#also hot take but if you were mean to Cilan I’m smacking you away from Jacq

[cat-of-starlight]

Oh my Goodness! Jacq is one of my favorites too! If you do not mind, could you do the Blorbo Character Sheet for him? And Cilan too if that is not too much to ask; I am interested to see your opinions on him since he’s 50/50 with the fandom who watched the anime.

My boys,,,, (Sorry this took so long, the holidays happened!!)

Gonna talk about each as I go because I Lov them <3 (and the energies they both give are similar but different so they need their own sections)

Ok, starting with Jacq-

Sweet boy, I LOV- As I’ve jokingly said to friends of mine “I like my men sweet, slightly fruity, and clearly neurodivergent” he fits all three of those boxes so well, and I actually get to bother him ingame, which is a plus.

Literally, he is the main reason I am completing my Pokédex… I am less than 10 Pokémon away.. what have I become?? The things I do for the sweet characters I enjoy 🥺💜

-Cracks knuckles- I’m SO glad you mentioned the fandom perception of him because BOY HOWDY

Generally, I love him for most of the same reasons as Jacq, but let’s talk anime specific things about him , since unlike Violet, I can’t play Black to go bother him because no content 😔

I’ll admit, the initial reason I was drawn to him was his VA (I mean look at my icon, of course I fell for the character w/ the same VA as my 1st childhood hyperfixation), but as I kept watching, I LOVED how passionate he was about everything. At the time I was watching, I was still young and had no personal concept of what neurodivergence even was, and to see a character be SO passionate about things in such a way, it excited me- it was nice to see a character who at did something like me, if even just a little-

So FURTHERMORE, it was HEARTBREAKING to see how the damn cast (and the fandom on top of that) treated him!! Let!! Him!! Talk!! About food and trains!! Let my boy hyperfixate in PEACE!!

I remember specifically being heartbroken about how there was a moment where they were around, which generic protag girl was it, I think Dawn (idk I didn’t watch every season, and some I watched when I was very little so I don’t remember), but Cilan was trying SO hard to be helpful/also hyperfixating, and the cast basically went “lmao don’t care” and the next scene cuts to him looking sad and rejected in the corner, like HELLO??

Fun fact/side tangent about another character in that season which is related to this- A lot of people love various versions of Iris because uwu cute dragon trainer girl or something, but the way she treats Cilan in the anime made me HATE her in every media. Also I don’t put Axews in my party ever because they make me think of that tiny annoyance

Anyway, I definitely encountered him at a pivotal point in my life and I WISH he was treated better by the cast and fanbase

[ghostie-gengar]

pokemon bw gym leaders on a road trip

The Gym Leaders of Unova decide to go on a road trip together, and chaos quickly unfolds. (inspired by @thegreenzorua )

It’s a nice summer day, so what better thing to do than have all the Gym Leaders cram themselves into a car for a nice bonding experience road trip?

...Said no one. Ever.

Well, Alder said it, since he thought it would be a grEat idea for all the gym leaders to “get friendlier with each other” and “become one as a big team,” or something.

And so far, it’s a nightmare.

Drayden’s trailer van is big enough to accommodate fourteen people, but even then everyone’s squished against each other. Plus, the vehicle drives so unsteadily and makes these alarming sputter-y noises every few minutes, as if it’s about to give up completely.

And the radio is so. loud. It’s hard to tell which is louder, the radio, the engine noises, or everyone else singing.

Iris and Roxie basically said “screw that” to road safety and neglected their seat belts, and now they’re running and climbing around the car like a couple of Aipom.

Occasionally Drayden will scold them with a stern, “Don’t make me turn this car around,” but they don’t listen.

Cheren covers his ears, but that doesn’t do a good enough job blocking out the noise. “I’m gonna punch someone,” he says, and somehow Clay hears him.

“Aw, c’mon. Donchu deal wit rowdy children all day?”

“If my students were this loud, I’d be an alcoholic.”

Clay laughs at that, but he also finds this road trip is wearing quite thin.

“Grandpaaaaaaa, are we almost theeeeeeere?” Iris whines for the seventeenth time this hour.

“No, we have a few more hours to go.”

Cheren and Clay groan.

Marlon’s also sitting next to them, but he’s resting his head on his hand, staring out the window like an emo anime character. It looks like he’s doing an okay job of zoning out, but he appears to be a common target for Iris and Roxie’s roughhousing.

“Sorry Marls,” Roxie yells as she trips over a seat and slams into him.

He repeatedly bangs his head against the window as she gets up and jumps away.

The Striaton triplets, Chili, Cress and Cilan, are fortnite dancing in their seats, a skill they no doubt learned from Hilbert, and it’s painfully cringy.

“Ooh, I love this song!” Elesa starts singing along to a song that just started playing on the radio.

“Nope. Swears.” Drayden skips the song.

“What?? Burgh’s been cussing left and right singing along to hollaback girl!”

Burgh rolls his eyes. “Oh sure, now it’s about me.”

The two of them start bickering.

How on earth have they been friends for so long?? They’re literally always doing things to set each other off. Like, one time, Burgh came in holding a plate of toaster strudels and Elesa smacked the plate, so Burgh called her an indecent fat hog.

Skyla slips between them as it looks like they’re about to have a frickin brawl in the front seats. “Guys guys, let’s be civil about this. Rap battle!”

Elesa and Burgh are terrible rappers.

Cheren takes his glasses off and rubs his eyes. “This is physically and emotionally painful.”

Once it was determined that there would be no rap battle victor, which didn’t take long (thank arceus), a different song comes on that everyone likes.

That might be worse than the rap battle, as everyone in the front save for Drayden starts singing along. loudly.

Iris and Roxie’s voices ring throughout the car as they bounce around on everything and everyone.

Lenora sings into an imaginary mic, and who knew she could hit those high notes so well??

Meanwhile Burgh and Elesa are back to being friends, leaning on each other and singing as flamboyantly as possible, whatever the heck that even means.

The song changes again, and Roxie yells, “Yo!!!!! This is one of my songs!!!”

Then she, along with the other singers, starts screaming the lyrics, aside from the triplets because they’re making fun of Chili for messing up the words.

“Dude, can you not spell Pokemon??” Cress seems like he might actually think his brother is stupid.

“Leave me alone I thought the M came before the E!!”

“Dumbass,” Cilan whispers.

“Hold on a sec guys, hourly check-up,” Burgh says, turning the radio down. “Brycen? You alive back there?”

Everyone silently turns their heads towards the back seat where Brycen sits all by himself, since he threatened to punch anyone who tried to sit next to him.

Brycen’s slumped in the seat, unmoving and staring blankly at the seat in front of him. He slowly reaches for the roll-down-the-window-button.

“Noooooooooo,” everyone in the car yells.

He’s been doing that for the past few hours. The first time, ten minutes into the drive, everyone thought he was too hot, since a car crammed with sweaty people probably would be unpleasant for an ice-type trainer. But no. He tried to jump out the window.

Not to die or anything, he just really really wanted to leave.

Cheren, Clay and Marlon could hardly blame him.

Ever since, they’ve been checking in on him to make sure he wasn’t gone.

Brycen sighs, then looks directly at Burgh. “I wanna go home.”

[zdbztumble]

The Literal-Minded Milotic

When I gave Misty a Milotic in “Writing’s on the Wall,” it was just because she must have one. It’s a Water-type, it kicks ass, it’s a close match to her own color palette, and why shouldn’t the one main girl to ever catch the protagonist’s eye have the most beautiful Pokemon as a partner/avatar?

Said Milotic having trouble with taking things literally was almost an afterthought, but I kind of like that quirk of personality. So here are some drabbles on it, set during BW, XY, and post WotW, respectively. You don’t have to have read WotW to follow along...but it would be nice if you did. :D

"...and Victini finally got to see the ocean!"

"That's great, Ash! And you're sure you're okay?"

"Yes, Misty. For the fourth time, I'm okay."

Misty frowned at his tone. "Don't talk that way to me, Ash Ketchum. I'm allowed to worry about you." You're lucky I don't make you tell me fifty times.

"I know, I know. But everything worked out, just like it always does."

Misty sighed. His mother was the one who always filled her on Ash's day-to-day and badge quests, but whenever he called Misty himself - which wasn't often - it always seemed to be after some insane adventure, more often than not with a near-death experience to boot. Almost drowned, eaten by orange goo, almost erased from existence, and now almost frozen to death. Honestly, Ash...

"So where do you go from here?" she asked him.

"Well, Cilan says that - "

"Psy?"

Misty looked over her shoulder toward the doorway. Psyduck had just waddled in, sporting his water wings. He glanced up at the display monitor on the phone and, upon seeing Ash, broke out in the cheeky grin that still made Misty flush. The dopey duck could barely remember his way around the gym or comprehend a battle command, but he'd cued in on his trainer's deal with Ash years ago and never let her forget it.

"Hi, Psyduck!" Ash called from his end, throwing the water fowl a wave. "Still can't swim, huh?"

"He can," Misty grumbled. "He made it across the shallow end the other month, but it freaked him out so much that he went back to the water wings. And he still can't go under the wa - "

"Tic!"

"Duck!"

"Now what?" Misty turned around, and immediately buried her head in her hands. Milotic had slithered into the room, and had Psyduck pinned into a corner. The Tender Pokémon was staring intently at the duck, who seemed even more confused than usual and just slightly terrified. Misty stepped over her serpent's tail as she walked over to take a look at the hall outside. Water was all over the place, a small table and lamp had been knocked over, and a framed picture of her sisters that should have been on the wall was on the floor, the glass cracked.

"Misty?" Ash asked with a tilt of his head as she stomped, scowling, back to the phone. "What's up with Milotic?"

She sighed again. "We're training right now. When I got out of the pool to take your call, I told her to 'keep an eye' on Psyduck."

...

"Milotic, use Hydro Pump!"

Misty's Pokémon was quick to respond. She nailed Staryu right in the jewel, and while the starfish managed to stay on its platform in the pool, it was clearly struggling under the pressure.

"Alright, Milotic!" Misty cheered. "Keep it up!"

"Staryu, Rapid Spin!" Daisy commanded.

"Hyah!" The Star Shape Pokémon spun hard to the left, leaving the platform and hurling itself through the air. Milotic followed it with her head, never stopping her Hydro Pump. She got water on the poolside floor, on the empty bleachers, and all over Daisy.

"Hey!" she moaned. "I just got my hair done!"

If it were Gyarados, Misty would've chalked that up to attitude, but Milotic still hadn't stopped her attack. "Uh...Milotic?"

Staryu was still airborne, and it was now circling the pool, Milotic still following. The starfish flew in front of Misty's platform, and before she could dodge it, she got a taste of Hydro Pump herself. It was on her at full blast for a moment, but it very quickly trickled away. Through her sopping bangs, Misty could see why. Milotic had flopped her head onto Staryu's old platform. Her eyes were bugged out and she was taking her breaths in tired wheezes.

She had "kept it up," alright; kept it up until she'd completely exhausted herself.

Misty let out a small moan as she pushed more of her hair back. Her already extensive list of expressions she couldn't use around her serpent had just grown by one.

...

There were so many other good things Misty associated with Pallet Town that the fact it had a beach sometimes slipped her mind. It wasn't as large as some of the other Kanto beaches or as developed as Cerulean Cape, but it was still a lovely place with plenty of room for her Pokémon to play. Marill ran along the water's edge, chasing Pikachu's tail. Psyduck was locked in a staring contest with a wild Krabby, as he had been for the past fifteen minutes. Gyarados, Starmie, and Kingdra swam a few yards out from the shore. And Milotic was curled up in the sand to sun herself.

Misty was tempted to join her, but she knew how easily she burned. It was also too hot. The shade from her sun umbrella didn't help that much, but it was better than nothing. Still, she let her toes slip out from the shadows and taste the unadulterated heat as she stretched out a little on the towel she was sharing with Ash.

"So the gym's gonna be closed a little longer, huh?" he asked, sitting up slightly.

Misty nodded. "The filter for the pool's still broken. They thought they had it figured out, but they need special parts to fix it, so it'll be another two weeks." She scooted over so that their sides were pressed together, and she rested her head on his shoulder. "But I don't mind staying here a little longer."

"Uh..." Misty didn't need to look up to know there was a blush in Ash's cheeks. She smiled, but didn't say anything. Being boyfriend and girlfriend was a strange experience for both of them, especially given the circumstances that finally got them together.

Ash swore up and down to her, their friends, his mother, and the G-Men that he had no idea why Team Rocket wanted him. An ongoing investigation had yet to turn up anything. As a precaution, both Ash and Misty had been pulled out of the Trials for the Hero's Crown, over their objections, and word was put out that they were being sent to Alola. The original plan was for them to actually go, but Misty had put her foot down on going anywhere until she knew her sisters had the gym up and running again. The G-Men had reluctantly let them go to Pallet Town, with three agents as protection.

Even under watch, the past month in Pallet had been as wonderful a start to a romance as Misty could've asked for. Things didn't go the way she'd once pictured when they were still kids and her feelings no more than a crush; they still teased and bickered constantly, their few dates were simple and often tied to Pokémon, and there were no hearts and sparkling lights flying through the air. But everything so far had been very...them. It was as if she'd never left and as if they were just meeting at the same time. It was fascinating to Misty just how much Ash had, and hadn't, changed.

For instance: he actually understood the basic concepts of attraction and affection now, but he still struggled with the cuddling, hand-holding, and other overtly romantic gestures that he dubbed "love junk." It drove Misty crazy sometimes, and inspired a few of their squabbles, but it could be incredibly cute at times too.

She rolled over to face him, propping herself up a bit higher by resting her arms on his chest. Just as she'd thought, he was blushing, and a nervous little smile tugged at the corners of his mouth. "Comfy?" she asked teasingly as she walked two fingers up toward his collar bone.

"J-j-just a little hot." Misty laughed lightly. From another guy, that might have been a double entendre, but Ash didn't have it in him to pull those off.

"It is pretty warm," she agreed. "I almost wouldn't mind a blizzard right now."

"Mil!" Milotic had reared up and was staring at them, her head cocked slightly to the right. She reared back in preparation, and Misty realized her mistake.

"Wait, Milotic! I didn't mean -"

A wave of flurries and freezing wind blew across them, sending the sun umbrella and their picnic basket flying. It didn't last long, but when the Blizzard stopped, both Ash and Misty were caked in frost. They clung to each other for warmth, though the shivers from one made things worse for the other.

"W-w-w-well, at l-least w-w-we're the c-c-coolest c-couple on t-the b-b-beach," Ash stammered. Misty didn't even smack him for the pun; she was too cold, too stiff, and too frustrated with Milotic.

"Y-Y-YOU DOPE!" she spat.

"Mil?"

"Psy?"

Psyduck had wandered over to the serpent. They titled their heads toward one another, and they both had looks of complete confusion in their eyes that Misty found baffling, infuriating, and somehow endearing.

No wonder she was with Ash.