Pokey Minch

Ten Things To Ten People Meme

2018-02-11T23:49:45Z

The Rules:

1. Your character puts down something they’d want to say/think of in regards to ten people, which can be characters in or out of game.

2. Others respond to each other’s lists, wondering if they’re one of the people being mentioned or just being nosy.

3. Have fun! Make sure to keep an IC/OOC divide!

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Dossiers/Notes - The Meadous (CR Chart for We The Lost - Rough Draft)

2017-08-31T21:07:09Z

Aletheia Treewyrm
World: Alternia/Troll Homeworld (origin); The Facility ('jamjar')
* One of the first people I met around here; kind of gave me the rundown and tour of the place when I first arrived
* One of the people who took charge in investigating the "murder mystery" that Sherlock decided he'd start among us
* Has been around here for years. She's pretty old guard, and seems pretty well settled here, and takes the safety of the Meadous seriously. Hard to compromise with in regards to actions or behaviors she thinks will endanger the Meadous. Often leads to confrontation and conflict with John Watson.
* But also a prankster and joker. Gets enjoyment from games and messing around. I kind of dig that.
* Got second place in the ship race with her in July. That in and of itself was pretty much a miracle, but pretty cool.
* Has an interest in dragons. Heart during the heart event was a Lizard. Little dude was pretty outgoing, a lot like here.
* Lonely?
* My best friend in this place. One of the few people I'd say I trust almost entirely here, even if I don't agree with them on everything.
* Recently went into a coma due to some kind of breakdown/sickness typical of the clones made at the Facility. John figured out how to fix it. Thank God. I honestly don't know what I'd do without her at this point. Like I said, she's my best friend.

Izzekiel Piedsoul
World: Alternia(Beforus? Still learning)/Troll Homeworld (origin); The Capitol ('jamjar')
* Have seen around the Meadous, but haven't spoken with directly. Closest direction discussion was with his heart, a goat, during the Heart event, and had been pretty pissed/done with recent events. Seems to be on an upswing.
* Most interaction has been over the board. Seems like a level headed guy. He knows what it means to have to have pulled yourself up from being something shitty.
* Been here a long time too. Like Aletheia, takes the care and protection of the Meadous seriously. Seems to care about Zephyr's wellbeing as much as our own, which is reassuring.
* Has given me some pretty solid advice so far. I owe him one thanks to that.
* Working with him on an important project regarding whatever it might be that's threatening the godlings and other worlds.
* Learned a lot about him. About the worlds the trolls had before in Alternia and Beforus. Learned a lot about him in both pasts and present. I'm kind of surprised he told me as much as he did.
* Big brother-ish figure? I dunno. It's been a long time since I've had a older guy to look up to. I don't want to impose.

John Watson
World: Earth (origin); Norfinbury ('jamjar')
* Another one of the first people that I met here. Also one of the least content to be here. Tends to cause friction with the other long timers here, especially Alethia and Izzekiel. Is not doing himself any favors, though everything he does seems to be from good intentions.
* Doctor. Gave me like my first check up in seven years. Good to know this place has a trained doctor for once.
* Jumpy. Paranoid. Allows his paranoia to tinge how he sees things. Can't blame him. That's a hard habit to ever get around.
* Can't tell if he's concerned about me or challenging me in some way about my complacency here. That could be my own paranoia. Like the guy though.
* Wants to get out. Seems to think he has a lot to do back in Norfinbury. Implies like it might only work if its him. Savior complex?
* Friends with Sherlock. Defends Sherlock constantly, but seems to get as angry with him as anyone else. That's friendship, sure. Seems to be taken to an extreme.

Stephen Strange
World: Earth (origin); Norfinbury ('jamjar')
* Another doctor. Another person from the hellhole that seems to be Norfinbury.
* Not as paranoid and stubborn as John. Might be more self-righteous though. Self-centered. Same time, pretty sure everyone here is self-centered in some way.
* Sorcerer. Can astrally project like I can. Warned me not to touch the wall while projecting, apparently it'll mess you up. Got some information about what Norfinbury was like during the dinner party.
* Seems to enjoy experimenting with his magic. Revealed the monster that was in the ocean through his portals. That was pretty cool.
* Has shown that he at least has some kind of sense of humor. He's a bit more okay in my book after that. He's at least more reasonable than Sherlock to me. Maybe more reasonable than John too.

Philip Gray
World: Earth (origin); Unknown ('jamjar')
* Friendly guy. Baker. Can apparently bake magic into some of his product that can affect emotional states, although benignly.
* Trying to help hold the people in the Meadous together with the weird waves the people from Norfinbury are causing. Seems to slide more towards the old guard's point of view, though he doesn't seem to write the Norfinbury folk off.
* Nice guy. Cupcakes helped me actually find some self-esteem for once. Seems too friendly, but not in a false way. More like he's a little awkward and just didn't want it to show.

Milla Vodello
World: Earth (origin); Unknown ('jamjar')
* Therapist. Psychic. Met her when she offered to give therapeutic advice and I took her up on.
* Kind. Good conversationalist. Should probably set up another meeting soon, if just to talk about all I've gone through since the last one. Still don't like the idea of therapy. Could help me.
* Attempted to see all sides of things/be a peacemaker briefly during the shitshow in June.

Justin Law
World: Earth (assumedly; origin); Unknown (maybe The Facility? Ally seems to know him.) ('jamjar')
* Responsible for killing Sherlock after Sherlock's fake ass murder mystery. Not much of a mystery this time. More of a near lynching and shitshow.
* Puts on an agreeable front. Heart betrayed him in showing how little a damn he cared about the problems he caused in June. Seemed proud of it.
* Asshole, as far as I'm concerned. Might be worth keeping an eye on. Spy on with projection? Not sure yet.

Lili Zanatto
World: Earth (origin); The Facility, Anatole ('jamjars')
* Psychic. Daughter to Sasha Nein-Riggs. One of the few others here that's in my age range. Knew Raz.
* Another one of the first people to greet me. Also showed me around some and gave me an idea of the place.
* Understands me, least how I view things here. Grew up in these fucking places, just like I do. Understands what it means to have to be here, how there is no getting back, how you just have to reach for what happiness you can get. It's nice to be understood like that for once.
* Insomniac. Constant book reader. Seems to love/is able to communicate with plants. Seems to have a love for animals as well (can communicate with them too?). Has a pet rat named Harold.
* Tough. Pragmatic. Doesn't take shit. I can appreciate that.
* Old guard here too. Stays out of the gathering arguments for the most part, doesn't seem to want to bother. Can't blame her.
* Plans to stay here when the walls go down. Wants to settle down. Relateable.
* We're experimenting together, I guess. Kinda-sorta a thing. ~~Why's it always a tough ass redhead?~~ Girlfriend? Still don't know. I don't want to weird her out.

Sherlock Holmes
World: Earth (origin); Norfinbury ('jamjar')
* Detective. Apparently cracked a lot of cases where he's from, according to John.
* Lives with John. Friends and roommates. Looking at them, they seem to fight more often then get along, and fight with each other more than they fight with the people they actually disagree with. Still seem inseparable despite this. Codependent?
* Staged a fake murder to try and find something to do here. Ended in a real murder thanks to Justin Law. Doesn't seem to that bothered by it himself, I'll give him that.
* Giving him DNA and samples of myself to see if he can find any kind of discrepancies/changes while we're here. Give him something to keep him busy. Keep making tracks myself to see if there is something up.
* Despite his behavior and attitude, harmless. More worried about John and his good intentions than I am about Sherlock and his curiosity.
* Still don't like him, but he's interesting to listen to at times. Attitude just makes me angry sometimes.

Eliza Owens
World: Earth (Pokemon version, assumedly; origin); Unknown ('jamjar')
* A little younger than me. Pokemon trainer. Very excitable. Eager. Willing to try new things. Thought she'd learn to fly from flinging herself off a building.
* Apparently was forced to participate in some killing game for the amusement of others. Pisses me off. I'm amazed that she's still as chipper as she seems to be. Probably keep an eye on her.

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Points post for We The Lost

2017-06-17T17:50:00Z

[April]
GOAL: 0
CURRENT: 100
Making a post (30): Intro Post (30)
New people (20):
10+ comments threads (10 for first ten comments + 5 for every ten comments after): Pokey and Lili (10)
Pokey and Sasha (20)
Pokey and Ally (15)
Pokey and Watson (15)
Pokey and Zephyr (Tagging an NPC) (10)

Mailbox interactions (2 per letter, 25 total for 10+ letters) :

[May]
GOAL:
CURRENT: 220
Making a post (30):
New people (20): Pokey meets Peter on the board (20)
~~Pokey and Mila (20)~~
Pokey and Eliza (20)
10+ comments threads (10 for first ten comments + 5 for every ten comments after): ~~Pokey and Sasha (20)~~
Pokey and Mila (15)
Pokey and Zephyr (tagging a NPC) (10)
Pokey and Ally (20)
Pokey and Ally (15)
Pokey and Zephyr (tag NPC) (10 + 10)
Pokey and John (10)
Pokey and Lili (10)

Mailbox interactions (2 per letter, 25 total for 10+ letters) :

[June]
GOAL:
CURRENT: 384
Making a post (30): ~~Post of Memories (30)~~
New people (20): Pokey and Justin (20)
Pokey and Izzy (20)
Pokey and Disciple (20)
10+ comments threads (10 for first ten comments + 5 for every ten comments after):
Pokey and Eliza (10)
Pokey and Zephyr (NPC Tag) (10 + 10)
Pokey and Disciple (10)
~~Pokey and Miwa (NPC Tag) (10 + 10)~~
Pokey and Sherlock (Tag in 10 + 10)
Pokey and Lili (Tag in 10 + 10)
Pokey and Stephen (Tag in 10 + 10)

Mailbox interactions (2 per letter, 25 total for 10+ letters) :
Pokey and SHerlock (4)

[July]
GOAL:
CURRENT: 449
Making a post (30):
New people (20): ~~Pokey and Jade (20)~~
Pokey and Alfie (20)
~~Pokey and Royce (20)~~
10+ comments threads (10 for first ten comments + 5 for every ten comments after):
~~Pokey and Zephyr (NPC Tag) (10)~~
Pokey and Eliza (Tag in 10)
Pokey and Alfie (Tag in 10 + 15)
Pokey and Royce (10)
Mailbox interactions (2 per letter, 25 total for 10+ letters) :

[August]
GOAL:
CURRENT: 503
Making a post (30):
New people (20):
10+ comments threads (10 for first ten comments + 5 for every ten comments after):
~~Pokey and John (10 + 10 tag in)~~
~~Pokey and Lili (10, tag in)~~
Pokey and Ally (10)
~~Pokey and Lili (15 + 10 tag in)~~
Pokey and Monty (10)
Pokey and Eddie (Tag In) (10)
Pokey and Izzy (10)
Pokey and Zephyr (NPC Tag) (10)
Mailbox interactions (2 per letter, 25 total for 10+ letters) : Pokey and Phil (4)

[September]
GOAL:
CURRENT: 602
Making a post (30): ~~New Post (30)~~
New Post (30)
New people (20):
10+ comments threads (10 for first ten comments + 5 for every ten comments after):
Pokey and Zephyr (10, Tag in)
~~Pokey and Sherlock (10, Tag In)~~
~~Pokey and Watson (10)~~
Pokey and Ally (10)
Pokey and Lili (15, cut off at 10/1)
Pokey and Shepherd (10, Tag in)
Pokey and Watson (10, Tag in)
Mailbox interactions (2 per letter, 25 total for 10+ letters) : Pokey and Lili (14)

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1 ~ Lonesome Road

2017-04-26T04:39:09Z

Who: Pokey Minch and Open
When: Throughout the day on
Where: Throughout the neighborhood, later in the day at the wishing pond
Summary: Pokey nearly has a heart attack at being brought to a new world, decides to explore it a little and try to get some answers from people, later he's grumpy at the wishing pond.
Rating: PG/PG-13
Warnings:Maybe language, bitter grumpy teenager
( Sexy tagline here, wink wonk )

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Mailbox for We The Lost

2017-04-26T03:49:50Z

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Application for We The Lost

2017-04-24T05:08:36Z

Player Name: James
Preferred Pronouns?: He
Player Contact: plurk - nathander
Other characters in play? N/A

Character Name: Pokey Minch
Canon: Earthbound
Game Transplant: Mayfield_RPG, then My Little Jamjar and Cosmographia
Original App: The Mayfield application is lost to time since it was pasted on the original Mayfield boards on Livejournal, but the app for My Little Jamjar is here and for Cosmographia it is here
Game Summary: Mayfield was a horror/slice of life game that took place in the ideal town of Mayfield. It looked like a pleasant little 50s town, where the milk was poisoned and sometimes the town had fun games to kill you with. It turned out in the end to be a simulated computer program and the people in it AI programs to inhabit it. In the end they got to make their own town.

My Little Jamjar was a game based off of My Little Pony. In it people were brought to the world of Equestria, turned into ponies or other creatures, and got to have amazing friendship adventures. Pokey got turned into a little dragon.

Cosmographia was a game based off of Steven Universe. In it, those brought to the game were made into gems a la Steven Universe and were set up to protect the town of Waverly Bay with the new super powers they had gained.

How long was your character in Game: 2 and a half years in Mayfield, one year in My Little Jamjar, and five-six months in Cosmographia
History of Character in their Game:
CRAU History AWWWW HELL YEAH LETS GO:
Mayfield Year One (July 2010-July 2011)
- Having just finished betraying his planet and going around to screw around in the fabric of time and space, Pokey one day found himself plucked away from his time machine and kick ass science crap to live in rinky dink 50s town. Pokey did the only logical thing he could think of and decided to bitch about it and annoy the others stuck in the town with him due to his obnoxious bullcrap.

-The first few months, from July to October, were uneventful for Pokey, or at least as uneventful as living in a complex virtual reality designed as a safe place for humanity as it tried to hide from the bombed out wasteland that was its world. Despite this, theses first few months would see the establishment of five of the six most important relationships Pokey would develop in Mayfield: Lucas, Francis Fullbright, Lil Slugger, Kyrie Ushiromiya, and Mindy. A brief description of their relationships and their starting points will follow, we'll watch how they grow as the bullet points go on.

-Lucas was a boy who came from a future where Pokey had taken over the world and ruled it as a despotic tyrant. Lucas had been dealt a great deal of personal tragedy due to Pokey's cruelty, and yet despite his understandable hatred for the mean-spirited boy, Lucas took it upon himself to monitor Pokey and ensure he didn't cause trouble in Mayfield as well as attempt to persuade the now helpless and powerless Pokey that he needed other people. Pokey was usually dismissive, cold, or obnoxious to the other boy, not really caring about the harm he may have done Lucas or his family. Despite this, Lucas in his general goodness attempted to show the cruel teen that there was something to caring about other people.

-Francis Fullbright was the first person could say was a friend in Mayfield. A temperamental, rude, and disagreeable girl, Pokey first met her when he was trying to make a map of the town and she put a mustard gun to the back of his head and told him to get out of her backyard. Naturally, Pokey liked her on first meeting. The two of them, despite their natural tendency for loneliness and aggressiveness towards others, managed to get along quite well. Enough so that it took Pokey off guard when Frances attempted to persuade him to join a kid-led rebellion movement in the town. Initially rejected the offer, Pokey was surprised when the girl would continue to offer it again and again. Actually being offered the chance to be part of something was new to Pokey, considering the reputation he had in his home, and left him with confused emotions over it. In the end, he decided to take up Francis' offer since 1) being in a group would offer him
something to hide behind and 2) to impress Francis. The boy would, eventually, develop a crush on her due to the fact she was one of the few, and the first, person he ever felt close to in Mayfield.

-Lil Slugger was the embodiment of an entity that sensed and reacted to fear that disguised itself as a 10-12 year old boy who, unfortunately, was just stuck as a 10-12 year old boy. Upon meeting one another, Pokey and Slugger hated each other immediately, each being responsible for the other's first death. After having managed to kill each other, the two's immense animosity towards each other went to a somewhat more civil kind of hate, insulting and screwing with one another whenever they could. This would, ironically, be the start of the strongest friendship Pokey ever had.

-Mindy was a little girl living on the same street as Pokey who came around knocking on people's doors wanting people to bake cookies with her, since as six year old girls do, she thought such an activity would be fun. Pokey at the time just saw the girl at first as a stupid kid he could take advantage of for free food. As time went on and he ended up spending more time with her, Pokey ended up somehow becoming fond of her despite everything and in a weird way one of her primary caretakers.

-Kyrie Ushiromiya was a woman that Pokey met during his attempts to learn how to use the rifle that his "notdad", a drone (a basic AI program that acted like a basic, friendly townsperson) had in the house in order to defend himself. Due to his intelligence and cleverness, Kyrie seemed to take a shine to the boy. In turn, Kyrie seemed to give Pokey attention, so Pokey took a shine to her. Kyrie helped hone Pokey's thought process and problem solving abilities as well, taking interest in the development of a clearly angry and hurt boy. In return despite his attempt to remain hardhearted Pokey ultimately warmed up to the woman, and she more or less became the closest thing to really having a mom the guy ever had, at least in Pokey's perception.

-The first few months, more or less then, were Pokey dicking around and either being a nuisance and jerk or being baffled at the people he met who seemed to keep caring about him. Despite trying to annoy and hurt others as much as possible to keep them away, he'd meet people who simply wouldn't. This would set the tone for Pokey's development throughout much of Mayfield: a growing warmness, trust, and eventual love towards other people. He'd also experience his first death, though it occurred in a hallucinatic haze, and he barely recalled it.

-His second death in October wouldn't be so kind. Believing a Russian/communist dissident to have infiltrated the infrastructure of the town, the man running Mayfield sent out a group of living hazmat suits to find the man, and to scour the town until the man was given up to them as the leader believed the Mayfielders were hiding the dissident. One means of trying to force people to comply and give the man up was by having the hazmats burn down houses while the residents were still in them. Pokey was lucky enough to be one of the people chosen to be burned alive in his own home. Pokey used to think there was no real problem in wishing death upon people he hated, as he was sure that kind of pain and harm couldn't be that bad, so why not. Actually dying as painfully as that? Began changing his opinion and leading him toward a more empathic mindset.

-This mindset still wouldn't emerge for a while as a week or so after being burned alive Pokey would die again when he hit GLAdOS in the face with a wrench for getting in his business, which she responded to by slitting his throat. Dying would kind of be a trend for most of the first year of Mayfield as well.

-After an event showing everyone in town what they would be like ten years into the future, and seeing that he wouldn't change at all thanks to the physical immortality fucking with the time stream had given him, Pokey began to doubt how cool being immortal, posing the question to the town if they would choose immortality if they could, attempting to make it seem as if the obvious answer would be yes. The amount of answers refuting this idea managed to leave him shaken on his previous concept of immortality, thanks in part to his slightly growing empathy.

-The next major event for Pokey would be on Christmas. During the Christmas season, each resident received a card where they were asked to write down something they wished for that 'Santa' might make come true for them. Expecting he couldn't get anything he really wanted, and effected (though not wanting to admit it) by his growing affection for Mindy after having watched out for her, Pokey did the first non-selfish thing he had ever done and wrote down his Christmas wish as being for Mindy to have a good Christmas, assuming that the kid deserved it and that making her happy could be something that he could, at least, take credit for to some degree.

-Surprise. The whole thing was a trick, and the wishes get inverted. Specifically, on Christmas Pokey got a letter back from 'Santa' stating that while Mindy was very good, he was very bad, and punishing him for being bad took precedence over rewarding Mindy for being good. What followed immediately was a phone call for Pokey to pick up that featured the sounds of Mindy being tortured and killed. Running over to inspect her house while questioning why he would even bother, all Pokey would find was Mindy's room covered in blood. It left him angrier and depressed than he would ever admit.

-Thing is, that was a trick too. Mindy wasn't actually punished, but rather made invisible to Pokey to add to the illusion he had more or less killed her due to who he was. The illusion wore off and Pokey found Mindy sitting outside his house the next day, as the two had promised to spend Christmas together. Deciding it was more important to run the kid off for her safety rather than to keep her around due to his enjoyment of her company, Pokey attempted to run Mindy off. It didn't stick. In the end, Pokey wasn't able to fully reject Mindy, and ended up accepting the fact that he cared about this kid for reasons he couldn't properly explain to himself.

-The first Christmas event cemented several things about Pokey. The first was that thanks to being helpless in this town and having no power at all, the boy was forced to rely on other people and, to a point, began to understand and empathize with other people. He was still a nasty little shithead, but at this point he had to give ground to the idea that other people had worth. The second thing it cemented for him was that his actions effected others. Being a rude, selfish boy, Pokey had rarely before noticed or cared what effect his actions had on other people. Now, with this event, he was forced to realize that being a shitty person, while fun, could negatively effect other people. While he'd hardly take steps to change this immediately, this would be the start of him actually taking the time to be introspective, leading to him be better spoken. It'd also lead to him being more self-loathing.

-Aside from being turned into a 2 year old during a short event, January and February would be a time period primarily focusing on Pokey either being a snide asshole, taking care of Mindy, or being furious and lashing out as more and more people he ended up talking with and started bonding with got permadroned, especially Frances and Tak, an alien invader who Pokey had ended up finding he shared a great deal of similarities with. On the flipside, it would also be during these two months that Pokey and Slugger's relationship would begin further evolving from one of minor hatred and annoyance into a weird frenemy relationship.

-The next big event in town and to affect Pokey would be in March, when a mysterious highway appeared outside of town that people went to explore. The people in charge of Mayfield were quick to try and halt this exploration, offering certain residents in the town special powers, abilities, and authority if they would join the town leaders in either turning away any people exploring the highway or killing those who explored the highway. Pokey didn't go for the obvious offer because of his hatred for the people who ran the town, and while exploring the highway met up with Kyrie, who had become like a mother figure to him during this time period, who he trusted implicitly. Kyrie attempted to persuade Pokey from exploring the highway, but Pokey was more or less dead set on it. Because of this, Kyrie asked if she could put a four leaf clover pin on his lapel. For good luck. Pokey, trusting her, agreed.

-Kyrie lied. Having sided with the town, Kyrie had been given an acidic touch ability, which she then used to burn out Pokey's eyes to blind him and to burn his throat out to kill him. He still got the four leaf clover pin. Of course.

-After having a whiny tantrum breakdown once he resurrected the next day, the next stage of the event would begin as the town converged on the Mayfield Dairy, which had been making terrible noises since the event began, with the intent of taking whatever power source was there down. Angry and filled with hatred, Pokey would try to help on the attack on the Dairy. Unfortunately, this would end with him getting blown up, his fifth - and for a year, last - death.

-Regenerating again, Pokey would find that much of the town was busy fighting a giant Milkman Mecha. While this fight had been going on, another path had appeared outside of Mayfield, leading to a ghost town that many of those who could not fight decided to investigate. Realizing he'd probably just get killed again, Pokey left to investigate the ghost town, where he found the following note left by one of the survivors.

-During the investigation, Slugger would show up, apparently wanting to check on Pokey as well as tell him about the events in the Dairy, where it had appeared that the power generator for the town which was hidden in the Dairy had been destroyed, and that the generator had seemingly run on/been powered by the souls of all those who had been in the town previously and had been permadroned. Pokey had a minor breakdown at the revelation; having allowed himself to become too close too so many people who just would not shut up and leave him alone, Pokey for once felt a genuine sense of grief and shame at being the last person standing. This would be the beginning of Pokey developing a deep, shaming sense of survivor's guilt, as well as bringing out more of his self-loathing.

-After this event, Pokey finally resolved to try and be helpful to everyone else in the town, revealing the information he had found in the ghost town. The same event also saw Pokey giving ground to Lucas' attempts to convince him other people were good and deserved a chance, ultimately admitting it to the other boy.

-Of course, a few days after this, the leader of the town would reveal that the entire event was a prank. Despite this, Pokey would remain convinced for a year and half that the claim of a prank was disinformation, until the leader of the town told him personally that the machine had never run on souls.

-In May, Mindy would begin to be terrorized by a person she named the monster. The monster was a dude named Black Mage who hurt and terrorized anyone around him, but especially took amusement in tormenting Mindy. In retaliation and with Slugger's help, Pokey would severely beat Black Mage and then burn him to death in the belief that an equal display of viciousness would keep him from continuing to harm the girl. Results were lackluster.

-Also in May, Mayfield declared "Spring Cleaning", where each resident was given a set of people to kill and, in return, the more kills someone got the better 'reward' they could get. Pokey found himself playing remarkably less because of interest in gaining rewards and more to try and protect himself and Mindy. He only had one kill, Wheatley, who in turn had Pokey on his list and attempted to beat the boy to death with a plank with a nail in it. Pokey ended up shooting him to death with the rifle his drone!dad had, though not before breaking his shoulder in the process. It would be Slugger, again, who would help a wounded Pokey at this time get home, further cementing the boys' growing friendship.

-In June, the town would assign Pokey a job - a busboy at the local theater. Needless to say, Pokey happily slacked off on this loser job.

Mayfield Year Two (July 2011-December 2012):
-Pokey's second year would open up with the town affecting everyone in a manner that they had to speak the truth or reveal something about themselves. Pokey got hit to the point he admitted the most major things he had done wrong and was surprised, yet again, by how forgiving the people in Mayfield were for the most part of him. Really, he was more embarrassed that he actively admitted that Slugger was probably his best friend on the phone line and that he had a crush on Frances in a personal conversation with Slugger.

-Apart from the truth event in July, things would be slow and fairly normal until September. Pokey would still make a nuisance of himself, and would regain a few worthless items, such as the Annoying Robot (a poorly made robotic servant) and a helicopter Pokey had crashed and totaled during his canonical adventures.

-In September a player-caused event occurred in town that led to a zombie invasion and, not just that, but in the case of Mayfield residents zombies who still had a hankering for brains but who could retain their personalities and powers. Pokey and Slugger made a game of the event to see who could kill the most zombies, Slugger by nature of being Slugger and Pokey with the spider-mech he had regained early on in Mayfield. The event ended poorly as hell when a zombified!Black Mage decided to get revenge on Pokey by blowing the living shit out of his mech, causing Pokey to hide in a dumpster through most of the rest of the event until Slugger found him.

-Come October, the sixth of the big six influences on Pokey arrived in Mayfield: Pokey's little brother, Picky. While Pokey had never been a particularly good big brother, Picky was one of maybe two people in his own world he cared about aside from himself. With Picky's arrival, Pokey proceeded to freak out and try to find ways to keep his little brother safe, as well as dreading eventually having to talk to Picky about why he abandoned him.

-October would also see Pokey's paranoia around Black Mage increase, as the Mage took to leaving poorly sealed wax packages with the words "hamburger meat" on them on the doorsteps of people who had gotten into previous fights with him. Terrified that the mage was stalking him and angry at the prospect that the 'hamburger meat' could be Mindy, Pokey went to confront Black Mage. Comforted (in a horrible way) that the hamburger meat was simply made from some talking unicorn, Black Mage still attempted to kill Pokey though, for once, luck actually waved in Pokey's favor and allowed him to manage to beat Black Mage to death a second time.

-The Halloween event that occurred throughout Mayfield was themed after old horror movies, with different events taking place each day. This included some residents of Mayfield being replaced by pod people for a day, and most of Pokey's conversations with these tended to end with Pokey getting shittalked, which helped to fuel and in his mind justify his continuously growing self-loathing, the worst of them being his conversation with the pod person of Picky. Other events, such as being shrunk down, were far more tolerable. The last event, where several residents were declared dead and buried, further cemented Pokey's survivor's guilt. The culmination of the event, with those who were declared dead coming back as cheesy-ass vampires, kind of helped to make it not as bad.

-November was a real shitshow.

-Okay I guess I should say more than that. Pokey kicked off the month by having a nervous breakdown, buckling under the pressure and deciding it was worth it more to give up since he couldn't view himself as contributing to anything in any productive way. It was in the middle of this breakdown that Pokey also ultimately had to talk to Picky about his actions back in Eagleland and Onett as Giegue/Giygas's servant. It was also the fact that Picky forgave him that helped bring him back out from continuing to just straight ass dive into depression. It was one of the most fortuitous moments in the kid's life, and yet further cemented his growing assurance that people were alright most of the time, or at least deserving a chance. It was also when he became committed to never abandon his brother again.

-In mid-November a player plot occurred that caused people to have hallucinations of their worst fears. Pokey managed to luck out of experiencing this one, though unfortunately, Slugger did not and proceeded to freak out, allowing his powers to go haywire. The next day after everything had worn off, Pokey went to visit the other boy and in the end finally openly admitted that Slugger was his best friend. It was one of the first moments of pure, open emotional honesty that Pokey experienced.

-On Thanksgiving the leaders of the town, outraged, demanded that the residents of Mayfield show some appreciation for the life they were being given, as they didn't know how good they had it compared to everything else. The leaders then demanded thankfulness be shown. Pokey himself wrestled with the fact that he was, in fact, thankful for being there.

-It wasn't enough. The day after Thanksgiving, the town of Mayfield was rendered as it actually would appear in the real world: a devastated hovel of a town, windtorn and battered from years of being left to lie in ruin. All powers and personal possessions were taken from the town residents, leaving them all on the same, pathetic playing field with one another and for what was to come. Outside the town lay miles of barren deserted, scorched earth from a nuclear war. And beyond the desert were noises.

-Pokey, of course, had to go explore them, and as he move towards them he unintentionally caused most of the other children and teens in the town to follow him as they went to explore. They found that they could never quite reach where the sound was coming from, however, and thus headed back to the town and the places where they had found shelter.

-It was for the best. On the second day of the event, the source of the noise became clear: the gangs of mutant cannibals who roamed the wastelands and who proceeded to besiege the city, causing some residents to fight them while most tried to hide and wait them out. Pokey ended up running into a teenager he had made acquaintances with named Red, and the two attempted to quietly get back to their respective hiding spots once they found themselves trapped by the cannibals. Pokey fucked up the initial escape attempt, and instead of letting Red make a distraction, Pokey decided to use himself as a distraction instead. It was the first action Pokey had taken that could have, in some way, been seen as selfless or a sacrifice. Both boys, thankfully, made it to their shelters unscathed.

-The worst was still yet to come. On the third day, radiation sickness began to sink in on the residents, claiming most of their lives. Pokey managed to survive it, but in turn also was there to watch as most of the people he knew and those he had become friends with died, including Slugger and his little brother Picky. For a moment, Pokey was left in a mostly desolate world, alone except for himself, which had been a dream of his for a while. In this instance, and in seeing how it had happened, Pokey couldn't help but feel he had always been wrong. This event served as one of the most definitive nails in the coffin of Pokey's old self, or at least his most extremes, and simultaneously motivated him to try and be a better person for the sake of those he cared about as well as further entrenching his survivor's guilt as a part of his personality.

-Christmas, meanwhile, would be no better than it was the last year. This year the residents were visited in their dreams by someone close to them who would proceed to show them how the world would be a better place without their existence. The person, in this case Ness for Pokey, showed how the present world, and the future, would be much better if he accepted giving up his own existence. Pokey didn't even hesitate.

-Are you ready for a surprise, because the whole thing was a trick again. In this case, those who agreed to give up their existence instead were made to 'feel' as if they were fake to everyone else they spoke with in town (including each other if two people who had chosen to give up their existence spoke with each other). This lead to hostility and anger towards the fakes, especially when Pokey like a shithead tried to convince others he wasn't one. Pokey was distressed to find that Slugger, Picky, and Mindy had also been doped into giving up their existence. He also found that Lucas had given up his as well, leading to a brief understanding for Lucas as to how much Pokey had changed from megalomaniacal to self-loathing.

-During this event, Mindy expressed a desire to try and get everyone to come together for Christmas despite what was happening, asking for anyone who wanted to try and have a happy Christmas to meet her underneath the large Christmas tree Mayfield put at the center of the town. Unfortunately, the first person to find her was Black Mage, who stabbed Mindy to death and hung her from the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. It was, ironically, something similar to what Pokey feared had happened to Mindy the Christmas before. And thanks to his own constant use of violence, it had happened.

-Ironically too, Pokey had changed from last Christmas. With Slugger's help Pokey was able to get Mindy's body free from the tree so it could safely be taken home. When the programming that made people see those who had signed away their existence as fakes ended on Christmas Day, Pokey asked the people in town to help make gifts for Mindy, seeing it as the main way to help her. Pokey, by this point, began to show definite change, at least for the people he cared about. He'd also start to question his own use of violence as an answer, though that didn't mean he wouldn't still default to it on many occasions.

-January would start off with a bang as Pokey's old boss, the alien invader Giegue/Giygas, showed up in town. Expecting Pokey to assist him unconditionally, Giegue was taken aback when Pokey showed reluctance to assist him and began to vaguely threaten the boy to try and gain his obedience. Pokey, like a spaz, decided to take to the phones and warn everyone about Giegue, insisting that he would take care of the problem alone. THis was met with people telling him he was an idiot, both for thinking that he could do it alone and that his friends wouldn't help him. Most notable was Lucas' reaction, who, while he and Pokey would never be on specifically good terms, told him that after this time he believed Pokey could do good.

-Giegue would get permadroned soon after arrival. Still, the bolstering Pokey received from his friends helped him immensely.

-In late January another chance to cripple the town came up for the residents as they were presented the opportunity to strike at a vital point of the town. Unfortunately, they didn't know what that point they were striking did. Turns out it was in charge of power regulation in the town. In order to reduce the power usage of the town, the town induced several punishments on the residents, including all wounds that had been fatal. As the days went on of the town trying to conserve power, more and more of the wounds Pokey had suffered were inflicted upon him until he ultimately succumbed to them, dying a sixth time. He was somewhat surprised how worried people had been when he returned from the dead.

-Pokey would end up having his first kiss on Valentine's Day. While being mind-controlled by emotion inducing flowers. Into kissing his best friend, Slugger. He was also hit with a second flower later on that forced him to shout out his crush on Frances to the whole town. Valentine's Day was not a good time.

-Also in February the town ran out of regains to give Pokey that he would actually recognize, and proceeded to give him shit from the future he had no idea what to do with, including a robot version of himself and a terrifying looking giant capsule. Upon learning the purpose of the capsule from Lucas, Pokey kept the idea of using it as a means of protecting others from him by locking himself in it if he ever got too bad or reverted to his old ways. This pattern of thought lead to a heated discussion between him and Slugger that led to Slugger convincing him not to use it.

-In April Frances would return from having been droned, leading to Pokey fumbling over himself to try and help her get situated in Mayfield again. She was someone Pokey had hoped to see again, but never believed he'd get to; it was a massive morale boost for him.

-It was also the final boost Pokey needed to give up his physical immortality. In Mayfield a system had been put into place to 'cheat' regains: people could get back powers and items from home by going to the Post Office and turning in old regains OR by giving up defining features of themselves, whether that be physical appendages, memories, or other abstract features. Pokey, in turn, went there to give up his immortality for a video game system. What he really gained was freedom.

-While it'd be hard to say that the last few months of actively living in Mayfield were calm, they simply weren't as full of action and development as the previous period had been. In May there was a dance that the town held that Pokey invited Frances too, leading to the two dating in the way that two twelve year olds understood they could. June saw the beginning of the unraveling of the town, with Pokey helping add the information he had learned to the growing pool of evidence everyone had. In September Pokey helped on the journey into the inner programming of Mayfield to retrieve important data that would help the Postman and LIbrarian, the only two people in the town who could be convinced to empathize with the residents, to begin to try and take control of the town.

-Things would not go well, and Zemekis, the head of the town, would have enough and react poorly. He'd begin by rewriting everyone's memories hard enough that distinct relationships and memories changed. There was no longer the belief they had been brought here; everyone now was sure they had always lived there. This attempt at forgery wouldn't last long, and would lead to another exploration, where the residents would find a cavernous area containing all the copies of them that had died. Most people were horrified. Pokey was simply stunned by the fact that all those earlier 'hims' seemed so unlike him by this point.

-Once Zemekis' attempt to override failed, he was weakened enough that the Librarian and Postman could begin the process of ousting his control. Their attempt failed as one of Zemekis' subordinates, Ms. Johnson, intervened, killing the Postman and ousting Zemekis in order to take control of the town for herself, planning to experiment heavily on the population there now that no one could control or keep her from experimenting on them for her own amusement.

-The residents would eventually find Zemekis, powerless and dying, and be given the chance to question and speak with their capture. Zemekis would explain how they weren't just stuck in an artificial reality, they themselves were AIs created to fill the void of the town after most of the real people who were supposed to inhabit it died in an attempted coup and escape. Most of the people, even those who had begun to suspect they weren't real, were horrified. Pokey, on the other hand, was relieved, feeling that it meant he really didn't need to be who he'd been made to be, though he didn't say this out loud.

-Eventually the town began to lose power entirely as Johnson abused her power, as the town began to crash, the Librarian was able to usurp authority and lead the people of Mayfield to a new server and town. The Librarian explained she couldn't guarantee how long the new town would last with the server's power beginning to fail, but the she guaranteed the town would belong to the residents, seceding the world-shaping powers that Zemekis and his underlings had over Mayfield to the residents so that they could shape and create their new town anyway they pleased. Along with that all those who had previously been permadroned and kept in stasis were reawakened to live in the new town. Fittingly enough in a way, the town was opened up by Pokey and the other children of Mayfield.

History in My Little Jamjar (September 2014-May 2015):
-After getting to live in peace for about a year and a half, Pokey, now 14, was transported to a weird horse world, turned into a baby dragon, and brought into this stupid world while some real bullshit was going down. This sense of indifference would last few the first few months of Pokey's stay in Equestria. The boy had found a life in the new town that came after Mayfield. He had begun to grow. And now he was forced back into the ether again, and in his rage, he decided to try and shut out people as much as he could this time. To barricade himself away from others.

-It would only somewhat work. While Pokey in his obstinate demeanor would never be as close to as many people as he was at Mayfield, that didn't mean he wouldn't develop some lasting relationships. The one that would effect him the most would be Teddie, a bear who back home was...well, a bear. Or a bearsuit that grew a guy in him, Pokey was never sure about the details. Still, Teddie's naive, curious, and excitable nature grew on Pokey, thanks majorly in part to Teddie's kindness towards Pokey. It reminded Pokey of the kindness that he had received in Mayfield, and that made him like Teddie instantly.

-Pokey would also become entangled with an eldritch horror named Yg'baladaoth. Yg was drawn to Pokey because of his apparently resentful and willful nature; Pokey wasn't drawn to Yg so much as he just kept winding up meeting with and dealing with eldritch abominations. Pokey took an interest at first just because Yg seemed so different from the others of her type Pokey had met, canonically and in Mayfield. They never became friends so to speak, but Pokey remained an interesting specimen to her and Pokey felt he was obligated to keep an eye on her actions, especially when he was dumb enough to agree to enter her 'mindscape', an ability that pulled Pokey's consciousness into hers, as it essentially gave him a chance to 'see' Mayfield again, emphasizing Pokey's own constant yearning.

- Pokey also made friends with Leatherhead, an alligator who had been turned into a humanoid like dog, during this time, as Leatherhead's soft demeanor but much more outsider attitude towards things allowed Pokey to bond with him somewhat, and was the person Pokey was closest to aside from Teddie. Pokey would also become acquaintances with Kyouko Sakura, a girl who hung out (and later became the girlfriend of) Teddie, and also a girl who seemed interested at least in some mischief, which caused her and Pokey to cross paths a few times. While Kyouko and Pokey would interact frequently, it wouldn't be in Equestria that they'd cement their friendship.

-Pokey was satisfied with being a dickhead and just leaving things alone in Equestria, turning fifteen in October, until November when, much like in Mayfield, his boss Giegue showed up again. Having grown yet more during his time in Mayfield, Pokey became confident he could handle Giegue. He would pretend he was on Giegue's side this time, all the while trying to monitor him to see if he could stop him when things eventually came up.

-Giegue's appearance would also cause him to ask the people in Equestria if they felt someone evil could be redeemed. While he was trying to pose it specifically in regards to Giegue, it would be a lie to say it wasn't for his benefit as well.

-In December he would be bored enough to take on the project of helping a friend of Yg's, Strong Bad, make a version of a video game from home for another friend of Strong Bad's as a Christmas present...so long as Strong Bad gave the rights to the game in this universe to Pokey. Pokey had changed; didn't mean he couldn't still be a breedy asshole.

-He also took December casually enough that he spent the time to make a massive snowfort and declare himself the king of winter. It seemed like a good, annoying idea at the time. He also offered to make Teddie bitching drill arms for Christmas, but Kyouko interjected. Oh well. It would, though, lead to a heart to heart between him and Kyouko, albeit a shaky one.

-During December, Pokey would also start to pay at least some attention to what was happening when informed that one of the native ponies of this Equestria had a raging hate boner for the offworlders that had been brought in. While Pokey couldn't care about the native population, because of his time in Mayfield, he felt an inherent solidarity with those who were brought into this world with him.

-In February, Pokey would be caught off guard when Tails threw a tantrum over the network, expressing his views on love. Specifically, Pokey was caught off guard by the decision to defend that love was worth something from his own experiences with Frances and the people he knew in Mayfield.

-It, in fact, effected him so much Pokey went to the network to talk about how it was the effects of love that more or less kept him from considering betraying the people here. It wasn't the most charismatic post, but it did express how much Mayfield had effected him, and meant to him, even if he was having trouble moving otherwise. It also made the Elements of Harmony sparkle, which was apparently a big thing, but he never found out about that.

-During a Fourth Wall event in April, Pokey would end up meeting his real self. The first conversation would simply be an expression of disgust and hatred on Pokey's part towards the real him. The second conversation, however, would demonstrate how far Pokey had deviated from who he was cloned from, and leave Pokey in the end feeling that he was, at least, somewhat of a different person from his real self.

-Starting in April, Pokey proposed his intentions to open an arcade using a construction group of Mr. Saturns that he had been able to create from the creation powers Mayfield bestowed on its residents at the end, and that transferred with Pokey over to Equestria. Giegue latched on to the idea, proposing its intention to use violent videogames that Pokey could supply as a means of feeding and enhancing the aggression of the natives, which Giegue would then use to power its PSI. Pokey, believing he could control the situation, agreed, making plans to sabotage the effort if necessary to keep Giegue from success.

-Pokey would also have a heart to heart with Teddie in early May over Teddie's fears and concerns regarding a friend that had betrayed the community during a villain's attack on the town earlier in April. Pokey tried to help comfort his best friend in Equestria the best he could, including writing a letter to the Princesses asking that Teddie be given the chance to visit his friend during his friend's punishment, since Teddie was too afraid to write himself.

-In late May, the arcade went live, and Giegue's plans began to go into effect. Pokey began to work on and start up his sabotage safeguards, but both he and Giegue would be poofed out of Equestria before anything came to fruition.

History in Cosmos (May 2015-November 2015):
-Pokey entered Cosmos in the most mature way he could imagine: with unbelievable anger at being driven further away from Mayfield even more. After a few days of punching walls and being pissy at everyone around him, Pokey would manage to calm down and try to be helpful by offering to dispense whatever advice he could on about worlds like these.

-Pokey would also run into Kyouko when she arrived in Cosmos from MLJ. Seeing how distraught she was, and being able to relate, he attempted to comfort her, with the two ending up talking about the people they had ended up falling in love with. It was the beginning of Pokey and Kyouko beginning to truly become friends.

-In June, Pokey would manage to get his dumb ass lost in the labyrinth of the Temple while trying to explore it. He wouldn't re-emerge until the middle of the next month in July, pissed off that he had gotten as screwed as he had by this place due to carelessness. It was upon his return that he started to strike up a friendship with Connie, who he somewhat projected his feelings of needing to protect that he had developed for Mindy onto.

-Discovering that his gem had given him the power of Astral Projection, Pokey did the only logical thing he could think to do with it: spy on the other people in Waverly Bay. Unfortunately, the other people were, for the most part, either boring or just weird weird, and Pokey began to quickly lose interest.

-One of the most important things for Pokey in Cosmos was meeting Dave Strider. Pokey had known a Dave in Mayfield as a friendly acquaintance; they never got to know each other very strongly, but they were cool with each other, their discussions usually meandering into silly, stupid bullshit. Upon meeting another Dave who was being hounded by puppet possession, Pokey couldn't help but feel a pull of familiarity. It was the fact that he knew a Dave that attracted Pokey to interact with him; it was the fact that Dave was a cool, nonjudgmental dude that caused Pokey to stick around with the guy, and he felt guilty that he couldn't offer Dave more help when it came to one of Dave's worst experiences in Cosmos.

-In late September, Pokey would use the animal-combining powers his gem had given him to try and open up a 'designer pet' business. Most people didn't take too friendly to the concept of mashing two animals together, and a small bit of blooming animosity between him and Jane Crocker over his business practices ended with the two declaring a prank war on one another.

-When Dave resurrected from his death and came back in September, Pokey talked with the dude the way he wanted someone to have talked to him after death: like nothing had happened. While the two had been friendly before then, this conversation more or less began their friendship, though in many ways Pokey was wary as he felt he wasn't cool enough to be friends with Dave, and thus felt the need to continue to try and impress him. It wouldn't be just Pokey and Dave for long, however.

-Pokey would meet the third member of he and Dave's trio, Gary Smith, in a pissing match. Pokey didn't think much of Gary: more that he was somewhat of a dick, but at least an amusing one. That opinion would come to change as time went on.

-In mid-October Dave would post a theory on what he thought was happening in Waverly Bay. Pokey took slight issue with it, drawing from his own experiences on how he felt on the issue. The conversation showed how Pokey and Dave were becoming closer to a degree, especially with how openly Pokey was willing to talk to Dave. However, this same post was what would introduce Dave to Gary, who agreed with Dave almost entirely, and which caused Dave to click, or perhaps, cling to Gary. Dave would ask Pokey his opinion on Gary, to which Pokey would express doubts on Gary's character from what he had seen of him even in Dave's post. Still, Dave seemed to like the guy and wanted to invite him to hang out with him and Pokey on Halloween, to which Pokey agreed. He could see no harm in it.

-Unfortunately as it went further Pokey could see harm on it. On Halloween (and Pokey's sixteenth birthday, though he kept that hush hush), Pokey, Gary, and Dave went out to raise some mischief on the town. While Pokey could enjoy and appreciate Gary's love of mayhem and pranks, he didn't appreciate the subtle ways in which Gary manipulated Dave in order to force Dave to take certain actions in order to impress him. Pokey recognized that type: before Mayfield, Pokey was that type. And because of that, Pokey determined it was his responsibility to keep Gary from hurting Dave, or what Pokey perceived as hurting Dave.

-Also in late October Pokey ended up talking with Kyouko over her distress at death and the fact that death seemed to be meaningless here. Giving Kyouko his rundown on how he perceived death in places like Waverly Bay, he managed to help comfort Kyouko and give her a new perspective on the situation. The conversation solidified their friendship and ended with them accidentally fusing, Pokey's first time to do such.

-In November Pokey began using his Astral Projection to spy and record Gary's actions. Pokey then had a brilliant idea to dispense justice and warn others about Gary and fire a warning shot meant to drive Gary's paranoia deeper: he posted an anonymous message on the network under the alias "Crazy Larry" detailing Gary's behavior. This brilliant plan was destined for failure because it actually sucked, and had three unintended consequences: 1. it reminded several of the kids from Dave's world of an alien asshole they had to deal with, angering them, 2. It made Gary sympathetic and Pokey look kind of like and asshole and

-3. It reminded Dave of his dead brother, who Dave had always tried to live up to but felt like he had failed, and who Dave idolized despite his brother's abusive behavior. Dave came to Pokey asking for help and to talk, as he was sure there was a chance Crazy Larry was his brother and that his brother cared so little about him that he wouldn't even tell Dave he was there. Aghast at just how much pain he had caused, Pokey explained how he was sure it wasn't Dave's brother because, from Pokey's own experience as a big brother, fucking with your little brother was just something you did, and you wouldn't just not tell them if you showed up. It helped, despite how painful it was for Pokey to talk about considering he caused this pain in the first place and it reminded him of Picky, but it helped Dave. And for that at least he was happy.

-Of course, Dave then had to make a fucking network post attacking Crazy Larry and asking for help on helping a mentally disturbed friend. Moved yet again, Pokey tried to offer advice and comfort to Dave on the matter, ultimately talking to Dave in person about it. And the more he talked to Dave about it, the more Pokey realized what an asshole he looked like about all this, and came to realize that, perhaps to some degree, he was the one in the wrong. Because of that, he promised Dave that he would try to get on better with Gary. And, for a little bit, Pokey did get on better with Gary.

-But then Gary was gone. And Dave was gone. And several other people Pokey knew. And yet again he was alone.

How did they change from their canon personality wise (Please explain what caused it to happen?)
While a good deal of this behavior has remained the, quite a bit of Pokey's hardness has changed thanks to his years in Mayfield. While still often mean spirited and cynical, the boy has learned to open up at least some to other people. Having experienced pain and hurt in several ways that he otherwise thought would be fine to inflict on others, he's also learned empathy, to at least some degree, that has come to hold him back from outright malice. The boy is, in fact, capable of friendship and love at this point, though only among people who he manages to become truly close to - which, having become a possibility in and of itself, is amazing. The boy has shifted, in a way, from a strict "Neutral Evil" alignment to a pure "Neutral" stance. Still, he's a con-man and opportunist at his core, and that'll continue to show for quite some time and to those people who he doesn't let in. He still has some growing to do.

Pokey has also become focused heavily on solidarity. While Pokey still wouldn't do much for the great majority of people he doesn't know, he would do a lot for the 'community' of those who are brought to another world. A large part of this is because of how much his interactions with the people in Mayfield meant to him. Pokey still distrusts a lot of people, but considering how right the population of Mayfield did by him, he tends to be more trusting of those who are 'wanderers' like him. That isn't to say he just blindly trusts any of those who are also teleported to a new world, but he is more likely to give them the benefit of the doubt, and he's certainly more likely to provide aid and assistance due to his belief at this point that the only thing any of them truly have is each other.

An aspect Pokey shares with his canon future self is an obsession with the past. Whereas the canon Pokey is obsessed with the past in regards to the game he thought he and Ness were playing, and how his desire to be the "villain" in that game shaped him into the monster he has become, Pokey is, naturally, obsessed with Mayfield and the people there. They're the reason he keeps trying to act; they're the reason he tries to help when he's brought to a new place, when he eventually does. He owes it to the people he knew, if not the people he's meeting, to help and to pay their kindness forward. If he has any strength to do good and be a better person, it's because of his love, and in its unhealthier fraction his obsession, with the people he knew in Mayfield. He also can't forget or get over the fact that he seems to keep persisting while other people do not, and he hates himself for it. Self-loathing and survivor's guilt were something that etched themselves deep into him during his stay in Mayfield; now that he keeps jumping to other places and, from what he can tell, outliving others, they've etched themselves even further still. Which brings us to Pokey's wish...

While most of his major CR and how it changed him has been listed in his history, it's a good idea to note that Pokey is, to a degree more willing to being trusting. Often a stubborn - some might say pig-headed - boy who would meet any kindness with suspicion, the years of world hopping and experience with others has changed Pokey mostly for the better. The love he received from his friends like Slugger and Mindy, the affection he ended up feeling from Francis Fulbright. These had massive impacts on him at his lowest moments. Pokey still isn't a person who befriends others easily, greatly due to his assholish demeanor and tendency to be a shit, but they've changed him irreparably from the monster he was on a crash course to becoming.

However it has made Pokey needy to a point, as well as tending to overidealize the people who give him a chance. Pokey has managed the continuous feelings of guilt he has very poorly. Because of this when someone shows interest in him or gives him a chance, he'll be loyal to them to a fault almost, where he might excuse behavior he otherwise wouldn't accept because, of course, what does he know? This is clearly a great and wonderful person and they deserve his support, because he's such a poor example of a person anyway. Pokey will happily give shit to most people, but if it's someone he's latched on to, he has a much harder time.

How did they change from their canon physically (Please explain what caused it to happen?):
Pokey arrived in Mayfield at the age of twelve and immortal thanks to messing with Time Travel. About a year and a half in he ditched his immortality thanks to the post office in Mayfield and has grown naturally since then. From the point he's being brought in, he'll be 16, close to 17.

This has naturally caused him to be taller, and while he's not any noticeably thinner he at least carries his weight a bit better. The biggest physical change is thanks to being in Cosmographia and being made a gem, a la the Steven Universe universe. This means that he has a barite stone slightly protruding from his throat. It also means that if his physical body is damaged enough that he essentially retreats into the stone in order to regenerate and heal, though he's never had to do this yet.

Powers:
Canonically, Pokey has no powers. He did, however gain some thanks to being a gem in Cosmographia.

Astral Projection: Pokey can leave his body and take an astral form. This is risky as it requires him to actually leave his physical someplace safe as it will be more or less unattended, though it gives him the benefit of being able to move through most physical spaces like nothing and going undetected, although someone who could see spirits/is psychic could sense him.

Chimera Creation: Pokey can take two animals, or an animal and an object, and turn them into a singular creature. He has to be able to touch both the animals, or animal and object to do this and to continue touching them through the combination process.

Crystalline Spider Legs: Pokey can cause crystalline spider legs to grow out of his back. He can use these to maneuver, climb surfaces, and generally move faster.

Item Creation: At the end of Mayfield, the survivors of the game were given moderator powers. This allows them to be able to create items from nothing to suit their needs in the new town. It should be noted that Pokey is limited in what he can create, and that creating large items/things takes much more out of him, and he can use it less per day, than creating small objects.

Possessions:
Pokey doesn't have much on him upon arriving in game. He has.
-His suit
-His journal that he's taken with him
-A small, four leaf clover pin
-A handmade comic book from his best friend in Mayfield
-A fake lapel rose
-A mustard bottle designed to work as a gun that squirts mustard at people

Please provide three samples from your previous game, at least one will have to be third person with context:
Sample One: Mayfield - Pokey warns the town about his old boss being in town
Sample Two: My Little Jamjar - Pokey advertises his arcade
Sample Three: Cosmographia - Pokey's intro at Cosmographia
Action Sample: My Little Jamjar - Pokey takes a trip into his mind

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Points Upkeep for Soulgemmed

2017-03-28T01:22:03Z

March 2017

	Activity Count		Total		Conversion		Points
In-Game Comments	6 + 12 + 4 + 7 + 26 + 4 + 10 + 14> + 12 + 7 + 33 + 30 + 2 + 3 + 20	=	190	÷	10	=	19
TDM Comments	COMMENT COUNT + COMMENT COUNT + COMMENT COUNT + COMMENT COUNT + COMMENT COUNT	=	TOTAL COMMENT COUNT	÷	15	=	RESULT
Inbox Comments	13	=	13	÷	20	=	.65
Posts	POST	=	1	÷	1	=	1

POINTS LEFT OVER FROM PREVIOUS MONTHS = 0
TOTAL POINTS EARNED IN March = 20.65
TOTAL POINTS SPENT IN March = 20
POINT BALANCE = 0.65

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Point Tracker 2

2016-09-10T00:36:48Z

MONTH YEAR

	Activity Count		Total		Conversion		Points
In-Game Comments	COMMENT COUNT + COMMENT COUNT + COMMENT COUNT + COMMENT COUNT + COMMENT COUNT	=	TOTAL COMMENT COUNT	÷	10	=	RESULT
TDM Comments	COMMENT COUNT + COMMENT COUNT + COMMENT COUNT + COMMENT COUNT + COMMENT COUNT	=	TOTAL COMMENT COUNT	÷	15	=	RESULT
Inbox Comments	COMMENT COUNT + COMMENT COUNT + COMMENT COUNT + COMMENT COUNT + COMMENT COUNT	=	TOTAL COMMENT COUNT	÷	20	=	RESULT
Posts	POST + POST	=	TOTAL POSTS	÷	1	=	RESULT

POINTS LEFT OVER FROM PREVIOUS MONTHS = NUMBER
TOTAL POINTS EARNED IN [MONTH] = NUMBER
TOTAL POINTS SPENT IN [MONTH] = NUMBER
POINT BALANCE = NUMBER

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Points Thread Tracker

2016-09-09T23:58:32Z

August:
1+3+1+2+1+1+4+1+1+1+1+.5=17.5

September:
1.8+.7=2.5

Items Bought:
September: 'Care Package' (20 Points): 20-20=0

Points Total: 0

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Soul Gemmed IC Inbox

2016-04-30T05:50:06Z

[Mirror | Action | Phone]

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Third Time is the Charm!

2016-01-11T05:17:40Z

Hi everyone it's James again! You might remember that once upon a time I played a horrible CRAU of a horrible pigboy and it was awful. Well, awful times are here again my friends, because Pokey Minch from Mother 2/Earthbound and with CRAU from Mayfield and MLJ is here again.

I'm terrible at intros but know this: this was indeed an intro.

As always, you can contact me on plurk at nathander.

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Sixteeeeeen Candleeees~

2015-12-22T01:18:18Z

Hi everyone, I'm James and I'm godawful at introductions! I've played with a few of you before but it's nice to see all of you at the game. Anyhow, let's get down to brass tacks.

http://i.imgur.com/l4kNSqn.png

I'm bringing you this fat asshole teenager, Pokey Minch from Earthbound/Mother 2. Pokey is a crass, asocial asshole who enjoys making trouble and wholesome pranks such as helping orchestrate the end of the world. Thing is, while Pokey can still be an asshole, he's changed a lot in the five years that he's been jumping from game world to game world. He's trying to be a decent human being instead of just an asshole, but hey. He'll at least try and be a team player. I might be bringing a more amicable character in in the future, but he's what I've got for now.

If you'd like, you can find his information post here and you can contact me at plurk at nathander.

Also wow I fucked up the coding on that picture you best get used to that HTML is not my strong point.

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Information Post for Soulgemmed

2015-12-22T01:02:48Z

OOC Information

Player:James
Contact Information:plurk - nathander; e-mail - rutledgejames35@gmail.com

Pokey Minch

Canonpoint: Directly after the end of Earthbound/CRAU (Mayfield/MLJ/Cosmos)
Age: 16
Wish: "I don't want to be the last survivor anymore."
Result: Pokey may choose one person close to him and take damage in their place, up to a killing blow.
Weapon: Round Shield, Red and Black Striped, with a small pig snout centerpiece POWER UPDATE: The Shield can be flung like a boomerang
Outfit: TBA

Powers

»The passive ability that, each day, he can choose to take on the physical pain of someone close to him. The person must be someone Pokey personally knows and cares about, and Pokey must be in near them/within eyesight of them. So long as these requirements are met, any injury of physical damage done to that person, up to a killing blow, is inflicted on Pokey instead. Pokey can choose a different person to guard this way each day, but once he selects someone for a day, it will remain that person without change.
» a dome barrier ten feet across. Once put up, this barrier can protect against damn near everything; in most cases, it'd be impenetrable. One could go so far as to say it's absolutely safe within the barrier. There are, however, several caveats to it:
-Once the dome is up, it's up, and it isn't moving. While others inside the barrier can move around in it, the barrier itself is, by all definition, stationary. There can be no movement of it itself. If the people within want to move, the barrier must be taken down and put back up. After taking the barrier down, Pokey must wait three minutes before throwing it back up again.
-No one inside the barrier can affect anything outside of the barrier. Just as nothing can affect the barrier from without, neither can anything from within. If people inside the barrier try to use powers that wouldn't naturally be limited by walls or barriers (psionics, mind control, ect.), they'll find that their powers nonetheless fail as long as they remain inside the barrier.
-Pokey must remain at the center of the barrier. The barrier can stay up so long as Pokey is conscious and remains at it's middle and thus the 'safest' part of the barrier. If Pokey himself moves out of the middle of the barrier, the barrier drops immediately.
-Naturally, if Pokey falls asleep, is knocked unconscious, or is killed by anyone within the barrier, the barrier will drop.
>>Spider Legs: Pokey can sprout four thin spider legs from his back that allow for extra maneuverability and the ability to climb up and down surfaces.

>>Music Combos: So long as Pokey can keep a beat, he can deal a series of telekinetic strikes to an opponent up to five feet in front of him. The combo can go on for four hits. Otherwise he can make dumbass music follow him around.
>>Minor Teleportation: Pokey can teleport to a location within 15ft and as long as it is within line of sight.

Permissions

I'm cool with most things, though if it's something incredibly serious (such as death), please take it up with me first.

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App for Soulgemmed

2015-12-15T06:07:20Z

( Aw )

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IC Inbox for cosmographia

2015-10-17T04:36:03Z

"Leave it. So I can delete it."

TEXT/AUDIO/VIDEO

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Cosmographia Astral Projection Permissions Post

2015-07-30T23:38:10Z

Pokey's base power, Astral Projection, allows himself to detach his consciousness from his body and explore the world in an invisible, intangible state. While Pokey won't be using this power for something as ruthless as blackmail ~~yet~~, it's in his nature to still use it to spy on and gather information about other people with it. This is a permissions post in order to either bow out from the possibility of him spying on your character, or gathering what is permissible.

Permissions Form:
Can Pokey Astrally Spy On Your Character?: Yes or no.
What can Pokey Find Out about Your Character?: What can Pokey find out about your character? What would he observe watching them throughout their usual day? What kind of conversations would he hear or relationships would he find they had?

Important: Pokey can only know information that is immediately presented. He can only learn information about characters that he observes or hears from them as he spies on them. He can't learn information about their past unless they are, for some reason, openly speaking about it. As Pokey is an astral projection, it is possible to imagine he could move in to other gem's rooms to spy on them as he no longer has a physical form in this state (or, more accurately, his physical form is abandoned wherever he was when he began to astrally project) but he can't affect anything in the room. Say, for instance, your character has a journal. Pokey can see they have a journal but he can't look through the journal as he can't affect physical matter (though, theoretically, he could watch as the person flips through their journal and gain information by looking through whatever they're looking at).

Regardless, what are you comfortable with Pokey knowing/learning about your character. Put that here.
Does Your Character Have Any Way to Sense/Block His Astral Form?: Astral Projection could fall under being either a magical/psychic power. If your character has some way to sense/block that kind of power, they might have a chance of doing so here.

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Stats/Permissions for Cosmographia

2015-05-16T04:57:47Z

Pokey Minch
PLAYER NAME James CONTACT INFORMATION nathander on plurk; e-mail - rutledgejames35@gmail.com CHARACTER NAME Pokey Minch (ceasetoexist, Earthbound/Mother 2 - Mayfield CRAU) Age 15 Gem Barite Permissions I'm pretty cool with anything, just if it's something major, please let me know and plan before hand. NOTES Extra stuff goes here
ABILITIES
☆ Astral Projection ☆ Chimera Creation ☆ Crystalline Spider Legs ☆ Item Creation ☆ ☆ ☆

code modified from cawaii's original

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Who's the Cool Guy Now?

2015-05-15T23:19:31Z

Hello Cosmographia, my name is James and I've had an eye on the game for a bit now. In celebration of my arrival, Ive brought this delightful friend, Pokey Minch from the game Earthbound/Mother 2. Pokey is a mean, selfish, cunning boy who may not have had experience in being an alien before, but he's sure had experience in betraying his own world to one. As you can tell, he's a pretty trustworthy buddy.

Lucky for you, the kid went through about two and half years of development in Mayfield, which has ended up tempering him from canon a lot. He's turned from a pretty hard Neutral Evil alignment to a strong just Neutral. He's still a massive asshole, but he is, at times, at least willing to use his incredible powers of lying and being a con man for...Y'know, as much as they can be used for the good of others. He actually developed a sense of empathy ~~and all it took was dying six times and being a clone of Pokey Minch instead of the little monster himself~~.

Anyhoo, Pokey's gem is barite and his power is Astral Projection. You can contact and find me on plurk as nathander (I will...provide an actual link when I get home.)

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Application for Cosmographia

2015-05-08T06:30:40Z

( Young )

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Application for mylittlejamjar

2014-07-04T03:06:01Z

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Player Name: James
Player Journal: truebluehorror
Age: 27
Contact: plurk @ nathander
Characters Played: Surprise, Jappleack/Applejack

IN CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Pokey Minch
Canon: Mother Series/Earthbouhd (Mother 2)
OU/AU/OC: AU (imported from the end of mayfield_rpg
Canon Point: Directly after the end of Earthbound/Mother 2
History:
Canon History - http://earthbound.wikia.com/wiki/Pokey_Minch
Game History -
During the two years Pokey was stuck in Mayfield he underwent several changes. Most you could say was, in fact personal growth and for the better, no matter how much he may have resisted it at the beginning. When he first arrived in Mayfield Pokey attempted to do what he’d always done; cause hell and try to establish himself as a top dog among the people there. Predictably this was meant with the same result it was always met with: failure. Perhaps even more embarrassing failure than usual since all his normal means of trying to show himself as better than everyone else and to inspire fear, such as his mech, his robots, and his weaponry, had been taken away from him. For the first time since he had started serving Giygas, since he had been at home in Onett, Pokey was entirely without protection again. He was nothing but a fat little jackass with a bad attitude and no one or thing to protect him.

In order to protect himself Pokey started looking for the groups around the town to try and align himself with. He didn’t intend to have any loyalty to whatever group he chose, of course; he’d just stick around as long as the group could prove it could protect him. Eventually after a few false starts (and one that ended up just becoming a partnership of sorts) Pokey found a group. Or rather, the group found him. Known as the KND, it was started by a group of kids who in their own world fought against adult “tyranny” and in Mayfield were working to try and protect the kids who were stuck there while increasing their ranks by training those kids. It would work well enough; since the group would protect most kids, Pokey thought it would be easy to take advantage on. What he hadn’t counted on was the fact that he would actually be asked to join the group by a member of the KND, a girl named Frances Fullbright, or Numbah 86.

It was an altogether new sensation for Pokey. He had never been asked to join a group by other kids before; considering his (well earned) reputation as a bully and jerk in Onett, he’d had only one friend there and he considered Ness’ offer of friendship to (erroneously) be one based off of pity instead of actual kindness and friendship. To have someone he didn’t even know reach out to him and offer him to be part of a group when the only other time he had felt such an offer was sincere was when it came from a psychotic, racist alien entity that wanted to subjugate all human life was a bit of a shock for Pokey. He had never put trust in people before and, truth be told, still wasn’t quite yet at first. But this simple offer was the first thing to set him on a path to putting trust in people, even if it would only ever be a select few.

The other event that would help shape Pokey in Mayfield was meeting a boy from his future named Lucas. Lucas came from far in the future in a world that Pokey would take over and, in the end, try and destroy. Lucas would suffer many hardships thank to the cruelty and insanity Pokey would possess in the future under the moniker of the tyrannical King P, or the Pig King. The two meeting in Mayfield was not exactly easy at first; Pokey was immediately suspicious of someone he had never met who seemed to know him, and Lucas was determined that this Pokey wouldn’t become the Pig King. Lucas wanted Pokey to find out what friendship and love were and, while Lucas didn’t think he could ever show that to Pokey after all he had done (or rather would do) to his family and world, Lucas intended to try and help Pokey realize that things like friendship and love did exist.

It would be a hard task. But at the same time, the first year of captivity would be a trying one, but also a year full of lessons. Pokey would die three times before the first year was done and, in doing so, learn how painful what he desired to befall so many people was. Being put in a neighborhood and world where people didn’t know him and hate him for his family’s reputation, on the other hand, gave Pokey the chance to actually associate and speak with people in a way that wasn’t hostile, a pleasure he hadn’t really known before. Here, in this town that was a prison Pokey was given the chance to actually form relationships. To find friendships, and lose them, and learn what actual pain was. Within the span of his first year, very difficultly and begrudgingly, Pokey would end up admitting that he was wrong and Lucas was right: friendship and love existed.

The next year would be an extension of the first: having admitted friendship and love existed Pokey found himself building on that notion by learning how to react to friendship and love. It wasn’t an easy process for a stubborn, mean spirited boy like himself and truth be told by the end of it all he still isn’t great at it. Still, Pokey wasn’t the exact little hate-filled monster he had been. He’d formed a very strong bond with a “boy” named Lil Slugger, in actuality a monster that fed on negative human emotions. What had started as a hatred between the two of them began to develop into a rivalry, then into a friendly period of joshing one another, until it grew and grew. The two began to depend on each other and, in fact, become best friends, a title Pokey had previously only used to take advantage of his neighbor Ness’ kindness. It was this friendship, the fact that Pokey had formed it in the end, that finally proved Pokey had done something previously unimaginable for him: he’d learned friendship, and through it compassion and concern in how he found he could come to worry about Slugger.

In the end, Pokey had changed. He’s changing still. But some things will never change about him. His mean-spirited temperament and cruelty are too far a part of him, something too ingrained in him when he was being raised, to be gotten rid of. Pokey’s still a snobbish, mean little asshole. But the difference has become that he’s learned affection, and he’s learned to trust, and most importantly he’s learned to love and he’s learned all the pain that comes with those things. They’re good traits that he only expresses to a few people and only to those who’ve earned his trust, but that are expressed all the same. And not only that, but it’s now possible for his trust to be earned, although it’s still something hard earned.

On the other hand, Pokey has had an increase in self-loathing thanks to his trip to Mayfield. What Pokey had always done had been a means of inflating his ego, and when he realized just how wrong he had been his defense mechanism collapsed. While he still utilizes his one-upmanship and tendency to grandstand, it comes off as more personally hollow for him for now on. The trade-off, in a way, is that while Pokey has learned a respect for other life and the values of friendship, he’s come to see less and less value in himself. He’s become self-sacrificing for people he cares about, but rarely in a good way. While he may want to genuinely protect the people he cares about, it’d be a lie to say part of the sentiment isn’t “better me than them” due to viewing himself as worthless in comparison to the others he knows. Death, one of the things Pokey had once feared, has become one of the things he fears the least now due to having died as many times in Mayfield as he has (six in total) and his own perceived idea of being worthless. In the end, if something goes right for Pokey, something has to be traded to keep
the equilibrium of crappiness in place.

Things change, and are the same as they ever were.

Personality:
If you went through all the dictionaries in the world, and looked up the word “brat”, at least one would have the have the statement “see POKEY MINCH”.

Pokey is, to put it in the shortest way possible, a version of “that kid”. You probably knew “that kid” during your elementary and middle school days, because you tried as best as you could to avoid “that kid”. That’s because “that kid” was generally socially inept in one of many distinct ways. In Pokey’s case, it’s because he’s loud and obnoxious, usually in a self-serving manner. He tends to poke his nose into everyone’s business when given the chance, and if something about that business should interest him, he won’t shut up or back off on it. Pokey also has the bad habit of being clingy to his “friends”. And, by friends, it’s meant people who will tolerate him or have the goodwill to actually bother giving him a chance to show there’s something worthwhile about himself. Unfortunately, because he’s “that kid”, this also means Pokey is also one of the universes’ biggest buttmonkeys, and he’ll almost always let down the people who give him a chance due to his own incompetence/inability to work with other people or show he has any ability to connect or deal with them. Really, that’s what you’d get out of Pokey Minch at first glance: “that kid” you always tried so hard to ignore because he was overbearing, socially pathetic, and clumsy and unlikeable.

Thing is, that’s but a surface glance at who Pokey Minch is. Underneath the socially inept, bratty exterior lies the mind of a fairly cruel, self-serving schemer and opportunist. Truth be told, there’s only one person Pokey openly looks out for (despite debatably at times his younger brother Picky), and that’s Pokey Minch. Most things Pokey does, he does because he believes he can benefit from it. Pokey is willing and capable of lying and weaseling to others to try and put himself in the best position possible at the moment. And, for all his usual social faults, Pokey is a rather accomplished liar, at least most of the time. If there’s anything Pokey is truly a master at, it’s lying and creating tall tales in order to try and capitalize on his current position and get out of trouble.

Which isn’t entirely fair. Truth be told, Pokey is fairly intelligent for a boy his age, although it doesn’t show that often despite his constant boasting about it. Pokey is capable, at times, of crafting fairly cunning schemes and plans, as well as setting up back-up plans. During the course of the game, Pokey displays the fact that he’s rather intelligent and a skilled liar/schemer in two instances. The first is his involvement with The Happy Happyists, a cult that wants to turn everything blue (due largely in part to the influence of Giygas, an alien overlord Pokey chose to side with). In this instance, Pokey was able to impress the cult’s leader, Mr. Carpainter, enough that Pokey was given the title and authority of a high priest within the cult. A second time was in the city of Fourside, where Pokey and his father Alyosious were found working for an entrepreneur in the city named Mr. Monotelli. In many ways, this shows that Pokey’s father was taking advantage of his son’s skill/intelligence (and, most likely unbeknownst to Pokey’s father, the aid Pokey was also receiving from Giygas) for his own personal gain.

There are also a few instances where Pokey shows he has a minor knack for technology. While far from being the biggest genius ever, Pokey displayed that he was apparently capable of flying a helicopter as a means of escape from Fourside after his plans failed without having any previous experience doing such. Of course, he ended up also crashing the helicopter in mire of the Deep Darkness after it ran out of fuel due to his own negligence, but that’s another story. Another example of this apparent knack and ability to easily work with mechanical devices/crafts is near the end of the game, where Pokey shows up in a newly gotten spider-mech to help Giygas in stopping the Chosen Four, the heroes of the game. Pokey is able to pilot the mech with quite a bit of proficiency, which is impressive considering it was supposedly the first time he’d used it. It implies, in a way, that while Pokey may struggle to make something himself, he seems to very easily figure out how something works once he actually gets his hands on it. If he actually had the willpower or the drive to make, he possibly could, but the fact that he doesn't himself continues to display some of his worse traits: namely the fact that he's lazy and a thief.

Despite being intelligent, clever, and somewhat talented, Pokey has something massive holding him back. Unsurprisingly, it’s the other half of his personality. And this part truly does fall in line with the “that kid” description that he appeared to be on the surface, although a darker reflection of it. Like “that kid”, Pokey desperately wants to be noticed, and he’ll go to any means necessary to get attention from others. This is a good deal of his reasoning for the behavior he displays. While he’d love for people to like him, if he can’t get that he’ll accept fear and hatred as an alternative as long as someone is paying attention to him and what he’s doing. Pokey craves attention, and it doesn’t particularly matter if what he ultimately gets is good attention or not as long as he gets it. More often then not, the attention he gets is negative due to his behavior. The loud and obnoxious front isn’t really a front at all, but genuinely a part of who he is. Part of him honestly thinks he is as great as he says he is, and wants to force others to acknowledge just how amazing he is. And if someone disagrees with him, either on his perception of himself or anything else, they’re dead wrong. It is just utterly inconceivable to Pokey that he may not be right about something.

He also, unsurprisingly, has quite the temper. If people disagree with Pokey enough, or refuse to give in to what he wants or believe him, he’s prone to flying into temper tantrums. Occasionally these can escalate to the point of flat out and out screaming and, in severe cases, him deciding to break something. The fact that he’s more then capable of getting physically violent when things don’t go his way isn’t surprising, as one of the main role models he had in his life was his father, who’s implied to have been a relatively violent man. And this, in and of itself, has created a small love of destruction in Pokey. When he’s angry, there really isn’t anything that makes him happier then smashing something in order to relieve his anger.

Pokey is also rather cynical for a child his age, most likely due to the way he was raised. For instance, when Ness, the hero of the story and Pokey’s neighbor/”best friend” is initially told about Giygas’ approach and that Ness and his friends will have to be the one to defeat Giygas, Pokey immediately backs down from the possibility of being one of the people to help facilitate this, proclaiming that something as powerful as Giygas could never be beaten and that fighting against it would be pointless. Thus, in the face of a great enough adversity, Pokey is more likely to back down from the challenge then to try and work against it. Or, in Pokey’s case, he also ultimately chose to work with what he perceived to be the far stronger force. At some point, most likely shortly after Ness had chosen to go and fight Giygas, Giygas offered Pokey the chance to work as Giygas’ right hand, which Pokey accepted, both as a means to get back at the people who he had perceived had wronged him (which it turns out was just about everyone) and as a means, most likely, to protect himself. Pokey is also capable of being fairly cruel. He can be short and callous in conversations, as well as insulting if he thinks the situation calls for it, which is most times. He has no problem letting others take the fall for him if given the chance to make that happen, and he seems to possess very little empathy in regards to hurting others. In canon, he’s done things such as kidnapping, and gone so far as to try and destroy the planet.

Along with everything else, Pokey also demonstrates a childish view of moral issues, such as good and evil. If Pokey gets the idea of morally gray, he doesn’t show it, and believes most things to be a case of good guys versus bad guys, with himself planted firmly in the side of the bad guy. In a way, he also views this idea of “good guys vs. bad guys” as a game as much as it is a real struggle. Throughout much of Earthbound, he approaches a lot of what he does as both serious and yet frivolous. Pokey appears to understand that what he’s doing is wrong, but doesn’t see any need to stop it because it’s A) fun and B) he clearly expects everyone else is impressed and having fun as well, and if they’re not they’re babies. He completely misses just how severe what he’s doing is, at least while he’s doing it. At the same time? Perhaps part of him realized Ness was going to win in the end, like he always did in their other games, and thus felt like there was no problem behaving the way he did because he was going to lose anyway, and therefore there was no harm in what he did. And in the end, maybe that’s all it amounted to to Pokey: yet another game between him and Ness. Although, all things considered with what was going on? That’s doubtful.

Despite his cruelty, his self-serving obnoxiousness, and his childishness, there is one last layer below that that shows who Pokey really is. Deep down, Pokey is an extraordinarily lonely, sad, and frightened boy. While his family was well-off financially for the most part, his mother was primarily negligent and his father abusive. Much of what Pokey does and the way he behaves he arguably does as a self-defense mechanism. This would explain why he would immediately bow before things that seem stronger then him: it’s essentially his way of saying “please don’t hit me”. Of course, Pokey can’t let others know just how weak he is at his core, so he does his best to dress it up and hide it from everyone else, which accounts for much of his outward behavior. This is hardly to say Pokey doesn’t mean the way he behaves, but there’s a very specific reason for why he behaves that way. In many ways, his behavior is the reactions of a weak little boy flailing and trying to keep himself safe. He doesn’t want to be the way he is, and deep down he doesn’t like the way he is, but that way is simply who he is, and he’ll work with it and be it, because it does work for him. Kinda.

And really, in the end? What choice does he have. No one would like him anyway.

For Pokey’s personality in Mayfield, see his game history. The important parts that have been changed and have developed during his two and a half-years in game have been noted.

Strengths:
For a boy his age, Pokey is remarkably smart and cunning. Thanks in part to Giygas' influence and his own gifts and, to a degree, what one could arguably call "charisma", Pokey has the ability to be a smooth talker. He's also a gifted (though not always successful) schemer. He also has an unnatural affinity for technology and machines. While not a fantastic inventor on his own, he is skilled at being a kind of technological chameleon in that he can easily learn and utilize, as well as build and work on, new technology he's introduced to.

Alongside this is his apparent skill with finances and business. Considering his natural ruthlessness, coupled with his intelligence, Pokey proved himself to be a decent business analyst, a skill his father happily exploited. However, this part shouldn't be focused on too much, as part of this may have been due to corrupting influence of Giygas.

Alongside this it's worth mentioning that Pokey was granted "administrative powers" at the end of the game. These powers were given to everyone who survived Mayfield until the end of the game. For the most part, these powers were meant to help them maintain the new town they were given: restructuring the town and repairing buildings and injuries done to characters, as well as being able to make items and material out of nothing in order to help around the town. The nature of these powers seem to be tied both specifically to the town, but also seem to have been made part of the nature of those characters who gained them. While the town restructuring or healing of sickness/injury is unlikely to cross over, the material/item creation may be capable of carrying over. In this case, the ability can only be used five times per day, and is dependent on how big/much the items being made are. For instance, if Pokey made something big with his first use, everything next would have to be smaller.

It isn't necessarily a given this power could be carried over, but it is as much a fact of Pokey's nature as a construct of the town alongside being in the town itself.

Weaknesses:
Pokey, at heart, is a coward. Canonically this meant that Pokey was number one and all things came second in comparison to Pokey. A fight that he's losing is a fight not worth continuing, and if he can find some way to cheat in it, cheating is always the way to go. To fight and run away is pretty good; to fight, run away, and still find some way to inconvenience others around you still, even better. This cowardice ties in with Pokey's inherent selfishness and general inability to empathize with others. Pokey's thought process, especially pre-Mayfield, is close to that of a sociopath; he has no ability to understand the feelings and thoughts of others. In some parts this could just be seen as his immaturity, but his inability to even care about the thoughts and feelings of others attests to his blooming sociopathy as well.

Post-Mayfield, Pokey isn't as sociopathic. He's capable of caring about others, although this caring extends only to a select group of people, and not caring about the general good of all. He's still self-absorbed, selfish, and rude, but he'd at least go to some lengths to protect those few he actually cares about.

Another thing Mayfield had taught him was that life is cheap. While Pokey had been well on his way to learning this in regards to others, his time in Mayfield subverted this. Miraculously, the boy was taught that there is such a thing as going too far, and such a thing as sanctity of life. Unfortunately, it changed it so that Pokey began to view his own life as having little value, both in the self-loathing he developed as he came to recognize the meaning of his own actions, as well as the fact that he had managed to die six times throughout his stay. Death is unimportant because death is not lasting; his death is not important because of all he has done and will do.

Possessions:
His business suit, a four leaf clover pin, a small handmade comic book, and a small, 'toy' gun made out of a mustard bottle

Pony/Animal Type:
Dragon. Specifically, a baby dragon about Spike's size with black as his major scale color and red as his skin/minor color.

Cutie Mark:
A dragon has no need of a cutie mark!

Pony Picture:

SAMPLES

First Person:
Dear Mun Post

Third Person:
Test Drive Post

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CRAU Character Knowledge

2012-11-08T06:34:11Z

As Pokey is coming from a game he had been in for nearly three years, he ended up meeting quite a few people and developing relationships - some minor, some large - with them as time went on. A list of the people he had met that are also in the Tower are as follows

- Edward Richtofen
- Laharl
- Rika Furude
- Dave Strider
- Feferi Peixes
- Jade Harley
- Karkat Vantas
- Eridan Ampora
- Bernkastel
- Remilia Scarlet
- Kyrie Ushiromiya

As it stands with his current personality, Pokey is unlikely to use any of the knowledge he has previously about these characters, nor reveal it. He probably won't be open in the fact that he knew them, though he may end up trying to talk to the regardless of this though with little hope of re-establishing the relationships he had with alternate versions of them.

If you would like to avoid contact with Pokey, feel free to send me a private message. Thank you.

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Tower of Animus Trunk

2012-11-08T06:16:44Z

1x Red and Black striped suit
1x Plastic Four Leaf Clover Pin
1x Comic book, apparently drawn and clipped out of magazines by a child his age
1x A mustard bottle with a gun handle and trigger attached (a M.U.S.K.E.T.
1x Paper Crane, neatly folded
1x Journal

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Application for Tower of Animus

2012-11-02T07:10:10Z

( Here's )

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IC Contact Post | Mayfield

2012-02-11T04:48:47Z

"Yeah yeah blah blah this is Pokey leave me a message I guess."

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