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Aug. 27th, 2019 10:29 amName of Player: Lala
Age: 28
Contact Info: PM
Character Name: Trip
Series: Pokemon Black & White
Tell Me About Them “Personality”: in brief, Trip is a very reserved, studious, rather sarcastic, pragmatic, cynical, and ambitious young trainer aiming to defeat Alder and become Champion of the Unova region.
He can act proud and haughty, sometimes getting quite full of himself, but he's actually quite insecure and seeks acknowledgement. He is open to learning from others, but he’s very jaded and can be difficult to get through to sometimes. He likes to help others and he does love his Pokemon, but he doesn't have much experience making friends; he's a bit socially awkward and was very shy even as a small child.
He likes to document his journey in photographs and is almost always seen with his camera. He dresses in line with the popular fashion of the time of airing (2009-2010's fashion was weird, there really was a trend of layering bright jackets over more muted colours...), so fashion might be an interest? Ghost types seem to be his favourite, as he has two rather ominous ones that feed off spiritual energy.
Much like his partner Pokemon Serperior, all save for one of his team members is in some way associated with royalty (Serperior, Frillish, perhaps Lampent when it becomes a Chandelureboth Ghosts would then have crowns!), nobility (Conkeldurr's name Robushin means "old warlord" hence the top-knot-looking protrusion), or the imperial family (should Tranquill evolve, Unfezant most resembles a mikado [emperor] pheasant and pheasants in general are a traditional symbol of the imperial family).
Ambitious Trip tends to focus on his goals and keeps aloof, partly due to how he was raised (where else do kids get preconceived notions about social classes and countries?) and partly due to some advice from Alder that set him down the wrong path (either said before Alder changed his ways, or it was misremembered/misinterpreted by Trip), believing battles were most important to attaining strength. This was a belief he began to question on his own (particularly after Ash proved peaceful methods can work better than Trip's reliance on numbers and brute force in Castelia city), but after being disappointed by his reunion with Alder, he clung stubbornly to pursuing strength alone for some time before it was resolved by a talk with Alder after the Junior Cup.
Noble This aspect of his character is more evident in the Japanese version, although he does use “low-class” once and “boonies” several times to disparage Ash and his Pokemon in the dub—(in the original, he has a very polite way of speaking, not Lillie-levels of high formality, but Satoshi/Ash's speaking style comes off distinctly "rural" and rude/crass by comparison to Shootie/Trip’s speech), key colours used in his design suggest affluence, and his team theme revolves around nobility, royalty, and imperial symbols. For better or worse, he conducts himself as someone of higher standards, including not taking advantage of others’ phobias and trying to aid people where he can (nobility obliges!), such as when he pointed out Oshawott’s phobia to Ash and put his travels on hold to try and save Castelia city.
Jaded He is very keen on being seen as mature and Iris uses this to rope him into battles with Ash twice! He is very sensitive to being seen as a child (the ironic childishness of his attempts to prove his maturity are lost on him), but he takes himself very seriously and has a rather cynical world view, such as believing peaceful methods are naive or would only work among naive country folk like in Ash's Pallet town, and have no applicability elsewhere. He seems to equate cynicism and cruelty with maturity and optimism and kindness with childishness...
We also see he used to be a very shy, but cheerful and expressive child when Alder first met him, but became "just a little too grown-up in three years" to quote head animator Iwane.
Ruthless while he is certainly never cruel to his own Pokemon, he can be vicious in battle (suffocating Pikachu to the point it's starting to lose conscious) and against threats (burning the Venipede), he believes the ends justifies the means. If he can justify something in his mind as necessary, being hated or called unjust doesn't faze him at all. He listens in on Ash and friends to steal intel (how to identify the leader of the Venipede), then disrupts the peace effort he didn’t believe in and even challenges the Venipede leader! But he is adaptable and if he sees something else work in practice, he'll definitely try to learn from others. He isn't cruel for the fun of it.
Insecure In truth, his show of arrogance hides a personality that can be just as “childish” as Ash’s and terribly insecure, he believed his loss to Alder was due to him lacking something or doing something wrong, rather than simply due to Alder having years of training and battle experience.
His primary motivation for his journey—one he even admits to Alder himself when he asks him what he’s fighting for—is to prove his strength to Alder. He simply wants to be acknowledged.
While still very awkward and always quiet, he is slowly becoming friendlier and more relaxed, and tries to make time for things other than just endless battling, such as learning how to be a better friend and partner to his Pokemon by spending more time with them!
He's socially awkward from the start (he comes too close to Iris when he first meets her and starts taking pictures without permission because it's the first time he met someone from the Dragon Village! ^^;) and was rather timid as a small child too.
Wiki Link: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Trip
His Bulbapedia article is veeeery vague, you can actually see people on the talk page arguing not to call Trip xenohobic so it won’t offend people like him, so they don't talk very much about his personality—of all things in the world, his section in the TV tropes article has more substance to it!
(I also wrote snippets of history to support the personality stuff, it did make things quite a bit longer, but I hope it's acceptable! I wrote it this way partly because I tend to write a lot and partly because he's not a very popular character and has just a few episodes, so not much gets written on him in general).
Supplemental history:
Among the events that particularly shifts his way of thinking is seeing Ash's peaceful means work better than his reliance on numbers and strength in Castelia city. He thought it was only natural to attack the Venipede as they were a dangerous threat to the humans in that place and humans should side with humans... while peaceful means were riskier (Ash did get poisoned, after all), they also helped get to the actual root of the problem (the Venipede were disturbed out of their natural dwelling places and thus swarmed the city), so relocating them (while the scientists looked into the cause of the disturbance) was all that needed to be done.
This likely caused him to see there might be something more to becoming a great Pokemon trainer than just winning lots of battles (what he retained of Alder's advice, along with "grow up quickly"), but when he finally reunited with Alder, he was disappointed to find Alder had forgotten him entirely. Worse, he didn't live up to his high expectations.
Seeing Alder in a particularly bad state (sleep-deprived from wandering all night and dozing off mid-battle, losing his memory in his old age, seemingly carefree and foolish), Trip stubbornly insisted on the singleminded pursuit of strength he had begun to question out of sheer disappointment in what he saw to be the end result of a gentler, friendlier approach—he left before seeing Alder display wisdom and strength in stopping a rampaging, injured Pokemon.
When he managed to go through the Junior Cup and finally battle Alder, he was happy with the opportunity, although he was still angry with what Alder had become (he spent a long stretch taking no pictures, too, and he used to take pictures to remember even his frustrations and defeats...) but as it became clear he couldn't win, became very upset and assumed it was due to some defect in his method or self. Alder reassured him it wasn't that and that he could tell Serperior loved him and asked if he was living up to its expectations, and he said he was starting to...
After receiving the answers he sought, he regains his respect for Alder and no longer single-mindedly pursues strength; his manner is kinder towards other trainers and he spends more time with his Pokemon, as seen in the Te wo Tsunagou ending that acted as epilogue for the rivals—he smiles when he sees Ash and friends [implicitly/off-screen], instead of looking away as he used to do, with has Serperior out by his side while he’s taking pictures, and takes a picture of Ash and friends and all their Pokemon together!
Possessions: Trip has his own backpack, but if something happens to it on arrival, a new one would do (preferably in black!). He'll have the Pokeballs, Berries, Potions, as well as his team of Pokemon, his digital camera, and an X-transceiver.
RP Sample #1: TDM sample
RP Sample #2: Iiii haven't roleplayed this character in years, honestly, so I hope the TDM will cover, if not, here are old threads, although they're tied to deleted accounts. ^^;;;
https://ryslig.dreamwidth.org/582133.html?thread=91790325#cmt91790325 https://ryslig.dreamwidth.org/584238.html?thread=93451310#cmt93451310
^^^dream events, some battling with sorta-npcs, some dialogue/introspection?
This (reaaaally old thread) is a lot longer and the stuff before it needs more context, but going down from this point in the conversation with Cilan is quite good! They go over a lot of stuff, morality (... he killed a monster that was terrorizing the place in game, only to find out it was a mother protective of its unhatched young... he guiltily takes home an egg to raise), strength, whether it's better to keep feelings locked up or express them, etc.
Age: 28
Contact Info: PM
Character Name: Trip
Series: Pokemon Black & White
Tell Me About Them “Personality”: in brief, Trip is a very reserved, studious, rather sarcastic, pragmatic, cynical, and ambitious young trainer aiming to defeat Alder and become Champion of the Unova region.
He can act proud and haughty, sometimes getting quite full of himself, but he's actually quite insecure and seeks acknowledgement. He is open to learning from others, but he’s very jaded and can be difficult to get through to sometimes. He likes to help others and he does love his Pokemon, but he doesn't have much experience making friends; he's a bit socially awkward and was very shy even as a small child.
He likes to document his journey in photographs and is almost always seen with his camera. He dresses in line with the popular fashion of the time of airing (2009-2010's fashion was weird, there really was a trend of layering bright jackets over more muted colours...), so fashion might be an interest? Ghost types seem to be his favourite, as he has two rather ominous ones that feed off spiritual energy.
Much like his partner Pokemon Serperior, all save for one of his team members is in some way associated with royalty (Serperior, Frillish, perhaps Lampent when it becomes a Chandelure
Ambitious Trip tends to focus on his goals and keeps aloof, partly due to how he was raised (where else do kids get preconceived notions about social classes and countries?) and partly due to some advice from Alder that set him down the wrong path (either said before Alder changed his ways, or it was misremembered/misinterpreted by Trip), believing battles were most important to attaining strength. This was a belief he began to question on his own (particularly after Ash proved peaceful methods can work better than Trip's reliance on numbers and brute force in Castelia city), but after being disappointed by his reunion with Alder, he clung stubbornly to pursuing strength alone for some time before it was resolved by a talk with Alder after the Junior Cup.
Noble This aspect of his character is more evident in the Japanese version, although he does use “low-class” once and “boonies” several times to disparage Ash and his Pokemon in the dub—(in the original, he has a very polite way of speaking, not Lillie-levels of high formality, but Satoshi/Ash's speaking style comes off distinctly "rural" and rude/crass by comparison to Shootie/Trip’s speech), key colours used in his design suggest affluence, and his team theme revolves around nobility, royalty, and imperial symbols. For better or worse, he conducts himself as someone of higher standards, including not taking advantage of others’ phobias and trying to aid people where he can (nobility obliges!), such as when he pointed out Oshawott’s phobia to Ash and put his travels on hold to try and save Castelia city.
Jaded He is very keen on being seen as mature and Iris uses this to rope him into battles with Ash twice! He is very sensitive to being seen as a child (the ironic childishness of his attempts to prove his maturity are lost on him), but he takes himself very seriously and has a rather cynical world view, such as believing peaceful methods are naive or would only work among naive country folk like in Ash's Pallet town, and have no applicability elsewhere. He seems to equate cynicism and cruelty with maturity and optimism and kindness with childishness...
We also see he used to be a very shy, but cheerful and expressive child when Alder first met him, but became "just a little too grown-up in three years" to quote head animator Iwane.
Ruthless while he is certainly never cruel to his own Pokemon, he can be vicious in battle (suffocating Pikachu to the point it's starting to lose conscious) and against threats (burning the Venipede), he believes the ends justifies the means. If he can justify something in his mind as necessary, being hated or called unjust doesn't faze him at all. He listens in on Ash and friends to steal intel (how to identify the leader of the Venipede), then disrupts the peace effort he didn’t believe in and even challenges the Venipede leader! But he is adaptable and if he sees something else work in practice, he'll definitely try to learn from others. He isn't cruel for the fun of it.
Insecure In truth, his show of arrogance hides a personality that can be just as “childish” as Ash’s and terribly insecure, he believed his loss to Alder was due to him lacking something or doing something wrong, rather than simply due to Alder having years of training and battle experience.
His primary motivation for his journey—one he even admits to Alder himself when he asks him what he’s fighting for—is to prove his strength to Alder. He simply wants to be acknowledged.
While still very awkward and always quiet, he is slowly becoming friendlier and more relaxed, and tries to make time for things other than just endless battling, such as learning how to be a better friend and partner to his Pokemon by spending more time with them!
He's socially awkward from the start (he comes too close to Iris when he first meets her and starts taking pictures without permission because it's the first time he met someone from the Dragon Village! ^^;) and was rather timid as a small child too.
Wiki Link: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Trip
His Bulbapedia article is veeeery vague, you can actually see people on the talk page arguing not to call Trip xenohobic so it won’t offend people like him, so they don't talk very much about his personality—of all things in the world, his section in the TV tropes article has more substance to it!
(I also wrote snippets of history to support the personality stuff, it did make things quite a bit longer, but I hope it's acceptable! I wrote it this way partly because I tend to write a lot and partly because he's not a very popular character and has just a few episodes, so not much gets written on him in general).
Supplemental history:
Among the events that particularly shifts his way of thinking is seeing Ash's peaceful means work better than his reliance on numbers and strength in Castelia city. He thought it was only natural to attack the Venipede as they were a dangerous threat to the humans in that place and humans should side with humans... while peaceful means were riskier (Ash did get poisoned, after all), they also helped get to the actual root of the problem (the Venipede were disturbed out of their natural dwelling places and thus swarmed the city), so relocating them (while the scientists looked into the cause of the disturbance) was all that needed to be done.
This likely caused him to see there might be something more to becoming a great Pokemon trainer than just winning lots of battles (what he retained of Alder's advice, along with "grow up quickly"), but when he finally reunited with Alder, he was disappointed to find Alder had forgotten him entirely. Worse, he didn't live up to his high expectations.
Seeing Alder in a particularly bad state (sleep-deprived from wandering all night and dozing off mid-battle, losing his memory in his old age, seemingly carefree and foolish), Trip stubbornly insisted on the singleminded pursuit of strength he had begun to question out of sheer disappointment in what he saw to be the end result of a gentler, friendlier approach—he left before seeing Alder display wisdom and strength in stopping a rampaging, injured Pokemon.
When he managed to go through the Junior Cup and finally battle Alder, he was happy with the opportunity, although he was still angry with what Alder had become (he spent a long stretch taking no pictures, too, and he used to take pictures to remember even his frustrations and defeats...) but as it became clear he couldn't win, became very upset and assumed it was due to some defect in his method or self. Alder reassured him it wasn't that and that he could tell Serperior loved him and asked if he was living up to its expectations, and he said he was starting to...
After receiving the answers he sought, he regains his respect for Alder and no longer single-mindedly pursues strength; his manner is kinder towards other trainers and he spends more time with his Pokemon, as seen in the Te wo Tsunagou ending that acted as epilogue for the rivals—he smiles when he sees Ash and friends [implicitly/off-screen], instead of looking away as he used to do, with has Serperior out by his side while he’s taking pictures, and takes a picture of Ash and friends and all their Pokemon together!
Possessions: Trip has his own backpack, but if something happens to it on arrival, a new one would do (preferably in black!). He'll have the Pokeballs, Berries, Potions, as well as his team of Pokemon, his digital camera, and an X-transceiver.
RP Sample #1: TDM sample
RP Sample #2: Iiii haven't roleplayed this character in years, honestly, so I hope the TDM will cover, if not, here are old threads, although they're tied to deleted accounts. ^^;;;
https://ryslig.dreamwidth.org/582133.html?thread=91790325#cmt91790325 https://ryslig.dreamwidth.org/584238.html?thread=93451310#cmt93451310
^^^dream events, some battling with sorta-npcs, some dialogue/introspection?
This (reaaaally old thread) is a lot longer and the stuff before it needs more context, but going down from this point in the conversation with Cilan is quite good! They go over a lot of stuff, morality (... he killed a monster that was terrorizing the place in game, only to find out it was a mother protective of its unhatched young... he guiltily takes home an egg to raise), strength, whether it's better to keep feelings locked up or express them, etc.
