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first of all, just want to start off by saying thanks for reading the entire thing, and taking the time to make these notes. i agree with some of them, disagree with others, but you're the gm. i've decided not to make submit another character, and hope you guys have a fun and successful rp. ^.^
Thank you for taking it well, and for the well-wishes. I'll be honest, I was thinking your reaction could have been a lot worse than it was. >_<
Name: David Letterman
Age: 19
Sex: Male
Appearance:
David stand’s a fair 5’8”. His hair is easly called a mess, as he doesn’t care to comb it. It’s your average day brown colored. Down to his eyes: which are a very dark shade of brown. His skin is pretty pale, despite the fact that he goes outside pretty often. He just seem to have a hard time tanning. Nor is he very muscular. But that’s entirely because he doesn’t work out. As for the way he dresses: comfortable and casual. He has a light grey hoodie, though he never wears the hood. With a simple blue jeans. The purple crystal he got from Olympia still hangs around his neck, but it’s tucked between his hoodie and his bright red shirt underneath it.
Personality:
David can be a little lazy. If he doesn’t care enough. For example, his current main goal is not necessarily defeating all gym leaders. It’s merely a side-factor for improving himself and his relationship with the Pokémon. His main objective is seeing the world and the Pokémon in it. He won’t do anything if it’s not for the benefit of that objective.
One thing that might offset him from many other trainers is his almost self-endangering love for Pokémon. He cares more for Pokémon than for people. This goes so far even that if he captures a Pokémon he will first find a peaceful spot, release the creature and sit down with it. To feed it, to talk to it, anything to earn its friendship.
Profession:
Trainer
Talents:
Cooking. A skill he learned from his mother when they all still lived in Lumiose City. David can cook very well in a kitchen, preparing a lot of tasty food, for both humans and Pokémon. Even when he’s out camping he can prepare some good meals from simple things like rice and berries. His cooking skills often earned him the trust of a few wild Pokémon, as he loves to help the wild ones back home. Despite the fact that his mother didn’t like it.
Starter Pokémon:
Fennekin. With moves: Scratch, tail whip and ember.
Ability: Blaze
Hidden ability: Magician
Inventory:
- 6 Pokéballs
- 3 Potions
- Human first aid kit
- Clothing bag
- Map
- small 1-person tent
- sleeping bag
- P$ 2.000 cash
- Player Search System
- some basic food ingredients that should last him about 5 days.
Hometown:
Lumiose City
Biography:
His mother was a rather known cook back in Lumiose City, while his father was a trainer trying to get all the badges. Their story is full of attempts from her side to beat him in a Pokémon battle. And many failed dishes from his side. But that’s a story for another time. Right now, the only thing that matters is that they got together.
David’s mother has a Haunter, while his father has an Umbreon. Even as a child, he liked to play with both of the dark Pokémon, which was rather surprising considering Haunter’s appearance. But as David loved Haunter, Haunter loved David and protected him from several other ghost-type Pokémon.
Until of course, Haunter had to go with Mother towards another region for a cooking contest. His father was quite afraid, thinking David would be bullied by some ghost Pokémon. Although they were pretty rare in Lumiose City. But as it happened, a Duskull visited him that night. But instead of being afraid, he just crawled out of his bed, went to the kitchen, and offered the Pokémon some food. From that day, David began to go just outside the city with some food every day. For the Pokémon out there. He met and earned the loyalty of several small Pokémon. Though his love for Umbreon and Haunter would never vanish.
That’s why his love for Psychic Pokémon struck both his parents as such a surprise. It was probably a combination of awe and interest in that type, without really realizing that Psychic Pokémon were the natural enemies of Ghost and Dark Pokémon. Around that time, David began to work with his mother in the kitchen. The funny thing was that only a week later Olympia, the Kalos Psychic Gym leader visited Lumiose City. The young boy could hold his breath and unleashed a torrent of questions upon her. She answered some of them, yet gave a mysterious answer to others. Eventually she gave him a small purple crystal necklace and told him to visit her when he was 18. He did and she, together with professor Sycamore, offered him the Pokémon Fennekin. She told him that the fox Pokémon had something she refered to as “a hidden flame”. The Professor told him that, if he was out to challenge his knowledge about Pokémon and to forge a deep bond of trusting with them, he should head for the new Sengun. As the warriors there were more closely connected with their Pokémon. Something David desired very much. So a bit later he took a boat towards Port Fae.
Age: 19
Sex: Male
Appearance:
David stand’s a fair 5’8”. His hair is easly called a mess, as he doesn’t care to comb it. It’s your average day brown colored. Down to his eyes: which are a very dark shade of brown. His skin is pretty pale, despite the fact that he goes outside pretty often. He just seem to have a hard time tanning. Nor is he very muscular. But that’s entirely because he doesn’t work out. As for the way he dresses: comfortable and casual. He has a light grey hoodie, though he never wears the hood. With a simple blue jeans. The purple crystal he got from Olympia still hangs around his neck, but it’s tucked between his hoodie and his bright red shirt underneath it.
Personality:
David can be a little lazy. If he doesn’t care enough. For example, his current main goal is not necessarily defeating all gym leaders. It’s merely a side-factor for improving himself and his relationship with the Pokémon. His main objective is seeing the world and the Pokémon in it. He won’t do anything if it’s not for the benefit of that objective.
One thing that might offset him from many other trainers is his almost self-endangering love for Pokémon. He cares more for Pokémon than for people. This goes so far even that if he captures a Pokémon he will first find a peaceful spot, release the creature and sit down with it. To feed it, to talk to it, anything to earn its friendship.
Profession:
Trainer
Talents:
Cooking. A skill he learned from his mother when they all still lived in Lumiose City. David can cook very well in a kitchen, preparing a lot of tasty food, for both humans and Pokémon. Even when he’s out camping he can prepare some good meals from simple things like rice and berries. His cooking skills often earned him the trust of a few wild Pokémon, as he loves to help the wild ones back home. Despite the fact that his mother didn’t like it.
Starter Pokémon:
Fennekin. With moves: Scratch, tail whip and ember.
Ability: Blaze
Hidden ability: Magician
Inventory:
- 6 Pokéballs
- 3 Potions
- Human first aid kit
- Clothing bag
- Map
- small 1-person tent
- sleeping bag
- P$ 2.000 cash
- Player Search System
- some basic food ingredients that should last him about 5 days.
Hometown:
Lumiose City
Biography:
His mother was a rather known cook back in Lumiose City, while his father was a trainer trying to get all the badges. Their story is full of attempts from her side to beat him in a Pokémon battle. And many failed dishes from his side. But that’s a story for another time. Right now, the only thing that matters is that they got together.
David’s mother has a Haunter, while his father has an Umbreon. Even as a child, he liked to play with both of the dark Pokémon, which was rather surprising considering Haunter’s appearance. But as David loved Haunter, Haunter loved David and protected him from several other ghost-type Pokémon.
Until of course, Haunter had to go with Mother towards another region for a cooking contest. His father was quite afraid, thinking David would be bullied by some ghost Pokémon. Although they were pretty rare in Lumiose City. But as it happened, a Duskull visited him that night. But instead of being afraid, he just crawled out of his bed, went to the kitchen, and offered the Pokémon some food. From that day, David began to go just outside the city with some food every day. For the Pokémon out there. He met and earned the loyalty of several small Pokémon. Though his love for Umbreon and Haunter would never vanish.
That’s why his love for Psychic Pokémon struck both his parents as such a surprise. It was probably a combination of awe and interest in that type, without really realizing that Psychic Pokémon were the natural enemies of Ghost and Dark Pokémon. Around that time, David began to work with his mother in the kitchen. The funny thing was that only a week later Olympia, the Kalos Psychic Gym leader visited Lumiose City. The young boy could hold his breath and unleashed a torrent of questions upon her. She answered some of them, yet gave a mysterious answer to others. Eventually she gave him a small purple crystal necklace and told him to visit her when he was 18. He did and she, together with professor Sycamore, offered him the Pokémon Fennekin. She told him that the fox Pokémon had something she refered to as “a hidden flame”. The Professor told him that, if he was out to challenge his knowledge about Pokémon and to forge a deep bond of trusting with them, he should head for the new Sengun. As the warriors there were more closely connected with their Pokémon. Something David desired very much. So a bit later he took a boat towards Port Fae.
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Name: Robyn Springs
Age: 20
Sex: Female
Appearance: Robyn stands at 5'9", and weighs 118 lbs. She is of African-American descent, her skin is a light brown, and she has blue eyes. She wears her black hair pulled back in a ponytail that ends at her shoulder blades, but leaves the bangs hanging out front. She has tattoos of the Chinese symbols for determination and dance on the lower left and right sides of her back, and she has a large scar on her right leg, around the knee.
Her outfits consist of a variety of plain low-cut t-shirts, zipper up hooded sweatshirts with a variety of graffiti-styled designs on them, and shorts that barely go halfway down her thighs. The constants in her outfit are a bright red scrunchie that she uses to keep her ponytail in place, a gold plated chain carrying a pendant with an aquamarine stone set inside of it, and a bulky black brace that is fitted on her right knee.
Personality: Robyn has a tendency to be a little bit ditzy in social situations, but that doesn't hamper her energy levels. She's still willing to give as much as she can to whatever cause she sets her mind to, be it making a sandwich or trying to be a Pokémon League champion. However, that raw passion can get it into a lot of trouble at times, as she tries to step beyond her limits or into situations she doesn't really understand.
The other side to her passion means that she is quick to learn whatever she can about the field she is in. It was how she was able to become so good at crew dancing in a relatively short amount of time, and why she is relatively knowledgeable on Pokémon in Unova. She is quick to share info with whoever is around, even if they don't ask for it. This also means that she is not very good at keeping secrets. In her blonder or drunker moments, she'll be blurting out confidential information without realizing it.
Nina is very important to her. Most of the time, she will carry Nina around in her arms, even dropping one of her headphones down to let her listen to the music with her.
Profession: Robyn thought about Coordinating, but Trainers make the big bucks, so she that is the path she's chosen.
Talents: Having spent a lot of her rehab time reading in her room, Robyn has all the technical knowledge on how to be a trainer, yet none of the street smarts of the profession. She was an outstanding dancer before the accident happened, but now her lateral movement is shot. As long as she has her brace on though, she can still run at a very good clip and the rest of her limbs are still somewhat flexible.
Starter Pokémon: Nina, a female Petilil. Her moves are Absorb and Growth. Her ability is Own Tempo. She has a couple of notches on the middle leaf on her head that have not regrown after regeneration attempts.
Inventory: Robyn has the following in her converted laptop bag:
- 7 Poke Balls
- 3 Potions
- 2 Antidotes
- 1 Full Heal
- A plastic water bottle, courtesy of Castelia Cone
- Four days worth of outfits as well as as pair of hooded sweatshirts, and one two piece swimsuit.
- A sleeping bag, which doubles as her clothes bag.
She is never seen without her Xtransceiver, or her Mp3 player, the headphones of which are perpetually dangling over her shoulder if they are not in her ears. She withdrew her life savings for this adventure, as well as pooled the money earned by her crewmates, which amounted to P$2500.
Hometown: Castelia City, Unova
Biography:
Notes: Robyn's favorite dancing music is upbeat trance, although she cedes to the whims of the group for hip-hop based dance moves when performing.
Age: 20
Sex: Female
Appearance: Robyn stands at 5'9", and weighs 118 lbs. She is of African-American descent, her skin is a light brown, and she has blue eyes. She wears her black hair pulled back in a ponytail that ends at her shoulder blades, but leaves the bangs hanging out front. She has tattoos of the Chinese symbols for determination and dance on the lower left and right sides of her back, and she has a large scar on her right leg, around the knee.
Her outfits consist of a variety of plain low-cut t-shirts, zipper up hooded sweatshirts with a variety of graffiti-styled designs on them, and shorts that barely go halfway down her thighs. The constants in her outfit are a bright red scrunchie that she uses to keep her ponytail in place, a gold plated chain carrying a pendant with an aquamarine stone set inside of it, and a bulky black brace that is fitted on her right knee.
Personality: Robyn has a tendency to be a little bit ditzy in social situations, but that doesn't hamper her energy levels. She's still willing to give as much as she can to whatever cause she sets her mind to, be it making a sandwich or trying to be a Pokémon League champion. However, that raw passion can get it into a lot of trouble at times, as she tries to step beyond her limits or into situations she doesn't really understand.
The other side to her passion means that she is quick to learn whatever she can about the field she is in. It was how she was able to become so good at crew dancing in a relatively short amount of time, and why she is relatively knowledgeable on Pokémon in Unova. She is quick to share info with whoever is around, even if they don't ask for it. This also means that she is not very good at keeping secrets. In her blonder or drunker moments, she'll be blurting out confidential information without realizing it.
Nina is very important to her. Most of the time, she will carry Nina around in her arms, even dropping one of her headphones down to let her listen to the music with her.
Profession: Robyn thought about Coordinating, but Trainers make the big bucks, so she that is the path she's chosen.
Talents: Having spent a lot of her rehab time reading in her room, Robyn has all the technical knowledge on how to be a trainer, yet none of the street smarts of the profession. She was an outstanding dancer before the accident happened, but now her lateral movement is shot. As long as she has her brace on though, she can still run at a very good clip and the rest of her limbs are still somewhat flexible.
Starter Pokémon: Nina, a female Petilil. Her moves are Absorb and Growth. Her ability is Own Tempo. She has a couple of notches on the middle leaf on her head that have not regrown after regeneration attempts.
Inventory: Robyn has the following in her converted laptop bag:
- 7 Poke Balls
- 3 Potions
- 2 Antidotes
- 1 Full Heal
- A plastic water bottle, courtesy of Castelia Cone
- Four days worth of outfits as well as as pair of hooded sweatshirts, and one two piece swimsuit.
- A sleeping bag, which doubles as her clothes bag.
She is never seen without her Xtransceiver, or her Mp3 player, the headphones of which are perpetually dangling over her shoulder if they are not in her ears. She withdrew her life savings for this adventure, as well as pooled the money earned by her crewmates, which amounted to P$2500.
Hometown: Castelia City, Unova
Biography:
Robyn was the third child born to a low income family on the Eastern side of Castelia City. Her father was a construction worker, helping build the skyscrapers that towered over the city while her mother stayed at home and looked after her and her three siblings. Despite not having much money, Lisa Springs always looked after her kids before herself. She made sure they each were given the tools to make successes of their lives. Robyn identified her chosen path earlier than the other children, after watching a production of Swanna Lake on TV when she was 4. She wanted to dance.
Robyn's entertainment budget went into ballet classes at a studio down town starting at five years old. She showed a natural talent at even the more complicated moves executed at that age, and was a rising star in the field. But as she progressed further in levels, she started to realize that there was a ceiling to ballet that the prevailing culture in Unova would not care to raise while there were dancers gyrating their hips in music videos and behind the stars du jour. She was a bit dismayed until she travelled with the family to one of her younger brother's basketball practices when she was 16.
While basketball did not hold her attention for a minute, she roamed the halls of the East Castelia Community Center, and found something that did pique her interest. In one of the side rooms, a group of kids her age were dancing, but also doing flips and performing moves that displayed a lot of acrobatic and technical skill. She entered intrigued, and they explained how they were a dance crew, looking at eventually performing stage shows on Mode Street. Robyn was interested because it looked like she had found a way to put her dancing skills to use on a more fame-attractive path. The group was interested in having her because it finally meant they had a girl in the squad. So after finishing her final couple of ballet classes, she left the organized dance world and joined her first and only crew, Rock Sturdy.
The crew met and practised often over the next two years, making extra money by busking on Unity Pier. Robyn was able to combine the positioning and technique she gained from ballet with the raw athleticism and energy of the crew to become one of the star dancers in Rock Sturdy. They did very well with the street money but still weren't getting any closer to a Mode Street show. However, fate brought another way. Unova was getting it's own regional version of Dance Crew Dance Off, and the auditions were being held in Castelia. This was the shot. Rock Sturdy doubled the practices to get ready, and they were granted an audition in front of the celebrity panel.
They knew the routine they were going to do, although Robyn was a little worried about her part, since she was going to be sent skyward in order to stand out from the other crews, and she had never attempted anything above what she could normally jump. However the training runs went well, and the double back flip she was going to attempt to land was rehearsed multiple times with in the gymnastic center's sponge pit. She even got pep talks from the crew's leader, Rolla. He assured her, "Springs, we're gonna be there for you. Solid. You won't get hurt." Famous last words.
The time came, and the audition went smoothly, up until the big finale. Golem was going to be the one tossing Robyn into the air, he was the strongest member of the team, and they had work to make sure he would be able to control his toss to give Robyn enough time to rotate properly for a landing. Maybe the pressure of appearing on stage got to Golem. Maybe his hands had gotten a bit too sweaty. But when the time came to make the toss, something went wrong and he was light. Too light.
Robyn knew something was wrong when her foot left his hand, but she tried to make it work. For the team. She got the first flip in fine, but with the poor throw, she didn't have near enough time to get the second one in. She was coming around on the second rotation when she saw the floor coming too quickly. She tried to break her fall with her hands, but her legs got there first. Just coming out of the tuck, her right knee slammed into the concrete floor they were dancing on, doing the wrong kind of popping and unlocking, followed by her arms. She crumpled in a heap, and the audition was suddenly over.
Robyn was rushed into surgery where it was discovered that not only had her ACL and MCL been torn, but the patella had dislocated so badly it had torn that tendon as well. Doctors spent six hours reconstructing Robyn's knee, and then that's all her family's flimsy HMO would cover. It had gotten to the point where it was now technically together, but it was so unstable that one wrong step was liable to knock her knee right out again. The family's meagre savings could only buy a clunky brace that was fitted to keep Robyn's leg intact, but it was clear her dancing career had come to an abrupt end.
Rehab was painful. Robyn spent the first month just learning to stand again on her leg, complicated by the broken wrists she sustained. It was the first time in her life that she actually felt shaken in her belief, that she could do whatever she was asked to do. It took a couple months before she could finally walk at a pace to match her siblings again, at which point, the insurance company said that was good enough and stopped paying for it. Robyn was sent home at approximately 50% capacity.
She spent the next week moping at home, in the deepest funk when her mother had finally had enough. Lisa told her that she had spent too much time working on her talents to just give up on them so easily. She made her run every errand, do every mobile chore, to try and build her leg back up. When she didn't come back in a respectable time, Lisa berated her. This continued for a few months, until finally, Robyn couldn't take it any more. There was a massive fight and Robyn took off, just wanting to get away from the oppressive atmosphere.
She took off down towards the pier, then reaching a dead end there she turned east and ran across Skyarrow Bridge and into Pinwheel Forest. It was in the tall grasses that she finally collapsed in a fit of mental pain and physical pain. She sat there crying, cursing the world that had taken her freedom away, wallowing in her own despair until something came out of the grasses and collapsed against her. Looking down, she saw a Petilil, looking like it was in worse shape than she was, with scrapes all over its body, purple stuff dripping out of the wounds, missing chunks of the leaves on its head. Robyn forgot about her own problems for a moment and picked up the injured Grass Pokémon. Knowing there was a Pokémon Center near the pier, Robyn headed back towards Castelia to try and see if there was help available for the little Petilil.
As she walked back, Robyn realized exactly what she had done in her fit of rage. When she was brought home from the hospital, she could barely walk around her block without feeling a great deal of pain. Now, she had been able to run all the way across the towering suspension bridge before stopping. Once back in Castelia, she got the Petilil to the Center and they were able to bring it back almost to full health, the middle leaf not healing the missing chunks in it. But still, it was bouncing up and down on the counter, happy as could be. Almost like it was dancing. Robyn smiled at seeing the previously battered Pokémon back to seemingly full health, for the first time since the accident she was uplifted by the turnaround. She thanked the nurses and brought the Petilil back home, intent on taking it back to the forest the next day.
Plans change though. In the night hours, Robyn watched the Petilil roam around her room, seemingly grateful to be out of the forest. As Robyn played her music, Petilil tried to move to it, but it seemed to be on its own beat. By the time morning came around, Petilil was now Nina, and Robyn was intent on keeping her new friend around. She just had to convince her mother. Lisa had dismissed Pokémon training for years, saying it was a fool's errand to go around on it, and that it was too expensive. But when Robyn emerged in the morning, Nina in tow to plead her case, Lisa did see something she hadn't seen in Robyn in months. Her drive was back, and that alone outweighed the potential costs of caring for the Petilil. So, with some of her savings, Robyn purchased a Poké Ball and Nina was officially part of the family.
A few days later, Rolla and the rest of Rock Sturdy dropped in on one of their usual visits. They had more good news for their fellow member. There had been progress made on an experimental new surgery to use Solosis cells to regenerate human limbs and tissues and they had begun taking up a collection to try and pay for it, since it was Golem's error that led to Robyn's current state. However, like most surgeries it was very expensive, and the cut they had raised had not even reached 1% of the funds needed. It was still a touching gesture and Robyn thanked them for the ray of hope. However, the money never seemed to flow into East Castelia, so it was likely a pipe dream.
A few weeks later, just as it had in her youth, TV served to inspire Robyn once again. Tired of being in the shadows of the other regions, Sengun was putting out the word that their League was up and running, and would be paying out handsome sums if Trainers could beat their cadre of Gym Leaders. This was the Golden Ticket Robyn had been looking for, and it was paying out far more than the Unova League was. Plus the whole lack of walking from place to place thing was far more attractive than hiking through Twist Mountain. It took a long discussion with her mother, but eventually she was given the go-ahead to try and make this work. After gathering what money she could, she bought a few supplies and headed out with Nina from her home port to Port Fae, intent on conquering the land in order to get back on her main path and to get her independence back.
Robyn's entertainment budget went into ballet classes at a studio down town starting at five years old. She showed a natural talent at even the more complicated moves executed at that age, and was a rising star in the field. But as she progressed further in levels, she started to realize that there was a ceiling to ballet that the prevailing culture in Unova would not care to raise while there were dancers gyrating their hips in music videos and behind the stars du jour. She was a bit dismayed until she travelled with the family to one of her younger brother's basketball practices when she was 16.
While basketball did not hold her attention for a minute, she roamed the halls of the East Castelia Community Center, and found something that did pique her interest. In one of the side rooms, a group of kids her age were dancing, but also doing flips and performing moves that displayed a lot of acrobatic and technical skill. She entered intrigued, and they explained how they were a dance crew, looking at eventually performing stage shows on Mode Street. Robyn was interested because it looked like she had found a way to put her dancing skills to use on a more fame-attractive path. The group was interested in having her because it finally meant they had a girl in the squad. So after finishing her final couple of ballet classes, she left the organized dance world and joined her first and only crew, Rock Sturdy.
The crew met and practised often over the next two years, making extra money by busking on Unity Pier. Robyn was able to combine the positioning and technique she gained from ballet with the raw athleticism and energy of the crew to become one of the star dancers in Rock Sturdy. They did very well with the street money but still weren't getting any closer to a Mode Street show. However, fate brought another way. Unova was getting it's own regional version of Dance Crew Dance Off, and the auditions were being held in Castelia. This was the shot. Rock Sturdy doubled the practices to get ready, and they were granted an audition in front of the celebrity panel.
They knew the routine they were going to do, although Robyn was a little worried about her part, since she was going to be sent skyward in order to stand out from the other crews, and she had never attempted anything above what she could normally jump. However the training runs went well, and the double back flip she was going to attempt to land was rehearsed multiple times with in the gymnastic center's sponge pit. She even got pep talks from the crew's leader, Rolla. He assured her, "Springs, we're gonna be there for you. Solid. You won't get hurt." Famous last words.
The time came, and the audition went smoothly, up until the big finale. Golem was going to be the one tossing Robyn into the air, he was the strongest member of the team, and they had work to make sure he would be able to control his toss to give Robyn enough time to rotate properly for a landing. Maybe the pressure of appearing on stage got to Golem. Maybe his hands had gotten a bit too sweaty. But when the time came to make the toss, something went wrong and he was light. Too light.
Robyn knew something was wrong when her foot left his hand, but she tried to make it work. For the team. She got the first flip in fine, but with the poor throw, she didn't have near enough time to get the second one in. She was coming around on the second rotation when she saw the floor coming too quickly. She tried to break her fall with her hands, but her legs got there first. Just coming out of the tuck, her right knee slammed into the concrete floor they were dancing on, doing the wrong kind of popping and unlocking, followed by her arms. She crumpled in a heap, and the audition was suddenly over.
Robyn was rushed into surgery where it was discovered that not only had her ACL and MCL been torn, but the patella had dislocated so badly it had torn that tendon as well. Doctors spent six hours reconstructing Robyn's knee, and then that's all her family's flimsy HMO would cover. It had gotten to the point where it was now technically together, but it was so unstable that one wrong step was liable to knock her knee right out again. The family's meagre savings could only buy a clunky brace that was fitted to keep Robyn's leg intact, but it was clear her dancing career had come to an abrupt end.
Rehab was painful. Robyn spent the first month just learning to stand again on her leg, complicated by the broken wrists she sustained. It was the first time in her life that she actually felt shaken in her belief, that she could do whatever she was asked to do. It took a couple months before she could finally walk at a pace to match her siblings again, at which point, the insurance company said that was good enough and stopped paying for it. Robyn was sent home at approximately 50% capacity.
She spent the next week moping at home, in the deepest funk when her mother had finally had enough. Lisa told her that she had spent too much time working on her talents to just give up on them so easily. She made her run every errand, do every mobile chore, to try and build her leg back up. When she didn't come back in a respectable time, Lisa berated her. This continued for a few months, until finally, Robyn couldn't take it any more. There was a massive fight and Robyn took off, just wanting to get away from the oppressive atmosphere.
She took off down towards the pier, then reaching a dead end there she turned east and ran across Skyarrow Bridge and into Pinwheel Forest. It was in the tall grasses that she finally collapsed in a fit of mental pain and physical pain. She sat there crying, cursing the world that had taken her freedom away, wallowing in her own despair until something came out of the grasses and collapsed against her. Looking down, she saw a Petilil, looking like it was in worse shape than she was, with scrapes all over its body, purple stuff dripping out of the wounds, missing chunks of the leaves on its head. Robyn forgot about her own problems for a moment and picked up the injured Grass Pokémon. Knowing there was a Pokémon Center near the pier, Robyn headed back towards Castelia to try and see if there was help available for the little Petilil.
As she walked back, Robyn realized exactly what she had done in her fit of rage. When she was brought home from the hospital, she could barely walk around her block without feeling a great deal of pain. Now, she had been able to run all the way across the towering suspension bridge before stopping. Once back in Castelia, she got the Petilil to the Center and they were able to bring it back almost to full health, the middle leaf not healing the missing chunks in it. But still, it was bouncing up and down on the counter, happy as could be. Almost like it was dancing. Robyn smiled at seeing the previously battered Pokémon back to seemingly full health, for the first time since the accident she was uplifted by the turnaround. She thanked the nurses and brought the Petilil back home, intent on taking it back to the forest the next day.
Plans change though. In the night hours, Robyn watched the Petilil roam around her room, seemingly grateful to be out of the forest. As Robyn played her music, Petilil tried to move to it, but it seemed to be on its own beat. By the time morning came around, Petilil was now Nina, and Robyn was intent on keeping her new friend around. She just had to convince her mother. Lisa had dismissed Pokémon training for years, saying it was a fool's errand to go around on it, and that it was too expensive. But when Robyn emerged in the morning, Nina in tow to plead her case, Lisa did see something she hadn't seen in Robyn in months. Her drive was back, and that alone outweighed the potential costs of caring for the Petilil. So, with some of her savings, Robyn purchased a Poké Ball and Nina was officially part of the family.
A few days later, Rolla and the rest of Rock Sturdy dropped in on one of their usual visits. They had more good news for their fellow member. There had been progress made on an experimental new surgery to use Solosis cells to regenerate human limbs and tissues and they had begun taking up a collection to try and pay for it, since it was Golem's error that led to Robyn's current state. However, like most surgeries it was very expensive, and the cut they had raised had not even reached 1% of the funds needed. It was still a touching gesture and Robyn thanked them for the ray of hope. However, the money never seemed to flow into East Castelia, so it was likely a pipe dream.
A few weeks later, just as it had in her youth, TV served to inspire Robyn once again. Tired of being in the shadows of the other regions, Sengun was putting out the word that their League was up and running, and would be paying out handsome sums if Trainers could beat their cadre of Gym Leaders. This was the Golden Ticket Robyn had been looking for, and it was paying out far more than the Unova League was. Plus the whole lack of walking from place to place thing was far more attractive than hiking through Twist Mountain. It took a long discussion with her mother, but eventually she was given the go-ahead to try and make this work. After gathering what money she could, she bought a few supplies and headed out with Nina from her home port to Port Fae, intent on conquering the land in order to get back on her main path and to get her independence back.
Notes: Robyn's favorite dancing music is upbeat trance, although she cedes to the whims of the group for hip-hop based dance moves when performing.
ToadRopes The Diggersby King
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?@ToadRopes Sorry, I can't see that picture.
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@Legion02 So is your character in any way related to late-night televised comedy or is it just a coincidence?
Not related (I knew that one day that would happen). I'm just extremely untalented with chosing non-fantasy names in general. Sorry.
FujiwaraPhoenix Archer Inferno
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So, just out of curiosity... With the co-GM back in action, are we slated to start any time soon?
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So, just out of curiosity... With the co-GM back in action, are we slated to start any time soon?
Honestly, I don't know. I was out of commission for most of yesterday; lack of sleep, and small panic episodes, led to a day of doing almost nothing. I'm going to go back over the applications at some point today to re-examine them.
I hate to be the kind of person who doesn't have a straight answer, but I don't have a defined idea of when we'll start up.
Edit: Ah, the joys of comma usage.
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Update: Having reread most of the applications, I'll state which ones I'm accepting and get the RP started either this evening when I get back from work, or tomorrow when I have more spare time. If anyone wants to get any last-minute changes or applications in, now's the time. =)
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NeoAJ Fine. I'll High Five Myself.
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I gave Raven my input, so we should be good to go soon.
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Okay, time to get this show on the road. The following characters are accepted into Warriors of Sengun:
I'm going to get started on the introductory in-character post, to give you an idea of how you should introduce yourselves. Feel free to move your sheets to the Characters tab at your leisure. To everyone else, my apologies and thanks for your interest, but your characters didn't quite make the cut.
I may leave applications open for those who wish to join slightly late. Haven't decided on that yet.
Robyn Springs
Shinsuke Yamada
Evie Black
Weston Fields
Liam Hamne
I'm going to get started on the introductory in-character post, to give you an idea of how you should introduce yourselves. Feel free to move your sheets to the Characters tab at your leisure. To everyone else, my apologies and thanks for your interest, but your characters didn't quite make the cut.
I may leave applications open for those who wish to join slightly late. Haven't decided on that yet.
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Aaand there we go. It's a lot more than what I'm used to writing, admittedly, but I dunno. Kinda wanted to go a bit further for this post and actually detail the transition from there to here.
Hopefully, taking control of the receptionist will be fine as is right now.
Hopefully, taking control of the receptionist will be fine as is right now.
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Hopefully, taking control of the receptionist will be fine as is right now.
That's perfectly fine. He's just there to greet the newcomers and direct them to wait until a larger group (read: all the player-characters) has gathered.
It's gonna be a longer journey for some of us than others~
@WriterRaven Have you looked over my character? I'm sorry if it isn't as good as most, I'm having somewhat of a writer's block.
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@Legion02: I did read it, but I don't feel that it's quite what I was looking for. I thought that it just... was, neither good nor bad. Though I did note one thing that stood out: why did you list both Abilities that Fennekin can have? If you intended for it to have two Abilities, I wouldn't have allowed that.
CallSignCorsair If you couldn't tell, I like planes
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Hey guys, just wanted to pop in to say that I'm going to try and get my post up by tomorrow. Just moved into my new dorm at college, and was a little overwhelmed by the transition.
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I'm gonna give @CallSignCorsair a couple more days before I move on without waiting for their introductory post.
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