Y'know the Nobles at school are going to love when the poor Tribal girl walks into school with a Pseudo. Wonder how long it takes before someone offers to buy it off her, and failing that, proceeding to bully her for "having a Pokémon beyond her station" or something.



Assuming Dreepy wins that is.
Dreepy is only a Rare, so I imagine it's not going to be nearly as big of a deal as higher rarities would have been.
 
Guys please we NEED the Know stat desesperally for a ton of things, specially since we have an plot objective that needs 12 Know to truly get started and we are at 5, getting a head start on it will help immensely.
 
Love that we custom built the Lowest Possible KNOW start, only to find out KNOW was the stat tied to our backgrounds Plot, which means people are scrambling to raise it as fast as possible. Funniest possible outcome.
 
Guys please we NEED the Know stat desesperally for a ton of things, specially since we have an plot objective that needs 12 Know to truly get started and we are at 5, getting a head start on it will help immensely.

Honestly 400xp and a 10% bonus for 3 turns is kinda meh ngl. Like yeah we need Know but it's a small boost and a temporary perk.
 
[X] Bonds and Binding
[X] Dreepy

While it is Meh, it's better than hanging out with our best friend. Wanted to do some actual work for $$$ or training, but Work-life Balance has lost popularity sadly.

On another note... Nickname ideas for our Dreepy?
 
You're gonna tell me hanging out with our best friend in a Cold Steel fic isn't worth it? Does the power of friendship mean nothing to you!? (joking)
Do we really need friendship so long as we attain enough personal power? Did Arianrhod or Aurelia Le Guin need friendship to kick so much ass? Sure, maintaining bonds with our pokemon makes sense, it makes them stronger. But do other people need to enter the equation?

Not that we won't be making friends and allies I mean, it's just that I don't think other people are actually necessary as more than target practice.
 
Like, I'm not against friendship. But we're already spending our social time this turn withcour family, and it seems very undriven of Mariana to get into trainer school and get her first pokemon and put no effort into preparing either.
 
Do we really need friendship so long as we attain enough personal power? Did Arianrhod or Aurelia Le Guin need friendship to kick so much ass? Sure, maintaining bonds with our pokemon makes sense, it makes them stronger. But do other people need to enter the equation?
For the record, I don't entirely disagree, and would be 100% barrelling down that path had Noble or Villain BG's won, but Arianrhod probably isn't the best example when she's famously lost to groups of people with tight bonds several times, like the SSS on Stargazer (?) Tower, or Class 7 during the Rivalries (Not to mention Duvie, who was fighting for her bond with Arianhrod, which anime logic, means she's stronger).

But Aurelia, to counter that, is probably a great example because she really is just too strong to fail and also never made any bond to begin with so she didn't have an Duvie's to kick her ass on the last second.


EDIT: So as long as we follow Aurelia's example and make NO FRIENDS to try and pull us onto the path of friendship/off the path of power, then it can work! (Unfortunately, our best friend already exists, so)
 
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Slight Update
I miscounted how many full weeks there are in July 2022 (Which is the year the in-quest year will be based on). So Fundamentally Fundamentals will instead last 4 Turns.

Your first Field Exercise will be from Aug 2-5
 
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Not to be pedantic, but FE happens on last weekend of the month, wouldn't that be Jul 30-Aug 1?
Gyms are still closed in July, opening up for the Yearly Circuit in August. Delaying the FE by a few days because its mostly during Field Exercise where you'll get free opportunities to challenge Gyms without spending AP during regular turns. The FE at the end of month adjust itself at the end of August. With FE 2 being August 29-Sep 1
 
Do we really need friendship so long as we attain enough personal power?
"Do we really need close relationships?" they ask about the nomad child that was raised by the entire extended family and is already preemptively missing her home before she even left.
:V
Especially since we'll presumably involve other people in the whole suppression business anyway. I don't think it's necessary for it to be us who teaches their pokemon the suppression move. We're already heavily invested in CHRM, so why shouldn't we make use of that, rather than trying to do everything ourselves.
 
Do we really need friendship so long as we attain enough personal power? Did Arianrhod or Aurelia Le Guin need friendship to kick so much ass? Sure, maintaining bonds with our pokemon makes sense, it makes them stronger. But do other people need to enter the equation?

Not that we won't be making friends and allies I mean, it's just that I don't think other people are actually necessary as more than target practice.
You know, that's a great question. Let's ask the Trails characters who obtained great personal power without relying on their readily available bonds of friendship as well.

Loewe? Oops he's dead
Arianhrod? RIP
McBurn? Well he's alive right now but his revenge quest is not looking promising.

Like I'm not voting for the friends only plan either but this whole post is just such a deep and abiding misread of Trails's genre, without even getting INTO the fact that this is a Pokémon crossover, that I can't not comment on it.
 
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