Xan the G

Pokémon: Hoenn - Make a Wish

Jin came down slowly and humbly, choosing to double wrap. The towel was girdled as a loin-cloth with the robe tight bound by its belt. He glanced at the boy for all of two second as he entered into the kitchen, still not fully able to look at him without a feeling of shame or guilt. It didn't help much the way that both Briney and his son were willing to overlook the incident. Jin knew what it was like to arrest the kind of men that reveal themselves to underaged, vulnerable children. Even if by genuine accident, he still felt like he should atone for what Leodin had to see. Jin took a seat as he was invited to. He picked up the fork in his left hand, mulling it into the food, not actually taking a bite. It took him a minute but he eventually caved to the deafening tension plaguing his mind.

"I'm sorry." he muttered, looking into the food. "To you and your boy. I didn't mean to... I didn't know he... I'm sorry." he attempted, not being able to bring himself to admit what actually happened, but not allowing himself to breath until he had fully apologised either. His conscience was lifted enough for him to then try some of the food. "You asked me my name earlier. If it's all the same to you, since you found in the rain and waves, you can just call me 'Cloud'," suggested Jin. "I haven't got anywhere to be, but I have something to do. Your boathouse tells me you're the kind of guy who knows about getting around in the waves. If it's all the same to you, Briney, I'd like to just shadow you for the day. See this land from your eyes, from the eyes of someone who knows the course of the waves better than the course of the land." requested Jin, finding a more assertive voice the more he moved away from what happened earlier.

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@Xan the G I was thinking in terms of NPCs, what he would find out discover as per his hiring. Normally I'd just add it ICly, but I'm sure you'd like to get to everyone else's time.

@Phoenix

Well, I feel as a side arc to all of the pokemon main games is that there is some criminal organisation that gets taken down. With Jin's character being what it is, I would ultimately want Jin to discover a means of taking down a similar organisation in this version of Hoenn, whether that be team Aqua/Magma or something else.

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No worries. There's a lot I would like to get done in this RP, but I see my character being more of a background character the others occasionally notice. I plan on limiting how much Jin talks to each individual person for information, so no NPC could really guess what he was upto, including Briney and his son, lol.

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Briney Marina - Route 104S, Morning (Still behind current time, sorry!)

Jin was caught out by the older man. It made no sense to disguise his voice or dialect considering the manner in which the fisherman first caught a glimpse of him. While he wanted as little as possible in the way of a traceable eye witness account, it would have been more problematic and suspicious to decline Briney. However, Jin was a little wary - nigh on suspicious of how open the fisherman was to him. He's senses told him the man might be lonely and before even walking into the house he began checking for signs of isolation. The talkative manner of Briney was a giveaway - so willing to divulge into conversation without even establishing anything about Jin. Jin deliberately didn't talk as Briney explained that he would provide him clothes food and shelter for nothing in return. At first he just stood in the hallway with his muteness, not making to discrete a point of how reluctant he was to embrace the mans hospitality.

He glanced back and forth, seeing a table which a dust-mark, denoting that something used to be on the mantelpiece but had been removed. glancing at some of the paintings and photos hung on the wall, Jin could appreciate there were spaces, spaces which denoted that something was removed and not replaced. Eventually he stepped forward into the Kitchen where Briney was initially waiting for Jin's clothes. Jin slowly removed his outer layers, but initially placed his bag on the floor alongside his pokebelt, opting to keep them with him as he handed over his clothes standing in his briefs. As the clothes were exchanged, Jin noticed the indent in Briney's skin around his ring finger, and got a good grasp on what he concluded Briney's loneliness stemmed from. Now he was just a man standing in underwear in the house of a stranger of a strangeland.

If he was anything other than an undercover international agent Jin would not be anywhere near as accepting of his circumstance as he chose to be. Even now, Jin decided it still wasn't the best time to talk with Briney. He had managed to avoid even giving his name at this point due to how distracted Briney was. Jin nodded in respect as he turned to exit the kitchen and head upstairs for the shower. He was shivering and his plan to makeshift a camp in the woods was a hell of a lot longer and inefficient than a second-floor hot shower. Jin marched upstairs, placing his equipment just outside the door to the bathroom as he stepped into the shower. Assuming that Briney was alone, with his behavior and the clean up response to a departed, wedded partner Jin saw no reason to lock the shower door or draw the curtain. If Briney was that was inclined, he had the best opportunity to make advances on Jin.

When Briney's son waltzed in to use the bathroom, calling Jin "daddy" in his sleepy stupor, Jin felt an awkwardness he had never experienced before. Of course, talking to a child you do not know in a bathroom while stark naked without parent permission was about as peodorific as it gets. Before the child was savvy enough to turn and glance at Jin in his morning glory, Jin slowly reached for the shower curtain with shower head still running. By the time he gripped it, however, the two had locked eyes in a deafening silence. Jin slowly pulled the curtain shut in a comically awkward manner as if it somehow retconned the fact an adolescent boy just say a naked stranger in his shower. He kept his silence, opting not to scare the boy by explaining himself, and simply stood on the other side of the curtain, waiting to the child to finish!

His heart was raising with embarrassment, but Jin was still fairly level-headed. The incident lay with Briney. The police officer in Jin wanted to reprimand Briney for his lack of attention in protecting a minor, being so free and open to Jin when he had a child in the house. Jin instantly determined that Briney must have had a wife who left him, most likely for absent behaviour like that. The request of the child to be accompanied to school allowed Jin to deduce that the child didn't get a lot of time to spend with his father, meaning it was probably a short term visit at the Marina. Maybe Briney had forgotten he had the boy in the confusion. Nonetheless, the fact he seemed to be on good terms with his son even though his aptitude as a father might be questionable Jin was much more willing to accept Briney was a good man.

...He just hoped this incident wasn't going to dry up the hospitality. Jin turned off the shower from behind the curtain. The shower was stopped, but the pitter-patter of rain from outside was now trickling in the silence.

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Checj Check!!!

I won't even pretend to explain myself - Life has been chaotic. I am going to start a post right now. Will finish it in 24 hrs if not in the next 30 mins.

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@Xan the G I'd forgotten to mention this, but your post doesn't indicate the weather and time-of-day described in the first post. Because of this, I've set the response to you in my post the morning before everyone else.
I just wanted to let you know that you're not going to be on the same time-line as the others until it is played through. I'm not requiring you edit your post, I just want to make sure it's understood before I post (which is going to be a few minutes from posting this).
I'm also adding a line suggesting he has an "accent" due to his not being from Hoenn. I just like the idea that they have different dialects (or even languages if people want to develop that aspect of the setting).

@Phoenix

I'm totally fine about the weather/time thing. I wasn't sure when or in what weather the rests of the posts were taking place, so I tried not to pick a time that would conflict with anyone else.

The dialect thing was actually something I thought about myself, but I didn't want to assume as I'm not the only person with a character in Hoenn but not FROM Hoenn while also trying to fit in. You'll see I tried to keep Jin's speech as brief as possible, since he's not a world class spy who would instantly know to clone dialects.

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Just before Dawn-break, South Hoenn Coast: Roust 104/105, Hoenn Region

Jin had a knock at his cabin door. He didn't respond with haste, opting to turn onto his back and lean up from the simple, low-level bed he was sleeping on. He looked out the circular window, seeing the stretch of the ocean to one side, and shoreline beset with high reaching, dense forestry. He had been sleeping on the bed, not tucked in the covers and had used his backpack as a pillow. At the second knock he rolled to the edge of the bed, slipping his feet into his shoes and moved towards the door. It was louder and more forceful than the first. Jin opened the door as the third wave of knocks came, the first being the only to connect with the door. He opened it ajar, the hallway was dim, as was the light in the room. On the other side was a sailor with a message, though the massage was halted while he tried to look Jin up and down and get a measure of him.

"It's time. We're here." explained the sailor. Jin nodded, closing the door again, collecting his things and then exiting the barracks into the hallway, standing face-to-face with the sail. Jin had on black and grey coloured cargo pants and zipped up black hoodie, though he noticeably had on more upper body wears underneath the zipper. The sailor point and Jin followed the sailor while putting his back pack on. The men were being cautious as they made their way out onto the top deck.

"Are you sure about all this matey? The Cap'n doesn't have a problem with stowaways. If we just told him you were aboard-" began the sailor, as he watched Jin begin to attach an abseiling clamp to the metal railing.

"This is fine." replied Jin, hoping over to the other side. "No one knows I was aboard your ship, because I never was," he expressed on last time. The sailor nodded, causing Jin to do the same. Jin made a controlled free fall down the side of the ship into the water and the sailor detached the hook and walked away casually before anyone else saw him. Jin reeled in the hook and went under the waves. From his hoodie he pulled up a snorkeling apparatus, drained it of water and then attached it to his head before submerging. As the ship continued to sail around the continent, Jin was swimming towards land.

Eventually, Jin's hands and feet scuffed against the sand and he shifted his weight to stand. He pulled down his snorkel and began to slosh the deep edges of the water as he trekked onto land. The weight of his water-drenched clothes pulled against him. A Fisherman was far enough into the shore to see Jin emerge and had been watching him has he suddenly sprouted from the sea. Jin felt the fisherman's gaze, turning to meet him eye-to-eye. The fisherman tipped his hat.

"That's not something you see every day," replied the fisherman. Jin shrugged, still dripping with salt water.

"...Maybe you didn't," Jin replied. The fisherman chuckled briefly to himself.

"Maybe. I've been fishing a this route for most of my life. Enough time to see a lot of things, I've seen various sights and people wash up on this beach... but you walked out like you meant to wash up here" The fisherman looked back out to see, noticing the crown of the sun peeking up out of the horizon. "...by time and place, I figure you didn't expect anyone else around when you did" the fisherman said, standing to his feet. Jin glanced at the emerging sun, then at himself and finally back to the fisherman. "You're soaking wet, and the night was cold. If you don't deal with your clothes first, you're a dead man anyway."

"That's what I was thinking," agreed Jin.

"So maybe that's all I saw. A man about to die of hypothermia." the fisherman said, before turning away from Jin to fix his line.

"That works for me," replied Jin. Jin began to walk further up the beach, approaching what looked like a beach house.

"...the name's Briney, incase you survive the morning." added the fisherman. Jin paused as the name was given, then looked back at the beach house, seeing the same name 'Briney' printed on the sign board. Jin then looked over to the speed boat moored against the boardwalk. He pushed on towards the woods at the north of the beach.

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I'm posting right now. I had a shoulder injury at work this week. Only got back home yesterday, but I've had time to think about what I want to start with.

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Name: Detective Jin Azuma
Age: 26
History:

History

Jin is an Alola native, born on the Akala island of the archipelago. Growing up Jin's parents worked as pokemon rangers and naturally Jin followed in the family footsteps, learning how to watchover and protect the pokemon eco system both in the wild and urban areas. During what was supposed to be a routine check, Jin lost both of his parents when they were set upon by a criminal organisation unheard of in the Alola region. When the Ranger department failed to pursue the justice he was looking for, Jin quit the academy to join an international police force set up to tackle the biggest pokemon crime organisations across the world.

The IPF was able to apprehend the group responsible for the murder of Jin's parents, but with his new lease and purpose in life, Jin decided to keep with the IPF, working as an inside man/double agent which they codenamed "Infiltrator", to dig up dirt and information and clues that the police would not be able to find otherwise. After his cover was blown in the middle of a sting operation in Alola, Jin was transferred to Hoenn where stirrings of a criminal conspiracy echoed on the winds.

Team:

Zero

Name: Zero
Species: Greninja
Gender: Male

Zero is Jin's main pokemon, and the one he's had with him the longest. Jin was given his Feroakie egg when he was 5 years old after the Greninja of his parents mated. Like Jin, Zero lost his parents in the same incident. Zero is level headed and stoic. Strangely enough, Jin becomes all business when he calls upon Zero and does not do so often.

Move List:
Zero's fighting style is that of a ninja; to lay traps and hazards and subterfuge to disarm or inhibit the enemy before making an efficient and precise finishing blow. To that end, Zero only has two dedicated offensive moves;

Night Slash - Zero slashes the foe the instant an opportunity arises. He will create a purple energy sword in the palm of one of his hands and then grabs it with the other hand before slashing the opponent with it.
Water Shuriken - Zero forms a shuriken of water in his hand. He then tosses the shuriken at the opponent.

Beyond those, Zero uses a plethora of moves much like ninja tools to keep the opponent off-balance.

Double Team - Zero will summon a bunch of clones in a puff of smoke.
Shadow Sneak - Zero travels in a sleuthy manner through a shadow to close distance.
Spikes/Toxic Spikes - Zero will throw senbon-like traps out across the floor of a given area to damage grounded foes as they move around blindly or poison them.
Smokescreen - Zero summons a cloud of smoke to veil himself and his allies from view.
Substitute - Zero summons a doll replica to replace him on the moment of impact from an incoming attack. This draws on his life force however.
Feint Attack - Zero runs at the opponent seemingly head on. He makes an apparent jump, drawing the enemy's attention upwards. In actuality, he has not jumped at all, and attacks from below while they are not looking.

Ace

Name: Ace
Species: Crobat
Gender: Female

Ace is the first pokemon Jin legitimately caught on his own. Ace caught it while traversing a particularly dark cave. Although originally a zubat, Jin has used Ace as a means of swift recon, and at times even as a means of flight. Ace likes to be on the move while awake, she will stick close to Jin out of her pokeball, but does so by circling overhead.

Move List:
Ace attacks like a bomber aircraft, controlling the skies with speed and precision.

Screech, Supersonic, Wing Attack, Air Cutter, Air Slash, Haze, Poison Fang, Cross Poison

Rook

Name: Rook
Species: Houndour
Gender: Male

Rook is the pokemon Jin received from the International Police Force academy as his own personal police and tactical dog. Rook is very curious and alert, making him very perceptive and committed to investigation, making him perfect as a tracker. Whenever Jin is scouring a crime scene for clues Rook is the pokemon he goes to. As a dog from the force, Rook is well behaved and typically relaxed. He likes to explore, dig and sniff out new scents during play time. He doesn't like to play ball, but will play hide and seek all day long.

Move List:
Rook's motive in battle is very straight forward and fundamentally about oppressive fire... sometimes literally.

Howl, Odor Sleuth, Leer, Roar, Bite, Fire Fang, Ember, Beat-Up

Pokémon: One (~Looking for one player and a Co-GM!~)

@WhimsleyIT makes sense to have some form of distinction. I just assumed we would know without necessarily having to explain why. It's just "Oh that's a female Charizard".