This world is inhabited by creatures that we call pokemon. People and pokemon live together by supporting each other, but now the scourge threatens the safety of the entire region. Kohaku has become a dangerous place, where children stay at home and only brave souls go adventuring.
Welcome to KOHAKU. Come for the nightmares. Stay for the tea and crumpets.
The season is SUMMER. It is easy for survivors to forage for food from the land, as there are entire abandoned farms ready for harvest. On the downside, you can smell the corpses.
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GRAND OPENING !
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KAZIMIR NOVAK is probably the exact opposite of what the public would want in an Eos trainer. While the Bacchus native is a generally capable person, his reasoning for fighting the Scourge tends to fall mostly to his mother's well-being. He grew up the only child of a single mother who, although acts like a major whore, means the world to him. Aside from that, there aren't too many things that truly pique the twenty-year-old's interest. Kaz likes to think that he's a little smarter, faster, and wiser than he is, but he means well. He's outgoing, yet his friends remain exactly that -- friends. Kaz is prone to putting friendships in that weird twilight zone, somewhere between mere acquaintance and true friend. Not that he's so concerned; in the end, all that matters to him is getting back to the before.
ABRAHAM JACOBS lost his brother and father to the Scourge. After the initial attack on Decima, he escaped with his mother and father, but his brother was out of town and presumably killed in Bacchus. His parents joined Eos and his father got curb stomped by the Scourge, so his mother retired and warned Abraham not to join. While they were away, he was having some pretty disturbing nightmares about his dad and brother's deaths (which he's like, REALLY emotional about), so he joined to try and resolve that. Um, otherwise, he's one of those typical smart guys, just not so outspoken. Slightly immature due to a sheltered upbringing. Kind of wants to grow up in the process of fighting the Scourge? Super polite and nice, but kind of shy? He really just needs to grow up.
stefan - lil shit of a nerio gym leader. not a pleasant dude to like 95% of the people that he meets. ur probs gonna want his badge. he's not gonna wanna give it 2 u. retired character, so you're not gonna see him on the frontlines lmao
physis - hades agent who will probably fuck up his shit if he ever runs into her, maybe. i mean that's kind of what hades agents do. fairly reserved with strangers, will not attempt to kill anyone in the dream world since there's no point. fatalistic worldview with a weakness for strawberry cake.
karimi - nice researcher girl! no really she's probably the nicest character that i play. very protective of her friends and supportive of newbies. upbeat, smiles even when the world gets her down. lost her entire family to the scourge, so she does take her job very seriously. off to fight the scourge most of the time.
hisham mersault - ex-rich dude from bacchus who might be the biggest flatterer when it suits him. has a fondness for battles as a sport and the visual/performing arts as a passion. pretty chill at first glance, but also rather intense when he wants something. not easily deterred.
iker - also from bacchus, sister is a hades agent. not that he knows. short ranger boy in a wheelchair, and he's not really angsty about it. agreeable attitude until people start piling the pity or whatever it is that he doesn't need to slow him down. enjoys outdoor exploration.
gundam 00 fc!! if i didn't already want to thread with you, i would especially now want to thread with you. (graham aker is my hades agent's fc lmao)
speaking of that aforementioned agent, i have two chars to offer.
thalia, my main char/the one i'm most active with. the tl;dr version from her plot page is this: originally from Bacchus, she ran off at 11 and didn't return to Kohaku until she was 18, when the scourge hit. She's generally friendly and good-natured unless you get on her bad side, although she can be kind of blunt and her temper can flare up quickly, she doesn't really hold grudges. despite everything, she's a fairly optimistic kid who believes in people and wants to help save the world by killing as many zombies as she can. she's always up for a fight if you need someone to tank the scourge for you/want to level your agent. #trainerprivilege. she has been on lots of weird kohaku adventures (via shameless abuse of the dice system for improbably happenings) and i'm always down for more. her thread tones can range from hilariously stupid to Most Serious, w/e you want. enemies/rivals/friends are all welcome plot for her but tbh i'm SHIT at planning relationships out, so coming up with a thread idea and throwing them together might be a better idea? idk mang.
BATIN is my hades agent/graham aker fc. 90 percent gay, 50 percent amazing cook, 100 percent evil messiah who thinks he's doing the world a favor by trying to burn it to the ground. he's more of a fan of hanging out around nubile EOS trainers and creepily trying to groom them into righteous heroes who will ascend and kill him/set off their evil-dar rather than battling them, which is ideal for new chars?
he also likes cooking, a lot. he will cook for anyone.
idk he and thalia are both talk-y extroverts, so something usually happens in a thread with them? even if it's not always expected. orz. welcome to kohaku home of the kohakuburger.
toska idek toska you're great and reading that physis/batin thread just *melts*
stefan/kaz - stefan will probably curb stomp kaz eventually but at least the dickish personality won't bother him (??) by the time kaz makes it to the point of challenging the gym, he'll think he's god's gift to training, so i'm sure stefan will take great pleasure and beating him.
physis/kaz - hmm, these two probably wouldn't see each other until later, unless it was in the dream world? listening to physis talk about death and how pointless living is would probably get a rise out of kaz. they are pretty different, though i'm sure physis is on another level, intellectually. idek what i'm saying...maybe that's not a good thing
karimi/kaz - karimi would probably get kaz to understand the reality of the situation with the scourge. At the same time, he'd probably piss her off if he even mentioned how little motivation he had for the fight. so that'd probably be an interesting interchange?
hisham/kaz - kaz would maybe find him haughty at first, but that's just because he comes from such a different realm? even still, they're both from bacchus, so they'd have stuff to talk about? recognizing hisham would be a long shot since he left, but maybe? i mean, neither of them are incredibly vehement on fighting the scourge, and they're around the same age so yeah.
iker/kaz - i feel like kaz would really like iker. he'd probably recognize him because he's missing a leg, and he'd definitely try to help him around so?
2tsunz oh my heavens graham is a beauty!! and reading thalia threads entertains me, just so you know.
thalia/kaz - thalia's endless fighting would probably inspire kaz, really. he may be apprehensive about fighting the scourge, but seeing someone who does it so often would be encouraging idk. but as for threads, i'm not sure...meeting in a pokemon center after she's battled or something, striking up a conversation about scourge and hades agent encounters? i really don't know how you guys typically do things around here so if you have any ideas for a thread with a complete and utter rookie, i'm all ears.
batin/kaz - i think what's funny is that kaz would probably take what batin says to heart. besides the fact that batin is bent on the burning of humanity, kaz would be like "oh, this guy's cool" because he reacts to the self-assuredness well and they're a little bit similar. other than that, yeah, the thread would be nice. :3
CRIES IM STUPIDLY FLATTERED THAT ANYONE ELSE READS OUR THREADS wait shit which one
stefan - haha nah challenges are ok since we scale to your level. otherwise stefan's pkmn are actually lvl 100 but training braces make it all ok :`P i like to think that he's usually okay???? except 90% of the people on this site piss him off/get pissed off and i have no idea why. he's also one of those eos people who has a lot of great war stories but doesn't like to associate with eos. voted least reliable eos trainer of the year.
physis - i like to think that physis' convictions are a little ... more complicated than that, since she became a hades agent in order to continue living. if it's the choice between dying a good woman and living as a terrible one, she will always choose the latter, which is the basis of her agenthood to begin with. she's definitely looking into a void, though, so dream world thread would be good. if you want a scourge event battle, i can also send her your way so that it can count for the ceres event (dw scourge levels scale appropriately too)
karimi - hahahaha yeah she used to be pretty chill but then Shit Happened, and she's going to beat the enthusiasm into him if it's the last thing she does. this can totally happen in proserpina btw. i'm usually fast enough that i can probs thread you out of that city within a few days (altho no promises this week since im busy as fuck for the rest of the month)
hisham- HAHAHA TBQH i barely know what i'm doing with this dude, but what kaz calls 'haughtiness' he calls 'confidence'....which is the definition of haughtiness i suppose. hisham says that he only bothers putting on airs for gentlemen and ladies, which he defines as more of a character thing. still doesn't make him any less of a prick sometimes tho. we can thread in proserpina or the dream world, idm. or ceres, once you get there.
iker - oh my god i get so tired of typing by the time that i get to this dude. poor iker. hahaha iker doesn't need to be babied, but he'll also accept help when he feels like he needs it. i think he should fit the 'younger brother' trope pretty well for most characters. i haven't really figured out much about him yet since he's my newest char, so hopefully casual threads will fix that!
toska LOL UH STRAWBERRY CAKE i have absolutely no idea what batin/zahir's premise is but still just jklfds <33 w/e
stefan/kaz - oh thank gawd i was thinking it was like the fucking pre-gym in pokemon colosseum or whatever when the guy's levels are like 70?? i should probably reread the rules and stuff. so maybe if the two met kaz would sit there and try to pull war stories out of him and ultimately just piss him off or something? i kind of plan for kaz to gradually become someone who actually wants to slay scourge bc he feels like it's his duty?
physis/kaz - i think i understand her a bit more now?? but yeah, they could always meet in the dream world and talk about god knows what and then face off in ceres if that's an option?
karimi/kaz - yes yes i like this (idc that you're busy it's k)
hisham/kaz - then again, kaz is pretty confident, too, so. just resents people who are rich?? i don't really have kaz figured out all the way either, but yeah, thread somewhere and see what happens? i personally don't care where? omg i don't even know what i'm saying right now i'm so sorry toska
iker/kaz - he could fit the younger brother trope for kaz pretty well? which would actually probably be terrible for iker because kaz would be trying to persuade him to stay away from the scourge and such. that would probably be down the line though. this reply took forever idk why. o3o
stefan - oh my fucking god the pre-gym CASS U GOTTA TALK 2 ME WE CAN TALK AB OUR GAMECUBE PAINS 2GETHER. but yeah all he has are really badass movesets but that's ab it. not so sure ab the war stories tho, since he's gone so far as to change his public name to cover up his involvement. if you want stories ab him, yr probs better off talking to thalia (although her version of events will be significantly more humiliating for him). but if kaz wants to chatter away during their gym battle, he'll probably humor him. stefan is ... kinda hardcore on duty certainly, but noT TO EOS AT ALL i mean eos was literally a means to an end for him so...you might wanna go talk to karimi about that duty stuff (although she's still figuring out her life shit rn too)
physis - she's masked in the real world, so he's probs not gonna recognize her in the second encounter lol. but yes we can absolutely dream world thread (which is where she's been having most of her non murderous encounters with eos anyway). when i find a break in between studying, i'll make a post and tag you? and yes we should go thread in ceres since yr pkmn are gonna get an insane amount of levels from that lololol (ALSO THE CERES FOREST NEEDS HELP LIKE SOMETHING AWFUL)
karimi - again, she's the best bet for anyone who's looking to be pepped for the scourge fights. if you don't mind waiting, i can start. or you could start and tag me. either works
hisham - hahaha it's okay I WELCOME RESENTMENT PLOTS i mean hisham has probably dealt with it before since hate from the lower classes isn't exactly new to him. he likes to mindfuck with people sometimes but he tries to be a ... decentish person on the outside? but yeah if you got a location in mind then i'm game.
iker - hahahahaha iker doesn't gaf ab the scourge as long as he has ranger powers to defend himself. he just cares about exploring kohaku, scourge or not. finding out ab how bacchus is holding up and such. if kaz gets too in his face, iker can get pretty cheeky too. i mean he cares about fighting the scourge, sure, but he's not as militant about it as some of the pax crew.
stefan/kaz - OMG GAMECUBE WAS SO STRESSFUL JKLSAFDS THAT LEVEL ON SONIC ADVENTURE 2 BATTLE WHERE YOU HAD TO ROTATE THE FLOORS. but okay, then he shall just jab at stefan with chit chat anyway?
physis - oh, i gotcha. but sure, that works for me. :3 if you don't have time, don't stress about it. LOL mamoswine will eat vullaby alive oops. still mad levels so
karimi - i can start for this. i hope proserpina is still good for you, since i am actually pretty pumped for this physis encounter, ngl.
hisham - dude resentment plots are neat. the thing that will be hard for kaz is realizing how many similarities they share...idk, just like an unjustified hatred for some reason? kaz is typically pretty nice to everyone, but maybe hisham just rubs him the wrong way? i actually don't have a location in mind, so if you want to wait until kaz isn't restricted to like nowhere we can see what happens?
iker - LOL after your hahahahaha i spent a solid 3 minutes trying to figure out what the e was in iker as if it meant i know right...oops. maybe the two of them could meet up once, like a little small talk or something and find out they're both from bacchus and then try to explore it together? brainstorm, feel free to shoot that idea down.
oops sorry i was trying to balance school things with cleaning out my pkmn pc
stefan - and yes i think that's cool lol. you still have to get to nerio first tho!
physis - dude dw trainers are the class that's intended to BLEED exp like mad. also scaling for hades agents. yooo if you have a skype, then feel free to PM it to me and i'll give u some pointers ab kohaku battles and general stuff #bestmod2014
karimi - <3 yeaH LETS DO IT!!!!
hisham - hahaha dude i am also 100% up for any threads where ur trying to get places like. maybe karimi can thread kaz out of proserpina and hisham can thread him out of ceres. this would also be around the time that the scourge have infiltrated ceres, so that could make for some interesting threading. then again, it's likely that a fight w/ physis will also get him out of ceres, so you could also use hisham to get out of di manes. old location are cool, but there's also neat stuff that you can have early access to if you thread smart, so.
iker - IKER NEEDS PLOTS. IKER NEEDS PLOTSSSS dude i literally have like only one plot for him and that's not happening until like bacchus. i am so up for any hangout threads in which i can figure out this lil dude. proserpina possibly? i mean he can't go anywhere else besides that and the dream world lol
hisham - oh hisham and kaz in ceres together sounds good. di manes sounds good, too. i'll just abuse you on skype for neat stuff since you're basically single-handedly moving kaz all the way to bacchus oh wait maybe even lake pax?? LOL
iker - proserpina sounds good! i mean honestly iker is kind of a badass just because he has one leg and an all-wheel drive wheelchair, so kaz is almost guaranteed to like him. so just a hangout thread?