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Why is everyone in Hoenn obssessed with trumpets? Are there no other instruments in this region?

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Muse Mixup Madness—May 1, 2024

hello, one and all, and welcome to our very delayed prompts post! this should be the last time prompts are this late, since i've added reminders in my calendar now.

like i said before, this month there's going to be reruns. specifically, i'm going to be taking the most popular prompts from february and march to offer up again. so without further ado! all prompts are low fantasy.

1. What Once Went Wrong

This and What Once Went Right were originally one prompt, but given how different they are in practice I've decided to divide them into two. For this one, you'll be envisioning what your character's life would be like if an unfortunate event in their past either didn't happen or turned out in their favor.

2. What Once Went Right

Both sides of the coin are here today, but in the future you'll usually only be seeing one of this prompt and What Once Went Wrong. This one's the exact opposite of its twin: take a time in your character's life that worked out well or where they succeeded at something, and find out what would have happened if things hadn't ended so nicely.

3. The Road Not Taken

Decisions, decisions! Everyone's made them, and everyone's path in life has been forever altered by them. Pinpoint a critical choice your character once made, and see who they'd have become if they'd chosen a different option.

4. Home On The Range

We do have one new prompt, though it's a very different style from the other three! In the Pokémon Ranger games, people and Pokémon have a somewhat different relationship. What would your character be like if they were from one of those regions?

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can confirm we have something like that here in hoenn too- even though i beat the former Champion steven, i technically didn’t become “Champion” in the legal sense for a few years and was really only the holder of that final badge and had my team and i’s photo hung in the hall of fame.

our League figured a fifth grader wasn’t going to be great at all the bureaucratic legal shit Champions do behind the scenes (and they were right), so steven stayed in the role and did it for me until i got old enough to deal with it myself and that’s when i was formally handed over the title

though, just saying, i have also remained undefeated for almost a decade, sooooooo.. maybe i should pay galar a visit sometime lol

being Champion sounds cool and edgy before you actually become Champion and now you have to fucking answer emails

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What's Hoenn been like? It's been years since I've been over there.

we’ve been good! since the.. uh.. summer 2015 trouble, it’s been mostly quiet, which i’m glad for :)

how long’s it been since you were here, anon? i’d be glad to show you what’s changed if you ever wanted to come back and visit.

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Hi! Champion of Hoenn, huh? I think I remember seeing your name on the news when I was little… anyway, you’ve been left undefeated for a while, haven’t you? Any challengers gotten even close to beating you? -Citrine, @trainer-citrine

nope, not yet >:3 been reigning Champ for.. i think it’ll 9 years this august!

recreational non-League affiliated battles are a different story though lol, i freely admit i’ve gotten my ass whooped a couple of times by fellow Champions when we have that annual international Champion meeting- cynthia, sinnoh’s Champion, springs to mind. lovely woman, so nice, but she’s.. lowkey scary as fuck.

(she may or may not be the sole reason i refuse to take on sinnoh’s League challenge LMAOOOOOOO)

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reblog if you like pokemon!! and love your pokemon very much!! and would not trade them for the world!!

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//ooc: long post under cut! positive childhood memory

It’s a hot August day on Lilycove City’s beautiful beach- the outskirts, of course, where the amount of visitors is very few and far between. This afternoon, there are only three.

Flor- ten, bright-eyed, still-raw pink and healing Chosen scars in perfect circles and lines running down along her arms and her spine- is scooping through the wet sand on the shore with her small hands, picking up the colorful, translucent rocks she finds and dropping them in her bright pink plastic bucket by the handful as the water laps at her folded legs.

After as many as she deems enough, she tugs herself out of the warm, wet sand, squatting for a moment to pet the old Sharpedo nudging through the sand in an effort to assist just the way Archie taught her- head to fin, never fin to head- so she doesn’t cut her hand. “Don’t worry, I got ‘em!” She grins. “Thanks for your help, Sharpedo!”

With that, it withdraws and continues its ‘patrol’ along the shore, swimming back and forth with a watchful eye over the three on the beach.

She picks up the bucket, thin plastic handle nearly folding in half and snapping with the weight of the rocks in the bucket. She runs along the sand, lifting the bucket mid-stride to wrap both arms around the container for more support, still straining under the weight.

“Maxie!” She calls, clumsily rushing up to the three beach chairs set out a little further from the shore, nearly tripping on the way there, “Maxie, I got something for you!”

The man in question lifts his head from his book- one about geology, if Flor had to hazard a guess- to look up at her for a moment. “What is it?” He answers, almost sharply.

Flor doesn’t mind. By now, she’s figured out that’s kinda just how he is. “So- I didn’t want you to feel left out, ‘cause me and Archie were building that big sandcastle,” She jerks her head back at Archie, who’s hard at work on what essentially amounts to a complex sand sculpture at this point, “And we kept finding these pretty rocks while getting more sand, so I wanted to find more for you, because you like rocks ‘n all that kinda stuff.”

The former Team Magma leader raises a brow, intrigued. She picks one out of the bucket, a pretty red one, and offers it out to him to inspect. He takes it, holds it up to the light of the sun, and says, on impulse, just about to correct her, “This is-“

And then he stops himself. He looks up at her proud little face, beaming at him. He looks at the “rock”. And he seems to make a decision.

“This is beautiful,” Maxie settles on, nodding at the little girl in approval. “Thank you, Floris.”

She drops the bucket next to his chair, clapping. “Yay!” She cheers. “Do you like them?”

“I do,” he agrees. “You have done well.”

Maxie pauses, glancing at the bucket, then back to Archie. “With that said..” he trails off. “I do believe Archie is missing his assistant sculptor, little one. You might want to rejoin him.”

Flor gasps, having completely forgot about the sandcastle building she left halfway in-progress. She nods, quickly. “Thank you! Have fun looking at the rocks!” She yells back, racing back to the shore so quickly she nearly trips and falls flat on her face, with the reckless abandon kids her age often possess.

(Months later, Flor would figure out, to her own embarrassment, she gave him a bucket of sea glass, not rocks. Years later, they would discover an ornate box in one of the drawers in his office full of that very same sea glass, along with a secretly-taken candid photo taken of Flor and Archie on that day, mid-sculpture building.)

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send me a ⏰ for a memory from my muse’s past

send +⏰ for a positive memory or -⏰ for a negative memory

you can also add +👤 for a memory involving the sender’s muse, if applicable

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TRUTH SERUM - MY MUSE HAS TO ANSWER ANY AND ALL QUESTIONS TRUTHFULLY.

[[Preface the question with TRUTH]]

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Are you officially your patron’s trainer? Like are they registered to you as your Pokémon? Because that’s kinda. Huh. That’s a lot of trust.

yeah no it is- but It’s registered to me. i can elaborate on this more later if y’all want.

Lord Rayquaza’s told me before that the reason why it let me catch It to begin with because it was required to mega evolve (or, rather, the ancient term for it that i can’t remember) in order to stop the meteor which was technically my fault. and to do that, we needed to forge a link somehow. the quickest way to do so without a complicated ancient ritual (and without being a Draconid) was to catch It, and i did so.

after the meteor was over and dealt with, i offered to release It, but It declined my offer after hemming and hawing for a bit. iirc, It said something to Itself like “I THINK I’D RATHER LIKE TO SEE HOW THIS ONE TURNS OUT.” or something equally as ominous to that effect, and that was that. It seems happy enough- and if It wanted to leave, i definitely don’t think i could stop It.

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What’s the relationship between you and your patron like? Do you get along?

since we’re talking about my Patron now i guess-

it’s. complicated. Lord Rayquaza’s almost paternal towards me? in a way? i think it’s because i met It when i was a little kid (which in Its eyes i still probably am- it’s been alive for thousands of years and i’ve only been alive for 19.)

but It’s also still a pokémon by virtue of Its being, so it’s this weird balancing act of “when do i treat It with the reverence and respect It demands and when do i give It scale scritches” but rarely do i slip up in that department these days, haha

all in all, we work together well. It’s taught me well and defended me even better. i’m proud to be Its Chosen, for sure.

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🐾Rayquaza!! How’s it going

ALL IS WELL.

-🐉

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being Champion sounds cool and edgy before you actually become Champion and now you have to fucking answer emails

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send me questions you have about my character!

anything and everything. favorites. thoughts on people, on events. what they would do in a certain situation. how things would be different if something had/hadn’t happened. simple questions, complex questions. have at it!

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