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

[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!

[Shruikan]

Name: Camellia Estrada

Name: Eddie Shadolurk

Name: Leo Star

Name: Ezekiel Star (Zeke)

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

[K'sariya]

Finished mine, link here for convenience. @Shruikan !

[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

[Morzone]

@Bulbasaur I mean, compared to other beginner RP'ers I've seen, you're doing pretty good.

It may be a good idea to read through other people's posts carefully for details of the area you're heading into with your characters.

For instance, in Shruikan's first RP post, their character got a message detailing destruction sited at the wormhole by Erana, implying people were already nearby or at the wormhole itself.

In my post, I revealed that one of the Team Claw branches had released a rampaging mamoswine to forcibly keep people away from the wormhole (something I based from the "large pokemon uprooting trees" that Shruikan heard about) while a poaching team captured rotoms that were reportedly coming through it.

In your latest post you implied your characters had made it there before anyone else and successfully captured an unknown (but clearly not rotom in nature based on its description coming through the wormhole) pokemon successfully. To be fair, it's not like that situation is implausible. You could, after all, have actually gotten there before anyone else and captured a pokemon even before Claw released the mamoswine. In which case there wouldn't be any conflict as to the true situation. But because the post came after other people's posts detailing the situation, it creates some confusion as to what's actually going on. Plus, your last post stated your character was in Trinox, which is in a whole different country, making getting to the wormhole in Erana first rather difficult, especially as there is no portal travel in Aluna and other organizations (which may have been stationed closer like Claw's West Branch) probably heard the news of the wormhole roughly the same time it would have gotten to you.

I probably shouldn't critique you though and leave that to Shruikan, as they are the judge after all. You're always welcome to shoot me a PM or VM if you have any questions though!

[Bulbasaur]

@Bulbasaur I mean, compared to other beginner RP'ers I've seen, you're doing pretty good.

It may be a good idea to read through other people's posts carefully for details of the area you're heading into with your characters.

For instance, in Shruikan's first RP post, their character got a message detailing destruction sited at the wormhole by Erana, implying people were already nearby or at the wormhole itself.

In my post, I revealed that one of the Team Claw branches had released a rampaging mamoswine to forcibly keep people away from the wormhole (something I based from the "large pokemon uprooting trees" that Shruikan heard about) while a poaching team captured rotoms that were reportedly coming through it.

In your latest post you implied your characters had made it there before anyone else and successfully captured an unknown (but clearly not rotom in nature based on its description coming through the wormhole) pokemon successfully. To be fair, it's not like that situation is implausible. You could, after all, have actually gotten there before anyone else and captured a pokemon even before Claw released the mamoswine. In which case there wouldn't be any conflict as to the true situation. But because the post came after other people's posts detailing the situation, it creates some confusion as to what's actually going on. Plus, your last post stated your character was in Trinox, which is in a whole different country, making getting to the wormhole in Erana first rather difficult, especially as there is no portal travel in Aluna and other organizations (which may have been stationed closer like Claw's West Branch) probably heard the news of the wormhole roughly the same time it would have gotten to you.

I probably shouldn't critique you though and leave that to Shruikan, as they are the judge after all. You're always welcome to shoot me a PM or VM if you have any questions though!

Thanks for the tips! No worries. :] I wasn't sure how far the locations were. So I wasn't really sure how to describe the trip.

[K'sariya]

Totally no rush, just letting people know that I'll probably wait til @Shruikan makes another reply to clarify what exactly has happened before replying again. Not sure what idea they had for how this big creature situation unfolds, so just going to let them decide what happens. (:

Also, question--what's the easiest way for you for us to gradually obtain Pokemon? I'd love some grass or poison types slowly trickle into Camellia's partnership (at a reasonable, spaced-out pace, in reasonable situations, etc. I love my Venu and don't urgently need to expand the team or be OP), but I didn't know if you wanted us to let you know what we want and then you decide when to give them to us, or something else. Whatever is easiest for you and what you have in mind!

[Noblejanobii]

Totally no rush, just letting people know that I'll probably wait til @Shruikan makes another reply to clarify what exactly has happened before replying again. Not sure what idea they had for how this big creature situation unfolds, so just going to let them decide what happens. (:

Also, question--what's the easiest way for you for us to gradually obtain Pokemon? I'd love some grass or poison types slowly trickle into Camellia's partnership (at a reasonable, spaced-out pace, in reasonable situations, etc. I love my Venu and don't urgently need to expand the team or be OP), but I didn't know if you wanted us to let you know what we want and then you decide when to give them to us, or something else. Whatever is easiest for you and what you have in mind!

Echoing this. Until either Shurikan or Vello reply, or someone directly interacts with me, I probably won't reply just so the situation can be a bit more established.

And yeah I'm curious about this too. Angel and Brent probably won't get anymore team members anytime soon given they already have two pokémon, but in case the situation arises.

[VeloJello]

Echoing this. Until either Shurikan or Vello reply, or someone directly interacts with me, I probably won't reply just so the situation can be a bit more established.

And yeah I'm curious about this too. Angel and Brent probably won't get anymore team members anytime soon given they already have two pokémon, but in case the situation arises.

Thirded. I’m waiting on Shruikan to establish what’s actually happened.