History Roleplay / TheVeryBestAPokemonRoleplay

** Mare needs to [[Film/BackToTheFuture make like a tree and get out of here]].

** Sea Mauville itself is described as looking like the set of an [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP Article.]]

* TranslationPunctuation: all "foreign" languages are surrounded by <>s.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Or red hair, in Ezra's case.

* {{Adorkable}}: Ezra. To quote Whimsy:
-->...you've got to admit that it's rather cute to see him all happy in his element.

* PresentDayPast: Downplayed because it's an alternate universe. The roleplay presumably takes place in 2011 (15 years after Red defeated Team Rocket in-universe and 15 years after Pokemon Red and Green (Blue outside of Japan) were first released in Japan out of universe) but features all the futuristic and modern day aspects of Pokemon.

* PresentDayPast: Downplayed because it's an alternate universe. The roleplay presumably takes place in 2011 (15 years after Red defeated Team Rocket in-universe and 15 years after Pokemon Red and Blue were first released out of universe) but features all the futuristic and modern day aspects of Pokemon.

* OneDegreeOfSeperation: A minor example. Ezra is Professor Birch's assistant and protege and thus has had occasional run-ins with Mare, who is Professor Birch's niece, prior to the behinning of the story.

* MischiefMakingMonkey: Jitter, Sandy's Aipom, partakes in usual monkey business - such as taunting others and running out of Vermillion City.

* {{Adorkable}}: To quote Whimsy:

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%%* {{Adorkable}}: Ezra, Natch.

* ArtifactTitle: The title was this from the beginning, being a leftover from previous, failed versions of the rp.

%%* AbusiveParent: Mare's father before her mother got divorced and married Norman.
%%* AbsentMindedProfessor: Ezra, for the reasons listed below.
%%* ActionGirl: Literally every female character sans Lisia.

%%* AfraidOfNeedles: Mare, though she vehemently denies it.
%%* AgeLift: Wally is now 14 and, though she technically isn't the character she resembles, Mare is 17, unlike the 10 year old May of the games.
%%* ArtifactTitle: The title was this from the beginning, being a leftover from previous, failed versions of the rp.
%%* {{Asexual}}: According to WordOfGod, both Mare and Artemis are Asexual.

%%* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Ezra has a tendancy to veer off into other subjects when talking.

%%* BrainsAndBrawn: The dynamic between Archie and Maxie is portrayed like this during their temporary truce (though Archie is by no means stupid).

%%* CoolAirship: Team Magma is in possession of several and uses them in the attack on Mauville.
%%* DeadpanSnarker: Mare and her Pokemon team full stop. See SnarkToSnarkCombat below.
%%* TheDrunkenSailor: Team Aqua is portrayed as this.

%%* LemonyNarrator: All of the players have their moments but [=BackSet=] takes the cake, intentionally invoking this trope in his narrations.
%%* MasterOfIllusion: Jay, Whimsy's Zoroark, naturally.

%%* MrExposition: Wattson and Ezra without question. Sometimes they team up to give a double dosage of exposition.

%%* PokemonSpeak: As is to be expected.

%%* SilentSnarker: Hoots, Ezra's Noctowl, can't speak Hoennian (or any other language) but she still manages to snark at Ezra from time to time.
%%* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Mare and her Pokemon often engage in this.
%%* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Mare can speak fluent Pokemon. Same difference.
%%* TemptingFate: The page quote.

%%* WebcomicTime: In effect, though not as bad as other works.
%%* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Or red hair, in Ezra's case.

* AbusiveParent: Mare's father before her mother got divorced and married Norman.
* AbsentMindedProfessor: Ezra, for the reasons listed below.
* ActionGirl: Literally every female character sans Lisia.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: In the original Pokemon games, Team Magma and Aqua had absolutely no connection to Team Rocket. Here they're splinter cells of the criminal organization.
* {{Adorkable}}: Ezra, Natch.

* AfraidOfNeedles: Mare, though she vehemently denies it.
* AgeLift: Wally is now 14 and, though she technically isn't the character she resembles, Mare is 17, unlike the 10 year old May of the games.
* ArtifactTitle: The title was this from the beginning, being a leftover from previous, failed versions of the rp.
* {{Asexual}}: According to WordOfGod (it's word of god because god wrote this entry), both Mare and Artemis are Asexual.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Ezra has a tendancy to veer off into other subjects when talking.

** Mare: Making fun of her ribbon, abusing others, The suggestion that she’s AfraidOfNeedles.

* BrainsAndBrawn: The dynamic between Archie and Maxie is potrayed like this during their temporary truce (though Archie is by no means stupid).
* CallingYourAttacks: As is standard for all things Pokemon, the trainers shout the attack they want their Pokemon to use.

* CoolAirship: Team Magma is in possession of several and uses them in the attack on Mauville.
* DeadpanSnarker: Mare and her Pokemon team full stop. See SnarkToSnarkCombat below.
* TheDrunkenSailor: Team Aqua is potrayed as this.
* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Whimsy.
** TheLancer: Jay.
** TheBigGuy: Mare.
** TheSmartGuy: Ezra.
** TheHeart (aka TheChick): Gracia.
* ForeignCussWord: Zig-Zagged. Mare cusses in Kantonese wich is translated into English but uses TranslationPunctuation.

* FunetikAksent: Averted. Accents are made mention of, but none are ever actually written out for reader (and author) convenience.
* HypotheticalCasting: The authors have come up with hypothetical castings for quite a few characters.
** Archie and Wattson: Creator/JohnDiMaggio.
** Mare: Creator/CaitlinGlass.
** Artemis: Creator/JMichaelTatum.
** Maxie: Creator/ChristopherWehkamp.
** Wally: Creator/DanGreen

* LemonyNarrator: All of the players have their moments but [=BackSet=] takes the cake, intentionally invoking this trope in his narrations.
* MasterOfIllusion: Jay, Whimsy's Zoroark, naturally.

* MrExposition: Wattson and Ezra without question. Sometimes they team up to give a double dosage of exposition.
* OhCrap: The collective reaction of Team Magma and Team Aqua (except for Maxie) when they see the illusionary (though they don't know it) Yveltal Jay conjurs up.

* PokemonSpeak: As is to be expected.

** The posters in Sea Mauville are described as being not at all out of place in a [[VideoGame/PortalTwo Semi-Popular Video Game Series.]]

* SilentSnarker: Hoots, Ezra's Noctowl, can't speak Hoennian (or any other language) but she still manages to snark at Ezra from time to time.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Mare and her Pokemon often engage in this.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Mare can speak fluent Pokemon. Same difference.
* TechnoBabble: Averted. In one post there's supposed to be technobabble but the author was tired.
* TemptingFate: The page quote.

* TwoGirlsToATeam: Inverted. Of the main characters only two of them, Ezra and Jay, are male.
* WebcomicTime: In effect, though not as bad as other works.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Or red hair, in Ezra's case.

* TwoGirlsToATeam: Inverted. Of the Hoenn group only two of them, Ezra and Jay, are male.

->'''Arcanist's Narration''': [[TemptingFate Ezra just hoped they weren't in over their heads in all of this.]]
->'''[=BackSet=]''': Ezra you poor, poor boy.
-->--'''Arcanist''' and '''[=BackSet=]''' Basically Setting the Tone for the Rest of the Roleplay

!!This Pokemon Roleplay Provides Examples Of

** Sea Mauville itself is described as looking like the set of an [[WebSite/SCPFoundation SCP Article.]]

* ForeignCussWord: Zig-Zagged. Mare cusses in Kantonese wich is translated into English but uses TranslationPunctuaion.

* ForeignCussWord: Zig-Zagged. Mare cusses in Kantonese wich is translated into English but symbolized by <>s.

* CanonDiscontinuity: There was originakky a story line set in Kanto running concurrently with the Hoenn story, but it was deleted from canon when it stopped getting replies.

* AerithAndBob: You have people with normal names like Sam and Cassandra. Then you have more exotic names like Whimsy and Vanilla.

The plot is simple: 15 years ago, Red ([[SarcasmMode you may remember him as the makn prptagonist of the obscure 1999 indy game]] VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue) defeated Giovanni and dismantled Team Rocket. That was the end of that, right? Unfourtanetly, it was not. Though Giovanni and his gang had been defeated, two splinter cells of Team Rocket, Team Aqua and Team Magma, were still around, hiding in Hoenn and waiting for the time to strike. Apparently, now is that time and it's up to a group of young trainers and their Pokemon to put a stop to it.

The plot is simple: 15 years ago, Red ([[SarcasmMode you may remember him as the makn prptagonist of the obscure 1999 indy game]] VidoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue) defeated Giovanni and dismantled Team Rocket. That was the end of that, right? Unfourtanetly, it was not. Though Giovanni and his gang had been defeated, two splinter cells of Team Rocket, Team Aqua and Team Magma, were still around, hiding in Hoenn and waiting for the time to strike. Apparently, now is that time and it's up to a group of young trainers and their Pokemon to put a stop to it.

The plot is described in the interest check as such:

It’s been 15 years since Red took apart Team Rocket and became the Champion of Kanto before disappearing off the grid entirely. Since then everything’s been pretty peaceful. But new threats are rising. In Kanto, a group claiming to be the new Team Rocket is starting to surface. Meanwhile, in Hoenn, two splinter cells of the old Team Rocket, completely independent of each other, have begun to enact plans to bring about their own machinations. If left unchecked these threats could potentially spell doom for the world, or at least their regions.

Luckily, several young (and maybe old) trainers just happen to be in the right places at the right times to stop these growing menaces. But there’s just one real question. How the heck are they gonna do that?

The Roleplay is split into two threads, one set in the [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Kanto Region]] and one set in the [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Hoenn Region]]. The Kanto thread can be found [[https://www.rpnation.com/threads/the-very-best-kanto-closed.444121/ here]] and the Hoenn thread can be found [[https://www.rpnation.com/threads/the-very-best-hoenn-closed.444187/ here]]. The OOC can be found [[https://www.rpnation.com/threads/the-very-best-a-pokemon-ooc-closed.443869/ here]].

** Artemis: Disrespecting his personal space, being mean to Athena.
** Cassandra: Cancellations of any kind, people abandoning their Pokémon, when stores don't stock her favourite soda pop (they never have cherry anymore)
** Cross: Pokemon Abuse, Team Rocket, People who try to tell her how to act/speak, People who ask, “okay, but when are you gonna get a REAL job?”

** Mino: Inconsiderate trainers, littering, mistreatment of nature/plants alike
** Rick: People mocking him or pissing him off and his Pokemon getting harmed in ways besides in duels.
** Sam: Abuse or neglect of Pokemon, Uncooperative or self-centered trainers, Pervs (Brock), Being called a kid.
** Teal: Any insult toward his Purugly.
** Vanilla: Team Rocket, Disrespecting the badge his mother died defending, Organized crime, People who misuse the gifts they are given, treating others without respect, Psychic type Pokemon, cheaters, And Psychics.

* CoolAirship: Team Magma is in posession of several and uses them in the attack on Mauville.

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Both the Kanto and Hoenn arcs happen simultaneously in different threads.