[PXFIRE] [SU/DS] PXFIRE II Roleplay: Convergence

[VeloJello]

Knight of Swords || Queen of Cups

Spoiler:

wandering child of the earth,
do you know just how much you're worth?
you have walked this path since your birth;
you were destined for more.

Name: Emmett “Gawain” Marshall.
Gender: Male.
Age: 35.
Team: Avalon Apostles.
Description: A man standing at 6’4” and skinny enough to be mistaken for a scarecrow, Emmett Marshall doesn’t look like the sort of guy who should be leading movements, be called “Gawain”, handling dangerous giant owls, or doing most of the things he does in general. His attire doesn’t help - he wears elegant but practical clothes in an array of pink and blue pastels. His ensemble also includes a white satchel embroidered with a red first-aid cross and a patch with the simple “AA” insignia of the Avalon Apostles sewn into it.

As for the man behind the pastels and the exaggerated frame, Emmett looks like a gentle soul. His dark-skinned, black-eyed face is clean shaven and his features are soft; his default expression seems to be one of mingled compassion and wistfulness. His long, curly, voluminous hair is perpetually tied back in a puffy ponytail. He bears a few scars on his arms from dealing with Pokemon, and a pretty impressive laceration scar along his abdomen.

Personality: Charismatic/Philosophical/Friendly/Gentle/Altruistic
Partly as a result of his community-centric upbringing, Emmett genuinely loves meeting new people and helping out others. He’s always learning; even if he disagrees with others, he loves to hear their opinions, and he doesn’t shy away from those who oppose or argue with him. Instead, he tries to be reasonable, using his considerable social skills to win their respect, if not win them over entirely. He doesn’t like to harm other creatures and his inclination is to inflict nonlethal damage - though he can be almost frighteningly ruthless when his friends or people under his protection are endangered. He presents himself as a knight in shining armor, and he sees it as his role to spread enlightenment and goodness and to protect the innocent.

Two-Faced/Cynical/Manipulative/Tired/Unforgiving
A bit of Emmett’s disposition is put-on, though. Beneath the saccharine sweetness lies a world-weary person who’s full of exhaustion, pessimism, and resentment. Working with the UFS embittered him greatly, as he watched humans tear each other apart to possess the power of Pokemon and watched Pokemon and humans kill each other for little to no reason. In order to achieve his ends of establishing peace between man and ‘mon, Emmett sees nothing wrong with wrapping others around his little finger. His desire to make the world a better place is genuine, but his pessimism puts this goal out of reach in his mind, creating a vicious cycle of discouragement. He has little mercy for those who stir up trouble, even if their reasons have legitimacy.

Backstory: The cold of Redinas is often said to only be matched by the warmth of its citizens. Emmett grew up in a kind home with caring parents and, after a few years, a shy but kindly younger sibling (Zeke Marshall figured out that they were agender before they turned thirteen). The Marshall household was often filled with neighbors in need, just as the Marshalls often relied on their neighbors for help right when they needed it most. When he was about fourteen, Emmett took up volunteer work as a clinic assistant for resume-padding and character-building. It was there that he discovered his passion for healing, and he quickly shifted his academic focus in the direction of becoming a doctor.

Unfortunately, his charmed life didn't last. Quinn Marshall, matriarch of the Marshall house, passed away suddenly, struck down by cancer. Wanting to ensure that his family had their best chance, Josiah Marshall moved his family to Maris, where they'd be closer to Josiah's family. While Emmett was a bit more subdued and untrusting - worried at the notion that people he loved could be suddenly torn away from him. He did his best to learn everything he could, working for his education, heart set on earning his status as a doctor of medicine. The wormhole invention was exciting for him - people were brought closer together; the phasing out of motor vehicles reduced air pollution and accidental injuries and death; he could go and visit his friends and family in Redinas whenever he wanted. He lost touch with Zeke a bit, but they still visited every now and again - always excited about the wormhole technology, which they went from an avid student of to working on themselves. Unfortunately, this contact ceased at the explosion at Erenitka.

Not long after the Pokemon began appearing, Emmett found his way onto a UFS team due to their higher pay and his curiosity about the Pokemon. One of his first missions was cut short by a group of Pokemon poachers rushing in to steal the great white owl that had come through the rift. In the chaos, most of the strike team was knocked out or killed; Emmett tried to pull the poachers away, but he took a knife and was knocked aside, near unconscious. When he woke up, a bloody-taloned owl was on his chest and the poachers were ripped apart - and the pain in his body was gone. Somehow, the bird had healed him as thanks for his attempts to save it, and it hovered alongside Emmett as he stabilized his compatriots and called for evacuation. Attempts to separate the owl from Emmett were met with screeched protests, at best; Emmett managed to convince his higher-ups to let him keep and bond with the creature known as Togekiss, reasoning that she already liked him and that this way he'd have a bodyguard and any squad he was with would have a backup healer.

That plan did not last. Emmett eventually decided that the brutality of the strike forces was too much - the brutality between humans and Pokemon was too much for him. He couldn't stop an evil so powerful or necessary, however, so instead he resolved to be the help that people needed. At first it was just him and Kayla healing people, with Emmett guiding others as best he could and espousing his political opinions where he went. Initially unintentionally, Emmett began to accumulate a following, a contact network that slowly but surely grew into a movement for peace. Emmett began to cultivate this; while he didn't assert himself as a great leader of men, he provided guidance for the other Apostles when they needed them, and started directing them in a more hands-on fashion. "Gawain" was a codename he was given due to his chivalrous nature, healing schtick, and knightly motif.

Starting Pokemon: Kayla/Togekiss/F/Serene Grace/Gentle Nature. Kayla is rarely seen except at Gawain's side. Towering over her Trainer, her sharp beak and talons make her an incredibly formidable sight. However, she's really quite kind, albeit a little bit restless and flighty. She and Gawain have a limited understanding of each other; she has minor telepathic and empathic abilities that help she and her Trainer share thoughts and feelings between them.

Other: Emmett hasn't heard from Zeke for six years. He's not sure, but he suspects they might be dead. He's still in contact with most of his remaining family members, though some of them are afraid of him now thanks to his status as a Pokemon trainer.

[Shruikan]

Here we go!

Sorry for the wait, Brent/Angel is accepted! :)

[VeloJello]

@Shruikan Emmett and Kayla should hopefully be ready to roll!

EDIT: I've meddled a bit and exaggerated Kayla's size somewhat. Is that okay? Togekiss is pretty big in the anime and it learns Fly, so I figure it should be big enough to carry a full-grown human.

[Shruikan]

@Shruikan Emmett and Kayla should hopefully be ready to roll!

EDIT: I've meddled a bit and exaggerated Kayla's size somewhat. Is that okay? Togekiss is pretty big in the anime and it learns Fly, so I figure it should be big enough to carry a full-grown human.

Sure, that's fine. Totem pokemon have canonized size differences in pokemon, so Kayla can just be a bigger than average Togekiss.
Anyway, everything seems good here. Emmett/Gawain is accepted. :)

[Bulbasaur]

Name: Eddie Shadolurk
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Team: Agents of the Shadows

Description: Eddie is fairly tall, standing at exactly six feet, and also a bit skinny, weighing about 145 pounds. He has pale skin, hazel colored eyes that changed color, and dark blonde hair that is about an inch from his shoulders. He usually wears darker colored clothes, usually black. He'll wear jeans no matter what the weather is, and usually a long sleeved shirt with an occasional hoodie if the weather is appropriate.

Eddie is pretty well educated. He did well in high school; however, he did not go to college. That being said, he was a straight A's student for the most part in high school, partially due to his dad pushing him a little too hard to succeed. His strength in school was in math and computer science. He usually keeps a small 7-inch tablet in his hoodie pocket, or if he is not wearing a hoodie, his back jeans pocket.

Eddie is exceptional at making detailed plans and being prepared for almost anything, especially now that the rifts are around and active. Sometimes he has a bit of trouble conveying his complex train of thought to others, and because of this he recruits a lot of people that seem to think similarly to him.

Personality: Eddie is very down-to-earth and honest. He is not afraid to tell you how he feels about you. However, when he does so, he doesn't show much emotion. If he hates you, his voice won't show it. If he likes you, his voice won't show it. When he does let out his emotions, he usually does so on his own, away from other people. Sometimes, when he talks to new people, they occasionally take his emotionless-ness negatively.

However, he will have fun when possible. From time to time, he'll crack a joke in his neutral voice, and most people will find it funny. Even though he seems pretty neutral, the other agents agree he is pretty fun to be around.

Backstory: Eddie was brought into this world from his parents, Jenn and Alex Shadolurk. He was extremely close to his mother, but he had an awful relationship with his father. The two had very little in common, and always frustrated each other. His mother was found missing when he was 9, and was confirmed dead three weeks later. Devastated and furious that it took two whole weeks to find his mother, he had zero trust and respect for the police after that point, out of emotion. His life goal was to start a group to do the police's job better than them.

He was 19 when the Pokemon-spawning rifts began to appear. Not long after the first few rifts appeared, he was attacked by a Poliwrath. It had crept up behind him, given him a few punches to knock him out, and started to carry him away. But then a vine wrapped itself around the Poliwrath's neck, and squeezed until the Poliwrath collapsed and could move no more. The owner of the vines, a Bulbasaur with a scar on its front left leg, seemed to want to stay in a group of two in order to survive. Eddie had no issues with this.

This incident inspired Eddie to start the "Agents of the Shadows". His first headquarters was in small cave by his home, and by observing the activity of people in Drusk he chose to recruit certain people in secret. As he got older and more Agents were recruited, he was able to rent a floor of a tall building in Drusk for the purposes of Agents of the Shadows.

Starting Pokemon: Bruce the Bulbasaur
Bruce, in many ways, acts similarly to Eddie. He is serious about his job fighting evil, but can still get along with other Pokemon pretty nicely. He does well at conveying the game plan to the other Pokemon owned by the Agents. He is also extremely loyal to Bruce, and wants him to be his life partner in the Agents of the Shadows.

Other: He follows video games very avidly. He does have a thing for Shrek games in particular for some reason, and has a PlayStation 2 loaded with a Shrek game disc in the Agents' lobby.

[Morzone]

Name: Leo Star
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Team: Order of the Sun
Description: Leo is kind of an average looking guy. Average height, with short, slightly messy black hair and a fairly normal build for a healthy male of age 23. As in, he's got a fair amount of strength but is no body builder. He also wears glasses, which are sort of rectangular in shape and have no bottom frame. He's practically blind without them, so he always keeps a backup pair on him. He also wears a simple silver ring on his right hand.

Personality: Leo is kind of a quiet guy, but is almost always smiling in some fashion or other. He's sort of a mixed up person who never really feels he's particularly skilled at anything other than menial, simple tasks. Still, he hates feeling useless and always tries his best, even if he's not sure he even knows what it is he's doing. Leo's also a very kind person, sometimes a little too much so. He'll tend to avoid other people because of his tendencies to always put others before himself, connecting better with pokemon.

Backstory: Leo was born and raised in the outskirts of Merius with his Brother Ezekiel (Zeke). Leo never knew what happened to his father, who was absent for the majority of his childhood years. For most of that time Leo and Zeke were inseparable, always together no matter what kind of trouble they got into. Their mother, who they loved dearly, died when the two of them turned 20 from a wild pokemon attack. The event, which took place during a yearly outing the family had always taken, broke the two brothers apart.

For Leo's part, he felt only great sadness and loss in his mother's death, but none of the desire for revenge or justice that Zeke was consumed of. The two parted ways and Leo traveled west through Anise, looking for a passion in which he could find a life following. After a year or two of traveling back and forth through the country, Leo discovered a small group of young pokemon, some ralts to be specific, who were hiding, hurt, from poachers nearby. On a whim Leo decided to help hide the pokemon, discovering while he misdirected the poachers that they were wearing government symbols on their uniforms. While he never inquired into what exactly they were doing, Leo believed the government was secretly collected these creatures for their own use. Angered, he decided to create a place, a secret place, where he could keep these targeted pokemon safe.

It was then -to Leo's very much surprise- that a gardivor appeared in front of him and revealed that such a place already existed, in fact he was right on the edge of it as it was. It turned out that the gardivor had been protecting a small valley near the conjunction of the Anise, Rutgard, and Ernitka Empires and protecting pokemon from encroaching poachers. The gardivor told Leo she'd been watching him protect the ralts, who had ventured too near the edge of the valley, and invited him to join her in protecting the valley. Working together, the human and pokemon would keep human parties away from the area so as to spread the beliefe that it was simple empty wild lands and that nothing interesting lay there. Certainly not a community of pokemon with so much diversity that it'd be easier to count what evo-line wasn't there. Not at all...

Starting Pokemon: Gardivor

Other: The only person who knows Leo protects a secret valley is his brother Zeke, whom works with Leo occasionally to bring pokemon to Leo for him to protect. Zeke doesn't know the actual location of the valley, which Leo has kept a very close secret, but Zeke has been very interested in its whereabouts.

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Name: Ezekiel Star (Zeke)
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Team: Order of the Sun? Secretly, head of the poaching branch of Team Claw.

Description: Taller than Leo, Zeke gives off a much more impressive atmosphere. Physically, he gives off a confident, weathered look as though he's spends most of his days outdoors. Well fit and strong, Zeke's strength seems to show no matter what he wears. While normally he'll be found wearing some kind of outdoor hiking gear -something with a lot of pockets- even if he is wearing something like a suit for he gives off an impressive presence. Like Leo his hair is black, however Zeke prefers to keep it trimmed short in an army cut.

Personality: Zeke loves the feeling of power. He chases it, desires the ability to have strength over others. Surprisingly though, he doesn't always go to great lengths to ensure his power over others. Rather, he enjoys the knowledge that he can be stronger, especially over those who initially think him to be beneath him. Few things give him as great a satisfaction as knowing he's overcome something that was in his way. In relation to this, Zeke never feels like a challenge is too high, merely that he has yet to apply enough or the correct effort top the problem. Nothing will deter him from success, no matter how long it may take to succeed.

Backstory: The death of his and Leo's mother took Zeke down a very different path than his brother. The grief Zeke felt turned to rage, to hatred toward these wild beasts that attacked without reason. With a desire to take revenge for the needless deaths caused by these pokemon, Zeke split with his brother and traveled south. For a brief time, he looked into becoming a soldier, believing he'd be allowed to fight and maybe even kill pokemon at his pleasure. but it was not long before he realized that he'd be fighting alongside pokemon, rather than against them if he did so. But the knowledge still stuck in Zeke's head, spawning an idea.

Soon, Zeke took to raiding places pokemon were known to inhabit, stealing their young and wounding the adults. The captured pokemon he then sold to the highest bidder on the black market. His schemes of violent poaching went on for about a year before Zeke was finally caught while attempting to sell a young rhyhorn in Sunos. However, just as Zeke was prepared to accept being locked away, he got a mysterious offer from one of the police officers: to join a secret organization and use his skills as a poacher to supply them with powerful pokemon. Zeke accepted immediately. He'd long stopped caring how the pokemon were used after he'd sold them.

And so Zeke was introduced into the ranks of Team Scar. Not only that, but he soon made a name for himself and rose through the ranks of the cardinal North Branch, (poaching) By the time He'd been in the organization for a year, his poaching abilities were well renound and he'd established himself as cardinal of the northern division. It wasn't long after he'd taken up the cardinal position when he came back into contact with his older brother. He learned that Leo Had been protecting pokemon by bringing them to a secret valley. It would turn into Zeke's ultimate challenge. He knew with certainty that the valley would hold a vast treasure of pokemon ready to be enslaved for Claw's use, if only he could discover its location. Several times he attempted to discover the valley's location, but has so far been unable to learn the information from Leo or successfully follow him to its place of hiding. In the mean time, Zeke would occasionally bring one of the pokemon he'd poached to Leo, creating a false life of a person who stole pokemon from other poachers to free them.

Starting Pokemon: None specific, but he's very adept at forcing pokemon to do what he wants and will occasionally use a poached pokemon to do a task for him.

Other: Team Claw is set up like this: At the top there is the Boss, known among the organization as Central, who controls everything from the shadows. He and his elite troops have a base located on the border between Aluna and Ernitka, directly east of Zenbar. No one except the Four Cardinal Directions and the members of central know the actual identity of Claw's boss, and those who do do not speak of it, only calling him by his title.

Directly below the boss in Rank are the four Cardinal Directions, each representing one of the four branches of Claw:
Poaching - North (the capture and collection of powerful pokemon, supplying them to the other branches of Claw.)
Black Market Trade - East (Illegal trade in pokemon and Items. Occasionally people will buy poached pokemon straight from North, but to keep identities secret most all black trade goes through the East)
Undercover Operations - West (Warriors and specialists who do Spying, information collecting, assassinations, acts of terrorism, or staged acts of international aggression)
Gilded Faces - South (A collection of powerful, rich and influential people who use their power to create ideal circumstances for Claw through government and economics.

Each branch is run by a select member known as a "Cardinal Direction." Zeke is the Cardinal Direction "North" which is what he will be called by anyone in the organization. Each branch has its own headquarters in, you guess it, the general area of the cardinal direction. North is in Sunos, East in Zenbar, West in Erana, South in Trinox.

The over all goal of Claw is world domination. Their plan is to use and amplify the chaos created from the arrival of pokemon to bring about the destruction of the current order and allow them to take control as the new ruler of all things living.

Also, if anyone else Wants to get in on being a member of Team Claw, feel free to message me! I'd love to join other people in doing evil things!

[K'sariya]

Finished mine, link here for convenience. @Shruikan !

[Shruikan]

Name: Camellia Estrada

Name: Eddie Shadolurk

Name: Leo Star

Name: Ezekiel Star (Zeke)

All are accepted. You're all good to go. :)

[Morzone]

@Shruikan would it be possible to add the world map to the front post of the RP thread? Just for convenience sake.

[Bulbasaur]

I hope I'm doing this alright, since I've never RPed before. :X