I've spent a lot of time developing my own take on the pokemon world for stories and have found myself in possession of a number of interesting settings that I'm not using for any of my current works. I've often joined pokemon roleplays as a break and way to explore more characters and stories, and this time I was hoping to find someone to join me in exploring one of these time periods and settings between stories.
For some background on myself, I've been writing as a hobby for over a decade as well as roleplaying on forums for just as long. The specific overall pokemon world I've been working with I've developed over around six years. It's been a sort of intersection between my love of pokemon and my anthropology background. I'd hope for fairly long posts and lots of development in the long run.
As for the romance angle, I would only be interested in malexfemale and I'm always intending to play guys as my lead.
I know with the worldbuilding there’s a lot of baggage for this, but as long as you don’t plan to nuke a continent or try and invent space travel before its time then it’s pretty much all good.
Some general concepts that tend to be held up through the series:
Pokemon are a mix of sentient and wild. A wild pokemon relies on its instincts, but after bonding with a person they steadily begin to exhibit more critical thinking and less base animal instinct. This is what divides wild and trainer pokemon, and then the pokemon raised for food have been bred for millennia which makes them only animals with no potential to grow.
I’ve explained things like all the people with psychic powers and being strong enough to physically fight pokemon with people having inherent type auras that match to the pokemon types, but it’s very rare that they manifest in any tangible form, rarer that they do anything major. There’s study into how it works and it seems to become more or less common from time to time.
In the modern era, pokemon training is broken up into a juniors’, minor, and major league. You can join a local juniors league at 10, but real pokemon training in the minor and major league isn’t until you are 18.
I have some more intensive changes that I don’t want to burden anyone with if they aren’t interested. Things like type changes and other pokemon game-based systems.
Some of the settings I haven't explored and would be interested to develop more:
The wild frontier: 1870s
The wild west with wilder pokemon. Historically notable for introducing the Pokemon Ranger in its modern concept as a traveling protector of the wilderness and those who are traveling through it. I haven't really seen a wild west setting explored with pokemon, but I think it could be an interesting source for a lot of the culture around being a trainer. The idea that one day you'll go out on your adventure. The pokemon equivalent of "go west young man".
The old future: 1990s
The time period I put the sort of classic pokemon world into with that mild future tech. I have it open, but I'm not sure what stories I'd want to explore in the time period. It's the most traditional pokemon setting, but just going really in-depth to a more normal life of pokemon trainers could be fun. Less go freely roam the country and more how an actual livelihood built around pokemon would work.
The Precipice of Tomorrow: 2040s
This is when I’ve set the events of pokemon generation 7, and while I’m usually one to avoid using characters from the official canon I did find myself very much intrigued by the cast from gen 7 and have had thoughts on how to redo Sun/Moon’s story to better fit my universe and be a major keystone in how events would continue. Essentially the idea would be to redo the events of pokemon Sun, but following rules from my universe. This one probably has the most pre-conceived content as I’ve looked into plot hooks and character directions. Things like changing the protagonist from a child to a pokemon ranger who is going undercover to try and find a way to infiltrate Aether which has a record of getting very close with trial goers. This is the only case where I'd really prefer someone to RP a specific character, Lillie.
Post exodus: 2200s.
Because of poor management of resources, most of humanity is forced into exodus to a far off planet that seems to be able to support life. Those that stay behind organize under the banner of Rangers and are trying to establish a stable way of life as they try to undo the damage done by humanity. Most of my stories are after this point in time with one in the 2300s and another in the 2450s, but there's so much of the world that's open with possibility. Lots of hard work and dangers.
The Recolonized Earth: 3400s
The long term efforts of the rangers result in a new modern society that lives in a number of settlements nestled between giant expanses of wilderness. It's a new kind of normal. This time period I've taken a lot of inspiration from the original concept sketches for pokemon for the aesthetic. Being a trainer isn't this super clean cliche thing its being a wilderness adventurer.
Technically any time not mentioned above or below could also have stories in it, I just haven't thought of any particular things I'd want to explore there yet.
A quick list of time periods I do have major stories in:
late 1400s Birth of the Renaissance. Origin of the pokemon trainer, the original pokemon rangers, and eventually the Pokemon League a multinational group intended to develop human pokemon relations and also fight tyranny.
1930s Pokemon expedition to parts unknown. Kind of an Indiana Jones style archaeology pokemon adventure. Just lighthearted fun.
2000s Traditional pokemon adventure story just to have one in the universe, but also is a place I developed a lot of the basics about day to day trainer life.
2300s Pokemon Rangers on a landship patrolling the great plains and just having a ton of different adventures.
2450s This is my sort of end game story where I’ve put the most work in and developed all the aspects of the Pokemon Rangers and how the world and it's basically the time period where I have the most things entirely nailed down, but thankfully it's so far away from other time periods that it can’t really be messed with by other events being developed short of major world-shaking events.
For some background on myself, I've been writing as a hobby for over a decade as well as roleplaying on forums for just as long. The specific overall pokemon world I've been working with I've developed over around six years. It's been a sort of intersection between my love of pokemon and my anthropology background. I'd hope for fairly long posts and lots of development in the long run.
As for the romance angle, I would only be interested in malexfemale and I'm always intending to play guys as my lead.
I know with the worldbuilding there’s a lot of baggage for this, but as long as you don’t plan to nuke a continent or try and invent space travel before its time then it’s pretty much all good.
Some general concepts that tend to be held up through the series:
Pokemon are a mix of sentient and wild. A wild pokemon relies on its instincts, but after bonding with a person they steadily begin to exhibit more critical thinking and less base animal instinct. This is what divides wild and trainer pokemon, and then the pokemon raised for food have been bred for millennia which makes them only animals with no potential to grow.
I’ve explained things like all the people with psychic powers and being strong enough to physically fight pokemon with people having inherent type auras that match to the pokemon types, but it’s very rare that they manifest in any tangible form, rarer that they do anything major. There’s study into how it works and it seems to become more or less common from time to time.
In the modern era, pokemon training is broken up into a juniors’, minor, and major league. You can join a local juniors league at 10, but real pokemon training in the minor and major league isn’t until you are 18.
I have some more intensive changes that I don’t want to burden anyone with if they aren’t interested. Things like type changes and other pokemon game-based systems.
Some of the settings I haven't explored and would be interested to develop more:
The wild frontier: 1870s
The wild west with wilder pokemon. Historically notable for introducing the Pokemon Ranger in its modern concept as a traveling protector of the wilderness and those who are traveling through it. I haven't really seen a wild west setting explored with pokemon, but I think it could be an interesting source for a lot of the culture around being a trainer. The idea that one day you'll go out on your adventure. The pokemon equivalent of "go west young man".
The old future: 1990s
The time period I put the sort of classic pokemon world into with that mild future tech. I have it open, but I'm not sure what stories I'd want to explore in the time period. It's the most traditional pokemon setting, but just going really in-depth to a more normal life of pokemon trainers could be fun. Less go freely roam the country and more how an actual livelihood built around pokemon would work.
The Precipice of Tomorrow: 2040s
This is when I’ve set the events of pokemon generation 7, and while I’m usually one to avoid using characters from the official canon I did find myself very much intrigued by the cast from gen 7 and have had thoughts on how to redo Sun/Moon’s story to better fit my universe and be a major keystone in how events would continue. Essentially the idea would be to redo the events of pokemon Sun, but following rules from my universe. This one probably has the most pre-conceived content as I’ve looked into plot hooks and character directions. Things like changing the protagonist from a child to a pokemon ranger who is going undercover to try and find a way to infiltrate Aether which has a record of getting very close with trial goers. This is the only case where I'd really prefer someone to RP a specific character, Lillie.
Post exodus: 2200s.
Because of poor management of resources, most of humanity is forced into exodus to a far off planet that seems to be able to support life. Those that stay behind organize under the banner of Rangers and are trying to establish a stable way of life as they try to undo the damage done by humanity. Most of my stories are after this point in time with one in the 2300s and another in the 2450s, but there's so much of the world that's open with possibility. Lots of hard work and dangers.
The Recolonized Earth: 3400s
The long term efforts of the rangers result in a new modern society that lives in a number of settlements nestled between giant expanses of wilderness. It's a new kind of normal. This time period I've taken a lot of inspiration from the original concept sketches for pokemon for the aesthetic. Being a trainer isn't this super clean cliche thing its being a wilderness adventurer.
Technically any time not mentioned above or below could also have stories in it, I just haven't thought of any particular things I'd want to explore there yet.
A quick list of time periods I do have major stories in:
late 1400s Birth of the Renaissance. Origin of the pokemon trainer, the original pokemon rangers, and eventually the Pokemon League a multinational group intended to develop human pokemon relations and also fight tyranny.
1930s Pokemon expedition to parts unknown. Kind of an Indiana Jones style archaeology pokemon adventure. Just lighthearted fun.
2000s Traditional pokemon adventure story just to have one in the universe, but also is a place I developed a lot of the basics about day to day trainer life.
2300s Pokemon Rangers on a landship patrolling the great plains and just having a ton of different adventures.
2450s This is my sort of end game story where I’ve put the most work in and developed all the aspects of the Pokemon Rangers and how the world and it's basically the time period where I have the most things entirely nailed down, but thankfully it's so far away from other time periods that it can’t really be messed with by other events being developed short of major world-shaking events.