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[Elvenlord]

Name: Sebastian Callahan
Starter pokémon: Squirtle, ~15 years old (What exactly would it be looking like at this point? 30 years is a long time for adulthood) Nickname:
Abra. You did say that was fine, right? I'll wait to add more once you add it to the list with info. If not, probably squirtle. As I've been crafting this guy I've been adding a kind of love of the sea, so that might fit better. Yeah, probably going with that. Desperately want an Abra somewhere down the line though
Hometown: Vermilion.
Background: Every since he was little, he had a love for the sea. Something about it called to him. As such, he spent much of his youth at the beaches and the docks. At the age of 7 he found a very young squirtle, presumed it to be abandoned, and took it in. Naming her 'Thalassa', the two have been close ever since. As he reached working age, he began to work on the docks and on the ships as a sailor. After several years, however, he began to grow disillusioned with working under another, tied to where ever the Captain was headed while the sea called him to another. Therefore, at age 22, he left with the dream of someday being his own captain and sailing where ever the winds took him.


Hmmmm. It appears he's a bit of a romantic

[Vortigern]

At 15 years old it would be a wartortle. I know 30 years is a long time to grow to adulthood, but equally they're giant turtles. They have a massive long slow life. That's just the way they are. But yeah, that's all fine, apart from the character's name, obviously. Would you like one of us to come up with a name for you?

[Elvenlord]

I suppose, I was just trying to find the line where she won't be overly strong at the beginning but still be able to reach a much more powerful state through the course of the RP.
That'd be great

[Vortigern]

Ultimately, I think what makes a pokémon get stronger is practice in combat more than age. It'll naturally get bigger as it grows older, but it'll get tougher as it fights more. And size isn't everything. The bigger a squirtle becomes, the slower it gets. I don't think blastoises would be very fast at all. More lumbering. And I think by 15 years old it would also have started to develop the shoulder cannons that it gets in adulthood, but at the moment they'd probably not be much more than just protrusions on the shell.

Names, names... I'm going to name your character Sebastian Callahan, because I think they're both excellent names that I would be happy to possess. Feel free to come up with something else though.

[Elvenlord]

Then it shall be so

[some_weirdGuy]

And I think by 15 years old it would also have started to develop the shoulder cannons that it gets in adulthood

Oh, are they keeping the shoulder cannons?

[mike_]

Looks like it

[some_weirdGuy]

Looks like it

Yeah. What I was interested in was how exactly are they explained given the "realism" premise of this RPG, since blastoise style cannons are anything but natural looking.

Thinking about it I would have maybe expected them being an attachment made by humans, such as them being part of a 'backpack' designed by/for firefigters to make blastoise basically into firetrucks, or something like that, instead of the cannons naturally growing on them.

[Vortigern]

No, they're natural cannons. Obviously that means they won't look exactly like they do in the game, but they will be similar. If you've ever played Warhammer 40k, think of the Tyranid units that have natural artillery. Biological artillery, that's what blastoises have. But it does take an awful long time to grow, and an even longer time for them to perfect it.