I've got my characters balanced out, a badfic to take on, working knowledge of this crazy verse, both permission prompts written and plothole-free, just enough confidence...I think I'm ready.
Agent 1
Name: Chris
Age: 20/11 (it's complicated)
Species: Human
Appearance:
-Hair: black, slightly spiky
-Eyes: grey
-Body type: skinny but toned. Average height.
-Always wears a red-and-white baseball hat with a red jacket, black-and-gold shorts (black with gold accents), and red sneakers.
Home continuum: Pokémon Silver Version
Department: Floaters (for now)
RC: #2319 (yay Monsters Inc. jokes!)
Chris started life as the player character in my old Pokémon Silver game. I got pretty far, up to the Elite Four, but I lost the cartridge years ago. I don't want to leave a good character hanging, so for our purposes, Chris has been stuck in Limbo since about 2005 HST and only recently fell through via plothole (of course). He doesn't remember a lot of what he did in Johto, at least not very clearly. He isn't even sure what Pokémon were last on his team; only his starter, Meganium, came with him.
Limbo's a strange place, so Chris is a strange boy. For one thing, he's physically a twenty-year-old man even though he still thinks of himself as eleven. He has trouble sleeping at night and jumps at shadows now and then. He's very protective of the things he has, especially Meganium and the Johto region as a whole. (To be fair, he might have a minor hero complex as well.) Knowing he's done things like kicking the pants off Team Rocket, beating the Gym Leaders, and a few Bug-Catching Contests, but not remembering how he did them is very frustrating for him. Also, because Johto changed so fundamentally with HGSS, he's not sure he'd recognize much if he went back. But that's something to explore/angst over another day. The point is that Chris has a new place where he can work hard and generally be useful. (Well, Pokémon is an inherently social game...)
Chris is the serious/sarcastic one in my agent pair, generally being quick to point out flaws in the Sue's plans or awful dialogue/word choices. (Sometimes with a facepalm as well.) He's totally OK with not-World-One(-based) creatures like minis because, frankly, Pokémon are plenty weird all by themselves. However, he's not nearly as forgiving of overpoweredness and/or wangst. Also, he and Ami share a Problem with bad SPaG. (Note the capital P.)
As a fairly experienced Pokémon trainer, Chris can gauge the power level and/or recruitment potential of various Cute Animal Friends, including a Sue's Pokémon, by observing them in action. (Ideally he'd battle them, but that's not always canon or a smart move.) He doesn't have any powers himself, but he is athletic; in his words, "If you train six-foot monsters for a living and don't gain muscles or lose weight, you're doing it wrong." Chris also has pretty good stamina.
--Meganium's known moves (read: official moveset) are Synthesis, Body Slam, Poisonpowder, and Solarbeam. He'll come along on Pokémon-verse missions as security in case Chris ends up challenging the Sue or something. (Any other Pokémon he/they adopt will more than likely guard the RC.)
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Agent 2
Name: Ami Seeker (pronounced Amy)
Age: 20 in human years
Species: Unicorn pony
Appearance:
-Fur: green
-Mane/tail: brown, curly. She keeps her mane in a slightly messy ponytail most times.
-Eyes: blue w/freckles at the corners
-Body type: stocky, a little short for a pony
-Cutie mark: a quarter note inside a speech bubble, representing her love of music and extensive vocabulary
-Accessories: black newsboy hat, purple glasses (she's nearsighted), silver heart necklace
Home continuum: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Department: Floaters
RC: #2319
Ami is my ponysona, or what I think I'd look like if I lived in Equestria. This means that personality-wise, she's basically me mixed with the inherent friendliness/kindness of FiM ponies. She tries to be respectful to everyone she talks to, or failing that, not overtly rude. Ami is somewhat confused by modern/World One technology, and spends most of her free time reading (she prefers fantasy novels), singing, or thinking up ways to obtain a grand piano for the RC. She's also what we'd call a semi-fic blip; a character I thought up but haven't actually written.
I could be cheap and use Ami to work through my own personality issues/growth, but I'm kinda already doing that with the main character in my Pearl Nuzlocke. Therefore, Ami is always ready and willing to lend a hoof wherever she may be needed. She goes overboard sometimes, though, which gets people mad at her. Since she likes being around kids, she may help out in the Nursery from time to time. Ami is afraid of bees and their meaner cousins (wasps and hornets), shying away whenever she sees one. She also gets progressively more nervous/upset the longer she feels that a situation/character doesn't make sense. It's hard for her to recover from these "meltdowns", which is why she's signed up for biweekly(ish) counseling sessions in FicPsych.
Unlike Chris, Ami tries to find humor in various badfic-spawned horrors and/or give fics the benefit of the doubt. The latter is naive and potentially dangerous, and she knows it, but optimism is in her nature as a pony. (She does have a rational explanation; namely, a fic can be presented poorly but still have a solid main idea.) Only four offenses really anger her: inconsistency (including bad logic), violence towards children, bullying in general, and disrespecting the Princesses (especially Twilight).
Like all My Little Pony unicorns, Ami can channel magic through her horn. Her magical aura is the same shade of blue as her eyes. Ami's magic, besides letting her move things without touching them, centers around music. Specifically her singing, or humming, or even playing piano. She can also cast illusions of things, but they look vaguely ghostlike and cannot make noise. (Illusion magic is more Trixie's shtick anyway.) As a cartoon character, she is able to take a fair amount of physical abuse/slapstick, though she would prefer not to whenever possible. Being a (variety of) horse, she's also a faster runner than Chris.
For your reading convenience (I tend to ramble a bit when I write stuff), here are the control prompt and random prompt in all their Google Doc glory.
My first target is here.
Questions? Comments? Concerns?
