#pokemon abuse cw

[caoimhe-from-hoenn]

Do NOT declaw your Skitties and Liepards, the fuck's wrong with you?

[coldslaws-gear-station]

Yk, something I feel like I haven't elaborated very much on in my Upside Down AU is the reason why Alder's such a twat at the start, it sorta feels like I just made him a dick because I could when that's not true at all

Because Floccesy town (where he's from in this AU) isn't at all what it's like in canon. Since it's cut off from the rest of the region and only became recognised in bw2 the people there became... Off (Cw warnings for the paragraphs with * btw!)

*Food was scarce, so they'd hunt quite literally any Pokemon they could get their hands on, as medicine was also scarce. They couldn't go forging without the risk of poisoned or such by a venipede or something, if you were infected then it's game over. There used to be Deerling near the town until they hunted it to extinction, lucky enough purrloin and patrat breed large enough litters to not go extinct.

*You were only respected for how much you could contribute, if you could sew, grow, or anything important you were seen as an asset and something to be respected. If not? Game over, they can't handle overpopulation with food so low. You weren't seen as a true person, but an asset, luckily Alder knew how to sew.

*Not only that but some people would raid other's houses for valuables to sell on the market, but most of the time it was to find meat, food. Leaving your house for too long was risky, though some don't even wait till you leave.

So he grew up thinking that Pokemon being scared and frightened of you was normal. He grew up thinking that being overprotective of everything he owns was normal. He thought how he was raised was normal.

Eventually he did manage to leave and climb the ladder up to the champion's position. That's why he never leaves the room, he thinks if he does somebody would come in and steal his position, what's his, and the UD elite four enable that.

It wasn't until the Valley did he realise that, that's not normal. How he was raised wasn't normal, Pokemon being frightened all the time isn't normal. But in the elite they're always frightened? That isn't okay, that isn't normal, something needed to change.

There's so many fractions to him, he's like my favourite of the UD characters to write about. He's complex and I love that. I also loosely modelled him after N as he takes his role in the story. Raised in a bad way, thinks it's normal, finds out it's not normal, makes considerable efforts to change how they originally thought and make the world safer.

He also has a mouth that'd make a sailor blush, cussing was a norm where he was raised. Though after UD Ghetsis established a "swear jar" he quickly learns to not swear, though he slips up every now and then. He still has slip ups in his old habits, though UD Ghetsis is always there to remind him to be more soft and gentle, he's trying, that's what matters.

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waking up in the morning to this and trying to read it all had me like /lh aff HSHFSJJFJD

but yeah all that really makes sense! i like it! very lowkey apocalypse esque which i am a sucker for survival scenarios. no wonder he sucks<3 i also kinda don't blame him for basically camping out in the champion's room afterwards tbh even if he was a dick for it. like yeah he sucks but he worked hard to survive and subsequently earn his position, whether or not he did that in the wrong sort of way by being, i imagine, not very kind to his own pokemon in the process. like dudes traumatized. goes from a broken up village to a group of 4 scumbags. you can't really say he got a fair opportunity to see outsiders perspectives during his backstory, much like n went straight from his room to trying to find the dragons to kill with, and the only person to really try and intervene and appeal to their sensibilities (more than just one time at least) was hilbert

swear jar.. thank you ghetsis very cool. he got his own get rich quick scheme out of alder /lh

[eartheats]

okay so. one thing i should mention about bluebell, now that she's evolved is...well, i'm not quite sure what it is, but while some of her shiny coloration came off as a ferroseed, it's been comin' off in patches on her now as a ferrothorn? but i think some of it might be there to stay; they seem really deeply embedded and i'm hopin' evolution didn't fuck her up like that :( i even kept an everstone on her and everything, but there was an incident with a wild tinkaton and it just happened...

but!! a couple of the professors and teachers have taken a bit of an interest in bluebell, though, and i've been doing everything i can to help with emotional and physical therapy for her! the physical side is going well, despite it all, actually? she's not in physical pain at least from what everyone's been saying, and we've been tryin' to find some suitable ways to teach her how to battle. she can actually hold back some now!!

the only real problem seems to be emotionally. it's probably, um, really understandable that she has trouble managing her emotions, but she has some really massive mood swing issues that we're working on. i think the conditioning is...mostly broken, but she's not good at regulating herself. she gets stressed real easily and it's actually why lulu's not just trained as my support anymore; he's hers, too, and bouton's doin' everything he can to help too. while every day brings new challenges, i'm glad to keep bein' by her side :)

i am thinkin' it's time for her to get a new nickname, though. anyone got any suggestions?

[trainerbymoonlight]

hi all! back in unova on my unovan league challenge, finally. so out of pure curiosity, nothing else, i’m wondering if any of you have any ideas as to where one might obtain a snag ball here in unova? or maybe a straight up master ball? legally or perhaps.. dubiously legal?

i know that sounds bad, and really vague, i just.. need to get a pokémon out of a bad situation. that’s all i’ll say on it for now.

my pelipper mail is open in case anyone happens to have either ball or even something similar i can borrow. i can pay for it & return it as well if needed

[anaptian-champion]

well why dont you prove that your precious devil dog is so well-behaved and bring her out for us?

what so you punks can fucking attack her???

no thanks 🖕

[twptwp]

(Discussing some my experiences with finding comfort in PMD while growing up in a hostile environment)

CW mentions of CSA, physical abuse, verbal abuse

During this time period my sister also died, I lost quite a few of my siblings, I was subject to severe ableism from aforementioned "father", very weird threats. I could go on and on there was a lot of bad

CW over

Nowadays I'm in a much better place both physically and mentally, I thank you my friends and my ma. I had PMD Explorers of Sky as a child and played all the time, it really shaped who I am today and I learned to stay alive from that game. I found comfort in all the characters, Chatot was also a big one surprisingly HAHA!

I hope this was not too upsetting of a post, "dadnoir' stuff really sticks out to me nowadays because I use to imagine him so much when I was scared... I was actually really scared of Dusknoir as a kid for a while, but then I played special episode 5 and he became a big source of peace and comfort after that. I liked how he changed and became good. I'm no stranger to doing absurd things out of fear and wanting to stay alive, I came to respect and understand him quickly.

Anyways, that was a big post ahhh, I hope you have a nice day! Do take care of yourself, you're cherished

[kantocamping]

Eevee line trainers are some of the most annoying people on the planet. They're fine pokemon but the people who own them (especially if they have several) make that their only personality trait. It's also so obvious that so many of them only care for their pokemon because they're cute. I always wonder what they'll do once their espeon starts getting old and saggy and gray, or if their leafeon starts getting ugly reoccurring cysts, or if their umbreon has to get a body part removed due to tumors.

I stopped by Prof. Oak's lab earlier, and he was telling me about how he just got two elderly and disabled flareon that'd been found dumped on the side of the road in a crate. Perfectly kind pokemon, just not too pretty anymore or battle ready. And they were abandoned for it, literally left to die. There was a note on the crate that confirmed they weren't wanted anymore, so we know it wasn't an accident. (There's an active search for the trainer(s), happened south of Viridian City, so if anyone knows anything, feel free to call the authorities there I guess.)

I'm sure plenty of eevee+ trainers are perfectly great; I've met several over the years that really do love and care for their pokemon. But there are still a large amount of them that only value their pokemon as objects rather than companions.

[anaptian-champion]

oh thank ARC he doesn't have access to the Hydreigon anymore!! ...well, at least not in your timeline. damn multiversal shenanigans...

i gotta be honest, i didn't really know much about what Ghetsis did, so this is pretty new to me...

it makes me feel sick, honestly.

im sorry, WHAT? his Hydreigon uses Frustration at full power??? //@anaptian-champion

Allegedly, yeah.

Having seen the poor thing... I can believe it. The state of his hydreigon... well. It's the reason even the staunchest believers in our ideology largely shunned Ghetsis after finding out what he did to it.

In my time, at least... the pokemon in question is recovering. Apparently the new unovan champion-- kid who dresses like a princess and specializes in dragon types? She took him in, basically went, "Hi sweetheart, I know your trust and your hope have been broken, but I'm going to respect your boundaries and show you it's okay to live again. Here's a casteliacone. You never have to battle if you don't want to."

[freerangeranger]

domi sent me this. last trailcam photo before the camera overheated and presumably melted.

fuck my entire life.

[coldslaws]

something about destiny

part 1: here

[team-ex-rocket]

I have an Overkwil now, no "friendship" needed.

[anaptian-champion]

Yeesh, kinda makes me think of this guy I battled a while back; he forced all his Pokemon to fight like savages and his Nidorino actually ended up puncturing Galvan (my Jolteon)'s foreleg pretty severely...

He's actually where I got Donner from; he had run away from the bastard while he was still a Luxio and I basically adopted him.

And now, funnily enough, Galvan and Donner are basically inseparable; Donner definitely shows signs of trauma still but he's doing a lot better now, and I think I have Galvan to thank for most of that.

Mister Bane Phobia tell us one of your greatest victories against Pokémon abusers and users

The greatest? There's been so many.

Hmm... There was once a huge trail of illegal fighting rings through Kalos that Noctis and I effectively dismanteled. I don't mean like typical battling, I mean the kind of bastards that let their Pokémon fight to the death. Longest trip of my arcdamn life!

[coldslaws-gear-station]

Odd idea for Beta Z's name; Zepto

It's a metric prefix that's usually defined by the symbol "z", it's also in the - base 10 numbers, specifically 10-²¹ while n on the system is 10-⁹ (Nano). It would've been interesting to make it the opposite of n, which would be 10⁹, but that's Giga and idk if a Zoroark named Giga is a good idea-

Idk, when I think "what would an N name their Pokemon?" I immediately think "Numbers." Also metric prefixes have cool names sometimes so

- 💌

ohhhh fuck this is actually a super cool idea i like it!! i dunno how well exactly it works but it is super cute sobs

thing about beta z is that she actually gets to spend much less time with n, at least growing up in the castle. she was with him in there for maybe just a few years at most, at least until ghetsis grew more brazen with his mistreatment of n (n being abused wasn't an immediate thing, it was a slow burn of escalation). at which point, during one of the points ghetsis chose to punish n through food restriction, z grew desperate and had n help her into one of the vents in his room so she could go look for food around the castle

but she was quickly caught by members of team plasma, and entirely fed up with her interference, ghetsis opted to beat her senseless, drive a ways away, and leave her for dead. killing her outright would be too nice of a treatment for something that did nothing but pester him. or maybe, if im still considering a ghetsis who thinks hes doing the right thing, he thinks somehow leaving her barely alive is kinder. he's just teaching her a lesson, after all. like he does with n

anyways when he comes back to the castle, he doesn't say anything about what he did. he just slowly lets it dawn on the boy that their friend has been gone for a while now. maybe he even asks about it. where did z go? why, i don't even remember her leaving your room.. what's with that vent there, hm? and he lets fester the idea that z may have abandoned n.

some good samaritan finds z and nurses her back to health. and years pass. because of z's experience with abuse and scared children, she actually becomes an emotional support and therapy pokémon, which is uncommon for zorua due to their propensity for mischief. z becomes a faded memory in n's mind, while z aches for n almost every day, though neither ever fully forget each other. she even tried to return to him at some point, but given the hidden nature of the castle, she was never able to

and after everything happens and n is brought out on parole, alder decides it might be beneficial to introduce n to some kind of therapy pokemon who also suffered, but loves humans still. enter z. n doesn't even recognize her when they reunite, it takes quite a bit for him to realize that this is the zorua he ran around with in the forest and the castle

so basically since she had basically an entirely different trainer (or trainers, as she was used moreso to educate on abuse and recovery and did a lot of traveling, like you see with some therapy dogs irl), she probably has a far different name than one that shares a motif with n like the typical z does

though bn also has a male zoroark he uses to fight his battles with, maybe he could be zepto, or maybe bz opts to rename herself to match n like she does back when they were little on rh and nhp. i think that last idea would be really cute actually, having this bond between them be a throughline between universes

[eartheats]

[A package arrives! It contains...

- a large, thick, cosy blanket. Get comfy with bluebell with it. It's spikes shouldnt be able to get through it, so don't worry about hugging if you're in it. Let Bluebell cry that stress away. Who knows how much of it has built up because of.. whatever team glitter has done.

- some metal polish with extra grit for your orthworm, to give it an extra lil treat next time there's a spa day ^^

- a bag full of various pokemon shaped silly bands!]

anon, you are an actual, literal lifesaver and i love you forever ;A;

she's...actually snuggling into the blanket okay, still bawling but it's a little more controlled. it's definitely helping her, i think, just...to be able to express all of it, even if it isn't intentional. i just feel like shit for pushing her, even if i tried to be gentle as possible

i'll gladly give lulu a good polishing next time we get the chance, though!! and i appreciate the silly bands, they're so so so cute!!

[milkymittens]

cw: abuse

i rewatched holy matrimony today and frankly i think we need to talk about it more

[anaptian-champion]

// the reason Donner has chronic pain is because Sam (@thatguyfromsinnoh) frequently fed him rare candies

// it caused his growth to accelerate so quickly it caused damage to his muscles. its why he's so bulky compared to other Luxray, but he also needs to keep his muscles active so they don't atrophy on him