Pokémon: The Zeta Emergence (OOC Thread)

[<Challenger>]

This sounds great! I'm in, if you'll take me. Here's my alpha SU.

→ Name: Red Daily
→ Age: 15
→ Gender: Male
→ Personality:
→ Appearance:
→ History:
→ Starter Selection: Fin the Totodile-Egg move-Hydro Pump
→ RP Sample (Just so I can see how you RP. If you don't have one make up a little prologue explaining why you're leaving for the journey.)

 

[Somniac]

Could I reserve Eevee whilst I work on my signup? Much appreciated, will either have it up today or tomorrow.

Just a quick warning: I'm not usually available at weekends due to work, if that's a problem feel free to decline me on account of that alone.
Thanks!

 

[Jake♫]

@king_nick: Don't worry about it, where your character is from has no impact on this =P

@heretostay123: When you finish it VM me. I'll probably see it regardless but it let's me know I have to read it =P

@Somniac: Eevee is reserved for you for 2 days! And that's no issue at all, as long as you can churn out a post or two a week you're fine =)

 

[Somniac]

Name

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Ffion Caera. [Pronounced 'Fee-on' 'key-rah']
Ffion comes from the welsh word for 'foxglove' and Caera comes from the Irish word for 'friend' Although most people call her Ffion, she is not objected to it being shortened to 'Fee' from those who know her well.

Age

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Ffion is 17 at the start of the RP.

Gender

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Female

Personality

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Ffion is a rather tom-boyish young girl and appears very lithe and supple. Ffion enjoys the outdoors tremendously, which in no small amount ties into her interest with pokemon and her dream of a pokemon-journey. For her size, Ffion can be rather boisterous, loud and outgoing, which often catches people off guard.

An avid fan of sports and general acts of running around like a lunatic, Ffion always seems to be brimming with energy, and can be a slightly overwhelming presence at first encounters. The combination of her small frame and large amounts of energy means that Ffion is often hyperactive, which can manifest itself by making her highly competitive.

Sometimes Ffion can be a little hotheaded, and she deals with confrontation by tackling it head on, which can cause some people to become a little intimidated by her, despite her stature. However that said, she is a very well-meaning individual and she always strives for justice.

If Ffion had to pinpoint any personal weaknesses she would admit that she can be rather rash and impatient sometimes, particularly with people she thinks might be lying, or have ulterior motives. She prides herself on her honestly and self reliance. This can occasionally cause her issues as she can be too stubborn to ask for help when she believes she can accomplish a task by herself.

Appearance

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Above: Ffion, drawn by myself.​

Ffion is a small, lithe tomboy with short brown messy hair, roughly cut and usually messed or spiked up. At 4"11' she is shorter than the average seventeen year old girl. She has large eyes with jade irises, and is a little underweight for her age. She has a lip piercing, and a stud in her nose, as well as a tattoo of an acorn on her right arm, which has sentimental value to her.
Her usual attire typically consists of jeans or shorts, with hiking boots, a vest and a leather jacket.

History

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Ffion grew up in Azalea town, a small isolated and rural town in the southern reaches of the Johto region. In the past the town was known for the prized lumber and charcoal produced there, thanks to the forest surrounding it. However in recent years the towns industry had dried up causing a lot of people to move away to the larger cities, and the forest itself becoming far more overgrown and unruly.

Ffion's mother had passed away during childbirth, and being raised by a single father in a working environment no doubt contributed itself to her personality and outward appearance as a somewhat tomboyish 'runt' of a girl.
Gwyn, who is Ffion's father had been a lumber burner in Azalea Town, until work began to dry up. Ffion began to help him from a young age as she loved the outdoors, and with her fathers accompaniment, she was allowed to enter the large, bewitching and exciting forest surrounding her small home-town.

During her upbringing, Gwyn had given Ffion the pet name of 'acorn' as she was small, yet he always encouraged her that although she is small, she could flourish into greatness, just like a mighty oak. Slightly cheesy, but it meant a lot to her, and a few months before starting her journey she got a small tattoo of an acorn on her upper right forearm, to remind her of her fathers encouragement.

Gwyn worked by instructing his pokemon on the process of burning lumber into charcoal, which was a skilled yet tedious job. Ffion enjoyed watching this process as it involved her father instructing his pokemon, and as any self-respecting child would agree, being a pokemon trainer is the ultimate in cool.
Gwyn, out of work was forced to move away from Azalea town, and into a large city where housing was expensive, and his skills as a lumber-burner were useless. Untrained in any other profession, the only work available was manual labor. Due to this, keeping and feeding Ffion with him was not an option, so together they made the choice that it was time for Ffion to become a pokemon trainer, and set out on her long dreamed of adventure.

Filled with mixed emotions of leaving her father behind, and setting out on a brand new exciting chapter of her life, Ffion used a large portion of her meager savings to pay for a flight to New Bark Town, where Professor Gold was accepting new Trainers, and helping them undertake their journeys.

Starter Selection

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Starter chosen:
Eevee♀ (Level 5)
Anticipation
Quirky Nature
Tackle, Growl, Helping Hand, wish[egg move]

RP Sample
[Taken from the first post of my character in Pokemon trainer Academy: Gwen C Deallus

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Gwen Deallus
Location: Academy Cafeteria

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Dear Diary.
Today Amber and I left home.
Dad took us to the docks but mom couldn't make it, typical! You would have thought the woman could make time for pretty much the most important day of her daughters life thus far....
Never-mind. Today isn't about her, it's about me.

We had to get up early, I actually think I discovered a new hour that comes just before 7 am. I think I shall call it 'Too damn early to be getting up'.
What kind of boat leaves at 8 am anyway?

By the time the sun rose, we were already at the docks. Turns out we were early, but that was a good thing as I got to watch the sun rise over the ocean. I've never seen that before, it was very pretty. I used to imagine that one day I would live by the ocean, but my experiences today have changed that.
There is an ungodly noise at all times, the chief culprit of which is wild Wingull. They like to flock around the fishing boats, there must have been hundreds of them at the docks, if I lived here I would never manage to sleep for the noise!
The other annoyance is the smell. I am unsure what causes it, but it's a mixture of fish, salt and some green substance that seems to coat the sides of the docks, and float in the water. Whatever it is, it doesn't smell good.

That's all left behind now though. As I write this it is noon, and I'm sitting in my cabin as the SS Wakesplit spears across the ocean towards my destination; the famous Oak Pokemon Trainer Academy.

Amber and I had good fun looking around the ship. I didn't know that the turbines would be so big! The sailor didn't seem pleased that I found my way into the engine room though... I hope he doesn't get in trouble, I was simply curious.

I know I haven't written in here in a long time... I've been busy with things..
It's funny to think that at one time you were my closest friend. How sad is that, a dairy was my only friend? Hah.
I've decided to take you with me on my trip, and I shall record all my adventures in you. One day I shall give the book to Professor Ajax, I think he would enjoy to read it.

When I get to the academy, the first thing that I want to do is find a good place t...



The scratching sounds of Gwen's pencil was interrupted by a loud murmur from her stomach. She closed the book and set it aside.
"I can finish that later..." she mused.
The abrupt end to what had until then been a continuous sound of writing, caused the Poochyena curled at Gwen's feet to raise her head and look at her trainer.
"Fancy something to eat girl?" Gwen asked, hopping from the bed where she had been reclining.

The cabin was small, with only enough room for the bed and a small table by its side, which was attached to the wall.
Gwen stretched her arms above her head and flexed her fingers, which were a good foot from brushing the ceiling. She grabbed her backpack from the table, swung it over her shoulder and opened the door.

The small Grey and black canine that had been curled on the bed, jumped down and trotted out into the hallway, as her owner held the door open for her. Humans were so useful sometimes.
She walked alongside her human as said human navigated the thin, disorienting corridors of the ship. Nothing interesting happened for a while, not by Ambers recollection anyway. She did find half a discarded chocolate bar, and some unidentifiable soggy substance in a bin, but Gwen refused to let her eat either of them.

Eventually the two of them made their way to the cafeteria, which was actually more of a sack bar. Gwen purchased a drink, a sandwich and a bowl of tinned Poke-chow, and then made her way to a table by a large bay window, which looked out across the deck.
Gwen poured the food into a bowl for Amber, and began eating her own sandwich.
Outside the window Gwen could see the expansive ocean rushing past, and on the very horizon, a thin line of land. She began to feel both nervous and excited at the sight of it.

Poochyena began picking at the food Gwen had given her. It wasn't very good, it was bland and chewy.
After a while, Gwen noticed that Amber wasn't eating her food and gave her the other half of the sandwich. Amber happily ate this.
"you know, you might have to put up with just eating Poke-chow now. I don't know what sort of food they sell in Oak Town."

"Yena!" the small pokemon yapped happily.

"I knew you were going to say that." Gwen quipped sarcastically.

Gwen thought for a while about how life would be different if she could understand her pokemon, but figured that was just something every trainer wished for, and even if it was only one way, Poochyena understood Gwen perfectly fine.

Looking back out of the window at the horizon rapidly getting closer, Gwen decided that it was time they got ready to disembark.

​

 

[king_nick72]

Ecruteak City is gonna have SUCH a great part of the story. So is olivine city for me and Mahogany City for you Jake

 

[Jake♫]

@Somniac: ACCEPTED. I badly want to see her find some random NPC or another player who's much taller than her and rip him/her a new one. That mental image is just hilarious for me. Fantastic drawing by the way!

@king_nick: Those chapters should definitely be interesting with everyone's side-stories, I'm looking forward to them!

 

[Somniac]

@Somniac: ACCEPTED. I badly want to see her find some random NPC or another player who's much taller than her and rip him/her a new one. That mental image is just hilarious for me. Fantastic drawing by the way!

Awesome, thanks.
Looking forward to getting started :]

 

[romdinner]

It seems that the spots are starting to be filled. Just three more and we can start. :D
And welcome to Miss Doronjo and Somniac!

 

[Jake♫]

@Somniac: No problem!

@Everyone: Just sumbitted the IC thread last night, so whenever that gets posted up we'll be free to start. Figured it'd take a few days to get posted to let a few more sign-ups come in, but if not I'm also okay starting with 5 and then letting people start-up a little late.

 

[Miss Doronjo]

I challenge someone to be my eternal rival. It can be fun. n__n

 

[{Swan}]

Sorry for the lateness, that wasn't supposed to happen! But good thing there are still spots left c:

[ Hwang Feifei ]

Name: Hwang Feifei
Age: 17
Gender: Female

Personality: Feifei is generally a high-spirited girl. She can be quite silly and excitable at times, easily getting carried away with an adventure. She's friendly and helpful wherever she can. She has unwavering love and loyalty to her mother, who raised her on her own since Feifei was born, and is similarly very loyal to her friends.

She's very trusting of those she sees as friends, maybe even too trusting. That trusts ends immediately after its betrayed though, Feifei isn't the most forgiving, she can hold a grudge for a while if she feels betrayed. You can walk all over her, but you can only do so once. In essence Feifei is the stereotypical girly girl: she loves pink and cute things and can definitely be naïve and a little clueless. Underneath that, however, is a girl that just need to get to grips with her own cleverness and her own self.

One thing Feifei isn't very good at is hiding her emotions, she tends to be an open book. While she absolutely hates crying in public, she's very bad at holding it in. Similarly when she's happy, she's light up like a sun. She's not always very confident of her abilities and has a tendency to doubt herself a lot, especially when it comes to Pokémon. She has hardly any experience caring for the creatures and this scares her in the face of her oncoming journey.

Appearance:

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Sorry, I only had time for a very rough sketch D:

Hwang Feifei, as the name suggests, is east-Asian in appearance. She's got a round face with narrow, single-lidded eyes, narrow even for someone of her race and entirely black. Her hair is originally dark brown, but she dyed it a lighter brown. It's parted in the middle, no fringe, in a layered style. Feifei is quite short, standing at 1.55m when standing straight, with a curveless but thin figure.

As mentioned before, Feifei quite likes pink, and it shows. She likes to wear girly things, things with frills and lacy and pink. For the journey she wears a baggy pink sweater over an off-white tee-shirt underneath complete with lace around the collar. Under that she wears white shorts, of which only the bottom-most parts are visible due to the big knitted sweater. She also has a white knitted tuque for on her head, as well as pink ribbons in case she has to tie her hair. Pink. She likes it. On her feet she wears brown boots with a white rim of fake-fur, along with fuzzy balls hanging on them.

History: Feifei was born to Yi Xingmin, a single mother working as a cleaning lady in the Goldenrod department store. Hardly glamorous work. Xingmin met Feifei's father when she was 18 and on her own Pokémon journey. Things didn't work out, their journeys took them different ways, and she later found out that she was pregnant. With no means to contact the father, Xingmin resigned to being a single mother. Her own family didn't support her decision to keep the baby and Xingmin dropped her dreams of becoming a Pokémon trainer in order to work to support the baby. This didn't stop her from loving Feifei with everything she had, though.

Ever since Feifei was 10 she'd had several small jobs to help her mother with the financial load, starting with delivering newspapers and when she got older she worked in a flower shop after school. Feifei never minded, she knew the sacrifices her mother had made in raising her and did anything she could to help. Feifei grew up on stories of Xingmin's journeys. At the time Xingmin had been a promising candidate for the League, she'd already completed a Johto journey, coming 4th in the league, and had been travelling Kanto when she'd met Feifei's father.

Despite her mother's stories Feifei never really had any desire to go on a journey. She'd always figured things would stay the same after graduation, she'd take a full-time job and save for college, maybe get a student loan. Get an education, get a good job, maybe find a husband (as her grandparents couldn't shut up about. They hardly ever involved themselves with their life except to tell Feifei that she should find a rich husband and settle down), a quiet life. It was Xingmin that insisted she should try it, she insisted that it would shape her character and make clear what she wanted to do with her life. There was an opportunity knocking on the door and Xingmin wanted Feifei to take it. Plus, a successful trainer paid rather well, each victory earned them some money, this way Feifei might save up for college a little faster than in the flower shop. And so Feifei agreed to go on a journey, at least to try it out.

Pokémon:

Huangju (Chimchar♂) - Lv. 9
Ability: Blaze
Type: Fire
Moves: Thunder Punch, Scratch, Taunt, Ember

Xianggui (Gastly♀) - Lv. 4
Ability: Levitate
Type: Ghost
Moves: Hypnosis, Lick

RP Sample: Right here! C8

 

[Somniac]

Feifei is quite short, standing at 1.55m.

High five for the shorties, Ffion won't feel too alienated by freaky tall people now.

Spoiler:

Pun very much intended

 

[Jake♫]

@Somniac: I have no idea why, but that pun just made me die of laughter.

@{Swan}: ACCEPTED. Feifei sounds like a great friend, and should be a good companion if anyone ever wanted to interact with her or intentionally screw with her to cause drama.

 

[Somniac]

@Somniac: I have no idea why, but that pun just made me die of laughter.

I don't want to be all high and mighty, but it was pretty good.

or intentionally screw with her to cause drama.

I have a feeling that if Ffion and her had a falling out, it would be a short fight anyway.

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I like my high brow humor.
Alright that one was a little bad.
I should apologise;
I'll keep this short and sweet, I'm aware it was a low blow and frankly I will not stand for it. It's time to raise the bar, be the bigger person and simply grow up. No more puns from me, well maybe a small one now and then.

I have far too much spare time.

 

[Jake♫]

Spoiler:

Somniac

Wat r u doing

Somniac

STAHP

Oh my, no more puns =P

 

[{Swan}]

Oh god, Somniac, you're killing me!

Thanks for accepting me Jake, looking forward to start this!

 

[Somniac]

Oh my, no more puns =P

Oh god, Somniac, you're killing me!

It's a good thing you guys replied before I edited that post, I'll admit the ones I added are terrible.

 

[Jake♫]

@Somniac: Thank you thank you thank you

@{Swan}: Not a problem! Love accepting great sign-ups!

 

[Miss Doronjo]

Hwang Feifei does remind me of Lynn from the Asian-esque style. :3

 

[king_nick72]

oh my goodness.... way to many puns