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Closed The Ruins of Alph

One character per person, yeah.

Name: Alec
Species: Smeargle
Age: 20
Gender: Male

Appearance: Alec is fairly short and scrawny compared to most of the better-pampered smeargle owned by humans, and his fur is messy, tangled, and dirty. Small flecks of red paint can be found all over his fur, especially concentrated on his forepaws and feet. He has a black pawprint on his back. His tail leaks a bright red paint, and is the only clean part of his body. His ears are darker than usual and one has been thoroughly chewed on. There's usually something in his mouth, whether it's gum off the floor or a toothpick or a used cigarette.

Bio: Alec and his partner smeargle, Coldfoot, had been living in the streets of a large city for most of their lives. This was fairly common for pokemon that had once had owners, and many that didn't, although the humans had several cleanup units devoted to getting rid of the strays. Alec and Coldfoot most likely could have flown under the radar for ages, no problem, if it wasn't for their penchant for graffiti, stealing art-related items from various stores, and accosting random trainers in an attempt to copy as many moves as possible. Or doing drugs, for that matter. Coldfoot liked sticking needles in himself while Alec preferred just stuffing things into his mouth, and they liked that habit more than the effects of the drugs. Since Coldfoot tended to find used needles laying around, he rarely got anything more than a couple of human diseases.

It was only a matter of time before the cleaners found the smeargle in the act of stealing blocks of wood and knives to carve them, at which point they were picked up and thrown into cages. Naturally, these particular cleaners were Rocket grunts, so the smeargle got to live and do more crimes... they just weren't seen as equals, and they didn't like captivity. Nor did they like the idea of being stuffed into pokeballs. With the wide variety of moves they'd copied, Coldfoot and Alec managed to escape.

They went back to their old ways, or tried, but Coldfoot died quite randomly, just not waking up one day. Alec realised that the thing Coldfoot had injected himself with might have something to do with it, since there had actually been something inside. Alec was convinced that it was murder - someone had obviously planted some sort of poison - and that the Rockets knew where they were. He fled the city and eventually (after a couple of years at a grimer-infested dump, where he developed hallucinations about seeing his dead best friend), found himself in the ruins.

Personality: Alec is fairly sarcastic, but he prefers the brutal honesty route when he's not making any attempt at humour. He doesn't care about anyone else, and can be quite cruel in order to reinforce that point. He does things that could be considered nice, but tends to insult the other pokemon while doing it. He is secretive, mainly because he doesn't feel there's anything to share, but he's interested in finding out about anyone else's past. He aspires to copy every move that exists, ever.
 
Very good, all of you. C: Accepted (Unless Kusa can pick up anything I missed that would constitute a rejection?)

So when shall we start? This gathered members fast.
 
Name: Rurenai

Species: Ninetales

Age: Around 25 were he human, not sure what that is in fox years

Gender: Male

Appearance: Most of him is the normal cream color, but his paws, tail-tips, ears and head crest are jet-black, and his eyes are bright yellow. He's covered in various scars, the most notable being a fresh bullet wound near his shoulder.

Bio: Rurenai grew up with a very rich human family, with four other siblings. He was sold off at a fairly young age, though just old enough to remember what his siblings look like. The human that took him in was very poor, very old, and had a coffee addiction, but was a kind soul nevertheless. Rurenai came to trust this human more than anything, and they had many wonderful times together.

One day, however, the human had to die. When the human's family came around to find the body, they saw Rurenai howling mournfully, lying next to his body. One of the younger females took him after that, but he never trusted her nearly as much as he had trusted the old man. The woman used to argue a lot with what Rurenai assumed to be her husband, and it often escalated to physical violence.

It was one rainy morning about a week later that Rurenai awoke with his fur matted in spattered blood, the scent of death strong in the room. To his right were large pools of blood, and to his left was the corpse of his murdered owner's husband, with ten stab wounds in his chest. The woman had murdered him and run off. He rose up to escape, but bullets started flying from near every direction. The man's family had already arrived, and had assumed that Rurenai went wild and did it himself.

Just as he had made it to the door, a stray bullet got him in the shoulder blade, but he kept running.

Now he hides in the Ruins of Alph, unable to run anymore because of an infection settled in the wound.

Personality: Rurenai appears very saddened and angry, as he has not been allotted time to grieve for the old man. Under that is a friendly soul, but that's been buried further by mistrust. If caught alone, Rurenai will often be found staring upward at the sky or ceiling, wondering where his old owner's spirit is, and how his siblings are doing. He's also very eager to fight when given the chance, but can only watch until his bullet wound heals.

Other: Nah.
 
Name: Yuurah

Species: Another Weavile

Age: 19 in... er... Weasel years?

Gender: Male

Appearance: Weavile

Bio: Yuurah was used by his human as a chaining Pokemon -- that is, helping them defeat Pokemon that show as a Poke Radar. Many times he proved unsuccessful in finding "The rare differently colored Pokemon," and his greedy master was angry at him. You have one more chance, he said one night, and Yuurah tried his best. It was a chain of the rare Skarmory his master liked so much. He used Icy Wind, Night Slash, Metal Claw and Slash alternatively... but to no avail was able to defeat one of the steel birds in one hit. Furious, his master sent him away.

Personality: Yuurah is a rather cunning Weavile. He uses only attack moves on most battles as he was taught during his chaining days. He has a side that's calm and gentle, but normally he's grumpy and even a bit rude. If you can somehow burrow your way into his heart, you have a loyal friend for life.

Other:
 
One character per person, yeah.

Then that's quite a problem for Rein, who's my character here in case you forgot, who's preggy and going to have a baby/an egg in some weeks of RPG time.

It doesn't really matter, though. With my almighty powers I can easily kill the baby at birth...

But I won't be that cruel to Rein.


Also, Mewtwo, just because Rein has already "made sweet love" doesn't mean she can't do it again....

Dammit I'm getting perverted again someone stop me please
 
Name:Macto
Species:Gardevoir
Age:13
Gender:Male
Appearance:Normal Gardevoir

Bio: Macto was originally going to be a Gallade, which he was looking foward to, but after the tenth rematch against Cynthia, while his trainer was not watching, he accidentaly evolved. His trainer kicked him out. After getting over the fact that everyone thought he was a girl, he travelled for a bit before finding the ruins.

Personality:Smart, calculating, never jumps to conclusions at first, calm, but if someone insults him on the basis of his appearence, he gets very mad. He hates most Gallade aswell.

Other:
 
Accepted and Reserved you guys. C: Now, since we have 17 (!?) members, I'm going to Close New Applications. You can still get yours in Kai.

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Edward licked his toes, body contorted in an odd way so he could groom himself. He was perched on the hood of an old, rusty car, the sun high overhead. The smell of the garbage around him was revolting, but he was by now used to it. The warmth was nice though. He finished picking a burr out from between his toes, and looked out at the horizon. He'd been alone here for a while, but now others had started to arrive, so he wasn't so alone... Perhaps he could stir up the ranks, and start a revolution. Push out the humans... Take back their rightful place as the rulers of this place. Humans were pink and squishy, but they had powerful jaws, sharp claws, and all sorts of powers.

He smiled up at the sky. Their day would come.
 
"It's not a half-bad day"

Stretched our on the roof of a rusty car, a blue and black dog leans his head back to look at the golden cat on the hood of the same car. He watches the cat clean itself, curious of the way his body moved when doing so. After a moment of watching, he lost interest and returned to looking at the sky.

"...nothing much is happening today...wonder if the ruins going to pull another trick on us."

His ear flicks, feeling the soft wind blow through the single bullet hole in his ear. He closes his pale blue eyes and rests, listening to the sounds on the wind.

"So. How are we, this fine morning Edward?"
 
Nina picked her way carefully along the ground, trying not to trip over the trash. It smelled bad here. She didn't like it. A little further on, she sensed faint electric signals near each other. One spoke. It was a Pokemon, talking to another. One possibly sitting on something made of metal, though this was harder to tell. Raising her head, the Jolteon approached quietly, smelling them. Pokemon. Yes. The signals grew stronger, forming the vague outline of a bipedal Pokemon, and another with four legs, like herself. Interesting.
She hadn't been paying attention to other things while studying the other Pokemon. She stumbled over the handlebar of an old, almost completely smashed bicycle, yelping in surprise as she tumbled to the ground. Oops, that was very loud. They were sure to have noticed that..
 
You should as soon as possible.

Also Exo-Raikou, I just noticed how you name your characters after Bionicle models, the most notable example being Fero and Skirmix.

((FINALLY SOMEONE NOTICED! IT HASN'T FADED INTO OBSC-*shot*

yeah, It's either that or anagrams of names with added letters.

And yet I base them on other characters, like how Fero is in this case based on Hidan and Zetsu))

Do we kill? Do we spare them?

The Drapion tunneled underground, heading in no particular direction.

I sense others ahead. Do we kill them?

I want to hunt. So much time since my last hunt. Too long. I need to hunt.


The Drapion began to emerge, first revealing his tail, then his claws, and finally the rest of his body.

"If there are others, it's best not to make them angry. I want to size them up, single out the least dangerous one, and then you can go crazy... or rather, go crazier."

The scorpion ran ahead, making his approach as silent as possible
 
((I do, at the age of 14, still buy and build Bionicle, it's a fun thing to do, even if the most rewarding is building your own. On second note, Strakk is awesome))

A sudden crash was heard.

A Tangrowth had stumbled in the trash, falling in one part filled with glass bottles and metallic items.
He sat up, and scratched what one would assume was his head, before raising up again and continued walking in the same direction as before, not noticing the big piece of glass stuck in the right fingered wine of his.
Slowly walking the junk pile, he heard something, and began walking that direction, climbing up a mountain of trash in the way.
he saw a car, two Pokémon was sitting on it, a Lucario and Persian as far as he could tell, and he was rather sharp too, so he could tell that.
And then he stumbled again.

Falling down the mountain of junk, he took the time to think: "I wonder how the car down there can take a 282 pound heap of vines landing on it?"
 
((I do, at the age of 14, still buy and build Bionicle, it's a fun thing to do, even if the most rewarding is building your own. On second note, Strakk is awesome))

((The Vorox and Skrall are even more awesome.

I buy them nowadays for collector's purposes. It usually takes me less than five minutes to build the normal-sized ones, and roughly ten for the titans.))

So much prey...

Fero burrowed underground, and went under a pile of garbage as he did so. he emerged on the other side of the garbage pile.

"Why would the humans be disposing all of their garbage here? I knew they were a wasteful species, but this..." The Drapion shook his head in disgust.

Can i emerge? It's been so long since others were able to hear of the glorious hunt.
 
Blaise stumbled through the mounds of trash, searching for any edible food. It was unlikely, this being a human dump filled with their useless vehicles, but why not hope?

The yellow, mangy-looking growlith continued through the stacks of junk, careful not to cut open his paws on any of the sharp, rusted metal.

Wait. What was that smell? Blaise raised his nose to the sudden breeze, sniffing loudly.

Hmm, smells kind of like that Meowth I fought in the city... But... different somehow. Plus, there's something that smells like... a forest. And maybe a little bit of canine, the shiny Growlithe thought, heading towards the origin of the scent. After picking his way through the husks of former cars, Blaise reached the area from which the smell emenated. Hiding behind a large, partially rusted-through car, Blaise looked at the area.

Laying on a human contraption, a lithe, braided, metal-legged Persian was being adressed by a Lucario. An odd pair. A Tangrowth lay sprawled on another vehicle, accounting for the foresty smell. And was that...?

Yes, it was a Jolteon, tangled up in a decrepit, small machine. Blaise's old owner had had about twelve of them, the little brat. She had called them 'bikes'.

Should I approach? The Persian might be dangerous, and who knows about the rest of them? But they might do a lot worse if they think I'm spying, Blaise thought. He then added an afterthought. Then again, I suppose I AM spying...

Mind made up, the Growlithe padded into the clearing, head lowered slightly in respect and submission.
 
Rein woke up with a very bad stomach ache this morning. It had started some good weeks ago. The Espeon rolled over to her left side, careful not to lay on her stomach. She had been pregnant for what now? 5 months? 6? It had at least been a long time since she fled from her beloved owners. No, that she had been kicked out.

Rein's stomach turned. She had loved her owners so much, and she thought they loved her as well. But after they had rejected her she was not sure anymore. Did they really love her or did they just keep her because of her appearance as an Eevee. The judges apparently thought she was cute and fluffy. Rein snorted at the thought. The only one cute and fluffy would be Cerberus. Okay, maybe not fluffy, but cute and gentle. Oh how she missed him... Now the only things left from her past life was the name -She hissed at the thought of having a name like Max-, her memories and... her kitten. The kitten. Rein's and Cerberus' kitten.

Rein rolled over to her right side again, unable to find a good sleeping position because of her bump. She had barely had any sleep the previous nights, and she was dead tired. The atmosphere in the human dump was not good for her, and worse for the kitten. The air smelt and tasted of rotten meat and old socks. Good food was a rare sight, at least for Rein, who could not move and even less hunt in her condition, and therefore she had to do with the food that was just outside her little den, which was a red car with it's front part blown off. Clean water was even a rarer sight. God how she hated this place. God how she wanted to go home and cuddle in front of the good warm fireplace. God how she hated her owners for kicking her out.

Then the kitten kicked and Rein's chain of thought stopped. The kick was weak. Rein wanted to cry and think this was a dream... Just a bad nightmare....

Like she did every other day.
 
Edward snorted a bit, wiskers twitching. How was he? He didn't know. He was...alright, he supposed. He nodded. The sun was beating down still, warming his back and sides. He liked warm, but it made the place smell bad. Soon it would be time to return to the cool murkyness of the ruins, to lounge in the shade. Hunting was good there, since small prey gathered there to feed on garbage and insects.

"I'm alright. It's bright. Makes the garbage smell bad when it's sunny." He said softly.

But a few more smells that were not garbage floated to his nose. More Pokemon. He got to his feet and yawled to get the newcomers' attention.

"I can smell you, come on out, all of you!"

((kekeke now to choose which of you Edward will have a crush on... C<))
 
"Ask and ye shall receive," Fero yelled back, before stepping out of hiding.

A Persian... interesting... my next prey, perhaps?

"Not now," Fero muttered, "not while I'm trying to get on this Persian's good side."

Fine. I've waited this long to hunt. I can wait a little longer.
 
A lone black and cream color kitsune-like creature limped through the rubble, whining softly. It was amazing that he hadn't keeled over from bloodloss yet, since the fur around his left front leg was matted and red. He stumbled over a piece of metal, grunting in pain. It looked as if he were about ready to burst out in agony.

Staggering around a pile of garbage, Rurenai happened upon a Persian and a Lucario sprawled out on a human contraption. The human woman had had one; it looked nearly the same, too.

The Persian began to shout.

"I can smell you, come on out, all of you!"

"So be it..." he grumbled, dragging himself slowly into view. He was only about halfway to the truck, when the muscles in his injured leg locked and he fell to the ground, tails sprawled all over the place. The limb itself was flailing, and in Rurenai's yellow eyes shone extreme anguish.
 
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