The Mystery of Mrs. Silverman! [Contest]

[Tyler Silverman]

Mrs. Silverman. Tyler's birth mother. Whether she was truly Mr. Silverman's bride or not remains a mystery... in fact, her entire existance is unknown, but Tyler desperately seeks the truth... why was he abandoned, raised only by his critcal father... if Mr Silverman even IS related to young Ty. Silverman never speaks of her and always mistreated his supposed son, acting as if he never wanted him.... could that be true? Perhaps you can shine some light on this mystery...

Welcome to the first ever Backstory Contest! This contest will require some creativity on your end, general populace! Tyler's mother has been an problem plaguing Ty's mind, and he wants answers... but do the answers exist? I sure haven't got any of my zany ideas approved!. In wake of my own lacking creativty on this issue, I am recruiting you lot to create her story for me!

The idea of this contest is a simple one: Adhereing to several details members may submit multiple backstories (as many as you can think up!) or scenarios to this topic, providing a somewhat detailed explanation of Tyler's mother is, why she has not been a part of his life, and possibly even she's even still out there somewhere! The more detailed and creative, the better! We don't another old "and he was left in a shoebox on the front doorstep while she pulled a runner", now do we?

Details to adhere to:
- Ty, despite his best efforts, has never seen his mother or can find any information on her
- Mr Silverman makes repeated claims he adopted Tyler, leading one to believe he is not Tyler's biological father
- Mr Silverman almost never speaks of Ty's mother at all, even when pressed for information. Why could this be, I wonder?
- Mr S is rather notorious for being kind of a jerk. Mrs Silverman actually loving him is.... unlikely at best (actually having married him, even more unlikely)
- There has been no contact between Ty and his mother, if she was even alive througout his young life. If she lived, why did she not contact him; if she contacted Mr S why did he keep it from Tyler?

In general, I am looking for detail and creativity, and while your entries need not have any set structure; make sure to make they are your entries and have a clearly explained overview of the backstory. You may submit ANY entries, even if it's downright zany, but be aware ONLY IC ACCEPTABLE (that is, they are not deemed impossible by staff) entries will be awarded victory! Entries may be as long or short as you like, but usually more detailed and interesting, the better!

Of course, because you're all so dang greedy I'm such a nice guy, I don't expect this to go about for free... creativity can be hard! The reward for the best entry which will likely be used as the IC backstory and status of Tyler's mother is, as you may have guessed, evolution related.

As such, the winner will be awarded one instant, free evolution of a Pokemon. This will override the thread system, so even if you required 8 battles you can evolve your Pokemon instantly! If said Pokemon requires an item to evolve, you will automatically be awarded the item as your reward! Isn't that fantastic?! If you wish you may even keep this Free-Evo for later on, and evolve that newly-caught Pokemon right off the bat!

Entries may begin as soon as this topic is up; and it will stay open until I deem the topic to have recieved all it will likely recieve. This will, likely, only last a few weeks depending who displays interest when, as I can and will 'wait' for entries I know are coming

Good luck detective, Tyler is counting on you!

[Rory Temple]

I might make an entry for this... got a story in mind.

[Eros Wakefield]

Do we post here or PM you?

[Tyler Silverman]

Post it here, if you please, I'll just lose entries that are PMed to me in the mass of evolution approvals as well. To be the most clear on what is an entry and what is not, please put something akin to [Entry][Entry] around those posts which contain the content you guys want me to judge =)

[joshua]

Mr. S and Ms. Maidename had met on a romantic and alcohol enhanced weekend in Celadon City. Mr. S had won a ton of money at the Game Corner and Ms. Maidename met him while he was hashing it out at the bar. The two met there and decided to go out. They pretty much vanished for two months, traveling the world and falling deeply in love in the most shallow sense of the word.

After the two month fling, Mr. S proposed. She accepted. The couple were now married. A month later, conception occurred. Six months later the 'joys' of marriage were wearing thin on both of them. The next month cascaded into horrible fights. By month eight of the pregnancy, Mr. S had started turning to alcohol.

Ty was born.

Two months later, Mr and Ms S got into a very, very bad fight. It got violent. Mr. S did something very stupid. Two weeks later police showed up searching for Ms. S. Two months later the search was called off.

Mr. S killed her and hid the body so no one would find her, melting it down in the Iron Works or Steel Works or wherever he works

Burdened with this shame, Mr. S never could tell Ty what happened.

[Coralie Blake]

He's Harry freakin' Potter

I'll be brainstorming. =P

[Kathy Dar]

Feels like writing it this way

So, gather round, everyone, to here the fateful story of the mother of Ty Silverman. You see, [insert years here] ago, a cheerful young man feel in love with a girl, and they got married. Two days after meeting. Not very smart, no? But, that's what they did, and for three more days, they where quite happy. That was how long it took for the girl to get pregnant. Not that they knew that, but the next day, they got into a huge fight, and rather than wait it out, the girl left, only to find out she was preggo later. A month later to be exact.

Mean while, Mr. Silverman was quite happy, having found, another girl. Only, this time she was as cheerful, given the girl he loved had just broke his heart. But he loved this other girl too, and they where happy. His first girl, wasn't. You see, while Mr. Silverman had really love him, she had simply had a felting desire, and was not happy to have his child. In fact, she had already divorced four other men, and was still in her 20s. not good. So, she almost got rid of the baby, only she didn't want to use up her money, so didn't. Instead, she decided to put it up for adoption.

Skip a few months in the future, and just before Mr. Silverman proposes to the other girl he loves, she falls ill. They manage to get married just before she died. Mr. Silverman is crushed, and turns to a much more sour out look on life, turning rather jerkish. However, that was when he ran into the first girl of his dreams again. And she, just his luck, was also dieing. The fool had gotten mugged and shot on the way to the hospital. Why she was walking there, good question. But, either way, she was on her way to death, and the baby was coming. Luckily, the baby boy was fine. Unluckily, the girl died in labor at 27 years old. He just held the boy, standing there, until the cops came, and asked him what had happened.

Given the girl had put the boy up for adoption, that was where he went, but Mr. Silverman got him back, not wanting him to have to got through adoption with someone else. Only he loved and hated the boy at the same time. he was a reminder of his failed love, but his love all the same, and so, he made sure the boy never knew who his mother was, never got close to the boy, and all that jazz. And, so you have it. His mother was a jerk, his father used to be a nice guys, and everyone's unhappy.

[Lily Reynolds]

Ty's mom is actually a member of Team Rocket! Ty's father didn't know at first, and only found out after the birth of their love child. When he discovered the secret, he moved away. He wanted to disconnect himself from her completely, but also couldn't abandon his son. He told Ty he was adopted to separate them, and even had papers made. This way he could try to raise his son, but if he turned out to be like his mother, he could separate himself. The disgrace of what his mother was ate away at his father. Anytime he did anything wrong, even insignificantly or accidentally, his father couldn't help but see a criminal. His paranoia made him become very bitter toward his son. Despite this, he couldn't fight his bread in need to take care of his own child, so he kept Ty anyway, hoping he'd be able to control his son, yet always believing he was a lost cause.

As for his mother, she let it go and focused on her job. She loved it and had a lot of fun. She has become a high ranking member over the years and has never felt the need to find her son.

Though if she met him one day, maybe she'd try to recruit him... (dun dun DUUUUUUUUN! :P)

[Arabella Blake]

Ms. Silverman, which was never really her name, was very very young when she had Ty, just a little older than he and Coralie are now. Her father was a very important man, and had her sent to her grandparent's house for the duration of her pregnancy. Her grandfather was friends with Mr. Silverman (as close of friends as possible since he's a jerk =P) and one day while the two were at work, he saw Mr. Silverman stealing something (or killing someone if you want even worse). He confronted him, and agreed not to say anything about it, if he took the "shame" of their family away. AKA, Ty.

His mother was glad to give him up, although a part of her wondered what it would be like to be a mother. Not for long, though, because as soon as she had recovered from the birth, her grandparents sent her out to become a Pokemon trainer. Mr. Silverman was always bitter about what had happened, and so he treated Ty like crap, and hated to talk of his mother because of how her family had "screwed him over".

[itsomu]

Mr. S had once had a severe gambling problem, getting him into lots of trouble with loan sharks. During one rare winning streak, a woman noticed him and invited him to a private poker game where he lost everything, even the shirt off of his back.

Instead of leaving Mr. S to die homeless, the woman offered him a deal. If he raised her son (Ty)- whom she did not want due to her chosen lifestyle- she'd give him back everything he had lost in the game. With teh alternative being sleeping naked in the streets, Mr. S accepted.

******

Mr. and Mrs. S had been married for a good ten years before Ty was born. It wasn't a very happy marriage- the two barely put up with each other. They were on the verge of divorce when Ty was born and he brought them closer...for a short time. As Ty grew into a one year old, Mr. S began to notice that he didn't have the same hair color as either him or his wife. Confronting her about it, Mrs. S confessed to infidelity with one of their friends. Though heartbroken, Mr. S went along with the formal divorce. He didn't love Mrs S, but he didn't hate her and wanted her to be happy. She and her new fiance went off on a world tour and never spoke to him again. Mr. S kept Ty to raise as his own son, though his nagging sorrow at Ty not being his own son always kept him at arms length

[Solo]

[Entry]

Every story has a beginning, but this one begins long before the present time. A young trainer, and young coordinator lived on totally opposite sides of the world. The trainer seeking to become a Pokemon Master, and the coordinator seeking to conquer the Grand Festival. The trainer battled Gym after Gym, and the Coordinator showed off her pokemon in Contest after Contest. Eventually the young trainer made his way to the pokemon league, and from there he battled on with his team of pokemon hoping to reach the top. Alas though he fell short of his goal, and only succeeded in ranking third. However not all is lost in this story as the coordinator managed to win the Grand Festival, and become a Top Coordinator...Fate however has a funny way of twisting things...

These two on two totally different paths were fated to meet one day.. After training vigorously with his pokemon to go to the Johto region one day a wild Tyranitar came out of nowhere, and attacked him. He was injured gravely, and more than likely would not make it through the night. That was when she found him, slumped against a tree in the pouring rain. Releasing her Infernape she made a small fire, and stayed with him for the next few days nursing him back to health in order to make him strong again. It was during these days that the two of them fell in love.. He told him her name, and she told him that her name was Penny, and from there on the two were inseparable.

After he was healed the two of them traveled together with her still competing in Contests, and he still battling Gyms. Years passed, and the two of them grew older, and settled down in their home. That is when one magical night the man proposed to her under the tree where they first met, and she gladly took his last name. Penny Silverman. They had a child together, and he was a beautiful baby boy named Tyler. Not even a full year old yet he had already begun to show interest in pokemon, and it made both of his parents proud of him. However that would be the last time he would ever get that kind of proudness, as tragedy soon struck the happy family.

One night while they were out for a walk with in the forest nearby they heard something strange. Something that didn't belong, and they went to go check it out keeping their child close. That is when they saw it a monstrous dragon pokemon with three heads. The boy, who had now become a man immediately engaged it in battle, but it proved too strong for him. The battle was wreaking havoc across the forest, and destroying many trees, and weaker pokemon in the process. The mother ran with her child while her husband fended off the monstrous beast, but he was no match for it, and he eventually was beaten by it.

The dragon knocked him to the side making him lose consciousness, and gave chase to the mother, and her child. Knowing that she wouldn't stand a chance she released her most trusted ally Infernape, and gave Tyler to the pokemon, and ordered it to run. The pokemon did as commanded, and the mother turned around, and released all of her pokemon. Togetic, Milotic, Butterfree, Raichu, and Cacturne. She fought the dragon pokemon bravely, but it defeated her, and in it's savagery it killed her with a Hyper Beam attack.

It was at this time that the man woke up, and he raced to find his wife, and son worried about them. That is when he came upon the horrific scene in front of him. All of her pokemon lay dead, and her body in the middle of them all. Walking up to her he broke down, and he cried for what seemed like forever. Picking up her lifeless body he carried her to the tree where they first met, and where they had been wed, and he dug her a grave. Staying for more time he grieved, and when he returned home he saw that her Infernape had brought his son Tyler back.

Still grief stricken, and angry with himself he ordered the pokemon to leave, and never come back. After his wife died he changed, and became colder, and more cruel. No longer was he the strong happy boy that aspired to become a Pokemon Master. Instead he was a broken man that had lost everything.. Seeing his son everyday reminded him of her, and he started to take out his frustration on his son, and refused to tell him of his mother's sacrifice to save him. His mother was a hero...

[Lily Reynolds]

There's your answer! His dad killed her with a TURNIP!

[Lily Reynolds]

Okay, more serious submission XD


Ty's "father" was actually a neighbor of a family. He was terrible with women and a little creepy, so he never could get a girl. Plus, he was sterile, so he couldn't actually have any kids of his own. Jealous of the happy family next door, he managed to steal their child and take off. He disappeared and no one ever saw them again....

Names were changed and identities switched. "Tyler" was raised by this man, who wasn't the best father. He didn't love him, he just wanted to play father. His real family looked for him, but never found him. They always wonder what happened to their little son though.

[Lazarus]

I dunno really, the most I could come up with was that Mr and Mrs. Silverman were completely normal people. They loved each other like the average couple and had a few spats in between then and now. It wasn't paradise but neither was it hell for the two. The only thing that separated them from most couples were that they were open with their relationship. They loved each other enough to know that they'd still love each other enough to know they would always be with each other at the end of the day, despite what they showed in the mornings, afternoons and whatnot.

Somewhere along the way, Mr. really started to give a damn about Mrs. He became joyous at the notice that she was pregnant. Mrs. felt guilty after that, knowing that the kid wasn't really his and was some random italian dude off the coast of no where. Turns out Mr found out during the kids birth and after labor, Mrs left with the italian dude but left the kid with the husband

I think I have a few more ideas but I dunno what else to put for now.

[Ray]

You’ve heard the rest. Now get ready for another story about Ty’s mom!

The whole place smelt of ash and burning fires. The woman’s feet moved silently over the winding road. She carried a bundle in her arms, all wrapped in a baby blue blanket. She carried a small pouch with some money contained in it as well. It was a cold day; but the woman’s long black jacket kept her warm. Soon she arrived at the house she had been looking for. The name Silverman was carved into the bronze plate hanging by the door. She put the bundle down on the doorstep, leaving the note and the pouch full of money and knocked on the huge door. She tried to muffle her tears and turned away, taking one last look at the baby in the bundle. She swore she would visit him when he was old enough before walking back to the place from where she had come.


Ty’s mother was the trapeze artist of a French circus. She was great at her job; all of the circus folk adored her and respected her. She was very pretty; she used to be a trapeze artist; one of the most talented ever. Ty’s father was not Mr. Silverman at all; he was one of her colleagues in the circus, a Pokémon coordinator who performed in the circus. However, the two were definitely related; Mr. Silverman was her brother. Not her favorite one at that, because he had a short temper and hated his sister for taking up life in the circus as a trapeze artist. At first, he was okay with that, but soon, people began to poke fun at him because of the very fact. He had loved his sister, but now tried to destroy all the earlier connections he had with her. He loathed her, but she did not care much about her brother. The circus was her family, her only home. Soon, she got married to her colleague, and after a few months, became pregnant with Tyler. However, life at the circus was becoming more and more hectic. Soon, her husband died, in a performance, with an Arcanine. Things began to change soon after. Many circus folk began to wonder whether she would be able to perform when she had to take care of the baby. People began to laugh at her and the ringmaster had no choice but to ask her to leave. She was distraught. When her baby boy was born, she dropped him off at her brother’s house, leaving a letter with the bundle asking him to take care of the boy. She begged him and after some time, he agreed. He never spoke of her to anyone and tried to raise the boy as his own. Meanwhile, she had started a circus group of her own. She travelled frequently, and always tried to set up shows in the town where her brother lived. After a few visits, her brother told her not to come back. They would get into arguments because of this, she trying to take Tyler away, but he never let her. Soon the visits stopped, but Ty’s mother never forgot her son.

[Tyler Silverman]

Thanks for all the entires, all! Now, this contest won't end anytime soon but I'm sure you'd all like to know where you are sitting, right?

Present Leaders:

Lily (Team Rocket)
Arabella (Teen mother)
Solo (Loving hero)
Ray (Trapeze artist; cbox alternative)

These four have nabbed my eye so far, but will that stay that way? Perhaps!

Additionally, I have noticed a rather common theme of exceptionally tragic or downright disturbing (Murdered via.... turnip, anyone?). Perhaps we should rectify this!

[Rory Temple]

I'm still working on mine. And no turnips have come up yet.

[Tyler Silverman]

Contest Challenge: Weird and Wonderful!

Ohkay, so, we know the four leaders... but I'll admit, most of the entires so far have skirted away what I hoped for, sometimes drastically... so for a challenge, I'd like to see additional entries under the Weird or Wonderful catergory! What does this mean, youask? Well, first, I'll clarifty some extra details:

- Mr Silverman does NOT have to know who Tyler's mother is
- Tyler himself does... not.... neccessarily.... have to be a normal human (@_@)
- Tyler could be a Pokemon but there's no chance that'll be approved, lol. You can try for the lulz if you wanna

As for the Weird and Wonderful classes, those are moreso guidelines in your writing/history of Ty. Wonderful means to paint his birth mother/best equivelent in a very postive light (meaning she doesn't sleep around >_<); Weird means.... well.... it doesn't exactly make her an alien, but it definatly means Ty's pre-Silverman story may be quite unusual... the details are up to you.

Here are some examples of my own plot ideas that have been shot down (will be noted) or thought up; Weird ones will be clear:

- Tyler's mother was displaced from her own ancient time period by a fleeing Celebi, thrown into her future. Despite this she somehow did the nasty with Mr S, and bore a son... however, to right this 'accident' the Celebi took her by surprise and returned her to her own time... leaving her future-born son behind. Naturally, overcome by grief she would never live to see her offspring again, she desecrated her home with his name and markings relating to her Tyler before dying long ago in the past...

REJECTED DUE TO TIME TRAVEL

*Note: This also had his mother being reborn as a Lampent and interacting in the present, mothering him in a very luzly way.

- Completely unrelated to Mr S in any respect, Ty's parents were from opposite sides of the law: a master crook and an Officer Jenny. Constantly slipping through her fingers she hunted him down until finally capturing him after a long brawl, only to succumb to some kind of adrenline-lust and be seduced. Ty was concieved. Of course, the crook flew the coop but Jenny couldn't bring herself to abort the 'lovechild' in question, going on an extended chase around the regions: eventually having no choice but to yeild for a time until Tyler was born.

For several months she admittedly rather enjoyed motherhood, until she tracked down his father in Sinnoh: with a dangerous, prolonged chase certain she had little choice but to leave her offspring and a sizable amount of cash on the first doorstep she found before rushing off; promising that she'd return for him once his father was brought to justice. She's still on that chase now after over a decade of work...

- Another scenario has Tyler's true birth mother a complete mystery... Tyler himself was sent downstream in a basket, as part of some relgious hoo-har or just left to die is anyone's guess. However, before some waterborne Pokemon could make easy lunch of him he was stopped by a Gardevior with a small family of her own... too kindhearted for her own good, she immediatly adopted the human infant. The Gallade father... disagreed, for reasons which were proven accurate: Ty did not teleport from damage, he didn't act like their evolution line, he couldn't even communciate telepathically... he was a burden and nothing more, and after a few instances of having to step in to save him for being unable to flee as they would, enough was enough. The Gallade dumped Ty at the closest human area, which the Gardevior INTENTSLY disagreed with. As far as she was concerned, Tyler was her own flesh and blood... so she fought for him. Despite her will she couldn't overpower her husband, and he dragged her away from the human kicking and screaming; several more trips like this repeated themselves until she was forced to accept the reality: Humans took care of humans better. If the Gallade knew of Mr S's threatment, it was unlikely he cared too much...

- Perhaps the weirdest of the weird, Tyler is not even fully human. A genetically spliced fetus inserted into a scientist's womb, Tyler was one of many attempts to fuse human and Pokemon to create superpowered humans... as these were not meant to combine, almost all specimins died... Tyler was one of the few who survived and grew, actually surviving birth.

Unfortunatly, it was rapidly seemed clear that Tyler had no power: a complete and utter failure of their objective. The best bet was to just try again... after gutting Ty to see what happened to go wrong in him. His 'mother', a young scientist who accepted and carried his fetus to term, was far too attached to allow this and fled with him; knowing she was being hunted down she left a sizable personal collection of funds and left Ty on a doorstep, as well as a rather threatening note: Do what they will with the money, but if they did not raise Tyler and merely ditched him, she would hunt them down. Leaving with a decoy, she drew all the attention and Tyler was ignored; his money soon squandered by Mr S who felt a bit 'cheated' he still had to raise the child. Tyler's 'mother' still exists, changing names and remaining hidden for her crimes against the group who created her son, who are still quite displeased with her.

Pretty clear unsual ideas of my own there, but something else you all should not: Ideas where Ty's mother or mother-figure IS STILL ALIVE AND CAN BE USED FOR FUTURE PLOT in some form will get my interest!

[Solo]

[Entry]

So I am gonna put this one in a bulleted list for ya so you can fill in any small details. K here we go..

• Ty's mom was abandoned at birth
  
• She was raised by a pack of Mightyena
  
• Having lived all her life with her pack she had never seen humans..
  
• She met a human, and it was a man Mr. Silverman..
  
• The two had a passionate one night stand..
  
• She got pregnant, and 9 months later had her son..
  
• Tyler was in the pack for 2 years before his mother gave him to his father with the thought that she would come get him at a later date.
  
• His father only seeing him as a mistake never liked him
  
• Tyler grew up with abusive father, who never liked to talk about his mother because he honestly didn't want to remember her..
  

[Lily Reynolds]

Tyler is actually the love child of Kyogre and Groudon!

Mr. Silverman is secretly very religious and a part of Team Magma. He was out searching for evidence to lead to Groudon in the mountains when he found the giant Pokemon itself! Caught in the majesty, Mr. Silverman bowed before it and offered his service. Groudon gave him the child and told him to raise him. Mr. Silverman accepted graciously and took the boy as his own. He was excited, surely this boy would have untold powers beyond imagining! He would be all powerful and would one day rule the world. Along with his dear old dad, of course. But as Tyler got older, he showed no signs of any kind of power. He was normal. And worse, he wasn't even strong in personality. He was just a weak human child! Mr. Silverman became spiteful of this, but feared the repercussions of abandoning the boy. He continued to look after him, holding on to small amounts of hope that the boy will become what Mr. Silverman had always dreamed of.

[Tyler Silverman]

THE CONTEST IS NOW OVER!

The winner is... Lily for her Team Rocket member entry!

Congratulations!