Rolling for abilities/weapons/talents to add a random element is fine if desired. Rolling to determine action outcomes in a forum environment might be less than ideal, since that would likely require your input after every post. Still, I do recommend having people roll if they'd like to attempt things that seem a bit far-fetched, or for general comedic effect.
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Finally finished, and it only took a week and a half.
Meanwhile, @gentlemanvaultboy, you finished in like 2 days, right?
Meanwhile, @gentlemanvaultboy, you finished in like 2 days, right?
Xenta ██████
"My name is Xenta, and my Epithet is ████!"
█████████ - █████
Class - Cheeky ████er
Stamina: 19
Proficiency: 23
Appearance
Xenta's eyes are minty green, with a splash of some other colors. ███ ████ Pixel█ tends to █████ ███ ███ follow Xenta around, no matter where he goes.
Theme
Age
17
Personality
Xenta is an overall level-headed and upbeat individual, belying his tendency to speak with little to no verbal filter, lending to a vocabulary rife with profanity and blissfully ignorant insensitivity. He’s at least learned to censor the profanity, though he tends to slip up often, as his speech is a deeply-ingrained product of his upbringing, where colorful language was normalized. To that end, he’s talented at coming up with creative insults, which he is more likely to use on his friends as terms of endearment than on people he would actually want to insult. In spite of the nature of his upbringing, Xenta was a bit sheltered, and has only recently started to attend public school. As such, he’s somewhat naive, and sometimes fails to read the room. Still, he cares little if people think negatively of him, and isn’t afraid to put himself out there.
Weapon:
Firecracker Collection - Xenta is a firm believer that you’ll never know when a situation calls for fireworks. As such, he always carries around a few of his favorites in his pockets, along with his handy-dandy lighter. Xenta can use his epithet to delay fuses to set them off suddenly and remotely.
1. Crackle Balls - They explode, releasing crackling sparks in an area. Deals -3 damage to the target and -2 damage to enemies around them.
2. Crackle Flowers - They fire off colorful, short-ranged sparks from one end, which spins them around like a colorful top before they explode, similarly to Crackling Balls. Deals -2 damage when spinning and -3 after a delay. Because it is a dangerous firework with a long delay, enemies will avoid the explosion unless they are unable to move or incredibly foolish.
3. Star Balls - They fire off colorful, short-ranged sparks to spin, similarly to Ground Bloom Flowers. After a delay, they launch themselves a few meters upward before falling back down and eventually fizzling out. Deals -2 damage when spinning.
4. Mini Rockets - Quickly flies off in a direction before exploding beautifully. Has greater range and power than the other fireworks, but they’re also bigger, so Xenta can’t carry too many around. Deals -7 damage to the target and -3 damage to enemies around them. (thrice per chapter)
Passive:
Not-so-Swear Jar - Whenever someone other than Xenta lets loose a big bad no-no word, (and Xenta is around to hear it) Xenta can ban words they've spoken. However, Xenta doesn't have any problem with swears, so he can instead censor any word they've said (in-character) in the same post. Xenta can only ban one word per person at a time. For ten posts afterward, no one can speak that word in-character. Any attempts to do so result in silence, and any ability with that word in its name is disabled. If their controller slips up and breaks this ban, Xenta absorbs the character's "profane energy" permanently, stealing one proficiency from them.
Talent(s):
Parkour-fectionist (-5): If Xenta doesn't take damage between posts, he can use PARKOUR! twice in one.
Abilities:
Cluster ████ (3): Let rip ███ █████ ██ ████ ████████████ ██████████ ████ a torrent of █████████ ██████ ██████ █ ████ ██ censors! You get 6 ██████, each dealing -2 damage ████ █████ ██████ or healing yourself for +2 ████ █████ █████████.
PARKOUR! (1): Blur the room and do some cool tricks to get where you want to go underneath the haze. How'd he do it?! Nobody knows.
Behind the Black (3) - Summon 4 large black bars and then obscure yourself with one of them. You control the movement of each of them individually. When a black bar is attacked, it disappears. When you are attacked, all remaining black bars disappear. If there is only one black bar left, it disappears. Black bars are immune to area-of-effect damage, and they won't disappear if you are attacked by area-of-effect damage. Recasting this ability resets the number of black bars to 4.
Estelle
Brittanium City
After finishing up, you decide to get back on your feet and return to the park. It's not like you know of any other popular battling spots, and one battle is not nearly enough to make you feel confident in the capabilities of you and your pokemon.
When you do arrive, however, you're overwhelmed by the sheer variety of wild pokemon all over. You kind of want to battle them all, but not all of them seem up for it. You make your way between the trees, closer to a few of them. When they notice you, you slow down, coming to a stop in front of them and give them a smile full of charm. "Would any of you cuties care to help me learn my way around battles?"
Brittanium City
After finishing up, you decide to get back on your feet and return to the park. It's not like you know of any other popular battling spots, and one battle is not nearly enough to make you feel confident in the capabilities of you and your pokemon.
When you do arrive, however, you're overwhelmed by the sheer variety of wild pokemon all over. You kind of want to battle them all, but not all of them seem up for it. You make your way between the trees, closer to a few of them. When they notice you, you slow down, coming to a stop in front of them and give them a smile full of charm. "Would any of you cuties care to help me learn my way around battles?"
Estelle
Brittanium City
You stick around for just a little while to listen to the commencement ceremony before heading out with a skip in your step. What's there to say other than that you're excited for this? The dazzling performances and battles you've been watching online for the past week straight have been all you've been able to think about. It's gotten to the point where you're kept awake at night imagining ways you and your pokemon could do the same, about their abilities, typing, moves, everything. After all, the key to a perfect performance is in not cutting corners!
Still, no matter how grand your goals, the reality of the situation is that you're still a novice trainer. You want to dive right in to training for the performances you dream of, but even if your pokemon had the tools to learn them now, you fear you won't even have the experience to direct them. Battles are performances and performances in the pokemon world are competitive rather than strictly cooperative. You can't rely on your opponent to give you the opportunity to shine, and you've never actually battled to begin with.
You're not sure where you should even start, so you end up doing a little bit of sight-seeing to get your bearings, grabbing a few maps along the way, before finally winding up at the park in the center of Britannium City. It's not as if this was the first place you intended to go, but it's the first place to catch your eye with the excitement of pokemon battles all around. You make your way to the most interesting one you see and watch the back-and-forth of it from the sidelines.
Immediately, the differences in experience between you, the trainers before you, and the professional trainers in videos online are readily apparent. You can at least say you recognize the obvious areas in which these trainers are less experienced than gym leaders or champions, but they also exhibit an adaptability to the flow of battle that you find yourself struggling to keep up with. A lot of the professional trainer videos involve overwhelming their opponent with devastating efficiency, but in a more evenly-matched battle, there's a ton of back-and-forth. You start to put yourself in their shoes, imagining your own responses and options, when a young voice calls to you out of the blue.
"Hey lady, you like pokemon battles?"
You turn to find a young boy holding a pokeball, also watching the battle before you. "Why, yes, I've taken quite an interest in them." Without thinking, you take out one of your own pokeballs, thinking about finding someone to challenge in this park.
The boy saves you the trouble. "You're a pokemon trainer, right? Then you have to battle me!"
You only have time to give him one confused look before he backs away to a more open position and sends out his Rattata. It would appear that Youngster Mikey has challenged you to a battle! You can't help but admire his enthusiasm, so you oblige, turning away from the battle you were just watching to have one of your own.
Thankfully, he's a good sport, but he is pretty shocked by his loss. "Man, that's strange. I've beaten everyone else I've challenged."
"Have you fought many trainers?"
"No, but I always win against my friend!"
Hmm. "Well, still, thank you for the battle. It was a great experience."
"Oh sure, anytime! Oh, there he is now!" The youngster runs off towards another young boy who seems to have just arrived at the park. Cute kids. A decent warm-up. Still, you're not quite comfortable with battling yet. In any case, first thing's first, you head to the nearest pokecenter to heal up Sepher. Money is no object to you, but you figure you should take advantage of the pokecenter services anyway, considering they're so close by. As you get your pokemon back from Nurse Joy, you send them out in the lobby and offer them each a pokepuff to celebrate your first battle.
...Turns out you were wrong about Sepher. Although your intentions didn't get through to him like they did with Xi-on, he wasn't annoyed because of your orders, but because you kept asking him if he was okay or not while he was busy with battling. He has a point there, you guess. Truly, a learning experience.
Brittanium City
You stick around for just a little while to listen to the commencement ceremony before heading out with a skip in your step. What's there to say other than that you're excited for this? The dazzling performances and battles you've been watching online for the past week straight have been all you've been able to think about. It's gotten to the point where you're kept awake at night imagining ways you and your pokemon could do the same, about their abilities, typing, moves, everything. After all, the key to a perfect performance is in not cutting corners!
Still, no matter how grand your goals, the reality of the situation is that you're still a novice trainer. You want to dive right in to training for the performances you dream of, but even if your pokemon had the tools to learn them now, you fear you won't even have the experience to direct them. Battles are performances and performances in the pokemon world are competitive rather than strictly cooperative. You can't rely on your opponent to give you the opportunity to shine, and you've never actually battled to begin with.
You're not sure where you should even start, so you end up doing a little bit of sight-seeing to get your bearings, grabbing a few maps along the way, before finally winding up at the park in the center of Britannium City. It's not as if this was the first place you intended to go, but it's the first place to catch your eye with the excitement of pokemon battles all around. You make your way to the most interesting one you see and watch the back-and-forth of it from the sidelines.
Immediately, the differences in experience between you, the trainers before you, and the professional trainers in videos online are readily apparent. You can at least say you recognize the obvious areas in which these trainers are less experienced than gym leaders or champions, but they also exhibit an adaptability to the flow of battle that you find yourself struggling to keep up with. A lot of the professional trainer videos involve overwhelming their opponent with devastating efficiency, but in a more evenly-matched battle, there's a ton of back-and-forth. You start to put yourself in their shoes, imagining your own responses and options, when a young voice calls to you out of the blue.
"Hey lady, you like pokemon battles?"
You turn to find a young boy holding a pokeball, also watching the battle before you. "Why, yes, I've taken quite an interest in them." Without thinking, you take out one of your own pokeballs, thinking about finding someone to challenge in this park.
The boy saves you the trouble. "You're a pokemon trainer, right? Then you have to battle me!"
You only have time to give him one confused look before he backs away to a more open position and sends out his Rattata. It would appear that Youngster Mikey has challenged you to a battle! You can't help but admire his enthusiasm, so you oblige, turning away from the battle you were just watching to have one of your own.
Thankfully, he's a good sport, but he is pretty shocked by his loss. "Man, that's strange. I've beaten everyone else I've challenged."
"Have you fought many trainers?"
"No, but I always win against my friend!"
Hmm. "Well, still, thank you for the battle. It was a great experience."
"Oh sure, anytime! Oh, there he is now!" The youngster runs off towards another young boy who seems to have just arrived at the park. Cute kids. A decent warm-up. Still, you're not quite comfortable with battling yet. In any case, first thing's first, you head to the nearest pokecenter to heal up Sepher. Money is no object to you, but you figure you should take advantage of the pokecenter services anyway, considering they're so close by. As you get your pokemon back from Nurse Joy, you send them out in the lobby and offer them each a pokepuff to celebrate your first battle.
...Turns out you were wrong about Sepher. Although your intentions didn't get through to him like they did with Xi-on, he wasn't annoyed because of your orders, but because you kept asking him if he was okay or not while he was busy with battling. He has a point there, you guess. Truly, a learning experience.
I don't know how many PMs TruthHurts is actually sorting through, but considering I've slowly been going back and forth with them over PMs for almost a week, I figure it's high time I announce my presence, bumping the thread in the process because it really deserves it and saying hi to anyone else out there lurking silently. Happy new years and all that.
There's loads of options for complex like signature moves and combining moves to make new moves
I'm under the impression that the moveset would look like Aqua Jet/Ice Beam/Scratch/Tackle.
I have to ask to make sure; do you mean that the moveset would look like Aqua Jet/Ice Beam/Ice Missile/Tackle? (And Ice Missile's component parts Aqua Jet and Ice Beam could be forgotten, like a Pikachu knowing Volt Tackle but not Quick Attack/Thunderbolt)
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