how much time passes between when they say they’re going to bed and when they actually sleep
what do they do when they put their socks on backwards by accident
Never. (Besides, aren't they tights? Are they tights!? I don't draw them as tights...!!! ARE THEY TIGHTS?!!??)
how do they feel about those really tiny square bandaids
They are Nejiki sized... (bzweeep)
He seems like he likes squares. Like pixels.
how many repeats do they have of the same item in their game inventory
He always keeps that cheat handy where he can get as many of any item as he wants.
would they reuse floss
No.
how do they feel about heelys
Stupid because what the heck is a heely WOW ARE THEY SHOES WITH BIG HEELS??? DO THEY MAKE YOU TALLER??? WOW!!! SCIENCE!!! A TALL NEJIKI IS A APPROACHING ON THE HORIZON...!!!
would they wipe cheeto dust off their hands or lick it off
Nejiki doesn't eat Cheetos. He eats celery sticks. Sometimes he does that thing where you put peanut butter and raisins on them to make ants on a log, but that doesn't last for long because he ends up using those supplies to make a big celery raisin-ant fort or maybe a peanut-butter celery mecha. Because he's cool.
if someone shaved off their left eyebrow would they draw on another. how would it look
I would not be surprised if he doesn't actually have eyebrows and both of them are drawn on. (Meticulously every morning.)
do they go along with the tour or walk off and star in a quirky family-friendly coming of age adventure movie
I--
I am not sure what this means. Please use your imagination.
what are their opinions the weird stringy parts in bananas
I drew a comic a long time ago about how Nejiki doesn't just peel bananas and eat them. He takes the whole peel off and then cuts them into circles of perfectly equal thickness then cuts those into perfectly equal fourths. Then he eats the pieces with a tiny fruit fork. At the time I think it had something to do with avoiding phallic foods, but now I think it's just because when he was younger he didn't want to eat bananas like dumb monkeys do. Nejiki eats sophisticated bananas. (That sounds ridiculous.)
Anyways, I don't think he likes those strings. He always makes sure all of the strings are peeled.
how passionate are they about the use of the salad fork
Often, I feel silly, making serious headcanons about Pokemon characters that encompass modern issues, but I suppose that to excel in character development for complex stories it is good to consider various dynamics.
ha ha no I still feel silly
I take the example of Rene and Emery.
Nejiki is completely unfazed by whether or not Emery is a boy or a girl. Heck, the kid could waltz in wearing a sparkly pink tutu and the guy would probably just keep a completely straight face, possibly take a picture to instagram to Ruby and Cheren, and then go about business exactly as usual, with no real change in behavior or procedure. He frankly just doesn't care because really, what's more important, your stupid taste in fashion or this ultra cool home-made flux capacitor that we're going to implement into this completely inconspicuous lamp-bot with built in cameras and lasers? Yeah, that's what I thought.
But if Emery was ever discouraged about something other than programming or robots or science, and ever needed or wanted to talk to him seriously, he should probably know not to be subtle about it. To give a clear request for information or guidance, not just with a statement, but a question because Nejiki always answers his questions, in one roundabout way or another. I can bet you Nejiki would raise an eyebrow, quickly type something up on his analyzer, and hand the kid an encrypted key. Information. What he does with it is up to him. Nejiki, supposedly, does does not care. Does he? Sure, he follows a concrete system, but he has the mental capacity to accommodate as many variables into that system as he wants, assuming they fit together in a logical, definable manner. He is the type of programmer that can invent entirely new languages, rather than being hindered by the restrictions of an older one.
Anyways, Neziki differs in his harsher bitterness, his comparative lack of indifference. He revolts at any error in his dataset, and Rene would most definitely qualify as an error. Never would he consider him the way he considers himself, because obviously Rene has made a syntax error. He violates the binary rules inherent in the coding lexicon. Thus, Neziki is highly adept at programming, but does not freely alter his rules. He would never fail to remind Rene that he's some kind of anomaly, and it would get to the point where he's almost like some tick or leech, a virus slowly corrupting the brain, the human-computer. He's hard to listen to and even harder to avoid. His mannerisms also, are slightly more stereotypically male, as opposed to completely robotic. In a sense, since he didn't grow up in a basement and goes to an actual school, he himself is subject to a complicated programming job wrought upon him by his environment. He's discriminatory, biased, but he can't even tell because, scowl, what logic do you have to prove it's any other way?
Neziki is far less clear of the obscuring trash inherent in a high school society. Nejiki, on the other hand, remains fairly isolated, focused on his work without social and societal distractions.
So, is the hypothetical situation post a Thing now? Nejiki without PT... would not exist! Ha ha! I'm so meta even this acronym! Obviously I would never have made him or even considered him without that blasted community! Ehh!?! Blasted!? Maybe that's too harsh...
Perhaps, were I to ask him, "What would you do if you had never met Cheren? And what if Hikari was normal instead of a hormonal teenage girl? And what about Ruby?" he would simply say, "Impossible, unless you're asking me to transverse universes."
(And at that point one might be able to tell he's gone and made a mental note about building himself some kind of TARDIS)
"I would do what I always do minus three distractions."
"...Alright, but what if you met them, but then lost them?"
"Bzweeep! The population of the world is 6,973,738,433. It has an estimated annual growth of 1.1%"
And then he would spin around on his spinning chair and go back to work. The memories of them are already committed to his data banks. It was fun while it lasted. Now there's more work to be done. Though... heh... I think he also thinks he would be called gay and insulted less without them.
He's so inclined to think he is better off without other people and never seems to dwell on the past. He'll reach out to them whenever he wants, and he doesn't make unbreakable bonds. In the same way that others can reprogram him, he can remove that programming and reprogram himself to his own specifications. For someone so adaptable and resilient, he sure stays in one place a lot. I guess it's because he finds comfort and challenge in the cerebral and metaphysical unknown more than the physical unknown.
Nejiki is just Nejiki you know, and I think that he will always just be Nejiki.
Seeing all these future RP characters makes me think, "What would future Nejiki be like?" and all I can really think to answer that is "Nejiki."
I bet he'll even look the same. No older or younger. Still just as short. Eventually, maybe he'll disappear or shut down or something without warning like how an old computer goes obsolete and breaks and is gotten rid of and eventually forgotten except by those few sentimental folks, the types who can get emotionally attached to inanimate objects.
You expect to find him in his basement working on some machine or another, but then one day he's gone.
Maybe, Nejiki is reliable in his consistency. Nothing is life-changing and personality-altering, and all potentially life-changing events are taken in stride.
The tiny bot unhinges itself from the now 18-year-old’s skin and scuttles up his skin until it gets to his ear, pinching him with tiny metal phalanges.
Cheren: clock just strikes 12:00 am on a Saturday. Then again, striking midnight wouldn't be contextually correct, as the clock Cheren is looking at is an electric one, its bright blue digits glowing with a slight hum. It isn't just any 12:00 am on a Saturday, he knew, but he had no expectations for the occasion. His gaze returns to his textbook, cast in the yellow light of the lamp.
Just as he reaches the middle of the paragraph he is on, though, he feels a strange sensation crawl into his ear, making him jerk. "What the--" he reaches up, tries to swat--"Ow!" He winces—
Nejiki: The bot whines a bit like an old processor, despite obviously being new technology, but then an unmistakable monotone voice eminates from its speaker.
“Hello. It is exactly 12:00 AM and 30 seconds on Saturday, September 15th. This is the day of your 18th birthday. I hope you know that I am always at least a year ahead of you. End transmission.”
With a tiny shock, the bot decommissions itself and falls to the floor.
Not even a “Happy Birthday,” huh?
Cheren: He winces again at the volume, though it's not as loud as he was expecting from the first word. He freezes, all except for a grin on his face as he listens to the message. The grin is wiped away at the sudden buzzing shock, causing him to swat at his ear again in pain. "Dammit, sir--!"
He doesn't realize he's standing up until he looks back down at the floor, able to make out the shape of the robot. He crouches down, squinting at where he thought it landed and picks it up.
"Pfft. Thanks for the reminder."
He sits back down and places it next to the alarm clock. It didn't look salvagable, but he was rather curious. This was the second one now?
Might as well try to have a look at what survived some time.
When you go to the mailbox of the PDA, there's a message there that says, "Why were you in the /male/ bathroom?"
Neziki: (Suddenly a cold metallic object is pressed to the back of his head...)
BZWEEEP!
Cheren: !!!!!! STOP
(looks at his analyzer deadpan)
September 16th.
You are 16 years old.
What a coincidence.
Cheren: ...............................
So you've heard...
Neziki: Heard?
I know, obviously.
(He sneers.)
Cheren: Well, it seems that many of the students have.
Neziki: You are ranked among the top of the class, after all. Granted, I'm smarter.
Speaking of AP Calculus by the way, why don't you just self study? I've already taken it, naturally.
bzweeep!
I would offer you tutoring, but youre supposed to be smarter than that, maybe like 72 percent?
I'll probably be disappointed anyways.
(He shrugs.)
By the way, inspect your scanner sometime. I fixed it.
(smirk)
Cheren: ...
I wouldn't be against self-studying, but I do admit I would at least like a teacher to talk to if and when I do face trouble. I prefer personal interactions to pinpoint my specific challenges.
Neziki: (he stares unblinkingly for the longest time)
At least 32 percent of the challenge is figuring it out yourself.
Don't you know that?
If you have to do it yourself it makes you smarter, maybe 93 percent?
I'm disappointed.
(He pulls a small device, something like a PDA, from his pocket and hands it to Cheren)
Cheren: ....
Neziki: No “thank you”?
It IS the day of your birth after all.
(crosses his arms and furrows his brows)
Cheren: W-what is--Pardon? Is this for me?
Neziki: I thought you were supposed to be smart. If you don't want it, I'm taking it back, you know.
(sneer)
Cheren: O-okay, okay. It's just--[looks it over, turning it over in his hands before turning it on.] Wow, it's really nice.
I'd imagine it's quite expensive.
Neziki: I built it! (he seems somewhat miffed) Obviously!
Also my guidelines are that you learn how to use it yourself.
And if you break it, don't expect to find it on your bedside table the next day.
"Happy birthday."
(He marches off, possibly overheated from the prolonged social contact.)
This is where Neziki lives, so I thought I might as well describe what I think the place is like.
So yeah, metallic, sci-fi futuristic sort of aesthetic. I don't even know if he's got any carpet in the place; it's all cold and generally not very welcoming. I imagine that before he became Factory Head, the building used to be pretty bland and regular, but he spends some of his free-time every now and then modifying it and adding cool things. This inculdes: conveyor belts, secret underground entryways for him to appear from, cameras, cool glowing things that are totally practical somehow, and a really impressive shelving system with automated claw hand things and conveyor belts to move Pokemon efficiently around the place.
The building may or may not secretly be a giant transformer robot (I mean come on, why else would it need such gigantic fans on the side?), and I imagine it has this really complicated maze-like series of underground levels that only Neziki knows how to navigate completely. The lower you go, the colder it gets.
In the game you see scientists helping challengers through the factory, but I like the completely autonomous Pokespe interpretation better; challengers are toted around on conveyor belts and debriefed on procedures and swapping by automated LCD screens rather than actual people. I take it there may be factory workers during certain times of day, but as an effort to keep the place running as close to 24/7 as possible, I'm sure Neziki keeps the factory in autonomous mode for the majority of the day. He prefers it like that anyways.
As a side note, I kind of just automatically assume that the place has got a bedroom and kitchen somewhere in the lower floors. It's just as metallic in there as it is in the rest of the factory, though. I bet Neziki's room is crisp and clean with a bunch of gadgets organized on shelves or laid strategically on certain spots of the floor.
Fig. 1 _CONVEYORS
Fig. 2_MOTION SENSING LIGHT-UP FIELD (and who knows what else Neziki has installed in here)
Fig. 3_AN EXPLOSIVE ENTRANCE
Either he can teleport or there's some hidden panel under the ground there.
Neziki’s Pokemon are all named after the greek letters of the alphabet because scientists and mathematicians do that all the time so it must be a thing that is smart!!! Still, to appear professional he never calls them these names in public. I guess the names are almost more of a categorization system; it’s pretty easy to write a single letter than a full Pokemon’s name. Plus, if in an urgent situation he can’t find one of them, they have a specific title he can call. Neziki always has practical reasons for everything because it makes him seem adult! And important! There’s no need for nicknames to be flamboyant.
I also imagine he carves the Greek letter of their names into their Pokeballs.
α (Alpha) - Electivire ♂
Ability: Motor Drive
Nature: Calm
Held Item: Expert Belt
Moves: Thunderbolt, Hidden Power (Ice), Flamethrower, Cross Chop (Earthquake, Magnet Rise)
This was Neziki’s first Pokemon, which is why he named it the first letter of the Gteek alphabet. Met him as an Elekid and raised him all by himself! He’s a pretty mild Pokemon, all silent and stoic and not annoying to Neziki, but the fact that he looks like a real tough bruiser probably got the kid out of a lot of trouble with people who like to pick on scrawny nerds. He’s pretty useful as a power source too! Endless electricity for the tech geek. Jubilations.
Σ (Sigma) - Skarmory ♂
Ability: Sturdy
Nature: Impish
Held Item: Leftovers
Moves: Brave Bird, Whirlwind, Spikes, Roost (Swagger, Metal Sound)
(Like half of these moves are supporting moves can I just say he also knows generic Skarmory things like Steel Wing and Slash I mean come on)
I bet Neziki found him when he was looking through a big heap of scrap metal for something to build with. It was probably some dramatic scene where he lifted a piece of scrap up and suddenly there’s this BIRD and this horrible screeching noise and his Elekid is kind of severely low leveled in comparison but a) the Skarmory has been trapped under scrap metal and is probably somewhat weakened because of it already and b) they use some whacked out strategy that has something to do with taking advantage of all the scrap metal lying around and then Neziki catches it because sure ok why not.
But he has to train it to stop screeching because the high frequencies make his machines flip out.
There’s a strategy there where if Yanmega used Toxic on an opponent then Endure, then Protect, then a Double Team spam, he’d be able to prolong the battle enough that the other Pokemon faints from the poisoning. Three extra moves just seems a little… excessive to me, but whatever. I almost wanted him to know Hyper Beam and Swagger as well, but then I held my right hand with my left hand and said, “Pom, that’s enough.”
Honestly, I only want Neziki to have one of these because it looks like a robot bug. So yeah. I think he likes the way this Pokemon looks and stuff. Cool.
Gamma strikes me as a really intense type. Serious battler.
He was going to have a Tyranitar too, but then I was like “wow why it’s 5 AM screw it." Probably would have been named Omega though. We’ll see if I still want him to have it.
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