Jamie Roberts
Hávamál 127
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Something something, the friends you made along the way were inside you all along.
A Backwards Grin (Pokemon) (Mawile SI)
- Thread starter Flairina
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Something something, the friends you made along the way were inside you all along.
PDQ-88b Yes Man
"That's it! Make me take my medicine!!"
Literally in this case.
Bidoof is best baby child.
Farseer Sen'Zabl
Accolyte of 'Common Sense'
- Location
- Dome of Crystal Seers, Ulthwe
Given that Paul is somewhat experienced as a trainer and what he's shown of his preferred methods, I suspect he's had Pokémon try and escape before and probably isn't dumb enough to make escape quite so easy for her without realising it. Thus, I see three possible reasons Paul had no problem letting Siwile go hunting solo, despite it being the perfect opportunity for her to pull a runner.
1. He is confident in his ability to find her even if she runs; Mayhaps he can track his 'Mon with that Pokédex or something along those lines.
2. She genuinely intimidated him and he didn't want to see to what would happen if she was left hungry. Her jaws are pretty big after all, and his 'Mons probably wouldn't have had time to help him if she decided it was *CHOMP* time. He has seen what those jaws can do to an Ursaring after all.
3. He decided that given her seeming lack of combat ability, Siwile is more trouble than she's worth. Especially after that stunt, which showed that she may be willing to attack him if provoked. As such, he is hoping she'll run away so he doesn't have to deal with her.
1. He is confident in his ability to find her even if she runs; Mayhaps he can track his 'Mon with that Pokédex or something along those lines.
2. She genuinely intimidated him and he didn't want to see to what would happen if she was left hungry. Her jaws are pretty big after all, and his 'Mons probably wouldn't have had time to help him if she decided it was *CHOMP* time. He has seen what those jaws can do to an Ursaring after all.
3. He decided that given her seeming lack of combat ability, Siwile is more trouble than she's worth. Especially after that stunt, which showed that she may be willing to attack him if provoked. As such, he is hoping she'll run away so he doesn't have to deal with her.
Frozen Flame
Fragment of the Devourer
- Location
- The Darkness Beyond Time
Yes? That was the point. That Paul, despite being in poke earth with living pokemon, seems to treat them with the same care we give fictional ones.
I'm not really sure what you were trying to say here. This wasn't a dig at people's morality, just a comparison for clarities sake. What people would do if the games were real is largely irrelevant to what was said.
EDIT: Not trying to be rude, just confused as to what prompted the big rebuke.
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Flairina
Least Omnipotent Goddess
- Location
- The next infinity over
Ahhh, kind of figured it was something like that, but thanks for the clarification.
Meaning it would definitely fool Ash and co as well, and probably anyone with them at the time. The sheer number of paper-thin disguises that Team Rocket has fooled them with frankly boggles the mind - you'd think that eventually the quote-unquote twerps might start suspecting every trio of people they come across where one has red hair, one has
Yeah, I imagine it's basically like bringing your own private boat or plane with you everywhere you go, except that instead of having to do maintenance/refuel it/etc, you just make sure to provide it all the food it needs, and hopefully also being a good friend to it. I wonder if there are like, "Wailord Tours" in certain port towns, where instead of going out on a boat to see the whales, the boat is the whale, and what you're going out to see is everything else.
Is Sableye in Mawile's natural diet?
Well, they do have similar habitats... and inhabit the same regions... and they are probably some of the most conveniently sized prey Mawile are likely to commonly come across...
Oh, I know. The issue however is that while I have access to those lists, Mawile!me does not.
Good analysis though!Well, there are certainly ways to get such leverage... it just might not be as easy for Mawile!me as it is for Pokemon that, say, have arms exceeding roughly a foot in length.
I don't know, all that spinning should certainly be helpful balance practice at the least. Plus, there's also the fact that certain versions of Swords Dance in the anime are closer to "Swords Posing" than anything else...
The Doduo thing could at least potentially make sense, as IIRC, Fly was seen in one anime episode as being possible to define as just "a really big jump". The Wooper thing though, I have no idea. Maybe their tail is secretly an arm?
A good chapter, and I think a great way to bounce back from the previous chapter's dark mood. Thanks for sharing, eagerly awaiting the next one! Unless, of course, it goes back down the way that others describe your usual stories.
Thanks! As for how things are planned to progress though... well, we'll see. I can't be mean to myself ALL the time, right?
I imagine a leg like that also might might make traveling difficult to do over land, so if he wanted to continue his journey, he'd probably have to start getting around by way of the sea. Say, on a boat of some sort. But constantly paying money for cross-city rides wouldn't be that efficient, so he might just use his league savings to buy one outright, though due to the price he'd likely end up getting an older model. Maybe one made of wood, that uses primarily sails to get around rather than an engine...
Huh. It would be surprisingly easy to turn Paul into a pirate.
Mawile
Gotta pay off the Mawb.
...so I've heard, yes.
Mawile!me was never going to just roll over and accept something like this for long. Coming across that berry haven (which I conveniently did NOT have to make up, as it's actually based on anime-canon events) just helped speed things up a little.
I laughed, but the number of Pokemon that have been recruited/caught in the anime based solely on food-related reasons makes this more likely than you might think at first.
I'm a little surprised at the theorizing regarding what's going on with Mawile!me's voraciousness... not that it's happening, but more simply that nobody's nailed it dead on yet. I would actually think the answer to be quite obvious.
Mawile!me: Oh, right, what was I thinking? I have to weaken him first.
Everyone, as I leap forward with my horns raised overhead: No, WAIT-!
Possibly, yes. However, it's also entirely possible Ash is simply not aware that there is a map function. He's uh... never been the brightest kid.
In fairness, it's more simply the result of not eating for several days (or not tasting anything at least), and then suddenly biting into something from WIlly Wonka's chocolate factory. Oran berries have no real-world analogue, and are claimed they have a wondrous, multi-faceted flavor described as "Nature's gifts coming together as one". Sitrus berries meanwhile are almost three times the size of an Oran, and are described as being an improved version of them, not to mention because Mawile!me was hurt, they had a really soothing healing effect to eat. Hence the giddiness.
The former - I actually did write "amused" at first, but it didn't seem quite the right fit for the sentence, hence it's now bemused. Which does make it a bit confused I suppose, yes.
AKA, that one Team Plasma grunt that represents PETA even more directly than the rest of their gang.
You're not wrong; the only pet I've ever owned was a fish, and I wasn't all that great at cleaning out her tank on schedule - another reason this is a Pokemon-insert, rather than a trainer-insert. ^_^; I do own a lot of stuffed animals though, and they'd probably make a great thing to snuggle up to at night in this story. No easily available blankets means keeping hold of every source of heat you can.
That would be like, a supervillain-level move from the Ursaring's perspective. She finds out her son has been eaten, and when she finally tracks Mawile!me down again, I'm carrying around his likeness like some sort of horrid effigy. Ursaring cannot normally learn Outrage, but I get the feeling this one might manage it anyways, given that situation.
I mean, a human mind placed inside the body of a tiny fictitious creature and stuck in an equally fictitious world, both of which are already known to them from a multiple-decade-old media franchise IS a pretty ridiculous perspective in abstract, but I wouldn't really call it "insane". I'd like to think my perspective on things is decently logical on the whole, at least.
This is something I've had to wonder about lately as well. The move is thankfully only seen once in the anime proper however, so I have a lot of room to interpret it my own way should it ever become relevant to this fic.
(Also the Japanese name is apparently "surprise attack", so it may not have to be an actual punch, per se.)
Good to know - I questioned for a while if I should try to trim it down a little, even after all the other cuts and such, but I guess I'm glad I didn't.
Won't speak on this specifically, but if there is, expect it to be REALLY good water.
Entirely possible, maybe even likely given the range of flavors they have... but in this story, for the sake of simplicity, I'm probably just going to stick to calling them berries/fruits and boiling the bizarre tastes down to "it's a different world".
Perhaps we'll eventually find out.
I can help but notice this would also create the possibility of unscrewing the lid of a max potion and just straight up chugging it. Which in turn brings up the question, can a Pokemon overdose on berry concentrate?
That DOES sound evil. A bad Bad... that's twice the normal amount of bad!
I think this fic may already be graphic enough without adding in some sort of horrible Maw-ducken aspect. ^^;
If only the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon items existed in the normal anime-world. Lots of scarves/bands/capes/etc to choose from there!
Well, this was a nice thing to wake up to.
Threadmarked! I've titled that as "Maw-chopped" for the time being, but if you have a better one, feel free to tell me and I'll change it post-haste....on that note, I sadly ended up having to deleting the "Poor Benny" threadmark. I've determined that I'm definitely sticking to my 100-word-minimum rule for omakes from now on, and it just ends up being too confusing what I should or shouldn't mark as an omake if the first one listed directly contradicts my only real guideline on the matter. Sorry @Blaflaix.
I'll say now that it's not this - if Paul wanted Mawile!me gone outright, he'd just have recalled and released me on the spot. He's not shy about doing that, so he'd have no reason not to do so. Your other proposed possibilities however, I will neither confirm nor deny.
I don't think that was actually meant as a rebuke (unless @RusselsSilvrware explicitly says otherwise), so no worries.
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Remember
Zombie Desu Ka: mystletainn kick
Paul shout out Sucker Punch
Flairile do the act to punch and ended bitting them
Onmur
Archangel of Nutella.
Mawiles need to eat
You think Mawile can pick up some bottles to carry?
Farseer Sen'Zabl
Accolyte of 'Common Sense'
- Location
- Dome of Crystal Seers, Ulthwe
Interesting, so we can conclude that the cause of the hunger is probably nothing that we've really discussed yet in the thread, yet presumably obvious once thought about.
Hmm, best guess I've got is that Flairile is just really young. As in 'freshly hatched' young and is having some kind of growth spurt.
Yeah, he is quite prone to straight up releasing any 'Mon he decides isn't worth his time, so that one was always a touch unlikely.
Only way I could have explained that one would be that he wanted rid of her, but thought she'd potentially be too dangerous for another trainer to handle, so he was ensuring that she was uncatchable and thus less likely to end up in the possession of an unlucky newbie who had no idea how to deal with her.
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- Here
Speculation on hunger-cause, not previously mentioned that I recall:
We already know eating with the horn-mouth doesn't have a sense of taste. Maybe it's somehow less filling as well?
We already know eating with the horn-mouth doesn't have a sense of taste. Maybe it's somehow less filling as well?
Takareer
Words and feathers
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
My thought was that our Maw-based protagonist has something constantly "on" that's draining her energy. I hope that's not the case, though, as it would imply she might turn it off. I like hungry hungry Mawile!
Moonlit Lord
Ia Ia Shipping Chart Fhtagn
If you try and think of it via actual anatomy (laughable in a world where somehow electron currents is enough to generate the nutrients to support life), mawile's can be kinda..... weird. Unless there's a secondary digestive system, this means that any food will need to travel down the hairstalk and through/around the brain to get into the main stomach. That jaw strength is considerably more impressive when you consider that Mawile can eat their prey whole, bones included. Gonna have to be able to grind that into a fine powder if it does travel down into the main body.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
You can only get full if you sneak into people's good graces, pretend to be demure and not at all hungry, and then snack on all their rice in the middle of the night using both mouths?
Yokai sure are weird, huh.
Shirube
The Devil in the Details
- Location
- In the Details
The Japanese name is "fuiuchi", from "fui", which means unexpected, abrupt, surprising, that sort of thing, and "uchi", the noun stem of "utsu", a verb which I would probably translate as to hit. It has a lot of the same weird extension limits; like, you can use it for punching or slapping or whatever, and I'm pretty sure that you can use it for hitting with an implement, but I think kicking or headbutting probably wouldn't count (although intuitively I feel like Mawile hitting something with her maw would count for some reason?..), and I'm nearly certain things like biting, slicing attacks, and projectiles wouldn't. (It also has an array of increasingly weirdly specific secondary uses that probably aren't worth going into here. And to confuse things further there's a different word that means to shoot which is also "utsu", although it's written differently.) On the other hand, while I haven't heard it used, (not that I'm really ever in circumstances where I'd hear it used,) it's possible that fuiuchi has some degree of meaning distinct from the combination of its components, in which case it might not have the same limits as utsu. Or it might actually be using a totally different "utsu" than I'm thinking; a two-syllable word in Japanese is going to have more homophones than you can swing a cat at, especially once you take out tone differentiation. (The name of the move is written in hiragana, and homophones in Japanese are typically distinguished through their kanji.) Basically do whatever I guess?
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Higher intelligence requires more sustenance? it's one of the reasons humans eat so much. perhaps it's a lack of metals/iron in her diet she is a steel type after all though i'd assume paul would feed her the correct type of meal for her species.
Maybe it's to do with some kind of evolution that most mawiles just never come across? but i think it's probably one of the two.
Maybe it's to do with some kind of evolution that most mawiles just never come across? but i think it's probably one of the two.
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IvanDead
My bones are made of schadenfreude.
- Location
- Brasil
...How likely is the possibility of Mawile!you ending as an enforcer/leg-breaker of some mafia pokemon?Gotta pay off the Mawb.
Insane people rarely think of themselves as insane. But when in doubt, just say you have a blue-orange morality/mindset. Much better PR than insane.
I haven't gone back and checked, but none of the ones you quoted or the ones after your post listed this, so...
Is it much less effective to eat through the Maw on the back the of the head, rather than the normally positioned mouth you would use to eat regular food and taste it?
- Location
- America
Is the answer that she is eating with the wrong mouth?
Onmur
Archangel of Nutella.
Mawiles eat both iron and rock. They love Arons and Geodude, specially with ketchup.
This Mawile isn't eating such things because of human habits.
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- Here
You seem to have missed mine:
Though the "you need some amount of rock" was pretty close to one of my earlier ideas, and other people had said similar with metal, so that's not it.
J.I.M.S
BookWyrm
- Location
- Latveria
Her diet of meat was more significant than previously thought? Maybe not enough fiber? Maybe parasite from one of the Pokemon? Maybe some berry exclusive nutrient? Meat is more filling than kibble?
Or she's so a growing girl who's gonna EXPLODE in height (1.36 centimeters for the year).
JadeKaiser
Uninspired Custom Title
- Location
- Under Your Bed
I actually got the impression that a mawile being a huge eater is probably pretty normal. It's a pokemon specifically known and built around having a giant maw. You think it won't eat several times what its size would seem to indicate?
Moreover, it's quite likely that mawile are generally always hungry. The fact that Flairile is eating enough to actually get full on a semi-regular basis is probably unusual and may just result in her appetite steadily growing ever larger to match her intake. Or rather, to exceed her intake.
Moreover, it's quite likely that mawile are generally always hungry. The fact that Flairile is eating enough to actually get full on a semi-regular basis is probably unusual and may just result in her appetite steadily growing ever larger to match her intake. Or rather, to exceed her intake.
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Is it because they don't contain any or much of the nutrients she needs so she needs more?
Hmmmmm, Pokerus? seeing as vitamins = ev growth (or at least close enough) having a symbiote that doubles your GAINZ might double your appetite too.
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- Location
- Canada, probably
I like this one. I'm going to assume Flairile has Pokérus until further notice.