Pokemon evil team studies/lore OUTDATED, PLEASE DELETE

[Dragoncat]

EDIT - Making a oneshot/writing thread, so this no longer needs to be here since it will be there.

 

Made these for the Turf Wars RP I'm running on another site, you can find the link in the RP board. Merc is my OC, everything else, I tried to stay close to canon while filling in the gaps. Post comments in this thread.

 

Team Rocket
Boss: Giovanni
Admins: Archer, Ariana, Proton, Petrel
Origin: Kanto

Most known for their takeover of the Johto radio tower, Team Rocket can appear like bumbling idiots, but the higher ups are sneaky, successful criminals. They’ve done murders and trafficking of illegal substances.

Their boss was once a gym leader in Kanto, and he balanced that with his criminal enterprise shockingly well. He once had a lover: a redheaded Silph Co secretary named Roselle. She did a good job of hiding the relationship from her coworkers. But when she became pregnant, she knew the secret would be out if she didn’t act fast. She quit her job, fled the city of Saffron, and changed her name to Scarlet. Giovanni allowed her to live with him in his mansion. He actually looked forward to having a child, someone he could train to follow in his footsteps someday.

The child was born with his mother’s fiery colored hair, and piercing silver eyes from a more distant ancestor, so he was named Silver. But Giovanni thought the eye color came from elsewhere...he thought Roselle/Scarlet had cheated on him. The resulting rage from him made her take the baby and run. She fled to Johto and settled in Cherrygrove, where Silver grew into a troubled teen due to the lack of a father figure in his life.

The highest ranking admins are Archer and Ariana. Archer is Giovanni’s right hand man. Cold and calculating, he comes up with quite a few ideas for heists that Giovanni likes. The infamous Lake of Rage incident with the red gyarados was his idea. Ariana has the men in the team wrapped around her finger. She’s a femme fatale type who can make a male Rocket grunt do anything she wants with just a sultry gaze and a command. It only works on the grunts though, Giovanni’s immune to it and Archer will just try to argue with her the majority of the time.

Ariana's act normally works on Petrel because he's somewhat gullible and dimwitted, and worked on Proton just once, but not any more. Proton is almost constantly trying to stop Petrel from letting her manipulate him. It's unknown why Giovanni keeps Petrel in his rank, but he must have his reasons.

 

Team Magma
Boss: Maxie
Admins: Tabitha, Courtney
Origin: Hoenn

Team Magma is a small nuisance to law enforcement, they haven’t done anything more major than robbing banks and stealing vehicles. There are rumors of them being violent, but they have yet to be proven.

Their boss is a sharp dressed business man, but surprisingly, he began life in the Fallarbor countryside as part of a farm family. His parents expected him to inherit the farm, but Maxie was more ambitious. He went to college and got a degree in enviromental studies. Meanwhile his parents’ farming business went under, they couldn’t afford to keep it going with the rising prices of everything.

It was then that Maxie started the team. His main dream of expanding the landmass goes along with his rural roots. If there’s more land, there will be more space and opportunity for the agriculture industry. This is in direct opposition to Team Aqua. The two teams clash and sometimes they get violent and there has been a few fatalities.

Admin Tabitha is a man with a temper to match his height. Maxie often uses him as someone who “gets rid of obstacles”, meaning he sends him out to deal with people who become direct threats to the team. He’s loyal like a mightyena, complete with the “fangs”. The other admin is a woman named Courtney, who is well educated like Maxie and helps him with the tech, blueprints, etc. She’s loyal too, but prefers to let others do the dirty work.

 

Team Aqua
Boss: Archie
Admins: Matt, Shelly
Origin: Hoenn

Unlike their rival, Team Aqua is a good sized nuisance. They act like pirates, terrorizing anyone on a boat or in the water and sometimes they use force to steal a boat they like. The coast guard has to deal with their antics.

Their boss, Archie, is a rough and tumble former sailor. He grew up in Slateport and fell in love with the sea. All life comes from the sea, so he wants to see it expanded, and despite his underlings stealing fishing boats, he's pro fisherman. He seems to go back and forth on the welfare of sea pokemon, however. He calls things like tentacools and anything that steals fish from nets "pests", wailmers are "big and stupid", but sharpedos are "noble predators".

Archie once saved the life of a shipwrecked man who washed up on the coast of an island outside of Slateport. He found him unconscious and arranged for him to be airlifted to the nearest hospital. The man didn't remember where he came from, but he remembered his name was Matt. Matt figured he owed Archie his eternal gratitude and is now an Aqua admin. He works beside Admin Shelly, a fisherman's daughter who has always been a rebel at heart.

 

Team Galactic
Boss: Cyrus
Admins: Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, Charon
Origin: Sinnoh

A team that focuses on space, energy, and the like. They're viewed mostly as a "weird cult" and aren't usually taken seriously. They steal pokemon and can get violent, but mostly they just do rituals to appease their "dark lord Giratina", which sometimes, but not always, require a sacrificial pokemon victim. Some people think they sacrifice humans, but this has yet to be proven.

Their boss was an orphan, and has always been antisocial. When he was growing up in foster care he spent the majority of the time holed up by himself reading about the wonders of the universe. As an adult, Cyrus is still interested in outer space and the energy that comes from it, solar energy etc. All the electricity Team Galactic uses comes from solar panels. They scoff at coal and even wind power.

When someone gets an admin role in Team Galactic, they get a code name related to space. The highest ranking admins are Slater "Saturn" and Marion "Mars". Their son Merc, short for Mercury, is closer to his parents than to the Galactic boss, but that's expected, Cyrus has never liked kids, even though Merc is a teen now.

Mars is the dominant one in the relationship, her temper can be short and she's generally not as calm as Saturn or even their son. She was promoted first and bonded with Saturn over their duties and his way up the ranks. He's more passive, but has a slight ego. His talent speaks for itself, he was made an admin for that sole reason.

The other two admins are Charles "Charon" and Jewel "Jupiter". Charon is the oldest, older than even Cyrus by a decade or two. He's bitter at having "young whippersnappers" being the higher ranked admins, but perfectly fine with Cyrus where he is. He spends most of his time doing anything science related and normally leads the research projects. Jupiter keeps to herself mostly and it's clear that she and Mars don't get along, rumored to be because she was interested in Saturn and didn't get him, but they clashed even before that.

 

Team Plasma
Boss: Ghetsis
Admins: Zinzolin, Gorm, Bronius, Rood, Giallo, Ryoku
Origin: Unova

Team Plasma claims to be against pokemon cruelty, saying it's cruel to be a trainer, but they are trainers too. In reality they're just saying "nobody but us should be allowed to train pokemon". People see them as the hypocrites they are. They steal pokemon and attempt to spread their propaganda through intimidation.

Their boss is a sly one with many layers. He once adopted an orphan and named him Natural Harmonia, N for short. Ghetsis raised N to believe he was his birth father. The boy was pampered and his head was filled with the false goals of Team Plasma, the liberation of all pokemon. In reality Ghetsis was aiming for world domination, being the power hungry man he is.

N eventually found out the truth, fled the team, and was labeled as a traitor. He aims to help pokemon in his own way. Ghetsis doesn't pursue him, he doesn't see him as enough of a threat, just a disobedient little scamp who's not worth it.

Ghetsis, along with the admins, were once called the "seven sages". N was the leader before he left, or rather he was being groomed to be. Out of the remaining six, Zinzolin has the most authority and acts as Ghetsis' second in command. He shares his sly and manipulative nature.

 

Team Flare
Boss: Lysandre
Admins: Xerosic, Aliana, Bryony, Celosia, Mable
Origin: Kalos

A team with a big ego, they aim to "make the world beautiful" and shun anything they find ugly. According to them, some people are better/more beautiful than others. The best kind of people in their eyes have light skin and bright, exotic looking natural hair colors. Reds and oranges are the best of the best. Nobody who doesn't fit those standards can join, and there's also a high entry fee.

Their boss, Lysandre, was born to a rich couple who owned multiple cafes in Lumiose. He was an only child because his parents had fertility issues, and he was two months early and tiny and weak. His parents spoiled him rotten and he grew up believing he could do no wrong and the world should bow down to rich people such as himself.

He only had one close friend, Xerosic, who also had rich parents. That was until they made a business deal with someone from Johto. The plan was to joint own their company and both sides would get a profit, but the Johto native ripped them off and they no longer own the company and get no profit from it. The incident made Lysandre and Xerosic begin to see other regions' natives as slimey, untrustable, inferior people.

Team Flare mainly operates in Kalos and attacks tourists, sometimes with words, sometimes physically with anything from fists to knives to guns. They have an interest in going elsewhere, but see their home region as the most beautiful.

 

Team Skull
Boss: Guzma
Admin: Plumeria
Origin: Alola

The least organized team, it's more like a group of troublemaking street urchins than anything. They do vandalism, shoplifting, sometimes drug dealing, and assaults.

Many members come from broken homes and foster care, but some are just rebels with a "f the police" attitude. The only admin is the daughter of a biker who gets in trouble with the law himself at times. The leader had a rough childhood, with an alcoholic father and a mother who was too meek and passive to do anything to make the situation better. Guzma and Plumeria met at an early age and have always been close.

Guzma started the team in his late teenage years as a way to lash out at everyone who had made his life miserable: his parents and the authority figures who constantly called him things like "rotten kid" and "little punk". He made Plumeria his second in command for obvious reasons. Their relationship is strictly platonic. He expressed an interest in her once by using a stupid pick up line, but she was seeing someone else at the time. She's single now but he just sees her as a trusted ally these days.

Edited March 26, 2017 by Dragoncat

[Snowy_One]

Since you haven't posted a feedback but I want to return the favor...

Honestly, I found this to be a little bland. As overviews they work okay but it feels less like I'm reading actual character bios and more like I'm looking at a storyboard. You could do so much here by going into their lore and trivia a bit more to elaborate on the many things. Especially if this is for another RP where you can easily flesh out the characters more. Like, for example, what was Giovanni's favorite pokemon and why? Does said pokemon have it's own rap sheet? Or, alternatively, mix up the perspective a little bit. Like, say, maybe written from a grunt who ended up in/working with all those gangs.

On the positive side, for an RP-sign up this is very decent and I've seen stuff miles worse. Decent detail on all the characters and not overlooking a group.

[Dragoncat]

Well, I leave things simple so there's not a wall of text to read, and fleshing them out even more, I leave to the people who claim them. As far as canons go I've only claimed Mars, Saturn, and our boy Guzma. The person who claimed Proton had the genius idea of giving him a salazzle named Ariana lol, he doesn't call her that in the presence of the human Ariana though. I do the same fleshing out for mine. There's a place for everyone to put more backstory and etc as well as stuff on the pokemon the canon has.

I could've written it from the perspective of a grunt but realistically if they're a grunt they would know very little about the leaders. I doubt they tell their life story to every Tom, Dick, and Harry who joins the team.

[Snowy_One]

No, but that could be part of the fun. The grunt piecing together the history from what they know of the boss, public knowledge, and speculation.

[Dragoncat]

OR they're an undercover cop and they have access to records and stuff...

While it's an interesting idea, I do think what I have works well enough. Any other musings about the content itself? Maxie being a farm kid comes from way back when on Zelda Dungeon, somebody had a theory about Magma vs Aqua being farmers vs fishermen. I forgot who it was but I liked the idea. Also I changed Silver's eye color...canonically they're red like his dad's. But he needed a reason to have that name. Which also turned into a reason why Giovanni appeared to be a dead beat dad.