#Sapphire The Vaporeon

[medieval-pokemon-theatre]

Sapphire my Vaporeon girl

[reesieroo-spark]

Some of my favorite Pokemanzzz

I felt like my art has been looking really stiff and flat, so I did a deep dive on art tutorials. Cartooning, line of action, everything. And OMG I’m already improving so much I’m so excited.

My advice to you, if you ever feel like you’re stuck/not improving, take a break and go read books on what you want to improve on. Theres plenty of online books to choose from, and even if it’s in a different style from what you usually work on, it’s still worth checking out because the principles of realism, especially line of action, still apply to cartoons too.

Some books I highly recommend are “The Silver Way” by Stephen Silver, “Character Animation Crash Course” by Eric Goldberg, and “Creating Characters With Personality” by Tom Bancroft

[ghosthazard]

Goals tbh

[lovesick-level-up]

Vaporwave Vaporeon Stimboard

anon requested: would it be okay if i requested a stimboard of Vaporeon with a Vaporwave aesthetic?

🐋 🐋 🐋, 🐋 🐋 🐋, 🐋 🐋 🐋

[aestheticsoftheinternet]

Shelly Moodboard

[bluebattletothedeath]

ROUND 1 WINNERS

In round one, our results were...

Sonic The Hedgehog won against sans at 52.6%!

Saphire won against Blue Diamond at 62.9%!

Sea Fairy Cookie won against Lapis Lazuli at 51.2%!

Tom won against Boyfriend.XML at 70%.

SMG3 won against SMG4 at 51.4%! (so no tie kiss sorry)

Fandroid won against Four at 53.6%!

Minecraft Steve won against Craig Tucker at 73%!

and Vaporeon won against CHAOS 0 at 72.7!

[edgy-ella]

It really sucks for me because Vaporeon was one of my absolute favorite Pokémon to use in competitive when I first started getting into it in Gen VI. It wasn’t even a Pokémon I actively sought out, it was kind of one of those “you just had to be there” moments that I think really defines the series.

I got my first competitively viable Vaporeon through a trade with some guy I met on Showdown. The Vaporeon was nicknamed Crash Dunk, and the original trainer was named Ar. Why did he name it Crash Dunk? I couldn’t tell you.

I don’t remember who Ar was, I don’t even remember what I traded him in return. He was just a guy I traded with. BUT, Crash Dunk had perfect IVs and a niche role compared to the few other competitively viable Pokémon I had available to me at the time. Crash Dunk had wish, a high HP stat, and a tanky type. Crash Dunk became my bulky healer.

With the wish/protect combo paired with decent type coverage in scald and ice beam, Crash Dunk became a surprisingly tricky Pokémon to deal with. Vaporeon’s main competition in Gen VI was Alomomola, another bulky water type with access to wish, but a much better HP stat and access to Regenerator, arguably the best defensive skill in the game. But because of Alomomola’s absolutely abysmal offensive stats, it can only work as a wish tank/pivot. Basically every standard competitive moveset gives it scald, but it can’t do much with the move other than fish for burns with its base 40 Sp. Atk stat. At that point, just use Blissey.

This was not the case with Crash Dunk. Vaporeon has a base 110 Sp. Atk stat, meaning that it can still do some damage even with minimal investment. This makes its role as a pivot way more interesting, because unlike Alomomola, Crash Dunk could actually deal some damage if it needed to. It becomes a series of mind games. Am I going to swap out into my damaged Mega Scizor to give it a chance to heal, prompting you to switch into a fire type, or am I going to predict your switch and stay in and scald? Ice beam also speaks for itself—ice type moves are really good in competitive Pokémon. And of course, stalling with the classic wish/protect combo was always fun, letting the opponent dwindle down its health with scald burns or recoil/Life Orb damage.

I used Crash Dunk a lot during my tenure with competitive Pokémon, to the point where it became a signature Pokémon of sorts to me. My friends literally built teams specifically designed to counter Crash Dunk. In response, I specifically built up a few “Counter Dunks,” Vaporeons with different movesets and builds to throw them off guard (one had toxic instead of ice beam, one was an overtly offensive specs build, etc.). Around this time I went back to my old save file of HeartGold to finish the Kanto part of the game, something I never did when the game first came out. One of the first things I did was add a Vaporeon to my party as the designated surfer (the red Gyarados was my previous one, I swapped out surf for earthquake). Of course, I named it Crash Dunk. Nowadays whenever I play Pokémon it’s as a randomized nuzlocke; whenever I catch an Eevee I always name it Baby Dunk, no matter what it ends up evolving into (individual Eeveelutions have their own, non-Dunk names though)

In a way, I think my experience with Crash Dunk embodies the spirit of Pokémon. I was never a huge fan of Vaporeon when I was little (Flareon and Glaceon were my favorite Eeveelutions) but nowadays it’s no contest for me. Crash Dunk feels emblematic of my time doing competitive Pokémon, and because of that I have very specific, very fond memories associated with it—not just of the competitive battles themselves, but also of the circumstances surrounding them. I remember the giddiness my friends and I shared our boxes full of all the competitively viable Pokémon we had. I remember beating a guy on Showdown only for him to instantly message me afterwards and tell me my team sucked. One of my favorite moments of my entire time doing competitive Pokémon was that when Crash Dunk tanked an aerilate boosted double-edge from a Mega Salamence in a small tournament (it used a different ruleset than Smogon where Mega Salamence wasn’t banned to Ubers), living on 1 HP, only to OHKO it on the counterattack with Ice Beam.

All because I made a random trade with a random stranger to help us fill out our Pokédexes. If that’s not what Pokémon is about, I don’t know what is.

In-universe, a lot of important Pokémon trainers (gym leaders, champions, rivals, etc.) have an “ace,” their strongest Pokémon that usually follows them from game to game. Red has Pikachu, Cynthia has Garchomp, Wallace has Milotic. I remember thinking that, if I had a set “ace,” it’d be Crash Dunk.

But a bunch of unfunny gooners turned it into a stupid sex joke so now I’M the weird one I guess.

I will never forgive the guy that made that Vaporeon post on 4chan. Funny water cat turned into unfunny sex joke in a matter of months. I remember seeing the post when it was new and thinking it was unfunny then and it’s less funny now. Does anyone outside of the most down bad furry (gilly? what are fish furries called) actually get turned on by Vaporeon? I don’t see people unironically say stuff like “I’m not a furry BUT…” in the same breadth they do for Pokémon like Gardevoir or Lopunny. It’s always just people parroting the same opening sentence of that shitty copypasta until someone groans or goes “stooooop” or gives an awkward, knowing laugh.

The copypasta isn’t even that good! It’s not funny! It never was funny! We live in a society where “Persona 5 cured my autism” exists, and this is the copypasta y’all choose to spam?

Leave the water cat alone :( just let him spam scald/wish/protect in peace

[daintydoilypon]

Pokémon has been on my mind recently. What Pokémon do you think best represents you and your characters? (And Silo :3)

I always wanted to be a Vaporeon as a kid, but with all the inappropriate things with it now, my old Pokesona feels wrong. So, I decided to go for Skitty, whom I caught like 6+ boxes of in Sapphire because I thought, if I caught all the normal ones, I would eventually get a shiny. Not a bad thought process for a kid, but that is obviously not how it works //WHEEZE

For my ponies:

Aerial: Pidgeot. Cue: Furfrou. Target Shot: Corviknight. Melaina: Espurr. Sea Breeze: Buizel. Sky Prancer: Altaria. Scorch: Arcanine. Voo:Absol. Argus: Zoroark. And Caspian: Slakoth.

For my VtM characters:

Bernadette is so old, I want to give her a legendary, either Articuno/Suicune, but if not legendary, Dragonair. Cecil: Combusken. Goblin: Impidimp. I haven't introduced others on the blog, but I have waaaay too many to try and list their pokemon. I'm a DM so I have a lot of NPCs //WHEEZE

[humorisstoredinthetits]

The Heathers + Veronica play Pokemon

I'm still working on the follow up to the Road Trip which is The Heathers + Veronica get Married, so in the meantime I made this

Mac has been a fan of Pokemon as long as she can remember

When her mom would stick in her front of the TV because she was tired of dealing with her, she would turn the channel to Cartoon Network, which was often playing episodes of the Pokemon Anime

Specifically it was the Black/White series and later the X/Y series

She was engrossed in this magical world where she could go on adventures with friends and her pokemon companions and where the power of friendship would always prevail

Plus Ash's mom was a kind caring person who wanted the best for her son, literally the exact opposite of her mom

She became hyperfixated on it

During class she would draw pictures of pokemon, she would daydream of being a pokemon trainer and during recess she would force Chandler to play pokemon with her

She even had a book called Pokemon; The Essential Guide, which she read so often that she could recall it from memory

Eventually after much begging Mac's mom eventually said 'If it will get you to shut the fuck up' and bought Mac a 3DS with X and Y and Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

She blitzed through these games, playing them whenever she had a second that she didn't have to be doing anything else

Even when Chandler would come over to hang out Mac would just not acknowledge her existence and just keep playing

Her obsession started to really bother Chandler, she just wanted to spend time with her best friend, and she was spending all of her time on this stupid Chinese monster game!

She tried to not-so-gently tell Mac to put the stupid game away and hang out with her but Mac got upset so she reluctantly dropped it

Eventually Mac finished all of the games and wasn't so fixated on them, but she still played them a lot

She would even sneak it into school and play it at lunch

Of course, the more popular students saw it and started to make fun of her for it, calling her a baby and a nerd

One of them even tried grabbing the 3DS, causing it to bump into the lunch table and creating a small dent in the corner

This caused Mac to start crying, which only increased the taunts against her

Chandler, who up to that point had been telling Mac to just ignore it, launched into a fit of rage, beating the ever loving shit out of the bullies

Both her and Mac got suspended, her for obvious reasons and Mac for brining the 3DS to school

The bullies played dumb and because they were popular and well-liked they got off scot-free

That was one of many events that made Chandler realize that for her and Mac to survive school, they would have to be the popular ones

With the time she had while suspended, Chandler had time to think about how she was treating Mac and her newfound love for pokemon

She realized that she was being an awful friend, she wanted Mac to stop doing something she loves just so she could get what she wanted

She thought about how when Mac would try and talk to her about the game and what she was doing, trying to include her while she played, and how she just ignored it because she wasn't interested, not even considering how it would hurt Mac to realize that her best friend doesn't care about the things she likes and wouldn't even pretend to care

She realized that she would have to make it up to her

While her parents were sleeping she went down, found their credit cards, and went to amazon and searched for 'Pokemon'

Chandler knows she's not the best with words, she knows that if she tried to apologize to Mac she wouldn't be able to convey everything that she wanted to, and even worse she might say something wrong and only upset her more

Knowing that, she decided to make it up to her by doing what she knows how to do, and that's buying things

She searched the amazon pages, seeing cards, various toys, some really nasty posters with something called a Vaporeon? before finding the plushies

She knows that Mac likes those, so she picked some of the ones she recognized and ordered them

Luckily for her, her parents were so fucking rich that they didn't notice a few bucks missing

A few days later, once the package arrived, she went over to Mac's house to apologize

Mac was still really upset, not only was she suspended from school, but her mom was angry at her and lets just say that if you thought her mom was a bitch normally, she was even worse when angry

She went into her room, hiding the plushes behind her back

Mac was lying in bed, staring at the wall, not even acknowledging her presence

Chandler tried telling her that she wanted to apologize but before she could even show the plushes Mac started shouting

She yelled about how awful her mom was and that she took away her games and threatened to smash them with a hammer

Before Chandler could even get a word of condolence in Mac continued about how she knows when they go back to school things are gonna be even worse because those kids are gonna spread rumors about them

And again before Chandler can say a word Mac says that on top of all of that her best friend has been distant ever since she started liking pokemon and she's terrified that she's gonna lose her over it and she doesn't wanna lose her she's the best friend she's ever had and and

She starts sobbing

Chandler quickly rushes over to Mac, pulling her into a hug while she sobs into her shoulder

Once she calms down Chandler shows her the plushies, upon which Mac squeals in delight before hugging her and saying thank you thank you thank you, before they talk about what transpired

Chandler apologizes, saying that Mac was right and that she was being distant, but that was in the past and she would change and would listen when she talked about pokemon

It wasn't a great apology by any means, but it was good enough for Mac, and she pulled up Cartoon Network and made Chandler watch a bunch of episodes of the anime with her

She didn't really get it or find it all that interesting, but she knew how much it meant to Mac that she do this with her, so she asked some questions and listened when Mac went on tangents about aspects of the world

Throughout the years, Mac continued to love and play Pokemon

It toned down over time, as most childhood obsessions do, but she still never stopped loving it

She stopped playing all-together around when Sword/Shield came out, it was around when they started to become really popular and so Chandler made them drop any nerdish hobbies that could be used to ridicule them

Mac was ok with it because that was when Dexit happened and she was really upset that she wouldn't be able to transfer her previous teams to the newest generation

But then Veronica joined the Heathers, Mac and Chandler's relationship expanded to include Duke and Veronica, high school ended and popularity didn't mean a thing anymore, so Mac was free to pick up Pokemon again

It took her a while to get over Dexit (she was really upset that she couldn't bring her Delphox into Sword/Shield, it was her first pokemon damnit!) but she eventually did

It was around this time that Scarlet/Violet were about to come out and the hype was real

Duke is in the same boat as Chandler, she doesn't really get it but Mac loves it so she'll go along with it, but Veronica is only slightly less into it than Mac

She was similar to Mac, playing up until Sword/Shield and then stopping due to Dexit and a lack of interest, but bc she wasn't popular there wasn't the pressure to stop playing entirely, and once the DLC came out she became interested once again and picked up the games

She had a lot of fun teaching Mac about the gen 8 stuff, and they played and battled together while waiting for Scarlet/Violet to come out

**Line Break**

The day it came out they woke up at some ridiculous hour and waited outside Gamestop for hours in the dark and freezing temperatures until the store opened

There wasn't even anyone else waiting and they had pre-ordered copies, there was literally no reason to do it, they were just that excited

Mac got Scarlet and Veronica got Violet so they would be able to trade with the other for the version exclusives

Mac told her Dad that she wasn't coming in today and Veronica is self-employed, so they both spend the entire day playing the game

Eventually Chandler takes their switches and forces them to go to bed because "you two fucks have been playing this game for 14 hours straight with no breaks. Go. The Fuck. To. Bed."

They did go to bed, but they got up at 4am to keep playing

Chandler was about to ground them like children if they didn't put up the game for 5 minutes to eat something and take a shower, but Duke stepped in and said she would talk to them about maybe slowing down a little

Chandler waits for Duke to come back and let her know how it went

She waits, and waits, and waits some more, until she has had enough and goes out to the living room to see whats taking her so long

Duke is laying on the couch with them, her own switch in hand

During the time Chandler waited, Duke went down, tried talking to them only to see them having fun, asked a few questions, got super interested and forgot about why she went down there, got so interested that she went to the store, bought a switch and a game, and came back and started playing

Chandler is about to start beating her head against the wall

The three of them try for months and months to get her to actually play it, but she just isn't that interested

They need a fourth person for raids, and the only other person they know who plays is JD but he does le epic troll and will do stupid shit like bringing a Mewtwo knowing only metronome

Veronica eventually wins her over by appealing to her massive ego, saying that the whole point of the game is becoming better at everyone else, and that if she play she could eventually beat them too

Between that, Mac's puppy-dog eyes, and her getting tired of the relentless begging, she eventually picks up a game and starts playing

She gets more into it than Mac ever was or is

What draws her in is the sheer amount of different strategy that is available to her

There are just so many different pokemon, each of which has multiple different strategies that work for them, not to mention items and movesets and all of that

She thought pokemon was rather simple, but there was much more depth than she could've even imagined, and she gets lost in it

She blitzes not only through Scarlet/Violet and their DLC (She got both, she had to have access to every pokemon and you can't just do that in one version) but also Sword/Shield + DLC and Legends Arceus

And when it finally came time for them to battle, Chandler wiped the floor with the rest of them, it wasn't even close

It was so one-sided that it wasn't fun for the rest of them

Chandler sees this and starts to feel bad, she knows that she overdoes things sometimes, especially when her pride is on the line

She thinks about toning it down so they're on a more even playing field, but she doesn't think her fiancees would have fun winning if they knew that she was essentially allowing them to win

So instead on a lazy day she sits down with them and explains the basics of competitive battling, that way they'll all be on an even playing field

It works, and now when they battle together there's a chance for any of them to win

Now I'm just gonna go over some of their favorites about pokemon

Chandler

Game: B2W2, she loves the PWT and the strategy needed to beat the Champion's Cup

Pokemon: Blaziken, when she played ORAS she fell in love with Mega Blaziken, Speed Boost, and just how good it was

Part about Pokemon: Definitely strategy, its what drew her into the franchise in the first place. She loves trying out new and different strategies, and follows the VCG to keep up to date with all the newest ideas being put out

Duke

Game: USUM, it was the last game to have the National Dex, and so it was the game to contain the most pokemon in it

Pokemon: Sceptile, she just thinks that it's really cool. Plus its a lizard, and she loves lizards and has tried to convince Chandler to let her get a Madagascar Giant Day Gecko

Chandler can barely stand the snake so there's no way in hell that she will ever agree to getting a gecko, plus they're really creepy

Part about Pokemon: Collecting/Catching Pokemon, she loves completing Pokedexes, and its why she was so upset when she found out about dexit, there was less to collect and evolve

Mac

Game: XY, it was her first game, and even if it isn't the best game in the series, it holds a lot of nostalgia for her

Pokemon: Ampharos, she loves the entire line

She thinks Mareep is just sooooo cute, he's a tiny little sheep and he's so flufffffffy

She had one on her first ever playthough team and she was able to get a mega stone for it so it could mega evolve

She thinks the mega is just so ridiculous and it's a dragon?? but that's why she loves it so much

Plus, one of the first gifts Duke ever got for her when they started their relationship was a Mareep plush (Chandler gave her some pointers on what Mac would like)

She keeps it at a place of honor on her shelf and often sleeps with it

Part of Pokemon: Bonding with the Pokemon, she loves all the little minigames like Refresh and Amie where you can brush and pet and feed your pokemon

And even though she knows they're just lines of code, she does feel like she bonds with her Pokemon as she goes along a journey with them

Veronica

Game: SV, she has fond memories of her and Mac playing it when it came out, memories which she treasures dearly

Pokemon: Blastoise, to her its a perfect pokemon. It's simple yet effective, its a cute turtle that becomes a big turtle with freakin cannons on its back

Part of Pokemon: The interconnectivity. She loves battling and trading with her fiancees and just being able to bond with them over it, its something they can all do together that they all enjoy

Just kidding, she loves the cards

She is fucking addicted to opening cards, the Heathers have to drag her away from the card section every time they go to the store

JD enables it, him and Veronica will go buy packs and slushies and just sit and open them

She has boxes and boxes of commons sitting in her room that she refuses to get rid of

[haveyouusedthispokemon]

Vaporeon can be used on your team in:

Gen 1: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow Gen 2: Gold, Silver, Crystal Gen 3: Fire Red, Leaf Green, or Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald (transfer only) Gen 4: Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Heart Gold, Soul Silver Gen 5: Black 2, White 2, or Black, White (transfer only) Gen 6: X, Y, Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire Gen 7: Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon, Let's Go Pikachu, Let's Go Eevee Gen 8: Sword, Shield, Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl, Legends: Arceus Gen 9: Scarlet, Violet

[the-crystal-femmes]

Collective kintypes / identities / sources

// pt: collective kintypes / identities / sources //

Host

The Diamonds' Pearls (Blue, Yellow and White, does NOT include CG Pearl) (Yellow Pearl is similar to the deadwooddross design)

Spinel

White Diamond, Pink Diamond / Rose Quartz

Sapphire

Opal (unrelated to headmates of Opal's components, more connected to the "Pearl" component than "Amethyst")

Draculaura (Monster High, all iterations)

Rouge the Bat (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Chococat (Sanrio)

Harley Quinn (Batman: The Animated Series)

Alice Angel (cartoon, Bendy franchise)

Black cat, lion, bat, vaporeon

Pearl

Pearl (deadwooddross design, uses source design as a veil)

Blue Diamond

Yellowfang (Warriors)

Clawdeen Wolf (Monster High)

Susie Campbell / Twisted Alice (Bendy franchise)

Secretary bird

Ula

Draculaura (Monster High, g1 and g3)

Vampire/Succubus hybrid, werewolf (directly connected to her source as Draculaura)

Garnet (Doesn't feel connected to Ruby or Sapphire)

Bat

Nadja of Antipaxos (What We Do in the Shadows)

Frankie

Frankie Stein (Monster High, all iterations)

Ruby

Jasper

Jasper

Tiger

Anyone else not listed doesn't have any kintypes minus their sources.

[ Dividers by cafekitsune ]

[werepuppy-steve]

long time no see! we've got more pokemon au, this time with the johto dex!

i really didn't mean to take so long with this one. i wasn't really vibing with this pokedex at all and i was getting frustrated. so i took a break from it and now i'm back! some character's types have changed in this one and some have stayed the same.

to reiterate from last time:

we're going off vibes, not stats. this may change in later posts.

fist set is battle teams, second set is rotation teams

if yall any any suggestions per gen, please feel free to list them in the replies or tags!

tagging: @nburkhardt @hitlikehammers @doomcheese @spectrum-spectre @sentient-trash

@worstsequence @matchingbatbites @tangerinesteve @bramble-berries

Eddie - Dark/Psychic

Rotation:

gengar • gligar • golbat • haunter • jigglypuff • noctowl

Steve - Water/Ice

Rotation:

lantern • mantine • polytoed • qwilfish • shuckle • wartortle

note: he and robin have shared custody of shuckle

Robin - Grass/Electric

Rotation:

apom • bellossom • dunsparce • oddish • parasect • wobbuffet

note: oddish is her little buddy and she would kill for him

Nancy - Unspecified

Rotation:

arcanine • clefable • gengar • houndoom • murkrow • stantler

Jonathan - Bug/Ground/Normal

Rotation:

doduo • girafarig • houndour • mr. mime • porygon2 • remoraid

Argyle - Grass/Rock

Rotation:

jynx • oddish • persian • quagsire • sunflora • wobbuffet

Chrissy - Water/Ice

Rotation:

goldeen • kingdra • snubbull • tododile • vaporeon • wigglytuff

Dustin - Grass/Bug

Rotation:

aipom • clefable • phanpy • tangrowth • typhlosion • zubat

Lucas - Rock/Steel

Rotation:

dragonair • dragonite • eevee • feraligatr • marill • vulpix

Max - Fighting/Psychic

Rotation:

ambipom • krabby • ninetails • raticate • tauros • hoothoot

El - Psychic/Normal

Rotation:

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Will - Unspecified

Rotation:

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Mike - Unspecified

Rotation:

mantyke • mawile • igglybuff • natu • piloswine • slowking

Erica - Normal/Poison

Rotation:

teddiursa • flaaffy • vulpix • corsola • bellossom • venonat

up next: ruby/sapphire/emerald

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[zoruascanbetrainerstoo]

Hihi!

I'm Illanero! I'm a Zorua! But now I'm also a trainer! I come from a place reallyreallyreally far away! But now I'm here! I use any pronouns, but use xe/xem the most!

My teams are:

Hoenn: - Apoyime the Sceptile - Mavy the Linoone - Tilio the Swellow - Serald the Aggron - Raga the Flygon

Alola: - Jander the Popplio - Pavil the Pikipek

Kanto: - Burhalla the Charizard - Linne the Pidgeot - Dirir the Dugtrio - Voivick the Vaporeon - Darnod the Dragonite

Galar: - Davulo the Drizzile - Melva the Corvisquire - Swilno the Thievul - Mintar the Minccino - Lazoss the Slowpoke - Kuufo the Kubfu - Litou the Growlithe

Kalos: - Mulbo the Delphox - Igailba the Talonflame - Boler the Venusaur - Cossupa the Furfrou - Lurolin the Lucario - Hidlan the Lapras - Flira the Floette

Unova: - Arbaquo the Samurott - Minro the Simisear - Poliner the Unfezant - Minrir the Cinccino - Daria the Sawsbuck - Rilia the Excadrill

Sinnoh: - Tawno the Grotle - Bleu the Bidoof - Starlow the Staravia - Shaloa the Shinx

Johto: - Acacia the Meganium - Niko the Furret - Marla the Ampharos - Splind the Gyarados

I'm only champion of Hoenn, Kalos, and Kanto so far, but I'm gonna be champion of ALL the regions!

I also tried reviving two fossils in Galar, but it went wrong and it only made one Pokemon. Their name is Hieuma, and they're an Archen-Amaura. I'll be transcribing stuff they want to say sometimes, in blue text!

Hello, Bench here again with another blog! This time a protagonist blog!

Illanero here will be going through the events of most of the mainline Pokemon games, as well as a few non-mainline ones!

This is tied to my mainline marathon, where I try to beat most of the mainline Pokemon games for the first time. I made this blog to try to help me keep focused on it!

Completed games: - Emerald - X - Firered - Black

In progress games: - Sun - Shield + DLC - Violet + DLC - Platinum - Soulsilver

Yet to start: - Colosseum - XD - Black 2 - Alpha Sapphire - Ultra Moon - Legends Arceus - New Snap

Pelipper mail and derivatives are on! Magic anons are off! Sapient Pokemon are encouraged, as this is one!

Also, no NSFW stuff. Illanero is both a Pokemon and a minor.

I hope you enjoy!

[kaitopedestrian]

Gonna ramble about Ae-Ri for a bit (just random fun facts and such)

1. She developed serious insomnia during the events of Terajuma due to stress and nightmares keeping her up at night

2. She coped with Nancy's death by always keeping the Mawile's ball in her backpocket as a comfort item

3. Likes pancakes better then waffles (savory pancakes, cabbage ones)

4. Really likes noodles and savory cabbage pancakes

5. Has a plush Eevee in her bag that she keeps as a charm (she bought it in East Gearen)

6. Tosses and turns in her sleep, will be found on the floor due to rolling off her bed

7. Likes to doodle and draw Eevees and Espurrs on every single sheet of paper she gets her hands on

8. Likes cat Pokemon more then dog ones

9. Sleeps with her Vaporeon and Meowstic like two cats sleeping on her bed

10. Reacts to serious situations attempting to calm everyone down first (she did this with Melia when she was dangling over a volcano)

11. She's the therapist friend

12. Absolutely despises Geara (she finds him very very annoying)

13. Aelita helped her ease her insomnia after the events at Eclysia Pyramid

14. Her Vaporeon's very claustrophobic so he usually stays outside with her

15. She nicknames her Pokemon after different gemstones (Vaporeon's Sapphire, Serperior's Emerald, Meowstic's Opal, Zoroark's Garnet, Nidoqueen is Galena, Sylveon's Quartz)

16. Likes board games

17. Likes making fun of Venam and Ren specifically (affectionately)

18. Is afraid of the dark and gets uncomfortable in very warm places

19. Only instrument she can play is the guitar

20. Can be bad with words but is very empathetic

[dei-ryuu]

I wanna do a trainersona thing with my team being based on my pokeplushes. Haven’t figured out how to design my trainer yet, but here’s the team

Names and bios under the cut (including background info from the original plushies)

Sapphire - Dragonite - Main battler of the team and mostly in charge of flying everyone place to place. She’s the biggest team member and tends to act as their bodyguard as well. Caught as a dragonite

Plush was picked up at a convention and stayed in the back window of my car for a few years, but has since been moved inside with everyone else

Regent - Kingdra - Raised from an egg by his trainer, so he sees her as his mother. Considers himself the favorite because of this

Handmade by me because kingdra doesn’t get much merch and I needed one as a cosplay prop. Also the only pokeplush on my bed because he’s over 3ft long and doesn’t fit anywhere else

Prince - Horsea - Adopted by Regent as his little brother. Baby of the group, here for moral support, does not battle

Gift from a friend specifically to go alongside Regent

George - Vaporeon - Caught as a Vaporeon and while he battles with and is cared for by the trainer, he’s unofficially become her mother’s pokemon.

Another con purchase. My mom adores him, but declined my offer to give her the plush. She also named him

Charizard (Orange Juice) - Charizard - The starter. Doesn’t battle much anymore due to his old age, but will if he’s in the mood. Missing a foot from a bad battle ages ago. Got the nickname Orange Juice late in life, but doesn’t respond to it

Childhood plush from when the anime was first airing so VERY old. Foot was chewed off by my dog at the time. I never nicknamed as a child (probably cause Ash didn’t in the anime) so a friend gave him his name a few years ago

[typhin-hoofbun]

I plan to change my name to Stephanie (since it's just the female version of Steven), but that's still just a "public name".

I'm still Typhin, like I've been for some 27-28? years.

...I created the name to play Ultima Online. I needed "a fantasy-ish name that isn't taken", so I stared at the keyboard and let phonemes come to me.

When a player introduced me to ICQ, a way to talk to friends made when not in the game, I used the name Typhin there as well, because I figured I wouldn't want people confused by the discrepancy.

And then when I stopped playing UO, I kept the name, because why not. And as I signed up for other places, well, that name wasn't taken, usually. So I kept using it elsewhere, too.

So, yeah, still using it. It's Me. It's My Name. It's Who I Am.

And then there's the "nicknames". Since I've had many forms over the years, sometimes I give them nicknames/pet names, for fun. And also for a sort of shorthand for discussion.

And then I started writing books, and creating main characters based on my forms, and using those nicknames for the character names.

So, sure, there's also Princess the dragon (because it's an adorable name for a pet dragon), Flopsy the hoofbun (because a bunny named Flopsy is cute, even when it has hooves), Vayryn the yinglet (picked from the gemstone Vayrynenite because it's a nice yinglety name), Sapphire the chocobo (for her blue feathers), Lazuli the Vaporeon (actually V-7357 the rubber Vaporeon doll, in-universe nicknamed "Lazuli" after the gemstone), and so on... They're all also me, kinda, in a way?

It gets complicated. ^_^;;

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