Chloe Summers, Pokemon Research Assistant

A Pokemon research assistant specializing in Grass-types! Ask me anything Pokemon-related, and I'll answer as best as I can!

[pkmn-asst-summers]

Hi there!

My name is Chloe Summers, and I’m a research assistant working under Professor Blackthorn! I’ll probably be starting up a journey of my own soon to get some experience out in the field, but until then, I thought I might try making a blog to answer what Pokemon-related questions I could!

My specialty is Grass-type Pokemon (so I guess you could call me a Grass-istant, haha!), but I can answer questions about other types as well! The Professor’s also agreed to help with any questions I can’t answer, so you’re sure to get expert advice.

With that all said, ask away!

(OOC: This is an RP ask blog for a Pokemon OC of mine I’m trying to flesh out. I’ll try to keep the replies in-character, but I’ve never done anything like this before, so please be patient with me ^^;) (And if possible, please try to avoid SV spoilers; while I have the game, between work, the holiday season, and competing interests, I haven’t gotten as far as I’d like, so as of writing this I still haven’t finished the story!)

[teamphobia]

Just a reminder to all of you NOT to get Dark and Ghost types for the aesthetic this Halloween season without knowing how to care for them or I will let my Talonflame shit on your car. ❤️💜

[iheartnimbassacity]

gotta agree with the old man(/neg) on this one. dont get pokemon for a fuckin holiday for the "aesthetic"

[professor-amaryllis]

This goes for poison types as well. The amount of people attempting to adopt a Spinarak from my program skyrockets this time of year, usually because they'll look "Scary" in the fake spiderwebs on their lawn.

[pkmn-asst-summers]

((Quick OOC post!

I ended up on an accidental hiatus from pokeblogging stuff for a while, so I’m trying to hop back into it! That said, I think I bit off a bit more than I could chew with Chloe, as I didn’t and don’t have much in the way of solid plans for her story. Because of all this, and the fact that she’s in a nebulous non-canon region, her timeline is gonna be a bit wonky and more of a “whenever it makes sense” sort of thing, rather than real-time-ish like most pokemon irl blogs seem to be.

I do have a plan for a proper post that’ll hopefully be up tomorrow evening, but for now I need to sleep. Feel free to send asks though, if you have anything you want to say to Chloe!))

[eartheats]

a guide to holding bouton, made my me :)

[pkmn-asst-summers]

Gosh, I keep forgetting to post updates here! Sorry about that!

We’ve mainly been focusing on training for the last few days, but we did also have our first proper Trainer battle! We lost…but it was still fun! And we did win a battle yesterday! Tulip in particular seems to really enjoy the challenge.

I don’t really have a goal in mind, so we’re just kind of continuing along the routes for now! But if anything exciting happens, I’ll be sure to post about it. ^-^

So far today, the only exciting thing to happen is that a Spearow stole my lunch. :’(

[zuccnini]

Appleton of flowers.

Prints available here

[yumbrite]

[flowerliker]

i would like to gently advise that no matter how worried you were about safety of the roselia in your care when he ran off and disappeared and no matter how excited you are to see him safe and sound, you still do not give him a little smooch on his little head even if it does turn out that you will be fine because the person at the poison control hotline center who answers your call will laugh at you and you will deserve it 😞

[pokemon-researcher-alexander]

[flowerliker]

hehe i am going to hang this on the door to the plant nursery, thank you 🤭

[pkmn-asst-summers]

Quick update!

We’re out of Mossmouth Forest and have made it to the next city over. We’ve been spending the past couple days sightseeing and working on some training! And I’ve also been trying to figure out where I want to go from here, since there’s a lot of options.

Oh! And the Combee has a name now! We tried out Topaz, and she liked it well enough, but we ended up going with Hex, or Hexie! She really likes that name. :3

[itsc]

oddish in the tall grass (prints / originals)

[amietita]

i love doing these sketch spreads here’s a breloom one

[pkmn-asst-summers]

...So it turns out the forest is a bit larger than I thought. Or at least easier to get lost in than I expected.

And it turns out there are some dead zones in there where you can’t get a cell signal, which was...not the most fun to find out firsthand.

All of this is to say that I...may have gotten lost for a bit. I’m fine now, though, don’t worry! Tulip and I found our way back.

And--well. We’ve got a new team member now, too!

See, we found a whole bunch of Combee at one point, and I decided to spend some time observing them, getting some pictures and sketches in. And Combee tend to be naturally curious about anything unusual in their environment, including humans--they’ll often follow a person for a ways if that person happens to pass by where the Pokemon is gathering nectar. This particular Combee, though, kept hanging around me. I tried to kind of shoo her away, thinking she’d go back to the rest of her hive, but she stayed, even as it was starting to get dark. And then the next day, she still kept following me. So...I figured I’d see if she would join our team, grabbed a Pokeball, and here we are!

I still need to think of a name for her though! So if you have any suggestions, let me know!

[caoimhe-from-hoenn]

Since bug types are still a threat to my team and Sassy isn’t enough to deal with a full team, I’ve been looking for options that aren’t Capsakid (we’ve got beef) or Cradily (WAY too rare)

AND I FOUND THIS THING ON BULBAPEDIA?! IT CAN SHOOT FIRE

oohhh they’re from Galar aren’t they but OOOOH PUMPKABOO

[pkmn-asst-summers]

Oh, I love Pumpkaboo! They’re adorable little guys <3

I wish you luck on getting one for your team!

[pkmn-asst-summers]

Mossmouth Forest is so cool!!

We’ve only been here a day, but I’ve already gotten so many photos of the local flora and fauna (and some sketches, too!).

It’s so peaceful out here—I’m surprised I’m getting cell reception, honestly!

Oh—and before we left the Pokémon Center in town, a lady gave me some Aspear berries because she said she had a bunch extra!

Anyway, I think Tulip is liking this place, too—he seems to want to explore as much as I do, haha! Everything’s greening up, there are Pokemon starting to wake up from hibernation already, and there’s even some flowers in bloom!

I think we’ll spend a few days out here at least. We can’t stay here forever, but we can enjoy it for a bit longer before we go. :)

[pkmn-asst-summers]

We made it to Mossmouth!

[Attached: a photo of Chloe, a young woman with fair skin, green eyes, and light dirty blonde hair that’s pulled into pigtails. She is wearing a casual outfit with a light jacket, and holds a Bulbasaur against her chest with the arm not holding her phone. The two are in front of a simple road sign that reads, “Welcome to Mossmouth”.]

So this is a bit late, but! Tulip and I left town in the morning as planned on Thursday, and today (well, technically yesterday now) we got into Mossmouth!

Camping last night was definitely a different experience, but it was nice! And we got a bit of training in on the way here, since we haven’t battled much before. I’m not planning on going for the League or anything, but it’s a good skill to have!

Tomorrow we’ll probably head out into Mossmouth Forest--I’m excited to see all the different species of Pokemon that live there!

[pkmn-asst-summers]

Which region are you in?

Another ask I forgot to answer a while back--my bad!

I'm in the Alera region! It's a minor region sort of near Galar.

[pkmn-asst-summers]

don't forget to poke your mom today

Will do! I'll give Tulip a little boop on the nose. :3