-daa! XD

Jack_Skellington February 5th, 2006 10:58 AM

Erm, is it OK if I join?? This RP looks intriguing(sp?).....

Name: Kiro Namagutchi
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Appearance: A very slender young man, Kiro has a height of 6'1. His skin is a very dark apricot and he has big teal eyes. He has black hair, spiked up in a very wierd fashion. His upper wardrobe consists of a dark purple long-sleeved shirt which he wears all the time under a yellow vest, with the 8 badges from Hoenn he earned embedded with 4 the right side, and 4 more on the left. His pants are a dark navy blue, with two red stripes on each side, and a zipper at the heel, which he unzips, to make it look cooler. His shoes look like big sneakers, almost like clown shoes, and they are a pale purple. He also wears two headphones which are attached to his neck, cord dangling below to his pockets connected to his CD Player, Torchic Brand. He usually has a sad expression, even when he is filled with joy. On his back, he wears a teal-colored backpack.

Personality: A very quiet person, Kiro was never really much of a talker, until he met his girlfriend, Nami. Nami made him into the guy he is today, a hyper, oversensitive, overall nice kind of guy. He is also a very vigilantic person, always ready to help someone in need, and he is happy to do it. But, sometimes, he can be very lazy, or not active. He always like to listen to his music, usually rock, on his CD Player.

Pokemon:

Ralts(M),(Kindle)-Having a wierd nickname, Kindle was Kiro's first Pokemon, which he caught by accident. He caught it, when he was walking through the Route from Cherrygrove, to Rustboro, and he decided to take a nap, which made the Ralts come nearer to him, because he had PokeSnacks in his bag. When Kiro awoke, the Ralts was happily sleeping next to him, and he threw a PokeBall at it, obviously, capturing it. He then nicknamed it Kindle, after the brand of PokeSnack the Ralts ate. Kiro has Kindle holding an Everstone, which never makes it evolve.

Flareon(F),(Ember)-Ember was Kiro's second Pokemon, him capturign it when she was still and Eevee. Kiro found her in Rustboro, in the backroom of a storage house, near death. When he found her, Kiro quickly took her to the Rustboro PokeCenter, healing her. She was grateful, and then decided to journey with Kiro, which was when he noticed the she was carrying a Fire Stone. He quickly used it to evolve her, and then nicknamed her Ember.

Lapras(M),(Ice)-Kiro had aquired Ice by a trade with Wallace, who had seen that he had great ability after defeating him, so, in exchange for a Kingdra Kiro had, he traded for the Lapras, which was probably the only male Pokemon Wallace had. Content with his new Pokemon, Kiro makes his way back home..


History (Optional): Will be revealed throughout RP.....

Other (Optional): None

RP Sample: (OOC: IS it ok to give you a Link to an RP where my skills are shown?) Look at: Kingdom Hearts: Death and Rebirth, and Elemental Knights Remake.

Random Plushie February 5th, 2006 11:42 AM

Oh yay, I knew today was going to be a good day! ^-^

And since I forgot to mention this earlier, everyone hug Alter because he helped me with revision. Yes, hug him because he needs a hug, I say.


I shall get to the sign-ups now.


@Alter Titan: Splendid profile! ^o^ Like I really need to say more.. XD Too bad ya couldn't think of an RP Sample, but I won't think much of it since the two RPs you've listed are fine samples in themselves. So, you are Accepted~!

@Melissa: Ah yes, you did a good job as well. No problem in waiting for the History. And since I've also seen how well you can RP, I'll also consider your past performances your sample ('cause Alter's getting away with it, too). So of course, you're Accepted~!

@Jack Skellington: Your username reminded me of the best movie ever. XD Getting to business, your sign-up is okay. Are you sure you meant "the Route between Cherrygrove and Rustboro City"? They're on two different regions, brother. XD Ah, and it is okay to have past/current RPs as your sample. I'll accept that. ^-^ Accepted~!


Now I guess I'll edit my own sign-up into the first post.

Edit: Well, that's done.

Burninating_Torchic February 5th, 2006 12:21 PM

Name: Jirae Flaredown
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Appearance: Jirae is about 5'10" and weighs about 130 lbs. He wears a black T-Shirt and black shorts, both of which have flame designs on them near the bottom. He wears black moccasin-type shoes. His hair is short, somwhat spikey, and brown, and his eyes are brown as well. A scar oddly resembling a flame is on his right knee.

Personality: Jirae has a somewhat split personality. At times, he is very cruel and critizisive of other people and thinks most other people to be lower then himself. At other times, however, he is a very kind and caring person who is willing to die to help a friend. His friends usually get annoyed at the constant changing between these two personalities.

Pokemon:

1. Blaziken lv36
Male
"Blaze"
Jirae's strongest Pokemon, Blaze was Jirae's starter Pokemon as a Torchic. For quite some time Jirae trained Blaze exclusively, so he quickly leveld up and evolved. Due to this, the strength of Blaze himself as well as Blaze's relationship with Jirae is much stronger then that of any other of Jirae's Pokemon.

2. Tailow lv14
Female
"Airfall"
The first Pokemon Jirae ever caught in the wild was a Tailow, which he named Airfall. A very fiesty Pokemon, Airfall often pecks at random objects such as trees and rocks.

3. Dustox lv12
Male
"Intoxicator"
As a wurmple, Intoxicator didn't do much except lay around and eat berries. Eventually, as he saw Jirae's other Pokemon getting stronger, he decided to participate in battles more and more and eventually evolved. Intoxicator had wanted to be a Beautifly, however Jirae was happy that he had evolved into Dustox instead.

4. Aron lv17
Female
"Hardhat"
Like his name would imply, Hardhat is a very defensive Pokemon both in battle and in personality. Rather shy, Hardhat doesn't often play with Jirae's other Pokemon, even though she's been offered to many times.


History: Raised in Hoenn, Jirae wasn't really interested in Pokemon until about age 14, when his friend got him into it. He then started his Pokemon journey and over the course of the years he was able to get the first 4 gym badges of the Hoenn league. When he was in Lavaridge town, after beating Flannery, he received the letter from Professor R. Chrysso and decided to accept the trip to Ryko.

Other: Nope.

RP Sample: For the best examples of my roleplaying skills, you can check out Reach Into Time (Pokemon Roleplay) and Fantasy Dimension (Other Roleplay).

Alter Ego February 5th, 2006 12:32 PM

Wha-? Whadda ya' mean I have no sample? *Pokes own profile* I added that one in just for you, ya' know. Anyways, you only noticed my new quote now, Melissa? It's been there for a good three days now. xD Ohh...and Cynthia creates a nice contrast with Yikari, yes she does. ^-^

Aaaanyhow, I'm supposed to be writing a lit. analysis for Swedish so I can't stay on and stalk people too long here. Might stop by, briefly, later on.

Loki February 5th, 2006 12:36 PM

OOC: DONE

Name: Mayal Lash
Age:14
Gender:female
Appearance: The flap that goes down the front of her shirt continues to the very rim of the dress's skirt. The skirt has a sort of wrinkled effect to it, and she has fourteen thin silver bracelets evenly distributed amongst her wrists, seven on each arm. Mayal has pale aqua boots that reach her mid-shin on, so pale they're almost white. The clips that hold up her chesnut brown hair are ever changing, sometimes white bunnies, sometimes orange kittens, etc. Her unruly hair almost never looks neatly combed, usually with a 'just woke up' kind of wavy effect to it.

Personality: Mayal is soft-spoken, her voice usually very quiet, or near a soft murmur, but she never hesitates to say what's on her mind, whether she says it loudly or quietly. She has a strong sense of responsibility, and will often drag her friends into a situation where they have to help someone else. Mayal is easily frustrated, and doesn't like it when she doesn't do something perfect of at least average. When she doesn't succeed, she usually breaks into a temper tantrum, where it mixes with a state of depression. During these tantrums, she'll often snap at anyone who talks to her, rant on a trivial thing, or keep deathly silent. Most of the time, she if quite patient and agreeable, though she's quick to be polite to people she likes, and as rude as possible to people she doesn't like, or finds just as rude. She makes decisions before she thinks them through, but they usually lead out okay.

Pokemon:

Absol (m)
Name: Zell
History:Zell was traded to Mayal from a Cooltrainer in return for a Girafarig. He wasn't too happy to be stuck with the crazy bunch of pokemon, each with mischevious or overly helpful personalities, but in the end, after Mayal showed it how seriousness wasn't always the way to go, it tolerated the group...to an extent.
Personality: Zell has the patience of about one short fuse about to blow, as in, it doesn't take much to piss him off. When he gets pissed off, he'll often make sure everyone knows it, as he takes different tactics each time. He has a very sarcastic demeanor, and doesn't hesitate to say what he thinks about something, much like Mayal herself, though his brash and secluded attitude clashes with the other pokemon's.

Haunter (M)
Name:Nightmare
History: Haunter was originally Mayal's first pokemon at her young age of 3, a Ghastly. As they played together, he learned many new techniques, often trying them out on unsuspecting boys of which Mayal disliked. He liked to cause mischief around her school, and was soon banned from school grounds, though he still follows her around invisibly at school.
Personality: Nightmare is very mischevious, and has the most happy-go-lucky personality you'll ever meet. He likes to play pranks on just about anybody, and laughs almost non-stop afterwards. He's rarely serious, even in battle, he'll play pranks on the pokemon, manipulating Mayal's command into a frightening prank.

Shuppet(F)
Name: Treble
History: Treble was one of Nightmare's victims of a prank, when he became invisible as a cloth was tied around Treble's eyes and odd groaning sounds came from his mouth. Too scared to move or fight back, Treble was forced to endure this until Mayal returned Haunter back to it's pokeball. Treble instantly considered Mayal her savior and followed her around until Mayal decided to just capture her.
Personality: Treble is very timid, and will often start to tremble when it's scared, giving her her name. When she's scared, she's pretty much immobolized, and won't be able to do anything but stare and shake. Or, she'll wail at the top of her lungs, in a sort of screech attack.

Sneasel (M)
Name:Slash
History: Slash is Treble's best friend, the one who protected Treble when she was immobilized. He was quite disgruntled when Treble started to follow Mayal around for saving it just once when he'd save her fifteen times over, but eventually was captured by her in a fight with the Haunter that had frightened his dear friend.
Personality: Sneasel is just as mischevious as Nightmare, but he knows when to stop, and when he's not playing pranks he's rather serious, much like his newfound friend Zell. The two of them are usually the one's to restrain Nightmare when he goes over the top in one of his 'brilliant' ideas. He is also usually the butt of Nightmare's pranks, or in other words, the victim, which gives him a disgruntled disposition most often.

History (Optional): Mayal was your average girl, getting those average grades and in regular afterschool activities. She enjoyed gymnastics, being extremely flexible and also did track as another extra curriculum. She started with a ghastly, one of her favorite pokemon, as she always had a liking for dark, psychic, and ghost pokemon. Training with her Ghastly day after day, their bond became stronger yet after he evolved into a Haunter. They easily captured a Shuppet, Sneasel, and Girafarig together. Mayal traded her Girafarig for a newly captured Absol. Her life in Larousse was always the same, battling in the battle tower, and fighting nearby trainers. Sometimes on her family's vacations to different cities in Hoenn, she'd gather badges for fun, entered a few contests, and did just regular girl stuff. But soon enough her parents made her make a decision. Which way down the path did she want to go? She made the immediate decision to battle, be a trainer, because her pokemon weren't there to show-off, they were there to win battles and badges. One day after a particularly rough battle in the battle tower, she reieved a letter in the mail, asking her to come to a region she'd heard of only as a vacation, for a presentation. Being bored, having not yet gotten permission from her parents to travel Hoenn alone, she took this opportunity to travel a different region alone, while her parents thought she was doing educational programs, and immediatly consented to come.

Other (Optional): Mayal is very flexible and quick on her feet.

RP Sample: (Oh you needed a link? Okies then.) Fantasy Dimension

Charon February 5th, 2006 1:01 PM

{ooc| Wh00t, Plushie, this looks awesome. However I must refuse your request to hug Alter, because... ah, who cares. After all, I have a distinct lack of scruples. *flying tackles him* *stands up quikcly and brushes the dirt off herself*
Mind if I join? As usual I'll be playing a gal.
Also, yay for doduos called Tic-tac!}

Name: Amber Western
Age: 15
Gender: Female

Appearance: Amber has a real 'cowgirl' look about her, which is probably something to do with the brown cowboy hat she always wears at a jaunty angle on her head. It's a light beige colour with a dark brown rim, and has a swellow feather poking from it. She has an oval face dotted with cute freckles, and shoulder length ash-brown hair which falls in many curled ringlets. She has bright amber eyes and a jovial, care-free expression.
Amber is long-legged and tall, slightly flat-chested but very skinny. Despite her cowboy hat, the rest of her attire is strangely normal - cut-off jeans, bamboo flipflops, with a black tank top and a pink bikini underneath. She has an overlarge suede bag, which she normally carries slung over one shoulder. It contains all sorts of junk, including a towel.

Personality: Amber is an active, upbeat girl, with a thirst for adventure and a thrill seeking streak. She tends to be fearless, climbing up waterfalls and throwing herself down raging rivers. Amber has a love for water, her pokemon and her family - though she finds it difficult to make friends. Amber bores quickly of situations, and her crude ways tend to offend. She recently started training pokemon as another source of excitement - her family are also far happier for her to travel around with pokemon companions than on her own.

Pokemon:
Vaporeon~ Festival, ♀
Festival was Amber's first pokemon, and they're very much in tune with each other. Amber isn't paticularily intelligent or good with languages so half the time she has no idea what her pokemon are saying; despite this they have a very open, good-natured relationship, which involves lots of swimming, giggling, and making fun of other people.
As her name suggests, Festival met Amber at a music festival a year or two ago; as an eevee, Festival had been a rather neglected pet, and was dragged around concerts by her teenage owner. Amber had 'borrowed' her, but 'forgot' to give her back. As a result, Festival now belongs to a weird little cowgirl. She's a very light-hearted pokemon.

Tauros~ Roam, ♂
Roam... is extremely dim-witted, extremely slow, and extremely laid back. Amber tends to ride on him, but Roam really couldn't care less. Why he decided to follow her, Amber really has no idea, but he plods after her like a lovable puppy.

Chimecho~ Ivanhoe, ♂
Yet another pokemon that has for some unknown reason attached itself to Amber, Ivanhoe fought against Festival in a rookies tournament, lost sorely, and decided he preferred Amber over his usual trainer. For a while, Amber tried to ignore him in the hope he'd go away. However, he kept following her, and she's finally accepted him into her team - though Amber would have preferred something with a bit more 'grrr'.

History (Optional): Amber grew up in safe, secure Celadon - her mother and father owned the resturant down town. Amber had a cosy upbringing with her many siblings (seven in all) and large, extended family, and until the age of seven she was a very contented little girl. The rockets took over the town, built the gambling shop, and her father joined the team. His pokeball business had gone bankrupt due the the department store, and while he sold to the rockets at reduced prices, he at least had some profit coming in. Mrs. Western and her children knew, and while they didn't like it, they knew it had to be done. He became distanter, busier, but at leats he was putting food on the table and shoes on his children's feet. So Amber went on living happily, though warily, for another year. Until their father vanished completely. An investigation was launched, but he was never found; by this time, the rockets had already been forced to disband by a mysterious trainer called 'Red'.
Amber and her family lived on. They got by, with help from relatives. It was just another casulty of the Rockets, the newspapers claimed. Amber became wild, thrill-seeking and brusque; soon she spent more time on the cycling road and in fushia's seas than in her own beloved city. Her mother, in turn, became nervous and skittish. Her family was breaking down one by one, what with her older children heading off to college and her husband gone.
Then Amber found Festival. The girl took her chance and fled, off to a far-off region - glad to be away from the bad memories.

Other (Optional): OMG SHE CAN SWIM.... Yeah, my trip to the pool the other day has given me yet another obsession.

RP Sample: Showgan and whatnot.... I will add links laterz.

Random Plushie February 5th, 2006 1:02 PM

Okay Alter, I've edited my post again, is it to your satisfactory? XD


@Burninating Torchic: Hmm, you may want to be a bit more descriptive than that. For example, I can't really get an idea of your Pokemon's personalities. Sorry, but your sign-up isn't really up to par, eh.. Declined~

@Naoko-chan: Is that RP Sample from an RP? Could you please provide a link? Thankies much. Anyways, I trust you'll finish soon. Pending~

@Charon: Hi hi! ^-^ You're going to make Alter sad. XD Anyways, your sign-up looks good, to put it simply. Accepted~

Burninating_Torchic February 5th, 2006 1:16 PM

Uh..what exactly do you mean? I think I put plenty of information down...I've never needed to put more information then that down for any other RPs I've done. Care to explain which areas, other then the personalities of my Pokemon, I need to elaborate on?

Loki February 5th, 2006 1:19 PM

OOC: I personally think she's pointing at your appearance and personality.

I've finished my sign-up sheet, just letting you know

Random Plushie February 5th, 2006 1:26 PM

@Burninating Torchic; Well, I just thought you could've elaborated just a bit more on his personality is all. Y'know, like went into a bit more detail on his reactions depending on which of his two personalities he was displaying. Not much more, just another line or two, know what I'm saying? The more details you provide, the better. You could've described more than three aspects of his two personalities.

@Naoko-chan: Yeah, that pretty much sums up my point. X3 Anyways, you've finished, and it looks fine, so you're Accepted~


I probably won't accept much more people after this.. Partially due to a Super Bowl Party, but whatever. o.o

Burninating_Torchic February 5th, 2006 1:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Random Plushie
@Burninating Torchic; Well, I just thought you could've elaborated just a bit more on his personality is all. Y'know, like went into a bit more detail on his reactions depending on which of his two personalities he was displaying. Not much more, just another line or two, know what I'm saying? The more details you provide, the better. You could've described more than three aspects of his two personalities.

@Naoko-chan: Yeah, that pretty much sums up my point. X3 Anyways, you've finished, and it looks fine, so you're Accepted~


I probably won't accept much more people after this.. Partially due to a Super Bowl Party, but whatever. o.o

So...wait. I elaborate on my character's personality and I get accepted, or what?

Random Plushie February 5th, 2006 1:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Burninating_Torchic
So...wait. I elaborate on my character's personality and I get accepted, or what?

Well, yes, if you fixed up your sign-up enough I could accept you. In addition to your personality, you could also add onto your character's appearance. I don't know, it just seemed a little short to me 'cause I'm weird like that.


I have to leave now. Will check on this later. :3

Kurosaki Ichigo February 5th, 2006 1:43 PM

Wow this looks intresting, i'll sign up for sure.

Name: Rhyly Usama
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Appearance: Rhyly, has spikish like dark brown hair very close to black his eyes are a lean black, he usually wears mostly black but with a tinse of red in his shirt and in his baggy pants, hes an overall cutie really. Overall thruout Rhyly's journey and adventure he changes his attire alot, his main attire is the one described above, he has various other attires, his PJs for example are a black pair of bottoms with a shirt with Pikachu's head covered over it, he also has his training attire, this is the only pair of clothing that isn't black this is his navy-blue clothing that has red once again and he also has a pair of black finger tiped gloves, but he also wears these clothes normally anyway.

Personality: Rhyly is young pokemon trainer from the Kanto region, he is exicted he loves Pokemon, and potentially has a thrist for pokemon battles, he loves to make friends, espically with his Pokemon, his first pokemon friend is his starter pokemon, Sparky his Pikachu, and he would do anything to protect those he loves, he is also one to wear black alot, most people usually assume that Rhyly is more of a Goth than a Pokemon Trainer, this generally can annoy our young friend, but of course what makes him the most angriest is when someone doubts his skills as a pokemon trainer, and thats when you really don't want to be near Rhyly.

Pokemon: Sparky: http://www.geocities.com/richiesite2/pic/19.jpg
Sparky, is Rhyly's Pikachu, and also his very first pokemon, he is different from most Pikachu's as he has a bit of hair on his head, form being quite old. He also is male, he has been attracted to some various different Pikachu's but also has a secret admirer.

Happy: http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/pkrs214.gif
Happy, is Rhyly's Butterfree, he is also one of Rhyly's first he evolved from a Caterpie to the fightful Butterfree, he is one of Rhyly's favs. This elegent Butterfree is a bit different from most of the Butterfree that you usually find for first of all its a female Butterfree, she has elegent wings with pink markings on her wings to symbolise that she is in love.

Zippo: http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/pkrs207.gif
Zippo, is Rhyly's Charmeleon, he was originally a Charmander, but he then evolved into a Charmeleon to save Rhyly's life from a devastating Mega Punch. Zippo has been very loyal to Rhyly, and would protect his trainer with his life, his most powerful attack is his Flamethrower attack.

Scyther: http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/pkrs281.gif
Syther, was the only member of Richie's team that he didn't name, the Scyther protected Rhyly in the Safari Zone because it trusted him as Rhyly had helped it, and thats how it joined Rhyly's team. Scyther's main advantage is his speed, unlike most of the other Scyther's he is one of the fastest it is unknown why he also has a special symbol that is on his chest it represents, friendship, the friendship he has with his trainer.

History: From the age of 8, Rhyly was intrested in Pokemon afterall being the grandson of a famous reseracher, had its advantages of becoming a Pokemon Trainer at such an early age, his very first pokemon was his Pikachu, this is his most loved pokemon, and most cherished, as he grew his Pokemon skills improved but even his grandfather was amazed at his Pokemon Raising ability and the ability to overcome all odds even when it looks as if that hes in trouble, and always comes out a winner even if he loses.

One of the most pypical moments in Rhyly's history is that when he had his first Pokemon Gym Battle he was battling agaist a Rock Gym Leader, this Gym Leader underminded Rhyly, and put him down telling him that he couldn't win with a puny Electric Pokemon, this trigered something inside of him as he managed to defeat the Mighty Rock Snake Onix, and of course won his first ever badge.

Of course just like his grandfarther, Rhyly is also a Trainer as well as a Reseracher, he generally spends his study and research in new pokemon, as well as Pokemon Fusion, or as it is usually known as DNA Splicing, but Rhyly is more concerned on the well being of his Pokemon, and not the breakthrus that he makes, and this makes him less of a Researcher, than what he should be.

Other (Optional): Rhyly has a natural talent for raising Pokemon, even when faced with an Angry Rhydon, he was able to calm the Rhydon down and befriend it. Even from the Age of 10, he had a natural talent of Pokemon liking him, this talent proves to be one of his greatest strengths in the adventure he will now take.

RP Sample: *Rhyly made his way down the pavement from Ash's house as he smiled softly some and looked from side to side* "Well Sparky, looks like its time for us to head out, we have to head to the new Region and meet this Professor, i'm sure this is the start of a great adventure eh Sparky?" *Sparky just looks at Rhyly with a smile as they then begin to make their way, they head in the direction of the Harbour to board this boat to the new Region as he had made his way aboard the boat he looked about himself his Pikachu on his shoulder as he entered his cabin he sat down on his bed as he thru his bag down, looking about himself as he grinned with a smile* "I need to become better, i need to become stronger...i need to be the best" *he then grinned even more a little gritting his teeth* "And on this new Region i will do just that, at least...i hope i can, do you think i can Sparky?" *Sparky merely looked at his Trainer with a smile and then a bit of a nod* "I'm glad you think so Sparky...tonight were gonna have a celebration on the beggining of our Journey in the Ryko Region, their should be all new kinds of Pokemon for us to capture, i would of taken more Pokemon, but Oak just wouldn't let me..." *he sighed a bit as he got up picking his belt up hooking it back up as he walked out of his room only for a Pokemon Trainer to challenge him to a battle, he only gave a mere smirk as his first Pokemon to be sent out was his Scyther* "Okay Scyther, lets make this a quick and easy battle, attack with Fury Cutter" *Scyther launched towards the Enemys Pokemon, the enemy dodged it and tryed to make a counter attack but Scyther was one step ahead as it has used Double Team to confuse the Enemy before striking it with a powerful Fury Cutter the Enemy Trainer only had that one Charmeleon which seemed to be no match for the Scyther, Rhyly hand shaked the Trainer, as the Trainer departed Rhyly began to laugh to himself as he had only begun his Journey*

P.S. I was stuck on what 4th pokemon to use, but i'll use Scyther cuz i was stuck between that Ghastly and Eevee.

Alter Ego February 5th, 2006 1:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Burninating_Torchic
So...wait. I elaborate on my character's personality and I get accepted, or what?

All she said was that your sign-up was understandard, which it was, whether she accepts your or not depends on how much you improve it. I'd suggest elaborating on everything, myself...-.-

And yes Plushie, I am quite satisfied and-OMG! Incoming! O___O

*Tackled by Charon*

I feel so...violated...

Nah, J/K. ^-^ Although you know, you're really delegating your task to others, Plushie. Ahh...if only others had leadership skills like that. xD

Kurosaki Ichigo February 5th, 2006 2:01 PM

I hope mine gets accepted, i really should of used an original character, but i love roleplaying as Richie @[email protected]

Random Plushie February 5th, 2006 8:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alter Ego
Although you know, you're really delegating your task to others, Plushie. Ahh...if only others had leadership skills like that. xD

That's right, my leadership skills suck and I know it. XD



@Kakashi Hatake: Hmm, personally I don't like it when someone's character isn't original, but that's just me. >.< I'd also say that the sign-up itself could've been better, but since you're using Richie I don't know how much you could add to it. I'd say the best way to go would be to create an original character, which would make it easier to write a better sign-up sheet. All in all, the conclusion is: Declined~

If you wow me with an OC I may reconsider.


Alright, here ish the list of accepted people so far:

Alter Ego
Light_Azumarill
Jack_Skellington
Naoko-chan
Charon-chan

And myself, too, obviously. o.o

I think that'll be it for sign-ups, unless Burninating Torchic or Kakashi Hatake decide to edit their posts. If someone else comes along they'll need a really good sign-up. XD

Anyways, I'll probably start some time tomorrow, probably around the same time as this post.

Kurosaki Ichigo February 6th, 2006 4:10 AM

Awww, well could i at least use his pokemon?

Ibuberu February 6th, 2006 4:44 AM

Yey! Plushie started her own RP!^^

Oh Feebas, so you decide to leave Yibber out of all the fun,eh?XD

Whatever, no worries if I don't get accepted/ ish too late, Plushie.^^
Just doing up a sign-up sheet just incase the mighty Plushie reconsiders.XD


Sign-Up Form, Y’all-

Name- Ernis Reanald
Age- 14
Gender- Male

Appearance-
A brown-haired young man with fair skin and black eyes. That doesn't mean that he's withheld and depressed all the time or anything, no way. On the contrary, usually one should be able to catch that certain sparkle in his eyes when he's happy. Ernis' height never really mattered to him, but he was always considered as a middle-ished heighted kid. The lad isn't one to be so self-conceited to pull out a mirror every few seconds to check his hair, nor is he one to let himself go without a care for personal hygiene. For short, the boy just makes sure that he's in a presentable state for all, more or less. His brown hair isn't long or anything, just barely reaching his shoulders.

He sports a blue-colored top with long sleeves, and I mean long. They fall over his hands, but this is of course, on purpose. What he claims to be 'style'. Ernis also wears a normal pair of black pants,nothing special, they aren't new...or old to the extent that there are holes and scratches. The dude takes good care of his pants. Great balls are secured on the equally black belt around his waist. To carry his many posessions, each with its own meaning to him, the boy is always seen with a yellow knacksack over his left shoulder.

Oh! And how could one not notice his perfectly clean and white sneakers?

Personality-

Well, for starters, Ernis is one whose personality..how would one put it? He loves and lives for the spotlight. An attention-seeker since young, the boy always tries his best to impress girls and show off to the males. In other words, he flirts and tries his luck. Course, this always fails, ending up with slaps and punches.

But was this going to keep him down? Of course not! Not many people manage to see his never-say-die determination. Probably because Ernis doesn't let it show as much, instead, replacing it with cowardliness. He tends to shy away(or run screaming) from potential danger, never really considered a loyal friend. Or a friend even!
Ernis has tried to make up for his lack of courage in the past, repaying those by helping them, despite their attempts to chase him away. The boy just hates this part of himself. Why did his conscieous have to be so big anyway?

The boy can also be funny at times, mostly cracking jokes for the attention and rarely, more for the fun of it. He knows when to be serious and has always had this knack in voicing out his opinions, whether the other side's listening or not. Plus, a small interest in Astrology, but that didn't really amount much to him.

Aside from all that, there is a reason why Ernis is such an attention-seeker in the first place. Is he even an attention-seeker to begin with?But yeah, having no close friends to confide in(except his trustworthy Pokemon), nobody knows much. Everyone just thinks he's a wannabe...and coward.

Pokemon-

Remoraid- Rew ~ Male

The first of the two Pokemon Ernis obtained before starting his journey. From his grandfather when he decided to set off and be known. His grandfather was a raiser of prized water Pokemon of the sea.

Rew is anything but energetic, the water type is lazy as can be, choosing to sleep in his pokeball instead of floating around near his trainer. This was a turn-off to Ernis at first, but later on, the boy finally discovered a new side to the Remoraid. His loyal side.
Whether he be napping, sleeping or not, when his trainer calls him out, Rew'll be ready for action, after a few yawns atleast.
The Remoraid also has a strange liking for eggs.

Feebas- Chue~Male

The second Pokemon Ernis received from his raiser of a grandfather(And his first best friend too). Chue is a headstrong and confident Feebas, always trying to keep the others around him happy and lively. Instead of slouching over and crying when Ernis' competitors call him 'ugly', this just makes the fish more determined than ever. It also gives him a higher percentage of launching a Water Pulse at the other side. Confidence would have to be the first thing you spot about him, a truely unique Feebas indeed.

Though a little down on the fact that he can't change Rew's attitude of sleeping, the Feebas decided to instead, continue smiling at other Pokemon he'd meet.

Sudowoodo- Buu - Female

The first, and so far the only Pokemon Ernis has managed to catch. Buu loves to giggle and mess around with the Pokemon around her, whether she knows them or not. She'd say 'Helloness!' to the smallest Wurmple and 'Lookies at your fluffiness of the tails!!' to a passing Usaring. She does have a serious side, though hardly ever shows it, only because she's rather scared that not as many would want to befriend a boring tree. Friendship is what this Rock Type really needed when she was all alone in the mountains. Mount Meteor to be precise.
That was when she saw Ernis walked(with a funny Feebas skipping beside him) by, within her sight, the Sudowoodo could only call out shrilly in happiness and excitement, rushing towards the boy in a hasty manner.
Ernis would have been squished with not for the fact that Buu skidded to a halt at the last possible minute to wave before unleashing a Rock Silde attack on Chue. She had to test these amusing people, see if they were good enough to be friends with her.

All went smoothly as Ernis picked up the Great ball, holding Buu inside, grinning to the slightly shooken Feebas on his shoulder.

History (Optional)-

Born in Mossdeep City, Hoenn, the boy began his journey at the age of 11, with only two fish pokemon and a knapsack filled with food and clothes for company.

Son of two Coordinators, Ernis figured that he'd most likely have a knack for Coordinating as well, it was supposed to be in his blood after all. Feebas was he wrong. The boy started out as a poor Coordinator, getting his appeals mixed up, only to witness the confusion of his Feebas and Remoraid. He then found out, that the saying was true. Pratice makes pretty appeals. Or..something like that. It was possibly one of the few times the young Coordinator didn't want to give up. Rare indeed.

With Rew in the Smart Segment, Chue in the Beauty, Ernis managed to win contests and improve his skills throughout the three years of his journey thus far.

If not for his grandfather's Mantine however, the boy would've been still stuck on Mossdeep, missing the chance to catch a Pokemon who was so suited for a Cute Contest like Buu.
Ah yes, Ernis' granfather. Quice Fernall. Great breeder he was, though the old man had no idea whatsoever in the department of contests, he still served as a good mentor to the boy. A tad fustrated when his grandson rebelled to say that 'Girl's don't dig sissy breeders', he decided to teach Ernis the fundimentals of battling instead.

Anyway, so the boy won contests, that didn't mean he was a true, gifted Coordinator or anything even close, he lost his fair share of contests. Still, he was getting somewhere, and sooner or later, he'd be able to follow his parent's footsteps and become a Master Rank Coordinator. Now he could only deal with being one who had endured his way up to three Super Rank ribbons he stored safely in his bag. Ernis had won a number of battles too, though never having fully grasped the subject. And well...he had little interest in Pokemon Battles. But, that doesn't stop him from excepting challenges.

Travelling around did have its perks, how many other valuables Ernis has managed to gather is a mystery. Rew could have sworn his scrambled eggs that he had caught a glimpse of a big, shiny white thing poking out of his trainer's bag once.

Now, knowing that there was a new reigon with fewer people, Ernis thought that if he could become on of the first top Coordinators there...

Oh, joy!

Other (Optional)-
As mentioned earlier, Ernis has always loved the stars in the sky, or the whole big, blue thing for that matter. Living near to the Space Center was a great pleasure for him. He'd always go there when he was younger and had time. Learning about the constellations made up of stars and the unexplored planets in the sky.


RP Sample-

{Fooey-ness!}the Rock type sighed to herself, she had sat herself on a stray rock on the cold ground. Actually, if one was to look carefully around, the cavern she was sitting in was filled with numerous amounts of rocks. Hard rocks, big rocks, small rocks. Most piling up ontop of one another to form a funny shaped hill to one side of wall.

She rolled around the small pebbles infront of her using those two branched arms, both ending with three shrub-like plants, trying her best to keep from falling asleep right then and there from the obvious boredom. This was what it had been since her whole family left her here. Telling the Rock type to get herself into gear and take care of herself. Be more independent and other morals the Pokemon would have only dreamed of remembering. The fork on her head wriggled back and forth absent-mindely as she looked up from the very, very indulging stones on the floor. It seemed that the brown-colored creature was hallutinating, as, for some reason..she could hear voices.

Actually soft mumbling as the creature couldn't make out the words properly, not like there were any noticable ears on her anyway. No wait!
Singing...?

{Always look on de' bright side of life! Da de-de- dum. Dum!}the Feebas on the shoulder of a boy hummed to himself, a wide smile plastered on his face.

{Whatness? People! People!! Peopleness!!!}the creature screamed in delight, jumping up, or rather, springing from her rock and started running over to the trainer and his Pokemon without any second thoughts. {Hee!! Hee! Hee! Helloness peoples!}she called out shrilly, waving her hands over her head to catch their attention.

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"Chue, you've been singing since we started going through this creepy cave! I know that this'll come back and haunt me when I sleep tonight..."Ernis grumbled, retreating back a few paces as a Zubat swooped down from one corner of cave, smiling at the boy with its gleaming fangs. It was as if the bat was trying to freak him out, the Coordinator knew it!

{Neh, Ernis, friend. I tell you, don't be so negative all the time! When'll we ever have the chance to walk through a scary cave where we can potentially lose our lives and sing jolly campfire songs at the same time?}the Feebas on the boy's shoulder gave him a pat on the head using one small fin before continuing to sing.

{Always look on de' bright side of life!}

"Thanks, Chue. You made me feel much better."Ernis replied sarcasticly, glaring at the fish Pokemon.

{No probelem!}

"I don't even know why I bother with you-?!"the boy squinted his eyes at an approaching figure, it was running too fast, it was too blurry to even know what that thing was. All he could make out were funny muffled calls of 'Suuuuudo!! Wood, suuuu!!!' or something like that.

"Chue!! Wha-what is that thing? Protect me will you?!"Ernis immediately tore the Feebas off his shoulder, holding him infront of his face and closing his eyes so that it wouldn't feel as bad.

{You are all funny people! Why do you place your funny fishness infront of you?}the Sudowoodo screeched to a halt, placing her hands on her hips and winking at Ernis and Chue. She was just about a few steps away from literally bowling the boy and his Feebas over.

{Now! I challenge you funny peopleness! You, beat, me! And I'll come with you to bring happiness forever moreness!!}the Rock type placed one hand on her chest, the other pointing to the Coordinator and his Feebas.

"Wha..?"the boy blinked, staring at the Sudowoodo with a look of utter confusion on his face, wanting to turn to ask Chue what she had just said. He was however, rudely stopped as the tree Pokemon jumped back and landed on the ground with a huge 'thud'. She grinned ever so slightly as the rocks inside the cavern started to shift out of their positions and roll towards the boy.

"Tell me again why we decided to come here, Chue?"


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Would continue but I need to do my homework.>_<;;

I just realised how rushed I was yesterday.o.O
I randomly named my character, counted the years wrongly.
*went and put 2 years instead of 3 years in the dude's history*

I kept on waking up in the middle of the night to whack myself for missing all the many parts I've edited into the post. X3

Alter Ego February 6th, 2006 5:53 AM

Dun' worry, Yibber, if that ain't a good sign-up then I don't know what is. ^-^ But I just noticed...two gender bends? If anyone else is accepted we'll have a male majority in the cast. I haven't seen that around here for...umm...well, ages quite frankly. Yay for that! ^0^

Oh, and this isn't a completely worthless post by the way, just after I shut of the computer last night I came to realize that my little boy would need something to carry his spare clothes and other things in so now I've added that. *Pokes profile edit* It's a small thing, but I just wanted to make sure I wouldn't cause any confusion.

Anyways, I'll just be waiting for this whole thing to start, which would be...*Blinks* the tommorow of today, which is the today of you because you posted that during your own yesterday, right? Whoa, I think I've confused myself. xD

Charon February 6th, 2006 7:41 AM

{ooc| Naaaar... I'm really tired... I got tripped while playing hockey and grazed the skin off my hands. Gah. This is why I hate sports. Anyway, I'm gonna make some brandy snaps later! Yay!
I am so proud of myself for violating Alter... =D

Yes, this isn't pointless because I'm informing y'all that... um... I edited the history. Badly. But I thought Amber needed one. Yeah.
And yay, like, lots of men! *slutcomment'd*
I'm annoyed, my friend told this guy I like... that I like him... I think it's revenge because I flirted with her boyfriend... ¬¬;
Girls are such she-dogs ^^;

BRANDY SNAP TIME!

EDIT: Also, Alter, why are you psoting pointless OOCs here when you should be posting in Showgan? We need Amelia input, Goddanm! *evil eye*}

Light_Azumarill February 6th, 2006 8:25 AM

@ Alter: Yeah... I'm slow... XD Remember? It took me forever to get to 1,000 posts? Slow. ^-^

@ Charon: I just randomly came up with the name Tic-Tac! I was thinking of that book... oh! I had the name just a moment ago in my head!!! X_X Oh yes! I remember now, I was thinking of a clock-doggie from the book "The Phantom Tollbooth" whose name was Tock... or was it Tick-Tock...? Oh snap... I give up, I haven't read that book since the 8th grade.... o.O

@ Plushie: Finished History! Just so youze know. ^-^

Alter Ego February 6th, 2006 9:58 AM

@ Plushie; Sorry to break my word like this but I just can't seem to keep myself from typing out this stuff. *Bows before the great RP master* If you think I'm being too spammy with this then just tell me and I'll clear up the offending posts, yes?

@ Charon; There, I've written up no less than two nice ICs in Showgan now, happy? ^-^ Typing up another one for Ancient Dynasty on the side here, although I'm also looking for a suitable article for my internal assessment in Economics.

@ Melissa; You slow? Oh, no, no, no...that term shall never do. You are simply thorough, that's all. ^-^ Oh, and your char...somber expressions...fear of spiders...and born and raised in Fuchsia? Gawd, that's dynamic potential right there. Heh, I hope you don't mind if Yikari has...ahem, run into that particular person once before, because a certain little scene involving a particularly large Ariados has just popped into my head. xD

Random Plushie February 6th, 2006 10:47 AM

@Yibber: Omigosh hello! Ernis! XD I can tell you put your heart in that, girl, so you shall be Accepted~ as well! No really, that was a good sign-up.

@Alter: Don't worry, I don't think you're going overboard just yet. XD

@Kakashi Hatake: Erm, I guess you could do that, but my statement about good sign-ups from earlier still stands. XD

Well, my Mom decided to call in sick (and leave me home with her XD), so I should start this now. I'm not supposed to be on the computer, though, so we'll see how that goes.

Kurosaki Ichigo February 6th, 2006 10:58 AM

Okay i updated, tell me whatcha think.

Random Plushie February 6th, 2006 11:10 AM

@Kakashi: Aw, ya could've been a lot more descriptive than that, right? Descriptive = Good. Length + Descriptive = Awesome. I don't see much of that in your current sign-up, though, dude. Plus, you kind of left some 'Richie's in there from your earlier sign-up. I know you have more effort than that in you, man. But I say: Declined~


If anybody wants to know, the first post is on its way. o.o

Kurosaki Ichigo February 6th, 2006 11:12 AM

Erm the only Richie parts i left was the Pokemon, cuz you said i could...

Random Plushie February 6th, 2006 11:34 AM

@Kakashi: Yeah, I replied to that PM to address that..


Anyways, I do believe it is time to start..


IC:



There were only a few stray clouds in the sky, none of them restraining sunlight to stream down and reflect off of the ocean's waters. This sunlight succeeded in creating dazzling sparkles like the ones you would see off the coast of Olivine City.

However, there was no coast in sight at the moment, just miles of open sea stretching as far as the eye could see, a whole ocean of sparkling light that wasn't very good for staring at. In the middle of all this water was an ocean liner of sorts, although compared to most ocean liners it wasn't very luxurious, and resembled more of an over-sized ferry than a high-class ocean liner.

Indeed, the huge boat wasn't really furnished that much except for the dining hall below deck, and even that housed no more than ordinary wooden tables and chairs. The few sitting rooms had chairs, too, obviously, but it didn't really matter anyways. It was as if you were supposed to stand the whole way across the ocean!

This ocean liner was heading for port in Meridian Town, and was currently transporting a lot more passengers than usual, for some weird guy who thought he was a professor had paid the captain and crew a fortune to sail to an assortment of regions and pick up these designated passengers.

It was plowing through the ocean at full speed now, intent on reaching its destination before noontime.


One of the passengers stood on the deck now, a scowl across his face. It was a little boy, his spiky red hair being held down by a deep scarlet bandana for the most part, although bangs still trailed down the sides of his face. It was hard to believe that through this warm weather, he was wearing a yellow sweater and pants, but it wasn't like he was complaining.

Next to this boy was an Espeon, standing alert, flicking his gaze across the deck as if scouting for threats of some kind. However, this certain Espeon.. was wearing dark sunglasses. It was weird, but..

"How long is this going to take?" The boy hissed to no one in particular, staring out at sea, although taking care to avoid staring at any one spot for too long.

{Eh, Skipper, it'd be a lot easier to endure the ride if you actually tried to, erm, socialize with the other passengers.} The Espeon grunted, maintaining a level of seriousness as he adressed his Trainer, although he didn't look up from the deck.

"Perfect.." The boy muttered, his scowl deepening. Socializing was the last thing he wanted to do right now..

Light_Azumarill February 6th, 2006 11:53 AM

@ Alter: Heh, a large Ariados eh? Well, sounds good to me. Truth be told, if I ever saw an Ariados in real life, I would freak out and probably be skitish for days afterward. XD Speaking of rea life/game crossovers... there's this boy sitting across from me in the computer lab that looks just like Prince Innes from Fire Emblem.... O_O I'm not joking. That's... scary. I'd better stop looking at him or he's going to think I like him or something.

Yay! 'Tis starting! ^-^ I should be doing homework but... meh.

BTW, for you information, my Mom's name is Cynthia. Though she goes by Cindy.


Cynthia
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"Oh Wilbur... do you think this will be difficult?" asked a light and melancholoy voice. It sounded almost like a soft breeze blowing through a willow tree. The girl that the voice belonged to was standing on the deck of a boat, facing out towards the water. She didn't like being on this boat, and constantly felt like the great machine was tipping over even when it wasn't.

Her light blue hair flew in and out of her smoky gray eyes as the wind from the boat moving blew it around. She looked down at the thing she was addressing, and noticed that it was not where it should have been.

"Ah! Wilbur?!" she said in the same light voice with just a hint of urgency. Suddenly a grunting voice answered her.

{Cynthia? I'm right here!} It came from a squatty, purply-gray pokemon that had a little fat pig-like nose on his face. A large, deep blue pearl was atop his head, sparkling in the light. His black marble eyes blinked happily up at his trainer, and he snorted a little when he sniffed the air. He had jumped up from the deck floor to the railing of the edge of the ship without Cynthia noticing. She frowned a little, concern showing through her expression.

"Wilbur... I do not think you should be up there. What if you...?" she couldn't finish, figuring that he could figure out the rest of her sentence.

{Oh you worry too much Cynthia. Remember why you took this trip?} the pudgy pokemon said, bouncing lightly.

"Y-Yes... but isn't worrying about you falling a reasonable fear?" the girl asked, still feeling terrified about her pokemon's choice.

The pig chuckled to himself, and then hopped down onto the deck again. He didn't want to alarm her, even if it was fun to look upon the ocean below from the railing. Cynthia sighed, and picked up the Spoink to hold in her arms. She noticed a boy on the other side of the deck comment on how long it would take to reach their destination. She silently agreed. The less time she spent on this water... the more her nerves would be intact.


OOC: LUNCH TIME FOR ME! XD *is hungry*

Kurosaki Ichigo February 6th, 2006 12:02 PM

Okay, i've finally done it now, that should be enough right?

Random Plushie February 6th, 2006 12:31 PM

OOC:

Eh, Kakashi, I don't know.. Even though you added length and such, I still see a wide array of errors in that RP Sample.. Yes, many punctuation errors.. >.<



IC:



The red-headed boy continued to scowl, even as his Espeon looked up from the deck to talk to him directly. Those dark sunglasses of his obtained quite a bright highlight from the sun above, while the Espeon began to swish his tail back and forth in the air casually.

{Really, Skipper, making conversation would be in your favor..} The Espeon said, shooting a hinting glance at the girl nearby, the one accompanied by a Spoink. He felt that socializing would make time pass a lot quicker..

"Piro! Stop calling me Skipper!" The boy exclaimed, although for some reason he seemed to be bottling up his true amount of irritation. "I don't want to talk to anybody. I'd rather 'socialize' with Akeru." He concluded, nodding firmly.

{Fine, then, Skipper-Oliver, go ahead and talk to Akeru, seeing as how you seem to be refusing my guidance.} With that, the Espeon, Piro, turned his gaze back towards the deck, observing the people in the nearby area like a security camera.

"Alright, I will." The Trainer, Oliver, replied. He actually regretted saying that.. Talking to Akeru was much worse than talking to any human, he reckoned. Nonetheless, he kept his word and lifted his sweater up just a little, so he could easily unclip one of the four Pokeballs on his belt. With a simple motion of his wrist, he opened the said Pokeball in a moment's time, the usual burst of red light flaring out before it took the shape of its occupant.

Within a few more moments, a Houndour had materialized in front of Oliver, but as soon as that had happened, the Houndour spent little time checking his surroundings before beginning to yap his head off.

{Wheeeee~! Boat boat boat! You never said the boat would be this big!} Akeru howled, hopping in place and every so often turning to face another direction, while still hopping.

Oliver mentally sighed. Why did he do these things..? How had he come into the possession of this Houndour..?

Kurosaki Ichigo February 6th, 2006 12:35 PM

(*sighs* bloody hell...thats cuz i work in Para, and not small Semi Paras, its technically the same thing as for punctuation i cannot help it if i sucked in English Class...but whatever, thats just meh...all because i have crap grammer.)

Charon February 6th, 2006 1:10 PM

{ooc| LMAO, Plushie, Akeru made me laugh. If my dog could speak...he would be exactly like that.
Hiiiiiii, Melissa's-Mum-whose-name-is-Cynthia! I've never met anyone called Cindy, but when I was little I used to have a Cindy Doll. She had blonde hair, and I used to paint her feet turquoise.
Ariados are one of my favourite pokemon, but I've never trained one of played one. Weird.}

“We’re nearly there-ere~!”

Perched on the railings with her legs dangling, the girl cast a lean shadow on the decks. She sat high above crashing waves, relishing in the sunlight and fresh sea spray. Wingulls screeched and careered overhead, dipping and diving as they rode on the ways. The girl watched them intently, her bright amber eyes fixed on their swift forms. To her, it was a perfect moment; she was lost in the seascape, enjoying more than the view.

Amber Western was a pretty sort, with a soft oval face and almond eyes. Ash brown hair framed her face in chaotic ringlets; the wind and the water vapour had already had it's way with it. She was dressed for the weather, despite the arduous task that lay ahead of her. Faced with exploring an uncharted region, Amber didn't think to wear anything more hard wearing than bamboo flipflops and cut off jeans. Everything about her - from the way she squatted on the raillings dauntlessly, and that expectant grin on her face - told of an adventurous, highly sprung girl. Beneath her tank top, a white and neon pink bikini was just about visible, soaking through already. The damp material clung to her awkwardly - as if this girl really didn't belong in something as restraining as a t-shirt.

{Amber~!}
The girl glanced down, to see a Vaporeon perched by her feet. The water type's tail was still wagging, though slightly slower now. Her bright brown eyes were still full of excitement. Amber smiled warmly at the sight of her old pokemon; Festival never seemed to change, bless her heart. Her fur might now be blue and her tail might be ridged, but she was still the light-hearted little eevee Amber had found a few years before.
"I'm... Hungry." Amber announced, and jumped back onto the deck without hesitation. One mistake and she would have tumbled into the sea, but Amber didn't seem to notice. Either that or she didn't care. Amber brushed the dirt from her hands and smiled. "Let's find some food."
{Yes'm!} Festival chirruped, and trotted obediently after her trainer, who was already striding away.

Light_Azumarill February 6th, 2006 2:52 PM


Cynthia
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She had decided to look away from the edge of the boat. It was only serving to make her stomach churn. This wasn't the sort of churning that happens to people who get sea-sick either, more like the kind that people get when they feel like they need to scream or run away. Cynthia hated being afraid of everything....

{Let's talk to someone Cynthia, maybe you'll meet a nice person here!} Wilbur suggested, bouncing happily. Wilbur almost never stopped bouncing; his tail even moved when he was being held. When Cynthia first got Wilbur, her family was under the popular notion that if Spoink stopped bouncing, their hearts would stop as well. Cynthia could remember when one day, to her horror, she saw Wilbur squatting on his tail without bouncing at all. She had screamed and began crying, but Wilbur hopped over to her unharmed.

It seemed that the popular notion was not true. Cynthia later found out that Spoink do indeed need to keep bouncing to pump their heart, but this is only when they are hard at work, or battling. When they are at rest, there was no need to pump a good deal of blood, and their hearts worked on their own without the added help of bouncing.

"I- I don't know... they all look rather busy with their own selves," she said, her gray eyes not really looking at any of them.

Wilbur knew that Cynthia would rather walk naked down a public street than initiate a conversation with someone she didn't know. It was always worth a shot to ask her though. {Eh, just asking,} he said, his stubby arms shrugging, {I'm sure at least one of them will interact with you sometime.}

"Maybe," she responded lightly, her voice only a little louder than a whisper. Was that a Houndour over there? Cynthia didn't like hyper dogs... they scared her when they got too excited. She budged up a little, trying to make herself look less noticable.

Loki February 6th, 2006 2:59 PM

<'SHUUUUUUUUPPPPPPEEEEEEEETTTTT!!!'> Treble wailed. The sound was like nails dragging themselves down a chalkboard, and nobody in the cabin appreciated it much.

<'Pipe down you overgrown peice of cloth!'> Zell grunted from his once relaxing posture on the bed before he was nearly thrown off the bed in surprise.

<Wow new record! Let's see, 5 second wail this time for a simple 'boo'...> Nightmare said taking out a pad of paper and pen from inside of him and scribbling nonsense onto the pad.

"Those aren't words Nightmare, those are scribbles." Mayal said looking at the pad as Slash comforted Treble.

<They are highly refined and advanced SCRIBBLES thank you very much. Doesn't look like much to the HUMAN eye, because we pokemon are much more modernized.> Nightmare said in a very fake accent.

<'Yeah, which it why you still wipe with a leaf.'> Zell said rolling his eyes and settling back into the bed sheets.

<Like he wipes at all.> Slash said rolling his eyes.

<B-but, I-I thought H-haunter's d-didn't go to t-the b-bathroom...> Treble stuttered through sniffles and short gasps.

Nightmare glared at the two other pokemon before determinedly folding his arms and floating to the corner of the room, refusing to say anything until they apologized. He would definetly be mute for the rest of his life.

<Do I smell incompetent skills around here? I think I do.> Zell said sarcastically as he hopped off the bed and let himself out.

<We'll get some fresh air too.> Slash said leading Treble out of the room, after Zell.

<AH!> Zell said purposely as loudly as he could as he technically shouted into the cabin <THE AIR IS MUCH NICER OUT HERE DON'T YOU AGREE SLASH?>

<Indeed!> Slash called back as he led a sniffling Treble out of the hallways.

<It doesn't smell any different to m-me...>

"Well, might as well be hanging out here for a little while longer Nightmare they don't seem to have the thought of apologizing on their minds" Mayal said grinning at her pokemon, which had his jaw dropped to the floor. Literally.

<B-but that's not fair! Go teach them a lesson please?! Give em' the old hour long lecture about teasing! The one you give me! The old one-two!> Nightmare said fake tears welling up in his wide red eyes.

"You got what was comin' for you Nightmare, what can I do?" Mayal asked chuckling at the disgruntled expression on his face "Besides, once we get to our destination, we'll drop the subject okay?"

<So what about till we get there?> Nightmare asked curiously, a surprised expression now sliding onto his face. He always seemed to have knack for acting. Except that it was always extremely fake acting, but he certainly was good at changing expressions every other second.

"Till then, we'd better find some leaves shouldn't we?" Mayal laughed running out the cabin leaving a surprised Nightmare in the bedroom.

<I thought trainers were supposed to be on no side!> Nightmare wailed spinning around in confusion <Might as well gag me and throw me overboard...LIFE IS OVER! I might as well kill myself! ...Not that it would do much anyway...> Nightmare contemplated, acting ever more <I really should've considered that job offer.>

Random Plushie February 6th, 2006 10:23 PM

OOC:

Nyuk nyuk nyuk, here's a picture of Oliver so you can all see the whacked-out hairstyle. :3

His sweater is supposed to be longer than that, though. .__.


IC:



{Go ahead, Skipper-Oliver. Socialize. It's better than talking to other passengers, right?} Piro said mockingly, looking up at Oliver, although there was still little emotion revealed in his expression. The only possible way to tell that he was being sarcastic would be to listen to the sound of his voice.

Oliver gulped. As soon as he initiated a conversation with Akeru, the Houndour would probably babble a quick response and jump on him or something..

"Yeah, Akeru, uh, you enjoying the boat rid-" Oliver was cut off before he could finish the sentence, Akeru interrupting as soon as he felt like it, again barking his head off.

{The boat is fun! Of course me is enjoying! But I can't find twigs! Piro, are there twigs around here!?} Akeru yapped, first barking up at Oliver, then turning to the Espeon at ground level. Piro opened his mouth to say something, but Akeru didn't stick around to listen, instead deciding to wander off towards the middle of the deck, surveying the area for some reason.

Oliver didn't bother following, although his scowl deepened. If Akeru got in trouble, he'd totally eat it.. God. He pondered whether or not he should return the Houndour to his Pokeball. Well, he had just come out..

Jack_Skellington February 7th, 2006 3:02 AM

(OOC: Are we all on the same boat?? Or do we all go on different boats? If we are on different boats, please tell me, I sort of forgot......-.-......)

Ibuberu February 7th, 2006 3:36 AM

OOc-

Yeah, we should be on the same ship.^^

Anyways, edited some parts of my sign-up sheet.
And, cute drawing of Oliver there, Plushie!^^

Ic-

"Ernis Reanald! Just think of how good that name would look up on a banner, or on the TV. With huge, shiny letters, each golden-colored.."the boy leaned back on the deck chair he was sitting up, trying to picture his name up in lights. He wasn't going to be like the other young people there, sitting near the railing and looking out yonder. It was just the sea afterall, only a big patch of blue. Why get excited over it when one could converse with him anyway?

{Ernieness is so correct! I wonder how flashy my name would look on paper!}the Sudowoodo sitting on the deck beside her trainer grinned. Buu had always agreed with her trainer, whether she knew what he was talking about or not. She then let out an impatient sigh, starting to count the amount of fluffy clouds which had gathered in the sky.

{Oh yes! I would be great to see your name on lights and get money and be famous with screaming fangirls.}Chue remarked, he was sitting on Buu's lap, takinga deep breath before continuing. {And suddenly go bankrupt as someone sues you for being unfair to the rights of the public and have to go and stoop down back to a lowly level and get publicly humiliated by your peers and fans everywhere and losing face!}the Feebas finished, giving a firm nod before looking up to see what was so interesting about the clouds to the Sudowoodo he was sitting on.

"Once again, thank you for the commenting, Chue."Ernis rolled his eyes before getting off the deck chair for a stretch. Arms rasied above his head, the boy then started strolling after putting his hands down, rather interested by the batch of people who were going to the new region. He didn't have any worry about Buu or Chue, they were bound to be following him.

"What do we have here? Boys and girls....Pretty girls infact."he grinned inwardly while continuing his walk, noting a nice-looking girl with blue hair, too bad she looked a tad scrawny for his taste. A short boy who looked like he was only 12, with these outrageous bangs and red hair. Another would have to be the girl who looked like she had done some running. Wearing aquaish boots, her hair was rather messy too...There was one more, a very beautiful cowgirl who had been against the railing with a Vaporeon at her feet.

{ I know what you're thinkin', friend. And the answer is 'no'! I mean, you know that they'll all turn you down either way. But yeah, just keep smiling! For there's bound to be one person in the Earth who likes you for you and your...'unique' personality.}Chue paused, wondering if he had just said the right thing.

"I know, okay? But there isn't a law against staring and standing, is there?"he growled at the Feebas, folding his arms across his chest before continuing to examine the deck once more. Anyways, the cowgirl was already walking off.

Jack_Skellington February 7th, 2006 4:24 AM

((OOC:Thanks Angel!))

Sitting in his room on the ship he just boarded, Kiro sighed, wiating for the giant steel beast of a ship to come to a halt, which would mean that he would be able to come off of the ship. He let out Kindle, hoping to be able to talk with him.

{{Yes Kiro? What is it you called me out for?}} asked the small green Pokemon, his tiny legs wiggling.

"Nothing, I just wnated some company, I mean, it will be some time before we get to this Professor's place and whatnot. I just hope I will be able to see some new sights, more than what I have seen in Hoenn, Kanto, Jhoto, AND Orre!" the teen smiled indubitably.

{{Oh, well, what do you want to do Kiro?}} asked Kindle, as he climbed up on top of the bed on the ship.

"Erm, well, let's see if there's anything to eat on this ship ok?" replied Kiro, as he picked up Kindle, who was now on his shoulder, and walked outside to the main deck. He saw some people talking, and some PokeMon, but decided to not talk to any of them, but instead, went to the kitchen area. As he entered, Kindle now walking behind him, he stopped, and saw his favorite food: Pizza. His mouth was practically overflowing with saliva as he stared at the disc of Italian goodness. He ran over to it, got a piece for Kindle, and chowed down.

{{YUMMY! I love this stuff!}} said Kindle, his eyes shiny from the pure ecstacy of the pizza tast in his mouth.

Finding some alluminum foil, Kiro packed some pizza into his teal backpack. He then drank some tap water from the sink, and burped rather loudly. He then took out his P*DA, and called Nami.....

*Ring....* *Ring.....* *Ring.....*

"Hello? Kiro?" said a soft, but kind voice.

"Hi Nami! I just wanted to, you know, check up on how you were doing!" Kiro said. He smiled at seeing his beautiful girlfriend, her short black hair bouncing up and down.

"Oh, ok then! What are you up to?" she asked.

"Oh, nothing really, it is so boring here!" he smiled.

"Ok then, erm, why don't you call me when you arrive at, wherever it is you're going," replied the teenage girl.

Kiro sighed as he hung up on her, and then decided to walk around with Kindle, and then decided to walk up to the Captain's Deck, to see just who the captain sailing the ship was.....


((OOC: Plushie, is it OK for me to RP as the captain? OR if you want to, then I would understand that too....))

Alter Ego February 7th, 2006 4:59 AM

OOC: Aaaaack! I feel so late! >.< Oh well, I'd better just catch up then, eh? Oh, and I like the Oliver picceh you made, Plushie, particularly the one where he's all angry. xD Although personally, I think he kind of looks like a girl in his non-angry pose.

Anyways,

IC:

"Aww...come on Hiro, just one itty-bitty little-"

{No!} the Houndoom interrupted sternly, a tired but determined look in his eyes as he looked up at his trainer, a tall and somewhat gangly-looking boy who, despite the somewhat childish appearance his face and light brown eyes currently held, seemed to be in his early teens, his dark brown hair ruffling slightly in the fresh sea breeze but dutifully returning to its original, well-ordered spot. The boy gave a bored sigh, returning the small, grey ball of unidentified substance into the right-hand chest pocket of his dark blue shirt, the greyish white shorts he wore having proven to be a rather poor hiding spot for the rather volatile devices when he accidentally tripped and triggered a good five of them at once.

"Okay then, you old spoilsport. No smoke bombs." Yikari concluded in a dissapointed tone. It was always a bit humiliating to be scolded by your own pokémon, but he still knew that, dull company though he was, Hiro did have a knack for keeping him away from punishments which his other pokémon seemed to lack.

{Good.} Hiro replied simply, {And another thing, when leaving the scene of a prank, don't run about will-nilly like that.} Yikari automatically zoned out a bit, sensing a preach on its way, {Sneak out of sight, dust of your clothes, then calmly walk away, or better yet, return to the scene while feigning curiosity for it to throw off suspicions. If you spent half as much time learning these simple methods you would not need to pointlessly waste-}

Yikari had now blanked out the Houndoom's words altogether, surveying his surroundings, and specifically the people there, instead, nodding his head and mumbling in consent now and again to feign interest, while in truth, he was far more fascinated with the people aboard; first off, he spotted a boy who was-whoa, he was a real chibi, wasn't he? And short-tempered too, if the tone of his conversation with that sunglass-wearing Espeon and hyperactive Houndour was anything to go by. A mischievous grin spread across Yikari's face, yes, he could probably have some fun with him later on, once he had discovered a polite way to get Hiro out of the picture. And then there was that cowboy-girl, well, she certainly had the hat for that occupation, and not bad at all in the looks department either if this back-view could be trusted, although as usual, Yikari found himself thinking more about this aspect in terms of how she could assist in some glorious pranks. Yes, there was definitely something about that girl's manner which appealed to him, a kind of fundamental disrespect for rules which seemed to surround her, yes, perhaps she would actually understand him a bit better than most. Most males didn't seem to think of her that way, though, at least not that loud and boastfull boy with his Feebas and...Sudowoodo? The boy smiled a bit, he had always found the mimickry pokémon fascinating, although to his dismay he had yet to find one to call his own, and he certainly wasn't about to steal someone else's. Regardless, the boy in question was definitely staring quite openly at the cowboy girl, although he seeemed like the type to stare at practically everything that was physically capable of having babies, a myriad of amusing thoughts began running through Yikari's mind as he thought on what glorious fun could be derived from this trait and he had to excercise quite the amount of self-control not to burst out laughing.

What depressed the boy however, was that no-one seemed to be socializing with anyone else. And what, he thought, was the point of having a bunch of interesting people if they didn't notice anyone else?

"Really now..." Yikari muttered under his breath, "This won't do at all. Even gramps' old storage cellar had more in the way of social interactions..."

{Excuse me?} Hiro interrupted sternly, {Boy, if you're thinking of pulling some kind of reckless prank-}

"Reckless pranks?" the boy echoed in a feigned hurt voice, "My dear Houndoom, you do me a great wrong. You know I would never do anything reckless, like gramps always said-"

{Gramps indeed.} the Houndoom snorted contemptously, {Your grandfather is a loony old man who still thinks that he isn't a day above 20!}

"I know..." Yikari replied, in a perfectly sad voice, "I agonize over that fact constantly."

{Don't cheek me, boy!} Hiro growled, {I'm serious this time!}

"Oh, lighten up, will you?!" Yikari exclaimed, laughing and playfully patting the fire type's horned head, "I'm only going to socialize a bit with these fine people here. It's not like I'm going to get in trouble doing that, is it?"

{Well...if you say so.} the Houndoom replied, although he sounded none too convinced as he cast a wary glance at the various strange individuals in their vicinity, {But don't get into any mischief this time, the captain is already suspicious about us because of that 'kick me' sign you pinned on his back.}

"Yeah, he's almost as huffy as you." the boy replied in a carefree tone, "It was just a piece of paper, I don't see what the big deal is."

{That's a first...} Hiro muttered sarcastically, but his trainer was no longer listening, already preoccupied with walking towards the other people and trying to decide which of them to pester first.

Just as he did so, Yikari's eyes suddenly fell on a somewhat pale and frightened-looking girl with light blue hair who was peering in what the boy thought was a rather shy manner at the other passengers, a Spoink which was probably hers adressing her and apparently attempting to encourage her to talk with the others. That girl, it was as if 'melancholy' had been written all over her being in large, bolded, capital letters with a non-removable marker, and Yikari immediately labeled her the most critical case of non-fun on this boat. But what's more she seemed so...familiar somehow, as if he'd seen her, or someone very like her, a long time ago...the boy shrugged this off though, unable to recall the exact details at the moment. Well, if she indeed was such a person he'd find out soon enough, the boy concluded, now having firmly made up his mind about where to begin. Deciding on which manner he would emply this time, he suddenly underwent quite the shocking transformation, at least for one who had been watching, his carefree expression and friendly smile suddenly dissapearing only to be replaced by one of outmost solemnity and seriousness and his previously light step seeming to loose all of its spring, making way for a carefully ordered and official gait as he approached the girl, his back held straight for once, which effectively showed his full stature, and his head bent slightly as if in mourning.

"My condolences, miss." he said in a tone containing the gravest sincerity as he arrived near the girl, "I know this must be a difficult time for you, truly, a difficult time for all of us. But I wished to inform you that I knew the deceased more than most and share your grief, so if you wish to dialogue with me about the ramifications of his current deceased state then I would gladly respond."

Ibuberu February 7th, 2006 5:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Titan
Oh, and I like the Oliver picceh you made, Plushie, particularly the one where he's all angry. xD Although personally, I think he kind of looks like a girl in his non-angry pose.

Like, I've only just realised that.O.o;;
Yeah, Oliver does look a little like a girl.^^;;

Um..you drew him too cute-like!X3
Though, its usually girls who have bigger eyes than boys, maybe if you make Oliver's eyes a tad smaller?

This's just a suggestion really.^^;;

Random Plushie February 7th, 2006 8:33 AM

OOC:

I see. Well, if he looks like a girl, that's another reason for people to insult him, which further explains the short temper he has today. XD



IC:



Akeru was wandering about near the middle of the deck now, walking around in circular patterns as he did so. Every so often he would stop suddenly, sniff the air a bit, and continue walking around the center of the deck. Oliver folded his arms as he watched, the least he could do was to supervise.

{You fail at socializing.} Piro snickered, snapping his head in the other direction as Oliver turned to glare at him. It was obvious that Oliver wanted to make a sharp retort, but he found no time to as he heard Akeru start barking again.

The Houndour had looked up from his latest lap around the deck, only to spot the Houndoom of another Trainer. A particularly frustrated looking Houndoom indeed, accompanying a tall and gangly boy, who was busy talking to the Spoink Trainer that Piro had noticed earlier.

Akeru's eyes immediately lit up, and he was indeed barking again in pure cheer, the little Houndour wasting no time in bounding over to the bigger Houndoom.

"Oh boy." Oliver said, already beginning to make his way over, in fear that Akeru would likely disturb someone. Piro soon followed, his ears perking up as he remained alert.

{Hi hi!} Akeru yapped, bouncing up and down as he arrived near Hiro. {Do you know where all the twigs are hiding?}

Charon February 7th, 2006 8:37 AM

{ooc| Alter... I love your character o_o;
Also, here's a random question... would you guys prefer it if I put double spaces between my character's speech? I've noticed you guys all do... (Yeah, I'm slow...)
Love the picture, Plushie! I think... the hair might be why he looks feminine.}

The girl clapped her hands in a finite manner, and turned to look accusingly at her pokemon.
"Festival?" she demanded, in a peculiar northern accent, "Where're the food hall?"
Her vaporeon gazed up at her with big, reproachful eyes.
{I dunno, Amber. Sorry...} the little vaporeon trailed off, as her trainer put her hands on her hips. There was one thing Festival hated, and that was letting down her trainer. {I'm sure I can find it~!} she mewed, and her tail wagged hopefully.
"Ah..." Amber paused, studying the trainers wandering to-and-fro, "...it doesn't matter. We'll find it later." The girl set off again, walking through the crowds while her Vaporeon cheerfully at her heels. Festival was happy in nearly any situation; whether it was clinging to a rock face in the baking heat, or scrambling up the cycling road in the torrential rain, it didn't matter as long as Amber wasn't disappointed.

Amber frowned at her little pokemon. Festival was a peculiar thing - sometimes Amber through she was sellotaped to her ankle, the way she never left her side. Now Amber couldn't imagine life without her little Vaporeon - annoying as she was - but only two years ago Amber had wanted nothing to do with pokemon - whether for battlings, contests, or companions. Now she was setting out to conquer a region with them! Amber couldn't help chuckling; Fate's taken a strange turn.

She peered around the ship, half looking for a food hall. Amber was definetly hungry - she'd only had three bowls of porridge that morning, and it was nearly time for lunch! Of course, she was only half looking - because she was also preoccupied with scruitnising every other kid her age on the ship, of which there seemed to be quite a lot of. Closest to her was a fearfull looking girl with blue hair. Amber stood and stared for a bit, mainly because the wimpy-looking lass was accompanied by nothing other than a crazy bouncing pig. Amber blinked, and dragged her eyes away, only to see a peculiar looking boy and a houndoom heading towards the other girl. She almost smiled; there was something she liked about him, and Amber wagered it was that scheming look he had in his eyes. She had already turned away when Yukari switched personalities; her attention was now on a spikey red headed boy, who was wearing an overlong mustard jumper. He was pretty short - Amber guessed he was twelve, maybe eleven, so she decided to ignore him.
However, Festival was wagging her tail, and staring straight at the young boy's houndour. She glanced at her trainer. {That pokemon looks fun!} she yipped.
Amber's expression soured. "Before you even ask...no. We're here to get some adventure, right? Not friends." she told Festival stonily. The little water-type's whiskers began to droop. "Anyway," she continued, "his owners so short, he's like... twelve..."
{Oh yes!} Festival squeaked, as if she had only just noticed how vertically challenged this boy was, and as if his height was a perfectly good reason to avoid him, {I agree.} She stared up at her trainer expectantly, and Amber just smiled.

That's the other thing I like about her.... the cowgirl thought, tipping her hat back slightly, Sides with everything I say...
Amber didn't seem to notice Enris at all.

Light_Azumarill February 7th, 2006 10:05 AM

OOC: Oh dear. Methinks Cynthia is not the kind of person to catch on to pranks quickly. ^-^

And nice drawing Plushie! Very interesting hair indeedy. I'm sure some people will be quick to pointing out the very things Oliver hates people pointing out. *coughYikaricough* ^^


Cynthia
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Wilbur bounced in his trainer's arms a bit. {Look! Someone's coming over!} the Spoink said in an upbeat tone, glad that at least someone on this boat aside from the pokemon was interested in communicating. After all, what's a pokemon journey without friends to talk and laugh with?

"Ah! I- I don't want to talk...," Cynthia whispered in a wimpering voice that sounded a bit frantic as well. She never knew what to say to anyone. It seemed like whenever anyone that was a stranger to her began to talk to her, all of the interesting things drained out of her head, leaving her with nothing but mundane, plain words. She thought of just hurriedly walking away to evade the oncoming boy, who seemed to look quite serious, but it was too late, and suddenly the boy with dark brown hair was upon her. She clutched Wilbur tightly and Wilbur frowned at her.

She was lucky he was squishy, or she could have seriously hurt him.

As the boy began to express his concern over the loss of a person they all apparently knew. She blinked in confusion. Deceased? She hadn't been aware of anyone dying! Her eyes looked back and forth, seemingly searching for anything that would help her make some sense out of this. Had she come on the wrong boat?!

What if she was on the wrong boat? What if this was going to a funeral, and she was stuck going to the funeral of someone she never knew?! Should she say something to the boy about her being here for something else...? Or should she just pretend things were okay until they all got off the ship? Or perhaps she could just stay silent and he would eventually leave.

No... she didn't want to seem rude. And she certainly couldn't lie....

"Ah... I- I'm sorry but I'm not sure what you're talking a- about," she said in a whispy voice, her gray eyes still looking confused, "S- Someone's died?"

Wilbur rolled his little piggy eyes. It was obvious that he was tricking her. He was mocking the way that Cynthia always seemed to look even when she was happy. He remained quiet though. If he told Cynthia what the boy was doing, she would just freak out and run off, and he would rather that she discovered it on her own.

Alter Ego February 7th, 2006 10:28 AM

OOC: Ahh...yes, I can see Yikari having glorious fun with this group. xD Glad you like him, Charon. ^-^ He's one of my favourite own male chars, definitely. ^^

IC:

Out of the corner of his eye, Yikari watched with considerable amusement as a small Houndour bounded over to Hiro and attempted to strike up a conversation with the grouchy Houndoom who shot him an annoyed look as if to say 'you do something'. The boy merely turned his gaze away, maintaining his act as the girl in front of him began growing extremely flustered, stating that she didn't have a clue what he was talking about. Had his victim not reacted so...ideally, Yikari would probably have kept up the act, but as it was, there just was no fun in beating the beaten as the old saying went, so he decided to call it off before the Spoink over yonder blew his top.

"Don't have a clue." he confessed with a shrug, his serious manner dissipating as quickly as it had come, "Which means that we are official partners in cluelessness." he let out a small laugh at the world in general "Although truly, with the expression you had I would probably have wagered that it was either your aunt or your grandfather who had kicked the bucket. Oh, but even partners in cluelessness should know each others names, yes? Yikari Arikawa, at your service miss." he bowed politely to the girl, although he took care to keep an eye on both her and her Spoink just in case either decided to lash out at him for his little trick as he finished, giving her a friendly smile and musing at what the reaction would be. Anger? Embarassment? More confusion? Or, like that was ever going to happen, laughter? He truly wasn't quite sure.

{Twigs?} Hiro growled indignantly at Akeru's question, eyeing the little Houndour as if he was a particularly small and irritating fly who had decided to pester precisely him, {Who cares about some-} he halted himself in mid-sentence, noting the Houndour's hyperness and innocent nature, a sly grin spreading across his face, {Why yes...} he replied in a far more even voice, {I think I saw some waaay over at the other end of the ship.} he nodded towards the opposite end of the vessel they were on, {Why don't you go take a look over there?}

Charon February 7th, 2006 10:46 AM

{ooc| *coughs* Amber's already started saying that terrible 's' word, Melissa.}

The girl and her pokemon wandered further along the ship, Festival still falling in perfect step with her trainer. Her finned tail was still wagging, and she moved with a contented spring to her step; Amber, however, looked slightly more sombre. She was, after all, very hungry.
{Look~!} Festival exclaimed, in her usual sing-song voice. Amber glanced in the direction she was pointing; there was that boy again, the one one with the short brown hair. He was talking to the pig-girl, who was looking positively terrified at the prospect of conversation.

Amber grinned. "Should we ask them?" she asked her pokemon, who began to nod eagerly. Festival wouldn't have disagreed if Amber had asked her to cross the Sahara desert, but something told the girl the vaporeon was more than happy to go over. She guessed it was because of the short boy's houndoom; Festival tended to adore hyper pokemon, and Akeru was definetly one of those.

The cowgirl swaggered over, coming to a halt in front of the girl and the boy. She put one hand on her hip, and with the other, tilted her beloved hat forward ever so slightly.
"Do any of you know where the food hall is?" she asked lazily, before letting her eyes fall on Cynthia. She frowned visibly. "Uh....something wrong?"
Amber very rarely had concern to spare for her fellow females; she didn't hate them, or anything like that, but Amber just found them really, really tedious. Still, she didnt want to make a bad impression. On a trip like this Amber guessed you would need allies; it was better to start straight away.

Random Plushie February 7th, 2006 10:47 AM

OOC:

I do believe this is going to be rather fun.



IC:



{Okay!} Akeru yapped, immediately coming to the conclusion that Hiro was indeed correct and surely must've known for sure because he sure was older. Akeru was very sure. The Houndour quickly turned to face the opposite direction, but paused suddenly before leaving, as if he had just come to realize something very important.

{Hey, what kinda twigs are over there?} Akeru asked, turning back towards the Houndoom, a grin on his face.

"Are you pestering people again?" Oliver asked the pup, arriving a few steps away from his Houndour. Piro was still hanging around near his feet, taking care to look as 'official' as possible. "Come on, we don't want to be upseting these good folk." Oliver continued, referring to the other Trainers, along with the other Pokemon.

{I'm not pestering!} Akeru retorted, bouncing up and down with sheer energy. {I'm asking! Big difference!}

Oliver was about to say something else, when he noticed that a cowgirl-person had wandered over here as well. And now she was asking about the food hall. Technically she wasn't asking him, but Oliver didn't really care.

"I don't know. Ask a sailor or someone who's actually familiar with the boat." Oliver said sharply, his mood already going downhill.

Light_Azumarill February 7th, 2006 10:55 AM

OOC: Heh, Yikari makes me laugh! =D I wanna play a prank on someone now!

Eep! I just accidently kicked the wall my feet are next to. On the other side is a meeting room with a meeting going on in it. Oops... .__.

Anyway....


Cynthia
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"Uh... I don't know," Cynthia replied to the girl that had approached them and asked about food. She wasn't sure where anything was on the boat, and she wasn't entirely sure if anything was wrong considering she wasn't sure if anyone was dead or not.

However, as soon as the boy's serious demeanor fell away, Cynthia was still left scratching her head. What? There wasn't a dead person? Cynthia frowned a little, trying to figure out what had just happened. The boy proceeded to introduce himself, and Cynthia was still a bit confused.

"M- my name is Cynthia Tharnst. S- So no one is- is dead?" she said timidly, unsure about what she was even saying.

{Ugh... Cynthia it was a joke! He was tricking you!} Wilbur confessed, not able to hold it back any longer. She was so slow on figuring these things out sometimes, and he wasn't about to let her go looking like an idiot just yet.

"Huh? A joke? Oh!" she said, comprehension suddenly dawning on her face and everything suddenly clicked. That was quite rude of the boy to do... leading her on with false pretenses like that just to make a silly joke. Weren't jokes supposed to be funny to everyone? Cynthia wasn't sure if she liked the other ones.

She looked up at the boy before her, who was obvious waiting to see her reaction to realizing that she had been hoodwinked. "That wasn't a very nice thing to do... pretending that someone was dead. I was afraid that I had gotten onto the wrong ship!" she said, half-annoyed and half-relieved that she was in the right place after all, "Why would you do a thing like that Mr. Arikawa?" Cynthia often called people she didn't know well by their last names with a title in front of it. It seemed more formal to her and for some reason had always been the way she had addressed others.

Wilbur shook his head. She still hadn't understood that he had been mocking her serious expression?! Ack... she was worse off than he thought.

Charon February 7th, 2006 11:00 AM

{ooc| *hits Melissa and Plushie* edit your posts, fools! I posted before you because... I'm skillfull xP}

Random Plushie February 7th, 2006 11:02 AM

OOC:

Like, I did edit my post.

So I win. =P

Alter Ego February 7th, 2006 11:09 AM

OOC: Hehee...yay for pranks! =D It's so fun to play a shameless char like Yikari, well, not completely shameless, that's where Hagure gets into the picture. xD

IC:

Yikari gave the girl a friendly smile, despite the fact that she had just stated that what the boy had done wasn't nice, "Now-now, there's no need to be formal, Cynthie-chan." he replied, shaking his head at the girl's manners, "Just Yikari will do. As for your question..." he took a brief pause, "With that expression of yours you looked like you were attending a funeral already so I thought I shouldn't spoil the mood." the boy explained in an innocent voice, putting on his shameful-little-boy expression as he looked up at the girl with big, light brown, puppy-dog eyes "Are you very angry at me, Cynthie-chan?"

{Birch twigs.} Hiro replied automatically to Akeru's question, {And I think there was some oak there too, maybe elm too, although I'm not quite sure about that.} Truthfully, the Houndoom had no idea of where he pulled these random trees from, but for some reason they sounded right. He had probably been around Yikari for too long, lying shamelessly as he did.

As the cowboy-girl from before approached, asking for directions, Yikari turned his attention there for a moment, although the red-head had already replied in a rather grouchy manner.

"Now, now, there's no need to be rude, Chibi-sama." Yikari commented, giving the boy a can't-we-all-just-be-friends look, "I do believe that I saw the dining hall entrance around the center of our fine vessel."

Random Plushie February 7th, 2006 11:18 AM

"Now, now, there's no need to be rude, Chibi-sama."

He had struck a blood vessel. A blood vessel that was currently revealing itself on the forehead of our dear friend Oliver.

"W-What's that supposed to mean?" Oliver asked, in as calm a tone as his temper would allow, clenching his fists in an attempt to keep himself under control. Normally he wasn't so quick to get this angry.. But he really hated it when people hinted at his short-ness.

{I suggest all who wish to live back up a little. Thank you for your time.} Piro said, making his 'announcement' in a tone bearing all seriousness. He was probably joking, though.

{That's not what I meant!} Akeru barked, turning to face Hiro again as the Houndoom answered his question. {But you get a coolness point for trying! Would you like to know your current score?} The Houndour howled, beginning to once again bounce up and down.

Light_Azumarill February 7th, 2006 11:42 AM

OOC: I edited! ^0^ And this is a bit short considering I have class in like... a short time. >.>


Cynthia
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"Ah... I see," Cynthia replied as Yikari explained his actions, "So you were making fun of me. Making fun of me in a joking way? Ah. I am not angry, Mr. Arikawa. I--."

That's when a the short boy butted in and began to become a bit angry about what Yikari had said to him. This was understandable, considering the boy had probably gotten such comments many times before in his life, and therefore must find it quite annoying.

Wilbur blinked. {Wow that kid's short. Almost as short as me,} he squealed, finding it hard to believe.

Charon February 7th, 2006 1:02 PM

{ooc| Things are hotting up already...
Isn't Wilbur the name of the pig in Charlotte's Web? That children's book from...I dunno... the 50's?}

Amber clucked her tongue. "I was only asking..." she replied, eyeing Oliver lazily. He was acting like... well, like an equal to her and the brown haired boy. Cynthia seemed to be calling him 'Mr Arikawa', which sounded far to formal for Amber's taste. Still, the short boy was acting like he was their age, when it was quite obvious he was only about 10 or 12. She watched him with contempt, but didn't say anything more.

Instead, she turned to Cynthia, who seemed nice enough - Amber was willing to overlook her cowardice for the moment, and as she was the only other girl around, Amber wanted to make a decent impression. Guys were great, but there are some situations you really need a fellow girly for.
"I'm Amber." she announced.

Festival mewed softly, and bounced over to Wilbur. She ran around the Spoink in a tight circle, giggling.
{I'm Festival!} she yipped, before bounding off again and doing exactly the same with Hiro. Then she paused; the vaporeon had just caught sight of Piro, and now she was watching him with curiousity. She hadn't seen another eevee-kin for ages - they were quite rare in Amber's region.

Jack_Skellington February 7th, 2006 3:03 PM

((OOC: Not to nag or anything, but no one has seemed to answer my question from my previous post....>__>....))

As he walked up the long flight of pale white stairs, all Kiro could think about in his mind was, "how is Nami doing? Where is she? Why did I accept this request; I just got back home to visit her." Kindle lagged behind, struggling to walk, since his body was so abnormally puny.

{{Kiro! Wait for me! You are leaving me behind!}} said Kindle, panting between each word he managed to say. He was about to collapse from fatigue when Kiro finally picked him up.....


((OOC: Sorry the post is so short, I will edit later, *C YA*))

Random Plushie February 7th, 2006 5:52 PM

OOC:

So sorry. I could've sworn I had typed up something..

Ugh, I hate being sick. >.<

If you put a pause after Kiro enters the captain's place, I will RP the captain. Actually, I'd prefer it since I'd like to do something with the captain anyways..

Ibuberu February 8th, 2006 2:17 AM

Ernis wasn't liking this one bit. Not only was everyone ignoring him, but the short kid and another boy who popped out of nowhere seemed to conversing with the pretty cowgirl. And the scrawny blue one too. He sniffed, not really knowing what to do, deciding to lean his back against the railing.

{Why don't you join them, Ernieness?}Buu smiled to her trainer, gesturing to the group which had gathered, the Feebas on her shoulder nodding in agreement.
{You should try making friends, friend.}Chue grabbed his trainer's wrist, trying his best to score a decent thug. Ernis however, slowly shook the fin off, before turning away with a thoughtful look on his face. Perhaps his Pokemon had a point there. If he made friends, or atleast got..aqquainted with these people, there would be some good points. He could follow them around to participate in contests, while being protected with the sheer number of them all together. And well..company was a must for him. His greatness and talent was not meant to be hidden away now, was it?

"Well..Okay I guess."he faced his Sudowoodo and Feebas, shrugging before starting to walk over to the group.

{And a one! And a two! And a pushness!}Buu called out from behind him, giving the boy a strong shove so that he would get to the trainers faster, or that was what she wanted. Ernis sighed as her arms collided with his back, causing him to land on the floor, the floor near Oliver's feet to be precise.

The Coordinator had failed to catch the conversation which was going on before.

"Ahh! My bad, kiddie. Sorry."he was addressing Oliver, getting up to brush the dirt off himself, shooting a glare to Buu before smiling to the group.

"Hello, you lucky people! I am Ernis Reanalds! You may have heard of my greatness, since I am quite a great Pokemon Coordinator! And I for one, have decided to be in the wanting of includement in this 'little groupy' you have going on here! Let's be friends and all that chit-chat stuff."he announced in a high and mighty tone, waving his hands around for added effect. Behind him stood his Sudowoodo and Feebas, both peeking to see what kinds of Pokemon there were.

{Helloness! I am, Buu!! And this here's my funny fishy, Chue!}the Rock type jumped out from her hiding place, grinning at the Vaporeon who had just introduced herself as Festival. The Feebas in her arms deciding not to talk, not just yet.

OOc-

Ernis has no idea what he's just gotten himself into, that inconsiderate fool.XD

For my History project, we had to search on this, Sikh Temple.
I didn't hear the teacher say it properly and went to search for a 'Sick Temple'.
Made my whole class break down in laughter the next day.o_O
(Got scolded by the people who I had to like, do the project with.XD)
Lucky that we needn't pass it up til' tomorrow.X3

Oh, and ish Plushie sick?!XO
Feebas hope you get better.^^;;

Alter Ego February 8th, 2006 7:40 AM

OOC: Heating up indeed...gawd, I wonder how Ernis is going to make it alive through the RP. Yikari, at least, can excuse himself on techincalities this time...I think. xD Oh, but I'm sorry to hear that you're sick, Plushie. ;.; Get well soon, yes? Oh, and I do believe that it's about time for the captain to make a reaction already, Kiro should be right by his cabin by now, ne?

And I just have to say, Cynthia is my personal favourite of the cast this far. Hehee...she's so guillable in such a beliavable way, I actually feel kind of sorry for her. Yikari does too, luckily, now to find a suitable spot to fit in the little past scene...ah, but it will probably have to wait until they get into the wilderness. xD

IC:

Yikari's expression brightened again as Cynthia said that she wasn't angry, although before he could really comment one way or the other, Oliver had interfered and demanded to know what he meant.

"I simply meant to say that there was no call for such harsh words, Akane-kun." the boy replied in an earnest voice, "I meant no disrespect and you have my deepest apologies if the little nickname I gave offended you in any way." he bowed dramatically to the boy, although he once again made sure to keep a wary eye on the person in front of him just in case he decided to do something violent. The boy really was touchy about his height, and had there not been so much company Yikari might have played on that trait a bit more, but he really didn't feel like trying his luck with Cynthie-chan's tolearance at the moment.

No sooner had Yikari finished apologizing than the cocky coordinator from before came sashaying over to them, tripping on his path and nearly mowing down Akane-kun as he fell before getting back up and pompously introducing himself to the group. Yikari observed the scene with a measure of fascination and mischief in his expression, wondering what the short-tempered boy would think of what had just occured but deciding that perhaps it would be better not to find out.

"Ahh...but of course, who wouldn't have heard of the allmighty Ernie-san." Yikari said in a voice of such overblown admiration that only a true fool would fail to spot the sarcasm behind it, although he wagered that Ernis fit quite snuggly into that category, "The coordinator whose appeals are what lure the sun up in mornings and whose divine spleandour cause it to faint and sink back beneath the horizon in a love-filled stupour at evenings." he performed a ridiculously overdone sweeping bow towards the boy "For my part you are quite free to join our 'little groupie', as you call it, although first, perhaps it would be prudent for you to apologize for your poor choice of words before our dear Akane-kun here blows his proverbial top, yes?" he nodded towards the red-headed boy, all the time wearing a cheerfull smile on his face as he took a few steps back from the scene.

{Would you believe that I am utterly fascinated about precisely that subject?} Hiro asked sarcastically at Akeru's comment, his attention now focused on Oliver as he made his way a bit closer to Yikari, ready to protect the boy should things get ugly. Just then, however, the Houndoom found himself the subject of a veritable onslaught of annoying little pokémon. First there was the Vaporeon, Festival she had called herself, darting about and running around him like no-one's bussiness, the Houndoom growled in indignation, although fortunately the water type became far too preoccupied with watching that weird Espeon with the black sunglasses to pay any more attention to him. This was a short-lived respite of peace however, as it was precisely then that Ernis decided to step forward, two annoying pokémon in tow. One of them was one of those tree-like things with constant fool's grins plastered on their faces that Yikari was so fond of for some reason, and a particularly exhubrant one at that...joy....And the other...well, it was obviously some kind of fish, tucked away under the arm of the one who had introduced herself as Buu.

{Oh joy...} Hiro replied sarcastically, giving the two a look which indicated that he considered them little more than a nuisance, {I am Hiro, if you must know, and I'd prefer it if you grabbed your prat of a trainer by the scruff of his neck and dragged him back to wherever you lot came from, thank you very much.}

"Now Hiro...." Yikari said in a dissaproving voice, shaking his head at the Houndoom, "Be nice to our guests."

The fire type scoffed, doing his best to ignore all of the pokémon in his vicinity altogether.

Light_Azumarill February 8th, 2006 8:07 AM

OOC: Fuu.... I'm groggy this morning. My Dad woke me up in the middle of a dream and I'm still recovering. XD

I love everyone's characters so far! It's kinda fun to see Plushie play a hot-tempered boy. ^^

Oh, and yep, Wilbur is the name of the pig in Charlotte's Web. It's one of my favorite books. ^-^


Cynthia
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Lots of people were very near Cynthia right now, and she swayed a bit as she realized just how close they all seemed. She didn't like crowds.... She tried to slink away from them, but she was too involved now, and she wasn't sure she could get away with it without seeming extremely rude. She just glanced nervously down at Wilbur with a look that said:

'What do I do now?'

The little Spoink looked up at her and said quite plainly, "Whatever you want."

Cynthia listened to the cowgirl introduce herself as Amber, and nodded to acknowledge that she had heard the girl. She didn't seem so bad, at least she hadn't tried to poke fun at her, though she really wasn't angry about that-- just slightly confused still.

"Ah... my name is Cynthia Tharnst. Pleased to meet you Miss Amber," Cynthia replied to the girl, her eyes darting over to Yikari as he spoke quite loudly to the boy with the Sudowoodo who had just introduced himself. People on this boat, for being so silent just a few moments ago, sure did like to draw attention to themselves. Cynthia usually just wanted to sit on the sidelines and watch, but, she took a deep breath, it didn't look like it was going to happen anytime soon in this place.

Charon February 8th, 2006 8:31 AM

{ooc| I'm tired... and in German we had to go in pairs, and because I was late to the lesson all the class was already paired up and I had to go with my...ARCH ENEMY *hiss spit*
Now I'm depressed, becuase she was mean. Her piercings are also scary.
Yah... Mel... I get the same thing, with credit being stolen and stuff. Especially in German, when we sit in alphabetical order.. The guy I sit next to is terrible at the language (whereas I'm just scraping an A) so he always copies me.. I'm too lovely to refuse. xD}

As Enris introduced himself in a flourishing manner, Amber's eyebrows rose so high they vanished underneath her coyboy hat. "Isn't co-ordinating a girl's sport..?" she muttered bluntly. That side of pokemon training had never interested her in the past, involving far too much thinking and not enough adrenaline. She smiled and winked at him. "Kidding, kidding... nice to meet ya."

Her eyes flicked to the boy's pokemon for a moment, but she soon returned her gaze to the boy. His pokemon looked weak, to say the least - I mean, who on earth tries to battle with a droopy fish and a dancing tree?
Festival giggled as Buu spoke to her, and began to dart around his feet. {Nice to meet you, Buu and Chue~! Your names rhyme! So cuuuuute~!} she exclaimed.

Amber flinched at Cynthia's words. "Please... just call me Amber. Miss? Gawd, you sound like a teacher..." she groaned, but gave Cynthia a good-natured grin anyway.

Jack_Skellington February 8th, 2006 6:11 PM

((OOC: I will finally RP again! I had a temporary writer's block, but it is gone. I am a bit depressed though, I found out my evil enemy likes me....Talk about pathetic, she is sort of cute though, BUT, back to the RP....))

As he finally made his way to the top of the stairs, Kindle on his shoulder, Kiro looked around, entering a strange, small, but yet quaint room. It's walls were colored maroon, and the floor was wood, painted white. He admired it for a second, and zoned out for s few moments, snapping back to reality at Kindle rapping his head. Kiro shook his head, and then saw a man with a hat on, who he obviously thought was the captain.....

Loki February 8th, 2006 6:15 PM

OOC: Wow, incredibly sorry, but this is gong sosososososososo fast that it's like ten lightyears ahead of little ol' me. Sorry I must drop out, as I can't hope to catch up, and well, I'm a little too busy right now to catch up...Sorry!

Random Plushie February 8th, 2006 8:59 PM

OOC:

Ah, 'tis okay, Naoko-chan.. Yeah, we do tend to go fast most of the time. XD

It would've been cool if you continued, but.. eh, no worries.


On another note my sore stomach went away. ^.^ Thankies for all the good wishes, I'm sure that's what did it. :3

Of course, because of that I had to go to school, and today just happened to be a field trip day. Today we went to a fishpond. Every time we go to a fishpond I slip on a rock and scrape my knee, though.. >.<



IC:



Oliver narrowed his eyes slightly as Yikari went into an explanation of what he had meant, keeping his arms folded the entire time. Akane-kun? Oliver had no idea what that meant, but decided to go along with it since the guy seemed to be pouring his heart and soul into this.. 'apology'. Actually, he seemed to pour his heart and soul into everything he said. Weirdo. Had this guy ever considered Drama Club?

Oliver had calmed down considerably, however, once Yikari was finished. He was about to reply with a considerable amount of regained control, when he heard the sound of someone being shoved coming from behind him.

Within moments a random guy had appeared near Oliver's feet, startling said Oliver and sending him a few steps to the side, seeing as how the red-head hadn't been prepared for this in any way. However, before Oliver could shout anything rude (especially since the guy had just called him 'kiddie'), the dude quickly got to his feet and began introducing himself with gusto, around the time that his Pokemon, a Sudowoodo and a Feebas, arrived behind him.

"Ernis? Whatever. Watch your step." Oliver muttered, his arms still folded. The red-head quickly lost interest in the new arrival, turning back towards Yikari. "And you're forgiven, by the way. But just for the record, my name is Oliver. Now you don't have to give me silly nicknames." He concluded. At least that got multiple introductions out of the way, since there was a whole group gathered 'round now. He hoped they all had the sense to listen so he wouldn't have to repeat himself.

Piro narrowed his eyes (not that anyone could see it through those shades), now that all these people had arrived. They were affecting his line of sight, how dare they! Now it would be considerably difficult to spot danger before it arrived. Wait! What if these people were danger! What was he to do!? Quick! Think of something pretty!

While Piro was twitching for some reason, Akeru's eyes brightened a great deal. Funny people galore! Especially those Buu and Chue people. That Vaporeon was funny, too. Not to mention that Spoink! Hey, he was surrounded by funny people! And they all had the coolest names! Or at least the ones that had introduced themselves.

Wait, the funny Houndoom had just introduced himself, too! He was still cranky, yes (although why anyone so cranky could be so funny was beyond the little Houndour), that much was true. But that didn't mean it couldn't be fixed. And besides..

He knew where the twigs were!

{Hiro!} Akeru repeated, turning towards the Houndoom, once he had gotten past his thoughts. {Hiro is funny! He wants to know my name, yes? It's Akeru!} The Houndour exclaimed, a huge grin plastered on his face at this point.




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The Captain's cabin was indeed very quaint, and hardly furnished, which matched the theme of the ocean liner itself. Okay, so the boat was actually very big, but still, it wasn't furnished that much at all.

In one corner, where the man with the big hat now sat, was an ordinary, rectangular wooden desk, which was cluttered with navigation intstruments and maps of various oceans, not to mention several books that were probably logs of the ship's voyages. There was also some sort of wireless microphone on the desk, which was currently being handled and tapped by the man with the large, important-looking hat. Since no sound came forth from any speakers, one could assume that the microphone was not working properly.

On the end of the room opposite from the desk was a small bed and nightstand. It was probably the best the Captain could afford, but still nothing to brag about. Either that or he was just a cheapskate.

The only other piece of furniture in the entire room was a painting currently hanging on the wall, which depicted a stormy night at sea. There was a ship in the middle of the fantasized typhoon, a stereotyped pirate ship that barely seemed afloat, refusing to sink beneath the raging waters. Lightning flashed across the painting's skies, adding to the painting's ability to somehow draw in viewers.

"Test! Test 1-2!" The man in the corner exclaimed, earning no response from the microphone. Aside from the man's very large hat, which covered up whatever hair he had, the guy was dressed rather.. casually, in a simple white polo shirt, and long white pants that went down to polished white shoes.

"YOU WILL WORK!" The man shouted, grabbing the microphone and pounding the poor device into his desk, denting the piece of furniture quite effectively before lifting the microphone back up to his mouth.

"Test 1-2?" The man said again, grinning broadly when he realized that the microphone was now working perfectly (who'd want to risk getting pounded into a desk a second time?). Speakers that were placed around the ship would carry his message all throughout the ship. It was so fun making big announcements, heehee.

"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen! This is your captain speaking! After realizing that I had left my compass in my cabin, I of course went to get it and decided to check up on our progress from here instead of waiting until I walked all the way back up to the control room (okay, so it isn't really called that, but I like to. And I can because I'm the captain). In result, I have come to the conclusion that we are very much ahead of schedule! I do believe that we shall be arriving in Meridian Town within the next two hours! Maybe even one and a half if these marvelous winds keep up! Thank the map, everyone! Give it a mental hug! Okay, that is all. Yay for being ahead of schedule!" The captain concluded, placing the microphone back on the desk.

Apparently, he was very cheerful when the microphone was listening to him.

"Now, to get back to the control room!" The captain exclaimed to himself, standing up from his desk and soon stepping away from it. As soon as he turned around, he actually noticed Kiro standing there.

"Hey! What are ye doing here!?" The captain exclaimed, pointing at Kiro and Kindle. "Do not attempt escape! Speak, intruder, speak!"

Too bad his naturally cheerful voice wasn't very threatening.



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Oliver looked up as the captain's annoncement thundered across the deck, courtesy of two rather large speakers fixed to the nearest ceiling, which the Trainer had not noticed before. The amount of irritation and all-around anger in his expression began to decrease slightly, once the captain's long speech had ended. He unfolded his arms, close to actually smiling for the day, even after the irritating events that had happened earlier.

"Ah, great news. Perhaps this day is finally turning for the better." Oliver commented, failing to notice Piro's twitching.

Jack_Skellington February 8th, 2006 9:09 PM

((OOC: The captian seems like a funny man!! ^0^!!)

IC:

Kiro paused for a moment, repeating what the captain said in his head, and the decided to speak, while Kindle was slightly shivering on top of his shoulder; the captain scared him.

"Erm, hello? Well, I was just wandering around, and I decided to see what the captain was like! But, first of all, what's your name?" he then smiled, and then awaited a response, while Kindle whispered something in his ear:

{{Erm, Kiro? Can we please leave? This man scares me!}} asked the Ralts, glancing between the captain and Kiro.

Random Plushie February 8th, 2006 10:03 PM

OOC:

Yes, I thought it'd be fun to have a weird captain. xD


IC:



The captain paused after he had taken in Kiro's response, placing one hand thoughtfully on his chin while he observed Kindle's reaction as well. The sheer brightness of his clothing was becoming frightfully more obvious by the second.

"Ah! So we have an adventuror in our midst! Heh, that sounds so funny because one would usually say 'traitor' instead of 'adventuror'. But you are no traitor! Or at least I think you aren't. You, my boy, seem to be more of the energetic type, yes? Of course you are! Do not deny my judgement, because I am pretty dang sure it's right!" The captain exclaimed, pausing in his speech.

During his pause, he decided to clear his throat for no apparent reason.

"Yes, anyways, my name is Benjamin Schmidt! It is a very nice name and I am proud of my mother for giving it to me. Your name may be nice, too, but I'm not entirely sure, of course, because I have no clue as to what your name is. But it is okay!" He paused again in his speech, but suddenly seemed to have realized something as soon as he had done so.

"Oh my goodness! I have forgotten about the dearest control room!" The captain exclaimed, suddenly rushing forward and shoving Kiro as lightly as possible towards the doorway. "We must leave now! You, dear boy, you go explore somewhere else now! But if you get into trouble, I will be very angry at you indeed! So, you should.. um.. talk to some other people! Yes! Occupy yourself!"

Quickly shutting the cabin door behind him, the captain was rushing down the stairs and towards the next exit within the instant.

Ibuberu February 9th, 2006 2:30 AM

OOc-

Yeah..the captain dude's funny.XD

Oh yeah, a sketch of Ernis I did during Study Period today.^^;;

~Clickie for tha ignorant dude we all shall learn to love~


Ic-

"Ah, yes! Of course you've heard of me! I am after all, one of the greatest Coordinators Hoenn has seen so far."Ernis beamed, taking in every word of Yikari's statement, it didn't seem that he would catch onto the sarcasim anytime soon. Delighted by the fact that the tall boy was now bowing to him. The only thing that bothered the Coordinator was that look on his face.. such a childish smile he had.

"Its attitude like that, that makes the lack of male Coordinators these days-"the boy stopped talking as Amber stated that she was ony kidding, winking at him. Oh yes, the cowgirl was very pretty indeed. Ernis decided that he was going to continue staring at her unlike he freaked her out so much she had to continue talking to him.

"Ernis, my boy, you are one smart thinker!"he praised himself mentally, giving Cynthia and Oliver an absent-minded wave with one of his hands before carrying out the afformentioned plan.

{Heyness! Don't say such bad things about Ernieness here! He's a good trainer! Be bestness!}Buu immediately said in defence at Hiro's reply, though calming down right after, smiling before continuing. {But I'm sure Hiro didn't mean it!}the Sudowoodo was in a right cheerful mood, like she had almost always been.

{Aw, no worries, friend! I'm sure Hiro here was just fooling around!}Chue joined in, sensing that this was one grouchy Houndoom he was dealing with.

{You shouldn't be frowning all the time! But, I won't mind if you did a pawstand so that that frown'd turn upside and down!}the Feebas clapped his fins together, before glancing at Festival, to the twitching Espeon, then the Houndour. Oh yes, there was one more Pokemon who had yet to introduce himself to the fish. That Spoink with the blue girl...
--

Ernis was certain that he could have continued staring for another few minutes if not for the fact that the loudspeakers began with that irritating loud voice. The darned contraption broke his concentration. The Coordinator flicked his hands to make sure his sleeves fell properly over them while listening to the strange announcement.

"WIth a captain who talks like that, I wonder if we'll even make it to the island without drowning to death.."he mumbled, though glad that they were reaching land soon. Crossing his arms as there was nothing else to do but look cool, or whatever it meant to him.

OOc-

*wonders why Ernis hasn't been killed/thrown off the ship by now*

Alter Ego February 9th, 2006 8:51 AM

OOC: Amen, cheers for the captain! ^0^ Oh, and for Ernis' picture too, although I think his right (Our left that is) arm seems disproportionally long. o.O Meh, it could just be me, though. ^-^

Oh, and yay for you not being sick anymore Plushie! ^-^ So well-wishing works? I'm going to have to do a lot more of that then. Hmm...maybe charge the less special individuals for it too. xD

IC:

Yikari put on a would-be dissapointed expression at Oliver's comment, "Aww...but Oliver-sama, I like to adress people by silly nicknames." he let out a good natured chuckle, "But very well, since you're such a good sport I won't call you Akane-kun any longer, even though that name suits you better than you might know." he grinned at some inner joke of his "Oh, I almost forgot." the boy stated, clapping his hands together and turning to adress the group in general, "Ladies, gentlemen, and Ernie-san..." he cast a meaningfull glance at the coordinator who had taken up staring at Amber "If I may have your attention please?" he beamed at the whole assembled lot of them, "For those who don't know, my name is Yikari Arikawa and it is a pleasure to meet you all." he performed yet another dramatical bow, this time to everyone. Before the boy could continue, however, the captain's announcement cut in, his voice booming across the ship, courtesy of the loudspeakers. Once the old man had finished, Oliver was quick to state that the day was finally turning better while Ernis made a pessimistic comment about their chances of survival.

"Ahh...don't worry Ernie-san." Yikari said, laughing as he patted the coordinator on the shoulder as if he were an old friend, "I'm certain that our esteemed captain is quite well aware of what he's doing." he turned towards the whole group again, "Soo...what do you good people make of this whole invitation thing, then?" he inquired, watching the others curiously, "Do you think it will be fun?"

Hiro was about to say something snappish at Akeru's introduction but then came to the conclusion that it wasn't worth the effort. Sarcasm was wasted on some people, {Pleasure to meet you, I'm sure...} he muttered in a completely dispassionate tone, {As for me performing pawstands...} the Houndoom added indignantly, {That you can forget. I'm here for security and strategic counsel, pawstanding and other tomfoolery is already quite well taken care of Hagure and my trainer here.} he nodded towards Yikari.

OOC: As a random piece of trivia; if my sources are correct, 'Akane' is the japanese name for Madder, a kind of plant which grows to about 1.5 meters of height (*Cough*Oliver*Cough*) and can be made into a crimson red dye (Note Oliver's hair colour). It's also a japanese girls' name (Cause he can look kinda femmy xD). Lol, triple-hit. I spend way too much time thinking about some these things. xD

Light_Azumarill February 9th, 2006 9:47 AM

OOC: My goodness, the boys on the ship are gonna wear themselves out by the time they reach Meridian Town. XD

And yeah Alter, you do think of these things too much. j/k ^-^ What a perfect plant to name Oliver after though!!


Cynthia
----------------

How outgoing everyone here was. It was so strange to be in the middle of all of this... as if Cynthia had suddenly become a passenger on a showboat. That Ernis kid was certainly happy with himself and kept on staring at Amber. Oliver looked close to blowing a fuse and Cynthia was little afraid of him. She didn't really like people, especially boys, who shouted a lot and got angry all of the time. Ernis had even spoken ill of the captain. She had visibly frowned at his statement of the captain drowning, and had she been a stronger person, would have commented on it.

She smiled though as Yikari mentioned the invitation. That meant she was on the right ship for sure! Her head was still a bit dazed from Yikari's trick, and she hadn't really been 100 percent sure she was where she was.

As the very animated boy had asked a question directed to them all, Cynthia felt that she could answer without looking too forward. She didn't mind speaking her opinion when asked. She was just never the first one to initiate the conversation. She stepped forward, "I- I think it's exciting. This place... is supposed to be fairly new, right? Not many people from the other regions have come here before." She was being sincere, and really did think it was exciting. Scary as well, but she omitted that part, not wanting to look too frail in front of such strong people.

Wilbur had jumped down from Cynthia's arms to the gaggle of pokemon that had been looking and talking to each other. He figured he should introduce himself, and try to look somewhat more outgoing than his wispy trainer.

{Hi. In case any of you were wondering, my name's Wilbur. I'm with the timid-looking human girl over there,} he said, indicating Cynthia with his nubby arm.

Alter Ego February 9th, 2006 10:29 AM

OOC: Nonsense Melissa! Boys their age have a lot more energy than you think. Why Yikari alone could go on for hours at an end without even noticing fatigue, and Oliver is probably no worse. Ernis could probably manage it too...well, at least if he could spend the time staring at Amber. xD

Oh, and Akane was just a spurr of the moment thing because I'd incidentally learned about the plant when running random japanese terms through internet translators and dictionaries the other day, I thought that the coincidence was so amusing that it wouldn't do for Yikari not to take advantage of it. ^-^ Oh, and Akane is also Whitney the Goldenrod gym leader's original name.

And one more thing; it was Ernis who commented on them all drowning, not Oliver. Cynthie-chan is barking up the wrong tree. =P

IC:

Yikari's face lit up a bit, quite the feat considering the expression it was already wearing, as he noticed that Cynthie-chan was not only speaking up but also...smiling? Yes, that seemed to be her verison of a smile. Poor Cynthie-chan, she obviously couldn't have gotten to smile very often in her life, seeing how out of practice she was. Well, the boy concluded, he would be quite glad to teach her.

"I concur with Cynthie-chan here." he stated, nodding at the girl's words, "It's going to be fun to see what's on the other side of the glorified puddle. Not to mention Chrysso-sama's machine..." he added with a spark of enthusiaism glowing brightly in his eyes, "...I wonder if he would let me try controlling it if I asked nicely?" the boy continued speculating, tilting his head slightly "I do have a certain way with machines you know..."

{A very destructive way...} Hiro interjected, giving the boy a stern glance, {Remember what became of that quizz machine back at Cinnabar?}

Yikari folded his arms defensively, although even this motion seemed a tad exaggerated, "Well, it did ask for a manual correction." he retorted.

{I still don't believe that it meant throwing the manual at it, you know.} Hiro retorted, rolling his eyes.

"Well I still think they made too much of a fuss about it." Yikari stated as his final defense before suddenly unfolding his arms and seeming to shrug off the matter alltogether, "So...what about the rest of you?" he asked, once again turning his attention to the group, "Do you believe that Chrysso-sama's invention is as great as he thinks it is?"

Charon February 9th, 2006 11:58 AM

{ooc| I'm making refrigerator cake! Or however it's spelt... yay. Chocolate, Butter, Syrup, Sultanas, nuts and cherries!
Ahhh, I do like winter. I do an awful lot of mucking around in the kitchen.
Also... I have no school next week~!
Love the picture, Yibber. And the post. Enris is...as funny as feebas.}

Amber blinked.
Enris was... well, staring at her. Not even slyly. Those big brown eyes of his were fixed straight on her, almost unblinkingly, and Amber found herself feeling strangely...paranoid. She stared down at her t-shirt and plucked at it cautiously, then stared at Enris.
"Uh... have I got soup on me or something?" she asked the boy, and shot a questioning glance at her Vaporeon. The little water type shrugged her shoulders, as if she understood what Amber meant from her expression alone.

She shook her head, and turned to Yukari for a second. However, he spoke in such an over egged way he really was giving her a headache.
"Crissie....sameh?" she rubbed her forehead. "Gah, speak normally, all these languages are giving me a headache..." she muttered, gesturing to the pokemon.
She grinned half-heartedly at the red-headed boy. "Oliver. Got it... at least someone's got a normal name around here."

Festival giggled - after all, Amber's large ego needed a lot of nurturing; laughing at her jokes was just one of the things Festival liked to do for her trainer.
Turning away from the humans, Festival switched her attention back to Oliver's espeon, who was wearing sunglasses and looking very classy. She fluttered her eyelashes.
{Hello, sir!} she squeaked, {Nice to meet you!}

Jack_Skellington February 9th, 2006 9:21 PM

Blinking in suprise, before he even got to say another word, Captain Schmit took off, and Kiro, was unfortunatly left speechless, Kindle still shaking, said to Kiro:


{{Kiro, let us PLEASE GO BACK TO THE ROOM!}} said the small green Pokemon, the ever popular angry vein popping out of his forehead.


"Ok! OK! We will leave now," replied Kiro, a bit annoyed by Kindle. As he walked toward the stairs, he returned Kindle to his PokeBall. Kindle, in respect, did as his master wished, and returned to his ball. He then walked down the inforgiving stairs, wishing that they would arrive in Meridian Town already.....

Random Plushie February 9th, 2006 10:22 PM

OOC:

Ah, so that's why 'Akane' seemed so familiar.. I read about it being Whitney's Japanese name somewhere. Probably Wikipedia or something along that line. But that name does suit Oliver perfectly, yes it does. XD

Heh. The Captain > Most.

On a side-note, BB may be joining in some time soon. He missed sign-ups because of his acting adventure, so yesh. It shouldn't be too late for him, though, seeing as how the boat still has quite a while more to go before reaching Meridian Town.

I just thought I'd let y'all know. Anybody have a problem with this?



IC:



Oliver tilted his head slightly as Yikari asked for everyone's opinion on the invitation thing. Now this struck him with shock.. He hoped that Yikari wasn't talking about a certain invitation that Oliver himself had recieved. However, the red-head's hopes were crushed when the drama king began referring to 'Chrysso-sama', Oliver instantly recognizing that same name (although without that suffix thing) from his own invitation.

Oliver stood rooted to the spot in his shock, listening in horror as Cynthia shared her opinion, followed up by more over-egged comments from Yikari. Yes, he had figured that all the passengers were headed for the same town.. But in no way had he pictured that these guys were going to the presentation as well.

He just could not picture himself sitting through a presentation in the same room as Yikari. Or that Ernis guy. The girls seemed level-headed enough to provide a sound level suitable for concentration.

"Wait!" Oliver exclaimed, finally getting over his momentary shock. "You're all going to that Chrysso guy's presentation too!?" He shouted, holding both hands to his head at this point. "If that's true, then that invention had better be as great as it sounds, else there's no way I'm getting through this.."

Meanwhile, Piro immediately snapped back to his senses as Festival adressed him, his ears perking up as he became aware of his surroundings once more. Once he had spotted the Vaporeon that had called to him, he remained expressionless for a few seconds, tail swishing back and forth.

{Yes ma'am. It is most honourable on my part as well. The name's Piro..} The Espeon said in a rather serious tone, pausing in his speech to flick his gaze across the other Pokemon gathered as well. {I would appreciate it if the name wasn't forgotten.}

Akeru's tongue was lolling out of his mouth now, eyes fixed on Wilbur. They had been ever since the Spoink had introduced himself. Deciding to make a move, Akeru wasted no time in completely forgetting about Hiro, dashing over to Wilbur as quickly as he could manage, tail wagging the entire time.

{Wilbur is a funny name! Have you ever noticed how really shiny that pearl is!?} Akeru exclaimed, reaching out to touch the blue pearl on Wilbur's head with his nose as soon as he had bounded over.

Jack_Skellington February 9th, 2006 10:39 PM

Realizing that there was something going on on the deck, Kiro quickly ran towards the deck, only to see people conversing, some girls, and some guys. He walked up to a hilariously short person, with wild red hair, who upon first glance, Kiro thought was a girl. He then had to hold his breath in to keep from laughing his brains out, but then managed to say,

"Erm, what's your name? Mine's Kiro."


Which was when Kiro couldn't hold it in anymore, and started to laugh like crazy, his large eyes collecting many tears from the laughter. He quickly apoligized to the boy, and awaited a response.

Ibuberu February 10th, 2006 5:05 AM

OOc-

Like, so that's why Akane sounded so familiar. Well yeah, it suits Oliver.^^

Ahh..and it isn't Ernis' arm tha's long, it's his sleeve.XD
I might have overshot the length abit.^^;;

Funny as a Feebas, Charon? I find him entertaining.XD

Oh yeah, I don't mind Bulba joining us.^^

Ic-

"Um..okay, Arikawa."Ernis gave Yikari a strange look as the boy gave him a pat on the shoulder, regretting that he had even said it loud enough for everyone else to hear. However, he easily straightened up as Yikari proceeded to ask about the invitation.

"Ah! Of course it'll be fun! Yes, though the main reason I even bothered to reply to this man's letter was cause.. If the great Ernis was to be one of the first few Master Coordinators in this new region, I'd be more famous than I am, right now! Haha! With fangirls swarming everywhere and popularity!"Ernis replied loudly, taking note to make sure that Cynthia was done talking.

{Oh! Helloness, Wilbur!}Buu turned to wave to the Spoink, what Piro said was correct, that orb on his head was really shiny indeed.

{Ah..Friend, trust me, being happy is better than being a cranky Houndoom.}Chue had blocked out Hiro's negative statement, mearly smiling. The Feebas was one who was hard to bring down indeed.

"You talking about that Chrysso guy right? I doubt that he'll let anyone near that machine."Ernis never had a second thought on remembering the professor's name.

"No, miss. You don't have a soup stain on yourself. You're just so pretty that I couldn't help but stare. Your eyes are like two, crystal clear pools of blue."he grinned at Amber, hoping that the decent complimenting would help him get a good start with the cowgirl.

If not for the fact that she had amber eyes.

Alter Ego February 10th, 2006 6:31 AM

OOC: Hmm...BB is joining? That's fine by me, just as long as we get his profile here too. ^-^

Oh, and Jack Skellington, I hate to be the terrible nagger in this instance but I have to point out that your posts are getting disturbingly short and undescriptive. Also, you should write out what exactly it is that your character is saying, not just "Kiro asked whoever about whatever", and how on earth did he find out everyone's names? Really, that post needs a lot of editing imo. <.<

IC:

"Headache?" Yikari echoed in a voice of purest innocence, "My deepest apologies Ambry-chan..." he gave another one of his dramatical apology bows, "It was never my intention to cause pain to any of your bodily parts, although I cannot speak for Chrysso-sama's esteemed parents or explain their naming habits." the boy bowed again, "Perhaps we could ask our esteemed captain to lend you something for the headache then, yes?"

Just as the boy had finished his apology to Amber however, another event caught his attention; namely, Oliver's words on what he felt about attending a seminar with this group.

"Now Oliver-sama, I take offence." Yikari commented in a dramatically offended tone, folding his arms, "Why ever would you not like to attend Chrysso-sama's seminar together with our lovely little family here?" he swept one arm through the air in a gesture to encompass the whole group, a mischievous grin spreading across his face as Ernie-kun began talking with Amber, Yikari nonchalantly slipping a bit closer and giving him a discreet nudge on the arm.

"Why Ernie-kun, you truly are what they call a smooth operator..." he whispered in a would-be sly voice, "Although how you ever managed to get such a good view of her eyes when your own were focused quite a bit lower is beyond me." he gave the coordinator a quick grin before taking a bit of distance from him again and awaiting the others' responses.

Charon February 10th, 2006 10:15 AM

{ooc| sorry I didn't post earlier, I was meant to be going out but my parents were taking...aaaaages. They told me I 'couldn't start anything' though, so no posty from me ;;}

Festival sniffed sadly. Piro didn't seem very interested in her... she stalked off to cower behind her trainer, who was too busy eyeing suspiciously to notice.
"My eyes are...Amber, y'know? Hence the name?" the girl said sarcastically, and rolled her eyes. Still, she couldn't but smile. "Thanks, though." she added, in a softer voice. Boys very rarely told her she was pretty; after all, Amber was skinny and outgoing, but she still lacked the most important part of a woman's anatomy. A large chest.

She paused, as the conversation turned to Chrysso's letter.
"Oh... this invitation?" she opened up her bag and pulled out a very crumpled looking piece of paper, which had a large bite out of one corner. She grinned sheepishly. "Uh...yah, my Tauros got hold of it..."
As Yukari continued to gabber on in his whimsical voice, Amber couldn't help but grin. "Our little family?" she laughed. They had only just met, and they were hardly the perfect little clique; one prankster, one shrimp, one coward, one...well, whatever Enris was. She chose to ignore Yukari's second comment; after all, she hardly had much chest to stare at.

Amber glanced up as another boy appeared, followed by a Ralts. He began talking to Oliver, and Amber smiled politely. "Hello!"

{edit: I'm sad, Nigma's roleplay looks really cool but I didn't get an invite. Ah well.}

Random Plushie February 11th, 2006 10:28 AM

OOC:

Um, yes, Jack Skellington, I do believe Alter has a point.. Could you try working on that, please?


IC:



Oliver had narrowed his eyes again, having just attempted to ignore Ernis and that attitude of his. However, his attention on Ernis didn't last very long, for once Yikari had begun commenting again, Oliver immediately forgot about Ernis. Turning away from the Coordinator, he folded his arms in the manner that they had been before replying.

"Family? Are you implying that after several minutes of talking with everyone, you're attached?" Oliver asked, if only to hear Yikari's response. His responses had proved interesting thus far, if a bit annoying in Oliver's eyes. Shrugging mentally to himself, Oliver decided he may as well share his opinion. It wasn't like he had anything else to do.

Reaching into one of his sweater's pockets, it only took a few moments for Oliver to retrieve the folded piece of paper that he had been looking for. It was a good deal less crumpled than Amber's invitation for the most part, and of course, had no bites taken out of it, either. He flicked his eyes across the words printed on the invitation, just to refresh his memory.


Dear Mister Oliver Tan,

Greetings, my name is Chrysso. Or, more formally, Professor R. Chrysso. I am a Pokemon Researcher currently taking up research in the region known as Ryko. You may or may not have heard of it, Mister Tan, but either way will suit me just fine.

Getting to the point, I am cordially inviting you to attend a presentation at my lab, located in Meridian Town. During the course of this presentation, I will reveal to all who attend my latest invention, which I have constructed due to a breakthrough I have reached in my studies. This invention is solely for ensuring the well-being of your Pokemon, and in no way do I expect it to be harmful. This invention, whether you take my word for it or not, is very unique in design and performance and I do hope that you will attend my little seminar. If the invention is ready, I may allow for its use on your Pokemon.

Since all members of my invited audiece do not take up residence in Ryko, I have ordered for an ocean liner, S.S. Kingdra, to travel throughout the assigned regions and pick everyone up. Once you are aboard the ship, the journey will already be fairly complete. The S.S. Kingdra will make one last destination after it has picked up all passengers, heading to my lab or not, which is Meridian Town.

Once the ship has landed, all you have to do is show up at my lab.


Sincerely,

Prof. R. Chrysso



Looking over the invitation one more time left Oliver puzzled. Now that he thought about it, he had absoutely no idea what this invention did, how this professor guy knew his name, and why the guy would invite him specifically to a science presentation, anyway. It didn't make much sense.

"I guess it must be worth it to find out what this guy is all about." Oliver spoke up, his usual temper having gone for the moment. "Since he went through the trouble of inviting us specifically."

{It all seems like an underground operation, Skipper-Oliver.} Piro spoke up, looking up to Oliver. {I've been saying that since the very beginning. There's no trusting random people who invite you to special parties!} He exclaimed, all the while holding the serious tone in his voice. He had noticed Festival stalking off (he tended to notice a lot of things), but paid it no heed.





OOC:


Thought I'd give y'all something to refer to.

The invitations don't differ much at all, save everyone's names.

Jack_Skellington February 11th, 2006 10:46 AM

((OOC: Sorry for that short post, but here is a longer one, and I edited my previous post! ^^!))

IC:

Kiro sighed, and then grabbed the letter he had in his bag, which said the exact thing the short boy's letter said. Amazed that someone else on the ship was going to his location, Kiro then acted nicer to the wild haired boy, apologizing many many times in sorrow. He called out Kindle, so that he could play with the other Pokemon he saw at the edge of his eye.

{{Kiro....Do I have to?}} asked Kindle, nudging at Kiro's leg with hard force.

"Yes, now go along now, play with the others" replied Kiro, pushing him toward a Spoink. The shy Ralts slowly walked over, and when he sensed the kindness in the Spoink using the red horn on his head, Kindle happily walked over to it.

{{Hello, my name is Kindle, what is yours?}} The Ralts smiled, hoping he wouldn't give off a bad first impression to the other Pokemon.

Light_Azumarill February 12th, 2006 7:38 AM

OOC: Hey, I'm posting! XD Sorry for the absence. ^^;; By the way, Yikari's comment on what Ernis' eyes were focused on cracked me up! Heh heh.


Cynthia
------------------

{Oh yes, my pearl is quite shiny, isn't it? Cynthia helped me find a really nice, shiny blue one. I love it,} the Spoink said to he hyper pokemon. The Houndour's nose was about to touch the precious pearl, and Wilbur didn't really mind. He minded when people tried to steal it, so he would of course watch the pokemon closely, but he didn't see the harm in letting the dog touch it.

A Ralts soon came up to the springy pig, and he looked over to it. {Oh hello, my name's Wilbur. It's nice to meet some more psychic pokemon. Your psychic abilities are probably more honed than mine though, Cynthia has always been... er... afraid to train with me in that area.}

Cynthia had tried to train Wilbur in the way of his psychic abilities, but that time had ended abruptly. Despite what she seemed, Cynthia actually had a very high aptitude for becoming a psychic. She had scored a very high number on an ESP test, and she had seemed a bit happy to try and get good at something. However, not more than a week after they had begun training their minds, Cynthia backed out. She had never made it clear why she stopped, not even to Wilbur, but the pokemon had sensed that it had something to do with a day she had gone off alone to do some psychic training. That day she had come back really upset and scared, but would never talk about what happened.

The little Spoink stopped thinking about this. He didn't care if he didn't reach his full potential as a psychic, he would rather have Cynthia happy.

The smoky-eyed girl had been watching the conversations around her, thinking perhaps this would be a good time to slip away and be alone again. She did enjoy being around people, she just didn't know what to say to them. What could she talk about with these people? The invitation? She didn't know anything about the man who had sent them, and so to just avoid any embarrassment, she attempted to slink away.

She took a few scooting steps away from the group of chatting trainers, and paused for a moment, not wanting them to notice that she was slowly disappearing.

Jack_Skellington February 12th, 2006 8:36 AM

The Ralts smiled at the comment the Houndour said to Wilbur. He inched a few feet back, scared of the Houndour, as he had never seen one. He then decided that even though it was hyper, the Houndour was harmless.

{{Hi there, my name is Kindle!}} he said, hoping that the Dog Pokemon wouldnt attack.

Then, he turned to Wilbur and asked,

{{Why has your trainer been afraid of training you in your area of Psychic power? She shouldnt because, well, arent you a psychic Pokemon?? My trainer has been training hard with me since day one!}} He smiled, proud of his accomplishments.....

Alter Ego February 12th, 2006 8:48 AM

OOC: Ho-hum. Jack, your edited post has a new case of sloth with 'Kiro quickly apologized'...-.- Still, the length has improved and this new one looks just fine. ^_^

IC:

"But of course!" Yikari exclaimed at Oliver's statement, "My dear Oliver-sama, there are separated siblings in this world who only know each other through letter correspondence and are still siblings in every possible sense of the word. We on the other hand have already known each other for several minutes, that's more than some siblings ever get." he gave the boy a hearty smile, quite purposefully ignoring Kiro for the moment, just to see how long it would take to tick the boy off and make him demand acknowledgement.

Speaking of ackonwledgements, it seemed like Cynthie-chan wasn't getting very much of those at the moment. The boy quickly spun around, only to spot that the girl in question had taken up slowly backing away. Ahh...such stealth would have made Hiro proud, but it wouldn't do for such anti-social tendencies to be bred in the dearest of all his new friends now, was it? No, of course not. Especially since Yikari had yet to determine why the blue-haired girl looked so familiar.

With that in mind, Yikari chose not to comment on Oliver's words on the invitation, although on a normal day the mischievous boy would immediately have rushed over to peek over Oliver's shoulder and probably have swiped the letter too, should a suitable occasion have arisen. This time however, he quite purposefully walked over to Cynthia.

"Cynthie-chan..." he began in a fairly quiet voice which still sounded rather hurt and dissapointed "You aren't going to just walk away on your newly found family, are you?" he gave her his most convincing poor-little-orphan expression, "Couldn't you stay a bit longer? Pleeease?"

Hiro scoffed, now thoroughly annoyed by the abundance of small and irritating pokémon in his presence as Kiro's Ralts joined in as well, {Why should she?} the Houndoom remarked bitterly, {There would be more oxygen for the rest of us if she left, wouldn't there?}

"Oh, you don't really mean that, Hiro." Yikari said, shaking his head at the fire type, "And how could Cynthie-chan be like the little sister I never had if she's somewhere else? You're spouting silly talk now."

{Silly talk?} Hiro echoed, {Who's the one talking about sisters he's never had five minutes after meeting the girl, eh?}

"Time is a relative concept." Yikari remarked, turning his attention back to Cynthia to make sure that she wouldn't make a getaway.

Random Plushie February 12th, 2006 10:33 AM

OOC:

Has anybody been watching the Winter Olympics?

Alter, tell the Finnish judge he's being harsh. XD The Japanese judge is being harsh, too.



IC:



Oliver hadn't noticed Kiro's laughter while he had been rereading his invitation, so of course, as he turned to face Kiro as the boy was apologizing, Oliver narrowed his eyes, trying to hide his confusion.

"What are you apologizing about? Never mind, I don't want to know." As usual, he was being rude on the first impression. Folding up his invitation, he placed it back where it had been in his pocket before turning around to hear Yikari's latest response. Whoa, it seemed the guy was going to stop at nothing to convince them all that they were a 'family'.

Piro was listening as well, not moving save the constant swishing of his tail. Every so often the jewel on his forehead would glow, but only for a split second, not glowing again until several long moments had passed.

{Actually, the less people, the better.} Piro piped up, agreeing with what Hiro was saying. His expression was void of emotion, as usual. {If there were less people around, it would be easier to spot danger coming from afar.}

"Something's wrong with you. Really." Oliver said, in Yikari's direction, quickly folding his arms again. No, he definitely wasn't the brother Yikari ever had. He was going to die believing that.

Meanwhile, Akeru had barely paid attention to Wilbur's response, completely occupied in repeatedly poking the Spoink's pearl with his nose. His tail was still wagging.

{Shiny things are so fun to poke!} Akeru yipped in happiness, eyes seeming to glow brightly. {But I think it's getting kinda boring! Don't you?} With that, the Houndour quickly turned and bounded away from Wilbur, making his way back to Oliver through the surrounding people, skidding to a halt when he finally reached the boy. Apparently he shouldn't bound so fast in the future. The Houndour barked up at his Trainer to get his attention, eventually tugging on Oliver's pant leg, if a bit hard.

{Ollieee~! Let me out when something fun happens!} Akeru howled, smiling in spite of the irritated look he got from Oliver. The Trainer said nothing, though, merely unclipping the Houndour's Pokeball and returning him within the next few moments.

Ibuberu February 13th, 2006 4:47 AM

Ernis snorted at Yikari's previous statement, about where his eyes were positioned. The boy knew he had better things to ponder about, the color of Amber's eyes for example.

"Well, yes. Pools of fire I mean-"the Coordinator bit his tougue while sweatdropping.

Great, excellent. What a nice thing to say to a girl, eh? He quickly resumed talking once more, hoping to cover up his previous mistake. "Anyway, I just noticed they're color. You're so beautiful that I was blinded, hence the fact that I couldn't see their magnificent color."

The boy proceeded to gesture to Buu, asking her to get his invitation out of his bag while turning to see a new boy approaching them. He was older, and had a Ralts.

{Rightness, Ernis!}the Sudowoodo saluted her trainer obediantely, proceeding to unzip his knapsack, rummaging through it until she pulled out a piece of paper folded neatly.

"Right. All of you are talking about this thing right?"Ernis held it out, opening it to briefly glance at the letter, followed by its folding and placement into the boy's pocket.

{Helloness, tiny Ralts!}Buu waved to Kindle, laughing at the small size of the Ralts compared to her. Infact, she was almost always surronded by smaller Pokemon. Like, Wilbur for example, either way, they were all too fun to be with. Her expression did let down a bit as Akeru was returned to his pokeball.

{Friend. There's no danger. And even if there was, the more people the better. Cause' they're more eyes and everyone could contribute to beatin' the danger! Of course..the plan could backfire and we could all get seriously hurt or captured, our trainers too. And then, all we can do is sit powerless in the metal cage's they've imprisoned us in and howl until the bad guys get pissed off an-}Chue was stopped abruptly by a brown arm covering his mouth.

{Peopleness, don't mind him. He's like that.}Buu grinned nervously, letting the Feebas get back onto his original place on her shoulder.

"I am definately not your brother. Seriously, I can't comprehend the fact that we could actually be related. Good try though."Ernis had actually put something good(Feebas, if we're talking about Ernis, him saying 'Good try' would've been considered way good already.XD) into his sentence, though the rest of it seemed to be as rude and negative as the ones before. Still, this Arikawa guy was creeping him out, bah, he just probably needed some getting used to.

Light_Azumarill February 13th, 2006 8:16 AM

OOC: I'm so nervous... I have a speech to give today in my Public Speaking class. I'm talking about my experience in having a pet rabbit so I definitely know what I'm talking about, but I can't help but be nervous. ^^;;


Cynthia
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"Uh... uh... I- I suppose I could stay," Cynthia stuttered, looking up at Yikari's pleading face. Darn! She had gotten caught, and now she felt even more embarrassed that someone had caught her. She would have been better off not moving at all and just keeping quiet.

With the slightest of sighs, she began to walk back over to the group, stealing glances at them all and wondering why this boy was so determined to keep everyone together. After all, quite a few of them seemed to dislike his use of the term 'family' when addressing the group, so why did he push it so much? Cynthia gulped a little and figured that she would look extremely rude if she didn't speak up considering she had just been dragged back over to the others, so she quickly thought of something to say.

"Do you think we're almost to the island? We have been out here for quite some time now," she asked no one in particular, her soft voice sounding its usual quiet self.

Wilbur was glad when the Houndour left his presence, his pearl was getting all slimy from the dog's wet nose, and Wilbur liked to keep his pearl clean.

{Indeed,} the Spoink squeaked when the Houndour had been returned, {As for your question,} he said turning to the Ralts once again, {I can't say. I just know that one day she was very afraid. Something bad happened but she would never tell me. I dunno, I just guess it wasn't meant to be.}

Alter Ego February 13th, 2006 9:44 AM

OOC: Winter Olympics? Ehh...can't say that I have. Although if the finnish judge is being harsh then good on him. Finnish judges are usually so bloody soft that they're giving us a bad name. xP

And good luck on your speech Melissa. ^-^ I used to freak out completely about them a few years back, but nowadays I take it all out on the audience by going into detail about everything instead. Helps to keep my mind of the audience itself. xD

IC:

{Finally someone with a little sense.} Hiro remarked at Piro's comment, {A commodity which most people seem to lack, I'm afraid...} he cast a meaningfull glance at Chue, {I'd rather be on my own than have a weird little fish or an over-energetic pup for a sentry.}

"Aww...come on Ernie-san." Yikari said at the coordinator's comment, shaking his head, "Don't be a grouch just because you're the little brother in this equation." he turned his attention back to Cynthia, his face lighting up visibly at the girl's reply, although he still noted that she had not given up the altogether unfitting habit of sighing and looking depressed.

"Well...our esteemed captain said that we had good weather, so we might make it ahead of schedule." Yikari remarked at Cynthia's question, "Let me go take a look." he flashed a quick grin at the girl before dashing off a bit forward and leaning as far over the railing as he could go, his feet seeming precariously close to loosing contact with the deck as only his toes could still touch it, the rest of the boy's body being aimed at seeing as far out to sea as possible. After a moment or two the boy dashed back over to the group with a continuously cheerfull expression on his face.

"We're not quite there yet, Cynthie-chan." he announced, performing a mock salute for the girl, "But I'm pretty sure that I spotted land in the distance, it could be Ryko. Any other orders, m'am?" he maintained a purposefully over-dramatized show of discipline, seemingly oblivious to the fact that no-one had really ordered him to do anything.

Light_Azumarill February 13th, 2006 10:09 AM

OOC: Eh... okay, I just talked about rabbits for about 16 minutes to my class. ^^;; The presentation was only supposed to be 5-7 minutes. It's official... I know too much about rabbits. O_O Luckily I was the second person to go and he gave me some slack. I did a good job though and no one looked bored! I think this is good for my future students though. It means that when I'm a teacher, my students can get me to easily talk through a half an hour, thereby delaying their tests by a day. I always loved it when that happened to my teachers. ^__^

Anyway:


Cynthia
----------------

Cynthia stared as Yikari raced over to the edge of the boat to peer out and make a call as to whether or not they had reached Ryko yet. She certainly had to hand it to the boy, he was very energetic. Quite the opposite of her usual demeanor, which consisted of being calm and quiet.

As he asked her if she had any other orders, the girl looked up at him with a slight frown. "O-orders?" she said in an uncertain tone, "I'm afraid I don't know what you mean? Am I to order you around?"

Wilbur heard this comment, and his little black eyes gave an exasperated look. {Oh Cynthia... he's obviously joking you again,} the little Spoink said, but he wasn't close enough for Cynthia to hear him.

As Cynthia stared at Yikari though, she suddenly felt as though he was somehow familiar. She couldn't imagine where she had seen him before, nor could she imagine ever forgetting someone like him, but there it was. She waited for his reply though, not wanting to ask him about what she was thinking-- it would have sounded a little strange.


OOC: I think I'm getting my brother's cold. My throat feels all warm and funny; like it does in the beginnings of a cold.

Charon February 13th, 2006 10:49 AM

{ooc| Nyaaah, you wanna be a teacher then, Melissa? I have no idea what I want to do... And....I'm such a lazy poster. I just got my brace fitted and it hurt. This morning I also had to get my travel jabs so I can go to the caribbean in April....so my arm hurts and my teeth hurt...}

Festival mewed, and peered out to sea. {I can't wait until we hit land!} she squeaked, and continued to found around the others, {then I can go swimming!} After all, Festival liked nothing more than the water, but here where she was surrounded by so much she couldn't enjoy it. She shot the tumbling waves another wistfull look, and bounced over to Akeru. {Hello, can I play too?} she began, but she didn't bother waiting for an answer and slumped over his back so she could see Wilbur's pearl as well. {I can see my reflection!} she exclaimed.

Amber rolled her eyes at Festival's behaviour. The little vaporeon meant well, bless her, but she was almost always annoying - especially to others. Amber didn't have the heart to chide her, so she turned back to Enris.
"I think that was a compliment, so thanks." she told him, and watched Yikari charge off towards the edge of the boat. Ah, how she wished the boat would hurry up. This method of travelling was ever so mediocre - so slow, too! Still, if it went any faster Amber guessed poor Miss Cynthia would have a complete nervous breakdown.

Random Plushie February 13th, 2006 10:02 PM

OOC:

Melissa, you are going to be everybody's favorite teacher. XD Plushie does hope you don't get too sick, though. Sickness bad. >.<

Ah, and Charon, braces do suck very much at first. The pain eventually goes away after a few days, though, so.. Yesh, it will be over soon. :3

Nyah, I love watching the Olympics, Winter and Summer. ^-^ Yesterday one of the guys in Men's Halfpipe (I forget which country he was from) made a shaka to the camera. :3

The shaka ish like so famous now. Remember; it's all in the wrist. ^-^



IC:



Oliver couldn't help but crane his neck a little as Yikari went to the railing to check how much farther they had to go. Of course, due to the awkward height angle, this meant he had to crane his neck a lot in order to actually see anything. Squinting his eyes, he was able to make out the distant shape of land spread wide on the horizon, just as Yikari had mentioned.

It wasn't much to look at now, though, so Oliver decided to turn back to the conversation, hoping that the ride wouldn't be too much longer. Though.. Judging by how happy the captain had sounded earlier, it probably wasn't all that much longer.

"If you want to take orders," Oliver said, turning to Yikari, unable to resist the temptation. "Then feel free to fetch me a cola. Great weather for one, don't you think?" He concluded, unable to restrain a grin.

Meanwhile, Piro's only physical reaction to Hiro's comment was the twitch of an ear. {Yet those with common sense must take it upon themselves to protect those who don't. The world works in strange ways..} Piro trailed off, the jewel on his forehead glowing once more.




OOC:

I hope BB joins in before he misses the boat.. .___.

Ibuberu February 14th, 2006 4:34 AM

OOc-

Melissi as a teacher?
She'd definately be loved by her students then.^^

Gah..and all these talk about braces ish scarin' me. I'm getting braces soon.o.O;;

Ic-

"I am not little! If you want me to be a part of this imaginary family, atleast try be decent will you?"Ernis frowned at Yikari's statement. True, that boy was a tad taller than him, but that give him the chance to be called smaller. Well..maybe that went for Oliver as well, the poor kid. It did seem that the redhead was much more stronger than he looked, was he underestimating him? Nah.

"Really? You deserve all the compliments you need!"the boy turned to smile at Amber as she thanked him for complimenting her. Looking at Yikari as he dashed to the side of the ship, trying to spot Ryko for that quiet blue-girl.

"If you're getting Oliver's drink, get me some herbal tea while you're at it, will you?"he waved one hand to Yikari, sounding quite serious indeed.

{Weird? Weird? I'm not weird! I'm more of the..unique type!}Chue concluded from his spot on Buu's shoulder, it was a wonder how the Feebas managed to maintain that grin he always had on his face. It must've been a mask of some sort.

{Heheeness! Common sense isn't so common anymore! And yes, the world works in strangeness! That's why I love it!}the Sudowoodo stated, covering her mouth with arm as she giggled.

Alter Ego February 14th, 2006 8:38 AM

OOC: I concur, everyone loves the verbose teachers. Well, at least I and most of the people from my old class do. ^-^ Ahh...this reminds me of the time when we debated away a whole double lesson of Swedish...xD

Anyway, my symphaties for your pain, Charon. I forget that not anyone has it as easy with the dentistry as I do (One cavity which was long since filled constitutes my whole record). Still, think about it this way; at least you don't end up with a nightbrace. Now those things are scary. @[email protected]

IC:

"Why Oliver-sama...Ernie-kun..." Yikari noted at the two boys' comments, giving the a look of mock-surprise "I didn't know you two responded to 'ma'm'. I'll just keep that in mind for future reference then, shall I?" he chuckled slightly before turning back to answering Cynthia's question.

"You needn't give any orders if you don't want to, Cynthie-chan." he replied, giving the girl a friendly smile "I can be magnanimous enough to live with that." the boy relaxed his manner again, shrugging of the previous discipline alltogether. There was something in the look that she was giving him that hadn't been there before, though, a kind of intentness in the stare, as if she was trying to connect the boy's appearance to something in her mind.

"Cynthie-chan?" he asked after a while, unable to restrain his curiosity, "Is there something on your mind?"

{Eh...quite so...} Hiro concured with Piro's statement, slightly puzzled by the fact that he couldn't find anything to dislike about the Espeon. The Houndoom wasn't used to dealing with people who didn't annoy him in some way, and despite his claims to the contrary, it was precisely among that sort of people that he found himself a bit at loss about what to say. Still though, he felt that he should comment on something, and luckily, the annoying little fish and that wiggly tree had provided a suitable target to talk at.

{Weird...unique...whatever you need to tell yourself, strange little fish.} Hiro remarked at Chue's comment, scoffing {It's all semantic nonsense really...and what, might I ask, is so funny?} he now turned his attention to Buu, noting that the Sudowoodo was having trouble with containing her own inner mirth, {You know what? On second thought I don't even want to know.} the Houndoom continued, ignoring both Chue and Buu and wishing that the darnable ship would just reach its destination so that he could take some well-needed distance from this crowd.

Random Plushie February 15th, 2006 10:17 PM

OOC:

Hmm, I guess it's about time to speed things up a bit.



IC:



Oliver's usual scowl deepened considerably at Yikari's words, and he was just as quick to reply as soon as that had happened.

"That's not what I meant! I assumed you would be glad to take orders from anyone, considering how quickly you got to requesting more. I.." Oliver forced himself to trail off, deciding it was best to refrain from giving Yikari ideas. Yes, just be quiet.. and hope he goes away..

While Oliver fell into a state of surpressed anger, Piro turned away from Hiro, looking towards the distant wedge of land on the horizon, his forehead jewel glowing softly again, although not to the point where it would plainly attract attention. He didn't have to squint his eyes from behind his shades in order to see the approaching region.

By now the land had drawn up considerably closer--apparently the good weather had prevailed, and the ship was plowing through the waters at a steady pace, even though from a passenger's point of view it seemed to be going painfully slow.

The details of the coastline itself were almost visible now. The distant white foam of waves rolling into the beach could be seen, as well as tiny little dots for the far-away buildings and the docks of the harbor. The coastline and beaches spread out for as far as the eye could see across the horizon. Apparently this region was pretty big, at least for a first glance.

Piro flicked his tail to and fro as he observed what he could see of the coastline. He didn't know what to make of it, really.. Danger could await them all on Ryko's shores. Unmerciful danger. He couldn't deny the possibility. Oh, how he wished that Yoku would be let out of his Pokeball soon.. Working alongside a trusted partner was the best way to go.

Baker's Bulbasaur February 16th, 2006 4:47 AM

Name: Jason Saint
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Appearance: Jason is a well gruimed man, he is very hansome with long blonde hair which clahses greatly with his smart black suit. Shiny polished up shoes and a red tie, his blazer is usually always done up, no matter how hot, and he only undoes it when angered. He still wears the wedding ring of his late wife. and silver cufflinks.

Personality: A very charming man and offeres his kind'ness to anyone, he isn't quick to judge, but although he would rather keep it to himself he is a sort of ''children should be seen and not heard'' person, but he keeps it to himself as he knows that times have evolved. He loves art and fine wines, and often makes soothing quotes which are known to calm people quite quickly. He however isn;t the most intelligent of men in other areas, such as logical thinking. He has never been very patient with naughty pokemon, as such all of his own are well diciplines to follow orders without hesitation, some may call this a bad way to raise pokemon as their natrual instincts can be most helpful, but jason does not listen to this theory.

Pokemon:
Dewgong - Dewgong is the chilled out pokemon of the group, (in more ways then one) when he isn;t battleing he prefers to just swim around lazily, or perhaps chat up the ladies :).
Jason caught Dewgong as a lonely seel that he found while traveling in the S.S anne.

Arcanine - Proberly Jason's most loyal pokemon, he loves to be babied and get attention from his master, but in battle he is a raging mahcine and will sput itself through anything to help it's master, even sacrifice it's own life
Jason was given his first pokemon, a growlithe when he was 10.

Cacturne - Cacturne is the sort of pokemon that prefers to keep itself to itself, it rarely talks to anyone, and changes very little in battle, it's almost as if he is always waiting for something to happen, liike he is expecting battle to break out at any time. He enjoys watching and listening from afar, as his master makes rememorable quotes, and is somewhat a little jealous of Arcanine. Jason caught Cacnea a long time ago, with very little effort, it was merely sitting on the road waiting for him, almost as he knew he was destined to be caught by him.

History (Optional): Having once been a very temporary gym leader of an unknown region, he left the job for reasons unknown. Some say it was due to his wife's death which occured due to a long disease which he has never gotten over, and feels somewhat guilty for his beloved ones death. He was never much interested in pokemon battles anyway so used his time in the research of new pokemon.....

Baker's Bulbasaur February 16th, 2006 7:27 AM

The ship suddenly made a sharp shake...nothing to worry about, but down in the dephs of the ship, a man began to stur from his distant slumber, he turns over in his large bed and slowly opens his eyes. Everything seems blurry, but he can make out parts of his room, a desk and wardrobe are directly in front of him on the other side of the room. the man pulls himself up into a sitting position and rubs his tires eyes with clenches fists. Uttering a deep yawn and stretching his arms out, his eyes begin to focus more. He sigh's deeply and looks to the small table next to his bed, he reaches over and picks up a glass of water which he quickly drains and swings his legs over onto the carpeted floor.

What time is it?...are we there yet? the man wonders to himself as he stands up and walks on his bare foot across the room to the small kitchs area, he places the glass into a washing up bowel and turns on the tap, cupping his hands, his slooshes his still tires face twice before turning the tap back off and grabbing a nearby towel. As he dries his face he turns around and notices a small sphere object on the floor, it is one of his pokeballs. Must have feel off with that lurch he though with a glance to his remaining pokeballs on a table. He drops the towel on the kitches table and bends down to pick up the ball, instantly he smiles, recognising which ball it is, and walks over to place it neatly on the table next to his others.
''There there now, we can't have you wandering off now can we''
The man says kindly with a smile. Looking at a clock on the wall, he reads the time ''ahhh right on schedule, perhaps it's time i prepared myself and headed up to the deck.

The man walks over to a wardrobe and opens it, revealing 2 three piece suits, he yawns again and reaches for one, about to get dressed.

Light_Azumarill February 16th, 2006 10:59 AM

OOC: BB's playing someone older than me! XD Sometimes it's fun to play older people though, they have issues and thoughts different from teens. Yes indeedy.

Thanks for the nice comments about teaching! Hopefully I can get through the student teaching alive... o.o Kids are evil to substitutes and student teachers.

And braces must hurt lots Charon! I have a friend that got braces in the beginning of high school and had them for three years. She was the kind of person that would come to school even if she was sporting a severed limb... so she would come to school the day after having her braces tightened, and moaning and groaning in pain. Poor dears! As for shots... they are evil. My brother's diabetic, so he has to have insulin shots all the time. It's kinda funny though, he's perfectly okay with the insulin shots, but when it comes to a flu shot, he has to lay down or he'll faint. ^^;;

Hey!! I'm gonna post! XD I feel like I've said that a lot lately. >.>


Cynthia
------------------

"Something on my mind?" Cynthia repeated as Yikari had asked her about it. Yes, she had been thinking of why the boy looked so familiar, but she felt a bit silly asking about it. However... it was a bad thing to lie to someone... she had agreed to that a long time ago. Torn again between duty and embarrassment, Cynthia bowed to morality.

"Oh well, you s-see Mr. Arikawa, I just thought that you looked a bit... familiar?" she said, ending in an uncertain tone that made the comment sound more like a question. She then proceeded to stare down at the floor, feeling even more silly that she had said that in such a silly way.

Wilbur bounced a little, watching Cynthia nearby. He was glad that she was interacting with people, as she usually became more comfortable around people she knew. Would she ever feel comfortable enough to talk normally around them? He didn't know, but he hoped she would someday. Life is no fun unless you have people to enjoy it with.

Alter Ego February 16th, 2006 11:14 AM

OOC: Yeah, yay for older people! ^0^ Heh, that dude is going to make for some interesting situations methinks. xD Anyways, I was just wondering...how come you're posting in present tense BB? Is there any particular reason or did you just happen to do it?

IC:

A mischievous grin spread across Yikari's face at Oliver's protest, but before the boy had managed to make anything more out of it, Cynthia had finally answered his question, and the answer was certainly enough to catch Yikari's attention for a while.

"Familiar?" the boy echoed, his mind immediately setting to work, "Eh...not in a 'that-guy-owes-me-a-lot-of-money' way, I hope?" he added jokingly, although in truth, it was quite probable that the girl was one of the countless customers for his 'wares', in which case looking for a refund would be alltogether logical, but somehow, the boy found himself doubting that particular scenario, if only because he simply couldn't picture Cynthia ever buying anything but the perfectly legitimate stuff, "Well, I am a rather travelling species..." he continued thoughtfully, "And if it makes you feel any better, Cynthie-chan, you do look familiar to me as well." he frowned slightly, a rather uncharacteristic action for someone like him, but then his expression turned back to the usual cheerful one, "I'm afraid I can't place you, though." Yikari concluded, shaking his head "Which is a shame for me, as I do pride myself on never forgetting a pretty face." he took a brief pause, "And most people do claim that I'm hard to forget...do you have any idea of how or where you would have seen me?"

Baker's Bulbasaur February 16th, 2006 11:30 AM

OOC - yay for old croneys!!! and i'm not sure why i done it titan lol, truth be told i just done it that way without thinking lol

IC - The man reached for his blazer and swung it around himself, placinh him arms through the holes and pulling it into a smart, neat manner. He closed the wardrobe door where there is a mirror on the outside and observes himself while doing up his blazer buttons, he has long blonde hair and sparkling teeth, still.....he was clearly getting older, not quite the young man he used to be, oh how he missed those days. He closed put his closed hand to his mouth and coughed before turning away from the reflection staring equally depressed back at him, and looked towards the desk with his pokeballs on it, he smiled slightly as thoughts of good times gone past ran through his mind. He walked over to them and picked one up
''and to imagine.....only you have bee through it all with my my friends.....''
The man placed all three pokeballs in his inside blazer pocket and also picked up his wallet, pokenav and pokedex, he placed these in seperate pockets and turns his attention to the oval window straight ahead, he could see the wide beautiful sea, but not far ahead...their destination......a place he heard much about and was trying to look forward to arriving at.
Business as usual i suppose... he thought with a final sigh before walking across the room and opening his door, he stepped out and switched off the light before closing it, making the room fill with the darkness that so many fear....

Light_Azumarill February 16th, 2006 11:33 AM

OOC: Bah... you made me post again Alter when I wanted to eat.

... What do you mean it was my choice?! XD


Cynthia
----------------

"I-I d-don't know... um, I just remember seeing you. I'm not very good at remembering people," Cynthia stated, her gray eyes staring off into space, trying to remember but not connecting with anything. She had blushed a little at the boy's comment about not forgetting a pretty face-- Cynthia always took compliments with a blush and stuttering, it was her way.

"P-Perhaps something will remind one of us later on of the incident?" she said, feeling a bit confused as to why she had chosen the word 'incident' to describe a meeting. Incident was something that was usually accompanied by an unwanted event or strange happening. She usually remembered those... oh well, she couldn't dwell on it too long, especially since land was in view now.

Cynthia looked over to the land approaching them, and felt a chill of anxiousness and wonder. She was a little afraid, but she knew that Wilbur and Tic-Tac would be with her, along for the ride in whatever awaited them.


OOC: Must... eat... lunch!

Charon February 16th, 2006 2:38 PM

{ooc| Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
I went to the theatre, because a drama youth group that my friend is in was putting on a show, it was GREAT. There was singing, and dancing, and all my favoruite songs... like The Monster Mash, She's Not There, and Gotta Get Out Of This Place. There were others.. still, we stood up in the isle, and screamed, and danced, and various stupid things. It was a pretty...plotless escapade, but the singing and cool 50's costumes made it fun.
LMAO, BB, you're palying an old pervert I bet! ;)}

Festival's big brown eyes had fallen on the approaching land mass; almost immediately, they were bright and full of excitement. Her bounding and leaping grew more and more frantic, as she darted in a tight figure eight around the trainers, practically nose to tail.
{Nearly there!} she sang cheerfully, completely oblivious of those around her.

Amber watched her Vaporeon for a minute, before turning back to the others. "Hey, Yukari, if you're taking orders from girls alone can you get me a sandwich?" she teased, and opened her mouth to continue - but froze mid-sentence. She had just spotted a man dressed in a black blazer out of the corner of her eye. Amber paused, and watched him for a second.


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