That is all well and good, but maybe you should keep up the restrictions on "trick"...
Nevermind...
A Backwards Grin (Pokemon) (Mawile SI)
- Thread starter Flairina
- Start date
- Location
- Here
Can confirm. The first part, anyway.
The response will be "Cool story bro" and the assumption they got jumped by a zigzagoon or a ghost type in a random alley, tried to catch it, and were dabbed on as if the pokemon actually wished them ill it could reasonably have seriously injured two grade schoolers. Shit like this probably happens all the time and is only taken seriously if people get meaningfully attacked.
- Location
- Somewhere other than where I am.
I hope that wasn't occupied...
Ah, but they'd be looking for a 'scary' pokemon, not a cutie-pie like Flairile.
Also, this.
hillo315
Intact but Tactless
- Location
- Somewhere. Somewhere else.
SV didn't eat my text before I could post it all yey
More to the point, I don't believe you can win an adventure bag with cuteness.
Every time Mawile moves her mouth without speaking, I wonder which mouth. Every single time.
This lady has good instincts, but she was fooled anyway. Not that it's a bad thing, in this case.
You are no mere stranger in a strange land, but a tourist on a grand tour! Sinnoh won't disappoint, I'm sure. Also, remember this?
Wild Youngsters appeared!
Aha. They're using Pokemon GO logic!
I have a bad feeling about this. Not the "mortal danger" kind of bad feeling, but the "risky idea that could easily go wrong" kind.
More to the point, I don't believe you can win an adventure bag with cuteness.
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Burned_Cookie
Very tired girl.
- Location
- Plato´s cave.
- Pronouns
- She/Her/It/Its
This chapter was mighty cute.
Then again I find Mawiles cute no matter what the situation, so perhaps that was a given.
Then again I find Mawiles cute no matter what the situation, so perhaps that was a given.
Yes, I'm glad you've finally come around to see things properly!
Flairina
Least Omnipotent Goddess
- Location
- The next infinity over
Mawile!me: I am the coolest Pokemon in this dollar store, and no one can say otherwise.
...well, I can't exactly say you're incorrect. Heck, that seems to largely be the case in the newest Pokemon series as well, so maybe this is just a feature of Pokemon cities in general. XD
Was bound to happen eventually! I was actually planning on saving that particular scenario for a different, later scene, but getting to use the "They run like they just met a monster in a dark alley, and the monster was me." line as a result made it too tempting not to use it here instead.
Good to hear! Perhaps both Mawile!me and the story itself needed a bit of a cool down before things get going in force again - though, hopefully that break won't overstay its welcome, given my current upcoming chapter plans.
Since the Pokemon in question would, at the time, basically just be pure energy in a convenient bite-sized form... yeah, sounds about right. Though, said snack may have also snapped my maw from the inside if it managed to reform from that energy state upon the ball being broken, which wouldn't have been a great scenario for anyone involved.
I think I'll stay quiet on that subject for now - though, I will say that any Pokemon rangers in the vicinity are likely to be from out of town, as rangers and trainers in general are apparently pretty region-exclusive. IIRC, Fiore, Almia, and Oblivia actually don't have trainers, period, and the inverse is true for most regions with trainers. Though, Fiore apparently is in the rough vicinity of Sinnoh (or at least, Sinnoh is the closest region where trainers are common), so I won't deny that there's at least a possibility of a ranger showing up...
If you've read virtually any of my stories before, you should know that there will pretty much always be another storm. The question is more how long the calm lasts. ^^;
That's a relief then. I did my best to make browsing the store seem at least relatively interesting - because I genuinely think that would be interesting, considering the key differences in the Pokemon world's tech and customers - but was so concerned it just came off as a slog that I was editing this up until the literal last minute. If it doesn't, then I succeeded in spite of my concerns.
Secretly, beneath my fleshy exterior resides something terrible indeed - a HUMAN SKELETON! AHHHHHH!!! 💀
(I'd post a pic of myself, but I don't actually have any recent ones, unless you want to see me looking like I just stepped out of the Matrix. ^^; )
Aww, thanks Qwerty! 🥰 I appreciate it... though in a battle of cuteness, I'm still never going to manage to beat this:
No, that's not good enough - I need to go full on Incognito. B)
It is whichever one you think it to be. Every single time.
Point - evidently even my SIs that stopped being SIs early in development retain some sense of wanderlust.
I mean, seems to work pretty well for Goh. But then, maybe that's just because of his name.
What about with a few sticky fingers?
As you should, because they are! As shown by just how how incredibly cute and heartwarming this story has been thus far.
...oh, and since @CorEagle wrote another long omake, commentary time!
Well, that's an interesting little triad - I guess the Shinx from last time had a real drive to move up in the world.
Correction, I said I was the leader In Name Only. Get your facts right, translators! :T
I found my happy place by making a happy place.
Huh, I'm a little surprised they showed that on TV. I mean, this is the Pokemon world; you'd have to expect that sort of thing to some degree, but they must be more relaxed about that sort of thing than I'd imagine.
...also, poor Benny. Can't get a break even in alternate universes...
Clefable!me, internally: '...also I'm pretty sure they're actually Revival Herbs, and I really want to keep those on hand in case I suddenly have to flee for being... well, not what you all seem to think I am.'
Clefable!me: "...or we can just block them behind a whole bunch of barriers and leave while they're busy trying to get through those. We don't have to jump straight to murder every time, you know."
Clefable!me, flatly: "Fierce, I do appreciate that you want to show off your new abilities, but summoning a thunderstorm is kind of contradictory to what I'm trying to accomplish here. You do realize this, right?"
As a guess at my thought process here: I know that Elder won't let me use any of these if he realizes what I have, and he'll rightfully call me out on it if I take all the candies for myself, so sharing them with everyone while pretending I don't know what they even are is my cover story to make sure I get at least a few of them.
Clefable!me, whistling innocently: "Wow, this stuff makes you more powerful... no way... I never would have guessed..." *whistles harder*
...okay, so maybe that didn't go quite the way I'd intended. ^^;
That was a pretty nice snippet/chapter! I quite enjoyed it.
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- Pronouns
- He, his, him, they
Thanks for the comments! Also, given by the fact you predicted my notes perfectly makes me think that I nailed your thought process accurately enough.
My thought process with the chapter was letting the humans properly react to the human-turned-pokemon's exploits. The 'common' people surrogate was the host, while the 'smart' people were represented by the professors. I think they'll come up with so many theories, which will lead into a scene explaining or disproving those claims humourously. For example, the Luxray. The theories they came up with the evolution speed were plausible, but they aren't sure. Then the rare candy scene came up.
Fun times, that.
...This makes me feel things that that are very confusing as well make me feel dirty.
My thought process with the chapter was letting the humans properly react to the human-turned-pokemon's exploits. The 'common' people surrogate was the host, while the 'smart' people were represented by the professors. I think they'll come up with so many theories, which will lead into a scene explaining or disproving those claims humourously. For example, the Luxray. The theories they came up with the evolution speed were plausible, but they aren't sure. Then the rare candy scene came up.
Fun times, that.
ww, thanks Qwerty! 🥰 I appreciate it... though in a battle of cuteness, I'm still never going to manage to beat this:
...This makes me feel things that that are very confusing as well make me feel dirty.
- Location
- Canada, probably
Flee, you fool! You're being taste-tested! RUN!Aww, thanks Qwerty! 🥰 I appreciate it... though in a battle of cuteness, I'm still never going to manage to beat this:
Unseelie
(Verified True Fae)
- Location
- Tír fo Thuinn
I would be fairly impressed, to be honest.
hillo315
Intact but Tactless
- Location
- Somewhere. Somewhere else.
Maybe it's intentional that those alleyways make more room for wild Pokemon? (And when it's not the alleyways, it's the sewers, gardens, ponds, and parks.) Finding a Mawile there is nothing short of miraculous, but I'd expect plenty of other cute scavengers like Rattata and toxic wastes like Trubbish, and maybe even the occasional Eevee or Snubbull. So I don't think those kids were wrong to search in random alleys of all places.
It depends on the Pokemon and the trainer, certainly. A pair of careless wannabes with normal Pokeballs and no Pokemon of their own, versus an aggressively freespirited Mawile? They were doomed to fail from the start.I mean, seems to work pretty well for Goh. But then, maybe that's just because of his name.
Oh. Yes, that's exactly what I was worried might happen. People might not suspect you of theft to begin with, but would they let you get away with it if they find out before you leave the shop? And how would that affect your reputation? Not impossible to pull off, but very risky.
Maybe you could get away with it if you swagger your way out with the bag as if you rightfully owned it all along.
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Professor Vesca
Good News Everyone!
I am actually surprised Paul put up with such an aggressively independent Mawile.
I think that he was blind-sided as much as anything. I doubt that he ever considered that a pokemon might just completely ignore hi position of authority. Rebel against it maybe, like the whole Charizard thing, but "you are literally not the boss of me" isn't something pokemon tend to do once pokeballs get involved.
- Location
- Somewhere other than where I am.
Looks like someone is about to lose their hand. At the shoulder. Either that or Mawile is waiting for them to bend down. Those are serious "I'm gonna eat your face" eyes.Aww, thanks Qwerty! 🥰 I appreciate it... though in a battle of cuteness, I'm still never going to manage to beat this:
No, that's not good enough - I need to go full on Incognito. B)
Correction, I said I was the leader In Name Only. Get your facts right, translators! :T
Shouldn't that be "GSV In Name Only"? And now I'm picturing Mind!Flarile holding a Gameboy and playing Pokemon 2100.
- Pronouns
- He, his, him, they
Funny thing about this actually...I said that this is actually true for my notes. Question for everyone, what kind of nature does a Pokemon had to have to like bitter flavors? And which, specifically, fits our goddess very well?
Here's a hint: Gentle, Calm, Sassy, Careful.
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- Location
- Here
Somewhat inconsistently, whether a Pokémon prefers bitter flavors has no effect on their reaction to herbal medicines. Which is honestly kind of a shame, even if admittedly the flavor-preferences were introduced a generation after the herbal medicine (3 vs 4). And they introduced Berries that do work that way (one for each flavor) in gen 3 as well, but didn't actually make them heal enough to be worth using until gen 7 (in gen 3 they healed for 1/8, only better than Sitrus for mons with over 240 HP, in gen 4, Sitrus got buffed to heal 1/4 so was just better, in gen 7 they got changed to heal 1/2 but trigger later than Sitrus for higher risk, in 8 they got nerfed to heal 1/3 but kept the late trigger).
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Crusader Jerome
Subsisting on Supplication
- Location
- My home away from Rome
I thought they heal 1/3 now. At least, that's what Showdown has.
The bitter herbs really are a shame, because there's no reason to use them over potions/revives unless you want to use Frustration of something.
Burned_Cookie
Very tired girl.
- Location
- Plato´s cave.
- Pronouns
- She/Her/It/Its
I don't follow?
hugh_donnetono
No use to complain
- Location
- Caught Out In The Rain
Probably a programming thing. To make it so a mon's friendship isn't reduced by herbs if it likes bitter flavors would be something like IF mon.favoriteflavor=BITTER, THEN friendshiploss=0; this is called a conditional statement. He's saying Gamefreak's programmers don't understand how to use those - a fairly dire insult, considering the fact that I have one semester of programming knowledge and I understand them.
Burned_Cookie
Very tired girl.
- Location
- Plato´s cave.
- Pronouns
- She/Her/It/Its
Ah thanks. While I know how if clauses work (good luck writing any code if you don't) I was trying to make a connection with it being cheaper and easier to get and got very confused.
- Location
- USA
Game Freak games are bloated and unoptimized in the extreme for the last few generations. The most egregious example off the top of my head is Sun and Moon where every asset is scene specific. Instead of having a database of every asset in the game and just calling the ones needed for the area so they can be executed GF puts the data every asset for the area in that section of the code. And for unique assets that only show up on one screen that's fine, but they do it for bushes and pokeball a and stuff. This causes the file size to be enormous. And to be fair most of the problem is that Nintendo and/or the Pokemon Company won't let GF have more than twelve people on the programming team
Burned_Cookie
Very tired girl.
- Location
- Plato´s cave.
- Pronouns
- She/Her/It/Its