Welcome to KappaTengu! A pokeask blog about two traveling mercenaries consisting of a Nuzleaf and Lombre, named Koban and Lianhua. While there is a vague story going on, I am not immune to memes and silly antics (like 90% of the blog was memes/meme asks before my hiatus). I made this blog in 2018, and pulling it out of hiatus as of now, December 2023. This blog is best viewed on desktop.
This blog will be using a format where plot will be advanced after we reach an ask goal, eg: let’s say I set a goal of 10 asks until X happens, after answering that many asks, I’ll close the askbox, proceed with what was promised, then open the askbox again. There will be times where there’s no goal– called ‘free days’, where nothing is set to happen anytime soon– and there will be times where I will only count asks that pertain to the plot/lore, and any unrelated asks won’t count towards the number. I’ll typically call these “plot asks”.
So if you see the sidebar say anything like “ASKS UNTIL EVOLUTION: 20” or “PLOT ASKS UNTIL KOBAN EXPLODES: 5” those are just the ask goals for plot progression! If you see nothing like that anywhere, then we’re probably in a ‘free days’ phase, and our silly yokais are just chillin’.
So feel free to send serious or memey asks alike! And while this isn't an RP blog by any means, interactions from other Pokemon blogs are encouraged! You may even have impact on the plot, and the characters will certainly remember you!
On rare occasions, I may reply with art should anyone answer an ask I sent to them. I don't mind if anyone does the same if I answer their ask. Just keep in mind they probably won't be extensive/drag out.
Link accessibility for mobile users is still WIP. On desktop, you can use the blog theme links for navigation (the circle buttons to the left).No rules page yet since I haven't had any bad apples come in, but one will be made if trouble happens. I do ask you don't reblog any of my OOC posts (anything tagged "outofyokai"!), and not to send too many joke asks during plot advances. I trust everyone to read the room/atmosphere.
CHARACTERS
~ DESKTOP CAST PAGE ~
About Koban
About Lianhua
About Budew
About Takuya
BLOG STUFF
Ask Hints
#Answered Art Asks
#Lianhua Answers
#Koban Answers
#Both Answer
#Art Tag
#OOC posts
EVENTS AND PLOT
#Intermission 1: Budew and Toxicroak
#Egg Arc
#Lianhua’s Past
#Koban’s Past
A brief "about the blog" description and a summary of what happened on the blog so far in terms of vague plot under the cut.
This blog revolves around a strange Nuzleaf and Lombre, named Koban and Lianhua respectively. They work as self-proclaimed self-employed mercenaries dubbed Team KappaTengu, taking on any work they can, and doing anything they’re hired for, whether it be good or bad.
Koban has amnesia about his past, and Lianhua seems to be cagey about his own past.
Although always travelling, they primarily seem to hang around forests.
BASIC BACKGROUND
On top of exploration and rescue teams consisting of young Pokemon and adult Pokemon alike, Pokemon mercenaries also exist, who do quests indiscriminately. There are also guilds for these the same way there are guilds for exploration teams, but they’re more on the downlow and deal with more serious or darker quests, or ones simply too deadly or difficult for family-friendly guilds to handle.
Some choose to freelance their mercenary services instead of join a guild as these guilds probably have some bad rep for openly accepting malicious or criminal requests, even if their talent may be more reliable for more difficult quests that actually have stakes/need urgent help from good people. Mercenary guilds are located in more remote areas like forests. Respectable guilds don’t accept young/child Pokemon for their safety.
Mercenaries are known to be much more skilled yet merciless, due to the type of work they tend to get hired for. Mercenary guilds’ focus is productivity and profit, in comparison to exploration guilds’ focus on personal goals, rescue, and, well, exploration.
After Lianhua has lost his home, he decided to become a freelance mercenary for a source of fast income. Not soon after, he found Koban unconscious while travelling, and the two became glued to the hip ever since, creating the freelance mercenary team, Team KappaTengu.
Overall, this is all set in a PMD-like setting– a world of Pokemon where humans are irrelevant, scarce, and/or extremely far away, if not just extinct or non-existent. Everyone knows what a human is but probably has never met one in person before, and are typically treated as fairytale and myth.
WHAT’S HAPPENED SO FAR:
Koban has stolen an egg from Takuya, lying to Lianhua that it was for a quest he accepted. But in reality– and Lianhua has already caught on, too– Koban stole it because it rung something familiar in his head, and hoped that keeping it and perhaps hatching it would help Koban gain any memory at all.
The egg has hatched into a strange Budew.
INTERMISSION 1:
Budew was left on her own, seemingly waiting for Lianhua and Koban to come back. She's attacked by an unknown Fire Pokemon while waiting, to which she was saved by a passing Toxicroak named Takuya. Takuya follows others' advice, and goes to search for either the attacker or Budew's parents.
sorry for the sudden stop in updates! i got busy doing commission prep and gonna be busy for the entirety of june doing pride month ych commissions on my main socmeds so all my focus is gonna be towards that with no time for the blog. hopefully i pick things back up in july! see nyall soon :3c))
