I'm usually not a fan of post-acropalyptic RPGs, but I have an urge to make something. I haven't thought out most of the plot out carefully, but it isn't really that there is a nuclear disaster and every pokemon dies, its more like a gradual approach. It will be set 200 years in the future where pokemon are all gone.
Background/Plot
Evolution is one of the things that never changes in life. Everything is constantly changing and progressing. When humans are added into evolution, everything changes. It is not because they are evolving faster, but they affect other organisms in their habitat. They expand, and kill trees that are homes to many pokemon. This causes some species that can't adapt, to die out and become extinct.
There are some scientists who protest about doing this, about cutting down forests that affect pokemon, but most people did not care. It was their world, wasn't there an unspoken rule of the fittest being able to survive?-And humans were on the top of the food chain, if they could do something for humanity's benefit, then why not do it?
Sadly, this belief led to a horrid result. When pollinators and grass pokemon were killed in insecticides, people felt that their fruits were not growing, and there were no pokemon to pollianate flowers in the gardens. When rock pokemon were killed, many tunnels and caves where thousands of these once lived in, collapsed, and affected the mining and oil industries. The only thing people were glad about were the water pokemon dying, good riddance to those huge things that could control the water and create typhoons. But soon, effects of that started to appear.
Now wondering, why did people think this way?-Weren't humans and pokemon living in harmony like they always did. The answer was simple, you have the dog or Growlithe in this case, which is man's best friend, but does man really think that the dog is his best friend? People can assume, but what does the man really think?
First off, there was something like a dust bowl (remember the Depression?) that killed crops and trees in many parts of the world, and it was especially prominent in Jhoto. After that, pokemon living in the forests were running out of food, and came to towns and cities searching through trash dumpsters or mobbing food from humans. This led to anger among people, and as the years past with more and more of these dust bowls appeared, and soon food became scarce. Humans adapted to this, they formed green houses and used lights to grow plants, but pokemon were affected after a decade of this. Trainers and professors alike told many of the public to help pokemon, but after a decade of pokemon pillaging cities in search of food-in more and more numbers, the public were sick. Children grew up thinking that pokemon were just monsters trying to steal resources, and these same children were the ones who grew up into adults.
The famine ended shortly after 11 years, and by then, many pokemon had died already. When it ended, people returned to growing foods outside and fishing, and found pokemon to be a nuisance-this was when all the insecticide was used and everything described before. And there were major disasters because of this in the long run since pokemon pollianated plants and kept population levels at a standstill...yada yada. Along with that, they were often considered dangerous because of their attacks and caused more dissent.
A group of scientists came up with a solution to this. Humans evolved, why can't pokemon to meet the human's needs for survival? They were too big and dangerous (some of them), so they sped up the process of evolution. With plant pokemon, they altered the genes to make them seem like average flowers and plants, and with bug pokemon, they made them smaller and disallowed them to have attacks. With everything it was the same, a Growlithe could stay the same size, but lost all of its fire attacks. And Ponytas no longer had their flames for tails.
Soon the word animal was used to call Pokemon, and that was how it was. Children grew up with animals and quickly thought that pokemon were a myth.
Yet, the Legendaries of the time, Ho-ho, Lugia, and the rest decided this was dangerous. Their fellow comrades were being lost, and they were quickly losing everything that made them pokemon. With their power, they sealed themselves and what was left of the pokemon into a timeless space of existence where in two hundred years, they would return to Earth and try to see the existance of mankind. They knew that bringing back pokemon could not be done entirely, but showing people that pokemon existed and hopefully see what pokemon were now like. It was a small step forward to say the least.
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Mankind has been the same after 200 years. The only difference is that everything is solar powered, wind powered, and everything is used with 'clean' power, meaning no oil or fossil fuels. There are bumble bees, the descendents of Beedrills and the dog has taken the part of Growlithe as the family pet.
The legendaries come back to Earth along with some of the remaining pokemon, but there was something unexpected that happened. When the timeless space was broken, all of them got human forms and lost their past memories.
You will be playing as a legendary in the RPG who will look around 15-25 years old, you have no recollections of who you are, but vaguely remember that you're here to change something. Now it is up to regain your memories and find the other people. Pokemon moves can be used, and once you remember things from your past as a pokemon, you can use 'magic', as it is called in these modern times.
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Its rather rushed, and I haven't thought out all the details over and everything. And I didn't spell check, so there's probably a dozen spelling errors.
I also wish for a Claymore RPG, and I would totally of made one if I had time.
