OverconfidentMagi
Laugh Like You've Won Always
Hello. Welcome to the world of pokémon. I am ████████. People call me ███████████████████████████████████. This world is inhabited by creatures called pokémon. For some people, pokémon are pets. Others use them for fights. I wonder... what will they become to you?
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Welcome to the character thread for Pokémon - Team Nova! The story pitch for this is relatively simple: An evil team has finally succeeded in taking over the pokemon world. There are people trying to bring them down. Conflict ensues. See, simple.
Set 5 years after the events of Sun and Moon, an organization calling itself Team Nova has done what every other group failed: they've taken over the world. With a terrifying new technology called StarBurst, they can take over the minds of any pokemon on a whim, even through pokeballs. Trainers are left powerless. Most Gym leaders and Elite Four members surrendered in the hopes that their pokemon might be spared, and most of those that fought back are now dead or presumed dead. Soldiers rose up to replace them. Weapons and technology are almost always preferred to a team of pokemon at your side. You can at least trust a weapon.
StarBurst technology takes the form of an energy weapon, most often contained in a gauntlet wore by Team Nova members. When used, a beam of light shoots from the gauntlet, and any pokemon struck is quickly dominated. The beam can be controlled by its caster to encircle targets as well, which is most often used on trainers to destroy and pokeballs they may have on them and take the pokemon inside. Only Legendary pokemon, or those with a very strong life-long bond to a human can hope to resist a hit from a StarBurst. The more pokemon a trainer has, the more thin their bond with them is spread. The few trainers left in the world usually only have one or two pokemon to stay under Team Nova's radar.
I won't care how simple or fancy you format your character sheet. So long as it includes the required info I'll be happy. You are more than welcome to put up WiP character sheets, either to ask for input or just incase the site goes down while you're working, or feel free to send them to me in a PM if you don't like showing your unfinished work in front of the class.
IMPORTANT! - I won't tell you you can't have a full team of 6 Magikarp, but having multiple pokemon is not the safest choice given the state of the pokemon world and how easy it is for StarBurst to just come in and steal all of your precious Magikarp in an instant. Think of the bond a trainer has with their pokemon as butter and the pokemon as bread. A single piece of bread covered in all of the butter has a low chance of resisting a single dosage of StarBurst without getting taken over, but 6 slices of bread with barely any butter on each stand no chance of resisting. The first Team Nova grunt to whip out their StarBurst will be going home with your 6 precious Magikarp after using them to Splash you into oblivion. And taking on Team Nova with pokemon and losing will have consequences. Just keep that in mind before you copy and paste your full team of 6 Uber pokemon from pokemon showdown onto the character sheet.
NameAppearance (optional image)Description (required even if you use an image)Role (Resistance Member, Team Nova Grunt, something else)HometownBio (keep it SHORT ~1 paragraph)Personality (3-5 SHORT bullet points)Weapons/Tools (if the character uses weapons or tools)Pokemon (if the character uses pokemon)Anything else you feel like adding
This story is set in a version of the pokemon world that does its best to follow the events of the games, mixed with events, characters, and flavor taken from the Pokemon Adventures manga. There is one very important thing to note however: the timeline does not include the events of Pokemon SwSh. The AU housing this story split before the events of SwSh, resulting in those games' story never happening here. The timeline is not perfect, has many inconsistencies, and will not hold up to intense scrutiny. Don't think too much about it.
20 000 BCE
A meteorite containing Eternatus fell on the Galar region.3 000 BCE
The Kalos war resulted in the use of the Ultimate Weapon.In Galar, a black storm called the Darkest Day occurred and was stopped by Zacian and Zamazenta.2 000 BCE
The Draconid people summon Rayquaza using a wish on a meteor at Meteor Falls to calm Groudon and Kyogre.1000 BCE
A meteor strikes Hoenn, creating Sootopolis City and waking Groudon and Kyogre. As a result of the Draconid people wishing upon the meteor, Rayquaza performs the first recorded instance of Mega Evolution and again calms the two pokemon.800 BCE
Xerneas and Yveltal begin their hibernation in Kalos.500 BCE
The first Ultra Wormhole opens in Alola, and the guardian deities fight against Solgaleo and Lunala.Megearna is created by a scientist who succeeded in creating an artificial soul using the life energy from pokemon.150 BCE
Brass Tower in Johto burns to the ground, killing three pokemon inside. Ho-Oh resurrects them as the Legendary Beasts.The first Pokemon League competition is held.60 BCE
Professor Westwood of Celadon University develops the modern pokeball.11 BCE
Red & Blue are born.The Litleonids meteor shower, including the Millennium Comet, is visible for 7 days over Hoenn.10 BCE
Porygon is created as the "first" artifically created pokemon.5 BCE
Mew is discovered by a team of scientists.4 BCE
Mewtwo is created.0 CE
Events of FRLG & ORAS (Gen 1 & 3)The Grand Delta Meteor is destroyed by Mega Rayquaza, and Deoxys arrives on the pokemon world.1 CE
Blue takes the position of Viridian City gym leader.Red leaves to train on Mt. Silver.Anabel is found in Alola.2 CE
Events of Colosseum & RangerThe Cinnabar Volcano erupts.3 CE
Events of HGSS & Platinum (Gen 2 & 4)5 CE
Events of XDShadow Lugia is created.Genesect is created.6 CE
Events of BW (Gen 5)8 CE
Events of B2W2 & XY (Gen 6)9 CE
Rocket, Cipher, Ranger, and Neo Plasma research and tech is combined to create a new technology, dubbed StarBurst.10 CE
Events of SM (Gen 7)11 CE
Events of SwSh (Gen8)A group calling themselves Team Nova first appears warning about the dangers of pokemon.14 CE
The Pokemon World Championship is held in Kanto. For unknown reasons the pokemon there begin attacking their trainers and bystanders, turning the gathering into a massacre.Blue escapes due to his Alakazam's quick reaction to instantly Teleport its trainer away. He is the only known survivor.15 CE
World governments begin to crumble as the Champions, Elites, and Gym Leaders are killed by their own pokemon.Blue gathers the remnants of the Pokemon League into a resistance group against Team Nova, whom he believes is responsible for the attack at the PWT.16 CE
What's left of Team Plasma led by N joins with the Resistance against Team Nova.The Resistance manages to get their hands on some Team Nova tech, including StarBurst gauntlets. This allows them to take back control of their pokemon. However, they discover a side effect of the technology: StarBursted pokemon will never develop bonds with humans like a normally captured pokemon would, even if caught in a normal pokeball. They will never obey a human unless they are StarBursted again. It permanently turns them into tools.17 CE
Resistance conflict with Team Nova escalates, causing outright war in many regions. The worst of the conflict takes place in Kalos, where Mewtwo joins the fighting alongside Blue to battle against Team Nova's Admins, forcing Team Nova to use a previously unseen weapon that results in much of the entire region being left uninhabitable. When the dust settled Team Nova is left controlling Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh. The Pokemon League controls Alola, Orre, Unova, and what's left of Kalos.The last remnants of Team Plasma are exterminated immediately following the destruction of Kalos when a Team Nova Admin destroys their fleet of frigates that were fleeing the region.18 CE
The story begins.
Half Rules and half Terms and Conditions really. For the most part, I'll just make them up as I go. In no particular order:
- Don't be a dick.
- Shape the story however you want.
- When in doubt, ask forgiveness not permission.*
- *Ask permission before taking over a canon character.
- *Ask permission before taking over a legendary pokemon.
- Team Nova is very strong, expect unwinnable situations to show up. (your level 4 Barbarian isn't always prepared to fight the level 20 Dragon that just spawned in front of it)
- Yes, Cel can do that. (said level 20 Dragon)
- Team Nova can steal your pokemon, even the lowly grunts.
- Both pokemon and people can be injured or killed if they get into a bad spot.
- The threshold for killing a character is harder to reach than their pokemon, but don't keep limit testing that threshold.
- Feel free to create and use minor NPC characters, including Resistance/Nova grunts.
- If a character dies you are free to jump to another.
- To add a new pokemon to your team, for pretty much any pokemon, you are free to go out and catch them, just have something in a post about the character doing so. Do try to keep it within reason, like finding a pokemon where it would logically be found, and the pokemon be something the trainer could reasonably catch and handle.
- If you actually read these (why would you do that), put a period at the bottom right corner of your sheet. Don't worry, these terms are not legally binding and Giratina will not take your soul should you sign.
- Don't even try to have more characters + NPCs than Quirks, you won't win.
This RP will be using Discord for the OOC. Link below. If it stops working let me know, I don't keep permanent links open in case of spam.
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