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Banan-chan

Previously QueOne
A group of Pokemon and trainers wake up in an unfamiliar place, with no personal memories other than their own names. The place they find themselves in seems ordinary at first glance, but feels strangely ethereal. Almost as if the whole world was out of place. A dream.

The group quickly finds themselves confronted with vicious monsters: unnaturally huge and powerful Pokemon that seem to want nothing but blood. In order to survive and eventually escape, our heroes must learn to navigate the world of nightmares and work together to find its source.



Rules:
  • All Charms rules apply, as usual.
  • One OC per person.
  • No canon characters, character controlled or NPC alike.
  • Pokemon OCs enabled. No talking Pokemon, pseudo legendaries must be second stage or lower, and no shiny.

  • Three Pokemon per trainer, and only one may be fully evolved. Pokemon with no pre-evolutions will be an exception. One shiny max.

  • Four moves per mon. I know this may seem restrictive, but four moves should be enough to accommodate both combat and utility. If need be, a Pokemon can always forget/learn moves with TMs or level ups.

  • No Teleport

  • No autopilot Pokemon. That is, the trainer cannot just send a Pokemon to do a big task “offscreen.”

  • No league champions/elite four/gym leaders

  • Romance enabled. Don’t go too crazy.

  • All human OCs must be old enough to feasibly take a big hit and not die instantly. I’d say 15+, but lower is acceptable if there is a good reason.

  • This RP will be somewhat gory. There will be blood. It’s a nightmare, after all.

  • If you want to leave the RP, kill off your character!
  • Reservations enabled, but with a catch. If you don’t submit a sheet within three days of reserving, you must move to the back of the line. Your sheet doesn’t have to be immediately complete, as you will have time to add things before the RP starts.

  • The RP will start when four players have been accepted, including myself. The RP will max out at seven players.
Since the whole RP exists in a paraphysical setting, it’s also worth it to mention special mechanics of the dream world.

Dream mechanics:
  • Physical laws are generally obeyed, although inconsistencies may arise.

  • Even though it is a dream, characters are not blessed with god-like powers. A few minor abilities are given to all characters, such as quick healing.

  • Things can happen unexpectedly. A character can walk through a door, turn around, and find that the room they came from no longer exists. The entire setting can shift in an instant

  • Strong emotions or feelings, such as pain, can cause the world to become more unstable.

  • Rotom phones/dexes and regular Pokedexes glitch out and don’t work. The rotom may still be present, it's just that the device itself malfunctions.

  • Assume that dying in the dream means dying in real life. It would be boring if everyone suicided and escaped instantly.

  • And, most importantly, the dream world is empty for the most part. The only “living” entities are the characters, the monsters that hunt them, and perhaps NPCs that serve an important purpose

  • Feel free to be creative! Miracles are welcome as long as they aren’t overpowered and overused.
That’s about it for the major elements of the RP! Please use the character sheet below to submit an OC. You may notice that this sheet is a little more simple than usual. Since the characters don’t have backstory, I added a possessions category. In this category, you simply describe the things in your character’s pockets. These items are the only clue to the characters’ identities outside of the dream. Additionally, I added a “fear” category, which is essentially a phobia your character may have that may manifest in the dream world. Feel free to go more in depth than usual on the personality and appearance fields! (* is optional)

Accepted:
Name: Naga Anzu

Age: 16

Appearance: She is a light skinned young lady with a slightly well feminine build. She stands at 5'3 in height. She has white long hair pulled up in a high ponytail with a lavender colored bow to tie it up securely. She wears a white floral patterned dress with white flats as the straps go around her ankles creating a bow in the back with a light purple belt around her waist with a medium sized dark purple bow in the back of the dress. She wears a white cross around her neck with a dark purple scarf to keep it hidden. She has light blue eyes, right completely blind which her bang covers. She wears glasses upon her face. She has a light purple/pink Fannie pack around her waist with a Sylveon printed on the front of it with the Sylveon colored ribbons tied to one side of the strap. She wears a Sylveon bracelet around her wrist.

Personality: She is a very sweet and shy young lady who loves to friend anyone. She has a pure heart as she believes everyone has a reason to be who they are. She is a person that doesn’t have an sort of anger nor expresses it. She tries her best to be brave.

Fear: Thunderstorms, Physical pain

*Possessions: A black wolf mask with green/light blue streaks

*Other: She has only an older brother named Fang. Ribbon has a brother named Tidelwave a Vaporeon.

Pokemon:
Species: Ribbon(F) Sylveon

Ability: Cute Charm

Moves: Moonblast, Dazzling Beam, Mystical Fire, Misty Terrain

*Personality: She is quite naive as she often shy around the male of the gender. She often worries about her partner most of the time due to her weak body.

*Unique physical characteristics: N/A

*Other: Tidelwave is her older brother Eevee sibling


Species: Camellia(F) Deerling(Spring Form)

Ability: Sap Sipper

Moves: Energy Ball, Jump Kick, Nature Power, Faint Attack

*Personality: She is often gentle but will protect if she necessarily has to.

*Unique physical characteristics: N/A

*Other: Zero is her older brother winter form Deerling sibling.



Species: Lebbi(F) Axew(shiny)

Ability: Rivalry

Moves: Dragon Claw, Slash, Bite, Swords Dance

*Personality: She is very bold despite being so small. She will defensively attack if she feels her trainer is being threatened.

*Unique physical characteristics: She is a shiny Axew

*Other: She wears a fang around her neck like a collar
Name: Iggyray ‘Iggy’ Johns
Age: 15
Appearance: A young man with dark tanned skin and pale green eyes. He has black hair with two light blue streaks in the front. His black rimmed round glasses are usual falling off. A thin red scar is located across her wrist and a light white bow like ribbon is always tied around his wrist to cover the scar that has yet to spark how it has happened. Clothing is quite another thing. He wears dark blue long sleeve shirt that loose and baggy, plain dark grey shorts that reach to about the bottom of his knees and white socks that aren’t long with black and white sneakers. Another white bow like ribbon is tied around his left ankle.
Personality: Iggy is most likely described as a joyful person with little to no anger to release. But in the case of the nightmare that he now lives in, his personality was split into a very depressed like life. He is quite quiet now and seems to release his anger onto those who have not touched him at all. Though through the bloodshed Iggy he is still very kind and is only angry because of the longing.
Fear: The fear of losing those he loves, being turned away
*Possessions: A small black journal is stuffed into his back pocket, it’s filled with doodles and sketches.
*Other: N/A

Team:

Species: Bat(M;Torracat)
Ability: Blaze
Moves: Revenge, U-Turn, Sunny day, Blaze Kick
*Personality: Unknown
*Unique physical characteristics: Shiny
*Other: N/A

Species: Charge(M;Blaziken)
Ability: Blaze
Moves: Blaze Kick, Bulk Up, Reversal, Flare Blitz
*Personality: A serious Blaziken with little to no doubt of doing anything.
*Unique physical characteristics: A navy blue bandanna is tied around its neck.
*Other: None

Species: Pirate(M;Eevee)
Ability: Run Away
Moves: Covet, Quick Attack, Swift, Helping Hand
*Personality: A playful Eevee with a love for running.
*Unique physical characteristics: A black eye path with a Fire pattern covers it’s right eye.
*Other:
Character Sheet
Name:
Roscoe (Rostislav) Baranov (Matronymic missing)
Age: Early 19's
Appearance:

Cant upload the image for some reason, have a link for now: https://i.ibb.co/h9gfpMC/4395-g-I5-Edit.png
Picrew credit: https://picrew.me/image_maker/4395 (おっさんメーカー)


Appearance: Roscoe is relatively short (5'4), and his constant wobble into and out of malnourishment isn't helping the case. Still, his body is all toned muscle and wide shoulders, obviously earned through years of hard labor.
His face managed to stay babyishly round, generous with freckles and with a beauty mark on one cheek- not exactly handsome, but definitely pretty charming, if his permanent scowl didn't sour it. There's also the matter of the grisly discoloration crawling upon the suntanned, brown skin on his shoulder, all the way up to the side of his neck- a clear consequence of facing a head-on Shadow Claw.

His hair shares the color and consistency of straw, hastily tied into twin tails and cut short in the back. It's likely the most endearing part of him, as his cloudy caramel eyes are dead enough to make your seafood dinner concerned, and there's no saving it even with his long eyelashes and the smell of mountainside that has seeped into his very skin.

He wears a dark gray duffel coat with soft fur lem, one that has seemingly outgrown him and sits around him like fluffed-up wings. Under that, he has an old white blouse that has miraculously remained clean despite his work and lifestyle.

For finishing touches, he wears old hiking boots, red riding gloves, loose gray jeans, and a woolen scarf wrapped around his midsection in pale scarlet, the end of it hanging loose against the side of his leg. It's a bit singed...
His signature apparel must be his cowboy hat, the same color as his coat, decorated with a silver band and occasional red shimmer.
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Personality: Roscoe is... complicated. He isn't as much of a spitfire as he is a grease fire, with the bucket of water constantly and precariuosly wobbling somewhere above. He doesn't like being angry and just how split wide his mouth is, but he doesn't know what else to be at this point.

But he loves people so much. Moving in herds is the most natural thing for him after all. Allow him to stick around for just a bit and show him a mere ghost of patience, and he will look towards you as if you raised the sun each and every day. He will growl and probably put foot in his mouth more often than not, but his heart aches to love in the few ways he still remembers how to.

He loves fiercely and isn't above thrashing around to keep those he loves provided for- even if it means driving them away from the ticking bomb he is when better pasture is near.
He has the drive to do something, with the barely concealed desperation that hints toward it being one of the few things that still keep him moving. On the seemingly endless road towards it, he became quite reckless and made many, many mistakes.

Fears: Fires, not providing enough for his found family, tight and enclosed spaces. Also reaching his only goal and having to finally face the fact that the chase is all that he has, but he doesn't allow himself to think about that.
*Possessions: Pocket radio, a well-loved swiss knife with a build-in compass, a personalized card with an address and rotom phone number sown into the inside of his coat.
*Other: Theme - "On The Outside Looking In" / "Prodigal"
Character Sheet
Name: George Jenkins
Age: 16
Appearance:
5’ 7” with a scrawny build and mid length curly brown hair. He sports a maroon sweater over a white shirt, grey sweatpants, and plain black sneakers. His face usually appears a little sleepy.

Personality:
George is always a little drowsy, which makes his personality docile and amiable. Even though he seems apathetic on the outside, he is reliable and cares for others, often acting selflessly to his own detriment. Although he has clever moments, he is not too analytical, and can sometimes be too trusting of others. When being attacked, George is afraid of turning his back to his foe. This means that he is forced to stand his ground, even when he has no chance of winning.

Fear: Huge creatures, being chased

*Possessions: In one pocket, there is an old Rotom phone and some spare change. The paint is scratched up and faded, but it is otherwise in okay condition. It is completely out of battery. In the other pocket, there is a fresh roll of cash and a folded up envelope with a letter inside.

*Other: Strangely enough, he has an open wound on the back of his head that doesn’t seem to heal in the dream world, causing him constant pain.

Team:
Tangela (Male)
Ability: Regenerator
Moves:
-Giga Drain
-Knock Off
-Sludge Bomb
-Leech Seed
*Personality: Tangela is curious and gentle. He plays a supportive role on the team. As the youngest team member, he has something of an inferiority complex when seeing the other two in combat. He seems to take after Lanturn's battle style.
*Unique physical characteristics: Wilting a little.
*Other: None

Lanturn (Female)
Ability: Volt Absorb
Moves:
-Scald
-Thunderbolt
-Toxic
-Protect
*Personality: A tough but kind Pokemon. She is the team member most capable of taking hits. Since she is an underwater Pokemon by nature, she is very excited by her ability to move freely in the dream world.
*Unique physical characteristics: Her back light sometimes flickers on and off.
*Other: She can swim outside of water in the dream world.

Sandslash-A (Female)
Ability: Slush Rush
Moves:
-Icicle Crash
-Iron Head
-Swords Dance
-Slash
*Personality: Tough and stubborn. She is the most aggressive member of the team. As the oldest team member, she seems to feel some amount of responsibility over the other two. She often tries to bear the most burden in battle so they don't have to.
*Unique physical characteristics: None
*Other: She inexplicably becomes sad when seeing George’s head wound.
Reserved: Moxxie the ultimate imp, Sylvithesylveon

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Name: Naga Anzu

Age: 16

Appearance: She is a light skinned young lady with a slightly well feminine build. She stands at 5'3 in height. She has white long hair pulled up in a high ponytail with a lavender colored bow to tie it up securely. She wears a white floral patterned dress with white flats as the straps go around her ankles creating a bow in the back with a light purple belt around her waist with a medium sized dark purple bow in the back of the dress. She wears a white cross around her neck with a dark purple scarf to keep it hidden. She has light blue eyes, right completely blind which her bang covers. She wears glasses upon her face. She has a light purple/pink Fannie pack around her waist with a Sylveon printed on the front of it with the Sylveon colored ribbons tied to one side of the strap. She wears a Sylveon bracelet around her wrist.

Personality: She is a very sweet and shy young lady who loves to friend anyone. She has a pure heart as she believes everyone has a reason to be who they are. She is a person that doesn’t have an sort of anger nor expresses it. She tries her best to be brave.

Fear: Thunderstorms, Physical pain

*Possessions: A black wolf mask with green/light blue streaks

*Other: She has only an older brother named Fang. Ribbon has a brother named Tidelwave a Vaporeon.



Species: Ribbon(F) Sylveon

Ability: Cute Charm

Moves: Moonblast, Dazzling Beam, Mystical Fire, Misty Terrain

*Personality: She is quite naive as she often shy around the male of the gender. She often worries about her partner most of the time due to her weak body.

*Unique physical characteristics: N/A

*Other: Tidelwave is her older brother Eevee sibling


Species: Camellia(F) Deerling(Spring Form)

Ability: Sap Sipper

Moves: Energy Ball, Jump Kick, Nature Power, Faint Attack

*Personality: She is often gentle but will protect if she necessarily has to.

*Unique physical characteristics: N/A

*Other: Zero is her older brother winter form Deerling sibling.



Species: Lebbi(F) Axew(shiny)

Ability: Rivalry

Moves: Dragon Claw, Slash, Bite, Swords Dance

*Personality: She is very bold despite being so small. She will defensively attack if she feels her trainer is being threatened.

*Unique physical characteristics: She is a shiny Axew

*Other: She wears a fang around her neck like a collar

@Banan-chan
 
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Banan-chan

Previously QueOne
Name: Naga Anzu

Age: 16

Appearance: She is a light skinned young lady with a slightly well feminine build. She stands at 5'3 in height. She has white long hair pulled up in a high ponytail with a lavender colored bow to tie it up securely. She wears a white floral patterned dress with white flats as the straps go around her ankles creating a bow in the back with a light purple belt around her waist with a medium sized dark purple bow in the back of the dress. She wears a white cross around her neck with a dark purple scarf to keep it hidden. She has light blue eyes, right completely blind which her bang covers. She wears glasses upon her face. She has a light purple/pink Fannie pack around her waist with a Sylveon printed on the front of it with the Sylveon colored ribbons tied to one side of the strap. She wears a Sylveon bracelet around her wrist.

Personality: She is a very sweet and shy young lady who loves to friend anyone. She has a pure heart as she believes everyone has a reason to be who they are. She is a person that doesn’t have an sort of anger nor expresses it. She tries her best to be brave.

Fear: Thunderstorms, Physical pain

*Possessions: A black wolf mask with green/light blue streaks

*Other: She has only an older brother named Fang. Ribbon has a brother named Tidelwave a Vaporeon.



Species: Ribbon(F) Sylveon

Ability: Cute Charm

Moves: Moonblast, Dazzling Beam, Mystical Fire, Misty Terrain

*Personality: She is quite naive as she often shy around the male of the gender. She often worries about her partner most of the time due to her weak body.

*Unique physical characteristics: N/A

*Other: Tidelwave is her older brother Eevee sibling


Species: Camellia(F) Deerling(Spring Form)

Ability: Sap Sipper

Moves: Energy Ball, Jump Kick, Nature Power, Faint Attack

*Personality: She is often gentle but will protect if she necessarily has to.

*Unique physical characteristics: N/A

*Other: Zero is her older brother winter form Deerling sibling.



Species: Lebbi(F) Axew(shiny)

Ability: Rivalry

Moves: Dragon Claw, Slash, Bite, Swords Dance

*Personality: She is very bold despite being so small. She will defensively attack if she feels her trainer is being threatened.

*Unique physical characteristics: She is a shiny Axew

*Other: She wears a fang around her neck like a collar

@Banan-chan
You're accepted. I'll make my character and start working on the first post.
 
@Banan-chan Hi! I would love to join, I had been missing some good old grimdark for quite a while. Just a quick question, since depending on the answer I might have to change my entire strategy here, prff.

If a Pokemon faints here, do they regenerate after some time, or is it... well, game over for them? I don't want my signature pokemon to Head Charge himself into a bloody grave.
 

Banan-chan

Previously QueOne
@Banan-chan Hi! I would love to join, I had been missing some good old grimdark for quite a while. Just a quick question, since depending on the answer I might have to change my entire strategy here, prff.

If a Pokemon faints here, do they regenerate after some time, or is it... well, game over for them? I don't want my signature pokemon to Head Charge himself into a bloody grave.

Good question. I’d say that after fainting, a Pokemon will lose their regeneration and remain fainted. However, there will be items like revives and potions in the dream world in places such as abandoned Pokémon Centers, which can be used to bring a Pokémon back.
 

|Bread|

Previously 'Candle'
Name: Iggyray ‘Iggy’ Johns
Age: 15
Appearance: A young man with dark tanned skin and pale green eyes. He has black hair with two light blue streaks in the front. His black rimmed round glasses are usual falling off. A thin red scar is located across her wrist and a light white bow like ribbon is always tied around his wrist to cover the scar that has yet to spark how it has happened. Clothing is quite another thing. He wears dark blue long sleeve shirt that loose and baggy, plain dark grey shorts that reach to about the bottom of his knees and white socks that aren’t long with black and white sneakers. Another white bow like ribbon is tied around his left ankle.
Personality: Iggy is most likely described as a joyful person with little to no anger to release. But in the case of the nightmare that he now lives in, his personality was split into a very depressed like life. He is quite quiet now and seems to release his anger onto those who have not touched him at all. Though through the bloodshed Iggy he is still very kind and is only angry because of the longing.
Fear: The fear of losing those he loves, being turned away
*Possessions: A small black journal is stuffed into his back pocket, it’s filled with doodles and sketches.
*Other: N/A

Team:

Species: Bat(M;Torracat)
Ability: Blaze
Moves: Revenge, U-Turn, Sunny day, Blaze Kick
*Personality: Unknown
*Unique physical characteristics: Shiny
*Other: N/A

Species: Charge(M;Blaziken)
Ability: Blaze
Moves: Blaze Kick, Bulk Up, Reversal, Flare Blitz
*Personality: A serious Blaziken with little to no doubt of doing anything.
*Unique physical characteristics: A navy blue bandanna is tied around its neck.
*Other: None

Species: Pirate(M;Eevee)
Ability: Run Away
Moves: Covet, Quick Attack, Swift, Helping Hand
*Personality: A playful Eevee with a love for running.
*Unique physical characteristics: A black eye path with a Fire pattern covers it’s right eye.
*Other:
 
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@Banan-chan I will add some finishing touches later on but I'm happy to introduce you all to my favorite brat!
Character Sheet
Name:
Roscoe (Rostislav) Baranov (Matronymic missing)
Age: Early 19's
Appearance:

Cant upload the image for some reason, have a link for now: https://i.ibb.co/h9gfpMC/4395-g-I5-Edit.png
Picrew credit: https://picrew.me/image_maker/4395 (おっさんメーカー)


Appearance: Roscoe is relatively short (5'4), and his constant wobble into and out of malnourishment isn't helping the case. Still, his body is all toned muscle and wide shoulders, obviously earned through years of hard labor.
His face managed to stay babyishly round, generous with freckles and with a beauty mark on one cheek- not exactly handsome, but definitely pretty charming, if his permanent scowl didn't sour it. There's also the matter of the grisly discoloration crawling upon the suntanned, brown skin on his shoulder, all the way up to the side of his neck- a clear consequence of facing a head-on Shadow Claw.

His hair shares the color and consistency of straw, hastily tied into twin tails and cut short in the back. It's likely the most endearing part of him, as his cloudy caramel eyes are dead enough to make your seafood dinner concerned, and there's no saving it even with his long eyelashes and the smell of mountainside that has seeped into his very skin.

He wears a dark gray duffel coat with soft fur lem, one that has seemingly outgrown him and sits around him like fluffed-up wings. Under that, he has an old white blouse that has miraculously remained clean despite his work and lifestyle.

For finishing touches, he wears old hiking boots, red riding gloves, loose gray jeans, and a woolen scarf wrapped around his midsection in pale scarlet, the end of it hanging loose against the side of his leg. It's a bit singed...
His signature apparel must be his cowboy hat, the same color as his coat, decorated with a silver band and occasional red shimmer.
.
Personality: Roscoe is... complicated. He isn't as much of a spitfire as he is a grease fire, with the bucket of water constantly and precariuosly wobbling somewhere above. He doesn't like being angry and just how split wide his mouth is, but he doesn't know what else to be at this point.

But he loves people so much. Moving in herds is the most natural thing for him after all. Allow him to stick around for just a bit and show him a mere ghost of patience, and he will look towards you as if you raised the sun each and every day. He will growl and probably put foot in his mouth more often than not, but his heart aches to love in the few ways he still remembers how to.

He loves fiercely and isn't above thrashing around to keep those he loves provided for- even if it means driving them away from the ticking bomb he is when better pasture is near.
He has the drive to do something, with the barely concealed desperation that hints toward it being one of the few things that still keep him moving. On the seemingly endless road towards it, he became quite reckless, took on a little bit of natures ruthlessness and made many, many mistakes.

Fears: Fires, not providing enough for his found family, tight and enclosed spaces. Also reaching his only goal and having to finally face the fact that the chase is all that he has, but he doesn't allow himself to think about that.
*Possessions: Pocket radio, a well-loved swiss knife with a build-in compass, a personalized card with an address and rotom phone number sown into the inside of his coat.
*Other: Theme - "On The Outside Looking In" / "Prodigal"

Team:
!Personalities to be added soon!

Species: Krokorok (F), Myshka
Ability: Intimidate
Moves: Aqua Tail, Dig, Foul Play, Stealth Rock
*Personality:
*Unique physical characteristics:
She is lither than your usual Krokorok, smaller in height too- which is made even more apparent with how broad her tail is. She wears a bolo tie equipped with a faux fire stone, presumably Roscoes.
*Other: A skilled tracker, although she is easily be misdirected with onion chips. Not onion alone, just chips.

Species: Bouffalant (M), Zefir
Ability: Reckless
Moves: Revenge, Megahorn, Cotton Guard, Wild Charge
*Personality:
*Unique physical characteristics:
Vivid flame-like blaze between his eyes and stripes of the same red across his back- not at all natural, being some sort of cattle marking technique. What is genetic is how his fur tends to curl, same with his mane that has to be tied into a series of loose braids to keep it manageable- all a hint toward his mixed parentage. He dons a western-styled riding getup, complete with the addition of breeching and breast collar. Its all in Rastislavs gray, along with golden highlights and the occasional pop of red, the quality leather decorated with elegant carvings of twisting flames and mountain ferns.
There is also the unmarked white tag on his left ear, but that most definitely isn't important...
*Other: There are two saddlebags on the breeching, but they are fully empty other than some spare coinage.

Species: Corviknight (F), Morena
Ability: Mirror Armor
Moves: Steel Wing, Drill Peck, Iron Defence, Body Press
*Personality: Morena is the clear Matriach of this ragtag group. Her old age brought her wisdom and nerves of steel, as she prefers to quietly hang in the background, always observant and quietly dissaproving of Roscoes more callous tendencies.
*Unique physical characteristics: Similarly to Zefir, she also possesses unnatural red patterns- on the tips of her feathers and beak, along with her back being also striped. The inside of her wings has a pattern in a similar fashion to Corvidknights Gigantamax form. Her feathers arent the lustrous black of younger Corvidknights, being the shade of gracefully aged coal instead.
*Other:
 
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