Lord Orgasmo

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Pokémon: Jaded Champion

So, is this for Johto pokemon only, or can trainers have pokemon imported from other regions, like shinnoh?

@Sir Lucario

You can have pokemon from other regions. While they can be imported, you can also find pokemon from other regions living out in the wilds of Johto.

Pokémon: Jaded Champion

It's another crisp spring day in the Johto reigon, when a familiar commercial begins to play on a nearby television...

"Hey there trainers! Are you wanting to take the GYM CHALLENGE this spring? Well the Pokémon League has a deal for YOU! The champion himself has decided to re-take the gym challenge, and a handful of lucky trainers will get to travel with him, learning from the best of the best! Call now or enter online to..."

It was no secret at this point that the Pokémon League was unhappy with their current champion. He used to be a battling prodigy all those years ago, but the years have not been kind to him. They say he hasn't lost a single battle in nearly a decade, and that he's spent a fortune perfecting his team, importing rare and powerful Pokémon, buying special vitamins and training equipment, and breeding them to perfection. After all this time, the champion has become somewhat jaded, and has lost his passion for battling. He sees battling as more of a chore than a sport now, and his personality is said to have completely shifted. What was once a fiery young man who loved the sport has become bitter, apathetic, and depressed after losing his passion. He's stated before that he doesn't even want to be champion anymore, but his pride won't let him throw away his title to the next random challenger.

The Pokémon League and Johto Elite Four have decided that just getting rid of him would likely cause all sort of legal and press issues, but with how low the challenger rate is for the Johto League, they're left with few choices. Eventually, they settled on the plan of having him re-take the gym challenge. This way, he would start fresh, with a different perspective. They hoped it would help spark his lost passion for the sport, seeing what has changed during his time as champion, and that traveling with young, up-and-coming trainers might help him connect with his past self. So, the drawing was held, and a certain few lucky trainers would get to learn under his belt.

The champion, of course, was not happy in the slightest. But evem after much protesting, it was apparent he wasn't going to get his way. He was either going to stay sitting in the champion's room all day, or finally get some vacation time, albeit a working vacation. And so he went to New Bark Town, a place famous for being a starting point for the gym challenge. There he'd wait for the lucky (or unlucky) trainers he be getting dragged along by. What awaits our champion and the new trainers? What has changed in the past years for our champion? Can you help him find his lost passion for battling? Will he remain a mopey dickhead, or become the fiery young man he used to be? Why am I asking so many questions?

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So yeah, TL;DR Champion is big sad because he's too good at his job, league puts him on mandatory fun time with a handful of children to make him not sad. Let me know what you think and if you're interested.

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Hi <3

Well, there's plenty to see and plenty to write, so I'm sure you'll find something to your liking. And if not, you can always make your own interest check and start something there.

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Orgasmo's Theater of Mind

Idea 14 - Persona: Dreams of Tomorrow

Idea 14 revolves around the Persona universe. As this is just a half baked Idea, I don't have anything too detailed yet, just a barebones idea. I'm not sure if I want to lean more heavily towards p5 or 3/4.

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The idea of a Persona in the games is that they are physical manifestations of a person's psyche and subconscious perception of who you are, or how others may perceive you. These Personas are Awakened in a myriad of ways, such as having the will to rebel against society and its rules and stigmas, accepting yourself for who and what you are, or by accepting a contract, just to name a few.

To me, however, I saw having a persona as having a will to fight, to stand against all odds, no matter the cost. To be able to use your own force of will to make your goals and dreams manifest. Of course, this would be far too easy of a requirement for a persona universe. You'd have awakenings left and right, and it would just become a normal thing to have. This is usually mitigated by having a separate world that the characters step into where they can summon their Persona. This world is usually locked behind something like a phone app, the hidden 25th Hour™, or going into a TV. I haven't exactly thought about how I'd have characters enter the Twilight Zone(name pending) in this rp, though the options are plentiful. You could go through mirrors, call a specific number, draw a ritual circle with special chalk, etc.

The main idea behind this is being what you want to be, and having the will to fight in order to get it. Do you want to be a hero who fights in the name of truth and justice for the betterment of all? Do you want to be an inventor, rocketing society into the future with new medicine, technology, and understanding? Or perhaps you want to be an influential leader, guiding the masses towards and era of change, to further the development and respect of your country, or at the very least, the place you call home? You could even want to be a world-renowned artist, known for inspiring creations all around the globe.

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That's about all I've got so far. I don't quite have a story set up yet, though if it just follows the typical Persona formula, it's shouldn't be too hard to make something basic and then expand from there. I'd be pretty lenient on just what kind of Persona you could have, so long as you could reasonably justify it. Something like the Thunderbird would be a little weird as a Persona, but if you could justify it somehow by your character's motivation being some involving the weather or protection of humanity, I could be convinced.

I'd also need to work out how to summon the Persona, perhaps I'd do something with using a specific item, or perhaps discarding that idea entirely and going full anime and just shouting its name. And as for taking on a different appearance in the Twilight Zone, I probably wouldn't do a full costume change, but I'd like to do something along the lines of taking on aspects of your Persona. Maybe not by physical changing your body, but like in the case of the Thunderbird, perhaps you could draw on the legends, having a cape made of feathers, and a cap in the shape of a bird's head?