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elsfairy · 2 years ago

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─── 𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐄

You'd seen her hurt many times before, so why was this any different? what was it about tonight that made you more emotional and worried about her when she walked into your small apartment? Shit, Sevika didn't really know why she came to you. You were quiet, keeping to yourself but also, it was the small things you did. You were always checking on her. You would always bring her snacks, and she would just push you away. "I don't need your help"

So why was she here now? How many times have you told her you would do anything for her? that you would be there, and every time she would just laugh and tell you "You are the last person I would ask for help"

Simply because she was scared to know you. She was scared to let you close to her, knowing what she does, and who she is. She was scared to let you in. She was worried she would have you taken away from her the minute she lets her guard down. She was scared to have you, but she was terrified to lose you.

Those small things you did for her? She loved them. Those cute little cookies you made her? She loved that you made them for her. The little bottles of water you slip onto her table when she's not looking? She fucking adores it. The smile you give her whenever she sees you? She's happy because she made you smile.

So why was tonight different?

"Have you been crying?" Sevika finally speaks up, looking at the fresh tears staining your flushed cheeks, her eyes roaming your face quickly. "Did i make you cry?"

Just because you cared deeply about the Brute, you were always hesitant in your answers, because you didn't know if your words were going anger her or annoy her. "Just wanna help you, I don't like seeing you hurt.. just wanna help Vika, but you won't let me.."

But she would. She didn't have the energy to argue with you. Fuck, she had no energy left to even hiss when you would clean her bloody bruised face. She kept her eyes on your stupid fucking nightgown you loved to wear. Kept staring at that little stupid fucking bow right in the center, but it was you. You looked absolutely breathtaking in anything you wore. And she could never stop looking at you when you were around.

Sevika found it amusing when you dropped the rag, the feeling of her hand touching yours truly tore you from your own thoughts, looking at her with wide eyes. "Thank you. Not just for this but.. you know, always checking on me.. practically feeding me.." She spoke quietly, avoiding your eyes completely.

"Just wanna help.."

You've dreamt of being this close to her for months but obviously, you couldn't, so you were caught off guard when she wrapped her arms around you, pulled you into her hard chest, and rested her chin on the top of your head. Your own hands tightly grip her body, trying to push yourself closer as you inhale the scent of cigarettes on her shirt and the smell of alcohol in her mouth.

"You do, Sunshine"

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thispit-thelame · 6 months ago

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Blind Pokemon White Nuzlocke: Attempt One

Episode 1.3: Icing Burgh

Level Cap: 23

Previous Ep: 1.2 We start off this session with finally getting the dousing rod/itemfinder and immediately backtrack to all of the previous routes and towns to check for hidden items. Didn't find anything too amazing, but having a stockpile of various aid items is never a bad thing, and those that we cannot use, we can sell. In Pinwheel forest itself we catch a quirky sewaddle named Firenze (named for its wonderful textiles, of course lol) who I seem to have forgotten to take a photo of.

Besides catching our team member however, nothing much of consequence happens for a while though. We reach Castelia City, and after a quick trip to the PC, we head back for a little training and nudge Fugedda into evolving into a Trainquill. After that we trek north to see what we can find on route 4, the start of the desert north of Castelia. There we find a Careful Sandile named Vector. Vector has the amazing ability 'Moxie' which gives it a +1 to its attack everytime it KOs an opponent directly. Vector wont be too useful for the upcoming gym, but should become an invaluable member later, especially after they evolve and get some more useful stats.

After changing up the team a little to help stave off the level cap of which we are far too close for comfort, we resolve the Team Plasma portion without any issue whatsoever, and head back out to route 4 to do some training. What is an issue though are the handful of fishermen that I have since learned to give a wide berth. Basculin is the regional fish of Unova, and they are all 40lbs of pure hatred. Look at these stats; they're by no means a standout pokemon, but a single stage pokemon with a great typing this early in the game can do a whole lot to an unsuspecting team, and since I had no experience fighting them up until this point, man oh man do I have the fear of the sea in me now lol.

Thankfully no one dies and after a bit more training we blaze through the gym thanks to a combination of Fugedda and Broiler. Now though? Now its time for Burgh.

I know a little of what to expect since his Leavanny has gained a bit of infamy with the nuzlocking crowd, but beyond that. I really don't know what to expect. Going into this, I am fairly confident he'll have three pokemon, but besides the known Leavanny, and the expected veni/whirlipede I hadno idea what to expect. And oh dear reader, lol, lmao. How I wish I thought a little harder because I certainly would have put a little more thought into the plan that I had planned.

We lead once again with Broiler, who despite being a fantastic lead thanks to their speed and access to yawn, I'm definitely starting to notice that the rest of their starts are starting to fall behind those of our opponents. I had considered an early retirement for them in the box, but for this gym, flame burst and yawn were just too useful of moves to pass up.

Burgh leads Whirlipede though, and while I was expecting this, I was really hoping for a Venipede if I'm being honest. Thankfully we outspeed and hit it with a yawn while Burgh retaliates with a poison tail that dust about 25%. Now knowing this thing has poison tail, I don't feel safe swapping in Fugedda like I was planning to since a poison proc this early into the fight would be disastrous. I completely flounder here and decide that my best bet is to try and take it out with Broiler and start going for work up, thinking I might be able to sweep with them. Burgh retaliates with a screech as Whirlipede falls asleep while I get myself to +2 attack/SpA. I now realize my mistake with trying to set up with Broiler; they almost certainly don't out speed the Leavanny waiting in the back, so I need to get Fugedda in here somehow and set up a little with them.

From here we swap to Pickles, both to get an intimidation off, and to burn sleep turns so that we can try and set this all back up again for Fugedda. It turns out that swapping out was a fantastic idea because Burgh gets a lucky one turn wake up and lands a critical hit poison tail that does a little over 50% to Pickles, which thankfully doesn't poison. That crit would have easily killed Broiler though, and a back to back crit on a Broiler swap in, while unlikely, would probably spell doom for this attempt. Ultimately though, this is still a terrible position to be in because I was hoping to use Pickles as an intimidate support on Leavanny but now that they're so low health, that seems unwise.

On the brightside however, we are finally in a better position to set up a sweep with Fugedda. We swap back to Broiler, who takes a non crit poison tail, gets a yawn off, and takes another, finally putting us back at square one. I still can't swap to Fugedda safely until the Whirlipede falls asleep since a poison/crit would be catastrophic, so I decide to pivot through Cotton first.

Pivoting, for those who don't know, is simply swapping in another pokemon as an intermediate step between the pokemon you currently have in, and the one you intend to use. This is often used in nuzlocking to bait certain moves, or timing Damage-over-Time so that a certain team member is out as the opponent is KOd.

Aka; instead of A->B you go A->C->B. You can even chain pivots to reduce the damage your pivots are taking ie A->C->D->B or even longer, if that is what you need. This of course works best when you are swapping pokemon into resisted moves, and works even better if you have pokemon with certain abilities like 'regenerator.'

And once again its turns out to be a great idea to have swapped because Burgh yet again gets a crit, though I do remain very lucky that nobody has gotten poisoned yet. Now, finally, the Whirlipede falls alseep, and we swap to Fugedda to set up the sweep; something I should have done twenty turns ago.

We unfortunately only get one work up off before the Whirlipede wakes up, but it only goes for a screech which we are immune to thanks to 'Big Pecks' and fucking lol has that ability come in useful so far. Another work up and we're at +2 for offense, and Burgh hits a poison tail which again, thankfully doesn't poison. I feel like I am going to need +3 to OHKO Leavanny though since the Pidove line aren't exactly amazing special attackers. That being said, I reallllly don't want to keep dodging poison and decided that it would be best to just take out the Whirlipede now.

As I go to confirm the attack however, I finally remember that Dwebble exists. Dwebble is a Bug-Rock pokemon that I always forget is a gen 5 pokemon and not a gen 6 pokemon (same thing with Beartic tbh), and its almost certainly Burgh's mystery third pokemon. And unfortunately, since flying moves aren't super effective against it, I realize that I am going to need to get up to +4 now, which gives me just a horrible sinking feeling. We've been lucky avoiding poison so far, but this is a battle against time, and you just cannot win those.

The next turn Fugedda uses work up to get up to +3, and our luck finally runs out. Not only does Burgh finally get a poison proc after nearly ten attempts, but he gats ANOTHER crit. Fugedda thankfully had an oran berry, but now we need to roost, twice in fact, to get up as close as we can to full health to prepare for the other two pokes that Burgh yet has. So its a roost, take a poison tail, work up to put us at +4, take another poison tail, roosting again, take yet another poison tail, and then finally taking the KO with an air slash, all the while taking poison chip.

Dwebble does indeed come out next, which is now okay since we not only outspeed, but have all of our stat boosts. Roost, thankfully removes the flying type from a flying type pokemon that uses it for that turn, so now that we bait a smack down, its totally safe (barring any crits lol) to roost one more time, take a smack down, and take the KO the following turn with another air slash.

We are now sitting at about 60% as Burgh sends out his final pokemon Leavanny, which isn't a great spot to be in against such a threat. Leavanny isn't a bad pokemon by any stretch (see the following stat block). With a good base attack and speed, a good offensive move pool, and fairly well rounded stats overall, the only thing that really holds Leavanny back from being a top tier poke is that it has the terrible defensive typing of Bug-Grass, which leaves it weak to so many different threats. The worst part here however; Tranquil has a base speed of 65, which means that we aren't going to be outspeeding this Leavanny like I thought we would.

So with a third of Fugedda's health gone and both unable and unwilling to swap out into another team member, I find myself in a sort of "rock and a hard place" situation. Nobody resists any of Leavanny's moves besides Fugedda and Broiler, neither of whom are healthy enough to do the swapping in and out dance again, even if I wanted to. With such low health I dont't feel comfortable swapping in Pickles to get an intimidate off, and while I am certain that a +4 air slash will KO the Leavanny, I am not sure that we can survive an attack in return.

In the end I decide that I have to risk it with Fugedda and air cutter (which I hate because its not 100% accurate lol). If Fugedda somehow survives, but misses the attack, I'll unfortunately have to let them go down so that I can get a safe swap into someone else. I really don't want to happen though because I've honestly grown attached to the bastard lol. Regardless of my feelings though I select air slash and...

We outspeed?????? We outspeed the Leavanny, connect with the air slash, and do enough damage to probably KO the Leavanny twice over, winning us the gym battle deathless. Incredibly sloppy, but deathless nonetheless.

This means that Burgh's Leavanny HAD to have a -Spe nature, which thanks to Fugedda's +Spe nature, means we likely outsped by a single digit value and fucking lol was that a relief.

This means that nearly 1/3 of the way through the game, with three of the eight badges in our hands, the first attempt of this blind hardcore nuzlocke remains deathless, which I continue to be stunned by.

Post Script:

So first off; lol. Its been like 6mo since I updated and fucking lol has life been shit. Not saying I'm now living in a blooming meadow like a frolicking sheep or anything, but here we are, and actually willing and able to update lol. I've actually got notes and photos up to Elesa so in theory we'll be up to speed soon lol. Elesa herself will be interesting but I'm trusting in my team for now.

Anyways, as far as this update goes; In hindsight I got waaaaay too tunnel visioned on setting up. Especially with Fugedda having a +Spe nature and whatever Spe EVs we picked up, it actually wasn't so unlikely that we undersped the Leavanny, but that -Spe nature was insanely lucky tbh. We likely only needed +2 to sweep and KO the 4x weak Leavanny in the back, but some retroactive calcs tell me that we definitely needed +4 to OHKO the dwebble so lol I guess it all worked out in the end. Also, speaking of Fugedda; Fugedda with their +Spe nature is actually fairly quick, and when you also take into consideration that they know Roost, I think in that scenario, it was always a better choice to give Fugedda a pecha berry instead of an oran. Staving off a 10% poison chance is far more useful as an item slot than recovery would be because we can in most scenarios just out speed and heal 50% with roost. We've only encountered two Bug type pokes up until Burgh, and we knew one was a poison type who would likely have a poison procing move, so that was another misplay on my part, but thankfully we weren't punished for it.

I've got no idea what to expect next, but poking my head back onto route 4 I saw Cheren standing around so I'm expecting another rival battle. It'll be interesting to see how we tackle his solid team now that our own team is getting stronger, but hey, with a bird like Fugedda on the team, how could we possibly lose?

#thispit's nuzlockes #nuzlocke #attempt one #pokemon white

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