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Re: Dawn of the Blessing planning thinger
One thing I'm confused by, maybe since I'm still new to Pokemon RPing, but are there humans involved? I feel like some of the terms Moon used would apply more to humans than Pokemon in terms of RPing them or something so I got a little confused since I thought you guys namely RP as the Pokemon and not humans. xD I may also just have poor reading skills.
One thing I'm a tad confused about as well; so the Blessing is intended to ultimately be kind of the bad guys right? But, they're like, putting on an outward good impression to build people's trust and doing good deeds.
Other than that I'm just not sure what to do for a character. I'm torn whether I'd want to do something "special" or just stick to something basic. And I'm not super familiar with what's going on so I'm not sure where to go character wise.
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Re: Dawn of the Blessing planning thinger
I reaaaally like the stuff Azu and Moon have come up with, honestly. Like Azu said, kind of like a Team Plasma as they should have been done. So that stuff gets my approval.
And yeah, Tyger, we.. Really just focus on the Pokemon themselves. XD We hardly ever have human characters in these, actually. And yes, the Blessing are the bad guys, but seem.. Good, I guess. Or at least that's what we're trying to make them like. (So they're more relatable than just.. Outright crazy extremists.) Just figured I'd clear all that up a bit~
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But they'd be NPCs predominantly, and much rather in the background. I think for a lot of the things they could be used by pokemon--and keep in mind, the blessing may not have legit people looking for a cure. they may just be going along the "we'll beat the Delta type out of you" approach. and they could have some background scientists/human/pokemon whatever doing work to cure the more radical cases--hybrids, dusk, etc.
yeah blessing is not good people. Ideally, they have humanitarian fronts and seem like nice happy people. I can even imagine they'd allow delta types, if they were well hidden and didn't know they were delta types (*CACKLES*) to help on the lower level platform stuff. you'd have things like "they were a delta type? they were so nice. maybe they aren't all bad." going on. But the higher up in rank you go, I feel, it gets more shady and hidden and underground and twisted and evil.
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Re: Dawn of the Blessing planning thinger
Uh, as for suggestions, more "good" Blessing guys would be appreciated at this point. We have plenty of evil dudes, which is not a bad thing at all, but now that we're thinking of making it maybe a little more ambiguous some misguided good characters mixed in would really be nice.
But, really it's whatever you want.
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Re: Dawn of the Blessing planning thinger
As for 'less-evil' Blessing characters, Serotonin is kind of one of those characters. He's more of a paranoid brat than someone genuinely out to harm people. He's probably on the lower ranks.
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Still, I somewhat stand by my suggestion. More Blessing is a good thing in my opinion.
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A for real plot would be nice. We've got motivation, we've got characters. But we still don't really have a catalyst to get people to care? like okay yeah some deltas/hybrids/etc are dying but in the grand scheme of things i don't think the chars would notice/care because that's not unusual. pokemon die a lot. especially feral ones.
So we need to have something grand scale plot arcish
or maybe i just like having a vague idea of what's happening
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I dunno if that made sense; I was at work for over 12 hours and need to go to sleep. xD
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Re: Dawn of the Blessing planning thinger
I actually wouldn't mind some help fleshing out my character concept (or critique or whatever). I'm thinking about going with a relatively freshly evolved dragonite that is working for the Blessing, probably on the lower tiers, because she really likes doing charity work and helping other Pokemon whenever she can. I figure she's probably totally unawares of any corruption the Blessing has. My big debate right now is whether to leave her as dragonite's normal typings or have her be a Delta type.
Any thoughts?
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ALSO! Just fwi.. I hope to make avatars for everyone here? Like avatars you guys can use on here? They'd be of one of your Pokemon characters, really. I did something similar waaaaaaAAAAY back during Rise of the Shadows, and I thought it'd be fun to do it again! So...
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Right, plot thoughts. I'm sorta of the opinion that this should take place with The Blessing sitting comfortably in power. They are a trusted force in the urban areas of the world. Perhaps even a political power in some areas. The general consensus is that they do good work, and they are a significantly powerful force. Even if there are rumours around of them doing less than legal things, nobody wants to confront them about it out of fear. I like the idea of the Ecleipsis being in the minority, struggling against a vast force that has the trust of most normal people
So, with the comfort that comes from knowing how untouchable they are, perhaps the Blessing starts to amp up their operations. Knocking door to door to "apprehend" any mutations for study. Actively hunting down anyone duskblooded. Venturing into the wildlands to clear it of any undesirables.
Perhaps a couple of test subjects manage to escape and get word about this to our characters. Perhaps some of them find themselves being hunted down, or captured themselves. Maybe word has spread about a legendary of some sort being detained for reasons The Blessing won't disclose.
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Re: Dawn of the Blessing planning thinger
PROS: if it's clearly listed in the title, people won't accidentally put their characters in the wrong group by mistake. (Well, usually)
It will be easier to distinguish what's happening where?
You wouldn't have to deal with so many characters in the same post.
CONS: you would have to keep up with two threads/post twice (albiet, shorter posts, and we can fill you in on stuff if you fall behind)
I had another one, but I forgot.
Opinions on this idea would be appreciated, and I know it's not a PERFECT solution, but I think it is an option to be considered.
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Moon: Making it personal, I like it. Either people escaping could be cool, or kidnappings going on would be interesting. I know Sol is a high priority target...
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So yeah, if we wanted to start it off with shady dealings happening, and then maybe our chars can do some investigating? I do like the idea of the Blessing being a powerful 'political' group if you would. A large force that has taken root in most of the regions that, in theory, seems untouchable.
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My worry is that the groups might end up unbalanced, although that would be a problem if we had both groups in the same thread as well. We might want to get people to assign where their characters are before we start to avoid this. Or what if one region ends up getting more activity than the other?
Ultimately, I think it could be cool to work with. I'm a little worried, but not so much that I want to outright say no. Maybe we need a little more work on it and try to fix the flaws as best we can before going for it. A list of who would theoretically be starting off where night be a start.
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I think that "untouchable" state is one of the reasons I really think the Blessing could make for an interesting antagonist. It's not just that they're doing bad things to good people, it's also that it puts the protagonists as the underdogs in the situation. Not only do they have to fight against corrupt racist assassins, but they have to do so while also avoiding the eye of regular, every day people who have been told that they want to kill them. Do they take the fight directly to the blessing and risk killing people who's only crime is being dumb and afraid? Or do they try to do things more covertly and risk not being able to do any real damage to the organisation?
But, yes, starting off with shadiness sounds fine to me.
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Aaaand I agree on the idea of a list of who is in what group and all of that.
ALSO, Moon, I really really like your ideas on the Blessing stuff. So you get an Official Senna Seal of Approval on all that. c: (It actually makes things easier to have Blessing characters, in my opinion, since it means we can stick some characters that are just like "yo we're helping" and are unaware of the shady stuff going on. \o/)