Crusader Jerome
Subsisting on Supplication
- Location
- My home away from Rome
But if they just walk on tiptoe the whole time, it wouldn't make a difference. It would even fit with the ballet theme.
Hyphen (Pokemon Emerald)
- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
It would make a difference in terms of bone structure and progression assisted by natural selection. There is a very big difference between being Random Mutation Generator "optimized" for standing atop tiny Kirlia tip-feet versus human-like panic feet. (Also, it's cursed.)
I'm usually all for being a smartass, but yeah, Brendan was just being difficult there.
Tsundere gonna tsun. Brendan is going to figure her out before Astra at this rate.
Oh, like this is anything abnormal (for Astra), ya drama queens.
Spoken like someone with backup finances. There is the possibility of a loss, Brendan. >_>
I adored this whole description and it actually pushed me into a fit of giggling.
Astra doesn't know any better, May. Even if she'd actually been human, it's up to you to warn her of the horrors of heels rather than acting disturbed!
Hmm. I would recommend tape, but there are so many ways that could go wrong. At least it's good practice? But yes, I'll be impressed if Astra doesn't have at least one amusing footwear-related mishap in the future.
Weird count +1
No, but we do smile and laugh even if I want to give you all the hugs and reassurance ever.
Jamie Roberts
Hávamál 127
- Location
- N/A
- Pronouns
- she/her
I mean, at a certain point you're just describing a species with a digitigrade leg structure.
Flairina
Least Omnipotent Goddess
- Location
- The next infinity over
Fun little slice-of-life chapter! Aside from May having a fractured rib anyways, but hey, the plan was to hang around the city for a while longer regardless, right? Now she has to stick around. 
Anyways, reactions!
I'd say they don't really correlate at all beyond being something that happens as time goes on, the key difference being that evolution may happen, but isn't guaranteed. Though perhaps we'll just quietly pretend it equals somewhere in one's teens here; the shipping would be kind of weird otherwise.
Don't be so hasty to assume, Astra. Humans are basically just weird Pokemon, right? In which case, who's to say they didn't just spray May with a potion too?
I get the joke, but I also genuinely like the play on words here with how it could be taken to mean "suping" up one's wardrobe. Good name. 👍
May finds out that Astra's village is also a nudist colony, and rapidly decides she will not be visiting after all.
I know it would be a bad idea, but I kind of want Astra to run afoul of one of the Regis, just so she can have something to connect with that vision she got from The Orb.
I also know this was just a Touhou reference, but shrine maiden/magical girl Astra would have been awesome. You will not change my mind on this.
Astra, released from her itchy prison and the constant distraction it provided, immediately becomes twice as good at all psychic-related matters.
(One could even say she's evolved a second time - look, she even changed appearance again!)
She should have tried them on just to see May and Brendan be flabbergast at how easily she walks in them. XD
Astra: Hey guys, wanna see a magic trick?
*twirls her shoes around her feet like pinwheels, eliciting horrified screams from May and Brendan*
Alright, calm down thereJohn Astra; it's not your thirteenth birthday, and the end of the world is months away.
Come on May, everyone knows the best cereal consumption method is to just have it dry while keeping a glass of milk on the side so you can eat/sip them in tandem, therefore preventing all sogginess before the cereal ever reaches your mouth. Only fools do otherwise.
...you're lucky she didn't take that as an invitation for a pillow war, Astra. ^_^;
Anyways, reactions!
I'd say they don't really correlate at all beyond being something that happens as time goes on, the key difference being that evolution may happen, but isn't guaranteed. Though perhaps we'll just quietly pretend it equals somewhere in one's teens here; the shipping would be kind of weird otherwise.
Don't be so hasty to assume, Astra. Humans are basically just weird Pokemon, right? In which case, who's to say they didn't just spray May with a potion too?
I get the joke, but I also genuinely like the play on words here with how it could be taken to mean "suping" up one's wardrobe. Good name. 👍
May finds out that Astra's village is also a nudist colony, and rapidly decides she will not be visiting after all.
I know it would be a bad idea, but I kind of want Astra to run afoul of one of the Regis, just so she can have something to connect with that vision she got from The Orb.
I also know this was just a Touhou reference, but shrine maiden/magical girl Astra would have been awesome. You will not change my mind on this.
Astra, released from her itchy prison and the constant distraction it provided, immediately becomes twice as good at all psychic-related matters.
(One could even say she's evolved a second time - look, she even changed appearance again!)
She should have tried them on just to see May and Brendan be flabbergast at how easily she walks in them. XD
Astra: Hey guys, wanna see a magic trick?
*twirls her shoes around her feet like pinwheels, eliciting horrified screams from May and Brendan*
Alright, calm down there
Come on May, everyone knows the best cereal consumption method is to just have it dry while keeping a glass of milk on the side so you can eat/sip them in tandem, therefore preventing all sogginess before the cereal ever reaches your mouth. Only fools do otherwise.
...you're lucky she didn't take that as an invitation for a pillow war, Astra. ^_^;
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Firedon
Lazy Sleepy Cat
- Location
- Germany
There's just something immensely funny to me about Regice making its glacier island with sudden snow, Registeel doing something funky with its section of forest... and Regirock's maybe putting up a more rocky terrain in an already inhospitable desert almost noone wants to go in anyway so either it's not spectacular enough like the others to be mentioned or noone's even noticed it.
Svn0One
Lazy Reader
- Location
- Made a Box Fort
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Aww, they just want to make it more comfortable while marking it as their territory
Svn0One
Lazy Reader
- Location
- Made a Box Fort
- Pronouns
- He/Him
wait... is this true?... i have to try this
EDIT: huh... it actually works...
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- Location
- Wayland, Massachusetts
I was given orders to write something here. I'm not sure what to write so here is a picture of spaghetti.
Dermonster
The Shittiest Wizard
People are so mean about Astra, you corrupt one landscape testing your terrible cursed-
...
Astra's eyes are full anime, right? Like, completely enormous eyeballs and such? I mean, hypothetically, if she got horribly injured and people were talking about glass prosthetics... anime does have a long and colourful history of cursed eyes of terrible power... I mean, it would require having the terrible doomy doom of doomness pressed against her brain... but it would mean she wouldn't have to worry about losing it... she could wear apatch bandage over it and be so ridiculously aniMay...
...
Astra's eyes are full anime, right? Like, completely enormous eyeballs and such? I mean, hypothetically, if she got horribly injured and people were talking about glass prosthetics... anime does have a long and colourful history of cursed eyes of terrible power... I mean, it would require having the terrible doomy doom of doomness pressed against her brain... but it would mean she wouldn't have to worry about losing it... she could wear a
Serialkilerwhale
Whale, whale, whale, what do we 'ave 'ere.
- Location
- Here
The footprints can easily be explained by the fact that they're always standing on the tips of their feet.
However, I direct your attention to my analysis of the first Kirlia sprite.
The way the rear foot is postured implies a bend and then an exaggerated foot.
On the other hand, with resolution that low, it could just be a straight line at an angle. Looking at the bulbapaedia page, there does seem to be a bit of a paddle-shape to the lower... 60%?... of their legs, which is somewhat foot-reminiscent, but it is unclear to me, and they certainly don't appear to use it as such. It is also difficult to tell the altitude, so it could be that what looks like a still scene of a leg with a distinct foot, is actually a mid-motion scene of all leg, and just bends that way as part of a trotting motion...
There is also the important facts that the early version had absolutely terrible "back" sprites, and that the Black and White sprites do, indeed, appear to space-walk.
Burned_Cookie
Very tired girl.
- Location
- Plato´s cave.
- Pronouns
- She/Her/It/Its
Good chapter, very high in protein.
For all she knows May wanted to ask her if she is a human psychic solving all her problems, but now that chance is lost forever.
At least if this story runs on soap opra rules.
Time must also be a factor, since her grandpa is also a Kirila.
Even if a village of eternal teenagers would be hilarious and explain what happened to the ancestor.
"I swear if one more of them is gonna 'rebel' against rules meant to keep them from dying instantly I'm going to fucking ragequit"
"Anothersettlement citizen is in need of our help!"
*implodes*
"..."
Please don't give the most over the top evolution line even more power. The really don't need it.
You don't know she didn't could happen next chapter!
"I shall add rocks to this rocky desert."
"Brother why."
"Maybe some sand and dust as well."
"You are disowned."
I give it about week until she is either attacked by a band of strapping young adventurers or helps some extremely fragile looking kid solve some horrible mystery or another, presumably one better left unsolved.
The reason their combat stats are so high is that everyone is to freaked out to fight them properly.
For all she knows May wanted to ask her if she is a human psychic solving all her problems, but now that chance is lost forever.
At least if this story runs on soap opra rules.
Though perhaps we'll just quietly pretend it equals somewhere in one's teens here; the shipping would be kind of weird otherwise.
Time must also be a factor, since her grandpa is also a Kirila.
Even if a village of eternal teenagers would be hilarious and explain what happened to the ancestor.
"I swear if one more of them is gonna 'rebel' against rules meant to keep them from dying instantly I'm going to fucking ragequit"
"Another
*implodes*
"..."
Please don't give the most over the top evolution line even more power. The really don't need it.
You don't know she didn't could happen next chapter!
"I shall add rocks to this rocky desert."
"Brother why."
"Maybe some sand and dust as well."
"You are disowned."
I give it about week until she is either attacked by a band of strapping young adventurers or helps some extremely fragile looking kid solve some horrible mystery or another, presumably one better left unsolved.
The reason their combat stats are so high is that everyone is to freaked out to fight them properly.
Astra - Human face sketch
- Pronouns
- He
Dermonster
The Shittiest Wizard
I said it on the discord and I'll say it here too: AAAA thank you for the lovely sketch!
There are some inaccuricies but I'm giddy regardless. Gifts are wonderful, and I appreciate it greatly!
- Location
- The world inside my head
Hey, Dermonster - was wondering if you took questions about some of the worldbuilding for this. Specifically, have you decided exactly how old Astra really is? It occurred to me that Dr. Birch (and possibly Brendan) have the knowledge to narrow it down, since he saw the alpha Mightyena while it was active and Astra can't have been born much after that.
(Sadly, checking the sushi scene didn't give me any information on that - except to note that Brendan thought 'Ralts' sounded vaguely familiar for some reason. Hm...)
(Sadly, checking the sushi scene didn't give me any information on that - except to note that Brendan thought 'Ralts' sounded vaguely familiar for some reason. Hm...)
Dermonster
The Shittiest Wizard
Giving Astra a hard human age makes things really awkward because, metaphorically speaking, she was like 12, jumped up to 16 at Roxannes gym, and then will slingshot to her mid-20's at some point in the future.
Like, if I said she was arbitrarily around, say, seven, that colors everything she does through human perspectives of what a seven year old should be able / allowed to do.
So I have carefully decided to not actually think about how many years she has been alive.
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I mean, to be fair, this is a world where an ten-year-old wandering the world mostly solo, beating up gods and champions, and saving the world approximately once a year, is a pretty normal thing?
So like. "Seven year old" in this world means "oh, hey, you're a little on the young side to be conquering all of Hoenn under your pointed heel. Normally people wait an extra year or two."
Enh, it depends on how exactly the gym wagers work. Given what they're supposed to do as organizations, they pretty much have to be set up as anti-casinos -- the house always loses on average, as long as you aren't totally incompetent, because the whole point is to support wandering Trainers.
It's not entirely clear what the cultural norm is for how much stake you're supposed to put up, but if it's anything like the games and it's some percentage of your worth as a function of your strength as a trainer/number of badges, then a newbie trainer challenging a more experienced one will expect to come out ahead even if they have to try several times (because, among other reasons, their own stake decreases every time they try.)
... It would require fairly large amount of benevolent and competent psychohistory'ing to get a society to behave like this, but whatever, Pokemon is probably second only to MLP in terms of idealized-society-ness lol.
- Location
- Here
The gym prizes as you describe them seem more like a way of giving a stipend without the perception of free handouts, honestly - how you'd develop a government-funded regional tour from a baseline culture of prove-your-worth-in-combat. Building a system where everyone gets what they need from a highly combative starting point.
EDIT: To expand on this... Start off from "the strong fight the weak and take their stuff", but then rather than culturally moving away from that explicitly, formalize and ritualize it. No killing, winner doesn't take *too much* from the loser, and so on. Eventuality the general idea of "explore the land and test your mettle against the strongest before you settle down" calcifies into "go on a journey as a teen and fight the Gym Leaders, who are not going to just *throw* the fight but are definitely going to go easier on a newbie". The Gym Leaders and Elite Four are local and regional government officials, with "strong trainer" as a culturally significant skill to have even if it's not particularly relevant to governing, in the same way as (for example) someone seeking election IRL might emphasize their religious background while campaigning (see also: Only nine US Presidents as of #46 have been non-Protestants and only two of those have been non-Christian, with one of those, Lincoln, uncertain). The Champion position is the only one that's actually taken directly by combat alone, and presumably it's become a mostly ceremonial role as a result.
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CV12Hornet
Riter.
- Location
- Tacoma, Washington
Okay, let's not pretend Ash is representative of most trainers. Your point that we have ten-year-olds wandering the world solo beating up champions is enough.mean, to be fair, this is a world where an ten-year-old wandering the world mostly solo, beating up gods and champions, and saving the world approximately once a year, is a pretty normal thing?
So like. "Seven year old" in this world means "oh, hey, you're a little on the young side to be conquering all of Hoenn under your pointed heel. Normally people wait an extra year or two."
Burned_Cookie
Very tired girl.
- Location
- Plato´s cave.
- Pronouns
- She/Her/It/Its
We had core game pokemon journey protags that where adults? Not like spinoffs or something? What'd I miss?
Pethrai Darkos
Murder Ensued
It's not about what is normal in universe for a 10 year old. What matters is that, if the author definitively states that Astra is seven then even when she is a Gardevoir (and as such roughly equivalent to being 20's ish) we as readers will still have our views of her tainted by our assumptions of what a human seven your old is supposed to act like.
Edit: it also makes relationship stuff such as (for example) her going on a date with May much less squicky if it's vaguely said that she's a teenager equivalent than if she's explicitly stated to be half of May's age.
Edit: it also makes relationship stuff such as (for example) her going on a date with May much less squicky if it's vaguely said that she's a teenager equivalent than if she's explicitly stated to be half of May's age.
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Burned_Cookie
Very tired girl.
- Location
- Plato´s cave.
- Pronouns
- She/Her/It/Its
Have you considered throwing this in the apocrypha? I feel some people may have missed it, and looking this up whenever I want to see it is annoying, too.
Dermonster
The Shittiest Wizard
Sure.
Edit: *Blinks.* Oh, also I've got like 3.5k so far. So. Hurray.
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