#helen plays pokemon go

[fat-house-cat-vibes]

In light of surviving and arguably thriving in the midst of hurricane Helene I am simply going to rot all day eating a large sum of food watching studio ghibli and playing pokemon. If anyone wants to chats or asks please feel free and I'll 70% likely respond lol

[scary-lasagna]

I just finished watching what if, and I was wondering, what if the creeps never became The creeps? What do you think they would be?

angry bc i typed all of this out and tumblr ATE all of my words (my phone turned off and it didn’t save and it was completely my fault) and i am SUING tumblr

Jeff - After living off of his parents for a while, he got a full time job at an animal shelter. He creates music on the side and has a handful of followers. He never talks to his family. He’s made his own between people he’s met online and friends he’s made in real life.

Liu - As the oldest, his parents pressured him into college. He pursued a law degree, and attempts to call Jeff often. Jeff always pretends to be working, busy, or doesn’t have his phone on him. He’s a lot more successful than his brother, being a popular lawyer and all, and even keeps in contact with his parents.

Jane - Became a healthy dose of a Government hired P.I. She’s amazing at her job and anyone from her childhood would never be able to recognize her. Jeff ran into her while she was stationed in her hometown for a brief moment. But she still hasn’t forgiven him for ruining her chance with Liu. It was nice to see him again. Maybe in another universe they’ll actually like each other.

Nina - She does fashion on the side, and hops from job to job, mostly in the fashion and makeup industry. She’s not quite sure where she wants to go in life.

Eyeless Jack - Carried onto pursuing his major as a surgeon. When the incident happened he was already in school, halfway through the path of a lifelong dream of his. After school, he’s one of the top surgeons in the state.

Ben - Just some dude in IT. He works for a cable company, and helps old ladies connect to the internet or restart their router from his cubicle. By the ghoul possessing his brain from the whole cult incident, it created a super-genius tech savvy ghost. But without it, he’s just some guy that grew up with an N64 and a love for computers. He also plays a lot of PC games, and has a discord of online friends. His best friend across the country works in an animal shelter and is free in the early hours of the morning.

Tim/Brian - Continued through college and lives a normal life on the daily. Brian has a major in film history, and Tim graduated with a psychology degree.

Toby - Lyra still ended up dying somehow, but as a less exciting meningitis case as opposed to a car crash caused by Slender. Toby still stood up to his father, and ended up escaping with his mom to a new life not too long after. He has a degree in childcare and works with kids, he also has a nice girlfriend that he’ll marry one day.

Kate - Full-time baker. After moving out of the woods of West Virginia, she moved across the country into a small city where a baker took her under her wing. She was taught how to bake, make coffee, and run a shop. They eventually fell in love and got married. :)

Clockwork - The baker. She opened a shop in the city to escape her abusive home. It was a hit with cute animal themed bread biscuits and cakes.

Laughing Jack - Technically he was an angel gifted to Isaac, but maybe in a normal universe he was part of a traveling circus in the 1800s. Maybe in a normal universe he kept his colors.

Lost Silver - A repair tech. He has his own little shop in a rather large mall. He fixes phones, computers, gaming systems, he’ll even dabble with lights and TVs. The shop doubles as a card shop where people can play retro arcade games and pokemon tournaments.

Jason - A Universal Studios imagineer. He has unlimited potential for his ideas, and has one of the best animatronics worldwide, sporting for $19.2M. A human-like animatronic, taking on the role of a puppeteer that controls small marionettes.

Helen - A quite popular self-taught artist on the east coast, but on the side he paints murals on the sides of buildings for businesses. He moved to America with his grandparents after the bullying in his homeland got too terrible to handle. His mother got the help she needed.

Hobo Heart - A pop-emo heart-throb of the Y2Ks. He got his heart broken and never let it go. Created a hit song about catching his girlfriend cheating and calling a cab, while he’s taking a smoke, and she’s taking a drag. And he’s going to bed and his stomach is siiiick, now she takes off her dress now-

Sally - Destroyed the monarchy and grew up to become the president of England. Achieved world peace. She still has tea parties. ALT: Became the CEO of a sock puppet company.

[thelemonsnek]

There are a lot of fun questions that come about from a tma-verse. How faithful are we talking. Are they full blown Avatars? Do they have to feed their patron? If so how would they go about it? I do believe a subway system would be pretty rich in targets as they have commuters that come day in and day out.

[vibrating at a speed that shatters glass] I am SO glad you asked

It is very faithful to tma canon, because instead of being eebied to Hisui, Ingo instead ends up in tma London! So the first part of the au is quite literally in tma. There's a whole running gag that Jon used to be into pokemon, and he gives Ingo and Emmet a copy of Pokemon White to play and they mark it with the Spiral and Buried respectively, and eventually it just gets marked by so many different avatars that that's what starts the apocalypse instead of the statement Elias gives Jon. Ingo and Emmet do get back to the pokemon universe before that happens though so it's fineeeeee

(They also bring the entities to the pokemon universe in coming home)

Are they full blown avatars?

Yes they are!! Ingo became an avatar when he became the Distortion, and Emmet became an avatar to escape Ingo's subway :)

For context on that, when Ingo and Emmet first reunited, it. Didn't go well! Because Michael had latched onto Ingo as a perfect victim (he was literally questioning the entire foundation of his reality, how could Michael resist?) and used Ingo's vague memories to torment him with the idea of the man in white

So Ingo doesn't think Emmet is real, and they end up fighting, and in that fight it comes up that Ingo has been eating people bc. He's the Distortion, that's what the Distortion does. And Emmet is like WHAT THE FUCK. THATS NOT OKAY. And anyways things continue and Ingo is convinced of Emmet's realness and is like oohhhh. He was important to the person Ingo. He could make me be that person again (bc the Distortion is a what, not a who, but just like Helen, he wants that anyways)

So he says to Emmet, "I have missed you so much. We can catch up, on the subway" and there, impossibly on the wall, is a sliding door leading to a subway car

Ingo is Emmet's brother. He will always trust him. He walks through the door, and finds himself in an impossible, endless subway

By now their argument has caught up with Ingo, and he's like. Ah. Emmet, the thing that anchored me to myself for the first time, said I shouldn't eat people. So I won't. And he goes on a hunger strike

Problem is, because of him doing that, Emmet can't get out. There is no out

But, a pressure at the back of his head whispers, there is a way down. And he Becomes, and begins to understand why Ingo took those people. He understands, because he has his own subway now

Do they have to feed their patron?

Also yes :) and yes, the subway is a verrrry convenient way to feed, especially since their domains are both subways as well! Very verrrry easy to be in a rush to get to your destination and take the wrong door :)

It's a bit of a perfectly awful situation really! They're both each other's anchors, which is great because they're good anchors to their sense of selves. The problem is, they kind of have this massive echo chamber going on, where as long as the other agrees and says that the act was justified, anything goes. And of course, with feeding, it keeps the other person healthy and alive. Why wouldn't they want their brother, their anchor, to stay safe? So their morals degrade rather rapidly!!

As far are their domains go, they're both differently flavored subways that have some degree of overlap (meaning it's possible to start in one, and end up in the other). Ingo's an endless maze that should not be possible. Trains that just never stop, stairwells that go on forever only to lead to nowhere, windows that show cities that don't exist

Emmet's is much more centered around the claustrophobia of the subways. Passageways that are a little too small, ceilings that are surely too cracked to hold, the weight of the world bearing down above you, held off only by the flimsy, crumbling cement. The trains are tight, dirty. There's never enough light to properly see anything

This video reminds me a lot of Ingo's subway :)

And this post is both of them tbh, in my tags I explain how it's Emmet, Ingo I think is self explanatory

[ihaveatypeanditstrickstergods]

My area has its pros and cons but one of my absolute favorite things is that there’s a whole lot of little old ladies that play Pokemon Go.  Most of the time they know nothing about Pokemon but they like having something extra to do when they go for walks or they like to play with their grandkids or some combination thereof.  And they get really into it, so all the high-level players I’m friends with are either people who’ve been injecting Pokemon directly into their veins since they were kids or Helen from down the street who is absolutely owning her gray hair and doesn’t know who the little yellow guy is but has played the game every day since her grandson Jacob showed her how to get it on her phone.

[helenarlett-rex]

Helen Returns with Life Updates

So I got a new job... Yeah, I work at a gaming shop now. It’s cool and all. I like the environment. It’s not anywhere near as stressful as the library was. None of my bosses or co-workers are evil. No one has a compulsive need to stab anyone else in the back. No one yells at you if you stop for a second to breathe or aren’t constantly breaking your own back every second of the day. I get to stand around at talk about Digimon and role playing games all day. That’s fun.

Although I’m literally the oldest person there... Even my bosses are like, 10 years younger than me... I’m also a literal dinosaur who grew up with the Atari 2600 and the NES so every time someone comes to trade in a PS4 or Xbox One and I’m supposed to be checking it to make sure everything works properly, I’m standing there looking at it like, “How do you even turn this on...?” I don’t know squat about Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh or MTG so every time someone comes in to buy or sell cards I’m just kind of like... “Are you sure you don’t want Digimon instead? I can actually help you with Digimon...” And I’m too fucking poor to even have an interest in Warhammer or Gundam models, so the most I can do there is ring the damn things up. Shame WotC doesn’t want to deal with us now that they are run by Hasbro... If we had a D&D section instead of having the entire back half of the store taken up by Warhammer I could actually have a section I knew what I was doing in... At this point I’m kind of depending on the fact that I’m the only person there with an actual work ethic, and my ability to catalogue loads of worthless inventory data in my head, to carry me and keep me from becoming that one worthless employee. I can’t trade in a game console without someone telling me what to type into the computer and I don’t know the difference between a rare, common, and uncommon card, but I’ll have three days worth of piled up game cases shelved within my first hour on the clock, I’m the only person in the history of this store to clean the bathrooms, and no, we don’t have a catalogue of what Funko Pop’s we have on the shelf, but as long as it hasn’t sold while I was off, I can tell you what we have from memory.

Money’s not great though. Back down to part time at minimum wage. Going to have to see if the government will even let me go back on food stamps. Going to have to struggle through for another couple of months just to build up enough pay stubs to even apply for that... I guess the good news is I’ve lost a lot of weight on my I can only afford beans and rice diet... And it’s not like I didn’t apply for better paying jobs... but that psycho bitch at the library felt firing me for no reason and denying me unemployment wasn’t enough to ruin me and is now actually spreading false information about me. (I know for a fact. I have recordings of it.) So the place I’m at now is literally the only place that would even give me an interview for a job...

I’m going to need to start writing hardcore again to try and supplement my income. But at least I actually have time to do that now. I sure as hell didn’t have any time to write after I became full time at the library while having to run a weekly Tabletop Gaming program on top of that FOR THE LIBRARY while being forced to do all the work for it off the clock... It’s about time I release some new installments for Miss Smalls. Hmm... Maybe I’ll have her start working at a gaming shop now that my source of stress and rage induced inspiration is gone... I’ve also got several full length Yiffpunk novels I need to have edited now that I have time to stand over Violet with a whip and make sure she actually does the editing. (Don’t look at me like that. How do you know she’s not into that sort of thing?) But the thing I’m dreading is the fact that in all likelihood I’m probably going to have to open up story commissions again... Sighs. Anyone want to buy a story commission...? Preferably one that doesn’t center around bad breath...?

[bergeronprocess]

9/30/24

I keep thinking about Asheville. 

My husband and I visited Asheville earlier this year. It’s a pretty easy drive from Atlanta - just about 3 hours, lots of scenic mountain roads - and it has such charm. We loved it so much. 

We stayed just outside its downtown area, driving into town on I-40 to shop and eat in areas that reminded me very much of Little 5 Points: offbeat, artsy, laid-back, full of personality. We ate Japanese food in a tiny little restaurant and bought souvenirs at a very cool shop. We went up the Blue Ridge Parkway to take in the stunning mountain views and eat an incredibly delicious picnic lunch from a small bakery that was recommended by Atlanta magazine. It’s called The Rhu. I wonder how they’re doing right now.

We drove to the highest elevation on the parkway, 6053 feet above sea level, and I put my Tyranitar in the Pokemon Go gym up there. It stayed there for at least an entire day, thus earning 50 Pika Coins! We bought “whoops, forgot to pack that” supplies and packs of Pokemon and hockey cards at a Target on the outskirts of a mall. 

We played pinball at an all-you-can-play arcade and watched Wrestlemania on my laptop in the hotel room, managing to not fall asleep so that we could see Cody Rhodes win the belt. We got Cook-Out food and milkshakes from a drive-thru-only location that had pickup windows on both sides of the building, because it’s only fitting to get Cook-Out in the state it hails from, sort of like going to Waffle House here. 

We visited the American Museum of the Housecat on the way home. It’s a hoot - a converted barn with some pretty neat stuff in there and the owner is devoted to cat rescues. I wonder how they’re doing right now. 

We came home just in time for the solar eclipse and immediately were like “okay, we loved that, that was great, let’s go back sometime soon.”

Asheville was hit really hard by Hurricane Helene, its beautiful and unique geography working against it. They’ll get through this and rebuild, but for now they need our help. You can find ways to donate to mutual aid efforts in this Twitter thread: https://x.com/DisabledSouth/status/1840428944010416156 

I am also heartened to hear that NASCAR drivers and even car YouTuber Cleetus McFarlane are joining the aid effort by using their helicopters to deliver much-needed supplies. 

We gotta look out for each other - we’re all we have!

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Fun thing I'm playing a pokemon fan game and I got a Spinda and named it after the Distortion.

My team was all very weak and I got trapped in a battle while trying to find the new city's (floor in this case cause the game is all in a hotel) Pokemon Center. So my plan was to whipe out quickly go back to the place I was before save the game and go to bed.

Easy Peasy. Except the trainer's level 23 Heracross got poisoned by Poison Touch when 1 hit K.Oing my Quillfish (all my pokemon were pretty low in health cause I had just gotten out of a gym battle, forgotten to heal and was looking for the new city/floor center so I could save there). So at this point the Heracross has a full HP and the only pokemon I have is Spinda. And I want to whipe out. Spinda/Helen Distortion was level 5 and only knew Tackle and Uproar. So I send a random tackle and prepare to die. Except by hit 1 K.Oing the rest of my team it meant Heracross only move was Counter and Counter is only as strong as the attack it recieves. So by sending few tackles and wasting turns by throwing poke balls my level 5 Helen won and upded 11 levels.

It was not even a planned strategy. I wanted to just wipe out. A true Distortion move! New Spiral Avatar just appeared in my game. All hail Helen Distortion the Spinda.

[daydreaming-maiden]

talk about your ocs

Let's a go

Thea's gotten the most spotlight on this account of all my OCs. Xenoblade 3 OC, current commander of Colony Delta. Mainly focused on protecting the people of Delta, carrying on Cammuravi's legacy, and a bit of avenging him when the main party meets Thea and pals. Gameplay wise she'd be a defender, class inheritor would either be Lanz, Taion, or Sena. There's also other people in Colony Delta too, there's regular soldiers (Artair, Carina, Hilda, Ianto, Larkin, Osbert, and Ulrich), off-seers Gaila and Mae, the obligatory Nopon Nensen, the lieutenant Rhian, and Consul S (not the one from the main game). None of them are as developed as Thea though, only ideas for them is that Rhian probably likes Thea.

I also have a ton of Pokemon OCs. For the main games, there's Angelo (Ghost type Gym Leader who can hear ghosts) and Ruth (new-ish trainer looking for a mentor). For the Ranger spinoffs, there's Celia (just wants to help people but she kinda screws up often nothing bad happened at krokka tunnel). For Mystery Dungeon there's Eirlys and Kazuki, the hero and partner of my current playthrough of Super Mystery Dungeon.

There's also some DnD characters I'll never use because imagine having people to play with. There's Helen (former soldier who deserted because she realized her country was in the wrong) and Kaltrina (orphaned 8 year old who got powers from an old one who thought it'd be funny, she named her patron Pablo).

[goomygirllover]

❥ - a childhood memory

[the memory starts in a backyard. Aiden can be running around with some other kids. He's 7 years old in this memory. His parents can be seen in the background, talking to some other adults]

Aiden hears a sound coming from some bushes and finds a little hatenna, which looks at him and starts to giggle softly. He grabs the tiny pokemon and runs to his parents.

Aiden: "Mom! Dad! Look what I found!"

He lifts the pokemon in front of his mom smiling widely. She seems worried.

Mom: "Sweetie, this is a wild pokemon. Go put her back where you found her, please."

Dad: "I'm not sure about that, Helen."

Mom: "What do you mean?"

Aiden looks at his father confused. He looks down at the hatenna, who seems to be curious as well.

Dad: "Hatennas aren't native to this place. She must have a trainer who's probably looking for her already."

Mom: "Oh! Poor thing."

Aiden: "So I can't keep her?"

His parents look at him. He seems sad.

Mom: "Well, we should try and find her trainer."

Dad: "And if we don't, I don't see why we couldn't keep her."

Mom: "Are you sure, Sven? He's 7. He can't be a trainer yet."

Dad: "Yeah, not yet, but if he gets lucky, at least he'll already have a starter. And I can train her so they don't end up in too much trouble when our little boy starts his journey."

Aiden smiles and throws the hatenna up and down with happiness. She giggles as they play together.

Aiden: "Did you hear that?! We'll be friends forever!!"

He stops and looks at her for a second.

Aiden: "You're name is gonna be... Moon!"

[End of memory]

[crystalelemental]

Welp!  Pokemon Crystal, defeated once again.  That was a pretty fun run, honestly.  Team and major battles below.

The Team:

Helen the Typhlosion, level 60

Obsidian the Golem, level 54

Allegra the Jolteon, level 57

Euphyllia the Kadabra, level 55

Orithyia the Suicune, level 54

Therese the Noctowl, level 39

This run was more of a nostalgia trip.  For whatever reason, I was feeling really strongly about Johto, Kris in particular, and wanted to replay it.  Typhlosion as the starter is what I always did as a kid.  I always really liked Typhlosion, mostly because design, though also because it learned Thunderpunch, and that felt hilarious when you can just electric zap Silver’s Feraligatr.  I miss when the punches were elemental sometimes...

I actually kicked this off really wanting to run Noctowl, aiming for Hypnosis/Dream Eater/Nightmare.  That didn’t happen, because Noctowl is really hard to raise, and getting Dream Eater takes until basically the end of the game.  So that...never went anywhere.  I’m kinda bummed about it, but such is life, I suppose.

Golem was one I wanted to try as well.  Alongside Steelix and Rhydon, it’s one of those Pokemon that I’m like...I have heard how hard this bops Red.  I want to try it out.  And frankly?  Golem’s insanely good all game.  Early game, it answers Falkner easily, Bugsy easily, and is a relative answer to Whitney so long as Rollout doesn’t consistently hit like a billion times.  Against the league, it’s a pretty solid answer to Koga’s entire team, and has some decent threat potential against anyone who isn’t Bruno too.  It’s worth noting that I did breed with Sudowoodo for Rock Slide, which contributed to Golem being a huge standout.  But hey.  Worth it.

Jolteon was because of Masters.  Kris has a Jolteon, I really wanted to play along, and see how well Jolteon could do.  The answer was...pretty bad until you get it an electric attack.  Which took for-goddamned-ever.  Thank god for that one move tutor with Thunderbolt.  Anyway.  Once equipped, Jolteon...actually does insanely well.  She has a lot of solid coverage, and we’ll get to the significance of it, but you kinda play like Espeon: get Bite off Eevee at level 30, then get your STAB move, and you’re pretty well set.

Fun fact!  I don’t remember ever actually running Suicune.  I usually back out because my team is higher level by the time I get it, and legends are a pain to level up.  I usually give up and swap over to Kingdra, because I have a strong affinity for Clair and absolutely love Kingdra, but I resisted the urge.  Also fun fact, I tried catching this before going to Blackthorn and having Ultra Balls.  It broke out of everything, except my very last basic Pokeball, which caught it.  Go figure.

And finally...Kadabra.  I love Kadabra, it’s actually my preferred form of the evolution line.  Gen 2 Kadabra in particular is my favorite thing, because elemental punches.  Psychic, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Thunderpunch is stupid good, and clears 80% of the league by itself.  Seriously, try it out some time.  Kadabra, by around level 55, one-shots Will, Koga, Bruno, and Lance with like no issues.  Karen, however, walls it to high hell.  That said, my Kadabra this time was apparently a golden child, because I checked DVs and it has 15 in speed and defense, and like 13 in specials and 10 in HP.  She’s fantastic.  So that contributes a bit.  I actually didn’t even catch Kadabra until after the Rocket incident.  I wasn’t convinced I’d run her, but after watching Noctowl trail behind and be incapable of really threatening anything, I decided to make the trade to Kadabra.  “What about Celebi?”  I thought about it, but a legend grows slowly, I’d only have access after the league, and Celebi is like level 30.  I was already not in a huge grinding mood.  Celebi would’ve taken forever, while having like no decent attacking moves.  Maybe next playthrough.

Falkner’s gym went down to Geodude no problem.  Bugsy went down to Quilava, who needed the EXP, but also because Hoothoot got bodied by Scyther.  Whitney was a rough one and a bit of a team effort, with Noctowl handling Clefairy, Geodude softening up Miltank, and Quilava finishing the job.  Morty was all Noctowl at the time, since it’s immune to Ghost and had enough attack power at the time to KO things...when they used Curse.  Noctowl also handled Chuck reliably.

Jasmine was a funny one.  I tried with Quilava, who was like level 30, expecting things to go okay.  But it couldn’t OHKO Magnemite, so it got itself paralyzed and almost died to Magnemite.  Golem had to come in and block it, and managed to take down Steelix despite never dodging an Iron Tail.

Bryce went down to Typhlosion.  Clair was all Kadabra, who could one-shot Dragonair with Ice Punch, and 2HKO Kingdra with Psychic.

The first time through the league, I had Jolteon handle Will.  Bite is a really effective tool, but Thunderbolt also fries 3 of his team.  Pin Missile is stupid good against Exeggutor as well, so she’s a pretty hard counter.

Golem against Koga was pretty simple too.  Forretress is a bit of a wall, but can’t threaten you back.  Evasion play on Crobat can be a problem, but my girl hit Rock Slide first try.

Bruno got Kadabra’d.  It happens to the best of ‘em.

Karen was trickier to plan around, so I wound up throwing Suicune at her.  Turns out, Suicune had it under control, 2HKOing Umbreon just fine.  From there, it’s really not too bad, since Aurora Beam handles Vileplume and Murkrow really easily.

Lance got hit with Kadabra as well.  Kadabra was sweeping the team until Aerodactyl survived a hit and used Hyper Beam.  At which point she survived and KO’d, but had to run from Charizard.  Suicune cleaned up easily.  First run of the League wasn’t too bad.

Kanto’s gyms are a victory lap, they’re all pretty bad.  Shoutouts to Janine though.  Golem missed first Rock Slide, she hit Supersonic, and Golem proceeded to hit itself four times in confusion, nearly dying in the process.  Glorious work, pal.  Also to Blue, who shit-talks Johto and then gets beat so bad I didn’t even lose a single Pokemon.  Sucks to suck, bro.

But, in this run of Kanto, Kadabra fell behind.  I focused on the others, to make sure they’d be a high enough level to handle things.  Once we cleared it out, I took Kadabra, then level 48, to the League.  Where she swept everyone by Karen.  Typhlosion handled Karen, and almost exactly hit level 56, which is significant because four Rare Candy meant Flamethrower.  With Kadabra handling every random encounter on the way to Red, she hit level 55 and caught up just fine.

So...Red.  The big man, with everything between level 74-81.  I think my level discrepancy speaks for itself.

Pikachu has Charm, but otherwise cannot touch Golem, whose Earthquake kept knocking it to like 5HP and forcing Red to use his Full Restores.  This turned out to be critically important, in the dumbest way.

Espeon is terrifying.  I switched Noctowl in for Golem, and it died immediately.  Okay, nearly 40 levels lower, that’s fine.  But then it turns out Espeon outspeeds and 2HKOs Suicune.  OOPSIE DOODLES.  Surf barely even did anything.  So I went Kadabra.  Kadabra has okay special defense, and resists Psychic, surely this will work.  Well no, it still 2HKOs.  So, to be honest, the first run ended in failure, because nothing stopped Espeon.  On the second run, knowing what I now knew, I let Noctowl drop, then went straight to Kadabra, who managed to land a 10% burn on Fire Punch.  I have never been prouder.  Jolteon got a flinch on Bite too, so they were having none of it.  Jolteon was unharmed.

Then came Snorlax.  Like an idiot, I went to Suicune.  In my head, I remembered Curse.  I remembered wrong.  It’s Amnesia.  So I let Suicune drop because I forgot that, got optimistic, then got crit by Body Slam and at that point it wasn’t worth trying to save.  Waterfall flinch didn’t happen.  Golem was able to tank its hits like nothing, but couldn’t quite 3HKO, so we got into an awful Rest battle until Magnitude could fake out its AI into thinking it would be safe.  Golem wins, supreme victory.

Venusaur comes in, but Typhlosion is all over that shit.  Flamethrower 2HKOs, all we had to take was a Solarbeam.

Blastoise came in, and Typhlosion knows Thunderpunch, and its job is very much done now, so I let it drop.  Thunderpunch only dealt like 25%.  Jolteon’s follow-up Thunderbolt didn’t even net the KO.  Blastoise is tanky.  Thankfully, Red is a moron, and because he couldn’t one-shot, decided to set up Rain Dance.  Jolteon finished it, with no damage.

Which led to Charizard.  At this point, it’s over.  Either Jolteon lives and KOs, or Golem has to finish the job and Charizard’s fire moves are weakened.  Game Ober.  Turns out, Jolteon KO.  Slash did get a crit, but Jolteon handled it just fine, netting the clean 2HKO with Thunderbolt.  And so it was that we won, second try, with a team in the mid-50s.  Again.  How many times am I gonna dunk on you in my life, Red?

This was a really fun run.  I enjoyed getting to use Punch Master Kadabra again, and I think this is my first iteration running a Golem in this game.  I think my big disappointments were Noctowl and Suicune.  Noctowl just...sucked.  It handled a lot of gyms in Johto where it had strong matchups, but was woefully inconsistent and a generally poor performer after Chuck dropped.  I tried to keep it going, but at the point it’s level 39 and can’t OHKO the Tentacool it’s using for training?  Man, it’s not working out.  Suicune, by contrast, didn’t feel like it did much another option couldn’t have.  I expected more of its defensive profile, especially since I fed it all the HP Up and Iron I found, but it got pretty cleanly 2HKOd by both Espeon and Snorlax, which are the two I’d most want Suicune’s bulk to help handle.  Its performance in the league was also just kinda alright, and at no point did it seriously impress me.

By comparison, Golem is a huge standout, who does fantastic work across the entire game.  For a thing you can get in the first hour of gameplay, I’m really impressed how strong Golem wound up being.  I do recognize that’s a bit of the Rock Slide situation, but that wasn’t too significant an investment.  Jolteon was also really good.  Once it got Thunderbolt, this entire game felt like it was over.  Like it’s just absurdly strong with that and Bite.  I will admit the rest of its kit was really lacking.  Pin Mission has accuracy issues, and Double Kick doesn’t really do much at all.  I wish it had a better option.  “Shadow Ball,” you may say, but Bite covers the same types and hits from its much higher special, while Shadow Ball is physical this generation.  It just...didn’t seem worth it compared to the ability to kick Silver’s Magneton in the face, or hitting the odd Exeggutor or Dark type.  But often Thunderbolt was better.  I want to say Typhlosion was great, but it was kinda just average.

Kadabra’s out-and-out MVP.  To the shock of no one.  That coverage is stupendous.  I feel like, had I invested more into Kadabra, it probably would’ve carried a lot more of the team.  Like, full investment into Golem/Jolteon/Kadabra core likely would’ve handled Red just as well, if not better.  But I’m satisfied.  This was an enjoyable run.

I’m still feeling nostalgic, though couldn’t tell you what for.  I’m thinking it might be FRLG next, though the allure of Emerald is also there.  I did consider a Gen 5 run.  Which one, I’m not sure, but I’m debating it.  I don’t think I’m up for Platinum, though.  While I love that game, something’s just not feeling right about it right now.  Another time.

[poorwhayfairingstranger]

For pokemon role play purposes I'm going to pin this post

My family lives in Hau'oil city

My dad is a member of the International please and I don't see him very often but my family usually moves to live closer to his work.

My mom is an ex plasma member who quit not long after she got pregnant and never rejoined after realizing what Hippocrates they were. She currently works in a shoe store.

My little brothers are 7 and 5, and we're both born and raised in alola

I work at a grocery store and frequently "borrow" goods to give to various people who I think are in need. [ooc The store I work at is basically the pokemon equivalent Walmart and they don't miss the items that I steal]

1st picture is my team

Snowball the alolan sandshrew. My best friend and the only pokemon I've ever caught.

Spike the reolu. A birthday present from my dad after one of the pokemon from his work had a litter.

Soot stain the littin. My official starter And a little menace to society, I love him dearly

Precious the mainland vulpix. Saved from an illegal eggmill. Cannot be used in battle or league standard competitions because of birth defects due to inbreeding.

2nd picture is all of my family's pokemon

My dad's pokemon stay than his bravery I don't meet them.

My mom's pokemon.

Lacrisha is the lovely old lady of an evee. Never evolve because she wants to be a dragon type, and we don't know how to do that.

Helen the mainland richu. He is a male but we still call him Helen because it's funny. If he is bothered by it at all he has never showed any opinion on the matter.

My little brother's pokemon

George is 7 years old and has 2 pokemon.

Pecha the charmander. It's official starter that was given to us by my aunt who lives in another region.

Peewee the ice and grass type bellsprowt. The official title for this breed is Snow Bell. Pee wee and her sister snowy were Purchased from a grass type nursery.

Fluffy the evee Is Lucretia's son that we decided to keep and give to my babyist brother Gabe as his starter pokemon.

Snowy the bell sprout is also Gabe's pokemon.

[distortionenby]

This is also very rambly so it might also not make sense at all bc I'm bad with words.

But this is actually extremely valid. So many different interpretations of Michael are correct and yet can be denied at the same time, it's the nature of said Fear, to be incongruent within itself.

So, I always saw the Distortion as an equivalent of a demigod if we're going with the concept Jon tried to use at first to make sense of the Powers.

It is not human (avatar), yet it is not a god (Power), it's a mix of both.

And while many avatars end up being quite "inhuman", there isn't really a shown instance where two types of entity (a human/person + a tendril of a Fear entity) become one single thing at the same time.

Jane Prentiss is a carrier/conduit.

Jared Hopworth is (eventually) several humans mashed together, user.

Elias and Jon are like a pair of glasses, conduits that have some control.

The Lukas family is the only capable of inhabiting the Lonely, users.

Manuela Domínguez is a "bringer", eventually would've been a user.

Agnes is a forced leader, a conduit in a way.

Jude is a follower, user.

Mike Crew and the Fairchilds are the clearest example of users.

Oliver Banks is a companion of The End or, alternatively.

NIKOLA ORSINOV IS LITERALLY A POSSESSED MANNEQUIN, A CONDUIT.

What is the difference with the Distortion and with Michael/Helen, then?

They are an extension of both: a human and a Power.

All other instances are of humans either being changed to a "weird human" state by the Powers so that the Powers can feed (conduit), or human "users" of the abilities that come with being touched by an entity.

The Distortion absorbs and evolves according to the human it joins with. Following with the "other media" comparisons, I know this will sound a bit cringe but, the first Eevee evolutions. Given a certain material, the Eevee would evolve into a branch of their next evolution. So, if you give them a water stone, it's to become a water pokemon, a fire stone for a fire pokemon.

What I'm trying to exemplify here is the emotionality of Michael being a combination of Michael Shelley and The Distortion. There are distinct behaviour characteristics to Michael, and later there are distinct characteristics to Helen. And funnily enough, the base ones that allow them to stay within the story are socio-emotional attachments.

Michael Shelley was, from what little we are told, probably very good at using the information he learnt, at least in the academical area; he had a keen eye for other people's needs, was diligent, quick, talkative but unintrusive, and even had a bit of simple humour ("I didn't think you'd want it in Spanish" is said in a way that says he doesn't actually mean this, it's a joke, and that's why he immediately confirms whether it was the right thing to do by asking if Gertrude maybe does know Spanish (quick and diligent)).

The Distortion, if we can assume some of the statements (of people with huge hands, distorted beings, elongated figures, etc, that ARE confirmed by RQ to be statements related to the Spiral through the TMA Entity episodes youtube playlists) are about it and not another branch of the Spiral itself, is intrusive, clearly has a bit of a stalk (in the sense it sort of lies in wait before attacking), didn't emit much sound, plays the long game with its prey (takes its time), had an eye for detail but it was egotistical. It did have a more in-your-face sense of humour,

Michael was snarky due to trauma on both Shelley's and the Distortion's sides (I imagine that, as Michael describes it, it was painful to be ripped away from where you had already rooted yourself into and were stabilizing, only to be forced to stabilize in an "unnatural" way. But we know Michael doesn't feel things the way a human would, yet it would definitely count as trauma in my book given his mentions of having a "nature" of itself), he was able to show concern for others and for itself, able to offer help, able to use human knowledge in problem-solving related to avatars (despite being clearly conscious of itself being "not human", it provided tools and options that humans could use to defend themselves or to fight back. Used previous knowledge from the institute instead of rejecting it), constantly defied its own nature to give glimpses of information even though it would outright deny doing so until 101, showed several instances of what I'd call emotional confusion (if it was only the Distortion, then it probably wouldn't care about Jon, it wouldn't be so personally involved, it would only feed and mess with things. Yet Michael Shelley would've cared, that's some sort of coworker he would've had after all and took the spot of a person he was very attached to in the past, so there's some respect in the title. So, what's the truce? Ambivalence. Sure, show emotion, but don't show the "correct" one, or only show a small amount of it.).

So, what happens when you merge one (1) Michael Shelley, holder of all those previously stated characteristics, and one (1) Distortion? You get Michael. It's not Michael, it's Michael. Incongruencies everywhere, conflict, contrast, adaptation, complementation, assimilation, unity.

And then, when you merge Michael (Shelley + Distortion mix) with Helen Richardson, someone who has a very different approach to people compared to either of the previous two, and therefore, still incongruent to Michael Distortion, you get... Helen.

And this is important: Helen manages to retain emotional attachments Helen Richardson had (talking to Jon, feeling comfort when Jon told her that he believes her). Now we know Michael was emotional, on both ends of itself, that stays when Helen gets rid of Michael. Emotions are a very important thing to the Distortion after Michael from what we're shown.

I also think it is extremely interesting to consider that The Distortion is, from what I recall (I could be wrong, though), one of the only two mid-way beings in the story. You're either an avatar (a person touched by the Powers), or a Power (either in its distinct dimension or using something as a conduit, like it's the case of The Stranger with Nikola). However, then we have the Not-Them and the Distortion. They are like "lesser" or "smaller" Powers, way too tied to their respective main Power still to become a different, new one that would compete to swallow reality, they still work for their Powers, but are not on the same hierarchy as an avatar. If I think about it, I don't think "Not-Sasha" is ever referred to as an avatar, and Michael is only referred as such in a general way, lumped along with actual avatars, when Jon is barely beginning to find out things. I can't remember whether Helen is mentioned as being an avatar though, so, again, I could be wrong.

NONSENSICAL DRABBLE AND RAMBLE ABOUT EP 101. STATEMENT OF MICHAEL + Additional thoughts on Gertrude and Michael.

Spoiler for anyone who hasn't yet gotten to Ep. 101

I wanna point out, this won't make sense, I'm just throwing my observations in a document and posting it because I need to get it out somewhere. This is how I personally view Michael the distortion and what he has said in Ep. Regarding himself. I will be jumping from one thing to another so it will not make sense.

Like said it is just my rambling and how I observe the situation. Anyone can disagree and have their own opinions that differ but these are mine. I am not looking for a debate, just wanna put my thoughts out to process or find people who view it similarly + write it so maybe when people see my art they might understand why I draw certian situations, or Michael Distortion in a certian light.

Re- Listening to EP 101 , Michael's statement after being on ep... 125 (?) Kinda put stuff into perspective. The first time I didn't understand half of his statement. Then I relistened again I realised that the storyline of telling switches from Michael's POV to the spirals POV( before it was Michael ) back to Michael's and you can almost tell who is saying what.

I like to imagine Michael the distortion being like Garnet in Steven universe. It is Ruby and Saphirre but it is also not them , because together they make Garnet. Sometimes Garnet speaks as its own person, as its own relationship personified and sometimes when in distress or anger , you hear Ruby or Saphire speak out instead of the unified Garnet.

And with such logic it helped me understand Michael the distortion.

Because when he , The distortion, speaks of the ritual he is referring to the ( back then ) spiral but also to past Michael. At the moment of speaking, the spiral is Michael so a lot of times instead of it saying "The spiral" , he says " me/i " , because that's exactly what the spiral is right now but speaks of itself from before. It speaks of itself in past tense.

Then after, it goes to Michael's perspective once again and you hear , Michael Shelley speak of himself being scared and panicky and approaching the door in the middle of the ritual , like speaking out of the mixure of the distortion, before the POV switches and the spiral ( trough Michael the distortion ) speaks of it seeing two people ( which in this case were Gertrude And Shelley ) approach the door but not noticing because of the ritual...

I am not good with words and this might not make sense , but the switching of POV's between both the spiral and Michael Shelley while making/being Michael Distortion, is brilliant and so interesting. I needed a bit to realize what's happening but if you look at them as a fusion of a new being with both of their views and opinions mixed into each other, everything that the distortion Michael says, makes sense.

If you look at him as just Michael shelley gone mad it doesn't. As he says he is as much of the spiral as the spiral is him. And viewing them as a fusion , a 2 In 1 , something new with the feelings and experiences of both past beings, makes a lot of sense .

And I am delighted that I can understand it to some degree now. I feel like some contradicting things that Michael distortion says also come from the fact that he was 1. Angry at what had happened and betrayal from Gertrudes side 2. He was pushing away the spiral / didn't ever wanna be it. Because of this he speaks as more of they, once one, once other.

Surely he was more united at the beginning but it proves to how distortion Hellen treats Jon after that in 101 Ep that the distortions emotions and acting isn't something that comes from the spiral but from the person it merges with.

That also shows me, that the distortion has more feelings and opinions , its own will than its first let on and it is not a mere puppet to the spiral.

Yes they become a new thing but that doesn't mean that suddenly whatever the previous person was, is just overcome and its just a body which the spiral controls.

All in all, Michael isn't Michael Shelley ( at least not in the sense that he views and thinks like he used to before the distortion ) , but he is also not not Michael Shelley. Its is so... cool because that makes me wonder how much I can push the narrative that Michael the distortion shows his original feelings, from Michael Shelley.

I wanna throw in that I also believe he " pulled away " due to his anger , like mentioned , because his feelings got out. Michael Shelley was coming trough more and more because if the Unknowing failed or was brought about more due to Jon , he would in fact want to kill him not because of anything personal but because that would make his own sacrifice, Gertrude betraying him to stop the spiral ritual, go to waste. If he did everything , trusted Gertrude to sacrifice himself and stop the end of the world, he surely won't let this " stupid Archivist " mess the whole thing up and bring up the Unknowing. Neither the Eye ritual. It makes sense that he wouldn't want anything to happen when he, formerly Michael shelley sacrificed it all for the world not to go to shit.

The spiral didn't want it so but the spiral seems so... whatever about any decision that it feels like if the Spiral had no avatar to act trough. It would just not even care about anyone or any other ritual in general. So whatever Michael did , was because of his own feelings I feel like.

It's all just so interesting and my thoughts are a mess, do not make sense and are all jumbled up but I understand this now and it makes me so giddy about the way it's written. I love Michael and I love the distortion concept and in all I just adore it all.

It truly proves me that I'll have to relistem to TMA once I'm done again as there is so muxh to uncover and understand yet again once you've grasped the main concept of what is happening and who is involved in what.

I forgot to mention I first thought when I listened that when Michael looked upon the spiral , he did go mad but listening again, I realised that the way he describes it, he didn't go mad, he did however feel like it, because whatever he was looking at, didn't make sense and it was impossible to be happening. And it's such a cool detail. To feel like you're going mad but in fact you aren't even though you're seeing something it shouldn't be possible, alas its all somehow happening and very much currently real.

Poor Michael Shelley was still so scared and panicking... yet he trusted Gertrude.

I am not sure if I wanna believe that Gertrude had a plan but it didn't work and pushing Michael into it was her plan B.... or that Michael actually was really good and Gertrude trusted in him enough because he did what he was told ( and not as discardable and useless as he calls himself ) to actually let him be involved in the ritual. Idk whats worse. But I feel like if Gertrude thought Michael was useless and would fuck up the plan, she wouldn't have trusted him to go into the corridors to find the heart of the spiral and stop it.

Either way, when they made their way up there, she made up her mind to Sacrifice him to save the world and for that I cannot forgive her regardless of what the circumstances were. It is true by the time they were there she had probably no choice and it was a similar resort tactic as to what happened w Jon and Tim with the Unknowing, yet still-

- SPOILER FOR THE UNKNOWING RITUAL -

I feel like... Tim sacrificed himself willingly, he wanted to destroy the Unknowing for the stranger took his brother. Tim did it knowing he will go there and might die, while Jon didn't want him to die, Jon never pushed Tim to Sacrifice himself. While Gertrude... She knew and made up her mind to lie and conceal what she was gonna do to Michael , then pushed Michael to Sacrifice himself into the spiral when there was no going back.

Imagine being told on the spot the world will end and no matter if u want or not, you are manipulated into being pushed to save it, to go in, at the edge when it's happening and you have practically no choice.

Honestly horrible.

Good writing, amazing writing, but god do I hate Gertrude for that. Maybe she thought Michael would say no if she told him , but if she got far enough to get the map that leads to the heart of spiral I feel like there were diffrent ways to stop it or it was in her power to do smth. But she chose the " best option " with " least sacrifices " and something that she thought was prolly more logical and less emotional of a choice , a cold calculated choice of a chess piece. Yet... I like to believe there was a diffrent way.

Maybe she trusted Michael enough to know if she gives him the map and tell him to go in, that he will actually follow trough to the map and plan because he trusted everything Gertrude said , opposed to a random person who wouldn't be able to, or would not do it.

And I assume she didn't do it herself because she knew she couldn't. Because there were other rituals she wanted to stop and couldn't sacrifice herself for it.

Idk.

But damn .... just damn.

Random extra:

In addition , after listening to 101 , I want to draw the landscape, the happening of the spiral ritual when Gertrude and Michael found it as I have a specific look of it in my head but I'm so bad at landscapes and background xd

We will see...

Ramble ended. That's what I had to say , really.

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FireSoup References

Ramy - She/Her || 23 y.o. || 5’4’’/162cm

Ramy is a chill gal with a bit of a punk side, she prefers to live life at her own pace and also hates her current job. Ramy aims to enter a prestigious art school, but her family has different plans for her, so she escaped home and is now living in Mixco City.

She’s now the newest member of the Hero Burger staff, a small american-style restaurant new in the city. Her boss told her to become a superhero as a publicity stunt, but she’s just doing it to keep the local mafia away from the zone.

Inspirations: 

Helen Parr, Um Jammer Lammy, Lapis Lazuli (Visual, Personality)

Asui Tsuyu, Battletoads, Reed Richards (Theme, Powers)

Noodles || Superhero alias

The press doesn’t know much about this new persona going around, but she seems to show up when the mafia tries to get protection racket from small businesses in the southern part of the city. 

Superpowers: Described as Amphibian-like

Elastabody: Her body is unnaturally flexible, somehow able to deform and stretch its form and apparently function like normal internally. Her current shown limit is stretching 15 meters.

Spring-Loaded: Her muscles seem to posses an ability to compress and quickly release the energy, using this she can jump extremely high.

Poison-resistance: Seems to have a high tolerance to several types of poisonous substances, she also doesn’t seem to get easily drunk.

Wall-climbing: She’s able to easily stick to almost any kind of surface allowing her to climb along walls.

Extra: Ramy was born with these powers but they were pretty subdued until she grew up to an adult, she’s unregistered so she has to keep them a secret.

Frida Reyes - She/Her || 22 y.o. || 5’6’’/168cm

Frida is a kind and energetic young lady from Mixco City, currently studying at the local University. She doesn’t know yet what to make of her life, but she likes helping out at her dad’s car workshop and driving on her motorcycle to make deliveries. She's really close to her family and would do anything to protect them.

Inspirations:

Atsuko Kagari, Hilda(Pokemon BW), Doremi Harukaze (Personality)

Sakura Kasugano, Cutie Honey, Shantae (Visual)

Bowser, Charizard, Kamen Rider/Sentai (Powers)

The Fire Dragon || Firedra || Superhero Aliases

A very powerful display of powers but with the grace of a box of shoes, this hero calls herself “The Fire Dragon”. Her collateral damage is too much to justify most of her cases, the mayor has already set out to do something about this.

Superpowers: Described as Draconic

Super-Strength: Strong enough to lift a whole bus with ease, but next time she should make sure it’s empty.

Fire-Breathing: Self-explanatory, the fire fighting department has some issues with this.

Body-Ignition: She can cover her body in flames as well, without suffering any harm from the heat.

Razor-sharp claws: Somehow able to cut through metal.

Enhanced stamina: Definitely superior to a normal human’s.

Extra: Unknown to most of the public, Frida’s powers aren’t something she was born with, instead she uses the golden stone in her belt buckle to summon an ancient dragon’s power and transform into the Fire Dragon persona for a limited time.

Bett Bunsen || She/Her

Miss Bett is a sweet and caring person who likes to joke around when she’s in a good mood, she has a very firm business side, and won’t let others take advantage of the people she cares for. Bett loves cooking, her favorite food is tangerines, and she loves the local beer and margaritas. In her free time she likes to play videogames, even carrying around a portable console for when she’s bored at the restaurant.

A restaurant owner and American beauty, Miss Bett is a terrible boss to be around with, but she’s a good business-lady. Thanks to her help Ramy was able to find a place to stay, and even got offered a job.

[crypticcodexcreations]

Do it. Do 11 and 13 for all of your Only Human characters. 8) 8) 8)

Ah, so we're gonna have a stuffed D&D party and my own entire pokemon region then, huh? Because, here's the thing. Including William, I currently have 15 named characters for Only Human. Some of them are gonna be minor, but shhhhhhh they get to be here anyways. Needless to say, this is about to be a loooooong post.

Ada - 11. I'm thinking for her an Elven Sorcerer or Warlock. Warlock fits her aesthetic more, but the idea of her needing a pact of some sort for magic is a little odd when she's a witch and thus shouldn't need to pull magic from another source, thus Sorcerer.

13. Grass type gym for sure. Victreebel, Vileplume, Roserade, Gourgeist, Carnivine, and Shiftry I think would be the best team for her. Yes that is half a team of poison types for the person who makes everyone's coffee, no it is not suspicious. She's just a little edgy.

Elias - Ada HAD to be followed by her older brother. 11. Elf to match his sister, but I think Paladin fits him quite well. He has his ideals and he doesn't like them challenged much. He'd rather stick to what he believes is right and wrong, even if he's not always right about it.

13. Bug types without a shred of doubt. His Beedril would absolutely be his ace pokemon. In addition to the Beedril, there's Vespiquen, Butterfree, Beautifly, Galvantula, and Ribombee.

Celeste - 11. Celeste is hard because she's more likely to fit into a D&D universe as a Warlock's patron than any sort of PC type. And if we were to interpret it instead as what kind of D&D character she'd make, I think she'd be more likely to be the DM.

13. Can I just give her MewTwo? No? OK. In all seriousness though, I think she would be a Psychic type leader. Metagross, Galade, Gardevoir, Hatterene, Orbeetle, and Reuniclus I think.

Charlotte - 11. Dark Elf Cleric of the Life Domain, and no, I don't know why lol. She's a character I'm still figuring out, but thinking about this question, it's just the exact right vibes.

13. This one took me a few moments of looking at different pokemon. And then I spottled Alolan Ninetails and knew that Ice Types are perfect for what I'm going for with her. So, Alolan Ninetails, Lapras, Glaceon, Frosmoth, Aurorus, and Dewgong.

Elizabeth - 11. It's hard to imagine Elizabeth as anything other than a ghost to be completely honest, so perhaps a human for race? As for class, I think Wizard might be the best. She's relatively shy and nervous and I could see that working with a book smart wizard.

13. Is it too obvious to give the ghost character ghost types? Should I not let her overlap with William? Well, too bad because here we go, Ghost Types again! Chandelure, Polteageist, Palossand, Mismagius, Drifblim, and Gengar.

Helen - 11. Human Wizard. Honestly, just. I hate to say she's basic, but she'd be really simple. If we're looking at this from a playing a game perspective, she'd probably just take a prebuilt human wizard or take the rule book's advice about what abilities and spells to take to make it quick.

13. Normal types would be her style. Specifically, Persian, Miltank, Blissey, Delcatty, Lopunny, and Stoutland. Once again, I don't want to call her basic, but for the most part the most normal of the normal types would be her style.

John Doe - Oh boy I don't think I've talked about poor John before which is a shame because I love him so much.

11. So, this one REALLY varies because if he had the choice, he would make a human. If it were a D&D AU, the best fit I found is something called an Astral Elf. It was the most alien sounding thing I saw. If making a character, I think he'd make something simple like a fighter because it seems like the normal choice, whereas a D&D AU of Only Human would likely have him as something like an Artificer, like William.

13. OK. So. Hear me out. I can't resist just giving him the Space Pokemon. Which means he doesn't have a single typing, but his team would be Elgyem, Beeheeyem, Clefable, Starmie, Solrock, and Lunatone. It's too perfect though and no one can change my mind that this is the team he should have.

Lilian - 11. Tiefling, for sure, no questions asked. I think she'd be the Eldritch Knight subclass of Fighter in particular. She prefers the punk aesthetic for a reason, that being a willingness to knock someone's teeth in if the need comes so she'd very much be a fighter type.

13. I bounced between Dark and Fire types in my mind a bit before landing on dark types. Having said that, Houndoom, Zoroark, Mightyena, Absol, Hydreigon, and Obstagoon would be the ideal team for her in my eyes.

Freyja - 11. I think a Water Genasi Ranger would be the best option for her. It's kind of hard to imagine her personality as any sort of adventurer, but I think Ranger fits her role as the local fisherman the best.

13. Given the previous question, I think water type as her type was kind of obvious immediately. I'd give her a Tentacruel, Kingdra, Gyarados, Sharpedo, Wailord, and Whiscash.

And now we get into a subset of characters, the group that works on the local farm nearby! I note this because most of these characters are siblings except for Maria, who has basically been adopted as an honorary sibling anyways, and I thought it would be neat to mention that before hand.

Connie - 11. Orc. Barbarian. No, not a half orc. Full on Orc. The most fashionable Orc on the planet, and somehow despite being an Orc Barbarian she has maxed out Charisma, but she is, in fact, still an Orc Barbarian.

13. Now, in stark contrast to her D&D self, her Pokemon self is a Fairy type specialist. Mawhile, Togekiss, Sylveon, Alcremie, Florges, and Wigglytuff. Although, now that I think about it, Fairy type isn't really that different from a D&D barbarian at least power wise.

Benny - 11. I'm torn between making him an Orc to match his sister, or something else. He's either an Orc or Half-Orc I think. He's also one I have a hard time thinking of as an adventurer type, but if he were, he'd likely be your standard sword and shield fighter.

13. Ground type would absolutely be his go to. Specifically the big guys. Steelix, Garchomp, Mudsdale, Gastrodon, Rhydon, and Nidoking. He's more likely to use them for farm work than battling though if I'm being honest.

Charlie - 11. I think Orc like his sister, but Druid. This boy loves growing the plants on the farm so Druid was really the only choice for him. And now I kinda wanna make an Orc Druid because the idea of big beefy Druid is incredibly appealing to me.

13. And we've come back to the grass type! A very different vibe from Ada though with his team being Bellossom, Leafeon, Whimsicott, Lilligant, Lurantis, and Appletun.

Damien - Oh boy, the character who even he doesn't know who he is and is trying to figure it out. I haven't been dreading him on this list at all.

11. Like his siblings, Orc. I think with where he is right now in the story, literally changing his name to Damien in an attempt to be dark and mysterious, Warlock would be the best bet at the moment.

13. I'm thinking Steel types for him, although the why is a mystery to me. Even so, the team I'm thinking would be Scizor, Skarmory, Lucario, Aegislash, Corviknight, and Durant.

Maria - 11. Changeling Rogue. Maybe Changeling is too on the nose for a shapeshifter, but I don't care. It's just what fits!

13. Dragons! The team I'd see her with would be Flygon, Salamence, Haxorus, Dragalge, Noivern, and Dragapult.

And that is the ENTIRE cast of Only Human! (Currently. I have other concepts bouncing around in my head of characters that could be in this. Someone send help.)

[ghostie-gengar]

Ok so i have had this idea of an AU where N has like an actual known mother for like so long and i just. i have to get it out i need to so here’s a very very watered down version of her story with events that are so unlikely but whatever i just (warning it’s really long despite being a summary so prepared to get smacked with mom lore)

so. Her name is helen and she is a very nice lady. like SUPER NICE like you could break into her house and she’d be like “oh hey :) would you like some cookies i can put on a pot of tea” but also not a doormat. she Would Not hesitate to tell ghetsis off or smack anyone who hurts her kids.

anyways helen and ghetsis met in their mid to late teens, became friends (somehow :/ ghetsis was quite the charismatic young guy i imagine) and got married in their 20s. after a couple years twins!! im sure i don’t need to tell you how that happened. anyways concordia and anthea popped up and they were quite the handful but helen absolutely adored them and ghetsis was just kinda like “ok whatever children”

oh also im not sure if i’ll keep this but helen can sooooort of understand pokemon and N got that ability from her

oh also btw helen and ghetsis formed team plasma together see helen’s idea was to create like a pokemon relief center kinda like a sanctuary idk and ghetsis’ branch of family was kinda like a cult that thought humans and pokemon should be separate and ghetsis wanted to use that for more power and saw helen and was like “i can use this :)” anyways moving on

One day helen and ghetsis were taking a lovely stroll and they came across these young triplets who were homeless and helen was like “mine” so they adopted them and ghetsis twisted it to make it seem like He was the cool one who saved them so they’d listen to him (shadow triad)

this is kinda where team plasma begins to seem more evil and helen is catching on but she’s like “noooo ghetsis wouldn’t do that” (girl you’re wrong)

anyways once concordia and anthea are like eight or nine a little natural harmonia gropius pops up!! and helen is overjoyed cuz like she secretly always wanted six kids and now one two three four five six!!!!

she and ghetsis are also quick to notice how much n looks like ghetsis and ghetsis is mentally like “haha yes mini me >:D”

Then team plasma is very clearly a cult like helen can’t even deny it anymore and she tries to bring it up to ghetstink but he just waves her off like “now now dear don’t be silly” and she’s like >:(

ghetsis starts taking about making n the king of team plasma and helen’s like “well only if he wants to right” and ghetsis is like “no”

he only wants to use N more when he figured out N could understand pokemon cuz like he’d babble to helen’s minccino (oh yeah btw helen has a minccino)

theeeeeeeeeeen helen walks in on ghetsis being mmmmmmmmmmmm not good to concordia and concordia and anthea are both crying and helen is like “DUDE” and makes him sit down and have a serious talk about proper parenting which ghetsis also brushes off

then after a couple of days, concordia and anthea run away and helen is obviously absolutely devastated and she and ghetsis look for weeks. months. And no sign of them. ghetsis is like “well i guess they’re dead nvm then” and helen is like “DUDE” and she looks in the girls’ bedroom and finds a note from the girls that tells her to keep n safe and not to worry about them

after thinking about all the crap stuff ghetsis has done lately helen takes n in the middle of the night and runs. no looking back. bye bye ghetstink :( and life is much better honestly

she lives in that trailer in lostlorn with lil baby n and her plan was to wait for him to be able to walk and fend for himself and then they’d both go look for concordia and anthea but until then peaceful forest life playing with pokemon

And ghetsis upon waking up and seeing his wife and kid is gone he’s very upset. after a few years however he’s walking in like white forest or something and stUmbles upon concordia and anthea and he’s like “frickin sweet man” and snatches them and they are Not Happy but when they get back to the castle and see helen and n are gone? they are So Relieved those two got away even if they had to stay there

Anyways once n was three or four he was fine he could walk and he loved to wander around and make pokemon friends and he’d always come back to the trailer

one day ghetsis was walking through lostlorn for no particular reason and he came across n playing and recognized him immediately and was like “Oh My God No Way” and committed grand theft natural right there on the spot

but before he left he left a note for helen to find that said “did you really think you could hide forever” just to rub salt in the wound

anyways helen is like man it’s getting late i wonder where little natural is and so she gets a pidove to go look for him and the pidove brings back the note and when she sees it. tears. literal tears and sobbing she’s like “oh my god he has him He Has Him” and then she’s like “k you know what? Imma go get him i will go GET my child from this stinky man watch me grab my coat and i will get back the boy and if he has the girls too i’ll take them too and”

and then!! The shadow triad appear in the trailer (they all have names that only helen bothered to learn) and they’re like “hey so we kinda have strict orders from ghetsis that if we see you in the castle or anywhere near team plasma we kinda have to tell ghetsis and he’ll hurt n so maayyybe don’t?”

and helen is like crap. like genuinely there is no good solution cuz if she goes and fails to get the n back ghetsis would hurt n and if she did get the n back ghetsis would hurt the shadow triad and so she’s stuck and she has no choice but to just let everything happen

But!!! This story has a happy ending!!!

so i didn’t mention this cuz my thoughts are all over the place but helen likes to paint and so in order to cope with everything she painted her kids and they’re like really good anyways

N meets her at some point after bw2 cuz he was in lostlorn and it was raining and zoroark ran into her trailer and he was like “zoroark you Cannot Be Here we need to go” and helen walked in and she recognized him immediately like she was internally like holy arceus above that is my son that is my son that is my

but N doesn’t remember her like at all so she doesn’t want to say anything in case she overwhelms him and N is like “i am so sorry for coming in here my zoroark just hey you know what i’ll just leave”

Meanwhile she’s trying not to cry and she’s looking from n to a painting of n she did and she’s like holy arceus and she’s like “nono you can stay for tea until the rain is over”

And n had also noticed the painting and he was like that’s literally me but didn’t want to say anything

So n stays for tea and they have a lovely chat and helen is like this is literally my son and he has no idea who i am and then the rain stops so n leaves and helen is just like. Sad

But then n comes back another day and stays for tea again cuz they kinda became buddies and n is about to leave but he stops. at the doorway and slowly turns around and is like “i feel like i know you from somewhere” and helen is like “???” about to cry again

And you can like see the gears turning in n’s brain and he just freezes. and he looks up. And he’s like “.......mom?”

tears. Everywhere and both of them are sobbing and hugging each other and helen’s like “omg you’re so tall look at you how you’ve grown” and more tears and they literally hug for like hours while helen tells the story and helen was like starting to calm down and n’s like “btw connie and anthy are alive” and she just starts crying again and then they go to the house in driftveil so helen can see the girls and everyone just starts crying the girls are freaking out cuz they never knew what happened to mom and rood was there and crying like “mistress helen you’re alive ma’am” and just. big group hug and the shadow triad probably teleport in there for like five minutes and helen will absolutely not let them go without hugs even if they still work for ghetsis and yeah. that’s the very long summary of n’s mom imagine how long it would have been if i like actually wrote it professionally ok bye