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Gotta AU 'Em All

THE POKEMON AU MEME

- Is your character a trainer? A breeder? A coordinator? The NPC who hangs out inside a Pokemart and rambles on about the price of Potions?

- Pick your character's Pokemon!

- Tag around and do your typical AU meme things, you guys got this.

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Hajime is an Ace Trainer, formerly a member of Team Rocket. He does not talk about the latter and would prefer to pretend it never happened. He mostly hangs around in places like Victory Road, looking for only the strongest of opponents to battle. He won't challenge just anyone to a fight, but if you're brave enough to challenge him to a fight, he won't hold back. He's thought about trying to become a Gym Leader or even the Champion, but he'd prefer to seek out his own opponents without having to worry about the sorts of responsibilities that go along with that sort of thing.

His team consists of Scizor, Volcarona, Scolipede, Armaldo, Accelgor, and Kricketune. Scizor is his favored Pokemon to battle with, and no one's really sure why he's got the Kricketune. (It's not very good at fighting.) The Kricketune is not very bright and prone to popping out of his Pokeball at random times, chirping at inopportune moments, getting into things, and generally making a nuisance of itself.

It had been a long slog through Reversal Mountain, but Natalie was not to be discouraged. This was one of the last places that father had been spotted, or so went the most recent rumor that she had picked up. To turn back was impossible. Gym challengers could wait a little longer. But... but she and her Pokemon needed a break. It was an astonishingly hot day. So she found herself a shady spot in the shadow of a cliffside, popped Timmy the Purrloin and Sandoval the Pawniard from their Pokeballs, and cracked open a few bottles of fresh water.

"...huh?" What was that in the distance, though? In the tall grass, head and shoulders sticking out above it? A trainer? It had to be a trainer. Ugh, a trainer that probably wanted to battle? She took a long gulp of her water and averted her eyes. If she didn't make eye contact, maybe he wouldn't get any ideas... she didn't have time for that.

Too late, the Trainer in the tall grass was getting ideas. He stepped out of the tall grass and came into view, and he was lazily tossing a Pokeball up and down. "Looking for something?" There was a slight frown; should he know her? He'd done a bit of research on the gym leaders of these parts, but it hadn't been very recent or thorough. That was lucky for her; he would have been even more eager for a fight if he'd known she was a gym leader. "Like, say, a battle?"

Okay, so he was still pretty eager.

Natalie groaned and hung her head, rather than immediately acknowledging this new Trainer's challenge. This was exactly what she wasn't in the mood for. If the day were any less hot and she were any less tired, she might have declined and quietly excused herself, for discretion is the better part of valor (and she's a bit cowardly, if we're being honest), but... she was hot and miserable and his challenge just made her bristle, somehow.

"I wasn't looking for a battle..." She rises slowly to her feet, casting a glance to the left at her Purrloin and to the right at her Pawniard. "But if you want one, I can see what I can do."

Hajime's gaze flicks over the Purrloin and the Pawniard, and he nods to himself. "Two on two, then?" Without waiting for a response, he tosses out a Pokeball. His Scolipede bursts out, rears to its full height, and puts on a fairly good show of being an intimidating monster.

Before he can toss out a second, one of the balls on his belt bursts open, and a Kricketune pops out. It's noisily chirping and posing and generally being goofy and everything the Scolipede is not.

Former Team Flare member, though he's not going to tell anyone else that. Very unassuming, stocks shelves at a Pokemart, has a (completely overleveled) Klefki that hovers around. Don't let her near your keyring.

Technically, Bakura is a trainer. In practice, he's an explorer and collector, who wanders around with a cloud of mostly ghost types with him, almost as if he'd never heard of pokeballs. He has, of course, but it's much more fun having as many of his friends as possible around him.

His main team consists of Amane the Mismagius, Annin the Hoppip (who seems to have taken root in his hair), Fuushi the Drifblim (who he promises hasn't taken any children, really!), Zoku the Golbat, Gollum the Sableye and Kage the Banette.

Oddly enough, quite a lot of people who hear him talking with out seeing im first expect him to be someone else and have a pikachu...

Natalie is the daughter of a famed Dark-type Pokemon gym leader. Jacob Waters thought that he would double-cross Team Plasma and beat them at their own well-hidden nefarious schemes... but he made a serious misstep and vanished. (Dying? In Pokemon? What is this that you speak of?) This left Natalie alone to run the gym, a task that she's not sure that she's suited to. She's often found straying from her gym-based duties, searching for any sign of him. (And requiring any protagonists on the way to the League to track her down and bail her out, certainly...)

She thinks of herself as not being a very good Pokemon trainer, and leans a little heavily on some of her father's Pokemon that he left behind. His Honchcrow doesn't like to listen to her, and his Drapion sort of terrifies her. She prefers to battle with her own Purrloin and Pawniard when she's out in the field, because they're hers. But the full team is in use when engaging in gym battles, and it's in Pokemon battling that she's an almost entirely different person. While she's usually somewhat quiet and reserved with a sarcastic edge, she rants and raves and cackles when all caught up in the excitement of the moment.

Gamzee is That Guy. You know the guy. He just shows up, in an ally, the forest, a cave, the middle of the motherfucking ocean, wherever. He's there. And he is ready to sell you something-- and by something, I mean it's probably some wacked out potion with crazy effects-- for the low, low price of 420. And probably give you a shit ton of freebies too. You can't escape, so don't even bother. He's gonna take all your monies. What's he do with it? Who knows. It's a mystery. Kinda like That Guy himself. But he says you're friends so what can you do?

He's got like, eight pokemon (pretend it's possible to have that many). Mr.Mime Jr, that sloth one, the evil zipper puppet (that is his BEST FRIEND), Drifblim (who probably took him), Slowking, Spinda, Tangela, and go-goat. So the top row team here: boop

Edited 2014-05-20 18:35 (UTC)

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Gotta AU 'Em All

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I like these ideas and I want to do a thing

hooray, a thing!

This is still a thing! I am just slow!

Nothing wrong with slow!

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Laaaaaate to the meme...

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