OC Submissions: The Final Chapter

Maka, Maia Shesha, Tad, and finally, Lucki Middling.

PMD Free Rescue is a grimdark dystopia rescue team fic (“Team Pay-Up had a stellar reputation throughout the “civilized” lands. Too bad not many knew that the there was only way one could get the team to answer their desperate pleas for help. That way was through a payment of cold hard cash.”) It lacks an OC form.

Name: Maka
Species: Krokorok
Background: From an isolated desert community of sandile and their evolutions. They’re tribal and have largely avoided the recent strife by living somewhere few other pokemon do and having no ties to the crumbling cities. They have a tight-knit community that stresses honesty, working together, equal division of resources, and nonviolence. Maka was curious how other pokemon lived and so left her home to see the world.
Personality: Friendly and helpful. In some ways Maka is easily pushed around, as she’ll go along with any reasonable request and generally tolerate rudeness or threats without complaint. She is, however, extremely hard to actually convince of something, be it “so actually, God is…” or “those people over there are evil and need killing”. If people become violent toward her as a result, her usual response will be to retreat and simply avoid further contact with them.

The next one, in sharp contrast, has a ridiculously long form. Glade Academy: Shattering the Dream, another academy one this time with the ominous note it’s a reboot of a fic they’ve just abandoned.

Glade Academy: Daring to Dream Character Form by Heart of the Anime

/Basic/

Full Name:

Nickname:

Why do they have that nickname?:

Gender: (Male or Female)

Age: (14 to 18)

Year: (First years are 14-15, Second years are 15-16, Third years are 16-17, and Fourth years are 17-18.)

Birthday: (Just give me the month and day, don’t worry about the year..)

Occupation: (Trainer, Coordinator, Researcher, Breeder, Connoisseur, etc. Ask me about some more option if you are not interested in any of these.)

/Appearance/

Skin Tone: (Be realistic.)

Eye Color: (No dual eye colors. Give me exactly what shade they are. Don’t just tell me green. What exactly is the green color called, etc.)

Hair Color: (Any color is fine but don’t make it rainbow.)

Hair Length: (Both guys and girls need to answer this. Since it is in the anime feel free to make it longer than most people have it or be unique and have a shorter hairstyle.)

Shape of Face: (Round, Oval, Heart, Square, Diamond, Triangle, Oblong, etc.)

Other Key Features: (Do they have freckles or some kind or unique birthmark you want me to know about?)

Usual type of fashion they like to wear or like looking at?: (Athletic, Casual, Dressy, Girly, Hipster, Artsy, etc. Feel free to experiment with combos.)

Casual Outfit 1: (Be creative and give me some detail. For those creating girl characters feel free to include how they wear their hair.)

Casual Outfit: 2 (Be creative and give me some detail. For those creating girl characters feel free to include how they wear their hair.)

Sleep Wear: (Be creative and give me some detail. For those creating girl characters feel free to include how they wear their hair.)

Swim Wear: (Be creative and give me some detail. For those creating girl characters feel free to include how they wear their hair.)

Formal Wear: (Be creative and give me some detail. For those creating girl characters feel free to include how they wear their hair.)

Winter Wear: (Be creative and give me some detail. For those creating girl characters feel free to include how they wear their hair.)

Halloween Costume: (Be creative and give me some detail. For those creating girl characters feel free to include how they wear their hair.)

/Personality Aspects/

Right or Left-Handed?:

Theme Song: (Make it something that represents them as a person and actually suits them.)

Quote: (What quote best represents your character?)

Personality Traits: (Just sum up the character’s personality in a few words.)

Personality: (Be detailed and give me complete sentence.)

Likes: (Minimum of 3.)

Dislikes: (Minimum of 3.)

Dream: (Does your character want to be a Top Coordinator, World-renowned Breeder, Elite Four member or Pokemon Champion, an S-Rated Connoisseur, etc.)

Greatest Accomplishment:

Greatest Fear:

Biggest Regret:

Most at ease when?:

Character’s Most Common Mood:

Character’s Soft Spot: (What is their secret guilty pleasure? Is it noticeable? Is there anybody that knows about it?)

/Favorites/

Color:

Least Favorite Color:
Music:

Food:
Form of Entertainment:

Hobbies:

Drinks:
Pokemon:

Pokemon Type:

/Significant Family Members/

(Minimum of Two. Copy and Paste if you want to do more.)

Full Name:
Relation: (Mother, Father, Aunt, Uncle, Sibling, Cousin, etc.)

Age:

Appearance:

Relationship: (How well do they get along? Why did you choose to mention this character specifically?)

Status: (Alive or Deceased. If deceased tell me how they died.)

Full Name:
Relation: (Mother, Father, Aunt, Uncle, Sibling, Cousin, etc.)

Age:

Appearance:

Relationship: (How well do they get along? Why did you choose to mention this character specifically?)

Status: (Alive or Deceased. If deceased tell me how they died.)

/Past/

Back story: (Tell me what their life was like growing up. Complete sentences.)

Home Region and Town: (Can be from Kanto all the way up to Kalos, or if you want I can have them be from the Glade Region.)

First Memory:

Favorite Memory:

Worst Memory:
Type of Childhood: (Did they have a bad, good, decent, spoiled childhood. Explain in some detail.)

Dream when younger: (What did they want to be when they were younger. It’s acceptable to put something like Superhero, Princess, or it could be the same dream that you listed earlier.)

/Relationship with others/

Opinion of other people in general: (Complete sentences.)
Type of people they tend to hang out with: (Complete sentences.)

Type of people they don’t like: (Complete sentences.)

Do they like to fit in: (Yes or No. Explain why.)

Do they tend to fall to peer pressure easily: (Yes or No. Explain why.)

/Self-Perception/

How would they describe themselves?:

How do they think other people perceive them?:

What would they like to change about themselves?:

What do they consider to be their best personality trait?:

What do they consider to be their worst personality trait?:

Does you character have a dark secret?: (Yes or No? What is it? How did happen? Does anybody know about it? How bad is it on a scale of 1 to 10.)

/Other Questions/

Why are they attending Glade Academy?: (What is there purpose for attending. Why?)

What are they striving to accomplish?:

What is their motivation?:

Is there someone they are wanting to surpass?:

What was their life like just before they came GA?:

Did they have a bunch of friends when they were younger?:

/Romance/

Sexuality: (Heterosexual, Bisexual, are they interested in guys, girls, or both?)

Type of Person they’re interested in: (Complete sentences.)

Would they mind dating someone older or younger than them?:

Is there something specific in appearance they look for?:

Have they dated before?:

What was their longest relationship?:

/Scenarios/
How would they react in a stressful situation?:

How would they act in a sad situation?:

How would they react when a friend throws them a surprise birthday party?:

How would they act when someone pulls an embarrassing prank on them?:

What would they do when they forgot to study for an important test and it’s that morning?:

How would they react when they first meet Rain? Would they get along or despise her?:

How would they get along in a large group of people?

/Arc Ideas/

Are there any interesting arcs that you have in mind for me to write about?: If so l

/Extra/

Anything else you would like to include?:

Beginner Pokemon: (No Legendaries. No Zorua/Zoroark, Riolu/Lucario, Vaporeon, or Noibat/Noivern.)

Basic Form: (What is the first form of their evolutionary line?)

Second Form: (What is the second form of their evolutionary line?)

Last Form: (What is the last form of their evolutionary line?)
Current Form: (Don’t put basic, second, or last. Put the name of the Pokemon.)

Nickname: (Optional.)

Gender: (Male, Female, or Genderless.)

Moves: (List their current moves. Only one tm/hm or egg move… But they only get an egg move if your character hatched them from an egg. Four moves only.)
Future Moves: (This is if they have a future evolution only.)

Pokemon 2: (No Legendaries. No Zorua/Zoroark, Riolu/Lucario, Vaporeon, or Noibat/Noivern.)

Basic Form: (What is the first form of their evolutionary line?)

Second Form: (What is the second form of their evolutionary line?)

Last Form: (What is the last form of their evolutionary line?)
Current Form: (Don’t put basic, second, or last. Put the name of the Pokemon.)

Nickname: (Optional.)

Gender: (Male, Female, or Genderless.)

Moves: (List their current moves. Only one tm/hm or egg move… But they only get an egg move if your character hatched them from an egg. Four moves only.)
Future Moves: (This is if they have a future evolution only.)

Pokemon 3: (No Legendaries. No Zorua/Zoroark, Riolu/Lucario, Vaporeon, or Noibat/Noivern.)

Basic Form: (What is the first form of their evolutionary line?)

Second Form: (What is the second form of their evolutionary line?)

Last Form: (What is the last form of their evolutionary line?)
Current Form: (Don’t put basic, second, or last. Put the name of the Pokemon.)

Nickname: (Optional.)

Gender: (Male, Female, or Genderless.)

Moves: (List their current moves. Only one tm/hm or egg move… But they only get an egg move if your character hatched them from an egg. Four moves only.)
Future Moves: (This is if they have a future evolution only.)

Pokemon 4: (No Legendaries. No Zorua/Zoroark, Riolu/Lucario, Vaporeon, or Noibat/Noivern.)

Basic Form: (What is the first form of their evolutionary line?)

Second Form: (What is the second form of their evolutionary line?)

Last Form: (What is the last form of their evolutionary line?)
Current Form: (Don’t put basic, second, or last. Put the name of the Pokemon.)

Nickname: (Optional.)

Gender: (Male, Female, or Genderless.)

Moves: (List their current moves. Only one tm/hm or egg move… But they only get an egg move if your character hatched them from an egg. Four moves only.)
Future Moves: (This is if they have a future evolution only.)

Pokemon 5: (No Legendaries. No Zorua/Zoroark, Riolu/Lucario, Vaporeon, or Noibat/Noivern.)

Basic Form: (What is the first form of their evolutionary line?)

Second Form: (What is the second form of their evolutionary line?)

Last Form: (What is the last form of their evolutionary line?)
Current Form: (Don’t put basic, second, or last. Put the name of the Pokemon.)

Nickname: (Optional.)

Gender: (Male, Female, or Genderless.)

Moves: (List their current moves. Only one tm/hm or egg move… But they only get an egg move if your character hatched them from an egg. Four moves only.)
Future Moves: (This is if they have a future evolution only.)

Pokemon 6: (No Legendaries. No Zorua/Zoroark, Riolu/Lucario, Vaporeon, or Noibat/Noivern.)

Basic Form: (What is the first form of their evolutionary line?)

Second Form: (What is the second form of their evolutionary line?)

Last Form: (What is the last form of their evolutionary line?)
Current Form: (Don’t put basic, second, or last. Put the name of the Pokemon.)

Nickname: (Optional.)

Gender: (Male, Female, or Genderless.)

Moves: (List their current moves. Only one tm/hm or egg move… But they only get an egg move if your character hatched them from an egg. Four moves only.)
Future Moves: (This is if they have a future evolution only.)

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/Basic/
Full Name: Maia Shesha
Nickname: None.
Gender: F
Age: 15
Year: 1st.
Birthday: July 4th.
Occupation: Trainer.
/Appearance/
Skin Tone: White with a light golden tan.
Eye Color: Sky blue.
Hair Color: Fiery red.
Hair Length: Long.
Shape of Face: Oval.
Other Key Features: None. Maia is if anything remarkably smooth and even in her features.
Usual type of fashion they like to wear or like looking at?: A halfway point between athletic and stylish, the sort of things the game protagonists would wear. Maia favors simple color schemes with one or two colors.
Casual Outfit 1: Plain unornamented smooth dress of a single color, somewhat fluffy rather than a close fit. Frankly boring to look at. Maia would wear that for casual settings where she’s out in the open and moving around.
Casual Outfit 2: Same thing, but as a shirt and pants, closely fit. Maia would wear that for more enclosed settings.
Sleep Wear: Shirt/pants pajama setup, followed by completely covering herself with multiple layers of blankets.
Swim Wear: Maia absolutely refuses to go swimming.
Formal Wear: Striking glossy red dress, otherwise unornamented.
Winter Wear: Smooth plain red jacket, constant complaints about being outside.
Halloween Costume: An arbok’s hood and her skin purple.
/Personality Aspects/
Right or Left-Handed?: Ambidextrous.
Theme Song: Indestructable by Disturbed.
Quote: “I’m sure I’ll keep getting better with practice.”
Personality Traits: Determined. Focused. Reserved. Calm. Self-confident.
Personality: She is not naturally fond of being around others. However, Maia is concerned now with becoming strong enough and everything else she is has been put aside for that. She generally presents a calm, friendly front with a dash of confident showmanship and doesn’t emote much beyond that. She’s willing to listen to advice from anyone, from experienced teachers to kids who started yesterday. Every bit helps, in her opinion.
Likes: Having time completely to herself. Becoming stronger. Clear skies and wide-open spaces.
Dislikes: People, though she’d never do anything to show it. Cramped places and crowds. Bad weather. “Trivial” things – anything she’s expected to do as a student or just person that isn’t related to improving her skills at battle.
Dream: She wants to become a powerful trainer. Some great trainers have even managed to capture so-called legendary pokemon – and she wants to become strong enough to get a chance to challenge and defeat one with her own team.
Greatest Accomplishment: Getting this far, this close. It’s more than anyone in her family’s ever done.
Greatest Fear: Failure. For an attempt to help to backfire so catastrophically things are worse for her trying at all.
Biggest Regret: Not setting out as a serious trainer as soon as she could.
Most at ease when?: Battling. Her focus narrows down to just that. She looks frozen in place.
Character’s Most Common Mood: Driven.
Character’s Soft Spot: She really, really loves durin berries. She knows that’s weird and will eat them privately.
/Favorites/
Color: Red.
Least Favorite Color: Purple.
Music: She hates music. All of it. Silence only.
Food: Generally, whatever’s fastest and easiest to make/eat regardless of taste. She bolts her food down. She hates anything messy and won’t eat it.
Form of Entertainment: Considers it sort of like a moral failing – doing something for your own enjoyment, rather than being productive with every second of your time? No thanks.
Hobbies: As above – nil. She spends her free time drilling her pokemon team.
Drinks: Water.
Pokemon: She’s fond of snakelike pokemon regardless of type. She thinks they’re lucky.
Pokemon Type: Fighting and poison.
/Significant Family Members/
Full Name: Rashmi Shesha
Relation: Mother.
Age: Late fifties.
Appearance: Plain. Long brown hair, white skin, blue eyes, generally wearing a beige dress.
Relationship: Rashmi does not approve of what her daughter is doing. She hates violence, confrontation, and risk…but that also covers why she isn’t doing anything at all to stop Maia. They’ve broken contact. Maia hopes finishing what she set out to do might mend the relationship, but knows it’s just as likely it won’t.
Status: To Maia’s knowledge, alive and well.
Full Name: Nanda Shesha
Relation: Uncle.
Age: Forties.
Appearance: Plain. Short brown hair, white skin, blue eyes, generally wearing loose beige shirt and pants.
Relationship: Distant disgust. He failed to protect his son. He’s what convinced her to become a serious trainer.
Status: Maia doesn’t know. She hadn’t heard anything from him in a long time and only knows to blame him because she recognized her cousin on the news.
/Past/
Back story: Maia had a quiet, isolated childhood. Her family line has strong psychic powers. They communicate telepathically and have an irregularly shaped, always-on “personal space bubble” around them. They can shift this around but it’s always the same size overall.
Home Region and Town: Sinnoh, no town. Her family lived in semi-isolation high on the mountain range dividing the region.
First Memory: Her mother’s face framed by the blue sky, the wind rushing and howling around the mountains.
Favorite Memory: Maia’s favorite memories all have a pall cast over them now. How shortsighted to care about things like that!
Worst Memory: When she found out about her cousin.
Type of Childhood: Uneventful but restricted. Her mother was always concerned something would happen if she went too far off on her own.
Dream when younger: She expected to live the same sort of life as her mother, traveling around while keeping to herself. She really liked simply being free to see the world around her.
/Relationship with others/
Opinion of other people in general: She views them as potential trouble.
Type of people they tend to hang out with: Skilled trainers she can learn from or practice with.
Type of people they don’t like: Everyone, really.
Do they like to fit in: Perhaps the best way of putting this is Maia views it as a necessary thing and does it for that reason alone.
Do they tend to fall to peer pressure easily: Not really. Maia doesn’t care about a lot of things, so she’ll go along with what the group decides. Anything she does care about, she doesn’t care what anyone else’s opinion on the matter is.
/Self-Perception/
How would they describe themselves?: Willing to do what it takes.
How do they think other people perceive them?: A confident trainer with a close bond with her pokemon.
What would they like to change about themselves?: To become as close to the confident person they project as possible. She’s come far from the quiet wallflower girl she was, but there’s so much further to go.
What do they consider to be their best personality trait?: To keep a calm head, no matter the situation.
What do they consider to be their worst personality trait?: Fear. She hates that she’s afraid of things and so refuses to act based on that. Even when it doesn’t really matter, she’ll force herself into situations she’s scared of out of disgust at herself for feeling afraid.
Does you character have a dark secret?: There is nothing she’s done or will do that she’s ashamed of.
/Other Questions/
Why are they attending Glade Academy?: She thinks it’ll help her become a better trainer faster than continuing to travel around.
What are they striving to accomplish?: Her dream, as detailed above.
What is their motivation?: Ditto.
Is there someone they are wanting to surpass?: Again, ditto.
What was their life like just before they came GA?: Traveling trainer.
Did they have a bunch of friends when they were younger?: No.
/Romance/
Sexuality: Let’s go with ace here.
Type of Person they’re interested in: She’d only date if it was a trainer she wanted to hang out with because she was impressed by their abilities, and it’d be a rather chaste relationship.
Would they mind dating someone older or younger than them?: She wouldn’t care.
Is there something specific in appearance they look for?: Appearance means nothing to her.
Have they dated before?: No.
What was their longest relationship?: The familial one she broke ties with to do this.
/Scenarios/
How would they react in a stressful situation?: Maia freezes in place, gets her bearings, and then acts without acknowledging her reaction.
How would they act in a sad situation?: For a generally sad situation, she would behave with the politely appropriate level of mourning. For something she cared deeply about, she would retreat to be alone.
How would they react when a friend throws them a surprise birthday party?: Horror, expressed by freezing in place and then pretending to be happy and go along with it.
How would they act when someone pulls an embarrassing prank on them?: Disdain and sarcasm, unless it’s something like a bucket of water falling on her, in which case she’d have chucked a smoke ball and disappeared within a split second, before anyone even had time to register what happened, and quite possibly decide this whole thing was a bad idea and that she’s better off continuing to travel.
What would they do when they forgot to study for an important test and it’s that morning?: Same as any stressful situation. She’d accept it and force herself to keep going and do her best despite the odds being against her.
How would they react when they first meet Rain? Would they get along or despise her?: She would get along with her in the same polite way she does everyone, but wouldn’t go out of her way to make friends.
How would they get along in a large group of people?: She would loathe every second of it.
/Arc Ideas/
Are there any interesting arcs that you have in mind for me to write about?: Honestly, she’s probably better fit as a side character doing her own thing.
/Extra/
Anything else you would like to include?: All of her pokemon are flawlessly obedient and execute moves as fast as she orders them, even complex ones. They rarely flinch and keep moving even when suffering status effects like paralyzation. They’re particularly strong physically – they can smash into an opposing pokemon far harder than would be expected, and are also better at dodging than average. They’re also often able to hitting targets even with accuracy-lowering moves at play thanks to her orders.
She is wholly willing to trade any of them if she thinks the other pokemon would be stronger – and as a lot of her pokemon’s visible strength is her own talent, an apparently equal trade will often be favorable to her. She won’t trade for dark types, though, and prefers not to have steel or psychic.

Beginner Pokemon: Golbat.
Basic Form: Zubat.
Second Form: Golbat.
Last Form: Crobat and really baffled by this section.
Current Form: Golbat, as previously said. Unlikely to evolve.
Nickname: Nope!
Gender: M
Moves: Acrobatics, toxic, venoshock, confuse ray.

Pokemon 2: Toxicroak.
Basic Form: Croagunk.
Second Form: Toxicroak.
Last Form: Still toxicroak.
Current Form: Toxicroak.
Nickname: Nope!
Gender: F
Moves: Sucker punch, poison jab, astonish, drain punch.

Pokemon 3: Medicham
Basic Form: Meditite
Second Form: Medicham
Last Form: Still medicham.
Current Form: Medicham.
Nickname: Nope.
Gender: F
Moves: Psychic, high jump kick, reversal, energy ball.

Pokemon 4: Arbok.
Basic Form: Ekans.
Second Form: Arbok.
Last Form: Still arbok.
Current Form: Arbok.
Nickname: Nope.
Gender: F
Moves: Gunk shot, ice fang, fire fang, crunch.

Pokemon 5: Eelektrik
Basic Form: Tynamo
Second Form: Eelektrik
Last Form: Eelektross
Current Form: Eelektrik
Nickname: Nope!
Gender: M
Moves: Wild charge, headbutt, aqua tail, crunch.

Pokemon 6: Milotic
Basic Form: Feebas
Second Form: Milotic
Last Form: Still milotic.
Current Form: Milotic.
Nickname: Nope!
Gender: F
Moves: Dragon tail, hydro pump, recover, ice beam.

Once I finish the mammoth character, I also find out I was banned at some point and can’t submit, so I make someone else submit it, because look at how long this is! I also post that it exists in the thread. Four hours after I do so, or almost immediately after my proxy submits, the character sheets for both SYOC stories they have disappear from their profile and the SYOC note disappears from the story summaries. Inside the story it still says it’s SYOC, but I’m not sure if that’s just because they’re yet another person who doesn’t know how to edit something after it’s uploaded.

Anyway, because I want to preserve all its mad glory, here’s the sheet for the other SYOC story:

-Appearance Info-

Full Name: (First and Last, Middle is optional. I don’t want overused names or names that are already taken in the Anime or Manga. Try to stay away from names like Silver, Shadow, or Flower, Eclipse, etc

Nickname: (Optional. It has to be something their friends would call them likes “Shorty”, “Glutton”, etc. I don’t want something like “The Moonlight Assassin.” Be sure to include who calls them that too. Put N/A for this if they don’t have a nickname.)

Gender: (Let’s keep this simple. Male or Female.)

Age: (18 and up. Try to keep them on the younger side though so I can make some relationships happen.)

Build: (Be descriptive. Don’t just say lean. Do they have broad shoulders? Small wrists? Chicken Legs? Etc.)

Height:

Skin Tone: (No unnatural colors.)

Eye Color: (No dual eye colors. Give me different shades; mahogany brown, navy blue, emerald green, orchid purple, etc. Can be anything.)

Hair Color: (Can be anything but don’t go two wild with rainbow colored hair. Be specific in teh color.)

Hair Style: (Be specific.)

Other Features: (Scars, tattoos, moles, freckles, etc.)

Accessories: (Piercings, necklace, bracelet, watch, etc.)

Main Outfit: (What do they wear? I will spend sometime describing their outfits and be unique and creative.)

Formal Wear: (What they wear to formal events?)

Sleeping Outfit: (What they wear to sleep in?)

Swimming Outfit: (What they wear to the beach or to swim in?)

-Mental Description-

Personality: (I want complete sentences. Give me a wide range of characters. What are their likes and dislikes? Hopes and Dreams? Fears? Are they kind, proud, proper, flirty, prankster, easy-going, shy, intelligent, adventurous, pessimistic? I will reject Oc’s with underwritten personalities.)

Romance: (Yes or No.)

Type of Person they’re attracted too?: (Complete sentences.)

Sexuality: (Hetero, homo, or bi.)

Background History: (Tell me their life story. How did they end up where they are today? This too is another field that could cause your character to get rejected if you give me an overly dramatic backstory or too sad of a backstory.)

Hometown: (Include Hometown and Region. Cannot be one made up.)

Significant Family Members: (At least the family member they have a close relationship with.)

Strengths: (Minimum of 3.)
Weaknesses: (Minimum of 3.)

Battle Style: (How do they battle? Do they strictly use powerful moves? Focus more on defense? Are they a master of speed? Etc.)

Battle Cry: (What they say when sending out their Pokemon. Be creative.)

Defeated Cry: (What they say to their Pokemon when it’s been defeated.)

Pokemon Team-

Beginner Pokemon: (No Legendaries! I want to stay away from Zorua/Zoroark too. Try to use Pokemon that aren’t used a whole lot. Also stick to Pokemon that are native to the region where your character is from. They are only allowed to recieve Beginner Pokemon native to their region, but they don’t have to get the standard starters. However, if they get a starter from a Professor of that Region they cannot have one of their team. All of their Pokemon must be in the final forms. I don’t want a team full of Eevee’s. No Eevee or Pichu/Pikachu/Raichu as a Starter Pokemon.)

Nickname: (Optional. If you nickname one you must nickname all of them.)

Gender: (Male, Female, or Genderless.)

Personality: (You can be brief but use a complete sentence or two.)

Moves: (No egg moves, only one TM/HM/Move Tutor Move. Four moves only.)

Pokemon #2(No Legendaries! I want to stay away from Zorua/Zoroark too. Try to use Pokemon that aren’t used a whole lot. Also stick to Pokemon that are native to the region where your character is from. They are only allowed to recieve Beginner Pokemon native to their region, but they don’t have to get the standard starters. However, if they get a starter from a Professor of that Region they cannot have one of their team. All of their Pokemon must be in the final forms. I don’t want a team full of Eevee’s. No Eevee or Pichu/Pikachu/Raichu as a Starter Pokemon.)

Nickname: (Optional. If you nickname one you must nickname all of them.)

Gender: (Male, Female, or Genderless.)

Personality: (You can be brief but use a complete sentence or two.)

Moves: (No egg moves, only one TM/HM/Move Tutor Move. Four moves only.)

Pokemon #3(No Legendaries! I want to stay away from Zorua/Zoroark too. Try to use Pokemon that aren’t used a whole lot. Also stick to Pokemon that are native to the region where your character is from. They are only allowed to recieve Beginner Pokemon native to their region, but they don’t have to get the standard starters. However, if they get a starter from a Professor of that Region they cannot have one of their team. All of their Pokemon must be in the final forms. I don’t want a team full of Eevee’s. No Eevee or Pichu/Pikachu/Raichu as a Starter Pokemon.)

Nickname: (Optional. If you nickname one you must nickname all of them.)

Gender: (Male, Female, or Genderless.)

Personality: (You can be brief but use a complete sentence or two.)

Moves: (No egg moves, only one TM/HM/Move Tutor Move. Four moves only.)

Pokemon #4(No Legendaries! I want to stay away from Zorua/Zoroark too. Try to use Pokemon that aren’t used a whole lot. Also stick to Pokemon that are native to the region where your character is from. They are only allowed to recieve Beginner Pokemon native to their region, but they don’t have to get the standard starters. However, if they get a starter from a Professor of that Region they cannot have one of their team. All of their Pokemon must be in the final forms. I don’t want a team full of Eevee’s. No Eevee or Pichu/Pikachu/Raichu as a Starter Pokemon.)

Nickname: (Optional. If you nickname one you must nickname all of them.)

Gender: (Male, Female, or Genderless.)

Personality: (You can be brief but use a complete sentence or two.)

Moves: (No egg moves, only one TM/HM/Move Tutor Move. Four moves only.)

Pokemon #5(No Legendaries! I want to stay away from Zorua/Zoroark too. Try to use Pokemon that aren’t used a whole lot. Also stick to Pokemon that are native to the region where your character is from. They are only allowed to recieve Beginner Pokemon native to their region, but they don’t have to get the standard starters. However, if they get a starter from a Professor of that Region they cannot have one of their team. All of their Pokemon must be in the final forms. I don’t want a team full of Eevee’s. No Eevee or Pichu/Pikachu/Raichu as a Starter Pokemon.)

Nickname: (Optional. If you nickname one you must nickname all of them.)

Gender: (Male, Female, or Genderless.)

Personality: (You can be brief but use a complete sentence or two.)

Moves: (No egg moves, only one TM/HM/Move Tutor Move. Four moves only.)

Pokemon #6(No Legendaries! I want to stay away from Zorua/Zoroark too. Try to use Pokemon that aren’t used a whole lot. Also stick to Pokemon that are native to the region where your character is from. They are only allowed to recieve Beginner Pokemon native to their region, but they don’t have to get the standard starters. However, if they get a starter from a Professor of that Region they cannot have one of their team. All of their Pokemon must be in the final forms. I don’t want a team full of Eevee’s. No Eevee or Pichu/Pikachu/Raichu as a Starter Pokemon.)

Nickname: (Optional. If you nickname one you must nickname all of them.)

Gender: (Male, Female, or Genderless.)

Personality: (You can be brief but use a complete sentence or two.)

Moves: (No egg moves, only one TM/HM/Move Tutor Move. Four moves only.)

Edit: Two more popped up at the last minute.

XD002 No OC sheet, not sure if it wants human or pokemon characters. Decided to go with a human who has reason to interact with a probably pokemon cast by saying he works for the villain in the summary.

Name: Tad

Pokemon: Froakie.

Appearance: Tad wears decent clothes, has a nice haircut, and is generally just a bit better put together than the average trainer.

Background: Tad is from Kalos, where everyone hates Team Flare. He does not, however, have any bad opinion of Team Pandora, as Pandora is a completely different word than Flare, and he’s always willing to do minor work for reasonable pay. So “shadow” pokemon are kind of unruly, no big deal. His pokemon is kind of unruly sometimes, like when he’s ordering it to help him do one of his odd jobs for Team Pandora! Isn’t it hilarious how sometimes pokemon act like they have “thoughts” and “feelings” like actual people do?

Finally! Stoneside Academy is yet another academy fic and this one involves the highest dose of boring school without straight up saying to submit your characters to a pokemonless high school AU, complete with picking which block the classes you pick take place in.

Rules-

(1) No Mary Sues or Gary Stus

(2) Be descriptive. The more detailed, your OC will have an high chance of getting in.

(3) PM only. If you review it, then others will know about your OC details.

(4) Submit diverse characters. Not everyone can have a horribly tragic background, nor can they be perfect. Being perfect doesn’t make us human.

(5) NO LEGENDARY POKÉMON.

(6) Have fun with your submission.

(7) Put “We Own It” somewhere in the form if you’ve read the rules.

Name-

Nickname(s) if any-

Age-(Freshman, 14. Sophomore, 15. Junior, 16. Senior, 17)

Gender-

Sexuality- (Heterosexual, Homosexual, or Bisexual)

Hometown-

Year(freshman, sophomore, junior, senior)-

Appearance(be detailed)- (Hair color/style/length, eye color, skin color, height, makeup?, scars, tattoos, jewelry?)

Clothing:

In school?:

Out of school?:

Winter:

Swimming:

Sleepwear:

Personality(also be detailed with this)-

History at StoneSide(if you are a sophomore, junior or senior)-

History in general(give me at least a paragraph)-

Likes(minimum is 4)-

Dislikes(minimum is 4)-

What type of people are your friends?

What type of people are your enemies?

Romance?-

If so, who would be your type?-

How would you act around…

Friends?-

Enemies?-

Strangers?-

Crush?-

Goal in life- (be creative, not everyone can be a Pokémon champion/ master. Like a Pokémon Coordinater, Professor, Scientist, Singer, Writer, etc.)

(You can delete the Class time schedule, Classes and Electives sections once you completed Your Class Schedule. So it won’t be confusing when you submit this)

Class time schedule-

Period 1: 8:30-9:15

Period 2: 9:15-10:00

Period 3: 10:00-10:45

Period 4: 10:45-11:30

Period 5: 11:30-12:15 Lunch

Period 6: 12:15-1:00

Period 7: 1:00-1:45

Period 8: 1:45-2:30

Classes(Must choose Five of these)-

Mega Evolution, World History, Pokémon History, Algebra, Living Environment, English 9, 10, 11, 12 (these correspond with your year in this school), Physical Education

Electives(must have Two)- Photography, Battling, Free Period, Art, Advanced Art, Choir, Advanced Choir, Theater, Advanced Theater, Dance, Advanced Dance.

Your Class Schedule-

Period 1: 8:30-9:15

Period 2: 9:15-10:00

Period 3: 10:00-10:45

Period 4: 10:45-11:30

Period 5: 11:30-12:15 Lunch

Period 6: 12:15-1:00

Period 7: 1:00-1:45

Period 8: 1:45-2:30

Pokémon (Freshman must have four, one can mega-evolve. Sophomore must have five, two can mega-evolve. Junior must have six, three can mega-evolve. Seniors must have six, four can mega-evolve)

Pokémon Species-

Nickname-

Gender-

Personality-

Mega-evolve?-

Moves-

Other about your Pokémon?-

Anything else about your character I should know?-

I look over my characters. Yuki’s made it in to another fic and also would be going stir-crazy in a setting that’s a minimum of 6/7ths not battling. Just about everyone else either isn’t interesting in a school setting where they can’t run into problems or isn’t a serious enough trainer for a school where you have to have a minimum of four pokemon and people are piling on mega evolutions – the combination of demanding a strong trainer character while offering nothing to that character and closing off any pokemon-related hooks they might have is really difficult!

So I go with Lucki again.

Name- Lucki Middling

Nickname(s) if any- “We Own It” (Submission rule)

Age-14

Gender- F

Sexuality- Heterosexual

Hometown- Rustboro

Year- Freshman

Appearance(be detailed)- Lucki has slightly curly and voluminous chest length aquamarine hair. Her eyes are a greenish-gold hazel and she has light skin. She’s of average height, a bit on the taller side.

She wears a a necklace with a brilliant green stone encased in thin gold wire that hangs from a fine gold chain, a gift from her parents several years back.

She doesn’t wear much in the way of makeup but does like nailpolish, with her nails usually a bright emerald green. She currently has no scars or tattoos.

Clothing:

In school?: When it comes to clothes, she prefers bright, cheery colors. Her clothes are generally on the newer side and she throws out anything worn or damaged, but nothing is extremely fancy. She wears skirts, pants, and dresses about equally often.

Out of school?: She wouldn’t dress differently.

Winter: A heavy fur coat and sticking to pants over skirts.

Swimming: Green bikini embroidered with gold thread in an abstract design.

Sleepwear: Warm red pajamas.

Personality(also be detailed with this)- Lucki is friendly and personable so long as things are going her way. When things start going wrong, she’ll blame others for the failure, first phrased as a friendly chide and then with increasing frustration. She tends to view problems as things to smash her way through, although she does change her approach quickly when she realizes it isn’t working. She absolutely hates failing and would rather move pretty far out of her comfort zone than admit defeat. She feels similarly about being tricked and will hold extreme grudges over it. She also takes criticism poorly and will assume the other person is saying it just to be a jerk.

She’s a brave person and, without her pokemon, will throw herself into the thick of things instead. She is not in the least a considerate person and has no problem throwing other people into the thick of things if that seems like a solution. She won’t even understand why people might be upset afterward. She’s also in favor of ditching anything not useful, though she won’t simply release a pokemon. For this reason, she’s looking to trade off Flare, as he failed to impress her in battle early on and nothing he’s done can overcome that first impression. She favors Raiden, who in contrast did quite well in his initial battles.

History at StoneSide(if you are a sophomore, junior or senior)- She’s a freshman.

History in general(give me at least a paragraph)- Lucki comes from Hoenn, with a father who works at Devon. Nothing particularly interesting has happened to Lucki prior. She went to a trainer school before getting her first pokemon upon graduation. She had some friends there, but didn’t bother keeping in contact with them when she left. Her starter was Silver and all the rest she picked up afterward.

She has wealthy parents who provide her whatever she needs. She generally gets whatever she wants as well. She’s pretty independent, however, and isn’t the sort to go running to them with requests. She’s an only child.

Likes(minimum is 4)- Ice cream, looking cool, pretty things (be they sparkling necklaces or shiny pokemon), cute boys, absol.

Dislikes(minimum is 4)- Losing something that’s hers, her pokemon inconveniencing or embarrassing her (such as by ignoring an order, or by collapsing right after their opponent and making it clear she only just barely won), people criticizing her, being tricked.

What type of people are your friends?

Lucki is willing to try being friends with anyone but generally gets along best with people similar to herself as Lucki doesn’t like arguments and disagreement. Once that happens she’ll try to avoid the person in the future.

What type of people are your enemies?

Lucki hates people thinking they’re better than she is or saying she’s doing things wrong. She hates people who trick or deceive her even more.

Lucki holds a grudge against Team Magma after running into them several times, including one time they stole her pokemon.

Romance?- Sure.

If so, who would be your type?- Boys her age who are helpful without being overbearing, smart, and generally chill.

How would you act around…

Friends?- Idle chatter and gossip.

Enemies?- For minor things, like jerks saying her starter, Silver, just won’t ever be a good battler, Lucki will grumble and seethe quietly and never talk to the person again. For major things, like deceiving her or working for the bad guys, she’ll do everything in her power to get back at them.

Strangers?- Lucki generally greets people with a friendly attitude, expecting the best.

Crush?- Lucki can play her cards pretty close to the vest at times. She wouldn’t act differently around a crush, at least as long as they were on good terms.

Goal in life- Lucki isn’t sure yet. She likes battling but isn’t convinced that’s her real calling. She figures it’s something in the general ballpark, though, so for now, she wants to be a great pokemon trainer.

Your Class Schedule-

Period 1: Algebra

Period 2: English 9

Period 3: Free Period

Period 4: Battling

Period 5: Lunch

Period 6: Mega Evolution

Period 7: World History

Period 8: Physical Education

Pokémon (Freshman must have four, one can mega-evolve. Sophomore must have five, two can mega-evolve. Junior must have six, three can mega-evolve. Seniors must have six, four can mega-evolve)

Pokémon Species- Wartortle

Nickname- Silver

Gender- F

Personality- Timid. Silver dislikes battling but is too much of a doormat to disobey Lucki or complain. She knows what’s expected of a pokemon and so tried to be enthusiastic and pretend she’s okay with it all, hoping that she’d get over her fears. Instead, she’s grown more neurotic as the battles get harsher. Once in a blue moon she’ll panic during a fight and freezes up/uses withdraw. She particularly struggles to use the move mirror coat.

Mega-evolve?- Nope.

Moves- Ice beam, mirror coat, withdraw, dig, bite, bubblebeam.

Other about your Pokémon?- Silver is a shiny pokemon likely intended for contests by the breeders, or possibly a request that didn’t pan out. She was raised entirely by the humans there. As her species aren’t common to Hoenn, she hasn’t encountered any other members of her evolutionary line before. She’s got a more delicate body than average and can’t take a hit as easily, although she’s otherwise got good stats.

Pokémon Species- Flareon

Nickname- Flare

Gender- M

Personality- Flare is friendly and obedient. He works hard and is quite determined in battle, often remaining upright even after taking heavy blows. In the event of a near draw, he’d be the one to remain on his feet long enough to squeak out a victory…in the event it isn’t, though, he’ll still go down to the next hit. He has terrible self-esteem.

Mega-evolve?- Nope.

Moves- Flamethrower, charm, flare blitz, overheat, shadow ball, swagger.

Other about your Pokémon?- Flare was a sort of sample model at a breeding facility, so he was older than the cute baby pokemon but didn’t have the fighting experience people would expect of a mature pokemon. When they closed and sold off their pokemon, those they couldn’t were sent to the local pokecenter to be given to interested trainers. Of those, Flare was picked last. Lucki is generally unimpressed by Flare. If someone wants her to loan them a pokemon, she’ll pick him, and he’s also the first one she’ll trade.

Pokémon Species- Manectric

Nickname- Raiden

Gender- M

Personality- Raiden is still a kid. He originally viewed battles as fun games and a way to indulge a mild rebellious streak, but finds the higher powered fights he’s in now to be stressful at best and terrifying at worst. Unlike Silver, though, he never freezes up and his fearful desperation just make him fight harder as he gives it his all. He misses his parents.

Mega-evolve?- Yes.

Moves- Discharge, quick attack, bite, wild charge, double team, flamethrower.

Other about your Pokémon?- Raiden was always told to stay away from trainers, but he was sure he could handle it. Then he was caught, but Lucki said it’d be fun and he’d be able to battle people all over and become super strong and to just try it out for a bit, okay? And he did that. And he’s gotten very strong. And there’s no sign he’s ever going to get to go home again. He doesn’t even know where home is now.

Pokémon Species- Tauros

Nickname- Charger

Gender- M

Personality- Disgruntled. Charger is sick of being a trainer’s pokemon but is aggressive enough he won’t refuse to fight when he’s sent out and there’s another pokemon attacking him. He’ll obey orders because he knows it makes it more likely he ends the fight with fewer injuries, and he’s not yet good enough at tactics himself to tell when he’s getting orders that will sacrifice him to set up for another pokemon. He doesn’t yet know the other pokemon well and is currently anxious and high-strung toward them.

Mega-evolve?- No.

Moves- Rage, zen headbutt, giga impact, earthquake, frustration, outrage.

Other about your Pokémon?- Charger belonged to another trainer. He was a bit of a discipline problem. Lucki had a tropius that had stopped listening to her in favor of trying to fly away. The two traded. Lucki probably got the better deal.

Anything else about your character I should know?- Think that covers it.

All in all, only using her three times isn’t that bad – I managed 22 different characters out of 38 over the month in full. Plus, how fitting to end with her!

Join me at the end of next month for a quick rundown on what stories actually managed to update!

19 Comments

  1. Mini-Farla says:

    Holy obsession with irrelevant information, Batman. What are they even trying to do? Are they so lazy they want absolutely zero freedom in interpreting the characters themselves and want the submitters to hand-feed them a script of how they should act in every conceivable situation? I really want to know what they’re thinking. And why anyone would ever care what a character’s theme song or sleepwear is.

    1. illhousen says:

      It’s a plague of inexperienced GMs. Pretty common, actually. It comes down to not understanding what is and isn’t important in a story. They’re vaguely aware that the standard “dead parents, will murder for loot” stab of a backstory is not enough if you want the characters to be anything more than sticks in players’ hands to poke the setting with (or, more likely, they’ve heard it’s not enough in an online discussion or from their own, probably online, GMs), but they don’t know what is.

      So they overcompensate by collecting as much information as they can even though half of it would never come into play because they mistake quantity for quality and think a big form makes them look more serious.

      Now, SYOC is a bit different from RPs, mostly by being a generally terrible idea while RP is just usually terrible (online, anyway), but the same underlying principle probably applies as well.

      Experience would beat it out of them if they ever actually implement the idea.

      That said, I’m ridiculously tempted to submit Chara and answer every “How would they behave…” question with “Stab.”

      1. Ember says:

        WHY DID I NOT THINK TO TRY ROLLING UP CHARA. I have even thought about this beyond “stab” for every answer.

        1. Mini-Farla says:

          Oh man yes Chara would be great. And perhaps a Frisk to balance it out? Although they might be redundant with Ormarr and Miki — a character who actually engages with pokemon like they’re people.

          1. Farla says:

            A Frisk would work in PMD – a human who didn’t transform!

        2. illhousen says:

          Well, some of this fics are still open for submission, so it’s not too late!

          And if they never update we can pretend that Chara erased everything.

          1. Ember says:

            Haha, I’m not much interested in Farla’s submitting game, but filling out her form for them was a pleasant way to kill some time.

      2. Farla says:

        I think it’s RP but a lack of GM is the real issue. This looks like it’s for pure text RP, where you need as much information as possible to have something to interact with, a good idea of where a profitable direction to go would be, and even the ability to write the other person’s character at times (if only to try to address the glacial pace), but with horrible consequences if you write them a smidgen incorrect.

        1. illhousen says:

          Hm, I tend to think of authors as closer to the GMs than to players, but the alternative does make sense. If they identify with the MC and want other PCs to populate the world, it kinda makes sense to gather as much information as possible for reasons you outlined.

          1. Farla says:

            Well, I think of SYOC as authors not really behaving as authors – they often don’t even seem to know what to do with the characters they get or have more of a plotline than “my main OC is super cool”.

            Someone who’s in the GM role but still acting like a player might be the best analogy here.

            1. illhousen says:

              Hm, so a GMPC with the rest of the players around as a cheering crowd and no plan for the future? Yeah, I can see it.

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  2. Negrek says:

    Is it just me, or are story reboots a lot more common than they used to be? I feel like I’ve run across a ton of “rebooted” ‘fics recently, including one that I clicked on because it had over a hundred reviews for one chapter, only to find out that actually it was a 40+ chapter ‘fic where the author had just redone the first chapter and deleted the rest.

    Or maybe my memory’s just going in my old age and people always used to be pulling this kind of stuff, idk.

    1. Farla says:

      No, I’m pretty sure it’s a new trend. I used to read stuff constantly and I wouldn’t see it, and I remember the one time I deleted/reposted something to change the order of it people got really shouty over it.

      Do you remember that fic about Gary getting a personality transplant and then it ends with him declaring he wants a ledyba starter? That one popped up a few days ago, with a note saying it was actually the third iteration. Also, it was the same fucking first chapter because apparently he was fine with that yet kept deleting the entire thing for some reason.

      1. Negrek says:

        I saw that fic crop up on its second iteration! That’s really bizarre… if you’re not going to change anything why bother to delete it all in the first place?? Didn’t get enough reviews (or got unfavorable reviews) the first time and want to see if they’d have better luck this time around?

        Seems like a pretty damaging trend… editing your work and being willing to do rewrites is one thing, but constant churn isn’t going to get you anywhere. But eh, mostly it’s just annoying to see the same stuff crop up over and over again.

        1. Farla says:

          I just tried to find it and it’s been deleted again, so this is paraphrased, but he explained that he’s redoing the story as a whole (…can’t imagine there was very much of it given it’s been posted three times in four months…) but he thinks the first chapter is perfect and isn’t changing anything there.

          Admittedly, it’s possible he’s just saying that and it’s really about trying again for reviews/attention. Either way, yeah, all I could think was that this looked like some sisyphean thing only you’re doing it to yourself. Even if it’s just about attention, every repost he’ll be getting less attention while updating would result actually growing the attention each go-round.

  3. actonthat says:

    TIL men don’t have hair.

    1. Farla says:

      Technically, it’s not that they don’t have hair it’s that they don’t style their hair in any way, only girls do. Also, short hair is unique for girls and boys alike!

  4. Arturo says:

    I particularly like that handedness was part of “personality”

    1. Farla says:

      The longer I ponder this, the more I think that the forms are actually intended to function the same way as character development worksheets where you’re asked a lot of trivial questions to see if anything sparks a new idea.

      Why they think combining workshop practice with character submission is a good idea…that’s another question.

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