#v; time for the iono zone || scvi and post scvi

[ionozoned]

new comment from f:  if iono intends to make a statement, then it is only fair that someone so audacious in nature be successful. but we must ask ourselves if it is the right statement to make. the highlight of this ensemble is surely the chunk-heeled footwear, as it did us viewers the favor of only appearing in frame for roughly 10% of the stream. and as far as gym leaders with electric type specialties go, I find her yellow and black combination to be quite trite. ( sorry I couldn't stop thinking about them beefing over clothes )

unprompted (always accepting) || @intriguant

YIPPEE, A NEW COMMENT!!! Despite the fact that she got so many nowadays, she still liked seeing new ones come in, even if she didn't always read every single one like she used to when she'd first started her channel. It didn't really matter to her what the comment was- engagement was engagement! Negative comments were just as good to her as positive ones- actually, the former was probably even better. She loved a good controversy or internet beef! So long as it was mild enough that it didn't end in her having to make her 20-something-th apology video (she'd long since lost count) she was so plugged in.

Her eyes sparkled as she read this one over. It was one of the pettiest comments she'd received all month. It was beautiful- an absolute gold mine. She put on her best faux tears despite being alone in her room save for Bellibolt snoozing amongst her plushies in the corner. (He was doing a pretty great ET cosplay, admittedly.) She forced her hands to tremble as she typed, hoping to make it seem like she was crying and too upset to check for typos in her response.

[ omggggg woowoowowwowza wth?/?/?11??1!! mean to me???? u dont have to be such a HATER!!!111!! i dont remember asking for ur opinion, friendo! :( : ( :( :(:(L( what did i ever do 2 u??? if u dont like my streams u dont have to watch them!!! block me n move on bucko :( :( :( :9 :( sorry my fave colors r boring to u! maybe i just like combee movie did u EVER CONSIDER THAT?????? ur not just insulting me ur insulting combarry cb combenson HIMSELF. stop cyberbullying me, loser!!! ]

Aaaand send. She was going to get sooooo many sympathy comments. Epic win. Take that, random commenter. (Does she know that this commenter is clearly Faba? No. She does not. She's plugged in but she's not that plugged in.)

[ionozoned]

"ACK-" She felt like she'd just taken a bullet to the chest. She was wounded. Critically wounded. How could they say that? Teenagers of all people were supposed to crave clout, but this punk wanted nothing to do with it! She didn't get it. 90% of her audience were teens, so why was she failing so epicly with this one? Was she losing her touch? Was she getting OLD? Was she going to have to quit streaming and get a REAL job? Like LARRY??? GROSS!!

"You are SOOOOO not getting it. I can't use someone ELSE'S footage on stream, you dweeb." Technically she could, but then she'd have to provide worthwhile commentary to make the clip "transformative" enough or she could get copyright striked. But she didn't expect some stupid kid to understand that. "You know I stream like, actual battles too, right? Like, super legit league battles? Alllllllllll of my gym challengers get featured on stream. But if you don't want that free promo, WHATEVS. I can get some other schmuck to show one off for me. I was just trying to be nice, but your loss, squirt." She was so red in the face that she looked like she was going to start crying.

“Clout? Are you stupid? I don’t need clout!”

What is this old lady’s problem??? She keeps showing up and trying to use them to make money or get viewers or whatever it is streamers do. Ree doesn’t exactly get it, but they know they don’t want any part of it.

“Of course I know how to use it! Look at my championship battle last year an’ you’ll see how cool my togekiss is when she uses twinkle tackle! But I’m not gonna use it like some little party trick for your dumb loser viewers. Z moves are way too important ta he used like that.”

[ionozoned]

@analuein || TODAY'S SPECIAL GUEST IS...

She squinted at the screen when she'd received a response to her email. It made sense that Thorton was one of those proper grammar and punctuation kind of guys. Literally what a nerd... But he was a nerd that, if she played her cards right, could make her so much bank. Paldea didn't have a battle facility, so if she could recruit one from another region to help her out, it could bring in a huge new audience!

She'd already asked Emmet, but he didn't seem too great with more modern technology. He kept wanting her to call him on some shitty old watch thing called an X-Something, and he had no clue what she was talking about when she suggested FaceTime as an alternative. Wasn't he supposed to be good at engineering, or something? Doubt. Major doubt.

Thorton wasn't making this much easier though, it seemed. It was just an entirely different kind of difficult with this guy. She groaned, letting herself slowly droop from her vintage Video Gear Command Center™ and onto the floor as if she were melting. She laid there on the ground for what felt like hours but was probably only a few minutes before dragging herself back up, sitting back down, and hastily writing a reply.

[you cant use that fancy schmancy business talk with me friendo. this isn't my first rodeo. 'generous offer' my ass, don't get a girl's hopes up just to leave her in the trenches! RUDE.] She typed, extremely fast without drafting up a response in her head beforehand. This was off the cuff and completely unscripted in usual Iono fashion. [but okkaaaaayyyy let's talk FOR SRS then. For serious.] She would make the effort of pressing the shift key at the beginning of every sentence just for him- for now, at least. [People like a REAL person behind the camera, y'know? My phones and Pokémon do great and all, but I can't really have those quirky person to person convos with em. I need a DYNAMIC. CONTRAST!!! How bout a trial run before you shoot me down, okay? You can make the episode about whatevs you want, even some dorky 'How It's Made' nonsense if that's more your style.]

[ionozoned]

@aetherceuse || TODAY'S SPECIAL GUEST IS...

At first Iono nodded along, hands on her hips and grinning over-confidently as Lusamine seemed to love her ideas. And of course she would! They were great ideas! Lusamine was so gonna owe her for this. What did Aether foundation even do, anyway? Did they make anything cool? Maybe Iono could get some free swag out of this...

However, the cord of her thoughts was promptly pulled from its socket the moment Iono realized she was being sarcastic. She let out a flabbergasted, offended gasp as she was shooed away like an annoying kid. This, of course, only made Iono infinitely more determined.

"Ummmm whosawhatsit? Mean to me! I was just tryin' to help a fellow girlboss out, you don't gotta be such a HATER. I was totally gonna be niceys and let you peep one of the horrors but NVM Miss Glinda the Good wannabe, you totally BLEW IT! KABLAMMO." She made a little explosion noise as she threw her arms up in the air to simulate the aforementioned explosion.

"Listen, I've been through this song and dance before, lady. Ain't this some sorta public service organization? You can't ban me from those without a REAL good reason. And it would be a SUPER bad look if you did!" And she bet the employee she'd spotted out of the corner of her eye staring at her in awe wasn't the only fan she had in this place.

"You want me to throw a coup or something, or do you wanna like, take a chill pill and be nice?"

[ionozoned]

"Nyohoho, is that a CHALLENGE? Cuz I bet I could be way brattier if I tried! Nyahahaaa! It could be a HOT new tiktok trend." If that trend was getting your girlfriend to dump you as fast as possible. "JK JK. But you're totes magotes super cute too, k? And don't you dare forget it 'else I'll havta to SHOCK YA until you remember. Bzzzt!" She gave Roxie a very light pinch on the arm as if to simulate the aforementioned shocking.

She let out an excited "eeee" as Roxie pulled up some examples for her. She still didn't like the idea of conforming to normal fashion standards, but this stuff was super cute. She'd definitely have to work some of this into her outfits. Maybe one of those cute headbands with eyeballs on them? That would fit great with her stuff-

Her excited, spiraling thoughts were brought to an abrupt stop when Roxie chimed in with a final comment, and she gasped melodramatically. "PAUSE. REWIND!" Iono was soon back to her antics, lightly tugging on her girlfriend's arm with an expression that resembled a sad yamper pup. "You are SO MEAAANNN!!! I could TOTALLY pull off an epic Roxie cosplay if I tried! Your clothes are sorta baggy too, I could make it work! Hmmph!" She made a little pout before quickly moving on with a little laugh.

"You wanna come with BT Dubs? I can probs squeeze a plus one outta the production staff!" By which she means the could threaten to refuse to go unless they'd let her bring a date. Hopefully it wouldn't come to that though, management seemed pretty chill so she didn't foresee it being any sort of huge ordeal. If anything, the band would probably be even more excited to have Roxie attend than Iono, considering their whole emo style.

"You're lucky you're cute, you know that Iono? Cause the whole brat act is hard to work on me." Roxie had been trained in show business from a young age. She had tried to be an aspiring pokemon coordinator after all, before her family drove her passion into the ground. Iono was one of the few people she had openly trusted with that fact even.

While she didn't have any fashion magazines handy, most of her reading material was either boring novels, stuff she got from Shauntal as preview copies given she was a member of the league, and drafts of an autobiography she had started to pen but had stopped on multiple times, she did at least know the proper websites to scrounge through to get the info her girlfriend needed.

"This is all the basics on pastel goth. But there's still the option of going as me with a chest if you wanted." Roxie teased, always eager to see what Iono's overblown response to her suggestions would be.