[OOC] Pokémon: Nexus

[Sho Minazuki]

Neat. Think you could put up the profiles of the gym leaders?

[MissFortune]

@AbysmalDemon

Updated Fantasia

Name: Fantasia Heirloom
Age: 15

Appearance

Everyday Wear

Travel Wear

Personality

Fantasia is a prima donna, a typical diva and very proper. She often presents herself as disinterested toward matters that don't pretain to her. Additionally, Fantasia can come across as irrational and blunt at times but she exhibits a soft and more caring side to those whom she cares about. She has a tendancy to be a a pessimist in stressful situations. Fantasia loves competing in Pokémon contests with her Budew and often spends her time fighting for the limelight and coordinating new moves to amaze the audience. She often wears frilly and large ball gowns even to the most casual events, due to her family’s social status and her obsession with beauty. She has an irrational fear of bug Pokémon and has an unhealthy obsession with perfume.

History

Herloom Estate

Exterior

Interior

Backstory

The Heirloom Estate was a large home situated on a gorgeous seaside cliff, owned by William Heirloom the late Cassandra Heirloom. William inherited a fortune from his deceased Father, the co-creator of the Ultra Ball and continued to rake in money by continuing the chain which his father started. William became enamoured with his work and thus had little time for his wife Cassandra whom he hardly spent anytime with since inheriting the Ultra Ball franchise. It wasn't long before Cassandra gave birth to their first child, Fantasia. Unfortunately, Cassandra had passed due to complications while in labor, which sent William in a manic episode. He developed a crippling anxiety when it came to his daughter Fantasia and wouldn’t allow her to leave the estate in fear of losing her. Growing up, Fantasia had a relitively normal childhood, finding friends within the Staff of the manor and the occasional playdate with a few of his co-workers children. Around the age of six, a Haunter had seemingly taken refuge in the estate and would tend to roam the grounds; taking delight in frightening young Fantasia. The torment from Haunter only seemed to grow worse, instilling a crippling fear within her to even leave her bedroom. The days seemed so long back then, in fact her favorite pass time was singing out her window to the Pokémon below wandering the rose garden.

After years of singing, one fateful night she was greeted by a stunningly beautiful voice singing along with her. The two slowly became a lovely duet, preforming form a distance every night as the mysterious singer would inch closer as each night passed until it sounded as if it were right out her window. As time went on, the voice seemed to fade away and Haunter began to take its place. Tormenting Fantasia every night like when she was young, gradually pushing her to tears. As she cradled her head into her arms weeping, she suddenly felt a soft hand on her shoulder.

When she looked up, she saw a white Pokémon with flowing green hair that almost resembled a sheet of music accompanied by a black flowing dress. The Pokémon wiped Fantasia’s tears away and sang its beautiful song again, encouraging Fantasia to sing along while it twirled around the room. From that day on the mysterious Pokémon would visit Fantasia every night for a song and dance, becoming her best and only friend.

All was well in the Heirloom household for a while. With a new friend around, Fantasia finally gained the strength to leave her room without fear. The two would spend hours together playing tag, jumping on the Trampoline, swimming and playing hide n' seek - they were pratically inseperable.

On Fantasia’s 12th birthday, William gave her a Budew as a present knowing Fantasia loved the red roses outside. Fantasia was ecstatic, blurting out how much Budew will have so much fun with her other Pokemon. Puzzled by her comment, William knew Budew was Fantasia's only Pokemon, it wasn't possible she had another unless a dangerous wild Pokemon wandered inside. He asked Fantasia to show him as the two walked upstairs, opening her bedroom door to see the black dress Pokémon sits singing on the windowsill.
Frantically, William and quickly ran to get a net and a Master Ball. Fantasia wasn't sure what was going on and ran after her father, whom shoved her to the ground as he dashed toward the Legendary Pokémon leaving Fantasia to watch in horror.

As he threw the net at the Pokemon as it attempted to fly away, tangling it within and sending it sprawling into the red rose bushes below. Fantasia pleaded that he stopped, grabbing his arm to no avail as the Legendary began to make horribly high-pitched notes. He pushed his daughter into her room, locking her within so that she would not interfere. There were only moments of pure terror as she heard her father's foot steps echo down the stairs and out toward the garden. Fantasia knew she had to act fast, throwing her new Pokeball out the window and onto the grass below.

Fantasia frantically ordered Budew to help the crying Pokémon out of the net. Budew wiggled inside the net and on top of the Pokemon, continuiously using Growth until the net snapped. Fantasia cried out to her friend, pleading for forgiveness. For a final time, the Pokémon let out one soft, sweet song as she wiped away her tears. Suddenly, William hollered at Fantasia from down below, sending her friend frantically dashing away into the night, never to be seen again.

William had become enraged, smacking Fantasia with full force across her face calling her horrible thing before locking her back in her room with a slam of a door. She wanted to run away that night with her friend, but she didn't have the strength. The next day, he lectured her on Meloetta, a legendary Pokémon with a hypnotic voice able to transform into a powerful fighting type. Every night since that fateful evening, Fantasia would sing the same song out her window praying one day her and Meloetta would meet again - until then, Fantasia kept the memorys she shared with Meloetta alive through her favorite song.
As time went on and Fantasia grew older, a deep hatred for her greedy father began to form in her heart. She ordered her servants to dye her hair green to resemble Meloetta and often buys white and black clothes as a tribute to her once best friend.
Currently, Fantasia now devotes much of her time to learning about Legendary Pokémon and watching Pokémon Contests with her Budew on the Television, drawing inspirationg from what she sees and remembering the days her and Meloetta danced around her room. It is just now at 15 years old Fantasia will finally step foot out of the mansion's walls, as she plans to run away from home to become a Pokemon Coordinator - determined to keep Meloetta’s memory alive.

Team

Budew

Budew - Lv. 5 - Female

Moveset

Absorb
Growth

Ability

Active: Poison Point
Hidden: Leaf Guard

Apperance

Often has a ribbon tied around the stem of the Bud, color coordinated to match whatever Fantasia wore that day.

Bag Items

Items

-An assortment of beauty products
-Rose Incense (Held by Budew as a stats boost but also a great perfume)

Medicine

3 Potions
1 Antidote (-in case of a poisoning)

Key Items

Map

Berries

2 Cheri Berries (in case of an accidental Budew Stun Spore)

TMs and HMs

None

Fantasia's Theme and Battle Music

[AbysmalDemon]

@Sho Minazuki Yeah, it'll take me a while to copy/paste them and one of the gym leaders doesn't even have a team. So it will be up either later tonight or eeeeaarly tomorrow. Or I'm gonna crash and not even get halfway into it.

@MissFortune Accealter :)

[Sho Minazuki]

Speaking of which, you should base the teams off of the Origins anime. It was shown that Brock had multiple different sets depending on how many badges the challenger had. I doubt people will be going to the same gyms in the same order.

[AbysmalDemon]

Speaking of which, you should base the teams off of the Origins anime. It was shown that Brock had multiple different sets depending on how many badges the challenger had. I doubt people will be going to the same gyms in the same order.

@Sho Minazuki

Two of them already have different sets. At first I didn't know what it was for but now I see. Thanks for reminding me.

[Sho Minazuki]

No worries. If you want a hand let me know. Or us. Whoever's willing.

[MissFortune]

@AbysmalDemon

WHAT DO YOU THINK MUHAHAHA

Name: Ace Walker
Age: 18

Appearance

Personality

Stubborn and manipulative, Ace wholeheartedly believes that the world belongs to the strong, to him deception is the most defining trait of strength as a means to take advantage of the foolish and respect those capable of seeing what is placed before there very eyes. Despite being elusive he has very strong morals and rarely helps those who are capable of helping themselves. He has a knack for personal gain and material wealth. Despite his somewhat distant personality, Ace has a vulnerable side. He is very ashamed and insecure about his past, doing many terrible things he wish he hadn’t and vowing to never do again. He may appear as a low life con man to people he doesn’t know, yet he is emotionally driven to the needs of those close to him. He has a caring and compassionate side, and always tends to do the right thing when the time calls for it.

History

Ace was born as Brandon Walker, the only child of the wealthy Walker family whom was born with near total blindness. The Walker at the time were partial owners of the Slateport Marketplace and were careful about allowing Brandon to leave the house. Throughout his childhood, Ace was sheltered by his parents who believed his partial blindness made him fragile and incapable of looking after himself which he wholeheartedly disagreed with, causing him to resent his parents overprotective nature. It was around his mid-childhood that news circulated of a Jirachi surfacing around Mt. Moon, to which his parents spared no expense as a means to cure their son's blindness, but to no avail. With time quickly fading and the odds against them, they reached out to Giovanni in a final plea for help, paying a hefty price for Team Rocket’s elite to capture Jirachi in exchange for a granted wish. Unfortunately the family did not think their decision through, leading Jirachi into the hands of Team Rocket whom certainly would use it’s power to fulfill their destructive desires. His parents knew it was too risky to involve anyone else, so they took it upon themselves to right their wrongs for the sake of the world.

They never returned from their mission, but Ace’s vision soon became crystal clear maintaining their icy grey hue. Weeks turned to months which turned to years and the missing persons case that was his parents had never been solved. With that, Brandon was moved to Petalburg City to live in an orphanage until the age of 18, when the time came for him to leave. For a while, he was left homeless only to take refuge in a cave nearby - it was then he developed the art of scamming and thievery. He regularly would regularly take pokeballs, potions, money and even TM’s left behind by careless trainers while they were distracted. He would then trade the stolen Pokemon on the black market to Team Rocket for a cut of the profit, nabbing him a steady job with the organization for a while. His newly acquired wealth allowed him to take up a modest residence at a settlement just off the coast of Virbank City, Unova. As he grew older he began to ponder his place and impact he has made in his life thus far, sending him into a somewhat major existential crisis. It didn't take him long before realizing the bond between trainer and Pokemon, it was as if he had been kidnapping a family member from some poor soul and selling them to the highest bidder.
After days of pondering, he came to the conclusion of leaving Team Rocket in pursuit of a relatively normal life. Unfortunately, after knowing the many secrets of the organization they weren't so eager to let him walk away unscathed, and they knew everything about him. He was left with no other options, other than to walk away and start a new life under the alias Ace to cover his tracks. With that, he was back at square one, using scams and thievery of a minor scale as a means to sustain a modest lifestyle. Ace was sure to be continuiously moving to differnt places to elude Team Rocket while vowing to never steal another Pokemon again.
Along one of his journeys, he stopped at a small diner a few miles from Undella Town for a quick lunch where he observed a flock of Pidove pecking at the ground for crumbs. Among the bunch was a discolored one that stuck out ever so slightly. He took a bowl of rice outside with him and scattered a few grains amongst the flock for the Pidove to consume, paying close attention to the one of a different hue which showed minimal interest. His old ways of Pokemon theft began to haunt him, he even contemplated for a moment how much someone would pay for an off-color Pidove. He was quick to shake the feeling however, and decided to leave it be. Quickly, he stood to throw away the paper bowl, startling the flock of Pidove which flew away in a bundle; all but one, the discolored Pidove.

The two looked at eachother blankly, he wondered why the Pokemon had been acting so strange. For a breif second he thought maybe the Pidove had been injured and unable to fly, perhaps it would be wise to take it to a Pokemon Center. With good intentions and no hesitation he coaxed the bird toward him, calmly consoling the bird who kept the same blank expression throughout the encounter. It hadn't been long before the Pidove waddled into his hands, still staring into his eyes with an empty expression. At first, Ace wasn’t sure what to do with the bird, it didn't seem to be in any pain or anxious in any way, so he just held it in his hands for a while. Minutes turned to hours as he spoke and vented to the bird as if he were speaking with a friend, it made him happy and the Pidove seemed to enjoy the comapny. Abruptly, as he pet the Pidove he witnessed a rather odd sound mutter from it, almost like a bark. Ace grew very confused, setting the bird down on the ground again where it began to nuzzle his leg with its beak as if it wanted to be picked up again. He looked away to grab his bag for a breif moment, only to see a blue discolored Zorua smiling happily up at him, nuzzling its head into his leg to recieve more attention. It wasn’t long before Zorua had hopped back onto his lap to continue receiving affection from Ace. Throughout the course of a few hours he became more infatuated with Zorua as it shifted into different Pokemon as they would pass by, thinking up a more larger scale scam he could pull with his new friend.

Zorua took a liking toward Ace, shifting forms to follow along with him on his journey while scamming unsuspecting victims along the way. There was nothing like a spooky blue Ghastly floating around in the middle of a fancy restaurant to cause a panic filled distraction. Zorua seemed to really love the mischief and attention, and Ace loved the hysteria as a ruse to steal money, the duo made a good team. However, it wasn’t long before there routine was uncovered by a wealthy circus ring-leader who also had a keen eye to swindling money.

The ring-leader was named Banhiti and he confronted Ace about the mass theft after being conned himself. Ace offered to bribe him with a hefty amount of cash, more than he had stole from Banhiti as incentive to look the other way. Banhiti didn't seem angry as he was impressed; in fact, he offered Ace and his blue Zorua a job, a 'magician' act at his circus where he can pull higher profiting scams every night provided Banhiti recieved a cut.

Ace and Zorua adjusted extremely well to circus life, it kept Ace on the move away from Team Rocket and gave him and Zorua a sense of family. As Ace became more experianced in the art of theft he was offered position as a main headliner under the name the Amazing Ace. Using a one-way mirror, Zorua and some fog machines; Ace pretends to ‘temporarily duplicate’ a volunteers pokemon to be discolored which the audience seems to go wild with excitement about. There was one thing Ace forgot to factor though, what happens if the volunteers pokemon happens to be shiny as well?

Team

Shiny Zorua

Zorua - Lv. 5 - Male

Moveset

Quick Attack
Bite
Growl

Ability

Active: Illusion

Apperance

Wears a Shiny Charm around it's neck, paid for with the money Ace and Zorua have stolen over the years.

Bag Items

Items

A thousand dollars cash
Delicious Pokepuffs (High Quality)
Black Glasses
1 Star Peice

Medicine

6 Potions
3 Revives

Key Items

Map

Berries

None

TMs and HMs

TM66 Payback

Ace's Theme and Battle Music

[Sho Minazuki]

Ace is quite literally Rylen's opposite I swear.

[AbysmalDemon]

@MissFortune I love him!

Also... Is your real name by chance April Walker, or do you know anyone by the name?

[MissFortune]

@Sho Minazuki

Opposites attract! I wonder if the two will bicker a bunch - or become friends? Time will tell! ;)

@AbysmalDemon

I'll move them both to the CS tab! :)

[Sho Minazuki]

@MissFortune I imagine Rylen will get swindled first meeting but then he might feel bad about it once he learns how genuinely nice Rylen is, and his values. Rylen's generally friendly to almost everyone, except those who mistreat their friends, Pokemon or human. The only value that will clash is their idea of what the strong's duty is. Rylen's is the protector, but Ace's is the ruler.

[AbysmalDemon]

@Sho Minazuki It looks like you will at least have your gym leaders by tonight. Also a question. Right now all the gym leaders will have up to at least 2 sets. If a gym leader has 3 sets, that set usually includes 3 Pokémon, one with a mega. The third set is only for trainers with 6 badges or up. Would you prefer all gym leaders to have a Set 3, or only a handful that provide a surprise twist. My only problem with a handful of them is that people can navigate through gyms to avoid most of them.

[Sho Minazuki]

Give all of them unique twists then. Each gym leader usually has some kind of unique trick in their team, often to deal with people seeking to take advantage of type advantages.

[AbysmalDemon]

First two leaders up!

[Sho Minazuki]

Nice, probably put it in the first post of OOC too, or link it there though, to make it a bit easier to find.

[AbysmalDemon]

Nice, probably put it in the first post of OOC too, or link it there though, to make it a bit easier to find.

@Sho Minazuki

Yeah, definitely will, but I'm putting it in the character tab as well. That way if people edit their team before a gym battle they can look it up for easy access.

[AbysmalDemon]

@Sho Minazuki Finally finished gym leaders. Would've taken me ssooooo much longer if I didn't find the planning PM.

[Sho Minazuki]

Excellent. I wonder how soon we can start...

[AbysmalDemon]

@Sho Minazuki Late tomorrow. Well, actually late today (it's 4AM). Say in... 12 hours. Depends on when I get everyone's CS in. Like Zapdos and Petal. They said they should be done by the time we start, so I'm not hoping for to long of a delay.

[Sho Minazuki]

Aight. Also I decided to just draw Rylen, I'll draw a better one or updated one later.

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