User:Noxigar/OtherCharactersAsideFromNamineAndNoxigar/Gideon

Another Pokemon Tabletop Adventures disaster. One of three disasters was Chernabog. The others were named Mercutio Mateus (who never made it past a single session and effectively had very little personality outside of appreciating Pokemon with snake and reptile aesthetics) and Gideon Moonshatter Golbez.

His name is a pile of ass, admittedly, but it is a pile of ass I am sticking with out of a stark lack of anything better. I hate alliterative names, so I had to give him a middle name. He also effectively became a joke character in the campaign I was in, which was known as PTA Destiny.

Like every generic bad campaign, it started at a prison. It's either a prison or a bar. Every Pokemon Trainer was part of some human (and Pokemon, evidently) trafficking bollocks. There was a forced tournament involving baby Pokemon, where if you did not partake you essentially were out of the game wholesale (by getting killed by the guards). Everyone got to pick a baby Pokemon on their own volition; I chose Budew. One of the assholes in the group told me to name it "Ramona," given I was having a particularly difficult time coming up with a consistent naming convention. I listened, then got triggered because that's what Scott Pilgrim does to me.

Tournament rules were straightforward enough. Only problem? Everyone's baby Pokemon died except for a Magby owned by the tournament victor. Everyone, victor included, was imprisoned. He got to keep his Magby, I think, and it ended up helping us escape the prison more easily than what would have been realistically possible. Nonetheless, we escaped, and wound up in Cianwood City. It was there we got to attempt to dish out backstories of our characters. Everyone's backstories checked out except for mine (something about being ex-Galactic, more-or-less). I tried to revise my backstory, thrice, and was denied each and every single time. I gave up on having a backstory after the fact.

My next Pokemon was a Buizel named Cagnazzo I. One of the other party members had to catch it for me, as I was having a rough time due to bad rolls and the GM deciding she would be a colossal asshole towards me in particular (probably because she knew the other players more readily, and I was both new and being me - which generally goes poorly). The Pokemon professor that the GM created to give everyone else Pokemon decided to have her Skitty fuckmurder my Buizel for no particular reason, critkilling him. This once again left me with no Pokemon, and I almost quit.

The Pokemon after that was a Squirtle, Cagnazzo II. Instead of proper healing items, such as Potions, we were given Grabbin' Peelz. They acted like a mixture of a regular Potion and a Full Heal, with a catch. Based on the random-number-generator, you also got an additional status which could make or break the Pokemon. My Squirtle turned into a Roserade, became female, and also got sick because I needed to heal more than 10 HP from a nasty attack. After two Grabbin' Peelz were taken in a row, only the second condition would temporarily recover. However, if such was the case, there was a RNG condition that would revert my Squirtle back to normal (I thought - I don't think it was, or I was lied to; either way, the GM was an asshole about it at the time). I eventually fed Cagnazzo II one Grabbin' Peelz too many, which effectively killed it (RNG condition 50 was instant death of the Pokemon).

I don't remember why I continued to give this campaign a chance. My rage for the Grabbin' Peelz became eternal, and I threw at least two of them into the ocean. A Tentacruel got big off of one of them and destroyed Cianwood City's infrastructure, and then at Olivine City I ended up freezing the entire ocean. After freezing the whole ocean, pissing off a Level 70 Lugia, and only living a crit Aeroblast with 1 HP, I was instructed by the other party members to never deal with Grabbin' Peelz again, as I had pretty much nearly cost the whole campaign with my eternal wrath having been incurred. For my efforts and co-operation, I was given a Dratini named Zeke. Zeke had Thunder Wave, which made it a good candidate for anti-bullshit (which I absolutely needed) under the assumption that I wasn't up against Ground-types or anything with the Volt Absorb/Motor Drive abilities. With Zeke, I managed to catch a good anti-Ground Pokemon in the form of a Poliwag, who became Cagnazzo III.

I eventually didn't have the time for it because of school, so I ended up missing a chunk of the later sessions. During one of the sessions I missed, a player character ended up dying trying to get me an Ice-type Pokemon from an Ice Cave. It's only because of my routine absences that I eventually got to have Cagnazzo III live, as I had no healing items (remember: there only existed Grabbin' Peelz in this universe) and was entirely reliant on visits to the Pokemon Center to fully heal my Pokemon.

I tried to rejuvenate Gideon Moonshatter Golbez for Gen V's Dream World OU metagame, and gave him a Shadow Tag Chandelure named Rubicante to essentially prove that Chandelure wasn't broken with Shadow Tag. The Chandelure, much like his namesake, was obsessed with fair play. Given how little effort it took to make the Ace Trainer and how little he properly progressed (no Gym Badges whatsoever), I decided to just plain retire the character to being a support character for a later adventure with Chernabog Garland IV. He and his Shadow Tag Chandelure eventually faded away once Gen VI retconned Chandelure's Dream World ability to Infiltrator.

During and after Gideon's creation, I simply ignored anything (else) involving Pokemon Tabletop Adventures. I tried to GM a game myself but never made it past a session as, after that, everyone got tired of PTA and moved on to other things (Call of Cthulhu, mostly).