Two thousand frozen alive

[TW: unreality, mention of war, global cataclysms] RP-blog for the Pokémon AU where unknown reasons led to the icy apocalypse

[samolocikzpapieru]

[TW: AU, mention of war]

The world will never become the same.

Uhm, hello? I am Erik from Pollan Golsztyn* region. You have never heard about it? I understand - we were isolated from others for years because of the civil war. And, honestly, we are still, since The Calamity paralysed nearly all communication routes between regions, but I found a way to use this app, and I hope other survivors could too - if there are any.

Questions? I think I can answer.

Which Pokémon do you have? Szekel the Corviknight, Bismarck the Aggron and Zip the (shiny) Electrike.

Pronouns? She/her. Yes, I am female. Erik is my nickname.

Who are you? Let's say that I am a pilot.

Why have you joined Team Magma? It was a very advantageous offer. Besides, it makes my survival easier.

Pelipper Mail? Corviknight Mail.

Poképhilia guys - please, DNI with me. I am not comfortable with it. Thank you.

UPD: If you have something strange in your profile, such as "don't follow me or I will block you" - I will block you first. Nothing personal, just playing by your rules.

*My home region returned to its historical name some time ago, so now it is called Golsztyn again

Lore posts:

Hierarchy of grunts

Relationships between teams

Team's daycare

// OOC: Yes! Another blog for Erik, but now it'll take place in her "native" AU with the same name as this blog. It's more dark and serious than the AU where @plane-goes-brrrt is. As I said before - I will explain everything soon, but feel free to ask any questions if you want! Main blog - @mikroschmitt. For anyone interested - the profile picture and the banner were made by me.

// 12.02.25: Since Erik's lore was slightly changed, I removed any mentions of her stepfather. Now, if you're interested if she still has someone to take care of her - yes, that's Etienne, who lost his wife and newborn daughter before The Calamity and now treats Zhann (the nickname came from the name he gave her - Eugénie) as a 'second chance'.

[samolocikzpapieru]

Me and my father visited Kalos to check his grandparents.

Guess who caught a Skiddo.

[samolocikzpapieru]

Guess who was hiding and crying in her room all day because leader Maxie was drunk and decided to argue with any member of the team coming to calm him down?

[samolocikzpapieru]

They called me "the most disappointing student in the academy's history" after I failed all my battling tests.

Guess who is heading back to Hoenn now.

[samolocikzpapieru]

Leader Maxie is having a conversation with a strange paldean man who calls himself "a director" in his office. They are talking really nice to each other. I have a bad feeling about it.

[samolocikzpapieru]

Guess who was sent to Paldea to "improve their battling skills"?

We just arrived and I already don't like this place. Everything is too vibrant. People are too happy. No nuclear wastelands and sudden gunshots. It's so unfamiliar.

[samolocikzpapieru]

Leader Maxie is having a conversation with a strange paldean man who calls himself "a director" in his office. They are talking really nice to each other. I have a bad feeling about it.

[samolocikzpapieru]

Dear colleagues,

Whose Gengar is let to walk around the HQ again? I caught a panic attack at least twice today because it suddenly appeared from my shadow. Please, put your Gengar in its pokeball or do not allow it to trick someone who is currently working.

Thank you.

[samolocikzpapieru]

Maxie, the great leader of Team Magma, the best geologist in Hoenn and a man who summoned Groudon, today was found sleeping in the conference hall while being drunk as hell.

Yes, this is an absolutely normal situation here.

[samolocikzpapieru]

Unfortunately, this joke is relevant again.

[nothere-deactivated]

Sooooo . . .apparently having been stuck in a Coma for several months unfortunately means I have to visit the doctors office once a week just to make sure I'm "healthy" and "good to work" . . .

but why does it have to be with a bunch of doctors I don't know??.. .

Erik who's this Etienne guy and why do I have to go to the doctors???. . .I'm perfectly fine! . . .I think.

< @samolocikzpapieru >

[samolocikzpapieru]

Etienne is our dentist, so there is probably no need to visit him until he will call you by himself or you will feel that something is wrong with your teeth. He is a nice guy, even sweet, I think. His past as a Team Flare member slightly messed up his mentality because of what he saw there, so sometimes I see him just sitting in a dormitory and staring blankly at the wall, or just looking very nervous, but he is a good specialist, I swear. But, uhm, are you sure that you have not met Etienne before? He has been working here for five or six years.

And other doctors, uhm... Colress and Maxie found them mostly in Team Galactic, as I know, so there are just our allies (and yes, we send our people to serve in Sinnoh as well).

[nothere-deactivated]

Huh. . . I guess my memory is a lot more foggy than I want it to be. . .

So. . . did anything happen around here since I've been . . . asleep?

I swear ever since I woke back up my body feels great but my mind feels so empty. Are you sure that the doctors around here are any good? I would go to Colress but he's already busy watching me the majority of the time, plus he's got his own research to focus on at the moment . . .

< @samolocikzpapieru >

[samolocikzpapieru]

[TW: death mention]

> Did anything happen around here since I've been asleep?

I have been promoted to a squad leader! And, I think, it is the only good thing. Rivet passed away, as well as several other Pokémon that were brought here in an awful condition. One of the generators broke down, and we have been experiencing a blackout for a day or two. Father Leader Maxie had a conflict with chairman Rose which forced him to call out his people from here. And then Maxie nearly broke his leg falling from the stairs, but, fortunately, he did not. And, well, there were many other bad things. Looks like we are having a lo-o-ong black stripe now.

[nothere-deactivated]

Oh I see. . .

I'm so sorry for your loss. . .how are you holding up as squad leader?

< @samolocikzpapieru >

[samolocikzpapieru]

I think I am good. I feel tired as I have never been before, and not sure if I am doing everything right, but I am fine. Of course I receive some help from Maxie himself, admins and other squad leaders, but it is still very difficult.

[nothere-deactivated]

Sooooo . . .apparently having been stuck in a Coma for several months unfortunately means I have to visit the doctors office once a week just to make sure I'm "healthy" and "good to work" . . .

but why does it have to be with a bunch of doctors I don't know??.. .

Erik who's this Etienne guy and why do I have to go to the doctors???. . .I'm perfectly fine! . . .I think.

< @samolocikzpapieru >

[samolocikzpapieru]

Etienne is our dentist, so there is probably no need to visit him until he will call you by himself or you will feel that something is wrong with your teeth. He is a nice guy, even sweet, I think. His past as a Team Flare member slightly messed up his mentality because of what he saw there, so sometimes I see him just sitting in a dormitory and staring blankly at the wall, or just looking very nervous, but he is a good specialist, I swear. But, uhm, are you sure that you have not met Etienne before? He has been working here for five or six years.

And other doctors, uhm... Colress and Maxie found them mostly in Team Galactic, as I know, so there are just our allies (and yes, we send our people to serve in Sinnoh as well).

[nothere-deactivated]

Huh. . . I guess my memory is a lot more foggy than I want it to be. . .

So. . . did anything happen around here since I've been . . . asleep?

I swear ever since I woke back up my body feels great but my mind feels so empty. Are you sure that the doctors around here are any good? I would go to Colress but he's already busy watching me the majority of the time, plus he's got his own research to focus on at the moment . . .

< @samolocikzpapieru >

[samolocikzpapieru]

[TW: death mention]

> Did anything happen around here since I've been asleep?

I have been promoted to a squad leader! And, I think, it is the only good thing. Rivet passed away, as well as several other Pokémon that were brought here in an awful condition. One of the generators broke down, and we have been experiencing a blackout for a day or two. Father Leader Maxie had a conflict with chairman Rose which forced him to call out his people from here. And then Maxie nearly broke his leg falling from the stairs, but, fortunately, he did not. And, well, there were many other bad things. Looks like we are having a lo-o-ong black stripe now.

[nothere-deactivated]

Sooooo . . .apparently having been stuck in a Coma for several months unfortunately means I have to visit the doctors office once a week just to make sure I'm "healthy" and "good to work" . . .

but why does it have to be with a bunch of doctors I don't know??.. .

Erik who's this Etienne guy and why do I have to go to the doctors???. . .I'm perfectly fine! . . .I think.

< @samolocikzpapieru >

[samolocikzpapieru]

Etienne is our dentist, so there is probably no need to visit him until he will call you by himself or you will feel that something is wrong with your teeth. He is a nice guy, even sweet, I think. His past as a Team Flare member slightly messed up his mentality because of what he saw there, so sometimes I see him just sitting in a dormitory and staring blankly at the wall, or just looking very nervous, but he is a good specialist, I swear. But, uhm, are you sure that you have not met Etienne before? He has been working here for five or six years.

And other doctors, uhm... Colress and Maxie found them mostly in Team Galactic, as I know, so there are just our allies (and yes, we send our people to serve in Sinnoh as well).

[nothere-deactivated]

Joint custard…I think I can…hah~ *picture of a oddly short zoroark with a blunt in their hand*

well this is certainly and interesting sight to see first thing in the morning.

[samolocikzpapieru]

Do we have a weed stash in the research facility? Quite interesting... Looks like now I know what happened to my co-pilot.

[nothere-deactivated]

. . . Wait how many people know about the weed stash???

[samolocikzpapieru]

Everyone (except for Maxie), I think. At least now.

[nothere-deactivated]

. . . should . . should we be worried that there is a Pokemon that's running around exposing our hidden weed stash to everyone. . .

[samolocikzpapieru]

I think that the zoroark is something that is more worrying than exposing your stash. I will not deny that I have paranoia and am too alert, but are you sure that this thing will not disguise as one of our teammates and do anything to the HQ or - what is worse - to the people and Pokémon in it?

[nothere-deactivated]

Joint custard…I think I can…hah~ *picture of a oddly short zoroark with a blunt in their hand*

well this is certainly and interesting sight to see first thing in the morning.

[samolocikzpapieru]

Do we have a weed stash in the research facility? Quite interesting... Looks like now I know what happened to my co-pilot.

[nothere-deactivated]

. . . Wait how many people know about the weed stash???

[samolocikzpapieru]

Everyone (except for Maxie), I think. At least now.

[nothere-deactivated]

Joint custard…I think I can…hah~ *picture of a oddly short zoroark with a blunt in their hand*

well this is certainly and interesting sight to see first thing in the morning.

[samolocikzpapieru]

Do we have a weed stash in the research facility? Quite interesting... Looks like now I know what happened to my co-pilot.

[samolocikzpapieru]

Chairman Rose recalled all his people from our HQ after leader Maxie's statement that Galactic grunts are "more valuable and do their work better than MacroCosmos employees".

Can we have at least one day without any troubles, please?

[samolocikzpapieru]

Dear Team Magma, who brought a Wooper to the HQ? I do not mind, but can you not let it use "Water Gun" on others, please? I have only three uniform sets to change and one of them is for flights, it must be dry and clean!

[blue-moon-shining]

Everything I hear about Hoenn convinces me even more that it's a miracle it's not a wasteland, let alone that people live there. Like you have the primordial titans of land and sea clashing often enough that it's happened in living memory, TWO volcanoes, a city baked in suffocating ash, multiple major cities only accessible through air travel or a deadly hike, and some of the most hazardous urban design ever. Like Fortree city is pretty but damn you have some serious safety issues. Honestly the only thing Hoennians tend to complain about enviroment-wise is when things get cold.

[samolocikzpapieru]

It is a wasteland, but not literally. I mean, it is a huge problem to travel through Hoenn without flying Pokémon, especially for me with my short legs and hatred for hiking--

Poke a map of Hoenn with your finger and there will be about 90% that you will point at the desert/ashen wasteland/any other hostile zone.