If he ponders the issue of his new catch's dearth of good ranged options and the in-universe Pokedex database on Mawile is informative, that could well lead a trainer like Paul to calculate an optimal move set and conclude that Flash Cannon is indeed the way to go, and if he does happen to have the TM for it on hand already, I should think there a good chance that he might use it right quick.
The question is whether or not TMs even exist in the anime-verse, as we've never seen them in the main series. If Paul isn't using TMs however, then he's clearly teaching his Pokemon TM-only moves through some other method anyways, so it's likely he has
some way of going about teaching moves regardless.
Fine with me, but you're committed. If you die, it's misdreavus. No throwing a sheet over your head and calling yourself mimikyu.
(Mismagius, uh, might be my favourite pokémon.)
Mimikyu would also be somewhat fitting, if just because it shares the fairy typing, but Misdreavus would allow me to stay in keeping with the yokai theme of Mawile (being based off yokai themselves), which would make it too perfect of a choice to not pick. So rest assured, if the proposed event ever does happen, there will be no takebacks.
(And if it doesn't, it may just happen in an omake anyways, because despite being about Mawile!me dying, this is a kind of fun train of a thought.)
Misdreavus is a fine choice, once you evolve you get a spiffy hat!
And magic! Like,
actual magic according to its pokedex entries, not just moves pretending to be magic. Maybe one of them is where Lily picked it up from.
I've heard that middle school deviant art accounts have birthed horrors beyond the ken of regular men, im just happy that during my time at that age i was too busy roaming the forests around my home with my friends and smacking things with sticks while pretending to be knights on a quest. Because im pretty sure the only thing i would have produced would have been massive amounts of CRINGE.
Honestly, I'm really thankful for my early deviantart days. Like, yes, I started out posting drawings that a six-year old could have done better, but the "fakemon community" was (and still likely is) incredibly nice, and I have a lot of really fond memories of that time. I probably even wouldn't be writing this if I hadn't found DA in fact, since art is in large part what led me to reading fanfiction, and thus to writing my own. So I'm pretty happy I stumbled across it when I did.
So... I can't help but think about the fact that Mawile and Sableye are a version-exclusive pair, and one in which they have an awful lot in common with one another. Is Sableye the dead-but-not-gone version of Mawile?
...prrrrrrobably not? They do have some things in common (ex. their habitat, their general size, and possibly their propensity for munching on gemstones if that one Mawile from Pokepark was a typical example), but their body shapes and habits are a tad too different for me to buy the idea. You could certainly stretch the connection to that point I think; there's plenty to work with, but I personally don't think I would.
I'm reminded of a particular very scary faerie in The Dresden Files notable for her iron teeth. I'm going to laugh, though, if someone really does try warding off our scary little Mawile with iron for latching onto the Fairy-type part in and trying to get creative in a panic only for her to just... eat it.
They then pull out salt, and that gets eaten too, while Mawile!me is just enjoying the meal.
Well, to be fair, the other pokemon did all run away out of fear. Still, this fic hasn't exactly deviated from the theme in that regard. Ooh, what's that smell? *SNAP* Why is everyone else such a jerk? *SNAP*
...fair enough.
Paul could indeed genuinely change for the better, but that probably won't actually come in time for that uncertain possibility to be deemed a relevant factor even if written communication does allow some degree of better understanding.
Paul is indeed highly unlikely to suddenly just stop being the person he currently is. Change is slow for him in the show, to the point that is barely noticeable even at the end of it - to shock him out of that sort of attitude immediately, it'd have to be something really, REALLY impactful.
Paul doesn't consider her a person at all
True... though, it should be noted that Pokemon just in general tend to get called "it" by people living in the poke-verse, even when they've been with someone long enough that the person should reasonably know what sex they are, so even the default way of referring to Pokemon tends to be rather dehumanizing.
I have difficulty envisioning how Ash would react to that, he ha never really been that great at his mopey old friends going from zero to VENGEANCE in the span of a half-second realisation.
I'm not sure if Ash has ever had to deal with a scenario like that exactly, but I can imagine what his reaction would be - throwing himself directly into the fray in an attempt to stop anyone from getting hurt. Which he'll likely manage to emerge from mostly unscathed, despite all logic insisting he shouldn't.
third: the author has specifically gone at length on how that will not happen, as much as you seem to think it will.
Yeah, really. I feel like I need to get the next chapter done ASAP, if just to make some people stop talking about certain scenarios with Paul as though they're a foregone conclusion.
This will likely be when she next reaches a town, or pokemon centre, but could be as soon as she sees another trainer.
Hell, it could even be sooner --- a large part of the reason for not trying to brave the wilderness right now is just because of lingering injuries, which Paul has partially fixed twice (which is honestly nicer than I was originally thinking of writing him), but not entirely, as potions aren't instant miracle cures in the anime. If Mawile!me ever manages to get back to full strength without Paul's "training" immediately undoing what healing he's given me, leaving will likely very rapidly become more appealing.
Just... ignore the fact that it took me about a week fortnight month to pitch in.
No worries! Glad to see you here Hillo.
Is this SI perceptive enough to realize that they would be written into this exact situation? I generally assume not, unless they start thinking about the problem from a meta perspective, like "Hm, maybe I wrote myself into this exact situation."
I mean, if I was being
completely honest in my SIs, there might be a scene in each one of them wondering as much fairly early on. I don't want to write that same sort of scene over and over again however, especially as it would generally distract from more specific, relevant thoughts on the situation, so I tend to just not bring the subject up. No real need to get
too meta, even for the ones that are deliberately supposed to be.
A cursed existence, Dunsparce is.
And going by their expressions, they know it too.
The egocentrism is strong with this one.
Eheh, does it come through that obviously? ^_^;
Can't say I didn't see this coming...
Read the tags, did you?
On a related note, it's odd how few humanoid Pokemon SIs I've seen, even though there are so many to choose from.
I'm with you; seems like with the sheer variety of Pokemon there are we'd see it more often, but the closest anyone really gets to that most of the time is like, pokemon transformation stories, which are uh... not generally very high quality, even when they aren't creepy. I guess it's just that Pokemon lends itself so well to wish fulfillment SIs, rather than the more "subversive" SIs you occasionally see... or perhaps it's more that the people most likely to write in the Pokemon universe are also more likely to be writing for wish fulfillment's sake. Possibly both.
I know nothing about PMD, so I have yet to learn what you mean by that. Aren't I lucky?
Er. Well...
you know how Darkrai in the tenth movie is portrayed as just being misunderstood? Well, in Explorers of Time and Darkness, he not only is responsible for a future where time has literally been destroyed, but when you manage to eventually fix that by beating up Primal Dialga, he then sends Palkia after you instead. Not to capture you alive or anything, no, he just straight up intends to kill you with a literal god. Then, when that fails too, he pretends to be Cresselia, and attempts to convince you to kill YOURSELF. All this for the sake of dragging the world into an infinite nightmare, which we see a rather horrifying example of in the actual gameplay. There is mention of body/corpse possession, the implication of slow death by Fury Swipes being commonplace in the bad future, and at one point you really DO die - like, yeah, you come back, but that doesn't change that you do in fact straight-up die. The first two sets of PMD games did not mess around - this fic in comparison is likely to be WAY more lighthearted, even in the long run.
Distasteful jokes aside, I do appreciate how you use the trope to establish conflict and drama.
Funnily enough, it wasn't really something I intend/ed this fic to revolve around. It just happened to become a primary topic because I picked Mawile as the Pokemon to SI as, it being one of my favorite non-legendaries, and then considered what the most likely scenario would be for one dumped into a biome not really meant for it. I did at one point actually consider using Hattena instead, but decided that a story about someone who can't shut out the emotions/voices in their head could quickly become frustrating to both write and read (despite that having a remarkable parallel to my real-world hypersensitivity to sound), and I'd had the thought of a Mawile SI in my brain for too long to renege on it anyways. Hence, here we are.
Too, given where the incident with the Ursaring occurred, Professor Rowan in Sinnoh's "starting town" shouldn't be terribly far away, actually
True... to a degree. However, aside from a certain other issue, something that I think a lot of people may be forgetting is just how much
space there is between cities in the anime (as would naturally make sense). Keep in mind that in the games, a route from one of the starting towns to the next might take maybe half a minute to pass through, assuming no battles occur to interrupt you. In the anime however, the same route will take
days, if not
weeks to pass through, and generally isn't even a straight line.
This is Route 202 in the games, while
THIS is a
small section of it in the anime. The rest of it includes fields, hills, and multiple forests, including the one Mawile!me has been stuck in for a week. It's crucial to remember that outside the context of the games, the regions are in fact
regions, large enough that they take people many months to fully explore/cross on foot.
...now add on that you're two feet tall and have a giant set of paperweights attached to your head, and perhaps the problem with the idea of "just leave and walk your way to the nearest city" begins to become more apparent.
Though the fact that he lives on an isolated island might bring the story to a standstill. Could train with him for a while during a timeskip, but ughhhhhh screw timeskips.
Yeah, I'm not fond of timeskips that last longer than maybe a couple hours to a day either. Don't expect to see any in this story barring some truly unavoidable circumstances.
