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Iron-Zing — PCBC: Plague

Published: 2008-10-12 04:44:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 2668; Favourites: 48; Downloads: 25
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Description The final pokemon on Zing's [link] PCBC team, Plague is 7 years old; her battling carrier is almost over. Zing didn't want to enter her at first because of her inexperience in battling. However, Chari, Plagues Mentor, convinced Zing to enter her.

Name: Plague
Species: Houndoom
Gender: Female
Ability: Flash Fire
Nature: Adamant, Highly persistent
Item: Life Orb (inside the skull on her neck. No- one knows how, or why, she put it there)

Attacks:

Headbutt: Plague runs straight towards the enemy and bashes into them with her horns

Crunch: Plague will use her powerful jaws to bite savagely into the foe

Flamethrower: Plague will shoot a stream of fire from her mouth

Solerbeam: Plague's back armor and eyes will glow green and collect energy from the sun, then she will shoot a powerful beam of energy from her mouth

Personality:
Plague was caught as a Houndour late in Zing's second and final round through Jhoto. She was very low-leveled and inexperienced compared to the other members of Zing's team, so she was seldom sent into battle. She never grew much stronger because Zing left Jhoto about 2 months after she had caught Plague.
Because she was seldom used in battle, Plague believes that Zing sees her as an unworthy team member. She is constantly trying to prove herself to Zing to make up for her weakness in the past.
Plague is very loyal and craves Zing's approval and acceptance more then anything. Much like Flare, she will do anything that Zing says, and she often tries to go above and beyond what Zing's order was to impress her. However, because of her inexperience, this often ends in a loss for her, because even though she has trained constantly at Zing's secret base, she has not improved her abilities much and still remains the weakest member of the team.

Distinguishing Features:
Plague looks much like a regular Houndoom except for the markings above her eyes and her horns. Because of her age, her horns are curled forward like a rams. The orange markings above her eyes often give her face a sad appearance.


Battle Style:
Because Plague wants to be seen as a worthy member of Zing's team, she tries harder then any of Zing's other pokemon during a battle. She has no sense of self preservation and will not even blink when diving into a powerful, deadly attack. She thinks that by putting herself into dangerous situations, she will prove how strong she is. However, whenever she does this,it is often too much for her to handle, so in the end, she will loose. However, she is very determined and even after so many losses, she still won't give up her kamikaze way of fighting.
The Life Orb inside her chest makes her attacks almost %50 stronger, however, it damages her every turn, and if the battle draws out too long, blood will begin seeping from the 'skull's eyes and mouth. She doesn't pay attention to this injury at all however, and only focuses on winning.
Because of her raw determination, Zing expects to see Plague slowly grow stronger over the course of the tournament. However, during the first few rounds, she will likely loose many battles.

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Comments: 16

joltdoom [2010-01-20 09:30:33 +0000 UTC]

Zing u might wanna take the sprites of i had a ref with sprites on once and DA removed it

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KayPikeFashion [2009-10-31 21:18:27 +0000 UTC]

Brilliant job on the details of the horns and muzzle ^^ Oh wow, I am in love with houndoom right now and always look when someone has one up!

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Iron-Zing In reply to KayPikeFashion [2009-10-31 21:32:44 +0000 UTC]

Hahah thanks!

Yeah, Plague is one of my fav poke characters that I have. I even have her in RL in my Crystal version

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TendoMan77 [2008-10-12 10:53:43 +0000 UTC]

Oh my a Houndoom, at least female one. Didn't expect that since you had a fire type already .

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Iron-Zing In reply to TendoMan77 [2008-10-12 18:15:02 +0000 UTC]

Hahah, now I have THREE fire types XDDDD I didn't pick my team based on types or popularity though. I picked my favorites and the ones I liked to draw the most

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kehetey [2008-10-12 05:06:06 +0000 UTC]

Oh my god Zing... STOP MAKING SUCH AWESOME POKEMON CHARACTERS xDDD Ugh, that's it... I'm going to start drawing Pokes NOW I don't care about commissions right now xDD -grabs paper-

And I really like her character... I feel for her >: I know the feeling of trying to prove yourself like that... she sounds really interesting c': Andand it's nice to see some awesome Houndoom art! I simply adore my Houndoom on my FireRed, and I always felt like they deserved more love :]

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Iron-Zing In reply to kehetey [2008-10-12 18:23:55 +0000 UTC]

XDDDDDD Aw come on, I can't help it! It's just what I do ;D
Eeeeee! *squeal* I can't WAIT!

Awww,thanks! Yeah, I really like her too <3 Even if she's weak she's still awesome-sauce.
HAahah, yeah, me too! But like it said in her info, I got her in my Crystal only a few months before Sapphire came out, so then after that I stopped plain Crystal to play Sapphire. So I didn't get to train her much.
I love doing that...like, connecting events that happened IRL in my games to events that happened in the characters past Its fuuun

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kehetey In reply to Iron-Zing [2008-10-13 00:48:35 +0000 UTC]

Bullyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy xDDD PEER PRESSUREEEEEEEEEEEEEE heck, making characters is like a drug though :/ grr

I totally agree xDD
Baww poor thing xD;; My Crystal was my favorite of my versions... and a few summers back, someone stole it AND my gameboiii color from my hotel room :/ I was fucking pissed. I miss my Pokes from there ;w;
Totally! It helps solidify a character when you can draw similarities to him/her ^w^

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Iron-Zing In reply to kehetey [2008-10-13 12:51:14 +0000 UTC]

D:> Aw snap...that sucks so badly man...
Yeha, Iron's Ruby got stolen when her house was robbed, with her lv 100 Groudon and Pichu in it...she loves those guys man :/

;D Yeah yeah!

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kehetey In reply to Iron-Zing [2008-10-14 01:53:06 +0000 UTC]

Yeah I miss 'em D':
Oh fuck that sucks DDD: Why do bad things happen to good people? :/

;DD -boogies-

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The-Blue-Pangolin [2008-10-12 04:59:38 +0000 UTC]

Very creative implementation of the Life Orb, I approve

The face detail seems to say, "quite so, how delightful."

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Iron-Zing In reply to The-Blue-Pangolin [2008-10-12 18:13:19 +0000 UTC]

;D hahaha, yeah, I was gonna give her a Focus Band at first, but it looked dumb no matter where IO tied it on her :/ Then I had the Life Orb idea, so I stuckwith that. Glad you liked it!

XD Hahaha, I love Plague. I tried drawing her face there in Ginga Nagareboshi Gin style (a manga about dogs). Thast not my usual style, I just wanetd to try it out. But I loved the outcome!

What species did you think Plague was before I uploaded her?

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The-Blue-Pangolin In reply to Iron-Zing [2008-10-12 20:24:44 +0000 UTC]

Well, based on the name and your personal preferences, I would have guessed that it would have maybe been a Marowak, or maybe poison type of some sort.

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Iron-Zing In reply to The-Blue-Pangolin [2008-10-12 20:59:02 +0000 UTC]

Ahh yeah, good guesses! She used to have toxic and Sludge bomb, thats where her name came from...I might switch up her moveset durning the tournament to put a poison move back in. Cause Houndooms pokedex entry says that they're poisonous and have toxins in their body :0

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Spooky-Delirium [2008-10-12 04:57:08 +0000 UTC]

I love how you put the life orb in the skull it's cool.

And I like the old sprites HUGE-ASS skull there. It looks better somehow than the new tiny one... In nintendo style, that is. In your style, HUGE-ASS skull wouldn't work too well XD
And that skinny-ass tail new-age houndoom sprites have... wtf was Nintendo thinking?
Oh well... cute mah! She's cute.

I look forward to having my pokemon destroy her in the future.

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Iron-Zing In reply to Spooky-Delirium [2008-10-12 18:17:54 +0000 UTC]

I know man Everyone likes that idea, I'm so happy X3

XD I know right? The old sprites were the bestest

Eeee, thanks maah! She'd wag her tail if you told her that

XDDD Wtf dude, everyones pokemon look foward to destroying her cause she's really weak. She'll probably lose like, %75 of the battles she's in. But she won't go down without fight. She'll do a good amount of damage before she's taken down, thast for sure

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