Pokemon Umbral Discussion 35: Under New Management!

[Dracorion]

Okay, fine. But now you have to build me a time machine so I can get back these last few hours of my life, Menarker. You have three seconds for it to show up right in front of me.

Pierce:

- Action Hero

- Angst What Angst

- Badass

- Be All My Sins Remembered

- Berserk Button

- Big Brother Instinct: Even though Pierce is younger than Sam.

- Break The Badass: his sidequest.

- Brother Sister Incest: I like to freak out AB with this.

- Cool Big Sis

- Determinator

- Dirty Business

- Good Flaws Bad Flaws

- Heroic Resolve

- Heroic Self Deprecation

- Ho Yay: Pierce and Tyranitar, anyone? It's about to get worse soon too, what with Tyranitar's evolution coming up.

- Kicking Ass And Taking Names

- My Sister Is Off Limits: Okay, Pierce doesn't actually keep the guys off his sister, but he reserves to right to subject any man Sam is serious about to a battery of tests.

- Neutral Good

- One Man Army

- The Champion: to Sam, and Chizuru once they get closer.

- The Corruptible

- The Hero

- The Lancer

- Traintop Battle: PIERCE VS IMPACT ON TOP OF LEXHUR.

- Underestimating The Badass: his sidequest.

- Unstoppable Rage



Sophia:

- Badass Bookworm

- Heroic Self Deprecation

- Hot Scientist

- Lawful Good

- Science Hero

- Sesquipidalian Loquaciousness

- The Glasses Come Off

- Wrench Wench

Sam:

- Big Brother Instinct: For Pierce! Except she's a girl.

- Christmas Cake

- Mama Bear

- Neutral Good

- Team Mom

- Promotion To Parent

Elizabeth:

- Anything That Moves

- Buxom Is Better

- Chaotic Good: Bordering on Chaotic Neutral.

- Heel Face Turn

- Hello Nurse

- Hot As Hell: Well, she's not really the devil, but the fact is she's probably going to make it her life mission to corrupt Renny.

- Les Yay

- Ms Fanservice

- Rich Bitch

- The Pornomancer

- Tomboy Princess

- Wrench Wench

[DanteFalcon]

No way am I doing this.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Originally Posted by Dracorion

Okay, fine. But now you have to build me a time machine so I can get back these last few hours of my life, Menarker. You have three seconds for it to show up right in front of me.

You're weak Drac. Weak.

[Menarker]

Nice to see Drac. (You have Dialaga for your time needs! You do it yourself!)

However, I do think that Pierce qualifies for "The Lancer" and a dash of The Hero too.

Nice to see the bios for your other characters too, although I do admit I was shocked to see you intend to have Elizabeth attempt to corrupt Renny.

EDIT: Also? I think Pierce might fit THIS one. "Knight Templar Big Brother"

[Astral Harmony]

After some good fun playing Overlord 2, I'll get to work on the post.

[Geminex]

Originally Posted by Dracorion

No, see you'd be giving up Impact's control over our characters and replacing it with you, Geminex, having control over us, the players directly.

Oh god no. Seriously, controling you guys? Takes tiiiime. And effort. And is more trouble than its worth. I'll retain Impact's MUST HAVE CONTROL aspect, and I'll continue manipulating your characters (if I can), I'll just surrender one of the prime methods of control, actual, official, leadership, in exchange for guaranteed balance.

Mind you, if we go with the deal I proposed... who'd be "official" leader? I'd prefer to decide that before we actually seal everything.

[Astral Harmony]

Official leader would probably be Charlotte. And I dare anyone to try and disagree. After all, it's Charlotte. She's got Arceus. She's got a shotgun. She's got attitude. She's most likely got warrants.

I think she can even shift the plot if she really tries. God knows she did it in the first mission.

[Dracorion]

Well Menarker, I secretly added another trope to my list. I won't tell you which character it's about or which it is, because it's relevant for the future that you not know, but not particularly damaging if you figure it out. Also, I'll add The Lancer and The Hero (as well as Berserk Button which I forgot) to Pierce's list, but not Knight Templar Big Brother. He's not that protective.

Originally Posted by Geminex

Oh god no. Seriously, controling you guys? Takes tiiiime. And effort. And is more trouble than its worth. I'll retain Impact's MUST HAVE CONTROL aspect, and I'll continue manipulating your characters (if I can), I'll just surrender one of the prime methods of control, actual, official, leadership, in exchange for guaranteed balance.

See, the side effect would be that, while you wouldn't have complete control, you'd be establishing a mentality of "I'm right and you're wrong, and if you wanna do anything you gotta run it by me". Which is most definitely a start.

Or maybe I'm just being paranoid. Though just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you!

Also, that bolded bit? I notice I am confused about that.

Originally Posted by Geminex

Mind you, if we go with the deal I proposed... who'd be "official" leader? I'd prefer to decide that before we actually seal everything.

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

Official leader would probably be Charlotte. And I dare anyone to try and disagree. After all, it's Charlotte. She's got Arceus. She's got a shotgun. She's got attitude. She's most likely got warrants.

I vote for Charlotte because it'd be hilarious seeing if AB can seriously justify making her leader.

Of course, if AB can't justify it, it'd come down to Pierce or Renny. Unless Menarker wants to step down.

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

I think she can even shift the plot if she really tries. God knows she did it in the first mission.

And now you've just made this a contest of who can upset the plot the most.

Way to fail, AB.

[Geminex]

you'd be establishing a mentality of "I'm right and you're wrong, and if you wanna do anything you gotta run it by me

I don't even want to have that much influence on the process. I want to know that I can forget about balancing altogether, because all of you are taking care of that for me. Though admittedly, I'm not sure how well that would work.

Though even if I participated in discussions as well, it wouldn't be so much "I'm always right". The way I see it, I'd be setting up a few guidelines now, what goes and what doesn't, we'd all agree to abide by those guidelines. There ends my 'power'. I couldn't even force you to abide by said guidelines! Hence the element of trust that's present. I really couldn't use this agreement to get dictatorial, even if I wanted to.

Also, that bolded bit? I notice I am confused about that.

I'm downplaying my skills to lull you into a false sense of security, duh.

And, y'know. I find myself agreeing with AB, sadly enough. I mean, it's rather humiliating, being commanded by Charlotte. But honestly, Renny's even more humiliating. And Pierce... yeah, no. That... really wouldn't work. In fact, the deal would probably fall flat under those circumstances. Matt's too anonymous.

So make it Charlotte. She's predictable enough that we can all influence her to some degree, and, admit it, she's probably the most fun character there is right now. Impact is nice and dramatic as a leader, and Pierce is perfectly thematic, but...
I think, right here, right now, Charlotte's the most enjoyable choice there is. Seriously, it'll be hilarious..

[Menarker]

Originally Posted by Dracorion

I vote for Charlotte because it'd be hilarious seeing if AB can seriously justify making her leader.

Of course, if AB can't justify it, it'd come down to Pierce or Renny. Unless Menarker wants to step down.

I won't step down, but I'm not exactly pushing people out of my way to step up. If Renny is called in-character by anyone like Rayleen or his peers to lead, he'd do his very best. If not, Renny is perfectly fine not being in a leader role if things are successful and people are more or less happy and healthy. Even if I the player out-of-character, am adamant that he'd be a fairly good leader.

Although, you realize that if we chose Matthias to be leader, we'd practically force him out of anonymity. We'd figure what exactly he does or does not do in a leadership role. >_> Of course, there is nothing that is stopping him from just declining the role in the first place. Although from his reaction, we would find out if he has any ambition whatsoever. ^,^