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the1entirecircus · 10 days

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Teen Titans Pokemon Teams

Here are my picks for the various pokemon the different members of the Teen Titans would choose. Cyborg, Nightwing, and Robin will not be on this list as I've already done their Pokemon teams on the Justice League and Batfam pokemon team posts.

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Starfire

Female Pyroar- Being the princess of Tamaran, Kori having a female Pyroar made the most sense to me. Also fun fact about Tamaranian evolution (the Darwinian kind), they descended from a feline species.

Togekiss- Togekiss are a peace-loving pokemon. This is a reflection of Starfire's more cheerful personality.

Orange Flower Florges- It's dex entry from Scarlet reads "Its orange flowers fire off powerful beams, attacking as if they were a battery of artillery."

Tamaranean Jynx- A Fire/Psychic type, this pokemon's kisses are able to sap information from opponents' minds. They've adapted to the hot and climate of the planet. Tamaranean Jynx is has the abilities Flame Body and Forewarn. Starfire's Jynx specifically has the ability Flame Body. This pokemon is a reference to the famous kiss Starfire shared with Robin.

Tamaranean Gardevoir- It's loyalty to its trainer has made it become allowed for its evolution line to become fighting/fairy (Gallade however Psychic/Fairy). Now utilizing aura to fight, its signature fighting type move Aura Bolt can inflict burn onto targets. This is both a reference to Starfire's starbolts and loyalty to her friends. Also, it gives a funny connection to Barbara also having a Gardevoir.

Mega Charizard Y- Starfire has the ability to generate yellow sunlight with her body and move at incredibly fast speeds. Same goes for Mega Charizard Y

Due to there not being many fire type alien pokemon, I initially struggled with this one. But then it occurred to me I can just make Starfire have regional variants.

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Raven

Shiny Delphox- Being a sorcerer, Raven having Delphox reflects Raven's ability to see into the future.

Golduck- The choice for this pokemon stems from the gem on Raven's forehead

Absol- Another pokemon that can see into the future but is revered as an enemy.

Galarian Slowking- A cursed meta pokemon, Raven's Galarian meta slowking is a more efficient sorcerer than other Galarian Slowking. Its not only capable of using toxic potions but also utilize dark magic itself. Its new ghost-type move Nevermore causes the opponent to be both confused and be pelted with pecks. The Galarian Meta Slowking is now a Ghost/Poison type.

Mismagius- You can guess why.

Mega Gardevoir- A reference to Raven's white uniform, Gardevoir gains immense power during mega evolution.

Raven's pokemon team was fairly simple to come up with.

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Beast Boy

Rillaboom- Beast Boy is able to transform into all kinds of different pokemon because of his connection to the Red. But that wouldn't have happened if it weren't for him contracting a rare disease that could only be cured by a serum made from a green monkey. Of course, in the pokemon world, that green monkey would be caught and trained by Beast Boy.

Eevee- Beast Boy's Eevee is unique, being a meta pokemon that has a connection to the red. Its ability Eevolvee allows it to transform into any eeveelution during a battle. It also gains a new move called Red Beam which changes its type and damage type depending on whatever eeveelution it transforms into.

Beast Boy doesn't have a full pokemon team because in the pokemon world, he would be able to transform into a green version of every pokemon. If Tofrog from Lockstin&Gnoggin's Lockemon series was real, B.B. would definitely have one.

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Aquaman (Jackson Hyde)

Sharpedo- Because Jackson Hyde's father is Black Manta, some of his pokemon are the pokemon his father has. Sharpedo being one of them.

Politoed- Politoed is meant to reflect the kinder nature of Jack compared to his father

Female Basculegion- Color coordination and his father had the male version.

Cetitan- Another land and sea pokemon.

Dragonite- A pokemon that grew up in the sea but developed in the air.

Samurott- A pokemon that could have become evil, but didn't

I don't know much about Jackson, I don't keep up with the Aquaman comics or Young Justice tv show. So suggestions are aplicable

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The Flash (Wally West)

Cinderace- Because of Cinderace's design having elements that remind me of the Flash, Wally has one too. It also a Meta-Variant.

Blissey- Wally is the most caring out of all the flashes, being the one who often checks on the injured whether they be friend or foe.

Raichu- Wally is also one of the more aggressive and petty of the Flashes, hence why he has a Raichu.

Gallade- It is a proficient fighter just like Wally.

Archeops- A meta-variant, This Electric/Flying Archeops moves at incredible speed, having the Speed-Force ability. This is a reference to the dromaeosaur (raptor dinosaur) that Wally encountered when being dragged through time.

Zeraora- A meta-variant of the mythical pokemon, its connection to the speed force is immense having priority for every move it uses and an increase in speed every turn thanks to its new ability Speed Pulse. Its new attack Moment Fist is based on its speed stat. This is a reference to how Wally is the fastest Flash and perform the move Infinite Mass Punch.

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Kid Flash (Wallace West II aka Ace West)

Grafaiai- During Ace's introduction in the New 52, he is seen spray-painting a wall before Barry arrests him (Goddammit Barry, you're a forensic scientist for the police, not an actual officer!)

Pawmot- Imbued with the speed force, Meta Pawmot has an ability called Momentum Sap where any physical contact with this pokemon can lower the enemy's speed and increase Pawmot's. This is a reference to one of Ace's abilities as a speedster.

Rotom- Imbued with the speed force, Meta Rotom has the unique ability to form constructs out of electricity using its new ability: Electromagnia. Electromagnia allows for Meta Rotom to transform into its different forms while in battle while levitating off the ground. This is a reference to speedster's relationship with electromagnetism and how Ace can form speed force constructs to create his suit.

Ace doesn't have a full team as he is still just a kid.

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Impulse

Scorbunny- Being the grandson of Barry Allen, Impulse having a Meta-Scorbunny makes sense. It has the Speed-Force ability.

Pikachu- Again, as the grandson of Barry Allen, he would have pokemon similar to Barry

Plusle- As the son of Dawn West, Bart has a Plusle to reflect the fact he is the son of a tornado twin (yes, Inertia has Minun)

Like with Ace, Bart doesn't have a full team.

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Donna Troy

Themysciran Nidoqueen

Falinks

Armarouge

Chestnaught

Kangaskan

Zacian (With Wondrous Sword)

Donna's pokemon team is modeled after how her New Earth self prior to the New 52 was a magical duplicate of Diana.

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Arsenal

Hisuian Decidueye- Fits his color scheme, he's an archer, and Oliver has one.

Houndstone- Roy was undead as a black lantern for a period of time.

Tinkaton- Roy loves tinkering and making gadgets

Rotom- Similar reasoning with Tinkaton with the added fact that Roy can hack into tech.

Clawitzer- Again, because of tinkering and gadgetry, but with the added fact that he can use weapons efficiently.

Magmortar- Color scheme, gadgetry, and type balancing.

Arsenal's team mainly consists of pokemon that would aid him with technology.

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Tempest (Garth)

Grapploct- This is a reference to topo.

Atlantean Reuniclus- Garth can utilize magic to manipulate water and so Atlantean Reuniclus is a representation of that ability.

Primarina- Similar reason as Atlantean Reuniclus

Wishiwashi- A nod to how one of his abilities is marine telepathy

Poliwrath- Noted for being incredibly strong, and Tempest is very strong

Lugia- Being that he is a magic user of the sea, I felt him having a water-adjacent pokemon would be a good idea.

Tempest was somewhat difficult to come up with considering not many pokemon fit his power set.

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Ravager

Farigarif- Matches her color scheme to a degree and reflects her powers partly.

Medicham- This pokemon reflect's roses ability to predict enemy attacks

Samurott- Rose has skilled swordsmanship

Bisharp- Because her father would definitely own a Kingambit, this pokemon made the most sense to me. Rose's Bisharp would carry an eviolite.

Ravager's team is built of pokemon that reflects her main skills.

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Terra

Carbink

Stonejourner

Rhyperior

Garganacl

Crustle

Golem

Rocks!

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Superboy (Conner Kent)

Palafin- Being a clone of superman, Conner would also have certain pokemon that reflect his heritage. One of those being Palafin.

Boltund- Similar reasoning as before but with the added note of how in the TV show Titans, he was introduced with Krypto.

Alakazam- Being part Lex Luthor and Sammy Stryker, this is a double-nod to his heritage and tactile telekinesis.

Silvally- I can definitely see Conner escaping with one of the Silvally Lex Luthor made to stop Superman.

Superboy's team is meant to reflect his genetic heritage.

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Wonder Girl (Cassie Sandsmark)

Jigglypuff

Thievul

Raikou- Being the granddaughter of Zeus, Cassie having a legendary electric pokemon felt like a no-brainer to me.

I really struggled with Cassie here as I don't know much about her. If anyone can give suggestions, that would help

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Up Next:

Suicide Squad

Previously:

Batfam

Justice League

Legion of Doom

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victorluvsalice · 10 months

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Sims 4 Valicer Outfit Fun

So, as I said at the end of last week’s “episode” of the Chill Valicer Save, the next scheduled update, of the gang celebrating SimCity Founding in San Sequoia, is actually better-suited to be posted NEXT week, as it would fall then between 4th of July (the holiday SimCity Founding is based on) and Victor and Alice’s wedding date (for reasons to be explained in the update ;) ). So this week, I’m doing a post showcasing some new Smiler looks I made recently while saving an all-human Valicer trio to my Gallery (with the Smiler I mentioned curing of vampirism with MC Command Center back in the “Happy Smiler Creation Day” post), along with a couple of Victor and Alice looks! :)

First up, we have another variant on the Valicer In The Dark AU Smiler look -- this time we have the black hat, the yellow vest, AND the yellow shoes! And also that one bracelet that seriously looks a bit like something they’d make as official Smiler merch. XD I think this is pretty much the “final” VITD look for Smiler, though don’t quote me on that. :p

Here’s another idea for a “formal” Smiler look I came up with while playing around with some of the new clothes from the recent packs -- I’m like 99% certain that ruffled yellow shirt is from High School Years. It’s got some good vibes, but I’m not sure about the pure black shoes paired with those pure black pants. It feels a little too samey. Plus I wish the top hat was in a swatch other than “brown.”

There’s a similar problem with this “fancy party” Smiler look -- I really like the fancy purple vest and yellow tie combo, but those black pants and shoes. . .little too plain for my liking! That being said, I like the eye makeup I gave Smiler in this outfit --

Something about that soft pinkish-purple “glow” really suits them, I think! Though maybe for this outfit it should be a tad darker. . .we’ll see what happens as I continue playing around with stuff!

An “athletic” Smiler, with a neon-yellow hoodie and bright yellow sneakers I knew I had to use for them. I’ve been trying to get them more “yellow and black” looks to go with The Smiler’s official color scheme -- a process hindered by the fact that The Sims 4 doesn’t have a lot of great yellow swatches. And sometimes a really good item in yellow is paired with another item in a not-so-good color. *sigh* I really wish layered items, like shirts and vests, had swatches you could customize separately! Meh.

On the other hand, the sweater in this winter look is totally them. XD Not totally sold on the pants, but the bright yellow boots are nice, and of course I like the hat, given I used it earlier in their VITD look. :p

And here’s a very casual Smiler more appropriate for the summer heat -- perhaps the shirt is a bit paler than I’d like, but it’s got a good “chill” vibe! And I like the black sneakers with the colorful shiny stripes on them. :)

Onto some Victor looks, with one that I was playing around with trying to find a VITD outfit for him. It’s a little monochrome (which, uh, I guess DOES suit his source material), but it’s got a good vibe of “was once more formal, is now a little more casual“ with the open collar and whatnot. I tend to lean toward vest-based outfits for Victor, given he’s originally from a Victorian-esque film and sometimes it can be hard for me to picture him in more casual wear.

Case in point, I’m not sold on the belted jeans here, but the blue vest with its little stripey tie works for me! I tend to default to putting Victor in blue if he’s not in black or grey -- he feels like a “blue” person to me.

Okay, I’m not sure this one is really Victor, but I honestly love how silly he looks, especially with the shades. XD It’s like, he’s trying just that little bit too hard to be cool. In all senses of the word. XD

And now onto Alice looks -- though this first one, as you can see, is less of a “look” and more be playing around with body details. Specifically, this is me slapping on one of the new birthmarks in “skin details” on her shoulder because I think, in that particular color variant, it might sub nicely for the burn scar I’ve always headcanoned her having there. The actual body scars from Werewolves never fit because those were explicitly claw and bite marks, but this. . .yeah, it at least has the right vibes! Though, of course, if anyone can point me to any actual scars that might look more like burn scars, I’m all ears.

This was a “party” look I played around with for her -- I’m not totally sold on it, but I do kind of like how this dress, at least on the top, has sort of the opposite vibes from her standard Wonderland outfit. And it’s a good color combo for her!

And here we have a summer look for a more modern Alice -- I think this is a dress she’d wear, and the white-framed sunglasses go well with it! Though I just realized, the color scheme actually roughly matches Victor’s summer outfit above. XD Well, they do say that couples do tend to start dressing alike. . .

And yeah, that is your lookbook for this week! Hope you enjoyed, and hopefully I shall see you next week for SimCity Founding shenanigans in the Chill Valicer Save! :)

#sims 4 #looks #fashion #smiler alton #victor van dort #alice liddell #smiler always #yeah I've been trying to bring my Smiler a little more 'on brand' in their fashion sense #I still really like their 'standard' shirt in the Chill Valicer Save with its trippy triangles #I just feel now that it's a bit too orange #if I trusted myself to recolor it I would!#also there's not a heck of a lot of stripes in Sims 4 #unless I'm missing something #you should be able to sort by patterns too #meeeh #anyway I'm still having fun dressing them #even if sometimes I wish like the perfect yellow vest wasn't paired with a BLUE shirt #Sims 4 throw me a bone here #it can be hard getting looks just right for ALL of them honestly #you want their clothes to match their tastes and personality #though as you can see I am not above throwing them in 'oh this looks silly' clothes XD #those sunglasses absolutely make Victor's summer look XD #and yeah didn't realize until I was writing this that Alice's summer dress kinda matched Victor's summer shirt and shorts #nice XD #sometimes it's just fun to use Sims like dress-up dolls #queued

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janarthanan · 1 month

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airoarts · 2 years

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was thinking about regional variants and also ive wanted to redesign the eeveelutions for a long time so here are some [NAME PENDING] regional versions of eevee and its evolutions, which are dual-type! im quite happy with all of these designs :) which would you evolve your variant eevee into?

more thoughts under the cut

eevee: i pretty much just thought a floppy eared eevee would be cute, its also more fluffy than normal eevee. i wanted to keep it simple, but distinct enough from normal eevee that you can tell if youre getting a normal or variant evolution

if it were up to me all of these dudes would evolve by stone. fire, thunder, and water for flareon, jolteon, and vaporeon respectively of course, but also leaf, ice, sun, moon, and shiny for leafeon, glaceon, espeon, umbreon, and sylveon respectively.

flareon: i feel like this design is the least original but i think it looks okay. its stats would be more bulky and physical like its rebalance in renegade platinum, and it would benefit a lot more from tough claws. it could learn dragon claw, but probably not any horn moves because those are not really suited for attacking, more for show.

jolteon: definitely completely rain team designed. it would be able to learn hurricane as well as thunder i always thought jolteon would benefit from its neck thing being more of a thundercloud like raikou and making it flying type is just... well.... just give it cloud wings lol. i think it looks distinct enough from raikou or altaria, and im happy with how the drawing turned out

vaporeon: pathetic sopping wet little meowmeow. i dont think i originally planned on making it look that pathetic but it really works imo. he’s like one of those fucked up greyhounds

espeon: i originally wanted to give rock to espeon and steel to leafeon but then i came up with the shield thing and then i realized i could make espeon contrast with vampire umbreon with the cloaks and im very happy with that. when sheathed its shield would probably float a bit above its back or maybe it just puts it in like a psychic pocket dimension idk. i think it would have a more defensive stat spread because it has that huge shield, but would still be a special attacker. also it would learn kings shield i think. sorry aegislash.

umbreon: making it vampire themed and poison type just seemed so natural, i had some issues designing the cloak without it looking too goofy but i think i pulled it off in the end. eyes were originally red but it looked bad so i changed it to yellow. probably would be a lot more offensive than vanilla umbreon (which makes sense cause espeon is now defensive), and it would learn like... all the biting moves. which is why strong jaw. also dry skin is more cause of vampires hating sunlight and less cause it actually has dry skin

glaceon: i kind of hate glaceons original design cause its like bald on the back of its head. i think glaceon should be a fluffy good boy. and its ground type and still a special attacker i think. would learn earth power. would fit on a hail OR sand team.

leafeon: i actually came up with the bark thing while sketching it cause making it have actual rock armor wasnt working out the way i wanted. and i made the leaf parts spiky just cause. i think it would learn head smash and wood hammer, to make it an absolute monster with rock head :3

sylveon: making the ribbons into fists was always the plan. i removed the ribbons on the chest bow cause i always thought they were too cluttered but they would be more so with giant fists on the end!!! and originally its tail was gonna be like a wrecking ball but that was too much so i just gave it its original tail. obviously would be a physical rather than a special attacker and learn all the punches just like umbreon learns all the fangs. i feel like it would have a natural rivalry with umbreon since umbreon is sort of evil here.

can u tell ive thought about this a lot teehee anyway i have a savage raid in ffxiv soon so i have to go now ty for reading if you have :D

#pokemon #eevee #eeveelutions #flareon #jolteon #vaporeon #espeon #umbreon #leafeon #glaceon #sylveon #pokemon variants #regional variants #fakemon #art #2022 #thats a lotta tags...

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nincompoopydoo · 3 years

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DEBRIS AND MISERY

SAME OLD LOKI ; PART 6 / ?

PAIRING: Loki Laufeyson x Female!Reader WORD COUNT: 3.3k (oops) SUMMARY: You find yourself venturing deeper into finding the Loki variant on the loose with the help of Mobius and Loki while maintaining your temper around the God of mischief and fighting with your own demons. A/N: Downtime apparently lasted for more than a week. I had absolutely no motivation to write but I eventually came around. There’s alot going on in this. Please tell me what you think, what you love, hate and look forward to. Thank you so much for showing so much love to d&m. gif from this gifset by @sersi WARNINGS: Swearing. Imagery relating to death (i think?). You and Loki’s relationship fluctuating like the goddamn economy. support my writing through ko-fi💖 MASTERPOST ; MASTERLIST

Blue. Your flight suit is blue.

Your eyes sting with worry, ticking to a pair of hands buckling the straps that lay across your chest. A man secures it tightly, forcing your back against the cockpit chair. Your gaze drifts to the concentric steel rings of yellow, red, and white that stretch overhead and around you—being suspended within a 3-axis gimbal sends another churning sensation within your abdomen.

You hear a voice. It courses through the room and vibrates within your ears like fluttering echoes in a tunnel. It’s a man. He calls out your name from below.

“You ready?”

In your periphery, you see him, tall with slicked-back hair, standing with other men that adorn similar flight suits of blue. You nod, inhaling deeply as your hands reach for the controls. Suddenly, a metallic clang echoes through the room and the machine whirrs to life. The rings begin spinning in tandem, tossing your body in all directions. Your grip tightens around the controls, clicking with every push and pull as you struggle to analyze the spin. But, the machine spins faster.

Faster and faster and faster.

The machine continues to whirr. Your hands are still shifting the controls.

Faster and faster and faster.

Your eyes begin to droop, nausea taking hold of your body.

Faster and faster and faster.

You only hear your breaths; every inhale and exhale—they're loud.

Faster and faster and faster.

Too fast.

Stop.

...

Click. Click. Click.

Footsteps. Not the clicks of the controls. You hear them clicking against tile floors from afar. From darkness, your eyes meet the color brown, shiny and polished—it’s wooden. The sound of the vast building’s acoustics hum in tune with the occasional chatter and echoing thump. You recognize the ambiance and it comforts your hasty thoughts as your brain tries to wreck itself in comprehending your current surroundings.

It’s one of those dreams again. The ones that kept you awake at night since the Sakaar incident, as if reliving the memories of another life. It isn’t yours but the realism to it makes it so complex that your brain cannot even comprehend the experiences during these dreams that occur.

To see, touch, hear, smell, and taste. Do dreams exceed the limit of disconnection and logic? Are dreams to be so immersive that it feels more like a memory, an echo of the past?

Through the turmoil of parsing between what’s real and what’s not, a tap on your shoulder hauls you back to reality. You turn to see Mobius, looking ridiculously exhilarated. Behind him lingers an amused Loki, hands tugging into the pockets of his jacket. The analyst says your name with a tone of equal exuberance to his manner.

“I thought I’d find you here. Do you always sleep at the archives?”

You snort, seizing yourself up as you wipe your face with your palm in hopes of feeling slightly more awake and alive than you were before. “No. Sometimes, I sleep at my desk too.”

Exhausted and sarcastic. Typical you.

Mobius rounds the table to sit beside you, gesturing Loki to his previous spot before he got up and ran away from you without any explanation. He shoots you a smile, lips pressed together, almost hesitant to sit across from you. You watch him through narrowed eyes as you address him with folded arms. “And here you are, back here again.”

Loki cannot fight the growing grin upon his lips, knowing all too well that you're referring to how he led you into an unnecessary chase down the corridors of the TVA for the sake of his entertainment. Well, it was not unnecessary. Things were turning out to be a bore and with the sudden thought of a proposition to help with his case, it doesn’t mean he has to drag out the fun of irritating the hell out of everyone else.

And you are not a bore.

“Loki! Where the hell do you think you're going?!"

You’re outright screaming at him but his long legs only stride faster than yours could handle, slumber still clinging to your face like a thick, waxen mask. He’s so quick, weaving through tangerine hallways, skidding across the tiled floors.

He saunters down the hall with quick feet but doesn’t sprint, clever enough not to draw any attention.

He ought to answer you. Throwing a glance over his shoulder, he flashes you a cheeky smile. He swears he saw flames burning in your eyes for a moment.

As you wind another corner, you already see him making one last quick dart through the elevator doors that slide open as it dings unceremoniously. Through your wide-eyed gaze, you signal him with eyes that carry a warning.

“Don’t you dare close that fucking door.” you snarl, voice booming from down the hallway and so does the clicking of the heels of your Oxford shoes as you march towards him like you’re on the hunt for prey.

Loki jams his finger onto the button to close the doors, unable to wipe off his grin. “Don’t you trust me?” is all he says to you, sending you a wink through the closing gap of the elevator doors as he raises his palm to wave you farewell.

You decided Loki wasn’t worth the time he has already taken from your assigned paperwork. So, you returned to your desk with a trace of bitterness in your tongue while attempting to suppress the regret for actually feeling sorry for Loki. Only because you know how it is like to be alone.

That’s the thing about Loki. He gets inside your head, makes you think that for once, he may be worth not pruning. He makes you think he is capable of change, capable of compassion. He makes you think he cares from the way he looks at you with those eyes that flicker the spark of hope in you. This Loki is the same old Loki.

Well, maybe the one in Sakaar had a good chance of earning your trust. But that’s gone now.

You shift in your seat, elbows now leaning against the edge of the table. “And to answer your question, no. I do not trust you. And I never will.”

Famous last words of the variant turned analyst.

Nobody trusts you either.

Except for the grey-haired analyst with the obsession for jet skis and you never understood why. Maybe, it’s because you’re the only one who is willing to put up with his ramblings.

Mobius eyes you and Loki’s interaction as the two of you seem to fall into the rhythm of making things even more complex than it appears. It's all part of his grand plan. Mobius knows you well enough to know you are possibly enjoying Loki's company no matter how much he irritates you. And Loki, it's clear how he admires you and how you constantly surprise him every time he crosses paths with you.

“What would I ever do without your trust?” the God sneers, each articulation of every word wrapped in mockery paired with dramatically placing his hand to his heart. Your eye twitches, the spitfire of your personality ready to fire back with a probable nasty insult. Yet, Mobius places his hand on your shoulder, while the other outstretched towards Loki as if trying to keep the two of you apart.

“Okay, okay. No need to get all riled up now. We only just had a breakthrough in the case, and I’m not letting you kill each other just yet.”

Your anger seems to immediately wash away, replaced by curiosity. You blink at your colleague. “Breakthrough?”

“Yes, and it was surprisingly Loki’s theory. Now—”

“Why do I smell...sulfur?”

You cut his sentence short as a strong whiff of a reeked scent began to descend upon you, billowing in the air. You inhale deeply, brows furrowing in concentration and confusion. An overpowering scent of a decaying body, faint but strong enough to seem out of the ordinary. The archives never smell rotten, always floor polish. Mobius and Loki share a look. Mobius is the one to speak up, attempting to distract you from your sudden strong sense of smell. “Sulfur? What, like when there’s a demonic manifestation? I mean, we are in the presence of Loki—”

“You went to Pompeii, didn’t you?”

In all of the time he has spent with Mobius who had a constant laid-back and confident nature to him, he has never seen him so red in the face. As the situation unfolds, he wonders why Mobius has made it a point to hide that information with so much eagerness which now has proved to be useless. You’re not only intelligent but also quick—only in terms of the mind rather than your physical capabilities.

You can hardly run, but your brain outshines everyone else he has met in the TVA.

Mobius is now waiting for the imminent chaos and mayhem you’re about to bring. You’re going to call him insane like every other time he has suggested an out-of-the-ordinary idea. Causing a scene is one of your talents. He has his hand on your shoulder again.

“You hate Pompeii, Mobius. Why the hell would bring him—Wait.” Your eyes are wide and blinking. “You went to Pompeii. Alone. I know that from the look on your faces. Which means no reset charge...No Nexus event.” You pause, pursing your lips. Then, you avert your gaze to Loki who watches you curiously. “Are you suggesting the variant is hiding in apocalypses?”

Mobius’ laugh comes off like a puff of air. He pats you on the back like a proud uncle. “Back on the game, Agent!”

Loki is slightly impressed. Only slightly.

“Okay, you two stay here. I’ll go get the files. Great work, you two.” Mobius gestures to the both of you with an outstretched index finger, grin so wide as he scurries off. Mobius loves a good case, especially when there’s a breakthrough. And with you finally familiarizing yourself with working together with Loki, everything is finally starting to look up.

The two of you end up finding each other’s gaze and for the first time, you smile at him. It’s small but genuine.

“You know you could have told me.”

“I would have, but you don’t trust me, remember?”

You hum, raising a brow. “And running away was supposed to gain my trust?”

Loki chuckles, eyes flicking to the table. “I never said anything about gaining your trust.”

Your smile grows wider, and Loki decides how he prefers you like this—relaxed and amused.

He oddly sees his mother in you. It’s the way you look at him. Like you know him.

Right, you have met him. Once.

“What was I like? The one you met at Sakaar.”

You blink, slightly taken aback by his sudden question that hasn’t got to do with insinuating you.

“The same as you—barely tolerable,” you say tightly, heaving a sharp exhale. ”Just…a lot sadder.”

You hadn’t mentioned how he willingly helped escape your execution because a part of you still believes it all to be a lie. The TVA has your complete fidelity but ever since the Sakaar incident, your trust in the way the system works has been swayed. After years of being trapped in your mind, the question of whether your capabilities in logic have been damaged due to loneliness still begs. Judge Renslayer believes in your incompetence but you believe she hides a secret about the Time Keepers.

The three beings, creator of the TVA, personally convicted you as innocent, allowing you to maintain your job. Nothing of this makes sense.

Maybe Judge Renslayer lost all her faith in you, her second-best analyst because your Nexus event relates to Loki. The one variant that has been causing havoc to the Sacred Timeline. And this Loki, the one that seems to be very curious about your place in the TVA and the Time Keepers, is no different than the others.

You find yourself feeling an uncalled sense of sadness that dwells in your chest at the thought of leaving the only friendship you secretly wished to have maintained back at Sakaar. Before you let yourself fall into the abyss of melancholic wishful thinking, you swiftly direct the conversation elsewhere.

"I’m sorry Mobius referred to you as the devil,” you say coyly. “You really aren’t.”

Loki, who seems to catch on with the sarcastic tone of your voice, leans farther into his seat. “Really?”

A smirk returns to your face. “You're worse than the devil." He snorts, noticing the vague hint of crimson growing upon your cheeks and how your eyes seem to crinkle a little more than usual.

He finds himself swallowing under your stare, fiddling his fingers in an attempt to calm his sudden erratic heartbeat. A stutter under your now kind gaze—no one ever stares at him with a smile. "You are not the first to say that."

There’s another pause; Loki’s face is set with a smile that doesn’t quite reach his eyes. You feel a pang of guilt in your chest in remembrance of how you’re not the first to have treated him the way you did. He’s dangerous but, there’s no reason for animosity. Yet, it all boils down to the lives he has willingly taken. It doesn’t differentiate him from the rest of the TVA.

Mysterious variant.

The devil is always in the details.

Strangely, the work of the devil may prove to be useful in times of cul-de-sacs as an idea comes to mind. “I think...I think I know where you’re at right now.” Your voice is light, distracted by your now running thoughts. You’re on your feet, chair squeaking as you push it back. Your pen is in your grasp and you wave it in the air, reflecting the gears that turn at high speed within your brain.

Frankly, you’re not making any sense. Loki furrows his brows, slowly standing. “What do you mean? I’m right here—"

“No. The other one. The variant. And it has to do with gum.”

You’re still not making sense and it’s clear that in your eyes, he is invisible. You’re the only one in that frenzied mind of yours.

“What?”

You don’t answer him, feet quickly bringing you down the passageway along the vast rows of shelves that stretch along with the floor’s pristine balcony of white and the two of you are back to playing chase and run. Only this time, the roles are reversed.

Mission Haven Hills: not successful.

Really not successful. Far from successful.

You witnessed the doom of bombing the Sacred Timeline, firsthand. Employees scramble at the controls as you watch the screen that looms over the control room. What was once a single line, running along with time has now grown like a tree with fruits of chaos, caused by Nexus events scattered across time and places.

You wished the dust would settle and this was all simply a dream but you realize this was his plan all along.

Bomb the timeline. Distract the TVA.

There is one thing you know about Loki. He is moved by revenge and resentment.

As if you possess some sort of telepsychic powers, a part of you feels that danger itself is within the vicinity of the TVA. The variant is here, you just know it.

You hope Mobius is okay.

Scurrying down the winding hallways, past the hurried time hunters, and past the time theaters, you find yourself heading towards the golden doors of the Time Keepers’ chambers. In a time of uncertainty, your gut is your only source of guidance.

At the end of the hallway, you see bodies on the ground, nearly lifeless—time hunters, either unarmed or batons missing. You plucked one of the sizzling batons from the ground as you cautiously stepped around the laying bodies. You clutch it tightly to calm the blood rushing to your head, pounding along with your heartbeat as you take on the venture into the foyer of the grand chambers with secrets not wanting to be unveiled.

You round the corner, following the wooden panels for walls laid along the entrance. The glowing end of the baton within your grasp reflects off the black porcelain tiles beneath your careful feet. You hear voices, grunts, and shouting as if in combat.

Then, you see them. Loki in his variant jacket and a woman with locks of blonde and streaks of black. She adorns a headpiece of golden horns—one broken off.

Isn't Loki supposed to be at Haven Hills?

Recognizing the presence of another, the two turn to you, daggers still held to each other's throats. Loki eyes you with wide eyes, a silent plea whether to help or stand down, you’re unsure. Your gaze shifts to the woman once more who watches you with an equal resemblance to the other.

Then, it hits you. You recognize the dark emerald cloak she wears. You know exactly who she is. You just never thought it would be a she.

“You!” Your exclamation is bitter, and it’s directed towards the woman who seems to be strangely expectant of your remark as if she already knows who you are. She is L1190, a Loki variant. The one who slashed you with the TVA’s baton, scaring your left cheek. The one who hauled you through the time door and left you stranded in Sakaar for thousands of years.

You know exactly what she has done. She knows what she has done.

“You did this to me!” you gesture to the scar on your left cheek, eyes fixated solely on her, nearing the two with caution. You’re angry. Very angry. All pent-up rage begging to be set free.

Before Loki could even perceive the current situation he landed in between two women who very much want him dead, you’re already swinging the baton to her face with full force but she blocks it with her sword but slightly staggers in her step. You glare at her. She seems a little surprised. In an instant, you take a step back and go for another strike to her rib, but she blocks you again, sliding away and dodging your hit by a mere second. You growl out of frustration, seething through your teeth, and without hesitation, you strike again. The fight goes on—strike, block, strike, dodge. And with every blow, your intensity escalates, each a little harder than the one before. Loki stands there, watching, speechless and frozen.

You strike again, the baton crackling less than an inch away from her face but she dodges just in time, swinging her sword across your face. It grazes your cheek, now a gash of crimson on top of your scar, and with the sudden blow of searing pain, you lose your balance.

The variant spins into a kick that sweeps your legs out from under, knocking you hard onto the ground. The baton rolls out from your grip. Your hand flies to the gash, trickling with blood.

“Hey!”

The brawl comes to a halt. You seize yourself up from the ground, back and head aching, turning to see Judge Renslayer accompanied by two hunters, batons held up in defense position. You were about to reach for your own that was a stretch away when suddenly, you felt a hand grip you by the collar, hauling you to your knees. Her sword held to your neck.

“Come any closer and I’ll kill her.”

“Go for it.”

Your eyes are wide in shock, all anger towards the variant now turning into this churning feeling of betrayal that resides within your abdomen. Judge Renslayer doesn’t look at you, focus fixated on the two variants—it’s like you’re not even there.

The three start to charge towards you and you involuntarily shut your eyes. Then, as quick as a rattlesnake, Loki grabs the tempad hung at her waist and sends the three of you falling through the ground.

That’s the thing about Loki. He gets inside your head, makes you think that for once, he may be worth not pruning. Now, with your back landing hard on top of him, all you could think about is wanting to strangle him to death.

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pop-goes-the-sneasel · 3 years

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Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Arceus?

Arceus!!!! The Original One!

Arceus is a pretty big deal. According to legends – or at least the legends of Sinnoh – Arceus is responsible for the creation of the entire pokemon world, and potentially the entire universe. Mythology was a heavy theme of the Sinnoh games, as was the continual conceptual power creep of Legendary pokemon. The version mascots of Diamond and Pearl – Dialga and Palkia – respectively represent time and space with reality-warping powers to match. Arceus, in turn, is essentially the ultimate culmination of this power creep – an almighty creator god hatched in a void before the universe existed. Again, just according to legend.

That said, the only creation-y thing Arceus was ever shown to do was manifest an egg containing Dialga, Palkia, or Giratina in HGSS as part of a special event. This is probably the means it created the universe with – it just made Dialga and Palkia then they did all the actual creative stuff. This event was also accompanied by a very surreal cutscene featuring real-life photographs of space, landscapes, cities, and even blood cells, along with some arcane symbols. Frankly the sheer insanity of this cutscene is probably the strongest argument for Arceus being a legitimate godlike being. There has never been anything quite as jarringly strange in this franchise before or since.

Another question Arceus raises is how many are there, exactly? Legendary and Mythical pokemon are both established as incredibly rare, but not even the human-modified Mewtwo and Genesect are treated as truly one-of-a-kind. As such, I highly doubt Arceus has just one sole member of its species. The dex entries make reference to how it shaped the universe with its “1,000 arms”, which is obviously a peculiar statement given Arceus has no visible arms at all. My theory is that the term “arm” is being used metaphorically here – the universe was actually created by 1,000 different individual Arceus. Assuming it did create the universe, I mean. And of course, that might not be an exact number.

Anyway, as a Mythical pokemon, Arceus historically isn’t available through normal means, instead being distributed through special real-world events. Notably, it was one of several Mythical and Legendary pokemon of the era intended to be obtained through capture, with Arceus spawning in a special location atop Mt. Coronet known as the Hall of Origin. The Hall of Origin would be accessed using the Azure Flute (or Heaven Flute, in Japan) – an item distributed by the associated event. Unfortunately, though, the Azure Flute event never actually materialized, apparently because Game Freak believed it would be “too confusing” for players to use. Instead, Arceus was just given to the player directly without any special fanfare, and this became the norm for almost all Mythical pokemon thereafter. Still, the Azure Flute and Hall of Origin maintained a certain mystique, especially due to their lack of official use.

To represent Arceus’s omnipotent nature, it has an ability known as Multitype. Multitype allows Arceus to change its type based on what elemental Plate it holds, with one Plate for every type besides Normal (Arceus’s default type). The Plates bear engravings describing their legend, each supposedly being a shard of the universe left over from its creation. Each different type yields a slightly different appearance, usually changing the yellow components of Arceus’s design and sometimes the gray parts as well, generally corresponding to the main thematic color of each type. Dragon is a notable exception, as rather than using the usual color of indigo, Dragon Arceus uses a dark green and purple. Arceus also bears a signature move known as Judgement, which changes its type to match Arceus’s current form.

While the other forms are sometimes more aesthetically interesting, it’s the Normal-type Arceus that really best-captures the intended vibes of the pokemon. The yellow and white combo gives off a certain “holy” appearance. Paired with the moves “Judgement” and “Punishment”, Arceus seems to particularly allude to Abrahamic conceptions of God, though thankfully it does so in a decidedly unique way. Although the basic silhouette of Arceus is a rather “normal” animal, perhaps most resembling an alpaca, but its specific features remarkably uncanny. Its legs end in footless points, its stomach is oddly engorged, and its body is covered in peculiar points and knobs. Its face is also wholly unnatural, with no clearly defined features beyond its colorful eyes and green circles below them that almost evoke another pair of eyes. The ring around its body seems intended to represent a halo, but does so in a way I’ve never seen on anything else. Arceus definitely feels “godly”, whether it’s truly a god or not.

Appropriate for a god, Arceus has a history of breaking some established conventions of the TCG as well. Its original appearance in the eponymous Arceus set had an Arceus card corresponding to every type in the TCG, with a special Arceus-specific ruling that you can have as many Arceus cards in your deck as you want, rather than being limited to four. These cards weren’t actually that great, though. It wasn’t til relatively recently that Arceus got a card truly appropriate for a deity: a Tag Team card alongside Dialga and Palkia. Their GX attack, Altered Creation GX, allows them to do more damage to your opponent for the rest of the game in addition to taking an additional prize card for every pokemon you knock out. This is anunprecedented degree of power, and the ADP archetype has become a format-shaping force.

Arceus’s shiny is kinda mediocre. It replaces the white with a creamy yellow, clashing horribly with the yellow accents of its Normal form and generally being kinda hit-or-miss with the other forms. Shown here is the shiny variant of Arceus’s Fairy form, which I chose to showcase because the Fairy form isn’t shown above and because it’s probably my favorite of the bunch. It actually looks pretty alright with the yellow body, thankfully.

Overall, Arceus really isn’t my personal style, but I don’t dislike it. I don’t think the franchise really needed an all-powerful creator god, but I do think Arceus is a pretty cool one. Hopefully Legends: Arceus does something cool with it.

The number of footprints Arceus's 1,000 arms leave in the sand/10

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cutiecrates · 5 years

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Cutie Reviews: Kawaii Box April 19

I probably would have done this yesterday, but I ended up going to the county fair; it was horribly hot (despite how cloudy it was) and it actually made me feel sick being out there. By the time we got home I was very sore and worn out.

So here I am today, refreshed and ready!

Word of the month: Usagi - Rabbit

Amuse Chinmari Munchkin Plushie

Our first item is an adorable plushie neko from Amuse. It is palm-sized and includes a ball chain so that you can bring it around with you wherever you go. It’s squishy and slightly stretchy, and there are 10 unique, colorful, adorable kitties in all~

On Blippo, these are $6.90. But keep in mind only a handful of them are an option, not the entire series.

(btw, am I the only one who thinks the one I got could also be a mouse? I know its a cat but from the front I keep thinking mouse. Still adorable either way.)

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

It’s very cute and soft! It’s like a fluffy squishy, but without the rise action. I feel like I’m squishing on a marshmallow while holding it, and it’s kind of soothing in a way... Although, it’s not nearly as stretchy as my other similar plush I’ve gotten. It has a very sweet little face~

Also, there’s no problems quality wise.

Kawaii Ribbon Hair Clips

Next up we have these sweet little Blippo exclusive clips, each featuring a dot pattern and a cute bow charm. They come in a set of 2 in a variety of colors.

On Blippo, these cost $1.90.

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥

The quality of the clip is great, it has a tight snap due to being a whole metal piece with a “coat” over it, and nothing is flimsy or loose. It’s a really cute concept too, but... I actually really hate this color combination. It’s not that bad but... I just don’t like it <3< the bow coloring could have been better, but what mainly bugs me is those vibrant orange-red spots against the yellow background. I would have rather gotten any other of the clips, but that’s just me. On Blippo, this is one of the sold out sets so it must have been well-liked by everyone else...

Also, I noticed the quality of the clip, and I’m kind of worried this is the metal prone to rusting due to how it feels. I could be wrong, but...

Neko Bookmarks & Disney Notebook

Next we have two, really cute stationery items; first is this set of kitty bookmarks, each featuring a big paper clip with a soft rubber kitty on the top half. On Blippo these are $3.50, and you can get them in a few different colored sets.

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

I think these are pretty cute and fun, I’m not sure how I feel about the kind of oddly colorful color scheme of the set I got, but in a way I kind of like it too. They’re as fun to play with as they are to use, but because of the soft rubber and the fact it is a paper clip, you can’t man-handle these.

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To go with our usual stationery hall, we also get an adorable Disney themed notebook. There is a big variety of cutesy, pastel designs and characters (from tsum tsum to mickey and friends to Winnie the Pooh to Disney Princesses!), and each notebook costs $6.90.

The notebooks are simple, featuring a magnetic clip to keep it shut and 2 types of pages per-book.

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

While on one hand, I think I would have liked to get one of the other ones more, I’ve always had a soft spot for Chip and Dale so I’m not disappointed. They’re so cute aren’t they?

Meanwhile in terms of the notebook I think it has some nice quality. I like the magnetic clip feature, its very decorative and sweet looking, and it’s just plain fun to use. It’s small size makes it very handy for carrying in a variety of places.

Ice Cream Cup Charm

These sweet Harajuku-inspired charms are as cute as they are delicious looking~ Each features several cutesy deco bits, like fake fruits and sweets, pearls or gems, and a gem star. They have a small cellphone charm-like strap so that you can connect it and take it with you on the go too!

Everything is plastic, with the exception of the deco cream, which feels a bit squishy-soft. There are a few different variants, and each one costs $3.50.

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥

As cute as it is, I wanted to mention that the Blippo website describes these as being scented- I smell a weird plastic rubber scent, nothing delicious or appealing (and I did keep it sealed in its package this entire time). Also, as you can see on mine there is a chance there is a small amount of smearing of the cream.

However, it is handmade and I like the little differences in a way to make it more unique. I’ll probably end up using this as a cute display item.

Nail Decoration Set

These DIY kits and items always seem to be Dollar Store quality don’t they? I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing, but as long as they work out it’s not that bad right?

This a korean nail decoration kit, and you get all sorts of cute and fun deco bits for your nails, all you need to do is supply the clear polish, or whatever color you’re using, but you should have a clear coat to go on top once you finish to help seal everything in. As you can see we get some shiny dot pieces, glittery, star and heart flakes, and various fruits, smiley faces, and kitty head pieces made from clay cane.

Each one costs $4.50 on blippo, and there are 4 sets available. But the only things besides the packaging difference is the glitter and dot piece colors.

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

As I’m not really an experienced nail person, I decided to just do my thumbs. I wanted something summery, so I just added a watermelon slice and two of the shiny hot pink flakes to match. But as a pro-tip I do know a few things; such as using a pair of tweezers when adding the pieces, it makes like way easier. As I said before you want clear polish to seal them onto the nail, I did probably 4-5 coats per-nail.

Anyway, for someone inexperienced (or just someone who likes doing deco nails or making slime) I think kits like this are pretty nice. Like it obviously works, and I think everything is really cute, you can really get creative or go for something simple if you wanted.

Morinaga Disney Chocolate Cookies

For this month we get a box of chocolate cookies/biscuits from Morinaga, featuring Mickey Mouse on the packaging. As for the cookies, it’s probably the usual variety, because as you can see I got a handful of Winnie the Pooh in the pic. Not that I mind or anything, they all taste the same. You can get a wide variety of 300 different Disney characters in total! Lucky people will also find a heart-shaped biscuit~♥

Each box features one of Mickey’s well-known depictions; for example mine is based on Steamboat Willie. Each box is also 234 calories and costs $2.73.

I’m not going to bother rating these because I had them before. They always taste good and you get a nice blend of cookie/biscuit and chocolate. And no, I didn’t get any heart-shaped ones, and ironically enough I didn’t get any Mickey either. I did get Minnie though, which was kind of nice since she is my favorite.

Bunny Ears Icecream Pen & Lipstick Wax Pen

Back to stationery now, we get two very cute and fun looking writing utensils. First is this icecream pen with a pair of bunny ears for that extra hint of sweetness~

The cream on top and bunny ears are slightly soft and squishy, and there are 2 available; one with yellow inner-ear like i got, or one with pink. Isn’t that ironic...? Each one costs $4.90.

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Despite my not being a fan of yellow, the difference is so tiny that it doesn’t bother me very much. The pen is easy and comfortable to grip, it writes very smoothly and I haven’t noticed any issues with the ink besides the typical smear with fine tips, but if you give it a few minutes to dry you should be good to go.

Overall it’s a very fun, Easter perfect pen; although you can’t put the cap on it while using it, which always bugs me a little...

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Next is an adorable wax pen inspired by a lipstick ♥ These come in a variety of colors in both the warm and cold color-scheme, and each costs $2.50. Essentially they are wax highlighters and underlining pieces, and they can be twisted to extend, just like a real lipstick!

I think it might even be scented. I smell something from mine that could pass as being Green Apple, but nothing mentions there being any sort of scent. It’s pleasant and light though.

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

So besides just looking really cute, I think it would be a really nice alternate for things like pens or highlighting markers. The wax is soft to apply and is visible, while not having an obnoxious scent or drying period.

I’m not sure I’ll have too much use for this, but I am very tempted to buy a couple, or even all of them to do a review and see how they all look, check for scent, etc. I find them aesthetically pleasing and would love just having them for a display item- and in times of need they could be used as a crayon :D

Jewelry Seal Stickers

This is our last item, an adorable set of Jewelry heart and flower seals/stickers. These are available for $2.50 on Blippo and come in a few various colors. As you can see, besides the various hearts and flowers, we also get some spherical pieces and some diamond, leaf-like pieces. They are plastic pieces, giving them a sort of 3Dish look.

I wanted to use them on something. Since I already have gem hearts and Sanrio on my phone, I decided to put them on something else I rely on- perhaps more than my phone:

This is my hand mirror... which is actually several times bigger than most hand mirrors. That’s because this is a vibrant, lighting up mirror that folds back on itself when sitting. It also zooms in, making it useful for hair removal and makeup application.

I’m not any kind of expert or someone with a need to have everything in perfect measurement, so I just went for it. What do you think?

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

I really like these! But I did notice a little issue while using them. Some of their sticky pieces wanted to stay on the packaging, or it rolled up while trying to get them off. They were still usable of course, but it did make the process a little tiny bit less fun. It only happened on a couple though, the rest were fine.

♥ Cutie Ranking ♥

Content - ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ I have no complaints, I really like everything. It’s all practical and very kawaii~

Price - ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Everything comes to $39.83- which greatly shocked me; I think that might be the most money spent on these boxes yet or us, and remmeber we only pay about 20 dollars. On one hand, if you were to buy everything you would get free shipping and a free gift on Blippo, but I felt like a couple of the items could be cheaper, too...

Theme - ♥ I’m sorry but they completely failed this time. We got ONE Easter item- and what makes it worse is that they did WAY better last year with an Easter box, and I know they could have done better this time too. I was kind of disappointed.

Total Rank: 9 out of 10 Cuties. So once again the theme was a huge bust and I feel like they wasted a good opportunity- especially since nobody else really did anything Easter related in comparison to last year. However, despite getting a lot of the typical, same old same old stuff, I really found myself drawn to the ones specifically in this box. The quality is there, they’re ultra-cute and fun to use, so I thought this box did way better than last months, but in saying that, I’m not sure which box I would go to first if I could only choose one, I found items I loved in both of them a lot.

♥ Cutie Scale ♥

1. Wax Lipstick Pen - I admit, this specific color might not have been my first choice- but I think not only is it really pretty and cute to look at, but it’s just plain fun to use :D It’s like a really soft, possibly scented crayon.

2. Nail Decoration Set - Very fun, just like the stickers. I’m excited to try to come up with some other ideas using it and the previous nail set I got from this box. I like the wide variety of pieces we get too!

3. Bunny Icecream Pen - It’s simple but really cute, you get the idea right away looking at it. I just wish I had a place to put the cap... I did consider resting it on the bunny ear, but I don’t want it to get dirty. It’s actually a lot more comfortable to hold than it looks.

4. Jewelry Seal Stickers - Super pretty, it was a lot of fun decoing with them. But like I said, you need to be careful using them since some of their sticky pieces like to cause problems...

5. Neko Plushie - I love its sweet little face~ It’s so soft x3

6. Icecream Cup Charm - It’s almost delicious looking enough to eat~ I am a little bothered by the issue I saw on mine, bu I could probably fix it with some paint or something.

7. Morinaga Chocolate Cookies/Biscuis - very tasty with a mild-sweetness. I love how creative and fun they are when looking at the characters, but I will fault it on the fact that I never tossed this around or anything and I had a bit of a mess and a handful of broken cookies/biscuits waiting for me when I opened it.

8. Disney Chip and Dale Notebook - I think it’s really cute, and I love how decorative it is. But in terms of color-scheme, I’ve never been a big brown fan. That has nothing to do with its use though, the quality is great and if I needed to get more notebooks I’d probably order a few others in the set.

9. Cat Clips - The cartoony design and colors is really fun to look at, but I am worried they will be kind of fragile...

10. Ribbon Hair Clips - I really, really wanted to like these! I love ribbons and bows, and dot patterns, and hair clips. But I cannot stand the color combinations in this specific set and unless I had something to match or compliment them, I probably won’t be using them.

#kawaiibox #disney snacks #disney notebooks #morinaga chocolate #amuse plush

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activatingaggro · 6 years

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INKTOBER - 18 - EXPOSED

CALICO KUANFU | 9.23 SWEEPS / 20 YEARS OLD

RICKSHAW CC-R, EAST ALTERNIAN SEA | 2,937 WORDS

CW: body horror, helms

If you're perfectly honest, you put up a good face of things, but you don't actually care that much about the other Rickshaws.

You love your community. There's nothing that you wouldn't do for II-J, and you know every face on it, even if you don't know their names. They're your people, and you're their leader. It's a role that you were hatched for, one that you were made for, and you could never be anything less than in love with the position, because it's carved into your very skin.

But the other Rickshaws are not yours. This has always been your greatest flaw, and your guiltiest secret, but that's just the fact of the matter. All you can do is try to work around it.. and when you get an opportunity, try to do your best despite it.

Case in point: you're on CC-R tonight, here to figure out why their engines keep sputtering, and, in the name of honesty, you kind of want to burn the entire place to the ground.

Everyone here speaks - well, literally every fucking language, pretty much. There were teals chattering away in Eastern at the bistro. There's been hands flashing in seadweller sign everywhere, constant little flits of movements to compound each spoken word. There's people speaking the imperial mainlander's tripe everywhere you turn, others slinging around some northern coastal variant, and constantly, constantly, there's fucking Standard clattering against your ears like rocks, nasal and harsh over the din of the rest of the Rickshaw.

You had to take out your worm five minutes ago, just to keep from going insane. Noise's never bothered you, but CC-R is one of the oldest Rickshaws, and it's over three times the size of II-J. This city's fallen into the waves more times than you can count, and it's come back larger each time, with the remnants forming the bobbing islands you can see off in the distance. "Those work off of solar power," Afzudi tells you. He's one of the only trolls on here who actually speaks Seacant, and part of you is desperately, soppily grateful to him for it. "You don't need to worry about those."

"Right, 'course."

Afzudi is the ceruleanblood who manages CC-R. He's shorter than you, like pretty much everyone on here, and bone-thin, also like everyone here. It's weird. There's a lot of things weird about this place, like the fucking language, but the starvation factor?

You've got the blubber stores to rival a goddamn seal, and half of your Rickshaw's passed seal and gone straight into walrus. That's part of the way II-J works! It's part of why you work so hard to make sure it keeps working. No one's ever so much as missed as a meal since you became Calico, one way or another, and no one's ever looked like Afzudi in front of you, so skinny that you can count each knob in his spine. It's weird. You hate it. But you hate a lot of things about other Rickshaws, from the language to the architecture to the starvation and disease that permeate them.

That's fine. That's why you're out here helping. Some folks compare trolls to crabs. They say if one pops up, the rest'll drag it back down into the basket, just to make sure none of 'em get free. You've never believed that! You've improved your Rickshaw.

You're going to improve the rest, too, one city at a goddamn time.

"So! How many helms do you have working in the main generator?" It's strange to walk through a Rickshaw where every building hasn't been reinforced and rebuilt. You've had your residents working for sweeps to redevelop the city, in a mixture of solid carbon-fiber struts and flexible panels that'll absorb the blows of the water, or the rain, or the rare bouts of gunfire. It's never looked pretty, but it looks better than this. The buildings in CC-J are just.. shanties, aluminum siding and wood that's been bleached bone-white over centuries of saltwater and air, and they sway in the wind above you as you walk. The only thing holding them up is the webbing stretched thick between all of them, shining like sails in the moonlight, and spotted with white bodies.

"Four? Five?" you hazard.

"Eight," he says, leading you past the buildings, and straight down an alley where there's pupas playing ulama. CC-R's got more sparkplugs than you've ever expected. They scatter into the air like kinglets when you approach, the rubber ball clattering to the ground in the aftermath.

You snatch it up and spin it on a finger as you walk. "Eight? Seriously? Like, not harshin' on you, dude, but - why? I know it's big, but --"

He shrugs. "Our infrastructure's just old, and it's easier this way." He looks back at you. The light here's weak. Shadow curves across the sharp planes of his face, deepens the hollows of his cheeks. But when he smiles, it softens him. "I was hoping you could help," he says.

Your stomach does a strange flop. "Right," you say, and you don't let your gaze linger on the way his mouth quirks, or the sudden surge of warmth in your voice. "That's what I'm here for!"

CC-R's engine room is buried deep within the rickshaw. He leads you from a shady plaza into a side room, and then down a winding set of stairs, where the chatter of the populace is finally fading, and the drone of engines is gradually replacing it. The original architects of the Rickshaws tried to make every surface sloped to force the seawater to run off, rather than collect. But the concrete here's straight. The engine's have to stay steady.

And biowire's a delicate construct. "Careful," Afzudi warns you as you walk. He's flipped on a light attached to his forehead, and the bug's glow casts an uneven glow: in the darkness, you can faintly see the outline of biowire pulsing on the ground, shadowy impressions that stretch as far as the eye can see. "We had to move all of them further downstairs, after the fifth century raid. It's not ideal, but it keeps people from getting at the engine. Hey, babe -"

A spider is slinking out of the darkness, its eyes focused on you as it steps over him. It's only the size of a dog, high enough to hit his ribcage, but there's venom spooling on the end of its mandibles, and you hesitate until Afzudi waves you forward. "She doesn't bite," he tells you. "You're with me, don't worry. Mum just keeps some of the extra bodies down here to guard them."

"Haha, no problem, dude. She's great! I love her, like.." Afzudi raises his eyebrows at you, like he's encouraging you to continue. So you gesture towards her, rolling your shoulders. "The whole smooth, shiny, bloodless carapace look? Really hot," you declare, then pause, because he's looking at you. The spider is looking at you. You're pretty sure, if you paid attention, even the biowire would be looking at you.

"Uh, not in a weird way, though. Like, I am absolutely not a spider-fucker, although I know that sentence kind of implied it, but no?" It's fine! You can save it, because Afzudi's smile has turned into a proper grin, like he's two moments from laughing. So you grin back at him, careful to show off your teeth, and step in close. "I absolutely person I am a person fucker," you say, earnest, holding out a hand, palm up. Then you curl the rest of your fingers in, until only your smallest one is out. "Pinkie promise, dude."

"You've talked about fucking my mum too much for me to shake hands," he says. "Sorry about that."

But he's still grinning as he starts walking, and when you laugh, he joins right in.

The underbelly of CC-R's much like the rest of it: wet, damp, and, as it turns out, totally moldy. There's webs everywhere as you walk, coating the biowire and the ceiling. ("It's to waterproof it," Afzudi says, and you're so glad you don't mind bugs.) But at least the mold's glowing, adding an uneven sort of light to things, just enough to make the shadows longer and deeper, and catch on all sixteen of eyes of the spiders that keep passing you by.

And eventually, shortly after the pressure shifts and your ears pop, you get to the core.

The helms, as it turns out, aren't any healthier than anyone else on this Rickshaw. It's the opposite! It’s.. honestly one of the most appalling things you’ve ever seen. Back on II-J, you keep your engines healthy, with columns that you replace annually, trolls trained up each cohort cycle specifically to work on them, and wire that’s custom bred to work with their systems. The whole system is hale enough that you don’t even have to run diagnostics: the engines’ll run their own diagnostics and e-mail them to you each week, keeping an eye on each one’s levels and needs, because it knows that each one will get a response.

The helms here don’t look like they could send messages, even if they wanted to. Each engine barely looks like it’s even alive. They’re hanging from the wires like skeletons, their arms bone-thin, the bodies bloodless and stark under the gray-white skin. There’s ash forming on them, like no one bothers to take care of them. There’s mats in the hair, like no one’s ever even thought to shave it.

"Holy shit," you breathe, and Afzudi starts to laugh, say something - then he catches sight of your face.

"Ah -"

You don't wait to hear what he's trying to say. You're striding forward, taking the first helm firmly by the chin and pulling its head down. It's so limp that there's no reaction when you pull an eyelid back. There's streaks all the way through it, black creeping like rot through the yellow of its sclera. When you release the lid, it takes a full five seconds for the skin to fall back down, and when you pinch the skin of its cheek, it doesn't even react.

It's so blanched, you're not even sure what blood colour it is. There's only the fuchsia of where the biowires cut into the skin, and the liquid flooding the veins pink.

The next one isn't any better.

You're not sure, at first, what you're feeling. There's just a certain cold numbness as you step from one column to the next, moving carefully to avoid the wires strewn across the floor. Because that's the only word for them. There's shards of scaffolding on the ceiling, jagged strips of metal where it once must've been, but it's long since folded under the weight of the wires. And the wires are everywhere. They're tangled in masses connecting the columns. They're stretching heavy across the walls, thick enough to pass as wallpaper, and oozing a viscuous pink slime that sticks to your boots as you walk.

It's hard to see where the floor end and the wires begin. Tripping down here's inevitable, really, and that's why, on your way to the seventh helm, your boot finally catches under one, and you fall directly into it.

The worst part of it all is that the helm doesn't react. It's a twiggy little thing, and you fall full-force into it, your hand scrambling at the jumpsuit just to keep yourself up. Your claws hook in, tearing into the fabric, and it's only last minute horror that makes you jerk your chin up, angling your horns back and away from them. It just means your face hits it instead, landing right in its ribcage.

It should've made it howl. When you scramble to your feet and back, there's heat blossoming across your face, and there's brown blossoming on their newly exposed skin. But all they manage is a languid blink, like someone stirring from sleep.

And the chill forming in your chest finally solidifies when they fall still.

"Are you okay?" Afzudi calls. He's still lingering by the door, watching you. From this distance, his face's a blur of darkness.

"Yeah." You're walking over, more careful this time, but Afzudi doesn't know you well enough to recognise the flat edge to your voice. He's only met you a handful of times. The other Rickshaws change leaders too often for them to really know each other: you're one of the only ones that's actually stayed the same, the past four sweeps. "I'm fine. You're going to need serious work down here. The biowire needs seriously cut back - that'll take about eight perigees to avoid shock, and then you'll need to start training it to stay in the scaffolds again. New scaffolds, obviously. Like, your helms need a full treatment, for the veins and the overall."

"The columns need rebuilt. I can do all of this, obviously, but - what brand is all of this, redHotx20? I'm not even going to bother running a diagnoistic, you've got voidrot trying to spread all the way through the lines. You plug in any bugs to this, or a technomancer, and all you're going to do is infect your tech. And -"

Afzudi reaches out, takes you by your shoulder. He's got long, calloused fingers, with gently tapered edges. They match the rest of him, rail thin and delicate in the same way. "You're sure about all of that?"

"Absolutely," you tell him. It's a shame. You'd liked him. "I'm thinking three hundred thousand, max, but at least one hundred and fifty, for all the work I'm going to have to do. And that's just supplies. I'll thread in some of our cultivar, but the medical work your engines are going to need alone is insane. And it's all going to have to be manual."

".. we don't have the money for that." He blinks at you, owlish. You'd thought he was handsome a few minutes ago, with his cheekbones and his frailty, but there's something repugnant about that weakness now. "We'll just get new helms," he says. "We have plenty of psionics on the rickshaw. It's their duty."

"Uh, no. You're not going to go and kill your people to play engine parts, when we've got the mainland right there, and reputable engine sellers, like, literally everywhere. Like, how do you not have the money, dude? CC-R's the biggest Rickshaw in the ocean. You have markets every perigee. Are you saying you can't pull together a few hundred thousand to keep your city from sinking?"

He can't even stop his people from starving. Of course he can't.

"II-J doesn't sell. You don't understand how it works," he says smoothly, like you're a pupa, and when your eyebrows shoot up, he shrugs. "It's not an insult. It's just a fact."

"I don't need to sell to manage a fucking budget. Show me your books, and I'll figure out how you can get the money together." He's already shaking his head before you finish. "Let me help you," you say, frustrated. "That's what you brought me here for. I don't know what you're doing wrong, but, like - your people are starving, dude. And your Rickshaw is dying, all the way down to your goddamn helms. Like, what the fuck?"

"I think," he says, "you need to leave. I appreciate your help, but -"

It's a shame, because you really, really liked him.

You don't like bullying smaller trolls. But he makes it easy. When he pulls his hand back, you snatch him by the collar and you slam him into the wall, one swift move that pins him right against his mother's webbing. She hisses next to you, surging forward, but you tut at her, pressing your hand harder against his collar.

He squeaks. She backs up, her two front legs rising in obvious distress.

"I'm sorry," you tell him, "that I'm having to shame you in front of your mom like this, dude. And I'm sorry that you thought this was a conversation. But it's not. Either you're going to listen to me, or else your entire Rickshaw is going to sink. Or else I'm going to spare your people, and sink it for you. Because this -"

You jerk a hand towards the helms. Everything on this Rickshaw is dying, from the buildings to the residents to the engines themselves, and -

You absolutely want to burn this entire place to the ground. But it turns out you do care about the other Rickshaws, more than you'd ever thought you could.

"- this is not acceptable. And you should know that. You're supposed to be the leader of this place. You chose to take on these responsibilities. You made this fucking choice!" You take a step forward. Your voice's dropping. It's not that you're unaware of his lusus right next to you, or the building tension in her body. But you know how lusii work. How many times have you used their desire to protect their charges against them?

And right now, you've got him pinned like a fly against her own webbing.

Afzudi looks at you. "You're supposed to protect them," you tell him, gazing into his eyes. "So, like, let me help you, and do your fucking job, man."

Then he holds up a hand. His lusus quiets, flattening herself to the ground in a clatter of keratin. "Fine," he says. "What do we have to do?"

#[prose]#calico kuanfu #[drabbles]#inktober #cw body horror

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sshbpodcast · 2 years

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“S” is for Star Trek series title cards!

By Ames

A Star to Steer Her By has gotten nitpicky with movie title cards in an earlier post, and this time we’re reading between the lines on all the different Star Trek series title cards. Get ready to see a lot of familiar fonts, attempts to update old styles, shiny new choices, and at least one instance in which no effort in graphic design was made at all. Which series gets the command gold this week and which gets redshirt red? We’ve got them all here for you to judge below and/or to listen along with our discussion in this week’s episode here (discussion starts at 1:03:00).

[Images © CBS/Paramount]

Star Trek: The Original Series

Seasons 1-2 Kicking things off we have the classic TOS title card, bright yellow, supremely readable, and emblematic of the entire franchise. We’ll revisit this font plenty in future series as well as the movies we’ve already covered – that’s how good it is. That “S” alone is the definition of Star Trek: energetic, lightning quick, and smart as hell.

Season 3 For the third season, the title card ever so slightly changed: yellow becomes blue, some stars become blue giants and red dwarfs, and it’s just a little bigger. Is the blue better than the yellow? We don’t care; it’s still great.

Star Trek: The Animated Series

Welcome to the land of animation! Too bad we’re not going to make much use of it in The Animated Series, but you get a taste of it in this title card. The font is the same one we know and love, plus we get a little extra since it is a Saturday morning cartoon show.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

While this one is not on our favorites list, it’s also perfectly serviceable. The “A” and “X” shapes we could go either way on, but the cut-outs under the arms of the “T”s that extend through the words give for a pretty cool look and implication of movement. It’s futurey and it’s now. Engage!

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Both DS9 and Voyager harken back to the font from The Motion Picture that we liked so much. The flavor we get here is a three-dimensional, embossed variant with metallic colors. It’s also a little more bold than TMP, so we get a more connected look, especially in the “E”s. And it’s always nice to see the station featured, of course!

Star Trek: Voyager

This is a very similar idea to Deep Space Nine but the colors are flipped, the weight is less bold so those arms in the middle of the “E” are floating in space again, and “Voyager” is a little bigger (probably because it’s a one-word title). The swashes that we loved from TMP are also back, so we’re really seeing a very close resemblance to our favorite movie title card.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Seasons 1-2 Did Enterprise even try? The font is just such a yawnfest, the “R”s look like “A”s at a very quick glance, and there’s no “Star Trek” in sight! Literally! Turn this show on, and you won’t even know it’s Star Trek based on these first impressions. And this before we even hear the theme song (tune in next week for that!).

Seasons 3-4 Come season 3, we’ve finally added “Star Trek” into the title card, improving things exponentially with just that addition and those pretty snazzy racing stripes (they make the theme song go faster, don’t ya know!). Otherwise it’s all the same as before: kinda sleepy and definitely still the most boring. But at least it’s Star Trek now.

“In a Mirror Darkly” For literally two episodes, Enterprise went all out to embrace its mirror universe branding. The first glimpse we’re getting is of its title card, hilariously inverting the colors of the type because we’re going to backwards land. Kudos to the graphics folks who put in the effort to really immerse the audience in the mirror shenanigans, whether we want to or not.

Star Trek: Discovery

Seasons 1-2 Discovery brings back something similar to the TOS title card font but with more jagged edges and sharp blades. This is the original series run through a food processor first, with an “R” and “K” like none we’ve seen before. It’s a shame the “Discovery” itself looks incredibly squashed and is much harder to read in this font over the increasingly busy background and colors all that seem pretty peachy, literally.

Seasons 3-4 For season 3, the title card got itself all cleaned up. The busyness is still there but it’s crisper, with a little more outlining between the warm colors of the letters and the background. And they picked a nice solid font for “Discovery” that’s much more readable, with a cute little flag on the “V” that we enjoyed. And we checked: the aspect ratio also changed to a more cinematic width between seasons 1 and 2 for reasons.

Star Trek: Short Treks

Short Treks is pretty much the same as Discovery in terms of its title card. The letters are more metallic and shiny, but it’s basically the same deal. We’ll discuss one day that each episode has a different, personalized opening sequence, so that should be fun.

“The Brightest Star” The one outlier in there is the episode “The Brightest Star” which has a very different color palette and tone than the Short Treks title cards. The others all start with the same screen before personalizing, but this one starts off different right after the ship flies by. It’s ominous and cloudy and red and we too are ready to be slaughtered by the Ba’ul.

Star Trek: Picard

Damn, that delta for the “A” in “Picard” is just freaking sweet. What a nice, clean title card with good kerning. The Discovery take on the classic Star Trek font gets less thorny and more smoothed out, and the secondary font is simple but not distractingly so. It’s got just the right amount of embellishment with that combadge offset from the middle. As Jake controversially says, this might be the best thing about Star Trek: Picard.

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Oh right, this is a funny cartoon show and it tries to get that across in the bouncy, bubbly letters in its title card. It all ends up clashing too much for us. The classic Star Trek title, yellow color, and crisp font just plain don’t go with the goofy roundy letters beneath it. And when we start seeing penises hidden in the letters, you can tell we’ve gone in the wrong direction.

Star Trek: Prodigy

A little on the kiddy side, but we’re into it. Do we need the faces in the words? No, but they’re still pretty nice to have. And while we wish Nickelodeon didn’t need their branding in there clashing up the colors, the shape of the letters, the little command insignia pointing us forward in the “O”, and the lovely nebulas transcend kids’ show into real Star Trek.

Bonus: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Oh boy, we’re getting excited for the premiere of Strange New Worlds just seeing this title card in the cast announcement from earlier this year. Like Prodigy, we get to see a really spiffy use of a command insignia in the “O”, this time pointing skywards. We’ll have to see how this differs from the actual show when it airs, but this has us predicting good things.

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There are way more title cards that we liked than ones we disliked this time, but you can probably already guess what those are:

Favorites:

Deep Space Nine: Caitlin Picard: Jake Prodigy: Ames and Chris

Least Favorites:

Lower Decks: Caitlin and Jake Enterprise (Season 1-2): Ames and Chris

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We’re moving through more comparisons among the series, so get ready to hate on Enterprise some more before we’re through. In the meantime, you can keep up with us on SoundCloud, friend us on Facebook and Twitter, and if you’re making a Star Trek series, maybe say so in the title card.

#star trek #star trek podcast #podcast #title cards #kerning #the original series #the animated series #the next generation #deep space nine #voyager #enterprise #discovery #short treks #picard #lower decks #prodigy #strange new worlds

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Gen I Pokémon - A primer

Gen II has hit the 3DS eShop. Some of the younger or otherwise new Pokémon players haven’t played the older games, and so this post is aimed at those players so as to help them get through these games knowing they are older and thus very different from newer entries such as USUM. While I’m obviously writing it around Gen I (Red/Blue/Green/Yellow), a lot of this information will carry over to Gen II (Gold/Silver/Crystal).

It’s very important to know that the Gen I games are going to be lacking in certain features that have become staples of the series--they are, of course, the first set of games in the series. This is a rewrite from my old blog. I’ll do a follow up post on things specific to Gen II later. Some of the info is taken from Bulbapedia and Smogon.

Overworld, navigation, and your character

There’s no Running Shoes (B button dash). This feature wasn’t introduced until Gen III. However, the map is designed around the lack of this. If you want to get around quickly, you’ve got to wait until you get the Bicycle.

HM moves are required to pass certain obstacles. This includes travel across water, cutting down small shrubs, or lighting up dark caves. In Gen I only, they must all be manually activated from the menu. These moves were turned into TMs in Gen VII due to being redundant.

You will require certain Gym Badges in order to use certain HM moves. Badges also force Pokémon of the specified level (disclosed when you get the badge) to obey your every command, even if they have been traded. Badge requirement for HM moves was removed in Gen V, and in Gen VII, Gyms do not exist (and thus no Badges)--due to this, HM moves have instead become TMs.

Your inventory is not sorted into pockets. Additionally, you only have 20 slots within it for items. This was changed in Gen II, and further changed in Gen IV.

You can store unnecessary items in your character’s PC. Save them for later if you don’t have room for them. This was removed in Gen IV due to redundancy.

There is no way to rebattle previously defeated Trainers. The only ones you can challenge repeatedly are the Elite Four and Champion. A rebattle feature was introduced in Gen II.

There’s no pop-up message telling you the location you just entered when in the overworld. This is a minor gripe, but generally, you’ll know when the music changes, such as when walking into town. Other times, it’s not so easy. This was introduced in Gen II, specifically, in Crystal.

You can Cut tall grass. This is useful if you’re low on healing, or if you just want to screw around. It grows back once you cross into another area, however. This was removed in Gen IV.

There’s no clock/time-of-day mechanic. This was introduced in Gen II, but oddly missing from Gen III.

Pokémon Centers and Poké Marts are separate entities. They were merged in Gen V onward.

You cannot choose your character’s gender. This was introduced in Gen II, specifically, in Crystal.

There’s no breeding mechanic. That was introduced in Gen II. There is a Daycare, however.

There is no Move Tutor or Move Deleter! Once a creature learns an HM move, it can never be removed! The Move Deleter was introduced in Gen II, and the Move Tutor in Gen III. Think very carefully before you forget a move or teach a new one.

The Pokémon Storage System works much differently:

You have 12 boxes with 20 slots each. Including your party, this gives you a maximum of 246 individual Pokémon in one game. This was upgraded in Gen II and further so from Gen III onward.

There is no automatic switching feature. You must manually switch boxes when you have filled one. This feature wasn’t introduced until Gen III.

There’s no notification when you have filled a PC box. The only way to find out is to go in and look...or be told as much when you attempt to throw a Ball with a full box (such that you will be prevented from doing so). In Gen II, Bill’s phone number can be registered for automatic notifications when you have filled a box.

You cannot move Pokémon between boxes. This wasn’t introduced until Gen II.

Switching a box requires you to save the game. This was removed in Gen III.

Pokémon sent to a box after being captured will not be healed. This was changed in Gen II.

Item differences

There are only four types of Poké Ball in these games--Poké, Great, Ultra, and Master. Variant Balls weren’t introduced until Gen II.

All thrown Balls have a chance to completely miss the target. This can occur frequently if the capture rate is particularly low. This was removed in Gen II. The exception to this is the Master Ball, as that skips the checks entirely and thus can never fail.

Poké Ball capture rates are calculated using a true algorithm. This was changed to a formula in Gen III. See Bulbapedia for the breakdown.

There is no “critical capture” mechanic for thrown Balls. This was introduced in Gen V.

Key items cannot be registered to the Select button. This wasn’t introduced until Gen II.

Dire Hits will reduce critical hit ratio by 75% due to a bug. This is shared with the move Focus Energy. Don’t bother with em. This was fixed in Gen II.

Rare Candies will NOT commit gained EVs. The only way to commit EVs is to level a Pokémon up normally, in battle--so don’t get cocky with them. This was changed in Gen III.

Pokémon cannot hold items. This was introduced in Gen II.

As such, Berries do not exist. They were introduced in Gen II and changed completely in Gen III.

The Exp. Share is dubbed the EXP. ALL, and functions differently. When in the player’s inventory, it will spread both standard experience and stat experience to every Pokémon in your current party. It became the Exp. Share in Gen II, where it also became a held item. It returned to its original function in Gen VI, where it’s a key item and can be toggled.

The Dowsing Machine is referred to as the ITEMFINDER. It was changed in Gen IV, and removed completely in Gen VII due to redundancy.

TMs are single-use only. Use them carefully, as there is no way to recover many of them. They were made multiple-use in Gen V.

Differences to Pokémon mechanics

There is no Special Defense stat--all Special business is handled by one stat, just Special. This can lead to amusingly overpowered Special sweepers. This was split in Gen II.

The type of a move will dictate what stat it uses. For example, Water scales off Special, and Fighting scales off Attack. The physical/special split wasn’t introduced until Gen IV.

Critical chance scales off Speed. This was changed in Gen II.

The EV/IV system is completely different. In this, IVs are referred to as DVs, and EVs are gained through a stat experience mechanic instead. This was completely overhauled in Gen III.

There is no way to track gained stat experience, EVs, or DVs in-game. You will have to do it the hard way. This was introduced in Gen VI, but Gen III-V had ways to get a rough idea.

There is no friendship or love mechanic. In Yellow only, your starter Pikachu does has a version of this, however, friendship wasn’t properly introduced until Gen II, and love in Gen VI.

If a Pokémon gains enough experience to level up multiple times, it will jump straight to the level you would have reached. This will render any moves learned at levels in between inaccessible. This was changed in Gen II.

Natures, as well as passive abilities such as Levitate, Keen Eye, or Rough Skin, do not exist. They weren’t introduced until Gen III.

Dark, Steel, and Fairy types do not exist. Dark and Steel were introduced in Gen II, and Fairy in Gen VI.

Type matchups are somewhat different:

Bug is super-effective against Poison, and vice versa.

Ghost is ineffective against Psychic. This is due to a bug.

Ice will deal normal damage to Fire.

As a result of the above, Psychic-types are overpowered as all hell. Consider adding one to your team!

These were all changed in Gen II.

There’s no Shiny mechanic. This was introduced in Gen II. However, Pokémon have a chance to be shiny if traded into a Gen II game.

Pokérus does not exist. It was introduced in Gen II.

Pokémon are not sexed. This was introduced in Gen II. No, the Nidorans don’t count.

Status effect differences

Leech Seed and Toxic use the same damage counter. This can be abused to hilariously overpowered results.

A Pokémon that has been frozen will never thaw out on its own. This was changed in Gen II. The only three ways to thaw are as follows:

Being hit with a Fire-type attack.

Using an item or going to a Pokémon Center.

Being in play when Haze is used.

A Pokémon waking up from sleep will use the full turn to do so. They cannot wake up and attack in the same turn. This was changed in Gen II.

A Pokémon that is put to sleep can wake up the same turn it fell asleep. This was changed in Gen II.

Differences in battle and moves

One-hit-KO moves, such as Fissure or Horn Drill, are based on the user’s Speed. They are completely useless if the user is slower than the victim, and amusingly overpowered if the user is faster. This was changed in Gen II.

Binding moves, such as Wrap or Fire Spin, will completely disable the victim until the effect ends. Additionally, Wrap and Bind--typed Normal--will still immobilize a Ghost-type, even though they will do no damage to it. This was changed in Gen II.

Razor Leaf, Slash, Crabhammer, and Karate Chop will almost always land a critical hit. This was fixed in Gen II, and occurs due to the way their higher crit ratios are calculated.

Multi-hit moves such as Fury Attack and Twineedle deal the same damage in every hit of the attack. This also applies to binding moves. Additionally, their critical chance is determined at the start of the move--either none of the hits will crit, or all of them will. This was changed in Gen II.

There is always an extra 1/256 chance that any "100% accuracy" attack will miss. This is due to to how hit certainty is calculated. The exception to this is Swift, as that skips the checks entirely. This was changed in Gen II.

Overusing stat buffs can cause a rollover into maximally decreased stats. Normally, the limit is six stages of positive or negative stat changes in-battle. This was fixed in Gen II.

If a Pokémon's HP is 255 or 511 below its max HP, recovery moves such as Softboiled will fail. This was fixed in Gen II.

Counter can be used to redirect damage done in previous turns. Additionally, it will only work on Normal and Fighting-type moves. On multi-hit moves, only the last hit can be countered.

When using Dig or Fly to leave the battlefield: if the user is unable to complete the attack due to paralysis or confusion, it will remain off-screen--but can still use other moves. This can be abused to amusing results. Using Dig or Fly again successfully will return it to the battlefield. This was fixed in Gen II.

Hyper Beam does not require a recharge under the following circumstances:

When destroying a Substitute.

When KOing the victim.

If it should miss.

These were all changed in Gen II.

Explosion and Selfdestruct will not KO the user if destroying a Substitute or if the foe is KO’d. This was changed in Gen II.

Roar and Whirlwind are useless in link play. From Gen II onward, they will force a switch even in a linked battle with another player.

Rage will cause the user to become disobedient if it connects. Additionally, you cannot switch it out until it or the foe is KO’d--and if it should miss due to anything other than type immunity, its accuracy becomes 1/256. Oh, and it will still become disobedient and continue trying to use Rage. It’s better off avoided. It was fixed in Gen II.

There are many more minor differences covered here at Smogon.

Substitute

Because this move works in a very peculiar way in Gen I.

If the user is at exactly 25% of their maximum HP, it will not be prevented from using Substitute--and thus cause itself to faint. Any lower, however, and you will be prevented from using it.

As mentioned above, destroyed Substitutes will negate Hyper Beam recharge or self-KO from Explosion or Selfdestruct. This also applies to HP-draining moves--no HP will be drained if the Substitute would be destroyed.

A Substitute can not block the following:

Status ailments (except poisoning)

Binding moves

Confusion as a secondary effect

A Substitute can block:

Poison

Self-inflicted confusion damage

Secondary move effects (except confusion)

Stat debuffs

All of this was fixed in Gen II.

Glitches and tricks

The Mew glitch is alive and well. See Bulbapedia on how to perform it.

3DS versions only: A Mew captured this way is incompatible with the Poké Transporter. There are ways around this though.

The box trick is alive and well. Normally, stat experience and EVs are committed only upon leveling up through battle, or when a Pokémon evolves. However, if it’s gained these but has yet to commit them, depositing it into a PC box will cause the recalculation, committing them. This can be abused so as to commit EVs, even after a Pokémon has already reached the maximum level of 100. It was removed in Gen V.

The “FIght Safari Zone Pokémon” trick is alive and well. The east coasts of Cinnabar Island and the Seafoam Islands are glitched, and it is possible to Surf along them and encounter wild Pokémon. The encounters here are based on the last area you walked in that had wild encounters, such as tall grass. This means you can go into the Safari Zone, get to the desired area’s grass, then Fly to Cinnabar and use this trick to encounter Safari Zone Pokémon as though they were normal wild encounters.

This trick changes quite a bit if you speak to the old man in Viridian City, however. Ask him to show you how to catch a Pokémon, then immediately Fly to Cinnabar after he does. This will dramatically alter the Pokémon you find on the east coast. This is how you encounter...

MissingNo. This is a glitched “Pokémon” theorized to have been incomplete Pokémon data. Encountering it, regardless of the outcome, will instantly increase whatever is in the 6th inventory slot to 128, known as the item duplication glitch. You can get yourself infinite amounts of rare items this way.

WARNING: Do not attempt to capture MissingNo. or its counterpart ‘M as it can cause damage to save data.

The Fight Safari Zone Pokémon trick, as well as the old man trick and MissingNo., do not work in Yellow specifically.

Changes specific to the 3DS Virtual Console releases

Ability to use the Poké Transporter in Bank to convert any Pokémon in your first PC box from these versions to the newer EV/IV system, allowing them to be imported into Gen VII

All Cable Club features that originally used a Game Link Cable have been altered to utilize wireless communications (but not Wi-Fi), allowing you to trade and battle with any Gen I or II VC release

Several moves have had their visual effects dimmed a bit to reduce eye strain as well as to consider those with epilepsy

Jynx’s sprites have been altered to avoid racial sensitivities (interestingly, this makes Jynx the only Pokémon to break the “8-bit rule” of color palettes)

In Yellow specifically, the Pikachu’s Beach minigame can be accessed simply by having your starting Pikachu in your party--it does not need to know Surf

Game Boy Printer features in Yellow have been disabled due to incompatibility

Some final oddities and fun

The Marowak in Pokémon Tower can be evaded completely by using a Poké Doll when it is encountered. This was fixed in the Gen III remakes.

The famous truck in the Vermilion City port. No--there’s nothing underneath it, but it is there, and you can go check it out for kicks. It’s a bit tricky to get to, though. In the Gen III remakes, it’s easier to get to, and there’s a Lava Cookie under it for your trouble.

While you’re unlikely to encounter too many issues in casual play, it’s interesting to see how the game behaves when you start performing some of the glitches. Seriously, RBY just absolutely refuse to crash. If you don’t care about your save data much, go nuts and watch it keep plugging away.

#light says a thing #pokémon #pokemon #gen 1 pokemon

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Ace, Andy, Kena, and Vic’s Danatole Kid Hcs

@melchirits

* THE KIDS * * helo naught xhildern, it’s danatole child time * THE KIDS: Fyodor(Theo) and Lucette (Lucy) Dolokhov-Kuragin * Dickle * every close friend/relative gets One Name to suggest * all of them are really good and considerate…………..until they go to balaga, a family friend * they tell balaga that he has One Chance……. And the name he choses is dickle * “ok balaga you have one shot at this, don’t fuck it up” * “ok ok hear me out. dickle.” * anatole is dying * dolokhov is having a heart attack in the background, im fucking wheeding * “ok but give me at least three chances” * “hear me out: succulent butterfly or FUCKING NUTMOBILE” “why’d you scream the second one?” “Because it should be in all caps” “get the fuck out” * “you had one chance, WE’RE NOT NAMING OUR GOTDAM SON DICKLE” * “but can the middle names spell dickle, what about troika” * “balaga please get out of our house it’s midnight” * “how about pikachu. Or ash ketchum.” * fedya, screaming from the background, heart attack paused: “YES” “i think i thought of the perfect name” balaga literally gets to anatole’s height by climbing him and whispers, “the loud THX noise from that one movie.”[a] * “name the child the THX noise” “balaga,,,,its been four days please leave” * he Won’t give up * Other balaga recommendations: * FUCKING NUTMOBILE * lucas steele, and variants * paul pinto * razor boy * succulent * marvin * paul pinto in khakis * lucifer * succulent butterfly * lampost * trash can * naruto * pikachu * ash ketchum * kukas steeke * THX noise * fursuit * (anatole kicks him out after that one) * ALSO * “fedya you are the father” * “so are you” * “oh shit true” * the first child (theo) grows up and learns that they were literally almost named fucking nutmobile and is ready to deck both balaga and their dads * balaga is like “im gonna teach your kid how to drive” * anatole astral projects while Everyone it holding fedya back from destroying balaga * balaga teaches the kid how to drive anyway bc fedya and anatole can’t stop him * so the kid gets pulled over by a cop the first time they drive (w/balaga) bc of course * the police person is just like “I KNOW YOU” and balaga screams “FLOOR IT” * “green means go, red also means go probably, yellow means speed up” * “balaga why is my kid crying” “,,,,,,,,,,reasons” * balaga calls theo dickle forever bc he can * Lucy has Fedya’s Determination and she does everything balaga does better * balaga cries into a wine bottle on the pavement * “balaga eating saltines and chugging wine on the sidewalk”~Quote from Ace * one time balaga takes lucy out for night lessons * fedya wakes up as this is happening and has a panic attack because “where is our kid oh dear god” * he literally sprints out into the driveway and balaga screams “FUCKING FLOOR IT” and lucy’s doing all sorts of pro maneuvers * while balaga ends up hanging on for dear life because “oh so this is what it’s like to be my passenger” * “lucy lucifer” * balaga has a corkboard full of parking tickets he never paid, he hoards them like trophies * (balaga voice) speed limit 420 haha nice

* “Balaga that says 42,,,” * “if i put four engines in my car,,,” * balaga owns a school bus that’s decked out like a monster truck * balaga works for uber AND lyft, like a double agent * one time he gets an uber and lyft at the same time so hes like fuck it and gets them both * fuzzy dice on rearview mirror * balaga’s car is named nutmobile & it has a nut sticker * balaga sleeps in his car in a walmart parking lot at night?? * on lucy’s first birthday balaga teaches lucy how to say fuck and fedya decks him in the street * balaga picks lucy up from school or something one day and he saw her and just yelled “HEY LUCIFER” * lucy whips around like YEAH FUCKASS WHAT DO YOU WANT, she was like 14 * BALAGA IS LITERALLY AT ANATOLE AND FEDYAS HOUSE ALK THE TINE AND HE IS JUST YELLING LUCIFER ALL GHE TIME AND FEDYA ID LIKE SHUT THE FUCK UP BALAGA * balaga runs like naruto * balaga was the babysitter literally all the time * balaga worked as a gym teacher for a month before getting fired * (“what’d he get fired for?” “nothing you can prove”) ~Andy and Ace * someone else parks in his parking spot and he just keys the car * balaga worked as a librarian for two hours before being fired for telling the kids to shut the fuck up * balaga never gets fired from uber no matter what * Review: 5/5. Almost died but i got to my destination, 30 minutes away, in 2 minutes. * “LUCY, HYPERDRIVE” * balaga has completely taken over anatole & fedya’s garage * they try to walk in one time like “is this is fucking dead rat” and he shoots them with a paintball gun and says “no this is covfefe” * Balaga goes as a gc egg shaker for halloween w the kids * “No you just hear the beads and then theres tiny egg man” ~Kalvin * “yeah the guy who lives in our garage uhhhh tiny egg man” ~Theo * lucy draws balaga and he says “hell yeah fanart,” hangs it up on like the ceiling of his car * when lucy and theo play mario kart she always chooses rainbow road * chooses monopoly for Family Game Night * “lucy please we’ve been playing for three days” “no it’s blond dad’s turn” * anatole’s dying on the floor, fedya’s crying, theo’s dissociating * theo’s a hide and seek master

*They watch Buzzfeed Unsolved * lucy & theo go ghost hunting, lucy’s humming the ghostbusters theme and theo’s shaking like a leaf in the corner with ten vials of holy water on him * “hey demons it’s me, ya boi” “LUCY NO” * “COME AT ME DEMONS!” “L U C Y P L E A S E” * Theo is Dipper Pines * lucy is always ready to Deck People (kalvin style) * lucy has a pokeball in her backpack to throw at people she doesnt like * the guys at school call her “hellraiser” and the girls call her “lucifer” * theo and lucy are Not Straight in the slightest * lucy is pan, theo is gay & ace, & also trans * lucy makes so many innuendos she got detention multiple times because of it * theo can play literally any instrument and spent his money on bookfairs in elementary school * Theo knows that anybody who plays violin is a basic bitch so he plays viola instead * “Fyodor jr.!” “Sorry dad, you’re basic.” ~Convo with Anatole * theo quickly become better at gambling than fedya, it switches from fedya letting him win to him actually getting demolished, fedya cries * lucy does the thing where it looks like you’re doing ballet but then you go over to someone and kick them in the face * lucy literally carries around a bag of glitter to throw on people when they say/do something stupid * lucy’s ringtone is the THX noise and it’s always so fucking loud * ippolit kuragin is the cool uncle but also cryptid * is a fashion designer in NY apparently * unrelated: (dolokhov voice) me me big anxiety * theo stans all the murder musicals * also is totally straight for phillipa soo * also stans all things LMM * lucy’s contact pick for Blond Dad is That anatole pic * lucy is team valor and theo is team instinct * fedya’s valor, anatole’s mystic (prettiest logo???), balaga’s instinct * everyone outs poor anatole for being on team mystic * “so uh anatole what team did you pick?” “mystic” “oh because they’re smart and stuff–” “no, they’re the most aesthetic * the kids are highkey competitive about pokemon * anatole does that thing where he does 600000 soft restarts to get a shiny starter * he REALLY LOVES alolan vulpix!! * lucy has an embarrassing collection of photos of anatole * Balaga insists on giving the kids The Talk * theo didn’t talk for a week after but it could have gone much worse * someone: so how’d It Go? * theo, shaking, looking up with the purest fear in his eyes: it could have been worse * balaga teaches theo to curse * also, someone @ theo : “fuck, i mean shoot! im so sorry!!” theo, drinking a glass of vodka: what the fuck you can swear around me i literally fuckimg 21 years old what the shit * theo, quietly: in the heights is better than hamilton * lucy, a floor down: EX-FUCKING-SCUSE ME * once lucy asked balaga “hey do you sell drugs” * and balaga was like “no why, do you need them? bc i can get you them” * everyone sees theo as the calm kid, but if you talk shit about his family he Will duel you in a denny’s parking lot @ 3am hamilton style * there’s always the option to go live in the garaga with balaga * Theo’s secret dating the Andreirretasha kid, Nico(lai) * They are the cutest couple™ * Okay some Mama Helene™ bs * Helene was the mom, Fedya was the dad * “Helene and Dolokhov arm-in-arm,” * Lucy looks like a mini Helene, Theo looks like a mini Fedya * The only difference between Helene and Lucy is while Helene has the green-hairpiece-thing, Lucy wears a mauve bow * On Lucy’s fourteenth bday, Helene bent down to eye-level, look soulfully into her eyes, and said this: * “Lucy, as my daughter, i feel as if you should have this..” * It’s a necklace that says “Bitch” * Lucy was 13 when she started her drunk text collection * On Lucy’s 16 bday, helene gave her her most prized possession * “Lucy, I want you to have this, I was going to give it to you later in life, but you’ve come so far already..” * She pulls out a book from her purse, written in fancy calligraphy on it are the words “Burn Book” * “Lucy this is everything that someone i know has done wrong, treat it with care…” * It was one of the only times lucy has ever cried * You bet your ass there’s an entire section dedicated to Anatole * “Anatole, age 1-6, Anatole, Age 7-10, Anatole, Age 11-13, Anatole, Age 14-18, etc” * Theres even some stuff about Cryptid-Uncle-Ippolit * “Hey dad? Remember when you and uncle Pierre tied to guy to a bear for shits and giggles?” * Theo is on the spectrum * Helene got him a fidget cube * He and Lucy do sibling costumes * Theo is a gangly mess of limbs like how does the kid function * Theo was cis-passing when he started dating Nico * When he told him he was trans, Nico just shrugged and kissed him alot * Yeah so I love these kids and might write a fic

#be gondrey chat #nutmobile chat #helene bezukhova #helene kuragina #pierre bezukhov #andreirretasha #natasha rostova #anatole kuragin #fedya dolokhov #fyodor dolokhov #danatole #natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812 #the pride of sacrifice #balaga

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cnfhumss12a-blog · 5 years

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BinondHoe

By Alfred Keegan S. Bernardo

It’s really ironic that I was born without an ounce of Chinese blood but all the things I prefer are Chinese. The food, history and of course, the guys. And when I heard that we were tasked to go to Binondo for a writing activity, you bet that my little chinito loving heart was internally screaming in excitement.

Our expedition for hot chinito guys, I mean for an authentic chinese experience rather started along the busy sidewalks of Vito Cruz on one Tuesday afternoon as me and my friends Dana, Emiliane, Lianne, and Trisha waited for our ride which was provided by our opulent friend Trisha. As the big black SUV arrived we quickly hopped in and much to our surprise Tita Jasmine (Trisha’s mom) was by the passenger seat and cheerfully said that she would be accompanying us all throughout our whole Binondo Escapade as our tour guide which I was very grateful to her for. The trip took about 30 minutes with the usual Manila Traffic. Our vehicle passed through different eskenitas and shortcuts to expedite our trip and save time which actually worked because we arrived at Binondo sooner than we expected.

Binondo is the oldest Chinatown in the world and has been standing for 425 years strong. From far away it almost seems like a mixture of modern high rise condominiums and old baroque style buildings that reminded me of the buildings in old Europe There were also oriental style buildings with red roofs that resembled Buddhist temples. This urban sprawl was teeming with Chinese owned businesses, authentic Hokkien restaurants, and various kinds of vendors selling all kinds of goods and produce. But I’ve heard that there are also Traditional Chinese Drugstores selling illegal animal parts, shops that sell all types of charms and bracelets, and of course, cute chinito guys that you can take home to your parents.

The driver dropped us off at Quentin Paredes street and which I’ve noticed had banks scattered all around throughout the area. BDO, EastWest, BPI, you name it and they’re all here literally a few meters from each other. But then I remembered that Binondo was once the Financial and Banking district before Makati and Ortigas we’re even established and so that explains the prevalence of banks and different financial institutions along Quentin Paredes.

Our ride dropped us off at the entrance of one tiny street. Carvajal was definitely a street that had a lot of stories to tell. With its orange-tiled pathway with specs of white and diversity of the vendors, you’d think that it was a wet market on the street.

As we walked along Carvajal, there were different scents and sights all around but the most overpowering came from one particular fruit, the durian. The smell was obnoxious as it wafted all around and to our noses which I wasn’t really happy about. Aside from Durian, the fruit stalls also had pineapples, papayas, bananas, mangoes and other varieties of fruits. The vibrant colors of the fruits almost created a sort of a mural of tropical colors of yellow, green and red. The street also had vendors that sold all kinds of seafood in baby blue buckets with cardboard squares where their prices were written on. Snails, eels, sea cucumbers and different types of fishes were being sold all along Carvajal. It was hard to not be impressed by the variety and selection of produce and products sold along one measly narrow street.

Among the stalls and vendors was a wooden door with glass windows that offered you a sneak peak inside one of Binondo’s hidden gems which was Quik-Snack.

As we opened the door we were greeted with the aroma of spices and different scents that we could not quite distinguish. Quik- Snack is the restaurant if you want to be served with the most authentic and tastiest Hokkien food in all of Manila. But surprisingly the design and decor of the restaurant was not quite, er Chinese per sé. It had plain white tiled floors that were squeaky clean and the wall on the upper half was a cream colored white while the bottom half was made of exposed brick. It almost seemed like one of those restaurants from the spanish colonial era that was misplaced in the middle of Chinatown.

The restaurant had a variety of dishes to offer us. From noodles to soups and appetizers you can see that there’s a wide array of ingredients that they use and they even had vegetarian options! There were some recognizable dishes such as Lumpiang Shanghai, Chopsuey and Leche Flan but there were also some Hokkien Dishes such as Kuchay-ah, Stir-Fried Mi Noodles and Oyster Cakes. The prices ranged from 150 to 300 pesos depending on what the main ingredient is. Tita Jasmine suggested that we try the Iced Coffee with Ice cream since it is one of their best sellers so I opted to order one for myself and Dana decided to get one too since we both love and adore coffee. It took us quite a bit of time to choose what to order but eventually after some questions I’ve decided to get the Stir Fried Mi Noodles that had Pork and Shrimp. My friends decided to order noodles as well but in different variants with different ingredients.

While waiting for our food to be served I was curious to know about the history of Quik-Snack so I asked the cashier who was a middle aged guy with a receding hairline and he told me about the owners of the restaurant which was actually from Cebu and and they moved to Manila in the 60’s where they established Quik-Snack and it was passed on from the owner’s grandson in the 80’s and he was still managing it up till today which was quite fascinating since the restaurant had different generations of management.

After about 10 minutes our dishes were served to us and surprisingly they all looked quite appetizing and unique. The first one to be served was Emiliane’s dish which were long thin white noodles served on a bowl with a broth that was almost clear and hers had different toppings such as spring onions, leeks and parsley which was quite an attractive garnish. Me, Dana and Trisha ordered the same dish but with different ingredients. Trisha’s noodles had chicken and Dana’s had Beef Sate Sauce. But I’d like to think that my order looked the most sumptuous with the different colored toppings that were on top of the noodles. The pink juicy shrimp, crunchy green cabbage, perfectly sautéd pork and crispy bits of garlic.

As i took my first bite of the dish, I was greeted with a strong savory taste that instantly impressed me. The combination of the different textures and tastes of the toppings with the well-cooked noodles and savory sauce created this symphony of flavors and textures in my mouth that was almost too good to be true. I did not hesitate to tell the whole table on how good the noodles were and everybody seemed to agree with me. The oyster cakes that Tita Jasmine ordered were also good. The contrast of the eggs and oysters with a bit of ketchup was just the bomb dot com and it paired well with everyone’s noodles. As we were in the middle of our feast our Iced Coffees arrived and boy did they look good. Two of my favorite things in one? And as we expected it was the perfect dessert/drink that complimented all the dishes we ate perfectly.

The best part of the lunch? Tita Jasmine paid for everything and I wanted to protest and tell her that we’ll pay but she told us that it was her treat and we just could not argue with her because who doesn’t want a free meal right? After Tita Jasmine paid for our meal, we left Quik-Snack with full bellies and satisfied cravings for a full on authentic Hokkien meal.

We turned left to the other end of Carvajal towards Ongpin which was the main artery or passageway of Binondo. We went to check out the flagship store of Eng Bee Tin one of the most popular brands of Chinese treats and delicacies. As we approached the facade of the building you can already tell that it’s gonna be an explosion of yellow, red and purple and boy I was not wrong. Everything in the store was either yellow and red. The red pineapples hanging by the ceiling, red dragon statues by the entrance the shiny foiled yellow walls that were almost blinding. As we were checking the stuff up in the second floor we came across a barrel man. If you don’t know what the barrel man is, it’s a wooden carving of a man inside a barrel. Sounds innocent right? But what you don’t know is that you can remove the barrel and a surprise will be springing into life. Let’s just say that it’s big, long and hard as wood .

We traversed through Ongpin and we specifically stopped at this one store that was selling different types of Chinese snacks and drinks that I could not recognize since all the labels were in Mandarin. The store also had keychains and bracelets made up of different colored stones. There were also these weird paper like stacks that had white paper and red chinese characters drawn on them. Trisha told me that these were sort of offered to your dead ancestors and when you burn them, it serves as their money in the afterlife which was quite an interesting story and showed how much the Chinese respected their ancestors. As I glanced over at the counter I saw Tita Jasmine buying several circular containers that had dark wrinkly circles in them which I guess was dried fruit and to our surprise she handed one to each of us which shookt me to the core because she’s just so nice and generous.

As we left the store stepped back into Ongpin something caught my eye. On the opposite side of the road was a tall Chinese guy that seemed to be in the middle of a phone call. He was definitely taller than 6 feet and had a good physique (yikes!). He had small thin eyes, an average sized nose and lips that looked so juicy. He didn’t have the sharpest features but whatever he had going on with his face was working. All of his features were sort of symmetrical and balanced everything out. He was neither too thin nor too fat he was in-between with a lil bit of muscle definition. I literally can’t even remember how I memorized his looks but I did. But well, I couldn’t really do anything about it so I just mustered all my willpower and moved on along to our next destination.

Walking along the streets of Binondo didn’t really scare or bother me since I was with a group but also since the locals are not really sketchy so I didn’t have to worry about snatchers and holdapers which were usually present all around Manila. As we traversed through Ongpin, we arrived at an intersection where we transferred to another street named Sabino Padilla Street. It was lined with stores on both the sides of the street selling various things from charms to traditional Chinese medicine that were sold in strange looking pharmacies.

On the way back to Trisha’s place, we passed by this Noodle and Siopao restaurant named Ling nam where they serve the freshest and tastiest siopaos in the whole of Manila. Tita Jasmine got about 8 pieces of Siopao and no doubt that she’ll probably give each one of us a piece. The inside of the restaurant was quite steamy and humid probably because of the steamer that’s used to cook the siopao and other dumplings. The steamy atmosphere created this veil of mystery that have the restaurant an almost ethereal feel which was cool to be honest.

Trisha’s place was just by the end of Ongpin near the Carriedo LRT Station. It was almost sunset as we were walking along Ongpin towards Trisha’s place. The dwindling orange light shone all throughout and Ongpin and to the rest of Binondo giving the area a timeless glow. It was an eventful day indeed. We had class and headed to Binondo for a one-of-a-kind experience and boy did we get one (for free). From the diverse and authentic food to the cute chinitos just waiting to be discovered, and to those hidden charm shops and traditional pharmacies it was like any other ordinary day in Binondo but for us it was a feast for the eyes, ears and mouth (literally). We didn’t get a Chinito boyfriend but that’s okay because we got a wholesome experience in BinondHoe. Gallery: https://cnfhumss12a.tumblr.com/tagged/Keegan

#english #Keegan

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And here is the helm of a new Open Source OC of mine, Mr Mash

This man appears as a six-armed purple-skinned biker with a barred helmet akin to the one above, in rough-cut but weirdly elaborate clothes of red and gold.

He travels from city to city, blocking paths for the purposes of challenging strong individuals to fights, with the wager being their weapons. He appears to be searching for a specific one, known only as the “White Weapon,”

Possibly linked to the legendary Exaclibur but definitely the “good” twin to the infamous “Black Blade” that travels the multiverse. Of course, while the blades are locked in an endless, eternal struggle.

But, his reasons for seeking the Weapon have absolutely nothing to do with that conflict, often leading to him come crashing into stories he has nothing to do with as he fruitlessly quests.

He is also followed by his “mount,” Aniki. Varying in form but usually some sort of rideable; wheeled techno-organic monster, who he considers a friend. It changes forms across the Multiverse and often gets separated in the midst of “jumps” to the point where Mash has to look for them; often seeking help from the very people he fights right after.

His personality is very warm; a fierce fighter with a belligerent; boasting; almost comical attitude but when bested he is relatively genial, and if one manages to befriend him, he is loyal to a fault.

He also has many; may weapons he stories in some unknown place, but he has two frequent sets he tends to use as his “baseline,” one of melee weapons and one of firearms.

The melee assortment includes:

Brightsabre- A simple cyllinder able to extend into a bright yellow-white “blade” of energy, he says this is a rare variety; but more likely it is one of the mass-produced early versions of such. It still chews through night any material and can reflect bullets; energy weapons and sometimes even magic.

Photon Pak- A backpack with a nozzle attached; this looping striped beam is mainly considered “melee” by virtue of its bucking nature and ability to reel in spiritual matter that makes it akin to a grappling lasso. It still hurts like a motherfucker if you touch it though. On a lighter note, it is able to produce amazing moving images if wielded with the right amount of skill (And psionics), which Mash has used for the purposes of street laser-light shows when he’s needed a quick buck.

Nightmare Claw- A glove with huge knived talons on its appendages, this weapon once belonged to a serial-killer turned nightmarish demon, from who Mash stole a copy while dreaming (Ironically at least leading to one temporary defeat of the being). It is able to morph in length and cutting ability, but its real draw is the ability to cut through space to create holes to jump through. Though, often Mash gets lost through these holes and ends up taking a minute to find his way back to the battlefield.

Liberty Shield- A red-white-and-blue-striped shield made as the second-closest thing to the most powerful shield in the multiverse, this shield is not only able to deflect nigh any force applied, but also functions as a bashing and ricocheting discus weapon. Though, Mash is not quite as skilled with throwing the weapon as its original owner; so he often ends up having to retrieve it.

Abnormal Chainsaw- This appears to be a worn variant of any normal; industrial chainsaw; except for the fact that it never seems to get any more worn; and the fact that it never clogs; as it chops through anything it touches with supernatural swiftness

PK Bat- A golden-colored shiny metal baseball bat with a strange translucent aura around it, this weapon is able to produce wide waves of fire; random blasts of lightning and concentrated blasts of frost from its tip due to having been once used by a master psionicist. Though, some have said his ability to use this may indicate latent psionic powers; along with many other telltale signs say scholars.

The Gun-Based Assortment Includes

BFG 6660- An enormous gun like nothing so much as a huge satanic mailbox, this weapon seemingly was enchanted by some forces of hell after it was accidentally given to demonic forces, shooting huge waves of unholy plasma that linger long after the initial blast.

Ol' Painful- An ordinary chain gun, albeit the size of something that should be mounted on a helicopter with nigh-unlimited ammo. Very likely engineered by a gunsmith while on a drunken bender one night; in a way not even he could replicate.

Judgement OMA- A weapon able to fire normal, incendiary, explosive, homing, taser, gas, and holy bullets on different settings, this is a weapon from an authoritarian police force in a world where things have gone very; very wrong. Mr Mash’s copy happens to have a “Random” setting, custom made for him, because “It’s more fun this way”

Shumacher Special- Created by a deranged cryonicist upon the loss of his wife, this weapon is able to fire devastating blasts of frost; with the unintended capacity for cryonic preservation, able to preserve the lives of those frozen in critic suspension for aeons with only a quick warm-up needed to revive them. It is also called the “Mr Nipples” by some, though never in front of Mash’s face.

Martian Heater- Something like a retro-ray-gun that shoots devastating waves of heat and causes most things it touches to combust or melt, it’s big enough that it looks like it should be attached to some invading tripod-machine. And, in fact, that is very much where Mash wrenched it off of, having driven into a timeline while an alien invasion was going on and driving Aniki into one of the war machine’s legs because he thought it might help. It did, but not how he thought…

Valkyre Blossom- Akin to a tiny spaceship with a trigger attached, it has a very long windup and cool down time, but when pressed it unleashes a flower-shaped spray (Hence the name) of beam-bolts and missiles; creating a massive cone of projectile death. Nobody knows where he got it, not even Mr Mash, though rumors include a shrink ray or the last “taxidermied” remnants of an attempt at making starships that could reproduce gone hideously wrong,

The WTF Assortment Includes

Bullet Sword- A sword made of the lead of thousands of spent bullets, then enchanted with necromancy and healing magic to give them eternally the kinetic energy they had when they were fired while still in flight. It looks akin to a sword made of glowing spheres, able to fire off those spheres in a boomeranging “loop” and to absorb bullets to increase its power

Neon Blaster- Resembling nothing so much as an incredibly elaborate “Eat At Joes” sign, and in fact most likely made by one, this releases a gas as its primary charge, which is not neon but which may in fact be sentient given its tendency to form letters and phrases as it spreads. Then, the secondary charge activates the gas, lighting it up to form magical glyphs resembling neon signs; able to exhibit many; many effects. Mash tends tp be pretty “hands off” on what spells he wants the gas to form, though it doesn’t help that he doesn’t know how to use the settings that control such things on the weapon, but the gas seems to have a pretty good idea of what is useful in that situation.

The Harryhausen- This weapon consists of three seemingly organic tendriil-like arms and a singular tendril-like neck with a reptilian; muttonchopped face, able to move of their own volition and drain blood from their grappled enemies as sustenance, While powerful in its own right, its real draw is the ability of the main head to cast spells that heal and hasten its owner; though it seemingly can only do this after it has drawn a bit of blood first.

Shock-Rocker- An enormous electric guitar with its own built in “speaker” resembling electrical apparatti such as Jacob’s ladders and tesla coils, this machine produces deadly electrical waves even as it produces beautiful musical tones. It usually plays tunes of a classic-hard-rock style, given that is Mr Mash’s preferences.

Engine Fist- Essentially the entire front half of a futuristic muscle car turned into a brass-knuckled gauntlet, this mechanism’s engine has been modified to produce the maximum possible sheer force with every punch. Though, the time gap between one punch and the next is usually pretty wide; given it is possible to break one’s arm from the sheer force if it us used too frequently within a short stretch of time.

Frankenstein- A hodgepodge of different parts from many different broken legendary weapons; from when Mash tried to create a “Magnum Opus” of gun smithery, this machine’s parts are wildly incongruous in appearance; including a slot-machine-style roller reel and a tank of slime. The slime seems to be its self-replenishing “ammunition” supply and, appropriately enough, the reel always spins whenever the machine is fired. It launches a random effect with each time; with even Mash unsure they’ve seen all its effects. Though, 90% of the time the effect usually helps Mash more than the enemy, so he considers it effective enough.

The process of dimensional travel sometimes alters Mr Mash from his original appearance; to different species or; more often; to different genders; to the point where in some corners he is known as “Miss Mash;” though all variants tend to share the basic garb and appearance with the original; usually attractive for what they are but with an emphasis on height; muscularity and general devil-may-care-ness in their looks.

They consider themselves technically genderfluid due to this, preferring to be referred to by the typical pronouns of their current form, and they are attracted to all genders (Though they’re a bit of a dorky cassanova when it comes to wooing; no matter what body they are in). He seems to go by a different name across other parts of the multiverse, but he is loath to say what it is...

Btw, This character; Mr Mash; and all his accountriments are free to use by anyone, as they see fit, under a CC-0 license

I’m doing this one as a bit more open than my others, given the character’s not just as much an expy of a certain character, but they may in fact be that character, so IDK if he’s worth a CC-BY license...

#open source character #public domain #expy #gilgamesh #final fantasy #weapons #open source characters #my art #my ocs #sorta

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Shopping for Tights? Watch Out for These 6 Mistakes

Finding the right tights, stockings, pantyhose, hosiery or any other way you call it is not as easy as it seems. In this blog post, you will learn what styling mishaps you should avoid as much as possible and the tights that suit your outfit.

Be it ultra-transparent or opaque, black or skin-toned, structured or printed, we have almost all of these varieties at home. After all, they do not only keep our body warm in winter but do evoke those beautiful legs as well. However, for stockings to be a savior of style and not a style disaster, there are some things to bear in mind. Following are the 6 biggest mistakes women make while shopping for tights, and how to avoid them!

1. The tights are excessively glossy.

Have you ever witnessed a carnival session? Since the dance very much remains an integral part of the program, dancers there are seen wearing trademarked outfits like petite skirts, dance boots and very glossy stockings. Hence, if you do not want to act like a dancer, you have to go without very shiny tights in daily life. Many women look for tights with only a light, silky shine. However, these coverings should not be completely drab either, since they would render a lifeless appearance to the legs, specifically when the stockings are skin-toned.

2. The stockings and the color of the skin do not match.

Talking about skin color, here is possibly the biggest faux pas of styling,because the stockings having a color that does not match the tone of your skin can instantly look bizarre. Just imagine how crispy brown legs will look when the face and arms are white like cheese. Of course, it's not a good idea!

To find the right stockings, you must try the colors at the store if you’re shopping offline. Pantyhose brands offer sample items in every shade that you can easily place on your hand to see if the color suits. The color of the tights must not vary too much from the color of your skin. If you don’t get the perfect color, it is recommended to opt for a marginally darker shade than the lighter one.

3. The pantyhose have the incorrect fit.

Many of us find pantyhose troublesome because they cut into the belly when sitting. However, this occurs particularly when the stockings have an incorrect fit and a waistband that is too short. In this case, it is worth investing in top quality products, because unlike many low-quality varieties, they generally have a wide, reinforced knitted cuff. This is more comfortable when put on and does not cut into your belly as much.

Moreover, tights with a high waistband and belly function do not only make a dress size slimmer, but they feel better when worn and do not slip so quickly as well.

4. The tights are very thin.

If you’ve been a user of such thin tights, you should spend a little more money and have top quality stockings with a higher denier. The Den number indicates the fineness of the material; the higher the Den number, the tighter the pantyhose knitted and the firmer it will be.

By the way, run-stop varieties are mostly practical. This distinctive knitting technique makes sure that sleeves do not form and spread so swiftly.

5. You can see the tights.

Open shoes and stockings – we all have perhaps encountered this styling quandary. If you want to put on sandals or peep toes and it is not too cold for tights, do not wear a normal variant because when the tights toes pop out of the shoes, it's a real styling disaster.

However, there is a wonderful creation that resolves the tights-shoe issue permanently: the toe-free stockings. Because of their cut, like a flip-flop, the toe part remains free and the tights do not slip. Importantly, it does not seem weirdin the end. Remember, the color of the stockings should correspond accurately to the tone of your skin.

6. It is the wrong color of tights.

The black and skin tones are the absolute classics in pantyhose colors. However, there are still items in trendy colors such as green, blue and yellow. From the styling viewpoint, the dazzling colors of the tights are somewhat difficult to carry since they attract all the attention. For a very modest outfit such as a monochrome knit dress, the colorful stockings are just fine.

Keep in mind that the tights color should match not only your remaining outfit, but also your skin color. If you have a warm skin and hair color, you should opt for a warm pantyhose color such as brown or berry tones. If you have a cool skin and hair tone, blue or gray shades are better.

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Episode 15

Scene 7:

[Ren Wally and Kai are walking together through the Safari Zone. They are only allowed one pokemon each so only Tāraki, Jay and Kihei are with them. Jay finds a spotted mightyena and Kai flips out about it. Wally sees it slinking off and tries to calm Kai down but it is too late. Kai facepalms and Ren pats him consolingly. They see only brown mightyena after that but there are plenty of other interesting variants to keep Kai occupied. They are all just hanging out while Kai sketches. Wally pulls the cat’s cradle out of his pocket and begins to play with it. He makes the Lumiose Tower and grins at Kai as he holds it in his teeth. Kai laughs. A moment later the pale pikachu peeks her head out of the tall grass. She looks over them and their pokemon appraisingly.]

Pikachu: Psst! Gallade. [Kihei turns to look at her.] You are a trainer pokemon, right? [He nods.] So you won’t hunt me? [He nods again. Jay and Tāraki are looking at her now too. She takes another step out into the open.] How many badges do your trainers have?

[The three starters look at each other.]

Kihei: Five

Tāraki: Six

Jay: Six

Pikachu: [She takes another step towards them.] So they must win a lot of battles.

Tāraki: Of course we do.

Pikachu: Which means they can trade for stuff with the other humans.

Kihei: Do you mean money? We earn money from battles and use the money to buy things.

Pikachu: Yes, yes, that is what I meant. So they must have a lot of the money thing, which means they can get lots of other things, rare things even?

Jay: What are you after?

Pikachu: Nothing. Or not something from you, per say. I am curious about humans.

Jay: [narrowing her eyes] Those were very specific questions.

Tāraki: Lighten up, Jay. She can’t steal money. It’s digital.

Kihei: What would she do with it anyway?

Pikachu: I don’t want to steal from your humans. I want to offer them something.

[The three starters glance at each again and the pikachu walks the rest of the way over to them and sits down.]

Pikachu: I have a treasure. I’m not certain what it is, but I am sure that it is rare and contains a powerful energy. It is of no use to me, but perhaps it would be to a strong trainer.

Jay: So you want to trade for it?

Pikachu: In a manner of speaking.

Jay: Hmm.

Tāraki: Ren! Ren, come over here!

Jay: [hissing] Tāraki!

Kihei: Like you don’t want to know what it is.

[Jay raises her crest in annoyance but doesn’t contradict him and he smiles. Ren joins them and spots the pikachu.]

Ren: Aw, she’s so cute. That’s a runner variant right?

Kai: Yeah, they live in areas like this where there’s a lot of open space.

Wally: Wow, she’s a lot smaller than Zach.

Ren: Check out those legs though. No wonder they’re called runners.

Tāraki: She says she has a treasure she wants to show us.

Ren: Really?

Tāraki: Yeah, she thinks maybe we could use it.

Ren: Okay.

Tāraki: Lead the way, little pikachu.

Pikachu: Before they see it, I want to discuss terms.

Jay: Told you.

Kihei: What are the terms?

Pikachu: I want to be one of their pokemon. I’ll battle for them and whatever else they need. I just ask that they treat me decently and I want them to give me a thunderstone so that I can evolve. They can work out who gets the treasure amongst themselves. It doesn’t matter to me. They just have to promise that they will keep up their end of the bargain if they decide to take it.

[Kihei relays this to the trainers.]

Ren: I sort of have a lot of pokemon, and we’d have to talk over a few things, but I promise I won’t steal your treasure.

Kai: I already have a pikachu, but i’m kinda curious to see what it is.

Wally: It’s not a thunderstone. Ooh, maybe it’s a shiny stone!

Tāraki: They promise.

[The pikachu takes them through the tall grass and across a rocky field to her burrow. They wait outside as she goes to get her treasure.]

Ren: Look at those scratches. Something must have tried to dig her out. No wonder she wants out of here.

Kai: Looks like mightyena and linoone to me.

[The pikachu comes back out, pushing the blue and yellow gem ahead of her. It rolls down off the roots and she scampers after and grabs it. She then holds it up for them to look at.]

Pikachu: It seems electric in nature, which is why I kept it, but it is no thunderstone.

Ren: [reaching for it] May I?

[The pikachu hoists it a little higher and Ren takes it. She turns is over in the light.]

Ren: Woah. Maybe it’s a mega stone.

[She passes it to Kai and pulls out her nav. She has a stone ID guide app on her home screen and pulls it up, looking through the mega stones. Kai passes it to Wally who passes it to Kihei and then Tāraki before Jay finally takes it.]

Jay: [muttering] I think she may be right.

Ren: [gasp] I think it’s manectite! Jay, hand it back for a second. [Jay places it in her open hand and Ren turns it.] Look! It’s got the red flecks!

Pikachu: [looking pleased by her excitement] Will you take me on as your pokemon?

Tāraki: Are we going to take it for Ao?

Ren: I really want to, but I have to talk to her first. [to Kai and Wally] You guys don’t mind, do you?

Wally: Of course not.

Kai: Did Steven get you that app?

Ren: No! The clerk in the stone shop in Mauville recommended it.

Tāraki: Yeah, but you got it so you could check your rocks before you gave them to Steven.

Ren: [blushing] Shut up!

[Kihei translates this for Wally and Kai and they laugh. Ren huffs and sits down heavily, ignoring them.]

Ren: [to the pikachu] So, I do want the stone, but we before you agree to anything, I want you to know that my team and I are trying to become League Champions. You won’t have to fight the Elite Four if you don’t want to. I already have a manectric.

Pikachu: [after Tāraki translates] I can already tell you are a serious trainer. It doesn’t concern me.

Ren: The other thing is that I may have to fight some other trainers called Team Magma and they don’t fight fair. They’ve tried to kill me and my pokemon in the past and chances are pretty good they’ll try again.

Pikachu: But you defeated them in these previous encounters?

Ren: I had help, but yeah. If you don’t want to participate in non-league matches, that would be your call. I would never force you to risk your life.

Pikachu: As long as you hold up your end of the bargain, I will be your pokemon and I will do whatever you need of me.

Ren: Alright then, looks like we have a deal.

[She offers her hand and the pikachu tentatively taps it with her paw. Ren gets out her vapor box and puts the manectite in it. The pikachu looks a little alarmed as her treasure disappears into the wood.]

Ren: Don’t worry, it’s just going into storage. Now, I don’t have a thunderstone at the moment, but I do have something else you might like in the meantime.

[A bright yellow translucent marble appears on the vapor box and the pikachu cocks her head.]

Wally: Is that a light ball?

Ren: [offering it pikachu] Yeah.

[The pikachu takes it and a shiver runs through her. She stares at it and then back up at Ren.]

Ren: It increases the power of your attacks and it only works for pikachu.

Kai: I’d never even heard of it before.

Ren: Oh, uh, sorry. I was actually gonna give it to you.

Kai: It’s okay. I think Zach wants to evolve anyway. You could always get me a thunderstone instead, moneybags.

Ren: Har har. I’ll consider it.

[Ren pulls out the single safari ball she was given upon entry and notices that the pikachu is staring at the light orb again. She grips it tightly between her paws and for just a moment her eyes flash back to the entrance of her burrow.]

Ren: [offering her the pokeball] Um, I’ll get a collar or something so you can wear it.

[The pikachu starts at Ren’s voice and glances up at her before noticing the pokeball in front of her. She looks at the pokeball but doesn’t seem to want to let go of her new treasure.]

Ren: Actually, Wally, do you still have the cat’s cradle?

Wally: [pulling it out of his pocket] Yeah, here.

[Ren puts down the pokeball and takes the string from Wally, quickly snapping the loop with her teeth. With the ends free, she starts tying little loops in the middle. The pikachu watches her, puzzled.]

Ren: It’s only temporary, but it should do for now. This way you can wear it right away.

[She holds out her hand for the light ball. The pikachu listens carefully to Tāraki’s explanation before slowly placing the marble in Ren’s palm. Ren slips it inside the loops and ties a few more to be sure. When she is satisfied, she reaches out to tie it around the pikachu’s neck. The pokemon holds very still until Ren sits back up. She feels the new necklace with her paws, making sure it is secure.]

Ren: That’s better, huh?

[Ren offers her the pokeball again. The pikachu reaches out to touch the pokeball, but hesitates. She looks up at Ren’s smiling face, takes a deep breath, and presses the button. She is enveloped by red light and flows into the pokeball. It closes and locks, the button turning a dull gray.]

Jay: That was close.

Tāraki: What do you mean?

Jay: She almost ran off with that light orb.

Kihei: At least she gave Ren the manectite.

Tāraki: Yeah, it doesn’t matter. I’m sure she’ll do fine.

Ren: [not hearing their conversation] We’ll have to see what kind of a battler she is later. [to Kai] Would you and Zach battle us?

Kai: Sure.

Ren: Thanks. I think I’ll head out now. I don’t want her stuck in this ball for hours without checking on her. And I can’t wait to tell Ao. You two have fun!

[She heads back towards the entrance, Tāraki following behind her. We can see her grinning mischievously to herself as she walks out of the frame, leaving Kai and Wally alone together. They watch her go and Wally glances over at Kai. Kai glances at him a moment later and shrugs. Wally turns away, not trusting his expression.]

Wally: So! What part did you want to check out next?

#pokemon #nuzlocke #oras #running hot nuzlocke #story #episode 15 #Ren #Kai #Wally #Taraki #Jay #Kihei #Teka #shady pikachu I choose you

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