#stronk doggo

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

Took Velma to the vet today and apparently she's put on like 3 pounds of pure muscle since her last checkup 💪💪💪

[tired-needs-sleep]

can't wait to sweep rosetta with styx again :D

[wolf-pup-eddie]

i wan childe as bii sibing :3c also kaeya an xiao :3c

zhonli an neuvi an wrio as papa's too :3c bii stronk dragoos an bii doggo men r tha bess! so cuddly X3c

[SFW Interaction Only!!!]

[anadorablekiwi]

What are your OC's favorite pastimes? What hobbies do they like to do or do they have any hidden talents?

Oooooo thats an excellent question. Since you didnt specify, im sticking with the chaos chain cuz i got lotsa ocs

Fair warning its late so thisll be chaotic and probably long so under the cut it goes

In no particular order (welcome to adhd lol):

Lupus loves reading most, especially sappy romance books about the hero of legend. He also loves hanging out in his bookstore (which doesn’t sell books but does rent them and is also like a library i guess?), organizing the shelves, and napping in his wolf form. His hidden talent is being an adorable fluffy wolf doggo

Harp likes playing the lyre, or exploring. Her not so hidden talent is singing and worrying Scholar, her Link. She also loves hearing Scholar read to her

Dragon’s also not so hidden talent is simping for his girlfriend/Zelda, Aurum. And being short but stronk. He likes petting his cat and caring for weapons (like polishing and cleaning and stuffs)

Eli likes experimenting with potions, reading when she has the attention span, archery practice, and crocheting. Her hidden talent is being shockingly bad at self care despite being the person making sure the others self care

Picori loves filling his free time with sassing Lumen, rambling about things he likes such as the minish, and exploring. And (mostly harmless) pranks. His hidden talent is becoming a minish himself

Lumen likes sassing everyone, teasing Lupus, and exploring (surprise surprise lol). He likes to pull pranks with picori, and on picori, and getting Lupus to infodumo about literally anything or tell stories about his (Lupus’s) adventure. Lumen’s hidden talent is night vision (glows to creatures of light like fairies and blupees), and enabling chaos

[mattxdraws]

Doggo be stronk

Doggo hugs friends

foxinthefedora is friends

Doggo hugs the fox~

Piece I did for my friend foxinthefedora a while back!

He has his own audio web-series featuring his character's misadventures! You should definitely check it out~!

[halt-kun]

Hunter x Hunter Chapter 201 - Reunion

HEYLLO

I really need to advance in this liveblog and the golden week gives me some times to do it

Let’s goooo

Chrollo’s nen has been freed it seems

Abengane did a good job, too bad we won’t see this pay off for a while

KNUCKLE

I love him, sooo brash

forgetting the most important details hahaha

Same Killua

NICE FIT THOUGH

look at him

I like the couple that went by him too, nice outfits too

Quite similar to Nobu and Machi’s plan in Yorknew

Yep Knuckle was definitely 100% serious but Shoot took advantage of that and was probably watching

HE STRONK

this profile is intense !!!

I agree with Killua too, you can’t just go in blinds, Morel was definitely having survivor bias I think. 

“WhAt Do YoU mEaN, a LoT mOrE pEoPlE dIeD dOiNg ThAt ThAn SuRvIvEd” ?!?

They’re so cute eating together

I agree with Killua wholeheartedly

Gon has a point too, you need the strength to adapt quickly to your opponents style with little to no data on them

DUMBASS GON 

KNUCKLE STRONK

Killua’s face is priceless

I feel a bit bad looking at Gon though, you can clearly see he’s worried about Kite and wants to help him as fast as possible

BISCUIT’s best fit

I love her so much, probably my favourite character

I like the rabbit thingi too because that’s my chinese zodiac sign, it’s an hare in some countries and a cat in vietnam

It’s also related to the moon so it feels quite esoteric compared to a lot of other asiatic zodiac signs

Also we can all agree rabbit character are sooooo cool usually

Biscuit, Mirko (my hero academia), Megumi’s rabbit escape (jujutsu kaisen), that one girl from bloody roar.

I still don’t know how Palm used her ability to find her knowing the details we get later

Me when I need to get back on tracks, just repeating what I previously did hoping my brain will find the path to the thought back

Yeah Gon, remember that ball game in the hunter exam

Don’t underestimate Knuckle

Thanks Biscuit, put some sense into him

Ken endurance seems so hard to train, the only thing I could compare it to in my mind would be the planck

but those two wouldn’t struggle maintaining the planck for three hours

LEZGOOOOOO

this is going to be brutal

Biscuit, please read something a bit more serious, I bet her fyp would be full of naked men and women on insta

Once again, Killua is better than Gon at something

Like with the enhancement training, ryu, ken, gyo

Definitely always a bit ahead (I definitely mentioned when I liveblogged those parts)

Biscuit, you know positive reinforcement actually helps more than roasting your students ?

Their clothes seem so damp, I feel it from a universe over

HERE HE IS, BEST BOI

DOGGO BOI

sorry i’ve got no brains, just dogs

the way people treat dog sometimes, I wish there were more Knuckle in real life

NICE Biscuit !

Don’t you need to sleep ? How long can you go, like in GI, we never saw her sleep too

not against Binolt, not during the training, not ever

Also can you summon two Cookie chan ? because there are two people here 

Anyway we know she’s more massages, and I WISH we’d see them, because this one is broken already

Definitely top nen ability I’d pick in my life

Why wouldn’t it be free ? Like not free in term of money ? Or like there is a secondary effect ?

Palm being weird

you need to see a therapist, like you are definitely trying to manage it in your own way, but that’s not normal, seek help

like at this level, you need some medicine 

PALM DON’T

The worst part of HxH

is THAT crush if you can consider this a crush

Biscuit is worried about Netero ;_;

GOOD PLAN

very nice

and fuck

rip everyone

IT’S HER BEST GIRL !

Nice chapter, I might do another one or two today, see ya !

[cero-sleep]

Playing around with centaur Sun with a clip I took as a base

[ichor-and-symbiosis]

how are right-handed people real

[winxngblog]

Winx Pokemon AU?

Hnnnn... been in a real Pokemon mood for some reason soooo here’s some random ideas I had about the main Winx Club girls being from specific Pokemon regions (+signature pokemon of theirs from said regions):

Bloom = Kanto/Gen 1 (her signature pokemon being Charmander)

Stella = Kalos/Gen 6 (her signature pokemon being Sylveon)

Tecna = Unova/Gen 5 (her signature pokemon being Elgyem)

Layla = Alola/Gen 7 (her signature pokemon being Popplio)

Musa = Hoenn/Gen 3 (her signature pokemon being Whismur)

Flora = Sinnoh/Gen 4 (her signature pokemon being Cherrim)

Roxy = Johto/Gen 2 (her signature pokemon being Houndoom)

[ladydoggodothedraws]

I uh... 

Huh...

...Yeah...

[ice-cream-writes-stuff]

Another mini fic. Imagine strong, as in STRONG Mc lifting up any of the tweels and them acting like big doggos being lifted (Google it belive its kinda funny seeing the faves they do) or like any tal or big character (I can see sebek fuming in the inside after seeing Mc lifting malleus up but not saying anything because if they're able to lift Waka-Sama without no issue what they could do) also hyenas are loud as fuck so it doesn't surprise me ruggie kinda is. Basically hyenas = savanna dog/cat

(Stronk (Y/N) is best. d-(· W ·)-b)

(Y/N) chuckles at Malleus suprised expression. Her hold on the male never loosening or slipping. Sebek and his fellow gaurds, stare in shock. Ace and Deuce watch in horror, their female friend certainly had a death wish because of her actions. The ever so oblivious Yuu walks closer to the two.

They tug on the (h/c) haired girls shirt, "(Y/N). I don't think Malleus likes you holding him like that." They stated innocently as they felt multiple eyes on their back. (Y/N) looks away from Malleus and nods at Yuu. The female quickly apologizes. Placing the fae prince down on the ground, (Y/N) waves goodbye as her and Yuu walk off, with Ace, Deuce and Grim scurrying behind.

"That sorta reminded me of when you picker up Senior Floyd." Yuu stated, the memory of the girl picking up Floyd up by the waist and hauling him on her shoulder like a sack of potatos, lingers in his head. (Y/N) bashfully scratches her cheek, looking anywhere but them.

[awolfnamedluna]

Lunas OC List!

list of all my ocs! also feel free to ask any questions about any of them! I love thinking about them and answering oc related asks

all my ocs in the order I made them and info about them varying from basic info to random stuff I also put their pets in there

in bold are the ones I talk about most.

in blue is my ND crew

in pink is/are side character(s) to the one in italics/above

new fellas are in green!

groups/same universe ocs indicated by a purple word corresponding to said universe/group

1. Frostbite (Star Wars, Independent, In Hiding, frost powers, Direan) 

2. Alpha (Call of Duty, Independent, Real name [REDACTED])

3. Rose

4. Dominic

5. Zayne (Destiny 2, Hunter)

6. Seven (Stranger Things, Paranoid, Thunder and Lightning powers)

7. Leona (The 100, Lincoln's Sister, Archer, Warrior)

8. Emiliana "Emily" (CoD:BOCW, not Bell, Aloof, Cheerful) 

9. Maxilla Kozlova (CoD:BOCW, Bell, Ex-Spetznaz)

10. Maxena (The Witcher, Witch, Black Wolf)

11. Chalondra Adira Bellatrix (Titanfall 2, Scientist, Hidden Pilot)

12. Luna (My own universe, Astronaut, Dragon Crew-2, ADHD, Aspie) ND crew. Her pet: Max (silver German Shepard, emotional support doggo) Her partner: Ruby

13. Ash (The Terminator, Angy, Independent, real name Dariya, wants to be called ash)

14. Cameron (The Terminator, sweet old man, runs a gas station, took in ash when she was 17, has 2 children and a wife)

15. Phoenix (Star Wars, The Bad Batch, Agile, Stealthy, female)

16. Erica (My own universe, Professional Scuba Diver, Marine Biologist, ADHD, Aspie) Her pet: Sumo (Saint Bernard) Partner: Barry Sloane

17. Svetlana (Miraculous, Shy, Timid, Wolf Miraculous)

18. Ruby (Welder, Engineer, Luna's Girlfriend, Macaw, ADHD) Her pet: Spark (Camelot Macaw)

19. Scott Ulrich (Gay, CINNAMON ROLL, very very muscly, Neurodivergent, Ulrich: meaning 'ruler of wolves') His pets: Julia (Calico cat) James (Tortioseshell cat)

20. Brooke (Ace, funky gal, ADHD, loves Imagine Dragons, Techno lover, Very creative, loves racing games, Got everyone into ONRUSH) Her pet: Ajax/Jax (Brown and White Husky)

21. Orion (trans fella, nickname: Olli, Loves making food, Great at cooking)

22. Lana (MK11, Cherry's baby fever post, teen girl/Adult, introverted, Shapeshifter, Quiet)

23. Cecilia (Aspie, nickname is Callie, Trans-fem, Loves Kawaii, one month on estrogen, Ginger, likes skirts, very good friends with Scott)

24. Zoradia, Osiris Astor (Carpenter, non binary, genderfluid, aro, german parent, Nicknames: Zora-Axe Man. STRONK, adopted, )

25. Nova (bartender,) Her pet: Onyx (Black cat with green eyes)

26. Nova's Dad

27. Rocco (f/o, Big boii)

28. Daxton (F/O, Ghostface)

29. Zoya (MK11, Black Dragon, Big/Wild Cat Owner)

30. Akira (Aki) (F/O, Asian, Talented gf, makeup, poly with Emi)

31. Emiko (Emi) (F/O, Asian, poly with Aki)

32. Kodak (Doberman, Black and Rust, SCP)

33. Melissa / M (Days Gone)

34. M's Wife (Days Gone)

35. unnamed (Butch Trans Lesbian)

36. Astrid Dahlström (F1, Swedish, Happy, mostly friendly. on race days Cold and Serious)

37. unnamed (Death Stranding)

38. unnamed (Doom 2016)

39. unnamed (Ghost of Tsushima)

40. Chief Alex Grayson (F/O, SWAT)

41. Pavan/Parbesh Dawa Shalva (Nepalese Sherpa, mountaineering, rock climbing, proficient in Flute-type instruments even at higher altitudes)

41. unnamed (chernobyl stalker, Belarus, Bass player, non binary)

42. unnamed (chernobyl stalker, Ukrainian gal, Survivialist)

43. unnamed (chernobyl stalker, Frenchman)

44. Gabriel (aircraft carrier yellow jacket / shooter, charismatic guy, bi, dating Apollo)

45. Shane (aircraft carrier green jacket)

46. John (aircraft carrier brown jacket)

47. Deidrich Schaffer (aircraft carrier white jacket/safety observer, German, gruff exterior but a softie underneath, serious abt safety)

48. unnamed (aircraft carrier JBD operator, Slavic)

49. unnamed (aircraft carrier, center deck operator, in charge of steam pressure for launches)

50. Apollo (aircraft carrier red shirt/ordanace handler, calm and quiet guy, somewhat shy, pan, dating Gabriel)

51. Alex Artemis Andromeda (space farer, mostly cargo, star citizen inspo, Artemis Cargo)

52. unnamed (space farers ai assistant, huge, Artemis Cargo)

53. unnamed (trucker, cargo, trio, like Cameron, Vitiligo)

54. unnamed (works with trucker, trio, Amputee)

55. unnamed (works with trucker, trio, Muslim)

56. AJ (apocalypse, survivior, Jack's "uncle", close with Jacks dad, keeps track of *insert creature here*, has infection of sorts, immune to said infection)

57. unnamed (apocalypse, scientist, studying effects of the infection on remaining wildlife and also *insert creature here*)

58. Dimitri (F/O, big beefy man, Russian/Ukrainian, Millitary)

59. Dmitry Phobos (Elden Ring, Tarnished, filled with autism, just a little guy)

60. Kai (F/O, Fighter Pilot)

61. Sage / Savannah (me but band, can play Guitar and Bass, kinda has a thing for synths, baby synth player, lead vocals, has a drawing account, is an anonymous photographer)

62. A/Ayon (@ashalunderscore but band, can play Keys/Piano and Bass, backup vocals, has a drawing account)

63. Jonathan (friend but band, resident Drummer)

64. Theia (friend but band, rhythm guitar/backup guitar, backup vocals)

65. unnamed (space girl, from visual idea of a girl floating in a spaceship/station on her back with her hair floating around her head)

66. unnamed (from visual of person pulling up a materialising balaclava/mask, handler of Everett @ashalunderscore 's oc, realm/reality jumper, has powerful magic)

67. Jack (apocalypse, surivor, climber, in a qpr with Rory (@ashalunderscore 's oc) , immune to apocalypse infection but doesn't know it)

68. Leo (Elden Ring, Tarnished, sorcerer/mage/magic user, seeking redemption for her clan)

69. Kaiko/Kazumi (immortal mortician, names: Kaiko, Kazumi)

70. CT-7595 Riot (Star Wars, f/o, clone trooper, serves with frostbite, survives with frostbite and Ozone after order 66)

71. unnamed (ballet boy, Vietnamese, Vietnamese father, Japanese mother)

72. unnamed (Jamaican horse rider)

73. unnamed (trans fem drummer, pan)

74. unnamed (funky hair bitch)

75. unnamed (Egyptian with ballet boy)

76. unnamed (Arab with ballet boy)

77. unnamed (Star Wars, f/o, Togruta)

78. unnamed (Star Wars, Togruta, Warrior)

79. Ozone (Star Wars, Clone trooper, ARC Trooper serving under Frostbite, survives with riot and frostbite after order 66)

80. Dusklight (Star Wars, Jedi with a strong connection to the dark side, Aromantic, Yoda's padawan, gained rank of Jedi Master, frost powers, energy powers, immune to stun weapons, Direan [Arctic and Energy hybrid] , extremely close to Qui-Gon Jinn, Padawan is Ralten Tarov by @ashalunderscore)

82. Omen (bonkers universe, lead investigation gal, stealth, lock picking, pickpocket, free runner and professional climber, psudounymns: Omen, Dash, Exit, Scratch)

83. unnamed (bonkers universe, with omen, close with omen, omen's second hand man, psudounymns: Iron, Photon, Flame, Ember)

84. unnamed (bonkers universe, with omen, tech guy for omen, psudounymns: Devotion, Pixel)

85. unnamed (Star Wars, Twi'lek, Royal Naboo Pilot)

86. Moon Yi-jun / Yi-jun Moon (South Korean male figure skater, stage name Cosmo)

87. unnamed (fire guy, environment fixers)

88. unnamed (night timer girl, environment fixers)

89. unnamed (boss lady/forester, environment fixers)

90. unnamed (night timer guy, just kinda done, just wants to do his job, environment fixers)

91. unnamed (water guy, environment fixers)

92. Delios 'Dagger' Solaris (Elden Ring, friends with Dmitry, Fighter, prob worships the sun)

93. unnamed (gay businessman)

94. unnamed (asian businessman, has a katana, gay)

95. unnamed (gay single dad)

97. unnamed (fancy guy, gay)

96. unnamed (gay guitarist, kinda grungy)

98. unnamed (tactical guy, gay)

99. unnamed (gay french man)

100. unnamed (cryptographer, programmer, frequent flier, Cicada 3301 finalist)

[lionfanged]

this is ur daily reminder, as it is the hot button topic of my dashboard rn, that anxiety does suck! but it is something u cannot rely on anybody else to fix for u, or hope that other ppl will read ur mind and make the accommodations ur too scared to do. if sb states that they don’t vibe w/ something u rely on to get around ur anxiety, maybe ur due to unfollow vs trying to shove a square block into a triangle hole.

as sb who has been Mentally Ill(TM) since preschool, i still make a genuine effort to kick my anxiety to the curb and do the things i want to, vs hoping sb will read my mind and take care of everything. i may be a shaking, terrified chihuahua at heart, but i wanna become a big stronk doggo one day.

in that same vein, don’t project ur anxiety onto others and warp their words into an attack on ur person and ur likes/dislikes. we all gotta look inward b4 we look outward. sb saying they prefer plotting over generic memes is not them personally spitting in ur face and slapping ur cat. it’s just them, like u, stating a preference for how they operate.

if u don’t like my way of thinking, ur welcome to block/unfollow to curate the dashboard experience u want! but from one anxious person to another, my piece of advice is to step away from the computer when u find urself making broad assumptions about other ppl due to ur anxiety and think if that’s rly the case, or if ur brain (like mine often does) is making a goof and getting too worked up.

have some cats.

[janichroma]

Pushed back VERY far?? My lovely rockruff 😢 bye forever 😢 the only cute rock type in the game 😢 forever in our hearts

I'm sorry!! It was like the #1 used Pokemon by far. Every team had it and it never fell off. Doggo is good. just. too stronk.

[horrible-monstrosity]

I find myself increasingly concerned with the direction Legends Arceus is taking the relation between humans and Pokemens. No, I'm not talking about the bit with Pokemans attacking the player directly when you don't have your own Pokeymans ready, that was going to happen eventually, but just... the Sinnoh myths had stories about humans and Pokemon being so close they were considered the same sort of being, there's marriages, what have you, coming from thousands of years back. But this game apparently taking place only some hundreds of years ago... and it's "before Pokemons and humans lived together uwu"? The fuck? I feel like the games have been significantly moving away from humans and Pokemon being equals of a sort who both benefit from being together to Pokemons being some superior beings who humans benefit from but not vice versa and Pokemans are the superior creatures who humans should grovel in gratitude to and put up with all the shit from while never daring to burden them in any way. See gen 7, where living in haaaaarmony means having their lives and culture corralled by some asshole fairies because people can't be arsed to fight the ultra beasts, except the trainers who're forced to become kahunas fight the UBs themselves anyway (where they're forced to become fanatical enough about fighting to become strong enough to do so, but they're not even expected to be strong to fight UBs it's to lead their community... don't try understanding it just eat fairy shit and get excited for more fairy shit I guess). Why not just have a culture of the trainers who want to be strongest, or who have the greatest talent, being lauded as UB-fighters and becoming community leaders as well? Naw man, doing everything as the fairies want is haaaaarmony. Humans can't be strong enough with their Pokemon teams to fight the UBs, but have to be strong for other reasons ordained by The System, but then the ordained stronk humans have to fight the UBs anyway. But the fairies help, I guess. I fucking hate fairies man. Fucking elves of the Pokemon world. Smug sparkling fucks, fuck em I keep forgetting about the ride Pokemon but it still feels like the humans are supposed to bow and scrape to earn the gift of basic movement services so I don't think it really counts Gen 8 I don't know as well but it seems to go like this: Doggos are responsible for all good, their trainers or whatever their human companions are might as well not even exist. The postgame story is about those eeeeevil humans thinking they have some relevance to the doggos or something, eeevil I must say, so they have to do something evil to prove that.... um, something. Just some dumb shit that feels like a strawman argument against humans having any place in this world. Grovel to doggos.

Gen 6 was around the point where the weird cynicism started to creep into the franchise, mostly ORAS's weird abandoned ship segment, but it's pretty clear of this... aside from one random ace trainer or something late in XY who asks you, humans benefit from Pokemons, but how Pokemons benefit from huamn??? huh??? You're expecting an answer from him but he's just like, I bet you can't think of anything huh, hmmm??? Grovel, human.

You compare this to gen 5, and I'm not even talking about the Plasma plot (which was clearly bait on Plasma's part to get the public's sympathy anyway), but things like using Excadrill to dig out the mines. The 'drills were getting to do what they loved- dig- and being treated well by the humans in exchange for digging this spot in that way as directed. An equitable relationship that produced resources. This sort of thing existed as a counterpoint to N and Plasma's stated beliefs that humans were nothing but horrible for Pokemon and that they could never live together... Ironically what the later games are leaning towards, except that there is a way, and that's for humans to go fuck themselves. And again, Sinnoh's old myths, as well as any other myths that involve people and Pokemon together going back thousands of years.

I'd really thought the idea of this series was that Pokemon and humans were practically made for each other, that they were together from the very beginning. Raising Pokemon allows them to have a crafted moveset including TM and tutor moves, gain EVs, use held items aside from the few random ones they find in the wild... it's baked into the game itself completely incidentally. But no, I guess it's a Pokeyman's world and humans are just intruding on it somehow. What the fuck. Sigh.

I'm hoping that "Pokemans are so dangerouse man" line is just about the red-eyed frenzied Pokemon and that we aren't going into all Pokemons attacking humans and humans living forever at their mercy and deserving to scrape and grovel just to survive their onslaught.

By the way, my autistic retard fanfiction: First off, when the wall breaks and the doggo statues are found that make everyone realise who the "real" heroes are (something we can THANK Bede for by the way, because if he hadn't destroyed a priceless cultural artifact Eternatus would have gone off unopposed... but no one ever acknowledges this, as Bede is shat on and disowned by Rose for following what Rose taught him and then forced to trune out by trunny granny. figures she's a fairy trainer, I fucking hate fairies)- the idea that the doggos alone are the "real" heroes is actually a misconception brought on by people/society's tendency to elevate Pokemon, similar to why people bought PLasma's bullshit back in Unova. So when Eternatus is starting its nukes, people are just waiting for the doggos to get going and beat it... but when Hop sees the doggo statues, his budding professor brain immediately sees the truth- both the doggos and their human trainers are needed to unlock the true power of the sword and shield items. This even makes some sense with the game mechanics, as Pokemon typically can't use items more complicated than a berry... so with Leon and co busy fighting the dynamax mons and knowing no one would listen to him, Hop turns to the only person he can ask- you, who saw the doggos in the foggos at the beginning with him, to go retrieve the items so the doggos can actually do their thing. Also, Rose was radicalised and groomed by some crazy apocalypse cult, an ironic inversion of his supposed grooming of Bede (here he actually has a heartwarming father-son relationship of sorts with him). They pushed him to push the darkest day plan up like he did, convincing him there's a desperate energy situation but secretly just wanting the maximum apocalypse-ness out of a single action (while possibly believing themselves that there's an energy crisis but that the real solution is to destroy shit so less people and things use energy). So there's that. In the end he's taken to jail, but it's not some absurdly mundane ending where he just gets arrested for apocalypse crimes, rather he's being questioned for what he can tell them about the cult, on understanding that he was coerced into this, and that he can pay for his crimes by giving information on the cult itself. Bede relates this to you with some concern for his sort-of dad. The Swordward and Shieldbert plot (I forget if that's their actual names but whatever) has the two bros asking you to aid in investigating the apoc cult while preparing to accept their destiny as the doggos' masters. You see, they've been raised for this, learning all about Pokemon companionship but having no actual close contact with Pokemon at all (to prevent any Pokemon from forming a bond with them closer than what they'd have with the doggo- your first Pokemon is special, after all). Book smart but street dumb, in other words. You know, as opposed to some inexplicable dumb shit because Mother 3 ruined an entire generation of game writers. They call on the doggos to battle the baddies and are disappointed they go to you and Hop instead of them, but ultimately accept it. Afterwards, Hop contacts Sonia with a request... soon he has the two brothers over to choose their very first Pokemon. Swordbro was going on about Swordog's nobility and Shieldbro about wanting to touch Shieldog's fluffy mane, so Hop has out a Yamper and a Wooloo, presented as a choice, but he knows exactly which one they'll each choose. This is another manifestation of his potential as a professor- not only doing the professor thing of handing out first Pokemon, but considering what Pokemon they'd work well with. Isn't that nice? Also there's something in there about Bede's long lost identical twin who's also being used as a pawn by the apoco-cult but I'll explain that later

My idea for the origin of the Pokemon world as we know it- Arceus didn't create Pokemon, or the world itself, but it is responsible for the way the world is now. Once upon a time, when humans and Pokemon were one kind of being, there was too much strife and disagreement among the groups and nobody was learning their lesson, so Arceus got fed up and split the world into two types of beings that would have to get along in order to thrive. It instated the "rules" of Pokemon battles, that attacks have set damage ranges and types have well-defined interactions, that attacks in battles only deplete some abstract hit points level instead of causing the damage they "should" for what they are (this doesn't apply to wild-on-wild predation necessarily, so it's a privilege enjoyed by Pokemon being aided or advised by a human). Outsider beings- aliens, maybe ultra beasts, etc- are "converted" into Pokemon when they enter "Earth"'s airspace, which is why even beings from the furthest depths of space follow the rules and biology of earthbound species. These "rules" require Arceus' powers but don't rely on its constant action, so it can be captured and hang out with a trainer for a while, play by its own rules to see how things are going, without disrupting the system. I'd never expected anything even vaguely like this to turn canon of course, because it's so specific and particular to the sort of ideas I tend to have, but... not like this man

[houseki-no-suffering]

Padparadscha is apparently named after a god damned lotus flower specifically for it's beautiful colors. The idea of Padpa spirituality being the final treasure needs to happen, if only so that Padpa doesn't become a new chest piece for Phos. Yellow DiaRadscha ship must stay stronk. Sidenote: I feel like Ichikawa based this story on cats and their behavior.

ichikawa definitely strikes me as a cat person and yet how do you explain all those cute doggos?

jokes aside, we must indeed stay strong. protect paddy