I’m not entirely sure her backstory fits that of someone who’s meant to be a top notch Pokémon Master as this rp entails.smacks this down in here
Name: Atlas Bennett (Prefers just "Atty")
Title: The Creepy-Cute Connoisseur
Age: 21
Appearance:Outfit: As seen above. Casual and feminine, more suited for warm weather. Black crop top paired with light denim shorts, black sporty kneesocks, and white high-top sneakers. Carries a small, pink backpack with her- has a fuzzy Cutiefly keychain as a charm on one of the zippers. Almost always wears a choker.
Home town: Mistralton City, Unova
Occupation: Trainer and Artist
In-depth Backstory:Born into a regular, generic household in Mistralton City, consisting of her, an older brother, a mother, and father. She left at age 12 with her Sneasel, Ruby, to begin her adventure around Unova in an attempt to collect all 8 League Badges. Returning home every so often for education purposes and holidays, seeing the entirety of Unova took some time for the fledgling trainer- but she had managed. After two years of on and off traveling and battling, Atty accumulated all 8 Unova League Badges, but passed on the actual League in favor of more travel.
With a bit of help from Professor Juniper, Atty found herself traveling to Johto not long after, filling her Pokedex and earning more badges. Although she didn't go nearly as hard as Unova, being that her time spent there was shorter (9 months) and she only decided to get about half of the 8 badges, she found a love for travel while abroad. Spending about 2 weeks in Kanto afterwards, she finally headed home to plan her next trip.
After a couple years finishing up her education and working as needed, Atty left for the tropical region of Alola, a month before her 21st birthday. Expanding her team further, she spent her time wandering, touring, relaxing, and battling instead of taking the Island Challenge. Figuring she was too old in the first place to even bother with it, her mind was set on other goals. Of course, after spending months in Alola expanding her team, as well as getting into the occasional bit of trouble here and there, her motivation has returned to satisfying her wanderlust through battle and traveling distant regions.
Team Theme: Creepy-Cute! Primarily consisting of Bugmons with two dark types, Atty tends to find appeal in Pokemon that some would traditionally consider creepy or intimidating.
Pokemon: Weavile (F)
Nickname: Ruby
Ability: Pressure
Notes: Atty's first Pokemon.
Pokemon: Scizor (F)
Nickname: Dakota
Ability: Technician
Notes: N/A
Pokemon: Scolipede (F)
Nickname: Pandora
Ability: Swarm
Notes: N/A
Pokemon: Ribombee (F, Shiny)
Nickname: Sweetie
Ability: Shield Dust
Notes: Atty's first and only shiny Pokemon.
Pokemon: Golisopod (F)
Nickname: Flower
Ability: Emergency Exit
Notes: Wears a pair of pink, silky bows on her antennae.
Pokemon: Incineroar (M)
Nickname: El Fuego
Ability: Intimidate
Notes: Caught as a stray Litten rather than given as a starter.
i adjusted her usual team a bit to fit in with the rp since 6 fully-evolved mons are needed o/
I’m not entirely sure her backstory fits that of someone who’s meant to be a top notch Pokémon Master as this rp entails.
She has 12 badges, some people have 50.how so? she still has a full set of badges, and she's been to multiple regions + has a fully trained team, so I'm not sure I see the issue.
She has 12 badges, some people have 50.
Traveling in a region and challenging a region a very different. One is a holiday and sight seeing the other is an intensive experience with adversity,
You said it yourself that she took 7 years away from training or traveling to go to school and work. As opposed to people that have trained everyday since they got their Pokémon.
A Backstory is the opportunity to introduce Relevant information about your character, I don’t really care about what they had for breakfast last Tuesday, unless that breakfast changed who they are as a person.I mean I could've included all the instances where she's been offroading, camping on her own, and braving multiple elements, but I kinda wanted to save that for actual RP reveal instead of taking 10 paragraphs to describe every little thing she's done /shrug.
Plus, what's wrong with an education + work? Education is self-explanatory, and work is so she can actually afford to travel. I could easily assume your character doesn't even know basic math or history since I saw nothing about any schooling or education in your bio, you know.
She has survival skills, she's not a child, she has years of experience, and she's certainly not a bad trainer. My plan isn't for her to win, mind you. I don't *want* her to win, nor do I want her to be the best. She's only 21, and losses are learning experiences. Her biggest driving force is having fun, learning, and meeting new people + Pokemon.
A Backstory is the opportunity to introduce Relevant information about your character, I don’t really care about what they had for breakfast last Tuesday, unless that breakfast changed who they are as a person.
Nothing wrong with school and work but for some others that time has been devoted to training so it makes sense that their skills may be at greater level than Atty’s
Touching on your point because it’s a good chance for greater character exploration.
Ajax is a child of a hundred parents as some may put it, he picked up little things from all his foster parents but in a way you are correct. He hasn’t had any real form of continuous or formal education, his math skills are barely passable, history only ever made sense to him in terms of people telling their own history or the history of the area rather than learning about the 3rd Kanto-Johto war etc.
If you want to use this rp as a source of character development that’s great. I just wanted to be honest with you, in hopes you understood Atty’s low chance of actually winning the tournament.
I need something more than an otherwise standard bio. Everyone else’s was very unique so I was pushing you to reveal if Atty was the same or just a generic trainer. I wanted to be sure Atty’s story and character could hold up against the otherswell yeah, I'm basically saying I want Atty to lose. In every league rp theres gonna be one winner and everyone else losers, so that's what Atty is going to be.
if you want me to actually clarify, then: no, Atty's visitations and travels around the regions she goes to are not pure "vacations". She's climbed mountains and trudged through canyons, traversed deep caves and forests, and braved extreme elements with her team at her side. If anything, she prefers wild battles because that gives a sense that anything could happen- instead of regulated battles with rules and set teams. And that's where a majority of her experience lies. Simply being able to understand the actual world around her and utilize survival skills, because that's whats fun to her.
Which isn't to say she doesn't bother with regulated battles and the such. She has a full Unovan set of badges after all. It's not that she can't go out and get badges, but she chooses not to in favor of exploring, say, something like Mt. Silver instead of bothering with Claire. Going off of that, it's not like she absolutely stopped training and traveling when she decided to go back to Unova. Training every day would be too much of a strain on both her and her Pokemon. Like actual animals, they require enrichment, but too large of pushes can be detrimental to their health. So yes, she trained while at home and even took a couple weeks off here and there to re-venture Unova, but not *every* day.
On the topic then, it's worth mentioning then that her education revolves around Entomology and Art, considering that's where her passions lie (also inspired by Burgh). While her love for the arts doesn't always matter in battle, her studies in Entomology let her understand her team better since so many of them are bugs. I would've preferred going into detail on this stuff in an actual RP, but since I'm being prodded to reveal everything here- there you go.
I need something more than an otherwise standard bio. Everyone else’s was very unique so I was pushing you to reveal if Atty was the same or just a generic trainer. I wanted to be sure Atty’s story and character could hold up against the others
Sounds good@Frontier Master maybe Acacia had challenged Ajax in the past before Acacia learned mega evolution? (If I get approved)
Still interested? if so that puts our total numbers up to 7 so I'll give someone an NPC opponent so we can get started with th battles right away.I wanted to ask before posting a character application. The roleplay is set to closed/private, while this thread is still set to ask to join. Are you still willing to accept people for this roleplay, or are there enough people currently?
I actually forgot to change it from the old Quasar cup threadJust double checking but this is a doubles tournament right? I just thought it seemed kind of odd for it to be doubles for the masters tournament based on anime
We have space for One moreHi there, just wondering if you were still accepting entries