pokemon_bigbang | match ups: round 1

2012 Match-Ups
CLOSED.

This is where writers, artists, and beta-readers find other people to work in teams with. Here's how this works:

✗ This match-up post is open for the duration of the event, and updates periodically to let you know if there are changes in team composition. Artists and beta-readers may claim prompts at any time, assuming there's space on the team.

✗ Commenting here means you're willing to have other people depend on you to do your share of the work. Don't comment here until you're sure that you want to follow through with the big bang. (And if you do drop, please let us know?)

✗ Keep in mind that a team can have four people max—

Two writers, one artist, one beta-reader
One writer, two artists, one beta-reader
And less is okay too (for example, one artist and one author)

✗ Writers:

You must have at least 1,000 words written before you post here. Similarly, you're under no obligation to post here. There's nothing wrong with wanting to work alone.

The match-up post opens on June 2, but it's okay if you're late. Just comment here when you're ready.

All comments you leave on this post should be anonymous.

To start, leave an anonymous comment on this post advertising your story. (It's okay if a lot of the information you have is tenuous/open to change. Just do your best.)

Here's a form for your convenience:
Title: Verse: (anime, games (generation?), manga (series?), etc.; specifics = better) Rating: Characters/Pairings: Warnings: (if applicable) Summary: (You can use as many of these sections as you want and reorganize them as you please, but please use *one* at least!) Snippet: (If you choose to post a fic snippet, please post only ONE, SAFE-FOR-WORK sample, and please try to keep it to 200 words or less.) A/N: Current Word Count: Percent Complete: Is the author(s) under 18?: (not optional) I am looking for: (artists, beta-readers, or both. The default assumption is that you are open to anyone of any age joining your team. If this is not true, please specify your preference here as well.) Artists: (leave notes to any interested artists here.) Beta-readers: (anything potential betas should know?)

✗ Artists and beta-readers:

Please make sure your PMs are on. (Go to my account settings, scroll down to "DW Private Messages," and make sure it's set to "Registered Users.")

Once that's done, browse through the story ads! Feel free to ask questions, if you'd like (anonymous or not, your call).

If you are an artist or beta-reader under 18 years of age, do not claim prompts with ratings higher than T or PG-13.

If you decide that you want to join a team, leave a SIGNED-IN reply on the ad that uses the subject header "ARTIST/BETA-READER CLAIM" (whichever applies to you).

You can only pick one story to work on, so choose wisely!

Don't feel obligated to take on a project. If nothing appeals to you, that's okay.

Remember this is first-come, first-serve. If you see that there are already two artists on a project or another beta-reader on a project, scroll on by.

✗ Writers will then PM the claiming artists and beta-readers to talk/plan privately. At this point you can exchange contact information (e-mail, IM, etc.) if you wish. If you'd like the mods to set up a private channel on our discord server for your team, just let us know.

✗ If, during these initial talks, it becomes clear that a match-up isn't clicking, that's fine. Just delete your claim on the story's ad. This signals that there is now a spot free for other interested parties.

✗ As you can see, a lot of this is nebulous—therefore, please keep checking this post! As time goes on, new story ads may be posted, spaces may open up on stories you were interested in, and new claims may be made. Just keep looking.

✗ This is a drama-free zone. Be excellent to each other!

✗ Questions or comments? Please drop us a line.

There are currently 15 writers, 17 artists, and 6 beta-readers.

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Title: Kyogre's Ambition
Verse: Composite. I refer to Red as having used "Ash" as an alias and freely mix and match the canons.
Rating: Probably PG, maybe PG-13. Lots of death and general destruction, but I don't like to describe violence in gory detail.
Characters/Pairings: Celebi, Ho-Oh, Kyogre, Red, Archie, Nobunaga, Mitsuhide.
Summary:

Ho-oh returns, but Johto is in mortal peril. Team Aqua, led by Kyogre, is sailing north, and Hoenn has been drowned. Called by Celebi, Sengoku-era generals appear in modern times – to save the world, or to rule it.

Snippet:
But no victories over Aqua Grunts or even their leadership would ever stop the rain. Nothing would, so long as Kyogre lived.

And no one in Hoenn had any hope of stopping Kyogre. When the rain covered the last mountaintop – and day after day, as more refugees came and more hapless trainers drowned, the mountaintops grew smaller and smaller – Team Aqua would sail north.

And Kyogre would be with them. And if Kyogre wasn't stopped, Johto would share Hoenn's fate.

If the world survived, historians and archaeologists would do extensive research to determine the precise number of dead in Hoenn. The land had not had a proper census in decades, so even the percentage was guesswork. But when one extrapolates from the number of refugees found in Kanto, Johto, and Sinnoh, it is quite reasonable to conclude that only half of Hoenn's people escaped alive.

Forty days and forty nights after the flood began, the birds stopped coming. But there was no Ark, no Ararat, and no rainbow, just a great bird with rainbow wings determined to fight back.

Hoenn was no more.

A/N: This fic uses characters from Pokemon Conquest in prominent roles. I have not yet played Pokemon Conquest, because it comes out on June 18th in my country. I wouldn't be doing this fic now if I didn't feel confident I could meet the deadline, but this does put a damper on how much I can get done early on.

Current Word Count: 1308
Percent Complete: 13% I think.

I am looking for: Artists
Artists: I don't really know what to say here. But I'm certainly writing with the big bang in mind and trying to put in some cool battle scenes and dramatic imagery to give you something to draw.