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[Jirachi's Wish]

POKEMON

Name: Ghost Pumpkin (Goppin)

Gender: Female

Pokemon: Leucistic Gourgeist

Stage: Pokemon

Player: Melomar

Artist: Mewmouse

This journal belongs to Melomar, please don't post without permission.

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Every time and place have their own set of rules and laws. After all the formalities are over, just sit back and relax. If you hear some strange music on the breeze, heed not and have no worries...

Updates

- 29 October 2023: Journal reformat
- 01 March 2020: Moved journal to Proboards
- 26 September 2017: A bit slow, but journal is finally set up!
- 18 September 2017: Whipped up some banners. wh-TSH!
- 02 November 2016: Goppiin bounces in today!

Table of Contents

Page 01
- Post 01: Introduction by Jirachi
- Post 02: Welcome, Updates, Full ToC
- Post 03: Rules, Rights
- Post 04: Personal Profile
- Post 05: Pokémon Profile
- Post 06: Character Learnset
- Post 07: Family Relationships Trainer
- Post 08: Home Life, Scrapbook Art, History
- Post 09: Growth and Forms

Page 02
- Post 01: - Oh! A ghost pumpkin just floated by!

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[Rules and Rights]

If you have visited these journals before, you probably know what to expect. Even so, refreshers are always a good idea.

General Rules

- Follow Jirachi's Wish rules in my threads, as they are written on the proboard. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
- Do not copy my layout. Taking inspiration for your own design is cool, though.
- Please do not use this thread to chat.
- I reserve the right to add more rules. I reserve the left, too, just in case.
- I reserve the right to pun. Repeatedly and beyond the point of poor taste.
- Be happy. Or leave! Or you could just leaf. *puts on leaf hat* :B

Characters and Content

- Pokémon (Pocket Monsters) and pokémon stats © Nintendo, original concept by Satoshi Tajiri.
- Jirachi's Wish concept by Orpheus Solon. [/span]Owned by Lirilei. Used with permission.
- Original character concept by Melomar. I use my own work with permission. :B
- All other character concepts (such as for the poké-children and their trainers) by their respective owners.

Pokémon Art

- Obtained from Bulbapedia and its Bulbagarden Archives.
- Goppiin's pokémon concept art, and the art for the consecutive growth stages, by Mewmouse.
- Original pokémon concept art usually by Ken Sugimori.
- Tiny sprites are the menu sprites from the games.
- Any Fan art will be marked with the artist's name too and used with permission.

Layout Design

- Some design layout ideas were borrowed from MoogerMint and used with permission.
- Banners and Photo Album pics by me (Melomar) for this journal only. Do not use!
- Banners and Photo Album pics use Starstruck TrueType font, for personal use only.

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Ghost Pumpkin is a pokémon of the Small Size Gourgeist persuasion with leucistic coloring.

Ghost Pumpkin, AKA Goppiin - Pronunciation(s): goh-PEEN - Meaning, Given Name: The pumpkin pokémon that looks like a ghost or will 'o wisp. - Meaning, Surname: N/A - Meaning, Nickname: Ghost Pumpkin or shortened to 'Goppiin,' by townsfolk who like the rumors and myths surrounding the Ghost Pumpkin. - Hidden/OOC Meaning(s): Ghost pumpkins are a squash shaped like a pumpkin with very pale, grey-green or grey-blue skin.

Physical Stats
- Sex, Gender, Pronouns: Female, non-binary, they/them/their
- Stature: As a Small Size Gourgeist, she is small in height and shaped somewhat like a pear.
- Skin/Hair/Scales: Technically a Shiny Pokémon, she is leucistic. Her upper half is pale grey-blue, lower half a grey-brown, similar to the color of rotting leaves. Her eyes are light-blue and the jack-o-lantern face glows an eerie pale-blue.
- Optical Orifices: Solid light-blue in color, without pupils or sclera, and oblong in shape, stretching vertically.
- Human Features: N/A
- Pokémon Features: She seems to have "hair" made of husk or vine in the color of her upper half. A cowlick in the same color with a stripe of grey-brown curls up over her head. From this hair or husk, stretching downward are two long, broad arms with three fingers each. Her legs are formed from the bottom of the "pumpkin" half, short and triangular, forming a rounded point instead of a foot. This makes her very nimble, and capable of surprising hops and spins as she navigates her surroundings.

Clothing
- Style: Not yet applicable.

Personality
- Nature: Naughty
- Summary: On dark nights Goppiin wanders alone, her green eyes frequently tilting skyward, as if trying to predict the weather. She loves the way the moon casts silvery rainbows on the gauzy clouds, or how the new moon reveals millions of twinkling stars that betray their dimensionality if one watches long enough. Poetry floats through her mind at such times, but never are they uttered except in song. This song curses the ears of those who might be close enough eavesdrop upon her faint and thready voice. Even when she seems catatonic in her languid movements, giggles might seem to surround a person as her mischief reveals a stolen purse or bauble. A bit of a klepto, she always looks innocent and/or inattentive, and rarely gets caught. After all, who can capture a dream?

- Myers-Briggs Profile:
- - ESTP
- - Extrovert Sensing Thinking Perceiving
- - The Persuader. Flexible and tolerant, they take a pragmatic approach focused on immediate results. Theories and conceptual explanations bore them - they want to act energetically to solve the problem. Focus on the here-and-now, spontaneous, enjoy each moment that they can be active with others. Enjoy material comforts and style. Learn best through doing. (Myers-Briggs Foundation).

- Likes: Spicy food; the silent chill after a nighttime storm and the way the moon peeks out from a curtain of clouds; shiny, pretty, or intricately decorated things.
- Strengths: Build for attack, nimble and quick on her feet
- Abilities: Pickup; lovely, eerie singing voice

- Dislikes: Bitter food; getting caught
- Weaknesses: Weak against Special Attack
- Fears: Not discovered yet.

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Gourgeist is a pumpkin-mon, based on the shape of a gourd and the face of a jack-o'-lantern. They are true symbols of Halloween and related celebrations around harvest time, representing the mischievous and sinister side.

Stats - Overview:  Gourgeist come in four sizes: Small, Average, Large, and Super-Size. - Type: Ghost + Grass - Species: Pumpkin Pokémon - Habitat: Town streets on moonless nights. - Diet: Carnivorous, perhaps? - Height: 2 feet, 04 inches / 0.7 metres - Weight:  20.9 pounds / 9.5 kilograms 1 Behavior: May be described as sadistic, or merely mischievous. It likes to wander around on moonless nights and sing an eerie song. Anyone unlucky enough to hear it is cursed and may be captured in the gourgeist's vine-like arms where they may suffer unknown doom, at which the gourgeist sings its joy.

Abilities
- Pickup: See Ghost Pumpkin's Learnset (below) for more information.
- Frisk: This ability allows the gourgeist to peek at the opponent's held item as battle begins.
- Insomnia (hidden ability): This Ability is available to Average and Super Sizes only.
- Mega Ability: N/A
- Other: Unknown

Type Effectiveness
- Damaged Normally By: (1x) Poison, Rock, Bug, Steel, Psychic, Dragon, Fairy
- Weak To: (2x) Flying, Ghost, Fire, Ice, Dark
- Immune To: (0x) Normal, Fighting
- Resistant To:
- - (½x) Ground, Water, Grass, Electric
- - (¼x) N/A
- Notes: 1x Normal and Fighting if Foresight, Odor Sleuth, Scrappy, or Ring Target is in play.

Lore
- Japanese Name: パンプジン, Pumpjin, probably meaning "pumpkin" + "jinn"
- English Name: English is probably "gourd" + "geist" or ghost.
- Pokémon Origin: Most likely, the design is based on a jack-o'-lantern with a lit and melting candle seated on top, with the cowlick serving as a flame.
- Trivia: N/A

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Goppiin is a difficult Gourgeist to locate. "And which ones are not," you might ask. It is easy to understand that Goppiin's moves are difficult to determine with any certainty. Myth and truth confuse and misdirect. However, with careful study, the following is believed to be true.

Ability
- Pickup:
- - In battle: She may pick up an item consumed and/or discarded by her opponent.
- - After battle: Teammates have a 10% chance of creating a new held item for themselves.
- - Provisions: Pokémon may not be already holding an item.

Current Learnset
- Astonish
- Explosion
- Scary Face
- Trick

Level Breakdown
- Phantom Force (Ghost Dive): Level 57 Adult stage. Ghost-type, Physical attack, STAB, 100% accuracy, 90 power. She seems to disappear in place and later appears suddenly to attack. Replaces Shadow Sneak.

- Seed Bomb: Level 48, Adult stage. Grass-type, Physical attack, 100% accuracy, ??high power. She jumps up over the opponent's head and shoots at them a barrage of seeds from at her jack's mouth. Replaces Explosion.

- Shadow Ball: Level 36, Stage?. Ghost-type, Physical attack, 100% accuracy, ??high power. Forms a blob of shadows and throws at any adjacent party, with a small chance of lowering Special Defense. Replaces Bullet Seed.

- Shadow Sneak: Level 30, Stage?. Ghost-type, Physical attack, 100% accuracy, ??low-med power. Always goes first. Her shadow extends toward foe and grows upward behind foe, attacking as if a tangible fighter. Replaces Astonish.

- Bullet Seed (Seed Machine Gun): Level26, Stage??. Grass-type, Physical attack, 100% accuracy, ??low power. She shoots a series of seeds that may hit an adjacent party 2-5 times. Replaces Leech Seed.

- Leech Seed: Level 20, Stage??. Grass-type, Status effect, 90% accuracy, ??power. Plants a seed upon the opponent that will siphon energy to her for several moments. Replaces Razor Leaf.

- Razor Leaf (Leaf Cutter): Level 16, Stage ??. Grass-type, non-contact Physical attack, high??% accuracy, ??med power. High crit rate. Slashes opponent with sharp-edged leaves, close range or at a distance. Replaces Worry Seed.

- Worry Seed: Level 11, ??Stage. Grass-type, Status effect, 100% accuracy. Plants a seed that grows into sleep-stealing worry, changing foe's Ability to Insomnia. Replaces Scary Face.

- Trick-or-Treat (Halloween): Level 6 pokémon. Ghost-type, Status effect, 100% accuracy. She takes the other party on an enchanted trip Trick-or-Treating, changing their Type to Ghost. Replaces Trick.

Starting Learnset
- Astonish: Level 1 pokémon. Ghost-type, Physical attack, STAB, 100% accuracy and low power. An attack accompanied by a war cry that may cause the target to flinch.

- Explosion (Giant Explosion): Level 1 pokémon. Normal-type, Physical attack with 100% accuracy and highest base power. Uses own body as an explosive then faints, and affects all adjacent parties with grave damage.

- Scary Face: Level 1 pokémon. Normal-type, Status effect, 100% accuracy, affecting an adjacent party. Makes a horrifying face that shocks the target and strongly lowers their Speed.

- Trick: Level 1 pokémon. Psychic-type Status effect with 100% accuracy. Fools the target into switching held items.

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Trainer
- Name: She doesn't have a trainer. But maybe she did in the past. No one knows. Who needs a trainer, anyway? :'c

Family
This is with regard to family as it relates to rearing, values, etc. that are directly from the family, if any. But it is unknown whether Goppiin has any. Perhaps their identities will be revealed with more RP.

Friends
- Name: Relationship

Acquaintances
- Miku Maki: Rocky at best, for the time being.

Enemies
- Name: Relationship

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Home Life
- Formerly the cemetery, Miku tries to convince her family to take Goppiin in. If it will last is anyone's guess.
- Home description

Scrapbook
- Official art, by Mewmouse: Each rectangle links to fullsize artwork! Unless No Photo Exists; then it does not exist.

(links to fullsize art)

Art
- Artwork Name, by Artist Name: Description and other info.

History
Unknown. As above, RP may reveal more than rumor and myth. This starts out as background info but may evolve as RP affects it. As such, spoilers may be made, and will then be hidden behind spoiler tags, if not referencing specific roleplays.

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[Progress]

Pokémon/Baby/Egg to Child

SPOILER: Click to show

Requirements
☑ 2 Weeks' Time: 03 November 2016 --> 17 November 2016
☑ 1 Journal Set Up: Good to go!
☑ 1 Decision on Gender: Female/Nonbinary
☐ 1 Solo RP
- - Name Short description.
☐ 1 RP with another Pokémon
- - Name, with whom (owner). Short description
☐ 1 Receiving a Star from Jirachi
- - Name, short description

Form
Name: Ghost Pumpkin (Goppiin for short)
Stage: Child
Pokémon Breed: Gourgeist (Small Size)
Shiny: Yes, specifically leucistic
Gender: Female/nonbinary
Hair Style: Similar or reminiscent to the pokémon's (I love the cowlick, it's really cute)
Attitude/Nature: Naughty (klepto, impish and innocent, musically-inclined (dance and song))
Clothing Style: Elf-like and/or Halloweeny; maybe a cute sundress or overalls, patches on pockets
Pokémon Features:
- Eye color, leucistic, skintone
- The cowlick
- The "arms" - can be real arms, hair (like pigtails maybe?) or clothing (armsocks, gloves, etc.)
- Jack's face on her torso, as a glowing marking or real (wow, that'd be pretty horrific!)

Child to Teen

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Requirements
☐ 2 Months' Time - Date Grown to Child --> Date to Grow to Teen
☐ 1 Response to Star Finding
- - Title is Linked Here: With which child(ren) if any (played by Whom), plot summary
☐ 4 PDs (play dates)
- - Title is Linked Here: With which child(ren) (played by Whom), plot summary
- - Title is Linked Here: With which child(ren) (played by Whom), plot summary
- - Title is Linked Here: With which child(ren) (played by Whom), plot summary
- - Title is Linked Here: With which child(ren) (played by Whom), plot summary
☐ 2 Solo RPs or Journal Entries
- - Title is Linked Here: plot summary
- - Title is Linked Here: plot summary
☐ 1 Skill Learned
- - Title is Linked Here: With which child(ren) if any (played by Whom), plot summary
☑ 1 Evolution! – N/A

Form
Name: Ghost Pumpkin (Goppiin)
Stage: Teen
Pokémon Breed: Gourgeist, Small Size, leucistic
Evolving: No
Gender: Still female/nonbinary
Hair Style: Describe/ref
Eyes: Like her pokemon form (green-blue)
Attitude/Nature: Naughty
Clothing Style: Even if they don't care
Body Style: Scrawny, brawny, overweight, tall, short, etc.
Pokémon Features: Which are visible

Teen to Adult

SPOILER: Click to show

Requirements
☐ 3 Months' Time - Date Grown to Teen --> Date to Grow to Adult
☐ 1 Response to Growth
- - Title is Linked Here: With which child(ren) if any (played by Whom), plot summary
☐ 5 PDs (play dates)
- - Title is Linked Here: With which child(ren) (played by Whom), plot summary
- - Title is Linked Here: With which child(ren) (played by Whom), plot summary
- - Title is Linked Here: With which child(ren) (played by Whom), plot summary
- - Title is Linked Here: With which child(ren) (played by Whom), plot summary
- - Title is Linked Here: With which child(ren) (played by Whom), plot summary
☐ 2 Solo RPs or Journal Entries
- - Title is Linked Here: plot summary
- - Title is Linked Here: plot summary
☐ 2 Skills Learned
- - Title is Linked Here: plot summary
- - Title is Linked Here: plot summary
☐ 1 Evolution! - - N/A

Form
Name: Ghost Pumpkin (Goppiin)
Stage: Adult
Pokémon Breed: Gourgeist, Small Size, leucistic
Evolving: No
Gender: Well?
Hair Style: ...
Eyes: Greeny-blue
Attitude/Nature: Naughty
Clothing Style: IDK man
Body Style: Don't hate your body
Pokémon Features: How weird do they look?

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