Pokemon Umbral Discussion 35: Under New Management!

[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.

[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. ^,^

[Bard The 5th LW]

TV tropes bios? I've heard enough!

I have gained control over TV Tropes. I am no longer ensnared by its destructive time destroying grip!

So a bio for Charlotte will probably be written!

[Dracorion]

There's not a chance in hell I'm going to scour through a metric fuckton of TVTropes articles to make up a list for Pierce or Sophia or any other of my characters.

Not a chance in hell.

[Menarker]

Oh, it's not THAT hard. There are specific indexes for characterization tropes, an index for morality, for idealism, and for military/combat roles. That in itself is sure to get you a quite a bit. Ah well, your choice.

*Found the "Ambition is Evil" one for Impact*

Looking forward to seeing what Bard pulls out for Charlotte, although I'm completely expecting the "Token Evil Teammate" one.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Alright, here are some tropes around Charlotte. Didn't search to hard though.

A God Am I: She is in possession of Arceus. Not quite a God Complex yet though.

Blood Knight: She is even willing to kill Children if they put up a good fight. She doesn't like it when they fight back though.

Christmas Cake: Being 30, she is one of the older members of PATCA. She doesn't really seek Romance though.

Evil Poacher: She likes to kill rare things and take trophies.

Fragile Speedster: Her pokemon don't really focus on Defense. Offense and Speed are more what she specializes with.

Fan Preferred Couple: With Shannon.

Kick the Dog: She shot Moon on the first mission. She also kicks Spitz on several occasions.

Kill 'em All: Although she usually isn't allowed.

Neutral Evil: She works with a law enforcement group, but she doesn't really care what happens as long as she benefits.

Theme Naming: All of her Canine Pokemon are named after the dogs in 'Call of The Wild.' Her Aerodactyl is also named after John Hammond from Jurassic Park.

Token Evil Teammate: She is the only outright evil member of the team, with the possible exception of Impact. She is less subtle though, and commonly complains that she doesn't get to kill enough.

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by BardTheFifthLightWarrior

Kick the Dog: She shot Moon on the first mission. She also kicks Spitz on several occasions.

Not to mention if she goes Slayer I proposed a Signature Technique just like that! Well, except it was called "Kick The Puppy".

Hell, even if she doesn't go Slayer, she could still use it a co-op, except changing the effect. Something like kicking one of her pokemon and lowering their defense and special defense by two levels in exchange for raising the attack, special attack and speed by four or six levels.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Now I have this image in my head of Charlotte punting Spitz like a football at an enemy.

I was going to put Morality Pet for Buck, but then I figured that he doesn't do much to make her a better person.