#slateport city

[jasper-rolls]

Song: Slateport City Artist: Go Ichinose Album: Pokémon Ruby & Pokémon Sapphire: Super Music Collection Producer: Game Freak

[fillxsargeloverfan]

The Best Wedding Ever: A Hardenshipping Fanfic-Chapter 1

The sun was beginning to rise over Hoenn and Archie was rolling his eyes. Even if he was waking up, his mind was racing with thoughts.” I can’t believe it! Has this day come?” He got up and turned around in the bed to see Maxie. Maxie was his boyfriend and he was the light to Archie’s life. Sure they had ups and downs but Archie would do anything to stay with him. Maxie was still asleep so Archie decided to wake him up. So Archie wrapped his arms around Maxie and said gently “Morning Maxie.”

“Morning Archie.” he said turning to the bedside table to get his glasses. Maxie turned back to Archie and gave him a kiss.”Wow! That kiss was better than last time.” Archie said a little shocked.”Well of course it was better. I mean I had a lot of practice with you.” Maxie said getting out of bed. They have been living together after Archie tried to awaken Kyogre but failed. They bought a house in Lilycove City and were very comfortable with living in a house after living in their offices for so long.

After getting ready for the day and having breakfast, Archie got a text from Matt that the ring and the outfits have arrived.”Just in time!” Archie thought.”Hey Maxie I’m going to Slateport!”

“Ok! Be safe out there.”

“I will.” said Archie giving him a goodbye kiss.”Ok Crobat let’s go to Slateport!”

[battlelaine]

"Happy Pride from Kiloude City and the Battle Resort. We hope everyone has a year full of love and acceptance. If the Lumiose City Pride Parade or Slateport Pride Parade ever become too much please come visit Kiloude City or the Battle Resort for some rest and relaxation."

[chongoblog]

My First Pokemon Playthrough

So I've noticed in my time of talking about Pokemon, I've told a lot of various anecdotes that are all a part of my very first time playing Pokemon. I was feeling nostalgic, so I figured I would share what I remember about this playthrough for everyone to enjoy. There may be a tangent or two in there and people who have followed me a while may have heard these before, but hey.

For context, I believe I was about 8 years old at the time, and after collecting some Pokemon cards, watching a kid play Crystal at summer camp, watching some of the anime, and generally being a pretty big fan (I even have Pokemon Yahtzee burned into my memory for some reason...), I finally got myself a Game Boy Advance with Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World, some Frogger game (after looking it up, it was Temple of the Frog), Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, and, of course, Pokemon Sapphire.

I remember that my starter was Torchic. I don't remember why I chose that one, although I remember really liking the color red at the time (which I still do), so that was probably why.

I don't remember too much about my team or the general progress I made in most of the game, but I do remember Slateport City. For those who do not recall, in Slateport City in order to advance you need to get into the museum, which is blocked off by Team Aqua Grunts until you talk to someone in the shipyard. There are also Team Aqua grunts blocking the route ahead

Now, my 8 year old brain for some reason concluded that the only way to get past the Team Aqua Grunts was to intimidate them with a high enough level Pokemon or something like that. So one night, while I was supposed to be asleep on a family beach vacation, I beat down more poor level 13 Pokemon than I could count. I learned later what I was actually SUPPOSED to do, which led to me finally fighting the Team Aqua Grunts.....with a level 42 Blaziken.

And since the Name Rater was in Slateport City and my starter had evolved, I figured it was only appropriate to give him the new moniker "MAGMA MAN"

The rest of the playthrough went about as normally as tearing through the game with mostly Blaziken normally would go. There were a couple exceptions though. First off, at the Weather Institute, after I saved the day from Team Aqua, they were kind enough to gift me a Castform, but my party was full, so I couldn't get it. My 8 year old self did not read this. (Remember this, it will come back later). But I managed to make my way through the game, catching Kyogre with my Master Ball and giving it the nickname "LEGENDARY"

Then we come to the Elite Four where I hit a brick wall. I don't remember my team at the time exactly, but I do remember it was MAGMA MAN which had reached about level 80 or so, LEGENDARY which was about level 48, a level 36 Pelipper, two level ~35 Tentacruels, and some other sixth Pokemon I don't recall. And for some reason, I just couldn't beat the Elite Four with this team for some weird reason. The best I could ever get to was Drake. I felt I was utterly defeated.

That's when we bring a new character into the story. A member of my friend group at the time who we'll call "John" to protect the innocent. Now John had a very "uncle who works at nintendo" type energy to him. The group used to play Gauntlet: Dark Legacy together all the time, and when I got the GBA port of it, he convinced me to trade my recently obtained copy of the Pokemon Trading Card Game Boy game for a Gameboy-Gamecube cables, only for me to learn too late that it didn't work like that, and from there, there were no backsies (but then I got ahold of a copy of Pac-Man VS and Four Swords Adventure then I learned to emulate, so who's laughing now).

Anyway, John saw that I was struggling and he decided that he wanted to help me out. You see, he had come across an incredibly powerful and rare Pokemon that couldn't be found in the wild. He had gotten it exclusive, and I had never seen it before. It was called a "Castform". Now John had Ruby version, so he decided that as much as it ached him to part with it, he figured it would be a reasonable trade to trade this powerful Castform for the slightly less powerful LEGENDARY. I agreed.

And then he moved to Ohio.

To this day, Castform is my least favorite Pokemon because of this betrayal. I was so distraught at 8 years old that I completely restarted my game of Pokemon Sapphire. I don't remember much about that second playthrough, but there's a reason why.

This rival battle on Route 110 is somewhat infamous for being quite the sudden difficulty spike. And since I knew how to get past Team Aqua now, I didn't have an over-leveled starter to stomp my rival with ease. After losing to her about five or so times, I got frustrated and figured that whatever team I had wasn't cutting it. So I restarted again.

In my third playthrough, I made it all the way to the rival battle on Route 110. Then she stomped me repeatedly. So I restarted again.

This cycle would go on for, like, 15 resets. I didn't count, but it felt like there was hundreds. As I would keep on resetting and playing through the early-game of Pokemon Sapphire (which I had practically memorized at this point), I would start to take things a lot less seriously, sometimes picking the girl character, making my name random gibberish, etc.

Eventually, on one of these playthroughs where I started with Treecko, I actually managed to beat the Route 110 Rival Battle! And on my first try too! And thus began the epic journey of a girl named DE.

Now, I'd figured at this point that maybe only leveling up one Pokemon wasn't the best approach, so I was trying to balance my teams a bit better (I guess my rival taught me something). I was making my way through the game, and one day I'm checking out my best friend's Pokemon in Ruby, and who do I see in his box, but a Kyogre. I take a look at his name, and I can't believe it. It was LEGENDARY. John had traded it to my friend before he moved.

My friend didn't know that it was originally mine, so he offered to trade it back, which I accepted. LEGENDARY was a disobedient little bastard since I didn't have enough badges, but he got the job done. I don't remember the team I ended up using to finally beat the Elite Four, but it included my Sceptile starter, a Sableye that somehow knew only Fighting-type moves, and two Kyogres, LEGENDARY and LEGENDARY2.

And that's my first playthrough of Pokemon Sapphire. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it.

[darrellenjoyer]

im off those lavender town loogies. im off that slateport city soul dew. i dont even look inside my coin case anymore, i just pick a slot machine and let arceus decide. i have been smoking herba mystica the likes of which the titans have never even heard of. team rocket will not return my calls because they have labeled me a financial liability

[mawofthemagnetar]

When I first played Pokemon Diamond, I made a big mistake.

See, I’d played Pokemon Ruby before this. In those games, May was your rival (I always picked the boy, you see.) and May, for those who don’t know, has a battle with you above Slateport City. A battle that, if you picked mudkip and only levelled that mudkip, was like a brick wall of pain and frustration.

I hated May. I hated her a lot. I died a lot to that battle and I couldn’t get by her for the longest time. I eventually did, but the hatred remained.

And then, a few years later, I booted up Diamond for the first time. I was presented with the usual- Pokemon spiel, pick the boy…what’s this? The rival?

And I get to name him?

Hatred bloomed in my adolescent heart. The fires of a thousand suns burned in my eyes. A rival? The successor to May?

He would be as bad as her, surely. He would suffer as I had suffered.

And so I selected an appropriate name.

Then I played through the game.

And to my horror, I discovered that the Gen 4 rival is actually a helpful sweetie. He’s nice! He’s cool! He was brave, and fun to fight!

And so, with the hindsight of adulthood, I would like to say from the bottom of my heart:

Fuckwit, I’m so sorry I called you that.

[shiroganekira]

v. POKEMON you'll keep chasing that light before the dawn.

name: kira shirogane aliases: professor kira home town: kira was born and raised in oldale town in the hoenn region, before she and her family had moved to accumula town in the unova region. current location: depends, seeing as kira tends to move around from region to region a lot, but can most commonly be found around unova, kalos and hoenn. occupation: pokemon trainer, pokemon professor, pokestar studios actress

the team! currently traveling with kira right now,

" noct " : a male hydreigon, found as a deino in victory road. one of the later additions to her team that she had caught while she was on her way the first time to challenge the elite four. he only joined the team after her battle with the champion, and grew up while kira was traveling. she always carried that deino around with her in her arms, sometimes even as a zweilous (he's spoiled), until she eventually couldn't as a hydreigon.

" hoshi " : a female alolan ninetales that was a gift from her grandfather who was always traveling, given to her when she moved away from hoenn. loves attention, the star of the love and battles series.

" kazuki ": a female swampert, kira's main partner who she got as her starter pokemon when she was ten years old.

" ikki " : a female milotic, caught as a feebas when kira had gone fishing one time near fortree city in hoenn. unfortunately, she had already name her as a feebas, hence the name ikki. very calm, watches over the other pokemon and has the tendency of spraying both people and pokemon she considers unruly.

" tali " : a female espeon that kira had found as a stray eevee in slateport city, hoenn. definitely the most mischievous of the pokemon and hates staying in her pokeball, which is why tali's always seen walking around with kira. she has the tendency to wander off and get into her own trouble, but always finds her way back to kira.

" sanzu " : a male honchcrow that kira found as a murkrow when she was a kid and got lost in the woods. sanzu had been trying to steal some of her shinier things in her bag when he had stopped upon seeing a four year old kira crying. he helped her get back home and stayed with her, eventually staying in her house until he eventually decided to become her pokemon when kira went off on her own journey around hoenn, letting her keep him in a pokeball. he still tends to snatch things, though.

" nao " : a male chandelure that has the tendency of sneaking up on people, though is very shy. can commonly be seen hanging around tali, who he has always been most comfortable with.

a glimpse at those who are probably napping at home,

the shirogane clan was originally from the hoenn region. kira had grown up in oldale town along with her parents and three brothers. she was introduced to pokemon battles when she would go and watch the pokemon battles her mother would participate in, during different tournaments throughout hoenn. masako shirogane had been a strong trainer, earning that reputation with her meganium at her side. it was kira's admiration for her mother that made her want to pursue being a pokemon trainer herself.

in the year she her family planned to move to unova, she had gone on her own journey as a pokemon trainer to attempt the gym challenge, leaving with her mudkip and vulpix at her side. although she hadn't been able to defeat the champion in hoenn, she had enjoyed the experience of her journey, finding it the most fun she ever had, and it only sparked her ambition to be able to become stronger alongside her pokemon.

eventually, kira had moved to accumula town in unova, where she had taken up working as an assistant to professor juniper to learn more about pokemon. with the rise of team plasma, kira found herself following the movement of their plans after witnessing their demonstration in her hometown, and witnessing them stealing their pokemon for herself. it was her research regarding unova's ancient artifacts and it's link to the legendary dragons that caught team plasma's attention, and in order to get a better understanding of their motivations, kira had played along under the guise of her ambition and greed to learn leading her to "cooperate" with them. though, she ceased the moment they had tried to take away her pokemon.

now : kira had chosen to follow her own path of research after her period of assisting professor juniper, though instead of devoting her research to just one region, she decided to continue traveling and continue battling all the while, simply because she found it fun. at one point, kira was approached by a pokestar studio's agent after witnessing one of her battles and offered her the chance to star in a movie, which she had taken for the fun of it. starring in the " mystery doors of the magical land " series had set off her career as an actress, being known for hits such as " ghost eraser " and " love and battles ".

[theficpusher]

gotta catch 'em all. | nr | 957 harry takes louis on a pokemon adventure he won't forget.

Gotta Catch 'Em All by punchmelarry | G | 2259 Louis and Harry are distracted by Pokemon Go, just like everyone else. Louis can't believe how little Harry knows about Pokemon, and Harry can't believe how pretty Louis is.

You Teach Me (And I'll Teach You) by teaandtumblr | G | 3615 Zayn is a librarian who takes pride in the Pokemon Gym that is his workplace. That is, until a certain someone starts making a habit of winning it off him every damn day.

Give Me All Of Your Pokèballs by WritingProseAnythingGoes | T | 5309 "What do you mean by 'my house is on a PokeStop'? No, you cannot come in. I don't know who you are. Now please get off my property." Louis bit his lip in frustration. This dude's house was the closest PokeStop he could find and he wouldn't let him even stand close enough to get more balls. "C'mon, please? I can show you how to play too, you'd like it, especially because your house is dead center with the only PokeStop for miles." Louis begged. The guy narrowed his eyes to slits, scrutinizing Louis closely. "How do I know you aren't gonna murder me or some shit?" Louis sighed plaintively. "Seriously, dude, just let me stand in your living room for ten minutes. I won't even move, I'll just stand there, but I swear to God I'm not gonna murder you. Please." or, a short fic where Louis and Harry fall in love because Pokemon Go is a thing.

Of Thunder and Lightning [series] by gmartini | T | 5598 More than just the Pokémon spark up the battlefield when Niall Squared end up in the Pokemon League Championship match.

Take Me To Your Heart by dinosaursmate | E | 6112 Harry blinked at him for a second, and shit, they made eye contact. “Never gonna give, never gonna give…” the man sang, pointing at Harry to sing the next line. “Come on, curly!” Harry wasn’t sure whether or not to indulge him. He just wanted to go back to sleep, but he knew from experience that sometimes, ignoring lively drunks did not make the problem go away. “Give you up.” Harry replied, before laying his head back against the window and closing his eyes. “Yeah!” The man cried, and to Harry’s despair he sat down next to him. “Had a good night?” “I’ve been working.” Harry mumbled, eyes still closed. “Oh. I’ve got a few days off at the moment, so just been out with my mates. I’m Louis, by the way.” --- London Night Bus AU where all Harry wants to do is sleep, but he has a drunk man singing at him.

here's to never growing up by weddingbells | M | 8195 Every year a ship leaves for Slateport City, Hoenn, carrying excited trainers and Pokémon ready for a new world. Louis Tomlinson hopes to be one of them. He just didn't expect the adventure to start as soon as he gets on that ship, but it does.

pokémon au [series] by dearmrsawyer | G | 22177 Harry gets a part-time job at the Pewter City Pokemon Centre to earn some money for his travels and Louis could not be less thrilled. A Pokemon AU featuring OT5 friendship, the ethics of Pokemon training, and a few possible extra-terrestrials.

Just Me, Him, and the Sun and Moon by SadaVeniren | M | 45502 Alola!! You have formally been chosen to participate in the FIRST EVER Pokemon World Championship Tournament. We have not made this selection lightly and have weighed your many years as a master pokemon trainer and pokemon friend in our decision to extend this offer to you! We hope that you will accept our offer and join us at the Hano Grand Resort on Akala Island! The tournament will take place starting on May 15, but we request that you join us on May 13 to partake in an opening ceremony. The tournament will last two weeks, and accommodations will be provided for you and your pokemon, but transportation to the island will not (so bring a flying type!) We hope you join us!! Professor Kukui --- AKA a gratuitous Pokemon AU featuring farmer!harry, professor!louis, paradise, pokemon battles, love, and the fate of the world

[cure-whimsy]

Hey btw what's that green blobby Pokemon that spawns in the route above slateport city I can't quite remember its name

[findingyourrootscomic]

Gameplay Retrospective #3 (Chapters 8-10)

Hello all, and welcome back to Finding Your Roots: Gameplay Retrospectives! FYR is based on a type-restrictive nuzlocke run of Pokemon Omega Ruby. This series is where I describe the events of this nuzlocke run, so you all can get an understanding of how I transform the gameplay into a story! Today, we’ll be covering Chapters 8-10 which ranges from leaving Slateport City to the Team Magma encounter at Meteor Falls. Sorry it’s been so long since the last one, thank you for your patience!

The Current Team

Cedar- Marshtomp

Gender: Female

Met: Route 101, lv 5

Ability: Torrent

Personality: Brave, Good endurance

Shelly- Nincada

Gender: Female

Met: Route 116, lv 6

Ability: Compound Eyes

Personality: Rash, Proud of her power

Brawler- Geodude

Gender: Male

Met: Granite Cave, lv 10

Ability: Sturdy

Personality: Careful, Quick to flee

Nauki- Trapinch

Gender: Male

Met: Granite Cave, lv 1

Ability: Arena Trap

Personality: Jolly, Strong willed

Ember- Numel

Gender: Female

Met: Route 112, lv 14

Ability: Oblivious

Personality: Brave, Somewhat vain

Copper- Slugma

Gender: Male

Met: Fiery Pass, lv 15

Ability: Magma Armor

Personality: Rash, Impetuous and silly

Lockheed- Skarmory

Gender: Male

Met: Route 113, lv 16

Ability: Sturdy

Personality: Modest, Likes to run

Eclipse- Solrock

Gender: Neutral

Met: Meteor Falls, lv 17

Ability: Levitate

Personality: Jolly, Takes plenty of siestas

Tuffy- Numel

Gender: Female

Met: Jagged Pass, lv 21

Ability: Simple

Personality: Hasty, Quick to flee

Gyms Completed

Mauville Gym: Leader Wattson

New Catches

Fiery Pass: Copper (Slugma)

Route 112: Ember (Numel)

Route 113: Lockheed (Skarmory)

Meteor Falls: Eclipse (Solrock)

Jagged Pass: Tuffy (Numel)

Evolutions

None

Deaths

None

Chapter Eight’s gameplay was especially fun to translate into story, since it contained a rival battle AND a gym battle! The chapter picks up at the Pokemon Center visit that I made after winning the prior rival battle against Brendan, who fainted one of my pokemon and reduced the rest to low health. I used repels to make sure we didn’t get jumped by wild pokemon and rushed my poor earth-type babies to the Slateport Pokemon Center to heal them up. Since I had three revives to use on any fainted pokemon I wanted throughout the run, I used the first on Cedar and rezzed her at the Pokemon Center. I stocked up on potions and other heal items, now paranoid that this run may not be as easy as I was hoping. After that, we set off for Mauville.

In the comic, Team Hearth never visits the comic’s stand-in city Mawhill, the lightning elemental capital. This is different from the gameplay, where you are of course unable to skip visiting Mauville since it has the third gym. I made this change since it wouldn’t really make sense for Team Hearth to visit an elemental capital so soon after what happened with Briar. I also just didn’t want to introduce and design a new city, and I figured I could connect the needed gym battle to Mauville by having the gym leaders be Mawhill citizens. It made sense anyway since lightning elementals live there, and the gym is an electric gym! So that fell together pretty nicely.

But before the battle begins, Cedar and Nauki run into Wesen the ralts, the comic stand-in for Wally! I was pretty excited to get to bring Wesen back for this chapter, since he left Cedar so abruptly ages ago in Chapter Two. It was fun to get to pick at the unresolved drama between these two, because Wesen is avoidant to a fault but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t feel bad about the things he does. Cedar is a fun character to throw at Wesen because her very nature is antithetical to what Wesen expects from the world. These two shake each other up and I love their chemistry.

Cedar and Nauki bring Wesen back to meet their new team, and some aggression from a recently retraumatized Shelly helps to lead both into the upcoming rival battle AND the gym battle. The conflict causes Nauki to run off on his own, which separates him from his older protectors and frees him up to get kidnapped by the lightning elemental gym leaders. This event thus gets Shelly even MORE pissed, and once she identifies Wesen as at fault for Nauki’s kidnapping, all bets are off. Shelly attacks Wesen, violence ensues, and the rival battle commences. Check that one off the list!

In-game, I used Shelly against Wally in Mauville. She was still weak af but was getting a little stronger now that she was getting to higher levels, and bug is good against psychic. Wally only has one ralts here, so it was a pretty easy fight even for Shelly. It went by quickly, and does as well in the comic, though in-comic Shelly is so overcome with raging emotion over the kidnapping that when Cedar intervenes, the explosion targets her instead. Wesen is spared, rival battle is cut off, and Shelly runs away. After the Talk happens, we cut to Nauki with his lightning elemental captors, and the third gym battle is imminent.

Gameplay notes for the Wally battle (Yeah it was literally two turns lol):

Shelly vs ralts- Cut, half yellow.

Teleport, no effect.

Cut KO.

Originally, I was actually going to show the third gym battle in-comic. It would have been Nauki beating the everloving shit out of these lightning elementals to protect his sisters from potential harm, and it was gonna be cathartic and awesome and glorious. I ended up cutting it for time. Chapter Eight was long as fuck even without this battle, so it unfortunately just couldn’t happen. The camera cuts away as Nauki charges in, and by the next time we see him, the cave is reduced to rubble and Watts, Gadget, and Mango are beaten to a pulp. In-game, you’ll never guess what happened…

I swept the gym with Nauki. Wow, how’d you guess? :V

Yeah, it was super easy. Even the battle against Roxanne was harder and I was fighting with a frigging water-type. Once the gym battle was done, we moved onwards towards Hoenn’s arid region! Finally, I had gotten to the good part of the game… THIS NEXT PART OF HOENN IS EARTH-TYPE CENTRAL! I was gonna be getting catches on almost every route, instead of every few levels like the early game! I was so excited to finally fill out the rest of the team, and I caught lots of new pokemon!

My first new catch was on Route 112, where I encountered and caught a female numel that I named Ember. I was so fucking excited because numel is one of my favorite earth-types to raise, and what better place to do so than Hoenn! She was the fifth pokemon to join the team, and then we went to Fiery Pass where I caught a male slugma named Copper. I’d never raised slugma before, so I was pretty interested to see how he would do. Full team!!!

The next step in the game was to head to Fallarbor, and I knew from my research that Route 113 would have a possible skarmory encounter. I really, really wanted skarmory on the team (steel-type, flying-type, cute design, nostalgia for my skarmory from my first Emerald playthrough, GOOD). So once we got there and I encountered and caught the male skarmory Lockheed, I suddenly had choices to make. 7 pokemon, but only 6 slots on the team. It was time to send someone to the PC!

This was the point in the run where I made pretty liberal use of the PC boxes to switch the team around. It was a kinda chaotic time for the team, pokemon would regularly get boxed and come back and get boxed again as more new catches were made. I was trying to balance the team type-wise as well, so that we weren’t leaning too heavily on ground-types versus rock and steel. Cedar and Nauki were the only real permanent fixtures on the team at this point. Lots of switching up!

In Fallarbor, you get a quest to save a kidnapped professor from Team Magma, who dragged him off to Meteor Falls for whatever reason. You also encounter Brendan here, who doesn’t battle you but rather accompanies you to Meteor Falls. I decided to skip this rival encounter because honestly I forgot it even happened. Brendan just leaves very little impression on me as a character lol. I skipped the professor thing, too, because it was just kinda boring and would’ve taken an annoying amount of time to set up, just needlessly extending the comic further. Once Team Hearth made it to the desert, I wanted to send them to Meteor Falls without spending a ton of pages on it. I definitely wanted to include the Team Magma encounter there, since I was taking this opportunity to introduce the comic stand-in for Maxie. I used Team Molten’s strong desire to fight Team Magma as the bridge to get us from one story point to the next as quickly as possible.

I don’t exactly remember how I got the idea to connect Team Molten and Team Magma. The numel catches were definitely part of the inspiration, since Maxie also uses a camerupt as his ace. Bridging different elements of the story also helps to streamline things; Team Molten wanting to fight Team Magma can serve to drag Team Hearth into the conflict as well, even though our main characters don’t yet have a personal stake in the conflict. They will have a personal stake eventually. But for now, their major motivation is to help their new friends out. Thankfully, with Cedar and Nauki’s personalities, it was easy to justify this.

In Meteor Falls, I caught a solrock named Eclipse. I was kinda miffed about this catch I’ll be honest lol, because solrock is a psychic-type but also a physical attacker??? And I don’t even think they learn zen headbutt. So at the time I was just kinda like… Eclipse you’re just a less good Brawler… But I kept them on the team for far longer than I anticipated at the time of capture. So its kinda funny how that all turned out!

Once Eclipse was caught (and introduced in-comic as a character with OCD, as I had promised a friend I would write one), we move on to the Team Magma encounter and introduce Mantle and Tabs (stand-in for Admin Tabitha). In-game, there are three Magma Admins that you regularly fight (or two?? Was it two or three??? I remember Tabitha and Courtney uhh), but in the comic, only one of these admins is still currently with the team. This is to just streamline things more so I don’t have a billion cast members to keep track of. The other Magma admins can be seen in Ember and Tuffy’s flashback, so they are at least referenced. In-comic, Team Magma is here for the same reason as in-game: To steal the meteorite. Team Molten find them first, chaos ensues as the numels three reunite, and then Team Hearth arrives. Molten has outed themselves as being connected to Team Magma. Team Magma successfully steals the meteorite (same as in-game p sure) and leave. I literally don’t remember what they do with it after the fact lol, but I at least remember that much.

Sometime after Meteor Falls, I went to Jagged Pass and caught the second female numel, Tuffy. This was fucking awesome because I love numels and now I had two of them fuck yeah. And thus, we had nine team members in total: Cedar, Nauki, Shelly, Brawler, Ember, Copper, Lockheed, Eclipse, and Tuffy! Earthen party, earthen party! Things were going strong at this point, with lots of fighters to choose from and all sorts of new type coverage. As you can see, in-game Tuffy was the last of these five pokemon to be caught, but she’s introduced as one of the first new catches in-comic. I streamlined all the new catches by introducing three of them (slugma and the two numels) as a unit. I wrote in reasons for why all these new pokemon would start hanging with Team Hearth, though all have yet to officially join the team. I try not to rush new catches onto the team, since it can come off really unnatural. I want to give time for the characters to meet and get used to each other and have them join up when the moment feels right. But for now, all these new pokemon are traveling with Team Hearth!

Aaaand that’s about it! Thanks for reading this gameplay retrospective. Next one will come at the end of Chapter 13. Laters!

[silkhy-john]

[Mt Chimney peak]

Archie: hey could you stop my boyfriend? It’s not safe to stand that close to an active volcano

May: oh I’m definitely gonna stop… wait, that’s why you’re stopping him?

Archie: *confused* oh so you wouldn’t ask someone to pull Brendan back if he was standing too close to the edge of a cliff?

Magma Grunt: *throws out Poochyena* FIGHT ME DAD!

May: *concerned* you know what, just… I’ll stop him.

***

[Pyre Peak]

Mt Pyre Duo: hey what are you doing?

Maxie: *taking red orb* oh just taking this. My husband is coming by later; please don’t give him the other one.

Mt Pyre Duo: we aren’t giving you that!

Maxie: oh? Then I’ll just *takes orb and leaves anyway*

***

[Pyre Peak]

Mt Pyre Duo: *doing their best to defend the orb* are you that other man’s husband?

Archie: *doing his best to snatch the orb* oh he called me his husband? :D

May: hey hey what’s going on here

Archie: *blushing* I’m about to get married

May: ????

Archie: *leaves in the confusion*

***

[Magma hideout]

Maxie: hello, child. You’re just in time to witness history

May: *watchibg Groudon awaken* hey is it true you proposed to Archie?

Maxie: *blushing* I did no such— *remembers that he slipped and called Archie ‘husband’* *blushes harder*

***

[Slateport City]

Archie: Will Maxie think I’m cool for stealing this submarine?

[Mossdeep City]

Maxie: Will Archie find it amazing that I took over this space centre?

Both: *sigh*

***

[Seafloor Cavern]

Archie: *awakening Kyogre* he may have done it first, but I’ll do it better!

May: hey, where is Kyogre going?

Archie: huh? Kyogre? KYOGRE!

Kyogre: *off to find Groudon*

***

[Route 128]

Archie: what’s going on? This isn’t what I wanted!

Maxie: I think… I think we fucked up.

Archie: *realises how serious it is cause Maxie never curses* how do we fix this?

Steven Stone: *flies in on Skarmory’s back* we need the orbs in Sootopolis City, now.

May: great. They just… left.

***

[Sootopolis City, Groudon and Kyogre fighting]

Archie: babe, this isn’t working!

Maxie: don’t ‘babe’ me, honey; focus!

May: hey, how can I help?

Steven: I think my husband might need your set of skills.

May: … you’re married?

Steven: *holds up left hand*

Archie, Maxie: *point at Steven’s left hand*

***

[Sootopolis City, crisis dealt with]

Archie: so… you called me ‘husband’

Maxie: *blushes* yeah

Archie: do you want me to be your husband?

Maxie: *blushes* yeah

Archie: good, cause I want to be yours

Maxie: *wraps his arms around Archie’s shoulders and kisses him*

May: finally

The People of Sootopolis: *confused cheering*

Steven: *wiping tears away* that was great

Wallace: that wasn’t such a bad double date

Steven: …double date?

Juan: *exiting gym* could you guys take this somewhere else?

***

[Lilycove Point]

Officiant:

Archie: I do!

Officiant: …sir, I haven’t even started.

Maxie: Archie, light of my life, water that quenches the flames of my love—

Archie: *bawling*

Brendan: *looking at May with tears in his eyes* Will your vows sound like this?

May: *trying not to cry* will yours?

Archie: *tosses bouquet*

Tabitha: *catches it* well then *turns to Matt and starts making out with him*

***

[Alola, honeymoon]

Maxie: hey, when did you realise you loved me?

Archie: when you told me nothing would stop you from achieving your goals. You?

Maxie: when you told me you’d be the only thing to stop me from achieving my goals.

THE END.

[pokeroid-central]

<<today's pokeroid is a GEN 1 drive System, named PKD-0297 Powyama (or was used to be called Iron hands in the past)!>>

Powyama is a heavy-power Class, Electric Quark type config GEN 1 Q.drive Pokeroid, that was designed for combat training, on-site emergency unit, and for heavy lifting. It has 2 Electro-magnetic powered hands that have a separate connection from the main body, that allows them to discharge electricity via its Electric type Q.drive. these hands have a recorded tonnage lifting weight of 33 tons (basically the average tanker truck when its loaded.) and are able to toss them with relative ease.

they're found in Paldea, hoenn ( mainly in cities mauville and at slateport), and even unova, all doing cargo lifting or aiding Medical/rescue Response teams incase of natural disasters or accidents. in paldea they regularly are seen in plains or mountains with hariyama and training with them.

PKD-0297 was created by Magnezone Labs at Paldea in 2065 to test the limits of how much a pokeroid can lift. as well as figuring out a way to introduce a versatile powerful pokeroid that can do various roles or jobs if it wanted. Oddly someone suggested the idea of basing the frame and body after Hariyama, and it turned out to be a major success with its capabilities reaching the specifications that Magnezone Labs desired.

[pokeprint]

Slateport City

Artist

[revalentine2]

Stones and Slate! [p2] - Team Objevtive plays Pokemon Emerald

(part 2 of 3 for today!)

Time to leave this beach city behind and advance to our next location-

wait was that a hecking boat

ah, whatever. We have arrived in Slateport City! Now, to investigate this town for any object pokemon of interest...

This man is a fool. Object pokemon arr the only pokemon I need! [Ignore how I just skipped a gym and my team is completely weak to all the water trainers in the surrounding area.]

If only the anchor attached to the seaweed was alive...sigh...

Your doll selection sucks. Where's Nosepass? Magnemite??? BALTOY???

I've decided to investigate this oceanic museum, in hopes it may give me a lead, but the pests known as Team Aqua have beaten me here. Oh well, I don't really care what they do as long as they stay out of my way.

A submarine...a model of what's currently being constructed in this very city? It may surprise you, dear followers, but I actually have some interest in exploring the bottom of the ocean myself...I've heard legends of great giants, kings of their elements, slumbering beneath the earth and waves of this region...it's for those reasons I have come to this region in the first place. I wish to claim these pokemon for my own!

...Perhaps I should be taking interest with this delivery task I have been given after all.

[bluesailcaptain]

Ahoy mateys!

Huh? You want me to introduce myself? Alright! Here I go!

Full name: Archibald Gunnar Aogiri

Nickname: Archie

Age: 49 years old

Birthday: 8th of August

“The Captain of Team Aqua, that’s me! You better make sure the waves don’t swallow you whole!”

OOC & Lore/Infodump down below (I may add stuff in the future)

//OOC - About Archie:

Hi, I’m @starlightcosmos04245 and I’m playing this Archie, as well as the corresponding Maxie, aka Marc (@matsubusa-m), my main OC Lizzy (@ematsubusa), Courtney, aka Jördis (@kaga-ribi-612) and Marc‘s younger brother, Max (@sweetdreamprince264)

Archie is the Leader (or Captain) of Team Aqua. Everything that happens here takes place long after the events of ORAS. Both Archie and Marc woke up the super-ancient Pokémon and while Marc got cursed by Groudon, Archie got away without any divine punishment. Though he never tried anything funny involving any legendary Pokémon again

Archie is married to Shelly in this universe. Nessa, the gym leader of Hulbury in Galar, is their daughter (because she absolutely looks like them, especially Shelly).

Archie and Marc are best friends ever since their early childhood. They got into a bad fight before the events of ORAS, resulting in the creation of Team Aqua and Team Magma. They made up afterwards and became friends again.

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//OOC - About this blogs boundaries:

I, personally, am usually very open about everything. Though I have to admit I’m very shy and get nervous easily… so sorry for that. I’m happy though to be included in everything happening ^^

(I maybe disappear sometimes for some time due to mental health reasons or just stuff in my life happening. We all need breaks sometimes ^^; )

I’m okay with ic anon hate, feel free to annoy Archie and poke fun at or with him. He’s a usually relaxed but hotheaded person. Also, feel free to ask him any questions. If they’re too extreme, though, I’ll ignore them (fyi). I also won’t condone any ooc hate. It’s inappropriate. This is a RP-Blog, after all. We’re all here to have some fun :)

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Next up, some LORE

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LORE

Archie was born to Captain Akiyama Aogiri and his wife Beryl. While Akiyama is a descendant of the Pearl Clan, Beryl was a native Alolan. This makes Archie half-alolan. He grew up together with his best friends Marc and Michelle (aka Shelly) in Slateport City. The Aogiri family resides near the coast of Slateport.

When Archie was 15, his mother passed away from a severe illness. Therefore Martha Matsubusa, Marc’s mother, made sure to also take care of Archie too whenever she had the chance to. Beryl and Martha were close friends, so she saw it as her duty to make sure her late friends son is well too.

After finishing school, the three friends went to university in Lilycove together. Archie chose marine biology, Shells science and Marc geology. During that time, Archie and Shelly had their daughter Nessa.

During the events of ORAS, Nessa lived with her maternal grandparents in Galar. She returned for some time afterwards but went back to Galar to go on her gym-challenge.

After the events of ORAS, Archie reformed Team Aqua and formed an alliance with Marc and Team Magma. They are still separate organisations but work closely together on bettering the world - both for humans and Pokémon, on land and in the water. Though the ever-overlooming presence of the Devon Corp. makes both Archie and Marc grit their teeth. But what are they supposed to do? They’re ex-ecoterrorists. They should be grateful they aren’t in prison for their actions…

Some more useless facts:

- Thanks to his mom, Archie has a love for shanties

- Though he likes other music too, more stuff like classic rock and old Japanese pop (like from the 80s, the calm stuff)

- Archie actually knows how to sail. His father is a captain, what did you expect?

- Archie is a distant relative of Shimizu Amakawa, Max’s husband

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Yarr-harr- nah, sorry. lol.

Thanks for reading through that mess! ^^