- Location
- Michigan, USA
And figuring out how to make use of anything in those holes for our own benifit.
Project Gamer: Anime Adjacent
- Thread starter Mister Ficser
- Start date
- Location
- England
Region is from X&Y
Gonna assume that this isn't related. Could say that they're likely to be in the same area but if they're already being sold then it's likely to be from another ship but a quick google of the X&Y Pokedex doesn't seem to have Snorunt in it.
Not something made to survive in salt-water. Just going to assume that it can't survive in water, for now. Maybe change my mind after looking into it more.
Large ship implies another port. Probably trade. Closest thing to "Bountiful treasure" is the bountiful sea in Pokemon Mystery dungeon red and blue, so it's probably unrelated.
Fairly common. Unlikely to be an export. If people are complaining about this guy having them then they're unlikely to be profitable. So not cute or a potential family pet.
...Bellsprout or Oddish? Light enough to not notice you're carrying it so leaning towards Bellsprout or a shiny Ekans, or something.
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So summarising that, likely a common, common Pokemon from Courmarine city. Either Fresh-water or land based, maybe even a hybrid that can't survive underwater without breaks. Could even be particularly weak to water since it almost died from what was likely an abundance of type energy rather than the need to breath.
Assuming it's not a grass type, since something 'green' went into your bag and people don't tend to use multiple of the same type for some reason, even if eggs apparently need to breath, I'm going to assume it has a weakness to water type energy - So! These are the following Pokemon with a type weakness for water:
>Gible
>Graveler
>Trapinch
>Slugma
>Dwebble
Personally, I'm gonna guess Dwebble though I want it to be trapinch. Well, no. I want it to be Shellder. Doubt that'll happen though.
Be funny if it was just a common harmless garter snake that everybody's getting excited about.
- Location
- Cambridge MA
I like the headcanon that they are stupid; that wild pokemon don't hit sapience until circa level 40 (for most species) unless they have an aura bond with a human.
Also, bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Animals_in_the_Pokemon_world
Hmmm. I think Porygon can travel between technology by basically magic. It's possible that if Alec pulls out a phone or something that has an antenna (or even just any piece of advanced technology), a Porygon could jump into it from far away (maybe even half a region away?) even if the phone can't connect to the local network. I wouldn't be surprised if one hitches a ride, especially if they could detect that his phone has more computing power than a poke-modern supercomputer.
- Location
- Argentina
Celebi: Ha! Knew that doggie was a boy!
Mew: Oh excuse me for being wrong, you do remember this particular reality is really glitchy, right? And mister walking disaster is not making it any better.
Celebi: Oh sure mom ruin my fun!
Mew: I look away at what you do with all that time travel and time cloning, don't I?
Celebi: Fiine... can you do anything about the 24 hours Attract Ability he has on?
Mew: I could make a Ribbon that replaces it with a different Ability? But the only one my simulations show will cause less trouble is Insomnia and that's short term. Long term... he goes crazier due to lack of sleep!
Celebi: What? Can't he remember to remove the Ribbon?
Mew: Al is the kind of idiot who knows he has problems but constantly forgets the methods he has to deal with his problems. My simulations show that if he is left alone long enough he is very likely to harm himself.
Celebi: Oh you are trying to fix him up and then date him?
Mew: Thanks to your grandfather anyone who can't take care of themselves is a big turn off, so no. Why are you insistent on me dating?
Celebi: Because you are nicer when you are happy?
Mew: I am way more likely to date an adult Captain Marvel that him. If I dated Al not only I would have to compete with the rest of his harem, but we would feed each other issues and end in a complete disaster. As you darn well know miss time travel... or you prefer mister? or something else? Even for me is hard to tract what sexual identity you are going for each time I see you.
Celebi: Eh whatever you want is fine mom. I am not feeling like I want to deal with that today.
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No, that happens on QQ. In SV we complain about things.
Huh.
I thought that's what you do when you're on QQ...
Edit: lol ninja'd
Candyturtle
Turtle Wizard
- Location
- Home
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Love the new pokemon sidestory please keep up the good work and whatnot thank you
Lycanthromancer
The Arcane Fuzz
- Location
- USA
Everyone keeps going on about how the egg is the green thing. It isn't. It's clearly different, as shown in the quote above.
- Location
- Oregon, USA
...I don't think anyone has made that claim. I even went over all the posts since last chapter, and can't find anyone saying that. Some wondering about both in the same post, and one guy positing about it being a grass Pokemon as possible evidence for why the egg shouldn't be for a grass Pokemon, but no one saying the egg was green. So, everyone=no-one, I suppose.
Anime Adjacent: PokeMon 8
May Joy had known her newest resident wouldn't stick around for very long. The boy had a drive to him, a sense of direction that she'd seen in countless Trainers during her years as a nurse. He didn't know where he was going but by golly, he was going to get there.
Many of the children that she'd watched would end up doing the same thing. Going off on a journey, half-cocked and full of pith and vinegar. Ready to find their parents or, if they weren't... Around... Anymore, then the kids would get it into their heads to go off on a proper journey. Gather up a handful of badges and go off to be a Ranger or Professor, some even made a solid effort at the Champion's seat!
She was a bitter old woman and she knew it. Nothing made her happier, made her feel more satisfied, than for one of the children's parents to turn up at her door, asking her after their children. Hat in hand, shame on their face, asking her to tell them about -their- child. Begging her to tell them that their boy or girl had been alright, had been healthy, if they'd been doing well in school.
She just wished Alec had the nerve to say something. Or write a proper note.
Instead all he'd left was a blank paper on the bed he'd been using and a decent wad of money under his pillow.
Well, the note wasn't entirely blank. The boy had scribbled something on the bottom. A series of loops that didn't make sense to her.
Holding the letter up, she tried tilting the paper to see if she could actually read the signature when something caught her eye.
There -was- writing on the paper. Or... There had been? She could clearly see the indentations where the boy had pressed his pen against the paper.
May pursed her lips in confusion and set the sheet against the table, grabbing a pencil from the cup she kept full so the children could do their schoolwork. She slowly, carefully ran the pencil across the sheet, revealing the words that had been there. Once.
She... Couldn't make it out. The symbols looked familiar but it wasn't written using letters she was familiar with. Something that should be nearly impossible, given the global standardization of the language a bit over a century prior to her own birth...
"I know this, though...?" The old woman muttered, staring in confusion at the words that she'd revealed. There was definitely something familiar, something known about what she was looking at...
"Miss Joy!" One of the children shouted, drawing her attention away from the paper. "Miss Joy! Owen's Growlithe caught the toilet paper on fire!"
"What?!" The old woman shouted, grabbing her cane. "Not again!"
She hobbled to her feet and rushed off, the letter left forgotten.
~~ I can't thank you enough for your hospitality. I know it's not much but it's everything I can spare right now. I hope it helps.
With any luck I'll be home soon.
The world could use a few more people that actually care, even if they're tired of doing it.
Good luck and stay safe. -@**&@%$#% ~~
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Sabrina felt nervous. Something was coming. Something big.
Something that left her nerves raw, something that had her PokeMon glancing at shadows and huddling together out of fear.
It felt worse than the time she'd challenged Agatha and the old woman brought out her full team of Gengar.
Sabrina hadn't been able to sleep for a week after that. She'd been sure there were eyes, watching her from her own shadow.
She didn't know what it was. She couldn't imagine what kind of PokeMon could exude such an Aura. All she did know was that it was coming from the south, coming from Surge's domain.
If the buffoon had woken something up, accidentally unleashed an ancient horror like the Black Fog she would be very... Irate.
The methods she'd tried to calm down hadn't helped in the slightest. Meditation didn't work. Communing with her PokeMon had actually made it worse because they'd started a feedback loop. Tea...
Sabrina was out of tea.
She needed to- Sabrina wanted her to get more tea. So, Sabrina did.
At the PokeMart, she had the strangest encounter. She had to get her own tea, get her PokeMon's nutrition supplements herself. Her assistants never got things right.
And at the PokeMart, after she'd taken a wide path around a Houndour that was guarding a scooter, she found a strange young man. He looked to be half her age but his aura, his aura said he was far older.
It was a conundrum.
The boy, looking at him unsettled her, had a simple little bento in hand. A pre-made mixture of PokeChow made up of a mix of beef, organs and berries.
Her Kadabra loved it, though she had to add extra berries herself. He needed the extra glucose.
"That's a good brand." She found herself saying, her tongue wagging in spite of herself.
"Is it?" The thing asked her, its inhuman eyes moving from the ingredients list on the back to meet her own eyes. It wore long pants and a blue hoodie with a straw colored bucket hat. The shadow its hat cast over its eyes made the yellow glow stand out stronger. "I thought I'd read about something with PokeMon meat being more nutritious?"
"Marketing." Sabrina answered curtly, forcibly ripping her eyes away from the thing. "In the wild, fresh meat still carries traces of Type Energy. It can be more nourishing for PokeMon, yes, but it offers no benefits to us."
"Huh..." The creature put the package of food away in its arm basket and carried on through the shelves, grabbing several more items. Packets of sausage, noodles, roux and the like. "I wonder if it has any impact on Aura?"
"...You'd have to eat it fresh and raw." Sabrina figured, at least. She didn't understand why she was still talking with the thing. It... Something about the creature wearing human skin drew the words out of her.
"I'll have to pass." It even looked queasy at the prospect. "I'm not interested in eating things that can think."
That was surprisingly comforting for her. The creature walked past her and she genuinely felt her skin crawl at his passing.
"I'm Alec Mist." It introduced itself, picking up a bottle of tea from the shelf next to her.
Her favorite brand.
It... Knew. It had to.
"And you are?" It asked, acting as though it didn't already know her.
"Sabrina." She said, withholding her family name. It couldn't do anything to her if she didn't introduce herself fully, could it? "The gym leader of Saffron City."
Or was that the Fae? Was he a Fae?
"Pretty sure you're not." The creature said, humming some arcane tune. "Everyone knows Sabrina is actually a pair of Jynx in a trench coat."
"...Excuse me?" Sabrina had to make sure she heard that correctly. She'd never been told such nonsense before.
"Well, let's be realistic here. What's more believable? A person born with an absolutely immense amount of Aura that they succeed at turning towards psychic powers..." The creature was heading towards the front of the store and Sabrina found herself following it against her will. "Or two mediocre psychic PokeMon with a penchant for manipulating people... Manipulating people."
That... Was a valid point. Except that Sabrina remembered being Sabrina.
...Didn't she?
There were a lot of recorded instances of Jynx PokeMon dragging people into irresistible dances, making them sing, pulling men off into the night and leaving husks behind covered in the obvious marks of their Lovely Kiss...
Sabrina ran her tongue over her dry lips. She was Sabrina... Right?
"Look, don't take my word for it. Ask yourself this- Have you noticed anything especially strange, lately? Missing time, missing numbers, talking dolls?" The creature continued to speak as it set its purchases out on the checkout counter. "One of them might be disguising itself while the other one is off doing something else."
There was the doll Sabrina had made. The one that looked like herself when she was young.
Sabrina had recently taken to having it particpate as a prop in her Gym Battles. A means of unnerving challengers. She would speak through it, act through it, obey... It...
'Alec' took the backpack off of its back and opened it on the counter, his purchases in hand, when a green serpentine PokeMon darted out of it, smacking him in the face. He fell backwards, arms clutching the bag and Sabrina could see there was an egg inside.
She didn't recognize the PokeMon that had attacked Alec, however. It had a pair of large yellow eyes set high on an angular head. The back of which ended in red-tipped frills. The creature had a set of forelimbs but they looked more like flippers than hands or arms and its back trailed off in a tail, no legs but it did have what may have been a trio of fins about two-thirds of the way down its body.
"Dra~ah!" It called, nuzzling against the abomination's face.
'Great One!' it had called him.
"Where in blazes did you come from?" Alec asked, struggling to stand back up.
"Drah-Py." The depths.
"Okay. Fine. Which depths?" Alec asked once he'd gotten to his feet.
"You can under- Who's that PokeMon?" Sabrina asked, thoroughly out of her depth.
"The danger noodle of the deep." The 'boy' grumbled, poking the PokeMon in the head with one finger. It nuzzled against it, calling Alec 'Great One' again. Alec focused his eyes on the PokeMon and asked it "Do you want to come with me?"
Watching Alec tap the strange, floating serpent with a PokeBall, catching the weak little thing without a fight, Sabrina felt incredibly confused.
He hadn't answered her questions, any of them.
And he was walking out the door before she'd finished thinking about how to force it to answer her.
Sabrina looked down to the bottle of tea in her hands, then went back to the shelves.
She needed something a little bit stronger.
Or maybe a whole lot stronger.
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Alec could barely withhold a hissing laugh as he left the PokeMart.
"Come on, Sirius." He called down to his Houndour as he hit the kickstand on his scooter. "Let's get going."
Sabrina probably thought she was going to mess with his head, psyche him out with her powers. He hadn't been able to feel her poking around but he also hadn't been able to tell when Miss Martian would do it, either.
Well, he knew the secrets to keeping her from using her normal tactics. The Joker used them all the time!
He just had to baffle her with bullshit.
Seriously, a pair of Jynx in a trenchcoat?
Someone would have to be crazy to think that was serious!
Many of the children that she'd watched would end up doing the same thing. Going off on a journey, half-cocked and full of pith and vinegar. Ready to find their parents or, if they weren't... Around... Anymore, then the kids would get it into their heads to go off on a proper journey. Gather up a handful of badges and go off to be a Ranger or Professor, some even made a solid effort at the Champion's seat!
She was a bitter old woman and she knew it. Nothing made her happier, made her feel more satisfied, than for one of the children's parents to turn up at her door, asking her after their children. Hat in hand, shame on their face, asking her to tell them about -their- child. Begging her to tell them that their boy or girl had been alright, had been healthy, if they'd been doing well in school.
She just wished Alec had the nerve to say something. Or write a proper note.
Instead all he'd left was a blank paper on the bed he'd been using and a decent wad of money under his pillow.
Well, the note wasn't entirely blank. The boy had scribbled something on the bottom. A series of loops that didn't make sense to her.
Holding the letter up, she tried tilting the paper to see if she could actually read the signature when something caught her eye.
There -was- writing on the paper. Or... There had been? She could clearly see the indentations where the boy had pressed his pen against the paper.
May pursed her lips in confusion and set the sheet against the table, grabbing a pencil from the cup she kept full so the children could do their schoolwork. She slowly, carefully ran the pencil across the sheet, revealing the words that had been there. Once.
She... Couldn't make it out. The symbols looked familiar but it wasn't written using letters she was familiar with. Something that should be nearly impossible, given the global standardization of the language a bit over a century prior to her own birth...
"I know this, though...?" The old woman muttered, staring in confusion at the words that she'd revealed. There was definitely something familiar, something known about what she was looking at...
"Miss Joy!" One of the children shouted, drawing her attention away from the paper. "Miss Joy! Owen's Growlithe caught the toilet paper on fire!"
"What?!" The old woman shouted, grabbing her cane. "Not again!"
She hobbled to her feet and rushed off, the letter left forgotten.
~~ I can't thank you enough for your hospitality. I know it's not much but it's everything I can spare right now. I hope it helps.
With any luck I'll be home soon.
The world could use a few more people that actually care, even if they're tired of doing it.
Good luck and stay safe. -@**&@%$#% ~~
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Sabrina felt nervous. Something was coming. Something big.
Something that left her nerves raw, something that had her PokeMon glancing at shadows and huddling together out of fear.
It felt worse than the time she'd challenged Agatha and the old woman brought out her full team of Gengar.
Sabrina hadn't been able to sleep for a week after that. She'd been sure there were eyes, watching her from her own shadow.
She didn't know what it was. She couldn't imagine what kind of PokeMon could exude such an Aura. All she did know was that it was coming from the south, coming from Surge's domain.
If the buffoon had woken something up, accidentally unleashed an ancient horror like the Black Fog she would be very... Irate.
The methods she'd tried to calm down hadn't helped in the slightest. Meditation didn't work. Communing with her PokeMon had actually made it worse because they'd started a feedback loop. Tea...
Sabrina was out of tea.
She needed to- Sabrina wanted her to get more tea. So, Sabrina did.
At the PokeMart, she had the strangest encounter. She had to get her own tea, get her PokeMon's nutrition supplements herself. Her assistants never got things right.
And at the PokeMart, after she'd taken a wide path around a Houndour that was guarding a scooter, she found a strange young man. He looked to be half her age but his aura, his aura said he was far older.
It was a conundrum.
The boy, looking at him unsettled her, had a simple little bento in hand. A pre-made mixture of PokeChow made up of a mix of beef, organs and berries.
Her Kadabra loved it, though she had to add extra berries herself. He needed the extra glucose.
"That's a good brand." She found herself saying, her tongue wagging in spite of herself.
"Is it?" The thing asked her, its inhuman eyes moving from the ingredients list on the back to meet her own eyes. It wore long pants and a blue hoodie with a straw colored bucket hat. The shadow its hat cast over its eyes made the yellow glow stand out stronger. "I thought I'd read about something with PokeMon meat being more nutritious?"
"Marketing." Sabrina answered curtly, forcibly ripping her eyes away from the thing. "In the wild, fresh meat still carries traces of Type Energy. It can be more nourishing for PokeMon, yes, but it offers no benefits to us."
"Huh..." The creature put the package of food away in its arm basket and carried on through the shelves, grabbing several more items. Packets of sausage, noodles, roux and the like. "I wonder if it has any impact on Aura?"
"...You'd have to eat it fresh and raw." Sabrina figured, at least. She didn't understand why she was still talking with the thing. It... Something about the creature wearing human skin drew the words out of her.
"I'll have to pass." It even looked queasy at the prospect. "I'm not interested in eating things that can think."
That was surprisingly comforting for her. The creature walked past her and she genuinely felt her skin crawl at his passing.
"I'm Alec Mist." It introduced itself, picking up a bottle of tea from the shelf next to her.
Her favorite brand.
It... Knew. It had to.
"And you are?" It asked, acting as though it didn't already know her.
"Sabrina." She said, withholding her family name. It couldn't do anything to her if she didn't introduce herself fully, could it? "The gym leader of Saffron City."
Or was that the Fae? Was he a Fae?
"Pretty sure you're not." The creature said, humming some arcane tune. "Everyone knows Sabrina is actually a pair of Jynx in a trench coat."
"...Excuse me?" Sabrina had to make sure she heard that correctly. She'd never been told such nonsense before.
"Well, let's be realistic here. What's more believable? A person born with an absolutely immense amount of Aura that they succeed at turning towards psychic powers..." The creature was heading towards the front of the store and Sabrina found herself following it against her will. "Or two mediocre psychic PokeMon with a penchant for manipulating people... Manipulating people."
That... Was a valid point. Except that Sabrina remembered being Sabrina.
...Didn't she?
There were a lot of recorded instances of Jynx PokeMon dragging people into irresistible dances, making them sing, pulling men off into the night and leaving husks behind covered in the obvious marks of their Lovely Kiss...
Sabrina ran her tongue over her dry lips. She was Sabrina... Right?
"Look, don't take my word for it. Ask yourself this- Have you noticed anything especially strange, lately? Missing time, missing numbers, talking dolls?" The creature continued to speak as it set its purchases out on the checkout counter. "One of them might be disguising itself while the other one is off doing something else."
There was the doll Sabrina had made. The one that looked like herself when she was young.
Sabrina had recently taken to having it particpate as a prop in her Gym Battles. A means of unnerving challengers. She would speak through it, act through it, obey... It...
'Alec' took the backpack off of its back and opened it on the counter, his purchases in hand, when a green serpentine PokeMon darted out of it, smacking him in the face. He fell backwards, arms clutching the bag and Sabrina could see there was an egg inside.
She didn't recognize the PokeMon that had attacked Alec, however. It had a pair of large yellow eyes set high on an angular head. The back of which ended in red-tipped frills. The creature had a set of forelimbs but they looked more like flippers than hands or arms and its back trailed off in a tail, no legs but it did have what may have been a trio of fins about two-thirds of the way down its body.
"Dra~ah!" It called, nuzzling against the abomination's face.
'Great One!' it had called him.
"Where in blazes did you come from?" Alec asked, struggling to stand back up.
"Drah-Py." The depths.
"Okay. Fine. Which depths?" Alec asked once he'd gotten to his feet.
"You can under- Who's that PokeMon?" Sabrina asked, thoroughly out of her depth.
"The danger noodle of the deep." The 'boy' grumbled, poking the PokeMon in the head with one finger. It nuzzled against it, calling Alec 'Great One' again. Alec focused his eyes on the PokeMon and asked it "Do you want to come with me?"
Watching Alec tap the strange, floating serpent with a PokeBall, catching the weak little thing without a fight, Sabrina felt incredibly confused.
He hadn't answered her questions, any of them.
And he was walking out the door before she'd finished thinking about how to force it to answer her.
Sabrina looked down to the bottle of tea in her hands, then went back to the shelves.
She needed something a little bit stronger.
Or maybe a whole lot stronger.
-----
Alec could barely withhold a hissing laugh as he left the PokeMart.
"Come on, Sirius." He called down to his Houndour as he hit the kickstand on his scooter. "Let's get going."
Sabrina probably thought she was going to mess with his head, psyche him out with her powers. He hadn't been able to feel her poking around but he also hadn't been able to tell when Miss Martian would do it, either.
Well, he knew the secrets to keeping her from using her normal tactics. The Joker used them all the time!
He just had to baffle her with bullshit.
Seriously, a pair of Jynx in a trenchcoat?
Someone would have to be crazy to think that was serious!
- Location
- United States
Ya, she's not crazy! She just has a psychotic voice in her head that will eventually take control of her body.
Stamping existential crises on unsuspecting people. Yup. Pretty on-brand for Alchemist.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing.
MaimakteriAnn
(Verified Sleepy)
- Location
- Enormous And Round Terran Homeworld
- Pronouns
- She/Her/Dr
black mage costume unlocked
Like me that time
You did it. You actually did it! Thanks for a Rayquaza just showing up and befriending him. Also the trolling of Sabrina without him realizing he was even doing it was very good.
Edit oh it's a similar looking one I never heard about. Makes sense though.
Edit oh it's a similar looking one I never heard about. Makes sense though.
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- Location
- hell
It's a Dreepy
Edit: ninja'd
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Uhhh, it was a Dreepy, not a tiny Rayquaza. If you don't know them, they're a Gen 8 Dragon/Ghost type that evolves into the Pseudo-Legendary Dragapault. They are themed after stealth bombers.
Edit: Double ninja'd. Actually what's the Pokémon equivalent of ninja'd?
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Dreepy not Rayquaza. Also Sabrina is a lonely psychic girl without any friends and comes off as neurodivergent so uhh giving her an existential crisis is kinda a dick move.
Edit: Alec already starting with an elite team basis though. Wonder what that egg is.
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infinityDivided
Prince Of Doom
- Location
- USA
According to the Pokedex, Ninjask were once thought to be invisible as they could move so fast no human had actually seen one until the invention of high-speed cameras.
As you can imagine, this has not helped beliefs that the Pokedex is a piece of crap.
As you can imagine, this has not helped beliefs that the Pokedex is a piece of crap.
Shedinja'd?
Edit: well I just got Shedinja'd as the author just shadow snuck up on me.
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Kind of, yes. But at the same time, Sabrina is about twenty years old (according to the wiki, so take it with a grain of salt). She should be old enough and credulous enough to look at the bullshit and realize it's bullshit. Al's entirely unaware of how severely impacted she is by his own aura. If she's that hypersensitive while he's masquerading as human, imagine if she'd caught him in dragon form.
Giving her a reminder that Psychic Pokemon can and will have their own agendas is always good.
And you might recall, the divide in her personality that she fostered encouraged her to be needlessly cruel, treating other people as playthings. I'll admit, this isn't the right way to tell her that she needs therapy... But Kanto is basically Japan. There is no right way to tell someone there that they need therapy.
I'm honestly starting to think that the Pokedex is meant for the player rather than the in-game character.