#pokemon cosmos ideas

[v1ct0r1an]

Spiral avatar Valerie. She has a whole endless butterfly house thing.

[leoonyoom-writesstuff]

a trailblazer's trotter ┇ honkai : star rail

in which the elated one chooses a creature to become THEIR emanator. THEY repeat THEIR actions once again, but this time, with a trotter.

"HAHAHA! maybe this time it'll join the genius society!"

warning/s : possible ooc?? also this is short ngl.

[ a. n. ] ok so i have no idea where i was going with this, but all i had in my mind is trailblazer having their own companion, kinda like a pokemon, and that manhwa where that lady got transformed into a crow. i have no idea how those two connect but, fuck it we ball.

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trotters. cute, interdimensional creatures lost in the stars. cowardly as well, since it spends most of its lifetime feeding and fleeing. but for some, they consider these creatures as good omens, or their companions, on their travels in the vast galaxy.

which is why THEY, the elated one, are curious about these little guys. these silly, little guys. aha chortles at THEIR words, masks and props and cards and all sorts of fun knick knacks jingling and swishing and swirling around the aeon.

and so the aeon spread out THEIR arms, masks searching for an unlucky trotter to be the victim of their fun. THEY searched and searched, high and low, casting THEIR gaze far and wide into galaxies that THEY know.

aha smiles with mischief. what if THEY gave one of these creatures sentience? give it fathomless intelligence, just like THEY did to that tiny noblesse worm. maybe this time, it can join the genius society, and then the universe will be shocked that a cowardly creature such as a trotter caught the gaze of that hunk of junk instead of a human! oh how hilarious would that be to see! aha laughs with tears in THEIR eyes as THEY get amused by THEIR mischievous thoughts.

those who follow the elation sense a change in the atmosphere, and they immediately knew that it was related to their beloved aeon. inside a tavern, many laughed in anticipation, eager to see what their elated one is about to do. “oh i do hope the laughter will use bombs and explosions!” one fool said in glee as she giggled and twirled around and around, fiery sparklers enhancing her joy even further.

hundreds of galaxies away, a lonely trotter walks on a path in an unknown planet, mind fixed on doing two things. flee and feed. but it was getting to the creature, and so with a sad, little ‘oink’, it sat down on the ground and looked up in the vast sky, shiny ears falling down in misery.

it sniffed, curling up in itself as the loneliness got to them. it doesn’t know how long it was traveling, but it knows that it was too long to count. or remember.

before the innocent trotter could continue to wallow in its pity party, the aeon of elation had finally arrived. loud noises accompanied THEIR arrival, making the creature scramble away from the eldritch being in front of it, body shaking in fear as it tried to make itself as small as possible.

aha cackles with elation. finally, THEY have found it! the perfect trotter to become THEIR emanator. with a wave of THEIR hand, the aeon gave the helpless creature the entirety of THEIR path’s power, just like THEY did to that worm. with a giggle of glee, aha ascends to the stars once more, taking the trotter with THEM as THEIR elation spreads throughout the mind and body of the creature.

let’s see if you can surpass that worm, little trotter. 

with a final laugh, aha sends the trotter to the place of one genius society member, THEIR elation being felt all around the cosmos once again.

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[ a. n. ] like, i really had no idea where i was going with this. but i do plan on making this a full fic, where trotter gains sentience, joins the express, becomes the mascot 2.0... like pokemon but trotter. and an emanator. a trotter emanator. its why i tagged this as an x reader (even though it will most likely be platonic).

anyways! enough yapping from me. what do u guys think? should i continue this or just... idk, leave it as it is?

[wowwforever]

POKEMON EVIL TEAMS RANKED BY HOW LIKELY I WOULD BE TO JOIN THEM

Team Flare

I'm not wearing that suit and I'm not changing my hair. Lysandre is easily the fucking dumbest antagonist and if their plan is successful either they're immortal and I have to live with these losers forever or the whole world dies and I have to live with these losers until I die.

Team Yell

This entire team is centered around having a parasocial relationship with a teenage girl. Also British.

Team Galactic

Similar horrible haircut, bad outfit, and death cult scenario to Team Flare. At least they're like a semi-actual company. I could maybe just go bald and get a regular job after the Poke-government liquidates Team Galactic LLC. But I legitimately think this would be the least fun evil company to work at. Imagine stealing some kids Pokemon but you get chewed out by fucking Galactic Admin Uranus because you forgot to fill out the Paperwork.

The Lame Part of Team Plasma

Okay so to clarify these are the people that actually believe in the Team Plasma shit, which means I'd probably be spit on in the streets while wearing chainmail in New York. Why the fuck would I wear Chain Mail on the East Coast? Do you know how much rust there is? Also I have to become a ginger and worship some green manchild as a monarch. At least they're not a death cult.

Team Rocket

This one is just being a criminal. Like, yeah, you get to steal Pokemon but there's no real advantages except the free gray boots. Probably does not pay well and Giovanni leaving kind of sent them spiraling. Plus they have a lot of Koffings in an underground base so you know there's like lung damage galore. The R stands for Respiratory Distress.

Team Aqua

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by the ocean and I do not like boats and submarines. I would actively join this to sabotage their plan. Also every other evil team has an actual place to put their Pokeballs but this one it seems like the plan is to just shove it in my underwear? ???

Team Star

I haven't actually played Scarlet and Violet because I recently learned I can legally drink. I think this one is the equivalent of a school club? So I'm not actually getting paid to do evil shit. I'd probably just join, like, DnD club or something.

Team Rainbow Rocket

I'd join this one just because I know it's going to fail. I mean, it's got like four people who explicitly just want to end the world in different ways. I'm just gonna join and steal pens and shit until it eventually crashes in on itself for infighting. I'd wear my gay-ass R shirt every june in line with a P, I, D, and E.

The Cool Part of Team Plasma

Fuck yeah. This is the Team Plasma that knows the shit Ghetsis is up to. I'd love to be in on the scheme, plus I don't have to wear chainmail. Downside is I'd probably get murdered or have to murder to stay in, and they have the biggest shot of accomplishing their goal. But Ghetsis is hot so that's a plus.

Team Magma

This one is because there's 0.0% chance this plan will work but I get to just hang out in these cute-ass hoodies and pet camerupts all day. Look at that outfit, I'd wear that all the time. That being said, would probably have to be a field guy. Their location is in a volcano. I'm gonna get a call that says 'Hey all of Team Magma's leadership died' and I'd have to get a job at like Poke7-11 with a major gap in my resume.

Macro Cosmos

This hardly counts as a villain team because they're just, like, security guards for a company whose CEO goes a lil nuts. This is like if you worked for Virgin Atlantic and Richard Branson decided to summon Satan. No one can really put that on you. You'd probably get paid ridiculous amounts of money for essentially doing nothing. Con is you'd have to live in Galar.

Aether Foundation

Working for the Aether Foundation is like doing an internship at Bell Labs or whatever. The evil shit is probably fixed by the end of the game and I could just go back to researching Rotom electromagnetic applications and have that 'week where we tried to fuck up reality' be a weird company thing we brush under the rug. The con is they have all white outfits so I can't eat spaghetti at work. But even if I left I could probably just use Aether Foundation as a decent enough jumping off point for any career.

Team Skull

Genuinely this is just goofing off with a bunch of scummy weirdos. I can respect that and their outfits are thankfully not skin-tight jumpsuits, but main I'd join because they all kind of suck. With the most moderate competency I could run Team Skull. Also Guzma. He's pretty hot.

[femmehysteria]

Best Character Named X Poll

FOLLOW @best-character-named-x-poll

I'm doing a series of "Best Character Named X" polls where all the characters have the same first name but are from completely different media, feel free to send in name/charcacter suggestions, I'm posting one poll a day. New polls scheduled for 1:30PM GMT everyday.

ask box closed for now

WILL BE POSTING POLLS ON @best-character-named-x-poll FROM FEB 1ST

If your favourite character is not included in the poll very sorry i have either never heard of them or actively chose not to include them as theres only 6 characters per poll. Characters will only count of that is their first name, surnames do not count.

Round 85: David

Round 86: Tiffany

Round 87: Charlie

Round 88: Sandy

Round 89: Cody

Round 90: Amanda

Round 91: Jeremy

Past Polls and Poll Ideas under the cut

Names that I have a complete list for*

Caroline, Tyler, Louis, Leonard, Rebecca, Steve, Nicole, Isabelle, Victoria, Katherine, Jade, Alex, Sophie, Greg, Jake, Ellie, Isaac, Robin, Tony, Annie, Lisa, Margaret, Oliver, Clark, Kara, Phoebe, Emma, Ruby, Bart, Alfie, Beth, Julian, Nancy, Penny, Margaret, Tessa, Erica, Theresa, George, Kevin, Sebastian, Felix, Martin, Michael, Erin, Caleb, Helen, Charlotte, Kyle, Martha, Diana, Elsa, Gary, Zoe, Connor, Colin, Daisy, Eric, Maya, Adam, Andy, Magnus, Alma, Nora, Alice, Spike, Leon, Marcel, Kim, Juno, Sue, Chris, Otto, Donald, Daphne, Kate, Todd, Ned, Ken, Angel, Judy, Jo, Hazel, Naomi, Diego, Miranda, Joel, Lila, Duncan, Dexter, Meredith, Pearl, Lily, Malcolm, Napolean, Joan, Nico, Jamie, Nadia, Velma, Jill, Kiera, Rory, Evan, Tam, Klaus, Neil, Derek, Michelle, Luna, Laila, Cordelia, Zack, Imogen, Felicity, Cindy, Alicia, Kelly, Alan, April, Astrid, Delilah, Jodie, Claudia, Juliet, Karen, Jonas, Milo, Celia, Hannah, Joy, Ethan, Katya, Aria, Atticus, Ian, Cynthia, Faye, Frank, Boo, River, Corey, Gabrielle, Minerva, Ebony, Zia, Beverly, Rudy, Georgina

Names I have an incomplete list for (welcome to send character suggestions)

Richter, Sean, Troy, Cain, Agatha, Warren, Percy, Reggie, Mina, Ryan, Felicia, Dylan, Josh, Shirley, Debbie, Jared, June, Mabel, Ray, Chad, Moe, Hugh, Fearne, Christine, Joe, August, May, Scarlet, Alana, Leela, Manny, Dean, Francis, Mason, Oscar, Quinn, Guy, Ulrich, Wally, Yasmin, Tobias, Woody, Sabrina, Quentin, Margot, Alina, Matilda, Freya, Kendra, Angus, Ophelia, Leisel, Zelda, Adora, Piper, Scarlet, Sheila, Valentine, Laurie, Laurel, Fitz, Violet, Gabriel, Ford, Artemis, Owen, Bianca, Newton, Summer, Darcy, Noah, Taylor, Miriam, Hugh, Aurora, Hank, Henry, Dawn, Delia, Cosmo, Wanda, Zeke, Cecil, Aiden, Calvin, Ayesha, Beatrice, Parker, Chase, Hunter, Tina, Misty, Amaya, Amara, Harvey, Talia, Tatiana, Tanya, Orion, Eugene, Kit, Bo, Duke, Blue, Cameron, Rudolf, Mara, Marianne, Carl

Feel free to send more suggestions

*subject to change, you can still submit a character if there is no strikethrough if you think theres a character that its an absolute crime i dont add. Please don't suggest anything for the names with a strikethrough as they are polls that are already in my queue waiting to be published.

Past Polls

Round 1: Peter : WINNER: Peter Parker (Spider-Man)

Round 2: Elizabeth : WINNER: Elizabeth Swann (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Round 3: Jason : WINNER: Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)

Round 4: Eve : WINNER: EVE (WALL-E)

Round 5: Fred : WINNER: Fred Jones (Scooby-Doo)

Round 6: Rachel : WINNER: Rachel (Animorphs)

Round 7: Arthur : WINNER: Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)

Round 8: Amy : WINNER: Amy Pond (Doctor Who)

Round 9: Tom : WINNER: Tom (Tom and Jerry)

Round 10: Claire : WINNER: Clare Devlin (Derry Girls)

Round 11: James : WINNER: James (Pokemon)

Round 12: Max : WINNER: Max (Black Sails)

Round 13: Simon : WINNER: Simon Belmont (Castlevania)

Round 14: Jane : WINNER: Jane Crocker (Homestuck)

Round 15: Victor : WINNER: Victor Nikiforov (Yuri On Ice)

Round 16: Mary : WINNER: Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins)

Round 17: Will : WINNER: Will Graham (Hannibal)

Round 18: Laura : WINNER: Laura Palmer (Twin Peaks)

Round 19: Ben : WINNER: Ben "Obi-Wan" Kenobi (Star Wars)

Round 20: Chloe : WINNER: Chloe Price (Life Is Strange)

Round 21: John : WINNER: Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives)

Round 22: Lydia : WINNER: Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice)

Round 23: Mark : WINNER: Marc Spector (Moon Knight)

Round 24: Jess : WINNER: Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad)

Round 25: Theo : WINNER: Theobald Gumbar (Dimension 20: A Crown Of Candy)

Round 26: Sarah: WINNER: Sarah Jane Smith (Doctor Who)

Round 27: Richard : WINNER: Richard Gansey III (The Raven Cycle)

Round 28: Cass : WINNER: Cassandra Cain (Batman)

Round 29: Edward : WINNER: Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Round 30: Carm : WINNER: Carmen Sandiego (Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?)

Round 31: Hal : WINNER: HAL9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey)

Round 32: Sid : WINNER: Sydney Adamu (The Bear)

Round 33: Jack : WINNER: Captain Jack Harkness (Doctor Who)

Round 34: Stephanie : WINNER: Stephanie Brown (Batman)

Round 35: Ash : WINNER: Ash Ketchum (Pokemon)

Round 36: Veronica : WINNER: Veronica Sawyer (Heathers)

Round 37: Kurt : WINNER: Kurt Wagner aka Nightcrawler (X-Men)

Round 38: Eleanor : WINNER: Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place)

Round 39: Nathan : WINNER: Nathan Young (Misfits)

Round 40: Fiona : WINNER: Princess Fiona (Shrek)

Round 41: Gale : WINNER: Gayle Waters-Waters (Chris Fleming)

Round 42: Barbara : WINNER: Barbara Millicent Roberts aka Barbie (Barbie)

Round 43: Sam : WINNER: Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)

Round 44: Grace : WINNER: Grace Chastity (Nerdy Prudes Must Die)

Round 45: Barry : WINNER: Barry Bluejeans (The Adventure Zone)

Round 46: Raven : WINNER: Raven (Teen Titans)

Round 47: Dan : WINNER: Danny Fenton (Danny Phantom)

Round 48: Mia : WINNER: Mia Fey (Ace Attorney)

Round 49: Matt : WINNER: Matt Murdock (Daredevil)

Round 50: Rose : WINNER: Rose Tyler (Doctor Who)

Round 51: Robert : WINNER: Robbie Rotten (LazyTown)

Round 52: Lola : WINNER: Lola Bunny (Space Jam)

Round 53: Scott : WINNER: Scott Summers aka Cyclops (X-Men)

Round 54: Olivia : WINNER: Olivia Octavious (Spiderverse)

Round 55: Finn : WINNER: Finn the Human (Adventure Time)

Round 56: Emily : WINNER: Emily Charlton (The Devil Wears Prada)

Round 57: Elliot : WINNER: Eliot Spencer (Leverage)

Round 58: Sonia : WINNER: Sonia (Pokemon)

Round 59: Gideon : WINNER: Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb)

Round 60: Jen : WINNER: Jennifer Check (Jennifer's Body)

Round 61: Miles : WINNER: Miles Morales (Spider-Man)

Round 62: Lana : WINNER: Lana Skye (Ace Attorney)

Round 63: Spencer : WINNER: Spencer Shay (iCarly)

Round 64: Tracy : WINNER: Tracy Turnbald (Hairspray!)

Round 65: Luke : WINNER: Luke Skywalker (Star Wars)

Round 66: Natalie : WINNER: Natalie Scatorccio (Yellowjackets)

Round 67: Harry : WINNER: Harry Du Bois (Disco Elysium)

Round 68: Lucy : WINNER: Lucy van Pelt (Peanuts)

Round 69: Damian : WINNER: Damian Wayne (Batman)

Round 70: Tabitha : WINNER: Tabitha Casper (Dan and Phil Games: Sims 4)

Round 71: Nick : WINNER: Nicholas D. Wolfwood (Trigun)

Round 72: Gwen : WINNER: Guinevere (Merlin)

Round 73: Paul : WINNER: Paulette Bonafonte (Legally Blonde)

Round 74: Abigail : WINNER: Abigail Hobbs (Hannibal)

Round 75: Jordan : WINNER: Jordan Baker (The Great Gatsby)

Round 76: Donna : WINNER: Donna Noble (Doctor Who)

Round 77: Morgan : WINNER: Morgana (Merlin)

Round 78: Allison : WINNER: Alison Cooper (BBC Ghosts)

Round 79: Patrick : WINNER: Patrick Star (Spongebob Squarepants)

Round 80: Linda : WINNER: Linda Belcher (Bob's Burgers)

Round 81: Philip : WINNER: Philip J. Fry (Futurama)

Round 82: Clarisse : WINNER: Clarisse La Rue (Percy Jackson)

Round 83: Jeff

Round 84: Maria

[skippygiraffee]

I've had some more thoughts on Leon, so I'm posting them once more

One of the overarching themes of Pokemon SWSH is the idea of Legacy and what that means to certain characters. I'm sure people more eloquent and who have gone more depth have talked a lot about what that means for certain characters like Hop, Marnie, Sonia, ect., but Legacy for Leon looks a little different.

For the other characters the things passed down (or in Hop's case he figured would be passed down to him), were things they either wanted, or were given by family members (Family being another one of those themes). In Leon's case, he was being primed to create his own legacy, one that could be passed down to someone else, and then fill in the gaps Rose left behind once Rose stepped down from his positions at Macro Cosmos. The other character's had choices in what they wanted to do (Sonia being the only one who maybe either didn't or felt like she didn't), but Leon certainly didn't while Rose was still in the picture. His whole legacy and future was handed to him on a platter, and Leon had to uphold it or else it would all crumble.

So I find it fascinating that instead of feeling lost immediately after having the rug ripped out from under him, Leon's first instinct is to build up his legacy again. Create something from the ashes. Honestly, it can come off as both him being resilient, and as him avoiding facing down the true meaning of what it is to lose. If he creates the Battle Tower, runs tournaments, helps other characters find redemption, then I believe he's likely trying to recapture what was taken from him, and also show he won't give up.

No matter what, he's free to create his own destiny, have a legacy he created, and I think that's neat

[gamequoteshowdown]

Thank you everyone for making this happen! Now, without further ado, the match-ups for Round 1!!!

Round 1

"I've been waiting for this!" - Akihiko Sanada, Persona 3 / "You're just a corpse who doesn't know he's dead" - Valter, Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones

"Are you going to be our goddess of victory… or our angel of death? Doesn't sound too bad to bet my life on that." - Keiji Shinogi, Your Turn To Die: Death Game by Majority / "Don't fuck with a witch!" - Bayonetta, Bayonetta

"Teammates!? Friends!? To hell with that! Why am I inferior to you!? I was extremely particular about my life, my grades, my public image! So someone would want me around! I am an ace detective! A celebrity! But you… You're just some criminal trash living in an attic!? So how!? How does someone like you have things I don't!? How can such a worthless piece of trash be more special than me!?" - Goro Akechi, Persona 5 / "I was just gunna ask you to sell a gun to this child." - Starlo, Undertale Yellow

"I want you to live." - Charlotte Wiltshire, Hello Charlotte Series / "Your hair… sunset colored. I like it." - Queequeg, Limbus Company

"The hope to end pointless conflict… The hope to tell your daughter how much you care… It is our mission as apothecaries to ensure that everyone lives long enough for their hopes to become reality. Even if it costs us our own lives." - Castti Florenz, Octopath Traveler II / "Game is clear when 2 zombies hold hands!!" - "How to Play" Narrator, Loving Deads: The House of the Dead EX

"Thanks to you, I am saddled with unnecessary… feelings" - Miles Edgeworth, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney / "I am so fucking normal right now" - Harry du Bois, Disco Elysium

“SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN” - Harry du Bois (in the form as a potential mural painting), Disco Elysium / "You pull out your cellphone and access your old Tumblr. You have ten, but you specifically access the Garfield one." - Narrator, Monster Prom

"… Nice meeting you again, you FUCKING WHALE!" - Ishmael, Limbus Company / "My guess is no one's ever loved you before" - Woody, Kingdom Hearts 3

"Take care, [player]. I was lucky to have known you. Though the parting hurts... the rest is in your hands!" - Grovyle, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky / "Far out, man." - Netzach, Limbus Company

"I'll be back once I eliminate that devil called poverty from the world!" - Partitio Yellowil, Octopath Traveler II / "Elder gods from the whole cosmos have awoken to taste your cookies." - Narrator, Cookie Clicker

"Hello! This is the part where I kill you!" - Wheatley, Portal 2 / "Now we come to the question : Do I kill you? Do I tear you apart to my heart's delight? The choices of the beautiful are unbearable. How's a girl to choose?" - Alice Angel, Bendy and the Ink Machine

"I am Ferdinand von Aegir" - Ferdinand von Aegir, Fire Emblem: Three Houses / "Her metabolic processes are of interest only to historians." - Miles Edgeworth, Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations

"It ain't a matter of guys or chicks... I'm just scared shitless of being rejected" - Kanji Tatsumi, Persona 4 / "...also Stanley is addicted to drugs and hookers" - Narrator, The Stanley Parable

“You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?” - Happy Mask Salesman, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask / "I have no idea what to do with my life, but that's okay! Because I'm still working hard! Even if it's on nothing at all!" - Papyrus, Undertale

"Despite everything, its still you." - Narrator/Chara/Frisk???, Undertale / "In this world, it's kill or be killed." - Flowey, Undertale

“Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves. Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves…” - Voices of the Paranoid, Slay the Princess / "In the quiet glade, across old bark. In the ancient glade, it's always dark." - Gabbro, Outer Wilds

"You take away all their sins, and people aren't people anymore!" - Rokurou Rangetsu, Tales of Berseria / "Do you even get how it feels to have nightmares about doing tango with raw chickens? Eh?" - Heathcliff, Limbus Company

"Life is worth living, even if it hurts you, even if you hurt in it." - Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid / "I often think about the god who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle... and wonder if we'll ever get the chance to kill him." - 2B, Nier: Automata

“Oh? Is that how it is? Yeah, okay, I like you too. Neat! Still going to kill you, but now we can both enjoy a mutual romantic subtext to the murder.” - The Razor, Slay the Princess / "Now it’s Reyn Time!" - Reyn, Xenoblade Chronicles

"You lost the coin toss. We both did." - Catherine Chun, SOMA / "I like to drink blood. . . and smoke the weed!" - Dracula, Space Funeral

"Pick a god and pray!" - Frederick, Fire Emblem: Awakening / "Can you believe it? Dragons! In your own homeland! What are you going to do?" - Florentia Candidius, Elder Scrolls Online

""Did you get the Broom Closet Ending?! The Broom Closet Ending was my favourite!" ...I hope your friends find this concerning." - Narrator, The Stanley Parable / "It’s dangerous to go alone, take this!" - Old Man, Legend of Zelda

“Close your eyes for a sec, will you Chigasaki?” “You mean physically? Or to the criminal acts I’m pretty sure you’re about to commit?” “Both.” - Chikage Utsuki & Itaru Chigasaki, A3! Act! Addict! Actors! / "You are all about to perish, do as you please. I'm sorry." - Meta Knight, Kirby Super Star

"Boy" - Kratos, God of War / "Take care of yourself, kid, cause someone really cares about you." - Sans, Undertale

"Almost Christmas means it wasn't Christmas!" - Phoenix Wright, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney / "Dios mío!” (Draw a cross.) “A LIBERAL!" - Harry du Bois, Disco Elysium

"That's it. I'm not paying one cent of my taxes!" - Ema Skye, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney / ""Trust your partner"... And I do. I can't forgive you, but I trust you." - Neku Sakuraba, The World Ends With You/Subarashiki Kono Sekai

"Hey, you. You’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there." - Ralof, Skyrim / *clap ... clap ... clap ... * "Oh good, my slow clap processor made it into this thing, so at least we have that" - GLaDOS, Portal 2

"hallOO. chikkEN. OKs?" - BOb, Slime Rancher / "Pretty good plan. You could say it was the greatest—" - Charles Calvin, The Henry Stickmin Collection

"Blood comes in four types: A, B, O, and AB. However! No blood test can determine whether a murder was committed… in cold blood!" - Phoenix Wright, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney / "You ain't my partner anymore, man. You're my friend! So trus' that, yo!" - Beat (Daisukenojo "Beat" Bito), The World Ends With You/Subarashiki Kono Sekai

"I always come back." - William Afton, FNaF Pizzeria Simulator / "So -- as you can see, I'm a *pretty okay* detective -- and an absolutely GIANT COMMUNIST." - Harry du Bois, Disco Elysium

"Ears have a nice mouth feel, very chewy!" - Briar, League of Legends / "This is like taking candy from a baby, which is fine by me." - Shadow the Hedgehog, Shadow the Hedgehog (2005)

"It's a beautiful day outside. Birds are singing, flowers are blooming... On days like this, kids like you... Should be burning in hell." - Sans, Undertale / "In the dark times, should the stars also go out?" - Steban, the Student Communist, Disco Elysium

“We are a path in the woods. We have no beginning, and we have no end, but something cold and unnatural sits watching us from just beyond our edge.” - The Wild, Slay the Princess / "Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled Trainers should try to win with the Pokémon they love best." - Karen (Elite Four), Pokemon HeartGold / SoulSilver

[tokiro07]

Just like last time, my thoughts for Pokemon Legends are immediately subsumed by potential futures rather than the immediate present

This time it's because the title is "Z-A", confirming that the titles are not directly named after the associated Legendary while also giving the impression that unused titles like Z are being revisited. Since that won't be applicable to every generation, though, they may also draw from concepts, places, times, people, etc.

With that in mind

Gen 1: Legends Rainbow - the player is a Rocket Scientist (not a literal one, but one that works for a not-yet-totally-evil Team Rocket) working in the Pokemon Mansion and the project to clone Mew; the first major story beat after the tutorial is the discovery of a Mew sample, with the rest being further research and gathering materials needed for the cloning process/raising process for Mewtwo; named Rainbow in reference to being a part of the color generation and as a nod to Team Rocket's eventual evolution into Team Rainbow Rocket

Gen 2: Legends Brass - focuses on the Brass Tower and the events leading up to the creation of the Beast Trio; possibly the only game that doesn't somehow involve the player being part of a to-be villainous team; may introduce a new "Brass" or "Copper Legendary" to complement Ho-Oh and Lugia's Gold and Silver

Gen 3: Legends Meteor - the player chooses between being on the Magma or Aqua research team and investigates the ecological effects of a recently fallen meteor that, unbeknownst to anyone, carries Deoxys; may also be fun to call it "Legends Peridot," as generation 3 was the gem generation and peridot are found in meteors

Gen 5: Legends Grey - the player is a Plasma Knight under the Twin Heroes; halfway through the game, the Heroes have a falling out that splits the Original Dragon, and the player must choose who to side with (though they will likely end up seeing the other half of the story later cus the idea will be to understand both sides)

Gen 7: Legends Stars - the player begins as a resident of Ultra Megalopolis and member of the Ultra Recon Squad, with Poipole and two other Ultra Beasts as their possible starters, exploring Ultra Space. At the midpoint of the game, the player goes on a recon mission to Alola, where they capture a new "starter" to help blend in

Gen 8: Legends Darkness - leads up to the events of the Darkest Day; rather than being a part of an equivalent to Team Yell, the player is part of the group that one day becomes the Macro Cosmos conglomerate; could also be called "Legends Armor" or "Legends Arrow" or something to that effect if they want to complete the Hero Trio with a "Zayellow"

Gen 9: Legends Zero - covers the events of the Area Zero expedition with Heath and has the player being flung between the past and future, possibly getting branched evolutions for their starter based on which time period they evolve in

[battle-subway-aftershow]

Inconspicuous mustache and glasses on, soooo you wanna talk about how galar could be good huh?

Points at you this is all your fucking fault (/j)

Anyways you’ve poked me so I’m going to talk about it now. Sorry not sorry.

Before I say anything: “Moth, Tinker, don’t like, all your characters live in galar?” Yes! Because when you’re making an au for Pokémon why make a region out of scratch, when Game Freak’s left a perfectly good blank slate for you right there?

Anyways with that out of the way, I’m putting this under a cut because this is going to be long.

Sword and shield are such disappointing games. You could say a million things about it— the graphics, the routes, the nat dex cut, so on and so forth, but that’s a long dead horse and im not going to start beating it.

I like Sw/Sh’s story. Or, more accurately I like the idea of the story that the games tried and failed to give us. I really want to say there’s something there to grasp at, but honestly? There’s not. Nothing burger ass game.

The plot up until the climax of the story is “The darkest day was a thing and there was a hero that stopped it. Bede’s mean and wants wishing stars. Wait, what?! There’s two heroes? And badass dogs? No way!”

It genuinely feels like they had a full story arc with plot beats written out, but had to scratch everything besides the climax and try to fill in the gaping plot holes as quickly as they could before they hit the deadline for release. It’s so jarring and bizarre when you reach the climax of the story, because it’s just… out of nowhere? You and Hop try to break into the Macro Cosmos tower to interrupt Leon’s meeting because he was… late for dinner? And Oleana hears this and starts acting like an unhinged evil antagonist out of nowhere, even though at the moment not letting you in is just, perfectly logical?

And then the whole hide and seek game she does for the keys— Team Yell joining in, none of this feels deserved at all, probably because there was, I don’t know, supposed to be things happening before this that properly built up to it?

It’s so frustrating, because if they had even executed the story at all, it would’ve been so cool. The guy who practically MADE galar is re-awakening what is basically an eldritch god in a misguided attempt to save the region from future disaster (trauma? Paranoia? All of the above?) but his plan backfires and nearly destroys everything instead??? It’s such a cool idea! And it’s just. Barely even executed at all.

Oleana and Rose both could’ve been such interesting characters. Their Pokémon teams are symbolic of themselves as people, for crying out loud! Imagine how cool those fights, especially Oleana’s, could’ve been if there had been a proper fucking storyline??

(I won’t go too in-depth, but Oleana using beautiful and feminine Pokémon up until her g-max garbador ace— a literal heaping pile of trash? And how that represents the her horrible personality hidden behind her appearance?

And how Rose’s team is made up of thorn and thorn-like Pokémon, as well as industrial Pokémon and his childhood starter? Without a rose in sight? He’s lost who he was to the pursuit of innovation or something. There’s no Rose anymore, only the thorns. Too bad there’s nothing before these moments.)

It ends up just feeling like a barely even executed dollar store version of Sun and Moon. You’ve got the punk evil team who isn’t actually evil, the altruistic company/foundation that turns out to be far worse than the evil team, extraterrestrial pokemon who are very debatably Pokémon being brought into the world and causing problems? Yeah everything screams “we tried to recreate the s/m formula,” down to Hop using Hau’s animations. Insane.

(Also team yell feels like another dead horse that I don’t want to beat— but they don’t work like Team Skull did. Team skull worked! Really well in my opinion! Meanwhile Team Yell is just… kind of a vague nuisance. I get that was the point, but if Macro Cosmos was going to be the villains— why not give any buildup beforehand? Oh well. I said I wouldn’t beat the dead horse.)

Tl;dr: Sword and shield is barely even trash, it’s an empty dumpster with some unopened cans in it and I am sitting in there playing with the cans trying to create a coherent story out of it. Man galar’s good if only it was good. Go watch Twilight wings it’s Galar if it was good

And also sw/sh feels uncannily like bootleg sun and moon, bri’ish edition.

[epicspheal]

I don't know how popular an opinion this is, but I wish Pokemon contests got more focus in games. Not just because they're a fun concept but it feels like, as the games get more advanced, they could do more fun stuff with them. Like, I can EASILY imagine Galar has Pokemon contests that are these huge, celebrity style things.

Hi there l-egionaire! I wouldn't say it's unpopular opinion. I've seen more than one person mention they wished contests (and just other modes of playing with Pokemon) had more focus in the games especially as we jumped to 3D. Myself Included I have to mention even though I've been into Pokemon since I was 5 (in the Kanto days of the anime), I didn't actually get to play a mainline game until gen 3. So Gens 3-5 have a huge impact on how I view the franchise from the gameverse side of things and I have to admit one thing that has bothered me since the jump to 3D (and especially the jump to open world formats) is the lack of game modes that use Pokemon in ways like Contests, Musicals, Pokeathlon and Pokestar Studios do. As a kid I would often spend time doing the contests in both Emerald Diamond and I spent many hours playing in the musicals and Pokestar Studio. I even got SoulSilver a couple years back and I've played a lot of Pokeathlon.

I will freely admit that I don't always enjoy the Switch games as much as I did previous games because everything is centered on Complete League, Shiny Hunting, Raids and Pokedexes. I have completed the Pokedex once (for Swsh and will do it complete Legends Arceus) but I will be candid I hate the idea of completing the Pokedex. I don't care for the majority shinies (if I see one in the wild randomly I will catch it) so shiny hunting out. They've done a piss poor job at handling raids I legitimately wish they either heavily rework it (I'll get into this a bit more later) or just scrap it for gen 10. And well the league is the only thing I still enjoy but even then I like having something else to do other than beat up on the gym leaders/elite four/champion all the time.

Contests definitely rank up there as one of my favorite traditional sidequests both from the games and anime so I would've love to have seen it in be expanded beyond Hoenn and Sinnoh. However I disagree that Galar would've been good place to expand on it just because the very theme of Galar really is centered on battles. Unless they were going to pull from the anime where the Contests had a Battle Portion I don't see the Contests having a big footing in Galar just because of how the worldbuilding is set. I do think if we were talking about a region that could've had a huge celebrity focus on Contests I think it would be Kalos. A lot of the theme surrounding Kalos as a region is different ways to define beauty and Contests bring out beauty in both an inner and outer sense. I would think Kalos would be a good place to have bigger contests (as well as a Pokemon racing feature because it was sad that we had out mom in the games be a Rhyhorn racer yet not racing mini-mode where we could've even competed against her). Now going back to the Dynamax Raids...I do think it would've been cool if lore-wise doing the raids was a popular side sport in addition to the behemoth that is the Galar League. Like maybe it's how gym leaders practice to keep their major division ranks or move up from the minor league (something I do implement in cactusverse). Could be that people join teams to see who can raid the most dens in a given time limit (with BP being the prize for finishing 1st, 2nd or 3rd). Perhaps Macro Cosmos hosts teams to go in and collect the Watts to help power Galar. Maybe some people (like say the opposite gender protagonist) are really interested in catching G-max forms (sidenote this is something I do with Victor in cactusverse). I think by adding more lore to it as a popular side sport

[fallershipping]

I'm thinking of Southern Kalos

Currently, we only explored Northern Kalos, but I kept thinking about where Looker and Anabel currently live and will eventually end up in when retired from Interpol.

For those who don't know, Interpol's HQ IRL is actually located in France. It's in a city called Lyon, which is kind of around the Kiloude area but Kiloude is far too small and undeveloped for me to use it.

So I'm thinking about making half of a new region with the rest of Kalos. Not like... Actually making it for others to enjoy like a video and dex, but I'll talk about it from time to time. Important locations are the Pokemon world versions of Lyon, Nice, the French Riviera in general, and the Pyrenees mountains that separate Kalos from Paldea.

Currently, Looker and Anabel have apartments in Poke-Lyon. It's the "Lumiose" of Southern Kalos and acts as a home base.

Eventually, they'll both move out of the bustle of Poke-Lyon, away from Interpol, to start a family in a smaller, quieter town. I was thinking Cerbère. Daphne and Rune are born here.

It's a small town that's between the borders of Spain and France. Beyond it is the Pyrenees mountains. It can act as a direct connection to Paldea. It was also chosen because it's got a bit of an ocean view. In my idea, it could be a bit bigger and be close to where Daphne and Rune will go to school at: An Academy that's similar to Paldea's school system known as Wildflower Academy. (or maybe Cosmos Academy, still named after a flower but pun on space because ultra space ahaha...)

Anabel probably visits Southern Kalos's Battle Tower-adjacent facility from time to time. She's not a facility head anymore, but she's like a secret boss and enjoying herself. On the flip side, Looker's taking up several hobbies. Maybe he's growing a garden, maybe he's a language tutor, maybe he's doing some personal reading. And maybe he's also at the Battle place for moral support OR dragged to be Anabel's double battle partner!

Their careers I'm leaving vague for now because I can't think of anything concrete that I'm vibing with. But yeah, Southern Kalos.

Here's a regional variant! (Am going to redesign the evolutions.)

[tea-cookies-and-indeedee]

Hi there I'm Alaina Roserade Edwards 22 I use she/her pronouns and I just opened a Cafe in Hammerlocke in galar. I am an Indeedee hybrid dont question it I don't like talking about it. I don't mind answering questions about my hybridism but please dont ask about my parents.

I have a brother and sister pair Male and Female Indeedee Named Cosmos and Violet

I also have a Yamper name Lola, a Wooloo named Lambert, a Polteageist named Chamomile, and a Shiny Corviknight named Gawain

Pelipper Mail, Unmail, and Malice are On

Magic anons are also On

My pokemon team:

Me:

//OOC below the cut

//OOC hi it's Luna again (@lunaphoenix221) I had an idea for a blog so I made it an indeedee hybrid running a Cafe in Galar I hope to have fun with this blog and I hope to do some plot things. Please dont be weird to her especially since she's a hybrid and don't ask her about her parents. But yeah have fun and enjoy. I the mod am an adult and sometimes there will be swearing and adult topics, nothing NSFW b/c I dont like NSFW stuff so please do not send anything NSFW please and thank you.

Also this concept is kinda inspired by @oh-shinx (sorry for the ping) who is a blog I really look up to and really enjoy and is one of the major reasons I joined the community

[a-tale-of-legends]

what are the themes of the various villain teams? team rocket is obviously the mafia, and team aqua are clearly based on pirates, but i have no clue what the rest of the teams are supposed to be

....WELL!

I'm not as good as this as some others are but.

Team Magma- No clue actually. It's clear their scientists though, but so was Team Aqua.

Team Galactic - Astronauts I'm gonna assume.

Team Plasma- The only one that I know. Knights. Look at the plasma grunts in BW. Maybe even chess boards, given how Ghetsis was pretty much playing chess with those around him to secure the king. Though that's just hc. B2w2 mostly throws this out the window. No more fancy facades, they're just terrorists now.

Team Flare - They look like a bunch of business men and women. Men in black but in red.

Team Skull - ....I mean. They're a gang. Bunch of outcast that come together as a family.

Aether foundation - literally a pokemon restoration company. I hope I'm correct on that, but yeah.

Marcos Cosmos - you know when there's a company that owns multiple other companies? That. Also the point is that they're just people working for Rose.

Team Star - bullied kids who find each other. Also like. Stars.

I don't know if this was the answer you hoped for anon, and sorry if it wasn't. If anyone has a better idea for this, please add! Anyway, thanks for the ask!

[rebecca-lotto]

well , going back to pokemon shield with knowledge of gen 9..

y'know , since Rose is penny's (estranged) uncle, i also got hit with a idea that he'd do something so astronomically stupid that ogerpon & pecharunt would put aside their differences & team up to beat his ass.

and then a certain OP baby turtle crossed my mind.

ogerpon & pecharunt mount a rescue mission to break their little sibling Terapagos out of a macro cosmos building, and run the bastard who ordered Terapagos' kidnapping out of the region by any means necessary.

'cause rose was gonna try & use the baby roomba turtle for the same shit he tried to do to eternatus.

now to the plan ; pecharunt's part is to use their mochi to control as many macro cosmos grunts as possible - the more numbers to storm the building the better- and since the grunts all wear sunglasses constantly , it'll be super easy to hide the fact that they're under pecharunt's thrall.

ogerpon's in charge of 'recruiting' help for the mission ; she's got the loyal 3's pokeballs and part of her task is to find 3 potential thralls with dynamax bands just in case the quintet have to fight their way out.

[underground-boss-clay]

📢 Chairman Rose

.....

Why's this gotta come in on a work day when I can't drink--

The idiot REEKS a' never havin' to get dirt on his hands an' it fuckin' SHOWS. He claims ta think about his region's future, but the bastard's got some very big blind spots.

"Wishin' Stars can help the people!" "Dynamaxin' will bring forth enough energy to help everyone 'n Galar!"

Yeah, except you an' ALLA YER FUCKIN' SCIENTISTS can't figure a way for it ta help cities AWAY FROM DYNAMAX SPOTS ya ABSOLUTE WASTE OF A BUSINESS.

I don't give a shit whether or not he had "good intentions," the future goals should NEVER come at the cost a' the living people you got under your employ right the fuck now. Spikemuth used to be bigger an' more industrious before that nonsense with them Wishin' Stars became mandatory an' chopped it the fuck down to the smallest Gym City 'n the region. They could've been on par with--fuck what's it called, Motostoke, had they not essentially been cut off an' practically starved a' resources! An' this was all that bastard's idea!!

An' we all know he's tossed people aside when they ain't useful to him no more. I don't gotta bring up Bede, that's just rehashin' what I've already said an' what we already know. But he's taken in whole companies only ta gut them for Macro Cosmos; hell, I ain't gonna mention her by name but one of my engineers went through a lot of shit because of Rose an' his company. First they bought her family's company, a smaller construction group, an' all their Pokemon got filtered into Macro Cosmos' inventory. So any a' their Pokemon? Now the property a' Macro Cosmos, an' Rose by extension. More importantly, when the girl lost her fingers to an accident while workin' for them, what did they do? They fired her! No benefits, no medical, jus' got rid of her! Girl didn't take that layin' down though. Tried to tell everyone what happened but that just made it easier fer Macro Cosmos ta say not to hire her; an' them bein' in charge a' social media in Galar meant that they could delete her posts as well. Hell, one of Devon Co's PR folks jus' barely noticed her callin' out Cosmos before the post got taken down; it's how Joe managed to tell me bout her 'n the first place. Couldn't do more than call her due to... Y'know, bein' banned from Galar, but Joe helped me fly her to Unova after a quick online interview.

Oh yeah, an' we can't forget how his "eternal energy plan" revolved round a WORLD ENDIN' DRAGON FROM SPACE. CAN'T FORGET THAT, NOW CAN WE??

[aster-pkmn-irl-real]

What's a piece of worldbuilding you're proud of, but haven't been able to share yet?

i accidentally closed the tab with the response to this ask so sorry if this comes off a little half assed thats because it is this time around 😭😭😔😔😔

i wanna talk abt my ultra space hcs so bad u have no idea bench but it's too early for that so i won't but i will talk abt vijagha instead.

for context vijagha is my fanregion based off of south india, specifically the state of tamil nadu. it is where aspen's parents are from!!

b/c historically irl, asia (specifically india and the middle east afaik) used to be THE place to be for education, especially math and science, i have it so vijaghans were able to reproduce dynamax on their own home turf; in other words, vijaghans created the first artificial power spots!

im going with the idea that apricorn balls work through the usage of aura--rather than using dynamax bands, traditionally, vijaghans control the dynamax phenomenon using jewelry carved from apricorns with wishing stars incorporated into them

due to the way apricorns have aura related properties, pokemon whose trainers have apricorn dynamax jewelry experience an increased power boost when dynamaxed.

currently though, apricorn-derived jewelry is currently 'going out of style', primarily because it's more expensive because you need to obtain them from artisans who specialize in their craft. it's just cheaper and more accessible to buy a dynamax band that has been mass produced by macro cosmos

also also also--vijagha generally has had a different approach to training/owning pokemon. prior to the arrival of europeans in the region, pokeballs weren't used in the same way they are traditionally used rn.

the thing with vijaghan pokeballs compared to mass produced ones is that they have always been less widespread because the concept of actually catching pokémon and being a pokémon’s singular trainer is a relatively new phenomenon, having been introduced with the arrival of the galarians, kinda the paldeans, dutch and especially with the implementation of the galarian raj

so generally it used to be a thing where they were made with rarer apricorns, usually had gold, silver or platinum embedded in them, and more often than not had stones or crystals in them because catching a pokémon was considered to be a special occasion which was to be treated like something less sacred

however, once europeans arrived and the idea of a pokémon having a single trainer became more widespread, (as well as the dynamax phenomenon which led to the development of traditional vijaghan dynamax jewelry in order to actually harness the phenomenon which in turn inspired redux´s rose to produce dynamax bands) pokeballs began to be crafted in a manner which would interact with apricorn jewelry for a sort of power boost

the thing about that is because it became more common for pokémon to not belong to a collective village or family and instead to singular persons, it also created a need for pokeballs that were easily produced and accessible for the average person to either purchase or create themselves which has led to the emergence of the mass produced pokeball industry in vijagha but also the gradual disappearance of traditional vijaghan pokeballs (and similarly led to prevalence of dynamax bands and the slow disappearance of traditional apricot jewelry)

^ bolded bullets have been taken directly from an in character infodump

[quirkwizard]

I've written or have an idea for a quirk that allows the user to transform into different assortment of animals. It's called Beast-o-morph. In my take of the eventual story I'm making, the user can essentially transform into a wide range of animals from all over the cosmos, including the ones from other worlds like Godzilla, Subnautica animals, and even pokemon.

I understand this is way too op for anyone to have and I understand that and have taken the steps to instead improve the world around my oc so it's at least a bit more fair, I guess.

Still tho. My question remains in how this quirk can even be possible in the constraints that have already been established by MHA in regards to how they handle quirks.

How the user can improve the quirk Beast-o-morph and generally get a better grasp of it and what sort of equipment do you envision them?

Yeah, that can't work. In a setting where becoming a dragon a powerful Quirk in it's own right, is there isn't any way you can balance someone being able to change into any kind of monster. Which is nothing to say of the various fictional creatures that they can turn into, a lot which have their own powers to work around. You either need to go with a new idea or just pick a single monster to be the inspiration for your power. If you want to do something like that, "Zoo" would be as close as you could possibly get to that idea.