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Trails of Tera Steel (Kiseki-inspired Pokemon Academy Quest)

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[X] Elise Montenix: You met her while changing stations in Zapapico. A girl with dark skin, long dark blue hair and turquoise eyes from Montenevera. You find that she's a kind and sociable person. Mid-conversation, the long curved sword in a sheath that she was carrying along with her luggage suddenly stood up. The blade peeked out from its sheath and a blue eye on the base of the hilt opened and stared at you.
 
[X] Elise Montenix: You met her while changing stations in Zapapico. A girl with dark skin, long dark blue hair and turquoise eyes from Montenevera. You find that she's a kind and sociable person. Mid-conversation, the long curved sword in a sheath that she was carrying along with her luggage suddenly stood up. The blade peeked out from its sheath and a blue eye on the base of the hilt opened and stared at you.

A ghost friend for our ghost!

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[X] Nickname: Missile
 
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LiquidOoze said:
Looking at Bulbapedia, a Master Ball could possibly look dark blue under the right lighting. The M could be easily hidden.
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Looking at the more niche types of pokeball, the ones that feel closest to "dark blue" are a Beast Ball (concerning in a way) and a Dark Ball (this is completely different from a Dusk Ball and exceptionally concerning).

Some balls can also easily look "dark blue" if put inside a Ball Capsule to add a special effect when the pokemon comes out, which would be an interesting personality quirk for a character. Here's what the anime showed a standard pokeball looking like in one of those.
 
[X] Ostia: You met them (a boy? girl? you really couldn't tell) while you were transferring stations to the Levincia High Speed Rail. They looked barely older than Tamara and they seemed sad and all alone with just a Beldum as company. Unable to stop your older sibling instincts, you decide to keep them company. They played and were enthralled with Dreepy which kept them happy and distracted for a while. The Beldum, if your eyes weren't playing games on you, seemed to be grateful.

Reanlise made a strong showing in my mind but adopting the horrible tykebomb (probable) won out in the end.

[X] Nickname: Missile


View: https://youtu.be/Csp_OABIsBM?si=7kPzJiVQWDTOaNIl

(It's also a Ghost Trick reference but I don't know who else remembers Ghost Trick)
 
[X] Nickname: Roland
[X] Elise Montenix: You met her while changing stations in Zapapico. A girl with dark skin, long dark blue hair and turquoise eyes from Montenevera. You find that she's a kind and sociable person. Mid-conversation, the long curved sword in a sheath that she was carrying along with her luggage suddenly stood up. The blade peeked out from its sheath and a blue eye on the base of the hilt opened and stared at you.
 
Nerdorama said:
Nickname: Missile
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While I will always prefer Roland I will not be mad if Missile wins, if only because of all the Missile jokes that are possible.
Mariana: Missile knows where he is from where the enemy isn't.
[First Friend]: ...Isn't it meant to be where he is from where he isn't?
Mariana: No, because he knows where he is based on where the enemy is.
[First Friend]: How come?
Mariana: Because with any luck, Missile is also where the enemy is. Using Extreme Speed, repeatedly.
 
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Hmmm, Great Ball is definitely Blue, and the lighting can make it dark blue, a Master or Dark ball, would only look dark blue if the lighting is really weird, which it isn't, but heavy ball can also be it with it's nub things that protrude from the top half of the ball, and Beast ball is mainly Dark blue with Neon blue highlights.

Edit: and considering the weirdness around them, it may actually be a Beast Ball with a baby Pokémon like Poipole.
 
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[x] Nickname: Missile
[x] Ostia: You met them (a boy? girl? you really couldn't tell) while you were transferring stations to the Levincia High Speed Rail. They looked barely older than Tamara and they seemed sad and all alone with just a Beldum as company. Unable to stop your older sibling instincts, you decide to keep them company. They played and were enthralled with Dreepy which kept them happy and distracted for a while. The Beldum, if your eyes weren't playing games on you, seemed to be grateful.
 
Great Ball matches the description the best, but at the same time, I feel we can probably cross that off because, why bother hiding a Great Ball. Even if someone saw it you just shrug it off and say it's a second Pokémon.

Master Ball, Dark Ball and Beast Ball are the one's you'd really want to hide, but at the same time have other visual descriptors you'd probably mention, such as Master Ball being a shade of purple, not blue, Dark Ball being Black, and the Beast Ball being covered in LEDs.

It feels like the "Ball that we simply don't know about" might be the answer. Unless it's like... a Tera Orb under the right lighting? Since Tera Orbs are at least transparent so going from a Black to a Dark Blue is more feasible then a Master/Dark Ball.
 
[X] Elise Montenix: You met her while changing stations in Zapapico. A girl with dark skin, long dark blue hair and turquoise eyes from Montenevera. You find that she's a kind and sociable person. Mid-conversation, the long curved sword in a sheath that she was carrying along with her luggage suddenly stood up. The blade peeked out from its sheath and a blue eye on the base of the hilt opened and stared at you.

[X] Arrow

Ghost sword wielder? Neat! Maybe it's named Millium.
 
[X] Ostia: You met them (a boy? girl? you really couldn't tell) while you were transferring stations to the Levincia High Speed Rail. They looked barely older than Tamara and they seemed sad and all alone with just a Beldum as company. Unable to stop your older sibling instincts, you decide to keep them company. They played and were enthralled with Dreepy which kept them happy and distracted for a while. The Beldum, if your eyes weren't playing games on you, seemed to be grateful.

[X][Nickname] Feya
Although Tanis also sounded nice
Edit: name got no traction so we'll go with what I'd rather see.
[X] Nickname: Roland
 
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[x] Nickname: Missile
[x] Ostia: You met them (a boy? girl? you really couldn't tell) while you were transferring stations to the Levincia High Speed Rail. They looked barely older than Tamara and they seemed sad and all alone with just a Beldum as company. Unable to stop your older sibling instincts, you decide to keep them company. They played and were enthralled with Dreepy which kept them happy and distracted for a while. The Beldum, if your eyes weren't playing games on you, seemed to be grateful.

You see, the missile knows where it is from where it isn't...

Anyways, I feel almost obligated to chose the androgynous first friend. Also, help the younger kid, be big sister that they will almost certainly get a crush on.
 
[x] Nickname: Missile
[x] Ostia: You met them (a boy? girl? you really couldn't tell) while you were transferring stations to the Levincia High Speed Rail. They looked barely older than Tamara and they seemed sad and all alone with just a Beldum as company. Unable to stop your older sibling instincts, you decide to keep them company. They played and were enthralled with Dreepy which kept them happy and distracted for a while. The Beldum, if your eyes weren't playing games on you, seemed to be grateful.
 
[X] Nickname: Missile
[X] Elise Montenix: You met her while changing stations in Zapapico. A girl with dark skin, long dark blue hair and turquoise eyes from Montenevera. You find that she's a kind and sociable person. Mid-conversation, the long curved sword in a sheath that she was carrying along with her luggage suddenly stood up. The blade peeked out from its sheath and a blue eye on the base of the hilt opened and stared at you.
 
[x] Nickname: Missile
[x] Ostia: You met them (a boy? girl? you really couldn't tell) while you were transferring stations to the Levincia High Speed Rail. They looked barely older than Tamara and they seemed sad and all alone with just a Beldum as company. Unable to stop your older sibling instincts, you decide to keep them company. They played and were enthralled with Dreepy which kept them happy and distracted for a while. The Beldum, if your eyes weren't playing games on you, seemed to be grateful.
 
[X] Elise Montenix: You met her while changing stations in Zapapico. A girl with dark skin, long dark blue hair and turquoise eyes from Montenevera. You find that she's a kind and sociable person. Mid-conversation, the long curved sword in a sheath that she was carrying along with her luggage suddenly stood up. The blade peeked out from its sheath and a blue eye on the base of the hilt opened and stared at you.
 
Sakamander said:
Great Ball matches the description the best, but at the same time, I feel we can probably cross that off because, why bother hiding a Great Ball. Even if someone saw it you just shrug it off and say it's a second Pokémon.

Master Ball, Dark Ball and Beast Ball are the one's you'd really want to hide, but at the same time have other visual descriptors you'd probably mention, such as Master Ball being a shade of purple, not blue, Dark Ball being Black, and the Beast Ball being covered in LEDs.

It feels like the "Ball that we simply don't know about" might be the answer. Unless it's like... a Tera Orb under the right lighting? Since Tera Orbs are at least transparent so going from a Black to a Dark Blue is more feasible then a Master/Dark Ball.
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Yeah, it honestly may be, like someone said/joked earlier, the new Orbal ball, or it is a new ball type specific to their land, or like is CS, a certain type of people have special abilities and that may require them to use a specific type of Mon that needs to be caught in a special Ball.
 
Oh right setting stuff:

Conflating Tera Gems with Quartz, and Terastal Energy with Orbal Energy, is low-key the cleverest part of this crossover, since both are a sort of hard magitech heavily associated with the local elemental system (the seven elements of Zemuria and the Pokémon Types here). It's also interesting to see that Galar is the other major Tera-tech power: did their canonical exploitation of Dynamax energy get absorbed into a more universal system to better fit the Trails crossover? It's what I would probably do if I was writing this.

Also kind of curious what the international politics look like here compared to Trails. Obviously Paldea is Erebonia, with its competing factions of Nobles (Nobles), Nationalists (Osborne and Pals?) and Republicans (ILF and their sympathizers?). The Great War mentioned here doesn't have a direct equivalent in Trails - it could be the Hundred Days War, but the timing is different and so too are probably the causes and results. Also we don't know who it was fought against, or if Kalos and Galar are direct stand-ins for Zemurian states (although I could certainly connect them to Calvard and Liberl respectively just through political theming as a republic and obvious rival to Erebonia (the France) and a smaller but exceptionally scrappy constitutional monarchy (the England In A World Where Colonialism Isn't A Thing).)
 
Nerdorama said:
It's also interesting to see that Galar is the other major Tera-tech power: did their canonical exploitation of Dynamax energy get absorbed into a more universal system to better fit the Trails crossover? It's what I would probably do if I was writing this.
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Side thought: If Dynamax is still a thing on this universe, seeing terastal induced giant pokemon would be super cool.

Another thought that popped up: I wonder if Eternatus is still a thing in this setting.
 
[X] Nickname: Roland
[X] Eri Merkit: You met her right at the station as you were leaving the highlands. It was the first time you met someone your age taller than you. Long black hair in a braid like yours with brown eyes, she is surprisingly gentle and polite despite her stature and later you found out her standing. You are having a conversation with what is essentially your people's Royalty. A bored looking Riolu carried half her luggage with ease while she carried the other half calling it training.
 
ArvisPresley said:
[] Elise Montenix: You met her while changing stations in Zapapico. A girl with dark skin, long dark blue hair and turquoise eyes from Montenevera. You find that she's a kind and sociable person. Mid-conversation, the long curved sword in a sheath that she was carrying along with her luggage suddenly stood up. The blade peeked out from its sheath and a blue eye on the base of the hilt opened and stared at you.
  • Your first friend in the Academy will be Elise Montenix
  • She is Minor Nobility. Adopted Daughter of the Baron of Glaseado-Montenevera
  • You'll be in the thick of it, both the conflict with the nobility and the mysterious powers besetting Paldea
  • Though as classmates you will still be in the thick of it just by default
  • Her Starter is a Honedge possessing a Tachi
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It's taken years of research. Beginning with Julia Schwarz and continuing on into the Schwarzer family. But with this combination of Schwarzer versions one and two, I think it has finally been achieved.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Schwarzest. We have reached peak Schwarzness.

Of course she has my vote.

[X] Elise Montenix

WrandmWaffles said:
Ghost sword wielder? Neat! Maybe it's named Millium.
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I think Ostia's the Millium-equivalent. Seemingly too young to be here, definitely mysterious, cheerful. Plus Beldum is a metal hand, and that's roughly what Airgetlam means anyway (Silverhand).

And I just realized what that joke was. Damn you. You monster.
 
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