Simple as typing "Dancing Mawile gif" into an image search.
Sadly, there doesn't appear to be a version without those off-white artifacts surrounding it, but it's still quite cute, no?
Mawile cute nature will kill us
Literally
At this point I'm starting wonder if I should perhaps just make a dedicated Mawile gif folder. Every one I've seen so far has been utterly adorable... and that Filia and Samson impression; nice.
Yes, the symbiotic relationship between a Pokemon and their porter Trainer.
The Pokemon has incredible fighting abilities and exotic powers.
The Trainer has thumbs and a carry-all for stuff.
Yet somehow, the trainer ends up as the one with the better end of the deal in most cases. Something seems off about that...
Visited the link that OP mentioned, turned out to have a ton of disturbing information regarding Pokemon eating other Pokemon, Pokemon eating other natural non Pokemon creatures we see very little of in the games and anime... And even random stuff I forgot about in the original anime about people eating Pokemon.
Apologies if I unintentionally forced you to cast off your blissful ignorance. ^^; If it makes you feel better, just assume that the instances of Pokemon eating other Pokemon only applies in the games, not in the anime - though, not that's not the way I'm interpreting it here, if that wasn't already obvious.
While visiting the Canalave Library, it is revealed in the Sinnoh Folk Tales that Pokémon caught from the sea are eaten, and then the bones thrown back into the water. It is also mentioned that the Pokémon that were eaten will return fully fleshed.
Uh. What? Are Pokemon actually immortal or something? Or was this entry just a local folk tale designed by the sick bastards eating random fish Pokemon to make them not feel bad?
Well, it is a book of folk tales, and as others have noted, it mirrors a lot of real-world traditions from other cultures, so it's probably not meant to be taken completely literally. Though, if it is, perhaps we should posit some unknown deep-sea legendary that takes the bodies of the Pokemon whose bones/remains are returned to it, then retrieves their souls and reincarnates/births them anew? Sounds like a pretty cool concept, honestly. Xerneas and Yveltal represent life and death, but they're hibernating most of the time, and while I've seen Giratina placed in the role of "keeper of the dead" before, it doesn't officially have any role in the Pokemon cosmos beyond having been banished to the reverse world, so a legendary that's (supposedly) in charge of reincarnation would be quite interesting.
I blame all the Decapitations going on at the time.
Seriously, every single thing?
Off with their heads. Seriously.
Ritual Suicide? Cut stomach, second chops off head.
Enemy warlord, bandits, brigands, etcetera. Bring me their heads as proof.
Battlefields full of corpses? Bury their heads for honor reasons, burn the rest to save space and spare us from disease.
Ancient Japan had more of a fascination with heads than the Queen of Hearts!
Good point - makes me wonder if perhaps we'll eventually just get a living guillotine Pokemon or something. It wouldn't surprise me... in fact, it'd surprise me more someone on DA or the like hasn't already made that.
Everyone shitting on Paul's training methods should probably take a moment to remember that this is an Anime reality and there is in fact every possibility that Training From Hell methodology not only works, but can produce the best results when combined with a sufficiently unrelenting refusal to give up.
Indeed, with the power of the Pokemon anime, nearly anything should possible, as seen with some of the more absurd episode plots. Speaking of which, why haven't any shown up in this fic yet? Let's get that ball a-rolling! I want to see human-to-pokemon transmutation spells! I want to see time travel via a Rotom-enhanced hotel elevator! I want to see some ancient king's spirit be freed from his tomb and immediately possess the main character! Come on now, chop chop me! It's bound to happen eventually, so you might as well get it out of the way now!
(Funny thing is, some of those weirder episodes genuinely are some of my favorites. I have a real soft spot for the Pokemopolis episode from the original series in particular.)
Oh I'm not saying that Paul himself is any good as a Pokemon Trainer, just that being repeatedly electrocuted doesn't actually improve a Pokemon's electricity resistance is not an assumption I would make without experimentation; because in an Anime setting there is every possibility that it does.
I think electrocution would be more of a problem than what Paul did here, as that would imply Mawile!me was actually dead by the end of it.
Pedantry regarding English's lack of an appropriate word in the case aside, there should be a bit more of an explanation for this training method next chapter, for which I'll only say that Paul prefers to do things as efficiently as possible.
if I had to name a mawiles evolution if it did I would call it
Faemaw and willing to spitball would keep the typing though its look far example is that I would make Faemaw three times taller then its previous form could have two more hair tendrils and like its mega, it has two horn maws while two long tendrils one from each shoulder with smaller slavering maws those maws have eyes could be semi-intelligent could have a halo of floating metal that surrounds it used to make a shield against attacks also could have kind of Kimono also could have the ability levitate
what do you think
@Flairina
Sounds pretty close to the
Fhaneater fan-evo brought up earlier in the thread, albeit rather more detailed. The name would need some workshopping, and I don't think the halo of metal is at all necessary, but it could potentially work with some simplification. Or even just as is, if given decent enough reason for the complexity - extremely radical changes during evolution do happen in Pokemon, especially for ones with more esoteric requirements (ex. Feebas->Milotic, Meltan->Melmetal) or ones with wildly diverging evolutionary lines (ex. Snorunt->Glailie/Froslass, Cosmoem->Solgaleo/Lunala).
