Shadow of the Forefathers

In the past, there have been several groups that would do what they want with Pokemon to get their way, the notorious Team Rocket, the misguided Teams Aqua and Magma, and the vile Team Galactic. All of these teams have been thwarted several times, but they still haven't been completely disbanded, some even breaking up into smaller gangs. With their considerable loss of power, it only makes sense that some members or their children would want to walk away from this life of crime, still some strive even harder to keep the old teams alive. This is the story of these people.

Welcome to the SotF RP! A RP centered around the notorious gangs from Pokemon, if you want to apply there are some guidelines I'd like you all to follow:

-Follow the RP rules set by the Psypoke staff.
-Proper grammar, the occasional mistake is okay, but no one-liners and "sPeAkInG lIkE a JeJeMoN".
-Some language and violence is okay, as long as it's within reason.
-With the intent of this being a more mature RP, I'll be pretty loose with the rule above, but please try to keep it PG-13.
-Keep active, if we can't have everyone play, it may kill the RP.

The World Around Us
SotF is set a couple decades after the most recent games (after DPPt's plot, seeing as how HG and SS are remakes), as such much has changed. Most of the Elite Four for various regions have been changed, and a few of the gym leaders are different. Team Rocket has broken up into several smaller gangs, Team Starchaser, Team Jet, and Team Fuel are the most notable ones. Team Aqua and Magma are still active, however they're not nearly as powerful/influential as they once were, they have plenty of skirmishes over resources and such. Team Galactic has nearly fallen off the face of the planet, they are a few still loyal members and families but they aren't nearly as large as the rest of the gangs. All of the gangs have gone international (meaning they can be found in every region), but because of that they're fairly spread thin. I will put up more information on this if it's required.

Character Profiles
I'm looking for about four or five people to play this with me, so if you're interested sign up!

Character Name:
Age: (Recommended ages are 18 and older.)
Gender:
Appearance:
Personality:
Relatives/Close Connections: (Don't list everyone your character knows. Only a few important ones, lets say three at the most.)
Background: (Try to relate it to gang activity, your character could be the child of an executive in Team Magma, a cop trying to fight gang violence, or a disgruntled gang member of Team Galactic trying to keep it alive.)
Pokemon Team: (Up to six Pokemon with up to four moves each. Try to refrain from using Black and White Pokemon, as we don't have too much information on them yet. No legendary Pokemon in your team, though if you have a good story for it, you can have a connection to a specified legendary.)
Items on Hand: (Money, weapons, potions, etc. A note on the weapons, try to keep it simple, knives and brass knuckles are okay, but no guns or swords.)

A Quick Note
I'll present most villians, NPCs and events at first, just to get the ball rolling. However, if you have a cool idea, run it by me and I'll try to help you incorporate it into the current story. Having everyone take an active role in the story helps keep the activity going.

My Character

Character Name: Lucius "Lucy" Colin DeLefiant

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Appearance: He has shoulder-length dark blue hair and brown eyes. He usually wears a dirty and worn out leather jacket and jeans. He also has a hand-made backpack with holes in it.

Personality: Lucius is somewhat negative, partially from being looked down on by the rest of his family and for constantly getting in trouble. A good person at heart, but for Lucy the ends justify the means. Despite that, he's a pretty care-free idividual, spending most of his time traveling from town-to town and buying cigarettes and dumplings. He also has a bad habit of losing things, he claims that his bag must be raided by Zigzagoons when he isn't looking.

Relatives/Close Connections: Regulus DeLefiant - Lucius's father and Team Fuel executive, Lucius and his father don't get a long after a falling out a few years back.
Leon DeLefiant - Lucius's older brother and a Team Fuel grunt, they don't get a long too well after Lucius had a falling-out with his father, despite this their "brotherly love" still sometimes prevails.
Teysa Dracohart - Lucius's childhood friend and love interest, she was the one that started calling him "Lucy" and has a quirky and tomboy-ish personality.

Background: When Team Rocket started falling apart, Lucy's grandfather took the initiative and created Team Fuel with a few of his fellow executives and he's still in charge of the gang. His grandfather once tried to gain control of Rayquaza, but the Emerald Orb that he was using to try and control the dragon with was shattered by it. When Lucius was 15 his father wanted him to become an intiate in the gang, but Lucius refused and since then he and his father haven't been on the best of terms. Other than his gang relations, Lucius lived a fairly care-free life in Blackthorn City, until he was 17, when he left home claiming to become an "Awesome Pokemon Trainer Like the Kids that Beat Team Rocket So Soundly".

Pokemon Team:
"Cynder" - Typhlosion (M)
-Flamethrower
-Sunny Day
-Solarbeam
-Focus Blast

"Victor" - Victreebel (M)
-Leaf Blade
-Toxic
-Synthesis
-Giga Impact

"Midna" - Mismagius (F)
-Destiny Bond
-Pain Split
-Psychic
-Shadow Ball

"Shadow" - Flygon (M)
-Earthquake
-Outrage
-Flamethrower
-Sandstorm

"Maggie" - Aggron (F)
-Iron Tail
-Ancient Power
-Dragon Claw
-Thunder Wave

"Azz" - Azumarill (F)
-Defense Curl
-Surf
-Ice Punch
-Rollout

Items on Hand: Emerald Necklace made from a shard of the Emerald Orb, 3 Great Balls, 1 Ultra Ball, 1 Pack of Cigarettes (approx. 12 left), 2 Lighters, 1 Amulet Coin, 6 Full Restores, $10,000 (PokeDollars)

Well that's it for now, sign up if you want to join! We'll start playing when we get four or five people, so get your characters in now!

(Jimmy I think for everyone's reference, it would be best to post your character's profile, just for everyone to get a feel for him. Also, I think it would be best to wait for more players, since a two-man RP can be lead down the drain so easily. But not to leave you hanging, here's my first entry.)

"Man, I swear someone's been going through my bag when I'm not looking, I'm short another Great Ball now." Lucius sighed as he lit up another cigarette, the Typholsion next to him merely shook his head. "I know, Cynder. You think I'm just losing things, but the holes in this bag are not big enough for a Great Ball to fit through." Lucius went on to take a puff of his smoke as the two walked through a relatively empty field near Fuchsia City. Cynder just grunted as his trainer went on complaining, suddenly perking up and hitting Lucius in the chest, making the man drop his cigarette, "Aw, what the heck Cynder?" he said as he bent down to pick up the smoke. Cynder proceeded to prod his trainer until Lucius looked in the direction he was pointing in. Lucius noticed a lick of flames rising above the tall grass, "Cynder... You didn't..." the Pokemon quickly shook his head, "Dammit. Just what I need, a freaking fire," Lucius muttered as he put his cigarette out on the heel of his boot and tossing the butt on the dirt road. "Might as well go check it out." he sighed and began trudging through the tall grass, followed closely by Cynder.

It wasn't long until Lucius met the source of the flames, a Charmeleon was in the tall grass, not minding where it's tail went. "Great, an overgrown Charmander." Lucius groaned out loud, as to get the seemingly wild Pokemon's attention. Cynder stepped forward and bared his teeth, "Well, you up for some fun, buddy?" Lucius said to his Typhlosion.

Can I still join this? I think it seems really interesting, and I'd love to join.

Yup, feel free to post your character's profile! You'll be the third person, so if we get one or two more people to sign up, we can continue.

*Peeks in* Are applications still open? I'd love to join if they are. I'm a reasonably experienced RPer, so you don't have to worry about me.

Edit: Sorry, just realized I'm overstretching my commitments Law school and work demand attention at present...

Sounds fun. Shina's RP never took off, so I might as well try this one.

Character Name: Comet
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Appearance:
Personality: Not much of a talker, he never had many interactions with people other than his parents when he was a child. He's been isolated for a while, and hasn't had a proper education. Comet is a naive but gifted person, and a natural battler.
Relatives/Close Connections: Dianne, Butler
Background: The son of Dianne and Butler (from the Jirachi movie), Comet was raised in Ferina (spelling?) his whole life. One day, he learned of his father's career with the late Team Magma. Never showing much affinity towards his parents, he knew he could do a better job of controlling legendary Pokemon than his father. He caught some Pokemon and fled his family. Now he seeks a gang worthy of his talents. He's been at it for 5 years now to no avail. Loosing hope, he travels to Kanto from his native Hoenn on the back of his Altaria.
Pokemon Team: 'Puff' Altaria (M): Fury Attack, Mist, Natural Gift, Dragonbreath
'Nuzwuz' Nuzleaf (M): Razor Leaf, Nature Power, Faint Attack, Growth
Items on Hand: Many rare Berries from Ferina, and not much else.

Character Name: Eric Markson
Age: 17

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Personality: Sarcastic and Comedic best describe him. Eric makes jokes out of anything, mainly when things get bad, or when he sees it right to make a joke. The only thing he truly takes seriously is his battling. Eric is very secretive of his personal life, as he has been in terrible run ins with team Magma since he was nine years old.

Relatives/Close Connections: Jasmine (cousin).

Background: Eric grew up in Rustborough City. When he was five, he trained a Nincada to attack his enemies. When he was nine, he got into a very large scale pokemon battle with some Team Magma Grunts, which he almost to won, untill he was kidnaped and taken to an undisclosed location. He was set free, and he swore that he was going to tear them apart. He spend the entire time of his youth fighting them, until they Unofficially disbanded. He is still haunted by his memories, but he normally doesn't show it in public. Jasmine, the olovine gym leader, is his cousin, which is where he learned to fight with Steel types from. He still fights with his old Nincada(Now a Ninjask).

Pokemon Team:
Ninjask(Jet): X-Scissor/Slash/Bug Bite/U-Turn
Skarmory(Skar): Dark Pulse/Flash Cannon/Fly/Air Slash
Aggron(Cobalt): Earthquake/Dragon Rush /Iron Tail/ Double Edge
Feraligator(Shane): Ice Beam/ Hydro Pump/ Surf/ Crunch

Items on Hand: $200, an Iron Sai, 5 Hyper Potions, 5 Full heals.

still accepting?

Name: Vance Kindle

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Appearance: Vance wears very dark blue jeans, with a black belt with a huge twin guitar belt buckles, black and white shoes, tight black t-shirt with a houndoom skull logo on it, he has dark black ear length hair, and a black baseball cap.

Personality: a fully fledged badass, a cool-headed smirky type, always puts black shades when he's about to be badass, like Ash turns his cap around. it doesn't show but he is a sweet type deep down, honourable, clever, and a loyal friend.

Connections: samuel, his bookie. Chris, the leader of the Houndoom biker gang. and Layna, his girlfriend.

Background: pretty intense ghetto life, spending his childhood sleeping at the homes of his various friends from the neighbohrhood, had many gang connections, hanging out with rival gangs without fear from any of them because they cannot touch him. he became next in line to be the leader of the Houndoom biker gang but deciding that the politics of it wasn't for him, he left the gang on good terms and is still good friends with the the leader Chris.

Pokemon team:
-"Astor"-Houndoom
Flamethrowe
Crunch
Earthquake
bodyslam

-"Rocket"-Vibrava

Earthquake

Fly

Crunch

hyperbeam



-"Crush"-Cloyster

Surf

Horn Attack

protect

Waterfall



-"Guillotine (guille)"-Scissor

Solarbeam

Slash

doubleteam

earthquake

-"shade"-Dusknoir
earthquake
dark ball
mega punch
hyperbeam

I'm gonna back out. I think that people that are more advanced RPers should be in this. Sorry.

Okay, so the current members are Saint_Jimmy, Mektar, shinashu taji, Zombie and myself. So that's five, and we'll leave it at that for now. Now who ever wants to continue where Jimmy and I left it off can.

This is my first RP, so don't blane me if I screw up. (a ~ signifies that Comet is thinking)

“Whew. We finally made it to Fuchsia City, Puff. Sorry you had to fly this far. I didn’t know that Cinnabar Island had erupted.” “Taria.” “OK. Are you hungry? Here’s a Hondew Berry.” ~ I’m glad to see that Puff is alright after all that flying. Wait. What am I thinking? We don’t have any place to stay! Once I find a place I can start worrying about my Pokemon. ~ So, Comet put Puff back in his Poke Ball and started walking down a winding dirt road with no destination in mind. Suddenly, an Umbreon jumped out of the bushes and began to make duplicates of itself as it growled in anger. “What kind of Pokemon is that?! Whatever it is, it seems mean. Go! Nuzwuz!” As Nuzwuz emerged from its Poke Ball, Comet had him use Nature Power. This triggered a massive Earthquake that scattered wild Pidgey from the trees and nailed all of Umbreon’s copies. Then, Comet fed Nuzwuz a Liechi Berry to boost its Attack as Umbreon rose to its feet. The battle ended soon after, once Nuzwuz nailed Umbreon with a barrage of Razor Leaves. “What was that all about?”

Cynder dodged an attempted swing from the Charmeleon as Lucius watched, he hadn't ordered a single command to his Typhlosion, knowing that the Pokemon could take care of itself in a fight. The funny thing was, Cynder seemed to be toying with the smaller Pokemon, "Cynder, what are you just going to make fun of the thing or are you gonna take care of it?" Lucius groaned, Cynder replied with a snicker. Lucius sighed and lit up another cigarette, it was unlike Cynder to toy with an opponent, maybe he just wanted to have fun? "Who knows with him." Lucius muttered as he sat down. In the distance, he noticed a flock of Pidgey fly away, and something a bit larger flying towards them, "A Pidgeotto? No, it doesn't look like it, maybe a Golbat or Crobat?" he thought. "Cynder, finish the lizard off or something, I have a feeling that the Charmeleon is the least of our worries." Lucius commanded as he stood back up, getting ready for something.

Lucius puffed his cigarette in frustration, "Great, first an overgrown Charmander now some random guy with a pissed off Ekans." He gestured to Cynder, who went to his side, now growling fiercely at the Arbok. "And who exactly are you? From the looks of you, I suppose you got lost in the 80's and haven't exactly found your way out of it yet." looking around, Lucius saw that the Charmeleon managed to get away, "Joy, and the lizard got away. This day is just getting better and better."

Comet continued along the dirt road, Nuzwuz following close behind. As he walked around a bend in the road, he noticed two trainers and their Pokemon staring eachother down. In case they were hostile and wanted to battle him next, Comet returned Nuzwuz to its Poke Ball. Then he sent out Puff instead. Comet knew that Nuzwuz was a poor match against a Typhlosion or Arbok. He and Puff stood behind a tree and watched as the redish-haired man and the blueish-haired man stared eachother down. Comet was wide eyed with awe at their power. Perhaps he would join up with one of them later.

(Ok, Shina, I get it. I can't make other people do things, just me.)

Lucius looked at the man quizzically, "What are you getting at?" he demanded as he ashed his cigarette. Cynder grunted as smoke rolled out of his mouth, glancing at his partner Lucius knew what was coming next, "Cynder, chill." The Typhlosion looked at his trainer, back at the man who insulted him and started grumbling to himself. Lucius rolled he eyes, "Fine. You can fight the Arbok, but don't be reckless, and don't roast the trainer like you did in Azelea Town." Cynder smirked at that statement, and immediately blew a plume of fire in the Arbok's direction.

I edited out the part where you two started battleing. Continue.

Can I join?

(Infernape77, we have enough people to keep this RP going but not to the point where there are too many people, but if someone drops out or isn't active for a long period of time, you can join up.)

"Team Rocket?" Lucius asked, he had a brief thought of his father and then continued, "People like them have ruined everything." Cynder was thrown off by the Arbok staring it down, but he soon regained his composure and growled. "Cynder, let's finish them off, get the snake with Flamethrower one more time." Lucius commanded, and Cynder complied, spitting out another stream of flame at the Arbok.