Fish of Oblivion

Old One Rising (A Lovecraftian adventure-horror RP) (Reboot)

Huh, sounds interesting. Just starting out or back for another year of pain? Third Year Lit Major here

And you're not a sod, you're more of a mole ;)

@ONL

well, i DO live in a hole

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Charlie Hughes

Name: Charlie Hughes

Age: 13

Appearance: "... I, uh, actually don't know whose sword this is. Any takers?"

Gender: Male

Personality: Your initial impression of Charlie may be that he's a pushover. To a certain extent, this holds up; he's somewhat nervous and non-confrontational, tending to get pushed around in group situations and bossed about by whatever more ornery son of a bitch takes control. This isn't entirely fair; he's surprisingly capable when working on his own, and demonstrates a reasonable level of competence both in and out of group situations, but the fact remains that he's too much of a doormat for his own good and allows himself to be overridden by others with saddening ease.

Otherwise, Charlie is a pleasant enough individual. Despite the fact that his nervous disposition can make him a little irritable at points, he's usually fairly polite and courteous, trying his best to respect other people regardless of whatever bullshit they may pull. As of this, he's actually reasonably effective in social situations despite himself; whilst he's easy to push around, he's capable of talking to people normally and socializing like a normal person, and generally comes off as sane. Also, whilst not a genius, he's reasonably intelligent and has a fairly good memory for random details; exactly how useful this is is debatable/varies according to the situation.

Brief Bio: Charlie’s family originates from outside of Kalos; his immediate family moved to Lumiose City from the neighbouring region of Alvion just under a decade ago, when he was only six, due to his father’s work as a translator. Between the historical tensions between Kalos and Alvion and his family being somewhat new to the upper-middle class, he got bullied and picked on quite significantly by other children when he first arrived, and this persisted for a number of years until his aggressors finally got bored. Whilst his initial response to the bullying was to fight back and give back what he got, getting reprimanded for it and not accomplishing anything with it caused him to bury much of the aggressive part of his personality and adopt a more non-confrontational and meek persona to keep himself out of trouble. It succeeded, but left him as the nervous little bugger he is today.

However, one thing he used to try and distract himself from the bullying turned out to be quite significant in the long run; at around the age of eight, he ‘adopted’ a Gastly his family found hiding out in their attic after it took a shine to him, and soon afterwards took an interest in looking after and studying Pokemon and their abilities. Whilst he never really got into the whole ‘training and battling’ aspect of Pokemon, the Gastly happened to be a scrappy little bugger and fairly good in a fight, and his memory for details lead to him being able to remember a reasonable amount of information regarding Pokemon breeding and tutoring. As of this, in recent years he’s picked up some notability helping trainers to breed and teach their Pokemon to learn specific moves and evolve into the right Pokemon.

Starter Pokemon: Gastly (Mephistophiles/Phil)

Starter's Personality:
By contrast to Charlie, Phil is practically chutzpah personified. True to his nature as a Ghost-type, he delights in mischief and generally bugging the ever-loving hell out of other people, and has a general air of sadomachochism about pranks and mischief. He likes pranks, and he likes getting pranked. Getting as good as he gives is just part of the fun for him. Also contrary to Charlie is his sense of egotism; he likes to lead the way and 'take charge' of situations the best he can, which often gets him into trouble. Which is all part of the fun for him, mind you.

Despite his manic personality, he does seem to like people regardless of whether they like him; he isn't really the kind to hold a grudge, or at least not for long, and doesn't seem to care about getting smacked about. The only people he tends to really dislike are those who insist on picking on Charlie; this quickly gets him from ‘heavy-handed humour’ to ‘actually trying to suffocate you’.

Misc:
- VA: Spike Spencer
- Theme: Masafumi Takada, Beautiful Morning
- Due to his family background, Charlie is fluent in both Alvish (English) and Kalosian (French). He has some proficiency with German, but not much.

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Not just yet; like RBY said, we've got limited slots, so we'll give the others time to get sheets up or back out and then make a decision on things?

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Venipede works, yeah. Third time's the charm!

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@Fish of Oblivion I didn't seem to find the dibs list that's why I didn't know...sorry. I had someone else in mind. Will edit in a few minutes.

@Ashevelendar

That was what the apology was on account of; we probably should have put the list up before now, so the mixup wasn't your fault at all.

If you want, you could list anything you're considering? Just so you can make sure everything's all clear before you go through editing again, really.

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@Ashevelendar
... I'm beyond sorry for this happening a second time, but Honedge is on that dibs list we mentioned (along with Gastly, coincidentally enough). Deino won't fly either because it's also a Pseudo-legendary, so I guess if there's anything else you're considering, feel free to fire them at me for approval/rejection? Besides that, sheet's significantly improved!

And just to ensure third time's the charm, here's the dibs list:

Gastly, Poliwag, Zubat, Unown, Aron, Larvitar, Sewaddle, Swablu

@MechonRaptor
Don't sweat the accidental post; speaking tentatively, Amber looks fine to me, I'll just wait on RBY for any possible in-depth commentary or approval?

@AtaxiaIV
Axew is perfectly fine, yeah; good choice, by the way, line's one of my personal favourites from Gen V!

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Other Fire-type Starters are also valid alternatives, as is Fletchling if you don't mind waiting to evolve to burn things?

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@Ashevelendar
Until RBY's on, I can lend you a hand real quick? Here we go:

BREAK DOWN, BREAK DOWN

1.

Appearance

We'd prefer a sprite or a drawing as opposed to a picture of an IRL person, but I don't think we'll be splitting hairs over this if the general takeaway from this is 'redhead'; I WOULD recommend maybe finding a better picture, though, since besides just being a somewhat poor quality mugshot, there's a dodgy-looking watermark down in the corner there that COULD potentially be a problem.

2.

Personality: Alexis is a friendly little gal. Born in a pokemon trainer family she loves Pokemons and would do anything to protect Pokemons from those that would want to harm them. She's ready to fight anyone that attacks her friends or those that attack Pokemons.

I'd consider expanding this at least a little bit, it's functional but a tiny bit limited as a reference. Does Alexis have any emotional skeletons in her closet or any flaws worth mentioning? Anything you could possibly wring a second paragraph out of?

3.

Brief Bio: Alexis was born into a family of Pokemon Trainers and since she was in dipers she grew with Pokemon all over the house. Her parents
never tried their training skills at a gym or something but decided it's better just to grow Pokemon and save them from peril if needed be.
Alexis's mother worked at the local Care Center for Pokemon and her father was the local Gym Leader's Helper.
Alexis learned to take care of Pokemons as soon as she grew up. Her Torchic was her friend since she was born and it was only normal
when she had to choose a starting Pokemon , she would choose Torchic as it.

One formatting error and possible general expansion/elaboration aside, this is fine; there's one character coming who also had their Starter before the journey, so I don't think that'll be a problem.

4.

Starter Pokemon: Torchic
Starter's Personality: Alexis's Torchic is a nice little fellow. Loyal to the end to Alexis , he is ready to burn anyone he needs to save her
trainer. They both grew up together and they were best friends before Alexis knew how to talk.

We DID mention in the OP that canon starters couldn't be used as starters here, but that's a rule from an older version of the RP and I can talk to RBY about nixing it? If not, I can help you find another starter, since everything else is fine.

@AtaxiaIV
One issue we forgot to bring up; Gible's line is Pseudo-Legendary, which the CS mentioned couldn't be used as starters. You're free to capture a Gible on the journey if you end up accepted, but you might want to find an alternative for your starter? I can track down the dibs list to help you find something fitting, if you'd like.

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Yoo, I'm around, just working on getting my guys and plans straight before I throw them up come OOC time.

That and kinda freaking out over the stuff that got revealed yesterday. Gamefreak sure knows how to mark a 20th Anniversary.

Old One Rising (A Lovecraftian adventure-horror RP) (Reboot)

@Fish of OblivionA post is never late, it arrives precisly when it is needed! Good to see that Nyarlathotep hasn't killed you yet. How are you doing?

@ONL

Doing alright, thanks! Been around, just got distracted with stuff for a while before RBY got me to stop being a lazy sod.

Yourself? I recall you were getting set up at university?