Tagg

Name:	Richard
Nickname/Alias:	Tagg
Gender:	Male
Sexuality:	Unknown
Age:	21
Height:	Unknown
Ethnicity:	Unknown
Birthday:	July 3, 1991
Attribute:	N/A
Trainer ID:	N/A
Home:	Nondescript town near Viridian City
Pokéform:	Swampert
Starter:	Venusaur
Status:	Alive

Tagg is a 21 year old Pokemon Trainer (19 at the start of the RP) and a PEFE Researcher from a nondescript town near Viridian City in Kanto. A natural explorer, he happens to be one of the founding members of the PEFE and a fairly successful trainer, having been one for about 11 years of his life.

Personality

Personality-wise Tagg is very introverted, preferring to keep to himself. He also happens to be fairly pragmatic and ruthless when dealing with particularly nasty enemies (especially Cipher), which has lead to him being more feared than loved outside of his inner circle. To those in said circle, however, he is known as a dedicated friend who nonetheless needs others to keep him from pushing his limits into dangerous territory.

Due to many other J-Team members being younger and/or less experienced than he is, Tagg views himself as the group sentinel and if necessary the guy who has to shoot the proverbial Lillipup so that the others don't have to.

Biography

Tagg was born in that very same town, and often spent his early years exploring the backwoods surrounding his home. It was on one of these very occasions that he nearly became a Froslass' new ice sculpture at the age of six, but managed to get away through an accidental use of his Aura powers, something he wouldn't truly discover until years later. Tagg also had very little friends growing up, leading him to become very withdrawn for the most part, except where science and Pokemon were concerned.

The Start of A Very Long Journey: Kanto and Johto

At the age of 10, Tagg ended up visiting Pallet Town in order to get a starter Pokemon from Professor Oak to begin his Pokemon journey. Said starter Pokemon turned out to be a Bulbasaur, and Tagg decided to go out and get all eight Kanto badges, succeeding in doing so and becoming a Champion at the age of ten. Soon afterwards, he decided to try his hand at the second half of the Indigo League, eschewing his Kanto team for a new one forged in Johto. During both instances, he also served as a junior researcher for both Professor Oak and Elm.

Exploring Hoenn

When Tagg was 13 years old, he decided to try his hand at the Hoenn League. Coincidentally, his arrival in the region coincided with Team Aqua and Magma's attempts to capture Kyogre and Groudon, and he happened to be in Sootopolis for their clash.

Orre

Sometime after Hoenn, Tagg decided to visit Orre for relatively undefined reasons, though it was likely because he wanted to explore. While visiting he ended up exploring the Under and getting trapped down there when Cipher took it over. It was there when he witnessed a Cipher Peon brutally murder a group of Trainers and mons for attempting to oppose them, and tried to add Tagg to that list, but he and his teammates managed to escape. After managing to escape, he met Megg of the Kids Grid and assisted them in combating Cipher before escaping to give word to the outside with the help of Nett. At some indeterminate time after the first Cipher incident was resolved, he ended up battling and winning against the former Cipher Admin Miror B., causing him to swear revenge for being defeated by a kid.

And Then What?: Joining the PEFE

The next two years of Tagg's life were mostly spent exploring and wandering up and down Pokepan (With a brief return to Orre to beat the Mt. Battle challenge), but he couldn't help but feel that something was misssing. At the age of 16, on the sixth anniversary of his training career, he came to visit Professor Oak in an attempt to find a direction in his life. Professor Oak informed Tagg of the PEFE, and he got in contact with Tangent not long afterwards. Sometime later he met up with Silent and Tracer at the old PEFE HQ, and together with Tangent the PEFE was forged.

The first couple months were spent doing research on various species either alone or in a group. However, it was one incident that truly changed their destinies. While doing research on the Swablu and Altaria populations of central Hoenn, Tagg, Silent, and Tracer were attacked by a group of firearm wielding poachers. Afterwards, upon examining a truck that the poachers were operating from, the trio of researchers found a rather unique symbol that they hadn't seen before. Around Christmas of that year Tangent figured out the origins of the symbol, that it belonged to a corporation known as Pokefutures Inc. operating out of the Angela region.

A few months afterwards, the PEFE Founders staged a raid on the main Pokefutures HQ in order to reveal their corrupt activities to the world, with Tagg's job being to make sure that the media got word of what was going on. Due to taking refuge in a Kantonese embassy, Tagg avoided getting arrested like the others. Due to sending Angela's economy in jeopardy as a result of their actions, Tagg and the other PEFEers ended up having to take over all of Pokefutures assets, leading to the PEFE's modern iteration being formed.

Sinnoh Adventures

After a boat ride, Tagg ended up in Sinnoh where he acquired Gaia from Professor Rowan in Sandgem. Much like in Hoenn, Tagg found himself battling yet another evil team during the course of his journey, this time the forces of Team Galatic. Unknowingly helping DS along the way, he ended up making it to Lake Valor first following the detonation of the Galactic Bomb, and took his anger out on the local Grunts, only stopping once Saturn's forces showed up, forcing him to make a getaway.

While DS took on the Veilstone HQ of Team Galactic, Tagg led a one team assault of an offroute Galactic base, leading to the defeat of Galactic Commander Neptune, who would later go on to be a thorn in Tagg's side during the AU arc. Soon afterwards, he and his mons scaled Mt. Coronet in order to assist DS, Cynthia, and the rest during the events on the Spear Pillar, holding the line against a mass effusion of Galactic Grunts to do so. Unfortunately, they were incapable of actually making it up there due to taking too long to defeat the Grunts. After that, Tagg ended up challenging and winning against the Sinnoh League.

18 Years Old: I Don't Wanna Be An Adult!

Tagg's life as an 18 year old was more or less the same as his early teens, though Cobalt had rejoined his main team. At one point he ended up solving a mystery in Alamos Town, and visited the Arctic Circle to research Spheal for the PEFE. It was also during this time that Nudi ended up having an unfortunate meeting with Sonny.

A Bond Is Forged

When Tagg was 19, he ended up going on a plane ride to Sinnoh, where he met Gamer, Daisy, Jane, and Anom for the first time. Feeling bored, he decided to follow Jane and Anom on their journey to Snowpoint Temple when he ended up fighting David and Leena, Missingno's existence as more than an urban myth being revealed in the process. He joined in many fights against the Glitch, culminating when a possessed Palkia threw the proto J-Team into PMD-A, where Tagg was transformed into a Mudkip.

While he temporarily lost his memory and was separated from everyone but Nudi, he was able to regain his memories and rejoin the others. During the course of their adventures, Tagg and a number of the others managed to fully evolve, which came in handy fighting against Missingno for the last time, despite the mind rape they all were forced to suffer. Afterwards he separated from the others before meeting up with Jane and Anom in Hoenn, where they explored an underwater Unown ruin before being transported by the Unown to the Sinjoh Ruins, where they had Palkia help them with a problem in their home dimension. Following an earlier incident with Jane, the group then headed to Unova.

The Second Glitch

In Unova, Tagg and the others found themselves tested again, this time by the Glitch known as 'M. At the same time, he met Wolf in Nuvema, who he was rather suspicious of at first. 'M nearly managed to defeat the J-Team at his lair in Glitch City, but thanks to Anom's sacrifice, he was defeated for good.

Ranger Regions: Forming the J-Team

During their time in Oblivia, Tagg's relations with Wolf and Anom became strained to their hiding their Heart Swap from the rest of the group, to the point that he seriously considered leaving. On the way to Fiore, Fool admitted her feelings towards him, which gave Tagg a mini-crisis of sorts as he came to terms with that.

Tagg in Other Universes

In the AU

Within the AU Tagg's life proceeded mostly the same way, except that he was present for the flooding of Hoenn and the Distortion, and that he had never caught Garchomp, Hydreigon, or Doc. Post-AU Arc, he obtained a shiny Eevee that later became a Leafeon from a trade, Chilliwack.

PMD-B

In the AU branch which became PMD-B, Tagg was struck hard following AU!DS' murder/mercy kill, and ended up being separated from the rest of the group with his mons after the dragons attacked the Sinnoh Cubone tribe, leaving them marooned in Angela. Tagg ended up founding the Brotherhood of Steel with his mons in Angela following a guerrilla war and a climactic showdown with the leader of Angela's draconic forces. In that timeline Tagg died in his 90s entombed with the Adamant Orb after fending off a raider invasion. One of his descendants was High Elder during the events of PMD-R, and proved to be a major help to Tagg's group during their adventures in Angela.

In the Other Verse

In the Another Universe Tagg became leader of the PEFE, though this incarnation is closer to what it was pre-Pokefutures than the OU or AU incarnations.

Platinum!Tagg Verse

In this universe Tagg ended up taking DS' place as the hero of Sinnoh. He ended up joining with Other!Tracer as he explored PMD-B Unove.

Items

Aside from general Trainer items:

• A human to Pokémon armband
• The Adamant Orb
• A Blue Orb
• Rainbow and Silver Wings
• A Lunar Wing
• A light clicker to produce flash patterns
• Smelling salt
• A small dagger (though it's sturdy enough to double as a utility knife) used for cooking and self-defense
• Pester Balls
• A laptop with a built-in connection to Tagg's Boxes, allowing him to do team switching on the fly.
• Leavanny suit that doubles as both camouflage and body armor.
• The iPhokex
• A Palkia-enchanted backpack with infinite volume
• A PEFEdex
• An E-tool that also doubles as a self-defense weapon
• A Mudkip-print scarf
• A rainbow scarf (Which he prefers to forget about.)
• A breath mask

Known Techniques (As a Swampert)

• Brick Break, Hammer Arm
• Earthquake, Mud Slap
• Protect, Tackle
• Muddy Water, Surf, Waterfall, Water Gun

Achievements

• Assisted in taking down Pokefutures Inc with the other PEFE Founders, wrecking Angela's economy in the process.
• Became Champion of the Kanjoh, Hoenn, Sinnoh, and Unova Leagues over the course of ten years.
• Punched Ghetsis in the face.
• Defeated the likes of Lance, N, and Blue over the course of the Gold Conference.
• Tied with Fool during the GC.
• Punched Cyrus in the face.
• Became Orange League Champion.
• Assisted in Annoski's defeat.
• Personally slayed Vicious.
• Talked the Master to death in tandem with the Vault Dweller.
• Assisted in the defeat of the Lieutenant.

Relationships

• Is currently dating Fool.
• Tagg considers Tracer to be the closest thing he's had to a best friend.
• Tagg and Wolf have butted heads in the past, but have buried the hatchet between eachother.
• Every has recently become Tagg's first apprentice.
• Tagg is very close friends with DS.
• Tagg and Herbert have a mutual dislike of eachother due to the former being a PEFE researcher, and the latter accusing Tagg of being a Pokémon abuser, leading him to attempt to throttle Herbert with a giant Aura hand.
• Despite his hatred for most of the fanbase, Tagg is good friends with Maggie.
• Sam and Tagg don't know eachother well, but are on good terms.
• Tagg is currently rivals/kinda sorta friends with Ryklys. It is known that in at least one universe they managed to have a child together.

Trivia

• Tagg was the oldest PC in the early RP (beating Luke and DS by a few months).
• Tagg happens to be left handed, a trait shared with Mezzo and Sakura.
• When using Aura in combat, Tagg has shown a proficiency in weapon manipulation using his dagger, with confirmed forms consisting of swords, hammers, and a staff.
• Out of the three trainers his exact age (DS, Luke, and himself), Tagg was the only one to start his journey at 10, making him the most experienced out of the three. (Though Luke had his starter for the same amount of time.)
• While more of a biologist by trade, Tagg does appear to have a sense of engineering and how to make explosives.
• Tagg happens to be the only Trainer to have actively dealt with guns pointed at his face.
• Every Pokémon in Tagg's team can use Protect.
• Tagg is the only Trainer who owns or has owned a Dugtrio.
• Tagg has a fear of Whitney's Miltank after having his whole team demolished by it.
• Tagg appears to have a built in aversion to fame, partially due to not wanting to have a bullseye painted on his back for the numerous enemies he's made over the years.
• Tagg once rented a place in Hoenn to stay during his teenage years, though he prefers his Secret Base.
• Both Tagg and Wolf became Champions at 10, the youngest out of any of the PCs currently.
• Tagg was the first member of the J-Team to evolve as a Pokemon.
• As a result of his research into the Chinchou Line, Tagg is one of the few humans capable of understanding flash patterns.
• Tagg has in his possession the most legendary items out of any J-Team member.

PEFE
Founders: Tangent - Tagg - Tracer - Silent
Other Researchers and Interns: Anom - Jane - Every (PEFE) - Luke - Pentigan - Umbramatic - Gene - Jeff - Diane - Maggie - The Seven - Hikari - Jacob - Dr. al-Cygni - Professor Banana - Mendel - Echo
Non-Researcher Personnel: Priscilla - Sterling - Sofia
Related: Pokefutures Inc. - PEFE HQ - FutureOS - PEFEgon - PEFE Island - PEFEdex - PEFE Trackers - Gaim Rahm - Scythermen (Mia) - Dave