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Shattered Reflections - A Pokemon RP (OPEN FOR APPLICATION)

@VidyaParamia, can you please finish physical description.

Shattered Reflections - A Pokemon RP (OPEN FOR APPLICATION)

[Drops her Character Sheet on the table and walks away slowly.] That moment you had an idea fleshed out, then get distracted from something so you're left to bullshit from the fragments of your idea.
Ah I forgot to do Appearance. Other than that, can you check it to make sure it's doable @The Bork Lazer?[huffs]

@VidyaParamia

Yes, it is satisfactory. Thanks for premptively doing some world-building for me for how the exam works as well.

Everyone else who is looking to make a character, look towards VidyaParaima's Example of how to do an Academic/Exam Proctor Report.

However, this isn't Gaia Online and I am allowing you some Liberty with what you want to do with your character sheet.

Shattered Reflections - A Pokemon RP (OPEN FOR APPLICATION)

Legal Name: Willis Robert Ashton

Image of Reference

P.K.M.N Trainer Identity: Slate

Age: 21

Current Rank: Novice

Physical Description: Individual is above average for a male of his height and has well-defined muscle-mass, most likely derived from a process of extreme conditioning required for the Ranger Corps and prolonged outdoor activity. Hair is kept a strict clean cut, black in color and somewhat greying on the fringes. Due to rare genetic condition, both irises are of different color. Right iris is a grey while the left is a hazel brown. Large ink tattoo of the Latin Phrase, Ad Honorem, is inscribed on the back of the individual. Individual appears to have a propensity towards winter clothing, despite the temperate climate of Kanto.

Medical History: Individual suffers from heterochromia iridium, a rare genetic condition. Blood Type is O+. No present allergies detected. Blood cholesterol and glucose levels are at normal levels. No present addictions to smoking, alcohol or any recreational substances nor any present bodily signs that the individual is doing so. Vision is 25/20. Height is at 5'10/180 centimeters. Weight is at 175 pounds/79 kilograms. Individual has only one disability in the form of a missing left forearm, amputated at the elbow. Prosthetic limb installment is viable, although individual has not responded on the course of amputation rehabilitation yet.

Medical History Record

Age: 7 years old, 9 months - "Individual exhibits signs of severe winter flu, with all present symptoms observed. Prognosis is long periods of rest for flu cycle to decay over a period of time."

Age: 15 years old, 5 months - " Laceration on right knee from Sandslash ambush. Luckily, the patient's knee has not been dislocated or injured severely to the point of dismemberment of the right calf. Long bed rest along with standard medical procedure for open wound treatment is advised.

Age: 17 years old, 4 months - " Underside rib-cage fracture from scuffle with mature male Primeape in the Viridian Forest. No signs of organ injury from dislocated or fractured ribs. Patient in extreme pain and duress. High amounts of anesthetics are required along with bed rest to cure injury.

Age: 20 years old, 11 months - " Individual in critical condition.Large amount of torso, forearm and leg contusions along with severe scratch wounds on back from Ursaring mauling. Amputation for right forearm required after being trapped under log for several hours. Currently unconscious but still medically alive. Unknown whether or not patient will survive...."

History: The Ashton family has had a long history of serving Kanto patriotically, first and foremost. His father? A decorated Blackhat Ranger Major. His grandfather? A Kantonese Navy Sailor. His grandmother? A military nurse. His uncle? A now imprisoned, former director of A.C.E. Perhaps, the last on the list isn't a perfect example of a role-model to uphold but it doesn't matter.

A future military career was in Willis's blood and he couldn't resist the temptation.

Willis Robert Ashton was born in Pallet Town to Robert Ashton, whose accolades as a impressive private investigator in Interpol and a Blackhat Major earned him a retirement in the cozy valley country town, and Marissa Mason, a Pecha Berry Farmer. His father, tired with the long life of conflict and shedding his blood for Kanto's needs, wanted a safe, humble life in Pallet Town, despite the fact it was a downgrade from his former position of a Blackhat Ranger. A fresh start with a new pallet of paint for his painting. Safety and sanctity was all that mattered to Robert and if anyone came to ruin that, there would be a price to pay.

Unfortunately, it was his son who wanted to pay the price.

Willis was a hot-blooded, arrogant ruffian at his age, pumped full of aggression and a sense of justice like his old man. He attended the Pallet 2nd Precinct Public School from first grade to high-school where teachers often reported him for excessive acts of vigilantism against bullies and 'sociopathic violent behavior'. Robert was at his wits end. He didn't know how to communicate with his son nor did he know how to interact with him. He was ashamed to be the boy's father. Eventually, after a long argument with his wife, Robert decided that maybe he couldn't interact with him as Robert Ashton, the countryside berry farmer but his former identity, the Ratel, the psuedonym associated with his former lifestyle as a Blackhat Ranger could.

In order to curb Willis's pent up aggression and re-purpose it towards a more useful purpose, Robert took his son out to weekly excursions in the Viridian Forest and acted as an impromptu drill sergeant, training him in numerous Blackhat skills such as cartography, hunting, strategic pokemon-battling, cooking, rope-tying and hand to hand combat in hopes that he could restrain Willis's blood-thirsty nature. It did. For a while. Until Willis revealed his ambitions of becoming a Ranger. Just like his Dad. Without his permission.

Needless to say, Daddy wasn't happy with his son's future life prospects. He knew that one day, Willis was going to retire from a Ranger. Either with a bang or with a whimper. The problem was how the experience of retirement was going to be. All that Robert felt he could do morally was to support his son on his decision and hope that he wouldn't fall far from grace.

Willis rose to the non-commissioned rank of Corporal during his tenure in the Ranger Corps, specializing in the role of an Infantry Reconnaissance Unit. Willis made himself known as 'The Badger', a lesser mirror image of his father's nickname in the Corps, 'The Ratel'. While he was respected in the Corps as a able Ranger who knew the importance of what was at stake, veterans would mercilessly tease him about being related to one of the greatest Rangers in the Ranger Corps and how he would live up to his dad's legacy.

Willis decided to ante up. Anger and stress can do strange things to one mind. Make them unpredictable. Irrational.

He went to the Colonel's office and applied for SO training, commonly known as Special Operations Training. One of the most gung-ho and dangerous training programs within the Ranger Corps that promised to make recruits able to take down an Nidoking with a knife and a beret only in hand to hand combat and make them virtually indestructible.

Too bad that it had a 75% fatality rate at the most.

The details are sketchy but at the end of the program, let's just say Willis survived. But he didn't succeed. While his old man retired from the corps due to psychological trauma, Willis retired from the Corps at the ripe young age of 20 due to physiological trauma. His entire body was like a rag-doll, mauled and nearly torn to shreds by a Ursaring. His left arm was missing and once more, he just wasn't the same anymore.

The Corps couldn't use a body like that. And so, they tossed his body out into the gutter, with a cardboard box of all his belongings and a muddy beret. The experience had completely curbed Willis's desire for violence and his previous fire had now simmered into a smoking wick. Doused. At its end. He was lost. Lame. He walked back home to Pallet with a heavy head, wondering what to tell to his old man. He couldn't bear facing his dad like this. What would he tell him?

That the Ranger Corps had no future for him. But, maybe, the Pokemon League had a future for him and his broken body. Without the knowledge of his dad, Willis signed up for the P.T.A.E and the 1050th Seasonal Indigo Pokemon League, believing that it's his only chance to derive some sense of redemption for his fall of grace. While he doesn't want to admit it and doesn't believe it to be true, Willis subconciously believes that becoming a League Finalist is the only way of making his old man proud of him and measuring him to his achievements.

Because, once you've caught them all...., nothing can catch you off your guard. Ever again.

Exam Proctor Report:
Applicant 117464, Willis Robert Ashton, displays an unfound vast in mental fortitude during the practical aspects of the exam. During mock battles and simulated wild pokemon encounters, he was one of the few rare candidates who never lost his composure, almost to the point of being emotionally insensate, and exhibits a strategic mindset when battling. Despite the lack of compassion and worry towards his starter mon, it is this proctor's report that this applicant has the most potential for succeeding in League-sanctioned unrestricted format matches. Due to his Ranger Corps Background, this applicant has one of the highest scores in the P.T.A.E by far, above average in all skill categories essential for a Trainer to survive in the League, especially Wilderness Survival and Species Recognition.

However, it is prominent in the Practical Section of the Examinations that this applicant obstinance when it comes to his physical abilities may be his future downfall. While he is not physically hampered by his past injuries to the point of being physically inferior to a majority of candidates, it is obvious that he is not living up to the supposed regimented physical routines that Rangers are touted for. He is unable to run for more than a mile without breaking out of breath and risks injuring himself if he pushes himself beyond his standard physical abilities.

P.T.A.E Score: 94%

Species Recognition: 99%
League Code: 95%
Wilderness Survival: 96%
Situation Recognition: 82%

Practical Report
Physical Aptitude: 5 out of 10
Measure of Agility: 5 out of 10
Mental Fortitude: 10 out of 10

Confirmation of Starter Mon: Thrush - Oddish. Height: 2 feet. Weight: 30 pounds. Origin: Home-Bred. Gender: Male Status of Evolution: Near-evolution.

Pokemon Bio: Thrush is a G.I warmon produced by Waterloo Facilities as a means of serving a Ranger on a field. His enhanced physiological capabilities and the amount of unorthodox ways that an Oddish can be used to survive in the wild means that Thrush is above the average norm for his species as a whole.

Thrush is subservient and loyal to Willis, willing to sacrifice and die for his commander, and has no noticable personality traits due to being a Chloroplism.

Shattered Reflections - A Pokemon RP (OPEN FOR APPLICATION)

I have a few questions about the Character Sheet @The Bork Lazer.

1. Is "P.K.M.N Trainer Identity" basically like a nickname?

2. For the Exam Report, will you be giving us our test results or how do you want us to go about that?

@VidyaParamia

1. Yes, P.K.M.N Trainer Identity is a nickname. It's my headcanon that Blue is actually a nickname for Gary Oak and every game protagonist who has a color for a name is actually their nickname.

2. You will go about how you did in the exam. That's your choice and it will reflect your characters skills and persona.

Oh, by the way, heads up.

@Kymera@VidyaParamia@Innue@Dot80@Sisyphus

I'm going on a trip to Korea from July 4th to July 9th. That means I will be away for a week's time.

Shattered Reflections - A Pokemon RP (OPEN FOR APPLICATION)

@VidyaParamia

If you are still interested, please come to this thread and post your character sheet into here.

Shattered Reflections - A Pokemon RP (OPEN FOR APPLICATION)

Sweet! Is there room for me here?

@Kymera

Yup. In fact, there's no one confirmed to join yet except you and me and one more person.

Just read the following setting information and make your character sheet.

Keep in mind I'm adding more and more information about the setting. Just let me know if you want any specifications about your character sheet and so forth.

Shattered Reflections - A Pokemon RP (OPEN FOR APPLICATION)

So, you want to become a trainer? Hmph. Seems like every housewife needs a trainer for a husband these days. Don't worry. I won't make myself sound more geriatric than I already am by being wistfully nostalgic about the past. Anyway, there are plenty of reasons for choosing a career like that when you're a hormone-addled, adolescent, mid-puberty teenager. Want me to list all of them out?

Very well, then. If you think that I'm being patronizing, don't. I'm just an old man making an inquiry about your future career choices. Obviously, you're not taking the examination to become a coordinator, ranger, militia man or a researcher, am I right?

I thought so. So, let's begin.

Is it the fame? Everyone wants the fame in life, from the rich to the poor. Recognition in the media. Signing autographs. Movies. Controversy. Gossip. There's a baggage for everything. Everyone's a sucker for becoming famous. Reknown throughout the world as the trainer who 'caught 'em all'. The problem is that you're competing with a thousand others to reach the spotlight.

So, that's a no from you. Alright.

Is it for economic purposes? Debt. Loans. Getting rid of taxes. Family in poverty. The League is a avenue for anyone with no valuable economical skills to earn some cash. There's another reason why Lance is known as the 'Dragon King'. Not because of his extreme prowess in the art of battling but because he sits on a large horde of steaming, hot money. Of course, you're looking to settle for less. You don't want to expend yourself too much. Of course, the problem is that you have to cough up money if you lose.

So, another no. Alright, let's up the ante a bit.

Peer pressure? No. Parental control?Adrenaline-junkie? No. Altering the geopolitics of the entire Kanto Region? No. Becoming Champion? No.

Then, what is it that you want?

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Purpose?

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Well, thank you for humoring me. I have enough time dealing with children today, especially as the Pokemon Professor. Go back to your home and rest. The examination is tomorrow. I'm sure you've studied well for it, given that you wanted to meet with me during my tea time.

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I wanna be
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Shattered Reflections

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I will travel across the land
Searching far and wide
These pokemon to understand, the power that's inside

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Foreword

Now, I know what you're thinking right now. Why make Pokemon grim-dark, gritty and realistic? Am I trying to create some sort of depraved, twisted parody of a beloved children franchise? Is this my teenage edgy genes influencing me to create this thread? Am I some sort of sick bastard who gets off having hyperbolic descriptions of children getting eaten alive by ravenous hungry creatures? Am I just doing this to satisfy my kinks and jerk off on murder porn?

The answer to all of the above is...perhaps. I wouldn't be honest with myself if I said this wasn't a desire of mine and I wouldn't be honest either if I said if all of the above was wrong and I was doing it to create a genuine roleplay setting. The words, realism and pokemon, shouldn't look like they exist together but yet, there's so many indicators in the games, the manga and anime I can list off that are viable for this sort of thing. The manga, especially. The Pokemon Tower. The use of guns in the original anime. Ash getting nearly chomped apart by pokemon in the beginning episode. A ten year old facing off against what is essentially a glorified mafia organisation.
The whole concept of Pokemon is fucked up as it gets as well if you just put a little bit of thought into it.

So, why combine realism with Pokemon? To make it compelling. To make it seem as if the concept of glorified cock-fighting could exist in real-life. To try and create scientific explanations for how fire-breathing dragons exist or how mouses contain enough electricity to fry a person. Most of all, to have fun. That's the point of role-playing, isn't it? The purity of escapism at its finest?

Once again, I've tried putting this idea to the grindstone of forum role-playing as long as I have remembered. There were some successes.
Some failures. A little bit of both in between. Yet, it never satisfied me enough. I suppose that's a symptom of role-playing. Not settling for lesser and wanting more. Little bit of improvements to the setting and how it functioned. Better role-playing. Believable character interaction. Detailed prose. Realistic Pokemon is a concept that I owe my debt to as a role-player as it was my first forum roleplay and the catalyst for my growth as a whole through the year.

So, information about the roleplay. I doubt I have to repeat the basics of the setting and the history of the series of a whole since Pokemon has essentially been a worldwide cultural phenomenon that even a man living under a rock would have heard whispers about. First of all, you don't need to have any knowledge of pre-existing canon, games, manga or anime to help you here. Shattered Reflections is meant to be an AU of Pokemon that everyone can get behind, no matter their background knowledge of the series. It can even be as basic as 'Is that yellow mouse named Charizard?'.

The concept of the RP is basically a focus on a small group of beginner trainers embarking on their first trainer journey in the region of Kanto, creating a group to help each other and to avoid the common pit-falls of the average trainer who ventures on their own to the Indigo Plateau. The RP will be a mixture of periodic high-intense pokemon combat, wandering around and interacting in the various locales of the Kanto Region and exploring them and intervening in criminal organisations in Kanto. Each trainer will start off with one starter pokemon. Starter pokemon qualify as pokemon that are in their first evolution stage and are reasonable for a beginning trainer to have. If you want to have a OP starter pokemon, you must have a good enough backstory to justify it. Why Kanto and not Aiola or some original fan-made region? Kanto reeks of nostalgia for me and there's a familiar feel to it unlike the other regions. You will be allowed to play female and male roles and no, I don't care which of the 40,000 LGBT tumblr terms for your sexuality you use.

The mechanics of the RP will mainly be linear-based with a side of sand-boxing in general. I am the GM of the RP and therefore, I am Arceus. That means, I control all wild pokemon encounters, almost every other NPC in the world, all enviromental, political and social factors along with the general functionality of the world as a whole. How will I decide encounters and how the world works? Well, with my brains and wit, I'm sure I can make a roleplay that doesn't seem to be rail-roaded and close-ended. Right?

Battling will work by the level of description in your roleplay post and the strategem you use against another trainer's pokemon along with a hefty dose of realism. For example, there is no way that a Ratata can beat an Onix without some serious anime logic and some suspension of disbelief. There will be no dice involved and so forth.

Each town or location such as the Pokemon Tower, Cinnabar Island and Pewter City will act as miniature sandboxes. Routes will act as more rail-road sandboxes. In each sandbox, players are able to capture pokemon, train pokemon, look around for wares in the Poke-Marts, explore the surrounding area or do anything they want to do.

Oh, and you know moves? TMs? HMs? Move tutors? Poof. Nope. Not in this RP. No HMs, TMs or moves in this RP. There will be no silly shit like Pikachu's using Earthquakes and so forth. This is usually the part where most people close this window and say ' What the fuck, The Bork Lazer? How am I supposed to viably battle now? This takes away all the excitement of battling'. Well, you see, my good role-payer, I'm technically allowing you more freedom in your ability to describe battles by stripping away the excess. Each Pokemon will be limited to their own natural abilities in this universe like most animals are. Water-types will still be able to fire bursts of water at their targets. Fire-types can still breathe fire. And so forth.

Likewise, feel free to consult me on a Pokemon's abilities and what they can do if you're curious.

In terms of the setting, I will be limiting details of the setting unlike my other role-plays and they will be slowly revealed through GM posts and role-play. Essential information about the setting of the RP will be down below.

So, are you ready to catch 'em all?

Setting Information(Updated Periodically)

Locations of Interest

Pallet Town

Pallet Town is a small fledgling valley town, most noted for its large amounts of craft shops in black-smithing, text-tiles and woodwork to stave off the hordes of wild pokemon that are constantly fended off by Ranger squads and being the sole premier location of the official Kanto Pokemon Professor's laboratory, Professor Oak. Pallet Town was formed out of a large government fund bargained from the Indigo Congressional Hearing between Professor Oak and the Indigo lobby after recent controversy surrounding the rise of the Arceus Cult to Indigo Parliament. The town brags wide sloping hills and large tracts of prairie land. Efforts have been made by companies to start agricultural within the grasslands but have been so far hindered by the large amount of wild Ratata and other forest-dwelling pokemon that roam the tall grass. A cherished past tradition in Pallet is the graduation ceremony for all beginning trainers.
All trainers must venture to Victory Falls, located in the fields of Route 1, and float a paper boat down the river with their challenges and wishes written upon it for good luck in their journey. Besides Lavender Town, Pallet Town is one of the only two cities in Kanto to completely lack a Gym.

Viridian City

Viridian City is a bordering city to the west of Pallet Town, connected by Route 1. It is named after the green deciduous forests which surround the city walls and grow at the city gate. Viridian City is a famous tourism hub, having the large density of tourists anywhere in Kanto and is famous for the legendary Tojho Falls, a cherished trainer tradition where large masses of trainers throw their pokeballs into the air before the mid-day gate opens to Viridian Forest. Giovanni Delimontio, businessman of Delimontio Incorporated and former Grand Champion, operates the Viridian City Gym, notable for his long periods of absence and only accepting Championship-Level battles.

Pewter City

Pewter City is one of the oldest and grandest cities in Kanto, protected from wild pokemon by a large man-made carved walled border of igneous and sedimentary rock with boulders sewn between. It is located and hemmed in by Mt Moon, the Viridian Forest and Mt Sliver. Archaeologists dictate that over the entire indigenous population of Kanto can trace their heritage from a Pewter City resident or ancestor. Pewter City initially originated as the tribal lands of the Aissatou Clan, a vicious but honorable band of tribals that inhabited the mountain valleys. Historical records indicate that due to the result of a trade agreement between Virdian City and the Aissotou Clan for the ore of Mt-Moon, enough investment was created for the city of Pewter to be created. Pewter City is mainly a miner's town, with not much tourist activity in between. Any attempts to expand or industralize the city were stopped short by the Indigo Parliamentary Lobby who consider the Aissatou Clan a 'undeniable treasure of Kanto.' Notable landmarks include the Pewter City Gym where the Aissotou Clan maintains a stronghold over and the Pewter Museum of Science.

Cerulean City

Cerulean City is the sea-side pearl of the Kanto Region. Originally an old port town and fishing village, Cerulean City was a hot-spot for immigration from other regions such as Hoenn, Sinnoh, Kalos and Alola. Relationships between the various ethnic groups in Cerulean boiled over into a civil war that almost threatened to destroy the sea-side region. The Cerulean government stepped downwards and the Cerulean Ports were closed to any international immigrants or migrants looking for a rest in the sunny port-side city. For this, the marbled architecture in Cerulean is varied, being a mixture of Unovan, Sinnohan and Kalosian architecture along with various other business ventures normally found in those regions being located in Cerulean. Cerulean is mainly known for its seafood and shipping industry along with being a tourist hotspot with areas such as the Nugget Bridge being a national trainer-trap.

Vermillion City

Vermillion City is a military-infested regional area and it shows.There are monthly military parades all year around. Soldiers do mandatory patrols in and out of the city armed with lethal pokemon capable of shredding a city block and top of the line armaments. Large titanium steel concrete borders lined with auto-cannon turrets surround the city. Martial law is in effect. Regardless of whether you're a civilian or not, you will get a court-martial, even if you do the most insignificant of crimes. Most crimes end up with a summary execution. That said, Vermillion City is likely one of the most modern and lavish places to live in Kanto if you adhere to the rules and respect the military. Universal health-care. Top of the line education, public, free. No crime, whatsoever. No pollution whatsoever. The Military operates the Vermillion City Gym in which Lieutenant 'Jackie' Surge, The Hero of Kanto, serves as its leader.

Lavender Town

Lavender Town is the Mecca of all religious activities within Kanto. You can find a variety of old world religions still tucked away in a little corner such as Christianity, Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism along with new world pagan religions that worship the modern gods of Kanto such as the Moltres Cult, the Zapdos Cult, the Articuno Cult, the Mew Cult and so forth. A number of other legendary pokemon are worshiped within the borders of Lavender Town with murals being carved in the most inconspicious of locations and temples of worship dotting every block. Inside Lavender Town, you must adhere to the protocols and must follow all religious guidelines in respect of the religious community within the area. The famous tourist landmark within Lavender Town is the Pokemon Tower, a massive shrine dedicated to the burial of pokemon and trainer alike, thousands of pounds of ashes stored inside marble jars where trainers from all over the world go to honor their fallen pokemon and family.

Celadon City

Celadon City is a conurbation at its finest. Railways, sky-scrapers and the essence of modern civilization are in Celadon City as shoppers roam the streets, fulfilling their capitalistic needs with shops displaying their latest products. The rich and poor alike live in Celadon City, the rich living in the sky-rise with the most exquisite furnishings available while the poor live in the gutter, soaked in sewer water and alley waste alike. Celadon is considered the lesser cousin of Saffron City, focusing on decadence and hedonism rather than the progressive and intellectual nature of Saffron City. Celadon Gym is operated within the city centre, operated by Erika Vahallen with the Celadon Game Corner, a wide-ranging casino catering to the young to the most hardened of adults located nearby as well.

Fuchsia City

Fuschia is the city of thieves, liars, assassins, terrorists and shinobi. The Kurowasa Clan, a band of terrorist ninjas as old as the Aissotou Clan themselves, officially operate Fuschia City behind the veil of the legal Fuschia government, having infected and destroyed the entire influence of the Kantonese Government in Fuschia. The Kurowasa Clan are the main operating power within Fuschia and have wiped all other gangs from their territory, subsuming them or destroying them with their arsenal of deadly poisons and superhuman ninjas. The Kurowasa Clan mainly use guerilla terroristic techniques to bully other cities and the Indigo Parliament into giving into their political demands. With their careful meddling and almost devious planning, even though every soul in Kanto knows that the Kurowasa Clan is in someway responsible for it, the army of lawyers prevents any legal measure against them. Koga Kurowasa daughter, Janine Kurowasa, operates the Fuschia Gym while Koga Kurowasa is one of the Elite Four, granting him extreme amounts of political power to protect Fuschia.

Saffron City

Mountains of sky-scrapers dot its enviroment. Roof-top farms are the norm.Saffron City is the modern, crowning capital of the Kanto region. It is a haven for anyone who has scientific endeavors or dreams that they wish to achieve. It's the city where Professor Oak got his two PhDs in poke-biology and poke-technology. It's a city that operates entirely on self-sustainable electrcity from a combination of nuclear, solar, wind and electrical pokemon. There is no pollution at all. New innovations are made into the realm of science everyday. Mazes of sky-trains writh around the buildings and myraid of skyscrapers like snakes. Companies such as Silph Co and Devon Co have set up shop in Safron. Sabrina, the Gym Leader of Saffron Gym, is a famed human psychic and a article for scientific research.

Cinnabar Island

Cinnabar Island. Your one, hot-top tourist destination filled with spanking, hot island woman and volcanic activity to rival a Slugma. Off the southern coast of the Kanto Region, Cinnabar is a volcanic island built on top of a destructive tectonic plate boundary in which volcanic activity is apparent. High populations of fire pokemon migrate to the island yearly to enjoy the high heat exuded from the volcanic activity. Large amounts of greenery are present due to the nutrients and high concentration of minerals present within the volcanic soil. The famed Cinnabarean ore, buried within the depths of the volcanic rock, provides the island with a bounty of domestic produce as it is highly valued to make cinnabarean steel, a material used in construction of durable structures. Blaine Breitbarth, a former champion known as the Ignis King and a leading scientific professor, operates the Cinnabarean Gym.

Trainer 101

The P.T.A.E (Pokemon Trainer Aptitude Examination)

The P.T.A.E or Pokemon Trainer Aptitude Examination is a written entry test created by the Pokemon League required for a person to become an official pokemon trainer. The League is lax on the age requirements for the exam and allows any person of any age to take it. The P.T.A.E tests the individual on four key areas: Species Recognition, League Code, Wilderness Survival and Situation Recognition and is made up of two sections. A multiple choice section and a written section. The passing requirements are 85%.

The Youngster Phenomena

The 'Youngster' Phenomena is a controversial political issue within the world of the Pokemon League that has often brought up as a common arguing point by opposition lobbyists and anti-League groups as a proponent against pokemon training.

The Youngster Act was a policy created by the Pokemon League with the cooperation of the Indigo Provincial Government by former Grand Champion Dane Hurtley. The lack of trainers signing up to the Pokemon League along with the high amount of promising trainers and large amount of retiring ones had put the Indigo League in jeopardy of becoming bankrupt. Added to the fact that the Ranger Corps were complaining about the lack of captured pokemon on the routes and the increasing amount of city guard and Rangers retiring from duty meant that trainers were needed more than ever. One. To boost the popularity of the Pokemon League. Two. To increase protection among the routes.

The Youngster Act decreased the age restrictions of the League from 16 to 11 and would be limited to patrolled routes and had to report in once per day in pokemon centres. It was intended to be a short-term measure until they were old enough for a legal license or until they could apply for the Ranger Corps.

It was a dismal failure. The total casualties of these so called 'youngsters' were in the hundreds as bodies were found on patrolled routes and in forests. They'd died from a lack of discipline and simply, experience. The term 'pokemon aptitude' was a common phrase during those years. The Youngster Act did have a effect on the number of pokemon attacks on routes but with it came a heavy cost of psychotic trauma, pokemon abuse, pokemon-related crimes and drug use. Numerous cities outlawed the Youngster Act, Pallet Town primarily, while others such as Viridian allowed the Act to continue. A common tactic during this era was for children from cities that banned the act to travel to other cities to apply for their license where it was legal to do so.

The act has now been cancelled in favor of fully trained, trainer applicants.

Pokemon Ranking List

All mon species in the Kanto Pokemon Encyclopediac Index are rated in the Pokemon League with the star system to quantify their threat and danger levels. Keep in mind the star system does not fully evaluate the threat level of a pokemon as genetic modification, hereditary factors and training can effect the pokemon's physical traits.

Typically, one star is rated for a Ratata-level threat. Two stars are rated for a Beedrill Level Threat. Three stars are rated for a Nidoking Level Threat. Four stars are rated for a Rhyperior level threat. Five stars are usually rated for Gyarados-Level threats.

Usually, in the higher tiers of competition, trainers find themselves using pokemon species with higher amount of stars to solve the power disparity in their beginning teams.

However, there is a separate system for truly dangerous species. The F5 List is a abbreviation short for the Forbidden 5, a classification made by trainers to classify pokemon types that require additional training, caution, specialized methods and preparation to train. The 5 in the list refers to the number of 5 types that were originally included in the list which were Poison, Fairy, Ghost, Dark and Psychic. Anything on the F5 lsit is a potential threat to nearby settlements and is considered a veritable human hazard. Since then, most of these types have received superstition from most trainers who consider those types extremely dangerous to train. The list has since then expanded and reorganised to specify species of pokemon, rather than type, that warranted careful handling and training. A vast majority of Dragon Types have been now introduced into the list.

Your Wares

Poke-marts- Retail business stores that market all manner of Pokemon accessories that are not useful for battling such as Pokemon fitness accessories, health services, food, massages and so forth. Generally used by pokemon lovers, non-trainers and pokemon coordinators and avoided by the hardcore trainer population.

Trainer Marts - A retail establishment that deals in Survival Gear, Poke-balls, Pokemon Gear, foods and anything that might be useful to a trainer. Trainer Marts are often a hotspot for trainers to gather information about the surrounding area and gyms. Trainer Marts are usually the first stop for a trainer in any local settlement.

Trainer Ranking

Novice Rank: Denoted by a green rim around their Trainer's License, Novice rank Trainers are virtual beginners to the League competition. The vast majority of 'Challenger's Rights' are denied to Novice ranked Trainers due to their inexperience with League Codes and Species Clauses. Novice ranked Gym Battles limit both the challenger and the Gym Leader to a grand total of three mon, three substitutions, and the most extensive list of Species Regulations.

Intermediate Rank: The immediate Trainer rank following Novice, Intermediate Licenses are rimmed in blue. Intermediate rank comes in two stages:

Intermediate-One: Awarded to a Trainer who has earned two Gym Badges through League certified competition. Beyond being recognised for higher levels of competition, Intermediate-One Trainers are still denied the vast majority of 'Challenger's Rights' for the same reasons Novice Trainers are. Adjusted Species Regulations grant Intermediate ranked Trainers a higher tolerance for competitive mon species.

Intermediate-Two: Awarded to a Trainer who has earned three Gym Badges through League certified competition. The Intermediate-Two ranked Trainers secure the first set of 'Challenger's Rights' for displaying an understanding and adherence to the League Code Species Clauses. The roster of applicable mon species in Intermediate-Two competition is expanded, allowing for more powerful mon to be deployed in League certified competition.

One of the first 'Challenger's Rights' secured by Intermediate-Two ranked Trainers is additional Gym challenge options. Most notably, Intermediate-Two ranked Trainers can request Major ranked Gym challenges in order to further expand the roster of applicable mon-species to that of a Major ranked Gym challenge.

Major Rank: The immediate Trainer rank following Intermediate-Two, Major Licenses are rimmed in red. Awarded to a Trainer who has earned five Gym Badges through League certified competition. Full access to the 'Challenger's Rights' is granted to a Major ranked Trainer. The roster of applicable mon species in Major competition is dramatically expanded, allowing for most species of mon to be deployed in League certified competition. Major ranked Gym Battles limit both the challenger and the Gym Leader to a grand total of four mon, and three substitutions.

Premiership Rank: The immediate Trainer rank following Major, Premiership Licenses are rimmed in white. Awarded to a Trainer who has earned seven Gym Badges through League certified competition. All Species Restrictions are removed from Premiership competition. Premiership ranked Gym Battles limit both the challenger and the Gym Leader to a total of five mon, and four substitutions.

Championship Rank: The immediate Trainer rank following Premiership, Championship Licenses are rimmed in gold. Awarded to a Trainer who has earned eight Gym Badges through League certified competition.

Championship Trainers use only the strongest species of mon in League certified competition.

Most League Codes are unobserved in Championship ranked competition. The remaining League Codes can be removed altogether by declaring unrestricted format.

There are absolutely no League enforced limits in unrestricted Championship ranked competition. Only the strongest mon and cleverest Trainers can survive in sustained unrestricted Championship ranked competition.

Unrestricted format is generally declared as a formality, given that the fatality rate of Championship mon is considered excessively high.

Declaring unrestricted format effectively frees both participants from legal action being pursued by either party upon the death of a Championship mon.

Championship ranked matches remove all roster limitations from the participants, effectively allowing a grand total of six mon to be used in League certified competition, yet the three substitutions limit remains applicable.

League Finalist: The immediate Trainer rank following Championship, League Finalist Licenses are rimmed in platinum. Awarded to a Trainer who has earned eight Gym Badges through League certified competition, survived the Victory Road Trial, and who have successfully passed the qualifying round in the League Seasonal Finals.

The final restriction pertaining to the limit of substitutions is removed from the League Seasonal Finals, otherwise the same formula that is applied in the Championship ranked matches is also applied in the League Seasonal Final matches.

Unrestricted format in the League Seasonal Finals is enforced by League Code.

League Flame(s): A new five tiered-system of rank is added to a League Finalist's License upon defeating one member of the League's Elite Four. After a participant determined quota of Finalist matches have been won, a League Finalist can call one member of the Elite Four to a challenge. If the League Finalist proves victorious against their first Elite Four challenge, another bout of Finalist matches ensues, until a certain quota of remaining Finalists have been defeated. Upon completion of the second quota of Finalists, the quota victor can challenge another member of the Elite Four. The process repeats until the quota victor is defeated, or every member of the Elite Four has been bested by a quota victor. Upon securing their Fourth Flame, a quota victor can replace any member of Elite Four at their discretion, or challenge the League Champion for the Fifth Flame and the League Throne.

Gym Leader: Any League Finalist can apply to the League for the role of Gym Leader. The only stipulation for succession is that a Trainer must defeat a current Gym Leader in the post-finals of League Seasonal Finals, and they must utilize a team recognised by the League as a 'Type specialist team,' or what is more commonly known as a 'mono team'. A bare minimum of five Pokemon on a mono team must share the same species-Type index. The sixth mon, or 'the wildcard' can be of any species-Type, and is generally reserved for a species-Type that counters any and all weakness shared by the the mono team's declared specialty species-Type.

Upon defeating a previous Gym Leader, the new Gym Leader inherits their predecessor's Gym and station, though the Gym's species-Type specialization will reflect the declared species-Type utilized in the defeat of the previous Gym Leader. Due to the mono team requirement, few challenges are presented for Gym Leader succession. The 1050th Gym Congress of Indigo: Kanto Division is comprised of Brock Aissatou, Misty Willows, Lieutenant 'Jackie' Surge, Erika Valhallen, Janine Kurosawa, Sabrina Jahanshah, Blaine Breitbarth, and Giovanni Delimonto.

Elite Four: Quad-Flame former League Finalists who stand highest amongst all Trainers as the best of the best; save for the League Champion. Elite Four members commonly rotate or are replaced at the end of every League Seasonal Finals. Due to the constant Elite Four rotation, most long standing members wield mono teams in the event of succession. Once ousted from the Elite Four, any prior member can challenge a Gym Leader in the post-finals for a League recognised station, consequently justifying the frequency of mono teams utilized in the Elite Four. The 1,050th Elite Four of Indigo is comprised of Koga Kurosawa, Bruno Endfield, Karen Crawley, and Will Houden.

League Champion: The League Finalist who secured the quota victor rank four times, defeated the entirety of the Elite Four, crushed the opposing final quota victor, before challenging the League Champion-

-And then proved victorious against the most skilled and most powerful Trainer recognised by the League.

The Reigning Champion replaces the former Champion, who at that point, must wait for the next League Seasonal Finals to challenge and defeat the newly formed League in order to reclaim their title, or alternatively, challenge a Gym Leader in the post-finals to secure a station recognised by the League.

League Champions are rarely challenged by the Quad-Flame League Finalists, for the simple reason of that Fifth-Flame's connotation.

The Champion of Champions. The Alpha of Alphas. The King of Kings.

Only the most powerful and most intelligent Trainers can even hope to defeat the legendary League Champion.

The League Champion's reputation of prowess, the exhaustion and sacrifices experienced in the Quad-Flame's ascent, and the risk of losing everything thus far accrued, save for a decorated License; is all sufficient reason enough to ward off any challengers for the League Throne.

The Champions survived the very same League gauntlet that is imposed upon their challengers.

The Champions bested the Elite Four in due process through trial of combat.

...And the Reigning Champion defeated a former Champion at their prime to top it all off.

The League Champion is the highest rank achievable in the League, and its merits and privileges are countless.

Groups of Interest

A.C.E(Agency of Core Executives)

A.C.E was once originally known as the K.S.S, namely, the Kanto Secret Service. A clandestine, counter-intelligence agency that protected the Kanto Region against all manners of threats including terrorist attacks, cyber-attacks, wild-pokemon attacks along with the common criminality.Since then, A.C.E has expanded internationally, involving its affairs in regions outside Kantonese borders. It is a common worry among politicians whether A.C.E has grown too powerful for the Indigo Provincial Government to control and is becoming a independent shadow nation of its own or whether or not it still serves the best interests of Kanto.
A.C.E is the boogeyman of Kanto and its name is fear itself in the eyes of a normal citizen of Kanto. There are rarely few things that can avoid the wrath of A.C.E and you, trainer, are not one of them.

The Kanto Ranger Corps

The Kantonese Branch of the Ranger Corps is a para-military organisation formed by the Indigo Provincial Government dedicated to the preservation of Kanto populus and surrounding settlements in its borders from the threat of wild mon. The Kantonese Ranger Corps are responsible for the creation of the Route Walls, large boulder-wreathed constructs that protect the settlements from surrounding mon, exterminating infestations of pokemon, fighting back attacks of wild-mon, destroying the chance of a wild-hunt ever occuring again, re-routing the path of Snorlax packs and culling local pokemon populations. The Kantonese Ranger Corps receive wide-spread enmity from the general public, who view them as nothing more than 'barbarians' and that they 'violate multiple pokemon rights laws.' With this, the Kantonese Ranger Corps has received less funding from the Indigo Provincial Government and less recruits. Inevitably, the harrowing future for the Ranger Corps is that eventually, they'll be too weak to stop the tides of mon from overwhelming settlements.

Kantonese National Military

The Kantonese National Military is the official serving military of the Provincial Kanto Government and has been involved in numerous conflicts with other regions since the conception of Kanto itself. The last conflict that the Kantonese National Military has been involved in is the war with Johto known as the Argent Conflict, over the base of Mt Sliver itself. Since then, the Kantonese National Military has been receiving steady funding from the Provincial Kanto Government for the purpose of 'protecting our civil interests'. The Kantonese National Military are one of the most heavily armed forces in Kanto, with experimental technology at the tips of their fingers with a jingoistic horde of battle-trained soldiers ready to fight to the death. The Kantonese National Military does regular training exercises and troop exchange programs with the Ranger Corps.

Technology

Pokedex

The Pokemon Encyclopediac Device or the Pokedex is a handheld personal technology, the first prototypical design being conceptualized and created by Professor Oak himself. It is a revolutionary piece of technology that has multiple models and versions for both civilian and military purposes. The trainer model of the Pokedex mainly functions as a way of trainers to recognize and learn about the various indigenous pokemon species within their surrounding area. The Species Encyclopediac Index Software App serves two purposes. One, to act as a safety tool for any trainer who is unfamiliar with a species of pokemon and two, in accordance with a partnership with the International League and the International Poke-science Administration to monitor pokemon species as a whole. The Pokedex also acts as an official requirement for League-mandated battles outside of Gym Battles and the Seasonal Indigo League Finals, providing the means for monetary exchange between each trainer between each battle. Each trainer is legally supposed to possess a Poke-Dex and is mandated by the League itself, per Indigo Law. The trainer model of the Pokedex also possesses the immutable Trainer's Eyes application, an app which informs the trainer of any approaching trainers equipped with Pokedexes.

The Pokedex acts as an encyclopedia, a credit card, a modern mobile phone with multiple apps, a journal and a device that is essential for a trainer to participate in any League-mandated competition.

Pokeballs

Poke-balls are mass-energy stasis containment devices specifically designed to capture and contain inanimate and living objects. While the exact science of how to create a poke-ball is treasured by companies such as Silph Co and Devon Co to keep the exchange of illegal poke-balls low, they are easily mass-produced in vast quantities to sate the appetite of the League and trainers everywhere along with being able to manufacture specialized balls that are of a higher tier than the standard poke-ball. Poke-balls keep the organism or object in a state of inanimate suspension, keeping in their current state until they are let out of their ball.
The quality and design of the standard poke-ball has been improved over the millenea to make the life of a trainer more easy, from a capture radius that automatically returns the pokemon back to the ball if they flee, to improving the design of the laser to pass through most materials and increasing the durability.

Porygonic AI

Porygonic AI is the official term for a line of artifical intelligence known as Porygon. Porygons are corporeal, hard-light artificial intelligences that can break down and revert itself to programming code. Porygons are invaluable, being only distributed to high members of society and the Indigo Provincial Government for use along with numerous intelligence agencies. Each Porygon roughly costs over a million Idols to create. Some boot-leg hackers have tried their hands on improving Porygonic AI, creating what is known as Porygon-Z. Porygon-Z is the more powerful but unstable version of Porygon 1.0, prone to glitches and self-destructing.

The Porygon 2.0 is currently the most wanted item on the Kantonese government. The amount of models avaliable can be counted with two hands only. The Porygon 2.0 is a metaphysical tesseract-lattice quantum A.I, capable of hacking into any server on the net and having the highest processing power out of any super-computer in the Kantonese arsenal.

INDIGO PROVINCIAL P.K.M.N Trainer Registration Form

Legal Name: (The legal identity and name of your character.)

Image of Reference: (Put the image of your character here. Whether it's anime, realistic or a drawing, it doesn't matter)

P.K.M.N Trainer Identity:(Colors are most common in this universe but you can choose any psuedonym or name that you like.)

Current Rank: Novice

Gender: (What it says on the tin)

Age:(Basically what it says on the tin. Anyone from any age can be a trainer, although, there is a propensity towards 15-20 years old. Adults regularly sign up on pokemon training at an old age.)

Physical Description: (What your character looks like)

Medical History: (Blood Type, Height, Weight, Diseases, Injuries, etc)

History: (The past history of your character and their reasons for becoming a Pokemon Trainer. Where were they born?)

Academic/Exam Proctor Report: (Basically a testament of your character's skills and how well they did in the exam overall.This section is also for the personality traits of your character as well.)

Confirmation of Starter Pokemon:(What's your beginning starter pokemon? Keep in mind that the choice of mon doesn't matter but trainers have several options when they receive starter mon. If you want a foreign mon, it's either a family heirloom or passed down by generations. Either that or if you're a Kanto local, you get an indigenous mon from the region.)

Rules

1. Don't do the God-Mod

Self-explanatory enough but in case I have to go further, god-modding is where you make your character god and have no self-imposed limitations on their abilities. Please don't do god-modding. Being god sucks.

2. Detail and Length

It is detailed above in the tagging system that I want this RP to be advanced/casual. That being said, I am looking for people who lie in the advanced category. Casuals are welcome but if you can type more, it is welcoming. That said, one of my main adages in life is quality over quantity. But, when quality and quantity are the same, then, it's all the more better.

3. Need all the help I can

I am not the best roleplayer and I recognize that. If you have any criticism of the world-building I do above or if you want to help world-build my envision of a realistic Pokemon world, please do so. I will gladly accept any assistance whatsoever.

4. Posting Rate

I am expecting a posting rate of at least one post per week or so. If you can do at a higher rate, I will gladly accept. However, if you don't reply for at least one week, I will be expecting a explanation or else, you will be booted out of the RP. If you want to get out of the RP, please PM me about why you are deciding to leave it in the first place.

5.Which Person is the best? First, Second or Third?

I will mostly be expecting a mixture of first and third person for each post. I don't really have a restriction on tenses since it mostly limits the style of a post but I mostly expect third person.

6. The Most Important Rule

Have Fun!

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Shattered Reflections - An Pokemon RP (Repost)

This is....intriguing. I'll have to re-read it when I get on my computer but I like the twists you added to this. At first I thought it was just one of those cliché Fandoms. But nope. Meeee likeh.

@VidyaParamia

Thank you, ma'am. I am glad to not have offended your role-player sensibilities.

Shattered Reflections - An Pokemon RP (Repost)

Disclaimer: Reposting in Advanced Interest Checks, due to lack of traffic in General Interest Checks

So, you want to become a trainer? Hmph. Seems like every housewife needs a trainer for a husband these days. Don't worry. I won't make myself sound more geriatric than I already am by being wistfully nostalgic about the past. Anyway, there are plenty of reasons for choosing a career like that when you're a hormone-addled, adolescent, mid-puberty teenager. Want me to list all of them out?

Very well, then. If you think that I'm being patronizing, don't. I'm just an old man making an inquiry about your future career choices. Obviously, you're not taking the examination to become a coordinator, ranger, militia man or a researcher, am I right?

I thought so. So, let's begin.

Is it the fame? Everyone wants the fame in life, from the rich to the poor. Recognition in the media. Signing autographs. Movies. Controversy. Gossip. There's a baggage for everything. Everyone's a sucker for becoming famous. Reknown throughout the world as the trainer who 'caught 'em all'. The problem is that you're competing with a thousand others to reach the spotlight.

So, that's a no from you. Alright.

Is it for economic purposes? Debt. Loans. Getting rid of taxes. Family in poverty. The League is a avenue for anyone with no valuable economical skills to earn some cash. There's another reason why Lance is known as the 'Dragon King'. Not because of his extreme prowess in the art of battling but because he sits on a large horde of steaming, hot money. Of course, you're looking to settle for less. You don't want to expend yourself too much. Of course, the problem is that you have to cough up money if you lose.

So, another no. Alright, let's up the ante a bit.

Peer pressure? No. Parental control?Adrenaline-junkie? No. Altering the geopolitics of the entire Kanto Region? No. Becoming Champion? No.

Then, what is it that you want?

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Purpose?

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Well, thank you for humoring me. I have enough time dealing with children today, especially as the Pokemon Professor. Go back to your home and rest. The examination is tomorrow. I'm sure you've studied well for it, given that you wanted to meet with me during my tea time.

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Shattered Reflections

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Searching far and wide
These pokemon to understand, the power that's inside

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Foreword

Now, I know what you're thinking right now. Why make Pokemon grim-dark, gritty and realistic? Am I trying to create some sort of depraved, twisted parody of a beloved children franchise? Is this my teenage edgy genes influencing me to create this thread? Am I some sort of sick bastard who gets off having hyperbolic descriptions of children getting eaten alive by ravenous hungry creatures? Am I just doing this to satisfy my kinks and jerk off on murder porn?

The answer to all of the above is...perhaps. I wouldn't be honest with myself if I said this wasn't a desire of mine and I wouldn't be honest either if I said if all of the above was wrong and I was doing it to create a genuine roleplay setting. The words, realism and pokemon, shouldn't look like they exist together but yet, there's so many indicators in the games, the manga and anime I can list off that are viable for this sort of thing. The manga, especially. The Pokemon Tower. The use of guns in the original anime. Ash getting nearly chomped apart by pokemon in the beginning episode. A ten year old facing off against what is essentially a glorified mafia organisation.
The whole concept of Pokemon is fucked up as it gets as well if you just put a little bit of thought into it.

So, why combine realism with Pokemon? To make it compelling. To make it seem as if the concept of glorified cock-fighting could exist in real-life. To try and create scientific explanations for how fire-breathing dragons exist or how mouses contain enough electricity to fry a person. Most of all, to have fun. That's the point of role-playing, isn't it? The purity of escapism at its finest?

Once again, I've tried putting this idea to the grindstone of forum role-playing as long as I have remembered. There were some successes.
Some failures. A little bit of both in between. Yet, it never satisfied me enough. I suppose that's a symptom of role-playing. Not settling for lesser and wanting more. Little bit of improvements to the setting and how it functioned. Better role-playing. Believable character interaction. Detailed prose. Realistic Pokemon is a concept that I owe my debt to as a role-player as it was my first forum roleplay and the catalyst for my growth as a whole through the year.

So, information about the roleplay. I doubt I have to repeat the basics of the setting and the history of the series of a whole since Pokemon has essentially been a worldwide cultural phenomenon that even a man living under a rock would have heard whispers about. First of all, you don't need to have any knowledge of pre-existing canon, games, manga or anime to help you here. Shattered Reflections is meant to be an AU of Pokemon that everyone can get behind, no matter their background knowledge of the series. It can even be as basic as 'Is that yellow mouse named Charizard?'.

The concept of the RP is basically a focus on a small group of beginner trainers embarking on their first trainer journey in the region of Kanto, creating a group to help each other and to avoid the common pit-falls of the average trainer who ventures on their own to the Indigo Plateau. The RP will be a mixture of periodic high-intense pokemon combat, wandering around and interacting in the various locales of the Kanto Region and exploring them and intervening in criminal organisations in Kanto. Each trainer will start off with one starter pokemon. Starter pokemon qualify as pokemon that are in their first evolution stage and are reasonable for a beginning trainer to have. If you want to have a OP starter pokemon, you must have a good enough backstory to justify it. Why Kanto and not Aiola or some original fan-made region? Kanto reeks of nostalgia for me and there's a familiar feel to it unlike the other regions. You will be allowed to play female and male roles and no, I don't care which of the 40,000 LGBT tumblr terms for your sexuality you use.

The mechanics of the RP will mainly be linear-based with a side of sand-boxing in general. I am the GM of the RP and therefore, I am Arceus. That means, I control all wild pokemon encounters, almost every other NPC in the world, all enviromental, political and social factors along with the general functionality of the world as a whole. How will I decide encounters and how the world works? Well, with my brains and wit, I'm sure I can make a roleplay that doesn't seem to be rail-roaded and close-ended. Right?

Battling will work by the level of description in your roleplay post and the strategem you use against another trainer's pokemon along with a hefty dose of realism. For example, there is no way that a Ratata can beat an Onix without some serious anime logic and some suspension of disbelief. There will be no dice involved and so forth.

Each town or location such as the Pokemon Tower, Cinnabar Island and Pewter City will act as miniature sandboxes. Routes will act as more rail-road sandboxes. In each sandbox, players are able to capture pokemon, train pokemon, look around for wares in the Poke-Marts, explore the surrounding area or do anything they want to do.

Oh, and you know moves? TMs? HMs? Move tutors? Poof. Nope. Not in this RP. No HMs, TMs or moves in this RP. There will be no silly shit like Pikachu's using Earthquakes and so forth. This is usually the part where most people close this window and say ' What the fuck, The Bork Lazer? How am I supposed to viably battle now? This takes away all the excitement of battling'. Well, you see, my good role-payer, I'm technically allowing you more freedom in your ability to describe battles by stripping away the excess. Each Pokemon will be limited to their own natural abilities in this universe like most animals are. Water-types will still be able to fire bursts of water at their targets. Fire-types can still breathe fire. And so forth.

Likewise, feel free to consult me on a Pokemon's abilities and what they can do if you're curious.

In terms of the setting, I will be limiting details of the setting unlike my other role-plays and they will be slowly revealed through GM posts and role-play. Essential information about the setting of the RP will be down below.

So, are you ready to catch 'em all?

Setting Information(Updated Periodically)

Locations of Interest

Pallet Town

Pallet Town is a small fledgling valley town, most noted for its large amounts of craft shops in black-smithing, text-tiles and woodwork to stave off the hordes of wild pokemon that are constantly fended off by Ranger squads and being the sole premier location of the official Kanto Pokemon Professor's laboratory, Professor Oak. Pallet Town was formed out of a large government fund bargained from the Indigo Congressional Hearing between Professor Oak and the Indigo lobby after recent controversy surrounding the rise of the Arceus Cult to Indigo Parliament. The town brags wide sloping hills and large tracts of prairie land. Efforts have been made by companies to start agricultural within the grasslands but have been so far hindered by the large amount of wild Ratata and other forest-dwelling pokemon that roam the tall grass. A cherished past tradition in Pallet is the graduation ceremony for all beginning trainers.
All trainers must venture to Victory Falls, located in the fields of Route 1, and float a paper boat down the river with their challenges and wishes written upon it for good luck in their journey. Besides Lavender Town, Pallet Town is one of the only two cities in Kanto to completely lack a Gym.

Viridian City

Viridian City is a bordering city to the west of Pallet Town, connected by Route 1. It is named after the green deciduous forests which surround the city walls and grow at the city gate. Viridian City is a famous tourism hub, having the large density of tourists anywhere in Kanto and is famous for the legendary Tojho Falls, a cherished trainer tradition where large masses of trainers throw their pokeballs into the air before the mid-day gate opens to Viridian Forest. Giovanni Delimontio, businessman of Delimontio Incorporated and former Grand Champion, operates the Viridian City Gym, notable for his long periods of absence and only accepting Championship-Level battles.

Pewter City

Pewter City is one of the oldest and grandest cities in Kanto, protected from wild pokemon by a large man-made carved walled border of igneous and sedimentary rock with boulders sewn between. It is located and hemmed in by Mt Moon, the Viridian Forest and Mt Sliver. Archaeologists dictate that over the entire indigenous population of Kanto can trace their heritage from a Pewter City resident or ancestor. Pewter City initially originated as the tribal lands of the Aissatou Clan, a vicious but honorable band of tribals that inhabited the mountain valleys. Historical records indicate that due to the result of a trade agreement between Virdian City and the Aissotou Clan for the ore of Mt-Moon, enough investment was created for the city of Pewter to be created. Pewter City is mainly a miner's town, with not much tourist activity in between. Any attempts to expand or industralize the city were stopped short by the Indigo Parliamentary Lobby who consider the Aissatou Clan a 'undeniable treasure of Kanto.' Notable landmarks include the Pewter City Gym where the Aissotou Clan maintains a stronghold over and the Pewter Museum of Science.

Cerulean City

Cerulean City is the sea-side pearl of the Kanto Region. Originally an old port town and fishing village, Cerulean City was a hot-spot for immigration from other regions such as Hoenn, Sinnoh, Kalos and Alola. Relationships between the various ethnic groups in Cerulean boiled over into a civil war that almost threatened to destroy the sea-side region. The Cerulean government stepped downwards and the Cerulean Ports were closed to any international immigrants or migrants looking for a rest in the sunny port-side city. For this, the marbled architecture in Cerulean is varied, being a mixture of Unovan, Sinnohan and Kalosian architecture along with various other business ventures normally found in those regions being located in Cerulean. Cerulean is mainly known for its seafood and shipping industry along with being a tourist hotspot with areas such as the Nugget Bridge being a national trainer-trap.

Vermillion City

Vermillion City is a military-infested regional area and it shows.There are monthly military parades all year around. Soldiers do mandatory patrols in and out of the city armed with lethal pokemon capable of shredding a city block and top of the line armaments. Large titanium steel concrete borders lined with auto-cannon turrets surround the city. Martial law is in effect. Regardless of whether you're a civilian or not, you will get a court-martial, even if you do the most insignificant of crimes. Most crimes end up with a summary execution. That said, Vermillion City is likely one of the most modern and lavish places to live in Kanto if you adhere to the rules and respect the military. Universal health-care. Top of the line education, public, free. No crime, whatsoever. No pollution whatsoever. The Military operates the Vermillion City Gym in which Lieutenant 'Jackie' Surge, The Hero of Kanto, serves as its leader.

Lavender Town

Lavender Town is the Mecca of all religious activities within Kanto. You can find a variety of old world religions still tucked away in a little corner such as Christianity, Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism along with new world pagan religions that worship the modern gods of Kanto such as the Moltres Cult, the Zapdos Cult, the Articuno Cult, the Mew Cult and so forth. A number of other legendary pokemon are worshiped within the borders of Lavender Town with murals being carved in the most inconspicious of locations and temples of worship dotting every block. Inside Lavender Town, you must adhere to the protocols and must follow all religious guidelines in respect of the religious community within the area. The famous tourist landmark within Lavender Town is the Pokemon Tower, a massive shrine dedicated to the burial of pokemon and trainer alike, thousands of pounds of ashes stored inside marble jars where trainers from all over the world go to honor their fallen pokemon and family.

Celadon City

Celadon City is a conurbation at its finest. Railways, sky-scrapers and the essence of modern civilization are in Celadon City as shoppers roam the streets, fulfilling their capitalistic needs with shops displaying their latest products. The rich and poor alike live in Celadon City, the rich living in the sky-rise with the most exquisite furnishings available while the poor live in the gutter, soaked in sewer water and alley waste alike. Celadon is considered the lesser cousin of Saffron City, focusing on decadence and hedonism rather than the progressive and intellectual nature of Saffron City. Celadon Gym is operated within the city centre, operated by Erika Vahallen with the Celadon Game Corner, a wide-ranging casino catering to the young to the most hardened of adults located nearby as well.

Fuchsia City

Fuschia is the city of thieves, liars, assassins, terrorists and shinobi. The Kurowasa Clan, a band of terrorist ninjas as old as the Aissotou Clan themselves, officially operate Fuschia City behind the veil of the legal Fuschia government, having infected and destroyed the entire influence of the Kantonese Government in Fuschia. The Kurowasa Clan are the main operating power within Fuschia and have wiped all other gangs from their territory, subsuming them or destroying them with their arsenal of deadly poisons and superhuman ninjas. The Kurowasa Clan mainly use guerilla terroristic techniques to bully other cities and the Indigo Parliament into giving into their political demands. With their careful meddling and almost devious planning, even though every soul in Kanto knows that the Kurowasa Clan is in someway responsible for it, the army of lawyers prevents any legal measure against them. Koga Kurowasa daughter, Janine Kurowasa, operates the Fuschia Gym while Koga Kurowasa is one of the Elite Four, granting him extreme amounts of political power to protect Fuschia.

Saffron City

Mountains of sky-scrapers dot its enviroment. Roof-top farms are the norm.Saffron City is the modern, crowning capital of the Kanto region. It is a haven for anyone who has scientific endeavors or dreams that they wish to achieve. It's the city where Professor Oak got his two PhDs in poke-biology and poke-technology. It's a city that operates entirely on self-sustainable electrcity from a combination of nuclear, solar, wind and electrical pokemon. There is no pollution at all. New innovations are made into the realm of science everyday. Mazes of sky-trains writh around the buildings and myraid of skyscrapers like snakes. Companies such as Silph Co and Devon Co have set up shop in Safron. Sabrina, the Gym Leader of Saffron Gym, is a famed human psychic and a article for scientific research.

Cinnabar Island

Cinnabar Island. Your one, hot-top tourist destination filled with spanking, hot island woman and volcanic activity to rival a Slugma. Off the southern coast of the Kanto Region, Cinnabar is a volcanic island built on top of a destructive tectonic plate boundary in which volcanic activity is apparent. High populations of fire pokemon migrate to the island yearly to enjoy the high heat exuded from the volcanic activity. Large amounts of greenery are present due to the nutrients and high concentration of minerals present within the volcanic soil. The famed Cinnabarean ore, buried within the depths of the volcanic rock, provides the island with a bounty of domestic produce as it is highly valued to make cinnabarean steel, a material used in construction of durable structures. Blaine Breitbarth, a former champion known as the Ignis King and a leading scientific professor, operates the Cinnabarean Gym.

Trainer 101

The P.T.A.E (Pokemon Trainer Aptitude Examination)

The P.T.A.E or Pokemon Trainer Aptitude Examination is a written entry test created by the Pokemon League required for a person to become an official pokemon trainer. The League is lax on the age requirements for the exam and allows any person of any age to take it. The P.T.A.E tests the individual on four key areas: Species Recognition, League Code, Wilderness Survival and Situation Recognition and is made up of two sections. A multiple choice section and a written section. The passing requirements are 85%.

The Youngster Phenomena

The 'Youngster' Phenomena is a controversial political issue within the world of the Pokemon League that has often brought up as a common arguing point by opposition lobbyists and anti-League groups as a proponent against pokemon training.

The Youngster Act was a policy created by the Pokemon League with the cooperation of the Indigo Provincial Government by former Grand Champion Dane Hurtley. The lack of trainers signing up to the Pokemon League along with the high amount of promising trainers and large amount of retiring ones had put the Indigo League in jeopardy of becoming bankrupt. Added to the fact that the Ranger Corps were complaining about the lack of captured pokemon on the routes and the increasing amount of city guard and Rangers retiring from duty meant that trainers were needed more than ever. One. To boost the popularity of the Pokemon League. Two. To increase protection among the routes.

The Youngster Act decreased the age restrictions of the League from 16 to 11 and would be limited to patrolled routes and had to report in once per day in pokemon centres. It was intended to be a short-term measure until they were old enough for a legal license or until they could apply for the Ranger Corps.

It was a dismal failure. The total casualties of these so called 'youngsters' were in the hundreds as bodies were found on patrolled routes and in forests. They'd died from a lack of discipline and simply, experience. The term 'pokemon aptitude' was a common phrase during those years. The Youngster Act did have a effect on the number of pokemon attacks on routes but with it came a heavy cost of psychotic trauma, pokemon abuse, pokemon-related crimes and drug use. Numerous cities outlawed the Youngster Act, Pallet Town primarily, while others such as Viridian allowed the Act to continue. A common tactic during this era was for children from cities that banned the act to travel to other cities to apply for their license where it was legal to do so.

The act has now been cancelled in favor of fully trained, trainer applicants.

Your Wares

Poke-marts- Retail business stores that market all manner of Pokemon accessories that are not useful for battling such as Pokemon fitness accessories, health services, food, massages and so forth. Generally used by pokemon lovers, non-trainers and pokemon coordinators and avoided by the hardcore trainer population.

Trainer Marts - A retail establishment that deals in Survival Gear, Poke-balls, Pokemon Gear, foods and anything that might be useful to a trainer. Trainer Marts are often a hotspot for trainers to gather information about the surrounding area and gyms. Trainer Marts are usually the first stop for a trainer in any local settlement.

Trainer Ranking

Novice Rank: Denoted by a green rim around their Trainer's License, Novice rank Trainers are virtual beginners to the League competition. The vast majority of 'Challenger's Rights' are denied to Novice ranked Trainers due to their inexperience with League Codes and Species Clauses. Novice ranked Gym Battles limit both the challenger and the Gym Leader to a grand total of three mon, three substitutions, and the most extensive list of Species Regulations.

Intermediate Rank: The immediate Trainer rank following Novice, Intermediate Licenses are rimmed in blue. Intermediate rank comes in two stages:

Intermediate-One: Awarded to a Trainer who has earned two Gym Badges through League certified competition. Beyond being recognised for higher levels of competition, Intermediate-One Trainers are still denied the vast majority of 'Challenger's Rights' for the same reasons Novice Trainers are. Adjusted Species Regulations grant Intermediate ranked Trainers a higher tolerance for competitive mon species.

Intermediate-Two: Awarded to a Trainer who has earned three Gym Badges through League certified competition. The Intermediate-Two ranked Trainers secure the first set of 'Challenger's Rights' for displaying an understanding and adherence to the League Code Species Clauses. The roster of applicable mon species in Intermediate-Two competition is expanded, allowing for more powerful mon to be deployed in League certified competition.

One of the first 'Challenger's Rights' secured by Intermediate-Two ranked Trainers is additional Gym challenge options. Most notably, Intermediate-Two ranked Trainers can request Major ranked Gym challenges in order to further expand the roster of applicable mon-species to that of a Major ranked Gym challenge.

Major Rank: The immediate Trainer rank following Intermediate-Two, Major Licenses are rimmed in red. Awarded to a Trainer who has earned five Gym Badges through League certified competition. Full access to the 'Challenger's Rights' is granted to a Major ranked Trainer. The roster of applicable mon species in Major competition is dramatically expanded, allowing for most species of mon to be deployed in League certified competition. Major ranked Gym Battles limit both the challenger and the Gym Leader to a grand total of four mon, and three substitutions.

Premiership Rank: The immediate Trainer rank following Major, Premiership Licenses are rimmed in white. Awarded to a Trainer who has earned seven Gym Badges through League certified competition. All Species Restrictions are removed from Premiership competition. Premiership ranked Gym Battles limit both the challenger and the Gym Leader to a total of five mon, and four substitutions.

Championship Rank: The immediate Trainer rank following Premiership, Championship Licenses are rimmed in gold. Awarded to a Trainer who has earned eight Gym Badges through League certified competition.

Championship Trainers use only the strongest species of mon in League certified competition.

Most League Codes are unobserved in Championship ranked competition. The remaining League Codes can be removed altogether by declaring unrestricted format.

There are absolutely no League enforced limits in unrestricted Championship ranked competition. Only the strongest mon and cleverest Trainers can survive in sustained unrestricted Championship ranked competition.

Unrestricted format is generally declared as a formality, given that the fatality rate of Championship mon is considered excessively high.

Declaring unrestricted format effectively frees both participants from legal action being pursued by either party upon the death of a Championship mon.

Championship ranked matches remove all roster limitations from the participants, effectively allowing a grand total of six mon to be used in League certified competition, yet the three substitutions limit remains applicable.

League Finalist: The immediate Trainer rank following Championship, League Finalist Licenses are rimmed in platinum. Awarded to a Trainer who has earned eight Gym Badges through League certified competition, survived the Victory Road Trial, and who have successfully passed the qualifying round in the League Seasonal Finals.

The final restriction pertaining to the limit of substitutions is removed from the League Seasonal Finals, otherwise the same formula that is applied in the Championship ranked matches is also applied in the League Seasonal Final matches.

Unrestricted format in the League Seasonal Finals is enforced by League Code.

League Flame(s): A new five tiered-system of rank is added to a League Finalist's License upon defeating one member of the League's Elite Four. After a participant determined quota of Finalist matches have been won, a League Finalist can call one member of the Elite Four to a challenge. If the League Finalist proves victorious against their first Elite Four challenge, another bout of Finalist matches ensues, until a certain quota of remaining Finalists have been defeated. Upon completion of the second quota of Finalists, the quota victor can challenge another member of the Elite Four. The process repeats until the quota victor is defeated, or every member of the Elite Four has been bested by a quota victor. Upon securing their Fourth Flame, a quota victor can replace any member of Elite Four at their discretion, or challenge the League Champion for the Fifth Flame and the League Throne.

Gym Leader: Any League Finalist can apply to the League for the role of Gym Leader. The only stipulation for succession is that a Trainer must defeat a current Gym Leader in the post-finals of League Seasonal Finals, and they must utilize a team recognised by the League as a 'Type specialist team,' or what is more commonly known as a 'mono team'. A bare minimum of five Pokemon on a mono team must share the same species-Type index. The sixth mon, or 'the wildcard' can be of any species-Type, and is generally reserved for a species-Type that counters any and all weakness shared by the the mono team's declared specialty species-Type.

Upon defeating a previous Gym Leader, the new Gym Leader inherits their predecessor's Gym and station, though the Gym's species-Type specialization will reflect the declared species-Type utilized in the defeat of the previous Gym Leader. Due to the mono team requirement, few challenges are presented for Gym Leader succession. The 1050th Gym Congress of Indigo: Kanto Division is comprised of Brock Aissatou, Misty Willows, Lieutenant 'Jackie' Surge, Erika Valhallen, Janine Kurosawa, Sabrina Jahanshah, Blaine Breitbarth, and Giovanni Delimonto.

Elite Four: Quad-Flame former League Finalists who stand highest amongst all Trainers as the best of the best; save for the League Champion. Elite Four members commonly rotate or are replaced at the end of every League Seasonal Finals. Due to the constant Elite Four rotation, most long standing members wield mono teams in the event of succession. Once ousted from the Elite Four, any prior member can challenge a Gym Leader in the post-finals for a League recognised station, consequently justifying the frequency of mono teams utilized in the Elite Four. The 1,050th Elite Four of Indigo is comprised of Koga Kurosawa, Bruno Endfield, Karen Crawley, and Will Houden.

League Champion: The League Finalist who secured the quota victor rank four times, defeated the entirety of the Elite Four, crushed the opposing final quota victor, before challenging the League Champion-

-And then proved victorious against the most skilled and most powerful Trainer recognised by the League.

The Reigning Champion replaces the former Champion, who at that point, must wait for the next League Seasonal Finals to challenge and defeat the newly formed League in order to reclaim their title, or alternatively, challenge a Gym Leader in the post-finals to secure a station recognised by the League.

League Champions are rarely challenged by the Quad-Flame League Finalists, for the simple reason of that Fifth-Flame's connotation.

The Champion of Champions. The Alpha of Alphas. The King of Kings.

Only the most powerful and most intelligent Trainers can even hope to defeat the legendary League Champion.

The League Champion's reputation of prowess, the exhaustion and sacrifices experienced in the Quad-Flame's ascent, and the risk of losing everything thus far accrued, save for a decorated License; is all sufficient reason enough to ward off any challengers for the League Throne.

The Champions survived the very same League gauntlet that is imposed upon their challengers.

The Champions bested the Elite Four in due process through trial of combat.

...And the Reigning Champion defeated a former Champion at their prime to top it all off.

The League Champion is the highest rank achievable in the League, and its merits and privileges are countless.

Groups of Interest

A.C.E(Agency of Core Executives)

A.C.E was once originally known as the K.S.S, namely, the Kanto Secret Service. A clandestine, counter-intelligence agency that protected the Kanto Region against all manners of threats including terrorist attacks, cyber-attacks, wild-pokemon attacks along with the common criminality.Since then, A.C.E has expanded internationally, involving its affairs in regions outside Kantonese borders. It is a common worry among politicians whether A.C.E has grown too powerful for the Indigo Provincial Government to control and is becoming a independent shadow nation of its own or whether or not it still serves the best interests of Kanto.
A.C.E is the boogeyman of Kanto and its name is fear itself in the eyes of a normal citizen of Kanto. There are rarely few things that can avoid the wrath of A.C.E and you, trainer, are not one of them.

The Kanto Ranger Corps

The Kantonese Branch of the Ranger Corps is a para-military organisation formed by the Indigo Provincial Government dedicated to the preservation of Kanto populus and surrounding settlements in its borders from the threat of wild mon. The Kantonese Ranger Corps are responsible for the creation of the Route Walls, large boulder-wreathed constructs that protect the settlements from surrounding mon, exterminating infestations of pokemon, fighting back attacks of wild-mon, destroying the chance of a wild-hunt ever occuring again, re-routing the path of Snorlax packs and culling local pokemon populations. The Kantonese Ranger Corps receive wide-spread enmity from the general public, who view them as nothing more than 'barbarians' and that they 'violate multiple pokemon rights laws.' With this, the Kantonese Ranger Corps has received less funding from the Indigo Provincial Government and less recruits. Inevitably, the harrowing future for the Ranger Corps is that eventually, they'll be too weak to stop the tides of mon from overwhelming settlements.

Kantonese National Military

The Kantonese National Military is the official serving military of the Provincial Kanto Government and has been involved in numerous conflicts with other regions since the conception of Kanto itself. The last conflict that the Kantonese National Military has been involved in is the war with Johto known as the Argent Conflict, over the base of Mt Sliver itself. Since then, the Kantonese National Military has been receiving steady funding from the Provincial Kanto Government for the purpose of 'protecting our civil interests'. The Kantonese National Military are one of the most heavily armed forces in Kanto, with experimental technology at the tips of their fingers with a jingoistic horde of battle-trained soldiers ready to fight to the death. The Kantonese National Military does regular training exercises and troop exchange programs with the Ranger Corps.

Technology

Pokeballs

Poke-balls are mass-energy stasis containment devices specifically designed to capture and contain inanimate and living objects. While the exact science of how to create a poke-ball is treasured by companies such as Silph Co and Devon Co to keep the exchange of illegal poke-balls low, they are easily mass-produced in vast quantities to sate the appetite of the League and trainers everywhere along with being able to manufacture specialized balls that are of a higher tier than the standard poke-ball. Poke-balls keep the organism or object in a state of inanimate suspension, keeping in their current state until they are let out of their ball.
The quality and design of the standard poke-ball has been improved over the millenea to make the life of a trainer more easy, from a capture radius that automatically returns the pokemon back to the ball if they flee, to improving the design of the laser to pass through most materials and increasing the durability.

Porygonic AI

Porygonic AI is the official term for a line of artifical intelligence known as Porygon. Porygons are corporeal, hard-light artificial intelligences that can break down and revert itself to programming code. Porygons are invaluable, being only distributed to high members of society and the Indigo Provincial Government for use along with numerous intelligence agencies. Each Porygon roughly costs over a million Idols to create. Some boot-leg hackers have tried their hands on improving Porygonic AI, creating what is known as Porygon-Z. Porygon-Z is the more powerful but unstable version of Porygon 1.0, prone to glitches and self-destructing.

The Porygon 2.0 is currently the most wanted item on the Kantonese government. The amount of models avaliable can be counted with two hands only. The Porygon 2.0 is a metaphysical tesseract-lattice quantum A.I, capable of hacking into any server on the net and having the highest processing power out of any super-computer in the Kantonese arsenal.

Rules

1. Don't do the God-Mod

Self-explanatory enough but in case I have to go further, god-modding is where you make your character god and have no self-imposed limitations on their abilities. Please don't do god-modding. Being god sucks.

2. Detail and Length

It is detailed above in the tagging system that I want this RP to be advanced/casual. That being said, I am looking for people who lie in the advanced category. Casuals are welcome but if you can type more, it is welcoming. That said, one of my main adages in life is quality over quantity. But, when quality and quantity are the same, then, it's all the more better.

3. Need all the help I can

I am not the best roleplayer and I recognize that. If you have any criticism of the world-building I do above or if you want to help world-build my envision of a realistic Pokemon world, please do so. I will gladly accept any assistance whatsoever.

4. Posting Rate

I am expecting a posting rate of at least one post per week or so. If you can do at a higher rate, I will gladly accept. However, if you don't reply for at least one week, I will be expecting a explanation or else, you will be booted out of the RP. If you want to get out of the RP, please PM me about why you are deciding to leave it in the first place.

5. The Most Important Rule

Have Fun!

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Shattered Reflections - A Pokemon RP (OPEN)

So, you want to become a trainer? Hmph. Seems like every housewife needs a trainer for a husband these days. Don't worry. I won't make myself sound more geriatric than I already am by being wistfully nostalgic about the past. Anyway, there are plenty of reasons for choosing a career like that when you're a hormone-addled, adolescent, mid-puberty teenager. Want me to list all of them out?

Very well, then. If you think that I'm being patronizing, don't. I'm just an old man making an inquiry about your future career choices. Obviously, you're not taking the examination to become a coordinator, ranger, militia man or a researcher, am I right?

I thought so. So, let's begin.

Is it the fame? Everyone wants the fame in life, from the rich to the poor. Recognition in the media. Signing autographs. Movies. Controversy. Gossip. There's a baggage for everything. Everyone's a sucker for becoming famous. Reknown throughout the world as the trainer who 'caught 'em all'. The problem is that you're competing with a thousand others to reach the spotlight.

So, that's a no from you. Alright.

Is it for economic purposes? Debt. Loans. Getting rid of taxes. Family in poverty. The League is a avenue for anyone with no valuable economical skills to earn some cash. There's another reason why Lance is known as the 'Dragon King'. Not because of his extreme prowess in the art of battling but because he sits on a large horde of steaming, hot money. Of course, you're looking to settle for less. You don't want to expend yourself too much. Of course, the problem is that you have to cough up money if you lose.

So, another no. Alright, let's up the ante a bit.

Peer pressure? No. Parental control?Adrenaline-junkie? No. Altering the geopolitics of the entire Kanto Region? No. Becoming Champion? No.

Then, what is it that you want?

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Purpose?

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Well, thank you for humoring me. I have enough time dealing with children today, especially as the Pokemon Professor. Go back to your home and rest. The examination is tomorrow. I'm sure you've studied well for it, given that you wanted to meet with me during my tea time.

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These pokemon to understand, the power that's inside

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Foreword

Now, I know what you're thinking right now. Why make Pokemon grim-dark, gritty and realistic? Am I trying to create some sort of depraved, twisted parody of a beloved children franchise? Is this my teenage edgy genes influencing me to create this thread? Am I some sort of sick bastard who gets off having hyperbolic descriptions of children getting eaten alive by ravenous hungry creatures? Am I just doing this to satisfy my kinks and jerk off on murder porn?

The answer to all of the above is...perhaps. I wouldn't be honest with myself if I said this wasn't a desire of mine and I wouldn't be honest either if I said if all of the above was wrong and I was doing it to create a genuine roleplay setting. The words, realism and pokemon, shouldn't look like they exist together but yet, there's so many indicators in the games, the manga and anime I can list off that are viable for this sort of thing. The manga, especially. The Pokemon Tower. The use of guns in the original anime. Ash getting nearly chomped apart by pokemon in the beginning episode. A ten year old facing off against what is essentially a glorified mafia organisation.
The whole concept of Pokemon is fucked up as it gets as well if you just put a little bit of thought into it.

So, why combine realism with Pokemon? To make it compelling. To make it seem as if the concept of glorified cock-fighting could exist in real-life. To try and create scientific explanations for how fire-breathing dragons exist or how mouses contain enough electricity to fry a person. Most of all, to have fun. That's the point of role-playing, isn't it? The purity of escapism at its finest?

Once again, I've tried putting this idea to the grindstone of forum role-playing as long as I have remembered. There were some successes.
Some failures. A little bit of both in between. Yet, it never satisfied me enough. I suppose that's a symptom of role-playing. Not settling for lesser and wanting more. Little bit of improvements to the setting and how it functioned. Better role-playing. Believable character interaction. Detailed prose. Realistic Pokemon is a concept that I owe my debt to as a role-player as it was my first forum roleplay and the catalyst for my growth as a whole through the year.

So, information about the roleplay. I doubt I have to repeat the basics of the setting and the history of the series of a whole since Pokemon has essentially been a worldwide cultural phenomenon that even a man living under a rock would have heard whispers about. First of all, you don't need to have any knowledge of pre-existing canon, games, manga or anime to help you here. Shattered Reflections is meant to be an AU of Pokemon that everyone can get behind, no matter their background knowledge of the series. It can even be as basic as 'Is that yellow mouse named Charizard?'.

The concept of the RP is basically a focus on a small group of beginner trainers embarking on their first trainer journey in the region of Kanto. Each trainer will start off with one starter pokemon. Starter pokemon qualify as pokemon that are in their first evolution stage and are reasonable for a beginning trainer to have. If you want to have a OP starter pokemon, you must have a good enough backstory to justify it. Why Kanto and not Aiola or some original fan-made region? Kanto reeks of nostalgia for me and there's a familiar feel to it unlike the other regions. You will be allowed to play female and male roles and no, I don't care which of the 40,000 LGBT tumblr terms for your sexuality you use.

The mechanics of the RP will mainly be linear-based with a side of sand-boxing in general. I am the GM of the RP and therefore, I am Arceus. That means, I control all wild pokemon encounters, almost every other NPC in the world, all enviromental, political and social factors along with the general functionality of the world as a whole. How will I decide encounters and how the world works? Well, with my brains and wit, I'm sure I can make a roleplay that doesn't seem to be rail-roaded and close-ended. Right?

Battling will work by the level of description in your roleplay post and the strategem you use against another trainer's pokemon along with a hefty dose of realism. For example, there is no way that a Ratata can beat an Onix without some serious anime logic and some suspension of disbelief. There will be no dice involved and so forth.

Each town or location such as the Pokemon Tower, Cinnabar Island and Pewter City will act as miniature sandboxes. Routes will act as more rail-road sandboxes. In each sandbox, players are able to capture pokemon, train pokemon, look around for wares in the Poke-Marts, explore the surrounding area or do anything they want to do.

Oh, and you know moves? TMs? HMs? Move tutors? Poof. Nope. Not in this RP. No HMs, TMs or moves in this RP. There will be no silly shit like Pikachu's using Earthquakes and so forth. This is usually the part where most people close this window and say ' What the fuck, The Bork Lazer? How am I supposed to viably battle now? This takes away all the excitement of battling'. Well, you see, my good role-payer, I'm technically allowing you more freedom in your ability to describe battles by stripping away the excess. Each Pokemon will be limited to their own natural abilities in this universe like most animals are. Water-types will still be able to fire bursts of water at their targets. Fire-types can still breathe fire. And so forth.

Likewise, feel free to consult me on a Pokemon's abilities and what they can do if you're curious.

In terms of the setting, I will be limiting details of the setting unlike my other role-plays and they will be slowly revealed through GM posts and role-play. Essential information about the setting of the RP will be down below.

Setting Information(Updated Periodically)

Locations of Interest

Pallet Town

Pallet Town is a small fledgling valley town, most noted for its large amounts of craft shops in black-smithing, text-tiles and woodwork to stave off the hordes of wild pokemon that are constantly fended off by Ranger squads and being the sole premier location of the official Kanto Pokemon Professor's laboratory, Professor Oak. Pallet Town was formed out of a large government fund bargained from the Indigo Congressional Hearing between Professor Oak and the Indigo lobby after recent controversy surrounding the rise of the Arceus Cult to Indigo Parliament. The town brags wide sloping hills and large tracts of prairie land. Efforts have been made by companies to start agricultural within the grasslands but have been so far hindered by the large amount of wild Ratata and other forest-dwelling pokemon that roam the tall grass. A cherished past tradition in Pallet is the graduation ceremony for all beginning trainers.
All trainers must venture to Victory Falls, located in the fields of Route 1, and float a paper boat down the river with their challenges and wishes written upon it for good luck in their journey. Besides Lavender Town, Pallet Town is one of the only two cities in Kanto to completely lack a Gym.

Viridian City

Viridian City is a bordering city to the west of Pallet Town, connected by Route 1. It is named after the green deciduous forests which surround the city walls and grow at the city gate. Viridian City is a famous tourism hub, having the large density of tourists anywhere in Kanto and is famous for the legendary Tojho Falls, a cherished trainer tradition where large masses of trainers throw their pokeballs into the air before the mid-day gate opens to Viridian Forest. Giovanni Delimontio, businessman of Delimontio Incorporated and former Grand Champion, operates the Viridian City Gym, notable for his long periods of absence and only accepting Championship-Level battles.

Pewter City

Pewter City is one of the oldest and grandest cities in Kanto, protected from wild pokemon by a large man-made carved walled border of igneous and sedimentary rock with boulders sewn between. It is located and hemmed in by Mt Moon, the Viridian Forest and Mt Sliver. Archaeologists dictate that over the entire indigenous population of Kanto can trace their heritage from a Pewter City resident or ancestor. Pewter City initially originated as the tribal lands of the Aissatou Clan, a vicious but honorable band of tribals that inhabited the mountain valleys. Historical records indicate that due to the result of a trade agreement between Virdian City and the Aissotou Clan for the ore of Mt-Moon, enough investment was created for the city of Pewter to be created. Pewter City is mainly a miner's town, with not much tourist activity in between. Any attempts to expand or industralize the city were stopped short by the Indigo Parliamentary Lobby who consider the Aissatou Clan a 'undeniable treasure of Kanto.' Notable landmarks include the Pewter City Gym where the Aissotou Clan maintains a stronghold over and the Pewter Museum of Science.

Cerulean City

Cerulean City is the sea-side pearl of the Kanto Region. Originally an old port town and fishing village, Cerulean City was a hot-spot for immigration from other regions such as Hoenn, Sinnoh, Kalos and Alola. Relationships between the various ethnic groups in Cerulean boiled over into a civil war that almost threatened to destroy the sea-side region. The Cerulean government stepped downwards and the Cerulean Ports were closed to any international immigrants or migrants looking for a rest in the sunny port-side city. For this, the marbled architecture in Cerulean is varied, being a mixture of Unovan, Sinnohan and Kalosian architecture along with various other business ventures normally found in those regions being located in Cerulean. Cerulean is mainly known for its seafood and shipping industry along with being a tourist hotspot with areas such as the Nugget Bridge being a national trainer-trap.

Vermillion City

Vermillion City is a military-infested regional area and it shows.There are monthly military parades all year around. Soldiers do mandatory patrols in and out of the city armed with lethal pokemon capable of shredding a city block and top of the line armaments. Large titanium steel concrete borders lined with auto-cannon turrets surround the city. Martial law is in effect. Regardless of whether you're a civilian or not, you will get a court-martial, even if you do the most insignificant of crimes. Most crimes end up with a summary execution. That said, Vermillion City is likely one of the most modern and lavish places to live in Kanto if you adhere to the rules and respect the military. Universal health-care. Top of the line education, public, free. No crime, whatsoever. No pollution whatsoever. The Military operates the Vermillion City Gym in which Lieutenant 'Jackie' Surge, The Hero of Kanto, serves as its leader.

Lavender Town

Lavender Town is the Mecca of all religious activities within Kanto. You can find a variety of old world religions still tucked away in a little corner such as Christianity, Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism along with new world pagan religions that worship the modern gods of Kanto such as the Moltres Cult, the Zapdos Cult, the Articuno Cult, the Mew Cult and so forth. A number of other legendary pokemon are worshiped within the borders of Lavender Town with murals being carved in the most inconspicious of locations and temples of worship dotting every block. Inside Lavender Town, you must adhere to the protocols and must follow all religious guidelines in respect of the religious community within the area. The famous tourist landmark within Lavender Town is the Pokemon Tower, a massive shrine dedicated to the burial of pokemon and trainer alike, thousands of pounds of ashes stored inside marble jars where trainers from all over the world go to honor their fallen pokemon and family.

Celadon City

Celadon City is a conurbation at its finest. Railways, sky-scrapers and the essence of modern civilization are in Celadon City as shoppers roam the streets, fulfilling their capitalistic needs with shops displaying their latest products. The rich and poor alike live in Celadon City, the rich living in the sky-rise with the most exquisite furnishings available while the poor live in the gutter, soaked in sewer water and alley waste alike. Celadon is considered the lesser cousin of Saffron City, focusing on decadence and hedonism rather than the progressive and intellectual nature of Saffron City. Celadon Gym is operated within the city centre, operated by Erika Vahallen with the Celadon Game Corner, a wide-ranging casino catering to the young to the most hardened of adults located nearby as well.

Fuchsia City

Fuschia is the city of thieves, liars, assassins, terrorists and shinobi. The Kurowasa Clan, a band of terrorist ninjas as old as the Aissotou Clan themselves, officially operate Fuschia City behind the veil of the legal Fuschia government, having infected and destroyed the entire influence of the Kantonese Government in Fuschia. The Kurowasa Clan are the main operating power within Fuschia and have wiped all other gangs from their territory, subsuming them or destroying them with their arsenal of deadly poisons and superhuman ninjas. The Kurowasa Clan mainly use guerilla terroristic techniques to bully other cities and the Indigo Parliament into giving into their political demands. With their careful meddling and almost devious planning, even though every soul in Kanto knows that the Kurowasa Clan is in someway responsible for it, the army of lawyers prevents any legal measure against them. Koga Kurowasa daughter, Janine Kurowasa, operates the Fuschia Gym while Koga Kurowasa is one of the Elite Four, granting him extreme amounts of political power to protect Fuschia.

Saffron City

Mountains of sky-scrapers dot its enviroment. Roof-top farms are the norm.Saffron City is the modern, crowning capital of the Kanto region. It is a haven for anyone who has scientific endeavors or dreams that they wish to achieve. It's the city where Professor Oak got his two PhDs in poke-biology and poke-technology. It's a city that operates entirely on self-sustainable electrcity from a combination of nuclear, solar, wind and electrical pokemon. There is no pollution at all. New innovations are made into the realm of science everyday. Mazes of sky-trains writh around the buildings and myraid of skyscrapers like snakes. Companies such as Silph Co and Devon Co have set up shop in Safron. Sabrina, the Gym Leader of Saffron Gym, is a famed human psychic and a article for scientific research.

Cinnabar Island

Cinnabar Island. Your one, hot-top tourist destination filled with spanking, hot island woman and volcanic activity to rival a Slugma. Off the southern coast of the Kanto Region, Cinnabar is a volcanic island built on top of a destructive tectonic plate boundary in which volcanic activity is apparent. High populations of fire pokemon migrate to the island yearly to enjoy the high heat exuded from the volcanic activity. Large amounts of greenery are present due to the nutrients and high concentration of minerals present within the volcanic soil. The famed Cinnabarean ore, buried within the depths of the volcanic rock, provides the island with a bounty of domestic produce as it is highly valued to make cinnabarean steel, a material used in construction of durable structures. Blaine Breitbarth, a former champion known as the Ignis King and a leading scientific professor, operates the Cinnabarean Gym.

Trainer Rankings and League Operations

Novice Rank: Denoted by a green rim around their Trainer's License, Novice rank Trainers are virtual beginners to the League competition. The vast majority of 'Challenger's Rights' are denied to Novice ranked Trainers due to their inexperience with League Codes and Species Clauses. Novice ranked Gym Battles limit both the challenger and the Gym Leader to a grand total of three mon, three substitutions, and the most extensive list of Species Regulations.

Intermediate Rank: The immediate Trainer rank following Novice, Intermediate Licenses are rimmed in blue. Intermediate rank comes in two stages:

Intermediate-One: Awarded to a Trainer who has earned two Gym Badges through League certified competition. Beyond being recognised for higher levels of competition, Intermediate-One Trainers are still denied the vast majority of 'Challenger's Rights' for the same reasons Novice Trainers are. Adjusted Species Regulations grant Intermediate ranked Trainers a higher tolerance for competitive mon species.

Intermediate-Two: Awarded to a Trainer who has earned three Gym Badges through League certified competition. The Intermediate-Two ranked Trainers secure the first set of 'Challenger's Rights' for displaying an understanding and adherence to the League Code Species Clauses. The roster of applicable mon species in Intermediate-Two competition is expanded, allowing for more powerful mon to be deployed in League certified competition.

One of the first 'Challenger's Rights' secured by Intermediate-Two ranked Trainers is additional Gym challenge options. Most notably, Intermediate-Two ranked Trainers can request Major ranked Gym challenges in order to further expand the roster of applicable mon-species to that of a Major ranked Gym challenge.

Major Rank: The immediate Trainer rank following Intermediate-Two, Major Licenses are rimmed in red. Awarded to a Trainer who has earned five Gym Badges through League certified competition. Full access to the 'Challenger's Rights' is granted to a Major ranked Trainer. The roster of applicable mon species in Major competition is dramatically expanded, allowing for most species of mon to be deployed in League certified competition. Major ranked Gym Battles limit both the challenger and the Gym Leader to a grand total of four mon, and three substitutions.

Premiership Rank: The immediate Trainer rank following Major, Premiership Licenses are rimmed in white. Awarded to a Trainer who has earned seven Gym Badges through League certified competition. All Species Restrictions are removed from Premiership competition. Premiership ranked Gym Battles limit both the challenger and the Gym Leader to a total of five mon, and four substitutions.

Championship Rank: The immediate Trainer rank following Premiership, Championship Licenses are rimmed in gold. Awarded to a Trainer who has earned eight Gym Badges through League certified competition.

Championship Trainers use only the strongest species of mon in League certified competition.

Most League Codes are unobserved in Championship ranked competition. The remaining League Codes can be removed altogether by declaring unrestricted format.

There are absolutely no League enforced limits in unrestricted Championship ranked competition. Only the strongest mon and cleverest Trainers can survive in sustained unrestricted Championship ranked competition.

Unrestricted format is generally declared as a formality, given that the fatality rate of Championship mon is considered excessively high.

Declaring unrestricted format effectively frees both participants from legal action being pursued by either party upon the death of a Championship mon.

Championship ranked matches remove all roster limitations from the participants, effectively allowing a grand total of six mon to be used in League certified competition, yet the three substitutions limit remains applicable.

League Finalist: The immediate Trainer rank following Championship, League Finalist Licenses are rimmed in platinum. Awarded to a Trainer who has earned eight Gym Badges through League certified competition, survived the Victory Road Trial, and who have successfully passed the qualifying round in the League Seasonal Finals.

The final restriction pertaining to the limit of substitutions is removed from the League Seasonal Finals, otherwise the same formula that is applied in the Championship ranked matches is also applied in the League Seasonal Final matches.

Unrestricted format in the League Seasonal Finals is enforced by League Code.

League Flame(s): A new five tiered-system of rank is added to a League Finalist's License upon defeating one member of the League's Elite Four. After a participant determined quota of Finalist matches have been won, a League Finalist can call one member of the Elite Four to a challenge. If the League Finalist proves victorious against their first Elite Four challenge, another bout of Finalist matches ensues, until a certain quota of remaining Finalists have been defeated. Upon completion of the second quota of Finalists, the quota victor can challenge another member of the Elite Four. The process repeats until the quota victor is defeated, or every member of the Elite Four has been bested by a quota victor. Upon securing their Fourth Flame, a quota victor can replace any member of Elite Four at their discretion, or challenge the League Champion for the Fifth Flame and the League Throne.

Gym Leader: Any League Finalist can apply to the League for the role of Gym Leader. The only stipulation for succession is that a Trainer must defeat a current Gym Leader in the post-finals of League Seasonal Finals, and they must utilize a team recognised by the League as a 'Type specialist team,' or what is more commonly known as a 'mono team'. A bare minimum of five Pokemon on a mono team must share the same species-Type index. The sixth mon, or 'the wildcard' can be of any species-Type, and is generally reserved for a species-Type that counters any and all weakness shared by the the mono team's declared specialty species-Type.

Upon defeating a previous Gym Leader, the new Gym Leader inherits their predecessor's Gym and station, though the Gym's species-Type specialization will reflect the declared species-Type utilized in the defeat of the previous Gym Leader. Due to the mono team requirement, few challenges are presented for Gym Leader succession. The 1050th Gym Congress of Indigo: Kanto Division is comprised of Brock Aissatou, Misty Willows, Lieutenant 'Jackie' Surge, Erika Valhallen, Janine Kurosawa, Sabrina Jahanshah, Blaine Breitbarth, and Giovanni Delimonto.

Elite Four: Quad-Flame former League Finalists who stand highest amongst all Trainers as the best of the best; save for the League Champion. Elite Four members commonly rotate or are replaced at the end of every League Seasonal Finals. Due to the constant Elite Four rotation, most long standing members wield mono teams in the event of succession. Once ousted from the Elite Four, any prior member can challenge a Gym Leader in the post-finals for a League recognised station, consequently justifying the frequency of mono teams utilized in the Elite Four. The 1,050th Elite Four of Indigo is comprised of Koga Kurosawa, Bruno Endfield, Karen Crawley, and Will Houden.

League Champion: The League Finalist who secured the quota victor rank four times, defeated the entirety of the Elite Four, crushed the opposing final quota victor, before challenging the League Champion-

-And then proved victorious against the most skilled and most powerful Trainer recognised by the League.

The Reigning Champion replaces the former Champion, who at that point, must wait for the next League Seasonal Finals to challenge and defeat the newly formed League in order to reclaim their title, or alternatively, challenge a Gym Leader in the post-finals to secure a station recognised by the League.

League Champions are rarely challenged by the Quad-Flame League Finalists, for the simple reason of that Fifth-Flame's connotation.

The Champion of Champions. The Alpha of Alphas. The King of Kings.

Only the most powerful and most intelligent Trainers can even hope to defeat the legendary League Champion.

The League Champion's reputation of prowess, the exhaustion and sacrifices experienced in the Quad-Flame's ascent, and the risk of losing everything thus far accrued, save for a decorated License; is all sufficient reason enough to ward off any challengers for the League Throne.

The Champions survived the very same League gauntlet that is imposed upon their challengers.

The Champions bested the Elite Four in due process through trial of combat.

...And the Reigning Champion defeated a former Champion at their prime to top it all off.

The League Champion is the highest rank achievable in the League, and its merits and privileges are countless.

Groups of Interest(Upcoming)

Pokedex Entries(Upcoming)

Technology(Upcoming)

Rules

1. Don't do the God-Mod

Self-explanatory enough but in case I have to go further, god-modding is where you make your character god and have no self-imposed limitations on their abilities. Please don't do god-modding. Being god sucks.

2. Detail and Length

It is detailed above in the tagging system that I want this RP to be advanced/casual. That being said, I am looking for people who lie in the advanced category. Casuals are welcome but if you can type more, it is welcoming. That said, one of my main adages in life is quality over quantity. But, when quality and quantity are the same, then, it's all the more better.

3. Need all the help I can

I am not the best roleplayer and I recognize that. If you have any criticism of the world-building I do above or if you want to help world-build my envision of a realistic Pokemon world, please do so. I will gladly accept any assistance whatsoever.

4. Posting Rate

I am expecting a posting rate of at least one post per week or so. If you can do at a higher rate, I will gladly accept. However, if you don't reply for at least one week, I will be expecting a explanation or else, you will be booted out of the RP. If you want to get out of the RP, please PM me about why you are deciding to leave it in the first place.

5. The Most Important Rule

Have Fun!

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