(This is essentially just the mobile-friendly info stuff)
Hi. I'm Professor Blaine "Brain" Juniper. I'm a werezor that researches the bond between people and Pokemon. I'm also the new Hammerlocke Gym Leader.
Hammerlocke Gym, being the eighth in the circuit, is a typeless gym at the moment. This might change if the league gets on my ass.
I like Dark and Ghost types. I think my favorite Ghost type is Drifloon, but I don’t have one. I already have too many Pokemon.
My team under the cut (Blog rules)
+ - Ira - +
My first partner, now a Serperior. My best friend.
+ - Lauriam - +
A Zoroark I met in Castelia City, we r kind of brothers.
+ - Fuzzbutt - +
My Galvantula, known as my 'ace' in League Battles, since she's the one I Dynamax. She just likes to be big, though.
+ - Yami - +
My Cofagrigus. Don't let his scary appearance fool you, he's a nerd. He even asked me to get glasses for him for his aesthetic. (Still haven't found any that would fit his face)
I'll add the rest later
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Blaine themself is a little bit of an asshole, but I can’t imagine them getting into anything any further than simple pettiness. Please do not start actual fights with them.
Mod is an adult and so is Blaine, but we don't really do nsfw unless it's funny.
I block pretty liberally.
Blanket warning for Pokemon/Animal abuse and endangerment, since Blaine primarily cares for abused or abandoned Pokemon. I will tag during direct mentions of such.
You've probably heard the conspiracy theories that Pokemon types aren't real, and are completely fake.
First of all, those conspiracy theories are completely false. There's so much evidence out there of types being real it's comical. Go watch a single battle from Paldea where terastalization is used.
But while Pokemon types are very much a real thing that every Pokemon has, gym leaders aren't quite the same.
Gym leaders don't have to specialize in any one particular Pokemon type. They just have to specialize in something, but it doesn't have to be a Pokemon type.
Hammerlocke Gym Leader Raihan, for example, specializes not only in dragon-types, but also weather.
Viridian City Gym Leader Blue specializes in type coverage.
You can get pretty wild in what you specialize in as a gym leader. Multi-headed Pokemon. Pokemon often seen as "unviable". Friendship with your Pokemon. And so on.
Why do people think that gym leaders have to be type specialists? It's because most gym leaders are type specialists, and the few gym leaders who aren't are usually not as well-known as the type specialists.
But you can specialize in whatever you'd like. Whether that be a kind of Pokemon, a special strategy, anything. As long as your challengers are learning from their battles with you, then specialize to your heart's content.
i'm a "type coverage specialist" like blue except that's just what i told the Galarian league so they'd let me use all my best friends in the same team instead of all the other pokemon here at the gym that i'm not as close to.
i'm also a specialist in crushing kids dreams, according to the forums. (apparently a cinccino with multi-hit moves, technician, and a loaded dice is too harsh.)
Zoruas literally just pick random people to look like. That kid HAS NOT done anything with your kid. They most likely saw your son in a crowd and thought "oh cool!"
Consider asking the zorua directly instead of torturing him
Zoruas literally just pick random people to look like. That kid HAS NOT done anything with your kid. They most likely saw your son in a crowd and thought "oh cool!"
Consider asking the zorua directly instead of torturing him
So we have a group chat for Pokemon professors and students, right.
I wake up one morning, and I decide, hey, why don't I check that group chat for once! It's been a while!
The first thing I see. Is that the "What the fuck, Kalos." channel has been updated.
I think. Oh. Maybe it's just another issue with the recent environmental shift. Or maybe an Espurr got loose.
No.
Professor Sycamore himself posts in that channel, what can only be described, as a six foot tall humanoid war machine with angel wings and a shotgun.
It is apparently. A faller.
I am sat, still in bed, still being crushed by my Liepard, and I say, in the chat, "what the fuck is that."
Professor Sycamore says the robot identified itself as "V2" and had recently been in a battle, wherein it's opponent had "Hit it so hard it clipped through the floor."
I then ask. "What are you going to do about this?"
Professor Fucking Sycamore, Bless His Heart, then says "I'm giving it a Pokemon."
// Hi! this post is based off of me starting a randomized Kalos playthrough and roleplaying privately with my friends about it. If you would make a blog about it, give me a moment to elaborate on the lore here
obviously, the universe is in such disarray that when v1 killed v2, v2 simply teleported somewhere else as an ultra space faller
kalos has recently been having a lot of fallers, both pokemon and human because of the recently "failed" firing of the ultimate weapon
the ecosystem is absolutely fucked because of this
Using this lore, I plugged a Pokemon X rom into a pk3ds and randomized wild Pokemon, but not trainer's Pokemon. To support that the ecosystem has been messed up.
The point of picking Pokemon X was that V2 goes through a post-storyline Pokemon X world, and meets Xerneas, eventually learning the value of life and death.
Obviously you can do whatever the hell you want because it would be your blog, but I just wanted to elaborate on why my V2 was in Kalos and what my intentions were. I have, however, no intentions to make a blog. The story is for me and my friends.
So we have a group chat for Pokemon professors and students, right.
I wake up one morning, and I decide, hey, why don't I check that group chat for once! It's been a while!
The first thing I see. Is that the "What the fuck, Kalos." channel has been updated.
I think. Oh. Maybe it's just another issue with the recent environmental shift. Or maybe an Espurr got loose.
No.
Professor Sycamore himself posts in that channel, what can only be described, as a six foot tall humanoid war machine with angel wings and a shotgun.
It is apparently. A faller.
I am sat, still in bed, still being crushed by my Liepard, and I say, in the chat, "what the fuck is that."
Professor Sycamore says the robot identified itself as "V2" and had recently been in a battle, wherein it's opponent had "Hit it so hard it clipped through the floor."
I then ask. "What are you going to do about this?"
Professor Fucking Sycamore, Bless His Heart, then says "I'm giving it a Pokemon."
[Video ID: Darkrai is just gardening, “Some people can’t sleep with the door open as they fear something is outside. Others can’t sleep with it closed, as they fear the something outside is in the room with them.”]
You know how there are Pokémon out there who refuse to eat treats shaped like themselves? Like that one Blaziken that went viral for refusing to eat Torcheeps?
Well, there's that, and then there's Appletun.
[It's a photo of Ringogo the Appletun, snout deep in an apple pie decorated to look like an Appletun. The guy's absolutely covered in pie filling, but deeply satisfied.]
Can't even blame him... not his fault he evolved to look like a delicious dessert.
Actually, wait. I know a lot of trainers in Unova register with the League to get their first partner Pokémon.
But what the hell do the Striaton triplets do for someone who just picked up a Lillipup the route before and called that their starter? Do they, like... play Rock-Paper-Scissors for who battles the trainer? Evaluate the Lillipup's moveset thoroughly?
As much as I hate vacuuming all of the fur in spring… gotta say, full-blooded humans don’t know what they’re missing when it comes to growing winter coats.
Best, fuzziest base layer you could ask for. And besides, looking like a puffball makes me at least marginally less intimidating. Even if I wind up needing looser pant legs in the winter just to accommodate all the fluff. Definitely still worth it.
Honest to god sometimes I just turn into a Zoroark during colder months just so I don't have to deal with heating bills. Fuck the loopiness and hunger that comes with it, we be cozy in our own fur.
Wouldn't say that many people do, but my pack used to try and catch wild Emolga. Always a pain. Never as worth it as just going for the Pidove. Some kit always wound up with status paralysis and ran to me for Paralyze Heals, since I carried The Bag Of Stuff.
Yeah, definitely not a western thing to eat most Pokemon. But most Electric types aren't exactly edible, either.
You've got Flaaffy, which are livestock, Lanturn, which may be fished up, and I know people used to eat Raichu long before the Pikacraze. That's about it though.
