King Cosmos

Free For All

Why are the technology based characters ruled out, though?
Don't characters like iron man, tenno(warframe), guardians(destiny), necrons(warhammer40K), masterchief(Halo), batman(DC) or Optimus Prime (transformers) have powers that still make them effective, even without their weapons?

@Samdragonx

Technology based characters was kind of a broad statement so I apologise about that. I meant characters who gain all or most of their abilities from using technology, someone like Captain Cold or Syndrome i.e. regular humans with powerful weapons.

You could probably still make the characters, but instead let the powers of the weapon be the powers of your characters.

@Samdragonx

That would make them a different character though. I'd still be able to use the same powers but it would completely alter their backstory.

Some of your examples raise an interesting questions though. @MikkishtheLeprechaun, do our characters also start without armour? What about stuff like magic rings that aren't weapons but which grant abilities?

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Harmonia United

@Satoshi Kyou

... in my defense, I had already written Jasmine's departure from the square before you sent Sana looking for her. I assumed you were going to write a follow up with Sana catching up to Jasmine but I guess you were waiting for me to write something letting you know where Jasmine was?

My next planned scene with Jasmine was going to be inside the Water Dorm, but that can change. Let me know what you want to do and let's figure something out.

Free For All

7. You have no weapons to begin with, but will find some later. Ammo is not unlimited, however, and melee weapons can break.

@MikkishtheLeprechaun

This rules out any kind of technology based character, unfortunately. In fact, not being able to bring your own weapons rules out my top two character choices for this RP.

Also, you should maybe make it clearer in the first post that this RP is going to involve battling canon characters with our OC's. That was the main draw of this RP for me, but anyone stumbling on the thread at this point wouldn't get that from the first post as it is now.

OC's vs Canon Characters

Anyone have any character ideas already?

@Samdragonx

I have a few potential ideas. Which character I use kind of depends on how strong they're supposed to be.

Pokemon Masters: World Cup

Main Character

Samantha Riley

Name: Samantha Riley
Alias: Sam
Title: World Traveller
Age: 22

Appearance:


Personality: Samantha is a wandering soul, never comfortable staying in one place and always wanting to see what is over the horizon. A high-spirited girl with an irrepressible cheer, Samantha has a sense of adventure and a desire to explore that often got her into trouble as a young girl. Nevertheless she is friendly and possessed of a kind of carefree natural charm that made it easy for her to make friends growing up.

Biography: Samantha grew up as an only child in the coldest and most isolated little town she could possibly imagine; Snowpoint City in the Sinnoh region. It wasn’t all bad, her hometown is a beautiful place surrounded by natural splendour, but there just isn’t much for a young and adventurous young girl to do there. The only points of interest are the Gym, the Temple and the nearby lake and while this may be enough for a tourist, when you are a local there are only so many times you can visit these places before you get bored.

Even with as much love as she has for her hometown, Samantha always wanted to leave; and as far as she was concerned, this meant becoming a Pokémon trainer. Lots of trainers would pass through Snowpoint city to challenge the Gym leader, so many that they made up probably three quarters of the travellers who came through town, and as a bored child Samantha would spend a lot of time in the gym so that she could watch the battles and also so she could hear their stories. Because really, what else was there to do?

The thing about trainers is that they usually like to tell stories about their adventures, exaggerated or not, to the point that everyone around them gets bored of hearing them. But Samantha was never bored. She would listen to the stories of any trainer who was willing to tell them and would always try to imagine the places they described and remember to look them up later. The wandering, vagabond life of a trainer always seemed like the perfect existence to her, the perfect escape from her little town, and when she was old enough, when she finally convinced her parents to let her become a trainer herself, that’s exactly what she did.

Since then Samantha has travelled the globe, visiting every region that had a name worth knowing and more than a few that didn’t. She travelled to exotic lands, met the locals, sampled the food, captured the indigenous Pokémon and challenged the Gyms or whatever that regions equivalent was; Alola and the Orange Islands weren’t the only ones who liked to do things differently. She has competed in leagues and faced challenges in places that those trainers she used to listen to back home didn’t even know existed.

In just a short amount of time Samantha has made a name for herself all around the world, but not in the usual way. Some trainers are world renowned because of one great accomplishment that spreads around the world; Samantha is world renowned because she has made herself known everywhere.

Pokémon Party:

• Alakazam, Male, Magic Guard, Timid
• Scizor, Male, Technician, Impish
• Swampert, Female, Torrent, Relaxed
• Weavile, Male, Pressure, Jolly
• Amoonguss, Female, Regenerator, Calm
• Klefki, N/A, Prankster, Calm

Reserve Pokémon:

• ???
• ???
• ???
• ???

Side Characters

Jackson Farrow

Name: Jackson Farrow
Alias: N/A
Title: Battle King
Age: 27

Appearance:


Personality: Jackson is a fiercely competitive person who relishes a good challenge. Enthusiastic and carefree he takes on anything that gets in his way head first.

Biography: Growing up in Lavaridge Town Jackson was an active child; always running, climbing, fighting and generally doing everything he was told that he couldn’t or shouldn’t do, if only to prove people wrong. Despite many warnings to stay away, he probably spent more time playing in the treacherous Jagged Pass than he did in town, meaning he grew up hardy and strong. At age 12 he left home with his first Pokémon in tow and set off to challenge the world.

In the end, he didn’t manage to conquer the world and instead mostly stayed within the Hoenn region. Even so he is an accomplished trainer, having collected all of the badges in the Hoenn region and having competed in the league several times. Jackson now spends most of his time in the Hoenn region’s Battle Frontier. He currently holds the distinction for having completed every challenge the Battle Frontier has to offer in the fastest time, granting him the title of Battle King. Every so often this title is taken away from him when another trainer beats his time, but he is always quick to reclaim his crown with another broken record.

Pokemon Party:

• Conkeldurr, Male, Iron Fist, Adamant
• Scrafty, Male, Moxie, Jolly
• Electivire, Female, Motor Drive, Adamant
• Darmanitan, Male, Sheer Force, Jolly
• Talonflame, Female, Gale Wings, Jolly
• Galvantula, Male, Compound Eyes, Timid

Reserve Pokemon:

• ???
• ???
• ???
• ???

Pokemon Masters: World Cup

Rule 3: Posting Length: Please keep posts between one and three paragraphs. This RP is in the casual category for a reason.

@Balthazar007

I'm going to break this rule so hard. I can be incredibly verbose, but I will try to cut down on that.

Well, here's my character, adapted from a previous Pokemon RP than fell through. The 3000 base state limit was more annoying than I thought, even though I knew that means a average base stat total of only 500; I had to change my team around a little to accommodate.

Samantha Riley

Name: Samantha Riley
Alias: Sam
Title: World Traveller
Age: 22

Appearance:


Personality: Samantha is a wandering soul, never comfortable staying in one place and always wanting to see what is over the horizon. A high-spirited girl with an irrepressible cheer, Samantha has a sense of adventure and a desire to explore that often got her into trouble as a young girl. Nevertheless she is friendly and possessed of a kind of carefree natural charm that made it easy for her to make friends growing up.

Biography: Samantha grew up as an only child in the coldest and most isolated little town she could possibly imagine; Snowpoint City in the Sinnoh region. It wasn’t all bad, her hometown is a beautiful place surrounded by natural splendour, but there just isn’t much for a young and adventurous young girl to do there. The only points of interest are the Gym, the Temple and the nearby lake and while this may be enough for a tourist, when you are a local there are only so many times you can visit these places before you get bored.

Even with as much love as she has for her hometown, Samantha always wanted to leave; and as far as she was concerned, this meant becoming a Pokémon trainer. Lots of trainers would pass through Snowpoint city to challenge the Gym leader, so many that they made up probably three quarters of the travellers who came through town, and as a bored child Samantha would spend a lot of time in the gym so that she could watch the battles and also so she could hear their stories. Because really, what else was there to do?

The thing about trainers is that they usually like to tell stories about their adventures, exaggerated or not, to the point that everyone around them gets bored of hearing them. But Samantha was never bored. She would listen to the stories of any trainer who was willing to tell them and would always try to imagine the places they described and remember to look them up later. The wandering, vagabond life of a trainer always seemed like the perfect existence to her, the perfect escape from her little town, and when she was old enough, when she finally convinced her parents to let her become a trainer herself, that’s exactly what she did.

Since then Samantha has travelled the globe, visiting every region that had a name worth knowing and more than a few that didn’t. She travelled to exotic lands, met the locals, sampled the food, captured the indigenous Pokémon and challenged the Gyms or whatever that regions equivalent was; Alola and the Orange Islands weren’t the only ones who liked to do things differently. She has competed in leagues and faced challenges in places that those trainers she used to listen to back home didn’t even know existed.

In just a short amount of time Samantha has made a name for herself all around the world, but not in the usual way. Some trainers are world renowned because of one great accomplishment that spreads around the world; Samantha is world renowned because she has made herself known everywhere.

Pokémon Party:

• Alakazam, Male, Magic Guard, Timid
• Scizor, Male, Technician, Impish
• Swampert, Female, Torrent, Relaxed
• Weavile, Male, Pressure, Jolly
• Amoonguss, Female, Regenerator, Calm
• Klefki, N/A, Prankster, Calm

Reserve Pokémon:

• ???
• ???
• ???
• ???

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Harmonia United

Touma’s quick retreat from the square had nothing to do with not wanting to be caught up in the argument between Kanna and Jasmine. It was simply a coincidence that he had taken the first opportunity he could to extricate himself from that situation and then left fast enough that neither girl could say anything to stop him. Or at least, that was his story and he was sticking with it.

It was never a smart idea to get between those two when they were like that; few people in the academy could stand up to Kanna’s iron will when she had made her mind up about something, but even she occasionally gave ground when Jasmine felt strongly enough to oppose her. Nothing good would come from him trying to add his own opinion into the mix, not that he had any strong feelings about the matter either way. Whatever the others decided to do about this partnering thing was fine with him; he would just go along with the decision and focus on his own duelling like he always had. So long as they didn’t end up making an alliance with the Synchro dorm.

Speaking of which…

Up ahead he could make out the backs of two other students, both wearing the signature white uniforms that marked out the members of the Synchro dorm from the other dorms; what’s more, judging by the blue and white hair the duo sported respectively, it was none other than the king douche himself and his second-in-command. Well, speak of the devil and he shall appear; of all the people he could have run into it would just have to be Masaru wouldn’t it?

Touma was just considering turning around and heading back the other direction when a sudden shout from off to the side stopped him. Evidently the other two had heard it as well, as they gave each other a quick look before rushing towards the noise. It was only at this point that Touma looked around and saw where he was; in his haste to leave the square, of his own accord and for no other reason, he had been walking in a random direction for a while now, somehow ending up on the path to the Earth dorm. How or why he had ended up here wasn’t important however, as he too rushed into the trees to investigate the noise.

Following the glimpses of white coats he saw through the foliage Touma arrived on the scene just in time to see a black coated figure pick a card up off the forest floor; though he couldn’t see his face the obnoxiously large and ridiculously shaped hair style gave them away immediately and Touma couldn’t keep the sneer off of his face as he recognised Keitaro. His presence, coupled with the scream, could only mean trouble; especially since he had had a nagging thought in the back of his mind for a while now that the scream had been familiar.

When he saw the person slumped against the tree Touma froze shock, though a rapidly rising anger meant he didn’t stay that way for long. “Keita!” If the blue blazer hadn’t given it away the mop of vivid red hair, the colour far livelier than the person it belonged to, definitely would have. Touma rushed towards his fallen dorm-mate, bumping Masaru aside in his haste, coming to a stop as he kneeled down next to Keita.

The smaller boys face was a mess of bruises, one eye swollen completely shut and his lip cut and bleeding; he was breathing heavily and hadn’t responded at all to his shout, but he seemed to be awake at least if a little out of it. Glancing down Touma could see that Keita’s duel disk was still active, though his deck had fallen out and his cards were scattered around him.

It didn’t take a genius to figure out what had happened here. Keitaro’s duelling style had always been a little excessive and it wasn’t rare for his opponents to walk away from a duel with him with a couple of bruises to show for it. Even so, he had never seen things go this far; although, that may have had something to do with the fact that all of the duels he had seen Keitaro fight had been in front of an audience. Away from the arena or the crowds, away from prying eyes, was this the kind of duellist Keitaro was?

Standing up suddenly Touma spun to face Keitaro, who was still looming behind them. He grabbed a handful of the other student’s shirt and pulled him forward to snarl in his face, ignoring the fact that the other buy stood a couple of inches taller than him. “What the hell do you think you’re doing, punk?”

@Ammokkx

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Harmonia United

Yeah, NPC is kind of a misnomer. They are side characters controlled by the player.

Pokemon Masters: World Cup

@Balthazar007 Any word on the progress of the RP thread for this?

I, the Demon King, Will Summon My Own Damned Heroes!

“Hey, you need to stop moving around so much. You’re really hurt so just stay still and let me heal you.” At least, Oberon thought the Slime was injured. It was kind of hard to tell since the hole that had been blown in the side of the gelatinous mass had already closed up, leaving not even a burn mark as proof of what had just happened. Regardless of what it looked like however, the fact was an explosion had just occurred inside the Slime, so it was probably missing a few hit points.

Holding a hand out in front of the Slime, Oberon focused his mana and cast Minor Heal on the creature. It was hard to tell if it was having any effect, in the same way that it was difficult to tell if the Slime was injured in the first place; the blob just didn’t really… change much. There were no cuts knitting back together or bruises faded to indicate that he was actually doing anything worthwhile any more so than it he had cast his skill on a rock.

Oberon activated his Magic Analysis as he stared at the creature, whose name he should probably ask for at some point, hoping that the newly upgraded skill would give him some clue as to how many hit points it had. He used his Analysis on Minor Heal as well, just in case it told him something useful he didn’t already know. Regardless, he would keep casting Minor Heal until it either stopped working or the Slime told him to stop.

Speaking of his new abilities it seemed pretty serendipitous that levelling up Magic Analysis would grant him to ability to learn about a spells element right when he was aiming towards learning how to use fire element mana. He had finally learned Mana Shape as well, only a few moments before an explosion had ripped this Slime open and practically deafened him, so when he next got a chance he was ready to begin working on that. Although, peaceful moments never seemed to last long in this cave before something happened to interrupt it.

@Guy0fV4lor