<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Character Creation</strong></span></div><br/><strong>STEP ONE</strong><br/>Choose Any Non-Legendary (http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Legendary_Pokémon), Non-Swarm<strong>*</strong>Pokémon; you are transformed into an athromorphic human-Pokémon hybrid version of your choice, referred to from this point on as a PokéMutant, without the ability to evolve.<br/><br/>A PokéMutant's form does not effect their Combat Stats, so being a third-stage Pokémon or a baby Pokémon won't change how comparatively powerful you all are.<br/><br/><em><strong>*</strong>The Swarm Pokémon restriction does not include those with multiple heads who share a single body (Exeggutor, Girafarig or Combee, etc); only those which are separate Pokemon huddled together, such as Exeggcute, Dugtrio and Magneton.</em><br/><br/><br/><strong>STEP TWO</strong><br/>Go through all character creation steps as normal, but<strong>BEWARE</strong>your new Master does not appreciate skills or abilities tied to the use of PokéBalls; and you'll additionally gain all 1st level Moves from the Move List of that Pokémon's earliest form/stage.<br/><br/>Over the course of play, a PokéMutant may ultimately know up to 12 Moves, up to 6 Moves from their Pokémon list and up to 6<strong>*</strong>Moves from Class features; and a PokéMutant can learn any Normal Type, or any other Moves that match their Type, from Classes.<br/><br/><em><strong>*</strong>Pokemon that do not learn 6 different Moves (such as Ditto or Unown), may take additional Moves from Class features to a total of 12 Moves.</em><br/><br/><br/><strong>STEP THREE</strong><br/>Choose one of that Pokémon's Basic Abilities and additionally gain one of the following (using a Mudkip PokéMutant as our example):<br/>a) a second Basic Ability (so they'd have both Damp and Dry Skin)<br/>b) a capability (so they'd gain Gilled, Fountain, Naturewalk [Wetlands] or Underdog)<br/>c) +4 points of Movement types, up to their PokéMutant form's maximum (so they could raise their Swim to 6 and/or their Burrow to 2)<br/><br/>With regards to Pokémon who can learn HM and other utility Moves like Strength, Cut, Rock Smash, etc, PokéMutants still need those specifically to push boulders, cut bushes and smash weak rocks, but only need Fly or Surf if they intend to carry others whilst respectively flying or swimming; however PokéMutants cannot utilise the Phasing/Intangible capability and are tethered to the physical plane at all times.<br/><br/><br/><strong>STEP FOUR</strong><br/>Pick one to three companion Pokémon, who's combined base stat totals (BST) of their final (non-Mega) evolutions do not exceed 750 (Final Evolution Reference (http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_fully_evolved_Pok%C3%A9mon_by_base_stats)), these choices must then share five character levels between them.<br/><br/><strong>Example Teams:</strong><br/>- Slakoth (Slaking 670 BST) at level 5<br/>- Castform (420 BST) at level 3 and Delibird (330 BST) at level 2<br/>- Ditto (288 BST) at level 2, Smeargle (250 BST) at level 2 and Wishiwashi (175 BST) at level 1<br/><br/><br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Active Characters</strong></span><br/>INCOMING</div><br/><br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Inactive Characters</strong></span><br/>NONE CURRENTLY :)</div><br/><br/><br/><div style="text-align: right;"><strong>Links:</strong><br/>Interest Thread (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=259607.0)<br/>OOC Thread] (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=261427.0)<br/>Story Thread [Incoming]</div>