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indigo_league) wrote2024-11-30 07:37 pm
indigo_league) wrote2024-11-30 07:37 pm
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Character Retirement
At the end of a character's arc in Victory Road, some players may feel that their characters are best off remaining a part of the setting itself, effectively putting a cap on their story. Instead of being dropped traditionally, these characters will become background NPCs in the game, becoming a permanent part of the game.
Characters can be eligible for retirement after they have spent at least one year in the game. We encourage players to consider their character's arc, their impact on the game as a whole, and why it would be meaningful for the character to remain in the Pokémon world as opposed to being dropped traditionally.
Did your character start a business that changed the tourism industry in a town? Did they start their own gym? Did they become an important freelance reporter for EV news? Let us know! Your character doesn't need to have solved world hunger--we just want to know what sort of impact they've had, even if it's as small as settling down in a home in New Bark Town and telling new trainers to buzz off.
Note that retiring a character does NOT bar future players from also applying that character. If a player decides that Clark Kent is going to become an NPC EV News reporter, another player can then later apply as Clark Kent. Multiverse shenanigans are afoot, after all.
After your retirement submission has been accepted, your character will be removed from the taken page (if applicable) and a small blurb will be added to the location your character is associated with, with a link to information about that character's retirement.
Additionally, any characters dropped between August 2023 and November 2024 that meets the above requirements can be retroactively submitted for retirement.
Because there are countless ways that a player may decide that a character is ready to be retired, the mod team will be reviewing these submissions on a case-by-case basis. More information can be found on the form itself!
Submissions are checked every Wednesday.
Characters can be eligible for retirement after they have spent at least one year in the game. We encourage players to consider their character's arc, their impact on the game as a whole, and why it would be meaningful for the character to remain in the Pokémon world as opposed to being dropped traditionally.
Did your character start a business that changed the tourism industry in a town? Did they start their own gym? Did they become an important freelance reporter for EV news? Let us know! Your character doesn't need to have solved world hunger--we just want to know what sort of impact they've had, even if it's as small as settling down in a home in New Bark Town and telling new trainers to buzz off.
Note that retiring a character does NOT bar future players from also applying that character. If a player decides that Clark Kent is going to become an NPC EV News reporter, another player can then later apply as Clark Kent. Multiverse shenanigans are afoot, after all.
After your retirement submission has been accepted, your character will be removed from the taken page (if applicable) and a small blurb will be added to the location your character is associated with, with a link to information about that character's retirement.
Additionally, any characters dropped between August 2023 and November 2024 that meets the above requirements can be retroactively submitted for retirement.
Because there are countless ways that a player may decide that a character is ready to be retired, the mod team will be reviewing these submissions on a case-by-case basis. More information can be found on the form itself!
Player: Your name.
Character: The character you plan on retiring.
Time Spent In-Game: Characters can be eligible for retirement after they have spent at least one year in the game.
Retroactive Retirement?: If your character is being retroactively retired, please link us your drop comment OR an AC comment from when you were in the game.
How did your character change in Victory Road?: How did they grow or develop as a result of being in the Pokémon world? This doesn't have to be exhaustive--we just want to know about the highlights!
What did your character do to impact the setting?: What sort of accomplishments did they have? Do they have a legacy/reputation among trainers? These things don't need to be wildly ambitious or remarkable, but should at least matter to the character.
Why do YOU feel your character should be retired?: What it says on the tin! Just tell us why you feel retirement is right for this character.
NPC Info: What will your character be like as an NPC? How can future players expect to handwave interactions with them? Is there any business/organization info you need to provide for future players to understand what your character will be doing?
LOL I THOUGHT I DID THIS BUT I GUESS NOT
Character: Jolyne Cujoh
Time Spent In-Game: Aaaaalmost five years?
Retroactive Retirement?: N/A
How did your character change in Victory Road?: Jolyne came into the game from after her death in canon, annoyed and frustrated since she was here mostly alone at the time. Over the time she dove headfirst into the gym challenge and making sure to prove her strength and her own resolve to be able to do something in her own power and on her own terms.
Hilariously this ended up in her dating and eventually marrying Carly, running a gym after beating up on the Elite Four, trolling the hell out of Lance with her very popular and classy pictures of dragon butts that she eventually started doing seriously, and overall just being a force to be reckoned with.
Oh and her dad also showed up and she got to have an emotional connection with him after everything was said and done.
What did your character do to impact the setting?: Please let the legacy of trolling Lance and artistic pictures of dragon butts continue, it deserves it. She also runs the other half of the Two Island gym while going about her daily life of mostly training with her dingus pokemon, doing gym shenanigans, or smooching her wife and being gross about it.
Why do YOU feel your character should be retired?: Guuuuuurl she's done everything she set out to do and then some. Let her live her weird afterlife in peace being a menace and being grossly domestic with her wife.
NPC Info: /vague gestures at photography and trolling Lance
But no, seriously, she'll continue taking gym challenges and being an absolute annoying menace while doing so. Feel free to process those as my brain is absolute mush, y'all.
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We do want to note that we won't be processing retired Aurora League challenges - the options are to have it be handwaveable (in which case you can just let players use their own judgement without further guidelines, or you can provide guidelines for players to use) or to have someone other than the mods continue to process challenges. (I.e. the retired character's player, or another player if it's a shared gym.)
If you'd like to have Jolyne's half of the gym be simply handwaveable, that would be fine! (Otherwise, let us know if you want to provide guidelines or arrange something with Carly's player!)