Fen, I misread the chapter slightly, and was all ready to battle the angry kid in front of the gym, instead. I had a dyslexic moment, I dunno, and didn't realize till now. Is that okay with you? Carol and co did visit the Pokemon Center and everything, and I didn't think the location was super-important. There's probably pay phones near the gym, right? Or the kid could have a cell phone too. Maybe my opponent is a Rich Boy.
In other news, in the wake of Luigi-a's capture of such a lovely Ekans (I didn't even know shiny Ekans were green--that's really pretty!) I'm wondering if I can ever get a shiny myself. ::totally covets one for purely shallow reasons:: If a pokemon ever appears on the path that I like the shiny look of, I'll try to make a suitably excellent post to earn it.
Question to everyone in the thread, too; I'm totally new at the RPing thing, at least for Pokemon, and I'm wondering, when it's trainer journey stories like this one, do you guys start out with anything in mind? Like for me, Carol has her Teddiursa (LOOOOOOOVE) and once the Teddiursa's fighting style came to me, that kinda influenced what I might want to select for the rest of her team--probably all badass ones. Not necessarily huge, but fierce-looking, like Arbok will be eventually. Nothing specific, though.
And in the other RP I'm in, Luigi-a's New League, I was like "SWINUB PLZ OMGGG" because I got this mental image and it just stuck, never to be pried away, of Mackie and a giant Mamoswine. The rest I picked up because of the character's preference for things that fly, and then out of necessity (to be effective against the stuff that will nuke all the flyers, lol).
So do you guys have themes planned, or hope for a specific pokemon, or are you just going with the flow, or what?
::curious::