For this little thread I'm going to give complete and complex character sheets COMPLETE with the actual worlds that they're connected to, for instance, one of my featured characters that I've always found compelling to play as an adult would be Silver, Giovanni's son from the Pokemon games as an aged up, fatherless, but fearsome trainer who has aspirations of resurrecting Team Rocket in the face of his father's shameful exit from their organization and retirement in silent, uncontacted solitude. I like the idea of Silver having resentment for his father abandoning he and his mother, and the team that he built from the ground up who depended on him, AND I absolutely LOVE the political implications of a version of Team Rocket who, while functioning outside the realm of law in Kanto and Johto, are ACTUALLY the "good guys" in the story.
Perhaps their methods aren't exactly socially "acceptable", but imagine a world where the Elite Four and the Champion aren't just the strongest trainers of the region, BUT the Generals of a militant group that seeks to dominate and return the region to an archaic form of "iron fist" domination of the people. Perhaps the gym leaders would even serve as their "Officers and Lieutenants" with others like Professor Oak serving as Advisors or informants. I like the idea of Lance being more of a Stalin than a hero, and that despite Team Rocket's previously negative public perception, rising above their tarnished reputation to show the citizens that Team Rocket are closer to heroes than villains.
THIS is just a way for me to describe to you the formats of how these characters and world setups are going to go, though, because I'm more comfortable connecting my characters to a world of intricate design, those preexisting and those fabricated entirely by myself, so be expecting LOTS of reading for the worlds that I've set up for each character and also be looking for my character shoots which will be built within that somewhere. I'll be adding characters as I go as well, so have fun reading and if something jumps out at you just let me know! And additionally, if you'd like to collaborate on building an entire world and a set of characters TOGETHER, I'm very much game for that as well because world/character building might very well be my favorite elements of the entire process of writing anyway! ^_^
PREPARE FOR TROUBLE! AND MAKE IT DOUBLE! ::::::::::::::: A TEAM ROCKET STORY :::::::::::::::
I haven't played a Pokemon game in years, and I haven't seen an episode or movie from the anime in almost two decades, but I found myself bored the other day and I started looking up roms I could download on my phone for GBA and GBC games from way back. During my browsing, though, I came across a Team Rocket version of the Fire Red edition of the game which caught my attention and compelled me to try it out. And for those who don't know, programmers will use some of those old games as the backbone to create/build a unique narrative experience by adjusting the source code for the games. Effectively they're digital architects that use a sort of skeletal structure that the real games provide to build something that looks, feels and even functions differently. This includes edited maps, new characters, additional generations of pokemon added to the game, new events, narrative storyline changes and sometimes even complete story overhauls.
Well this game in particular was a complete game overhaul of the story and a rebuilding of the narrative to show the perspective of a Team Rocket member. It was a bit dark and a bit gritty, a little funny and a little cheesy, and to me it just felt like so much fun. It was a full experience of "the bad guy's perspective" which helps us to relate and even sympathize with the ambitious Giovani and his loyal Admins. Obviously they were "up to no good" from the perspective of the protagonists, but for themselves, through their altered perspective of the world that they believed they had been called upon to save, Team Rocket were doing the rest of society a favor. They were the first Team to have ever existed in the universe that is Pokemon, and in my opinion they did it best. They had the style, the ambition and the bank account to ensure that the goals of Giovanni were met time and time again, and now it's his son Silver's turn to guide this legendary Team further along into greatness.
This story could EASILY be a group game if a bunch of people just fell in love with the idea, but for this initial writeup I will say that this is first and foremost intended to be a one on one story. I, however, have no issues helping this idea to evolve a bit so that we could allow for a group of us to enjoy the experience together as the up and coming NEW GENERATION of Team Rocket talent to come through. The current Executives [size=12pt]are[/size] getting a little too old for Silver and Proton, after all, and they'll need to start searching for Grey's, Archer's, Ariana's and Pretel's replacements before long!
So yeah, I guess this is just an interest check more than anything. Is anybody game for putting together a cool cast of original Rockets to wreck havoc on a Pokemon world that rejects their aggressive approach to fixing the world in their image? With new challenges, new threats to the world, and perhaps even some new Teams to rival their efforts there is plenty of fun to be had!
Just let me know if you're interested. ^_^
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Real Name: Silver Preferred Moniker: Cillian(Sil-e-an) - Had it changed at 15 years of age Gender: Male Orientation: Heterosexual Ancestry: Irish and Italian Age: 26
Hometown: Viridian City Profession: Gym Leader of Viridian City Gym Occupation: Currently highest ranking member and leader of the Team Rocket criminal organization Rank: Underboss Note: Cillian is the acting, interim Boss in place of his father Giovanni, though he refuses to accept the role of Boss officially.
Family:
Father - Giovanni - 52
Mother - Ariana - 46
Timeline:
Silver is born to Giovanni and Ariana
10 years old - Silver sets off on his adventure to prove himself to his father and mother
13 years old - After years of travel, training and collecting badges Silver returns home to find out that his father has abandoned his family completely
15 years old - Two years pass by within which Silver is angry and struggling with resentment for his father. During this time he changes his name from Silver to "Cillian"
15 years old - Just before his sixteenth birthday he decides to set off on his own to Mt. Silver with Rory, his Typhlosion, and "Arkan" his Nidoran♂ to allow this dangerous mountain and it's powerful Pokemon to hone him into something better than his father ever was
17 years old - Silver returns from his trials living in the dangerous wilds of Mt. Silver now with a six member team and a bag full of other Pokemon that he challenged and bested, and when he returns he bears a new outlook and has plans for the Team his father started.
17 years old - Before his eighteenth birthday he takes an active role in the Team and after just a few months takes over as the Interim Boss of the Team Rocket organization
25 years old - After years of developing bases of operation around the world in other regions Cillian has established himself as a force to be reckoned with. Law enforcement departments fear his power knowing that he has agents and informants working among them. They are also aware that he has a considerable amount of influence over young and impressionable Pokemon trainers who might find his Team of outcasts to be a very comfortable fit for themselves
Bio: When Silver's father Giovanni vanished from society he not only left his own family behind but also neglected to equip them with the knowledge of his whereabouts or future intentions for the Team Rocket organization. Much of Silver's personality is a result of the treatment he received from Giovanni when he was just a boy, which includes complete abandonment. Like many of Giovanni's other actions throughout the games, this reflects on his selfishness. Silver grew up angry, antisocial, calculating, driven, lonely and longing for his father's attention and appreciation. He craves his father's respect and recognition as an equal measure of a man and trainer, even though he knows that he can't have it. As he grew older and realized that his shamed father would likely never return, though, he decided to become his own man with no need for guidance or direction from his father. He motivated himself to become an exceptionally talented trainer who wouldn't just become his father's equal but would instead surpass him and become someone far better in every way.
As a younger man Silver started his career as a Trainer alongside two other youngsters about his same age. That was the day that he met his partner Cyndaquil for the first time as well as his rivals. Then, after a few years of journeying and training, ever pushing himself to be stronger by the day he finally hit a wall. His life came to a screeching halt the day his father had removed himself from his mother Ariana and Silver's lives, and when he did it destroyed the young trainer's will to compete. It was harsh episode in life which drove him to give away all of his pokemon except for Cyndaquil who by then had evolved into a Typhlosion, and it was the last companion that he kept for himself as he tried to forgive, forget and to move on. A task that proved impossible after two years of seething at just the thought of his father.
After a time Silver finally came around, though when he did he changed his name from Silver to "Cillian", which contained the slightest essence of his previous name. He then took Rory, his Typhlosian, and broke into the local Viridian Pokemon center after hours to access his father's PC and steal "Arakn", a Nidoran♂ that was the product of his father's Nidoking and Nidoqueen. He then fled the town to the west of Viridian city into Mt. Silver where he resided for years. When he emerged from the mountains, though, he was a different man, much more ambitious than he'd been before he'd vanished like his very own father. The only difference was that Cillian eventually came back and, at least from the look of things, his father never would.
Cillian is the acting, interim Team Boss in place of his father Giovanni, though he has not accepted the rank of Boss within the Team Rocket organization yet and there is a chance he never will. Despite this fact he has long had the respect and support of each and every member of the Team who treat him as their singular Boss and Leader all the same regardless of his refusal to accept the rank officially. He took over at seventeen when his mother stepped back in order for her son to embrace his birthright as the Leader of Team Rocket and he's been running their organization for nearly a decade by now. He, even for all of his effort to try and be anyone else other than his own father, is very much the strong, persistent, overachieving and ambitious man that his father was before him. A son that any father would be proud of if they were there to see what he'd become.
:::POKEMON TEAM:::
Rory
Lv. 58 Typhlosion ♂ Fire
Arkan
Lv. 54 Nidoking ♂ Poison/Ground
Terra
Lv. 56 Tyranitar ♀ Rock/Dark
Echo
Lv. 57 Crobat ♂ Poison/Flying
Omen
Lv. 55 Gengar ♂ Ghost/Poison
Orion
Lv. 57 ♂ Bug/Steel
In box:
Bastion Lv. 52 ♂
Bulwark Lv. 49 ♀
Gannon Lv. 55 ♂
Tidus Lv. 50 ♂
Vaega Lv. 48 ♀
:::TEAM ROCKET:::
Name: Cillian Birthname: Silver Sex: Male Current Rank: Underboss - Interim Boss Age: 26
WIP: More Character/World creations are soon to come! Prompts will be added over the coming weeks as I have time to create them or port them over from other documents that I have saved/stored them within, so thank you for your patience as I get everything organized! ^_^
