Thread: Characters

Originally Posted by Fyre Byrd

What if you were the mentor to someone who followed you around until you beat the first gym leader? He could be one your rival's little brother/sister. They could meet someone like N, and then begin to hate you. They could join the evil orginization just out of spite.

I could actually see this happening.

Originally Posted by Fyre Byrd

What if you were the mentor to someone who followed you around until you beat the first gym leader? He could be one your rival's little brother/sister. They could meet someone like N, and then begin to hate you. They could join the evil orginization just out of spite.

It would be awesome and hilarious if this character would end up becoming the champion XD

Related to that idea: it would be interesting to have a Grunt with an actual personality. Maybe he or she can get a redemption by the end, and decides to accompany the player through the HQ of the villainous team, and then become a recurring character in the post-game, and in future generations, like Looker.

By the third generation in which that character appears, they had set up a charity/fund for helping previous grunts find honest work, kind of like real life organisations that help previous inmates find jobs.

Originally Posted by Kyuuketsuki

Originally Posted by Mordicuno

I want the player character's father to be present. The last thing that happened was like in Gen III, and he was a Gym Leader. We need a stay-at-home father.

Edit:
Or maybe he can appear in various places in the game. That works too.

That would go really well with the mentor idea I mentioned. And if that character is the father, mentor, and professor of the region, then I can see how he will get a lot of involvement in the story. And while we're on the subject of parents, maybe the mother can have an expanded role. I love the little hints we get about the mother in B2W2, so I want to see more of that.

Memory Link can factor, in which you play very limited parts of your mother's past, maybe her journey as a trainer, assuming she gets such a backstory. And of course, all that can cumulate with the player character; being the son of a known trainer, and a respected professor, would create a great dynamic, but I'm being too hopeful at this point.

When you go to your house, instead of Mom automatically healing your Pokemon, she'll ask you what you want. If you pick Heal, she'll heal your Pokemon (she'll decline if your Pokemon are healthy). If you pick Talk, however, you can talk to her about her past life. She'll have forgotten most of it, as she's older than the previous moms, but she'll tell you her one memory that's as far back as she can remember. That's when you experience the flashback. As you progress in the storyline, your mom will remember more of her past and share it with you whenever you come back home. She'll have been revealed to be a former Champion, but retired. Once you get to the Elite Four, her picture will be the newest one in the Hall of Fame at the time being.

Once you defeat the champion, let's call him Alc, your mom will tell you how proud of you she is. Your mom will then tell you the family is moving away from the starting town to another town, on the edge of the region because one of the benefits of getting into the Hall of Fame is that you get a luxurious mansion on the island of, let's say, Averico. There are beautiful beaches, many mansions, summer houses, and regular houses.

Your mansion will also include an indoor battlefield. When you talk to your mom again, another option will be added, saying "Fight". You can fight her Pokemon, all of which are in their high 80's and low 90's, every other day. She will decide, regardless if you win or lose, that she wants to start fighting again.

She gets permission from the Elite Four to open up a new mini-league called the Venadu Challenge, in a massive area walled off on Venadu Island, an island to the right of Averico. You will fight some other people recruited to the group as the Challenge Samurai, the Challenge Teacher, the Challenge Coach, the Challenge Starlet, etc. (I only said etc. because I couldn't think of anything else. (Yes, I put Challenge Teacher there. Deal with it.)
After you get all the Tablets/Orbs/whatever replaces badges, you'll get to face the Challenge King and Queen. Yes, King. You will be able to meet your DAD and fight him along with Mom, too.

After that, you can enter Venadu Island anytime and visit your mom and dad (I'm sorry, the Challenge King and Queen) in the Venadu Challenge Square on certain days. Week 1 you can enter Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays one week, and Week 2 Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays the next. If you go to meet your parents on Week 1 on a Sun./Tues./Thurs./Sat., then you can watch them battle a randomized trainer every 10 minutes, and you can talk to them for 1 minute before another trainer shows up, vice versa for Week 2.

EDIT: Split idea into more paragraphs for easier reading.

EDIT 2: An older brother/sister would be interesting. If you're a boy, then you have an older sister who helps you along the way and a younger brother who's a troublemaker and an aspiring Pokemon trainer. If you're a girl, then you have an older brother who helps you along the way and a younger sister who's a troublemaker and an aspiring Pokemon trainer. This could tie in with the idea above: the younger brother could get permission from the Elite 4 to participate in the Venadu Challenge and be in a daycare. Little kids who are above 6 can battle "safe battles" with your younger brother/sister.

Venadu Island would have a town already built on it, with the Venadu Challenge Square directly south of the town, so you can go to the Pokecenter, a Move Tutor, and an arcade filled with games ranging from Pokemon Pinball and Pokemon Dash to Pokemon Ranger and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon.

These, of course, would only be mini-games of the actual games, with Dungeon with a character select screen from Pikachu, Eevee, Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle and one endless dungeon, Ranger with three areas (Amateur Acadamy, Second Street, and Malicious Mountains) with a bonus area called the Devoid Dimension, Dash with three races (Medioc Plains, Averigo Hills, and Inferi Flatlands) with a special bonus race Stalevec Caves, etc.

Should the Stat Trainers make a return? They were unique characters, and seeing them again could be very helpful, and a great way of introducing Stats to beginning players.

What about giving actual personalities to some NPCs' Pokemon? Maybe having your rival's starter do something that's plot-relevant?
All I know is I want some Pokemon as characters. They might be a bit hard to characterize, considering that they don't talk, but it'll definitely be interesting. It's not only humans that live in this world, but Pokemon too.

Originally Posted by hyperspeed

What about giving actual personalities to some NPCs' Pokemon? Maybe having your rival's starter do something that's plot-relevant?
All I know is I want some Pokemon as characters. They might be a bit hard to characterize, considering that they don't talk, but it'll definitely be interesting. It's not only humans that live in this world, but Pokemon too.

Let me tell you a little story. Long ago, in a video game region far far away (Hoenn), there was a company. Now, this company wasn't just any company. It was working on three special projects.
The Pokémon Dream Projector makes a visual projection of Pokémon dreams.
The Pokémon Transformer turns people into Pokémon.
The Pokémon Speaker allows communication with Pokémon.
One of these projects, the Pokemon Dream Projector, was upgraded and turned into reality by a professor named Fennel. Thus, the Pokemon Dream World was born.
Now, would you like me to tell the story of how a boy in a land called FireRedLeafGreen wished for a Pokemon that was pink with floral patterns and got Munna?
The Pokemon Transformer could be upgraded so it could work in reverse.
The Pokemon Speaker... self-explanatory, but made so it could be transportable, like a collar or a headset.

Originally Posted by hyperspeed

What about giving actual personalities to some NPCs' Pokemon? Maybe having your rival's starter do something that's plot-relevant?
All I know is I want some Pokemon as characters. They might be a bit hard to characterize, considering that they don't talk, but it'll definitely be interesting. It's not only humans that live in this world, but Pokemon too.

What if like the lady in Eterna Forest (Forgot her name), you have a character follow you around. Instead of being a character, make it a pokemon, following you of its own free will. Not part of your part, but just follows you around for a little while.