TWO YEARS AGO, A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION GOING BY THE NAME TEAM IMUM WRECKED CHAOS ACROSS THE LAND, DAMAGING CITIES AND KILLING THOUSANDS OF CITIZENS. While Imum itself has long since been disbanded, however, the region remains broken: entire towns have been laid to waste and the Association struggles to find homes for those who were lucky enough to survive the attempted genocide. Reconstruction trudges on as usual... but with three factions - the Association, the corporations, and the people - each wishing to take the rebuilding of an entire region down opposite paths, how long will it be before Lyeant's last leg gives out permanently?
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Post by Akemi Ocasio on Jan 5, 2017 0:20:35 GMT -6
Akemi and Victoria These two will be a combination of adorable and a disaster. Ought to be fun! As for where... hmmm... Akemi will probably end up everywhere at least once, you're right. But Akemi would gladly meet her in a less populated place. If there's any one place Akemi will gravitate towards more... Firefly Springs are nice. Hope's Path may also work well for you? I don't know- if you'd like to start it, start it where you'd like!
Post by Akemi Ocasio on Jan 4, 2017 23:16:35 GMT -6
Akemi and Blue Yes! Brave bird girl! Let's go break the laws of causality together! Even if Blue doesn't find out that Akemi is Celebi, they... they don't hide the time travel very well at all that's how they gained their "Traveler" nickname in the first place. Like, there is actual record of them existing in too many different time periods. Also, Akemi is easily manipulated in that they always want to help people. The only problem is that time travel is dangerous- Akemi will totally help out, but Blue coming with runs the mild danger of one of several things: Dialga finding out, getting huffy, and yelling at Akemi again (which is no good); Blue falling into a Crack in Time and being forced to stare out into the infinite lengths of time; massive headaches due to Akemi's tendency to forget things like, say, linearity, how many time loops is considered "acceptable" these days; or and a tendency to run into themselves at odd moments.
One of these things is worse than the others...
So Akemi will warn Blue of some of the dangers, but then will probably willingly get used for their time-travelness. All while babbling at Blue about "the pretty Gold one" and, like, "have you talked to the pretty Gold one and the thief-y one and the Crystal one and the Ruby one- hm. I don't remember if you've met the Ruby one yet? I know you do at some point, I think, I don't really have the best memory though..." Also all while Akemi's Meganium, Orchid, gives Blue dirty looks like I know what you're up to and also I hope you're just as baffled as I was at first. It'll be a great time. We should do it!
Akemi and Pandora Celebi is only in the Republic on a technicality, I feel like I should mention. If there was an option for "none of the above", that would be Akemi, because they honestly just want to heal everyone on all of the sides and kind of keep forgetting that the factions are supposed to matter at all. But beyond that- yes. Let's have them meet in a forest. Actually, beyond their respective inabilities to function in modern society, they're pretty similar, aren't they? Both associated with forests, both associated with life/rebirth... They'll probably get on like a house on fire, won't they, mutually panicking about weird humans. Let's do this thing!
For both threads: want me to start something, or will you? Both is fine, and I love both ideas!
Post by Akemi Ocasio on Jan 4, 2017 22:05:51 GMT -6
Akemi and Victoria Yes totally come back when Mew is ready, I will be excited. But! I love this idea? Because Akemi would totally just... fail to notice that they're being taken advantage of. At all. Because Akemi just kind of heals people who need to be healed no matter what because that's what nice people do duh? And beyond that... I actually really enjoy the idea of these two getting to be kind of weird friends? Sure, Victoria's normally bleeding or otherwise injured when hanging out with Akemi, but while Akemi's friendly with anyone (in their own way), it normally takes a lot for Akemi to find someone they ever actually spend substantial time with, so Victoria would probably get slotted into a friendship. I also love the idea of "truth" allowing Victoria to just have a better idea of what the heck Akemi's going on about, it's cute. Basically, all of this is adorable, I love it, we should totally do a thing! And don't worry, you came across just fine!
Post by Akemi Ocasio on Jan 4, 2017 21:56:55 GMT -6
Akemi and Blue So, Celebi definitely at least kind of remembers Blue! Blue's the brave one with the birds! Akemi will be very excited to see Blue- the Kanto dex holders are only like one step below Ruby and the Johto dex holders as far as "humans that Akemi likes a bunch" go. I still haven't read the manga, incidentally, so feel free to correct me wherever I'm wrong. It's one of those humans! One of those humans that keeps on saving the world! And that helped save them! They're cool! Obviously, Blue would have no reason to recognize Akemi, and Akemi is accustomed enough to being human in order to not completely blow the fact that they're actually Celebi, but it could still be pretty cute because Akemi is going to be freaking out that so many of the humans that made an actual impression on them are here, okay?
Akemi and Pandora Basically I want these two small, childlike legendaries to fail completely together at succesfully following human, modern conventions. They'd be the worst influences on each other, what with Pandora not actually knowing anything about how the human world works these days, and Akemi never remembering which conventions are right in the right times (if they remember them at all). It'd either be cute or a disaster. We should do it.
Post by Akemi Ocasio on Jan 4, 2017 21:28:56 GMT -6
Akemi and Ares So, I feel like I should preface this with "I still need to read the manga but I read a lot of Bulbapedia articles for this". Anyway! So Celebi was involved in the aftermath of Groudon and Kyogre's fight and the near-destruction of Hoenn, in that Celebi was the one to finally remove the Orbs from Archie and Maxie's presence and (mostly) destroy them, and then bring back to life the people who had died because of the conflict. As a result, Akemi doesn't really know Groudon and Kyogre personally so much as have them be one of the few people Akemi can manage to dislike a little bit. This is mostly because Akemi has this horrible habit of being near just about every possible world-ending disaster at some point. Why... why are Groudon and Kyogre like this... do they even know how much work it takes to clean up after them... seriously... But mostly I have it in my head that all the legendaries who know Akemi, even if they know they tend to mean well, tend to get exasperated at their 90% forgetting people and being in too confusing a temporal state to try to keep up with. So maybe we should do something? I don't know what- I don't think Groudon knows that Celebi (at least attempted) to destroy the orbs that could control him (unless you contradict me on this), which may be a point in Akemi's favor, but it should also be fun to have a thread where Akemi is actually exasperated with someone else instead of, like, the other way around? I don't know tag me if you want to do something.
Akemi and Sapphire Okay so Akemi has the worst memory in the history of ever, but they do at least sort of remember the dex holders they see because they're just those kinds of people. And I'm like 80% sure Akemi met Sapphire as Celebi once, if you want to do anything. I mean, Akemi's not going to know nearly as much about them as they know about the pretty Ruby one and the pretty Gold one, but what can you do? So it could be fun to do something here, too? I don't have any specific ideas here, but I need actual threads. So.
Akemi and Surge Akemi has one Pokemon and it's a Meganium, which doesn't exactly scream "strength". On the other hand, they're a time legendary that probably radiates power to the right people. Honestly I'm just throwing this one in because I might as well plot with all of your characters if I'm going to plot with you, because they're all here. So if you have any specific ideas, I'm down with that. If you have no specific ideas, I'm also down with that.
Post by Akemi Ocasio on Jan 2, 2017 22:02:40 GMT -6
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Akemi Ocasio, also known as the Traveler, also known as Celebi, is an odd, child-like creature. They mostly want to save the world, but they also tend to get stuck on a lot of the little details- like how not to baffle everyone with time travel, for one thing. They gace a single Pokemon, a Meganium named Orchid, and is currently in Lyeant in order to try and heal the broken region. Their time travel powers are also a little out of whack recently, so they can't do anything too insane, but they have this bad habit of forgetting things and having conversations in the wrong order. As a human, some people will recognize them as the Traveler- a person known to try to heal people, and whose name and appearance is recorded in many time periods. Any and all plots are welcome- from just Akemi interacting people to more complicated time-travel shenanigans! It'll be a blast!
[break][break]Friends Akemi can be kinda tough to make friends with. This is less to do with their friendliness and more to do with their flightiness. Their outwardly emotionless expressions, difficulty understanding social norms, and airy, flighty nature makes them hard to handle sometimes. However, they are also a genuinely kind person who is very glad to have a few close friends. If you can somehow manage to get past Akemi's... Celebi-ness... you can get to a decent person to be around who will throw themselves into helping others with complete abandon and a genuine friend who, despite forgetting things and doing things in the wrong chronological order, does their best to do their best by you.
[break][break]Enemies Akemi doesn't make enemies easily. No matter how bad a person is, no matter how much someone hurts them, Akemi still believes that they deserve being helped and they deserve someone being okay to them. That being said, they can have functional enemies- those who would cause pain to many others, those who would try to capture Akemi for their time travel powers, ect. Akemi just won't necessarily act like a good foe, is all.
[break][break]Love Akemi's Aromantic Asexual. Sorry. There isn't going to be anything on this front.
Akemi is an odd duck, by any stretch of the imagination. They tend to be blunt, stating exactly what they think and feel in any situation, for one, and they have a pretty poor understanding of human body language. This can make them look like an emotionless child on some occasions, and can easily freak out people who don't know what they're getting into. They have a relatively constant blank, somewhat curious expression on their face.[break][break]
They also have a very bad habit of not knowing what time they're currently in. By this, I don't mean "time of day", I mean the literal point in time. While, as it currently stands, their time travel abilities have been lowered a bit and it's quite exhausting, they still tend to fluctuate points in time a little bit, and as a result, will often say things they aren't supposed to know, or otherwise, not say things that most other people would be pretty sure they're supposed to know. Orchid can attest to this: Akemi tends to have conversations in the wrong order all the time. It tends to add to their level of strangeness in the eyes of others, for certain.[break][break]
It also doesn't help that Akemi has basically the worst memory sometimes. They remember things that are important to them, sure, but other details have been known to just kind of vanish somewhere in the ether of having lived more millenia than even most legendaries due to an excessive amount of time travel. Names are often just kind of lost and replaces with things like 'that person with the pretty gold eyes' or 'weird dead person'. Since, in the current situation, they're a little more restricted to one era, they're getting better about it, but they really aren't perfect at that kind of thing.[break][break]
Overall, at first glance, they come off as a little mysterious and a lot flighty to people who don't know them.[break][break]
However, that's not all that there is to them. Akemi is also the kind of person who tries to help other people constantly, to the point of self-sacrifice. They hate seeing other people or Pokemon hurt, even as they are terrible at understanding them. They will heal even the worst of people if that person comes to them for healing. At one point, they healed Giovanni of all people, for example. It doesn't matter if that person is in the right or the wrong- it's right to help people, even if Akemi shakes and hurts themselves in the process.[break][break]
They are also a little bit more screwed up than they let on at first glance, tending towards self-loathing at odd moments. They don't recognize the feelings as such, but they casually refer to themselves as a "side effect" or hurt themselves for others a lot. They're also constantly in a small amount of pain right now, due to their resticted amount of time travel. So yay?
the lake sort of knows me, was it you who promised time?[break]lead me to a land so green, so she'll stay a while.
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You are only stopped from traveling backwards again by Dialga's suddenly present form. They sit there with you for a while, staring over the remnants of a region as you tremble, your hands shaking as you force yourself through. You can bring one more back. You can bring one more back. You can bring one more back.[break][break]
"Celebi," they say. "Please stop."[break][break]
It took until now for them to realize that you aren't in any way their subordinate and ask kindly and you can bring one more back just give it a chance you can bring one more back-[break][break]
"It's over, Celebi," they say. "This is a gear you can't take away. Please stop."[break][break]
You stop, readjust, then begin again.
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A common misconception:[break][break]
You travel through time. You are like Dialga. You represent time. You represent forests. You are understandable, you are linear, you are bound to one shrine.[break][break]
This is incorrect. You are not time, and you certainly don't just travel through it. You are the absence of it.[break][break]
This, you have found, is much harder for people to understand, though, so they tend to pretend you actually exist properly. That's okay.
begin again
A Bayleaf sits next to you. "Akemi. You're doing the human thing again, I see," she says, and she yawns. You blink.[break][break]
"I guess I've met you?" you say, baffled.[break][break]
"Of course," mutters the Bayleaf, before she promptly headbutts your human form behind a bush and makes a whistling noise. "Of course this is when you first meet me. I shouldn't have expected otherwise, given that I've known you for years now. Why should I have expected anything else from you?"[break][break]
"Oh," you say. "That makes sense," and then a brigade of smaller grass-types surrounds you just as a group of people carrying some kind of weapon you don't recognize comes into the clearing, mumbling something about the Traveler and changing the past.[break][break]
"Just so you know," Orchid says, "I hate you." She nuzzles you fondly as she says this.[break][break]
"Okay?" you respond, not really certain what else to say- you never know quite what to say when you start having conversations in the wrong order again. Whatever's going on, though, Orchid seems to have it half under control. So that's good? That's probably good.
begin again
The person who dives in your time gates after you has the prettiest gold eyes. They're kind of distracting, actually, although there's so much yelling going on that the eyes aren't the only thing that are distracting. Also, is this what a Pokeball feels like? It's weird. It's really, really weird, did you know that? Man, and Ho-oh and Lugia were going to be all "why'd you let him go and make a Pokeball with our feathers, huh?", and it was going to be a pain...[break][break]
But. Anyway. The point- the strange masked man had used a really, really weird Pokeball to capture you, and now they were using you to travel through time, and you vaguely suspected they didn't know the consequences. There are Time Gears, and they are the things you cannot remove with your powers. You know this. You're worried, though, that he does not.[break][break]
Or, for that matter, that the boy with the pretty gold eyes doesn't.[break][break]
You hope they both end up okay.
begin again
Oh, you should probably apologize. This isn't very linear. You have a bad habit of doing that- after all, neither are you.
begin again
The world is ending. Again. Honestly, why are Kyogre and Groudon like this? It's taken you almost fifteen tries to get this one right, thanks to them, and you only got it right after holding yourself together long enough to stick into a Pokeball and dive into a boy with pretty red eye's bag. [break][break]
You are, incidentally, awfully tired of the world ending. You are, incidentally, awfully tired of trying to fix it. You will, incidentally, always do so anyway.[break][break]
So you shatter the orbs that were making Kyogre and Groudon all weird again and you put yourself to work, erasing pieces of time and one more, one more, you can bring back one more, one more time, one more time, one more time-
begin again
"Who are you," asks a Chikorita, "and can I come with you?"[break][break]
"You probably don't want to," you say. "I'm not normally human?"[break][break]
"Obviously," the Chikorita points out.[break][break]
"I have on good authority that it's really quite confusing," you warn, "I have a bad habit of leaving your Pokeball places, or just leaving you places, and then coming back in the wrong order." You pause. "It's... You told me to tell you that I've already met you at this point."[break][break]
"Well, you're Celebi, aren't you?" the Chikorita says. "Honestly, I should probably expect pure ridiculous time travel."[break][break]
"Oh," you say, and then, before you can warn her more, she noses the Pokeball. You suppose this was probably predestined at this point- you've met her in her Pokeball at times- but you spend so much time mucking around with destiny that it hurts your head.[break][break]
Instead, you just smile- you've picked up your one closest friend.
begin again
You arrive to late- you arrive to early- you arrive in the middle- you arrive at the end- you arrive too wrong-[break][break]
You arrive in Lyeant and can't fix it, no matter how you try.
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"Why did Arceus make you," mutters Dialga as they twist their diamond chest around, weaving together branches of time. "Why, why, why did the creator make such a ridiculous creature?"[break][break]
"Did he?" you ask.[break][break]
"What?" Dialga responds, turning around to look at you.[break][break]
"If he did, I certainly don't remember it," you point out. "I don't think I was ever made, really- if I go backwards or forwards far enough, I just run into myself again." You shrug. "I think I'm just the side-effect?"[break][break]
Dialga stares for a long minute. "How," Dialga mutters again, rolling their eyes to the sky, "do you manage to still be confusing to a time god?"[break][break]
You shrug. Orchid lifts her head and laughs at both of you.
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You are often called the Traveler, when you are in a human body, because humans are bad at recognizing that you are both Celebi and Akemi Ocasio. You gained this nickname after your name showed up in approximately seven different centuries.[break][break]
Dialga had a fit.[break][break]
You first gain your human body immediately before you first meet Orchid, running into Reshiram, who also has a fit when she has to teach you how to do it. You only think to learn to do this because you stumbled too far backwards and accidentally ran into yourself again, except you were in a weird dead person. Reshiram informs you that she just saw you doing it last Tuesday and expresses her displeasure at your tendency to time travel, but shows you how to do it anyway before Dialga can bite both of your heads off about paradoxes.[break][break]
You promptly claim your weird dead person and meet a Bayleaf for the first time, except not actually for the first time, except it's probably good that Orchid is about the only other living creature on earth that is used to doing everything in the wrong order. (She informs you later that she can mostly do this because she gave up trying to keep an internal timeline a long time ago, because doing so would just lead to her screaming into a pillow for hours.)
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A common misconception:[break][break]
All legendaries believe in the creator, and are absolutely certain they were created by Them.[break][break]
This is not true, if only because you aren't entirely certain Arceus exists quite the way everyone says they do, not really. You know they almost destroyed a region, once, and you know that you had to release Pryce from a crack in time in order to stop that, but you've never really met Arceus in person and rather doubt that they could have created you if they tried. They certainly couldn't have meant to make you this way, as you told Dialga once, long ago. They couldn't have meant to make you so unstuck in time that Pokeballs (with the exception of one) were physically painful for you, couldn't have meant to make you want to help but still be scattered across time, they couldn't have meant-[break][break]
Pryce- you're pretty sure you'll meet him at some point or something- sighs. "You're feeling broken again," he says, matter-of-factly. He looks off into the distance- into the cracks of time- into whatever.[break][break]
Humans are weird.
begin again
You come across the remnants of a bomb. You don't even know why you weren't here before- you were here before- Orchid looks at you and she's just a Chikorita, she shouldn't be seeing this. You go back and you go back and you go back and you go back and-[break][break]
"You're the Traveler," someone says. "You can help heal us, can't you?"[break][break]
Your hands shake and you try but here's the thing: you can't exist in one time, you can't keep traveling forever. You can't fix one place forever. You are using up all of your miracles. Dialga's stopped looking at you like an annoyance, now, and Price, when he is there, is getting that odd look.[break][break]
"I'll do my best," you agree, and you go back and you go back and you go back-
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You didn't get to see Orchid evolve but once, when she finally evolves into Meganium. You watch with wide eyes- you knew she would, you spend your (time is relative but you suppose you can call it years) seeing her in all three evolutionary states, but pride echoes across you anyway.[break][break]
It is a good day.
begin again
The masked man is Pryce and the golden-eyed boy turns out fine and a Lapras finally gets to see his parents again and you think: this is why I heal people.[break][break]
And you think: maybe I'm okay, after all.
begin again
You're weirdly trapped now, in Lyeant, because you said you would heal it and you know you can't completely undo it so you have to go slowly, slowly, it takes a long time, and if you've promised to heal here you can only jump around in the aftermath.[break][break]
At one point, someone asks you who you affiliate with, and you shrug, because you don't really understand humans. You will help anyone- technically you guess the Association, since they're on the fence, but you'll help anyone.[break][break]
That's mostly okay, at least- you need to spend the next (time is relative and it's hard to tell) healing Lyeant, because you couldn't before it even broke.
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You wave hello to a shop owner and call them by name and they frown at you. "Did I ever tell it to you?"[break][break]
In the background, Orchid shakes her head- she's a Meganium today, she's been a Meganium for a while now, there's something odd going on with your weird dead person. That's okay.[break][break]
