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

[VeloJello]

Do Ultra Beasts count as Legendary Pokemon?

EDIT: Also, how long ago did the Rifts open up? It says "6 years ago" for both the wormhole invention and for the earthquake, so I'm confused here.

[Shruikan]

Awesome! Having it established is easier so I'll go with that. DO you want me to PM you what I have in mind? Cause I also don't mind letting out details here and having other people join me in my evil capers.

I'm fine with you posting it here. :)

Do Ultra Beasts count as Legendary Pokemon?

EDIT: Also, how long ago did the Rifts open up? It says "6 years ago" for both the wormhole invention and for the earthquake, so I'm confused here.

Oops, that was a typo. >_< It was supposed to be 9 years ago not 6 that the wormholes were invented, I'll just go fix that now. But yeah, the rifts started appearing right after the earthquake, with it taking at most two or so months for the effects to be noticed, so at six years ago currently.
As for the Ultra beasts, I'd count them as Legendary. You could maybe get away with Poipole since it's not quite as stong as the others, but I'd say all the others are too powerful and counted alongside the Legendaries.

@Neo Emolga @LKWayvern
Every seems good here. Welcome to the RP to both of you :)

[Noblejanobii]

Is there a deadline for when we have to sign up by?

[Shruikan]

Is there a deadline for when we have to sign up by?

Nope! While I'm aiming to get this started tomorrow/thursday, sign ups will stay open through the whole of PXFIRE. :)

[Noblejanobii]

Here we go!

Spoiler:

Image credit to my friend Penpeaches. Don’t worry about permission, she drew it as a gift for me as you can see here.

Name: Brent/Angel Hughes
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Team: Avalon Apostles
Description: Brent/Angel is a 5’9 male with auburn hair and brown eyes. Brent is a very kept individual, tending to wear a nice vest with a button up shirt and dress pants. He also sometimes wears a top hat if he’s feeling fancy. Angel, on the other hand, while very fancy, is less kept. One of the ways to tell who is fronting is how neat their hair is. If it has been brushed, then Brent is likely fronting. If not, it is likely Angel. Angel tends to wear the same dress pants as Brent (to save money), but has his own set of vests and shirts along with a series of neckties and cravats he likes to wear as well. Their mega stone is wore in a bracelet on their left wrist. Angel tends to not wear it but keeps it on his person just in case Brent needs it.
Personality: Brent is a gentlemanly personality with a stage charisma from his entertainer days. He’s calm during high tension situations for the most part and has great hand eye coordination. Angel is a kind soul, wanting to save everyone he can but also in as creative a method as possible. He likes to adventure and befriend people when he can. He’s also super protective of Brent and tends to front when Brent is frightened or becoming angry to calm him down.
Backstory: Born in the city of Sendrel to a Frances and Jack Hughes, Brent was only eleven when the first wormholes were made. His parents were scientists that worked on the project and continued to study it in Rustol. As a result, Brent was raised by his Uncle Karl Bohn with his cousin in Sendrel with frequent visits to Rustol. Brent found very quickly that he was skilled at two things: medical tasks and magic tricks. As a young teenager, Brent felt his path as a magician was what he was pursue. He practiced day and night, becoming quite the entertainer until that fateful day when he was thirteen. It was the explosion that shook the world.

Brent was watching the television when the news came on. He watched as explosions vaporized the whole city until the feed went dead. The next few weeks were a blur. People came by and said that it was likely his parents died instantly without experiencing any pain. Brent became greatly depressed for a time. He just wanted to retreat from the world. He began to experience black outs with vague recollections of events that occurred while he was out. At his uncle’s insistence, Brent began to see a psychiatrist and was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder. As he began to work with his psychiatrist, they coaxed his other personality out, a man named Angel. The two began to bond, leaving each others notes in a journal to communicate as they worked with their psychiatrist to practice switching and communicating.

Brent decided following the tragedy involving his parents that he would pursue a career in the medical path. While he still practiced magic on the side, he was determined to help those in need to prevent further tragedies for those that did not have to experience them. Angel remained supportive as ever, pursuing more creative arts, learning calligraphy and cooking, serving at soup kitchens and other areas. The two became quite the dynamic duo in the Avalon Apostles and joined the new task force as soon as they could.
Starting Pokemon: (Anything except legendaries.) Zoroark (Chavdar) and Audino (Koyla)

Brent met Koyla in Sendrel. It was one of his days off and he was watching a show in the market when a rift tore open. What stepped through was a large green turtle-like beast that shook the ground with each step. It seemed to want to cause no harm until the guards started to attack it. The pokemon, startled, began to fight back, injuring many civilians in the process. Still a student at the time, Brent’s medical instincts kicked in as he began to treat as many people as he could, putting his schooling to use. As he worked, he noticed another creature tending to the wounded as well. At first he thought the pokemon was trying to finish them off, only to realize she was healing them instead. She seemed frightened of Brent when he approached, but when she saw that Brent was trying to help the civilians as she was, Koyla became trusting of Brent. Since then they have stuck together, having been partners for about three years now. She wears her mega stone as an earring but currently she and Brent have not been able to successfully mega evolve.

Chavdar, however, is a much different story. A recent acquisition to the team, Chavdar was known for causing trouble in Zenbar. Angel heard about the legendary “beast of illusions” and wanted to find this pokemon for himself. He set out to Zenbar and it wasn’t long before he started to see the effects that Chavdar was having on the town. It took weeks for Angel and Brent to track down Chavdar’s nest. The pokemon was extremely wary of them and unlike Koyla, he showed no signs of trusting Brent or Angel. After several visits to his nest, Chavdar eventually attacked the group, causing Koyla to lash out in protection and knock the blue ball out of Chavdar’s mane. In a scramble, Angel grabbed onto it and immediately they noticed a change in Chavdar’s demeanor. He appeared docile and loyal, or at least obedient. Chavdar was brought back to Sendrel for further observation and training. As far as they can tell at the moment, the blue orb is precious to Chavdar and his only motivation for not backstabbing the team yet. For now, it is in Angel’s possession, but he intends to return it after he has bonded a bit more with Chavdar.
Other: They have a journal that they carry that has doodles and notes and such. It looks like an insanity journal but really it’s the best method for the boys to communicate.

[Shruikan]

Here we go!

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

[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.

[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.