#(thinking about moving Aether there cause I don’t wanna like completely abandon my boy)

[shxdowoforre]

((I made a banner! A basic one for my basic ass self but it helps organize things still! Now then, today’s headcanons are--))

TEAM SNAGEM HEADCANONS

(and how Snagem affected Wes)

A thank you to @tenderpoison for making me think of doing this. Because, honestly, I completely forgot that I had barely made any hc’s for Snagem! So it let me think a lot about how stuff worked there.

Snagem was founded by Gonzap and they were independent at first. Essentially just a bunch of bums from Pyrite, The Under, and any other asscrack in Orre were what comprised the members.

It was founded because, as stated on my base list of Orre hc’s, Orre’s government is a shithole and so was the economy, and Gonzap and co. wanted some damn money.

They literally stole anything and everything at first. Anything they needed for survival, or once they became stronger, anything they wanted. They stole shit. That’s just about their whole deal.

When they discovered the black market for Pokemon was hot in Orre because of its competitive battle scene is when they decided to focus on stealing mainly Pokemon. Stealing anything became kinda risky business when they tried stealing from a Trainer with ridiculous Pokemon because he battled the Colosseums all the time. ‘Cause at first there weren’t many of these types, but as the competitive battle scene picked up they were everywhere. And everyone wanted to win, and they’d pay top dollar for fighting machines.

Now, Snagem’s members had pretty decent Pokemon themselves, but they were nothing like the Orre Trainers’. They had trouble stealing any until Gonzap had to personally step up and crush some dudes to get the ball rolling. Because Gonzap is the only one who actually trained up his own Pokemon when he saw the Trainers getting tougher.

Even after this, the Snagem members Pokemon didn’t get much stronger, and they often borrowed some stolen Pokemon on loan from Gonzap to get stuff done or, more commonly, they instead taught their Pokemon moves to turn them into trolls. Status moves like Sleep Powder, Smokescreen, Swagger, etc. They began relying on these moves to KO the Trainer and just take their Poke Balls rather than deal with a tough battle. Quicker, easier, why not?

Plenty of Snagems members didn’t even steal though, because they're lazy asses. These guys would hang round the base and just laze on the couch or be general mechanics/contractors.

Snagem’s HQ is a janky hovel, but it’s tough to breach. The canyon helps a lot with providing defense, but the stolen pieces that comprise the whole place are still pretty sturdy. Orre tech in general can be as advanced as Aether’s, so with that stolen stuff they can still have a pretty tough fortress.

If you get through the front door, you then have to deal with all the crowds of Snagem dudes that will rush your ass when they discover an intruder. See: Pokemon Colosseum opening. No matter how tough your Pokemon are, Horde Battles are a bitch, and Snagem does not follow standard battle rules.

In addition to the HQ, Snagem had several points of territory across Orre that they enforced and kept other smaller gangs off their turf. There were no other set bases besides maybe the abandoned house of the day.

For the internal hierarchy of Snagem members, it started a little like this.

1. Courier/Frontman: You’re not so much a member of Snagem as you are just somebody they hire on as a mule or pretty face to advertise. Couriers just run packages to people Snagem is dealing with or other Snagem members who need it. You compete with Pokemon for the Courier position too. Wanna know why Wes is a fast runner? Wanna know why Wes has such a speed machine and can drive so well? There’s some reasons. He started in this position, and he damn sure wasn’t gonna lose it. Now, as a kid, of course, he could only handle small hover bikes, but he learned how to mod them fast.

2. Base member/Lazyass: Base members of Snagem don’t do much besides just do basic errands and stuff. Anything other members can’t do basically gets shoved onto these guys. Including the grosser stuff like cleaning up ‘the messes’. They never elaborated on what. They’d just say to go clean up this mess or that mess. And Base members gotta do it. Or they can be lazy. A lot do. The HQ doesn’t smell nice. Especially since Orre is hotter than Groudon’s Drought.

2.1 Mechanic/Contractor: These guys are still technically Base members but they can actually, like, do stuff. So they’re treated a little better, and they don’t have to clean gross stuff up! They fiddle with all the machines and make sure the HQ is in good condition.

3. Thieves/Snaggers: Aka when Gonzap actually starts to give a fuck about you. If you meet your quota. This is arguably the most valuable tier members can be, even more than Admins. Anyone in this tier is part of the group of people that are assigned to go out and steal what is needed. Don’t care how, don’t give excuses, steal it. Steal everything you’re told to, or it’s back to Base member for you. Even some Snaggers were just those types that used Sleep Powder, but if you could steal, and steal all on your quota, you could be in this tier. Snaggers are regularly in contact with Couriers to pass off the goods to, and this is where Wes first met a Snagger. Immediately, it sowed the seeds in his head that would eventually lead to him wanting to pursue a higher position in Snagem. Snaggers are often the ones who get busted out of prison. Mechanics and Contractors, maybe. Admins, yeah. Snaggers, absolutely. Base members/Couriers/Frontmen? Lol they’ll send you a postcard.

4. Admins: Usually Gonzap’s close and trusted advisors and enforcers. Strong, yes, but they don’t have to be a Snagger. If you are, you may as well be a unicorn. Wes was on his way to being that rare combo before he stabbed everyone in the back.

5. Boss: Gonzap. Duh. The toughest dude, leads only the most important missions. Pretty standard stuff. A lot of day-to-day stuff gets left to the Admins but if he gets involved, you probably fucked up big time.

Now, Snagem also has a fun little ‘initiation’. It’s actually quite simple: Go to the HQ and report to Gonzap. Thing is, they have a messenger, usually another Courier, tell you this. No nice cushy ride for you. Go get there yourself. The most you may get told, if the member is nice enough to tell the Courier, is that it’s at Eclo Canyon. Normally people stop right there and go ‘Nah’ and back out. Plenty who try never show up. It’s safe to say, if you successfully find the HQ, you now know Eclo Canyon like the back of your hand. Which is important as all members need to know how. Wes cheated a little and stalked a Grunt there after being lost, but it worked!

New members are often treated roughly and used as a whipping boy a lot by other members. Aka they’d battle and fist fight a lot. Base members are the ones who really do this because they’re bored and it’s funny to punk a new guy.

They are nice to give you a uniform, but Wes didn’t like wearing it because they didn’t have a lot of different sizes and he was too small. He got a LOT of ‘attention’ for a while because of that.

Food in the earlier days of Snagem was a little scarce, and they didn’t ration. Get to your food first and take it before someone else does. Hiding it can work, but it normally gets found and it’s always nobody’s fault but your own if it does. That leaves eating it right there, but if another grunt is upset they didn’t get any they may just fight you until you puke it up to spite you. Wes had this happen several times himself.

Now, you don’t have to eat the food Snagem scrounges up. Nobody stops you from going out and getting your own. The HQ isn’t Snagem members’ house. It’s an HQ. You don’t pay rent for it, you work. Food is considered a luxury provided when they can give it. If you do go out to grab your own, don’t think other Snagem members won’t tail you. Just ‘cause you’re getting it from somewhere else doesn’t mean they won’t still try to take it or spite you.

Earning your respect in Snagem can take a while or it can happen really fast. Normally it involves asserting yourself enough to know that if anyone tries something, you’re gonna get thrashed. Contributing to Snagem a lot is another route. If you contribute a lot to Snagem but aren’t strong, you’re a ‘Daddy’s Boy’ and they fuck with you more than if you were just a new guy.

When you do earn your respect, everyone backs off, and you’re more or less finally seen as an equal, and people generally can get pretty friendly. You are ‘one of them’ sorta. It doesn’t mean any of the bullshit will stop, but they sorta feel like you can be trusted as far as Snagem is concerned. About as close to good friends and bros as can be. As long as you stayed with Snagem.

If you turn on Snagem, they will hunt you and utterly beat the hell out of you. Probably take all your stuff too. And they won’t stop. Not unless Gonzap calls them off.

So, overall, Snagem’s atmosphere is very much summed up as ‘a junkyard full of a pack of junkyard dogs’. Come on in if you can find em, but we ain’t gonna coddle anybody. Figure it out or leave.

All this was fine and dandy until Cipher came along. They gave one special thing to Snagem, and that was the Snag Machine.

Cipher completely took advantage of Snagem about it too. They knew Snagem would jump at the chance to use it, and so they used Snagem first as test subjects with their clunky Beta versions. The ones that were like vending machines.

These things were cumbersome and ridiculously hard to make use of. It wasn’t until Wes got the bright idea to actually disguise them as vending machines sitting on the back of a concealed truck did they actually steal any Pokemon with them. But Wes saw huge potential in this technology and was eager to see where it would go.

Eventually, to ‘thank’ Snagem for its help, Cipher ‘gifted’ them the only handheld Snag Machine. But it came at a steep price. They could have the Snag Machine, but Cipher demanded they go out and steal for Cipher as well as themselves.

Snagem, essentially, became Cipher’s bitch and stole at the snap of their fingers. Wes noticed this shift very quickly and he did not like getting put back into that tier after clawing his way out of it. He wasn’t gonna be nobody’s bitch, but if Snagem wanted to, Wes would treat them like one.

Snagem’s reaction was pretty basic when Wes betrayed Snagem, as seen in Colosseum, but Wes felt nothing when he betrayed them. Wes is a product of his environment, and Snagem undoubtedly created a monster by fostering his megalomania with their system. Several things, like the literal fighting for food, and the treatment of new members, contributed to the complexes Wes still has, such as never wanting to depend on anyone. The hyperaggressive environment, in turn, made Wes hyperaggressive when he felt threatened or wanted to assert dominance. He wouldn’t have even felt a need to assert any sort of dominance if Snagem hadn’t beat it into him that he had to, lest he be pushed around by everyone. Wes had his own bad traits, but Snagem basically took all of Wes’ bad personality traits and amplified them.

#snagged;;hc #((big fucking headcanon dump right here)) #tw: violence

[kastillia]

i still don't understand what the deal is with these fake team skull people

so they're referred to as punk girls and punk boys

but that girl i just talked to asked me not to call her a punk girl

???????

ok i'm gonna fight these trainers and return to that """"kahuna of route 12""""

gasp! secret beach

there are so! many!! slowpokes here!!!

what are they doing!!

nothing

they're not doing a gosh darn thing

back to that first guy........... :^)

how's that!! coming from someone who's beaten two real kahunas!!!!

i'm sorry that was mean

seriously though don't throw around that title you can't just appoint yourself the kahuna that's not how it works

thanks for that thing you gave me though

i already forgot what it was

there's a fork in the road and if playing video games has told me anything, the main quest follows the main path, so i'm just gonna take a detour to this......place first

oh! there's a building here!

THERE'S ALSO A PHOTO SPOT!!

......magnetons don't get much love

but that tiny poke running across the roof does :>

SO DOES THAT ELEKID WHEN IT DOES THAT LITTLE VICTORY POSE

these are so cute i love them

into the building!

i

what

professor oak is here again

.............and he's gone

what is his deal??? is he just some otherworldly being that appears, talks at me, gives me a thing, and then says "fill that pokedex!" before disappearing again????

whatever i'm gonna go talk to this magnemite

you know what, they didn't say anything useful but at least they didn't disappEAR ON ME......PROFESSOR OAK

what does this guy have to say

oh the lights went out

thanks magnemite

oh wait i still need to evolve that meowth into a persian.............

ok back to the pokecenter to take him out of the box........actually wait no, that meowth is chilling in the hot springs island at the poke pelago

level 25........ok let's train at.... the gardens...........?

what are all these people doing here

why are they blocking the bridge

.........i mean i guess i could just go around but??? whatever i guess

nice. i won a gold nugget

wait a second

h-hey! dude! you're talking so fast you ain't even giving me a chance to answer???

team rocket???? how old are you????

oh

awww they were larping

cute

give me an option to join team skull 'cause i'll do it! i'm even dressed the part. literally everything i'm wearing is black. i am the exact opposite of lillie.

ok training training training and feeding meowth pokebeans to get that friendship up aaaaaand evolve!

...........oh

oh he looks like garfield......

i'm gonna fly back to akala for a sec

ok! i have returned with garfield

hello professor is this the persian you were looking for

oh! that's not kanto oak......i don't remember where he said he was from. the kalos region? idr

aaaaand he disappeared again

thanks

ok back to plot

AYYYY IT'S HAU!!! how did you get here did you also get a mud horse mount

IT'S! IT'S!!!!

GLADION!!!!!!!

oh no team skull are looking for nebby

hau why are you so bad at keeping secrets pffffft

DON'T WORRY GLADION I'LL PROTECT LILLIE AND NEBBY

I CAN'T SAY THE SAME FOR HAU THOUGH but he'll try probably

WAIT!! GLADION WAIT DON'T LEAVE!!! CAN WE BE FRIENDS YET?????

........he's gone :<

alright let's see what's inside that door you came out of

it's another one of those residential places!! did he change locations?? o:

.....what? these ladies are talking about someone leaving their poke behind

gladion wouldn't do that

oh there's a stufful here!

WHO LEFT THEIR POOR STUFFUL HERE ALL ALONE??? I'LL ADOPT THEM

so i guess this is like a mini town?? there aren't any shops here and the pokecenter is the next map over.......just a bunch of caravans

ohhh........a caravan park..... duh

this hiker feels like he's being watched.........

wow really

there's just an oranguru creepily staring at him from behind a caravan

oh! that's a member of team skull! he's standing guard...........actually he's squatting guard

and inside the caravan is another member of team skull! i love how we're just having a casual conversation but she's still making all those over-the-top movements

i love you guys

into the next caravan!

it's a punk!!! sorry i meant, it's a fake team skull member

he's understandably shocked that i just barged in

YEAH LET'S FIGHT

oh he doesn't want to any more........ok bye

to the pokecenter!

there's a guy that wants to trade his graveler for a haunter.......i don't......have one yet......

i have a level 10 gastly though do you want that? no? ok

my next trial is the ghost trial though so maybe i can catch a haunter for you

i can see where my next objective is but let me just.........roam around first......

here is an ace trainer

"alola?"

yes hello! oh it's a battle

oh he's sending out a sandshrew that's cool i have my leafeon up frONT OH WAIT IT'S AN ALOLAN SANDSHREW

IT'S JUST AN IGLOO WITH A FACE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

ok ok razz you're up but omg i love it i need to catch one

i defeated the ace trainer :>

"alola..."

i'm not sure that's how you're supposed to use that word but ok

i talked to him again

"alola!"

apparently alola is the only thing he can say

there is another beach area!

there is a fisherman here who keeps talking about a strange guy in a kimono but he's not here right now......hmmmm

dang gosh it why are there all these rOCKS IN THE OCEAN WHY CAN'T MY LAPRAS BREAK THEM I WANT TO EXPLORE O:<

ok fine i'll go down this other path to that abandoned shopping facility or whatever

ooooooooooo so spoopy

oh oops that's a trainer

guess i have to look for the rest of them

oh that's one of those guide people! .......this is a trial site??? oh........ oh the ghost trial.......... at an abandoned shopping mall........... i get it

i found a fisherman!

y-yes....this fishing pole was a gift from lana.....

"maybe if i had a fishing pole made by captain lana, i would have won..."

maybe if i beat you with water pokemon, but i didn't so uhh......unlikely

um.....no.... this fishing pole is not actually lana herself.........

alright lapras, into the ocean. let's get away from this guy.

"the reason i don't ride a lapras is because i can swim faster than a lapras!"

ok?? good to know??

can i just say

i will be sorely disappointed if there are no swimmers named akihiko bc i can't help but think of that dumb meat-head every time i run into a swimmer

ok back to the flag........aether house or something idk

it's all white

there's........an oranguru at the receptionist desk???

oh hi hau

oH HI KIDS WE'RE NOT INTRUDERS IT'S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE I SWEAR

well i mean if you're gonna challenge me to a fight then i won't say no

........sorry for beating up your poke

gndfjskhfdjsk

that little girl's yungoos keeps biting hau

oh! acerola!!

didn't you go shopping with lillie??? where is she.......did she get lost again.......

OH SHE'S THE GHOST TRIAL CAPTAIN!

i guess there's a kinda ghostly vibe about her??

well i guess i'll get going

hau, you coming?

"these ankle biters are kinda growing on me. i might stick around a little longer"

ah. alright i'll be going then.

IT'S LILLIE

IT'S ALSO A TEAM SKULL GRUNT

no her bag didn't move you're just seeing things pfffft I'LL SAVE YOU LILLIE

oops i am like 12 levels higher than all the trainers around here

QUIT PICKING ON PEOPLE WHO CAN'T FIGHT BACK YA BIG BULLIES

awww she bought me gifts!! lillie you're the best ily

alright time for the ghost trial!!

.......i don't have any ghost or dark type pokes..........

well i mean i have keaton and he has crunch.......yuki told me that'd be enough, so let's get this show on the road!!

oh! the objective of this trial is to take photos! i'm good at that!! i've been practicing!!! :>

ohhh..........ohhh i see

this is very spoopy

THAT CONVEYOR BELT STARTED MOVING BY ITSELF!!!

hi gastly

i?

what??

pikachu??? what are you doing in here???

THAT TROLLEY IS MOVING!!!

helloooooo haunter

i'll be back to catch you later so i can trade you to that one guy with a graveler

........there's that pikachu again....

OH GOOD GOLLY GOSH THOSE POKE PLUSHIES ARE FLOATING!!!!!!!

heeey-

what

where are you

oh, it's gengar!

wh-what...... rotom!! don't give me an "mmhmm!" let me battle it!! dang gosh it where did it disappear to now????

ok i got it

pikachuuuu what are you doing in here it's too spoopy for the likes of youuuuu

O:

the door unlocked!

well the only logical step is to enter......

the pokefinder fired up on it's own!

alright what are we dealing with here.......

no........nope..........there's a pikachu poster.........

there ain't anything floating around here, so then........

..........................

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH MY GOD IT'S A MIMIKYU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IT'S MY BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

aw heck i don't wanna fight it i wanna catch it........

alright, keaton! use crunch!!

wait

shouldn't that be super effective why isn't it doing an--

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the pikachu head just falls back gndfshjdksghj

"mimikyu's disguise has been busted!"

oh my god let me have them please please please

aww i'm sorry mimikyu but it had to be done for me to complete the trial.........

i want one

trial complete!!

............and back in we go to catch some pokes :^)

#kas plays pokemoon #THERE'S STILL MORE CAN YOU BELIEVE IT #this was good #ghost trial is v recommendable #long post #super long post