In my experience most authors tend to post relatively similar word counts per chapter, in your case that's around 3-4k.
So it's usually pretty easy to tell simple comment responses apart from that. If I don't feel like reading comment responses, I just ignore any notifications that aren't near that threshold.
As such, I've never had any reason to feel like you "talk too much". If you regularly responded with word counts similar to your chapters that might be a little annoying, but I doubt anyone reasonable is gonna get their hopes up that a notification with only 300 words is a chapter.
And in general the people you respond to almost certainly are happy that senpai noticed them!
Not bad for an off-the-cuff response. The only way to improve it would be "I've never had a trainer, but I used to live with humans." Perfectly true and misleading.
That girl isn't going to give up so easily. Stalker get?
I'm wondering if that might've been Zoey, the coordinator rival of Dawn's that had a Glameow from the DP season.
The description lines up but I can't remember her characterization enough to peg if that matched her behavior.
At the very least, what I do recall is she was a talented coordinator and seemed to treat her pokemon well so she'd be a massive step up from Paul all around if she decides to try to catch Flair.
Especially considering Flair already seems to have something of a knack for contest style combination techniques.
The girl in question didn't have much time opportunity to present her character. She was subjected to a full-force point-blank fake tears from a hungry mawile. The result was surrendering food while wanting to keep it forever and ever and ever. It may be easier to list the people who would behave differently.
I personally was mildly annoyed at first because I haven't involved myself in the thread discussion and kept going through OP posts that weren't updates.
I've since adjusted.
Beyond that, the thread is engaging with you and you're engaging with the thread, so as long as you're enjoying it then you should continue to do so. Thread engagement generally helps increase and maintain author motivation. So as long as it doesn't turn into a drain on you then, from a reader-who-doesn't-read-the-thread perspective, I would much rather have occasional 1k OP alerts that I know aren't the update rather than you lose interest and motivation for this story.
I always enjoy seeing what you have to say! Its always interesting so i say keep it up at your own pace! It always brings me back to read some of the new discussions so i enjoy it!
You at the very least post another chapter. There's another thread I'm in and the OP.... Like I wanna say it's been roughly 3 months since their last chapter but I got 'OP replied' recently a couple times. You're in the clear with me at Flair. Reply to what ya get the urge to reply to, it's all good.
As someone who pretty much just drops by to read the chapters - I don't really have much of a problem with it, because it's usually pretty easy to tell if the "OP replied" is a new chapter or a series of replies based on the wordcount. I just watch for thread replies that are in the 4-5k word range and know I have something new to read. You're no Ryuugi, responding to thread questions with a 5k word informational post every two days until the "informational" tab in the threadmarks is twice as long as the actual chapters. So personally, even if I'm not really interacting with the thread, I don't mind you taking the time to interact with your more dedicated readers.
I mean, I've been reading the threads (both of them) for omakes. So I'd probably read it anyway, and even if I was only interested in a chapter I'd know that it wasn't because SB/SV word counts were different .
Aye. Keep engaged. It's good to see, and it's really not a bother to tap on a posting and bounce if I realize whatever is currently discussed isn't part of what I'm here for.
In my experience most authors tend to post relatively similar word counts per chapter, in your case that's around 3-4k.
So it's usually pretty easy to tell simple comment responses apart from that. If I don't feel like reading comment responses, I just ignore any notifications that aren't near that threshold.
As such, I've never had any reason to feel like you "talk too much". If you regularly responded with word counts similar to your chapters that might be a little annoying, but I doubt anyone reasonable is gonna get their hopes up that a notification with only 300 words is a chapter.
And in general the people you respond to almost certainly are happy that senpai noticed them!
I always enjoy seeing what you have to say! Its always interesting so i say keep it up at your own pace! It always brings me back to read some of the new discussions so i enjoy it!
I personally was mildly annoyed at first because I haven't involved myself in the thread discussion and kept going through OP posts that weren't updates.
I've since adjusted.
Beyond that, the thread is engaging with you and you're engaging with the thread, so as long as you're enjoying it then you should continue to do so. Thread engagement generally helps increase and maintain author motivation. So as long as it doesn't turn into a drain on you then, from a reader-who-doesn't-read-the-thread perspective, I would much rather have occasional 1k OP alerts that I know aren't the update rather than you lose interest and motivation for this story.
Phew... that's very reassuring to hear from so many of you, particularly the ones who generally don't generally reply to this thread to begin with, as you're the people I'd assume to be most annoyed by it. These responses do certainly take a lot of time for me to type up, but I do greatly value the discussion they (sometimes) prompt, as well as just generally keeping the thread active, so I'm glad nobody has just outright said "it's annoying, cut it out". There's likely some response bias in play there, but since there seems to be a general consensus otherwise, both here and on SB, I shall indeed be continuing with these response posts.
Scar Beak was giving me some Hisoka from Hunter x Hunter vibes. Battle hunger, being off putting, taking a liking to someone interesting. Very broad strokes similarities and an interesting character to look forward to showing up in a future chapter.
Chimchar friggin coward, so what if there's a possibility of reaching terminal velocity?! It'd have been character building . Me!wile might attract Officer Jenny's attention of she gets too greedy. Leaving the Pokedex is risky but props for doing so.
Well, Chimchar being outside of his Pokeball would also have relegated Mawile!me and him to only one foot/seatbelt each, since it'd be hard for Scar Beak/the Staraptor to hold both of us at the same time otherwise. SInce this would have been even MORE terrifying, particularly due to how his talons would have had to grasp us (around the chests? around the necks?!), I honestly think this worked out better for everyone.
I really like your general character in this story. Mawile-you has a serious, but vaguely cheerful demeanour, so it's neither disgustingly cute nor morose. The fact that it's packed inside a cute pokemon makes it even more interesting.
Thanks! For as hard as I've been on Mawile!me so far, I'm still in a better position here than I am in either of my other SIs, so I can afford to not be so constantly panicked/stressed out for once. Thus, I finally get to show some other parts of my personality - which is, after all, important for any good SI.
Correct on the first part, incorrect on the second. Their super moves are "call police" and/or "send out own Pokemon", both of which could potentially pose serious problems for Mawile!me.
The "grit factor" of Pokemon has three settings for human characters:
1) You are in a filler episode, and so nothing can permanently hurt you.
2) You are in an episode starring the villainous team of the region, so you may get temporarily turned to stone, paralyzed, sprain/break something, or otherwise be semi-permanently taken out of the fight for a little while.
3) You are in a movie, and while you still can't be like, stabbed to death, the previous factors are still on the table, and you also probably need to worry about whatever is going to cause the apocalypse THIS time, and thus result in you dying by default if you don't stop that. Also, while YOU still aren't likely to die if you succeed, it is entirely possible that a semi-important Pokemon character will - not one of your team members though; they're safe.
[martial-arts voice] Only by becoming a True Master of The Way of the Scorpion can you overcome the yearning hunger within your heart! [/martial arts voice]
I wonder if the girl will be making a reappearance. With all the attention 'Wile is getting, people are likely to talk about her doings, and the girl might decide to do the junior-investigator thing...
Well, we have had locally-famous "wild" city Pokemon before - Scorbunny was one in the latest season, in fact. And since we have a vague timeline, episode-wise, of how long it took Ash and co to get to Jubilife after Episode 6... well, Mawile!me is likely going to be sticking around for a while. I'll let you draw your own conclusions from that.
Yeah, really! It's only supposed to take me like, twenty minutes to see everything and talk to everyone here, if that! The hell is this "logical city acreage" nonsense about?
I mean, people can't understand what I'm saying anyways, so Mawile!me genuinely COULD go up to someone and say this, assuming that it was accompanied by sufficient body language to still get the general sentiment across.
Appreciated, especially since the original title for this chapter actually got moved to next chapter, and this was the "backup" one I ended up with instead. Good to know it worked out regardless.
Hey, there was a fortunate event back in Chapter 7! So much so that I even named the chapter after it!
...of course, immediately afterwards I got stuck trying and failing to walk cross-country, and then realized I grabbed the wrong Pokeball, and then I got attacked by a giant Mawile-eating bird...
The girl in question didn't have much time opportunity to present her character. She was subjected to a full-force point-blank fake tears from a hungry mawile. The result was surrendering food while wanting to keep it forever and ever and ever. It may be easier to list the people who would behave differently.
I would like to note that I did tweak the girl in question's final line earlier. I was kind of rushing this chapter out the door to try and keep this fic on schedule (which apparently is now every other week rather than every week, because I'm just that slow), so some of the dialogue is slightly more "first draft" than I'd have really liked. Some of Chimchar's dialogue may also be slightly revised at some point, though I may not end up bothering with that. Fixing the same error on four separate sites is a BIG pain in the neck.
And now, a bunch of other, slightly late responses!
Well, with Team Rocket constantly following Ash around, I can guarantee that there will be at least three idiots in any given region the latter chooses to visit.
(I kid - as has been stated before, Team Rocket actually tends to be wildly success at literally anything other than their jobs. They're sort of like, reverse savants in that way.)
2) Unknown almost never do what they did in the movie. I'm not sure what that family did to get all those Unknown to break reality but it seems like its hard to start, but easy to stop. Not to mention they can't seperate your thoughts so you're more likely to screw yourself with a stray thought than be an untouchable god.
"Easy to stop" is debatable - I seem to recall it being extremely difficult to stop the Unown once they got started, to the point of it being the whole climax of the third movie.
Lets be honest. If every episode of the anime or manga was training then it'd be the dullest show in the world. If there is training it happens off-screen, just like how naruto has time skips from graduation to first mission to the exam. Only special training are shown cause mundane training is as boring as walking from one town to another.
Pokemon is brimming with joyous adventures, it's why the show flourished.
Er... Pokemon is like, at least 50% filler, to be perfectly honest. The episodes where Ash (or any of the supporting cast) are trying to teach their Pokemon a specific move or tactic are often considerably more interesting than the episodes where they just happen to wander into the character/Pokemon of the week, who will never be seen again past that particular encounter. I certainly don't blame them for having episodes like that, and it's not like a fair number of those filler episodes aren't entertaining, but they are still filler, at their core. It's why when I watched the XY season recently, I just skipped past most of those and watched only the episodes of actual long-term relevance, which I feel was a much better experience than if I'd just watched it straight through.
Threadmarked one and all! Hope you don't mind the names. I really like the idea behind the first one; that could be a story on its own, if perhaps a little less "constant" in the character's terror - Arceus probably isn't altering the world THAT fast.
It was actually meant more as a gradual timeshift, like a fast forward of events. Her Journey was supposed to last about 7 months.
But apparently the fast progression of time didn't come across as naturally as I wanted it to. Damn. I couldn't fit in narrotor statements on time without breaking the mood, so I hoped the background feeling and setting of long distance travel would do the job.
Now I want to A: do my own art of that, and B: somehow set up that glitch on an emulator while reading memory such that the song gets translated into an appropriate tracker format for ease of hypothetical remixing.
...it's... kind of making me hungry again, actually. Almost makes me want to bring my horns around and-
I squeeze my eyes shut and violently shake my head back and forth as though to physically fling that thought away. No, no, NO; what the hell am I thinking?! I couldn't take a bite of this guy even if I tried without dropping both the berry container and the Pokedex out of my mouth, and even if I succeeded, I'd go plummeting to my doom in very short order, as I literally noted aloud not long ago! I meant it when I said I'm not an idiot; don't do this to me Mawile instincts!
I reopen my eyes, only to jolt in surprise upon seeing the Staraptor staring directly into them, his head tilted down to look at me again.
Flairwile: Who knew that being a legbreaker for a pokemon gang would involve so few breaked legs? Okay, maybe that's because I'm more of a chompy type, and that would also explain why after the first fewtimes so few forgot to pay their debts, and al– Oh, look there, it's Ash! Finally.
I mean, people can't understand what I'm saying anyways, so Mawile!me genuinely COULD go up to someone and say this, assuming that it was accompanied by sufficient body language to still get the general sentiment across.
I mean, wasn't it exactly what you did in this last chapter? Okay, maybe you added an extra pitying quality to your body language, but the point still has a solid foundation!
Well, with Team Rocket constantly following Ash around, I can guarantee that there will be at least three idiots in any given region the latter chooses to visit.
(I kid - as has been stated before, Team Rocket actually tends to be wildly success at literally anything other than their jobs. They're sort of like, reverse savants in that way.)
The irony is that this could totally be a real Pokemon and no-one would even bat an eyelid.
Because apparently in the Pokeverse, Eldrich Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror = LEGENDARY RARE POKEMON GETIT!
If Cthulhu ever showed up in the Pokeverse it wouldn't be more than 5 minutes before he'd find himself under assault from a few dozen nigh-omnipotent Pokegods and an endless bombardment of Pokeballs trying to catch him.
And because this is the Pokeverse, one of those Pokeballs would succeed.
Hey, don't be mean to Meowth, he's only half an idiot.
Dude learned how to talk human all by himself. He's not even a psychic or aura user, he just learned that shit the hard way.
The irony is that this could totally be a real Pokemon and no-one would even bat an eyelid.
Because apparently in the Pokeverse, Eldrich Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror = LEGENDARY RARE POKEMON GETIT!
If Cthulhu ever showed up in the Pokeverse it wouldn't be more than 5 minutes before he'd find himself under assault from a few dozen nigh-omnipotent Pokegods and an endless bombardment of Pokeballs trying to catch him.
And because this is the Pokeverse, one of those Pokeballs would succeed.
Arguments like these that make me wonder if Team Rocket are really idiots, or if messing with Ash is just what they do for fun. You know, I'm half expecting Flairile to semi-accidentally get herself recruited by them just so that she can learn to talk properly from Meowth. Because she's sneaky that way.
That's Cthulhu's dirty little secret. All it really is is a Pokemon who escaped the madness. The effects it has in other universes are because it is a mid-level Water/Psi type.
Arguments like these that make me wonder if Team Rocket are really idiots, or if messing with Ash is just what they do for fun. You know, I'm half expecting Flairile to semi-accidentally get herself recruited by them just so that she can learn to talk properly from Meowth. Because she's sneaky that way.
On the one hand, Team Rocket are impossibly successful at everything except beating Ash; when they try and steal other people's Pokemon they usually succeed completely until Ash inevitably blunders into their scheme and brings it down around them.
On the other hand, they keep deliberately going after Ash and Pikachu despite this.
Are they idiots? Are they geniuses? The evidence suggests that wherever the line between genius and stupidity lies, Team Rocket are standing right on it.
I'm not even joking, Unown were partially inspired by the generation 1 glitch Pokemon, that's why they're so damn weird even by Pokemon standards. They're typed as Psychic, but they are explicitly stated to use an 'odd power' that no-one understands and is capable of warping\glitching reality in sufficient quantities.
I'm not even joking, Unown were partially inspired by the generation 1 glitch Pokemon, that's why they're so damn weird even by Pokemon standards. They're typed as Psychic, but they are explicitly stated to use an 'odd power' that no-one understands and is capable of warping\glitching reality in sufficient quantities.
That's Cthulhu's dirty little secret. All it really is is a Pokemon who escaped the madness. The effects it has in other universes are because it is a mid-level Water/Psi type.
The league shivered in fear. One had already broken rank and fled the horror before them.
"Cuddles, use scratch!"
A gargantuan formless limb rose from the shape they had been avoiding even glancing at. The Dragonite in question ceased to be, fragments of bone and concepts and scales spilling across the arena.
With an inexplicable delay, the sound of tearing flesh washed over them.
"So...", said Lance, as Bruno started giggling uncontrollably, " I think we should start Whitelisting Pokemon instead of Blacklisting in the future."
I wanna say it's been roughly 3 months since their last chapter but I got 'OP replied' recently a couple times. You're in the clear with me at Flair. Reply to what ya get the urge to reply to, it's all good.
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. Me!wile might attract Officer Jenny's attention of she gets too greedy. Leaving the Pokedex is risky but props for doing so.
