#scorbunny is so good for him tho...

[puhpandas]

if Gregory were in pokemon he would have a Z-ring

[apple-orchards-writings]

so, im a hugeeee pokemon fan, and i couldn't resist giving some LI's full teams, i'm posting them for peer review (and also i have no idea what nicknames they would give their pokemon, so uhhh help ?)

I tried to take pokemon solely from the Galarian pokedex, cause it's the UK equivalent and I thought it'd be fun :

Kylar's team:

Chandelure was a Litwick he found in his house a few days after his parents had "the accident", and it brought him some much needed warmth. The things about Litwicks, is that they leech off of people's life force, but is also said to guide lost children to the spirit world, but Kylar was too stubborn to die, so the Litwick stayed and grew up into his Chandelure.

The Absol he found when he was in middle school, he was fleeing from bullies and ducked into an alleyway, where he found an injured Absol staring intently at him. Absols are seen as doombringers because of their ability to foresee imminent disasters, so this one had been chased off and thrown rocks at, meaning it was in bad shape. Kylar took it home and nursed it back to health, and it has since refused to leave his side.

Decidueye was the offspring of his parents' pokemon, and has been his since the egg hatched, so it's very attached to its master, willing to do everything for him, it was here for the accident and remains highly protective of its master. (also owl motif hehe)

The Alolan Ninetales I have less of a reason for, but it is said to act as a guide to people when they come to its mountain, and I had this idea of Kylar coming up the snowy mountain for some reason, and the Ninetales growing fond of this tiny shivering kid, and just following him and cuddling him until he caught it. (idk i just want good things for Kylar ig sue me)

The shiny Galvantula was for me a result of Kylar trying his hand at breeding Joltiks for fun, and this one being in the first few eggs he finds. He decides to keep it, at first for bragging rights, but he really does take good care of it, so another pokemon is added to his ever growing cuddle pile.

Finally, the Crobat was probably found in the rafters of the mansion as a small Zubat, around the time Kylar only had the Litwick and Rowlet. Kylar, having leftover pokemon food, decides to just feed the little fella, and a good friendship blooms. Crobats are said to be extremely stealthy, and can drain people of their blood, so Kylar has gained himself a convenient way of scaring off rivals.

Whitney's team:

Cinderace probably came up to Whitney when he was a child as a Scorbunny, seeing him play football with his friends and wanting to play too. A fast friendship, I'd say, I think Whitney would have been a super energetic kid, and a Scorbunny is perfect for him.

The shiny Togekiss was probably a Togepi gifted by his uncle, and technically a Togekiss, which usually avoid strife, should never stay in Rapeshire, this one likes Whitney too much to leave, it wants to bring him as much joy as possible.

I mean come on, Obstagoon is THE deliquent pokemon, of course Whitney has one. Maybe gifted to him by one of his gang's members ? I think that'd be cute.

Drednaws are seen as highly aggressive so I'm thinking one might have been rampaging through "Whitney's territory", and he wrestled it into "submission", gaining its respect, not before he gets bit through a little tho. He still has the scar from the incident, and the Drednaw sometimes licks at it in apology, now that its been caught.

Alright so I have the headcanon (or maybe it was canon and I forgot) that Whitney has had a garden since he was a kid, and maybe the Roserade came from there as a little Budew ? As in, it was interested and just started staying around, and Whitney couldn't get rid of it, so he just caught it.

Lastly, Sylveon. Sylveons evolve when they have high enough friendship with their trainer (and a fairy move), and obviously Whitney has been pampering it, but I'm thinking it probably doesn't come out of the ball in public much, it's kind of his secret ? But yeah, it's still very much loved.

Robin's team:

Dubwool was found as a Wooloo by the PC when they were going around the moors, it probably escaped from a farm and PC just brought it back for Robin to take care of as a gift. Its wool is said to be bouncy, but I think it can also be a way for Robin to ground themselves if they ever panic, as in they can bury their face in the wool and just shut the world out, I think that'd be sweet.

Goodra has been with Robin since it was a little Goomy, which are considered the weakest dragon type (the pokedex says it not me). Goomys are very good at detecting danger, and can hide very easily, so, sensing little Robin's good intentions, it probably helped hide him from Bailey. Apparently, Goodras give amazing good hugs, even if they do cover their trainer in slime, but I don't think Robin would mind.

Quagsire, similarly knew Robin as a Wooper. Woopers, when walking on land to find food, develop a toxic membrane on their bodies, but this one couldn't quite manage it, and was attacked by predators when Robin was passing through. Robin chased off the predators and gave the Wooper some fruits to help it recuperate, and its been attached to them ever since. Quagsires are very carefree pokemon, and they make great pillows. Basically I'm just giving Robin a perfect team for a cuddle nest.

Victini is the only legendary on this list, and I felt it was only right to give Robin the ever cheerful Victory Pokemon. Victini probably found Robin either after they were taken to the docks, or if that hasn't happened, after they confess to PC. Robin keeps Victini secret at all costs, as it would be hunted for its ability. Having Victini around probably helps Robin regain some self-esteem, and they make a great duo.

Boltund is a dog Robin found in the park one winter day as they were selling hot chocolate, a poor cold mutt with no identifiable traits proving it was owned. Robin secretly took it home and made the split second decision to keep it, now they've got a very excitable dog that's unflinchingly loyal. Boltund acts a sort of guard dog as well, reassuring Robin when they're walking past the docks.

Whimsicott had infiltrated the orphanage, and pulled a prank on Bailey, as Whimsicotts are wont to do, covering his office in its excess cotton. Bailey was furious and looking everywhere for the mischief maker, but the little ball of trouble had hidden itself in Robin's room, and the latter decided to keep it out of trouble and continue hiding it. Ever since then it's felt indebted and stays with Robin. It also quite likes to play pranks on Bailey, and that brings a smile to Robin, so why not continue to do it?

Sydney's team

Inteleon was actually gifted to Sydney as a Sobble by Sirris, reasoning his child should have a partner pokemon, so Sydney is the only one of this list with an actual starter pokemon (in the sense that he was supposed to go on a pokemon journey but ultimately stayed home). Inteleon loves its trainer very much, even if it has to force them to take breaks every now and then. A laid back pokemon and a hardworking trainer is a good duo, they influence each other a lot.

Audino was actually the temple's pokemon at first, acting as an aide to the temple's nurse, but it liked Sydney a lot and always fussed over them much more than any other initiate, so the temple relented and allowed Sydney to keep the Audino. Audino is actually the first one to pick up on Sydney's crushes, since it can use its feelers to sense its trainer's emotions. It subtly pushes Sydney to confess every time.

Dragapult was a lonely Dreepy haunting the temple's cemetery, having been left behind by its pack, it was letting out little mourning cries, which naturally attracted the curious little Sydney, who started leaving some food out for it, since it was too flighty to be approached at first. A few more weeks of getting it used to their presence, and it let itself be caught and taken care of.

Lilligant to me, was originally Sydney's other parent's pokemon, and acted as a sort of mother to them from the start. Lilligants release a soothing aroma, and I think in a time of mourning, or when Sydney lost Kylar, it would act as an aid and smother Sydney in the fragrance to help him feel better.

Okay so work with me for Volcarona here, because in multiple pokedexes, Volcarona is said to have been revered as a sun deity, and while that isn't the case today anymore, it still is a very significant part of Volcarona's history, so finding one in the woods while on a walk someday and being followed by it to the temple, all the while acolytes and initiates are falling to their knees around you is not the thing Sydney was expecting, but still, Volcarona has chosen them, so might as well roll with it.

Finally, Dedenne was a living in the school library before Sydney found it chewing through books and decided to give it a better home, and now it lives with them. It likes to take care of the books as well, and has become the library's unofficial mascot.

so uhh yeah those were my thoughts, tell me what you think ?

[anika-kanroji16]

Does Goh deserve the hate?

Okay so if you don't know and I am sure you guys do know. Goh from Pokemon Journeys gets a lot of hate. Some I think for BULLSHIT REASONS. But today we gonna see why he gets hate and does he deserve it.

Now here the main reason well why many Pokemon YouTubers hate him and other people too.

"He catches too many Pokemon which loses the meaning of catches in the Pokemon anime" This. is. Stupid. For 1 reason. if you say he has no Emotional Connection to his Pokemon catches then Apparently Scorbunny, Grookey, Sobble, Suicune, Absol, White Fablabee, Cuibone, and Pincher do not exist to you. ESPECIALLY SCORBUNNY.

Exhibit A: Telling Scorbunny to not give up which makes Scorbuny want to be his partner and eventually he catches him. Scorbunny when Scorbunny wanted to do a Fire-type move He said if you can't do it just don't and that frustrated his Pokemon leading to an argument but then Goh finally understood Scorbunny's feelings and invented a fire type move. Another is his misunderstanding Raboot and almost abandoning it but even with that then he realizes that despite his disagreement with Raboot he cares about him still so he tries to get him.

Exhibit B :Another is Forcing Sobble to battle when he doesn't want to he makes up for it and apologizes When Sobble wants to train to be as good as he internally he uses a method that suits Sobble cowardly and scared cat nature instead of forcing him to do Pokemon battles and when he became Drizzlie he tried to force to make it happy but ended up learning about Drizzlie why forcing it was a bad idea and basically says "It okay if I don't understand what you going through I'll still be there" and connected with him deeper.

Exhibit C : A good example is him catching Suicune to save it from the Pokemon Hunters and being able to gain its trust through his actions

Exhibit D : Another time is he believes Aboel ain't no curse to the village which proves him innocent and leads Aboel to want to be caught by him

Exhibit E : Flabyee which leads to him finding a Flaybee's white flower does everything to find which leads him to leave Flaybee's to follow it dream of growing of those flowers.

Exhibit F : And Grookey because Grookey didn't want to stay with Team Rocket he wanted to stay with Goh and Goh wanted Grookey to be his partner too despite the fact that it's being from Team Rocket and when Grookey was forced to by Team Rocket, Goh protected it saying it doesn't want to go with you. In the episode where Grookey and Eevee go on an errand, we get a reunion of Goh and Grooky after being lost. And the Thameky episode where Goh gets to grow closer to Grookey in a sense.

With all these great examples so to say that "his catches makes Pokemon catches in Pokemon loses it's meaning" is just so fucking wrong and you just cheapening the catches that are meaningful. And it disgusted me to my core.

Another thing They like to call Goh a Mary Sue or Marty Sue for the males.

I am sorry but what is the definition of Mary or Marty Sue.

Mary/Mary Sue is Character which have no flaws.

Welp if you actually WATCH THE SHOW then you will know that he is not such a thing.

His main flaw is his inability to work together with other people like example when he wasn't able to work together with Gary during the raid battle it caused them to lose Gary basically said that Kindness might do more damage than good and also said Goh's main problem is cooperation with others and that made Goh remember Quillion's words in few episodes back when Quillion said the same thing. So to say That he's a perfect character is ridiculous it is even more ridiculous when a few episodes later Goh wants to go alone on a Project Mew mission and not be so attached to Ash. Plus Mary Sue means getting something that is not earned if Goh was a Mary Sue he would of earned an extra token during the Raid Battle Episode even tho he didn't deserve that extra token like Horace and Gary. But Goh didn't get an extra token and he knew deep down he needed to improve that why that flashback with Quillion's words came. All he got was a second chance to prove himself since he had the abilities and skills to be a Project Mew member and chaser he just needed to work on the cooperation. That alone made him a "Mary Sue" I am sorry so you saying that Ash NEVER did get a second chance like at all and don't you remember him getting some gym badges that he didn't earn at the start of the series. The only reason why Ash isn't a Mary or Marty sue for this is because his flaws are obvious to see at the start of the series and Misty and Brock remind him of the fact he didn't earn those two badges. And it is not all he didn't learn his lesson with cooperation because with Horace episode of them going to the same trial mission he worked together with Horace and with his trial mission with Gary was able to work together with him unlike last time and passed get to be a member of Project Mew. Just like with Ash finally earning a badge by himself.

Now let's go into another bullshit thing that they LOVE TO SAY ABOUT GOH

People like to hate on Goh is the fact he catches Pokemon too much and his goal was to catch them all people basically call him a Pokemon Hunter or say he just like Lawrence.

Which I will argue that you Goh haters are missing one TINY little detail separate Goh from Lawrence and Other Pokemon Hunters. Just one Tiny Detail.

You wanna know what it is

GOH CARES ABOUT HIS POKEMON!!!

He loves Pokemon, He cares about Pokemon, Have you seen Goh treat a Pokemon like How Team Rocket in XY treat Pokemon? No. You don't. You see him treat all of his Pokemon with kindness and respect. Have you seen Goh harm Pokemon or use freaking nets to trap the Pokemon inside? NO!! You don't. You seen him a Father to Grookey, A wingman for Pincher, who SAVES Suicune's LIFE and GAIN SUICUNE'S TRUST THOUGH HIS ACTIONS! A friend to Scorbunny and Cuibone and Believer in Axol and Sobble but NEVER and I mean NEVER TREATING POKEMON LIKE OBJECTS OR HURTING POKEMON!! So Goh haters calling him a Pokemon Hunter STFU. It is unbelievable for people to call him a pokemon hunter. WHEN HIS FUCKING ACTIONS IN THE SHOW SAYS OTHERWISE!!!

Not only that but his intentions are different

Pokemon Hunters: Catches Pokemon for profit

Lawrence III : See Pokemon as a collection.

Goh : Catches Pokemon to learn and understand them and cares about them too

Goh haters: I see no difference.

Use your brain that god fucking gives you. Or do you not have one.

And to say he isn't a great character or his role isn't interesting is simply not true. Goh is a character that explores the side of Pokemon that doesn't involve battling. You say Serena and Dawn but they do performances and you can say Gary but we don't see much of him to see that side so is a very good character and on top of that there his personality his relationships with Ash, Horace, Chloe and Gary ESPECIALLY HORACE AND ASH, It develops throughout the series and we get to his backstory too with Horace and His parents explaining how absent Goh's parents was in his life.

Now we only getting started I have learned from a YouTuber that Goh gets hate because he is queer and he made Ash fall in love with him since people assumed that he was straight.

People. You fell for Ash x Serena and Misty x Ash and assumed he was straight. And that was your first mistake. ;)

And I can say that for sure because Goh wasn't the first character that they had the goal of catching all Pokemon there was a girl in the manga and she gets WAY LESS HATE THAN GOH so it's probably because he is gay in truth. For this, I have to say

YOU HOMOPHOBIC BITCHES FUCK YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR!!! NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING GAY !!

I am not saying that all Goh haters are like this but I feel like most of them are.

Lastly People would hate on Goh because he is blaisan or black or just a black Pokemon character. And again those people FUCK THEM AND EVERYTHING THEY STAND FOR RACSIT ASS BITCHES.

In conclusion, Goh from Pokemon Jounreys, Doesn't deserve the hate he gets and it's fucking sad for him to get so much. But at the time even tho he gets haters there are a lot of people which LOVE HIM and I am one of those people and I wrote this post to say that Goh is an AMAZING CHARACTER AND I LOVE HIM TO BITS. He's awesome and amazing and the haters of him are just fking stupid.

[endergirlplayz]

Tf2 "pokemon teams"

pokemon teams is in big air quotes because theese aren't full teams amd ass I made theese I thought about more potential pokemon options so I'll make a note of what pokemon they have and what pokemon I'm thinking about adding to fill out there teams

Scout

Scout has a scorbunny and jolteon because those were the only pokemon I could think of for him (I think theese cod be added to tho!) As far as alternatives I saw someone mentioned exelgore which could work. I did at one point have an intrusive thought of giving him one of the sus pokemon (specifically, lopunny or vaporeon) but decided against it :Di was also just now thinking about it, maybe he could have a cyclizard

Medic :

Up front i should mention that Medic's pokemon were partially chosen based on how messed up there pokedex was or also vibes

Pokemon drifloon(loose nurse joy assosciation + steals children) , essspur ,pidove (arcimedis), yamask (let's be real here if medic could keep a human soul as a pet he probably would), and litwick (later chadellure ) (again messed up pokedex, kidnaps children and drags them to the afterlife, feeds of life force of humans).

Other options were wigglytuff (most messed up main nurse joy pokemon to me, once you start petting it you physically cannot stop, it can also expand to over 20× its soze whichis terifying ) or mimikyu (only not here bc he was givin to pyro)

Speaking of which

Pyro

Pyro has a rapidash, sylveon, fuecoco and mimikyu (idk if I gotta justify any of theese other than masked eldrich horror is mimikyu's whole thing and also fits pyros vibes good)

Other options were centiscoch, cyndiquill , magmortar, galarian rapidash

Spy

Spy and medic have the most fleshed out teams

Spy has a intellion, ditto, zoroark ,leopard, and indede

Some suggestions for spy other pokemon were froufrou and ... idk I forgot whelst writing this

soldier

Soldier has a braviary and a zigzagoon

other idea are bibbarel/ bidoof and staraptor

Demoman

Demoman gas some of the fewwest pokemon but the most ideas

He has a roggenrolla( or either evolution) and an electrode

Other ideas are aegislash, herdier/ stoutland, exploud , and maybe foretress

Heavy

Heavy has a blissy machamp and hariyama

I dont have any specific other pokemon he should have but I'm gonna be looking into ones that are bulky like him :3 (also was looking at beware, maybe that would work, or ursarang)

Sniper

sniper has a nictowland a Sandler ( it was supposed to be a krokorok but I couldn't get the intended effect of the image with that one.

Im also thinking sniperhas some silly/cute lil guys as poekemon, like munchlax, slow poke, spoink, or pinchirchin (snom? Maybe?)

Engineer

Engi has a magnazone and a rottom.

the only orher pokemon I've thought about giving him is tinkatuff

he's probbaly the merc I've put the least thought into the team of

anyway that's my lil surprise for yall, I'll try to draw more pokemom x tf2 stuff soon

[meteor752]

Dsmp Pokémon AU: Scarlet and Violet update

Yep we’re doing this

Just gonna go through the ol’ teams and see if there’s any updates I can make now that there’s some new guys, plus any changes I would make. Also I’m not adding any Pokémon to all the new people, I don’t even think I have a team to everyone on the server in the first place

Younguns

Tommy still has a good team. Okay not like good good, but it’s very Tommy. Wouldn’t change it

There’s some like, possible changes I would like to Tubbo’s team. Like, I gave him a Xatu and a Grookey for like no reason. I don’t know what if replace it with tho. Maybe a Galar Weezing? Or a Gumshoos? Idk. Tell me if you have any ideas yourself

Well we’re evolving Ranboo’s Girafarig to a Farigiraf. Other wise it’s still good

Gonna make a change to Purpled as well. Instead of Ambipom we’re adding Houndstone, cause it’s like purple-ish and that’s all I need. Dogchamp

Tommy Innit - Camerupt, Scorbunny, Galvantula, Shiny Galar Linoone, Exploud, Snom

Tubbo Schlatt - Beedrill, Mareep, Alola Vulpix, Ribombee, Xatu, Grookey (????)

Ranboo Beloved - Male Meowstic, Farigiraf, Zorua, Buneary, Axew, Umbreon

Purpled Bedwars - Mienshao, Espeon, Noibat, Shiny Gourgeist, Drapion, Houndstone

Feral three, or something

Okay so Dream’s team fucking suck. I intended for him to first have all green Pokémon, but then I gave him a Drifblim for some fucking reason. So yeah we’re changing this quite a bit. Removing the Breloom, Serperior and Manetric, we’re instead adding Tatsugiri, Shiny Espeon, and Scovillain

George’s team is still pretty good. I still like it

I didn’t give Karl a fucking Spinda, I’m disappointed in myself. Replacing the Furret

Dream Wataken - Sceptile, Tyranitar, Drifblim, Tatsugiri, Shiny Espeon, Scovillain

George Notfound - Quagsire, Komala, Walrein, Snorlax, Foongus, Munna

Karl Jacobs - Poliwag, Spinda, Tangela, Croagunk, Noctowl, Stufful

Puffychu

Puffy’s team is still pretty good. No real gripes here honestly

I’m gonna remove Niki’s Fennekin and Vaporeon, and evolve her Cottonee to a Whimsicott. I’m giving Niki a Flamigo cause it’s just sorta funny, and a Dachsbun as a throwback to her bakery days

Puffy Schlatt- Flaaffy, Dubwool, Altaria, Dhelmise, Empoleon, Archeops

Nikki Nihachu - Female Pyroar, Dachsbun, Milotic, Mimikyu, Whimsicott, Flamigo

Prank duo or smt

We’re gonna evolve the Fennekin to a Delphox and give it to Fundy in exchange for his Bronzong. Partly cause fox, and partly cause it’s Furry bait! Which is funny! The rest remains the same

Replacing Eret’s Gothitelle to instead have Kingambit, cause it’s a king Pokémon that evolved through the betrayal and massacre of their fellow kind. Sorry queen

Fundy Soot - Thievul, Vulpix, Delphox, Mienfoo, Scizor , Marowak

Eret King, - Mawhile, Salazzle, Garchomp, Meowstic female, Kingambit, Seviper

Foolsamponk

Immediately giving Foolish a Garganacl, cause it kinda looks like building blocks. We’re replacing Cubone for it.

Giving Sam a Mabosstiff instead of Elgyem, cause it kinda has that guard dog vibe, and I can see it t training up his Lillipup

Ponk gets a Grafaiai instead of their Slakoth

Foolish Gamrs - Gofagrigus, M Arodactyl, Shieldon, Sharpedo, Sensu Oricorio, Garganacl

Sam Awedude - Fran the Lillipup, Ferrothorn, Golurk, Magnezone, Turtonator, Mabosstiff

Ponk Obsby, Medic in training - Tropius, Blissey, Bounsweet, M Pidgeot, Grafaiai, Bellsprout

Jack Manifold only

Sad little man

Jack’s team are just…good Pokémon. Diverse team. He’s been at the gym challenge for ten years, he’s built up a good team

Not changing anything

Jack Manifold- Druddigon, Raichu, Pyroar male, Talonflame, Aggron, Samurott

Skephalo

We’re changing Rat from being a Rockruff to being a Fidough, mostly cause it’s the most Bad Pokémon ever lol.

Skeppy’s team is either pranksters, Gem related, tounge users, or a combination of the three. We’re keeping it that way

Bad. B. Halo - Shroomish (Muffin), Walrein (Mr Squee Gee), Chansey (Eggsy), Blitzle (Roberto), Hydreigon (Snappy), Fidough (Rat)

Skeppy Halo- M Sableye, Carbink, Impidimp, Gigalith, Lickitung, Gengar

Velvetfrost

(See I say that but I’ve only given Velvet one Pokémon sooooo…yeah)

Antfrost needs to have the fucking weed cat. We’re getting rid of Sneasel, not even a real cat, and giving him Sprigatitio. The moment I saw this cat I knew Ant was getting it

Velvet has a Cherubi. This is because I don’t know much about Velvet. I’m adding on a Milcery, because baking/cake related and it sorta looks like cu-*Gunshot*

(If someone has any suggestions for a Velvet team I’ll gladly take ‘em)

Antfrost Cake, - Purugly, Delcatty, Liepard, Persian, Sprigatito, Torracat

R.Velvet Cake - Cherubi, Milcery

Punzie

Punz is the same as Jack in that his Pokémon are mainly just…good Pokémon. I am changing his Dewott to a Lokix tho

Punz Bedwars - Absol, Greninja, Lucario, Zangoose, Bisharp, Lokix

Human man

I’m giving Charlie a Clodsire. Don’t care if it ain’t really goo, it’s goo enough and it has zero braincells. It’s perfect

Charlie Slimesicle, - Muk, Goodra, Ditto, Slugma, Clodsire, Gulpin

Fast as fuck boiiii

Connor has fast boys. The fastest Pokémon added were like, the box art legendaries and I’m not giving him those. He keeps his team

Connor Eapans - Togudemaru, Rapidash, Ninjask, Accelgor, Jolteon, Sandshrew

Shady business man

Out of the originals, Schlatt was the only one I didn’t give a full team. We’re changing that today. Mans getting a Wooloo from his sister, a Paldean Tauros, and a Gholdengo

J. Schlatt, -Gogoat, Combee, Wooloo, Purrloin, Paldean Tauros, Gholdengo

ᓭℸ ̣ ∷ᔑリ⊣ᒷ ᒲᔑリ

Callahan keeps his Sawsbuck

Gym leaders

We’re switching Hannah’s steenee for a dolliv. I would give her Arboliva but she’s the first gym aight.

HBomb gets a Tinkatuff cause I think it’s funny. We’re removing Sylveon

New duck Pokémon means new Duckie for Quackie! I’d love to give him a Quaquaval, but he’s gym three so like, damn boy. Quaxwell it is, swapped out with Golduck

Wilbur keeps his team. Was thinking of giving him Annihilape, but it’s too strong.

Switching Sapnap’s Infernape for Armarouge

Philza keeps his team, but switching his extra Tepic for Lechonk

Drista keeps her team (I’d give her Roaring Moon if I could but it’s like from 3000 years ago or smt, she ain’t that powerful)

Switching Techno’s Abomasnow for Baxcalibur

Hannah X. Rose, - Roserade, Dolliv, Petilil (Venusaur, Bellossom, Gossifleur)

Haitch Bomb- Fairy Terra Skitty, Spritze, Tinkatuff (Mime Jr, Granbull, Gardevoir)

Alex Quackity - Ludicolo, Ducklett, Quaxwell (Hawlucha, Politoed, Tepig)

Wilbur Soot - Banette, Froslass, Mismagius (Jigglypuff, Wooloo, Krookodile)

Sapnap Halo - Armarouge , Alola Marowak, Houndoom (Pancham, Chimchar, Charizard)

Philza Minecraft - Honchcrow, Corviknight, Male Unfezant (Lechonk, Pluzle, Phantump)

Drista Wataken - Flygon, Haxorus, Salamence (Lopunny, Kadabra, Mareanie)

Techno Blade - Mamoswine, Baxcalibur, Beartic (Steve) (Doublade, Emboar, Beldum)

[cautionszz]

elaboration under cut

gen 1: i have long standing decisions on some that i cannot change. scyther is not one of them. dratini, growlithe, and nidoran are. i have a butterfree sticker on my headphones. irl bias. seel is there because i am the silliest seal. i like haunter because they are funny

gen 2: i fucking ADORE the cyndaquil line. i dont think i wouldve cared much for heracross a few years ago but i like them now. wooper is a funny little guy. i remember tyranitar used to be one of the only bigger pokemon i liked. i forgot to make umbreon unshiny i like the normal one more. I LOVE MARILLLLLL FUNNY BLUE THING

gen 3: i have always loved skitty that is me. i look like that. blaziken being put on the julia lookalikes tierlist gives it funny lore points. relicanth is the only reason i remember what coelacanths are called and also i like funny fish. PLUSLE IS ALSO ME MORESO THAN SKITTY. wurmple is one of the best pokemon ever made. im obsessed with absol for reasons i cannot recall. jirachi is star shaped. i always thought mawile was suuuuupppper coool and i still do. regice is funny i like the regis. not the new ones those arent my regis.

gen 4: i dont have strong opinions on this generation other than buisel, shaymin, and garchomp. i like knifehands garchomp. i have a few darkrai cards i really like. one of these sounds like a mispronunciation of my irl name

gen 5: deerling my sweet baby oughhgjhfjhjfh i love the pink one most of the non shinies. fall sawsbuck ftw tho. i LOVE the litwick line. oshawott final evo not even that bad but the 2nd is better. i have a little snivy toy! its head moves i love it. joltik and cubchoo are longtime favs. i meant to change shiny scolipede back to normal whirlipede the purple is very pretty. FUNNY FISH. emolga sticker bias again. crussel bc of a bit with my brother. zorua..... :)). AUDINO MY LOVE!!!!!!!!

gen 6: furfrou sticker bias again! i like normal furfrou also but i wanted to put my fav special one too. skrelp is an incredible name. i like noiverns colors a little more but noibats shaped good. ESPURR IS MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! i have a sylveon plushie keychain his name is dort i love him. carbink & diancey have funny bunny ears and are shiny :))

GEN 7: toucannon is on my team. salandit is funny. i . i love guzma.... i had to put golisopod.. my fomantis is named HURBLE. yellow oricorio is another one that looks like me. I HAVE AN ALOLAN RAICHU PLUSHIE IVE HAD HER FOR LIKE 6-7 YEARS I LOOOOOOOOOVE HERRRRRR. her name is uh. lola. i dont necessarily love alolan sandshrew i just wanted to put them in somewhere. i like sandshrew. lycanroc!!! mines named rocky road. i liked taking pictures of jangmo-o running around. grimer is banished to the boxes but is named britney spear because of toxic. in my comfey cozy i like comfeys name. MY LITTEN his name is guy fieri (after an orange cat nicknamed "guy"!) and i will never evolve him.

gen 8: i named my scorbunny ak-47 for some reason. FUNNY FISH. another pikachu clone :3 uhh tangentially relevant i really like piers his hair is funnnnnyyyyy. SSSSSSSNNNNNNNOOOOOOOMMMM!!! funny poney. carkol has a VERY funny face. galarian zigzagoon is perfect

gen 9: wugtrio is fun to say. floragato looks like a plausible real fursona. NUUUUUUUURRRRMAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL aka frigibax. his real name is nurmal and he is my funny little guy. FUNNY CAR

various favs: funny bird. i have a flareon in firered and also they would be so good to hug theyre so fluffy. gigantimax alcremie is clever! funny blue thing is back. listen. scream tail looks like jesse. thats jessepuff. fairy, dark, ghost types are generally my favs and i feel like psychic goes with those. i have a heal ball toy!

team reasoning: fav starter final evo, haunter is my favorite ever, guys i have plushies of, chandelure bc i love that line, and espurr. is me. my team is bad on purpose i am NOT coordinating im having fun

overall? gen 7 SLAPS and i am VERY BAD AT REMEMBERING NAMES i like. cant remember half of these. and

nurmal.

pkmn favs!

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AA FAVORITE POKEMON

phoenix: he likes the first gens a lot, probably a huge squirtle fan

apollo: either scorbunny or arcanine. no particular reason honestly, just vibes

athena: deerling!! i think its pretty obvious why

trucy: because of phoenix, she also likes first gens and thinks the alolan ninetails is really really cool. also tangela because :))

klavier: GALARIAN MR MIME. THIS IS PROBABLY VERY OOC BUT I FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABT THIS

and thats the only ones i can think of kjsdngljkds

SOOO sorry for responding late to this. but i LOVE all of these choices <3. Phoenix is definitely someone who would be a big first gen fan <3 ive never heard of him with a squirtle tho :O.. tho i do think that it works actually :3!

scorbunny and arcanine for Apollo.... i rlly like scorbunny for him a lot <3 it matches him quite well <3 the scorbunny's ears match his hair horns its perfect for him. I cant say much for arcanine but... yeah! i like it

ATHENA WITH A DEERLING...... i love that so much thats adorable... its perfect <3 i like deerling a lot this ask reminded me that i used to have a deerling plush

YEAHHHH.. i. have a hc that Phoenix introduced Trucy to pokemon so <3 that definitely would influence what their favorite pokemon would be. Alolan ninetales definitely feels like a very. Trucy pokemon. yknow? It makes perfect sense for her <3 Tangela... huh. I like it! Some love for that funny little guy <3

GALARIAN MR MIME FOR KLAVIER... alskdfk.. i.. like that alot i think its funny sdklfv I would love to hear the reasoning behind this one if u do have one <3 it. is good now that im thinking about it jinedkfjbknwl

I was planning on making doodles for all of these (and i still want to do that! drawing these i think is fun) but.. my tablet wasnt charging for a bit </3 i managed to get the first one done tho!

so here :3!

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Love Doesn’t Do Encores Ch10 Battle Gym Leader Nessa

(Will have a reference to Pokemon Twilight Wings Series.)

You slept well that night. The hotel wasn't too far from the Hulbury stadium so it wasn't a very long walk from where you four left the light house and stationed yourselves for the night. Not before dishing out the rations between the four of you. You were a lot lower on food than you thought and surprised you hadn't noticed earlier. A month's walk drained almost all of the food you had aside from a few packets of dried fruits. Thank goodness for restocking. The next morning wasn't anything too different. Gloria and Hop of course wanted to stop by the stadium and get one of them that spot to battle Nessa before another trainer took it. Huh. You wonder how the battle between her and Bede went the other day? Victor mentioned wanting to go back towards the Hulbury Aquarium and offered for you to come with them but you had other plans for the day.

"Hey, Y/n. Since Glory and Hop's going to be busy all day considering would you like to come with me to the aquarium?, Victor offered after the two of you had dug through your rations for breakfast. Your Sobble tiredly yawning on your shoulder rubbing at his eyes.

You shook your head. "No thanks. I actually wanted to check out that market down by the docks. I heard they sell all kinds of trinkets and stuff and it's been a while since I was able to go somewhere by myself and have some me time."

He nodded in understanding before smiling. "Alright then. You guys know where I'll be if you change your minds."

The two of you parted ways outside the hotel before you headed back up the road towards the docks. Already in the morning the place was all a buzz with ship horns blaring off in the distance and a few people walking around. It was a nice day with the salty smell of the ocean, the gently breeze, not being too hot but nice and warm, etc. It was a very nice day that filled your tired body with a happy feeling as you inhaled deeply. The small market place was past the restaurant and just across the docks past the convenience store you had visited the other day for supplies. It wasn't really big. There was only about five stalls set up alongside a concrete wall with one or two picnic tables a little bit a ways from them. A few people were already there looking at the stalls or sitting at the tables to eat or just to sit. Walking over you strolled up to the first stall that sold a few random things like flowers, dishes, and a couple clothes hanging up. The man handling it was talking up some of the flower pots but you weren't too interested in those so shortly after moved on. The other four were a fruit stand, someone selling records, another one selling random objects, but the last one had you notice something. Sweet smells of perfumes and spices wafted from it the closer you gotten to it. And it didn't take too long for you to find out why. A young lady was there surrounded by a bunch of incense. She smiled as you stopped to admire all the sweet smells and gave a greeting.

"Get a whiff of that fragrance! Doesn't it smell sweet?," she asked holding out some sweet smelling sticks that smelt of lilacs, "How about some incense for you, Girl? Good for meditation, yoga, relaxing, or just making a room smell nice. And it all natural so it's safe for pokemon too and helps them destress....As long as they don't eat it. Non edible."

"Destress huh?,'' you pondered looking at your sobble who seemed more interested in staring at the food stand with hungry eyes despite just eating breakfast a while ago. Considering how spooked this lil guy could be, it might be a good idea. "....What scents to you have exactly?"

You ended up using the twenty dollar bill you had saved forever now to buy some of the sea and rose scented incense and then later one or two apples at the fruit stand since your sobble kept jumping on your shoulder and chirping in it's directed until you finally did so. All of it costing almost half your money leaving you from twenty dollars to twelve dollars and some change. You found yourself wondering over until you sat down at one of the picnic tables so your sobble could sit and eat and give your poor shoulders a break from carrying it all the time. Granted Sobble wasn't really that heavy, about half the weight of a small cat, but it was nice to be able to stretch your shoulders and neck out without worrying about accidentally knocking him off. Lazily you watched it make happy noises as it greedily ate as if you didn't already give it a big breakfast about an hour ago. It was still pretty early in the morning so it you really hadn't anything to do other than just sit here and watch your sobble. But it was refreshing. With a sigh you closed your eyes and slowly put your head down on the table. The only problem with having a bunch of free time is that your brain slowly fills itself with thoughts you might not want. Like now. You had been gone for what must've been a little over a month now. How worried was your mom? She must've been worrying herself sick if you were gone for this long without any notice or clues or anything. And(tho you were HIGHLY doubtful now-) if this all IS some kind of dream universe it was certainly the longest one you ever experienced. Not only that, but you were SURELY not going to be able to start college just like you wanted. You'd have to wait another year just to start it and that's only if considering you'd be able to go home after this whole journey has finished. It was the only way you could think of that you could go back, once this is over. If it'll ever be-

"I can NOT believe this!," an angry woman's voice piped up. Startled you jumped up and blinked light rushing back into your vision.

"Calm down, Ness. Don't make a big scene in public." ....That voice sounded familiar.

"I AM calm. I'm just restocking my incense before I head back!" Now that you think about it, that angry voice sounded familiar too.

Blinking you turned around to look behind you, and your eyes widened at what you saw. Two ladies were at the incense stand with their backs towards you, one with bright orange hair and a coat you recognized and the other wore a black cap and shirt.

"First he said I should stop modeling and now he's breathing down my neck because I just happened to lose to his endorsed challenger!,'' Cap Lady growled out as she waved her hand. "I mean yeah, usually I'm busy so I cut back to one challenger a day! That doesn't mean I lost my touch as a gym leader!" She paused as the lady manning the stall held out a small paper bag of incense to her similar to the one you had. "Oh..Thank you. It just drives me up a wall just thinking about it!"

"Then don't think about it," Orange hair replied patting her friend on the back, "It'll only stress you out before your other gym match today."

Cap Lady sighed. "You're right, Sonia...As usual. It just ticks me off knowing he's in town just to see you too no less and buddy up with the crowd!! It makes me angry!"

"Sonia?"

The orange haired woman turned to you immediately as you stared back, her friend turning too and that's when you recognized the other woman too. She smiled. "Hey, Y/n! Fancy meeting you here! Haven't seen you in a while." She fully turned to you now and walked over her friend following.

You casually waved where you sat and gave a tired smile. "Yeah. Honestly wasn't expecting to see you here either. What are you doing here?"

She gestured to none other than Nessa next to her. "I was chatting with an old friend before she needed to go. Since you're here I assume Gloria can only be here as well."

You nodded. "Yeah. I'm pretty sure she's at the stadium right now." Your gaze slowly shifted over to nessa as you spoke and you waved again. "Hello again. Nice weather you guys have here."

Nessa smiled. "Yeah. It's usually warm and sunny here all year round being the coast and all. You should visit the beach if you ever get the chance."

You shrugged. "I might. I mean I guess my sobble could use the chance to swim."

"Well, that all depends. Is your sobble a freshwater or saltwater sobble?"

"There's a difference?"

"Hey wait a minute!" Both of you turned to Sonia who was looking between the two of you with a confused look on her face. "You two know each other?"

"Sort of. She helped me out with some stuff yesterday, I didn't even know she was the gym leader until someone told me," you explained with a shrug, "I just appreciate anyone who helps carry groceries."

"Oh. I see. What are you doing here if Gloria is I assume at the stadium?," she asked.

You gestured to your sobble as it spat out an apple seed. "Someone wanted more food. I'm telling you he's worse than a kid hyped up on sugar once he sees the stuff." Both of you jumped at a ....snort? Blinking you looked at Nessa and noticed her holding her mouth and chuckling.

"I-I'm so sorry," she giggled out, "That's just the funniest thing that I've heard all day while stressing out. U-U-Usually people don't say that about s-s-sobble care."

You blinked. "Oh yeah?"

Sonia nodded as Nessa's giggles slowly fizzled out. "Usually sobbles are....how do you say it?...Massive cry babies that'll cry at the tiniest things like a baby would. It happened ALL the time with my Granny gave a trainer their first pokemon." She groaned closing her eyes as if the memory gave her instant annoyance and headaches. "They don't get an extra snack? BOOM! Crying! They trip the littlest, I mean tiniest bit. Crying! You're too busy to pet them? Crying! Forget playtime? CRYING! And don't get me started on the amount of times I had to buy Sobble Eye Drops for all the stinging and headaches. It's like walking on eggshells until they evolve into a drizzile! It's why a bunch of trainers rather chose scorbunny or grookey than a sobble." She pointed towards yours who had finished eating and began crawling it's way over to you. "In fact, the sobble Granny gave Leon for the trainers he endorsed was the pokemon who stayed in our care the longest. She must've had it for at least since it hatched and was given to her. It was such a little wimp clinging to her all the time...I never really had mush patience for them."

You jolted when something tugged on your arm, calming yourself once you noticed it was just your pokemon. "...Really?"

With a frown Nessa sighed. "She's right. Sobbles are much better suited for older more patient people. They aren't exactly really popular pokemon among starting trainers who are eager to start their journey. Most end up for adoption to pokemon centers or abandoned to the wild because the person decides it's not worth it to have their eyes burning after every battle or basically raise what could essentially be a child in their eyes." Her eyes suddenly narrowed. "I remember once Raihan came all the way to Hulbury just to give me a sobble someone carelessly discarded at his gym after they lost. The poor thing was so confused and scared. It was a miracle I found someone who loved it. Much more than the thoughtless trainer who never gave it a second thought. Pokemon aren't just toys you can give away or leave lying around after you decided you outgrew them."

"THAT'S AWFUL!!,'' you shouted feeling an anger grow in you as one hand instinctly came up to grab your sobble who chirped in confusion at your actions, both women giving you looks of surprise at your shout. How could anyone DO such a horrible thing!? That's like the equivilant of someone getting a brand new puppy and then not wanting to deal with the work and attention that goes into it and then straight up abandoning it to the streets in your world!! "How could anyone do such a thing?! That's like...So not ok!"

"Well....That is very true. Its not ok. But it seems to be you and your sobble have a very special connection," Nessa said gesturing towards your sobble making Sonia take a double take at you as well.

"Huh. Now that you mention it he does looked rather relaxed. He usually never looked so comfortable before Granny gave him to Leon."

"Really?,'' you asked, "He seemed pretty ok so far. Cried like...only one time but that might be cuz he was pushed over by these rockstar wannabes."

To that the ladies seemed lightly surprised. "Really now? Well then you must have lots of patience then. Sobbles usually tend to work better with people who have lots of patience or a motherly personality."

"And considering you mentioned never having a pokemon before I'm kinda impressed too. You must be a natural babysitter!," Sonia joked. You huffed and rolled your eyes at her joke. Yeah. You sure felt like one sometimes during your journey so far.

"Oh, Scales!" You blinked backed towards Nessa as she now held up her phone to her face with a frown before looking back towards you and Sonia. "Hey. Sorry but I have to bounce. I have to stop by home then head to the gym really quick if I'm going to make it to that match on time." Turning with a smile she waved. "I'll see you later Sonia. It was nice seeing you again too, Miss. good luck with that sobble of yours."

As she walked away, the both of you waved as you watched her go before Sonia turned back to you. "Hey. If you're not really busy, would you like to come to the docks with me?" She held up a small clear plastic bag with, what looked like to you at least, dog kibble with a smile. "There's always a small school of chinchou everyone likes to feed there. I always like to visit whenever I come to Hulbury."

You paused considering her words for a moment. It would be nice to have more time with another person around your age before you had to go back for a bit and they wouldn't be expecting you for a while. So it should be fine. With a shrug you stood up. "Sure! I don't think I've ever seen a chinchou anyways."

Smiling she gestured for you to follow. "C'mon. We're pretty close anyways. I think you'd really like them."

She was right. The small market area was right across from the docks anyways, so it took less than five minutes to reach the docks. You followed her onto the pathways on the water and looked over the edge. The crystal blue water acting like a mirror letting you see your reflection and your sobble's as it blinked big innocent eyes at the water. You nearly bumped into her when she stopped and already had the bag open with her hand inside rummaging around until she pulled out a small handful of the kibble. With a toss they all went into the clear water sending small ripples as they floated and bobbed on the mirror water. That was until almost instantly bubbles appeared from under them and in a flurry of lightbulb antennas and blue skin tons of tiny little creatures swam to the surface and the floating kibble was devoured by the pokemon. You blinked as you watched them swim around. There must've been around ten of them all swimming about here. You blinked as the bag was suddenly held out to you with a smile from Sonia.

"Do you wanna feed them a little? This pokemon food is specifically made for water type pokemons' tastes," she offered.

"Yeah! Thanks!" You happily took some from her and a small blue hand tried to reach out for it too as you pulled away and gave your sobble a look. It stared at you for a moment before chirping and grabbing your nose. "*sigh* Fine." With a sigh and roll of your eyes, you silently held one piece of the kibble up to him and watched as he grabbed it from you and popped it into his mouth. Before tossing more kibble at the peeping lanturn fish like pokemon still swimming around. As before they began devouring it. "They sure are hungry huh?"

"Always are," Sonia replied tossing some more kibble to them. "It's a really popular thing to do around here if you aren't visiting the stadium or Aquarium or eating at the famous cafe up the road. Since there's a battle later today with Nessa I suspect that's why it's so vacant."

You smiled. "Yeah. I just hope everything goes well for them later today. Hop and her seemed pretty excited to go battling Nessa."

Sonia nodded. "I can't blame them. When Leon and I were they're age we were excited over battling the gym leaders too." She smiled at some distant long memory. "In fact, it seemed like it was just yesterday I was right here feeding some Chinchou and then Leon came out of no where and fell in the water! S-Said he d-d-didn't even know how he got there looking for the stadium." She giggled and you couldn't help but smile back.

"Oh. Is that anything like the time I heard he somehow ended up on top of a barn?" Sonia snorted. "Or the time he went out to catch a train and somehow ended up back in front of his house?"

"That happened?"

You nodded. "Oh yeah. He ended up waiting for me to thank me for the two's Slumbering Weild field trip after it happened. I have no idea how."

She chuckled. "Neither do I. Lee's always had a bad sense of direction just like his Da-" She froze. The once smile and cheery attitude replaced by a look of mild panic before she coughed and tossed some more kibble towards the chinchou. "Hey. Look at how cute they are today. They look like such healthy wild chinchou. Don't you think?"

It was her attempting to deflect away from what she already said. You knew that and personally you wouldn't really bother looking into it as 1. It was really none of your business and you hated budding into someone else's business and 2. you didn't feel up to making Sonia more uncomfortable than she already looked...But you couldn't help yourself since this was the second time this has happened. ...That's right. She did a similar thing at the Opening Ceremony when she asked you not to mention what she said to anyone. By now you had completely forgotten about that moment with everything that's been going on and at the time just brushed it off having more important things to worry about. But now....You looked at her and by the look in her eyes she knew what you were about to ask.

"That's right. I spent a few days between their houses and I saw their families. And I met their mothers. And Hop's grandparents." You fully turned to her with a raised brow. "And Hop's older brother. And Gloria's brother. But not have I ever once seen any of their dads nor had they even mentioned them. So that's begging the question of where's the missing link then isn't it?"

There was a pregnant silence between the two of you as you stared at her expectantly and Sonia stared back down at the water, seemingly trying to process the situation she found herself in. The only sounds was the boat horns from the docks, and the splashing around and noises of the chinchou as they still begged for more of the kibble Sonia held. And after more silence your expression softened and a guilty feeling bubbled up. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to ask. Even if you were traveling with them it was none of your business really. So you went to apologize.

With a sigh, Sonia finally seemed to find her words and turned to you with a sad but serious look. "I...understand if you're concerned or curious. I'd be too all things considering. But I really CANT tell you anything since it's not my place to say....By now you obviously noticed they just..aren't there and let's leave it as that."

You nodded. "Hey. I'm..I-I'm sorry. I know it's none of my business. I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable."

She shook her head. "No. To be honest you wouldn't be the first one to ask that question to Leon or anyone else and you probably won't be the last. But if you could do us both a solid and not tell anyone about this it'd be great."

"Believe me, I was about to ask you the same thing." You smiled. "Trust me. I won't tell us a soul."

"Thank you, Y/n. I'm glad you understand."

"Hey. Of course!"

So.....No fathers in the picture huh? A strange feeling settled into your guts that was something akin to feeling extremely guilty. And a....strange feeling of familiarity of it all for your own reasons...Then the reality hit you. In a memory of what happened back at the inn back in Motostoke. In the very slip up Sonia had made before that you had passed off until now-

"And thanks for taggin' along with the kids this far. I know we're practically strangers but there's just....I don't know....really good aura about you. I'm sure Lee appreciates it too. He's always so worried about Hop. He practically raised him after all-" All of a sudden it was like a switch flipped off in her mind and her happy smile went to a sudden shocked face. "Oh no. I didn't mean to mention that. Please forget I even said that."

You had pretty much pieced it together right after remembering that. For some reason, in one way or another, Hop and the twins had no fathers and Leon as Sonia said must've practically filled the role in which a father figure would fill. This would sum up a lot of the things you've bared witness too. Hop and Gloria's infatuation with Leon(especially on Hop's end), they're desire to climb their way up the ranks and make him proud-..Heck. Leon's behavior know that you think about it could've been summed up as brotherly...or fatherly. Sponsoring two (although it was VERY clear he was full on ready to just endorse Victor as well no questions asked if he hadn't made the choice of not competing in the Gym Challenge) kids for the challenge which as you came to know wasn't typical of a Galar Champion, buying you and them all those supplies and stuff, and with what Sonia said just set that fact in concrete. And....While that did make you feel guilty and sad for them...At the end of the day it really was none of your business. Any moment or day now you could wake up back home and none of this would have mattered, and you shouldn't really butt in between their business. Especially since you weren't planning on staying in the long run. Plus...you were trying NOT to uproot the game's progress as much as possible or no more than you might've already had done if at all with your actions. You might've not remembered how the game went entirely but you knew you were on the right track. For now at least. You continued to make small talk with Sonia about how her research was going and your trip over before deciding it was best to part ways there and bid her farewell before heading back towards the stadium. Nessa mentioned leaving to make sure she arrived on time. You wondered if Gloria was battling her right now?...Well you soon found out the answer to that question.

when you were just making your way up to the resturaunt your stomach grumbled. Making you wince a bit. Huh. Guess you were out for longer than you thought if you got hungry. Glancing up to the cafe you wondered how much a simple meal would cost? It was supposed to be famous for their food after all. With a shrug you decided on entering and seeing if they had anything your measly twelve dollars could buy. Fancy was the first word that came to mind when you entered through the double doors and a bell rung off. A woman at a front desk was the first thing to greet you along with some kind of pokemon you didn't recognize. It seemed the theme of the whole place was blue and white, giant tables lined the area with table setting and napkins fancily folded into boat like shapes, a MASSIVE window looking over the stadium, and a bar like area near the far right walls with another pair of double doors you assumed lead to the kitchen. The only other people there besides you and the lady was a man behind the bar counter who was talking on the phone with someone.

The woman smiled at you. "Greetings and welcome to the Hulbury Seafood Restaurant!" She greeted with a bow. "Do you happen to have a reservation or would like to make one?"

"Uh-..." You shook your head. Oh man. Was this one of those places where you HAD to make a reservation in order to eat? "Not exactly. I just heard your food was pretty good."

The woman still smiled. "Oh. Well then I'd be more than happy to seat you by the-"

"AHH!" Both of you jumped when a thud rang out which turned out to be the man in the chef hat slamming down the phone he was previously talking to.

"Chef, what on earth is the matter?," the woman asked.

The chef pointed to the phone scowl on his face. "My delivery boy just called. Apparently he's caught a cold and can't make it today! Out of all the days I need him most." The old man grabbed at his grey hair. "I have all these orders and no one to take them. The Chairman could show up any minute for his reservation but instead he's going to be present with angry customers calling for their orders and our reputation as Hulbury's greatest restaurant will be tarnished!!"

"Well...I could run out and deliver a few," the woman suggested.

"And leave your post!? OH no no no! That'd look even more bad if no one was here to greet them in while I cook!" He slumped forward. "This is an utter disaster! What am I to do?"

You looked between the two of them before slowly holding up your hand. "Um...If you'd like, I'd like to help."

Immediately the chef snapped his head up and blinked at you. Before a suspicious look came over his face as he looked you over. "You, Young Lady? You would please help us deliver some food?"

You nodded. "I mean..Yeah. It looks like you guys are pretty.." You gave a glance at the empty place. "-busy at the moment and I'd like to help."

After looking you up and down a few more moments the chef sighed before shrugging. "Why not? I have nothing else to lose in this moment anyhow." He reached under a counter and beckoned you to come over to which you complied before placing a small take out box onto the counter. "Thank you. I truly appreciate it. Tell you what. If you manage to deliver all the take out orders then I'll prepare you my famous 'Lucky Egg' dish as thanks. How does that sound?"

You mouth watered just thinking about free food. This just might be your lucky day after all. You nodded with a smile and took the box from him. "Sure! Sounds fair enough. Where do I deliver this one?"

He paused for a moment...before he rubbed the back of his neck. "Oh uh. Well as for where to deliver the food.....Sorry. We've been so stressed out for the Chairman's visit I forgot to ask for an address." You stared at him. .....WHAT!? "B-But I heard a clickity clack sound from the phone when I took the first order. Maybe that's a clue as to where to go?"

..........You sighed. "Yeah..Don't worry about it. I'll figure it out somehow."

"That's the spirit! Come back as soon as you're done delivering that one! And hurry please. Oh! And here. Take this notepad with you. They'll have to sign off on it so I can send the bill."

You had no idea what you had gotten yourself into this time. With a groan you exited the restaurant and spotted a peculiar sight to behold. There was Gloria standing just outside the restaurant as you approuched with her back to you and you soon saw what she was staring at. A little ways from her standing in the middle of the road was HIM. Mareep Head-..Er. I mean Bede who looked bored and in front of him was....It was her. The same woman from your dream and the Opening Ceremony as well. And in front of her was...No. It COULDN'T be!! In front of them was a group of about six to eight people, but with that group was none other than the CHAIRMAN himself!!...Tho he looked a little different than the other times you've seen him. You didn't expect to see Nessa outside of her gym leader suit, but you hadn't been caught too much off guard. The chairman however was a different story. Instead of that professional slim fitting suit he wore a baseball cap, slip on white shoes, sunglasses, .....a sweater that showed how chubby he was actually under his suit, and blue shorts with white polka dots to top it all off. You could only star at the man...Was this-....This COULDN'T have been the same professional high standing man that ran the whole Galar Region! He looked like someone's Dad on a lazy day. ...You chuckled which startled Gloria into giving a yelp and whipping around to see you and the box you held.

"Holy Magikarp, Y/n! You nearly gave me a heart attack!"

"Sorry....Hey. What are you doing all the way over here? I thought you were having a battle today."

She sighed. "We got hungry just waiting for Nessa so Hop suggested I go grab us something while he holds our place. What are you doing?" She noticed the box you held and pointed at it. "And what's that?"

"Long story short is that I agreed to be the fill in delivery boy for a bit." You nodded past her towards the group. "Hey uh...Gloria, is that who I think it is?"

She turned around and with a huff she crossed her arms and frowned. "Yeah. The Cottonee so full of himself he needs a garden hose to wash the ego from his brain!"

".....Uh..Actually I was talking about the chairman over there, but I guess Bede's here too yes."

"Oh...Well yeah. It's weird just walking around the corner and seeing him right that. Like..what the bloody heck are those shorts?"

"Y'know I was thinking the same thing." You two continued to watch in bewilderment as the chairman smiled and spoke with the small group of people, before the woman suddenly stepped in front of him as he was about to shake another person's hand.

She held up a hand. "Our sincerest apologies," she spoke with a calm and professional tone, "The chairman is quite busy at the moment. Everyone please disperse. Please leave now."

The crowd murmered but eventually slowly parted ways, one woman saying. "Ok. See you later, Chairman."

"Oh h-hey! No need to rush off! I can still do autographs!," the chairman called after them raising a hand, "I'll even give you my pokemon league card!" To your surprise no one really paid attention and kept walking besides you and Gloria...And you rose a brow. With a sigh he turned back to the woman. "we need the support of our fans to keep doing what we're doing. Chasing them off like that. Aren't you being a little too harsh, Oleana?"

"Fans are very important of course," the woman, who must've been Oleana explained, "That's why you need to keep doing your work for their sake."

"I promise to do everything in my power to assist you too, Chairman!," Bede butted in proud of himself. Huh. Maybe Gloria had a point.

The chairman gave him a look for a moment before raising a brow. "Oh. And you were?"

Maybe it was just your imagination most likely, but you could've sworn you saw Bede frown for a moment before he answered, "Bede, Sir."

"AH! That's right! Bede! I daresay I'm impressed how fair you've come since I gave you that pokemon all those years ago. Will you be the one to win the Gym Challenge? Or perhaps it will be one of the Trainers endorsed by the Champion."

"I will prove your faith in me was well placed, Chairman," Bede assured, "I won't lose to anyone. Anyway speaking of which, I'll be on my way now." He turned and began walking away, but completely froze upon seeing you and Gloria..Well more Gloria than you as the two of them made eye contact...And he suddenly pointed. "YOU!?"

"Hey Mareep Head. How's your Hatenna?"

"WHY YOU-....YOU- ..LITTLE-"

"AH! You!" Bede practically jumped out of his skin as the chairman was quick to push past him and walk up to Gloria with a smile, Oleana right behind him. Gloria practically just stood and stared as he approuched and you rose an eye brow. "Your name was...." He thought for a moment before pointing to her. "Gloria right? We were just talking about you!" Your brow rose more. That was a complete and utter lie. They were standing right there entire time in front of you but you shrugged it off as an awkward ice breaker.

.....Gloria exchanged a look with you before pointing at herself. "....Me?"

he nodded. "Yes! I admit I'm curious about Leon's reasons for endorsing you. Ah! I just had a good idea, as I tend to do!" Brag much? "You're going to face Gym Leader Nessa soon, yes?"

"Um...Y-Yeah. I was on my way back to the stadium actually-"

"Well if you get a gym badge from her I'll hold a celebration! I'd like to get to know you a little better after all." He smiled and you felt ....odd about it all.

"Um..Y-Yeah..I guess so??"

"Chairman, we should really be going if you want to keep that dinner reservation," Oleana stated.

The chairman nodded to her before turning back to Gloria. "Alright. Please do your best, for the sake of Galar's future."

"I Uh...Y-YES SIR!!" Gloria gave her best smile under the situation.

With a smile and nod he turned and walked past her and you not sparing you a glance and you followed him with your gaze brow raised...You weren't sure, but you had a funny feeling about him and it wasn't a good funny. When you turned back around you nearly jumped the box in surprise. The woman-!! Oleana was standing right in front of Gloria so close her shadow was literally blocking the sunlight from her. The poor girl frozen under the woman's studying gaze.

"The Chairman will be heading to this town's seafood restaurant." She stated monotonely, "Win the gym badge and join him there at once. Do not keep him waiting. Am I clear, Young Lady?" Gloria didn't say anything..and you looked at her. Eyes shooting to the size of plates. She was more frozen than a glacier. ...All that came out of her was a small squeak noise making the woman's eyes narrow. "Perhaps I wasn't clear. Do not keep the chairman waiting. Head to the seafood restaurant. The Captain's Table. Do you need me to repeat myself once more, Child? Or do you understand-"

"Too skinny."

Gloria jumped having probably completely forgotten you were there for a moment as she snapped to you and Oleana followed her piercing gaze to meet your glare. ....She slowly blinked. "I beg your pardon, Miss?"

"I said you're too skinny for that," you explained as they both stared at her.

Her brow flicked up as she studied you. "And I happen to be too thin for what purpose, Ma'am?"

"Well you're certainly not fat enough to be throwing your weight around not to notice you're being a jerk," you explained raising a brow back, "Obviously she heard you with how close you are. Maybe she'd answer if you weren't so close making her feel uncomfortable like that."

They both stared at you stunned. Gloria jaw dropped and Oleana had the same face but her eyes much more widened as she stared at you. It was so quiet you could've heard a pin drop as you joined this little three way stare down. HECK. It felt like an entire hour just staring at her before her face slowly contorted back to her original bored/professional looking one and she took a step back, spooking Gloria in process as the poor girl blinked.

"Do you happen to know who I am, Miss?," she asked like you should already know this.

"Somebody who's heels makes them so tall their head's in the clouds obviously."

This time her brows furrowed, her mouth frowned, and you noticed the way her hands gripped each other. As if she was physically holding back her anger. But before she could reply a chuckle seemed to interrupt you. Blinking you turned around only to find that the Chairman guy was looking right at you. Raising a brow and humming. You rose a brow and frowned right back.

....He waved a hand off. "Oleana, you're right. We'll be late for that reservation. Give the young trainer my League card and let's be on our way."

It's amazing how fast her aura and face changed at a moment's dime. "Of course. So you will not forget the Chairman's face, I will give you one of his League Cards." She suddenly held something out to Gloria who blinked but after a moment took it. "Chairman Rose is the kind of man who gets downhearted if he doesn't take care of things he needs to right away. Go to the seafood restaurant as soon as possible so as to not keep the chairman waiting." She glanced back to you and your eyes narrowed more. "...Good luck in your battle." With that she stepped around Gloria who followed her as she went and so did you with your frown. And after the Chairman gave another look to you, also turned and walked away.

....You sighed and turned back to Gloria, only to blink when she was staring right back at you. "....Uh...H-Hey. Are you ok there? You looked spooked." Shaking. Your eyes widened noticing her hands shaking. "WHOA! Hey! Are you ok!? She didn't scare you too bad did she?"

"Y-Y-Y/n..," She stuttered. Her hands slowly clenched into fists. "T-T-That..was..." Her face snapped up to you in a smile. "AWESOME!! SERIOUSLY!! Like! Yeah she gave off major scare vibes I swear she's worse than a gengar in the darkest room! My heart was pounding so fast! Then you were all well slayin' 'ere like a beast!!...Omg." She looked down for a moment realization settling in. "....My traveling partner talked BACK to the Chairman's right hand!! What's he going to think when I show up!? I mean it was amazing to watch don't get me wrong. But STILL!!''

"Hey, hey, hey!!" You caught her attention by grabbing her shoulder making her blink at your face. "Hey. Look at me." Once you knew you had her full attention you smiled. "That woman was making you feel scared, and that's not ok. So I did what I had to do. If anything I'll get in trouble. Besides, Im a girl standing on the sidewalk holding a delivery box. They'd probably think I was just a stranger going to delivery a pizza or something. Right now you should just worry about your gym battle."

It was like a record scratch went off in her mind as she suddenly paused, face going blank for a moment before her hands suddenly snatched the top of her head. "AH!! MY GYM BATTLE!! I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THAT!! BUT THE CHAIRMAN SAID IF I WIN TO SEE HIM!! IF!! IF!! WHAT IF I DON'T WIN!? OMG!! CAN I STILL MEET WITH HIM IF I DON'T-"

You shook her with the hand still on her shoulder. "Gloria! Get a grip on yourself! Of course you're going to win!'' You smiled. "If you could beat Milo you can beat Nessa too! And if you lose it's fine. I'm sure he'll understand, you can't let all of that overthinking stop you ok? Be more confident in yourself, and if you lose..." You shrugged. "Then it's ok. You can always try again tomorrow or any other day. You are going to be ok....Ok?"

She stared at you for a long moment before taking a deep breath and sighing. A determined look now plastered on her face. "You're right! I'm just overthinking this! I just need to remain calm and everything's going to be fine!"

You smiled. "That's the spirit...Hey. Isn't it gonna start like..right now?"

"GAH! Y-You're right! I gotta go!" With a wave she quickly turned on her heel and ran off towards the stadium. "Thanks, Y/n! You're the best!"

You sighed before shaking your head watching her go. Well...glad that went well at least, she was a brave girl so she should be ok..But then why did you still feel eyes on you? As you turned your f/c eyes met purple ones and Bede jumped having noticed you spotted him. With a jerk of his head the other way, he quickly sped walked away from you in the opposite direction leaving you lightly confused. But you shrugged it off. Right now you had bigger fish to fry like getting this fish you were currently holding to the person who ordered it. Who ever it was. That was the thing you had to figure out as you stood there in the middle of the sidewalk staring at the box in your hands like someone staring off into space. Good gosh the guy couldn't think to ask for an address? What were you supposed to do with a click clack sound? That could mean anything....Well what kind of click clack sounds were loud enough to be heard over a phone. ....Your head turned towards the train station back towards the stadium. Didn't trains usually make a noise like that? A train would certainly be loud enough to hear over a phone. With a shrug you started off down towards the train station and right up to the first house right by it since there was two. Knocked and waited patiently as footsteps approuched.

The first one was answered by a middle aged looking man and you smiled. "Hey! Uh...Did you order seafood?"

"No. I don't like fish."

"Oh..Sorry about tha-" You flinched as the door was slammed back shut in front of your face..before you frowned. "Well he was pretty rude wasn't he?" Your sobble chirped in agreement. "Couldn't have said it better myself," you mumbled as you turned away from the door and away from the first house to go to the second. The Stadium not too far away roaring alive now with cheers. Must be Hop or Gloria having a battle with Nessa. Shame you couldn't attend but you were a bit busy right now. Walking up to the second home, you knocked on the door and waited. After a moment footsteps approuched and a sweet elderly woman answered. You smiled. "Hey! Good afternoon! Did someone here order some seafood?"

To your delight, she smiled. "Oh, are you the one delivering my food?" She happily reached out and took the box from you. "Thank you for your trouble! This restaurant's dishes are full of seafood and it's so delicious if I say so myself. They are pretty well known after all."

"Your welcome! ..Oh wait!" You reached into your pocket to quickly pull out your notebook. "I need you to-''

"Oh of course! Your tip. "

"Actually I-" You blinked when a small bag of what looked like small jaw breakers was placed into your hand tied off by a cute little red ribbon.

"I've already paid the restaurant over the phone, so I'll give you candy as a tip. There's nothing like sweets to go along with a beautiful day. You have a nice day now."

You blinked looking at the small bag. "Hey wait! I need you-" The door closed leaving you staring at it. "..to sign this. *sigh*" You held up the overly cute bag and your sobble gave it a curious look over. "Well, it's not money but it's better than nothing I guess. Wouldn't you say?"

Your trip back to the restaurant wasn't anything unusual, still faintly hearing the cheers from the gym on your way there. The only thing that was a little strange was a small group of three or four people standing outside the place trying to peep into the windows. Your brow rose but you shrugged it off and just stepped inside seeing the same woman as before.

"Sorry. We're closed at the mome-..OH! It's you young lady,'' she greeted.

"Back again?!" You looked over towards the chef and he smiled seeing you. "Excellent! I wanted to ask you to deliver some food again. Is that ok? I suspect that the package was delivered?"

....You held up the bag of candy. "Yeah. Sorry I couldn't get her to sign it. But she tipped me in candy."

"Oh. That must've been Mrs. Wesley. Don't worry about her, she has a habit of doing that." Again he reached under the counter and brought up another box. "But right now I need you to deliver this next one as soon as possible!'' You walked over and he held it out to you before slightly nodding over towards the right. You glanced over and your eyes widened seeing the chairman and Oleana looking out of the window over the stadium, not seeming to notice you thankfully. "Since the Chairman's here we're doing our best to try and not upset the atmosphere. Since you're taking care of this for us it's really taking one less thing off our shoulders to worry about."

You sighed with a smile before taking the second box from him. The fresh smell of fish and chips wafting from it making your mouth water. "Hey. It's no problem. Where do I take this one?"

He paused. "Well....I uh...Haha. D-Didn't quite get the address for this one either?" You stared. "...B-but I don't know if this helps, but I think I heard a pokemon cry over the phone this time. Like....Swiirl...Or something like that."

"....I'll...figure it out I'm sure."

Figure it out indeed! How in the HECK were you just supposed to deliver a dang food order based off a pokemon's cry?? Whelp! There was only one way to solve this! ...Visit all the houses here until you came across the right one. So that's exactly what you did. You already delivered to the lady up by the train station and the guy next to her rudely stated he didn't so that was two houses you could cross off your list. So there you went starting from one end of the long, LONG street of houses one after another smiling and asking if they ordered a take out. Every. Single. One. Said. No. Or just didn't answer at all, and to be honest you were feeling justifiably annoyed at this point. What was the POINT of having someone deliver food if you didn't know where to send them!? It must've taken you at least fifthteen minutes of walking and asking until you FINALLY caught a break coming to the very last house on the block before the road split off between the train station and stadium. You knocked and waited patiently as footsteps approuched, and you smiled when a blonde man who looked to be in his early thirties opened the door.

"Hey. Sorry to bother you, but did you order some seafood takeout?"

"Oh, I can smell the ocean. You're from the restaurant aren't you?" You nodded and held the box up to him as he took it with a hum. "Ah! I'm starving! I've been drooling while waiting for the food! Than you for delivering the food!"

"Oh hey. Before you go." You held up the notepad. "Could you please sign for this?"

"Oh sure thing. Wait right here." He turned and walked back inside leaving you standing there able to see the inside of the home as the man handed off the food to two little girls who looked so much alike that they must've been twins. A pink pokemon looking like cotton candy swirling around them. "Stacy, Lacy. Food's here. And this time don't let Pinkie eat my share of it." You stood there awkwardly until he finally came back grabbing the note pad. "Sorry about that. You know how kids can be."

"Heh. Yeah. Sorry if it took so long. Had to go the long way around to get here."

"Well you get energy from food. If you need energy you should eat balanced meals." He handed you back the notepad with a smile. "Thanks again!''

With a sigh you turned on your heel and began trudging off back towards the restaurant. Your stomach rumbled again and by this point you were seriously wondering if this was even worth any free food for? If you had half a mind you would've just quite, returned the notepad, and then just go back to the hotel to just eat some of your rations or order the cheapest thing on the room service menu. But then again, you already promised to help and free food does sound better than spending your remanding money. Plus their food was supposed to be really good. So..You made the choice to go back to the very cafe you came from and waltzed back through the doors and up to the counter this time. The chef seemed very pleased to have you back as he had already placed the last box on the counter he explained. Only one more? Oh THANK goodness. You weren't sure how much of this mumbo jumbo you could handle. You took the last box from him not sparing a glance over your shoulder in the chairman's way.

"As for the address-"

"Let me guess. You forgot?"

"Actually. No. I remembered to ask." Your eyes widened. Was this finally gonna be easy? "Unfortunately I have no idea where it is.".....WHAT?! "The customer told me to look for a green roof, but I wonder if there is such a house in Hulbury. I've certainly never seen a house like this before but Im sure you're smart enough to figure it out like the other two!"

".......Right."

Of course it wasn't going to be that easy. It never was going to be easy for you was it? It seemed simple enough tho. Just look for a house with a green roof and that should be it right? Except..none of the houses you had asked previously had ordered anything and the ones that did couldn't have possibly ordered a second time in such short notice right after getting the first. Oh well. Green roof. That's all you had to go on......and the amount of time you had spent walking up and down these streets looking for any building with a green roof was exhausting. NONE of the homes here had green roofs and when you checked the few buildings around here that weren't homes (like the light house and pokemon center-) discovered surprise, surprise. No green roof either. Oh you hoped whoever ordered this didn't live outside Hulbury. Not having any luck where you currently were, you decided to go ahead and go back down to the docks where you first went that morning. You didn't remember seeing any buildings there but it wouldn't hurt to cover all bases before giving up. Your body ended up wondering back to the market place you were once in...And you were about ready to give up. There wasn't anything around here with a green-

"HEY! Young Lady with the sobble on your shoulder!," a male voice shouted. Blinking, you turned around to one of the stalls. the one with the green and white top. A man with brown hair waved at you. "You're delivering food?" You nodded. "Well hey! I'm the one who ordered it!" He was!?...You glanced towards the striped roof of his stall.....Oh. A green roof. Whelp! Might as well get this over with. he smiled wider as you approuched. "You got here earlier than I expected! It was easy to spot the green roof wasn't it?"

No. Not really. In fact it would've been a LOT easier if he just said he was in a stall in this marketplace but instead you forced a smile and handed him the box and notepad. "Please sign here."

He gladly signed it. "The tail curry of this restaurant has a unique flavor. I love it! Say hi to the manager for me!"

You quickly grabbed the notebook. "Have a nice day!" And then you quickly retreated. A groan leaving your tired body as you dragged yourself back the way you came for a second time that day. By the time you had gotten back close to the restaurant you were sore, tired, but most of all you were hungry! OH! The food had better be worth it or else you were going straight back to the hotel to-

"Y/N!!" Hey. You knew that voice! Sure enough Gloria was waving her arm at you with a smile as you proceeded to walk towards her. Despite wanting time to yourself today you were absolutely glad to see her. "What are you doing by the docks?"

"Finishing my role as a replacement delivery boy," you answered when you got close enough and pointed at her white uniform. "Why are you still wearing your gym challenge uniform?"

"Oh uh.." She sheepishly smiled with a chuckle. "It's a long story. On the bright side I managed to defeat Nessa! LOOK!" A flash of bronze went in your face and you blinked before leaning back. A badge with some kind of blue water pattern shown before you. No doubt the water gum badge. "Feast yer eyes! I thought I was a gonna when I lost the second round, but I managed to pull a turn around and win enough rounds to pass! Ain't it great?!"

You smiled. "Hey! That is great! I'm so happy for you! But where's Hop? I thought he was with you."

"He stayed behind to set up his own battle with Nessa tomorrow. Don't worry. He already knows where I am. Said he'll meet back up with us when we're done having dinner with the Chairman."

"...We?"

"Oh.." She slowly lowered her had back down to her side. "I just...thought you'd be coming too since you were there with me when he invited me.I-...I just thought since y'know...B-But that's fine! I won't force ya to come with me. Yer probably tired from running around all day anyways."

You paused. Yes, you were tired but you were heading back inside the restaurant anyways. And if Oleana was there...You smiled. "Hey! I'd love to come!"

Her eyes lit up. "REALLY!?"

"Yeah. I gotta go in to let 'em know I'm done delivering all these confusing orders anyways." You turned and nodded towards the doors. "C'mon. Let's go eat and see what he wants. Ok?"

With a smile of relief she nodded and the two of you went up towards the doors and went inside. The woman from before was there and upon seeing the both of you greeted you both with a smile. "Welcome to the Hulbury Seafood Resturaunt. Unfortunately we're not accepting any reservations or walk ins today but if you'd like to schedule one for a later or order take out you're more than welcome-....Oh! It's you again, Young Lady."

"Uh. Yeah." You held out the notepad. "Actually I was promised free food if I delivered everything and we were both invited to eat with the Chairman over there."

"Oh." She glanced to Gloria who looked nervous, seeming to realize she was a trainer. "Yes. I recall he said something about an extra guest trainer with his party today. Chairman Rose comes here incognito, but the word always gets out when he's here." She grabbed the notepad from you. "You both may go ahead to the Captain's Table in the back. I'll notify the chef you completed your tasks."

With a thanks you both took off towards the back where you saw the Chairman, Oleana, and..HEY! It was Sonia. Relief flooding in seeing another familiar face. This might be more tolerable then...Maybe you should take this time to apologize? You glanced to Gloria who still looked nervous. If this was someone very high up and important it wouldn't hurt to swallow your pride and just apologize, if nothing else but to keep the peace and show you're willing to be the bigger person. After all you don't want to cause trouble. The first to notice you two was the chairman himself as he turned his head from Sonia to you two and smiled.

"Ah! If it isn't the young trainer I met earlier today," he greeted with a smile and raised brow, "If you're here then I suppose it's safe to say you won against Nessa?"

You didn't miss her gulp before forcing a smile. "Uh..Y-Yeah. Piece of cake!"

He nodded. "I'm so glad! Gloria, come. Let's celebrate your recent victory! On me!" ...You felt eyes on you and you turned from the Chairman's face to Oleana's who was staring right at you. ...You frowned back at her- "And I believe I've seen you before as well, Young Lady." You blinked back to the Chairman's face as he was looking at you too now with a raised brow. ...AH CRAP!! "You were the lady back there who gave my assistant quite a 'roasting' as the young kinds call it nowadays."

...You blinked. Forcing up a smile. Here we go. "Uh. hehe. Yeah. Actually I wanted to apologize to you.." You gave Oleana a glance. "-and her for that. I just thought things were getting a bit scary back there."

To your surprise he chuckled it off with a wave. "Not at all. In all honestly Oleana can be quite intimidating to others. It's one of the reasons she's so good at her job. But there's no hard feelings. Right Oleana?"

The woman next to him inhaled before breathing it back out. "Of course, Sir. Apologies accepted and all's forgiven."

"Excellent! I don't suppose you know Sonia here? She's a wonderful person to have on the research team."

"Yeah. We do actually. Hi, Sonia."

"Oh. Were you invited too?," she asked surprised.

Before you could reply the chairman interrupted you. "You two know each other? That's great! Come now." He gestured to the table directly behind him. "Please be seated." And the three of you followed him and did so after you and Gloria exchanged a glance. She still looked nervous. The order of which you sat was Gloria sat across from the Chairman, Sonia next to Gloria, and you next to the Chairman. Naturally you would've preferred to sit next to either one of the other girls but you weren't about to let Gloria sit right next to a guy you had a funny feeling over. Strangely enough Oleana didn't seem like she was eating with you four and instead opted to stand silently next to the Chairman. How odd. You watched as he oh so casually picked the napkin off his own plate. Hmm...Guess he's been here more than once. "Now that we're all together. Gloria was it? Tell us how did your battle go?"

She shrugged. "Oh. Um. I-It was pretty good. Very thrilling. It was really nice to get ta meet Nessa. She's very nice." Sonia smiled at her.

"That's all very good. If you're as talented as Leon mentioned you then you should have no problem defeating the other gym leaders."

"Well I wouldn't say that. I-It was really hard to beat her. She's a tough gym leader."

"Hey. What were you talking about with Sonia?," you asked successfully steering the topic off Gloria for the moment as the Chairman smiled.

"Oh nothing really worth talking about. How her trip was so far studying around with the legends and the Geoglph in Turffield. The theory is that the two are somehow connected but I digress. AH! Our food has arrived." You looked over to what he was gesturing at and perked up at the lady from before who greeted you carrying two plates. One obviously being some kind of fish as it was placed before the chairman who happily accepted. "Ah! My usual. You always remember." And you were surprised when the other plate was sat in front of you. It was curry, smelt sweet, and had an egg smack dab in the middle of it. "Oh. It looks like you're a regular here too I presume."

"The chef asked me to give you his 'Lucky Egg' dish as a token of his appreciation, Miss," she explained, "I hope you're ok with sweet boiled egg curry. Are the rest of you ready to order?"

"Go ahead ladies. It's on me today."

"Mm. Just a salad. I'm not very hungry today."

"...I mean. The tropical curry sounds good," Gloria guessed.

You were too busy studying the dish in front of you to notice the lady leave. Instead staring at the massive egg just sitting in the middle of the darn plate. ...You weren't up to eating something that might've been a pokemon egg no matter how much your stomach rumbled at the sight and your mouth watered at the smell. Luckily it seemed like you had a back up plan because your sobble was crawling down your arm already on his way towards your food. You extended your hand to allow the small pokemon to sit on the table next to you and without really thinking grabbed the egg off your plate and held it out to it. He smiled and happily accepted your gift with a loud chirp before grabbing it and you watched as it bit it nearly in half with one bite. Goodness. Guess you weren't the only one hungry.

"Hulbury is a seafood town. Naturally if one is going to eat here the obvious choice is the local cuisine," the chairman said already digging in, "Everything on the menu is delicious. Oh, Sonia. By the way how is Professor Magnolia getting on? I'm quite indebted to her you know. She was the one who figured out how to unleash the power of Wishing Stars and use that power to dynamax pokemon. We would never have been able to create dynamax bands without her."

Sonia sighed. "*sigh* She was saying that there's still so much we don't know about dynamaxing. It's causing her some worry. She even made me take a power spot detector with me when I started traveling."

"A power spot detector?," he asked interested, "That's the device that allowed me to discover power spots. Locations that emit galar particles and allow pokemon to dynamax. I don't like hearing that Professor Magnolia is worried though. If only there was something I could do." You glanced at him again out the corner of your eye and rose a brow. Why were you getting a weird feeling in your gut from this guy?

Sonia shrugged. "Unless you can suddenly provide more intel on the phenominon then I'm afraid there isn't much, Sir."

He hummed.".....Sonia. It may be good for you to visit the vault in Hammerlocke. I believe the key to unlocking the secrets of the dynamax phenomenon lies in the history preserved there."

Sonia blinked. "Oh. You really think so?"

"We usually study history based on what was left on it from the past. Although mostly legends at this point you know they always say that every legend has truth to it. Who knows? It might even help tie in with the lengend you've been studying currently. Oleana can arrange a meeting I'm sure. Can't you?"

"Understood, Sir," Oleana replied monotonly, "I will arrange a meeting with Ms. Sonia."

"Very good. See? Nothing to worry yourself over about. Now shall we dig in?"

The rest of that dinner get together was a blur. Honestly you were too busy stuffing your face to talk but you didn't mind. You only watched and listened to the small talk. Gloria and Sonia's food arrived a short while after and by this point they were mostly done eating as well. His other questions didn't seem too out of the ordinary. Asking how their day was? How they were enjoying the challenge so far? Talking about some of his recent appointments involving some kind of arrangement with a Prince from the Pasio Region?? You weren't sure. But the sun was starting to set soon.

"So then I figured the best way to solve the matter was to set up individual warnings for the two of them and move one to a different department under Oleana. *sigh* Both are hard workers so it'd be a shame to just fire one or both. Don't you agree Oleana?"

"Yes, Sir. However I believe it is about time we get going, Chairman."

"Hm?" He looked at her. "But I've hardly had a chance to speak with Gloria." You rose a brow. You had literally been sitting her an entire hour.

"With all do respect, Sir. It's getting rather late. I'm sure the young lady is quite tired from her day."

...He sighed. "It's regrettable but I guess it can't be helped. If something needs to get done there's no time like the present after all!" He slowly stood from his seat as the three of you watched and smiled. "Truly though I'm glad to have had a chance to speak with you ladies today. So sorry if we couldn't have spent more time together. In any case I bid you farewell."

"OH! Uh..G-Good bye, M-Mr. Chairman. Sir."

You remained silent as the two left. Narrowed eyes watching as they went...Something about those two just felt...Off. Like it didn't sit right in your gut, but you had no idea why? Was there some kind of plot in the game with those two you couldn't remember?...Hm. In any case you were glad they were gone now so you and Gloria could rela- Your head perked up with at a sigh as Sonia rubbed her face.

"Hey. You good there?"

"Does he think he's doing me a favor? He's right that the vault would be a good place to look for the legends but..." She paused suddenly looking up and noticing the two of you staring at her confused. "UH!...Nevermind! You got the water badge right? Defeating Nessa is no easy feat!"

"Uh..Yeah. What are-"

"Nessa's a good friend! Perhaps I should drop in on her!," her chair screeched as she stood up all of a sudden giving a nervous smile, "Ahaha! Yes! She'll be so happy to see me! Until next time, Gym Challenger! Nice seeing you again, Y/n!"

Both of you stared as Sonia quickly sped walked away from you two and then out of the restaurant as if she was escaping something...

Gloria blinked. "What the world just happened?"

"Believe me I have learnt in this point of my life to just go with things. C'mon. It's free food. Let's finish eating and meet the others back at the hotel."

[dreamsmp-au-ideas]

Pokemon mistery dungeon you say? I am going to drop here some pokemons that the characters could be based on the Vibesᵗᵐ alone (No I am not looking from what gen they are bc this already will be a search-)

Let's start

Dream: Victini, Servine, Zorua/Zoroark, Lucario (the last two are kind of an Easter egg tho, because both where pokemons that, before the gen they appeared came out, they were featured in movies so people thought they were legendary or semi-legendary, even more so with Lucario because of one of the Mistery Dungeons games- idk I just think that it would be fun)

- George: Espeon/Glaceon, Frillish, Drifloon

- Sapnap: Combusken, Growlithe, Houndour

- Tommy: Cyndaquil, Chimchar, Treeko, Eevee

- Tubbo: Chikorita, Eevee, Rotom, Drifloon

- Eret: Froslass, Absol, Shuppet, Swablu/Altaria

- Fundy: Vulpix/Ninetails (I had to ok?), Riolu/Lucario, Jolteon, Zeraora

- Niki: Sylveon/Leafeon, Espurr, Mienfoo, Scorbunny

- Wilbur: Staravia, Luxio, Flygon, Absol

- Ranboo: Spinda, Girafarig, Litwick, Phantump

- Technoblade: Decidueye, Fraxure, Scizor, Bisharp

And I'm gonna leave it here for now. Yes I did this while having the entire pokedex open. No I won't explain the vibes. Enjoy :D

Some of these Pokemon are gender exclusive but honestly Gender is fake. We can do what we want.

On one hand I want Dream as Servine because he green and Servine has that smug ass energy. On the other hand Zoroark fits him very well and since he’s not a dick in this au. We can just have him as a guy who uses his illusions to play pranks on people. Nothing more. We have slow burn found family and Dream is going to be dragged in it whether he wants to or not.

George as any of those Pokemon honestly fit him really well. We can get Frillish since it loooks like a sleepy guy but at the same time Drifloon works. Glaceon works so well though because of how much he sleeps and also how apathetic he is in regards of everything else.

Sapnap can probably be a Growlithe because of the vibes. He simply a puppy who likes fire a bit too much

Tommy as any of the Pokemon above works but I’m getting Treeko vibes now that I think about it. Just major Treeko vibes.

Tubbo as Rotom is something I have not thought of but man that’s good.

Eret as either a Frosslass or an Altaria is great. As I said before, fuck gender. They can be a Froslass. Either one of those two things work. Elegant and powerful. Also has some royal vibes so that’s great.

Fundy as Vulpix so we can give him the fox motif? Or a Riolu for aesthetic> Or Jolteon so we can have some explanation for Sally the Salmon?

Niki can be a Espurr or a Meinfoo. They can both learn fire type moves, with the Hidden Power Fire if she is an Espurr. She deserves it.

Wilbur as Staravia? Yeah that goes and fits the vibes. So does Absol honestly. Both of them fit the vibes.

Ranboo is probably for Phantump. Mainly because of the pokedex entry for it making sense and I can see it happening for Ranboo. This is also considering the fact that he is also human but fell a bit later.

Technoblade as Bisharp. Why? Because of knife hands and cool ass colors.

[shima-draws]

Do you think Gou is a bad trainer? Even compared to 1st season Ash, Ash still developed close relationships with his Pokémon and that’s how he ended up getting a lot of his earlier Pokémon actually. But Gou doesn’t seem as interested in bonding with any of his captures Pokémon as he is with just catching them.

I don’t think that necessarily makes him a bad trainer;; people train Pokemon differently, you know? There’s no right or wrong way to do it (as long as you aren’t abusing them or anything like that) and I mean Gou does spend a bit of time with his Pokemon, but it’s definitely hard to balance all of that attention especially since he’s caught so many at this point. If we were to argue this point, Ash would be kinda the same, right? He spends at least a year traveling through each region, catching new Pokemon, and bonding with them, only to ship them off to Prof. Oak’s at the end and start the cycle all over again in a new region. The chances of his old Pokemon making a reappearance are pretty rare, besides a few exceptions. Does that make Ash a bad trainer? Really it’s all up to perspective!! Gou’s caught these Pokemon and given them a good place to live, where they’re treated well and they get to spend time bonding with each other, and Gou’s pretty good at listening to what they want or need from him when it’s necessary. And besides, he’s got Scorbunny who is his main partner just like Ash has Pikachu, who he’s shown to have bonded with pretty well up to this point.

I mean Gou can’t take time out of his day to dote on every single one of his Pokemon—that’s probably something he realized going into this. If he plans to complete the Pokedex and capture every single Pokemon there’s no way he can divide his attention between all of them. It’s really not much different from how things function in the games—you have your team of six and everyone else gets boxed. That doesn’t mean you’re a bad trainer tho, right? All of Gou’s Pokemon are in a good place and seem to genuinely be happy with it—if any of them weren’t I’m sure Gou would be happy to release them. Idk if that makes any sense LOL but hopefully it does!

[xbloolii]

*slides in* Sup'. Time to talk about Allen for that character ask thingy

My otp for them: 

first; ships in dgm arent really importantly to me, so dont kill me for my answer, but i would say Lenalee, because i cant imagine any other for Allen. Every other character feels really forced to me, and i always loved how much Allen and Lenalee cared for each other. Its a really basic and obvious ship tho, but i guess thats why i ship them since, like i said, i dont really care for shippings in dgm. i wouldnt even mind if Allen stays alone, it may even fits better to him and the story

My brotp for them: 

obviously Lavi and Kanda! currently more kanda, if you are caught up with the manga, but in the past it was Lavi. I really loved Allen and Lavis relationship, they were just so goofy and all, and they always helped each other out. We got a lot of them together, they also went through a lot together, but im glad its now kandas turn since its so nice to see how kanda really starts to care and help Allen. They always had this special „hating each other“ bond in a funny way, so seeing Kanda now seriously trying to help Allen is just so...URG i love it.

Any other ships: 

i really never tought of this ship but maybe Allen and Tyki? i dont know haha, i think it would be a really interesting thing. I really love their dynamic already so its a good base.

Their best friend: 

Timcanpy! besides him, its ofc Lavi. I dont think i have to repeat what i said earlier ✨

My favorite nickname for them: 

I wont say Moyashi.

My favorite AU of them: 

ive never read fanfictions or stuff, but i think a school AU would be so cool, like in the old omakes! its kinda basic but im not very creative with this stuff lol

My favorite outfit they wear: 

this one uniform Hoshino always draws, but we‘ve never seen in the manga yet!! i just love everything about it god. besides this, crownclown if this counts? im sure i dont have to explain why, we all know its just beautiful and perfect, lol. OH and i also love everything casual on Allen. 🤍

Defining color: 

✨White✨ (and/or red)

Would I date them: 

OF COURSE???? i love him more than i love myself lol

First impression: 

when i started watching dgm for the first time, i did it because of lavi, because i really loved his design. He was the fave character of my friend who brought me to dgm, so thats why probably. but because lavi appears at first in ep.12 which is kinda late, i crushed on Allen first, lol. I loved everything about Allen from the start, he is literally the perfect man to me.

Current impression: 

my most favorite character of all time. he shaped me a lot, and a lot of things i like nowdays are because of him. The color white and clowns for example. I love this things anyways now, but he started it for me, if you know what i mean haha. But honestly, im not exaggerating when i say he literally is in all ways perfect to me. I love him so much it hurts lol

Hogwarts House: 

Gryffindor, and no one can change my mind

Which Pokemon starter they’d be: 

oh thats difficult...I would say scorbunny because hes my favorite starter, lol. And allen would be a fire type in my opinion, i dont know why

[reversewerewolf]

zagreus (for the caracter thing)

favorite thing about him: all of him?? good design, perfect balance of respectful to snarky, ultimately just a very good boy

least favorite thing about him: sometimes if i see fanart of him i do a double take and think he’s h*mestuck (not inherently bad but it is weird)

favorite line: he has so many good one liners tho... once hypnos is like “thanks for the nectar, glad you died just now!” and zag, in the most sickly-sweet voice, goes, “i’m glad i died as well hypnos! i’m glad i died, as well.”

brotp: honestly hypnos. getting him to max friendship is cute bc every time you see him after he’s just like “HI BEST FRIEND” and it’s really sweet. dionysus is a close second due to teaming up to pull pranks and dusa is also a close second just because dusa is so so good and i love them being buds

otp: basically i’ll ship him with (almost) anyone because... i can ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ he and thanatos are endgame for me tho so i guess it’s them. i know that’s boring lol

notp: the obvious creepy shit that luckily i have not run into much of but unfortunately have run into some of

random headcanon: doesnt understand birds; dies trying to pet a swan. would be friends with scorbunny in a pokémon crossover bc they both have hot feet

unpopular opinion: uhhhh i don’t know, i feel like most of my opinions on him are pretty standard??? i love him but i do think he’s kind of a rich/spoiled brat but that’s like... canon

song i associate with him: yknow?? i actually don’t have one which is insane. i have to find one now. i’ll edit this if i do

favorite picture of him: any fanart where thanatos is dragging him out of the river styx tbh it’s like religious art every time lol. or just that part of the animated trailer where everyone is like “aw shit i’m gay”

[chrisrainicorn]

So, what Pokemon do you think Team RWBY and Team JNPR would have if they could have them? To make this easy, let's just go with one that would be a Pokemon that walks alongside them in their journey.

Oooooo boy this is gonna be a long ride! I have spent too much time thinking about that since I started watching RWBY lmao, so ill try to not type a full book about it dshjg

So with team RWBY, I’ll start with Weiss cuz she was the first one that stopped to think about this months ago. Her main would totally be an Alolan Ninetales! It’s perfect for her not for just it’s typing and looks, but because Weiss’ fighting style and Ninetales usage in real competitive battles are incredibly similar: they can be fast sweepers (Snow Warning + Blizzard - and for Weiss, just look at the vol2 train fight really) and amazing support for their team (Aurora Veil and the supporting Glyphs).

For Yang, my first pick would be an Infernape, Fire/Fighting is a perfect type combination for her, the flaming hair/head comparison, and both Blaze and Iron Fist as its ability are super fitting… really, I don’t think it needs more explanation skjhgsd but I would also give her an Arcanine maybe… mainly because it would it would look good together, just imagine how badass Yang riding one would be!! Also little Yang with a puppy is adorable. Of course, she can have both, but I’m not sure which would be her main.

The main reason I talked about those two first, it’s because I actually have complete drawings of them as trainers! I never posted here tho… I want to do that when I have the complete team. But you can see them at my DA

Weiss / Yang 

I’ll put the rest under read more because this is gonna be long as hecc. I have a conflict about Ruby’s, an actual full backstory for Jaune, and I’m Arkos trash so it’s going to have a little bit of that too lmao

Ok, continuing… Blake… Obviously, it would be a cat pokemon. I wanted one that was good at using Substitute, to make a reference to her semblance. I went through every cat pokemon, but most of them weren’t bulky enough for that… then it hit me and I felt stupid dkghds Umbreon is not exactly a cat, but it’s cat-like enough and viable sets with Substitute actually exist! And her Eevee would totally have the ability Run Away before evolving.

Ruby was the most difficult one for me to pick a main, she can have a Roselia or Scizor but I was like… eh. I wanted a Wolf pokemon for her, to make a reference to her inspirational fairytale. I see a lot of people picking Zorua, but really…. aside from color scheme they are nothing alike, it would be more fitting for Emerald or even Neo.

Then the image of Ruby with a Rockruff came to me and I flipped cuz that would be so adorable??? And I was like THAT’S THE ONE.

Then I got conflicted about what it would evolve into. Ok, hear me out, if you were looking at it’s colors, Midnight form would be the best. BUT it’s fighting style is all about waiting, taking damage and lashing out after, its personality is too aggressive. Ruby is all about speed and the sweetest thing… so no…

Also, it’s the only form that doesn’t learn the priority more Accelerock, the one thing that would make it fast, and Ruby’s Lycanroc would totally have that move. So if I had to pick one, it would be the Dusk form I guess… I actually looked at the description of the form’s personalities at Bulbapedia months ago sdjkgh and thought that Dusk was more fitting for her. (Also Dusk is a special form for protagonists only lmao and Ruby sure is one) 

Now JNPR! I actually have more than one pick for each one of them.

Ok… I want you … To just imagine… kid Ren and Nora traveling together… with a cute Ralts and a baby Elekid with them… just… imagine that…

Ren’s Ralts would totally evolve into a Gallade, Psychic/Fighting is a perfect type combination for him. It literally has green blades on its arms!!! And who keeps his green blades on his sleeves??? No coincidence!! Riolu/Lucario are also super fitting in my opinion, because of the Aura stuff, but Gallade would be his main

Nora’s Electivire would be a powerhouse! Motor Drive as its ability to reference her semblance. As scary it might look, I headcanon that it would be a total sweetheart tho sjkdgh Because I have one more thing for Nora… a Dedenne, and you don’t want to mess with that tiny rat! Small, but it eats the tears of its opponents for breakfast, and it will kick your butt!

Pyrrha would have most OU/Uber team ever! She’s a champion of various tournaments. Her main is a badass Garchomp, but with personality, that’s similar to its trainer. Also, she would have a shiny Aegislash, steel type, blade and shield… I think it fits. Probably has a mega evolution… Mega Garchomp is actually worse than the regular one so maybe another pokemon of her team. She would totally have a pokemon that’s like… I know it’s definitely not the thing that you will see in competitive battles, but she doesn’t care, she has it because she likes it… I just can’t think which pokemon that would be tho…

Oof… now Jaune, his main would be a shiny Chansey. The backstory that I have is that he found a small Happiny in the woods next to his home when he was just a little kid. There were rumors going around the town that there was a super rare pkm there, the Chansey line is already ridiculously special… and shiny above all that? So people were crazy to catch it.

So little Jaune found the Happiny all tired from running away and ended up befriending it. Helping it hide and find food, visiting her every day on her little hideout at the woods. He didn’t know the pokemon, why it was so wanted, and had no clue that it was a shiny (after all, the colors barely change).

After some time tho… some people found out about all of that. Little Jaune stood between the people and the pkm. The Happiny, seeing how her friend doing his best to protect her, evolves right on time (i know it needs an oval stone, Jaune probably gave one to her after doing some search and finding out that Happiny likes carrying one on their pouches). She puts the trainers to sleep with a Sing (after telling Jaune to cover his ears ofc sksklfj) and after they were safe, Jaune insists that she runs away, people knew, they were going to wake up soon and the little woods on the back of his house weren’t safe anymore.

But Chansey doesn’t want to leave, she grabs an empty pokeball from a sleeping trainer, and offers to Jaune so he could catch her. Jaune doesn’t have the age to be a trainer yet, and even if it’s his dream, he doesn’t think he would be a good one, still, he catches Chansey and they were always together ever since. (i wish i could draw a comic about this someday…) 

His team would be more support based. His confidence can get a little down because most of his pokemon aren’t those super strong attackers or competitive material - he will learn that it isn’t all about attacking tho (especially with Pyrrha’s help), and he grows into an incredible strategist. I like to think that he also has a Pachirisu, just because he is Pyrrha’s partner, and you absolutely don’t want to get into a double battle with Garchomp and a Pachirisu against you! 

ALSO HE TOTALLY WOULD HAVE A SCORBUNNY!! Probably named after a cereal mascot and damn I really want to draw that someday sgkjhsdg

The last thing… One day while I was thinking about options for Pyrrha’s pokemon, I was just looking for one with a matching color scheme, to then see if it fits her after.

I stopped at Ho-oh, and without even hesitating I thought “That’s more than fitting and she would totally have one its op but she’s badass enough for it and there is no convincing me otherwise.”

So yeah! I like to think that Pyrrha is Ho-oh’s “chosen one”. She doesn’t own it in a pokeball, but she had its protection and has permission to use it in battle sometimes.

Because I Arkos occupies half of my brain, I like to think that Jaune would eventually be Lugia’s chosen one. Just imagine that… the partners paired with a legendary duo… that’s some soulmates stuff! The legendaries totally fit them more than just color schemes too. Pyrrha has the one more focused on attack and Jaune has the bulky one.

I think… that is all… I have a few more minor headcanons, but this is too big already so I think it’s best if I stop here lmao

[minimoll7]

So I got Pokemon Sword the day it came out and basically forgot online existed. Been playing it almost non-stop lol I’m actually taking a break right now for the first time (not including times I had to shower or sleep lol). I haven’t beaten the semi finals thing or the champion yet since I’ve been spending a lot of time grinding and evolving Pokemon. Gonna post some thoughts under a read more in case of spoilers

Honestly all the hate for these games prior to release was ridiculous and I’m so glad that they’re actually incredibly fun! I’ve never, not even once, have gotten this obsessive with a main series game. The wild area is incredibly refreshing and I hope they keep this concept for future games. The story feels more relaxed than before. It just felt nice not having this constant threat over my head because of evil teams and shit. I mean an actual villain teams are cool but its old stuff at this point so I thought it was a nice change of pace for the “villain” team this game weren’t actually evil

Lack of national dex and the annoyance of having to earn more badges to catch Pokemon of higher levels are the only 2 things that really bother me but its more like an annoyance to me than anything else. Oh also the dynamax thing is kind of dumb lol r e a l l y don’t care about it at all. Z-Moves were more fun lol

As for new Pokemon, I think this gen has some really great ones!!!

I really love Scorbunny’s whole line. I don’t think there’s ever been an entire starter line where I love all of them. There’s always usually at least one form that I either just simply like or don’t care about. Raboot has to be my favorite tho

Thievul is my absolute favorite of this gen! Its nice having a fox Pokemon that isn’t based off of the kitsune for once

Boltund is another favorite. I’ve always really wanted an electric corgi but honestly?? Boltund is so much better to me than Yamper gufhjdsgfd

Appletun??? Is my sweet apple puppy dragon??? Flapple is okay but its eeeehhhh to me but Appletun?? That’s my son. He’s so adorable, I love mine so much. I love camping with him to. He’s a pubby

Falinks are also super cute?? I thought it was some creepy bug type at first but when I realized just what they were, I just knew I had to get one. They are surprisingly adorable as hell and I would die for them. The camping thing really benefits them on a cuteness factor

Toxtricity is really really cool. I didn’t think I was gonna like them, since I’m not normally into those kind of things, but they’re both just?? Really cool?? Really love their typing to, electric/poison is a very nice combo. Also why the hell do they catch that toy ball with their chests

Obstagoon is fuckin dope. I really don’t know what to say about them since they were revealed long before the games’ release fiudjagfdagf I don’t have any new thoughts about them lol also the way the run at you in the camping thing is fucking hilarious. They’re big dorks

Galarian Rapidash is very very pretty uwu thank god my cousin has Shield because I’d otherwise miss out on these pretty horses

I have a strong soft spot for Pyukumuku (so glad they’re in these games!!) and Pincurchin reminds me of them a lot, they’re sort of like an electric version of Pyukumuku. So needless to say I now have a soft spot for them as well

Dragapult looks hella cool!! I don’t have one just yet (I do have a Dreepy tho), but I really can’t wait to get one!! Their typing is pretty awesome to, being dragon and ghost. I don’t think we’ve ever had a Pokemon of this type combo outside of Giratina?

Oh also I’m still really salty about the fact that there’s no new Eeveelutions. That hurts my soul (and no I’m not exaggerating. Its the only thing that I’m actually pissed about with this new gen)

gfdjgfdjisgkfds yeah so idk how to end this post since I’m tired af. Probably gonna go offline again soon since I also got Luigi’s Mansion 3 recently and I haven’t touched it yet (Pokemon’s really good at firing up my special interests gfudjsgf). But yeah gen 8 is actually really good you guys

[ghostylen]

Okay okay. I agree tho, the movie just has so much potential to add stuff cause basically everything with a little explanation makes sense-

Also im gonna take over the calling them by their colors thing, makes more sense-

So I love the headcanon about Greens powers, cause Koko is such a badass character and her with powers is just perfect.

ALSO YES, IVE THOUGHT ABOUT THE LICENSE PART SO OFTEN ALREADY!! Like- going with Lloyd being basically the oldest, he just turned 16 in the movie, meaning the others are all still 15! They can’t possibly have a license, so they’re just figuring stuff out as they go-

Also Black being related to the EM of sound makes his interest in Music so much cooler

So I imagine that a big difference between Movie and Series is, that in the Series they mostly try to “control” their powers, while in the Movie, once they actually get a hang of them, their powers are more a part of them, an extension, they don’t try to control it, they try to “be” their power! And that makes me imagine that because of that and them still being so young, they try out a lot with their powers (especially if they saw it in games or shows-)

I once had this Idea of Red trying Scorbunny’s (yes the Pokémon) move of kicking a stone and setting it aflame- (which would be really cool), or Cyan should be able to just surf hills down while “summoning” water underneath her feet, same with White basically, Blue should 100% be able to dart around rlly fast with his lightning, maybe like “transforming” into a lightning bolt or something, Green should be able to make force fields like walls or smth, and Black should be able to “hear” sounds through the earth and just summon up the earth-

ALSO, i had this idea for all their parents too, basically what one day just came up in my head was that, Blue’s Parents and White’s dad are teachers on the school they go to, which is also one of the reasons why the dork squad hasn’t been thrown out, Blue still lives on a junkyard and White lives with his dad and echo, but both have a good relationship with their parents, Red and Cyan’s Parents are really nice but they’re buisy, sometimes forgetting important stuff with their kids, and sending them to lessons they don’t really like, and this putting a rift between them and their children, which is also why the twins are such troublemakers, just wanting to break out of their usual routine made by their parents, Black’s Dad is a lot nicer, but they still don’t have the best relationship, this is also based on the headcanon that the squad knows each other since they’re in like kindergarten, and Black had a lot more support and encouragement to fix stuff with his dad instead of running away after his moms death, and of course we already know Greens relationship with his mom

Btw the other reason they haven’t been thrown out is that the twins parents are very well known business people, the school really doesn’t want to get in trouble with them, plus Red, Cyan and Black win a ton of competitions every year ( Black the sports stuff, the twins the more mathematical and sciency stuff) and the school cares a lot about their image-

I think I saw a screenshot once of a writer answering a question, saying the dork squad are 100% nerds, and because of this I think that yea, of course they’re teenagers, but they’re like crazy smart, red and cyan like building stuff together, making this their creative freedom, but red also knows a ton about chemistry and cyan knows a ton about biology, blue is a shy lil sweetheart and he still likes constructing and inventing stuff, but I think his specialty is physics, Black of course loves music, but I get a vibe from him that tells me he likes psychology a lot, like- red likes it on school basis but Black knows a ton about it, Green should 100% be good in linguistics. Like- different languages and all that, figuring out symbols and translation is his thing, and honestly, White is a Robot, so he’s automatically smart, so I like him being funny and more laid back when no answer is required ^^

But yea don’t start a conversation between Blue, Red and Cyan about science bc Physics, Biology and Chemistry don’t get along well-

Pls pls pls tell me more of your headcanons cause this is so much fun!!

Okay, hear me out.

My headcanons mainly are about the movie ninja crew, and bc I headcanon Nya and Kai as Twins, and I also headcanon that Cole designs a lot of the stuff the ninja use and wear (backpacks, phone cases, stickers, etc..), I had this idea that Kai and Nya just switch all the time

No reason what so ever, they just think it’s cool and lean 100% into the Twin thing.

[estrelatzia]

Ok, so as I said before, I wanted to post my thoughts about the SWSH games.

These are mostly thoughts I had on a whim during my first experience, and they might change with time or by playing the games a second time. So please don’t @ me, I am not here to argue, these thoughts are just for fun and somehow a way for me to go back and see if my thoughts on the games changed since they were released.

I categorized them as “things I liked”, “things I thought were meh” and “others” (Others are just interesting points I wanted to talk about, that I might have gave me mixed feelings about, but are not necessary bad).

Before the games were released, they gave me a lot of mixed feels that I never really experienced before with Pokemon games. From the start, I always get excited about new Pokemon games, it’s one of my favourite things since I was a kid. And even when games were not my cup of tea or I was going through a “I don’t like Pokemon anymore” phase, I would still get the game and play along with my sibling and cousins, It’s almost like a tradition.

But this time, during the period before the games got released, I felt nothing...like I was not really interested??? Like I was excited for new Pokemon, the games looked pretty and I loved the thought of exploring a new region in the pokeworld, but besides that, there was nothing more to it. And I got exhausted after all the conflicts and the bad news I saw in the last months, that I barely followed up on the SWSH news.

So I kinda started the news games kinda blind? I knew about the officially released Pokemon, but didn’t check the leaks, so many new gen8 pokemon were new to me as I played. I didn’t read much on the gym leaders, except for knowing what the ones officially revealed looked like, or other little features of the games (Like the wild zone, dynamax, raids etc). And it was an interesting experience to me.

Things that I really loved:

The scenery is gorgeous!! It really had amazing views and it give a beautiful atmosphere. I know many will laugh, but to me exploring the pokeworld is always one of the things I am the most looking forward too. It’s something I did since I was a kid. So all this to say that exploring the regions was really important to me, and I adored exploring Galar. My facourite towns were Wedgehurst, Ballonlea and Circhester.

The new Gen 8 Pokemon were great! They were cute and while some of them were “meh” to me I admit, in general I love the direction they were going with most of them. My faves of this region are Scorbunny, Raboot, Hattena, Galar Ponyta, Galar Meowth and the evolution family of Corviknight (My champ ;u;).

I was surprised to find many Galarian versions as well, and it was so nice to see their new takes on pokemon (bonus points, they were from other gens than gen1! yay!)

The clothing option was great! I love the options they gave to us early on, and even tho I have some comments about it, I really adored the customization options!

I like camping and the curry option, not gonna lie. At first I was joking about completing the Curry dex, but really I want to complete it! It was so fun to me! I always took my time to play in the camp and try different types of curry lol

The Gym Challenges were super fun for the most part. My fave was the first one lol I was disappointed by some, but in general they were interesting concepts and I hope they can keep challenges similar to these in future games.

Also really I loved all the Gym leaders in Galar. I thought the game really made them all memorable by giving them personalities and details. I only played Sword, so I cannot 100% say since I didn’t interact with them, but I love the design of Allister and Melony. Piers was kinda relatable to me lol and Opal was a fun concept for a Gym leader. All around, It was a really strong gang and they were fun to interact with. I loved the cards we get knowing more about them and their backgrounds.  

The “rivals” are interesting. I feel like they gave us a little of every type of rival people like. Like you have your friendly neighbour/rival Hop, a friend you learn more about during the game Marnie, and the old fashion arrogant type of rival we all missed, Bede. My fave was Marnie! But I appreciate the arc Hop got and Bede as well.

Things that were meh to me:

First of all, when they introduce the Pokemon, the usual theme that would appear (Welcome to the world of pokemon segment), Is not there???? Blasphemy!! (This one is a joke, please don’t take this seriously. But it was weird not hearing the theme I was used to at the beginning lol)

The thing about GF being forced to release the game before the end of the year, and the fact that they were in a rush, kinda made me wonder when there were things in the game that didn’t settle with me. Like I was always wondering “Was it cut because of the lack of time?” or if it was just things they wanted to go with it, or if it was me being paranoid?” Because, not gonna lie, I kinda compared to the last games to try to figure out what was the reason being the things that made it meh for me.  

I love the scenery and towns in Galar, and once again, idk if it was because of the lack of time, but sometimes the places in Galar feels empty...? Idk how to explain, because there is a lot to explore and I love what they did with like the routes (for the example, the two mines look so different and are so pretty! it’s not annoying to explore). But I kinda compare/think to USUM (or even SUMO), some places feel like something is missing?

For example the Budew Inn in Motostoke town. If you have the chance to go to the second floor and explore, you will find most of the rooms look empty? Like there is a lot of space, but nothing much to decorate or make the room feel less empty, compare to the hotels in Alola. I know it’s a weird nitpick, but like I said I love exploring, and remembered that this was something cool to me when I saw the details in Sun and Moon, so I felt a little like things were missing.  

Another example are some towns have no homes to explore? Like the town of the first gym, it had no houses to explore and it was so strange? Our hometown had only two houses as well (Ours and Hop’s)...or the fact that Galar’s towns we get to explore are most of the time ones with Gym leaders in it (except for our hometown, the one where the professor is and the one with the champion battle), and it was strange to me not having just a town that is there to explore without having a major plot related thing? Idk if it was just me, but as someone who likes to explore the pokeworld, that’s my thougths.

About the clothing, I really super feel like they should have cabins to change your outfit in like every Pokemon center or something. Because you can only change in cabins at boutiques. But these are like available in about 5 towns. Sometimes you just want to change clothing or accessories after one town and have to wait until arriving to a town with a boutique to change (or go back to the last one). Idk why they removed this from SUMO honestly.

Also...as someone who choose a girl character, I was disappointed that I didn’t get option to wear many pants like the boy, since the girl’s option was mostly skirts :(  Like I like the skirts, don’t get me wrong, but idk why it’s such a downgrade compared to SUMO in term of pants.  Honestly, I just wish that all the clothing would be accessible to everyone regardless of the characters’ gender.

The rivals were great imo. But sometimes I wanted Hop to leave me for a few seconds ngl. Especially at the start, like he talks in a scene in every new town you arrive. I actually don’t have a problem with Hop, I enjoy these types of friendly rivals actually and his feelings during his arc were really relatable, but sometimes I just wish we could get a break from his scenes for a while lol But at the same time, I understand that maybe his arc would have seen less good if we would see less of it? On the other hand, I kinda wish we could have seen MORE of Bede’s arc honestly. He is the arrogant rival, then something happen that is a change in his life, and the next time we see him, he takes on this new challenge and has quite changed. We see what starts all the change, but it’s a shame we don’t see the change more.  

I am not big on online stuff in general, but the way to interact online in the game is such a big meh to me! So I was trying to find my sibling in the online feature to participate in a raid battle. So I filtered by raids, don’t find them. Filtered by friends, still don’t find them. So I try to find them on the map to see if I can interact that way, fly to the other side of the map, and even if I am still connected to internet, the stamps are gone???? So I have to un-connect and reconnect to the internet again and STILL don’t find them! It’s just weird and annoying to me honestly. The fact they don’t have the GTS anymore is disappointing as well :(  I know the GTS had issues, but they could easily fix the issues imo.

I could talk forever about the dex cut, but I won’t because we all heard about it. Instead, I will just mention, that I wish there was a way somehow to get alolan versions.

Other:

The music is so good and interesting but, I don’t know if it’s just me, but I feel like I got more like Final Fantasy vibes more than Pokemon sometimes. Like when we are exploring the Forest early game and our hometown really gave me adventure RPG vibes lol.

The Ex share all. *Inhales* SO I always somehow disliked the ex share all since XY. I just have some weird thing that I want all my pokes to be at the same lvl, but in prior games it was hard to do with ex share all, because my starter would always be more lvl, and when I capture a new poke at lower lvl it would be difficult for me to lvl it up to the same lvl as the others. It was such a turn off for me. But this game, I feel like they did a good job! The pokemon who battles gain more exp than the others and the poke you capture in the wild are definitely at a lvl that is closer to your team. I didn’t get really overleved like I did in prior gens as well and I am thankful for that. I feel like they balanced it very well and I hope they keep this type of thing in the future.

No night/day cycle: During the main game, the night/day cycle is scripted lol Like you arrive in a town and it is sunset and it’s supposed to give us an atmosphere and a feeling of time passing and I think it’s interesting. It took me a while to realise that the time in the Wild area actually corresponds to your time zone in the Switch tho lol

The curry and camp are neat, but a part of me is sad that I can’t give my pokemon pats like in Pokemon refresh/amie or feed them food directly especially when there are scripts ingame before battling where the pokemon says they want to be petted. ;;

The story is almost non-existent. The villain is kinda predictable (Lysandre you have competition!) and it seems all to happen in the very last part of the main game. The pacing was kinda weird, and honestly, I am not sure I got all of the point the villain was going for, so I will digress on talking more about it. I know some people wanted a briefer from the last games (SUMO was super plot-heavy). And it gives us the chance to enjoy the games for only the Pokemon journey, it’s just felt kinda like something was missing for me because I am so used to the plots in the games tbh. I am not sure where they were going with it.

There is a story post-game...but well...idk what to say. These recent gens seems like there are no much post-game content, so idk what to say here. It’s not super fun, but it adds to the story and is enjoyable? It’s interesting I suppose, but just like the main plot, I am not sure where they were going with this as well lol It was nice seeing Hop getting involved into it though!

In brief, It was a good experience. Not the best, but definitely not the worst. To me the worst game was Pokemon Let’s go, and I am so glad SWSH didn’t beat it as the worst lol I honestly feel like I would have missed a fun experience if I had skipped SWSH.

 I just wish GF would have spent more time on it not gonna lie. Some parts really need to be more polished. And I hope in the future they will stop trying to produce a game a year and take more time to fully and comfortably polish their games, but maybe I am hoping for too much here.