Pokémon Catharsis [OOC/Sign-Ups Opened]

[Ayumu]

In the region ‘Catharsis’ exists only a population of Pokémon untouched by human society. It is a region that is bounded by a border which humans cannot enter in, a separate world off on earth that is only known to be a resort of Pokémon. It was a balanced region with Pokemon living in harmony, who was guided by the great king Avalon, the Alter Salamence with Holy/Flying typing. It all went into hell as soon as the region collapsed when the great king became missing mysteriously. Due to the missing status of Avalon, the entire region slowly degenerated into chaos where crime and murder were committed. 

Some inhabitants of this region are left with a motivation to make this region a safer place, so various communities of Pokémon are created. Each Pokémon in Catharsis strive and struggle their way to survive each day, making sure that the region isn’t taken over by groups of thugs and deviants who aim to corrupt the land due to the lack of a great leader. Even though bonds are made, morals are not at the highest quality in the region. Bonds are separated due to crime, murder, deviance, and unspeakable evil that exists. No one knows exactly why evil plagued the land, and the source of the degeneration. Why is Avalon missing? Why is Catharsis in a critical state? Can the communities of bonds restore the region? Or will the region will plummet into darkness? This is the story of Catharsis, purification of a new light within darkness.

 

Some facts about Catharsis (Will Update):
* Many of the corruption lies in the communities of strong Pokemon taking control of the weaker ones. Strong Pokemon were well-known in Catharsis to be the 'brute' or 'thugs' of Catharsis, and no one keeps them in check because many of them strive to rule over Catharsis, for mainly profit.
* Avalon taught the schools of Holy and Dark. His main philosophy is that darkness should be known, and light should be sought.
* There are many communities in Catharsis that wanted to restore order, but there are many organizations built by thug Pokemon who wanted to gain control of Catharsis. Crime rate is out of control in Catharsis.
* The rare type of Holy-types exist in Catharsis, only belonging to Alter Pokemon (they can have other type combinations too, even without Holy). A primary example of Alter Pokemon is Avalon, and Avalon is the primary example of a Holy type. Holy-types are revered as indeed special in Catharsis, and many thugs want to stay clear away from Holy-types.

 

Rules:

#1. Battling in this roleplaying will be realistic. If someone get chomped by a Mega Mawile and they're not Steel-type, someone can die to that. The teeth will sink into the flesh and break the bones and rip that character apart. Or if a Steelix heavy slams a tiny Pokemon, they can die. Also, you can't generate a huge source of water out of nowhere and flood the place just because you're using 'Surf'. You need a source of water. Try to think of a realistic way you can fight rather than following anime or video game logic. Likely you won't die in this RP unless you decide to, though. Possibly the most is that you could faint.

 

#2. Talk in the Discord chat to plan ahead with knowing what to do in the roleplay: https://discord.gg/NC4mhJ4 Being online at the right time means you can roleplay with other players. Sometimes I'm not online to advance the plot, so you can spend time with other players in roleplaying with them until I advance the plot.

 

#3. You can advance the plot if you want to, just don't do anything that is detrimental to the entire plan of the plot. How do you know this? Simply communicate with me. If I'm available, then talk to me about it, what you're going to do and why. Then I can approve or make a compromise. If I'm not online, refrain from advancing the plot until I come in.

 

#4. Think realistic in this RP, have a belt with pouches or a bag to carry your stuff around. Mostly you only need to carry PokeCoins, or have items strapped onto you for battling purposes. If you have trouble carrying items, then talk to me about it and we'll figure out a way to make it work.

 

#5. You can post soundtracks or songs to fit the mood of the moment for the RP. Just make sure you are choosing music that fits the moment.

 

Hi, this is a roleplaying topic inspired by Pokemon Reborn, Insurgence, and Mystery Dungeon. Basically, in this roleplay, you don't roleplay as a trainer or a human. You roleplay as a Pokemon, and Pokemon lives in this region as if they're like people. They have a government, they have communities, they have homes and shelter, wealth, careers and many other things. I just want to do a role-play where you can have fun in a really edgy setting with the degenerate region having Pokemon killin' Pokemon.

 

There's Delta Pokemon (you'll get what I mean if you look up Pokemon Insurgence) in this roleplay too, but they're renamed as 'Alter Pokemon'. You can make up your own Alter Pokemon as the character you roleplay in the topic. And a new typing, which is Holy typing. I'll explain Holy typing a bit after I figure out all of the details. There's no legendaries or mythical Pokemon in this region, just your average Pokemons. But yeah, I'm making this interest check topic to see if anyone's interested. My friend Tatsuya (PhoenixKnight545) and Chaotyx have helped me make this idea, and I need to see if anyone on this forum wants to participate with us.

 

Here's my character Minish, which I typed out:

Spoiler

Pokémon: Shiny Mawile
Name: Minish
Gender: Female
Personality: Adamant, strict, cunning, intelligent. She can be callous but she has a soft side.
Moveset: Play Rough, Iron Head, Crunch, Vice Grip, Sucker Punch, Sweet Scent, Toxic, Pixie Dust, Swords Dance, Cotton Guard, Fairy Wind, Ice Beam, Flamethrower
Font Color: Rose

 

Story: When Minish was very young, she was well-known for being a shiny Mawile within her community of Mawile family. She wasn't exactly born around the time where life was peaceful in Catharsis, and life was very harsh due to the constant battles her parents faced. Being part of a community to help restore the region, it was eventually faced with a cruel fate as her parents were killed in front of her very eyes from a Magmortar. The Magmortar was a slave trader and wanted to steal Minish to be sold off for a high profit, because she was a shiny. So the Magmortar stole her, and then she was separated from her parents. 

 

She wanted to get revenge on the Magmortar who killed her parents, but didn't think that she had the ability to do so since she was only a Mawile. She believed that Mawiles were too weak to fight back, and that the strong Pokemon in Catharsis can only rule it due to their power. She eventually one day was bought by a rich collector, a Honchkrow, who collected shiny objects to sell off, trade, and keep. The Honchkrow had a collection of rare mega stones, and key stones. The Honchkrow planned to sell Minish and the Mawilite he had to a gang who would make use of her, and gain a lot of profit from it. Minish actually didn't hate the Honchkrow, because he was very intelligent and taught her a lot stuff about Catharsis. He often plays strategies in manipulating other people and trying to steal from them, in order to obtain novelties and rarities. While Minish listened to his stories as he tells her about the stories how he's able to succeed in opulence by his intelligence. Minish learned from the Honchkrow, and developed an inner potential of having a sharp intuition. 

 

The Honchkrow was successful in finding a gang to sell his sweet trade deal of both Minish and Mawilite, and she was part of an underground army of extremely powerful Pokemon. Minish never expected that she would become part of a gang with extremely powerful Pokemon. Minish was the youngest in the criminal syndicate, and she was under supervision of the gang leader, a Volcarona. The Volcarona had a mega stone himself, and he was far stronger than Minish. He was a fire type, a sworn hated Pokemon of Minish's, due to reminding of the Magmortar who melted her parents. The Volcarona was extremely wealthy and profited from hurting lives of innocents of Catharsis to gain wealth.

 

He wanted to create an army of extremely powerful mega evolutions, so he could ravage the land one day in ruling over the land with might. And he wants to be revered as a saint, just like Avalon the Great King. Minish was sent on assignments to steal from other gangs, and to show the might of the Volcarona's army of gang members. Minish was forced to not to take on easy tasks but risky ones where she had to face against powerful Pokemon in order to steal their treasures. She listened to the Volcarona for a while, beating up other gangs and taking precious belongings from them. When she eventually became more skilled at fighting, that actually concerned the Volcarona's army for a bit. Minish was an intelligent girl, and she saw the fact that other of her gang associates started to change behavior around her. She noticed that other gang members were starting to become scared of her due to her immense power with the mega stone.

 

Minish hated the Volcarona and his gang members, as they always treat her like shit. They give her orders to only take on other gangs, rather than stealing from the innocent. It was a lot of pressure for her because they simply didn't trust Minish as part of their gang. But when she had a flawless victory in all of her battles, they were becoming scared of her. It was until one day, she found out that the gang leader Volcarona was doing trades with the slave trader that killed her parents. Knowing that the gang she was in profited for slave traders to grow, Minish decided that she wasn't going to have anymore of this charade, so she decided to use Sweet Scent on her own teammates. She started to revolt against the Volcarona's army. She secretly lured in the gang members with Sweet Scent, and crunched them in her venus flytrap. One by one, more and more gang members started losing their lives to Minish. Eventually the Volcarona saw something was up when he realized that three of his members lost their lives mysteriously, and decided to suspect someone in his gang was the culprit.

 

Minish eventually was found out by the Volcarona because it was clear that Minish was the member that they all least trust, so they decided to ambush her. However, she was capable enough to fight for herself. She knew the ambush was about to come, so she separated the members and chomp their heads off one by one, before they could even mega evolve. The Volcarona and his gang found out her tactic, and was disturbed how she was able to outsmart their gang associates with a relatively simple move.

 

Minish eventually escaped the gang. Rumors spread and she was known as the "Sugar Jaws" because of her craftiness in using Sweet Scent to trap unsuspecting Pokemon. She continues to this very day knowing that she done awful things, but she came to accept them because she believe that was what Catharsis was all about: Pokemon killing Pokemon.

 

Details:
* Minish distrusts Fire-types, because of her experience with the Magmortar and the Volcarona.

* She tends to avoid messing around with Fire-types, rather than trying to hurt them. If she wanted to hurt them, she would do it secretly. But often, she avoids confrontation with Fire-types because she's smart enough to know that she's incapable of fighting back against them.
* She loves spicy tea.
* She is currently friends with a Lucario who is traveling with her.
* The Honchkrow that owned her was named Athrun.
* The Volcarona that owned her was named Lord V. His real name is unknown, and often his 'V' is short for Volcarona.
* Minish isn't a thug, she can be kind if spoken to properly.

* Minish has a soft side, and her soft side is that she can't handle those who give her love. Because having her parents gone, she feels a sense of hollowness of affection and often when Pokemon are friendly with her, she tries to respond appropriately to it but doesn't know how to.

* Minish mainly uses Sweet Scent to lure in her targets, but she is also able to mix her Sweet Scent with Toxic to create fumes that inflict poison into others. Her methods in secretly killing others involve Sweet Scent and Toxic, not brute force.

 

Avalon the Alter Salamence's profile:

 

https://imgur.com/5yEmqT8 This is a picture of Avalon, the Alter Salamence.

https://i.imgur.com/lQxaDde.jpg Mega Alter Salamence.

 

Pokémon: Alter Salamence (Phoenix Version of Salamence)
Name: Great King Avalon
Gender: Male
Personality: Charismatic, noble, super intelligent, wise, powerful, kind, compassionate, strong, and can get very scary if threatened.

Moveset: Starlance, Phantasmal Blessing, Hyper Voice, Boomburst, Light of Ruin, Recover, Oblivion Wing, Quiver Dance and more

Halo Ray - A basic Holy-type move that shoots a beam of golden light that could cause confusion.

Phantasmal Blessing - An overpowered Holy-type move that restores other's health and heals status condition, and is area-of-effect.

Type: Holy/Flying

Ability: Regenerator (Regular) Purification (Mega) - Turns all Normal-type Moves to Holy-type and boosts the damage.
Font Color: Grey (But he won’t be talking in the story unless in a flashback)

Story: Great King Avalon is the greatest king to ever exist in Catharsis, and the oldest king. Perhaps he is the only king of Catharsis, because of his reign ever since the region was found by many different migrating Pokemon. He has built the region from the beginning, assembling it together in one community and he called the community: “Catharsis” which eventually became the region’s name. He has lead the army of Catharsis, and has always lead his army in bringing redemption against any opposers who desire to rule Catharsis for their own selfish gain. He has fought many wars in beginning of Catharsis, and won. Even though he can handle the wars all by himself, he wanted to create armies to strengthen a community of trust and bonds. Driving away darkness that would plague the land, Avalon made sure Catharsis lived in freedom. 

He ruled over Catharsis for many, many years. And everyone lived in peace as long he reigned. He contributed to Catharsis with his impart on wisdom and knowledge. He taught that light should be sought, and the darkness should be known. He also taught that the spirit of meaning is what keeps one awake to the light. His spiritual teaching was passed around his Pokemon, and Pokemon who are familiar with Avalon knows a bit about his teaching. He constructed a society in Catharsis in making others have wealth, careers, shelter, love, and many other areas in life where as Pokemon outside of Catharsis didn’t know how to live. He made diversity come true in Catharsis, empowering Pokemon with items such as mega stones and z-crystals.

However, Avalon had many dark secrets and no one knew Avalon that well. Avalon was very good in keeping his secrets, and the Avalon everyone known is him being the Great King of Catharsis. He made a foundation in Catharsis through fostering the light and knowing secrets in order to make it come true. It was not long until the present day of Catharsis that Avalon’s rule was over. He mysteriously disappeared without any trace. No one knows why or what had happened to him. So Catharsis devolves into a state of emergency and critical status. Without Avalon, Catharsis was dying and many were going in it for the wealth and power. Many people responded to his disappearance by making communities to hopefully restore hope. But many communities were shut down by those aiming for reaping power by hurting others.

So the state of how it is now, is that Elysian, one of Avalon’s warriors, decides to create a secret order where a team of highly trained individuals investigate the phenomenon of Catharsis. Avalon’s legacy still exists in the hearts of many inhabitants of Catharsis, and few steps up to try their best to create change. Avalon’s disappearance is just merely the stepping stone to a great revolution that will occur in Catharsis.

 

And Elysian the Bisharp's profile:

 

Pokémon: Bisharp
Name: Elysian
Gender: Male
Personality: Jovial, honest, mercurial. 
Moveset: Night Slash, Iron Head, X-Scissor, Sword Dance, Iron Defense, Low Sweep, Fling, Sucker Punch, Psycho Cut, Thunder Wave, Focus Blast
Font Color: Red

Story: Elysian the Bisharp was one of Avalon’s loyal warriors, who fought in his army. Elysian did not had a rank, because he was part of the secret operatives that was associated with the Army of Catharsis. His main duty with the Army of Catharsis was to investigate the crime and conspiracies in secrecy. Elysian has seen many dark things that shouldn’t be spoken, and his job was to decide accordingly to the mishaps that are happening in the shadows. When Avalon disappeared, Elysian took the initiative in taking care of the orphans who were under Avalon’s care. That’s how Shirou is under the guidance of Elysian. Elysian is not well-known among other of Avalon’s army, but he fulfilled a large role in supporting Catharsis in the background.

Elysian took the initiative in inviting many Pokemon in secrecy to an assembly where he gives out a speech and pins down the mission of his new order, the Rebirth of Providence. Rebirth of Providence is a secret order dedicated to restoring the order of Catharsis, and a secret order made up of highly talented individuals who had a history of impacting Catharsis. Elysian handpicked many talented individuals to fulfill the task of working together in bringing Catharsis to redemption. And he is still leading the secret group in finding the meaning they’re seeking for.

Details:

* Elysian trains with Shirou when not on missions 3 hours a day while he trains other members of the order for 2 hours.

* Elysian is jovial towards citizens and his friends. Like Avalon, he is protective to those that were under his care (orphans).

 

Holy-Type:

Spoiler

Holy Type is super effective to those that are Dark, Poison, Ghost, and Dragon type.
Holy Type is weak to Dark typing.
Holy Type resists: Fire, Ghost, Dragon, Poison

Types that resists Holy: None

 

Moves of Holy-type:

Starlance ~ Holy-type Ice Beam/Thunderbolt/Flamethrower with a chance of reducing accuracy.

Phantasmal Blessing ~ Massive Area-of-Effect healing move.

Heal Wave ~ Multi-distributed healing move.

Holy Aura ~ ?

Cleansing Fire ~ ?

Divine Intervention ~ Special Holy Sucker Punch.

Excalibur ~ Physical Holy Sacred Sword.

Sanctified Terrain ~ Holy-type Terrain move that neutralizes super-effective damage and boosts grounded Pokemon's Holy type moves by 50%.

 

Main Characters in RP:

Elysian the Bisharp (Spi)

Minish the Mawile (Spi)

Shirou the Lucario (PhoenixKnight545)

Zed the Typhlosion (uberle)

Sirius the Doublade (DigitalAmber)

X the Alter Garchomp (Newt)

Dominicus the Steelix (DemICE)

Morgenstern the Alter Spiritomb (Cronos5010)

Amelia the Glaceon (Anstane)

Liri the Alter Mismagius (Newt)

Serin the Gliscor (DigitalAmber)

Shirone the Alter Zebstrika (PhoenixKnight545)

Rivalin the Alolan Ninetales (Chromein)

Cyn the Alter Lopunny (Amine Chankey3ft7)

 

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[Newt]

This seems interesting. I would like to participate with you, but I'm a bit noob

[uberle]

This seems interesting

I've never played any of the mystery dungeon games, but I liked the idea of playing as the Pokemon vs the Trainer

Also I've never done anything like this, but I'm willing to give it a try

[Ayumu]

Hey, glad to see two new replies. I'll be discussing this with my friend Tatsuya and Chaotyx to decide all of the necessary components to make this RP work. Do you guys have an idea of what Pokemon you would roleplay as? o:

 

Here's Holy typing, made by my friend Tatsuya. Be warned, it's seriously strong (I might change it):

 

Holy Type is super effective to those that are Dark, Poison, Ghost, and Dragon type.
Holy Type is weak to Dark Typing.
Holy Type resists: Fire, Ghost, Dragon, Poison

[uberle]

What're the restrictions (if any) on what Pokemon we can chose?

I mean, I'm obviously not gonna chose a Legendary, but I want to know what I need to be aware of.

[Newt]

17 minutes ago, Spi said:

Hey, glad to see two new replies. I'll be discussing this with my friend Tatsuya and Chaotyx to decide all of the necessary components to make this RP work. Do you guys have an idea of what Pokemon you would roleplay as? o:

 

Here's Holy typing, made by my friend Tatsuya. Be warned, it's seriously strong (I might change it):

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Holy Type is super effective to those that are Dark, Poison, Ghost, and Dragon type.
Holy Type is weak to Dark Typing.
Holy Type resists: Fire, Ghost, Dragon, Poison
Holy Type is immune to Fairy type

Mega Rayquaza With an Alter Pokemon, Gible, but I'm not certain of what types it should be.

[Ayumu]

@uberle Just non-legendaries (I hope my answer suffice?) You can mix it up by making them an Alter version. Mainly it's not simply what Pokemon you choose, but how you formulate them to be unique. Here's a fun fact about Catharsis: strong Pokemon who have high stats are often the ones who have a bad reputation in Catharsis among weaker Pokemon. Since tougher Pokemon tend to go around hurting others. There's exceptions though, and you could always formulate your character to be a unique one. You don't have to have a record of low morality in your character if you choose a Pokemon that is 'strong'. My Mawile started out weak in her background, but she eventually became strong (though she's got a nasty grip on her morality at times).

 

@Dark Rogue Oh yeah I forgot to mention. You can make your Pokemon a Garchomp straight away if you like. You don't have to start from the very beginning. Since I don't know if the roleplay will continue that long, it maybe best to start off nice and powerful. That's why my friend Tatsuya is starting with Lucario, and Chaotyx with Greninja. You can write a background of your character's history in the sign-up topic that I'll post eventually, and that'll be good enough as a background.

 

Edit: The Pokemon that can't be taken is Alter Salamence, since Avalon is the only one in the region that is.

Edited November 11, 2017 by Spi

[uberle]

Hmmm 

Ok I got it.

TBH I have a plethora of OCs that I've created and can convert to Pokemon

So let's do the one I'm probably going to use

 

Spoiler

Zed, Typhlosion 

Moveset: Eruption, Flamethrower, Thunder Punch, Lava Plume, Focus Blast, Heat Wave, Earthquake, Flare Blitz, Sunny Day, Solar Beam

 

Story: Zed's on a mission. One from Arceus himself, but this isn't the first time he's done this. In fact, Zed's lost count of how many times he's been brought into a new world where everything is different. Normally he travels with a group, but this time he's on his own. In every world there is a script that it must follow, certain things must happen and certain people must do them. However, Zed cannot tell anyone about this. There are consequences to this, and he doesn't want to know exactly the wrath of God feels like, so he does his best to follow the script to a T while avoiding confession. He usually ends up joining whoever he needs to so he can do his job. Unfortunately due to being a Typhlosion in a world where the powerful are feared, he's got his work cut out for him. He has to battle the gangs who think he's a threat, try to get answers from those who are rendered speechless by fear of his presence. Also the fact that a major figure who he has to assist has a major dislike of fire types. 

 

Zed has several abilities given by Arceus along with knowing how things will go down. The most powerful is being able to temporarily gain the Holy typing as it's called in Catharsis, which can be combined with his Typhlosionite to turn into a Mega Alter Typhlosion, which he's feels looks anticlimactic as its appearance is basically Insurgence's Mega Typhlosion gone Super Saiyan. He rarely does this as it attracts too much attention from those he wants to avoid, also because the form's power can hurt those around him, which he has to be careful about. However, even without this form he still tends to one shot everything so he finds several fights annoying.

 

Other details:

While it can shift Zed normally chooses to keep his Nature at Modest but will change it to use his physical moves or to gain some speed.

While usually calm and levelheaded, if someone keeps questioning him about things he can't answer he can get irritated and get to heated.

He doesn't particularly dislike any pokemon, but he's wary around Water types, especially Crawdaunt 

When villain is giving a long winded speech Zed will get bored one shot it with something.

Don't get him mad. When Zed realizes the full extent of someone's evil he will immediately go full throttle on them.

If someone tells him to stay out of a battle he will, but has soon as the other is having trouble he'll offer to switch.

 

[DigitalAmber]

Can I join? I hope I wasn’t too late. 

 

Spoiler

(If i need a color, I'm using this one)

Name: Sirius

Pokemon: Doublade

Gender: Male

Moveset: Swords Dance, Protect, Wide Guard, Sacred Sword, Retaliate, Iron Head, Shadow Sneak, False Swipe, Slash, Gyro Ball, Facade

Items: Silk Scarf(added into the cloth hanging from him)

Personality: Loyal(overly so at times), brave, resourceful, Carries a high moral code from the army, Unafraid of death,

 

Story: Sirius is a vigilante and has quite an infamous reputation to go with him. Born before Avalon's disappearance, Sirius's childhood was spent training for war. After being kicked out of the army for unsavory conduct, he became a mercenary for hire. Eventually Sirius got into a fight with a retired Escavilier. He was quickly overpowered and accepted that death was unavoidable now. Surprisingly the Escavilier refused to kill and after a short conversation, Sirius rejoined the army of Catharsis. Working his way through the ranks, eventually he became one of the most reliable members in the army. He even became a member of Avalon's royal guard and defended him from enemies striving for a kingship. Due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Sirius got blamed for the disappearance of Avalon. He was quickly exiled from the army and became feared by the few good people remaining in Catharsis. He turned into the vigilante he is now during his exile, fighting for what he thinks is right. 

 

Other details: 

Rarely strikes first, and strikes when provoked. 

Has a hatred for a Grimnor, an honor less Nidoking he once served under and eventually fought. 

Despite having multiple opportunities to do so, Sirius refuses to evolve out of respect for the Aegislash commander of the Guard. 

Refuses to any fight veterans or Escavilier he comes across

The Escavilier was named Norel. 

Has a lonely nature

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 14, 2018 by DigitalAmber

[Ayumu]

Lmao

 

I was testing this RP out on my forums and it was so edgy. I'm going to try to tone down the "RAH DARKNESS" theme to it. I plan to talk to my friend tonight in making the RP more proper, with a balance of light and darkness. So right now the RP isn't ready yet, I still need to formulate it.

 

@uberle Cool, uberle, that's a nice character. Is Zed a normal Typhlosion that is able to bless himself temporarily through Arceus's Holy typing? 

@DigitalAmber You're not late. You're very early. I still need to formulate my RP's idea a bit more, and considering more people are joining this RP, we need to organize everyone in the proper placement of the plot. My main focus right now is to tone down the darkness of my character, because dark characters tend to contribute to the overall theme of the RP. Luckily there's characters like your Sirius or my friend's Greninja that makes this RP a lot less dark. Thanks for the submission. Really good character you made.

 

EDIT: I'm changing my Minish the Mawile profile a bit more, so she's better off to be a character with a lot of potential, rather than having all of her potential fulfilled in one background. I think it's important to write characters with potential to fulfill so they can at least grow in the RP. Well, I'm toning down Minish's story so she can have a lot more light + potential.

Edited November 12, 2017 by Spi

[uberle]

@Spi

Yeah that's the case

Like Mega Evolution is goes away after battle.

[Ayumu]

I believe what I'm going to do for the roleplaying is that I'll divide the storyline into "Events" and each event will have a certain premise and plot to it. We'll roleplay our characters in each event and progress in the story until the event is finally finished. The reason why I'm doing this is because it's a lot better than roleplaying all linear and having no direction with each event in the story. Setting down each event, and having room for people to think about what they do in each event will allow them to work with their characters. This also helps especially with new role players who don't know what's happening in the story, and all they have to do is read the event to progress in the story.

 

I think the first event will be Elysian the Bisharp (my friend character's teacher) starting up a new community which roleplayers can join and progress in discovering the mysteries of Catharsis all together. All of our characters will be in one place, in an assembly of Pokemon where Elysian gives his speech. I think that's a good way to start it. But I'll need to discuss with my friends in planning ahead of what would go down in Catharsis and how we're going to play around with the story.

 

I'll be writing the profile of Elysian and Avalon soon since they're important to the story. If you guys want to contribute in making important characters who are not mained by yourselves, go ahead and share. Non-playable characters can be controlled by others, to help progress in the plot.

[uberle]

NPCs to help the plot?

........

Came up with this as soon as I saw that

 

The General, Alter Poliwrath

He's basically Zed's supervise. His job is to make sure Zed isn't screwing something up, whether Zed forgot a detail, or he's taking part in a battle that another character is supposed to fight. Zed sometimes refers to him as 'Plot' as the General is very blunt about what Zed needs to do given little explanation other than 'because you need to'

He's literally just a character to remind Zed of what he's supposed to do so Zed can help advance things like he's supposed to.

The General either pulls Zed aside when no one is around, or will give hints, sometimes he's subtle and it's just Zed catching a glimpse of the General sometimes less so, bribing a grunt into loudly giving out the plans/location of the boss

 

The General is Arceus's second in command and the third most powerful being in all of existence. Zed sits at 5 in this list, so he obeys the General, though usually with some reluctance. Numbers 1 and 2 are guessable, but I probably won't introduce 4, unless you think we may need him.

[Ayumu]

@uberle Okay, just be careful not to make your character too powerful in plot. I'm not including legendaries in this roleplay, so the mention of Arceus or other legendaries should be best mentioned rather than roleplayed. They should have no relation to Catharsis's history, because Avalon is basically the 'legendary' of the region. I'm fine with it relating to the character's beliefs and such, but be careful not to bleed into the lore of Catharsis. What typing is Alter Poliwrath btw?

 

Avalon the Alter Salamence's profile:

 

Pokémon: Alter Salamence
Name: Great King Avalon
Gender: Male
Personality: Charismatic, noble, super intelligent, wise, powerful, kind, compassionate, strong, and can get very scary if threatened.
Moveset: Hyper Voice, Light of Ruin, Roost, Dark Pulse, Phoenix Dance, and more
Font Color: Grey (But he won’t be talking in the story unless in a flashback)

Story: Great King Avalon is the greatest king to ever exist in Catharsis, and the oldest king. Perhaps he is the only king of Catharsis, because of his reign ever since the region was found by many different migrating Pokemon. He has built the region from the beginning, assembling it together in one community and he called the community: “Catharsis” which eventually became the region’s name. He has lead the army of Catharsis, and has always lead his army in bringing redemption against any opposers who desire to rule Catharsis for their own selfish gain. He has fought many wars in beginning of Catharsis, and won. Even though he can handle the wars all by himself, he wanted to create armies to strengthen a community of trust and bonds. Driving away darkness that would plague the land, Avalon made sure Catharsis lived in freedom. 

He ruled over Catharsis for many, many years. And everyone lived in peace as long he reigned. He contributed to Catharsis with his impart on wisdom and knowledge. He taught that light should be sought, and the darkness should be known. He also taught that the spirit of meaning is what keeps one awake to the light. His spiritual teaching was passed around his Pokemon, and Pokemon who are familiar with Avalon knows a bit about his teaching. He constructed a society in Catharsis in making others have wealth, careers, shelter, love, and many other areas in life where as Pokemon outside of Catharsis didn’t know how to live. He made diversity come true in Catharsis, empowering Pokemon with items such as mega stones and z-crystals.

However, Avalon had many dark secrets and no one knew Avalon that well. Avalon was very good in keeping his secrets, and the Avalon everyone known is him being the Great King of Catharsis. He made a foundation in Catharsis through fostering the light and knowing secrets in order to make it come true. It was not long until the present day of Catharsis that Avalon’s rule was over. He mysteriously disappeared without any trace. No one knows why or what had happened to him. So Catharsis devolves into a state of emergency and critical status. Without Avalon, Catharsis was dying and many were going in it for the wealth and power. Many people responded to his disappearance by making communities to hopefully restore hope. But many communities were shut down by those aiming for reaping power by hurting others.

So the state of how it is now, is that Elysian, one of Avalon’s warriors, decides to create a secret order where a team of highly trained individuals investigate the phenomenon of Catharsis. Avalon’s legacy still exists in the hearts of many inhabitants of Catharsis, and few steps up to try their best to create change. Avalon’s disappearance is just merely the stepping stone to a great revolution that will occur in Catharsis.

 

And Elysian the Bisharp's profile:

 

Pokémon: Bisharp
Name: Elysian
Gender: Male
Personality: Jovial, honest, mercurial. 
Moveset: Night Slash, X-Scissor, Sword Dance, Feint Attack, Iron Defense, Low Sweep, Payback, Fling, and Psycho Cut
Font Color: Red

Story: Elysian the Bisharp was one of Avalon’s loyal warriors, who fought in his army. Elysian did not had a rank, because he was part of the secret operatives that was associated with the Army of Catharsis. His main duty with the Army of Catharsis was to investigate the crime and conspiracies in secrecy. Elysian has seen many dark things that shouldn’t be spoken, and his job was to decide accordingly to the mishaps that are happening in the shadows. When Avalon disappeared, Elysian took the initiative in taking care of the orphans who were under Avalon’s care. That’s how Shirou is under the guidance of Elysian. Elysian is not well-known among other of Avalon’s army, but he fulfilled a large role in supporting Catharsis in the background.

Elysian took the initiative in inviting many Pokemon in secrecy to an assembly where he gives out a speech and pins down the mission of his new order, the Rebirth of Providence. Rebirth of Providence is a secret order dedicated to restoring the order of Catharsis, and a secret order made up of highly talented individuals who had a history of impacting Catharsis. Elysian handpicked many talented individuals to fulfill the task of working together in bringing Catharsis to redemption. And he is still leading the secret group in finding the meaning they’re seeking for.

Details:

* Elysian trains with Shirou when not on missions 3 hours a day while he trains other members of the order for 2 hours.

* Elysian is jovial towards citizens and his friends. Like Avalon, he is protective to those that were under his care (orphans).

 

I'll update these profiles if new ideas come to me and my friends. And the character Elysian is Tatsuya's idea.

Edited November 12, 2017 by Spi

[uberle]

@Spi

Don't worry, Arceus himself won't be in here anywhere.

Actually he isn't referred to by name by anyone. Only as Zed's "employer"

And I can easily tone down Zed's strength or add a repercussion for turning into an Alter if need be.

Also the General is just there as a possible plot device versus an actual character

[Ayumu]

@uberle What typing is Alter Poliwrath? Well, your character Zed will be hired along with everyone else's character under the secret order of Rebirth of Providence, led by Elysian the Bisharp. I'm not sure if you want to make him part of the order as a part-time agent, or a full-time agent. Since he's already an employee of an organization, it would be nice if he could also be part of this secret order. Basically, I'm trying to make everyone join an order which will involve everyone working together. Also, don't be afraid of my Minish. She won't hurt or act racist against your character. I changed her 'dislike' to 'distrust' Fire-types because it makes more sense that she tends to shy away from Fire-types rather than getting up all on their face. She won't bother Zed, but will have to learn how to cooperate with everyone involved in the order to fulfill the objectives and mission that Elysian laid out.

 

So far I'm typing out the lore and secrets that will be uncovered in the story in a document. I won't be sharing the document, but I will reveal some information that could prove to be useful. Such as this:

No one in the story will know what Pokemon trainers or humans are. They've never been exposed to them, so they have no clue. And there's a huge reason why this is because. That'll be revealed in the story.

 

Also, to make this easier, what's everyone's Discord? My Discord is Spi#2561. It'd be nice if we could have a chat together, in planning what we should do for Catharsis's story.

Edited November 12, 2017 by Spi

[uberle]

@Spi Hmmm I would say Water/Holy for General

Zed could be a senior member and he's supposed to train the new members

 

Also mine is Zed#6660

[DigitalAmber]

My Discord is DigitalAmber#3213

 

[Ayumu]

My friend Chaotyx isn't joining us, so that makes about five members of this roleplaying. With four main profiles complete. @Dark Rogue Can you submit your profile of your Garchomp (Gible)? Everyone, give me your Discord so I can add you all to the Discord chat group. It's going to be pretty tough without Chaotyx since I'm familiar with his roleplaying ability, and he's good at it.

 

But if you guys are able to contribute well enough to the plot, then I'll be happy to participate in this roleplay with all of you. I'm still developing the bulk of the plot devices of the story, but I believe we're close to starting the RP. So I'll now change this topic to Sign-Ups/OOC rather than Interest Check.

Edited November 13, 2017 by Spi

[uberle]

Here's my idea for the antagonist

Ennd the Alter Haxorus

Type: Holy/Ghost

 

Ennd has a strange power where no one except him can use attacks in his presence
Also other powers such as Zed being able to turn Alter and Mega Evolution are also void along with abilities
Basically his ability is Mold Breaker on steroids
Ennd has a goal
To invoke judgment onto all the evil Pokemon
But his image of evil is anyone who's killed, which involves some Pokemon that are too important to the world
Such as Avalon
So he like everyone else, wants to find Avalon, but for different reasons
But he's not unreasonable 
If you can convince him that the good you've done outweighs the bad, he will spare you
But that is easier said than done

 

Ennd was a normal Haxorus once
He was living in his own region, but it was at war with Catharsis
He was a leading officer and was leading his troops, but was allowed to go home to his fiancee for a few days in the capital of the region 
But it was during this time when Avalon attacked, wiping out Ennd's home in its entirety 
Avalon with all his power was able to erase the incident along with any history of the region
But Ennd had somehow survived the attack, and became an Alter infused with the energy of Avalon's moves (hence his Holy/Ghost typing)
The war ended after that and Ennd was able to sneak into Catharsis and waited in hiding
When Avalon disappeared he took the opportunity, becoming a leader of one of the many 'gangs' that were popping up
He uses the gang to take out other gangs as a cover, but he's really trying to find out what happened to Avalon
Whether he can get his revenge, or if someone had already done it for him

[phoenixknight545]

Here is my Profile.

 

Shirou the Lucario

Spoiler

 

Pokemon: Lucario
Name: Shirou
Ability: Justified 
Nature: Serious
Gender: (Male, Can breed with other Males)
Personality: Calm, Cold, Serious, Stern, Gentle
Moveset:  Bullet Punch, Blaze Kick, Aura Sphere, Close Combat, High Jump Kick, Meteor Mash, Bone Rush, Iron Defense, Sword Dance, Heal Pulse, Double Team, Extremespeed, Flash Cannon, Nasty Plot
Font Color: royalblue

Story: When Shirou was a young Riolu, Catharsis was guided and lead by the Great King Avalon. Shirou saw him inspire others by helping the weak become stronger, and create a community of Catharsis in becoming bonded together and unite together with strong bonds. The community of Catharsis under Avalon's reign was peaceful and prosperous. Avalon met Shirou when he was a young Riolu and was taught in his schools about the principles of Holy and Dark. Shirou was apart of Avalon's daycare and Avalon looked after children Pokemon. Avalon was very close to the children of Catharsis's Pokemon, and Shirou especially. However, when Great King Avalon disappeared one day, Shirou became lost in confusion and it brought up a lot of questions. 

Shirou eventually evolved into Lucario after coming to terms of the new cruel world he lives in. Shirou trained under the strict guidance of Bisharp, named Elysian. Elysian was a strict teacher on training on Shirou's combat ability, but was fair on him. After much rigorous training from Elysian, Shirou was able to evolve from Riolu to Lucario. Shirou is not kind to those enjoy the suffering of others, and he is not afraid to fight dirty against criminals.

Shirou does not spar others when evil corrupted pokemon started begging for mercy, Shirou sees this as a chance to knock them out cold long enough for them to be send to the authorities. as to make them think he was going to kill them. Shirou will only kill pokemon unless he is ordered to do it or to save a comrades life. Despite the darkness of the world, Shirou is kind and gentle to pokemon that have not lost their innocence as he finds innocence is worth treasuring and to protect.

Details:
* Shirou admires the Great King Avalon, and takes matters in his own hands by acting as a black knight who fights in the ideals of Avalon. Avalon once taught others about purity in having qualities of both light and darkness, and his ideals in light and darkness inspires Shirou.
* Being a vigilante, he always hated the strong who preyed on the weak. Shirou often worked alone and tried to destroy those who hurt the innocent.
* Many feared Shirou because he was a strong Pokemon, and strong Pokemon were considered to be thugs in Catharsis, but Shirou was nothing like that.

 

 

Edited January 13, 2018 by phoenixknight545

[DemICE]

I was waiting for something like this. Tho.. If you are playing in this as a character, who's going to be the GM?

[Ayumu]

@DemICE What do you mean by the roles of the GMs? Do you mean the roles of moderating the whole sequence of events in the RP? Because I have that covered. I'm going to moderate it, and Tatsuya (PhoenixKnight545) will help me if I need help moderating.

Edited November 13, 2017 by Spi

[DemICE]

i mean,  usually, the person who tells the story and decides how the events will unfold,  does not also actively play with a character in the RP.   

[Ayumu]

@DemICE Well, I'll do that alongside of roleplaying with Minish and Elysian. They need to be roleplaying in the story in order for it to progress. Especially Elysian the Bisharp. I just have two roles, pinpointing down the story and roleplaying with the other characters. The characters are supposed to mold the story, the story itself isn't concrete. I've played other RPs that had the GMs roleplay themselves, so it's not so bad if I can do it right. I just hope this RP doesn't get too complicated, lol.