Quote Originally Posted by Neo Emolga View Post
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.
I think limiting what Pokemon we can have by type is needlessly restrictive, especially since both Morzone and I (the main RPers other than possibly Scytherwolf) each have characters designed and none of them are normal type. We were actually discussing the problem over Skype, and we came up with something sufficiently thematic while not being so restrictive as to be unfun:

Basically, we're all traitors.

For one reason or another, every single one of our characters has committed some kind of betrayal or something similar. Socially, we're all outcast: no one wants to trust us, and we're pretty much the only people who wouldn't want to immediately cut off each others' heads. Whether it's a noblewoman who killed her father, a warrior who betrayed a cult, or a berserker who flipped out at a really wrong time, everyone has skeletons both in the closet and out in the open. This even lets us keep a financial advantage if we're a bit unscrupulous about it, and lets people of all sorts of backgrounds unite because the alternative to hanging together is hanging separately.