I'm an employee at the Game Corner in Celadon City, and I'm kind of a wizard at Arcade games and claw machines and no it's not because I have a psychic type 🙄 none of the games are manipulatable by pokemon- if they were I'm sure we'd be out of business by now. And that's kind of bad form too and would definitely get you banned.
Anyways my pokemon-
I've got a Slowpoke named Greg and he's kind of the light of my life he chills on the prize counter during my shift and he loves being scratched behind the ears so do that if you ever come in.
I've got a Murkrow named Kyle. He's very food motivated and would 100% sell my soul for a corn chip. I caught him on Route 16, he's mostly here for protection from Ghosts.
My third mon is Earl Timothy von Munchheim the fourth- or if you don't want to say all that you can call him Earl or "The Earl" for short :] He's a munchlax and I found him rifling around the trash outside my work, he used to belong to someone else but they didn't want him. So he's mine now.
I've got a Tauros on my recently purchased property by the name of Bill! He's rather young but a nice companion when I'm hanging out outside.
Recently Adopted Fourth Mon is Shelley, she's a togepi who I attempted to foster and adopt out.. Enough attempts fell through that i've just given up. So she's mine now. She likes to ride around in a baby carrier :]
I also foster some pokemon, if you're interested in adopting a mon I'd recommend checking the Celadon Pokemon Center's website and they'll contact you. Because I'm not going to send a pokemon to a stranger on the Internet I've never met lol.
And uhhh yeah that's it really. Thanks for dropping by the blog 👋
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Syd 'lore' posts:
How Syd caught Greg
Kyle half-evo lore
Characters around Syd (from my hub blog)
Hi there!! It's Tori again I wanted to make a silly blog, so here's a character who works at Celadon Game Corner and has no clue it's a front for Team Rocket.
If you're following this blog and don't remember why- it's because I repurposed an old blog I wasn't using! This used to be spiralled-and-spliced!
Anyways I'm hoping y'all enjoy Syd :]
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finally time to reveal them because they're actually both in a picture together.... please meet Elio (the cyndaquil) and Soleil (the eevee). I met them both on my journey, relatively recently. Soleil I picked outside a pokecenter from a "free to a good home" box- or rather she decided to follow me out of the box... Elio is more recent. a friend I met wasn't able to take him with them... so he came with me. he's a little moody but it's okay. he can take his time.
I have a potential trainer coming to meet Pip and Squeak tomorrow. I'm really nervous but I hope they hit it off because as much as I love them, I really want them to go to a good home too.
What's the bullshit between remotaid and Octillery?
okay. you have no fuckin idea. strap in buddy we're about to go down 400 years of academic slapfighting
adding a cut cuz this got Long.
so. most people know that for a really long time NOBODY could believe that remoraid, the most fish pokemon to ever fish pokemon, and octillery, which looks like a cephalopod, were an evolutionary line.
though obviously locals had known for ages, it took numerous high-profile documentations to really give the idea some ground. it actually took a really weird specimen found in 1630 that had some weird form of evolutionary stasis syndrome and stalled halfway through and died to really be the final nail in the coffin.
I think there's still life-scale figures on display in a museum in johto somewhere, if you're not squeamish you should absolutely look it up it's gnarly.
now, that raised the question of What The Fuck Were These Things
of course as it goes with traits-based taxonomy, they got it really wrong, and also could not agree on a single fuckin damn thing. for the longest time remoraid had been classified with the cartilaginous fish like sharpedo and mantine and octillery was classified with cephalopods like clobbopus. now obviously those both can't be true
this was well well before darwinian evolution was even a glimmer in that fucker's eye, so there was really no good explanation for it, instead propositions included but were not limited to: magic, spontaneous merging, hybridization, "maybe fish and cephalopods are like really close actually", and my personal favourite, divine intervention
roll around to the 1700s, people have settled into their two camps: team cephalopod and team vertebrate. these fuckers HATED eachother, and would for the next 300 years. like there were actual brawls about this, it could get ya stabbed at a conference if ya talked to the wrong guy.
both had the same argument, opposite directions: clearly one part of the line was coincidentally really similar to this other completely unrelated taxonomic group, and those other guys are stupid and wrong.
there was alot of dissections, studies, but the evidence was conflicting. to be clear, remoraid aren't vertebrates, they don't have a true boney spine, so they couldn't just be fish, but octillery lack many key features of true cephalopods.
come along ol' Charlie D and his grand new idea in the 1830s, this Did Not Make It Better. now the question was Worse cuz how the fuck would something like this evolve.
clearly something was goin on convergently, those two groups are so far removed it's ridiculous, for perspective it's the difference between you and a durant. the fight was which was which.
people got SO PISSED about this it's absurd, if you ever want free entertainment just look up academic papers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries about this line, lots of "in response to" (aka "that guy was high on shroomish shit")
it actually took until the late 20th century when dna sequencing got good enough to compare them.
you wanna know the answer?
NEITHER. THE ANSWER IS NEITHER.
genetically, they are most closely related to cephalopods, so they got a point there, but they're not true members of the actual clade by any means.
technically they're not that close, but they're closer than to fish. their actual position is as basal relatives of the clade, by technicality, but they're not close to ANYTHING ELSE. the basic "skeleton" of a remoraid is actually the ancestral shell that comes free with being a mollusc, and it becomes the hard internal shell of octillery that they use to bash into shit.
the "fins" of remoraid are actually what become the "arms" of octillery when they evolve, the suction pad on their dorsal "fin" is adapted into the arm suckers.
everything else? fucking Everything Else? yeah that's convergent. I know. I know.
they look like fish. I know they look like fish. They Are Not Even Remotely Fish
and that's why everyone who decides to pursue the field of cladistics is beyond the edge of sanity
Be very careful with training Shelley. Togepi can learn metronome, and metronome can do darn near anything, including self-destruct. It can get expensive.
Ah I'm not too worried. Kyle has taken her under his wing (quite literally) and he's been very good about keeping her following house rules.
And as for moves like metronome... Yeah we'll see if she has that urge to battle like some mons do. She might be perfectly happy just hanging out.
