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- Name: Rhames Allardyce
- Nickname/s: Lumberjack (Ember ), Fuckin' Guard Dog (Male colleagues in reference to protectiveness over Charlie Kale from unwanted attention at workplace), The Bear Man (any number of children at his daughter's school who know shit's about to hit the fan if he comes in for a parents' meeting after Zoe comes home with playground bruises)
- Age: 35
- Birth Date: May 20th
- Gender: Male
- Pronouns: He/Him/His
- Height: 6'2
- Weight: 220lbs
- Class: Veteran
- Sexuality: Bisexual (Female-leaning, but will fall for men he has a strong connection with ie. his best friend bartender in Unova Asad Adama who appreciated the honesty but didn't swing that way)
- Voice: Pierce Brosnan
- Family: Rionach Allardyce (Mother), Zoe Allardyce (Daughter)
- Playlist: The Bear's Playlist
- Pokemon Wishlist: Here!
| GENERAL |
Hometown: Castelia City, Unova
Relationship status: "It's Complicated" with Charlie Kale
Personality:
Rhames is a single dad to a pretty feisty little girl of his own and with that comes a cavalcade of parental nightmare traits. He's in truth not fond of the hypercompetitive trainer subculture, seeing it as something that got out of hand and is poorly regulated; He's annoyed by people naive enough to believe in the fame and fortune it brings (to the maybe 10% of the populace while the others drop out, get jaded or maimed or both if unlucky) who honestly are old enough to know better and he wishes the adults would stop effing sugarcoating it for the kids.
Having been seduced by sweet words before, he's mistrustful of people giving grand speeches about saving or changing the world who to him are often all style and no substance or at the very worst-case scenario, unscrupulous manipulators.
He's guarded, protective, wary and pragmatic towards a world which has given him much grief in his 35 years of living; He's more concerned with putting food on the table and making rent than lofty dreams and he doesn't subscribe to the overly-sentimental anthromorphisation of what is most respects are animals with their own traits and ways of living. His approach to Pokemon training should the Pokemon agree is basic and centered around survival and mutual benefit; He needs them to protect himself and his daughter Zoe in a world where they're freely weaponized by anyone with a Pokeball and in turn he provides companionship, medical care, food and shelter---they're free to leave at their leisure as he wholly dislikes the idea of keeping Pokemon against their will (unless under special circumstances ie. their survival would be compromised in the wild). Battling is a way to ensure they're strong enough to defend 'the pack', (because he's not bleeding heart enough to not realize that an untrained Pokemon could be easily killed by a trained one and in such a situation NOT training a Pokemon to survive a man-made hurdle is doing them a dangerous disservice) and occasionally make a little side money but nothing more than that.
As a Pokemon Center nurse and ex-Team Plasma member, his love for Pokemon does not have any possessive quality to it–--he genuinely respects them as powerful living creatures and tries his best to understand their needs and does not expect anything more from them than to be what they are, and the walls he puts up around what's left of his family hides a warm, deeply caring and compassionate man who wants to believe again and would put it all on the line to make wrongs right because someone has to.
TLDR
PROS
- Protective
- Compassionate
- Resilient
CONS
- Tendency to push self to breaking point
- Easily duped w/sob stories
- Honor before reason
| BADGES |
| ACHIEVEMENTS |
- Second Place in July 2019 Tournament
- Winner of Fun In The Sun 2019 Contest
| HISTORY |
Born in Galar, Rhames and his family left the port town during a famine and sailed for the distant shores of Unova to Castelia City in hopes of making a better life for themselves, however the streets there were unforgiving and the gap between the rich and poor wide and this led to an abusive father who bailed when he was nine and a loving but realistic single mother who was often busy working two shifts to ensure they had food and a roof on their heads, Rhames grew up as most kids there did with stars in his eyes hoping for a better life. Pokemon training was never factored into his future even as he dreamed about it often and found joy in helping heal the injured strays he came across in the city; He didn't have the resources to get his own Pokemon and the ramshackle two-bedroom apartment they lived in didn't allow pets. He watched one of his schoolmates go off on an adventure of their own however, excited for their milestones, and he watched as the letters back to the boy's mother suddenly stopped coming and he watched yet again as his friend finally came home in a box to their inconsolable mother.
What was left of them anyway.
It was at the moment he decided that he didn't want to put his family through that for the fanciful dreams of being a Pokemon Master, no.
He would find a path of his own and and through hard work and his love for tending to the little creatures rather than battling them, managed to put himself through vet school to earn a degree which he put to good use as a male nurse at the city's Pokemon Center. Here he tended to the multitude of injuries brought in by passing trainers day in and day out and unwittingly he grew to loathe the training culture of the region and what it did to Pokemon who were often torn out of their habitats and social units to live an alien life of constant travelling (stressful to territorial Pokemon) and battling (Not all Pokemon he cared for were fit for battle) and the sentiment only deepened with every trainer blithely inquiring when their battered Pokemon would be ready for combat again.
This easily drove Rhames and many other in his line of work to the call of Ghetsis and he ended up joining Team Plasma's cause, hoping to change the training subculture and implement new rules to ensure the safety of trainers and the sanctity of the Pokemon involved; He helped with N's training as the boy's swordmaster and was among those who built the underground castle. He even found love with a fellow Plasma member, a former reporter named Morgan, with whom he had a child, Zoe.
However he began to see as time went by that the true nature of their cause was being twisted into something else much darker than originally intended and he left the team and took his daughter with him after an argument with his wife about priorities (She was willing to put everything on line for Ghetsis' cause including their daughter, he wasn't).
He hid out in Aspertia City for several years, rebuilding a life from ground up as the world raged around him but he was out of sight and out of mind of the powers that be and that was exactly how he liked it, raising Zoe as a single father in peace until one day he got himself involved in a scuffle with several Neo-Plasma members who were attempting to steal Pokemon from a passing trainer. They recognized him as he subdued them and when they were sent to the police station, the information got out to the IPO and more specifically Looker who was, at that point of time trying to account for every single Plasma member, current and former.
Looker, interested in someone who could work for him as an informant quickly honed in on to Rhames as his man and Rhames agreed to do it provided Looker could place him and Zoe under a Supergrass program immediately after and provide them with a clean slate and a fresh start to their lives without Plasma's shadow following them their whole lives.
Rhames did as he was asked, razing through the League but losing a leg knee-down and some team mates in the process and Looker kept to their word, setting Rhames and Zoe off for a new start in a faraway land called Issho where they could hopefully live out their lives in peace and Rhames' only worry was how much Zoe's schoolbooks for the new year was going to cost...however trouble began to brew and once again Rhames found himself at the precipice between two sides clashing with each other and having heard the sweet words and grandiose speeches of Team Zephyr which sounded all too painfully familiar, decided to lend his support to the League.
Now, given his pragmatism, annoyance with the Gotta Catch 'Em all culture and sincere parental belief that children lacking basic training and knowledge of the biology of the creatures they are handling should not be allowed to get themselves killed needlessly in the wilds, there were many things about Team Zephyr which spoke to him, which threatened to lure him to their fold, but Rhames had been there before, has seen such sentiments twisted into something horrible and he's not about to be fooled again. (WON'T GET FOOLED AGAINNNNN OH NO!)
He thinks the Pokemon League is as naive about the situation as every other ten-year old thinking they have what it takes to survive the wilderness while barely passing science classes, but if there is to be change in the system, it has to start from the inside and it has to be done properly.
| POKEMON |
FIRST WAVE
Lazarus (Lvl 100) || Ozymandias (Lvl 100) || Marjan (Lvl 100) || Avalon (Lvl 100) || Boudicca (Lvl 100) || Mr.Bigglesworth (Lvl 100)
SECOND WAVE
Shadowfax (Lvl 100) || Merida (Lvl 100) || Raziel (Lvl 100) || Serpico (Lvl 100) || Stepford Cuckoos (Lvl 28) || Magnus (Lvl 100)
THIRD WAVE
Eladamri (Lvl 71) || Sansa (Lvl 83) || Arya (Lvl 41) || Caliban (Lvl 47) || Margaery (Lvl 40) || Jorah (Lvl 4)
FOURTH WAVE
Vendetta (Lvl 100) || Mallory (Lvl 100) || Rabscuttle (Lvl 100) || Davos (Lvl 41) || Jasiri (Lvl 41) || Moxley (Lvl 60)
FIFTH WAVE
Fusillade (Lvl 62) || Mac Cumhaill (Lvl 4) || Sandor (Lvl 65) || Uriel (Lvl 100) || Shayera (Lvl 34) || Gilgamesh (Lvl 50)
SIXTH WAVE
Okoye (Lvl 9) || Snuffles (Lvl 32) || Maisey (Lvl 4) || Allegra (Lvl 53) || Ahab (Lvl 39) || Zenobia (Lvl 2)
SEVENTH WAVE
Genesis (Lvl 27) || Hamilton (Lvl 2) || Tenebrae (Lvl 100) || Taliesin (Lvl 7) || Ricochet (Lvl 11) || Galilea (Lvl 7)
EIGHTH WAVE
Eowyn (Lvl 2) || Amelia (Lvl 2) || Versailles (Lvl 9) || Mithrandir (Lvl 2) || Pendragon (Lvl 2) || Armstrong (Lvl 7)
TENTH WAVE
Marshall (Lvl 99) || Kovu (Lvl 2) || Strafe (Lvl 2) || Shatterstrike (Lvl 2)
UNREFFED
- Kaijuliette the Gyarados
- Elsie-Dee the Patrat
- Urduja the Archeops
| UPDATES |
ACTIVE QUESTS
- Beginner's Quest I - DONE
- Beginner's Quest II - DONE
- Beginner's Quest III - DONE
- Advanced Quest I - DONE
- Advanced Quest II - DONE
- Mega Evolution (Vendetta) - DONE
- Infected! (Lazarus) - DONE
- Z-Powered!
- Depleting the Heart Gauge (Lazarus) - DONE
- Purification of the Mind - DONE
- Advanced Quest III
- Purification of the Body (Dagon)
- Depleting the Heart Gauge (Shadowfax)
- Infected! (Vendetta)
| BATTLE LOG |
WINS: 13 LOSSES: 2
- Unity Badge - Win
- Lazarus Vs Betray - Win
- Ignis Badge - Win
- Lustrous Badge - Win
- Magnus vs Ray - Win (Challenger Forfeited)
- Magnus vs Old Gregg - Win
- Magnus vs Ivory - Loss
- Sansa vs Spouts - Win
- Avalon vs Sky - Win
- Lazarus vs Wesker - Win
- Shadowfax vs Jeanne - Loss
- Borealis Badge - Win
- Dune Badge - Win
- Eladamri vs Meadow - Win
- Intoxication Badge - Win
| TRIVIA |
- Single father to a 9yr old spitfire of a daughter, Zoe Allerdyce . She bears scars from a Growlithe attack earlier in her childhood.
- He has a fondness for Fighting, Ground and Rock types and is mistrustful of Fairy and Ghost types. He's pretty superstitious about Fairy types in particular as a parent due to the majority of Sinnohean and Kalosian legends including the bedtime stories his mother told him involve them being capricious little tricksters with a penchant for whisking away children. It won't stop him from doing what's right, but he's markedly more aloof/apprehensive dealing with them.
- Major pro-wrestling aficionado and is a huge fan of Crasher Wake
- An excellent pugilist under his mother's tutelage (She took up amateur boxing as a side income) and from his early Single Father days working at his friend's tavern as a bouncer.
- Lost his left leg knee-down during a battle in Unova. He uses a prosthetic leg he usually keeps hidden away, not necessarily ashamed of it but unwilling to reveal such a weakness to the world which may attempt to target it. He's used it long enough that his gait is natural but it becomes highly uncomfortable in extreme heat or cold.
- Will heckin fight you if you think 10yr olds got business running around in canyons and scuffling with actual thugs who would shank them in a heartbeat.
- Taught himself how to cook to help his mother with dinner as a child especially when her shifts went up to 9pm and she was too exhausted to try anything when she came home; Honed this skill as a father, is now highly-adept in the kitchen.
- Skilled in swordfighting from his days in Plasma (As Ghetsis was a monarchist, Plasma members often took on medieval pursuits). Occasionally volunteers as an instructor at his daughter's school.
- Giant comic book nerd, comics being one of the few things that helped him keep a strong sense of right and wrong growing up in the dregs of a city that often threatened to crush such notions.
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Comments: 9
bbb35 [2019-07-20 13:59:55 +0000 UTC]
Oh very, very handsome man, and a well rounded and nice guy too.
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KionoWinterfox [2019-04-26 20:22:26 +0000 UTC]
Dismissed as Champion because of Plasma? My own Ex-Plasma member had something similar happen to him, all his badges were taken off him and his wins in the Unovan Competitions were also taken away.
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Oniwanbashu In reply to KionoWinterfox [2019-04-27 02:47:07 +0000 UTC]
Sucks to be them :’3
On the bright side, I played the Unovan E4 as being similar to the region’s collective defense ministers with the Champion holding significant political clout, so for those three days, Rhames used his position to help push through several stagnating Trainer reform/oversight bills on the Senate floor.
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ReagentNein [2019-02-03 20:02:55 +0000 UTC]
!!! Oh man it's so good to see this stuff again, I'm excited!
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Elfdragon12 [2018-12-13 20:57:14 +0000 UTC]
Ooooh yes, Rhames!! Good to see him again! And that pro-wrestling!
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RadicalFred [2018-12-08 00:21:07 +0000 UTC]
This Handsome Dude back in here! <3 You still got it Oni! 8U
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