POKÈMON ACADEMIA

In order for someone to consider themselves certified to legally capture Pokèmon, they need to attend the Pokèmon Academia. A person can enroll once they've completed high school (Around the age of eighteen, or older) and choose Pokèmon Academia as their college, and will be given their starter Pokèmon upon enrolling. Depending on the classes they take, they learn useful information regarding Pokèmon care and battling - and everything they need to learn for the journey ahead.

At the school, they can study to become trainers, breeders, rangers, coordinators, gym leaders, professors, etc. Once they've completed their schooling and have graduated, they're certified and can call themselves a trainer, a breeder, a gym leader, etc - all depending on what specialty they choose to study.

The main focus of the site would be the school, but I'd also like there to be room for older characters or those who have graduated, so people could still write trainers, gym leaders, elite four, coordinators, etc, etc, who have already finished their schooling at Pokèmon Academia.

And yes, people can decide whether they want to play human or Pokèmon characters, be it wild or tame ones.

It'll be a statless Pokèmon roleplay, which means that it wouldn't use the leveling system in the traditional sense seen in games. Which probably leaves you wondering, how exactly do my Pokèmon grow stronger? How does it evolve?

LEVEL: Think of a Pokèmon's level as part of its age: A Pokèmon cannot be used for battle until it has officially reached puberty, which happens around the time the Pokèmon is one year old. One year old Pokèmon are new to the game and still needs a lot of training and experience. The older your Pokèmon is, the more experience and the better it will be at fighting. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that a five year old Pokèmon will get its ass beat by a seven year old.

If you work with your Pokèmon through in-character threads, train it and help it grow stronger - it will become stronger. This might take days, weeks or even months, depending on how much work you put into it. Effort creates reward.

EVOLUTION: How and when will your Pokèmon evolve? It comes down to the effort you've put into training your Pokèmon and what kind of Pokèmon you've been training. You can also use evolution stones, but keep in mind that if you use this instead of letting your Pokèmon naturally evolve, your Pokèmon will be weaker.

A Pokèmon needs to have reached puberty before it's able to evolve.

OTHER MEANS: If training your Pokèmon through in-character means sound tedious, there's a different way you can ensure your Pokèmon growing stronger and eventually evolving and this is through earning site points.

BATTLING: Since stats doesn't exist on the site, players should pick the way they handle battles themselves. A dice system could be added, or people can write the battles out and decide the outcome between themselves.

MOVES: I'd like to keep things realistic, or rather, as realistic as possible: For example: It makes perfectly sense for any Pokèmon with teeth to be able to use the move "bite", or "growl", but a fire-based type using water-based moves wouldn't make much sense.
The same realism applies to HM moves. Naturally, any Pokèmon with wings would be able to use "fly", whereas, something like "surf" or "rock smash" would take more practice. Your Pokèmon is able to know an unlimited amount of moves, so it's not restricted to the four from the games. Pokèmon can also learn new moves through threads and battles: For example, like what Ash's Pikachu did when learning how to use "iron tail".

POKÈMON LIFESPAN: A Pokèmon reaches puberty at the age of one (1) - which makes it able to reproduce and fight, but still need world experience in order to fully mature. At age five (5) a Pokèmon is officially considered to be an adult.
Pokèmon generally share the lifespan of a regular human, though this varies from Pokèmon to Pokèmon. Wild Pokèmon tend to live longer than tame ones.

Legendary Pokèmon are considered to be immortal because of the celestial energy coursing through their bodies.
Pokèmon of the ghost type don't die of old age the same fashion other Pokèmon would. Instead, they start fading away once they've reached the end of their natural lifespan.

STARTER POKÈMON: I feel like there's three ways to go about this:
A) People can freely pick between all the available starter Pokèmon.
B) The staff uses a random generator to pick one of the available starter Pokèmon for each new character.
C) People can freely pick between three random generated available starter Pokèmon.

LEGENDARY POKÈMON: Legendary Pokèmon cannot be played nor caught, unless there is a specific event run by a staff member designed for it.

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non-canon / alternate universe: kingdom hearts roleplay; obviously, when i say non-canon, i don't mean king mickey and the other characters don't exist. but, sora, aqua, riku and the gang are pretty much next to nonexistent/whereas disney characters and final fantasy characters of the like are unplayable. strictly original character only. of course the xiii organisation are still alive, well, and active. you could say they're sealed away at this time for -insert reasons unknown-, meaning in this world they're not known about, or rather, in this current timeline they're nothing but a rumor--myth. stories of a warrior that wielded a key like blade and locked the thirteen shadows within a place--believed to be a myth--called the castle that never was.

though there are only certain worlds unlocked. everyone is born upon twilight town or treasure island where, there, parents usually tell their children fairy tales of other worlds existing and that a powerful warrior, alongside his friends, fought against the darkness. but as the castle--or rater the world--that never was remains but a folktale, a sudden scream is heard at the town square or the center of treasure island's shore: a body is found.

the body is ravaged where, upon it, strange black markings begin to develop. eventually the body awakens and has now become, what i'd like to call, a heart eater basically the heart eater's are like, in a sense, ghouls ( if you've read rosario + vampire, think tsukune aono during his transition into a vampire as the series progressed where he was borderline human but borderline vampire all the same ). a heart eater is a terminology upon the site created by a group, name is a work in progress, called the 8 precepts of death ( boku no hero, ikr? ) or the seven generations of god.

the reason i think the seven generations of god may fair is because their goal is to bring back to life the original creator of the first keyblade, or rather the one who unlocked the universe, said to slumber in the realm of darkness or, better yet, the end of the world. kingdom hearts isn't their goal, it's to awaken the original creator in order to destroy--in a sense--kingdom hearts. so they possess several goals. one of them being to either kill, find, or incapacitate the princesses of heart, killing of course (depending on whether these are canon positions or not) will be optional, due to various reasons icly and oocly; perhaps half canon position and the other half npc disney princesses. but, anyway, they not only need to gather the seven princess but the heart of the world(s). yes, the worlds themselves possess hearts that only a specific person is capable of accessing.

i was thinking, based upon how long one is on the site, that--depending on the number of worlds we unlock via story--i was thinking of having a player character, once per story/important event, be the key to opening unlocking that specific world's heart due to meeting certain requirements (to which whatever they may even be). but, yeah, anyway. that's the gist of the 1st arc anyway/baddies.

next is the system. i was thinking, due to the fact keyblade wielders will be a thing, that one won't be able to start out with a keyblade just yet--though it won't take long either. rather, they possess the capability to utilize skills and magic due to hearing a voice within their hearts of sorts. people who do not possess a keyblade yet are revered as locks or the locked one, which are names for potential wielders of the keyblade. but, anyway, the seven generations of god may not be canon characters but important npc villains; though, think espada from the bleach series, heart eaters are like subordinates to them. and just like the locked ones, heart eaters are also in the developing stage of becoming full-fledged fractures. fractures are pretty much, maybe, the final stage of a heart eater (after going through the other stage, should there be any because this is all just possibilities at the moment). fractures will be people who are capable of being saved, but it depends upon you, the creator, on what you want. fractures are like the fractions of the seven generations of god. possessing special forms, or weaponry, based upon the person of the seven generations of god that they've chosen to be infected by/serve under.

at the moment this is all still a big work in progress, but that's the gist of what i thought of so far for an original, but also alternate universe, kingdom hearts roleplay. in conclusion, i sUcK don't judge me. p.s. yes, we have missions. even the simple ones are highly important. like research on the princesses of heart, the one who unlocked the universe, pretty much every little detail/action you, the member, conducts is important.

picture this: a slice-of-life youtuber rp, where your character starts a channel on whatever it is that they're interested in or excel at—music, videogames, sports, traveling, crazy or not-so-crazy paranormal theories, you name it. maybe they've made it big, or maybe they've just started their channel and are in the process of gathering followers. it could be something very chill with the possibility of really short but wholesome posts, for people who don't have a lot of time to spare for deeply elaborate posts or for people who are tired of traditional storytelling. it could also turn toxic... i know trolls are fun to play.

you decide what you want to do and how you want to do it.

now, characters don't necessarily have to be social media celebrities in order to participate in this kind of rp. where there are youtubers, there must be followers who watch, comment, and share their videos. the site would focus on celebrity/follower relationships as much as relationships inside different groups of youtubers. maybe, if that's the development you want to give your character, they may be put into the youtube spotlight by interacting with popular content creators; or your character may be the silent supporter with whom the youtuber would not have attained the popularity they have.

events can be made to help characters interact even more. say there's a gaming convention, where reviewers and let'splayers get vip invitations but any other character gets to attend as a normal visitor. even if it's not within a character's budget to travel across the globe for a con, participation can be made through social media. there's an interesting duality in what can be done with a setting like this that needs to be exploited.

I might as well put this here first to see if there's a couple of likes and what not on this before making this into a full thread with details.

But my idea and this has been in my head and worked with for about a year going on 2, is a Superhero/Superpower RP in which the characters can profoundly influence the world and setting. By that, I mean all the different sides can have a significant influence on the world around them and how that world views them via a favorability system.

By completing small "side quests" if you will, characters can slowly shift the influence of Heroes, Villains, Neutrals, what have you, and then the larger sitewide events can change a side's control. Favorability ratings will also affect how NPCs (like the Police, Newspaper, and Government; staff-controlled of course.) can treat them and characters affiliated with that side (for example: if Villains have more influence, the Police are less likely to go after them for their crimes or even help heroes take them down. Primarily, if you want villains to have more reign in the city, this takes place in, then go for it. If you want heroes to have more reign, then go for it.

The actions of characters could cause Villains to be highly scrutinized and sought out by authorities, or heroism could be made illegal a-la the Incredibles depending on what you do.

But yeah, that's the main thing with this one.