#veilstone city

[martianbugsbunny]

tripped on the stairs yesterday and scraped both of my knees so now I have four band-aids on (two from my pocket and two from a first-aid kit somebody else had) and I feel like I should be made an honorary Fighting-type Gym Leader for the vibe

[thearoaceditto]

Why on Arceus's green Earth did Veilstone's daytime music start playing in this human brain I have...

[answrs]

so i love me a good sneasel!ingo fic, don't get me wrong

but also you cannot convince me The Overachieving Pokemons Georg Warden of the Lineaged Nobles of the Cliffs Ingo would not, at a minimum, have at least 1-3 razor claws on his person at any given time. possibly up to 8 or more if he's actively collecting them from distortions. he is well aware of how a sneasler evolves from a sneasel.

what im saying, is, emmet goes to sinnoh, and instead of Wacky Hijinks With Funny Tiny Sneasel Brother Time, is immediately grabbed, hoisted over the shoulder of, and summarily carried off by an 8ft tall extinct sneasel evolution wearing the uniform and shredded jacket of a guy that supposedly should have kicked it several centuries past.* because SOME Legendary That Shall Not Be Named Royally Fucked Up The Instructions On Sending A Human Through Time And Accidentally Made Him A Sneasel (it was Arceus. Arceus Done Fucked It Up. Dialga is legitimately baffled how It managed this sheer level of Fucked Up-edness doing Dialga's like literally One Job instead of just like. consulting it on the matter.)

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bonus points if Lady Sneasler tagged along. and brings some eggs. which Ingo is pleased as punch over. except then he gets to be absolutely mortified because the people here think they're (biologically) his. I mean. he's absolutely 100% Dad Who Stepped Up™ energy when it comes to caring for the eggs and raising the hatchlings, but that certainly doesn't help in denying the allegations. Also that he can't speak Human but like. mostly the former

(their genetic father is the alpha lucario that inhabits the northern cliffs of the Highlands that border the Icelands. just as like. a side tangent. I forget where I first heard the idea from but Hell Yeah I'll Integrate That Into My Belief Sysytem)

*wait no actually Lady Sneasler would definitely be the one to forcibly abduct this shiny warden outcome she sees just wandering the street. if another noble wanted this one they should've claimed him sooner. Ingo's great with the kids, but there's only so much he can otherwise do in a sneasler body with no opposable thumbs anymore. and as if by divine intervention (much like the previous ingo that appeared for her) this off-brand Ingo just got plopped in her way, so of course she's gonna haul it off back to the new nest!

[lunarlatticethief]

sa'risha forgot to mention but she is taking driving lessons.

[mokeonn]

Okay I also just realized that since Pearl and Soul Silver can trade with each other, and in my Soul Silver game there is CLEARLY Pokémon traded over from my past Pearl and Platinum (I checked out a copy of Platinum from my library years ago to get cool legendaries and more starters) games, so once I finish my Pearl Bug run, I'm gonna absolutely do a Soul Silver solo type run. Probably normal type, but I will admit I am VERY tempted to do a different kind of challenge run because of the Dratini you can get from the Game House pretty early on in Goldenrod City and it wouldn't be too hard to get because I'm actually pretty decent at the Voltorb Flip Game.

Anyways get ready to probably get fun art about how my Bug Type run of Pokemon Pearl is going with humanizations and a cute lil trainer design over the next while and once that's done I will be finally free of the really fucking dumb Soul Silver shackles because I picked a dumb name for my character and I am haunted by it

[goldensunset]

YEAH I've noticed in the older games that with how much tougher it is to over level and how dense and linear lot of in-between areas are, it really does feel like you've been fighting for your life in the woods and have finally found the next town. The town-to-town survival feeling is something I've always enjoyed, it kinda adds to this feeling that you are on a journey with nothing but your animal buddies. Unlike more open world games like scarvi and pla, if you want to turn back then unless you know fly you have to backtrack through tall grass with your likely already exhausted pokemon and risk a team wipe. Each town feels like a safe haven that you're tracking mud into lol

Once in ruby I was like. barely surviving getting through an area. I NEEDED a town and I was in an absolutely punishing area. powerful wild pokemon, trainer encounters that were mandatory and jumped out at you when you through you were in the clear, and all but one of my pokemon were completely out of pp on all damaging moves. making it to that town made me feel like my life just got saved lol.

ok like this was about specifically the amount and variety of stuff available in an abundant and diverse economy like veilstone city vs other dinky towns but honestly YEAH. REAL. it really is a dangerous game with the way that most routes require you to go through tall grass in at least a few areas, or caves. trainers too although that’s a one-time only thing but you can’t escape from those so gghhhhhhhhh. and some of these routes can be really long too. it really is such a risk and ordeal traveling places and it adds a nice touch of realism. do you spend your expensive potions and healing items for safety, or do you take a risk and run as fast as you can to the next town hoping you’ll be fine? ough. the fact that teleportation, even to places you’ve already been, isn’t available until you’ve completed a good chunk of the game really makes things feel different. like i’m excited to get it but also i know i’ll then get too lazy to take the long way and i miss out on grinding opportunities and such that way. plus it’s cool

[monsoon-of-art]

I saw the concept art for BDSP and im legitmately so sad that we didnt get this

like?? these are so beautiful??? and they look so open, so expansive, so much to see and explore! and the CITIES

IM LITERALLY CRYING LOOK AT HOW BEAUTIFUL VEILSTONE IS

[electronic-melody]

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[mekatrio]

the concept art for bdsp is making me cry oh my god oh my goddd.

[bugtypesneaky]

quiet night in Veilstone city

[lucky-girl-0128]

I’m Sad to hear that one of my favorite Voice Actors Rachael Lillis lost her battle against Cancer.

She was one of the many voices of many cartoon characters in the field of Anime , Animation and Videogames.

Also, making our childhoods Magical , Beautiful and Sweet.

She Voiced Misty , Jessie and Maylene The Veilstone City Gymleader in the 4kids Dub in “Pokémon”, Utena Tenjou in “Revolutionary Girl Utena”, Headmistress Faragonda in the 4kids Version of “Winx Club”, Ursula from “Dinosaur King”, Martina from “Slayers” franchise, and Princess Charlotte from “Berserk”!

Thanks For the Memories Rachael!

My condolences go out to her Family, Friends , and Colleagues during this difficult time for all of them.

[kafus]

okay i just talked to every NPC in veilstone because it's been a long time and man sinnoh's NPCs are peak, at least out of the 2D games i feel like they provide the most humor and the most random lore tidbits and stuff. i love this region. i'm going to talk about it

first off sinnoh is full of little things like this. random dialogue/flavor text that ties back to the mythos of the region. i love how widespread the sinnoh myths are

i'm also obsessed with when there's two NPCs that link together like this. you talk to one and you move on and then you talk to another and you're like oh! lmao. by the way the rage candy bars being here is cool because sinnoh is canonically connected to johto through the sinjoh ruins and the rage candy bars are from johto, which means they're imported and sold here. in general i'm obsessed with the locations in pokemon that have special treats associated with them, like the pewter crunchies of pewter city in kanto, or the lava cookies from lavaridge in hoenn. iconic

btw don't worry lady literally everyone sucks at making poffins. unless you have four players it's pretty much impossible to make poffins that are better than the storebought ones. good luck getting four people with rare berries who are good at the minigame to play with you, ESPECIALLY in 2023 jesus christ. the basement poffins are OPTIMAL

anyway in speaking of linking NPCs, these two - i wonder if the dialogue in the french version of this game is turned into english? they did that for lt. surge's french pikachu trade, the french versions of HGSS make the pikachu english instead lol. but anyway as usual it's very fascinating to me how much pokemon loves to drop foreign language in its titles, and fittingly i know a lot of people with english as their second language got interested in learning english from a young age due to wanting to play pokemon. how many kids do you think got interested in french because of dialogue like this. the girl even implies what the meaning of his words is

veilstone isn't short on game hints either, useless to me now as an adult longterm pokemon player who knows all this stuff already but still really cool to see. if sinnoh is your first time playing pokemon, those hints on trade evos and stuff are always appreciated.

of course, funny dialogue too that got a wheeze out of my nose, not uncommon for pokemon NPC dialogue SDKFSFDK some of this shit takes me so offguard it's like extra funny

like GIRL ISN'T THAT WHAT A PARASOL IS FOR????

edit: my DUMB ASS (lighthearted) has been reminded that parasols are for the sun and are NOT an umbrella equivalent. okay she makes more sense now LOOL

also LOOKER JUSTIFYING HIS GAMBLING :skull emoji: this shit is taking me out. see this is useful because it's like oh galactic is really all over this city huh. not only their massive building but they have their logo in the fucking slot machines, they probably have some amount of ownership over this place like team rocket did over the celadon game corner. but also it's funny because SDFSDFK

OH AND MAYLENE'S DAD IS JUST... HERE? generic NPC. generic sprite. no name. he's just here. maylene's dad. you know, one of the gym leaders. help girl

anyways i'm aware i basically just posted most of the dialogue in veilstone city verbatim but I JUST THINK IT'S INTERESTING! I MISS WHEN POKEMON GAMES WERE FULL OF DIALOGUE LIKE THIS AHHHH i have more to say about the galactic lore but i'm running out of image space and i need to use the bathroom and get some food so i'll post about that a little later

[interregionalgyminspections]

I suppose I should actually explain the story of the Roulette Badge.

So, years ago, before Maylene was the gym leader of Veilstone City, the gym was run by her father, Montague.

The man had struck it rich from gambling, and made it almost his entire personality. Almost, because he was also a sexist and classist.

You see, Montagtue had something that he liked to call The Wheel. It was a giant roulette wheel that would spin for each battle, and it would add extra rules to the fight, such as no berries, the challenger can use healing items, the gym leader uses a much more difficult team, ect.

There were an equal number of rules that would make things easier for the challenger, as there were rules that would make it harder. So in the League's eyes, it was perfectly fine. Even though it was basically complete random chance who would win and who would lose.

And that's not even mentioning the rigging.

You see, Montague would rig The Wheel to destroy any strategies of challengers that he didn't like. And how did he know the challengers' strategies, you may ask?

He would force his daughter to find out their strategies and relay them to him, or he would take away her Meditite.

Thankfully, this was all uncovered thanks to Sinnoh Elite Four member Lucian, and Sinnoh Champion Cynthia.

Montague no longer works as a gym leader. I have no idea what he does these days, but quite frankly, I don't care enough about him to want to know.

OOC: This was very heavily inspired by the fic "total eclipse of the sun" by HopeStoryteller, blogrunner of @legendsobsessions. She gave me permission to reference her fic here.

[sinnohelitefourlore]

Sinnoh League Found Family Hcs that will be featured in my ongoing league story that you can read here: -yes cynthia is the champion but bertha is responsible for sinnoh turning very matriarchal. usually it's bertha who is the ultimate decider on these things and cynthia trusts her judgment the most. she gets what she wants. -bertha is literally the designated League Mom. literally she's the one every single league member goes to whenever they have personal problems. yes, even the stoic lucian. she is the best listener and will probably end up making you cocoa. -lucian and flint will show up in bertha's office just for the purpose of avoiding their own paperwork and to bother her. she also has to yell at them to stop licking the frosting when she's baking cupcakes. they do this to annoy her. -bertha is someone who's always willing to learn. she's happy to hear volkner talk about his inventions and his obsession with technology. he teaches her how to use the latest gadgets and she's always so enthralled by them. it actually makes volkner's eyes light up. -cynthia is the designated big sister. she was totally there for candice, gardenia, and maylene whenever "girl problems" came up. -the younger kids of the sinnoh league (aaron, gardenia, maylene, roark, and candice) were undergrounders, apart of sinnoh's grand underground program where kiddies turn into battling machines, which is why they were able to achieve their positions so young. the older generation seems to understand they're young, and therefore are super understanding. still. bertha has done more parenting in fifteen minutes than their families have done in fifteen years. -candice has a nickname. they call her "candy corn" because her full name is candice cornwall, and also because she's sweet as candy. -fantina is called "tina" by byron and wake, after drinking those two under the table at a bar for the first time. fantina always drinks those two under the table. she's kalosian. she handles her liquor better. -maylene was actually discovered by flint and gave her an explorer's kit to send her to the grand underground program after seeing her defiance toward a police officer. it was his idea to make her the new gym leader of veilstone. he was the first person she told about her dad. candice was the second. -roark refers to riley as some boy toy with a stupid fucking fedora. he hates riley because roark's father wanted him to be the gym leader of orebourgh instead of roark, and that pushed roark to become the undisputed leader of the grand underground to show his father. -aaron starts off as a selective mute who was hired to be a gym leader after roark insisted and no one wanted the eterna city position at the time. the sinnoh league didn't care about his muteness, because he did his work, did what he was told, and minded his business. when aaron wins the elite position, he learns to talk more with the support of his elites and cynthia. bertha especially, was very helpful. later he infodumps to them about bugs for 10-15 min. they let him. -gardenia has a garden that's the envy of the entire city. sometimes bertha will come over to help her out with it. people say that she's the most like cynthia, and by that I mean she has the "uncanny valley" look in her eyes, that something is a bit... off about her. really she's fine. that's just her face. -the sinnoh league has sunday brunch hosted by bertha. you don't miss a sunday brunch hosted by bertha unless you're on a ventilator. -when bertha cooks, byron, wake, lucian, volkner, flint, roark, and aaron (pretty much grown men) will fight over who gets to lick the spoon. -they're probably more of a family than any other league. they're a very tight knit group, and that's probably because of bertha. she was cheekily called "mother bertha" for her doting, stern manner, but she genuinely does love them like her own. family didn't have to be blood.