This is a unique roleplay in which the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender will be crossed over with the universe of Pokemon, thus allowing each bender to pair up with a familiar that uses a similar set of abilities to their own. It will contain a light story for people to follow but will more or less be focused on the personal journey that each character will endure.

The Story:
Since this is going to be such a different style of roleplay, it will more than likely be set in a different timeline to the one that contained Aang and Korra. I will admit that I haven't completely thought of a storyline details for the adventure and I am willing to listen to the input of those that enter the roleplay. As a general construct I was thinking that the current Avatar would be an Earthbender and at this moment in time he has fallen gravely ill, making it difficult for him/her to keep the balance throughout the world. Due of the severity of his/her illness it has the possibility to break the link between the spiritual world and the current realm, triggering a chain reaction that may end all bending abilities.

The Earth Kingdom, both hungry for power and believing that the Avatar's illness was the cause of another nation, has set forth and started to push their might unto the rest of the world. The Fire Nation, who is currently under a heavy spotlight, is being blamed for poisoning the Avatar. Could this be a selfish desire to trigger the next Avatar cycle who will be a Firebender? Throughout all this the Air Nomads are desperately trying to disarm the tense situation in a more peaceful manner. They believe that everyone's hunger for anger and short-sighted blame is blinding all those that should be focusing their efforts elsewhere, or more importantly on someone else. The Water Tribes, who are both experts healers and ones blessed with raising the previous Avatar, have been commanded to help aid in the recovery process. While this is an important duty, the Waterbenders don't seem too happy about it and feel that they are being treated more like slaves to the Earth Kingdom than actual people.

Times are tough, people will be less trusting of those that are not of their kind, and the people that you meet may either become worthy allies, or a fierce opponents. As a player your character(s) have been thrown into this harsh world whether they like it or not. They are normal people, living normal lives with not much to really aspire to other than the faint call of adventure.

Pokemon and Benders:
There will be a set of rules that each character will have to follow.

Adding to this, new Characters will only be able to start off with a single Pokemon that is at it's first stage of evolution. As you venture out onto your journey you will have the opportunity to extend your party up to a maximum of three Pokemon. In order for your Pokemon to evolve your Bender will have to train with them and teach them various techniques for them to master. Therefore the stronger your Bender becomes, the higher the chances are that your Pokemon will be allowed to evolve.

Remember however that your Bender is a normal person so their skills will be fairly poor, much like Katara in the first few episodes. For Pokemon with only two stage evolutions or no evolutions they will be given an easy to judge skill ranking (ie: apprentice, intermediate, master). Master ranks will allow secondary evolutions but more importantly the Pokemon's full potential. Other evolutions will be discussed later and catered for the needed situations. (No Mega Evolutions)

Battles and Fighting:
I always disliked how Pokemon were roleplayed with the ability to only know 4 moves. It's silly, counter constructive, and simply an over-abundance on controlling the roleplay to the n'th degree. In this Roleplay any Pokemon or Human conflicts will be treated more like an Arena battle. You can discuss with me how certain moves/techniques may work, as well as type matchups, but I don't want to see any "Pikachu used Thundershock, it was super effective" silliness. I can talk about this more in later posts for if people want clarification on the way I want things done.

Requirements of the Players:
This is going to be a casual to advanced level roleplay with an emphasis on quality posting of a reasonable size whilst also responding to the IC around a couple times a week. I will also not be accepting too many applicants as GMing does seriously affect my anxiety and trying to motivate such a large crowd is not as easy as it sounds. This means I may be on the lookout for a possible Co-GM to help but I will not be handing that privilege out for the sake of handing it out. It'll be someone I can trust and who will be able to keep the Roleplay going if I'm caught up for a couple of days. Finally, in order to prevent several people from gravitating to one Nation I will be limiting characters to 2 per Nation.

Definitely interested!

Count me in, love crossovers like this.

Interested! :3c

I'd like to inquire as to what a "reasonable size" per post actually means, as that's a very subjective statement. Other than that, I'm interested.

@BurningCold A few paragraphs, or about 1500 characters is a good point of measurement. I find that anything less than that is something that I, and others, have trouble working with.

@NuttsnBolts I think that's easily manageable. Are we going to be allowed to reserve spots? My friend and I had an idea for a Fire Nation duo but I don't wish to deprive anyone else either.

@BurningCold I'm not a huge fan of reserving spots as in the past I have declined people because someone has made a reservation, and when the time has come the present character it wasn't acceptable.

What I am going to do is look at the CS sheets and weigh up which ones will be more suited to the RP, that way bias and favouritism is kept to a minimum.

@NuttsnBolts I've got some questions.
1. What's the status on mega evolutions? I'm assuming those won't be around.
2. I'm also going to assume that characters can't own their own legendaries, yes?
3. What's your stance on pseudo and semi-pseudo legendaries like Zoroark or Metagross, for example?

I'm curious about pokemon who evolve via stone? Like could we buy the stones or just find them in nature or whatever?

@BurningCold
1: Nope. The story is set in the Aang time period so it's back to the traditional roots (plus I never played x,y, alpha or omega)
2: No legendaries
3: I did think about this a bit and banning them would break the game. Instead I'll probably do something like limit it to one per person, and you cannot start with a pseudo/semi-pseudo. Afterall, those Pokemon are supposed to be more rare and unique so it'd be silly to have 5 people rocking with the rarest of the rare on day 1.

@NuttsnBolts More questions! :D
1. Is the map going to be the one from the Last Airbender, or do you have something different in mind.
2. Pokemon from X and Y are still going to be permitted though, correct?
3. The OP here mentions the Fire Nation's poison types, but you say that poison belongs to the Water Tribes. I'm a bit confused here, not sure if I missed something or what.

@Termott
We'll that's where I would like to discuss special evolutions like stones, happiness, trading, etc as there's not much in the Avatar universe that follows these mechanics. What I was thinking was more along the lines of locating the source power for each Pokemon, much like how Aang and Zuko had to locate the dragons to learn true firebending. I'll probably discuss these on a more 1 on 1 basis with participants.

@BurningCold I'll answer the questions after work as I've run out of time, but the list is correct. Sorry about that, I must have gotten mixed up while I was writing last night (was pretty late). If I edit out that small bit about the fire nation it'll be ok. The reason why poison is a water nation trait is because they can heal it and the blood bending aspect.

Unfortunately with work I don't have much time to respond to messages and questions as I can only check my phone during breaks. xD

@NuttsnBolts More questions! :D
1. Is the map going to be the one from the Last Airbender, or do you have something different in mind.
2. Pokemon from X and Y are still going to be permitted though, correct?
3. The OP here mentions the Fire Nation's poison types, but you say that poison belongs to the Water Tribes. I'm a bit confused here, not sure if I missed something or what.

1: To a degree, yes. While the world will be the same as the familiar maps, I'll be narrowing it down to a smaller area to start off with. Having people on opposite sides of the globe will reduce the chances of interaction and may cause people to burn out with ideas and such. If you have a look at this map [Link], you can see an area both west of Ba Sing Se and south of the Northern Air Temple with 2 rivers and a small island. To me that seems like a fairly central starting point where we can create a village or stop over point for people travelling to various locations. Some time later I may make a close up map which will include sub locations that people have created, but that may not happen straight away.
2: Yes. Don't see a reason why they shouldn't be (I actually like a few of them anyways)
3: So I might expand a bit on what I said above and explain the logic for the choices. (I also found this idea from an image so it's not original by any means... but then again what idea is ever original. ;D)

If you read the OP again I have edited it so it should make a bit more sense. :P

I'll see how I go but I'm gonna aim for getting an OOC up over this weekend as it seems like there's a fair bit of interest coming in to justify going ahead. :)

Interested as well.

I'm interested if there's still room left~

Hmm... I'm trying to come up with ideas for a character. How would a trainee from a splinter Dai Li faction sound? Someone brainwashed into believing in the 'glory' of the Dai Lee before Aang ruined it?

@Aquaknight
Haven't opened up the OOC yet. That'll be this weekend (Fri or Sat for me)

Hmm... I'm trying to come up with ideas for a character. How would a trainee from a splinter Dai Lee faction sound? Someone brainwashed into believing in the 'glory' of the Dai Lee before Aang ruined it?

There's a few things that may cause this to be difficult and it's mostly to do with timelines... however read through because I do have a question not just for yourself but others that may resolve not only this question but many more.

The Dai Li was originally set up as a secret police force by Avatar Kyoshi to protecting the cultural heritage of Ba Sing Se. Due to the Avatar Cycle (Earth->Air->Water->Fire) the next Avatar who is an Earthbender would not appear for another 300ish years, assuming each Avatar lived to an age of about 75. Add the 100 year Aang absence and that is a rather long time for a splinter group to still exist, and hold a grudge (not to mention it would break into the steampunk era of Korra which I want to avoid). It's partly why I want a different universe so we don't have to work with "all" these details, but it's a fine line between that and re-inventing the wheel.

So the question is this, would people be comfortable with Avatar Kyoshi as the current Avatar? From there we can drop Roku, Aang and Korra, keep groups like the Dai Li and Kyoshi Warriors, and know where we stand in regards to the timeline. (Your idea, @BrassOtter, could then possibly work if the result of the Avatar's illness caused a splinter group of the Dai Li to form of those who want to take further action)

Just food for thought

@NuttsnBolts I like the idea. So T here'd be the normal Dai Li that are loyal to the king and Ba Sing Se, and then the splinter group that wants to help Avatar Kyoshi? Or what was your full idea?

@NuttsnBolts That's good to hear I'll have time to think up a character, since I'm having a hard time which Pokemon and bender combination I want to go with, I'm debating between an Air Bender with a Skarmory, a fire bender with a horsea or a Water Bender with a Hoppip.