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A V A T A R x P O K E M O N
Interest Check - Characters

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.
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T H E S T O R Y
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 all the storyline details for the adventure but I am willing to listen to the input of those that enter the roleplay. As of this moment the current Avatar is Avatar Kyoshi, an Earthbender, who has fallen gravely ill thus making it difficult for her to keep the balance throughout the world. Due of the severity of 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 for their aggressive ways, has being accused of poisoning the Avatar. Could this be a selfish desire to trigger the next Avatar cycle who will be a Firebender? Throughout all this are the Air Nomads are desperately trying to disarm the tense situation with 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 are becoming 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.

P O K E M O N & B E N D E R S
All players will select 1 of the displayed nations for their desired character. Once you have made your selection there will be a set of rules that will govern which Pokemon you can choose from. (You cannot select the Avatar)

Water Nation:
Air Nation:
Fire Nation:
Earth Nation:

All Nations: *

You are allowed a Pokemon if it will gain a type assigned to your selected Nation in it's final evolution.
(ie: A Torchic can be used by an Earth Nation as it will gain the 'Fighting' Type)
If by evolution a Pokemon is not compatible your Nation cannot use that Pokemon.
Normal and Fairy type can be used by all Nations but if there is a second type attribute than only the nation with that attribute can use that Pokemon.
(ie: All Nations can use a Ratata, but only Water Nations can use an Azurill since Azumarill is a 'Water/Fairy' type)

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. There won't be anything such as Pokeballs so your Pokemon will simply tag along. Legendaries cannot be caught and characters will be limited to only 1 Pseudo or Semi Pseudo Legendary. This is mostly to prevent any Mary-Sue like characters.

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 any secondary evolutions but more importantly the Pokemon's full potential. My reasoning for these rankings to be included is to allow other players to make a judgement on how powerful a single or two stage evolution Pokemon will be. Other evolutions (ie stones, trading, happiness, etc) will be discussed later and catered for the individual players as many of these traits won't work well in either a roleplay scenario or the Avatar universe. (No Mega Evolutions will be in this Roleplay)

B A T T L E S & F I G H T I N G
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, allowing more fluid and more natural fights with an emphasis on writing rather than game-style move selections. You can discuss with me how certain moves/techniques may work in a non turn based format but I don't want to see any "Pikachu used Thundershock, it was super effective" turn-base silliness.

In regards to type match-ups, these will be more of a guide as to what will happen in a conflict and who may have the upper hand. Benders in the Avatar universe don't have type weaknesses like Pokemon and therefore Pokemon will be treated in the same way. To give an example of this a Flying type Pokemon will not be immune to a Ground type Pokemon, much like how an Airbender is not immune to an Earthbender. Instead a Flying type Pokemon will have a much higher chance of evading attacks.

R U L E S & E X T R A S
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. If any speed posting occurs I will give you a warning, tell you to be considerate of others who may not have posted yet, and next time use a collaborative post instead.

I will only be accepting 5 players to start off with 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. In order to prevent several people from gravitating to one Nation I will be limiting characters to 2 per Nation.

Failure to keep up with the regular posting schedule will mean that you will run the risk of being dropped. If you do feel that you with to leave the Roleplay for any reason, please let me know. That way I can make adjustments to the story and open up positions for any new applicants.






A D D I T I O N A L S T U F F


T O D O
- Berry Recipe Chart
- Bending Techniques Flowchart
- Tweak format of Char Post 1 until happy
- Character Bios for NPCs
- Map/Location Listings
- Sleep...
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I'm working on a sheet, but is an image compulsory from the start?
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@BurningColdIf you wish to add one later, that's fine.
*knows the pain of just trying to find that perfect image*
Just make sure your appearance descriptions are well written. If you find an image and want to change some minor things, let us know first. You can always write that they bought new clothes, got a haircut or anything else.
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...combining two of my favorite things into one?

I didn't think it was possible to make something like this even...work. Welp, I'ma throw up a CS in a bit.
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Exciting! Will definitely be sure to throw in an application!
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And there she is. Do tell if there are problems.

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@Rune_Alchemist Well I'd just like to point out that while the character is well written, without a drive firebenders can barely bend a spark. Just look what happened to Zuko at the start when he joined Team Avatar. Just seems to me like your character won't really be able to bend much at all if she has no aspirations or goals.
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@Rune_Alchemist Well I'd just like to point out that while the character is well written, without a drive firebenders can barely bend a spark. Just look what happened to Zuko at the start when he joined Team Avatar. Just seems to me like your character won't really be able to bend much at all if she has no aspirations or goals.


Oh yes.

I am quite well aware of that. She probably can't bend very well at the moment. By 'basic fire-bending' I mean the forms. She knows most of the basic forms and movements, but she can't really do much aside from make a little puff of smoke at the moment.

that's what I'm hoping for her to develop over the course of the RP. That bit about literally exploding on someone was more or less an exaggeration.
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Both Arrin and Miki are accepted.

The berries were something I somewhat forgot about, but I do like how you've added them as a primitive first aid kit. Fits in well with the character.

Questions:
Would you see the berries as something that could also be blended as ingredient for medicine? ie: If you are suffering from the cold an Aspear berry could be eaten, but if you have frostbite you may need to mix up a blend of sorts?

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While I can agree with what @BurningCold is asking, I believe Arrin is fine. (Thank you @Rune_Alchemist for your clarification) The lazy attitude, and little aspiration that she has do go hand in hand quite well. Firebending is also quite anger based art in it's raw form and if untrained it can hurt those that are closest to you. Being lazy is probably her biggest disadvantage because it means that while using her skills she can be quite dangerous to the friends and foes around her.

A lesson she may eventually learn the hard way. :)
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While I can agree with what @BurningCold is asking, I believe Arrin is fine. (Thank you @Rune_Alchemist for your clarification) The lazy attitude, and little aspiration that she has do go hand in hand quite well. Firebending is also quite anger based art in it's raw form and if untrained it can hurt those that are closest to you. Being lazy is probably her biggest disadvantage because it means that while using her skills she can be quite dangerous to the friends and foes around her.

A lesson she may eventually learn the hard way. :)


Oh yes, indeed. I expect that to happen at some point, and when it does, it's probably not going to be pretty.

And If its anger, she does in fact have quite a lot - she just bottles it up most of the time. Quite well, too. Expect that if things ever start getting...heated, and she starts loosing her cool...well, someone's getting burned. Quite violently too.
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@Rune_Alchemist@Aquaknight

Both Arrin and Miki are accepted.

The berries were something I somewhat forgot about, but I do like how you've added them as a primitive first aid kit. Fits in well with the character.

Questions:
Would you see the berries as something that could also be blended as ingredient for medicine? ie: If you are suffering from the cold an Aspear berry could be eaten, but if you have frostbite you may need to mix up a blend of sorts?


Yeah I noticed that berries are often overlooked in the games since normal Items are often more helpful. I think that would make sense to be able to blend berries into better healing items since blending berries into other items are a thing in the games. Like combing a sitrus berry and a lum berry would make this world's equivalent of a full restore, if you want I could try to make a list of possible concoctions that could be made with the main berries. In-universe I see it being taught by the Foggy Swamp benders since their location in a swamp would be an ample place for berries and their oddball culture would be more willing to learn and experiment with berry mixing then compared to the rest of the world where berries are used more effectively and sparingly. But that's my idea anyways. What do you think?
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Yeah I noticed that berries are often overlooked in the games since normal Items are often more helpful. I think that would make sense to be able to blend berries into better healing items since blending berries into other items are a thing in the games. Like combing a sitrus berry and a lum berry would make this world's equivalent of a full restore, if you want I could try to make a list of possible concoctions that could be made with the main berries. In-universe I see it being taught by the Foggy Swamp benders since their location in a swamp would be an ample place for berries and their oddball culture would be more willing to learn and experiment with berry mixing then compared to the rest of the world where berries are used more effectively and sparingly. But that's my idea anyways. What do you think?


Glad that people remember the Foggy Swamp clan. xD

I do need to add more to the original post and will do so over time. This'll be another thing that I can include which is good. I'll write up a brief explanation for each berry so that we don't have to refer back to the wiki all the time, and if you would like to formulate a few of the more common recipes that someone would see in a store or market, that would be fine by me. Just a few to start off with as we will be starting off in the Earth Kingdom so general mixing knowledge and techniques would be fairly poor.

To give an idea, one of the other aspects I wanted to include is a flow chart for different bending techniques (eg, Firebending and how it can lead to electricity) and eventually brainstorming other sub/fandom genres to master. That way it will over time make more sense as to why some Benders have certain categories of Pokemon and other benders don't. There's a good image that I have that already shows most of this, but it's a later project seeing as we are still early stages. (Plus I need to create characters and first post stuff, so yeaaaahhhh xD)
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Interested! Thinking of creating either an Airbender or an Earthbender. Whichever it is, they're gonna have a Golett.
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Glad that people remember the Foggy Swamp clan. xD

I do need to add more to the original post and will do so over time. This'll be another thing that I can include which is good. I'll write up a brief explanation for each berry so that we don't have to refer back to the wiki all the time, and if you would like to formulate a few of the more common recipes that someone would see in a store or market, that would be fine by me. Just a few to start off with as we will be starting off in the Earth Kingdom so general mixing knowledge and techniques would be fairly poor.

To give an idea, one of the other aspects I wanted to include is a flow chart for different bending techniques (eg, Firebending and how it can lead to electricity) and eventually brainstorming other sub/fandom genres to master. That way it will over time make more sense as to why some Benders have certain categories of Pokemon and other benders don't. There's a good image that I have that already shows most of this, but it's a later project seeing as we are still early stages. (Plus I need to create characters and first post stuff, so yeaaaahhhh xD)


Can't be forgetting them ;D

I make just a few to start out with since like you said the Earth kingdom probably doesn't like wasting Berries on failed mixtures.

Oran + Oran = Basic Healing salve: A berry mixture that heals wounds faster when the salve is placed on the wound.

Oran + Pecha = Basic Antiseptics: A berry Mixture that both heals a minor wound while disinfecting it from further infection.

Oran + Rawst = Basic Burn Salve: A berry mixture that both heals minor wounds and easing the pain of burns when the salve is placed on the wound.

Oran + Aspear = Basic Freezing Salve: A Berry mixture that both heals minor wounds and ease the pain of Frostbite when the salve is placed on the wound.

That's a few ideas I have, I hope these suffice~
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Placed up a character to write from in my own perspective. Her addition has not affected the remaining open spots for Airbenders, so there's still two available.

Just wanted to at least get that up for tonight but will look at doing more later. My schedule can be pretty chaotic with work and personal things so if you guys ever see me online but I haven't posted, don't worry, I'll get to it usually in the evenings. :)
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Does this mean that if I make an airbender I can have a gyrados eventually? My character is well on the way to being completed this evening/night. (USC time here)
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@BurningCold Don't have time to read the entirety (leaving for work now), but Slaking does classify as a Pseudo Legendary, so you wont be able to start with it. (Just mentioning so adjustments can be made)
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@NuttsnBolts I figured that since slakoth isn't quite a slaking, it would be alright as by the time Marrow evolves into a vigoroth and then eventually a slaking everyone else's parties would be reasonably beefed up.

EDIT: The rule itself confuses me a bit, as what classifies those pokemon as either pseudo or semi pseudo is their base stat total, which I'm under the impression wasn't going to have a place in this RP.
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