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Pokémon BEYOND
Kanto based. Rating is T. spots are CLOSED for now!
[S-HIGHLIGHT]IC thread found here <<[/S-HIGHLIGHT]
Year 2021, April:
Kanto has never been the most popular region for its nature, its culture or even its native species of pokémon. What makes the region great, is its people. So many famous trainers, actors, businesspeople, researchers and explorers have their origins in Kanto, and they outshine the natives of other regions in many situations with their pride for their region and brilliant energy and minds. At least... that's what they're saying in Kanto.
One career in which Kantonians have historically been particularly dominant, is pokémon battling. Anybody owning a pokémon is legally a trainer and obliged to follow trainer laws. But taking it one step further and battling other trainers for money - that makes you a battler. As with any type of sports, there are hobbyists, and there are those who strive to actually pursue a professional career. Most battlers undertake journeys through a region both at the start of their career as a test, as well as later on to stay sharp and well versed in skills and environments - as well as to build a web of useful contacts from around the world if they can! Every year, the Pokémon League also resets. This means that any battler can challenge the gyms around the region. If they manage to collect at least 8 gym badges, they have earned the right to challenge the Elite 4 for the title of Kanto Champion.
You aspire to be a battler, but you don't own any pokémon yet. As the Kanto community prides itself on its outstanding reputation for producing great battlers, the government has set up an office where trainers can receive a starter pokémon for free and a complimentary pokédex - which becomes registered as an ID in their name - to kickstart their career. This endeavor started a few decades ago and has proven to be successful. The pokémon species given out have largely remained the same, with a few seasonal and promotional changes now and then, and the core trio which were originally very rare pokémon, are now widely known as "the Kanto starters". A professor Green Oak is officially responsible for handing the starter and pokédex out to new battlers, and the facility can be found in Pallet City, a modern and still growing settlement in the southwestern part of the region.
... However, you (currently) live in Fuchsia City. You might have wanted to sign up in Pallet City, but for one reason or another, you became aware of a new endeavor going on in your own town. Another pokémon researcher, professor Cypress, is starting up her own battling agency called Battle Beyond, through which she hopes to rival the official monopoly on teaching new battlers how to think and train. This flamboyant figure offers a different selection of starters, bred in the local Safari Zone by her team of researchers. They are at least as strong as the classic "Kanto starters", and according to Cypress, they are even more intelligent.
The catch? Cypress believes strongly in aura. As the existence and influence of aura in battles and pokémon growth is hard to prove, Cypress so far isn't taken seriously by other scientists. She will require you to agree to try your best to get in tune with your own and your pokemon's aura over the course of your journey, and report any unusual behavior or findings back to her. That doesn't sound too hard, does it?
And Team Rocket isn't really big and dangerous, and you won't need to worry about them... Unless you're training strong pokémon. Then you should probably be very worried. What are they really up to, though?
Setting
There are a few things you should know about the Kanto we're playing this out in. First of all, the year is 2021!
- The story of RBY/FRLG never happened. There were two trainers called Green and Red starting their journeys at the same time though, receiving one pokémon each from Green's grandpa back in 1996 along with the first portable pokédexes. Green took his grandpa's place eventually, while Red became the Pokémon League Tournament champion before vanishing mysteriously.
- Team Rocket didn't rise back then. They were always low key and not really known to the public.
- As this is 2021, you might not recognize all gym leaders or places in Kanto. Things change!
- Humans hurting humans physically is a widespread taboo, even among those you'd call criminals. For hundreds of years, the much more durable pokémon have done all the fighting for humans, as it has benefitted them both - humans don't get hurt, and the pokémon grow their bodies and aura stronger and thus often evolve.
--- This is why it's not considered such a strange thing to send a teenager alone on a journey around the region, as long as they can take care of themselves and have sufficiently strong pokémon with them. Strong people can be bad trainers, and great trainers are seldom bad people.
- Oh yeah, Aura is canon here. Think of it as The Force but in pokémon instead of Star Wars. Feel free to have your characters develop it as a means to become psychic (psychic humans have been canon in the game/anime verse ever since gen 1) or communicate with their pokémon or channel pokémon abilities or moves or anything like that, eventually. Creative freedom! Help Cypress' research out (: You may of course opt out and be a normal person, if you prefer.
Mechanics
Let's simplify this a lot.
Every IC day, you can make 1 advancing action. Either:
- Teach a new move to one of your current pokémon
- Evolve one of your current pokémon
- Capture a new pokémon
Everything else, you can do as much as you want, with whomever you want. Go! :)
Rules
- If you trade with an "NPC", you can only receive pokémon that were previously or currently available for you to capture, and the GM will decide its moveset.
- It's probably a good thing to keep track of your pokémon and their moves in every IC post!
- Rating is T. That being said, feel free to make your character and the world around them seem realistic rather than overly kid friendly.
- Be friendly at all times ooc!
Sign-up Sheet
Name:
Gender:
Age: (min 13, no max value!)
Birth town: (in Kanto. Currently you are living in/near Fuchsia)
Appearance: (picture or description - or both!)
History: (what's worth mentioning in order for us to understand the character? Family? Events?)
Personality: (weaknesses & strengths? acting among people vs alone? interests?)
Battle Beyond starter:
As you are not a trainer yet, you will receive a pokemon from the professor along with a pokedex. You get to choose whichever species you like, ad long as it is unevolved and not legendary. State what gender and nature you'd like them to have, and I will give you a moveset and an ability if you are accepted into the RP. Only one starter of each kind for now.
Players
adventure - Trapinch - Paige Perrary
Godzil - Espurr - Elise Greene
FireSnow - Crabrawler - Martin Lovett
Arachneo - Spinarak - Damien Lalune
Aquacorde - Golett - Sorley
Kanto has never been the most popular region for its nature, its culture or even its native species of pokémon. What makes the region great, is its people. So many famous trainers, actors, businesspeople, researchers and explorers have their origins in Kanto, and they outshine the natives of other regions in many situations with their pride for their region and brilliant energy and minds. At least... that's what they're saying in Kanto.
One career in which Kantonians have historically been particularly dominant, is pokémon battling. Anybody owning a pokémon is legally a trainer and obliged to follow trainer laws. But taking it one step further and battling other trainers for money - that makes you a battler. As with any type of sports, there are hobbyists, and there are those who strive to actually pursue a professional career. Most battlers undertake journeys through a region both at the start of their career as a test, as well as later on to stay sharp and well versed in skills and environments - as well as to build a web of useful contacts from around the world if they can! Every year, the Pokémon League also resets. This means that any battler can challenge the gyms around the region. If they manage to collect at least 8 gym badges, they have earned the right to challenge the Elite 4 for the title of Kanto Champion.
You aspire to be a battler, but you don't own any pokémon yet. As the Kanto community prides itself on its outstanding reputation for producing great battlers, the government has set up an office where trainers can receive a starter pokémon for free and a complimentary pokédex - which becomes registered as an ID in their name - to kickstart their career. This endeavor started a few decades ago and has proven to be successful. The pokémon species given out have largely remained the same, with a few seasonal and promotional changes now and then, and the core trio which were originally very rare pokémon, are now widely known as "the Kanto starters". A professor Green Oak is officially responsible for handing the starter and pokédex out to new battlers, and the facility can be found in Pallet City, a modern and still growing settlement in the southwestern part of the region.
The catch? Cypress believes strongly in aura. As the existence and influence of aura in battles and pokémon growth is hard to prove, Cypress so far isn't taken seriously by other scientists. She will require you to agree to try your best to get in tune with your own and your pokemon's aura over the course of your journey, and report any unusual behavior or findings back to her. That doesn't sound too hard, does it?
And Team Rocket isn't really big and dangerous, and you won't need to worry about them... Unless you're training strong pokémon. Then you should probably be very worried. What are they really up to, though?
Setting
There are a few things you should know about the Kanto we're playing this out in. First of all, the year is 2021!
- The story of RBY/FRLG never happened. There were two trainers called Green and Red starting their journeys at the same time though, receiving one pokémon each from Green's grandpa back in 1996 along with the first portable pokédexes. Green took his grandpa's place eventually, while Red became the Pokémon League Tournament champion before vanishing mysteriously.
- Team Rocket didn't rise back then. They were always low key and not really known to the public.
- As this is 2021, you might not recognize all gym leaders or places in Kanto. Things change!
- Humans hurting humans physically is a widespread taboo, even among those you'd call criminals. For hundreds of years, the much more durable pokémon have done all the fighting for humans, as it has benefitted them both - humans don't get hurt, and the pokémon grow their bodies and aura stronger and thus often evolve.
--- This is why it's not considered such a strange thing to send a teenager alone on a journey around the region, as long as they can take care of themselves and have sufficiently strong pokémon with them. Strong people can be bad trainers, and great trainers are seldom bad people.
- Oh yeah, Aura is canon here. Think of it as The Force but in pokémon instead of Star Wars. Feel free to have your characters develop it as a means to become psychic (psychic humans have been canon in the game/anime verse ever since gen 1) or communicate with their pokémon or channel pokémon abilities or moves or anything like that, eventually. Creative freedom! Help Cypress' research out (: You may of course opt out and be a normal person, if you prefer.
Mechanics
Let's simplify this a lot.
Every IC day, you can make 1 advancing action. Either:
- Teach a new move to one of your current pokémon
- Evolve one of your current pokémon
- Capture a new pokémon
Everything else, you can do as much as you want, with whomever you want. Go! :)
Rules
- If you trade with an "NPC", you can only receive pokémon that were previously or currently available for you to capture, and the GM will decide its moveset.
- It's probably a good thing to keep track of your pokémon and their moves in every IC post!
- Rating is T. That being said, feel free to make your character and the world around them seem realistic rather than overly kid friendly.
- Be friendly at all times ooc!
Sign-up Sheet
Name:
Gender:
Age: (min 13, no max value!)
Birth town: (in Kanto. Currently you are living in/near Fuchsia)
Appearance: (picture or description - or both!)
History: (what's worth mentioning in order for us to understand the character? Family? Events?)
Personality: (weaknesses & strengths? acting among people vs alone? interests?)
Battle Beyond starter:
As you are not a trainer yet, you will receive a pokemon from the professor along with a pokedex. You get to choose whichever species you like, ad long as it is unevolved and not legendary. State what gender and nature you'd like them to have, and I will give you a moveset and an ability if you are accepted into the RP. Only one starter of each kind for now.
Players
adventure - Trapinch - Paige Perrary
Godzil - Espurr - Elise Greene
FireSnow - Crabrawler - Martin Lovett
Arachneo - Spinarak - Damien Lalune
Aquacorde - Golett - Sorley
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