Quote Originally Posted by Morzone View Post
That description just sends us back to square one though... by definition a team is a bunch of different people coming together for a common goal. Just saying "A bunch of people allying" Doesn't actually describe anything about the group. The grunt plan has a base in the mainstream games (The actual grunts from the actual teams) So it gives us a face and appearance, but its not so strict that we can't be creative with it. There obviously wasn't an inter-team grunt alliance, so we can pioneer our own ideas in that respect.

Essentially we're the Pokemon version of Spartacus' army. All the rejects and front-line fighters no one really cared for coming together to show we're not as insignificant as everyone once thought.

Or if you prefer, it's like in Strike/Union movies where the low working class rebel and show that the big money makers wouldn't be able to do anything without them.
Well, I've been thinking it over some more and we definitely can't use the grunts from the mainstream games. Not only to the goals of Team Aqua and Team Magma conflict, but the others don't translate well into an RP where everyone's a Pokémon. Team Plasma's strategy of trying to get everyone to release their Pokémon wouldn't work for this. Team Rocket would just have to be a band of thieves since they wouldn't be able to steal Pokémon. Or they'd be kidnapping them instead. The other thing is you'd have to establish reason as to why the grunts left their previous organization to join this one. Did they fail or were they kicked and now they joined this band of outcasts? Everyone would have to come up with a story as to how and why that happened. The other thing is I'd have to establish origin base for all those teams in the RP as well. I'd die a little inside struggling and trying to figure out just how to make that possible without it going all weird.

I was really bending more toward Death's Spook's idea of us coming from different walks of life and being specialists in our own special things, but coming together as one for a common cause. Problem with both of these ideas is they're abstract and they don't have any theme to it. How would you put this into a form you can visualize? What would you use to represent the team? That's something we need at the moment. The other thing is now that we're banding together, what is the goal? What would we strive to do and what would likely happen if we won? The other thing is in the RP, teams will actually be more on the wealthier side than on the low-income working class. I honestly don't think asking to start off with a financial disadvantage instead is a good idea. Besides asking to have some crippling disability, that's probably the second worst thing you could have going for you in that context.

Here's how I'd try to retranslate this into a Pokémon context.

Let's go with normal-type Pokémon instead. So many people overlook them. And yet, bam, they're capable of amazing things. In many cases they can be underdogs but when used right, they're amazing and show everyone just how capable they are even though they can't harness the elements as well as some other Pokémon can or don't have the kinds of psychic powers others do. But even if you're a Pokémon that has a second typing of something besides normal, there's still this sense of unity and belonging in relying on your skills more than your types or what elements you can harness.

In the RP context, our weaponry and tactics consist of things we build as a result of our handicrafts. If you want a sense of working class, we build a ton of things with our hands/paws/fins. Very blue collar. We're technicians, welders, engineers, mechanics, inventors, craftsmen, mechanists, and things like that, and because of that, our technology and weaponry is more beefed up because we're the artisans when it comes to things like that. We've lived lives that depended on us usually not having that go-to element of fire, electricity, or water or something like that, so we've come up with other ways to work around it and even rise up against those that do.