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Shattered Reflections - An Pokemon RP (Repost)

There are a few different ways I've failed to join believe it or not. I've been too busy to put my name in the ring at different points. At others I found the threads too late to put in an application. In some other characters have been selected over my own.

Shattered Reflections - An Pokemon RP (Repost)

Very very interested. I have tried and failed to both start and join a realistic Pokémon role play more than a few times.

Muskets & Magic - Dark Fantasy RP

I'd like to throw my hat in the ring.

My Hider

Appearance: d-torres.deviantart.com/art/Mage-NPC-4..



Name: Thomas Amell
Age: 32
Race: Human, Ilyan
Profession: Priest

Personality: Skeptical, inquisitive, pragmatic are three words that best describe Thomas. Not always the easiest to work with, Thomas is known for his ability to get the job done.

Backstory: Thomas was born the third son to a lesser-known noble family in the countryside of Ilya. Holdovers from a previous age, they maintained their small fortune through rents from the nearby towns and farmlands. Though not particularly wealthy, his family counted themselves among the local dignitaries and well-to-do. Rambunctious from an early age, Thomas’ own curiosity often found him in trouble in the small sleepy hamlet of Riverview. At a young age he was presented the choice of the seminary or officer’s school as the only right and proper options for his life. He chose the former. Happy he would no longer be a liability to them among local social circles, his parents shipped him off to the top divinity school located just outside Ilya’s capital city.

At school Thomas was finally given the chance to put all his energy and talents into something productive. He was quickly recognized as gifted in the divine arts, and was given private instruction in divine magic in addition to his theological work. During the days he would attend classes with the rest of the students, and in the evening he would spend his nights in the study of his mentor and tutor Father Aquinas. Over his few short years in the seminary, Thomas rapidly became one of the best healers at the college. When the time finally came for him to take his vows, he was summoned before the dean. In the dean’s office he was met by a senior member of the royal armed forces. The man told him that his abilities as a healer and a scholar were in great need, and should be used in service of the crown. After taking his vows, Thomas would be assigned to support royal expeditionary forces as both a chaplain and healer.

The first few months in his new post were filled with physical combat training. Having never touched a musket in his life, he was now expected to be able to shoot reliably and reload in under a minute. After marksmanship was sword melee and hand-to-hand. Unlike his academic pursuits, Thomas didn’t take well to combat training. Though he never quite mastered hitting targets at 100 yards, the need for adequate healers eventually graduated him from the training early. Before he knew what happened he found himself on his first deployment.

Thomas has served in the Royal Expeditionary Forces for seven years now. He has found himself all over Yggdrassil, intervening on behalf on the crown in everything from humanitarian crises, to diplomatic standoffs, to skirmishes with the Ironhoff Dominion. Over that time he developed his skills in divine magic farther than he had ever thought possible. He was also confronted with the realities of empire. The world was much different than the one found in his studies. The intentions of his superiors didn’t always seem in keeping with that of Ilya, not to mention that of the holy scriptures. Deployment after deployment he began to grow weary of the politics of Yggdrassil. He yearned for something greater.

It was this yearning that made him jump at the chance to join a new expedition to the New World. Throughout his short career that dark continent had loomed over him. His colleagues told him it was a quagmire, a graveyard. They assured him if he wanted a long and successful career in the service, he should avoid the New World at all costs. Yet, he still felt a calling towards it. He knew that a long career as a pawn on the chessboard of Yggdrassil was meaningless when something so sinister lay just across the ocean. He could no longer just standby while the people of all races were being slaughtered by the blight. It was time for him to act.


Skills and Abilities:
-Divine Magic: Healing powers, knowledge of alchemic ingredients and recipes in poultices and antidotes, and powers erect magical wards and barriers.
-Proficient with a blade, and so-so with a gun.


Equipment: Shortblade, Rune Pattern Ethergun, Common Alchemic ingredients, Holy scriptures

Realistic Pokemon (A few ideas for a casual/advanced pokemon roleplay)

Ok, school is done! Expect this to begin moving forward soon!

Realistic Pokemon (A few ideas for a casual/advanced pokemon roleplay)

questionmark693 said
Guys, I'm sorry, but I have to drop out of this game.

No worries, no one is locked in at this point.

To the rest of you, the OOC will be up soon and I'll start accepting applications!

Realistic Pokemon (A few ideas for a casual/advanced pokemon roleplay)

Just one for now. Well see how the story progresses.

Affinity (A Magic Based RP)

Interested! Though I may be a bit quiet until the end of the week when summer starts and I'll have loads more time to participate. I should at least be able to create a decent character sheet before that time though if need be.

Realistic Pokemon (A few ideas for a casual/advanced pokemon roleplay)

1) You. I will give some guidelines as to their behavior in this world (none of them will say their own name), but you guys will have free range in their personalities and behaviors. I haven't quite thought of how everything will work regarding battles, but when I post an ooc I will work all that out.

2) You could definitely start making a CS. It will mostly just be the standard stuff. The only thing I'll say is you should make one for you, and one for your pokemon. All pokemon will have to be in their unevolved forms. Obviously no legendaries or anything like that, but you have free reign on anything else. I will post the ooc soon (today/tomorrow) where you can submit it.

3) Yes. I'm not gonna be too strict on the major. If there is any conceivable reason you would be taking an upper level bio course you should be good. To keep the possibilities open, we'll say everybody is a senior undergrad, and are invited on an internship by Birch for the summer after graduation. So that would mean you are a pre-vet student.

Also, I guess it goes without saying the first option is where we're going to go with this one.

Realistic Pokemon (A few ideas for a casual/advanced pokemon roleplay)

@99 Problems: That actually plays nicely into my own wheel-house. I only have experience with pokemon up until the release of Pokemon Emerald. After that I stopped playing, and all the new regions I don't particularly like. Any and all information you need will be provided in the roleplay. Any references to pokemon lore beyond what I provide you via Birch/Oak will be at most entertaining allusions to the original material.

@frankenmouse: That's exactly what I was thinking! Oak was part of the Mewtwo experiment, and read the original Nazi research notes on Mew. He was forced into hiding because of his refusal to continue with research that could cause the mass destruction pokemon are able to inflict. Birch, on the other hand, came in after all of this, probably doesn't know about the Nazi research, and is in general younger and less experienced than Oak. While Oaks 'big breakthough' was Mewtwo's development, Birch still hasn't had his.

As far as characters go, the only requirement is that you all are students in a top research institution that major in biology, or some subfield of it. This gives you relative open in creating your characters.

Realistic Pokemon (A few ideas for a casual/advanced pokemon roleplay)

That is a good point, and I have been thinking about issues like that. At the expense of some possible story spoilers, we can discuss that here.

Basically, I was thinking that in the story (at least in the first) at the beginning there would only be two pokemon: Mew, and an unfinished Mewtwo, Mew is a creation of the Nazis during WWII, while Mewtwo is an attempt to replicate Mew. When our characters eventually find Mew, they will find that (similar to a chicken) it lays eggs every so often (for it's "period"). By manufacturing a "sperm," they will artificially fertilize Mew to create the first different pokemon species. In creating these sperm, they would use genomes containing different radioactive compounds that would randomly produce different pokemon (however the same radioactive compound will always produce the same 'type' of pokemon). This is at least in part supported by Pokemon lore because according to bulbapedia: "Mew is said to have the DNA of every single Pokémon contained within its body."

Similar to what Frankenmouse was saying about unstable molecular structures, as the radioactive compounds within pokemon genomes successively stabilize, the pokemon will evolve. I know (actually think because its been a few years since Chemistry) that it can take hundreds/thousands/millions of years for radioactive material to stabilize, so perhaps something within the pokemon themselves (or the use of their powers) could contribute to catalyzing these stabilizations (though I think radioactive elements always take the same amount of time and can predictably be used to age mateials? Don't quote me on any of the science).

I know the science is shaky (and sometimes just plain wrong), but I figure it is believable-ish enough. These details will really only make up a few posts, and I'll be sure to make them sound super science-y when delivered by Birch and Oak. The realism will come more from the mature setting, story, and characters than the science of the pokemon themselves.

As a side bar, I don't feel like the Oak set forth in my background would try and artificially make more pokemon after everything that went wrong with the first two, so Birch would be the one who does all the artificial insemination stuff.

What do you guys think?