Anyone can vote :)
Journey Not Required: Build-a-Region
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Anyone can vote :)
The region will have gyms of the following types
They might not appear in that order though.
Now you can start submitting leader concepts. There won't be a poll at the end of this, just dump concepts here and I'll choose the ones I like best at the end.
- Psychic
- Dark
- Rock
- Ice
- Flying
- Fairy
- Steel
- Bug
They might not appear in that order though.
Now you can start submitting leader concepts. There won't be a poll at the end of this, just dump concepts here and I'll choose the ones I like best at the end.
Junier
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I'd like a Bug leader as the end challenge since usually the game's make Bug gyms out to be a throwaway, early-game cheese; there are sincerely intimidating Bugs out there, like Scizor and Volcarona, that can be played with in regards to a Bug master vying to be a legitimate threat.
For similar irony, I'd recommend setting an Ice leader near the beginning, simply because the Ice type is usually saved until the end.
Fairy is always going to be associated with fantasy-style magic but I always saw a more practical side to it as well with it being the closest equivalent to a "Light type" as the series is likely ever going to get. Maybe have the Fairy leader therefore be some variant of researcher?
Finally, I'll propose a rasher Psychic leader with a preference for brute force and frail hard-hitters to counteract their peers. Overall my ideas focus on subverting the series' tropes since I don't know much of the setting aside from "Pokémon in space".
For similar irony, I'd recommend setting an Ice leader near the beginning, simply because the Ice type is usually saved until the end.
Fairy is always going to be associated with fantasy-style magic but I always saw a more practical side to it as well with it being the closest equivalent to a "Light type" as the series is likely ever going to get. Maybe have the Fairy leader therefore be some variant of researcher?
Finally, I'll propose a rasher Psychic leader with a preference for brute force and frail hard-hitters to counteract their peers. Overall my ideas focus on subverting the series' tropes since I don't know much of the setting aside from "Pokémon in space".
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+1 to this; exactly why I put it last in the line-up. Also, yeeeee my line-up was chosen!
Psychic
Piggybacking off my list of why I chose the types in the first place, I imagine this one would be a real spiritual (Granola Girl) type. Pokemon always portrays psychic-specialists as calm badasses or gifted, plucky kids, so I think an early psychic gym with a peace-and-love, dreadlocked, earthy, tarot-card-reading, gem therapist would be a nice change of pace. Her gym could be the back room of her shop that sells soaps and candles and stuff leaning on the occult. Maybe a quartz theme would do well here. Her inspiration comes from the strong ties to the moon in many different spiritual and religious practices. Here's an image reference:
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Dark
Maybe a nomadic, mysterious type? Or a friendly, reserved, nurturing type that loves nursery rhymes: subverts expectation, and there's a "man in the moon" thing here somewhere.
Rock
Haha, what if they were a dairy farmer who makes a special world-famous cheese. Could be a jumpy personality 'cause the cow jumped over the moon, ayyyyy.
Ice
Anything that isn't methodical or beautiful in approach. Something that incites fear in the opponent about hypothermia and accurately represents the threat winter has on your health.
Fairy
Just to subvert the mystical pretty in pink theme fairies have, why not have a conspiracy theorist/paranormal investigator type? Or a secret-government-police bloke? They'd be all paranoid about aliens and UFO crash sites. X-Files jargon, obsessed with the Illuminati. His gym would be Area 51. Basically what I'm saying is make Mr. Crocker from Fairly Odd Parents a Men In Black, and throw in traits of Dib from Invader Zim.
Steel or Flying
Robotics? Satellites? Anything to get a NASA or space-race theme in here. I'd love to see an anti-gravity battle. Leader could be an astronaut, or an engineer, or maybe someone based off one of those BAMF mathematicians like Katherine Johnson?
Bug
A B-Movie horror edge would be so fun here. Like, they could be a foreign movie producer/director with a thick mustache that makes schlocky "Plan 9 from Outer Space" and "The Thing" expys involving bugs. Could have his gym be a movie set. Something to get away from the youthful, spring theme bug-specialists have. He calls out all his commands through a megaphone and films his battles too, lol.