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Mythical Capitalist
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sybilss
Mythical Capitalist
Ages ago, in a time and place of Pokémon royalty, there was a brave and singular queen who
united the regions under one peaceful, golden age. Born of a king mother and wise father, she
grew up alone, with only her Pokémon and tutors to keep her company. Her parents traveled
often, visiting each region to maintain peace and cooperation, and were rarely home. But, as a
princess, the queen did not resent her parents, but rather learned from their experiences and
stories. They showered her with gifts each time they returned, and watched her due battle with
her trainers, show off her musical talent, and best her fencing instructor each time they were
home.
When the queen was only sixteen, her parents were tragically lost at sea, and she inherited not
only the throne, but the wealth of problems that plagued the family's relationship with the
regions. The kingdom was located at the center of all regions, in a township known as Caldros.
Caldros was famous for its literature and political protigees, but these traits carried little weight
with regions that prided themselves on excellence in Pokémon training, breeding, and education.
The now-queen sought to change that, by making Caldros the center of Pokémon knowledge.
She began holding a tournament during the spring of each year, inviting trainers from all regions
to battle their way to Caldros. Entrance required at least fifteen badges, as well as passing a
series of rigorous battles and written exams. The final ten participants were granted their official
entry into the five day tournament.
After only four tournaments, Caldros was already considered a thriving center for Pokémon
knowledge and education. The queen established a school there as well, Rose Academy, with
the intent of educating and producing the best and brightest students, who would go out into the
world and train with Pokémon professors, breeders, and other professionals. Caldros was the
place to be if anyone wanted to become more than just a trainer, but it was also a place where
many young trainers made their homes, and eventually, it grew into a thriving city. "All roads
lead to Caldros," became the saying.
That is where our story takes place -- in the city of Caldros, in the queen's twilight years. Our
cast of characters is varied, and the city is bustling with Pokémon, trainers, and students. On
the horizon, we see the villains -- a duo of hapless grunts for Team Astro, and the light is
shining on our main cast. We are in a Golden Age of Pokémon!
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GAIA TOS
As always, it's important to follow the GAIA TOS and all rules of the RP. Be kind and be
courteous. This is meant to be casual and fun, and there's no need for rudeness and all that
jazz.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LITERACY
This is lazy-lit, and, as I said, pretty casual. So I'm not expecting novels of text or pages of
description. Just good, solid responses that keep the dialogue and narrative going, as well as
remain consistent with events that are happening in the RP. The idea of keeping it casual is to
keep the ball rolling! So if we are all relaxed, then we shouldn't have a problem keeping things
fun.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ACTIVITY
I ask that you post at least one to two times per week, depending on an event. That will be the
most I ever ask you to post, scout's honor.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHARACTERS
I'm going to have a main cast of characters, and I'll let you pick the type you want to specialize
in if you're going to be students, but I would like to see variety -- I know I would always use
fairy types, lol, so please make sure you keep an eye on the other reserves and don't do too
much repeating. Gender, sexuality, name, race, etc -- that's all entirely up to you. Genderqueer,
agender, demisexual, anything you want, I'm okay with. I'm all about relationships here, but I'm
not interested in creating something all about romance or all about cisgender hetero folks.
Because I'm not about that. Please use anime pictures. I'm okay if they're from a series,
just not too recognizable. Any kind of name is okay with me. Please see the reserve for
age info.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ APPLICATIONS
So there will be a reserve thread where you fill out the app and reserve a character. It'll quote
me so I know you filled it out. There isn't any competition here, and reserves are first come first
serve, so be sure to see if anyone else has applied for a character you thought about reserving
before you fill out the code. After I give your reserve the stamp of approval, head to the
application thread and fill that out. They will be due one week after reserving your character, and
must be put into their own thread so that we can keep up relationships and reactions to events
(you'll see when you fill out the application).
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ POKEMON
Everyone should have six Pokémon, as in the game. Because each student will have a type
specialty, exactly half of their team should be the type they're specializing in. The other three
may be any type you would like, in order to give each student a benefit whenever they are
challenged to a battle by another student. Additionally, because in reality, only gym leaders and
your average trainer seem to specialize -- it's good practice to learn about all types and see how
they function on your team! I will allow up to four shinies for the entire RP, due to their intense
rarity in the game.
Additionally, you will include sprites of your Pokémon in your profile -- the link to those can be
found in the info post later on down the thread.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BATTLES
Battles will occur in the game! You may initiate them independently, I only ask that you let me
know first so that I can plug your team into my simulator, so that the result is random. If you're
doing a battle and are intending on a specific outcome for personal plot reasons, let me know
that as well, so I can watch! Ha ha. Personal plot battles must be thought out and done within
your basic battle rules, etc. Remember what kind of types are weak or strong against others --
you wouldn't have your fire Pokémon typically beat by a grass Pokémon in usual battles.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EVENTS
As this is a slice-of-life RP, we'll be doing events and such to keep things going. I will let you
know when these events occur, and if anyone is playing a very specific role. I will cycle through
the main cast in some events -- or everyone will be center stage! All event news will be added
to the main page.
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GRASS!
██▐ ☆ ★ L A N A XA M E M I Y A
xxxxxxAGE ! TWENTY
xxxxxxFEMALE ! FEMALE
xxxxxxMAJOR ! BREEDING
TAKEN xxxx sybilss ★
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DRAGON!
██▐ ☆ ★ M O M O K O XR Y U J I N
xxxxxxEIGHTEEN !
xxxxxxFEMALE !
xxxxxxRANGER !
TAKEN xxxx Hywel Pendragon ★
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ NORMAL!
██▐ ☆ ★ W A K E XS H E P P A R D
xxxxxxTWENTY FIVE !
xxxxxxGENDER !
xxxxxxNURSING !
TAKEN xxxx captive ate her ★
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GHOST!
██▐ ☆ ★ A N T H Y XO V E R W A T E R
xxxxxxTWENTY TWO !
xxxxxxGENDER !
xxxxxxRESEARCH !
TAKEN xxxx captive ate her ★
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DRAGON!
██▐ ☆ ★ M U R A S A K I XR Y U J I N
xxxxxxTWENTY FIVE !
xxxxxxMALE !
xxxxxxBREEDING !
TAKEN xxxx Hywel Pendragon ★
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FIRE!
██▐ ☆ ★ I S A M U XY A M A U C H I
xxxxxxTWENTY ONE !
xxxxxxMALE !
xxxxxxRANGER !
TAKEN xxxx Infernura ★
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WATER!
██▐ ☆ ★ E M I XF U K U I
xxxxxxTWENTY THREE !
xxxxxxFEMALE !
xxxxxxBREEDING !
RESERVED xxxx Infernura ★
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DARK!
██▐ ☆ ★ N A T H A N I E L XG R E E N W A Y
xxxxxxTWENTY ONE !
xxxxxxGENDER !
xxxxxxRESEARCH !
RESERVED xxxx belief is not automatic ★
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PSYCHIC!
██▐ ☆ ★ A S H L E Y XG R E E N W A Y
xxxxxxTWENTY ONE !
xxxxxxFEMALE !
xxxxxxNURSING !
RESERVED xxxx belief is not automatic ★
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FIRE & ICE!
██▐ ☆ ★ J U N I C H I XM I S A K I
xxxxxxNINETEEN !
xxxxxxGENDER !
xxxxxxART !
TAKE xxxx taenie ★
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TYPE SPECIALTY!
██▐ ☆ ★ A K E M I XS A I Y A
xxxxxxTWENTY !
xxxxxxGENDER !
xxxxxxR A N G E R !
TAKEN xxxx Kiwi Kissel ★
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FIGHTING!
██▐ ☆ ★ M A L O R I E XS A I N T E
xxxxxxTWENTY TWO !
xxxxxxGENDER !
xxxxxxRANGER !
TAKEN xxxx 1PMF ★
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GROUND/ROCK!
██▐ ☆ ★ S T O N E XH I K A W A
xxxxxx58 !
xxxxxxMALE !
xxxxxxHEADMASTER !
Formerly a professor in the Training Department, "Stone" Hikawa has
never been known by any other name. He was made the headmaster of
Rose Academy seven years ago, and in his younger days, he won the
Caldros Tournament three years in a row. He's been known to say, several
times, that, "There's no success like winning, but there's no better training
that a good loss."
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ NORMAL!
██▐ ☆ ★ P R O F E S S O R XA S P E N
xxxxxx26 !
xxxxxxFEMALE !
xxxxxxPOKEMON PROFESSOR !
Known for publishing a paper in Pokemon Researchers Monthly at
only 19, Professor Aspen became one of the leading researchers in
Unova before being offered the position of Pokemon Professor in
Caldros. Her paper focused on Pokemon and different berry effects at
different friendship levels, and considering Caldros has an incredibly
high number of berry trees, it was the perfect place for her! It's also,
of course, great because of Rose Academy, where she offers her
insight in different levels of all the course work. She helps beginning
trainers get off to a great start by always keeping a good supply of
starter pokemon in her lab.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EEVEELUTIONS!
██▐ ☆ ★ Q U E E N XC A T H E R I N E
xxxxxx99 !
xxxxxxFEMALE !
xxxxxxHER MAJESTY !
As the queen of the Caldros region, she has done all she can to serve
her people and turn their city into a thriving center for Pokemon knowledge.
Though she was thrown into the regency as barely an adult, she has
proven many a doubter wrong with her thoughtful policies and forward
thinking resolve. The regions together have never seen a wiser Queen,
and there has never been one so passionate about Pokemon and people
living and learning together.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FAIRY!
██▐ ☆ ★ P R I N C E S S XA D E L A I N E
xxxxxx28 !
xxxxxxFEMALE !
xxxxxxHER HIGHNESS !
The only daughter and child of the queen, the princess of Caldros has
always known she would eventually inherit a great success from her mother.
It was never something she fought as a child, but instead embraced, as
she underwent the same training and tutoring that her mother did, this time
with a more present parent. Though the queen did travel often, she would
frequently bring her daughter on trips with her -- never travelling by sea --
so that she would gain a sense of appreciation for the different regions and
all the people and Pokemon they sustained. The princess herself is currently
an instructor at Rose Academy, specializing in Pokemon breeding, something
she was very passionate about as a student herself.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ELECTRIC/STEEL!
██▐ ☆ ★ M A I X&x S H O U
xxxxxx25/27 !
xxxxxxFEMALE/MALE !
xxxxxxTEAM ASTRO !
Though Team Astro is considered throughout all regions to be only a minor
threat to the general public, they have caused some problems -- namely city-wide
power outages, a few stolen Pokemon here and there, but nothing gargantuan.
This pair of Astro grunts, known as Mai and Shou, have been pestering Caldros
for a year now. No one knows that they are Astro grunts -- that they are good at
keeping a secret. They've set up a local flower and tea shop in town, and sometimes
they get a little distracted by it and forget to be the bad guys. Every so often they
come up with a weird, slightly dangerous plan, but it usually ends up in someone
going home in a sling -- usually Shou.
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Rose Academy was established by the Queen several years ago, when she began her mission to
make Caldros the center of Pokemon knowledge and education. The Academy (more details are
listed down the thread) provides its students with the opportunity to specialize in a variety of fields,
the course work of each intended to make them the best possible trainers, breeders, and rangers,
among others, that they can be. The current headmaster is Stone Hikawa, and notable professors
include the Princess of Caldros, and Professor Aspen.
Rose Academy provides its students with a single bedroom apartment and a small living stipend.
The apartments are cleaned every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. No Pokemon battles may
take place in the apartments, but must be scheduled for either the gym or the academy grounds.
Pokegrind is the social hub of Rose Academy. It's constantly packed with students and faculty,
and you can always find Pokemon enjoying a nice snack or fresh drink of water at the table with
their trainers, due to the cafe's open Pokeball policy -- all Pokemon welcome, all the time, within
reason. We won't talk about the Onyx Incident. The Pokegrind is staffed by two
waitresses/waiters and two baristas.
xx xx xx Rose Bistro tends to be a bit quieter than Pokegrind, but at lunch you will find a pretty similar
situation. Dinner is a more reserved affair, but only because many students prefer the cheapness
of the food trucks that are parked in the city center around the fountain. Rose Bistro also allows
Pokemon to be out and about, but prefers that trainers choose only their best behaved partner
to have as a dinner guest. Rose Bistro is staffed by three waiters/waitresses, one host/hostess,
and one chef (students may not apply to be the chef).
xx xx xx Petal to the Metal is a flower shop in Caldros secretly run by Mai and Shou, the grunts from
Team Astro. And while these two are definitely trouble, their shop is strangely and impeccably
run, due to an intense pride of ownership and commitment to customer service, weirdly enough.
Petal to the Metal recently provided the arrangements for the last tournament, and the settings
and colors were the talk of the town.
xx In addition to all these great places, the Pokemon center, Pokelab, and Training Gym are open
every day, with extended hours for the center. Battles can be scheduled at the Gym, and the lab
is always open to anyone who wants to speak with Professor Aspen when she isn't lost on
campus or out in the fields doing research.
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Which region is Caldros in?
Caldros is much like Washington D.C. in the US or the Vatican -- it is considered its own region
and has its own resident Pokemon professor, PokeCenter, and Police Station, but no official gym.
Rather, Caldros has a training gym where some former gym leaders train students, trainers, and
anyone in Caldros who wants to strengthen their Pokemon in battle.
What can students study at Rose Academy?
Students may study to become one of the following Pokemon specialties, which are covered in
more detail in the Rose Academy section in the thread.
Who is Team Astro?
Team Astro is a bit of a hapless villain duo may remind you of Team Rocket, but with less of a
flare for the dramatic. They're undercover in Caldros attempting to discover any training, breeding,
or research secrets that may come up in Caldros and sell them to the highest bidder. They have
their own type specialties.
Can students have jobs?
Yes! Students may have jobs, which can be found right in town. The only place they may not
work is the Petal to the Metal flower shop, which is owned and operated by the hapless and
undercover Team Astro. Though that could change later...
Where can I find...
If you're looking for sprites, they can be found here. You are welcome to use animated sprites
or static ones, that's all up to you. I just ask that they be visible enough for people to really see
which Pokemon they are in your application/profile! I will also be putting them together to create
a little set of your team on the main page.
If you're looking for character images, I would recommend Safebooru -- you get SFW images and
the tagging system is easier, in my opinion, than Zerochan. I feel like you have to do a bit more
digging, but it's a great site to narrow down exactly what you're looking for, and it has a wide
variety of original anime images!
sybilss
Mythical Capitalist
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EVENT!
██▐ ☆ ★ WHO'S THAT POKEMON?
No, seriously. Who does this Pokemon belong to? And which one even is it? There's a lot
of rumor's flying around -- a few first years say they saw a baby Riolu outside the art building,
and a ranger class heading back inside thinks they saw a Pansage running into the women's
bathroom in the dorm! But it's been confirmed that it's actually a loose Pichu, and it may or
may not be totally wild. The resident assistant has paired up some of the students she found
at the dorm, and they're got to grab that Pichu.
RULES You can't capture the Pichu. If you do catch it, it must be returned to the resident assistant on call at this time.
PAIRINGS You're all being paired up! This means you'll mainly be interacting with that character while you search for this crazy Pichu.
GOALS Obviously to find the Pichu, but also to start getting to know your fellow students!
WHO'S WITH WHO
Akemi + Malorie
Anthy + Junichi
Emi + Ashley
Lana + Wake
Murasaki + Nathaniel
Isamu + Momoko
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