transfem silver truther

gen ii, iv, and vii enthusiast. i'll likely be posting various pokemon hcs here. i've also read through pokespe sinnoh and likely will read more at some point. #1 enjoyer of all of pokespe's weird little old guys

[yusuke-of-valla]

realistically, pokopia is a spinoff and is not meant to be canon in any way. but the apocalypse clearly happened a few hundred years after canon so the actual timeline will never get there and there is no proof that it's not a canonical event.

i think the local immortals (L, Floette, and maybe? Volo? Maybe?) are still wandering the ruined planet and are going to stumble upon the pokemon cities and the pokemon will be so excited to see humans. look, they built houses! the humans can come live in the houses if they want!

what a baffling thing to find in your lonely journey through the post-apocalypse.

God now I'm imagining that like. Ok if they tried really hard to get as many people as possible on the space ships did they find records of an immortal wandering around and just track them down and are like "SIR YOU HAVE TO COME TO SPACE"

"I'm immortal this literally can't kill me"

"SIR"

...actually second question: is this "you can't be killed" immortality or "won't die of natural causes but a gun can definitely kill you" immortality

Like yes realistically Pokemon will never acknowledge Pokopia in a mainline game and it would probably suck if they did but it's fun to think about.

I also think if you wanted you can reasonably headcanon around the backstory happening soonish after SWSH/PLZA and not be super contradictory if you wanted to imagine canon characters being involved. Like yeah that's unrealistic when we're talking about climate change but since when has Pokémon put anything on a reasonable time scale?

Also one of the natural disaster is literally lifting Saffron and Celadon into the sky which I have STILL not found an explanation for, so you can probably say "things started going bad REAL quick" without being weirder than the game itself

[sandygastle]

In my heart pokopia is sort of akin to the post-apocalyptic guzzlord world you can find deep in ultra space in usum, in that this is something that did happen to an earth very much like the ones the mainline games are set in, and in theory is accessible in the same distant way the ultra space worlds are.

Pokopia's premise sort of goes hand-in-hand with finding the ruined version of an alternate futuristic Hau'oli City where most humans fled to space after earth became uninhabitable due to pollution (implied to be caused by some disaster with the power plants), leaving behind only a few pokemon and people like the guzzlord and the guy who didn't have the heart to leave it alone. They're certainly different scenarios with different long-term outcomes, but I could see it existing out there in much the same way, just a long and unlikely warp ride away.

So like all of that is to say that I'd like to think it's possible that one day the gen 7 protagonist shows up out of nowhere, pokes around for a few hours, and then goes back through some awful hole in existence and is never seen again.

[huntershippings]

hello ethan/lyra fans.. here is every single dialogue they have in the pokegear calls as an NPC!!

none of this is on their bulbapedia quotes page so i took my sweet time typing out every single dialogue from them. enjoy ............

All Lyra/Ethan NPC Calls

All Lyra/Ethan NPC Calls JOHTO New Bark Town, you call first “Where are you now? What are you doing in New Bark Town?” “Did you go back h

it is a LOT. they have special dialogue for every single town and 99% of routes in the game.

[sandygastle]

posting this solely as a disclaimer to link in any posts in which i talk about my views of trainer blue or rival green since i worry it'll get confusing if i don't:

Green and Blue's names switch in different translations. In Japanese versions of the games and Pokespe, and in unofficial translations, Green is the boy rival trainer, while Blue is the girl trainer who was unused in games until LGPE. In many official translations, their names are switched. Having read a mix of official and unofficial translations of Pokespe, I can go either way but am personally more used to calling the girl Blue, and the guy Green. I'd apologize to any fans of rival Green|Blue my posts about trainer Blue|Green show up in the tags of but tbf there's no good way to tag for either of them so there's going to be overlap when discussing either.

[sandygastle]

As a big fan of the sibling relationship Silver and Blue have going on in pokespe, in my version of the gameverse they still grew up together prior to Giovanni's departure.

[CLARIFICATION TO WHO I MEAN WHEN I REFER TO BLUE OR GREEN: tl;dr I generally refer to the Kanto rival as Green, and the girl we see in Pokespe and LGPE as Blue]

Blue's parents were active members of Team Rocket since before she was born (probably from one of the older waves of recruits from Giovanni's early efforts to widen the scope of Rocket after he came into power), and she spent a lot of time growing up bouncing around the bases. Rocket had been around in one form or another for a couple generations, even if it's had its ups and downs, a few re-brands, and waves of new blood over the decades (I'd place Giovanni in his early 40s during the events of RBY, and his mother was probably a Rocket lifer, herself, though it wasn't after until it came to Giovanni's hands in the 80s that it was called Team Rocket), and there's a number of people of various ages who were born and raised into this.

Blue and Silver were seen as the newest generation of Rocket lifers and met when they were both little, after Silver was born and was old enough to be shoved off to babysitters (I quite like Ariana and have some very specific thoughts on her, but for now I'll just say she never wanted to be a mother, and as soon as she could say "you figure out what to do with the baby, Giovanni, I've done my part," she did, and returned to her rewarding life of crime full time without looking back once).

So they ended up spending a lot of time together because they were both kids in the base having their care outsourced to a mix of the most excellent babysitters Giovanni's crooked money could buy, and also the likes of Petrel (who got along well enough with children while being a fabulously bad influence). Blue, being 3 years older than Silver, just sort of naturally assumed the position of Silver's big sister. On the adults' side, there was some sort of undercurrent of understanding that one day, when Silver inherited Giovanni's position, it would benefit Silver to have at least one executive who would be totally loyal and trustworthy, and the best way to ensure that might be to allow this sort of bond to form between them.

Of course, after Blue left on her own unofficial version of a pokemon journey during the events of RBY, they end up not seeing each other for far longer than intended. Blue's been been gone for a few months when things go down with Red and Giovanni, and by the time Blue returns, Silver has already had her own confrontation with Giovanni abandoning her, and has left for destinations unknown. 3 years later, when the GSC protagonist encounters Silver at Mt. Moon, she has her own reasons for being in Kanto. In part, having grown past the ideals she was raised with, gotten some closure for her abandonment, and started down a path to growing into a new person, she was ready to seek out her big sister and share who she's becoming.

[adachireitism]

Is Silver nation aware of Satoshi Yamamoto's ponytail Silver

[sandygastle]

imo Kukui is "tragically straight*" in that he'd love to be attracted to men too (not in a weird way! it's just everyone incorrectly assumes he's bi from his vibes, and none of his closest friends ended up straight but him, so up through his early 20s he kept going "well maybe I'm just not looking at this right") but he tried dating guys a few times before he and Burnet started seriously dating and none of his attempts ever went anywhere. Burnet however is absolutely bisexual and dated Fennel and/or Juniper at some point during college in Unova (they remained close even after breaking up).

[sandygastle]

Thinking of an AU where assistant Lucas!Rei is sent back to the present some time after the events of PLA but is a couple decades too early. They go around continuing to seek out all pokemon with a new alias (Noland, which in this context is a different pun than Noland's knowledge pun because they've been bounced around through time often enough that they feel they're kinda of No Land at this point) for lack of any better ideas of what to do, and at some point end up in Hoenn.

There, they eventually get recruited by Scott to become the Battle Frontier's Factory Head, a role which they happen to be well-suited for after catching a shit ton of pokemon from across regions (roughly speaking, the Battle Factory's gimmick is based around challengers receiving a mostly random selection of pokemon from a huge pool of the Battle Factory's pokemon to battle with). Noland's whole thing about prizing experiential learning also just so happens to gel really well with having been a bookish procrastinator of a professor's assistant who got launched into a past where they had to learn to rely on quick feet and wits to survive.

(this au was conceived after seeing a picture of lucas next to a picture of noland and going "hm. these characters have absolutely no relation but they have a couple visual similarities including bad hat hair hidden below red caps, having them be the same guy in an au would be kinda neat")

[sandygastle]

One thing I feel is often not mentioned about pokespe is that it really loves its weird special elderly people and will take any opportunity to show them off

[sandygastle]

my previous post about pokemon redesigns that i view as downgrades also extends to gold/ethan's hgss redesign btw. it's not as much of a tragic downgrade as the oras protag redesigns and his ultra ball hat shows up great in the overworld but his overall design has much less character.

give the kid his baggy clothes back! he's suffocating!

where did the funky ultra ball shorts and big bicolor hoodie go? and perhaps just as pressing, where did his personality go?

[sandygastle]

a lot of the oras redesigns were improvements but the redesigns of the protags were such nerfs to the emerald designs imo

they had cool gloves! premier balls! may had an awesome green piratey bandanna and a confident stance and a cool outfit! brendan had shorts over his pants, which are then tucked into his shoes! it's dorky! it's fun! these kids have determination in their smiles and they are going on an adventure!

i appreciate they kept the green accents of emerald but idk. something about these redesigns just doesn't work for me. may's new pose and nerfed bandanna and tank top and short shorts just. it takes away everything cool about the rse may. she is not the same person. and something about brendan's proportions just feels. off. like his torso is weirdly wide and flat compared to his arms and his clothes just don't have the same charm as emerald's. his shorts are a bad cut for their length. and idk. both of their open blank smiles don't have the same energy as their smiles in emerald. where did their socks go? they don't even have cool gloves.

[sappydino]

People who don't like Clair because she's "mean" are weak.

Older pokemon games aren't exactly great when it comes to characterization. But GSC actually managed to deliver a pretty interesting character with Clair. With what little time you spend with her, you mange to get a good picture of her, especially with how she relates to her family and how that influences her more "negative" qualities. I'm not gonna act like it's the greatest writing ever or anything like that. But considering most of the gym leaders in GSC just exist in their gyms and do nothing but battle you, Clair is very much a step up in quality.

A lot of the fleshing out she's received in later games like masters is also very much working off of the framework GSC provided for her. Which I can't say is the case for a lot of other gym leaders where it's clear they're just making up new stuff for them. They were onto something good with that original depiction of her and I believe that's why it remains so crucial to where her character has been taken since.

As for her character itself, yea, she certainly has some qualities that would definitely be deemed not so great is she was a real person. But she's a character in a video game who's personality is meant to make the game more engaging. And if the paragraphs I wrote before didn't already make it clear, I think it very much succeeds at that.

Even if her particular characterization just isn't for you, I don't get the vitriol some have for her. You'd think she personally offended some players based on how some talk about her. Again, she's not even a real person.

[sandygastle]

Thinking about Blaine pokespe, one of the pokespe characters of all time to me.

His landline looks like a rapidash head! He's a trans ally to Yellow! He was a rocket scientist who engaged in incredibly unethical experimentation that continues to haunt him for better and for worse and he'll continue trying to make amends for the rest of his life! He and Mewtwo refer to each other as brothers and are inextricably connected even after Blaine gets Entei to destroy the connection that's slowly killing them both! He wears a fake mustache! I could go on

[sandygastle]

The thing about Kris is their first impulse is to view things through the lens of competition.

They bump into Silver in Cherrygrove, Silver was rude, and they both have totodiles? Without even knowing that Silver stole it, it's time to prove whose is definitively the best, and it's not going to be Silver's.

They hear from word of mouth that former childhood friend Gold is starting his pokemon journey? They have to make sure they start their own journey right away so they can hit the gyms before him.

They get second in the bug catching contest despite catching a sick scyther? COOLTRAINER NICK is going down. Kris will never attend a bug catching contest on days when COOLTRAINER NICK isn't there, because they want their eventual victory to best the reigning champ of bug contests: if he's not there, first place would ring false.

They get to the pokeathlon and some kid named Lyra is also diving into it around the same time? There's no way they're not competing. Lyra ultimately comes out on top of this one because she has a strong and almost ruthless interest in breeding, min-maxing her pokemon, and is sort of an apricorn aficionado, so she sort of creates super-pokeathlon contestants, but while it's going on, it's really funny (hyper-competitive weirdgirl jock vs. seemingly chill weirdgirl who actually gets really intense with it).

They meet Eusine, and Eusine's after suicune? Well actually this one is sort of on Eusine. Kris is just sort of vibing while Eusine's the one viewing Kris as some sort of brilliant mastermind outmaneuvering them at every turn, but after they realize this old guy (gender neutral. not actually that old.) views them as a rival? Sure, they're going to rise up to the occasion.

[sandygastle]

Plumeria really is one of the pokemon characters of all time. btw.

[sandygastle]

I like to think there's an important distinction between a starter pokemon and a first partner pokemon, though they can be one and the same.

A first partner pokemon is the first pokemon that an individual has, from whatever means (a gift from family, an adopted stray, a wild-caught pokemon, a starter given from a professor, etc). Relatively few trainers receive a true starter pokemon.

A starter pokemon is a specific class of pokemon given to young trainers by professors and other individuals registered to distribute pokemon and trainer licenses. These pokemon are usually selected for by easy-to-raise personalities and flexible needs, and the people responsible for their distribution generally give them a basic level of training to prime them for inexperienced trainers. While there's typically a pattern for the typing, relative strength, and number of evolutions a starter has, even an Alolan meowth can be a starter (as seen when Nanu offers children a choice between the meowths in his station). For those who receive them, starters are often but not always one's first partner pokemon.

To use my version of the Johto protags as an example, since that's what prompted me to think about this today: chikorita, cyndaquil, and totodile are starters, given by Professor Elm. Gold and Kris both received a starter from Elm, which also counted as their first partners as they'd never had a pokemon of their own before. Meanwhile, although Lyra also received a starter, chikorita, when Gold did, it wasn't her first partner pokemon. She, as the grandchild of the daycare couple south of Goldenrod City, had received the GSC Odd Egg from them to hatch a few years before, yielding a shiny azurill. The azurill is her first partner, while the chikorita is her starter.

[sandygastle]

An important thing to me about Kris and Silver is that they're deeply weird about each other.

They're first and foremost rivals, they're family, they're each other's first buddy, they have something indescribable and vaguely queerplatonic going on, they're transgender together, and they're both deeply lonely kids who were only able to start forming bonds with kids their own age in the context of a mutual drive to make anything into a competition.

[sandygastle]

absolutely obsessed with these two leaked ride pokemon concepts in particular.