Problem: Elekid is built for speed, and Mawile is not. I suggest you invest in high-priority moves.
Well, Mawile DO learn Sucker Punch eventually. Though how exactly that sort of move is likely to function, I can't say just yet.
What kind of kibble did Paul use? Is it really meant to be eaten by Mawile? Food for thought.
Quite literally, in this case.
Okay, but why did you go out of your way to avoid eating the can? If you can't digest it, there's nothing stopping you from
belching it out later.
Regurgitation on demand traditionally isn't a skill learned until one has the strength to withstand the harsh trials it puts on the body, and thus that knowledge must regrettably remain locked away for now.
And speaking of, whatever happened to the Benny omake?
Sadly, I had to make the call that it was just too short to qualify. While I hate to set a limit on that sort of thing, it's too confusing what I should or shouldn't threadmark if I don't have any rules in that regard, so omakes now need 100 words minimum to qualify as such. There's one exception over on SB, but only because I explicitly asked the person if they wanted that to be an omake, and I'd feel quite bad taking that down after basically outright telling them it already qualified.
You don't like bananas? Inconceivable! Are you taking Flairile's nature into account for
flavor preferences?
Not really. Natures likely won't be a thing in this story, simply because stats as numbers aren't really what I want to focus on here.
Is he trying to gauge how much his team has grown?
Not exactly, but you can probably intuit the real answer easily enough.
The way I see it, the Power of Friendship was not meant to be transformed directly into raw combat power in this manner. Which doesn't necessarily make it a bad thing, but you should truly want to unlock that power if you're going to use it, because it may have downsides. It's going Super Saiyan, with a dark twist.
Sounds about right, yeah.
No, a Trevenant just wanted to give you a big hug.
It was a rather LARGE Trevenant then, and while it's definitely dead now, I don't really think it was before. Either way, it clearly didn't know its own strength, because that was a very dangerous hug.
I really want to see Paul's reaction... but I'm not sure if such a thing has enough substance for its own chapter.
You're in luck then, because next chapter is a Paul interlude! I'm sure, based on the many glowing comments about him I've read and responded to previously, that everyone absolutely can't
wait for that.
Judging from the comments I had been seeing, leaving Paul wasn't abrupt enough. I would have been fine either way, but you definitely don't need to apologize for leaving him.
I'm not really apologizing for having Mawile!me leave him per se, so much as I'm apologizing for if this felt like too much of a sudden swerve in the opposite direction of what previous chapters implied. I tried to keep things sort of running down that track with Mawile!me's various thought processes, and I noted in a lot of out-of-story comments that something was liable to give between me and Paul fairly quickly, but I think a lot of people still got the wrong impression on the whole.
Now you get to spend all night curled up next to Paul's balls.
Eheh... I actually had to rewrite several different sentences for the exact purpose of making sure they
didn't get taken this way. ^^;
According to the dirt outside my tent...
...well, just make that planned interlude partially redundant, why don't you? Threadmarked!
Edit: Or maybe Chimchar wasn't his first pokemon? Idk don't really watch the series.
Paul has been through the Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn leagues already (though he's only now getting around to the Sinnoh one, despite having originally lived there to begin with), so no, Chimchar is not his first Pokemon. That was a Turtwig, which is a Torterra by the time we actually see it. Chimchar was picked up by Paul early on during his return to Sinnoh, as was Elekid, though we've no idea if he had the latter when he invited (yes, actually invited) the former to come along with him.
Paul is going to misinterpret the crap out of whatever she says, assuming that it was written by a human. No matter how obvious it is, he is going to come to alternate conclusions. Some fucker did this to him, not just to profit but to ruin (or at least fuck with) him, and he wants names and wants them to burn.
Not going to say if you're right or not, but you should keep in mind that Paul
has met Team Rocket at this point - just before entering Bewilder Forest proper, in fact.
"Maw. Mawile. Maw maw maw.
- Maw."
Pfft, nice.
Threadmarked! I almost labeled that as "Maw-ssage Not Received" actually, but we just had Maw-chopped, and I really must stop with the puns somewhere.
Is this the prelude to the pokemon version of a manhunt scene in a movie?
There is a distinct possibility...
If the flittering idea that Flairwile didn't take her own pokeball is proven correct, then his limit would be four. Ouch.
In that case, Paul could likely just break my Pokeball so it's no longer functional, or transfer it to Reggie without anything in it so he can have five Pokemon again (or if you can't transfer them without a Pokemon, just head over to Hearthome and hand it to him directly). The ball he
doesn't have on hand may indeed present something of a problem, however...
How does one normally respond to a flailing object suddenly appearing inside of and irritating their giant mulching jaws?
Good question! Generally one would think the reaction would be to spit out the flailing object, as that's the normal human response, but Mawile instincts may say otherwise, as I imagine flailing objects in the mouth isn't exactly an unusual thing for them. Thus, in my case, as a human/Mawile... er, hard to say, actually. Maybe just wait and see... though, hopefully not. ^^;
We're doing the PMD Explorers Mawile spinny dance now boys!
Hopefully without the accompanying confusion that traditionally comes from stepping on a spin trap.
Whew, glad you didn't end on a cliffhanger. That update stressed me out 😅
Really? Great! I was struggling trying to make the chapter appropriately tense, so if it felt stressful, I must have done something right.
"Okay, first step to a stealthy getaway; slowly, carefully, quietly, bite off Paul's head."
Ah, that would be the "they can't find you if they aren't alive anymore" style of sneaking, seen employed by a curiously large number of so-called "stealth" games.
We are now accepting bets on how long it'll be before she accidentally swallows her stuff!
Well, they are near the front of the mouth, which is over two and a half feet long. Thus, accidentally
swallowing them would likely be rather difficult - though, accidentally biting down on them might be significantly less so.
...Is this a sarcastic reference to something?
I think it was actually referring to the possibility of Mawile!me pulling a Hyphen and becoming a Pokemon-Trainer, which is to say a trainer who is also a Pokemon, and can therefore fight for themself. I could be wrong though, it was admittedly a little vague.
At most, I remember Ash in season 1 going all "I can catch a pokemon without any help!". Using only a stick, without hitting the pokemon, caught a Krabby. It was his 7th pokemon if I recall right and it was before Lt. Surge.
He did indeed do that - Misty criticized him for it the entire time, up until it actually worked. Then Ash promptly didn't use that Krabby until the Indigo League, at which point it immediately evolved into a Kingler and stomped "Mandy the Astounding"'s entire team without any help. That was one powerful Krabby to be taken down by a 10 year old with a stick.
Now, if Mawile put googly eyes and a fake mustache on her jaw-tentacles, maybe adding in a trenchcoat and a fedora, would the sheer absurdity of the disguise make people just... let it pass?
Absurd disguises in the Pokemon world DO have a disproportionate level of success, even when Team Rocket isn't involved. You just need a certain level of absurd, brazen confidence in yourself to pull it off, I think.
i'm... pretty sure many trainers who specialize in fighting types are known to physically fight pokemon. i distinctly remember something from the animes earlier seasons about a guy suplexing/being suplexed by a machoke.
If I recall correctly, that would be Chuck, the fighting-type gym leader who was weeping literal tears of pride for his Machoke's success at using Submission on him. You're also correct that while it's not necessarily a common thing, people fighting Pokemon isn't totally unknown... but that's mostly just
literal sparring, meant for martial combat practice rather than an actual fight. So, close, but not quite what my wandering train of thought was imagining.
