Junier
Fake Friends Forever (´･ω･`)
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It seemed like we had unanimous support for this, so I'll post it here: the background for why our characters are currently where they are, as well as general world-building characterizing Johto with a few allusions for what's to come.
Looking forward to an overarching plot, and will contribute wherever I can!
Looking forward to an overarching plot, and will contribute wherever I can!
----------The plot of ?Past of the Past? begins two weeks from Tohru Ayano?s arrival in the Johto region on an early-September evening, Tuesday. The Johtonese Congregate lifted a then twenty-year mandate prohibiting the distribution of Training licenses. The merger of Johto?s Lavender League into Kanto?s Battle Coalition produced the popular and profitable Indigo League as the tradition of Pok?mon Training proved itself a predominant career opportunity in the midst of economic depression. The League cycle thus continued beyond Johtonese shores where Pok?mon were either seen as too holy or too dangerous to be ?at an inferior man?s will,? as worded by official legislation.
----------In the absence of Johto-born Trainers, the United Legion of Trained Rational Academics claimed a high standing in public opinion. In their goal to educate, they issued propaganda through all accessible methods, informing consumers on how best to avoid the feral monsters that had been so idolized throughout history, those that could ? would ? easily devastate them and their property. They had traction, from the far north in Mahogany Town where it was publicized through the growing influence of electronic news: a little boy had been spontaneously sprang upon by a Gyarados near the Lake of Rage. The Legion?s demand for more barricades, more ranger stakeouts, curfews in highly-populated areas for those under a certain age, slowly prompted action. From the Kanto region, the group ?borrowed? the concept of a ?Pok?dex,? a portable encyclopedia with knowledge on every discovered species, from an ?anonymous source,? so true information could be available for all? or, at least, more. Full-body braces were invented for Abra and its evolutionary family, constrictive belts for Machop, Machoke, and Machamp. And the expert opinions of Legion?s elite were being repeated, on the radio, on the news; ?It?s just science,? the hosts would claim. ?Just ask the United Legion; they?re Professors.?
----------The Legion?s involvement in Johto incited a new era of wariness amidst its citizens. Pok?mon may still be part of many?s lives, but a divide spawned between ?ferals? and domesticated Pocket Monsters. The Pok?mon of the wild felt this rift and adapted quickly, as Pok?mon do, so that tension existed where there had been little. Routes were overgrown, their inhabitants suddenly less obliging when a human trolloped through their territory. A trust had been shattered; the balance between people and Pok?mon became, with every moment, less so.
----------Preceding the mandate?s demolition, conflict within the Legion hit the presses. A ?heated debate? about the ?ethics? of the organization ? consisting of some of the biggest names of Pok?mon research ? led to many affiliates disassociating themselves from the group and, by extension, their career altogether; whether the two acts of resignation were linked is unknown. It can be theorized that the mass renouncement encouraged the end of the mandate, as the Legion was one of its main proponents. After all, U.L.T.R.A. consists of some of the known world?s most brilliant minds, some of its most privileged, most ?in-the-know? individuals, the same with access to technology and knowledge that could have cracked into worlds unseen and found something
----------In present times, the Legion?s associates have been divided once more in acceptance of the next generation of Trainers. The minority of the already-minimized organization did so with open arms and, in fact, contributed, with the kingpin of the mobilization being Dr. Utsugi Iwata, the group?s youngest. Names were quite literally drawn from a hat, names of those of eligible age from specific locations, all pulled from the region?s database. The adolescents Itsuko proposed from far-off Kanto had some direct connection to him or a close coworker, as vague as those bonds may have been, anything to draw new faces towards Johto?s quickly-rejuvenating League. (Perhaps it was a bit rash to recreate it as instantaneously as the Congregate did, but Kanto?s had single-handedly saved its economy, and that amount of prosperity likely had the government salivating, even when contractual obligation had them booted from the Indigo League affiliation.)
----------Meanwhile, the cogs of Johtonese society are grinding as methodically as they have been. The obliteration of the two-decade mandate brought little applause. People are too scared to celebrate a decision that could possibly render a group of adolescents gored in the wilderness, because the attacks are increasing, seemingly, every month. If licenses were being forced on the region?s youth, there?d been rioting. Instead, the Legion proposes a ?test round.? ?Guinea pigs? from the isolated regions of Johto ? the walled-in Goldenrod, the isolated Mahogany ?, kids from Kanto with even less of a clue of how badly the situation has become. It?s a risk, fighting Pok?mon with Pok?mon, Itsuki says, but, fuck it. People are dying, and something needs to be done. There?s something bigger out there that all the Professors know, a group bigger than U.L.T.R.A. that must be stopped. Someone needs to go out there into those wilds, clear those paths, find those beasts and exterminate them until they find out their identities and kill them f? err, find those people foolish enough to wander into the tall grass without a Pok?mon, and challenge the gyms. Because someone has to! It?s not just status quo, it?s what it means to be Pok?mon Master.
----------In the absence of Johto-born Trainers, the United Legion of Trained Rational Academics claimed a high standing in public opinion. In their goal to educate, they issued propaganda through all accessible methods, informing consumers on how best to avoid the feral monsters that had been so idolized throughout history, those that could ? would ? easily devastate them and their property. They had traction, from the far north in Mahogany Town where it was publicized through the growing influence of electronic news: a little boy had been spontaneously sprang upon by a Gyarados near the Lake of Rage. The Legion?s demand for more barricades, more ranger stakeouts, curfews in highly-populated areas for those under a certain age, slowly prompted action. From the Kanto region, the group ?borrowed? the concept of a ?Pok?dex,? a portable encyclopedia with knowledge on every discovered species, from an ?anonymous source,? so true information could be available for all? or, at least, more. Full-body braces were invented for Abra and its evolutionary family, constrictive belts for Machop, Machoke, and Machamp. And the expert opinions of Legion?s elite were being repeated, on the radio, on the news; ?It?s just science,? the hosts would claim. ?Just ask the United Legion; they?re Professors.?
----------The Legion?s involvement in Johto incited a new era of wariness amidst its citizens. Pok?mon may still be part of many?s lives, but a divide spawned between ?ferals? and domesticated Pocket Monsters. The Pok?mon of the wild felt this rift and adapted quickly, as Pok?mon do, so that tension existed where there had been little. Routes were overgrown, their inhabitants suddenly less obliging when a human trolloped through their territory. A trust had been shattered; the balance between people and Pok?mon became, with every moment, less so.
----------Preceding the mandate?s demolition, conflict within the Legion hit the presses. A ?heated debate? about the ?ethics? of the organization ? consisting of some of the biggest names of Pok?mon research ? led to many affiliates disassociating themselves from the group and, by extension, their career altogether; whether the two acts of resignation were linked is unknown. It can be theorized that the mass renouncement encouraged the end of the mandate, as the Legion was one of its main proponents. After all, U.L.T.R.A. consists of some of the known world?s most brilliant minds, some of its most privileged, most ?in-the-know? individuals, the same with access to technology and knowledge that could have cracked into worlds unseen and found something
----------In present times, the Legion?s associates have been divided once more in acceptance of the next generation of Trainers. The minority of the already-minimized organization did so with open arms and, in fact, contributed, with the kingpin of the mobilization being Dr. Utsugi Iwata, the group?s youngest. Names were quite literally drawn from a hat, names of those of eligible age from specific locations, all pulled from the region?s database. The adolescents Itsuko proposed from far-off Kanto had some direct connection to him or a close coworker, as vague as those bonds may have been, anything to draw new faces towards Johto?s quickly-rejuvenating League. (Perhaps it was a bit rash to recreate it as instantaneously as the Congregate did, but Kanto?s had single-handedly saved its economy, and that amount of prosperity likely had the government salivating, even when contractual obligation had them booted from the Indigo League affiliation.)
----------Meanwhile, the cogs of Johtonese society are grinding as methodically as they have been. The obliteration of the two-decade mandate brought little applause. People are too scared to celebrate a decision that could possibly render a group of adolescents gored in the wilderness, because the attacks are increasing, seemingly, every month. If licenses were being forced on the region?s youth, there?d been rioting. Instead, the Legion proposes a ?test round.? ?Guinea pigs? from the isolated regions of Johto ? the walled-in Goldenrod, the isolated Mahogany ?, kids from Kanto with even less of a clue of how badly the situation has become. It?s a risk, fighting Pok?mon with Pok?mon, Itsuki says, but, fuck it. People are dying, and something needs to be done. There?s something bigger out there that all the Professors know, a group bigger than U.L.T.R.A. that must be stopped. Someone needs to go out there into those wilds, clear those paths, find those beasts and exterminate them until they find out their identities and kill them f? err, find those people foolish enough to wander into the tall grass without a Pok?mon, and challenge the gyms. Because someone has to! It?s not just status quo, it?s what it means to be Pok?mon Master.
