We Are All Pokemon Trainers Discussion

I posted in the main thread! I'm so proud of myself .

Okay, I'm not leaving. I can't bring myself to. If I do have extremely limited availability, I guess you kinda know why, but I'm staying as long as I can.

For reference

Stuff I disagree with about the timeline (Besides the 2006 thing since we tend to assume that we're doing things "right now", though I guess I can rationalize it by having the Pokeworld 2006 translate to our 2012):

• We all met in a Johto airport, not Kanto.
• Red couldn't have been born before DS (Or RP!Luke and Tagg for that matter) since it was already sort of implied (if not outright stated) that RP!Tagg (and DS, Luke and Wolf by extension) is older than Red. (Besides the fact that I think we're assuming that Red and Leaf's age during FRLG was 11, Wolf became Champion before him. I'd mention Silent in this, but I'm not sure of his exact age when he beat the Johto League, though it he was 13 that would make it concurrent to RP!Tagg's own Johto challenge.)
• While it'll probably get added at in a later version, the timeline's missing the background for the keystone arc, which is sort of important to Pokepan's history.
• The earliest known point of divergence for the AU would be when Gamer ended up breaking the Red Orb, if we don't want to use the even earlier example of AU!Umbra getting trapped in an orb.

Question: Why is it 2006? And is there anything keeping us from retconning everything into the present? Because referring to years is going to be complicated when you have to remember to subtract 6 all the time.

I chose 1996 as the year for the events of Red, Blue, Green and Yellow. Gen 2 and 4 followed 3 years after (1999) by canon. Word of God placed Gen 5 to occur roughly 7 - 8 years after Gen 2 and 4 (2006 - 2007). Because of potential time paradoxes, I was forced to move the events of Gen 5 2 months back thus allowing the original group to meet in February.

Except that means that Black/White 2 has already happened, and we can't know the consequences of that.

Personally, I would move everything up, so that it's the present. I get the logic, but the remakes move up the dates anyway (evidence: the video game systems in your room). So it's basically whenever you want it to be.

One other issue: Some characters have been established as having battled gym leaders in their adventure as youths. Yet those gym leaders haven't aged a day somehow. :P

Everyone knows NPCs don't age Anom. :P

The airplane Slouch got off of before becoming an NPC was a biplane. The airport was built around him.

Does that mean Pryce was born an old fart?
Or was he not born at all? Did he just come into existence? How? Why?

So many mysteries...

edited 6th May '12 10:33:54 PM by Slouch

The world may never kno- *trumpetcase'd*

Bugsy is the biggest offender here, considering at least a few people are said to have fought him while they were newbs. If time were normal he should be a young adult now.

Not to mention Whitney and her doomcow.

Doomcow should be out to pasture. Or hamburgers.

Unfortunately reality doesn't always act as it should here.

-firing up a grill- Steak anyone? :P

Discussion Post by Silent.

Ha. The Simpsons has a timeline. Good one.

Anyway, I think that certain practical dates make sense on the timeline. There's no arguing that someone's date of birth is fluid, or the day we entered the AU, or the Gold Conference started. Or even just the year someone like DS, Luke, or Gamer started their Pokemon journey. Don't forget that timelines don't have to mention a specific day. They can use years, or give a month (which I think Pika has used a lot of), or even a range of months.

It's the more specific stuff, like...I dunno, the day AU!Hoenn was captured, or the day a particular GC match took place that we have to be a bit more vague.

edited 7th May '12 8:43:59 AM by BadWolf21

At This.

Being eternally 25? It's so-so. ;)

Aww, thanks Silent. Hmm, WAAPT Foundation? I am earning money just by linking stuff. If only it was more than just pocket change…:P

Version 2 of the timeline

I...still don't know why the dates aren't just the present. @_@

It's not that I don't want to count it as the present, but eventually what we're doing now will be counted as the past. The first thing I think is necessary is to anchor and establish the timeline and build from that. Otherwise, I'd need to update every labeled event for each change to year I make.

Can we at least get the birthdates right?

Umm...I just went with what was provided to me. If there's anything that needs changes, feel free to let me know.

If I've done my math right, DS was born in 1991. And Red/Leaf should probably be closer to 1994, since I was born in 1992, and have established myself as being older than Red.