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Post by sereg on Nov 15, 2014 12:10:59 GMT
Aoooo's Team ("The Wolf Pack", "The House of Lords", "The Pantheon"):
Aoooo's team was typically full of ground and rock pokemon, and later full of gods and their representatives. Of the first six, only Trumpbrava, her starter, stayed on the team till the end of the run.
, the Vibrava (Vibrator, Trapunch, Trumpinch, MC Hammer, Trumpbrava, Trumpunch, Thorpinch, Hammer of the Gods, Comma):
"You're wrong. Dome is not the only one with the power of evolution. Rise, Trumpbrava, Hammer of the Gods." - Lord Helix
Trumpbrava was Aoooo's starter and is sometimes see as the Trap's younger sister, planted by Bill, but she never wanted to serve Bill and quickly became friends with Aoooo. She was sometimes portrayed as having a short temper due to having Anger Point as an ability as a trapinch. She is also seen as a bit of a tsundere as she responded to being attracted by Four's aipom by punching him. Despite that, she is portrayed as friendly otherwise and as best friends with Aoooo. Her signature moves were Hammer Arm and Trump Card, leading her to be associate with card games and hammers, especially Thor, especially when comparing her to DJ Stalinking. She is ofen portrayed as wearing a bow as a bow tie, because she doesn't care about gender stereotypes. Due to the fact that she loves to eat, she is often drawn chewing something. She is also typically portrayed as wanting to be a werewolf like Aoooo. She is typically seen as caring more about Aoooo than about the gods' mission, but she acknowledges them and they support her. She defeated Lance's raikous and grabbed victory from the jaws of defeat. Jimmy is sometimes seen as having named Commander Kevin Bacon after her as they share the in-game name of ",".
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Post by sereg on Nov 15, 2014 15:38:14 GMT
A the Sudowoodo (Treesus, Sniperwoodo, Sudo):
Treesus was a bonsly who was caught right after selling selling Root. Because of this, and the fact that he is a rock type that looks like a plant, he was interpreted as Root's prophet, sent by Root to continue guiding us. He evolved into a sudowoodo with Sniper, which was interpreted as him ... being a sniper. His signature mov was Rock Wrecker, and that was interpreted as his sniper rifle. In some interpretations, he is Ace having been given new form by the randomiser and having accepted that it was not the gods, but Bill, who was his true enemy. This is supported by the fact that Joey had a bonsly at first, but then switched to other mons later as well as their shared in-game name. Unusually for a rock type, he learned surf. It was him, as our last pokemon who took down Altereon, Alice's last pokemon, in the final, amazing battle of the run.
xxr♂ ♦ the Xatu ("The Oracle," "Stare Jesus," "Doot Doot"):
The Oracle was a shiny xatu we aught in place of the red gyrados. She became the first shiny we caught. As the red gyrados was still visible, it is sometimes interpreted as a robot she built, making her a German mad scientist. However, with a prophet of Root already on the team, the contemplative nature of xatu, their association with the sky, and their claws, she quickly became associated with Claw. Knowing Future Sight and being intelligent meant that she began to be seen as his oracle. She also reminded people of a character in Platinum, who's significance only then became apparent. Staring Sneasel had a staring contest with Solareon that lasted several hours due to the chat glitching. Due to this, and her claws, she began to be seen as another of Claw's servants (or possible the same servant as the Oracle, before randomisation). Because of being a servant of Claw, she says little, but will sometimes say "Doot Doot", due to her cry. She was instrumental in the defeat of Alice.
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Post by sereg on Nov 15, 2014 16:37:16 GMT
Bastiodon ("Lord Armor," "Helicarriodon"):
Lord Armor first appeared in fossil form earlier in the run, but it was tossed. Then we met him again in Victory Road and caught him. We once again had a god on our team. We were hoping that as god of strategy with a four-times resistance to Stalinking's attacks, he would lead us to victory against Stalinking. And he fullfilled the role of wearing down Stalinking well. He is also associated with the Hellicarrier from The Avengers, due to knowing surf, being able to learn fly and being a big, metal thing. He also knew Stealth Rock for a while, showing off his good strategy.
6♦j the Rampardos ("Lord Skull", "Master Skull", "Our Lord and Master", "Ghost Rider"):
Lord Skull was caught in a Master Ball. We were not aiming for him, but were pleased with the result as he was a fossil god and had a ridiculous attack stat. Unfortunately, it took him ages to evolve. He showed his luck when he evolved, surprising everyone, after a fight with Alice. He also kne metronome for a while, and it was a magnitude 10 from him that took down Flamesplash in on hit in the final battle. His ability changed from Hydration to Flame Body, resulting in him being associated with Ghost Rider.
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Post by sereg on Nov 15, 2014 19:16:21 GMT
Omastar ("Lord Helix", "Lard Helix," "L@rd Helix"):
Lord Helix returned to us on the eleventh day, just as he was resurrected on the eleventh day and with impressive coordination, he was caught. This incarnation is often referred to as "Lard Helix" as his ability is thick fat. It is usually believed that after he raised himself back to life, he was weakened, and also a bit depressed and went binge eating, developing a love for hamburgers. He's seen to have mellowed a bit since Crystal due to character development and now sees the other gods as important, despite his attention whore tendencies. He became the second TPP mon to reach level 100 (The Oracle was the third). He gave Aoooo two pretty dewdrops as presents, one right before the final battle with Alice. They are seen as blessings from him.
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Post by sereg on Nov 15, 2014 20:38:08 GMT
Smoochum ("Elsa"):
Elsa is so named as she's compared to Elsa from Frozen. She was given to us as a Mystery Egg and was one of our first party members. However, she was eventually deposited.
Skitty ("Hacker Cat"):
Remembering how important Chairman Meow was in the previous run, the Voices were pleased to have another skitty in the party and she was often seen as a relative of his. As she was deposited and the fact that her ability was Download, she was seen as a hacker and people wanted her to remain important after being deposited just as Chairman Meow was (even those who wanted her deposited used this in their arguments). She was seen as fighting Bill from inside the PC and making it a better place for boxed pokemon to live. Despite her intelligence, she's typically portrayed as speaking in a simple, childish, cutesy way and giving others silly nicknames, like calling Codec "Mr. Fruit Guy". and berating others as "silly". She actually shares her nicknaming tendency with Aoooo who would often call Bill "IT Guy" or "Computer Satan". She's portrayed as very competent and capable of foiling Bill's plans. She's a rather popular character for a boxed pokemon.
☀ΔΔ the Croagunk ("Croapatra"):
Another early member of the party, the sun and two pyramids in her in-game name, her poison type, her ability being Cute Charm and her Naughty nature led to her being associated with Cleopatra. Cropatra is portrayed as the team seductress, but she can't seduce Poliwhirl, because he's oblivious.
cccdeccccc the Gloom ("Codec", "Deception", "Mr. Fruit Guy"):
"Oh, and Voices, I have a pretty new shiny for you, a real nostalgia blast! Have a pokemon! Enjoy!" - Bill
"I mean they-they must have seen this coming, right? I never thought-I mean, I GAVE you to them. Seriously." - Bill
Codec's nicknames (other than Mr. Fruit Guy, which was given by Hacker Cat) come from the fact that he was a "gift" from Bill. He had Frenzy Plant, Pay Day, Sludge, and Perish Song, which made people excited, but then they realised that h had Slow Start. In addition, he was level five, and when we received him, Kenya's mail was removed, making him more vulnerable to the PC (and we had just accidently deposited Croapatra right after speaking to Bill). He was also capable of learning surf, which would have made Kenya completely unprotected from the PC and would have made him invincible until we caught a new pokemon that could learn surf. He is typically seen as a brainwashed or undead Cabbage from Red, having been transformed into Bill's slave. Bill used him to transport malicious files into Aooo's box. Hacker Cat was able to prevent this at first, but after some setbacks, Bill got control again for a while a few times, causing releases.
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Post by sereg on Nov 16, 2014 14:01:04 GMT
63AAIAACC! the Jigglypuff ("63", "Jiggles", "Isaac", "Dragonpuff"):
Isaac was the first pokemon that Aoooo caught. He is sometimes drawn in a thong to distinguish him from the females that made up most of his team before he was deposited in the PC. Isaac is often associated with The Binding of Isaac and is drawn crying. He is also associated with Rule 63, due to his name. He is also seen as a dragonslayer and is associated with the dragonborn, due to having dragonbreath and his hidden power (which must have been ice by process of elimination).
☺ ☀((GG6W the Diglett ("Diglight"):
"Diglett confirmed for cute!" - The Voices
One of Aoooo's early catches, Diglight was associated with light and had Multitype, so she was seen as something of a holy figure.
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Post by sereg on Nov 18, 2014 9:51:58 GMT
Well! Apparently the alpha-release for the first playtesters will be released in the next few days, and I am going to be one of those pretesters. Naturally, I don't want to spoil too much though. There will be a global alpha release soon afterwards.
Poliwhirl:
Poliwhirl was an oblivious pokemon we caught and taught surf to. Unfortunately, this made Kenya vulnerable to release.
3g00 1 1 the Larvitar (3G, Ego Raptor):
3G had stench and her name made people see her as a kind of cellphone antennae.
85G52 2♦ the Ekans ("Diamondback"):
Diamondback was an ekans who was seen as wearing armour made of diamonds due to having battle armour and a diamond in his name.
Sandslash ("SunSlash", "CrabSlash", "Kenyaslash"):
Crabslash was the "dratini" we got in Blackthorn. We tried to deposit a pokemon to find out what she was and ended up accidentally releasing Kenya. Due to the timing, ad the fact that she has drought, some see her as Kenya's daughter, come to continue her parent's work. She also knew crabhammer, which leads people to see her as having crab pincers.
Shuckie the Noctowl (Saxton Hale, Strix):
The second Shuckie, was not a shuckle, but a nocowl this time. He had soundproof, leading people to see him as deaf.
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Post by sereg on Nov 18, 2014 10:00:02 GMT
Lileep ("Lord Root"):
We first found Lord Root in her fossil form, and she became the first god to travel with Aoooo. Perhaps that's why Aoooo was so fascinated by trees and rock and ground type pokemon. She sold Lord Root to buy mail for her pokemon and then caught Treesus. She later caught her in her lileep form in Victory Road, but left her in the PC.
2 0 the Ariados ("Ariadome 2.0", "Lord Dome 2.0"):
Seen as Dome having escaped Bill's PC due to Aoooo's actions and having come to support her. 2.0 was caught in Victory Road and was on the team for a while, but was later deposited. Repeatedly. Dome was a little annoyed by being ignored. In this form, Dome knew some powerful attacks, like frenzy plant, but in the end, was left deposited.
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Post by sereg on Nov 18, 2014 10:18:59 GMT
AA330000 the Bronzor ("Suicune", "Bucky", "Winter Bronzonger"):
He was the randomised suicune and was eventually caught by Aoooo.
0 0K033K the Phione ("Ho-Oh", "iPhone", "z33k", "Zeek's iPhone"):
After the loss of Kenya, it was decided to try get "Ho-oh" as a replacement. It turned out to be phione and Aooo ran in disappointment, but caught her later. Is associated with the chat leader Zeek, and iPhones.
Sunflora ("Articuno"):
The articuno. Aoooo caught her.
'Lord/Lady Seedot' the Seedot (The Seed of Judgement):
The Seed of Judgement is so named as it knows Judgement as is thought of as representing holy wrath.
A 644 X__rr the Pinsir:
The pinsir that Aoooo caught in the bug-catching contest. Making her the firt host to win a contest.
E (Epic) the Weedle:
She was the second bug to win Aoooo the bug-catching contest.
GF (Helix's Girl Friend) the Loudred:
She was caught immediately after catching Lard Helix and is seen as his stalker.
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Post by sereg on Nov 18, 2014 11:52:07 GMT
Kenya the Groudon:
"Keeeenyaaaaaaa! ;;7" - The Voices
"I will protect this girl."
Kenya was meant to be a spearow that was given to us by a guard to deliver his friend some mail. Kenya ended up being a groudon with water absorb. Kenya quickly became popular and was associated with Africa, as well as with being a postman/mailman. Kenya was also associated with Godzilla. After utterly destroying Whitney's steel team, people began to get angry at how easy the game was becoming and their were arguments seen as the Gator Wars Mk II. Kenya was frequently compared to Lazorgater, with some even calling the AU versions of each other. Eventually, the Treaty of Cianwood was created, whereby Kenya would be daycared until after defeating Team Rocket. The Treaty succeeded in creating harmony and Kenya was retrieved at the correct time, but then accidentally released right after defeating Clair. Some see this as Kenya returning to the important duty of delivering mail. Chloe eventually caught a groudon in a master ball and many see this as Kenya returning to us. But others see the groudons we've encountered as separate groudons who are named after other African countries (Kyogre and Rayquaza are sometimes given similar naming conventions).
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Post by sereg on Nov 18, 2014 13:35:10 GMT
M__☹♦❢❢❢ the Banette (Charles Barnelkley):
Charles was named after Charles Barkely as he knew the move slam, and was therefore interpreted as a basketball player. Unfortunately, he was the second pokemon released, which was interpreted as due to Codec.
Banette (Michael Jordan):
With the banetttes being basketball players in Heartgold, the other one to be released was Michael.
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Post by sereg on Nov 18, 2014 13:45:28 GMT
Dark Helix "Bill's Grandfather", "Darth Helix":
Bill's grandfather transformed into a shadow of an omanyte, giving birth to the idea of the Dark Gods and the Outsiders. We don't know why he was possessing Bill's Grandfather, but he is known as the god of Nihilism and is associated with everything wrong with anarchy, especially evolution cancellations and releases.
Poké Maniac Brent:
"I'll teach you all I know about Bill, so leave me your phone number."
Brent was our informant, telling us all about Bill. Whether Brent was trying to help us or jst a fan of Bill's is up for debate.
The Kimono Girls are sometimes thought of as having helped raise Aoooo. They summoned Zeek's iPhone for her. They also revealed that they were were-psyducks in one glitch in the game.
Incidently, Falkner didn't have a type when we fought him, due to the fact that randomisation was still underway. He had a shellos and a nidorina, both of which knew aqua jet;. He is seen as a tri-athlete. Morty had an omastar and Chuck was immune to randomisation, stying fighting type, because he's Chuck Norris and too badass to be randomised.
Next: Black
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Post by sereg on Nov 18, 2014 21:56:10 GMT
Before I move onto Black, I think that I should mention one more thing.
The Zetsu clones.
This is odd in that it had nothing to do with stream events and everything to do with the community. The redditor ZetsuTheFirst began making screencap comics, mostly staring Bill at first, near the end of Emerald and they quickly became very popular. To the point that if Zetsu said something, most would accept it as headcanon. This was largely because he's an excellent writer, but some became annoyed by how popular he was and how big an influence he was having on the lore (simply as a side effect of being popular and having interesting ideas). As such, someone made a fake account designed to impersonate him and make their own comics as an act of protest. Zetsu took this in stride which resulted in people finding the idea amusing. As such, it quickly became a meme to impersonate Zetsu and make similar comics, typically with a twist. I am one of those who still occasionally makes them as ZetsuTheFir, who makes comics about Trees Play Pokemon, which is a series consisting of pictures of plants with captions based on puns. As a "spinoff" one user imitated Everyle, another popular artist famous for her Brendan comics. These comics were badly spelled and had poor editing, but that eventually became part of the appeal, and established Brendan, or at least, a version of him, as really "swag".
Twitch Plays Pokemon Black
"There will always be heroes"
Phew! Black lived up to its name! This was possibly the darkest time in the fandom. Trolls were at the height of their power and at points, had near absolute control. The feeling of absolute helplessness resulted in a wave of depression sweeping through the fandom (I too was affected) and many gave up completely. Yet just as it's darkest before the dawn, just as in stories, it gets darkest right before the triumph, just as some stories show that no mater how bad things seem, there is always hope, so too was Black to TPP. That said, it was a run with plenty of humour despite that. Also, this was one of the cases were debates of which protagonist to choose got very intense. In the campaign for the boy, it was suggested that he was already a fan of the Voices, and that became important to his later characterisation. But Hilda would get her time to shine later on.
GMYC ("Jimmy C." "Gimmick" "Jim Costello" "James Costello"):
"Oooooh my gosh!. THE Voices?? Like from RED??! Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh! I am, like, your biggest fan. I know everything about you, oh mu god."
"Oooooh, are you going to name me now? This is so exciting! GMYC? Jimmy C? That's a good name, guys. Love it! Hey, do you want to do the fire starter thing again? That was fun, right?"
"You're a great guy, N, but you're wrong. I don't need a legendary to beat you. I will beat you with the friends I've bonded with on this journey, and I'll prove to you how wrong it would be to separate us!"
Jimmy C. Gimmick was a protagonist that caused us a lot of frustration in his attempts to please us. Despite this, he is often referred to as an underrated protagonist (including by yours truly). This is because it was only after Black finished that we looked back and realised how great his character development was (going from a fanboy doormat who would do anything someone tells him to do in order to impress them to someone who stands up against someone he admires for something he believes in) and his popularity quickly shot up a large amount after the end of the run. Jimmy was typically seen as friendly, energetic, enthusiastic, hyper, affable,chipper and of slightly below average intelligence. He was easily impressed and prone to being starstruck and was very submissive as well as a nice guy. He would eagerly obey anyone who impressed him. He was typically seen as an ascended fanboy of the Voices, often being portrayed as having comics of them and their hosts, especially under interpretations that their was a large gap between Heartgold and Black. He is also typically portrayed as an obsessive gamer and trying to become a hero, or even a superhero. He eagerly tried to please the Voices, but wasn't often very good at it. He was also easily swayed by Team Plasma, N, and the trolls, releasing lots of his pokemon. Under some interpretations, he even tried to help them, becoming the superhero, Plasma Man. Yet, he also tried to provide for his pokemon, and under some interpretations, some of his releases were allowing his pokemon to follow their dreams of becoming musical stars. Eventually, he realised that Team Plasma was wrong. He had to catch Reshiram to face N, but while he caught Reshiram (and named him Oooom), he refused to use him, using his normal team as a point to N. That it is wrong to separate friends. Immediately afterwards he faced Ghetsis, beating both N and Ghetsis in a single try. Jimmy was altruistic and willingly sacrificed his pokemons' ability to evolve (the Streamer made a deal with the fans) in order to guarantee that the next host would have the ability to evolve. He never faced Alder and never officially made it to the Hall of Fame, but he did beat N, who was champion at the time and he did beat the Elite Four. Jimmy was not our most powerful trainer, but he was out greatest hero.
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Post by sereg on Nov 20, 2014 21:19:32 GMT
Well! Twitch Plays Pokemon Omega Ruby starts tomorrow. Why not check it out? And feel free to look through V tropes and the lore section of the wiki on the subreddit for anything else.
That said, apparently, the release of the first alpha version of Pokemon Twitch Version to the alpha testers (including myself) is expected to be BEFORE Omega Ruby starts. So, I'm surprised and excited.
Anyway, let's get back to it:
Bianca:
The Voices were angry that her father wouldn't let her become a trainer and wanted to release him. But her role is similar to canon.
Cheren:
Again, he ha a similar role to canon.
Hilda/FGQ UVL (Subway Queen Hilda, The World's Most Powerful Trainer):
Hilda was a popular choice for the next host, due to her "booty", as it was typically referred to. The fact that she wasn't chosen made her Jimmy's partner in the subway, so she was portrayed as a homeless hobo living there and looking after the pokemon that lived down there. She carried us in the subway when we partnered her and we were more of a hindrance than a help to her, but she still had fun. She's generally portrayed as eventually taking over the subway, largely due to ho badass she became. In Blaze Black 2, she became the only trainer we've been completely unable to defeat, not even with one o the most powerful and competent hosts we've ever had. She's not viewed as an enemy, but as a "worthy opponent" of sorts. Someone to aspire to be like. She now has a level 100 Zekrom. She's also one of the people sometimes shipped with Jimmy. Her other name comes from accidentally restarting the game as her.
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Post by sereg on Nov 20, 2014 21:40:33 GMT
Jimmy's Team ("The Expendables" "The Student Council"):
The Expendables were often portrayed as superheros, or at least wannabe superheros. Tragedy early in the run meant that lot of their lore was developed quite late.
NONNQWMMSO (Nonon Tympazure, Anonymous, The Survivor) the Tympole:
Nonon is absolutely Jimmy's signature mon. Nonon is praised and dubbed "The Survivor" by The Voices due to the fact that she survived two PC massacres and is the only member of Jimmy's early team left (Unless you count J Voon, who was boxed). Nonon is definitely a favourite from this run and at the height of The Voices depression, people openly said that she was the only character they cared about as her defiance of death endeared her to The Voices. Nonon is widely associated with Nonon Jakuzure from Kill la Kill and is often drawn dressed similarly and wearing the skull (or at least, a replica of the skull) of Commander Kevin Bacon out of respect for her former team leader. She is also praised as a dragon slayer due to how she worked well with Fives to take down Drayden's dragons. Other than that, she is often portrayed as traumatised and shell-shocked due to the fact that her friends keot being lost and she's portrayed as very cute as well.
~☀☀☀ the Joltik (Sparky, Peter Sparker, Spoderman):
Peter got the nickname "Sparky" from what his name looks like and this was combined with him being a spider to make "Peter Sparker". He was then given "Spoderman" as his superhero name (Not sure why "o"). This popularised the "superhero" theme. Peter is often portrayed as sitting on Megahenry's ear and chewing it. He is also sometimes seen as one of the few good members of a mostly evil race, trying to counteract the evil's his race has done. This is due to the fact that releases happened due to people demanding to get one of the joltiks out of the PC. Peter was caught right afterwards, having come to make amends for the evil done by his race.
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