Villains Pub [Information & Signup]

[Flyg0n]

What is It?​

What if there existed a place, a pocket of space where you were free to be as you pleased, where meddling ten year olds and do gooders wouldn’t interrupt your sinister plans for world domination or rewriting the universe? Where your plans of expanding the glorious land we all lived on, snacking on humans, or unleashing eldritch abominations from the basement wouldn’t be scorned? A place to be heard, uwu.

Welcome to the Villains Pub!

Villains Pub is an RP space centered around RPing as the villains of our stories (whether they be the protagonist or antagonist) in a semi-relaxed, casual setting. As the name implies, this is basically a ‘pub’ in the multiverse, a little pocket dimension that villains can access for a drink and a conversation, or just to chill out. RPers can flesh out their villains through interactions with other villains.

The idea was wholesale ripped off of How it Should Have Ended shorts about the ‘Villain pub’

Villain Pub Compilation - Volume One - YouTube

Given the idea behind this RP is villain centric, it's not really intended for reformed or secretly good guys. This is a place to be bad >:3

It is intended to be an open ended RP, hop in hop out, welcome to anyone. Community led, as opposed to a one-time structured campaign or momentary flash rp. Players can plan OOC who to use, and have small scenes in the RP thread. (Think similar to the 'general RP' already on the forums). There’s no plot here or overarching narrative, just a villain-centric hangout. Scenes can be group or one-on-one, at the prerogative of the participants.

Also, just to be clear, I am just organizing this! I'm not a GM, just an organizer providing a space for this. You do not need my approval for characters or scenes, unless you're doing something that might violate or brush against TR rules, in which case speak to a mod. Feel free to speak to individual players if you have specific scenes in mind, as I am one person and will definitely not always be able to RP.

Introduction

Spoiler

How the envelope finds you is a mystery. Somehow, no matter who you are, or where you live, it finds you. In your mailbox, on your desk, inside your nest, or perhaps it simply drops from the sky.

Even more oddly, your name is on it. Yet there’s no indication who sent it. Inside the envelope is a fancy embellished pin in the shape of a gold and red moon. The note that comes with it is short:

‘Join us at the Crimson Crescent. To enter, touch the artifice and speak the word: Lunaris’​

There is nothing else in the envelope. Whether curious, afraid or filled with righteous indignation, at some point you simply cannot resist trying. So you hold the badge and speak the word, and the world around you melts away, and for a moment you are floating, your vision a web of strange white lines.

And then you are once more back on solid ground in the strangest place.

To some, you recognize it as a bar or a pub. A place to gather and drink and be merry. Quite a large bar too. The aesthetic feels both modern and ancient, timeless and cozy; blending wood and stone and tech. Its filled with tables and chairs for all sizes. At the far side of the bar, behind the large counter, a shining blood red Lunala floats, its piercing gaze seemingly cutting right through you. Behind it are shelves of bottles filled with colorful liquids and beyond that, a kitchen where delightful aromas drift from.

If you approach, they address you with an oddly soft, melodious voice, yet one that seems to carry an edge. “Welcome to the Crimson Crescent.” Seemingly anticipating a question, she continues. “This place is my private domain. Here you are safe to speak and be as you please, without moral judgment. You may stay as long as you like, providing you abide by the rules. When you are ready to return home, you must simply speak the word again, and you will return as if only a moment had passed.” She dips her head and turns to gesture with one wing to a sign above the bar.

1. Do not destroy the property
2. Resurrecting people is annoying. Don’t murder anyone.
3. Clean up after yourself. Or else.
4. Tip well. Or Else.

“Please, enjoy your stay, and do not hesitate to call for me if you are interested in our refreshements.”

Fascinating.... Well, you might as well check this place out.

Rules

Spoiler

1. Characters must be a villain. There are no exceptions. Characters who are grumpy aren’t villains, nor is the usual say, grouchy guy with a good heart. Anti-heros aren’t really villains either, or good people coerced into doing something bad. A few notes:
   • They don’t have to actually believe they’re the villain, nor do they need to be a supervillain or world domination level but they should still be villainous in some form (so like, Hunter J or Rose or Maxie are villains, but canon!Silver is not, nor would canon!Team Star be)
   • In essence, they should be wicked, evil, malignant, cruel, etc, as opposed to ‘jerk with a heart of gold’ types (such as canon!Wes). Think like the villain pov contest.
   • A reformed villain is not a villain. You can play a non reformed version of them though (e.g. Reformed!Lusamine wouldn’t be allowed, but Villain!Lusamine would)
   • If you’re not sure, feel free to ask me!
   • That said, all villains are welcomed, from small to big time, trainer, PMD, pokemon, etc. However, they should be tied to the pokemon franchise in some way, whether as an OC or canon, etc
2. No godmodding. Never imply a reaction or write another person’s character for them, unless you pre-approved something with your partner (this includes things like ‘Giovanni took a swing at Rose, and Rose flinched’. You shouldn’t imply Rose would flinch, or any other reaction, without permission).
3. Keep things PG-13. Stay within general server rules. Violence, implied violence, and blood is fine. Discussions of gore or heavy sexual themes etc should be tagged or avoided entirely.
4. Keep the RP in the RP. Don’t get personal or take anything personally in RP, particularly villains. What happens IC isn’t a reflection of anything OOC
5. Please spell check your posts. I don’t expect perfect grammar or no typos, but it should be reasonably coherent. If grammar is tough for you, most basic spell check programs will catch the worst errors! Doing this helps your partner!
6. For the sake of consistency, please write in 3rd person past tense (he said, pikachu jumped, they ran, etc)
7. If you read and understand the rules, please include a ‘I read and understand the rules’ in your signup
8. There is only one RP thread planned and may be used by multiple people, so do feel free to use the reply function to keep things clear
   1. On that note, you're not obliged to acknowledge another RPer unless you want to, you can keep scenes between your own characters)
9. Do not interject into a scene between two RPers without their consent. You can start your own with someone else or wait your turn
10. For simplicity, please only have one active scene per user at a time
11. If something someone does makes you uncomfortable, please inform a mod

IC

1. Please refrain from actual killing/murder, unless pre-discussed between RPers. A good ole bar brawl is fun and fine, but keep in mind anything beyond that is something the Bartender/Bouncers wouldn’t permit, generally. We’re villains here but we’re in this together, heh.
2. Wounds inflicted here heal mysteriously swiftly (a broken arm might mend in like... ten minutes, a bad gash in a couple). Any attempts to kill someone will result in your gracious host being very annoyed. She doesn’t seem to mind fighting though
3. Feel free to make up whatever drinks/food you want! Characters will find that Lunala is even able to recreate dishes and drinks from their respective universes
4. Everything seems to be surprisingly low cost and all forms of currency are accepted
5. Universal language translation is in effect. Anything spoken will simply be heard in the character's tongue/instinctively understood. This applies to pokemon villains too
6. Despite the wooden aesthetic, nothing seems to burn, fortunately
7. The bar is pretty big, and there’s accommodations for different size pokemon in tables and chairs.
8. High powered characters (like legendaries, etc) will find they don’t have full access to their powers here (i.e. Dialga would find he can no longer control time, even though he remains very strong)
9. Gigantic legendaries would find that their size is slightly reduced to a more manageable one that can fit in the bar
10. The bar seems perpetually empty save for Lunala and whatever other villains happen to be around, and a Malamar in the kitchen
11. Attempting to exit the bar or look out the windows will reveal and endless starry void and leaving will send your character home as well
12. While the Crimson Lunala is my character, you are free to imply simple interactions, like Malamar bringing food or drinks to a table, etc

Sign up

This is a loose example signup, but you don’t have to include everything if you don’t feel like it! It is helpful, however, to give your RP partner an overview. At the very least your signup should include things like Name, Age, Personality. However you don't need my approval! Signups are just so prospective RPers can see your character!

Spoiler

Name:
Age:
Appearance:
Personality:
Backstory:
Villainous goal:
Story they’re from:
Have you read and understood all the rules?

Fun extras

These are non mandatory, fun prompts to get you thinking about what sorts of clashes or friendships might spark between characters

Alcohol tolerance:
Stupid hill they will die on (E.g., Whimsur is PURPLE, Flygon is a bug):
Greatest accomplishment:
Deepest fear:
Fighting capability:
Things they admire:
Things that enrage them easily:

How to be a great RP Partner

Spoiler

I’ll point folks over to https://forums.thousandroads.net/index.php?threads/rules-mechanics.1150/ and the section ‘a helpful guide to RPing’ in which I outline some advice. Some further principles to abide by:

Try to keep length reasonable. You don’t want hulking paragraphs, but you probably want something longer than a single line. Generally, you want to give your partner room to reply and a hook to reply to.

RP is not your time to write a one-shot, or infodump everything about your character onto the other person, or write an entire fic. RP is a collaborative experience where two or more parties cooperate to create a narrative via interactions. You want to engage with the other person.

There are some good rules of conduct to remember.

Collaborate: Remember this is something you are doing with someone else. It's ok and normal to make slight tweaks to your characters presentation to make them approachable or a little easier to interact with. You can also discuss a scene beforehand with your partner(s).

Cooperate: Check in with your partners, discuss ideas for the scene, provide prompts IC to move scenes along. Always remember to be mindful of others, and their time, both when replying and when someone is late for a reply. Be sure to ask if your partner likes reminders or not, and remember to be respectful.
When in scenes with more than one other person, be mindful to not post so often one person gets left behind.

Compromise: Be willing to concede ground on small things to make the experience better. Accept that maybe your character isn’t the strongest, smartest, coolest, etc. Maybe there’s a fight and you decide to write your super cool OC losing. Or maybe you let someone get the proverbial drop on your character. Don’t think of these as losses! These are just fun adventures.

Conflict: Conflict can be a fun spice to a scene! Remember to do things in moderation, but finding points of tension between characters can be a great way to push things along.

At the end of the day, remember to be polite, courteous, and abide by all server rules! Happy RPing!

(The RP thread will be posted in a bit, this not the RP thread.)

Final note: Feel free to organize amongst yourselves if someones bio interests you! I am just providing the space, its up to players to decide who they're interested in scening with.

RP THREAD

 

[Flyg0n]

Name: 'Athos'
Age: Early/mid forties
Appearance: don't ask me this I picture him to be dark haired, fair skinned but tanned and some kind of beard. He's also rather large in stature and broad chested and shouldered. Well built, but not in a way that makes him seem like a giant, but not small either. Has a hard edge to him and seems maybe a little scary, but a little nice.
Personality: Strongly opionated, stubborn and willing to break a few rules to achieve his goals. Bit of a dreamer, but a logician in his approach to achieving those dreams. Amiable, affable and all around stand up guy who loves to help orphans and kids with nowhere to go. Tries to give them a home and food, in exchange for light work and gopher type stuff. He's strict, but only because he cares about helping them become the best they can be. Despite his high standards he's always looking out for good talent and someone to one day assist him in helping his community. Has a temper and can get frustrated when people don't live up to the potential he sees in them.
(He's a manipulative abuser who preys upon weakness to exact control and does whatever necessary to keep those under him in line. He'll put on a facade for as long as is necessary, but is deeply self centered at the end of the day, and cares to only further himself and his desires).
Backstory: Once lived in the far off region of Unova, working alongside the humantarian group Team Plasma, and was a close associate of their leader Ghestsis. However after their regretful disbandment, he left the region to start up his own business and be his own boss in a new region, where he could have a fresh start.
Villainous goal: To make Orre and more stable region and create an organization that provides a safe place for hapless orphans and runaways... (Money, power and control, to spread his influence by having a hand in Orre's underground crime rings, make the Swords the only gang in Orre).
Story they’re from: Blood is Thicker Than Poison
Have you read and understood all the rules? I wrote them

Spoiler: Extras

Alcohol tolerance: 7/8. He can definitely drink hard liquor and hold it well. Getting drunk just makes him more cold and angry

Stupid hill they will die on (E.g., Whimsur is PURPLE, Flygon is a bug): Ar-cay-nine; because he's evil he thinks whimsur is pink; champage and wine is for elitist snobs, and ties are stupid, suits are barely better

Greatest accomplishment: starting up the Swords, which he literally built himself from the ground up.

Deepest fear:

Fighting capability: Proficient fighter, though most of his experience is street brawls he's good at whatever counts as MMA type stuff in the pokeworld. He's definitely done his share of underground fights. His big build makes him pretty good at this.

Things they admire: Cunning, intelligence, manipulation, tenacity and ruthlessness (and subservience and loyalty)

Things that enrage them easily: Disobedience, failure, softness

 

[Sinderella]

Name: Florent Augustus Percival Lambourne

Age: 54

Appearance:

Spoiler: Haven't drawn a ref yet, but this is my faceclaim for him...

HE DOESN'T HAVE THOSE MASSIVE POINTED ELF EARS OR THE BIG MEATY CLAWS, NOR IS HE SPOUTING BLUE FLAMES CONSTANTLY BUT THIS IS PRETTY DAMN CLOSE TO HOW I'M IMAGINING HIM NOW. Art by crescenti-c on Tumblr! (Made for the Blue Exorcist fandom)

Personality: Regal, charismatic, and diabolically fiendish, Florent is no less than an intimidating presence. As both the rightful king of his world's criminal underbelly and the ruthless head of the feared secret society, Team Enigma, he's not the man you want on your bad side. He has both the skill and connections to ensure your demise is not a peaceful one by any means. He takes thorough joy in watching those who cross him suffer, and will stop at nothing to see that they do.

As the vessel for the Pokemon of Gluttony, he's a bit of a glutton in his own right. Despite being a tactful logician and one who seeks to think things through before acting, he is not one to circumvent the frequent impulsive act that comes his way. Whether it's a hasty kill, or a quick decision on his cult members, his bottomless hunger for power leaves him with a tendency to act out in ways that might not be ideal. Still, he's smart, he's crafty, he's practically a god--so he figures it out. No mistake is too large for him to work through.

Despite his mercilessness, there is a bit of warmth somewhere in his otherwise icy heart. As a father of two and a half (should he officially count one of his close mentees as a son figure), he does identify himself as dedicated father. Or at least, he wishes he could be. It's far too late for his biological son, but there's still a chance for his prodigal daughter, who he holds on a pedestal even above his own existence. She might just be his reason for existing, but he still isn't quite sure if he loves that fact more than the power he's built for himself.

Backstory: Born to a disgustingly wealthy Galarian family, one with roots that date back hundreds of years, Florent was raised among a high society culture. His family witheld a very dark secret, though, one that was unwittingly passed to him--they had forged a blood contract with the virtually unknown Blood Legendaries, a set of seven powerful Pokemon with ties to the seven deadly sins. With promises of power in exchange for their blood, the Lambournes passed each of the entities down for generations, with Florent being bestowed Gulattive, the Pokemon of Gluttony, upon his birth. They were also among the select few who knew of the existence of blood types, a powerful and quite demonic type of Pokemon that sought most of their deadly abilities from blood. Being raised on values of seeking power over others, Florent soon rose to become the patriarch of the Lambourne family, and using his rather unholy morals and malicious wit, he slowly but surely rose to power among the most unsavory beings in the world...

Villainous goal: World domination and total control. To see the Blood Legendaries worshipped above all. Maybe some genocide of those who don't worship his gods or cause.

Story they’re from: White Swan, Black Swan

Have you read and understood all the rules? Yes ma'am.

Alcohol tolerance: On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give him an 8.5.

Stupid hill they will die on (E.g., Whimsur is PURPLE, Flygon is a bug): Not all Galarians dislike spicy foods, it's a stereotype!

Greatest accomplishment: Conceiving his daughter, Odette. And founding Team Enigma.

Deepest fear: The death of his children.

Fighting capability: Despite is stately appearance, this man can throw hands. He was classically trained in martial arts for about ten years before dropping it, and fighting was like riding a bike to him--he never forgot.

Things they admire: His daughter and her strength, the cunning of others, the audacity of others.

Things that enrage them easily: People who seek to undermine his authority, and those who threaten to/actually do harm his children.

 

[Shizzza]

Name: Avos

Age: 27

Appearance: Disorganized White Hair, always wear a green uniform with several buttons and badges stuck onto it, brown eyes. He also always has a smug smile when not in action mode.

Personality: He’s a very smug person. Always speaks in riddles, metaphors, and poems, and tends to leave conversations with the person he’s conversing with confused. Despite this, he’s also naturally charming and charismatic. Well, that is until the person they interact with get to know them a bit better. He’s very passionate about politics and is thoroughly against the Hoenn government for reasons I cannot say. His strong religious and political views tends to make him easily angered in the heat of a moment. However, at times, he comes off as extremely arrogant and conceited. Avos has a strong sense of Justice and Righteousness, and firmly believes that everything he does is for the salvation and to support a greater Hoenn. He gives everyone around him an odd feeling like he’s always plotting something, and frankly, he is. All of this boils to him being a naturally cunning and sly person who lies at every other doorstep and has an unhealthy obsession with perfectionism, coupled that with a strong sense of virtue and just being a very conceited person…you got yourself a massive asshole.


Villainous goal: To reveal the truth behind the corrupted Hoenn government and violently overthrow Hoenn in an act of “salvation for the greater good”.

Story they are from: Scry The Past! This is a bit of a teaser as he hasn’t appeared yet and won’t appear for another 9-10 chapter ish.

Rule acknowledgement: Yes Madame.

Alcohol tolerance: 7, he only drinks if it’s beneficial for him though.

Stupid hill they will die on: History is only entertaining to learn about if you are a capitalist swine.

Things they admire: themselves.
Deepest fear: Death without accomplishing his goals.

Things that enrage him: anything that conflicts against his political ideologies.

 

[Seren]

Name: Costas (He doesn't have a last name, and even if he did, he has to way to know it.)
Age: Late 30's
Appearance: Basically this guy. (from picrew.) Usually with a top hat when he's in public/formal events, otherwise he goes without.
Personality: Quite sadistic. Torturing people is what brings him joy and gives his life meaning. There doesn't need to be a reason for it, and he often prefers when there's not. That way, there's no pressure on him from time or accuracy of information or anything else, he can just bathe in the torment.
Backstory: Due to his nature, he's never really had any home or lasting relationships, other than the pokemon he's trained along the way. He's sort of a "traveling hit-man", making a living by doing dirty deeds that others wouldn't do. Because those are the kinds of things he enjoys.
Villainous goal: He just wants to have a good time. His current employer is some sort of ghost-worshiping cult; as with most of his jobs, he cares not for the goals of the people who pay him, so long as they hold up their end of the bargain. He's almost always in it for personal gain.
Story they’re from: SS, link in signature
Have you read and understood all the rules? No, I just ask questions as they come to me. The quotes were from hallucinations. (Yes.)
Alcohol tolerance: Probably not very high.
Stupid hill they will die on: Torture is very successful, thank you. (This is purely because he enjoys it, not because it actually gets results, assuming he needs them.)
Greatest accomplishment: Not dying alone in a ditch somewhere, really. He's never striven for anything great, thus has never really achieved anything as a result.
Deepest fear: Not so ironically, being hurt. He likes being the one with the power, not the one taking orders.
Fighting capability: Virtually none. His pokemon do the dirty work, for the most part. Each member of his team specializes in a different variety of torment.
Things they admire: Resilient captives.
Things that enrage them easily: Perhaps ironically, he's got a pretty level head, despite being rather deranged. That said, when his torture sessions are weighed down by other obligations, he doesn't like that. (Especially if he's not getting results, and it's going to reflect poorly on him; he can't live if he can't get paid.)

 

[IFBench]

Name: Lusamine
Age: Supposedly 45.
Appearance:
Personality: While she retains many of the personality traits she has in canon, a new addition is her being...unsettling. She sometimes crawls around on all fours, has her head near-permanently in a tilt, and has a habit of repeating stuff over and over.
Backstory: Exactly the same as canon, save for the following: Six years ago, Lusamine disappeared from the world. A month later, she returned, though not the same as she left. Though she is the same in appearance, something is very, very different about her.
Villainous goal: To "return". What that means is anyone's guess, but apparently it involves Ultra Space in some way.
Story they’re from: In Tandem
Have you read and understood all the rules? I read and understand the rules.
Alcohol tolerance: Alcohol is for boorish people.
Stupid hill they will die on (E.g., Whimsur is PURPLE, Flygon is a bug): It's perfectly ethical to cryogenically freeze Pokemon.
Greatest accomplishment: Founding the Aether Foundation.
Deepest fear: Not being able to "return".
Fighting capability: Quite capable, as long as she has her team with her.
Things they admire: "Perfection"
Things that enrage them easily: Her children.

 

[Shiny Phantump]

Name: Zenith
Age: 30s

Appearance: Spooky guy. Has a robe with a hood, hemmed with Decidueye feathers. Prostetic right eye made of an emerald-green crystal.

Personality: Pretentious, arrogant, and dismissive to people he dislikes lighthearted and flippant towards those he does.
Backstory: Comes from a time before Old Alola pissed off something that near-totally wiped them of the face of the earth.
Villainous goal: Freeing humanity from the tyranny of the divine.
Story they’re from: Exists in the backstory of Irreflections, but originally purposed for something where he'd have an actual role.
Have you read and understood all the rules?: no

Alcohol tolerance: Lower than he thinks it is
Stupid hill they will die on (E.g., tie me over, seafood is bad, Flygon should have a mega): "This is a GOOD idea"
Greatest accomplishment: A realistically-actionable process for the distillation of high-frequency esoteric energies into... listen, it's some magical-ass bullshit.
Deepest fear: The insignificance of a single human in the face of the cosmic grandeur of the universe.
Fighting capability: Respectable but not fantastic at martial arts on their own, but combined with being a horrible cheat with his gift... Frightening.
Things they admire: Good chefs and their food, space, people with traits that essential boil down to "like-minded people"
Things that enrage them easily: People who don't know their place (except him obviously)

Pings: Yes please!

 

[System Error]

I'll have another to shuffle in a little later depending on how things go. But we'll start with this for now.

Name: Tarou Daikoka
Age: 14
Appearance: Around 160cm in height, tall for his age. Well-groomed turquoise hair and lime-green eyes that have sort of a dark look. He wears formal and expensive clothing. Right now, a white cardigan over a gray shirt with a tie, and formal dress pants.
Personality: Tarou is a formal and polite person most of the time, and will talk respectfully to his superiors. He's a talent public speaker. But there's always a hint of smug superiority with those he feels are below him. When it comes to those he dislikes, he will take every opportunity to demean them. Despite not being criminal, Tarou absolutely has a capacity to do some very horrible things. And coming from a rich family, he can afford to do a lot.
Backstory: It all started in first grade. Tarou was neighbors with Claris Willins, a famous child actress. He admired her from afar, since she was making a ton of money just like her parents. However, she had become friends with this kid from the Veilstone trailer park, Nori Carino. He was crude, loud, a braggart, and poor! Why was she attracted to HIM? It was just petty schoolkid stuff at first. Nori never saw him as anything more than just another would-be bully, albeit his most consistent one, but two things made it get really bad from Tarou's end. The first was when his enemy refused to go with Claris on her planned journey. What happened to her when she ran off alone was on him as far as Tarou saw it.

The second came before his tenth birthday. You can own Pokemon before then, some even get Gym Trainer positions or better, but that's when your average person can participate in League activities. It's something of a milestone age. And so his family planned a suitable party for the occasion. Tarou invited everyone in his grade except Nori Carino. A crude joke about Carino's income and his mom led to him getting punched in the face, followed by a bully leading the class in mocking him when he cried. Tarou wanted to sue Carino, he even spun a story to his parents, but they said there'd be no money in it. But he was one to hold a grudge. Luckily, the time eventually came where just had to sit back and watch Carino destroy his own life when he stood up for an infamous Pokemon called the Demon.

Except something funny happened on the way to his grave. Carino succeeded in taming her and got a job with the Officials. And it started because he threw a tantrum! What's worse, he was making more than his allowance! Unable to stand this, he told his parents he wanted to join the Officials to start making something of himself now before the time came to inherit the company. They took anyone regardless of age or prior experience, so he started his training right away. He was on-track to join the International Police, when the Officials forced him on a journey for reasons he wouldn't question. He never intended at first, perhaps the one thing he and Carino had in common. He now saw going on one as an opportunity to hone his skills, and now he would get that chance. With Carino himself as an assigned companion (also made to do so).

Was this fate? He was going to take advantage of it and get his revenge by making it a journey for Carino to remember in all the wrong ways. But maybe while he's in this otherworld, he can get some ideas from some truly despicable souls...
Villainous goal: Destroy and humiliate Nori Carino, ensuring he fails his journey and therefore gets punished by the Officials. Make it miserable too. He's willing to do anything technically legal, and maybe some things that aren't if he's sure he can get away with it.
Story they’re from: The Nori/Prema series, although he has yet to grace the metaseries with his presence, only getting mentions here and there and technically showing up while not being named. He will prominently feature in a journeyfic with the working title "Worst Adventure"
Have you read and understood all the rules?: Yes

Alcohol tolerance: 2. He is only 14, but he may have snuck a drink once...
Stupid hill they will die on: It's all worth it.
Greatest accomplishment: Straight-A student to date, without paying the teachers off. He doesn't consider becoming an International Police agent at his age much of one.
Deepest fear: People who cosplay as Pokemon. They just creep him out.
Fighting capability: Basic police training. Decent martial artist, but he hasn't been given any firearms training. A team of Pokemon, not too high-level yet.
Things they admire: People who are willing to do whatever it takes to succeed. Hard workers.
Things that enrage them easily: Carino catching any sort of break. People who have stuff handed to them (any irony is lost on him).

 

[Phoenixsong]

Can't promise I'll be active in this regularly for the near future, but sure, I might just have a fine, upstanding citizen or two who could stop in for a little sip and some stimulating conversation every once in a while. We'll toss one in and see if and when I've got time to pal around.

Let's start... here.

Name: Names can be such fiddly things, can't they? Sometimes even an inconvenience in his current day-to-day activities. Honestly, anyone who ever actually refers to him at all usually just calls him "the cat".

Age: He could give you the age he was the last time it mattered to him, but, well, it doesn't matter, does it?

Appearance: A persian. The forehead gem is some hard-to-identify shade of deep green, rather than red. Where a normal persian's tail ends in a neat little curl, the Cat's terminates in a humanoid right hand. Pretty standard appearance aside from those. Sometimes, though, out of the corner of your eye, in just the wrong light, he might look just a little bit... off.

Personality: Calm and observant. Always watching, keeping an eye or an ear out for anything that might sound interesting or useful, filing things away for later just in case; in a desperate situation like his it would simply be foolhardy to ignore anything at all that might turn into an idea, a lead, or leverage. (Or in any situation, really!) In conversation he's cordial, cautious about what he says while giving the appearance of something resembling friendliness, though there's an air of smugness that never quite fades. Can very easily turn cold and sinister if rubbed the wrong way, but why would that ever happen? It's not like there's any question in his mind about who's really in charge here.

Backstory: Oh, but it's so complicated! And hardly relevant in a place like this. No need to give yourself a headache trying to make sense of all the impossible things that have happened to the poor old Cat. Suffice it to say that he was just minding his own business, figuring out what he wanted to do next in life, when he met a big, awful, wicked monster that gave him a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, and then stomped away to go do as it pleased with other worlds. (Don't you worry, friend; he's sure it's nowhere near your neck of the woods.) The Cat bravely held on until he could, hm, let's call it reconstitute himself, and he's really just been wandering ever since.

...you want to know what happened before all that? Nothing worth talking about now that it's all gone, honestly. Nothing he can't just replace later. ...Mostly nothing.

Villainous goal: Why, saving the world from a grave existential threat, of course! The Cat is friend to all people and pokémon and enemy of those who would abuse dark secrets not meant for the ken of man in pursuit of their selfish, careless amusement or perpetuating their own toxic behavior. If said existential threat also happens to be, entirely coincidentally I'm sure, the creature personally responsible for ruining his life and leaving him in his current... situation, well, that's just icing on the cake, right? (And then, once the, ah, competition is out of the way...)

Story they’re from: One that will probably never happen, it's been 11 years since I first came up with what eventually turned into this shit and it's shown no signs of stabilizing or speeding up since.

Have you read and understood all the rules? But of course!

Spoiler: Extras

Alcohol tolerance: Theoretically average, we'll say 5/10, although the parts of him that aren't "normal" persian might have altered or increased that. That said, he would not under any circumstances drink himself to the point of even mild impairment. He knows better than to compromise himself that way, and besides, staying sober's better for observing all the fun! (Also alcohol might not work on him at this point—he may not even need to eat—but he wouldn't mind having a glass of the establishment's finest just for old times' sake.)

Stupid hill they will die on: Alolan meowth and persian are overrated, and Galarian meowth and perrserker are hideous. Why would anyone pay attention to those creatures when fabulous specimens of his caliber exist?

Greatest accomplishment: Well, surviving after what that beast did to his world is at least a modest accomplishment, no? The strength, the resourcefulness, the sheer fury and spite; he'd love to see you pull that off. (And it's not like anything's left of all the accomplishments he'd achieved before...) He's quite pleased with himself for uncovering a very important piece of information that even said beast hasn't yet found, but alas, this really isn't the place to talk about such a thing. It'd just bore you, really.

Deepest fear: Why, he lives in fear of that reprehensible monster finding him and finishing him off! 🙀 Certainly it's not that he might ever find himself totally alone and vulnerable and useless with no one to control, or no one to protect him. Of course not.

Fighting capability: Unclear, and he intends to keep it that way; fighting's not his job. When pressed, he does seem to know a very wide variety of moves, even for a normal-type like a persian.

Things they admire: Unquestioning obedience. Cunning. People who look like they know how to get what they want. Anyone who might make for an entertaining battle of wits. Anyone who appreciates reading a good cozy mystery novel.

Things that enrage them easily: "Enraged" isn't an emotion that it's easy to push the Cat into, but he definitely doesn't like the feeling that someone's gotten their way instead of him getting his, or anyone interfering with his work. Oh, he'll find another way to come out on top again later, of course, but all those new plans and revisions and things just take time, you know? Oh, and children. Those things are pretty annoying.

Maybe some others later, idk; a lot of my "villainous" or at least definitively not nice characters are barely-defined, spoilery, very awkward scene partners, or d) all of the above. We'll see!

 

[canisaries]

I don't know how much I'll participate, but I think I might wanna pop in.

Name: Kohath I
Age: Forty-something
Appearance: Two meters tall, bronze skin, dark brown hair and beard, physique like a Greek statue, extensive body hair, piercing yellow eyes, enlarged canine teeth. Wears white robes, golden earrings and golden chains around his neck.

Spoiler: Appearance (male top nudity warning)

Personality: Proud warrior king. Knows he is a big deal.
Backstory: From the Bronze Age. Used to be a slave boy, but found HELIX in the form of an omastar who enhanced his body and taught him to fight. Murdered his master family and fled to the wilderness with the omastar where he lived hunting and gathering. Spent a few years there until word of his way of living spread and other people joined his group, which evolved into a tribe of warriors that would raid and take over villages until the Helixian Kingdom was born.
Villainous goal: Expansion of the Helixian Kingdom
Story they’re from: Not particularly from any ongoing story, but from the universe of Hunter, Haunted.
Have you read and understood all the rules? Yep!

Spoiler: Extras

Alcohol tolerance: Very good thanks to enhanced liver.
Stupid hill they will die on (E.g., Whimsur is PURPLE, Flygon is a bug): His houndoom was the best houndoom in the kingdom and the best girl of all time.
Greatest accomplishment: Forming the Helixian Tribe into a kingdom.
Deepest fear: The Kingdom falling.
Fighting capability: Fantastic. Peak performance.
Things they admire: Powerful creatures, be they human or mon.
Things that enrage them easily: Belittle his kingdom or his physique. Call him a slave. Insult HELIX.

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

Name: Asaph
Age: 45
Appearance: middle aged blond man with either blue or green eyes (he uses colored contacts and even people close to him don't know the real color) and a penchant for fancy bright colored suits
Personality: Most people will know him as being very mild mannered and well spoken, a bon vivant who can speak on any number of subjects. Though what he keeps away from the public is his neurotic anxiousness, his quick temper, and of course his love for his pupil
Backstory: His parents were quite wealthy and he's grown up in luxury, getting most anything he wanted
Villainous goal: To make his pupil his
Story they’re from: Obsession
Have you read and understood all the rules? Absolutely!


Alcohol tolerance: mid
Stupid hill they will die on: While Kalos has many great artists, its reputation as a haven of beauty is massively overstated and unfairly overshadows many neighboring regions
Greatest accomplishment: Building a vaunted art collection, training the world's greatest collector
Deepest fear: Aging and becoming irrelevant and forgotten with time
Fighting capability: below average but he could probably throw a punch if needed
Things they admire: Beauty, youth, art, travel, hedonism
Things that enrage them easily: Imperfection in his personal staff

 

[System Error]

You know what? Changed my mind, there's a lack of female villains here, so let's rectify that. Even if it's with a Pokemon. More importantly, the words aren't really flowing with Tarou as I planned, so...she'll be first, and I might cycle him in later if I can get past the writer's block with him.

Name:¹ The Terror of Edenburgh, utmasbdokrul (subterran: Great Conquering Night Queen), Protector, False Monarch, Tyrant, AkepWwd (terrestal: race traitor), EKWsp Akeresa t'mWSyl (terrestal: lit. enemy to all us Pokemon)
Age: Unknown, older than 50
Appearance: In her natural form, she is a giant Frosmoth. She has temporarily assumed a human form in this space to better communicate: a tall and pale woman with white hair with two antenna-like bangs, a plain snow-white dress, cold blue eyes, and her wings. This is actually a "cocoon" of ice she might shed.
Personality: The terror believes that Pokemon have grown weak and complacent since ancient times. She carries herself above humans and so-called Legendary Pokemon as a champion of the common people. Ironically many don't respect her for going against their ways. A huge misanthrope, but is capable of being personable, usually with the few she respects. The type to rule through strength and respect. Fluent in all common Pokemon languages, and even some human ones (though pronunciation can be a problem). Her tone is sharp and harsh, a trait of subterrans with authority or independence.
Backstory: Much of the terror's early history is unknown. What is known is that about fifty years ago, a very powerful Frosmoth took over the castle on top of Crown Mountain. Vicious and territorial, she attacked humans and Pokemon alike and amassed many followers, including Glastier and Articuno (after proving her strength). She was especially beloved by the Pokemon that humanity thought extinct, as her actions protected them. While usually contained to her mountain, around five years ago, something happened that made her worse and spread her range further. Not good for visiting trainers, especially from the nearby region of Galar with gung-ho trainers always looking for a new team member. Attempts to capture or subdue her over the years have been unsuccessful; most just respected and stayed out of her way. Until recently when she delivered an ultimatum: humanity abandons the island to Pokemon. A team of European trainers and rebellious wild Pokemon are planning to band together to finally stop her...
Villainous goal: Pokemon superiority. She has no delusions about creating more than a haven on Crown Island, but getting more power isn't off the table.
Story they’re from: Story with the working title "Nori Carino: The Conquering Night Queen". Which actually has a paragraph already started.
Have you read and understood all the rules?: No. If I had a third, I'd put "maybe so" here.

Spoiler: Extras

Alcohol tolerance: 10. Fermented berries are a luxury.
Stupid hill they will die on: That those humans and Pokemon fed up with her won't go to extreme dishonorable lengths to deal with her.
Greatest accomplishment: So-called legendary Pokemon bowing to her.
Deepest fear: She is dangerously insane, fear is not something she feels.
Fighting capability: While she has many followers and is a good tactician, the terror is a deadly and capable warrior in her own right. Her attacks are vicious and overwhelming, and she knows how to use them to their fullest. Keep in mind that this bug single-handedly defeated two legendaries.
Things they admire: Courage and ambition, even if she must quash it. Honesty and purity to a lesser extent.
Things that enrage them easily: Foul-hearted humans mainly who hurt Pokemon, Pokemon who are willingly subservient to humans, dirty tricks, self-superior godlike Pokemon. And oddly enough, PMD worlds despite their being close to her ideal, due to their reliance on kidnapping/transforming humans and their unnatural union of Pokemon.²

¹: Pokemon don't actually name themselves in my universe, out of respect for humanity, them giving species names across languages, and nicknaming. They use titles and pronouns instead. The terror calls herself Queen (rul) but allows any name; these are some she's been called.
²: In my metaseries, Pokemon don't form big cross-species societies. Even when they do, it's never as diverse as PMD.

 

[Ambyssin]

Have I read the rules? Yes. Did I run them through Google translate and reread them? Also yes.

Name: Paradox
Age: Is relative to a virus.
Appearance: Standard deoxys-A.

Personality: Cold ham, braggart, manipulative. Quite sure of himself because his victory is only a matter of time.
Backstory: A virus mutated by Eterna energy. The ruler of the Eterna Empire, a galaxy comprised of countless life-bearing planets absorbed by the colossal force of nature known as Eternatus. Paradox rose to power following the disappearance of Eternatus' previous ruler at the hands of her right-hand lunala. Originally bearing the title of Archbishop, he worked tirelessly to amass an army of loyal troops by rounding up prisoners from across the galaxy and converting them into unown that he stuck inside meticulously constructed robot bodies designed to augment their latent Hidden Power abilities. While the Eternatus Troopers worked to forcefully get unruly planets under his control, Paradox won over the hearts and minds of the people through providing them with cutting edge, luxurious technology and medical advancements like the mewgenics program, which would allow humans and pokemon to augment themselves however they desired with purified mew DNA. Lifespans dramatically increased. Diseases once thought incurable were solved in a matter of months. As a monument to the galaxy's greatness, he extracted Eterna City from the Sinnoh region and made it the new capital of an artificial planet constructed using the most high-quality fragments of other absorbed planets.

With his rule over Eternatus nearly cemented, he began to set his sights on freeing it from the planet it was imprisoned inside. He roboticized pokemon into his custom Paradox Pokemon and sent them to attack the planet imprisoning his empire, in the hopes of manipulating events so Eternatus would be free to continue absorbing planets into its collective. He also promoted himself from Archbishop to Emperor and keeps the public on his side through a rigorous propaganda campaign against both the planet imprisoning Eternatus and the small rebel factions opposing his rule.
Villainous goal: Unite the universe under the Empire's singular banner and rule over all with an iron fist.
Story they’re from:

Pokémon - Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Path of Valor

It started when a fairy kingdom set a dreepy princess up to fail. Then she, two classmates, and their servants were sucked into an alien world ruled by a tyrannical deoxys. One whose existence threatens the safety of every world. With a dimensional crisis looming, can this ragtag group put aside...

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Alcohol tolerance: Teeechnically zero. Or ten. He has not stomach or intestines to absorb alcohol.
Stupid hill they will die on (E.g., Whimsur is PURPLE, Flygon is a bug): Scyther not being able to learn Fly (while Doduo and Dodrio can) is an afront to nature itself.
Greatest accomplishment: Nearly uniting all of Eternatus under his rule.
Deepest fear: Losing.
Fighting capability: Hits like a supertanker. Agile teleport spammer. As an evolved virus, he can (and does) mutate opponents on a cellular level. Maybe he destroys your nervous system. Maybe he turns your heart into a giant tumor. Whatever suits his fancy in the moment.
Things they admire: Technology, artificial intelligence, humans (to some extent), loyal servants, those who know their place.
Things that enrage them easily: Losing, Lunala ().

 

[IFBench]

Name: Kyute
Age: 27
Appearance: Think Klara from Pokemon SwSh, but buff.
Personality: Very cutesy, even more passive-aggressive. He will take your insults with a sickeningly sweet smile, and tell you everything he thinks is wrong with you back. He is also very, very discriminatory.
Backstory: A staff member of Amity Park, in charge of dealing with "unsightly" Pokemon that people have snuck into Amity Park.
Villainous goal: Keeping Amity Park for cute Pokemon only.
Story they’re from: None...yet.
Have you read and understood all the rules? I read and understand the rules.
Alcohol tolerance: Gets blackout drunk.
Stupid hill they will die on (E.g., Whimsur is PURPLE, Flygon is a bug): There are only 28 cute Pokemon.
Greatest accomplishment: Working at Amity Park.
Deepest fear: Amity Park burning down.
Fighting capability: Very capable in hand-to-hand combat.
Things they admire: Cute Pokemon.
Things that enrage them easily: "Unsightly" Pokemon.