#oh also the standard rule applies: Lore Is Real Actually

[enneamage]

could you do an enneagram about nikibur? 🙏 I know this relationship was bad and I'm glad Niki is better now, but I'd like to know about them, their problems.

I can give my Spicy Opinion based on what I’ve deliberated about their personalities, but truth be told the two of them are further from their textbook descriptions. Wilbur is less reliable than a healthy three, and Niki has a difficult history that gives her certain reflexes on top of her predisposition. There’s also things that will probably be too specific to guess that happened behind the scenes, but I’m willing to bet that Wilbur’s push-and-pull problems became a big issue between them.

(I will do a writeup in an ask later about how Wilbur collects Nines like stickers, but that’s slightly less relevant here because of the way they met.)

I think they fucked up, together.

The blame shifts to Wilbur as time goes on, but through naivety and badly calibrated strategic thinking, they introduced the stressor of being a public couple who made their content about being a public couple. They knew what their gimmick was, and they both invoked it from the get-go—they would flirt on stream, farm awws, and then play coy when people asked about the obvious. They wanted to do the will-they-won’t-they bit and were in open competition with Carson & Kate. I think people feel morally obligated to forget how blatant they were, but they were incredibly in-your-face, and they mostly did it on purpose. They were more than just a public couple: they were straight-baiting, and they held onto it for a while because it gave them content.

And then the cons outweighed the pros. People started buying exactly what they were selling, finding them cute and investing in their personal lives. The thing is, they weren’t actually prepared to be any more demonstrative than they already were, and they both have a private streak that they wanted to hide each other behind. In a way it was an innocent failure to understand what crowds are really like, and what happens when you give a mouse a cookie. They found that they couldn’t put the toothpaste back in the tube, and at that point it was too late.

As an aside, women are competitive. They’re actually as competitive as men, but we treat the spite they treat other women with as anomalous because we think they’re supposed to be collectivistic or something. (People not noticing the double standard here is something that bothers me :P.) Needless to say, we usually don’t expect a female streamer to roll up and flirt with her Chad boyfriend without chat going nuts, because we know that people can be petty and jealous with the object of their affection. The same logic applies the other way around, but people tend to expect it less because women are meant to be more civilised or something. In the end we’re more equal than we know :P.

Niki doesn’t deserve the hate she got by any stretch of the imagination, but she got it all the same. She was heavily associated with Wilbur and had a personality people offhandedly summed up as ‘wholesome’ and ‘bland.’ She was endearing to some people, projected onto by others, and the object of vicious jealousy to (what I hope was?) a vocal minority. Not much active effort was put into seeing and understanding her as an individual, which has gotta be a mindfuck to go through, especially If you’re going through it virtually alone.

The on-paper ‘healthy’ love story between Threes and Nines is that Nines give Threes a space of unconditional and unjudgmental love. In return, Threes encourage Nines to develop themselves and shine on their own. The ideal is a feedback loop of mutual safety and encouragement, a very comfy duo. I won’t lie, I’ve seen this combination in the wild, they seem to happen more frequently than some other pairings and I can see why. This is also why I can only use the enneagram roadmap for them so much, because these two (or at least Wilbur) went off the rails.

Judging from what we’ve established about Wilbur so far, he’s good at making himself seem reliable, and then the payoff is so-so. To avoid being overly cruel I will say that Wilbur’s mental health was outstandingly bad at certain points in their timeline, so the situation has layers, but it probably activated some of his worst habits and Niki seems to have gotten the brunt of it. He liked being loved by her, and probably loving her back, but he didn’t have the mind to be her safe space consistently, which is a big part of what she needs out of a relationship.

Wilbur’s love interest persona is so distinct from the rest of him that it comes into question how real it is, and what the hell that even implies. The answers can range from ‘maybe he just gets inspired by the people he loves to behave differently’ to ‘American Psycho acting ass motherfucker.’ Threes can be a type that does romance, performs charm and builds fantasies about perfect love for them and their partner to live in. I think he pulled back when he was at his worst, maybe self-consciously hiding himself because he knew he wasn’t living up to his hype, maybe abandoning her when he wasn’t capable of meeting her needs. I don’t think he was entirely synthetic with her, because truth be told he’s not that good at lying for very long, but he did seem to make explicit and implicit promises that he went on to not keep. I remember the ”men are disappointing, actually” Niki clips, and I can tell who they’re about.

Some of the on-screen magnetism between Niki and Wilbur came from her being a cheerleader when he was feeling down. This is something that she elaborates on indirectly in her Dr. K video, she likes finding the places that she can slot into other people’s lives. Tragically for her, this is implicitly tied to the hope that they won’t leave her, which ended badly this time around. Wilbur was simple, in a way, just make the sad boy smile and make him feel better. Niki was on caretaker duty, which wouldn’t have been bad if he was able to match her energy and make things more reciprocal. Whether he was capable of returning her efforts in a way that wasn’t token or performative is up in the air, but in fairness, it looked like he had his moments.

Ultimately Wilbur couldn’t match Niki’s faithful, caring energy. Wilbur gets very self-absorbed in times of stress, and I’m actually kind of worried about what that looked like between them, because abandonment might have only been the tip of the iceberg.

I’m going to do something kind of rare and give Wilbur the benefit of the doubt on a few points. Wil, having a relatively functional sense of cause and effect, could probably put together that he was a big part of the problem whether he wanted to be or not. It was interactions with him and his audience that would wind up getting her attacked, so the simplest answer on that front was to just not do that. I also think he knew that their power gap was sketchy, and he might have been concerned about what it said about him. Ironically this might have caused him to hurt her more in the process as he was wrestling with it, but chat had her call him a nonce in their first date video, and in a roundabout way they had a point.

#I write to music relevant to the topic and I felt Actively Guilty for listening to Half Of My Heart as I wrote this thing #Listen to that if you’d like to smack face first into a wall #Your faith / is strong / but I can only fall short for so long #Down the road / later on / you will hate that I never gave more to you #than half of my heart #Don’t worry the story has a happy ending #She literally found someone to match her energy one-to-one nikifold is the exact same type #They bonded over being similar and in the same situation #wlbr 3w4 #Nki 9w1 #oh also the standard rule applies: Lore Is Real Actually #the themes of their relationship are more or less a mirror of what happened in the minecraft roleplay #which is an insane thing that i get to keep saying about this man's life

[brushstrokesapocalyptic]

it’s time for the “overanalyzing one-off lines” show!

so the very first thing magnus says when he sees pit in chapter 2 of kid icarus: uprising is as follows:

“Well, I didn’t expect to see an angel here. Hope this doesn’t mean I’ve kicked the bucket.”

now, i’m not sure if you’re aware, but that’s a really weird thing for someone to say, and it’s even more weird that no one comments on it. pit and palutena go on talking about unrelated things, as if that’s a totally normal and expected thing for magnus to say.

now, if you’re like me, you probably also didn’t really react to this line the first few times you saw it. it’s the second chapter, kiu has a lot of slightly-odd lines which turn out to be foreshadowing. me, personally? my first thought was “oh, i guess angels are probably associated with escorting the dead to the afterlife,“ and then i moved on.

they’re not, though. that’s what reapers do. and there’s no way humans have these two races mixed up. just fucking look at them.

do they look anything alike to you??? no. they don’t. which raises the question of why, exactly, magnus said that.

now, we don’t know a lot about angels as a whole. pit (and by extension dark pit) is emphatically not the gold standard of angeldom. we can assume he looks fairly ordinary for an angel, seeing as no one has trouble identifying him as such. beyond that, though, a lot of what we know about angels comes from what pit isn’t. for starters, he can’t fly. and there’s something else, too, but i’ll get to that later.

before that, though, i’m gonna go through the various unsubstantiated comments made by people with a dubious level of authority on the subject. (incidentally, i sourced these screenshots from the wiki— much more convenient than trying to dig through youtube for every single random conversation.)

without any further ado! let’s get into it!

Angels as Messengers

Gaol: Aw, Palutena’s little messenger boy. And Magnus, it’s always a pleasure. (src)

in the specific context of overanalyzing magnus’s first line, this is an important sentence to pick out. magnus and gaol are both humans, both with presumably a fairly similar history as mercenaries up until gaol got stuffed in a suit of armor. but while magnus makes a weird comment about death, gaol calls pit a messenger.

and pit agrees with her!

Viridi: I wish I had an angel to do my bidding. It’s like having an intern.

Pit: I’m not an intern. I’m a messenger of the gods!

Viridi: Poor Pit. Don't you know that the definition of angel is "errand spirit"? (src)

this particular conversation is the most insight we get into angels as a whole, i think. viridi thinks of angels as like divine interns, there to do little tasks for gods, and palutena doesn’t exactly disagree with her. pit says they’re specifically messengers, which lines up with biblical mythology. i could see the traditional role of angels in the world of KI being exactly that, showing up to tell the humans what the gods have to say because the gods themselves are too busy being petty jerks to do it themselves.

The Angel’s Code of Conduct

Magnus: You go in fully dressed? Don't you at least want to change into a...swimming tunic or something?

Pit: Oh, no no no! The angel's code of conduct says that we must always be ready for duty.

Magnus: I guess you wouldn't be an angel if you didn't do things by the book. (src)

Pit: Hey! You know the angel's code of conduct! I need to be prepared at all times! (src)

another random little thing is the angel’s code of conduct. without a larger sample size, we can’t know if it’s a real thing or just an excuse to save on laundry, but apparently it’s against the rules to not be on call at all times. in pit’s case, the duty he has to be ready for is doing palutena’s dirty work, but it can easily mean just about anything— including, of course, being a messenger.

No Warrior

Chariot Master: But you are no warrior, angel. Tell me, why do you fight?

Pit: I fight for Lady Palutena. And I fight for the people under her protection!

Chariot Master: That's not reason enough for an angel. (src)

remember how i said there was something else weird about pit? the chariot master seems to think angels aren’t very prone to battle— or perhaps even that they’re actively opposed to it. this lines up well with the idea that they’re supposed to be messengers, peaceful go-betweens for gods and mortals. this does not line up well with pit, the adorable weapon of mass destruction.

and it also does absolutely nothing to explain the question driving the whole existence of this post.

you know what does kinda lean towards an explanation?

No Other Angels

Pit: Do all gods have their own angels, like you have me?

Palutena: No, I don't think that's necessarily the case. (src)

i said before that the Intern Pit conversation had the most illuminating information on angels. this is what i was actually referring to. on its own, it’s pretty innocuous, but it’s just as weird as the magnus line. shouldn’t pit know about other angels, seeing as he is one himself? but he doesn’t know if there are other angels.

the only angels we ever see are him and his clone. no one ever directly references the existence of other angels, they only make general statements about what angels as a whole are like— statements which clearly don’t apply to pit, meaning they’re not just extrapolating based on the one angel that definitely does exist.

the one time someone does comment on the hypothetical existence of other angels, palutena gives a vague answer to the tune of “no,” the topic is changed, and no one brings it up again.

let’s go over everything i’ve established about angels up to this point. they can fly, they’re peaceful messengers of the gods, and pit is the only one that seems to exist as of the start of KIU.

it should be pretty obvious at this point what answer i’m dancing around, if it wasn’t obvious from the start. pit is the only angel around because all the other ones are dead. the reason why magnus said what he did is that his thought process went something like this:

See an angel.

Think “Aren’t angels extinct? Is that a ghost? Am I a ghost? I sure hope not.“

Make a quip about that.

Move on with his life, because he isn’t dead and evidently neither is this guy.

i’m not gonna pretend i went into this post with the intent of any other conclusion to that mystery. anyone who’s bothered glancing over a plot summary for the original kid icarus can draw that conclusion. it’s certainly what i did, reinforced by fics by people who had the same thought!

the truth, however, is that this was all a trick to get you to read my analysis of the theoretical nature of angels as a race. now that you’re invested, i’m going to dramatically throw aside my cape and reveal my TRUE FORM: telling people that fandom consensus is wrong, and my ideas are cooler and better than everyone else’s and you should all throw roses at my feet and bow before your king.

(or just, y’know, take it as the subjective analysis that it is. whatever floats your boat.)

Hot Takes

the original kid icarus does not actually tell you about angels going extinct. here’s the wiki article with the full text of the backstory, just for convenience, so you know what i’m on about for the rest of this post.

so, the part of the story that i think gets misinterpreted is this part about palutena’s army.

Medusa led a surprise attack on Palutena's army which could barely fend off the attack. Palutena's army suffered major losses and was heavily defeated in the final battle.

specifically, i think a lot of people interpret said army as having been made up at least partly of angels. sure, in the actual game it consists entirely of centurions, but you have to take old NES games with a grain of salt. i know i don’t buy for a second that pit was part of palutena’s guard before the original game (he was just too goddamn young), there’s nothing wrong with reinterpreting things.

recall everything i established about angels already, though. this is the hot official lore, from the game everyone knows and loves. angels are messengers, and if the chariot master is to be believed, never warriors. pit is an outlier. palutena’s army consists of centurions, not angels. if medusa wiped them out, it wasn’t because they were fighting for palutena.

(and honestly, i don’t think angels are necessarily associated with palutena exclusively. sure, she’s got the wing imagery, and she’s got the one known surviving angel working for her, at least up until pittoo is born. but angels are messengers of the gods, not messengers of palutena. again, pit is an outlier.)

which all brings us to the real question of this post.

what the FUCK happened to all the other angels? why is there only pit? why does magnus act surprised to see a messenger of the gods, and make a quip about being dead, if not because angels are otherwise extinct?! WHO KILLED THEM, AND WHY?!

thus concludes the “over analyzing one-off lines“ show. see you next, uh, maybe at some point if i feel like it!

(also another thought i had but couldn’t find room to fit it in properly: the gods don’t really act like angels are all extinct, but i feel like that can be explained through the sheer scale of a god’s lifespan. if we assume they were wiped out sometime around the original kid icarus (even if not as palutena’s army) then that’s a whole twenty-five years. that’s a long time for us humans, but for a god, that might as well be last tuesday. “yeah, i know what angels are like. sure wish i could have one. too bad palutena’s got a monopoly on the one single angel that medusa didn’t manage to wreck.”)

#kid icarus #kid icarus uprising #the things i think of at five am #i am just yelling and spewing thoughts and theories and headcanons #if anyone has their own thoughts to add go right ahead i am dying to know whether or not i'm actually breaking new ground with all this #or if there's some vital lore i missed #or anything like that #i am OPEN for CONVERSATION

[bowldeepfannish]

A Fandom (N)Etiquette Recap In 4 Points Based On Experience By Yours Truly. (Take it with a grain of salt - or many -).

This was sparked by some recent unfortunate events involving both me and some people close to me. While it started from/with fanart it can be applied to all kinds of [fan]works really, and not just fanworks tbh...

1) Rules [of anatomy/characterization issues/characterization/themes choice/lore of choice]: friendly reminder that even if/when there are guidelines and popular takes or types, seeing someone not following them by some degree can be due to a variety of reasons, including being a beginner to experimenting to making a specific point, to projecting part of self onto a character/representation for whatever their reasons,  to just knowing the ‘rules’ (they might have a degree about said rules even *hint hint*) and still DECIDING TO BEND DEM RULES AS THEY PLEASE IF THEY SO DECIDE it's entirely up to the author(s) because that's also - google it up - artistic license. It’s - to use an euphemism - extremely rude to presume that whatever different take from one own opinion must stem from  ignorance and bad faith and double standards or being unfair or committing crimes against  fictional characters if not against humanity by just daring to share for free and for fun a personal rendition - of whatever the source work/medium is - that does not align with your oh-so-superior-holier-than-thou perception. No one is harming fictional characters or is out to ‘misrepresent’ a character ( = your preferred and by nature subjective view of a character)  on purpose and/or doing it as a personal attack to you.

2) Realism is not the only legit aim of fanart or of art in general. Neither is morality.

3) Fanworks can run the whole gamut from Word Of God  to ‘Death of The Author’. They are fanworks. Incidentally if one is not the Author nothing said random person says can be considered ‘canon’/better/truer per se and even if said person were the creator or their PR... Death Of The Author, baby. You oh fellow fan and fan creator do not get to police or ‘allow’ other fan&creators’s thoughts and opinions or to ‘fix’ them, because they are as valid as anyone else’s experiencing and/or creating fanworks about the same character and issues/themes. Relatedly...

4) the only opinion that matters to me on how to make a piece or alter it is mine and my partner's and the mods/curators in case of collabs, commissions, or zine and events that have terms/guidelines. As long as the involved parties *agree* and *consent*/are on the same page to reach an artistic outcome that feels true to the agreed upon vision that’s all that matters  to me. Outside of that any negative or policing opinion especially if uninvited and unrequired are unnecessary and unwelcome when not outright harmful to *real people* for which said oh-so-offensive fanwork can as easily be a source of empowerment, catharsis, or solace.

--- Golden rules: - constructive criticism is only good when you are requested to give it by the author and it’s actually constructive instead of dressing personal differences in opinion as anything more than personal and subjective opinions or use them to make uninformed, disingenuous and harmful to real people assumptions of the other party’s culture, awareness, mental capacity, fairness, or morality. - backhanded compliments are not concrit. If you have nothing nice to say better saying nothing. - you can be supportive, create, finance/commission of the kind of content you like to see and are passionate about, without demeaning other people’s preferences and work in the process. It’s not that hard. Like for shipping characters, squicks, triggers... don’t like do not read/watch/listen to. Just do not engage with the content you don’t vibe with,  and curate your own experience by revelling in what you enjoy and gives you joy. One person’s trash is another person’s treasure. This also includes you. Your beloved kind of content could be seen as trash by someone else, and viceversa. If you wish for respect then you have to give others the same respect in return. - the more condescending and pushy you come on to other fans and creators the less those people are going to respond favourably to create the kind of content you desire, btw. You are self-sabotaging hard. Educate yourself, have a good look at yourself/selves in the mirror, and DO BETTER. Be kind, be respectful. Love begets love. Heavens know life is already hard enough as it is without actively making other people miserable. 

#fan wank #ethnocentrism #wake up and smell the antis #fandom netiquette #don't like don't read #censorship #art censorship #in defense of fanworks #beauty is subjective #art is subjective #salt

[ghostmartyr]

Pokémon SoulSilver Randomized Nuzlocke [Part 2]

Standard Nuzlocke rules apply

Non-standard rule of only being allowed to catch something if it has a Type in common with the most recent thing you caught applies

Randomizer only touches wild pokemon; everything NPCs have remains the same.

So far, we have the first badge, and just caught our first official teammate for our starter. He is Fludd the Whiscash, to accompany Chance the Dewgong. Next pokemon has to be Water or Ground.

May I have the good fortune of finding one.

Fludd is Gentle and alert to sounds. He doesn’t have much in the ways of experience or moves yet, but we will soon see to changing that.

Route 33 has Shuckle! Adorable!

Fludd’s only offensive move being Mud-Slap is proving a trial of patience.

Wild Bastiodon appears. This is the route of tanks.

We’ve talked to Kurt, kicking off the Rocket plot of this section, and I think once Fludd is 10 or 11 we’ll continue down the Slowpoke Well. Where there will be non-Slowpoke things waiting for us.

I really just want Fludd to know something better than Mud-Slap.

..Water Gun is not terrible. Helps that the route I have chosen for training is beset by constant rain. Every single Shuckle having Berry Juice is not on the list of things that help anything except Shuckle delaying the inevitable.

I lied. Fludd is 13 before we start thinking about other things.

My current other thing is going to be Ilex Forest instead of the Rocket plot.

For reasons of pretty.

We find a Charizard!

That is very much not Water or Ground.

Cyndaquil is not Water or Ground either.

Hey, Fludd learned Mud Bomb. Yay.

Okay, fine. I guess we can save the Slowpokes if we really have to.

I love how as technology advances, video games get to be prettier. It makes me happy in my feelings places.

I also love how Kurt really doesn’t do anything. He tries. Then he falls and can’t get up. Then we go in and do the job he wanted to do.

Mawile is down here. Nothing I can do there.

The Grunts go down like Grunts, and then it’s Proton time!

Proton!

That guy!

He’s got... aquamarine hair! That’s like a personality!

Fludd beats him down, too. Party as it stands is Fludd at 16, Chance at 20, and Sleet and Cloud at 5. With only Fludd and Chance really counting as full party members. That will change slightly when I need something to Cut stuff.

Which will be right after we deal with this Gym.

-many weeks later-

-cough-

Anyway, Gym!

This will mostly be Fludd’s show, since he could use the levels. If anything happens to know Absorb, we’re bailing, but he should mostly be okay.

Upgraded Gym aesthetics are always good.

Almost as good as playing a Pokemon game without feeling compelled to give every single fight full play-by-play detail. Assume if I magically teleport through the plot that I did everything perfectly and expertly. All a result of my personal talent, not overleveling my precious pokemon in hopes of keeping them from dying from my stupidity.

Oh heck, whoops. One of the pre-Leader battles is a double.

Sleet is in the second slot.

Let’s not.

Good news! Sleet is still level 5. She still appears to be a casual passerby of this party, not an official member. This matters.

Bugsy looks so happy. Good for him.

(Unlike some Johto Gym Leaders.)

This will be more entertaining later in the game, but I think Pikasprey has brought up how this region’s Gym Leaders really are the most irresponsible about their job title.

Ultimately, Chance will take out Bugsy’s Scyther. Because it’s level 17. Like Fludd. And U-turn apparently really, really hurts.

No, Chance, you may not learn Rest. You’re a starting party member. That means you have nothing but attacks, and we compensate for our lack of strategy with levels.

Badge get!

But suddenly....!

-zooms through the battle at the speed of sound-

Good job, team!

Now we get to do a Farfetch’d puzzle that I am absolutely not terrible at.

Glory to Cut. Which we will be unceremoniously dumping on Cloud. Hi Cloud. This is your team. This is your role in it. Thank you for your contribution.

Oh.

Huh.

You’re part Water, aren’t you?

tfw I can actually catch something in Ilex Forest. Maybe I even will.

CAUGHT!

New member of the team, your name is now Downpour! Downpour is Quirky and highly curious, and we already love him. Even with the inevitable switch training about to go down.

We’re all just so happy that this place has been given level 6 Charizard to mine.

The truly nice part about being such a disaster in playing this part consistently is that Kurt gives me free balls. What, you forgot to play for a month? Your reward is not knowing what’s going on! Also free catching tools! You Win!

I also think that me being aware of EVs is the worst thing that ever happened to my enjoyment of pokemon playthroughs. I’m just left looking at wild level 6 Charizards with Sp. Atk signs in my eyes. What do those look like? The world may never know, but they are now part of my balanced breakfast.

Also, Nature Power becomes Rock Slide in Ilex Forest.

Downpour is going to be the most overhyped Special Attacker of its kind.

Assuming I ever find a Water Stone.

This is one of those changes from the originals that I’ve never fully understood or cared for. Except at the end of the day, I am a complete sucker for people you’ve helped along your journey all reuniting and recalling what you’ve done for them.

I just really miss the Eeveelution coolness of their dance hall.

And I don’t know why this one needed any help at all. Is that a lore thing? Are all your interactions with them just secret character tests?

Downpour is 19, which feels like good enough for venturing into Goldenrod. I really shouldn’t be living the life of mindlessly murdering wild Charizard for EVs for hours on end. Let’s just try to put a cap on it.

Forbidden Day-Care lore.

Lyra’s grandmother ships us. Awk.

I’m accepting everyone’s number in this. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned that before, but unlike in the originals, I don’t think there’s a limit on numbers on your phone, so might as well hoard them up.

Geez I feel old.

Vote now on which NPC pokemon person gets to stay in your phonebook. Maybe if you’re lucky you won’t abandon the one who hands out random evolution stones. :)

Oh, hello. I can catch you.

Do I want to? I’d be back to Water/Ice, and right now I have the option of picking up a Grass thing somewhere along the way... hm.

On the other hand.

Cloyster is cool.

POKE BALL, GO!

Damn it, poke ball.

Heavy Ball?

Damn it, Heavy Ball.

And now I am out of Great Balls.

Poke Ball. How do you feel about a redemption arc.

The Poke Ball declines. I have one Fast Ball, and one Heavy Ball. The odds of me getting a new friend out of this are dwindling. The route’s death appears to be at hand.

One Fast Ball.

Yeah, it breaks out.

Okay, Downpour. Kill the non-friend.

With Chance’s help, because the non-friend knew Supersonic.

Bye, Route 34. You’re dead now, and I need to buy catching tools before I forget and meeting my next friend turns awkward.

Whatever. I have a bike now.

Failing basic trivia is my favorite part of each Pokemon game.

PSYCH I WON.

My prize is a Radio Card, but the real prize is getting Whitney back inside her Gym. Where I can now battle her if I so choose. If I want to progress in the game. Her Miltank is waiting.

So we’re just going to do literally everything else we can, except not literally; these games have too many things, and I’m not getting distracted by Voltorb Flip.

...What does Nature Power actually do? Because Downpour has been spotted using Rock Slide, Earthquake, and now Tri Attack through it. It’s becoming a staple of his kit. I don’t think I’ve ever bothered using it before. I was under the impression is was always Swift?

Or is that Nature’s Gift? That’s a thing, right?

Bleh. Fighting first, looking up vitally helpful information later.

The grass has Hitmontop. Not Grass or Water, so it must die.

Wait what the heck. I was out innocently Headbutting trees, why are you here?

This is intensely awkward. My usual mode with these things is that something only fits the requirement of my Nuzlocke team if it’s been Randomized, and for whatever reason, the randomness doesn’t touch Headbutt encounters. Exeggcute is part Grass, but it is not Randomized. Sleet and Cloud are more proper team candidates.

I’m just going to say that Headbutting doesn’t count for a route’s encounter. This run isn’t intended to be overly difficult (this is not the grindlocke); the aim is fun, and I have more fun not using the standard encounters for the game.

What I’m saying is the Exeggcute dies.

(I’m just never going to be able to get a Psychic Type in this.)

My thing at the moment is beating up pokemon in the wild because I’m not sure how to deal with Whitney. Stress-grinding. Chance can’t fight the Miltank. Rollout against Ice sounds like a nightmare. But Chance is also the only female on the team, and my teams have terrible luck in love, which Whitney like exploiting.

Fludd doesn’t really have moves. Water Pulse is nice, but Mud Slap is his only other attack. Downpour is theoretically a cool option, but I don’t know what Nature Power does in the Gym. These kiddos do not have movesets that play well together. Tickle spam would be ideal, but Fludd doesn’t have a physical attack. Only Chance does, and there we have the Rollout problem.

This team could have some nice synergy (for once I almost think I might want to have someone with Rain Dance), but right now they just don’t know enough, and I do not like heading into Whitney this way.

So let us continue to explore the countryside in hopes that a solution is found.

Yanmega is not Grass or Water. Neither is Pikachu.

RIOLU.

You’re not, either.

Neither is the Zubat in the next route. Bonsly looks like it should be, and yet. Volbeat is a nope.

You, on the other hand.

Okay okay okay. Downpour. Do not ruin this for us. I know you want to kill it. We can feel it in your heart. However, we could use a friend. We could use another link in our chain.

...Actually, Fludd, how about you lend a hand with this.

SHARPEDO GET!

I dub thee Hurricane. Hurricane is Modest (dang it) and alert to sounds.

To use, or not to use. That is the question. Physical attacker? Good. Yet another pokemon with a generic shrug at the difference between physical and special? Hm.

I think Hurricane is a reserve. If we’re leveling you, little guy, it’ll be a bit later. We’re happy to have you, but you don’t fix anything well enough that I think I want to train you up just yet.

On to the park. Where the Dunsparce lurk. More Smoochum. Zubat.

I found a Dig TM. That might go to Fludd. ..Or is Fludd going to learn Dig naturally? Fludd will learn Magnitude in a few. I can wait. I don’t remember if this gen allows multiple uses of TMs or not. I could look that up, but effort.

Er. On that subject, though... internet, where can has Water Stone?

“ Johto: National Park (Come 1st in Bug Catching Contest), Route 42 (PokéGear Phonecall) “

Uh.

Oh no?

Wait!

“ Johto: Pokeathlon Dome“

Hope.

Yikes. I wanted to avoid that, having no touch screen, but Downpour, I’m not abandoning you so easily. We’re a team, man. A team. We’ll get you your usefulness.

Welp, I’ve defeated all the trainers I can.

I guess.

It’s time.

Downpour is level 24, Chance is 25, and Fludd is 23. Fludd’s going to be taking the early parts in the interest of balance. For Whitney herself... I really don’t know. I’ll play it by feel. I do want to make sure Downpour uses Nature Power before that fight, though. I don’t want to go in without knowing what it does.

It does Tri Attack in here.

...Yeah, I’m looking it up. What the heck does Nature Power actually do? Besides use moves that are strongly connected with things occurring in nature?

Finding the gen four version is too much trouble. Let’s just proceed knowing limited amounts. Yay for Tri Attack.

-makes an unhappy face best represented by toddlers-

One Clefairy and one Miltank.

This is not a scary thing.

See? Fludd already massacred the Clefairy.

This is fine. It will be fine.

Fludd stop flinching.

Aaaaaand there’s the Attract. The Miltank’s been using Stomp only, so it should be safe for Chance to go in and get a few hits. Fludd used Tickle a few times to counteract the Stomp being annoying.

Chance. Sweetie.

Stop. fucking. flinching.

FUCK YOU AND YOUR SUPER POTIONS, WHITNEY.

YES. IT’S DEAD.

YOU ARE NOT THE ONE WHO SHOULD BE CRYING HERE. MY SOUL IS IN DESPAIR, WHITNEY. YOU AND YOUR STUPID MILTANK. EVEN WHEN IT ISN’T USING ROLLOUT.

I sort of ship the flunky that tells you not to worry, Whitney will give you your badge after she stops crying--with Whitney. Just because. I spend a great deal of time in my Pokemon playing shipping random NPCs.

Pokeathlon opened, time to. grind for the Water Stone.

If my memory of this is correct, before you beat the Elite Four, there’s a different evolution stone available for purchase each day. Today’s is a Moon Stone.

Oh, this is going to be hell!

tfw you remember the Jump course being the kindest so pick it but none of your team is actually good at jumping so you’ve got to bring in the reserves.

Hurricane, Cloud, Sleet? Your time is now.

...

..

.

These games are not meant to be played on a touchpad.

Yikes.

Oh my fucking gosh this is hell do not want.

Well.

I lost.

Yay for 325 points.

LET’S KEEP GOING, SHALL WE????

Where’s my mouse...

Let’s try Power on for size. Chance, Downpour, Fludd, go for it.

Oh look I lost.

Downpour, you better appreciate how much I love you.

LOOK WE WON THE STAMINA ONE.

I’m not documenting this further. Know that I am miserable, and this is not meant, in any way, to be played with a mouse. The levels of unfortunate are everlasting and I am sad.

-the next day-

I have to wait another day for a Water Stone, but I have enough for it, so now we can move on to fun things. Like the game. The game. Which is fun.

tfw Jirachi is secretly an odd tree.

Route 37, have ye any Water or Dark?

Chimchar, you are found lacking.

Ah crud.

Totodile is not lacking, but I really don’t think catching it is a good idea. Pure Water locks me into Water. We might end up there anyway, but I’m not in such a hurry to commit just yet. I can kill a route to keep some variety alive.

Sorry, Totodile. :(

Ecruteak means Bill, which means I could go back to Goldenrod and find out what his Eevee has become. Let’s do that before we think about anything fancy like plot progression.

Sleet, into the box with you. Maybe you’ll come back if I don’t like whatever Bill’s offering.

Carnivine. Interesting. Uh. How about... Drizzle? Drizzle. Cool. And. Uh. Sleet. You’re staying in the box. Sorry, but level 5 things that are filling out party count are really just going to end up as very sad sacrifices. We’re avoiding that for now.

-another day passes-

(without me getting balls from Kurt, whoops)

WE DID IT.

Now to find out that Downpour’s spending another twenty levels not needing it because moves matter more than stats. To the internet.

...Oh.

Oh, Downpour.

Oh, no.

You, uh.

Kiddo, you’re going to be needing some help as we move forward.

But the good news is that means we’re evolving you now! Yay! Power boost! You go, you funky little duck frog thing.

Maximum cuteness achieved.

That’s a good stopping point for this round, I think.

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Hi, i'm endless kbar Thanks for your interest in alligator order What we have here is just a single order for alligator teeth We don't sell them directly as they are very expensive to acquire and scales Are [ready] or do you need to [learn how to deliver alligator]? I need to learn how to deliver alligator teeth and scales I will be ready when my turn comes It takes a fair amount of time before your turn is due again [learn to deliver] See this icon in the top right hand corner It signifies that we currently need alligator teeth and scales See this section over here for information concerning how to deliver this whether your character knows how or not This brings up the map You can see the most recently visited locations which in this case is only Fort Defiance The map allows you to hover from location to location Feel free to move as you wish We have already mapped out all the best delivery locatations on this map You can however make your own delivery requests Check over the information in this section by selecting it at the bottom of the screen Also, you'll given an estatmate amount of time it will take to get there at the speed your pony can gallop per hour This is currently set at Fort Defiance which is under the Kingdom of Man Select the delivery location to change where your rider might be heading There are five to choose from currently: Cobalt Mines ; (Charlesopolis Your oddwad will take you there Overlook ; (Cormarcko territory Salamander's Pass ; (Charlesopolis territory You'd never expect banditos to be so close to Charles There is a big button that says cancel this delivery Collect your payment afterward either way at any time if you've completed what your rider was supposed to do or just want them to come back See the icon in the upper left hand corner; the rider icon This allows you to call for your rider to come back to fort defiance if there is nothing for them to do This icon- toggles through all of your modes so you can access customer related needs, or attempt to visit a focus zone There are other functions but feel free to explore on your own Explorer mode please respond in character as to what you might want to wear while being a roving advertisement for the company Your focus dot will be free to describe the scene as it happens Boomstick mode- deliver the beast to the door step This enables your boom stick This enables your sight feed so you can watch the world around you in full first person including your chracter as if it were a virtual reality set When you are in boomstick mode everything turns dark and you get the thrill of the hunt Your victims will appear with reticules so you can track and aim your shots easier Your boomstick appears It's better to bring it up yourself so you can prepare for moving and shooting instead of fumbling around for it once you spot a target in your hand into the air and grab it with your other hand to fully control it in order to shoot after dropping it from above your target You want your bullet to ricochet Click the boom stick to toss the boomstick The longer you wait the more accurate the hit but the harder it is to ricochet, especially when first learning The boomstick lands at the appointed location from the aim mode and you pick up the ricochet in your offhand This subtelty of touch allows you to apply spin and velocity to your bullet Click the icon in the upper right hand corner to disable your boomstick while still wearing your silencer If you have the tracking mod attachment, you will be able to see your enemy's yellow healthbar When you are not in boom stick mode and no reticules appear on your screen shoot anyway for a chance to lode shells semiblind You see an aiming marker in the center of the screen It's important to remember the shots here don't actually go anywhere, but you can come back to them Drop the boomstick and fill the clip Drag it around to where you would like it placed during this sequence you can bring up sub menus It will describe the scene around you in words but will not show pictures All of these describptions are saved into your story of what happened even if other users can't see the descriptions from their point of view Oh you so you think your ready to rock? Go play something that doesn't teach you a useless skill just to get you to waste money on a game that forces you to pay to win just so you can feel Materilizin you into the armoury in front of a large projector display These are items you can put on making your costume, Some items can be used like weapons or tools Looking at your options you wonder if your on drugs Probably should have thought this one through You suddenly with in a VR space standing next to a pole looking at several more on the ground near you Your Master and two other people behind you You see what the man on the screen does, you follow along and pick a club near you on the ground "Mr Lord would you care to explain the rules of golf? " The assistant asks laughing "I would love to" Lord smiles and picks up the ballthe launches it down the range It bounces off in an awkward launch on a medium height path out onto the fairway You attempt to send your clubhead through the ball "Ha! I don't think so" one of the other students say as they all hit their shots, easily beating you You're a failure "We'll pick this up in another time, for now let's head indoors You follow assistantMaster lead you back to the house for a bit of lunch and then it's free time til afternoon classes [explosion] Obviously you rip out your earpeice and toss it before it blows apart your implants Well there goes your newfound hack ability You are currently carrying a mighty fine boomstick also it seems you are currently nudist, no clothing in your inventory either 'Well that was interesting Keep track of your energy and hunger levels Class today was interesting If your energy gets too low your going to need to find some sunlight to power it back up While here your stress level seems to have plummeted Try to keep it completely full for the duration of the delivery or suffer the consequences As for your hunger level you have gone way too long with out food Play defensively While you are a more skilled fighter it may be best to try not to engage the shadows at all fear for the majority of this mission Fear clouds judgment Unless your fighting a dark mage of course Remember light is always stronger than the shadow It's pure black and shiny like plastic The teeth appear to be recessive and internal like a snakes Be incredibly cauitous around it Begin thinking about how this is going to play out Alligators are challanging and can be difficult at first but with the right tactics they are no match for you Let's think about this However the more you deliver the more you will notice there tales and behavior patterns becoming more apparent and easier to prepare for Remember the more deliveries you make the easier it will become After the alligator begins to circle you prepare yourself for it's launch at any moment You may dread busting a gator the first time but i gurantee the second time will be less frustrating You attempt to sweep the gator's underbelly with your feet but it'sno easy task Just take notes and pay attention to were exactly the blows land You are concern about the tooth that managed to get under your armor To the behavior of the alligator You're not quite sure what is going on exactly, but you're not really concerned Probably normal alligator digesttion Do research a head of time to arm yourself with a good knowledge base of all information possible Your are never going to find where an alligator is the weakest to or takes the most cutting damage You just need proper medical skill to reach the organs to skewer or slash with a knife Dont be ashamed to look things up online Internet explorer warns you that the site is untrustworthy or gives you bad feelings Real life hunters research there quarry and game before hunts to determine the best bait and equipment for the job Shouldn't a slayer of man-eating beasts and creatures of myths and lore? Learn what elements to use on the beast to cause the most pain and suffering Figure out the monsters area of choize to rest or respawn Every delivery person perfers a different play style or approach to stressful situation for themselves Some enjoy loud fast music, others like to be naked Do you like to use flash bombs or small precise daggers? Work out what play style works best for you and your strengths Do you take full adavatage of traps The bridge is surrounded by trouts and fish fossil frames, a fishermans's delight Dont get spot ed on your iphone by the fisherman Spotting a new monster can be extremely exhausting both mentally and physically immediately and wear off the adrenaline If get spotted hide You are not satisfied with this delivery, must have been the excitement of battle or something you ate Repeat is important for perfection You yawn are the thought of repeating this delivery That has to be a good sign right? First things first you need to buy yourself some alcohol so you're not a total bore at work in the morning You are going to want to pick a boomstick to suit your delivery needs or choose more than one for variety You can't wait to sleep this off You didnt think you would take on those gators barehanded Your boss has not given you much but of the reactions that you would become a standard employee The question every new player asks when picking out a weap is "What type of gun is the easiest to use? While many may say the pistol is the best, it cannot be silenced which is a disadvantage Which one of thise fancy weapons is best for a growing young man who wants to slay monsters in his spare time? The shotgun has serious knock back and spread The cream of the crop is the automatic which can deal out nice damage The one to rule them all Should you really go picking a fight with gas station attendant? is the revolver since it can be fully customized with cool attachments Well and say, going for the ones on the right will certainly decrease the amount of human in you but is that really what your looking for? i am going to dodge the question Let me just say this is the same poisonous gas question as above A broken coaster? what does that even mean? They are all the best quality you can get so don't judge a book by it's cover Yes certain weapons can dismember more than others but dont you want to keep that dog elope innside the monster? Is this a trick question? you can make it explode in a shower of super hot bolts which will light your enemies innards on fire If used proficently But its never enough to discourage using a weapon being flashy never got the job done Certain weapons will accel on certain tasks better than others Sometime having a huge honking weapon just makes you a bigger target for the monsters But in the end try every weapon out and see which one fits you the best best or go for the endless and flashy option Go what suits your deliery style These wrist gadgets can let out a massive sound wave which can slow down enemies Use a boomstick because you have fun using it and it's mother isnt here to knock some sense into you But be advised they both tend to over heat with repeated use Not cause its supposed to do the most damage but the after effect is just as amusing Make land whales breathe Air underwater? that would cause severe embarrassment You dont want to do too much damage because you want them to still be viable for capturing bonuses at the end of the level Something like 75 to 125 points is perfect Or there wont be anything left to capture alive Does it really matter! Here we go successful dispatch of enemies resulting in but a few men injured and no deaths Well done the next rank is just around the corner They will give you a basic run down of every weapon and some advanced techniques for using them on the job Then they are going to send you to get a logo imprint put on your arm so you can access the store If you want to maximize your damage output there are many many more ways They only arm you with one every mission but when you have proven yourself there is others available for purchase The wound system in this game is mapped to a prior injury on your arm so that they will scar as the wounds are displayed There pistols, rifles, and shotguns Lacerates, and Penetrating Wounds Tears Pretty self explanatory Impact damage Burn damage, and Well i have no idea what's the difference between the two Piercing damage The biggest category which will lead to loss of limbs and superb disembowelment capabilities Lethal damage Stun damage, and toxins These are the bad boy weapons for taking out enemies without leaving a scratch Boomsticks are for when you want to initiate all out chaos on the battle feild Vars ulu OJC: The amount of time it takes to get there is great, is the least of your worries when one of the monsters got up and attacked you mid warp The size of the impact sphere and the distance traveled through the worm hole takes a toll on the ship and you have to repair it when you finally arrive The size of the critcal impact sphere The ability of the alligator to notice the gigantic space ship and jump through the worm hole is a luck of probability which is why you are here The ability of the alligator to dodge the next 59+ shots is just as stupid but very fortunate for you You make 400 of the finest repeating cross bows and cases for them The type and amount of damage incured is truly outstanding The weight of the weapon in your hands as you walk through the marsh is a perfect counter balance to your steps Restinace to wind factors and the incuring of sand and grit into gears or other moving parts is kept to a minium with after market contraptions Restinace to wind factors and the incuring of sand and grit into gears or other moving parts is kept to a minium with after market contraptions Not to mention the power of your discovery and weapon Range is now incured by dialing in a certain amount of your natural abilities to influence or "tweak" the velocity and direction of the bolt How long it takes to arc and strike your target is the only element you cannot prepare for or control in anyway You got here just in time for a weekly horde incursion How long it takes to fall You found a bubble of safety and learned to love it there Increase your chance of being discovered by hanging out at the enemy compound or gain the homeland an extra repeater crossbow per level Chariot racing has been big in the capitol pit fights for years You have found a love of racing on the back of one of these lizard beasts [normal: long: wide] Oddwads are the "monsters" One allows you reclaim your humanity through having enchanting abilities that allow the person to live a normal life incognito One allows you to be able to blend into most any You have to focus to fire From "splitting" at the waist for the crawl or mounted rifles positions to "standing" for the much slower triple shot bow or the Heavy rifle Focus drains energy like a mofo so it's best to have 1 person focus on shooting while the team members switch positions when firing to give the focii member a break Blocking -- attempting to hide from detection or slip by a large enemy undetected requires intense concentration in the form of prolonged mental focus on the enemies movements and actions in the area Upswing -- allows you to drain life from the enemy and one can assign the button to perform any combat ability normally such as slicedshot, armor piercing etc Hold the button down to focus Dont complain or whine about how they car or the boomstick they like is really bad Nerf plust its a video game, its supposed to be fun for everyone! Make what ever you want You can get added to the updates during playtesting, please keep things realistic, anyone and everyone can join your side as a republic of sorts A fast kill time doesnt count for squat when an army drunk on your blood is spilling into your little village If you dont have fun achieving it then its not worth playing and you should try harder Like any animals, each person comes with a varying ammount of cunning bred into them You want the choas x chariot even though people are bashing it for its skills Mikhail I say forget them This is REAL power right here! Ignore them and your chances of winning Trust me, its more fun this way Would you mind swinging around a choas weapon despite the heat they recieve Be different and use fast weapons to supplement the weaknesses of the chariot You are saying all the wrong things! Make it easy on yourself and use a different charioteer This one seems to have no skill what-so-ever A true sandbox game opens with choosing your starting profile You are left to do whatever you want provided you can follow through with it Choose carefully, YOU ; (almost) alone will be responcible for your victories or defeats Full burst-- unload both boomsticks at once for massive damage at close range Taunt-- empty the barrel of your weapon into the air for fun and psychological effects on enemies Vertical-- aim the shot Cooldown-- amount of time which need to pass before the alligator can be processed again Oddwads are only terrible if you believe them to be Sqaut damage 40 pct poison Hopsital gives new charioteer Same as chariot racing in every regard Citizen saved or enemy vanquished? Underworld healer uses the body to create plastination regardless Lactarius aparactus/somesthetic/toadstool 9 so many mushrooms its not funny But shes about to strip a particularly potent one off a log nearby Too cold up here for you today? hides like a coward and flanks your position There he is! Too many moral dillemas for you today? Eases pain by releasing endorphins when eaten fire it like a rifle or crossbow part human, part pig The most intelligent and civilized of the jerkin species yet still known for their fevor for combat and bloodshed rank smell and unathleticism They propel themselves through sewers and underground waterways in most towns who slither and lurk in only the rottenest depths of undergound waterways with fierce territorial instincts See also: jerk The force shield manifests as a physical barrier with an electric blue hue It deflects all attacks and provides cover from all angles