#I have an Alola bias

[rhythe]

So easy to get carried away

[lollitree]

I did the maths on how many characters and unique alts there are in pokemas and there's DEFINITELY a Unova bias there for alts sdkfjhs

[noiivvern]

guy whos opinion of the 4th gen pokemon games rapidly declined after the remakes

[xxtc-96xx]

I feel like this was asked before but do u have a fave Ash companion(s)?

Mine were always Brock and Dawn. Probably bc when i first learned and watched pokemon it was during the Diamond and Pearl era so everything abt it feels more nostalgic to me lol.

I have my bias for Misty and Brock since I know them best, next to May and Max

but my actual favourite companions are the Alola Crew, they're underrated, they all have memorable personalities and for once the girls have goals besides just doing pokemon contests AND they don't all rag on Ash for being Ash

[prof-peach]

It's me again, I'm throwing my two cents in and asking. What are your thoughts on the competitive side of Pokémon caring. or more accurately, Pokémon battles? Especially the gym challenge and the champions themselves? Have you ever tried the gym challange before prof?

While in my youth I did the gym challenges, it all seemed rather staged for me, and i quickly figured out that the gym circuit is built for children, by adults to instil some form of confidence and independance in the youngsters who partake. I swiftly lost interest before completing any of them, but I think my old badges are somewhere, probably rusty by now. The whole organised gym system region to region is a well funded training scheme. Youngsters travel around with pokemon to get to grips with their teams, their independence, and their skills. Gyms offer a challenge to those who never much dipped their toes into the battling world, and many don't partake or bother with it for a whole host of reasons that are all equally valid. It is not a necessity to be a great trainer, nor is it required if you simply dont wish to do it. For most, its a fun challenge, but it does hold relative weight when applying for some job types as an adult, as it proves you can independently shift around and complete a set of tasks of your own volition, using critical problem solving skills on the fly. It has a whole host of benefits, and if you enjoy it and your pokemon enjoy it, then its a great way to earn some cash and blow off some steam!

BUT, that being said, the gym circuit is a tame version of reality. It is a low level set of tasks built to help those not as confident or well versed in battles. Even the more difficult leaders and gyms are playing a role, and while they may have their pokemon trained to a skilled, practiced adults capacity, for the most part they dumb down the fights and make sure they arent impossible for opponents to face. It is meant to be a challenge, not a slaughter, so to speak.

In the real world, people dont always get this safe space to learn how to handle a battle, there is blood, there are injuries, there can be deaths, but in a gym trial, that is harshly reduced, and fatalities are rarely encountered thankfully. With this in mind, I do believe the gym trials are a vital part of some peoples journey, but once you get past them and interact with the real world, where bad guys arent pulling punches like gym leaders do, you realise that you partook in a system that was all soft edges.

the champions and various elietes you encounter are HEAVILY trained guides for peoples journeys, and while some have been dubious, perhaps they slipped through the net, or paid their way into the position, most do the job of training new generations well, and with great precision. It takes a lot to train pokemon to the level they do, and teach with every move. It's a good job, much like any educator, and provides ample reward to see trainers come and go all the more confident and prepared for the real world. The skills it takes to be a gym leader are quite high, as your pokemon have to know when to stop, and how to hit hard, but not TOO hard that you injure opponents. Its a fine line and they walk it well for the most part.

As for the higher tiers of the gym circuits, well, they prove somewhat challenging to anyone on this path, but they too are simply adults hired to do a job, should they show the right aptitude. they get paid, they go home, and most of the time it is simply another form of the education sector.

I personally dont care for it much, but i have a bias others do not, and if i step away from it, its very clear to see that the gyms and the challenges they pose have great benefits for many people and pokemon, and often they offer help and support during times of disaster, such as fires or influx of pests on crops, and the likes. It goes to show they teach people more than how to fight, Alola in particular has a very harmonious balance within its practices, encouraging trainers to do what they can to help the community, without harming too many mons in the process, and to think outside the box when problem solving. Some of the finest trainers come from alola, thanks to their highly adaptive teaching methods.

overall i'd say if you want to partake, go for it! its certainly a safe way to train, but it does not mean you wont be great with pokemon or in a battle if you dont. I certainly never finished them, i know many who never did a single one, and are fantastic trainers. It's a great aid, but not the only way to succeed. So long as you treat your team with care, you research before you get new partners, and you take into consideration their wants FIRST, as their guardians, then youre on the right track. I could go on, but overall everythin gi ever preach comes back to mutual consent and being honest and open with pokemon. They put their faith in us to help them and be their trainers, so we can only try to do our best. If they dont want to fight, pushing them is immoral.

[gotta-pet-em-all]

Okay nerds. This is… going to be loose as all hell. So. Sorry. I also don’t have sources for most of this stuff. Or the proper format. The wifi here is bad at academic journals and I don’t feel like squinting at a bunch of crusty pdf documents. This is generally going to be about broad cultural trends and disability theory. 

So history is big and weird and cultural. And what I’m going to be talking about actually goes back to the great Kalosian war. We don’t even have records of who they were fighting, not to mention borders have changed a lot and their enemies may no longer exist. There are theories, sure, but frankly I don’t care and this ain’t about them anyways. 

No one agrees when it was, but at some point in history, there was a shift away from battling with weapons like swords and knives, and towards Pokémon battling. And that particular shift is so so important for disabled history, because it’s something that allowed disabled people more social mobility. 

I’ll back up a bit. So, in what I will be referring to as the Sword Era, monarchies were the default form of government because they’re stable and decisive. People often needed swift governments because they were often under attack from their neighbors. 

Alola was. Frankly pretty damn isolationist due to their geographic location, but I’ll get to that in a second. 

So. Sword Era meant that warriors would have the most upward social mobility. You could gain power and glory by honing your body and proving yourself in battle! Scholars had this to a lesser extent, being good choices for advisors and members of the court, but they were typically too eccentric (read: likely autistic) to participate in the highly neurotypical social structures of the upper court, and it was more common to simply have one at your manor. 

This is the part where I cut in and go on a tangent about how there’s this pervasive idea that all physically disabled people are gloriously intelligent prodigies, trapped in a body unsuited for athletics but with a brilliant intellect and a quick wit. That’s straight up not true and it’s confirmation bias. Sure, you had a decent number of physically disabled scholars. But you also had disabled people who were more like me. Who had brain fog or other cognitive impairments, who had undiagnosed or unmedicated tismHD, who were in so much pain that they couldn’t think properly.

Those people? They stayed at home, with their family as caretakers. And… hm. This wasn’t great. I’m skimming over this one because it hits a little close to home lol.

Alolan royalty was largely about distribution of resources and conflict resolution. And as technology progressed, they were able to delegate more of their work to specialize committees that could make better decisions about things like urban planning, and this lifted a lot of the responsibility from them. Alolan royals were scholars first and foremost, who trained in geography and politics and alchemy and ecology, and there are records of a good deal of them being…frankly unhappy and overwhelmed by their lot in life. 

That said, Alolans were largely community oriented, which caused some large cultural clashes when the Kalosian war arrived. So disabled people in Alola were seen as people for their entire community to take care of, rather than for their family alone to help. And this means that disabled Alolans, historically, have some advantages! If you’re disabled in Alola, there are fewer elevators and wheelchair accessible doors, but people are a lot more likely to open doors for you or offer a ride pokemon to assist you up the stairs.

That said. Because Alolans are also very traditional, they’re actually behind in accessibility compared to other regions. They’re just very good at compensating. There’s a project in the works that aims to find a way to preserve some of the linguistic quirks of alolan in braille forme, so that people have better ways to connect to their dual cultural identity as both blind/visually impaired AND alolan. I’m part of the kickstarter for that one, so I can get a textured “Welcome to alola” sticker when they move into the next phase.

So, when and how did the sword era end? For this, we actually have a myth in the Veilstone museum. It’s muddied somewhat by being oral history, but it goes like this:

A young man, callow and foolish in innocence, came to own a sword.

With it, he smote Pokémon, which gave sustenance, with carefree abandon.

Those not taken as food, he discarded, with no afterthought.

The following year, no Pokémon appeared. Larders grew bare.

The young man, seeking the missing Pokémon, journeyed afar.

Long did he search. And far and wide, too, until one he did find.

Asked he, "Why do you hide?" To which the Pokémon replied...

"If you bear your sword to bring harm upon us, with claws and fangs, we will exact a toll."

"From your kind we will take our toll, for it must be done."

"Done it must be to guard ourselves and for it, I apologize."

To the skies, the young man shouted his dismay.

"In having found the sword, I have lost so much."

"Gorged with power, I grew blind to Pokémon being alive."

"I will never fall savage again. This sword I denounce and forsake."

"I plead for forgiveness, for I was but a fool."

So saying, the young man hurled the sword to the ground, snapping it.

Seeing this, the Pokémon disappeared to a place beyond seeing...

So! Some people think it may be a literal interpretation of the hero of Galar, or the mad creator of the Ultimate Weapon in Kalos. Other people think it’s a more fictional way of processing what happened. I don’t care enough to get into the discourse, but the point is, we can clearly point to the end of the Sword Era.

And It’s The Pokeball Revolution.

If we take the interpretation of the myth to be figurative, it’s about not only overhunting and violence for the sake of violence, but shame. People were ashamed, the land was ravaged, and they were starting to pay the price. We don’t know what triggered it, and we suspect that it was very deliberately forgotten about. This is when you see the Evocation Movement in art, which frequently depicted moments in everyday life, or sleeping pokemon, as if trying to preserve and appreciate this joy after taking it for granted.

Shortly following this was the Alchemic Renaissance, during which people started really trying to study and categorize pokemon. No one had taken on anything as ambitious as the compiled regional pokedex yet, but there were scholars who studied one pokemon or one type and did so intensely.

And alongside this, you started seeing people get portraits done with their pokemon. Not just official ones with big strong pokemon, but things like the Old Man’s Treasure1, in which the treasure is a sprigatito that he is eagerly showing off to those around him. 

And these are things that have survived! These tell us that people were learning to live alongside and love their pokemon! We also see the precursors to the modern pokeball, which were carved from marble or wood.

Later, we get the apricorn, which makes pokeballs much more accessible. And this is where disabled history really kicks up a notch, and we get the Crip Revolution, a social movement dedicated to disabled people and their support pokemon finally gaining independence. They got together and shared their experiences, and a couple alchemists of the time started listening and finding a niche.

But it wasn’t always good. Some of them shared experiences with abusive caretakers, or realized that they were being abused because they’d gained context for what happened. And we started getting this massive social question of whether the family caretaking model was really the best. The medical community was surging in knowledge of how to treat people, and the disabled community started offering their services as lab rattata. Some of them helped with advancements that are used even today, such as the prototypes for a shirt buttoner for those with low coordination. But there was a rather high profile case, the Fever Night2, where this didn’t happen, and it prompted the medical community to seriously re-examine their ethics considerations and how they conducted experiments. They did manage to save most of the victims in time, but the project was shut down and its assets sold off.

Another thing that comes into play here is accessibility. Because if a rapidash hates those stairs, and you build a ramp, a disabled person may also benefit from the ramp. Incorporating pokemon into society actually expanded the public’s view of what body types need to be accommodated for, even if those are relatively uncommon, like dwarfism. Travel became easier, and cultures mixed more even in the same region.

This is getting long, oops. Anyways, disabled people used their newfound freedom to start participating in pokemon battles, and this was generally a lot better! Blind/deaf trainers struggled a lot with this format, and made their own organizations, but social mobility was becoming less of an issue. Now, it was about traveling and independence and showing off their skills.

Another thing with travel is the use of Hidden Machines. These are gradually being phased out as many regions begin adopting the Ride Pager system, but a Hidden Machine is a way of standardizing the safest way possible to make a route accessible. Many pokemon are able to cut down a tree, but those with HM training are shown to be less likely to injure themselves or their trainer doing so.

One last thing before I go. About the future.

People have been leaking documents online after the Flare bullshit. And, uh. There was a set of “Ugly Laws”3 that said the quiet part aloud. That in the new world they wanted to make, disabled people would be committing a legal offense just by existing in public. The idea was that being disabled was inherently begging for pity and making people uncomfortable. And I guess it just goes to show that even an organization that claimed to want a better future didn’t understand how to make it, and just wanted to get rid of inconvenient discomfort. 

We don’t have a lot of answers for the disabled future. Is it ethical to cure Deafness, to give a baby a colchear implant? What about the currently unavailable possibility of getting something similar when you’re older? Will certain disabilities be cured out of existence, out of community? What happens if someone doesn’t want the cure they are offered? Can we really find an accessibility solution for ancient ruins? Should we?

Whatever happens. You just have to keep fighting, one day at a time.

//ooc stuff under cut

1.https://useum.org/artwork/Old-Man-s-Treasure-Das-Katzchen-Karl-Gussow-1876 

2. Fever Night is fictional, and not elaborated on much. It referred to a series of experiments on curing “the malaise,” which is generally thought to be clinical depression. Due to a misunderstanding in dosages, the patients all developed Serotonin Syndrome and wandered the streets in a daze. Worth noting that this was done out of genuine desire to help these people. In the wake of Fever Night, it was decided that more thorough testing was required before administering medicines.

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_law Ugly laws are very real, and very much happened more recently than anyone would like to admit. The last one was repealed in Chicago, in 1974.

[evil-teams-anonymous]

How would you rank the bosses of each Team you know of?

s tier -> those kids from naranja-uva who made team star. i don't know anything about them. i support teenagers in all their endeavor because i remember how horrible it was to be a teenager

a tier -> piers. points deducted because i dont think he actually wanted to be an evil team leader. i think his gym trainers just did that without his prompting. he was their employer but not their boss. maxie is also here purely for personal bias.

c tier -> guzma. he looks like he doesn't shower and replaces a bath with an unhealthy amount of cologne. to be clear i don't mean he does this because of anything making it hard for him to bathe. i think he just thinks the cologne is more effective than actual soap. also team skull did steal pokemon, messed with important cultural practices, and did destroy a lot people's property. while some members of skull were teenagers, there was a significant amount that were grown adults and brought teenagers into a life of crime instead of helping them take their feelings of alienation and anger out in healthy ways. guzma was one of these adults. lusamine is also in this tier. while aether sure... did that... the huge steps for conservation of native alolan species cannot be forgotten. the amount of research they conducted and successful breeding programs they carried out are why certain species in alola are still around today. she may have been using aether paradise and its sanctuaries to fund and hide the horrible things aether was doing in secret, but those sanctuaries did have a real positive impact.

f tier -> everyone else.

[kamabokobun]

Hey, just dropping by to compliment your awesome art and because I had a question. I was wondering, what are your main sources of inspiration when creating fakemon if you have any or just create them throughout imagination ?

Hi! thank you so much for the compliment :] !!

That...is a good question!

It's hard for me to say because usually, when I think of "inspiration" for my fakemon, I think of the separate little inspiration pools that I pull from for each line. But i'm assuming you mean, like, a general inspiration and or reference that I use for all my fakemon.

At least for the structure and design of my starter fakemon, I mainly take inspiration from the Alola starter trio, especially Popplio's line. This might be nostalgia bias, but I personally think the alola starters have some of the strongest (STARTER) designs in the series, so I study their "best" aspects and try to incorporate them into my designs. Things like use of color and shapes and stuff. and also how the designs change between evolutions.

I also look at the other starter trios for inspiration too, like the Paldea starters. (I think they have really good theming and cohesion, something I try to have in my designs.)

anyway. I hope I managed to answer your question well enough :')

[blue-jester]

Me covering my ears and going lalala whenever someone criticizes Alola

hot take, I actually like all the cutscenes . I like spending time with these characters, more so then basically every other game . I like that it forces you to take a break and actually sit through the story that is one of the best that pokemon has to offer [I fully acknowledge that usum has a weaker story but concider: Cool space dragon]

It's just so cool! And UsUm SPECIFICALLY is so content packed . I may have incredible bias as it was my first ever pokemon game that I got when I was exactly the target audience of [11 years old, I remember vividly being excited that the protag was the same age as I was] but like . I do not care . Alola 💕💕💕💕💕

[rudeboimonster]

12, 14, 31, and 39 :3

kissing you on the forehead

12.What’s your favorite Shiny Pokemon ?

GOGOAT i fucking fell in love with shiny Gogoat as soon as it released, it's fucking THE perfect shiny, LOOK AT THIS THANG

THE GOLD CROWN! THE VIBRANCY OF THE LEAFAGE! THE STARK BLACK/WHITE FUR! THE GOLDEN EYELINER AND NOSE!!! THE FUCKING BRIGHT RED HOOVES!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOUGH

14.What’s your favorite Pikaclone ?

OHHHHH Hmmmm, I'm typically not much a fan of the Pikaclone archetype, however: I fucking love Alolan Raichu. Is this my Alola bias speaking? Probably but also: IT SURFS ON ITS TAIL. Im going to fucking sobbb

31.If you were a trainer what are the 6 Pokémon that would be on your team?

OOOOHHH... HM... Oh this one's gonna take some thought, I'm gonna go with the rule of no legendary/mythicals to make it kinda in-universe logical bc I like that. Despite how much I wanna cradle Kyurem and Necrozma in my arms.

I don't think I would be a particularly tough trainer, so I'm aiming for "these are my 6 besties I take care of" type team.

-Spectre - Haunter (Shiny) [Legally required. I've had one on most of my teams for ages] -Spectate - Sigilyph -Remson - Feraligatr [starter] -Atticus - Lilleep [i love fossils I want fossils please please please] -Ignis - Lairon [I don't think I'd be able to take care of a full Aggron with a full team] -Reggie - Mawile [maybe could mega?]

39.If you have to create your own pokemon (known as fakemon) what would you like to create ?

OOoooooh, hm!! Right now the only one I've sorta played with was a Fakemon my pal Jericho like, vibechecked me as. It's a ghost/ground fully evolved psuedo legendary that is essentially a fossilized and partially opalized dinosaur/dragon fossil that carries its own gravestone on its back <3 I... still need to fuck around with drawing it because I remember having ideas about it but also imagine being able to draw more.

[ask game]

[gnzma]

Ship and trope bias

[ gio talks about her weird ships ; ACCEPTING ]

[ funfact i don't actually ship romantically Guzma with anyone from Alola!!! i have plenty of platonic stuff and enemies and etc etc but

...unless we take in consideration Colress. it's a funny silly crackship that i find very funny - and so, for shipping trope, two absolute lunatics holding hands is very important to me. People being weird together is very fun to write and read ]

[love-is-a-pearl]

When it comes to Ash's characterization, what's your ideal personality for him? At the beginning of the series, he's a snarky and arrogant kid, while in Journey's, he's just a happy go lucky kid. I'm not against Ash mellowing out, but it really does feel like the series got rid of the aspects that made him a fun character. So his snark and always being ready to throw hands

Eh, while I do get that Ash changes to better fit the narrative of the season, I do find his growth throught the seasons very consistent and appealing tbh? Like, I like that he started as this kiddo that was a jerk to everyone, specially those that questioned his hability as a trainer; learned that not everyone is out to diminish him and those who are (Paul) may not be worth his time, specially if that ends in his mon's being hurt in the way. And how after DP he didnt try to pick up fights with Iris nor Trip because they likely came from the same place as him (a girl who wanted friends but without the emotional maturity to be vulnerable; and a newby trainer wanting to prove himself). And I like that for him!

I like that in alola and journeys ash is way more childish because in kalos he was put in this pedestal LYSANDRE EVEN PUT HIM INTO A CROSS AND CALLED HIM JESUS LMAO that when he found himself with folks his age, who saw him as another kid, with adults to remind him he didnt need to be the chain and anchor of the group, he could allow himself to just.. have fun.

So yeah, i dont think ash 'lost his snark', is just that he doesnt need to use it as a form of self defense as much as he needed in the beggining. And I love that for him!

He can still be playful and taunt his friends (see misty in mezamas, how he sometimes would "you child" back at iris, starting water figths with dawn and all that) but is obvs not as ill intended as before.

so uh. i like ash! through and through (ok not really i have some antipathy towards Movieverse ash but is because of my own personal bias)! I dont have a preffered version of him. i prefer to read those changes as he himself growing.

[a-tale-of-legends]

Honestly? If I were focusing on canon protags, while I would still have all of them there, these are the ones that I want to be the "main protag"

Kanto- Red

Johto- Kris ( she was my first protag ever so of course I had to!)

Hoenn- May

Sinnoh- Lucas ( my version of Dawn would literally just be Danica and I'm trying to be original here)

Hisui- Uuuuuuuuh. Akari? Little girl fighting giants with her bare hands is a funny image.

Unova- Hilda ( love her as a protag ) and Nate ( to contrast hilda)

Kalos- This one is hard cause my bias is towards Serena, but like Dawn, I do want to switch things up a bit. So Calem.

Alola - Another hard one cause I'm biased towards Selene. Elio in general is a protag I just don't think about sadly. Good thing all the protags are here, but which one is more "main" than the other? Genuinely not sure.

Galar - Gloria. Cause bias.

Paldea - I hate to say it, but the canon Paldea protags design wise is kinda boring. To me they're just discount Galar protags. Like they visually have similar personalities to the Galar ones and everything. Again, dual protags are a thing, buuuuuut eeeeeeh. Another toss up on who's the "main" one.

[mewintheflesh-2]

Thinking about how the Lore of Team Night Sky is essentially Mikey torturing himself under the guise of becoming stronger so he'll never have to experience failure again :')

But I wonder, if every TNS Mikey went back in time to make sure their past selves became them...who started the time loop? And why?

(And also both Galar and Alola would be PRIME candidates for the continuation of the Team Sky story)

YEAH OUCH. It’s literally ATLEAST a third of what I think about every day. I’m a sucker for Team Sky/Nightsky angst (I’m sure you already could tell that about me though LMAO)

ALSO THATS A REALLY GOOD QUESTION… I’m honestly not sureee. Hmmmmmmmm

Perhaps (and this is a little bit of a jokey answer) The first Nikey just remembered how bad he was at the whole team sky thing in Hoenn and was just like What the fuck and decided to dedicate the rest of his life to being actually evil

Or perhaps he was pestered into being “truly evil” by some other force in his life?

Though in my mind it’s always been a time paradox, it never truly began or ended at any point in time or the universe. (Of course until Nikey accidentally travelled to a different reality where Mikey split the timeline. That’s a little confusing now that I think about it! If he’s in a different reality and the time split still mattered, was Nikey supposed to go to a different reality to continue time as it should where he ended up? If he didn’t end up in a different reality, what would’ve happened with the reality he ended up in? Perhaps it would’ve continued like normal with only Turo and the PPP being a threat. Hmmmmmmmmmm…. This truly is a paradox!)

ALSO you mentioning Galar gave me an idea. You know how in the battle with Eternatus you can see time and space distorting around the red clouds? Wouldn’t it be so fun if a certain someone got sucked into the distortion and ended up in the battle field *COUGHCOUGH* Nightsky Winona *COUGHCOUGH*. But also just Mikey seeing glimpses into other worlds and other realities is very interesting. Might just give him a little bit of a crisis! :)

ALSO literally agreed, though I have a little bit of a personal bias towards Alola for many reasons. (One of them being that one of my team Sky people came from an ultra wormhole, and actually came from the world on Nightsky into the world of regular Team Sky.) I just would like to see what Mikey would do with the concept of Ultra Wormholes… ehehehe >:)

(also side note Nikey fits scarily well with the song Ruler of Everything)

[xxtc-96xx]

What do you think of the 'main' characters (I guess Ash's friends and Team Rocket)

I do have my bias to Brock and Misty as well as TR, though I think the alola gang is very underrated and I liked them a lot

For one thing despite my bitching and moaning about how stupid ash can be, if there was one thing more annoying it was when his travel companions constantly nagged him over it XD so the alola gang was nice in the fact they didn’t do that, also the girls were allowed to have goals and personalities outside of just wanting to do Pokémon contests. Also Ash actually got to have a constant parental figure around with Kukui

[lvsamine]

How do you feel about makeup? Are you any good at putting it on? Do you wear it often?

What scares you the most? And if it really happened… how would you deal with it?

What are some weird interests or hobbies you have that people probably wouldn't expect you to have?

questions for my muse // accepting

How do you feel about makeup? Are you any good at putting it on? Do you wear it often?

"I do wear it daily, though I usually stick to just eyeliner, mascara and the occasional lip gloss. I can't be bothered with foundation or contouring most of the time, partially because I don't think I need it. I'll go all-out for formal events, but I prefer to keep it simple." She gives a small shrug.

"I like it, but I have a bit of a... Bias towards it, I suppose you could say. My mother taught me how to apply makeup, and it was one of the few times I felt I could bond with her without her lashing out or berating me. She was... Oddly patient, in that regard."

What scares you the most? And if it really happened… how would you deal with it?

Lusamine doesn't answer right away. She clenches her jaw and avoids eye contact.

"My worst fears have already come true," She eventually mutters. "I dealt with it the only way I knew how. I'm only human, after all."

What are some weird interests or hobbies you have that people probably wouldn't expect you to have?

"I, ah... I don't have much time for hobbies these days, but the first thing that comes to mind is... My seashell collection. I used to walk on the beaches of Alola when I first moved here, and eventually... Someone I really cared about would join me on these walks, and we would collect seashells we found on the coast line. I haven't done that in a very long time, but I still have my collection in a box somewhere. I didn't have it in me to get rid of them."

Collecting seashells is way less embarrassing than admitting to being a die-hard Brycen-man fan.