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Pokemon: Decolonized [Post Post Apocalypse]

@jasonwolf
*sigh*
Okay um. I don't like these character sheets because the GM always freaks out like this. I always end up having to trash 1-2 characters just to make y'all happy.
Character sheets aren't in any way a part of the story either. Histories should be written in the first post, not on some silly template... So I'm not rewriting it aside from a few small parts. Character sheets do not deserve the critiquing you gave mine. I'd suggest not ripping the other players apart the way you did me.

Here's my rebuttals and concerns.

1) You created some "awful disaster" that most of our characters would have experienced that I felt like I had to "write around." At least my situation was very minimal. Secondly, Your character has a LOT of pokemon. Seriously, 21 pokemon. I thought there were much less pokemon in the world? You're breaking all the cardinal and "cool" rules for this RP: there is no way that you as a trainer could solely take care of 21 pokemon constantly. And then if there are two of you with that many pokemon, that's 40 pokemon and I certainly don't see a "pokemon farm" on the map for them to roam freely. So we're keeping them in pokeballs until they're useful...? The human race has gone anywhere in the way they treat pokemon if this is true. It's contradictory to the background story you wrote and confusing to the rest of us. If you are going to have 20-30 pokemon kept in pokeball prisons or on some magical "PC" then I'll likely have to drop.

2) "Rank up from one event" Please reread what I wrote. It was written like that to show that this was the "tipping point" for being ranked up. Not that he was just your average Oak-ranked trainer, but that he had a good standing with people for quite some time already. And the families he helped that insisted on coming up with a "reward" for him, not the town. So they put it together and invited all they could. I also made it more "unofficial" because I didn't want to step on any of your toes. But clearly I crashed your RP like a bull through a china shoppe. I'll rewrite this a bit to make it more clear.

3) You said there weren't a whole lot of trainers... where the hell did graduation ceremonies come from? How was I supposed to know that there are enough trainers to have regularly scheduled graduation ceremonies? Are there lots of trainers or just a handful? Can you make up your mind? I'm not rewriting this part because I feel that would be contradictory to the fact that there's not a lot of trainers.

4) Yes on lightning rod because: The Bellsprout Ash first faced in the first season of pokemon had the lightning rod ability which prevented it from being affected by Pikachu's lightning. Bellsprout is a flower with some roots and Oddish is a radish whose entire body is underground. Plus, Oddish will be the only pokemon Linnoh has for some time, without evolving. I'm not trying to overpower my Oddish, more like level the playing field since Oddish are so weak. (note the spore abilities)

The only thing other I think is a valid concern of yours is the fact that I used the word "rich" because I figured it was a bit out there to begin with. I figured this would have been your only concern, but instead you've dashed a pretty good part of my character's history and in quite a lot of words too. I didn't expect a lashing for creating a character, which is how it feels. I followed your lead and played under the radar.

If I was the GM of this RP, I would have likely denied your character... 21 pokemon.... seriously.

Pokemon: Decolonized [Post Post Apocalypse]

Here's a char :3

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Just a few examples as to what he might wear... idk. I'm not sure how much i like this generator xP

1. Daily

2. Daily

3. Swimwear

Name: Linnoh Maximillian Jaune

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Physical Attributes: Linnoh has a very relaxed demeanor standing near six feet tall with a sinewy and sturdy frame. His chest and shoulders are broad and his skin darkened from hours of working in the fields. He gets his strong, lived-in face from his father but his small nose from his mother. Long, craggy lines spray out from the corners of his eyes showing his dedication to hard work and sunlight. At just the right angle or silhouette, you'd swear he was far older.

With reddish-black hair and dark eyes, he is easily described as both "earthy" and "stately." Though he's quiet and rarely commands attention, he's been known to sway a man or two with just his words to avoid conflict. As he spends a lot of time in the fields and in the city, he wears clothes that both function and look nice; mostly tans, grays, and a few vibrant colors.

Medical and Family History:

Linnoh was born to Zoch and Lydia Jaune in early spring twenty-two years ago. Both of his parents come from a long line of farmers and botanists. As such, Linnoh's childhood education was very extensive and heavily driven into studying every aspect of flora and even species in lands he would likely never see. His family, at least his aunts and uncles, work in the grains, vegitables, and cattle farms, in some aspect or another. However, he was raised in the orchid fields on the north-eastern edge of town. Though he is an only child, his mother's several siblings and their families each have a child or two he grew up with.

From the six cousins closest to his age, he is the most introverted in comparison. They are all rather rambunctious but are incredibly kind. Iridess is the cousin closest to him in age and in friendship. Her pet ditto was the first pokemon Linnoh remembers interacting with. As his parents were almost "against" having a pokemon live in their house, he always felt something was missing. "They're just meant to be free," his mother would say to him. And to this day, Linnoh rarely uses a pokeball because of it.

Linnoh has been motivated by studying the flora and pokemon. Due to his father's strict beliefs about education, he had to choose one or the other. When he chose both, he was given double the work. Morning and night classes and short weekends, his life was spent inside of books for the first ten years of his life. But Linnoh always kept up with his studies and never faltered. Year after year he'd gladly enroll in more and more classes with private tutors and lessons on pokemon from Prof. Shale or other trainers. "The fastest learner, I swear," some of his instructors would almost complain about it.

When he became an Oak rank trainer at 14 (his parents demanded he wait), he befriended an Oddish which he named Blight. He chose "Blight" specifically because Oddish and Gloom are sometimes seen as "helpless" because they lack many powerful defenses. But Blight was different; he was stronger and faster than one would expect. Linnoh thought it was due to Blight being slightly feral, having to fight for food while being so weak naturally. So aggressiveness won in the land of small pokemon. Regardless of Blight's attitude, he always obeys Linnoh's commands.

Linnoh and Blight are known for caring for many of the sick and elderly in town. With his personal garden and those of his family's, Linnoh can create many different potions, salves, or other mixtures used for healing. He makes his entire living off of trading medicine to people throughout the town. In fact, his method of preserving medicine is the most preferred across town and many farmers and shop owners use it. If the town is healthy and the elderly are comfortable, he will travel around to the fields and get in his day's worth of work which is almost always seven or eight hours. If there's no work to be done in the farms, which there rarely is, he will spend an entire afternoon devising methods for more potent fertilizer and better yields on crops.

Though he shies away from attention, Linnoh is known by many for his courage when a powerful flu struck the commercial quarter of Letchworth. At first, it seemed like just a regular cold. But then shops started closing because the owners and workers grew too sick to work. He happened to be walking through the town early that morning when he saw a man in pajamas placing a "closed until further notice" sign on his shop window. Linnoh tapped on the glass, startling the man.

"What's wrong?" Linnoh asked him through the closed door.

"Awf'ly sick, sum kinnah flu," the gruff man coughed, "off with yeh or catch it yourself."

"Who else is sick?" He asked, staring at the sniffling man who sneezed violently into a tissue. The veins on his hands were blue and Linnoh saw blood in his mucus.

"Jus'. . . about everyone on this street," he hacked, "been worse the past night or two,"

"Stay here, I think I can help."

Linnoh ran home to get a secret medicine he'd been expirementing with. A complex one meant to filter the blood and flush toxins. He took the medicine to the man and everyone on the street that day. After a brief quarantine, the flu passed and Linnoh was credited for assisting in the cure and controlling it.

At least that's how some children tell the story. In truth, it was a small cul-de-sac of houses that had all been sick with the same cold, no blood was involved and certainly no blue, bulging veins! Regardless, the group of families were incredibly grateful and insisted that he be recognized in some way or another. Since he refused money for his services, the three families put together a ceremony in his honor and dubbed him "The Healing Hand" and bestowed a small token of their gratitude. Officially, the city took no part in their little ceremony. Coincidentally, he was given the rank advancement of Oak to Bronze that same week. Every night he looks at the little bronze statue and reads the quote inscribed; [i]"For his dedication to people, pokemon, and protecting us all the same. - the Williards, Mochi, and Bellamy families."

Since he's been a Bronze rank, he's been working more with pokemon and training with Blight rather than studying herbs or medicines. Often he'll train with a sparring partner, but the whole act of it still makes him nervous. Linnoh and Blight can be good fighters, but at times Linnoh often finds himself overwhelmed if more than two pokemon are involved. Unlike his trainer, Blight prefers to take the offensive and tries to push Linnoh into doing so.

Mental Health background:

Linnoh is quiet in a crowd but cheerful and often talkative with people he knows well. He's not often seen as the leader of his troupe of cousins but that's not to say he won't speak up if he needs to. Linnoh is quite picky as well, whether it be food, clothing, or even finding a way to sleep at night. Some misread his quiet demeanor and (seemingly) indifference to situations for being withrdawn or curt.

Rank: Bronze.

Equipment Carried:

Held in a backpack or on utility belt:
Lantern (wick, oil, matches)
Small Hatchet
Scissors
Notebooks, pencils
Tree-Climber Belt
Nuts, Berries, always some kind of food and water
Mortar & Pestle
Ingredient bags/containers

Topical Meds for:
+ Cuts (x5) (similar to regular HP potion)
+ Burn (x2)
+ Sleep (x1)

Ingestible Meds (for):
+ Healing Tonic (x5) (similar to super potion, very difficult to make in comparison to stat heals)
+ Paralysis (x3)
+ Poison (x3)

Qualifications/Skils:

Botany Skills:
- identifying a wide range of plants and their uses
- creating various medicines to heal wounds, sicknesses, and other afflictions
- navigating forest terrain
- sewing/growing/harvesting crops

Pokemon Skills:
- identifying a large range of grass, bug, and poison type pokemon
- identifying afflictions such as poison, paralysis, etc. and how to cure some of them
- good understanding of pokemon nature
- knack for finding unique ways to implement pokemon's special abilities/moves

Other:
- woodcutting and sculpting
- climbing trees
- drawing
- great with puzzles

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Pokemon
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Species: Oddish

Name: Blight

Nature: Rash. Blight is quite a hand full. He's not the cuddly, sweet Oddish most people think of when it comes to his kind. He's often hostile to those he doesn't know and will bite without second thought. Blight can have a temper, but Linnoh tries to make him save it for battles, the few battles he does have. Some think Linnoh and Blight make a strange pair because they're such opposites of each other.

Ability: Harvest: May create another Berry after one is used.

Moves: Razor leaf, Bullet Seed, Absorb, Acid, Protect, Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, Poison Powder

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Pokemon: Decolonized [Post Post Apocalypse]

@jasonwolf I must've missed it. It was late for me also :)

Pokemon: Decolonized [Post Post Apocalypse]

@jasonwolf And it's AWESOME!

Also, I think i decided on a pokemon:

Oddish :D

Is that doable?

Pokemon: Decolonized [Post Post Apocalypse]

Awesome read!! :D

I can't wait!

Also, I don't think the picture of the town was posted? :P

Pokemon: Decolonized [Post Post Apocalypse]

@needlingAsklepios maybe I'll just use the normal world map. it's not that necessary to have a new one.

@jasonwolf

How about something akin to a regular map but if Antartica melted?
And whatever region of the world we want, the USA was just the first example I found.

Pokemon: Decolonized [Post Post Apocalypse]

@jasonwolf I understand the storyline a lot better.

In the meantime, as far as the pokemon we decide upon as individuals, can we wait on deciding what will we chose and/or will be chosen for us? I'm not 100% decided on what I want thus far. I have a brilliant apocalypse character in mind, but I'm having trouble fitting him with a pokemon that would make a good partner.

Also, I forget if pokeballs will be a thing of the past or if we will use them...? I imagine that they would be sparse, if any, and would probably be considered somewhat "radical," or am I totally mistaken?

Pokemon: Decolonized [Post Post Apocalypse]

@jasonwolf I understand, I guess I'm just trying to gauge where the lines are drawn :P

Also, how will our pokemon be chosen? And aren't we going to at least have a variation in our skill levels?

Pokemon: Decolonized [Post Post Apocalypse]

@jasonwolf if there's any way I can help you out as far as Co GM, let me know!

Also, are any of our characters allowed to have back stories? Such as coming from a different town or area? Or are we all going to be natives of Letchworth and therefore are only able to have pokemon from the area?

Pokemon: Decolonized [Post Post Apocalypse]

@jasonwolfDid you post a description of the village elsewhere? I reread through the posts but didn't see much.