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Brock kept referring to Sirius as a puppy. Was that just because he was a houndour and not a houndoom? Because it would be even more humiliating getting beaten by an actual puppy, as opposed to an adult houndour.
 
If you are going to Mt. MOON, will you bring another pokemon? One of the Magna line. One that will become a Magnazone. The Clefairy made a Spaceship in one anime snip to fly away, having a Saucer shape with Electric Zap Cannon will shock them?
 
How strong is Trainer!Alchemist's body? Will he "spar" with his Pokémon like Chuck the Cianwood Gym Leader? Giovanni said Houndour are prideful and won't respect a weak trainer, so possible running gag if Alchemist shows off his physical strength or magical/spellcasting prowess.

Scene:
Alchemist: (wrestling Sirius like IRL Steve Irwin)
Dreepy: ❤️ "Master is so strong!"
Bystanders: :o :o :o ?!?!

OR

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[earlier in the Viridian Forest]
Bug Collector: "I challenge you to a fight!"

Alchemist: "Okay."
Alchemist: (kidney-punches Bug Collector)

Bug Collector: :o "OW! I mean fighting my Pokémon!"

Alchemist: "Oh."
Alchemist: (punt-kicks Bug Collector's Caterpie)

Caterpie: (faints from damage)
 
Forestor said:
Can he fully understand him? I remember both him and Sabrina repeating words Zeph 'said' but nothing about Alec understanding 'words' from Sirius rather than impressions.
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Poké-speak is an actual language, as Pokémon can understand each other, and trainers that learn Poké-speak can actually communicate with their Pokémon. Alchemist has permanent magical effects on his person that translate any language he hears or speaks, which would likewise translate Poké-speak.
 
Looking back, Brock is First. Will Alex meet Brock's family member? Younger ones. If so, will Alex get a companion? Lots of younger kids start early. Who is next? If many see a new pokemon in Dreapy, will Team Rocket show up? As In, Jessie and James or Butch & Cassie? Do they recognize him?

I admit I am mostly curious on what junk Alex can Repair. If J&James show up and the Equipment gets Destroyed, Alex can Fix it. Resale Value? Sabrina knows he will be back, does she let him win? What are the Unknown doing?
 
Al had a chance to bring a companion along in Owen, but that fizzled out...somehow. Owen kind of just disappeared, IIRC.

I doubt Al wants any companions along that aren't Pokemon. He doesn't have to hide who and what he is from them, but any human companions would find it a bit awkward when they learn that they're basically being escorted by a mortal god.

Mister Ficser said:
Well, I specifically went and googled how much the Pokedollar was worth for the monthly wage that Oak pays and according to google it was one pokedollar = .006297 USD.

Which actually kind of works out pretty well. It makes those multi-thousand Poke payouts into something reasonable. The cost of a PokeBall is then equal to about a buck twenty five (1.25 USD) which would normally be absurdly cheap but I'm attributing that to the Lab Trainer Discount that was advertised as a perk of working for a Professor.

So one million pokedollars is... 6,297 bucks. Which is ruinously expensive for a standard bike but the ones in the Pokeverse can stand up to all kinds of insane terrain, do amazing tricks and really only fall short when it comes to Thunderbolt via Pikachu.

Less number crunchy- That's the retail price for a brand spankin' new bicycle. Alec'd be lucky if it was still half that once he rode it off the lot! Anything he can dig up in the scrap yard is going to be last years model, at the least. If he could get 100k I'd be surprised.

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Alec, upon finally reaching Viridian Town, notices a suspicious lump out behind the PokeMon center. His raccoon-like dumpster diving senses tingling madly, he quickly goes to investigate.

What luck! He found a bicycle that had been completely destroyed. The frame was warped, the seam melted and the gear was practically bent in half!

Someone had done something truly horrible to the bicycle. A girl's bike, if the missing straight bar was any indication. Quickly casting repair, Alec once again thanked Kazuma for championing gender equality and pedaled off, heading north towards Pewter. In short order he passed by a boy, wearing jeans and a denim vest traveling alongside a girl wearing shorts with overalls and a yellow tank-top.

Rather than stop, he simply zoomed right past.

Misty: Isn't... Hey! That's my bike!

Ash: Pretty sure your bike is broken, Misty. I was there.

Misty: I know that! But that's my bike! Somehow! Hey! Get back here!

Alec, rather than getting back there, simply pedaled on.
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This needs an apocrypha tag.
 
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    • Mt.Moon to the east of Pewter City was Alec's next destination. Professor Oak, the man now in charge of paying him, had requested photographs and notes on the local Clefairy population.

    Which neatly explained why the unwilling reincarnate was currently climbing towards one of the lower peaks rather than going through the numerous tunnels within. Thankfully, while steep, it was not a vertical climb.

    "Now, the thing about the Fairy type?" and it offered the mage a good opportunity to talk to his PokeMon.

    Zeph was happily wrapped around his neck and Sirius, having four limbs, was having significantly less trouble with the climb than Alec was.

    "No two Fairy types are truly the same," Alec grunted out as he climbed up another step. "And there's a fairly simple reason for that. The Fairy type operates on special rules that the others don't. They aren't grounded in reality and their rules reflect that because every Fairy type PokeMon represents a story."

    "Houn?" Sirius asked as they stopped to rest on a fairly flat plateau.

    "Drap," Zeph told him. "Drap-drap-py!"

    "Okay, fair enough. There are -some- consistent rules for them. Weak to Steel and Poison, strong against Fighting, Dragons and Dark. This follows a theme, though, the same as the PokeMon themselves." Alec had to stop talking and take several deep breaths. They weren't that high, and he wasn't aiming to reach the peaks, but mountain climbing was best done slowly. "Every Fairy represents a story. The Hatenna's are the Witch, Hidden in the Woods. Impidimp are the Cunning Tricksters. The Igglybuff line are characterized by their final evolution, Wigglytuff, and it's the Rabbit that takes the Dreamer on her Journey."

    Alec walked to the side of the plateau and pointed down towards a ridge, hidden well above the cave that went through the mountain. Down below, Sirius and Zeph could both see a handful of Clefairy and a single Clefable dancing and chanting, persistently turning to face the barely-visible moon in the late-afternoon sky.

    "Clefairy are the Royal Visitors from Beyond the Sky," Alchemist explained before he sat down and began to dig through his backpack for the camera he'd picked up in Pewter for this specific job. "Little oddity, there. Despite being relatively consistent with the rest of the Kaguya myth, from a certain point of view, they don't have the 'Pick Up' ability."

    Pausing briefly in loading film into the device, Alec reached over and rubbed the top of Sirius's head.

    He was a good boy, letting the mage ramble the way he did.

    "Anyway. If the Fairy typing represents 'stories', then there are some generalities that impact them as a whole. In a story, the 'Hero' always wins the 'Fight' and slays the wicked 'Dragon' to banish the 'Darkness'. But, if the story is a tragedy, then the 'Hero' will succumb to the 'Dragon's 'Poison' and die. Steel, however, represents something of an oddity. It may be a link to the idea of 'Cold Iron' being a weakness of the Fae in general... or it could be that Steel, being the most rooted in hard and unyielding forms, is anathema to the infinite flexibility that forms the core of Fairy types. Functionally two diametric opposites meeting with Steel coming out on top."

    Alec... really couldn't be sure. The fae were rooted deeply in allegory and spiritualism. Steel... wasn't.

    The mage hummed quietly in thought as Zeph slithered her way up to rest on top of his head as he fused in True Seeing and Clairvoyance/Clairaudience to the camera lens. Now he wouldn't need to use any pesky 'Flash Photography' and he could zoom in from twice as far away!

    Lifting the camera up to his eyes, Alec used one hand to adjust the focus on the distant, dancing PokeMon and snapped a picture of the lead Clefable directing the dancing Clefairy.

    Then he had to look away when he felt a heavy weight lay itself across his lap.

    "Aww, who's a good boy," Alec cooed, letting Sirius distract him. "You are, yes you are!"

    "Drap!" Zeph complained, nipping at his ear.

    "I'm sorry, Zephy. You can't be a good boy," Alec admitted with a chuckle as he set the camera back down in his backpack and used the free hand to run across the top of her head. "You can be my good girl instead, alright?"

    "Dree-py!" she agreed, pushing her head up against his hand.

    Apparently, that was considered an acceptable compromise.

    Picking the camera back up, Alec brought it back up to eye level as the elusive 'Normal' type PokeMon down below continued to twirl and dance. It clearly served a purpose to them but, as the sun set and night fell, he couldn't really divine it.

    The night sky over the mountain was gorgeous. Constellations that Alec couldn't name hung high in the sky, along with colors and star systems that were completely absent from the sky over where he'd often lived on Earth, hidden away by light pollution.

    All the while, Clefairy danced. More joined the procession and, sometime during the whole event a second Clefable joined up to direct the pre-evolutions. Meanwhile, overhead brief streaks of light tore across the sky and caught the wizard's attention.

    Capturing a meteor shower on film wasn't exactly easy, not for a standard camera, but Alec did his best. He did wonder if it was actually a meteor shower or a Minior shower but he wasn't that interested in waking Sirius up to go and find out.

    Meanwhile, the dancing Clefairy down below had paired off and moved outwards into a circle with a single member of the... troupe? Troupe down below doing a pirouette in the middle of the event.

    Alec had intended on just snapping a picture of the odd phenomenon. And he did!

    But, more than that, he caught the brief moment as one of the countless falling stars -impacted- the Clefairy that was dancing in the very middle.

    He snapped his final photograph as the Clefable, once a Clefairy, came out of its pirouette in a pose with its arms held out wide.

    Even from his position high above the event, he could hear the cheering and clapping that came from the rest of the Clefairy.

    That... had been fascinating. Beautiful, even.

    And, like anything else involving a Fairy type PokeMon...

    It didn't make a damned lick of sense to him.
     
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    • infinityDivided said:
    Okay, serious question: where is he getting this stuff? Is he making assumptions based on how Type-Energy would work under his understanding of other forms of conceptual energy that may not even apply to this multiverse?
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    He played the games and had way too much time on his hands to think about how to justify the 'It just does!' that came from Gamefreak. Get rid of the allegory and all he's done is explain the type chart.
     
    Mister Ficser said:
    He played the games and had way too much time on his hands to think about how to justify the 'It just does!' that came from Gamefreak. Get rid of the allegory and all he's done is explain the type chart.
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    The whole thing you're doing with the types is awesome! Thanks for adding this bit of explanation on those chapters, they always are the best part for me.

    Thanks for the chapter, too.
    Is it too late to wish a happy new year?
     
    It'd be pretty neat if Sirius and Zephy learning the type chart like this, along with whatever digressions Alchemist goes on, counts as them learning eldritch knowledge from beyond the stars or something like that.
     
    Radial said:
    Somewhere in the multiverse, Cinder is growling angrily at an usurper
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    Or pleased at the new youngest siblings. Or reincarnated as Sirius, or even Zephy since reincarnation is all about changing and trying new lives. There isnt any indication of how far into the future Al disincarnated from DC, or how long after that he was incarnated here.

    Except that the demiplane hasnt been lived in in a long time.
     
    Alchemist would definitely be a Dark Dragon something that would be Abominate to Fairies.

    I wonder why they let him get so close when they're casting a ritual. For all they know he'll interrupt it hurting them. So either they didn't sense him, or they did sense him and realized 'hey this dude is practically a legendary and is just watching us we can't do anything but if it's hostile so let's go on our merry way'

    A train of thought like that is definitely fae. Humans when confronted by a overwhelming force of nature panic and either run away or try fighting against it.

    Fae on the other hand would not really care as long as the Creature, Alchemist in this case doesn't harm them or do anything. Hell they might enjoy it viewing him taking pictures as a form of praise or 'honoring' them.
     
    Frescko said:
    I wonder why they let him get so close when they're casting a ritual. For all they know he'll interrupt it hurting them. So either they didn't sense him, or they did sense him and realized 'hey this dude is practically a legendary and is just watching us we can't do anything but if it's hostile so let's go on our merry way'
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    I mean, he has True Sight on it, so the camera has better dark vision than basically any natural creature. He is using Clairsentience/Clairaudience so the camera's zoom is effectively doubled, and his line of sight can effectively turn around a corner. A 600mm lens with a 2x zoom extender and 2x from clairsentience and truesight fixing the lighting and stabilisation? Al could be photographing a nest of robins with National Geographic clarity from a km out.

    (EDUT: A km out with a corner in the middle of the line of sight such that there is ~700m of stone between the camera and the subjects)

    I was going to suggest he add a charm of eagle sight and/or the enchantments from an eye slash tattoo, but I dont think he needs to be able to take gallery sized glossy photos from a spyplane.
     
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