Board Thread:Pokemon Arena X - Future Discussion/@comment-5537612-20130828125707/@comment-5537612-20130829055740

Added gardener and item maniac.

Also an explaination on why the Secret Sensei is a Scrafty. I could have done with lucario or gallade, but that would have been obvious! The point of the secret sensei is to be hidden, but in a different way; he is hidden in plain sight.

I could have gone with the idea of 'the master is small but powerful' and i could have done mienfoo or something. But this gives a problem that actually lies more in the characterization; as soon as you talk to it it would be obvious he/she would be the secret sensei. Small and powerful combined with a humble personality as a sensei doesn't work.

So I took the way of the unexpected. The dude doesn't have to be a stereotypical fighting type, but rather a different type, or in this case a more obscure one. It is not obvious from its personality that it is the secret sensei; he'd be like Sup bro, if I heard of the secret sensei?, yeah, I know a few things about him.

Also, scrafty is cool, and if you disagree face a mouthful of breakdance kicks to the everything. It's called BREAKdance, you better watch out.

My idea is to involve him, and mainly his lil' scraggy bro, in a bunch of sidequests that ultimately reveal the true nature of the Secret Sensei. Though that won't be apparent from the quests themselves. I'll probably want to have them like, well, you know when some master fighter has an apprentice and he trains him with mundane tasks such as dishwashing? Where in the end, the master reveals it was endurance/persistence/in your heart (spoilers, the real answer is I am a lazy tit and I want a housemaid) It'll be like that, but through scraggy.