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Player Name: owlie E-mail: -- Preferred Contact: pm Timezone: utc-3 Current Characters in Victory Road: falco grice (grice)
Character Name: Asa Mitaka Series: Chainsaw Man Timeline: chapter 101 Canon Resource Links:here
Personality:
Asa is generally quiet and tends to seem unsociable due to her always hanging out alone and deliberatly keeping potential "friends" at body length. We see her throughout her introduction always judging and bitterly nitpicking what others are doing wrong or what she finds annoying in her head: for example, hanging out in the bathroom (not the place for that!), taking up the entire hallway to walk side by side (in the way!) or couples publicly showing affection (she wants them to drop dead!). After being called out by the class' pet devil (that they kept and refused to kill) to come and play with everyone, Asa expresses genuine surprise for the first time that someone even remembered her full name. She realizes that she had simply been jealous of everyone having friends. She came out of her shell a bit, was starting to laugh and let herself go, and have fun—
Until she tripped and eviscerated Bucky with her own clumsy weight in front of the entire class.
Things get a little more difficult in school, after that. Asa becomes a honed target for bullying to the point that she doesn't want to show her face or even go back. Things take an unexpected turn the day Asa dies: in the street, in the middle of the night, her head cut in half because of the class president's jealousy that the teacher liked her more than the student he was sleeping with— and the confession of the class president's sabotaging to have Asa trip on Bucky on purpose.
Seconds before Asa's murder, she wishes she could have lived a more selfish life. She gets her second chance through the War Devil's possession of her body, and while she still prefers things done the right way (with her heart in the right place), she's still timid, shy and easily flustered. She's socially cautious about making friends due to the bullying she's suffered but isn't completely immune to people genuinely trying to be her friend. One change that's gradually noticed after her second chance at life is that she's beginning to speak up more— speak her mind or stand up to an idea she dislikes, and continues to get better at it.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: rocket Starter: dreepy (main) + croagunk (sup) Password: atomic fireball
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with yoru not being around i was under the silly impression that i shouldn’t be mentioning her re: asa’s personality, so my bad!
Asa is generally quiet and tends to seem unsociable due to her always hanging out alone and deliberatly keeping potential "friends" at body length. We see her throughout her introduction always judging and bitterly nitpicking what others are doing wrong or what she finds annoying in her head: for example, hanging out in the bathroom (not the place for that!), taking up the entire hallway to walk side by side (in the way!) or couples publicly showing affection (she wants them to drop dead!). She hates devils after her parents were killed by one (but it’s later revealed that she quite blames herself for having put her mother in harms way). After being called out by the class' pet devil (that they kept and refused to kill) to come and play with everyone, Asa expresses genuine surprise for the first time that someone even remembered her full name. She realizes that she had simply been jealous of everyone having friends. She came out of her shell a bit, was starting to laugh and let herself go, and have fun—
Until she tripped and eviscerated Bucky with her own clumsy weight in front of the entire class.
Things get a little more difficult in school, after that. Asa becomes a honed target for bullying to the point that she doesn't want to show her face or even go back. Things take an unexpected turn the day Asa dies: in the street, in the middle of the night, her head cut in half because of the class president's jealousy that the teacher liked her more than the student he was sleeping with— and the confession of the class president's sabotaging to have Asa trip on Bucky on purpose.
Seconds before Asa's murder, she wishes she could have lived a more selfish life. She gets her second chance through the War Devil's possession of her body, and, well— that’s a trip. The War Devil shares Asa's body and keeps her alive— She's called herself "Yoru". Waking up and thinking it all a dream until Yoru appears in front of her, she and Asa are at a constant bicker. Yoru pulls on one side, threatening Asa constantly for some slip on Chainsaw Man, and Asa pulls the other way, wishing not to get involved in something so serious but feeling pressured to stay quiet due to Yoru’s death threats (Asa even thinks to immediately let devil hunters know about Yoru, until she’s shut down with . . . oh boy!! A death threat). Asa doesn’t like this invasion, not at all, but with a promise to have her body back if she helps the devil with what she wants, Asa complies, driven by the prospect of having that second chance at life for herself. It’s very clear that she doesn’t want to die and ebbs closer into the selfish desire to live for herself— which is only natural when you’ve always lived for others, or with resentment for what you didn’t have. She had a chance to do things differently, so she begins to take it.
Asa and Yoru are mostly at odds, though. Yoru is brash and demands Asa kill people for weapons, or asks someone to be her boyfriend on the spot and god that is embarrassing. Asa is seen constantly rejecting most of Yoru’s demands. Even when threatened to return to school, Asa is too nervous and prefers to die than see the faces of her classmates. We also see that Yoru isn’t too deep into these threats when she doesn’t end up killing her on the spot and instead, kind of whines and ends up taking her body for a little boyfriend snatching spin (it doesn’t work). This may be because Yoru still needs Asa to navigate human society for her, or, perhaps something else. A few more chapters in, Yoru recognizes bullying and social hierarchies that exist even among devils, and offers to “take care of them” for Asa, which wouldn’t do much but perhaps in way “lessen” the obstacles present for her.
When faced with a massive Bat Devil, Asa cannot be possessed because of her paralyzing fear and ends up in a tight position with her friend, Yuko. Yoru ends up talking a lot of messy things to Ada’s head when her friend is injured, even having her hesitate at the idea of killing her to make her a weapon and save herself. Perhaps, what’s important in this moment is Asa’s choice to do the opposite in the end: pick up her friend and run trying to save them both. Yoru calls her a fool for this and cannot do much else, but for Asa, it shows that she would still like to do the right thing, with her heart in the right place. She wants to live, but she wants to live with dignity.
This event leads to Asa being “saved” by Chainsaw Man (honestly he just intervened, let a dude die and saved a cat). Yoru is furious, but Asa seems to be a little more casual around her presence. As time seems to go by, Asa doesn’t seem as frightened by Yoru anymore. She talks back to her, tells her to be quiet, and even begins a conversation that Yoru ends up sleeping on, but . . . It has to do with being forgotten. This is Yoru’s fear, and from this point on Asa also seems to feel a bit more sympathetic toward her brain goblin. It seems that she has pinpointed something they have in common, and ends up being thankful to Chainsaw Man for showing up and existing— just so that she could’ve met Yoru and have this whole second chance to live with her.
Ever since meeting with Yoru, Asa is still timid, shy and easily flustered. She's socially cautious about making friends due to the bullying she's suffered but isn't completely immune to people genuinely trying to be her friend. One change that's gradually noticed after her second chance at life is that she's beginning to speak up more— speak her mind or stand up to an idea she dislikes, and continues to get better at it. Yoru has said once already “i’m you, and you’re me,” and we’re already getting hints that Asa is in fact grateful for this opportunity, to be a version of herself she never thought she could be.
One that, perhaps, isn’t so clumsy, isn’t so quiet, and isn’t so bitter about life.
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Player Name: Clover E-mail: kajichan@gmail.com Preferred Contact: moepuff @ plurk or dm this journal Timezone: CST Current Characters in Victory Road: None
Character Name: Naeva Dos Martos Series: Original Timeline: One Year after her wedding.
Original Character Background: A note to start: Naeva’s setting and background are fairly dark fantasy in nature and genre, but because this app is in public comments, I have tried my best to phrase things delicately.
Additionally, Naeva was an undead shapeshifter with massive magical powers. Obviously, none of this carries over, but I would like to personally request two very silly things: one, that her eyes are reflective and dilate much like a jackal's would, and two, that her vocal cords remain able to properly yip. This is purely for my own amusement.
- Their world: The world which Naeva comes from is the very picture of renaissance high fantasy–a world with very little in the way of modern technology, but with surprising amounts of magitech that would allow a rudimentary understanding of electronic devices. Communicating over large distances is not strange–but doing it in weird glowy boxes really is. The world is magic-rich, and even moreso when it comes to Naeva, as her story sits in the crux of a curse and cold war between two exceedingly magical places.
The first is the Golden Empire, who’s original name has long since lost. During it’s founding, the God-King Hadrianus and his wife, the Witch of the Forge, created a magical Throne which tapped into a leyline of divine power, and thus passed judgment on all who claimed rulership after Hadrianus. The Throne chooses the Empire’s successor, turning their hair gold, and if none of the royal family is worthy, it will select someone who is. However, a Chair’s ideas of what makes a good ruler are not always what makes a good person, and over centuries expansionist rulers have grown the Golden Empire to cover half a continent, to the displeasure of the non-human species who’s lands were taken. This was before the Throne was corrupted by an Emperor’s insanity and eventually fate as an undead fascist (We’ll get to that in the history section).
The other notable location and culture is Schwarzwald, a literal living forest grown as a seal to imprison malice-born monsters at a very well of magic itself. Schwarzwald is a forest so dense the plant and animal life beneath the canopy have developed to be bioluminescent. The magic is so dense within the forest that people who go in human sometimes don’t come back that way, leading us to speak on the Nightkin, Naeva’s own species. The nightkin are a species of shapeshifters, coming in a grand variety of different forms, and are usually nocturnal, but for a few exceptions (Bird nightkin, Skykin, are rare but almost always diurnal). Furthermore, among the Nightkin is a phenomena known as ‘Witches’--a person of any gender who’s magic follows different rules, imposing their will over reality according to the restriction of their domain. The Witch of Truth may speak things into existence, but may never lie herself, whereas the Witch of Justice can sense the sins of others–and may go berserk if nothing is done. Of these, the queens of Schwarzwald have always been Witches, passing a domain over living things from mother to daughter, to help manage the health of the forest itself.
Queens, as well as all others, who disrespect the forest and it’s boundaries, are never seen again.
- Their history (OCs and customizable/silent protagonists): Around a hundred and ten years ago, the Golden Empire and Schwarzwald were at war. The forest itself rejected the Throne’s influence, and the Empire demanded retribution for settlers who died or became Nightkin when they entered the wood. In an effort to bring peace and let the forest exist as a protectorate and soothe the Emperor’s wounded pride, an arranged marriage was proposed between Emperor Florian and the Queen, Lucrezia dos Martos. But Florian refused to meet his bride in person, and sent his best night, and well…
A son was born, and smuggled away with his father. A few years after, twins were born–but Florian discovered the infidelity and in his rage, cursed them to be stillborn. Lucrezia, mad with grief, laid her own, terrible curse upon Florian, turning his beauty into rot. The competing magic cracked and corrupted both the Throne and the Forest, and was made yet worse when Lucrezia did the forbidden–and sacrificed her heart and her people to bring her children back to life.
Naeva was one of those twins. For the next 100 years, Naeva and her brother struggled to contain Lucrezia’s corruption and the cruel experiments their mother committed, never leaving the forest and never meeting their father, who was struggling to keep the Empire from collapsing–or igniting a total war. Over the course of a century, Naeva managed to keep the amount of horrifying monsters released by her mother to a minimum, but eventually, was forced to put Lucrezia out of her suffering.
Upon Lucrezia’s death, Naeva set about trying to solve the curses plaguing both kingdoms, and reached out to the heir of the Empire–if a broken marriage had torn these kingdom apart, then a marriage–for peace, and to cleanse the corruption–was the only solution she could think of. Lucien agreed, and met her in Schwarzwald to begin a pilgrimage to places of magic, racing to repair them before the Throne killed them both attempting to protect itself. After one year, they succeeded, and needed only to repair the throne.
Only to be attacked by the shambling lich remains of Emperor Florian, and locked in a waking dream by the Throne attempting to keep them alive and out of Florian’s hands.
And then when he was defeated, they were ambushed by the founding gods of their kingdoms at the wedding reception.
In all honesty, the birth of Naeva and Lucien’s son six months after the wedding was probably easier than anything else.
Due to the curses, Naeva grew up with rather less knowledge about being a Queen than she should have, but quite a lot of knowledge on how to survive out in the Woods, especially when the Woods are a semi-homicidal sentient hive mind of angry magic trees, but a normal forest will probably also be fine. She also has a strong background in hand-to-hand combat, though this is hopefully much less relevant to a pokemon game unless Arceus has a real bad day. Isolated from most people, Naeva's companions were usually beasts, magical and mundane, and while her ability to speak to animals is gone and likely would not work on pokemon to begin with, she still has a century of experience making friends with just about every creature she's ever met. As it turns out, animals don't much care when you're awkward, and strangely do like it when you knit them cute hats for winter.
Personality: Naeva is a deeply compassionate and empathetic individual, and makes an active effort not to judge others for value systems that differ from her own. Keenly believing that even beings deemed as ‘monsters’ have value to them, Naeva has spent nearly a century, from the day she was old enough to read onward, dedicated to the cause of saving her people. Isolated within the forest, working to save her people, Naeva had very few companions and became intensely lonely. Thus, for those who manage to get close enough to her that she feels secure enough to relax, they find that Naeva seems an entirely different person. Affection, empathetic and extremely optimistic, Naeva is a daydreamer who gets easily excited and even more easily flustered, loyal and invested in friendships to the point of being meddlesome. Her maternal instincts cannot and will not be contained.
Despite this disparity between her public and private personas, Naeva’s actions are motivated deeply by her sense of duty to her crown and love for her people. She feels as though it is her responsibility to undo the terrible doom her mother brought upon both the Black Forest and the people of the empire, and is willing to sacrifice all she calls her own in pursuing that duty. Naeva allows herself no sense of regret or bitterness, not for her abandoned dreams, nor for having to slay her own mother, for she knows she must bear all this for the sake of her people. This stoicism remains a hard rule around those unfamiliar to her, but can and has been cracked, as she is very easily teased and flustered by people she cares about–a fact her husband uses frequently to his advantage.
At her canon point, Naeva still maintains her decorum in public, but with the curse broken and the birth of her son, she is more willing to open up to those around her, and even more likely to reach out to those she thinks are suffering. Naeva went through one hundred years of sorrow and loneliness, and cannot stand for even a second to let someone else suffer alone. However, she still retains her resting bitch face, which does make her intentions a little difficult for people to discern.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: I would like to start as a Breeder! Starter: I would very much like for Naeva to have a Riolu, as she used to be a jackal shapeshifter. Naeva as a person is very much concerned with fairness and justice, and I feel as though a Riolu raised from a breeder (for contests, even if they're not a mechanic in game, she's still putting a bow tie on that pokemon) would be an excellent partner to someone who is largely only going to get into combat on the behalf of others.
Of course, if Riolu is not possible, I would like her to start with Absol. She’d feel a deep spiritual connection to them, and I think a single-evolution start works just fine for a breeder.
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(Quick note to clarify: I might have missed it in the note, but was the request for starting with Riolu approved? I am so sorry to ask if it was made clear, thank you!)
Player Name: Marcius E-mail: AJOVarney@Gmail.com Preferred Contact: An Art in Every Labor #1632 @ Discord Timezone: EST Current Characters in Victory Road: N/A
Character Name: Lucius Quintus Modestus Series: Thermae Romae Novae Timeline: Post Episode 11 Canon Resource Links:Wikipedia article for Thermae Romae (the series wiki isn't updated for the 2022 anime) Personality: Lucius is a man who carries the yoke of duty and legacy with him at all times. For him, the benefits that his work brings for both the Roman people and the world in general are beyond words, and he is a true believer in the healing powers that baths can bring to both the body and soul. Both his father and grandfather had spent their entire lives as Thermae (bathhouse) Builders, with his father even losing his life to a building accident in doing so, and Lucius carries on their passion for the craft in his career as a Thermae Architect.
Despite his relatively unassuming occupation Lucius' travels have seen him develop a formidable arsenal of skills. Having spent years working in conflict areas, he was trained in many of the disciplines used by the Roman Legion. He has shown himself to quite capable with both unarmed combat and the use of sword and shield, as well as demonstrating remarkable talent with a bow. He's a capable artist and has a near-uncanny ability to dissasemble and replicate things he sees in his mind, recreating even advanced machinery with little more than a moment to study it. This formidable mixture of skills is largely restrained by Lucius' humility however.
Lucius is a true worker bee, and the more he succeeded in his work the more he lost his balance in the realm of work/life. For much of his career he unintentionally neglected his responsibilities on the homefront as well as his relationship with his wife Livia, causing a wedge to form between them. Thankfully, though, this rift was able to be mended by Emperor Hadrian's intervention. Apologizing for his near-constant monopolizing of her husband's talents, he explained all the good that the Thermae had helped to sew across the empire and promised to Lucius that he would be given the time he needed to repair his home life. Since then, though the Emperor's health has been in decline, Lucius and Livia have been able to grow closer together once more and work towards building a family.
Though he possesses a level of rigidity and prickliness over anything he considers to go against Roman values he is generally affable and helpful, willing to go above and beyond to help his fellow man and ready to see the good in even the most irredeemable of people. Brushing shoulders with everything from bandits to monarchs means that Lucius has grown quite capable in getting a read on those he meets (as well as being able to give voice to his opinions on those people should the situation need it) but even his most hot-blooded moments are still tempered by his good nature and willingness to give his time to others. Pokémon Information Affiliation: Trainer Starter: Falinks Password: Atomic Fireball
Victory Road Sample: [Lucius’ eyes open, but the ceiling that greets them is very different from the one that he should be seeing. Sitting-up quickly he takes-in his surroundings and is surprised to find himself in a relatively ordinary modern bedroom.]
Am I back in the other world? How strange. Normally I seem to enter through baths…
[Before he can ponder any further the door to the room opens a crack and a woman pokes her head in to tell him to hurry up. Confused but acquiescent, Lucius gets himself up and meanders out of the room.]
Wait a minute. I can understand you!
[Unaffected by Lucius’ surprise, though, the friendly-looking lady simply handed him a bag and masterfully scooted him out the front door, giving him well-wishes and farewells all the while.
As the door closed behind him Lucius was more lost than he’d been from any of his previous visits to other worlds. How could he understand what people were saying now? Had he crossed-over enough times to learn their ways without realizing it? Why hadn’t he emerged in a bath like in his previous visits? How would he- wait… is there music playing?
Looking around to try to find the source of the music only causes him further surprise however, as he soon spots a gaggle of small round creatures waiting by the side of the doorway. They seemed to resemble tiny little Legionaries, odd as that was, and seemed to have their attention fixed squarely on him.]
Player Name: Absol E-mail: N/A, Plurk or Discord please. Preferred Contact:darkestabsol, Discord @ darkestabsol#8531 Timezone: PST Current Characters in Victory Road: Narancia Ghirga (orangesmith)
Character Name: Ryou Bakura Series: Yu-Gi-Oh! Timeline: Immediately post Dark Side of Dimensions Canon Resource Links:Here!
Personality: On a basic level, Ryou is a sweet, kind hearted guy who cares deeply for his friends and kept letting himself be possessed by the spirit of the Millennium Ring for far longer than he should have. And all that is true, but it's a very surface level view of him.
Ryou is very genuinely a nice guy at heart, caring immensely for his friends and family. In fact, he cares about them to an almost self sacrificial level, putting their needs ahead of his own if he thinks that's what he has to do. Examples of this range anywhere from moving out on his own to prevent any more people close to him from going into the mysterious comas that had been happening at the time, to claiming he was fine with being left out of the Memory World trip after being told he was Too Evil To Go (he wasn't fine and ran away crying, not to mention that it was the presence of the Ring that got him deemed Too Evil To Go), to sacrificing his own soul in a last ditch effort to stop the Ring Spirit from killing his friends (he got better, but had no idea he would come back from that at the time). This level of caring also leads him to write letters to his dead sister, telling her about his life and how he's been doing.
Tying into this, he's rather determined, putting up quite the fight against the Ring Spirit in his intro despite being possessed and largely unable to stop the spirit from trying to steal the souls/kill off his new friends via a heavily rigged TTRPG game. This fight included using what little control he had to fudge several dice rolls in favour of his friends and type out a message to the spirit on his laptop just to tell him that he's fighting too, and ultimately escalated to the last ditch effort of sacrificing his own soul to stop the spirit.
With all this, you'd think Ryou is the straightforward angel to the Ring Spirit's devil, but that's not quite true. Ryou has a mischievous/trollish streak just under the surface, which comes out during the Battle City arc when he tries to get his friend Jonouchi to look at his occult themed Duel Monsters deck despite knowing that Jonouchi was afraid of the supernatural. This streak came out again at the end of the arc when he helped Mai briefly fake her own death as a prank, with Ryou finding the whole thing funny when the 'death' was revealed to be a prank. He's also got a strong interest in the weird/creepy/occult, building the aforementioned occult themed Duel Monsters deck for himself with a heavy focus on cards like Dark Necrofear and Spirit Message. Ryou is also notably curious, expressing interest in learning more about the Millennium Items after finding out the Ring was haunted. However, this curiosity also gets him in trouble sometimes, most notably when, as a kid, he followed his father to the tomb the Millennium Ring was being kept in, only to end up being claimed as the Ring Spirit's unwitting host.
This brings us to the Millennium Ring and why Ryou kept it for so long. Part of why he kept it after realizing it was haunted was likely his own curiosity into the Millennium Items, along with his general interest in the occult. But a major influence was likely the Ring Spirit's own manipulations. During the Duelist Kingdom arc, the spirit is shown manipulating Ryou into putting the Ring back on by claiming that he'd turned good and knew how to get out of the puzzle Ryou and his friends were currently stuck in. Ryou, wanting to help, chose to put the Ring back on, despite distrust in the Spirit at the time. This paved the way for the spirit to further manipulate Ryou, hiding his true actions in the memory lapses the possessions caused so Ryou would think the spirit really had turned good. Obviously, this was all untrue, and the spirit was as evil as ever with Ryou once more the unwitting host.
However, by the events of Dark Side of Dimensions, Ryou is now permanently freed from the Ring and seems aware of the spirit's true nature, as shown when he desperately tries to explain to Aigami that the spirit's actions weren't his own. He also seems to have some degree of guilt for the Ring Spirit's actions, as despite trying to explain what happened to Aigami, he ends up tearfully apologizing anyways. His confrontation with Aigami also reveals that Ryou apparently buried his memory of when he first got the Ring as a child and didn't want to remember it, forcing Aigami to make Ryou (painfully) recall what happened that day.
All in all, Ryou is a very unfortunate young man who manages to stay the polite, kindhearted guy he is despite everything that happens to him in canon.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Trainer Starter: Hisuian Zorua Password: Atomic Fireball
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We'd also like to take this moment to inform you of the Eastern Kanto Ferry! For only P2000, you can take a three day, all-inclusive ferry ride from New Bark Town to Pallet Town and begin a new pokémon journey in the Kanto region! Otherwise, feel free to start in Johto!
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We'd also like to take this moment to inform you of the Eastern Kanto Ferry! For only P2000, you can take a three day, all-inclusive ferry ride from New Bark Town to Pallet Town and begin a new pokémon journey in the Kanto region! Otherwise, feel free to start in Johto!
Zuke's general demeanor is to be self-possessed, polite, and rational. All of which is a stark contrast to his partner, Mayday. So Zuke's attitude is often gentle and soft spoken, trying to be sensible rather than walk into something hot-headed. This makes him very easy to talk to. He's a good guy who would ride or die for his loved ones.. You can always expect him to come up with logic and reason to try to worm out of problems. Water off his back. He is the sea, the ocean waves. Zuke being a friend is being a comforting presence: let's go for burgers and chill.
His fuse is so long that it's hard to agitate him to the point he even raises his voice at you. Unless if you obviously hurt people he loves or others in general.
Zuke is a graduate and holds a Masters of Fine Arts and Music because he's very passionate about the art world as well as he is very much skilled. He enjoys working with his hands and playing music while harboring a true fascination with old technology and traditional instruments. Skill wise, he's very good at machines, computers and even welding. There is a real passion for playing the drums, ever since he was a child and had an old traditional beat drum. He doesn't even want the fame or money, he just wants to do what he loves best. Expanding his mind, enjoying soothing activities, and learning new things is always a plus for him; wanna build this jigsaw puzzle with him that looks like the stars and do some meditating? He digs quiet leisure fun, making him rather introverted in the long run. But what you see is what you get, for the most part...
The downside to being that calm and collected has a lot of drawbacks when it comes to his personal life. His view on life is incredibly passive, and he won't raise a stink unless if he has evidence to believe he should bring the spotlight to himself. This makes him really shrink to the background often and doesn't take being thrown on to the spot very well. He would clam up and stutter when that happens. While he's better about this now than in his college years, he could tend to be walked over by people in situations as he used to let his ex-girlfriend do this to him until it bubbled over (or in this case, literally set him on fire). In general, he's cool with the louder people speaking up as he supports them. But of course, people who say nothing and let things happen tend to bottle things up. That goes for most trauma and frustrations. Zuke dislikes confrontations and arguments, and will try to slink out of drama and trouble with silence and calm rationale. If there is an issue that isn't resolved and doesn't get better over time, Zuke holds it personally and could hide away from it. This was evident in his long feud with his older rapper brother, DK West. The torment and resentment he got from him during his younger years frustrated himself into being passive and wanting to keep the peace. Until there wasn’t any, and his inward frustration could no longer take it. When that happens, mistakes happen. In which case he shockingly eventually disowned his brother and ran away no contact from his ex.
While at the end of the game, he came clean with some of his mistakes he made with this (comforted his ex and talked it out, and reconciled with his brother), this is a bad habit to break and be aware of it.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Breeder Starter: Grookey (though he's a full fledged evolved boy now) Password: Atomic Fireball Samples RP Sample: One!
It was getting late, Zuke thought as he held the freshly made malasada in his maw. He wanted to check up on the secured Egg he held in his pack before deciding to find a place to crash for the night. As well as check his supplies. He turned to look at Terbangan, his Grookey partner, who was just finished gobbling up his treat. Zuke couldn't help but smile and shake his head at the guy, "You're going to get a stomachache there but I guess you'd think it was worth it, huh? We were lucky to get the last of the last fresh batch of the day. Come on then, let's head out."
The two would follow the trail out of town, passing a few dumpsters, when a crashing noise boomed at them. This unexpected detour of their evening sent Terbangan into high alert, "Keeeee!!". He screeched as he got his stick ready, aiming to defend his partner. "Easy, easy...look," Zuke's calm voice rang out as a purple bundle rolled out of the trash heap. It was a Toxel, Zuke silently concluded as the small Pokémon went into a sudden fit of tears.
The Toxel saw this as a threat, as it started to buzz a small dose of electricity. Terbangan was ready to attack, rallying his stick to strike. "Whoa, whoa! Cool it, cool it, little man." Zuke did NOT want a Pokémon battle to start when unprovoked. He remembered he still had his malasada, which only had the one bite out of due to business. Idea.
"Hey buddy, you hungry? Here, take it."
Zuke diplomatically tossed the pastry the Toxel's way, which it took immediately and began to shove in its face. Calmed down now, it made a small grumble of pleasure. "Ah, see? There we go. That's better, eh?"
A sigh of relief and a grunt of joy was in the air both at once.
Zuke's eyes then went to the tin bucket in the trash, another idea.
"Need a dinner and a show? Here, call it a peace jam," said Zuke as his Grookey friend caught on immediately. Jam session impromptu, easy peasy fun for all. Zuke jammed on the pail with his palm, Terbangan following with his drumming stick. As the beats filled the air, the Toxel raised its arms with glee.
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Player Name: Marcius E-mail: ajovarney@gmail.com Preferred Contact:An_Art_in_Every_Labor An Art in Every Labor #1632 @ Discord. Timezone: EST Current Characters in Victory Road: Lucius Modestus
Character Name: Joey Wheeler Series: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Timeline: Post Dark Side of Dimensions Canon Resource Links: Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki Article For Joey Wheeler Personality: Joey is an impulsive young man with a quick temper, but many of his more outright childish aspects have been reigned-in as he grew older. Instead these traits are funneled towards standing up for his friends or bringing attention to the elephant in any given room when noone else seems willing to do so. His fighting skill and indomitable spirit have helped him protect his friends in situations when the odds seemed insurmountable and, though a goofball through-and-through, he has a core harder than diamond. Many a villain has underestimated him and, whether through physical strength or through spiritual resolve, been made to regret it. Through his travels he's often come in contact with the supernatural or extra ordinary and, though he lacks the abilities and resources of many within these situations, he more than makes up for these shortcomings through an uncannily good luck. Whether dice, coins, machines, or cards he consistanntly defies the odds, and this has enabled him to come out on top in many situations that would otherwise have spelled his undoing.
Joey had a rough start of things in life, coming from a broken home and an uncaring father, and it led him to fall in with the wrong crowd. From joining gangs to petty bullying Joey spent years as a through-and-through delinquent, but was given a change to turn things around when he made friends with his classmate Yugi. Though their relationship began as an antagonistic one Yugi's selflessness and vulnerability showed Joey that he didn't need to put up shields around himself endlessly, and that there were other ways to work through your problems than by lashing out at the world.
Since giving up his delinquent ways Joey has become part of a close-knit group of friends, and this has seen tremendous improvements to his mental state and familial relationship. Though he was never shown to outright struggle in school Joey was never someone who would be considered to be of a studious nature or a likely candidate for becoming an honor student. Despite this, upon deciding that he wanted to truly immerse himself in the game of Duel Monsters he applied himself rigorously to the lessons taught to him by Yugi's grandfather. Within a matter of months his skills had grown to make him a match for champion duelists and professional player eliminators, allowing him to secure a position as the runner-up in what was then the world's largest Duel Monsters Tournament. These skills also allowed him to secure funds for his sister to undergo life-changing surgery, and helped to mend the rift between him and his mother as well as galvinizing in his mind that Duel Monsters was what he wanted to do for a living. He would only continue to grow in skill and in character as his friends engaged in ever-more dangerous and world-threatening events, learning more and more with every step the kind of man he wanted to become.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Trainer Starter: Charmander Password: Atomic Fireball
Victory Road Sample: [Joey snaps awake. This certainly doesn't looks like the room he went to sleep in but, then again, he has more experience with finding himself in weird situations than most people so who knows. Maybe Tristan is pulling a prank or something, or maybe the gang is in for another batch of save-the-world bingo. The appearance of a woman he's never met before popping her head into the room has him leaning towards the latter though, especially when she starts telling him to hurry up like he should've already known that.]
Da heck...
[He rolls himself out of the bed and looks around to see if he's left anything behind in the wake of his sleeping. All things looking as together as can be expected, he heads downstairs to talk to the woman.]
So, uh, where exactly is-
[Before he can finish his sentence the woman puts a bag into his hands and ushers him out the door, big smile on her face, and shuts the door behind him.]
Uh...
[Joey just stands there dumbfounded for a moment before snapping back to reality.]
Oh hey! Goodies!
[He digs through the bag, checking out the camping supplies and boxed lunch before finding the Pokegear.]
Awww yeah. We got snacks and a computer! Time to find out what the heck is going on here. Let's dive into dis sucka!
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We'd also like to take this moment to inform you of the Eastern Kanto Ferry! For only P2000, you can take a three day, all-inclusive ferry ride from New Bark Town to Pallet Town and begin a new pokémon journey in the Kanto region! Otherwise, feel free to start in Johto!
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