Mary and Erika
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Trails of Tera Steel (Kiseki-inspired Pokemon Academy Quest)
- Thread starter ArvisPresley
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SolarGemX
The Crystalized Sun
- Location
- Somewhere in the Cosmos
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- He/Him
Oh my Arceus thats so pretty!This update seared such an image into my head I had to put it to paper.
I'm not sure the outfits are correct but!! That's the image that was in my mind. Thank you for the good meal!
- Pronouns
- She/Her
You can really feel the lovestruck coming out of Erika's eyes. (This is really good)
Toaster cult
I Am An Imaginary Living Body
- Location
- Tokyo
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- She/Her
THIS IS SO CUTE!!!
KnownParadox
Not a sphere
- Location
- Canada
So, looking at the gyms again to figure out who we should hit next for our second, and then further considering this point made in the latest chapter...
...that the second badge is usually when sponsors start looking at the talent, I think we should go for Iono instead of anyone else.
Putting aside the fact that putting Mariana in front of an audience of thousands (its only a second badge challenge after all, let's not get too crazy about viewer numbers) will always be comedy, I think hitting Iono would give us the most bang for our very literal monetary buck.
Picture this, you are a company looking to pick up a new batch of trainers to sponsor: you want someone you can rely on to have a certain level of charisma so they don't fuck up in front of a camera, a level of skill so they don't fuck up on the battlefield, a certain spice to them to attract attention beyond the usual, or ideally, all three.
We are Mariana, with the best CHRM in the class (unless Atticus is higher, which considering how pretty he is, maybe), and the second best SKLL, with our only equal being the child soldier prodigy, and the only one that's better is a future champion of Paldea who got that rank in a single year, who already has corporate ties. We're currently planning to 2v3 a Gym Leader again, less than a month after our first one, and this Gym Leader is unusually capable of giving coverage to challengers.
We're good at battling, we're probably going to be visually fine on camera, we're going to have people intrigued about the way we're handling gyms, we're class president, we have a rare pseudo-legendary as our starter, we don't (knowingly) have any ties to any large political movement or brand at the moment, we probably count for a diversity quota, and we'd get the inherent boost of being on an Iono Zone Challenge Stream.
We should be beating off sponsors with sticks. Just have to worry about fucky legal things to try and trap us with a shifty sponsor and we have people around us we can ask for help on that front.
Although this level of fame would be dampened a bit if we failed, of course.
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- She/They
Yeah I and at least a faction of voters are pushing for Levincia for several reasons (type advantage, unlikeliness of being the next FE, it's funny), but the fame from an Iono Zone stream could be beneficial (and create a million new problems) too.
Also huh didn't realize Thea didn't have 13 CHRM considering she's the "Charm bonus" bond. Must have been grinding KNOW instead.
Also huh didn't realize Thea didn't have 13 CHRM considering she's the "Charm bonus" bond. Must have been grinding KNOW instead.
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Just finished my reread of this, kinda worried about the arguing duo with our responsibilities as class president but it is what it is now. I was looking back at the character sheet and thinking about the dagger, it's gonna be useless in 1 or 2 field exercises, and there was never a time where it was relevant during this one, any ideas on how it could manage to be of use, especially consisting the bosses are going to be a higher badge number. Also, more thoughts: I do like our current track with gyms; getting to 5 gyms by the summer means that we should be good to do stuff about the stakes over the summer, and I want to try and interact with those as soon as possible.
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