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Ask to Join Geminos: ~Threads of Uncertainty~ (Discussion Thread)

Which 8 types should we use as Gyms?

  • Fire

    Votes: 11 34.4%
  • Water

    Votes: 14 43.8%
  • Flying

    Votes: 10 31.3%
  • Grass

    Votes: 10 31.3%
  • Steel

    Votes: 18 56.3%
  • Electric

    Votes: 13 40.6%
  • Ghost

    Votes: 16 50.0%
  • Fairy

    Votes: 13 40.6%
  • Ice

    Votes: 17 53.1%
  • Dark

    Votes: 19 59.4%
  • Dragon

    Votes: 20 62.5%
  • Rock

    Votes: 6 18.8%
  • Normal

    Votes: 9 28.1%
  • Fighting

    Votes: 11 34.4%
  • Bug

    Votes: 10 31.3%
  • Psychic

    Votes: 11 34.4%
  • Poison

    Votes: 13 40.6%
  • Ground

    Votes: 11 34.4%

  • Total voters
    32
I'm gonna go ahead and drop my bio here just in case you for some reason decide to say yes instead of no. I think I touched everything. I don't think I'm missing anything. Is it okay if Dolan's slowpoke is a shiny slowpoke? Its fine if the answer is no. Just curious.

I'm not sure if Dolan should live on the coast of Seafare City, Petrichor CIty ,or that town north of Petrichor City. Thoughts?
Name: Dolan Larch
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Description: icey blue hair eye brow length. somewhat messy hair. random spots of baby blue in his hair. His eye brows are fairly bushy. Despite being raced on a fishing boat he's a fairly pale boy, his eyes are bright blue, he's 4'10 1/2. It's important to note he isn't 4'10 or 4'11. He will argue with you all day long that he is 4'10 1/2. He is a fairly thin boy at 87 lbs. He always wears a goofy grin. his dimples will show if he grins big enough.
Dolan wears a white and blue striped tanktop with a yellow circle in the middle shaped like the sun. Inside that yellow circle with orange letters says "I sea u". He loves this shirt and owns eight more shirts that look just like it. He wears a mint green wet suit with pale blue and pink lines on the side. He wears his wet suit underneath his clothes in case he ever comes across a body of water that looks like it needs swimming in. His wetsuit is sleeveless ,and stops at his ankles. He wears khaki shorts on top of that ,and plain blue flipflops. theres pictures of waves on the flipflops ,but you can't see them because his feet cover them up when he wears them. He wears gogo goggles on his forehead ,and had a waterproof shoulderbag he takes with him everywhere.
Personality (Optional): Dolan is a calm friendly laid back guy that likes sitting by the ocean whether that be toes in the sand or feed in the water. Dolan is a very nice friendly guy ,but because of his somewhat lack of social interactions he can be a bit awkward at times. Despite this he isn't nervous to be around people as being the simple guy he is he tries to avoid overthinking situations. Its bad juju maaan... I dunno. Either way he tries to socialize when he can ,and will occasionally act weird or just straight up silent when he can't think of a response. He enjoys photography so if you ask him about that grab a couch, some snacks ,and a pillow cause your not leaving till he finishes his story. He tries to be a cool dude. He thinks he's a cool dude.
History (Optional): Dolan grew up in a boat house with his father(Daniel), two older brothers(Derrick and Don), his uncle(Doyle), his son(Doyle Jr.) ,and his dad's best friend(Also a guy. His name is Donnell). Dolan didn't interact with many girls in his life so his experience with them is very limited. His mother died when he was four years old so he didn't know her too well. Because his family loved the ocean so much she was buried by sea.

Dolan's father Daniel is a kind, friendly ,and charismatic man who hasn't married since his last wife passed. He been on a few dates ,but they always ended poorly ,and now he just focuses on his career. Maybe later on in his life he will find somebody special. Then there are Dolan's two older brothers. the eldest Derrick was named after his grandfather ,and Don was named after Daniel's best friend. Derrick is a smart sensible boy who looks after Don, Dolan ,and even Doyle Jr. He's a good kid ,but he wants to become a librarian one day. Own his own library ,and everything. Don wants nothing more than to be just like his father living off the coast like the fisherman his father is. Dolan's uncle Doyle is a bit of a lazy man ,but when push comes to shove he will put honest hard work in what he does. Unlike Doyle's more responsible brother Daniel, Doyle is still married ,but his wife travels from region to region as a business woman. Doyle can put in a good days work when he choices ,but often time just does the bare minimum. His son Doyle jr. is similar ,but over time he's started to become better then his father in ways. For starters he's less lazy. Perhaps when he's older he won't be any bit lazy at all. Then theres Donnel. Donnel is also kind of a bum. He's never married ,and has no kids. Daniel puts up with his friend living with him for several reasons. Donnel saved his life a couple years back when he fell in the ocean one day ,and there were sharpedo out in the water. Also his best friend always puts in a good days work every day.

Lastly is ya boi Dolan. Dolan is a friendly kid who never really knew what he wanted to do. He just takes photos ,and never worries about a thing. His father one day made a sarcastic joke that he should become a photographer ,and so he did. Really. He even got his own website started too. He's uploaded pictures ,and stories with those pictures two years ago ,and has aquired a small number of fans along the way. After spending so much time taking pictures within the area he lived he yearned to see more places ,and more people. More sights ,and more attractions. He wanted to adventure ,and explore as well as take more pictures and share them online. Preferably with cool stories attached to them. Dolan loved embellishing stories of excitement and wonder when posting his pictures. It made him feel good to share his experience traveling ,and sight seeing with others.

Likes/Dislikes (Optional): He likes relaxing at the beach, taking photos ,and adventure/ He hates thinking about things he doesn't understand which is basically a lot of things, the cold ,and when people don't share.

Inventory (5 Items Max, excluding essentials): roller blades he can just snap on the bottoms of his shoes, map, 3 cameras(digital cine camera, polaroid ,and a cellphone. All three cameras waterproof of course) ,and poffins.


Starter Pokemon
Name: Skol
Species: Slowpoke
Ability: oblivious
Gender: male
Description/Other (Optional): Dolan's water/psychic best friend is a calm equally laid back pokémon as he is. Dolan knew Skol ever since he was 10 ,but didn't catch him until he was 12. Every day Dolan would walk to the beach ,and relax at the beach toes in the sand as the waves creeping up the shoreline got his feet wet. Sometimes he would make a sand castle, sometimes he would take a nap ,and sometimes he would feed wingull bread ,or watch the waves surfers 'catch some gnarly waves man'. Regardless as to what he did a slowpoke would always greet him ,and they would just chill by the beach. Not a single concern between the two of them. He eventually decided to catch the slowpoke. He knew the thing two years. Might as well right? Why didn't he catch him two years ago when they first met?! Like... who cares? It was a nice time. Please don't ruin the story... It was a good time ,and now they are officially best friends since then.

assuming the trainers are allowed to catch pokémon ,and have 6 ,and possibly even evolve them along the way this will be Dolan's team.

(he will catch a majority of his pokémon within the ocean beach area ,and the others within the swamp areas.
826969_trainercard-Dolan.png
 
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I'm gonna go ahead and drop my bio here just in case you for some reason decide to say yes instead of no. I think I touched everything. I don't think I'm missing anything. Is it okay if Dolan's slowpoke is a shiny slowpoke? Its fine if the answer is no. Just curious.

I'm not sure if Dolan should live on the coast of Seafare City, Petrichor CIty ,or that town north of Petrichor City. Thoughts?
Name: Dolan Larch
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Description: icey blue hair eye brow length. somewhat messy hair. random spots of baby blue in his hair. His eye brows are fairly bushy. Despite being raced on a fishing boat he's a fairly pale boy, his eyes are bright blue, he's 4'10 1/2. It's important to note he isn't 4'10 or 4'11. He will argue with you all day long that he is 4'10 1/2. He is a fairly thin boy at 87 lbs. He always wears a goofy grin. his dimples will show if he grins big enough.
Dolan wears a white and blue striped tanktop with a yellow circle in the middle shaped like the sun. Inside that yellow circle with orange letters says "I sea u". He loves this shirt and owns eight more shirts that look just like it. He wears a mint green wet suit with pale blue and pink lines on the side. He wears his wet suit underneath his clothes in case he ever comes across a body of water that looks like it needs swimming in. His wetsuit is sleeveless ,and stops at his ankles. He wears khaki shorts on top of that ,and plain blue flipflops. theres pictures of waves on the flipflops ,but you can't see them because his feet cover them up when he wears them. He wears gogo goggles on his forehead ,and had a waterproof shoulderbag he takes with him everywhere.
Personality (Optional): Dolan is a calm friendly laid back guy that likes sitting by the ocean whether that be toes in the sand or feed in the water. Dolan is a very nice friendly guy ,but because of his somewhat lack of social interactions he can be a bit awkward at times. Despite this he isn't nervous to be around people as being the simple guy he is he tries to avoid overthinking situations. Its bad juju maaan... I dunno. Either way he tries to socialize when he can ,and will occasionally act weird or just straight up silent when he can't think of a response. He enjoys photography so if you ask him about that grab a couch, some snacks ,and a pillow cause your not leaving till he finishes his story. He tries to be a cool dude. He thinks he's a cool dude.
History (Optional): Dolan grew up in a boat house with his father(Daniel), two older brothers(Derrick and Don), his uncle(Doyle), his son(Doyle Jr.) ,and his dad's best friend(Also a guy. His name is Donnell). Dolan didn't interact with many girls in his life so his experience with them is very limited. His mother died when he was four years old so he didn't know her too well. Because his family loved the ocean so much she was buried by sea.

Dolan's father Daniel is a kind, friendly ,and charismatic man who hasn't married since his last wife passed. He been on a few dates ,but they always ended poorly ,and now he just focuses on his career. Maybe later on in his life he will find somebody special. Then there are Dolan's two older brothers. the eldest Derrick was named after his grandfather ,and Don was named after Daniel's best friend. Derrick is a smart sensible boy who looks after Don, Dolan ,and even Doyle Jr. He's a good kid ,but he wants to become a librarian one day. Own his own library ,and everything. Don wants nothing more than to be just like his father living off the coast like the fisherman his father is. Dolan's uncle Doyle is a bit of a lazy man ,but when push comes to shove he will put honest hard work in what he does. Unlike Doyle's more responsible brother Daniel, Doyle is still married ,but his wife travels from region to region as a business woman. Doyle can put in a good days work when he choices ,but often time just does the bare minimum. His son Doyle jr. is similar ,but over time he's started to become better then his father in ways. For starters he's less lazy. Perhaps when he's older he won't be any bit lazy at all. Then theres Donnel. Donnel is also kind of a bum. He's never married ,and has no kids. Daniel puts up with his friend living with him for several reasons. Donnel saved his life a couple years back when he fell in the ocean one day ,and there were sharpedo out in the water. Also his best friend always puts in a good days work every day.

Lastly is ya boi Dolan. Dolan is a friendly kid who never really knew what he wanted to do. He just takes photos ,and never worries about a thing. His father one day made a sarcastic joke that he should become a photographer ,and so he did. Really. He even got his own website started too. He's uploaded pictures ,and stories with those pictures two years ago ,and has aquired a small number of fans along the way. After spending so much time taking pictures within the area he lived he yearned to see more places ,and more people. More sights ,and more attractions. He wanted to adventure ,and explore as well as take more pictures and share them online. Preferably with cool stories attached to them. Dolan loved embellishing stories of excitement and wonder when posting his pictures. It made him feel good to share his experience traveling ,and sight seeing with others.

Likes/Dislikes (Optional): He likes relaxing at the beach, taking photos ,and adventure/ He hates thinking about things he doesn't understand which is basically a lot of things, the cold ,and when people don't share.

Inventory (5 Items Max, excluding essentials): roller blades he can just snap on the bottoms of his shoes, map, 3 cameras(digital cine camera, polaroid ,and a cellphone. All three cameras waterproof of course) ,and poffins.


Starter Pokemon
Name: Skol
Species: Slowpoke
Ability: oblivious
Gender: male
Description/Other (Optional): Dolan's water/psychic best friend is a calm equally laid back pokémon as he is. Dolan knew Skol ever since he was 10 ,but didn't catch him until he was 12. Every day Dolan would walk to the beach ,and relax at the beach toes in the sand as the waves creeping up the shoreline got his feet wet. Sometimes he would make a sand castle, sometimes he would take a nap ,and sometimes he would feed wingull bread ,or watch the waves surfers 'catch some gnarly waves man'. Regardless as to what he did a slowpoke would always greet him ,and they would just chill by the beach. Not a single concern between the two of them. He eventually decided to catch the slowpoke. He knew the thing two years. Might as well right? Why didn't he catch him two years ago when they first met?! Like... who cares? It was a nice time. Please don't ruin the story... It was a good time ,and now they are officially best friends since then.

assuming the trainers are allowed to catch pokémon ,and have 6 ,and possibly even evolve them along the way this will be Dolan's team.

(he will catch a majority of his pokémon within the ocean beach area ,and the others within the swamp areas.
826969_trainercard-Dolan.png
Looks Good Accepted!

A water specialist eh? If you've got any nitpicks with having the same Pokemon as someone else then you'll want to coordinate with @DarkHydraT who also has a Water Specialist—a Marine Biologist, iirc.

Shiny is fine, it's neither here nor there to me. Don't go crazy and don't get us locked and you're good to go~
 
Looks Good Accepted!

A water specialist eh? If you've got any nitpicks with having the same Pokemon as someone else then you'll want to coordinate with @DarkHydraT who also has a Water Specialist—a Marine Biologist, iirc.

Shiny is fine, it's neither here nor there to me. Don't go crazy and don't get us locked and you're good to go~
Cool thanks! I don't mind sharing a few with him. Though we can still go over it if he would like to of course.

@DarkHydraT, thoughts? I don't wanna step on any toes so I was curious as to what you thought on the subject.
 
Can I get a quick rundown of what has happened so far? I kinda need to catch up so I know how to introduce Kaleb.
So far everyone's arrived on the Island and those interested in the Gym Challenge have taken on their first Gym, that'd be the Water Gym in Aquamarine City. There has been an evil team that showed up but their whereabouts are entirely unknown. Right now: Eléonor (me), Devin (Jacob), Sandra (Hydra), and Rowan (Soul), are getting some intimacy in with their newly caught pokemon by having a battle. They're currently using the Field behind the Aquamarine Poke-Center.

Most of us are headed to Petrichor after this:

1) Because it has a Gym

2) Because it has a Contest Hall
 
Oop! I forgot to mention that the routes in Geminos have their respective lists of available Pokemon. I haven't gotten around to updating all the routes, but up to Aquamarine, you should be able to see in the First post of the thread. The Book (the one in my spoiler) hasn't been updated to catch up, though I'll try to update that tonight.

Wimpod however, is a Beach/Ocean Habitat, so you won't find one around Aquamarine because that's a Freshwater-area. To make things consistent we'd have to say the Wimpod got washed very far upstream, or maybe it used to belong to another trainer. Any solid line of reasoning should suffice.
 
what about that town east of Aquamarine City?

I went ahead and edited my post so that wimpod was injured implying he washed up onto the shore.
Aquamarine is purely Freshwater and Sub-Urban. It's not a sprawling city like Seafare or Castellia, but its modeled somewhat off Venice. The Lake and River feed its many waterways and its easiest to travel the city by boat, raft, or gondola. You can rent a raft from the City hall if you want to go canoeing or something like that.
 
Aquamarine is purely Freshwater and Sub-Urban. It's not a sprawling city like Seafare or Castellia, but its modeled somewhat off Venice. The Lake and River feed its many waterways and its easiest to travel the city by boat, raft, or gondola. You can rent a raft from the City hall if you want to go canoeing or something like that.
I hope you don't mind If I ask one last question. Wimpod washing up on shore would work, would it? If not I can edit again ,and have it imply a trainer abandoned it there.
 
Okay, I may have a couple of ideas for Gym leader chars and I might have them pull what Clemont did for a more brief moment. Real question is whether to pick between Poison or Ice...

Another question I have is can't Gym leaders have a Pokemon that isn't the same type as their Gym and usually helps outside of Gym challenges like Clemont's Bunnelby?
 
No wait I think Poison is still free. Other than that I believe Grass, Dark, Dragon, Steel and Electric I believe.
Dark & Steel aren't Gyms...Elite 4 maybe. The confirmed gyms are:
Shen made the poison city but I don't remember if he made a Gym Leader as well. It may or may not be available.

Edit: I checked he did make a Poison Gym Leader.
If I do make my Gym leader, shouldn't I also try and come up with the Gym and the village/town/city it'd be in?
Yea, feel free to throw out ideas about the town and we'll probably work with it.
 
Alright, thanks for letting me know, just wanted to make sure before I made a potentially promising char only to be replied with "Sorry mate, some other bloke's gone and taken it before ya."

Time to think on Gym Leader ideas. Part of me's most likely gonna choose Dragon.
 
I won't try and force myself, I'll likely just go with what I got.

Name: Arthur Drakesworth
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Description: Fair skin, Purple eyes, Short and slightly spiked Wine red hair. Wears a long Purple coat with three tails that reach his ankles and a black feathered mane and fur on the sleeve edges, Black baggy pants, Silver boots and gauntlets.
Personality: Arthur is a calm and friendly individual who does what he can to help those in his town, whether it's as simple as getting a child's ball out of a tree or holding an unsteady ladder for someone. Despite his friendly persona, he is extremely serious when it comes to Pokemon battling, using them as "tests" to prove that Pokemon trainers are "proper trainers," he values fair Pokemon battles almost as much as Pokemon themselves and shows cruelty towards people that would abuse such precious creatures.
History (Optional): (Can't think of much, historywise...)
Likes: People who show "honor" in Pokemon battles, Fair Pokemon battles, People who care for their Pokemon.
Dislikes: People who pull cheap tricks in battles, Rigged Pokemon battles, People who abuse Pokemon.

Inventory (5 Items Max, excluding essentials):
N/A

Species: Salamence
Ability: Intimidate
Gender: Male
Description/Other: Arthur's most trusted Pokemon and preferred mode of transport. He and his trainer share a clear mutual bond.

Species: Kommo-o
Ability: Soundproof
Gender: Male

Species: Dragapult
Ability: Infiltrator
Gender: Female

Species: Goodra
Ability: Hydration
Gender: Female

Species: Tyrantrum
Ability: Strong Jaw
Gender: Male

Species: Salamence
Ability: Intimidate
Gender: Male
Description/Other: Arthur's most trusted Pokemon and preferred mode of transport. He and his trainer share a clear mutual bond.

Species: Kommo-o
Ability: Soundproof
Gender: Male

Species: Incineroar
Ability: Blaze
Gender: Female
Description/Other: She was a gift from his cousin in Alola.

Species: Dragapult
Ability: Infiltrator
Gender: Female

Species: Steelix
Ability: Rock Head
Gender: Male

Species: Goodra
Ability: Hydration
Gender: Female

Species: Altaria
Ability: Cloud Nine
Gender: Female

Species: Drampa
Ability: Berserk
Gender: Male

Species:
Turtonator
Ability: Shell Armor
Gender: Male

Species: Druddigon
Ability: Rough Skin
Gender: Male

Species: Fraxure
Ability: Mold Breaker
Gender: Male

Species:
Deino
Ability: Hustle
Gender: Female

Lemmie know if anything needs changing, I understand that with Dragon Type trainers, it's easy to make them seem OP.
 
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I won't try and force myself, I'll likely just go with what I got.

Name: Arthur Drakesworth
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Description: Fair skin, Purple eyes, Short and slightly spiked Wine red hair. Wears a long Purple coat with three tails that reach his ankles and a black feathered mane and fur on the sleeve edges, Black baggy pants, Silver boots and gauntlets.
Personality: Arthur is a calm and friendly individual who does what he can to help those in his town, whether it's as simple as getting a child's ball out of a tree or holding an unsteady ladder for someone. Despite his friendly persona, he is extremely serious when it comes to Pokemon battling, using them as "tests" to prove that Pokemon trainers are "proper trainers," he values fair Pokemon battles almost as much as Pokemon themselves and shows cruelty towards people that would abuse such precious creatures.
History (Optional): (Can't think of much, historywise...)
Likes: People who show "honor" in Pokemon battles, Fair Pokemon battles, People who care for their Pokemon.
Dislikes: People who pull cheap tricks in battles, Rigged Pokemon battles, People who abuse Pokemon.

Inventory (5 Items Max, excluding essentials):
N/A

Species: Salamence
Ability: Intimidate
Gender: Male
Description/Other: Arthur's most trusted Pokemon and preferred mode of transport. He and his trainer share a clear mutual bond.

Species: Kommo-o
Ability: Soundproof
Gender: Male

Species: Dragapult
Ability: Infiltrator
Gender: Female

Species: Goodra
Ability: Hydration
Gender: Female

Species: Tyrantrum
Ability: Strong Jaw
Gender: Male

Species: Salamence
Ability: Intimidate
Gender: Male
Description/Other: Arthur's most trusted Pokemon and preferred mode of transport. He and his trainer share a clear mutual bond.

Species: Kommo-o
Ability: Soundproof
Gender: Male

Species: Incineroar
Ability: Blaze
Gender: Female
Description/Other: She was a gift from his cousin in Alola.

Species: Dragapult
Ability: Infiltrator
Gender: Female

Species: Steelix
Ability: Rock Head
Gender: Male

Species: Goodra
Ability: Hydration
Gender: Female

Lemmie know if anything needs changing, I understand that with Dragon Type trainers, it's easy to make them seem OP.
Remember, Geminos Gym leaders can be challenged in any order, so you should have a team appropriate for any trainer whether they only have 1 badge or 7.

That said you should probably have a wider array of pokemon at the gym and in varying states of evolution.

I think that's my only criticism. Otherwise, Accepted!

Although, if you do a Clement then you probably don't want to travel with his personal team, it would be a lot stronger than the other Ocs.
 
K, I've added several Pokemon that Arthur will use against trainers with about... 4-5 badges tops if I remember how it works as certain leveled Pokemon only obey after a certain amount of badges. I know levels are irrelevant in RPs, but still.
 
Is there an aquarium in aquamarine city? Dolan being a water specialist would lose his shhh if he saw an aquarium. Its fine if there isn't but would be super cool if there was...
 
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