For the sake of readability, I’m using proper grammar and a more professional tone for this post, but normally I’m not too uptight about it (unless it’s for the newspaper, of course!).
Anyways, hello! My name is Jaime, I’m a second-year student at Naranja-Uva Academy, as well as the head of the academy’s Journalism Club. I’m currently studying under the Humanities track, with focus on Literature, History, Archeology, and Anthropology! Yeah, I hang out in Sra. Raifort’s class a lot…
Here's my trainer card!
I also have a sister. I may bring her up on occasion. And sometimes a friend of mine will pop up occasionally on my blog. I can't stop her sooo. eh.
I’m always open to interacting with people on here, so don’t be afraid to shoot me a message!
[OOC: More info under the cut!]
[Likes and follows come from @turtblurts-pkmnirl-hub]
-----
For those of you who knew Jaime prior to the reboot, be aware that the lore may shift or be slightly different than his previous iteration. We’ll see how this goes! However, this does mean that anything prior is no longer canon and we’re ignoring it.
-----
Blog Guidelines:
Though the mun is an adult, the character is still a minor, so please be mindful of how you interact! NO NSFW! The occasional dick joke is fine, but keep it PG-13.
Pelipper Mail/Malice: OFF
Musharna Mail/Malice:OFF
Magic Anons: OFF
ANY kind of PKMN IRL blog can interact! Eeby Deebies, sapient/sentient pkmn, evil teams, canon characters, etc.
➥ Curious man that he is, don’t be surprised if Jaime asks a lot of questions about your character and their universe!
IN CHARACTER anon hate is fine! Keep in mind that I reserve the right to not answer all anon hate asks though! Especially if they are something I don't feel comfortable answering!
Extra:
Jaime has a little sister named Victoria, who he may vague about occasionally. Her blog is @victoria-vd
Also! Every so often, Jaime’s friend who goes by Z may hijack the blog and use it as her own for a bit. Just cuz she can. Don’t worry about it <3 For ease of differentiation between the two, her text will be colored green and she will tag her posts with #USERZ and #reblogz
-----
Tags
Story Arcs
Moved to a separate page for ease of viewing, click here to access!
General Tags
#jai posts -> Posts made by Jaime
#USERZ -> Posts made by Z
#victory sister -> Posts that mention or include Victoria
#jaime's ramblings -> really long informational posts written by Jaime
#jai rbs -> Jaime reblogging something
#reblogz -> Z reblogging something
#the mailbox -> Ask responses
Important Tags
#future sight-> Posts to pay attention to! These might provide clues or foreshadowing!!
#zecrets -> Z revealing secrets about her friends on the blog, prompted by anons.
➥ Access the ZECRET-LOG
#miracle eye -> Offscreen posts
#los horrores -> general high stakes tag
#blind spot -> blind spot signifies that this post is completely invisible to certain blogs linked to this one ( @aspens-dragons @espers-n-espurrs @yveltalreal @vulgrados-best @rock-n-rolycoly).
➥ If its tagged with a specific character, then only that one cannot see it. the rest would be able to. for example if another blog tagged “#blind spot: jaime” then Jaime specifically cannot see that post. Blind spot posts are completely free for anyone else, anonymous or otherwise, to engage with.
Organizational Tags
Moved to a separate page for ease of viewing, click here to access!
hi no guarantees on anything but redux (as well as just all my pkmn irl blogs) might be like. abandoned. at least for a while.
i straight up cannot rp until tumblr support decides to help me out (i dont have access to my askbox, dont show up on tags, and even if i can rb things i dont show up in the notes instead being a ghost notif you just have to see the reblog on my blog) and i have to wait for that. if im lucky ill get a response in 1-6 months. key word lucky. i could be waiting years since tumblr considers getting nabbed my the spam filter/shadowbanned to be "low priority". of course theres also the chance i get really lucky and get help in the next few weeks. no garuntees for everything. anything is possible because tumblr support is an actual joke most of the time.
we're in the middle of an arc that literally revolves on my guys and cannot do much until thats resolved. my guys are heavily involved in tons of future arcs. redux simply cannot occur until im out of limbo and the fact i might have to wait literal years if im unlucky does not really make me confident or keep me motivated to continue the arc afterwards. even if yveltalreal is fixed, theres no garuntee the spam filter doesnt hit me again right after and shadowban me again.
once again no garuntees it might not be abandoned but this really just ruined my motivation and its really hard to roleplay when all the most important things needed to roleplay on tumblr are taken from you
i love you guys i love the communities ive been a part of on here but like when the main blog im hyperfixated on and my literal hub blog just cant do anything its just a huge hit. for my own health i have to accept i might have to give up, step back, and say goodbye.
to be clear redux is not just my own blogs but all the blogs connected to yveltalreal. they will probably be reblogging this post as well.
there’s so many vivillion here! which makes sense since we were so close to santalune earlier. if it werent for the fact that we were on a mission id’ve loved to talk to viola or at least check out the gym!!!
It's always so weird to come down from the biology heavens to see what the average person believes about animals, plants, ecosystems, just the world around them. I don't even mean things that one simply doesn't know because they've never been told or things that are confusing, I'm talking about people who genuinely do not see insects as animals. What are you saying. Every time I see a crawling or fluttering little guy I know that little guy has motivations and drive to fulfill those motivations. There are gears turning in their head! They are perceiving this world and they are drawing conclusions, they are conscious. And yet it's still a whole thing if various bugs of the world feel pain or if they are simply Instinct Machines that are Not Truly Aware of Anything At All????? Help!!!!!! How can you look at a little guy and think he is just the macroscopic animal version of a virus
I think that’s a good way to look at it! Emotions likely evolved to benefit us: doing things that help us survive feels good, unknown things are scary to protect us, shame and sadness makes us not do something again, things like that. It’s weird to think that animals, who clearly react to things, would not have any sort of feeling on things, and simply factually react to stimuli. “Oh, my foot is being chewed to the core. This is bad, I guess. I should try to get away, so the bad thing will stop,” except also not really as thoughts but like, instant response, somehow.
Humans are different from other species of course, but sometimes we need to remember that we are but animals and also have instincts, and other species are more similar to us than we think
Oftentimes I see people just make shit up about bugs and other invertebrates. People will say stuff like "actually it's been scientifically proven that insects are physically incapable of cognition" with no source, and then you look it up and in fact there is tons and tons of literature reporting results on this exact thing. A while back after getting into an argument with people online about wasps, I decided to try compiling sources on invertebrate cognition out of spite and I had to take a break at some point because there is so much literature out there, it is actually overwhelming. Just with fruit flies alone, there's studies on how they form stable social networks and fight to establish hierarchies; how they make group decisions and act differently in crowds; how they pay attention to what other flies are doing and teach and learn from each other, even with other species. When subjected to pain out of their control, they can develop depression and respond to SSRIs to the point that they are literally used as animal models to study how to treat depression in humans. And that's just like, one animal!
Even with all the research there is though the truth is that we just haven't studied things like cognition, perception, behavior, sociality, etc. for the vast majority of invertebrates (i.e. the vast majority of animals). Most behavioral research (honestly, just bio research in general) is focused on vertebrates -- particularly mammals -- and the research that has been performed for invertebrates has still only been done for a small handful of species and lineages. Fruit flies are one of the single most studied organisms in the world (and there's still a lot we don't know about them). If idk, clams felt emotions, do you think you would be able to tell by just looking at them? (I have no idea if they do or not, I don't think anyone has studied this. we do know scallops can see.) But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and given the small glimpses of insight we have gotten into the vast world of unknowns, I think yeah it's pretty obvious that there is way more going on with a lot of animals than people think. Scala naturae my behated
Oh, finally, something I’m good at. Unfortunately I won’t be the one conducting the interview, but that’s the easiest part of the job. Writing up a few questions isn’t the hard part.
The hard part is getting your foot in the door. I can do that.
tws: use of tobacco/smoking, discussions of missing persons
Ivy paced around in a circle in front of the table her remaining family sat at. Most of her relatives had left and gone off to who knows where so that her mother could hold a little “council meeting” to decide what to do with the sad excuse for information the kids had given them.
The dinner was over. Maple’s friends had all left. They’d barely told them ANYTHING about where her son was. All they did was say they knew where Maple was but they couldn’t tell her family anything! Don’t worry, though! They’ll find Maple themself! And her mother did NOTHING to stop them! She just let them leave peacefully so that the Hounds could talk about it. Talk. As if they’d actually gotten real information.
At Ivy’s feet, Tami followed her, the absol walking in the same circles she did.
“You seem stressed…” her sister said, carefully, like she expected Ivy to explode if anyone said anything to her. To her credit, she was right. Ivy was not in the mood for a peaceful conversation after still not knowing shit nor fuck about what was going on with her fucking kid!
“I seem stressed because I FUCKING AM, ACORN!” Ivy yelled, a growl rising from her throat as she whipped around and slammed her hands on the table right next to where her sister sat. Acorn flinched back in her seat at the loud noise and frowned at Ivy. Behind her, Ivy was vaguely aware that Tami had jumped in surprise as well.
“I’m just trying to comfort you! I know this is hard-”
“I don’t want comfort!” Ivy snapped, cutting off her sister. “I want to know Maple is safe!” It was FINE when she didn’t ever see Maple and only got the occasional updates on her! At least she knew Maple was FINE! Venus kept an eye on her…
She turned to to face Venus
“HOW THE FUCK DID YOU LET THIS HAPPEN!?” from his spot at the table, her friend seemed surprised that she’d suddenly pivot to yell at him over their missing son.
“I was in Area Zero for a month?” Venus said, clearly worried for her. “Ivy you’re lashing out right now, calm down-”
“I AM CALM-”
Other voices began to rise up, arguing, trying to get Ivy to take a seat and calm down. Even Tami began to yowl, making noise just to emulate the humans.
“I thought we were supposed to be discussing things like sane adults?” Ryoko’s voice cut through the rest, silencing the group, absol included. Her mother waited a moment to make sure everyone was silent, taking a puff off of a cigar and slowly letting the smoke escape from her mouth.
“We’ve all calmed down?” Ryoko asked, but it wasn’t a question, more a command for them all to behave. “Good. Ivy, take a seat.”
“But-” Ivy’s protest was quickly silenced by her mother.
“No ‘buts’. Take the seat across from me. If you have a point to make, you’ll make it like an adult, not like a scared dog or a child throwing a fit” Ryoko gestured at the seat with her cigar before taking another puff.
A quiet, frustrated growl rumbled through Ivy, but she did as she was told and sat across from her mother. Tami followed soon after, settling at her feet, while her houndoom, Marrow, made its way over from across the room to sit beside her and rest its head on her lap. Ryoko watched this before speaking again.
“So, what did we learn from this?” her mother asked, looking around the group.
“The kids supposedly know whe-” Phlox began, but Ivy cut her brother off before he could finish.
“We learned nothing! NOTHING!” She wanted to stand back up again, she wanted to yell until it felt like her family actually took her seriously. Somewhere through the anger there was a small voice that reminded Ivy that her family DID take her seriously, but she was far too emotional to think rationally right now and they just wanted her to calm down a little. Unfortunately, being far too emotional to think rationally also stopped Ivy from listening to that small voice.
“Ryoko, could you imagine if you acted like this when Ivy went missing?” Ivy heard her auntie say softly with a little laugh.
“We’d be missing half the cities in Hoenn if she did!” her Uncle chimed in, equally amused by the little joke. It was just the gentle teasing that family was good at, a little joke to take the edge off, but in that moment, Ivy felt like her family didn’t give a single fuck about Maple or her. Was she insane? Was she in the wrong for being this concerned?
Beside her Venus cleared his throat. “Can we please actually discuss our missing kid?” Phlox and Acorn soon joined in, requesting for the conversation to get back on track, clearly picking up on Ivy’s ever growing frustration over it all.
“Fine. The kids are hiding things from us. They’re going to do something stupid, and we should follow them,” Ryoko finally said bluntly. No more bullshit or dancing around the actual point. Ivy’s mother had actually said something worth listening to.
The rest of the people in the room immediately jumped into questions and arguments. Ivy stayed silent.
“Why do we need to follow them? Surely their family will know where they are!” Ivy’s uncle said, being the first to disagree with the plan.
“They aren’t telling us where they’re going, and we’re the ones with the missing child. What makes you think they plan to tell their families what they’re doing? If they don’t trust us with the information about where Maple supposedly is and the way to find her, why would they tell their families?” Ryoko responded, blowing out more smoke.
“Well they only just left the dinner! We probably have time to convince them before they leave, no need to follow,” Acorn argued.
“They’ve probably already left,” Phlox joined the argument, countering their sister. “Miguel left with the rest of them, and they live here. They could be well on their way to Kalos by now if they took the train, and we wouldn’t know.”
“Then we just have to let them do something stupid! It’s too dangerous to follow them!” Ivy’s Uncle chimed in again, slamming his fist on the table.
Ivy heard Venus speak up from beside her. “And it’s not dangerous for them to go alone?”
“If they go missing after Maple, it’s suspicious, but we’re not,” her uncle began, “If some of us go missing at the same time as the other kids, their families will all look at The Hounds.” By now Ivy could tell he had made his choice, and likely wouldn’t change his mind.
“He’s right,” Acorn Agreed with her uncle. “We could be putting the family in danger by following them. After everything with Lucian, the Wyrmwoods have become extremely protective over those kids.” Ivy didn’t like how her sister seemed to be against this idea. How she seemed to be content to just let Maple stay who knows where for who knows how long.
“The Wyrmwoods wouldn’t go after us,” Ivy said firmly, finally joining the argument.
“What about the Velascos then? We have a much less positive relationship with them!” Acorn shot back.
“The Velasco’s know better than to try with us. They know damn well we know how to kill a psychic,” their aunt replied, making her distaste for the family clear in both tone and body language.
“This isn’t a conversation about killing psychics!” Ivy’s brother jumped in, trying to steer it back towards the discussion on if they should follow the teens or not.
“If you follow them it might have to become one, though,” her aunt argued
“The Wyrmwoods and Velascos won’t think we’re at fault! Maple’s missing too!” Phlox crossed his arm as he gave his rebuttal. At least one of her siblings seemed to want to help, Ivy thought.
“And what if they think Maple’s only missing because we decided we were done waiting for her to come back to us?” Ivy’s Uncle jumped back in, coming up with a new what if to add to the scenario as an argument against his sister’s plan to follow the kids. “If they begin to think we’re at fault, all logic will be thrown out! Our genuine concern will start to look like an elaborate show in order to draw suspicion elsewhere!”
Acorn continued to bring up the other families, which as far as Ivy was concerned, was the opposite of contributing to this conversation meaningfully. “We’re focusing too much on Wyrmwoods and Velascos. What about the other families? What about the Delgados?”
“If they’re as passive as Reina’s boytoy is, then they’re irrelevant to this conversation,” Ivy responded quickly.
“Miguel’s family?” Acorn tried again.
“They’d understand if Ivy and I explained it to them,” Venus replied. Ivy nodded her head in agreement.
“One of Nihilego Boy’s parents is in law. Do you think he’s good enough to win?”
“I think he’s smart enough to be quiet if push comes to shove,” Ivy’s aunt responded.
“Auntie, can you stop coming up with solutions that involve threatening their parents?” Phlox asked, clearly wanting this conversation to stop being about the other families.
“She’s right. Keahi, stop coming up with solutions that involve threatening their parents,” Ryoko stepped in, chastising her sister. “Aspen seems like he has reasonable parents anyways”
“I just… I don’t think this is a good idea! What if the kids don’t even actually know anything and lead us on a wild swanna chase!” Acorn leaned her head on one hand propped up on the table. Why was Acorn so good at making Ivy feel so bitter about her? Did she know she was doing it? Did she know she was the sibling who always had the least struggle? She was clearly pissing Phlox off too.
“Then we go on a wild swanna chase! I would have torn up all of Spikemuth if I had to in order to find my kids after the Darkest Day, and honestly I think it’s only fair that we let Ivy follow them to her kid!”
“This is different than the aftermath of The Darkest Day!” Acorn argued, stumbling into a fight like an idiot.
“How!?”
The Hounds began to descend into chaotic arguing again, everyone with different ideas on how things should be handled and why. Ivy ignored the loudness as best she can, focusing on the houndoom begging for pets and the absol laying across her feet.
Maybe the stress of it all was getting to more than just Ivy. She couldn’t remember the last time a discussion like this had gone so off rails so many times.
The arguing got louder and louder until Ivy was pretty sure they were all arguing about completely different things, when Ryoko finally made the choice to silence them all again.
“All of you! Quiet! We’re done arguing!” Ryoko had put her cigar out and stood up, towering over the people sitting at the table. “We’ve wasted enough time tonight. We’re putting this to a vote. Whatever wins out among the seven of us is our final decision. Is this clear?” All around Ivy she saw her family nod.
“Good.”
Ivy sat silently as her mother went around the circle, staring down at her hands as she pet her Marrow to try and calm down. Ryoko gave her own vote before taking the votes of the others. By the time everyone but Ivy had voted, it was an even split. Her sister, her aunt, and her uncle had all voted to just sit back and let it play out without getting involved, while her brother, her friend, and her mother all voted to follow the kids.
Ivy felt her mother’s gaze on her. Ryoko said nothing. She didn’t have to. Ivy knew she got to make the choice on what they did. She stood up, Tami and Marrow moving aside in response to let her.
they sat yall in specific spots or smth? or did you just get unlucky?
i’ve noticed that they seem to have sat us in a very. specific way.
theres a member of the hounds between each of us. miguel is on the far side of the table opposite from maple’s grandma, ryoko. flynn and i are closest to her (flynn’s like seated right next to her, actually). jaime and esper are near the middle, closer to miguel, while victoria and aspen are closer to ryoko.
all of this, mind you, with at least one Hounds member in between each of us.
We’ll be leaving out the details on our plans regarding Yveltal. All we can really tell them is that we have a lead on what might’ve happened to Maple.
