[OPEN] State Of Bliss II: The Final State [OOC]

[Coloursfall]

State of Bliss​

Welcome back, children...


Right now, the moment you began reading this, Humanity is devastated by an alien attack from the edges of our understanding.

It is the first blow of a terrible war. Seven years later, armed with technology you cannot comprehend and can barely operate, you will strike back.​

The Bliss is a state of perpetual dreams created by Deoxys, after his invasion of Earth. It sends all adult Pokemon and humans into a silent, death-like state of endless dreams, leaving behind the young ones and sealing their powers. At first, it didn’t seem too bad. Eating candy and running wild with Pokemon and humans in the streets all day, playing all the video games you wanted… But then you go home and shake your sleeping family, trying to awake them, to no avail. Soon, things started to fall apart, no services, no food, and no structure. Then the ‘Aliens’ attacked. Deoxys’ minions, weaker versions of himself and a few Pokemon from space mounted daily attacks, killing many. But you survived. You may have joined a roving gang of Pokemon and humans, may have went to the countryside to learn to grow food, whatever.

But then, she came.

Another Alien being, but this one wanted to help.

Jirachi, the goddess of the stars, blessed the resistance with a powerful weapon to do battle with Deoxys and his minions – the ANIMa, a powerful machine run by a chunk of stone taken from Deoxys himself. The ANIMa can only be piloted by a Pokemon, strapped into a machine attached to the stone and tossed into the dream world in which the aliens are attacking, the only thing keeping them from slipping away their Anchor, a human with a powerful bond with the Pilot. The ANIMa unlocks the Pokemon’s sealed powers, one for each strong bond they hold with others. Friends, brothers, sisters, lovers, children… Each bond unlocks another move or ability, the power and ease of its use depending on how strong the bond. The bond with the Anchor provides the protection from the dangerous dream world in the form of a massive mecha, the appearance of which is dreamed up by the Pilot.

There is a single adult left to run the group – the Authority Figure, who provides guidance and order for the young ones under his care, the ANIMa Pilots and Anchors. They may be either a human or Pokemon, but either way they are a vital asset to the movement, a point of stability in the world of the young ones. The only reason they managed to not submit to The Bliss is that they used some sort of means, be it insomnia, drug use, or something else. They haven’t slept in the seven years since The Bliss arrived.

After granting the ANIMa to the resistance, Jirachi was captured and most likely killed by Deoxys for going against his rule. Now it is up to us to defeat his forces and regain our world. This is the story of the resistance group in Goldenrod City, Johto. The headquarters are located underground, below the large Pokemon Centre. Tunnels connect to the other large buildings, such as the Gym and Department Store, to make it easy to escape of gather supplies if the need arises.

PILOTS:

You are a Pokemon chosen for piloting the ANIMa. You dive into the depths of your dreams and nightmares, combating formless and shifting evils with only the power of those you love to protect you. You are the only hope of the world, working to drive away the alien menace. But it’s killing you. The more you fight the more you risk slipping into The Bliss earlier than normal, and never waking again. You’re still a kit, a young one, and this is hell on you. You may have chosen to bond with only one, and use the attack they gave you to it’s full potency – Intimacy Level Five – or merely many mid level powers, but whatever your strategy, it is hell on you to know that you are using your loved ones as weapons and shields in the midst of battle. Will you stand strong, or crack under the pressure?

ANCHORS:

You are a human, chosen to Anchor a Pokemon to this world. You hold a strong bond with them, Intimacy Level Five or not, and you’re there just for them, to sing them to sleep and wake them when the nightmare becomes too real. You watch the ANIMa’s displays and are faced with the same nightmares, the black soup of all their fears and loves. You are faced with a thousand reasons why they hate you, why they love you, watch as they scream the names of their loved ones and launch powerful attacks or not-so-powerful ones. The Pilot who returns alive is hailed a hero, but if they die it’s on you, you weren’t there for them when they needed you, and you didn’t wake them fast enough. And then you will get another Pilot, and go through it all over again, and again, and again, until you die or the war ends, whichever first. And you are more fragile.

AUTHORITY FIGURE:

Have you ever dealt with kids? Not just one or two, but ten, twelve, twenty at once? Maybe if you were a teacher or daycare worker, but that’s unlikely. It’s up to you to keep them all safe, to keep them alive, and keep them trained, and they all hate you and love you for it. You haven’t slept in seven years, and it’s been hell. You have to deal with the self-righteous brats every day of your life from now on, and you’re probably sleeping with at least one of them and you hate yourself for it. These kids are going to be the death of you. Either them or The Bliss.

BYSTANDERS:

You Are not a Pilot or an Anchor, but if one of your fellows dies, then you may be pushed into the position. You are forced to watch as your friends and family fight and die, fall in love, and are heartbroken. You can do nothing more for now then offer them support in the times they need you.

Information on ‘Intimacy Levels’:

Level One : Names and Eyes : Exchange Names / Make Eye Contact

Level Two : Hands and Mouths : Physical Contact / Involved Conversation / Sing Together / Work on a Project Together / Share Food Together

Level Three : Touch and Mess : Affectionate Physical Contact / Personal Conversation / Make Food Together / Get Drunk Together / Get in a Fight

Level Four : Blood and Spit : Kiss / Touch Sexually / See Each Other Naked / Exchange Blood / Physically Fight for Real

Level Five : Sex : Have Sex

Rules:
-For the love of god if you wanna have sex with someone, don’t play it out x3; cut to a short timeskip.
-The Usual – No Godmoding, Powerplaying, etc
-NOMNOM Chatspeak
-No legendaries, etc etc
-If you don’t pick a Pilot/Anchor in your signup, I will pick one for you.
-Only ONE Authority Figure.
-You may have up to three characters, if you can handle them, but you can only have one of them as an Anchor/Pilot/Authority Figure. The others should be bystanders.

Forms:

Pilot:

[B]Name:[/B]
[B]Species:[/B]
[B]Gender:[/B]
[B]Level:[/B] (Under 35 – level 35 and Over, you Bliss)
[B]Anchor:[/B] (Username)
[B]Appearance:[/B]
[B]Personality:[/B]
[B]Biography:[/B]
[B]Relationships:[/B] (Include Intimacy Levels here)
[B]Other:[/B]

Anchor:

[B]Name:[/B]
[B]Age:[/B] (Under 18 and older than 12 or so, 18+ and you Bliss)
[B]Gender:[/B]
[B]Pilot:[/B] (Username)
[B]Appearance:[/B]
[B]Personality:[/B]
[B]Biography:[/B]
[B]Other:[/B]

Authority Figure:

[B]Name:[/B]
[B]Age:[/B] (Over 25)
[B]Gender:[/B]
[B]Appearance:[/B]
[B]Personality:[/B]
[B]Biography:[/B]
[B]Reason for Avoiding The Bliss:[/B]
[B]Other:[/B]

Bystanders:

[B]Name:[/B]
[B]Age/Level:[/B]
[B]Species:[/B]
[B]Gender:[/B]
[B]Appearance:[/B]
[B]Personality:[/B]
[B]Biography:[/B]
[B]Other:[/B]

Slots:
Pilot: Hanako Yuuki (FMC) Anchor: Halan Storm (moon-panther)
Pilot: Reserved (shadow_lugia) Anchor: N/A
Pilot: Voluntas Necandi (Kusari) Anchor: N/A
Pilot: N/A Anchor: N/A
Pilot: N/A Anchor: N/A
Authority Figure: Arthur Gordon (Momoharu)
Bystanders: N/A
Reserves: N/A

 

[Sylph]

Name: Halan Storm
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Pilot: FMC
Appearance: Long blond hair that starts off wavy and ends with loose curls. He usual ties his hair back in a loose pony at the nap of his neck. He was pale blue eyes the colour of ice and the starting of a beard on his chin. He wears a black tank and a long blue coat with fur around the collar, end of the sleeves, and along the slit on front of the coat. He wears baggy blue jeans and thick black boots scarred with age.

He stands at 6'3'' and wears fingerless gloves with metal backing, as well as a single silver ring in his left ear.

Personality: He is quiet and stoic. Very few have the ability to make him softer hearted or gain his trust, but those that can are the only ones that know have to make him a weaken man. He is kind hearted, but he guards his emotion carefully to not alert the younger one of possible danger ahead. With his brave mask, he ensues that the little children never know how much danger they truly are until the bitter end. He wants to spare them the fright.

He acts older than he really is, more so since he knows he only has a year left to fight before falling into a deep sleep himself. He refuses to give up the fight until the day he sleeps along with his Family and Friends.

He will follow orders, but only if they fit him. If he feels that the one giving the orders is mistaken, he will go about his mission in his own fashion. This however, would rarely happen since he understands that risks must be taken to save the future generation.

Biography: He lived peacefully with his family up to his tenth birthday. After that, his world was tossed asunder from the aliens and the 'Bliss'. His parents ripped away from him by the 'Bliss', his friends falling one by one into sleep as he grew older, and finally losing his little sister in his travels in search for food and supplies to live has caused him to create a hard shell around himself and forced himself to grow older beyond his years. At the age of fourteen he came upon the operation where other have come together to fight the alien attack and free the human and pokemon race.

He's been fighting with them for three years. And today was his seventeenth birthday.

Other: Yeah. He just turned 17. Point?

 

[shadow_lugia]

Name: Sabonua

Species: Cacturne

Gender: Female

Level: 20

Anchor: I don't really think there are any right now.

Appearance: She looks, well, like a short Cacturne (female, naturally). She's about 4 feet tall. Not unusual at all in appearances.

Personality: Sabonua is kind of calm and shy. Well, she fights when told to, and doesn't hesitate, but is bad at introducing herself to people. She's a bit timid, and afraid of a lot of things, but is determined when it comes to acheiving her goals. She hates having to face her fears otherwise. Once she warms up to you, she's likely to talk to you about anything, and is generally helpful about emotional situations.

Biography: As a Cacnea, Sabonua wasn't special at all or anything. She ate and slept most of the time. She ocassionally got into skirmishes over food or water or something like that, and over the years fought enough to evolve.

When she evolved, she found herself in need of bigger prey, and began to stalk much larger things, including humans. One of these humans caught her, but didn't use her out of fear of the Cacturne who had tried to eat him. So he gave her to another person, telling her to do what she wished with it. She released the Pokemon inside, not really being a big fan of big, ugly Pokemon.

Sabonua was lost then, in a place not at all like the desert where she grew up. She began to starve since her hunting techniques didn't work on the foreign Pokemon. Desperate, she wandered into a building, asking for food, and got a bargain - she could have food if she helped to fight the Deoxys.

Relationships: Halan (Lv. 1) [Drain Punch]
Voluntas (Lv. 2) [Needle Arm]
Hanako (Lv. 1) [Pin Missle]
Arthur Gordon (Lv. 1) [Sucker Punch]

Other: My bio is lame D: I can't do bios.

 

[allitersonance]

Pilot:

Name: Voluntas Necandi
Species: Zangoose
Gender: Male
Level: 25
Anchor:

Appearance: Voluntas is a fairly average-looking zangoose for the time. He's thinner than zangoose of the pre-Bliss pictures he's seen, and smaller, due to the smaller food supply. He is as well-groomed as possible given the circumstances; he tries to be free of dirt and insects, and he fur is bright red and not far off from pure white. His claws are in good condition, since only his ANIMa really fights. He generally has a friendly, open expression.

Personality: Voluntas is a friendly, cheerful individual who enjoys being surrounded by friends. He has some need for attention and affection, but he's not usually left wanting because he has plenty of friends. Or at least, he thinks he does. He tends to be generous when pursuing a friendship, sometimes to the point of making others feel indebted or automatically increasing their intimacy level if the gift is accepted. He could potentially be dangerous if denied. He tends to believe that every relationship he has is an existing friendship of some sort, and that intimacy one - introducing yourself - is the first step in a friendship that should lead to the next intimacy levels, although he tries not to be aggressive. He doesn't think he's aggressive.

There's another reason he tries to further friendships quickly. If only the physical trappings of intimacy are required to power up attacks, and these attacks are what they need to save the world, then the logical response would be to have as much intimacy with as many others as possible. It's best with other pilots, because then two attacks in total are at their strongest, and Voluntas isn't the only one to benefit, but he's sure anchors like to feel useful too. It's not to say that Voluntas only cares about the physical aspect of relationships or that he's only after sex, because he tries to keep friendly relations with everyone, but he really doesn't understand why anyone would put themselves ahead of the fate of the world. He doesn't really think of sex as any sort of ultimate intimacy, or with any real deep meaning, but rather just another stage that those in a close friendship go through. Besides, he'll admit he finds it fun, although that's not the real reason he does it.

He does genuinely feel affection for his friends, but he shows more than he really feels. Each of the intimacy levels does have significance for him - just not as much as it would for anyone else. They're just what's supposed to happen. Voluntas is fairly good at speeches that help draw others closer to him, which would not be possible if he couldn't inject some emotion into it. He doesn't think too much about the potential deeper meaning for everything he does, because it's easier that way.

Biography: Voluntas was born less than seven years ago, but he couldn't tell you exactly when that was. He doesn't know who his parents are, and they either Blissed or left him alone soon after. What he does know is that he has spent most of his life as a pilot, thrust into the role when normally he'd be considered too weak or young. He was given his name by his first anchor, an older girl who - though he didn't know it - was only a few months away from Blissing. She kept herself awake as long as possible after her eighteenth birthday, using it to help prepare Voluntas for the loss, but one day she just fell asleep on her own. She had passed on her ideas about intimacy to Voluntas, and as he had nothing else to counter that, he believed her. If he knew how many pilots she'd lost, he might have less easily believed her.

He tried to make friends with everyone, and tried to make a smooth and easy transition to intimacy five, but for some reason a lot of them had objections to sex even though it would help them. Still, Voluntas managed to keep his friendships and sometimes go further, which generally gave him a lot of powerful attacks that made him level up a little too quickly, bringing him closer to Bliss. He saw several of his comrades, most of which he was close to, Bliss or sometimes die, and that gave him just a hint as to why some didn't like to rush into relationships too quickly. It hurt. But it didn't matter. Relationships could be replaced, and he could use different relationships for the attacks he lost.

Relationships: Up to level five with anyone willing (don't think about it too hard). He tries for at least intimacy two with most.

Crush Claw -
Night Slash -
Fire Punch -
Ice Punch - Full Metal Cookies/Hanako (Lv 3)
Thunderpunch -
Quick Attack -
Poison Jab -
Metal Claw - moon-panther/Halan Storm (Lv 3)
Swift -
X-Scissor -
Slash -
Brick Break -
Protect -

Other: Logical extremes are often fun but sometimes very awkward. :/ Anyway, some of his closer friends call him Will.

insomnia can kill

 

[Coloursfall]

Added and reserved, you two~

And here's mine.

Name: Hanako Yuuki
Species: Froslass
Gender: Female
Level: 28
Anchor: moon-panther

Appearance: Hanako is, like most Froslass, about the same size as a child, with a thin and delicate body. Her smooth, cold skin is nearly pure white, and few batches of a soft icy blue mark her arms. The ice crystals jutting from her head are very pale, almost white with the slightest blue tinge. Otherwise, she's a completely normal Froslass in most every aspect.

Personality: Hanako is rather quiet in an eerie way most of the time, saving her words for when she thinks she really needs them. She is almost blindly devoted to her Anchor, Halan, and will do anything for him. Anything. She's coolly efficient in combat, aiming with deadly precision to the weak points of her foe. A quick and clean kill is what she aims for, preferring to use long-range attacks. She takes orders well, but only from Halan. Most of the time it seems like she lacks a sense of humour, but she does have moments.

Biography: Hanako was discovered as a tiny, shivering Snorunt in the Ice Caves only a few weeks before the Bliss struck, and she was brought to Goldenrod by the trainer who found her, a teenaged girl named Sarah. When the Bliss hit, Sarah went to sleep, as she had just turned 18, and Hanako was alone. She found the resistance group after a few months of hiding in the cold storage of the Department store, and was quickly given a Dawn Stone and handed over to an Anchor to fight. She was with this previous Anchor, a young man named Jacob, and the two weren't really very close; Hanako learned her cold ways from him. But he Blissed after four years of fighting, and she was given to a newcomer; Halan Storm. The two bonded very closely.

Relationships:
Halan Storm - Level Five - Shadow Ball
Voluntas Necandi - Level Three - Ice Beam

 

[Dave Strider]

Reserve

Name: Porygon Digital Unit Mark III (Digi)
Species: Porygon Z
Gender: Set to 'Female'
Level: 21
Anchor:Still Need One.

Appearance: Digi looks like a regular Porygon Z in most ways. She is composed of two different body sections, a floating head and a body with two arms. She is different from the rest of her species in one way. All the parts that would normally be blue are white.

Personality: Digi is a Robot pokemon and definitely acts that way. She is very smart, often correcting people over trivial mistakes, to their annoyance. She has set programs assigned to her, including 'Protect Humans', 'Fix digital Appliances', 'Corrections' and the newest assignment, 'Destroy Deoxys'. She does not tend to make emotional bonds as she believes they will fry her Assignment Processor.

Biography: Digi was manufactured 9 years ago, two years before the attack. She lived with her trainer, Peter Gater, when the bliss came. Her trainer blissed, leaving her with nowhere to go. She eventually found the band of survivors, joining their cause and trying to help defeat the aliens.

Relationships:
Other:

I'll finish it off some time.

 

[Coloursfall]

yeah um. I'm not sure how well artificial Pokemon would work here; could you please try another?

 

[Momoharu]

Copy and pasted form is copy and pasted.

Name:Arthur Gordon

Age:26

Gender: Male

Appearance: Longish dark hair, combed back, with dark brown eyes and a cleanly shaven face. If you look at his face in the light, you can see the shadows under his eyes that he tries to hide by splashing his face with lots of water or with his glasses. He's pretty built, and wears a black shirt, with a pink tie (No suit jacket, for some reason). He's got a pair of dark blue jeans, and wears steel toed boots. His glasses are steel rimmed, and catch the light easily, so they can completely shine out with whiteness when he wants to.

Personality: He's an easygoing guy mostly, and he works well with kids a lot. He tries to be as understanding as he can with kids, and a lot of times he can come off as a little pushy. When he's angry, his personality changes almost completely, into a sharp, cold man, who only shows mercy when he has a damn good reason.

Biography: Arthur used to be a schoolteacher, until The Bliss came. His wife went first, and his daughter and his fiance soon followed. He too would have Blissed if he wasn't grading papers, and due to grief, denied himself sleep, not knowing what happened. His family having been rent apart, he fell into a deep depression for a while, almost thinking about succumbing to The Bliss to end it all. He learned what The Bliss was, snapped out of his depression and denied himself sleep as to not fall victim to The Bliss, and also to put together a resistance and end this sad state of affairs once and for all. He suffered for a really long time for a lack of sleep, but his iron will kept him awake for 7 long years. Part of him thinks the only reason he's lasted this long was because of the kids under his care.

Reason for Avoiding The Bliss: He believes staying awake will be towards a greater good, and he wants to stop The Bliss, so what happened to his family never tears apart another family ever again.

Other: DINOSAURS AND METEORS

 

[Coloursfall]

8D Yay, moony should be happy you're back~ Added~