#commander valiant

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Oh hey it's been a while

Diana: The real secret to immortality? Not dying. You want to be immortal? Okay, easy. Just don't die. That's it. Refuse to die. There you Go.

Bob: "But how?" you may ask. Easy. Just don't do it. Refuse to. Say no thanks.

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Tulip: The hardest thing about realizing you're bi is that no one tells you what to do with the beam attack you have now. Like how do I even use this thing?

Timmy: With a diffusion lens you can cook with it.

Tulip: See where was this advice when I came out?

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Laharl: Literally why can't I have short hair and long hair at the same time?

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Sally: On all levels except physical I am heart shaped.

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Franky: This might be controversial but if I came across a beaker of glowing green liquid I would give it a little taste.

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Saiko: Bath tubs that can't submerge an entire adult body should be illegal.

Tari: Okay I know what you meant but you sound a bit like a murderer.

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Mario, balancing precariously on a power line and messing with the boxes at the top of a telephone pole: Your cable company doesn't want you to know this trick.

Karen: You know what? I don't want to know that trick either.

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Bob: If I die my funeral's gonna be the biggest fucken party and you're all invited.

Boopkins: If?

Clench: Great, the only party I've ever been invited to and he might not even die.

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Mario: After filling the washing machine with hot dogs, I momentarily hesitate before turning the knob to "Delicates."

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Mr. Puzzles: "Obviously, we have a lot of problems we need to address," I say, referring to one specific problem, which I created, alone.

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Valiant: Undefeated in wizard duels thanks to my devastating countermagic where I close the distance and punch them in the chest 14 times while they try to read a paragraph from a book the size of a briefcase. This sorcery shit is easy as hell.

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Effi: Hey, don't cry. Endless possible futures spanning out in front of you like an infinite spiderweb, okay?

Effi: Just realized this is actually quite horrifying and not a comforting thought at all. Sorry.

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SMG3: A customer just came in and ordered a flat white with six shots in it. For clarity that's like. A whole cup of espresso with maybe an inch of milk sitting on top. This mf is trying to meet the Hat Man.

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Irene: I'm a proud owner of an iq of 5 (and a half!)

Jayin, programming the Meme Suppression Bullets: Not for long!

Irene: Please it's all I have

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Had ideas for a few post-arc scenes that I don't currently have the energy to write;

-Ash setting Tama up with a provisional trainer license (basically lets her have Pokemon registered to her despite not being ten yet but she can't do Major Official Trainer Activities like gym challenges, contests, Battle Facilities, etc.) because the Pokemon who've been hanging out with her very much want her to be their trainer. Magcargo's kind of the odd one out since he's only been around her for like an hour cumulatively and he kind of got dragged into this without any idea what was happening but he's still interested because she seems nice. There's some concern about Hoopa staying since he has friends in Dahara City in Kalos... until he points out that Hyperspace Hole still exists and he can come and go literally whenever.

Pikachu officially passes on the role of the Pichu Brothers' chaos wrangler to Absol, in a slightly funny moment where he tries to be all serious about it and put his hand on her shoulder all dramatically, ruined by the fact that he's so much shorter than her that he has to balance awkwardly on his tail to even reach her shoulder (and further undercut by the fact that what he actually says is "they're your problem now. good luck". Also, there is of course much gushing over Gardevoir, Guardeon and Dragaurora's evolutions.

-One of the suggestions for Devos's situation is putting Tonio on the throne, which both he and Valiant are adamantly against because favored by the Muses or not a guy who's been a wandering outlaw and proud of it for nearly a decade is not a good choice for ruling a kingdom in turmoil. Plus having a Songbird as a king would just be weird.

-Kelsie gets Vitality set up in the infirmary and assures everyone that she's expected to make a full recovery eventually, though from what she can tell of how the whole healing flame thing is working it'll take anywhere from one month to three for her to wake up. Then when she's alone she calls Director K to let him know that her reports will be less frequent for the foreseeable future since with Vitality out of commission she's the only medic right now.

-Mr. L presents the completed Meme Suppression Bullets to Jayin, warning her that it will take a few weeks for the virus they're made out of to complete its work. She's not too fussed about that, they'd expected and planned for something like that after all, and sends for her firewalls and their assistants, leading directly into That One Post.

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Alright, so; about the Pokemon I was planning on having evolve while guarding Luminos castle. Obviously in all cases it's going to involve some ghosts making it past Dragonair's lightshow barricade one way or another (apart from Dragonair's own evolution which will involve fighting a particularly powerful ghost so it can't rip the barricade to shreds).

Jet's Eevee evolves into a ghost-type eeveelution I call Guardeon, which is based on Church Grims and usually only evolves in graveyards but massive ghost hurricane works too apparently. Not sure when exactly it happens. Jet's Guardeon has the ability Enspirit (the one I made up that's basically Pixelate but Ghost), so now its best moves are Super-Effective against the ghost army instead of doing absolutely nothing.

Ash's Mutant Kirlia evolves while helping Valiant and some guards deal reclaim an Armory that got taken over by a bunch of ghosts that focus on possessing objects...like all the weapons and armor in there. Also the guards find out the hard way that the Mutant Ralts line is just as amorphous as the Grimers and Muks they're hybrids with because at one point Kirlia gets cut clean down the middle down to her waist and just schlorps back together as if nothing happened after drooping like a banana peel for a few seconds.

Miku's Donandan Dragonair ends up facing a massive, extremely powerful Music Dragon named Dirge that was slain by Luminos' previous Songbird. She eventually manages to take him down via a combination of being a Dragon/Ice Type with Refrigerate and a bunch of debuffing moves, Dirge only becoming a ghost a few minutes ago and thus still having the muscle memory of a living dragon, and Dragonair evolving into a regional evolution called Dragaurora (stays Dragon/Ice, ends up as a big green serpentine dragon with a Dragonite-esque face and whiskers. They get mistaken for Rayquaza a lot and are based on that one aurora borealis that looks like a green dragon that was a whole big thing a few years ago) and learning Dragon Ascent (you can understand why they get mistaken for Rayquaza so much). End result is that he gets a diving supersonic dragon between the shoulderblades immediately followed by a planet to the chest. Doesn't discorporate him but it does knock him out for the rest of the arc.

Also, not evolution-related, but I'm guessing that when Lumiere shows up wanting to help Absol's the one who vouches for him, on the grounds that according to her Danger Sense there's a considerably higher chance of them failing if they don't hear him out than there is a chance of him stabbing them in the back if they do, and the latter they'd at least see coming and be able to deal with since, you know, it's him.

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Some ideas that I want to write something for when I find the time and motivation:

Idea 1: Ecolo convinces Abyssal to come to a meeting of the Suzuran High Physics Club, because he wants his friends to meet and be friends with each-other. This also leads to Abyssal finding out that SMG21 enrolled at Suzuran High at some point and joined the club, and she apparently goes by Kira Nadja now. She insists that it's just because enrolling under an acronym and serial number instead of a "real" name would've either been dismissed as a joke or drawn too much attention, but it's clear that she prefers her new name over her official designation.

Idea 2: Sparring match between Commander Valiant and Bandana Waddle Dee, because they've ended up spending a lot of time around each-other thanks to how close Her Majesty and the Great King are, they have not missed how similar their personalities and roles within their respective universes are, and they figure that this would be a good way to get to know one another better and earn each-other's respect.

Idea 3: Cole, Frenzy, and by accident Frenzy's friend Crown the Saphire get dragged along on a Teen Squad Adventure, making them official members of the Teen Squad (whether they like it or not).

Idea 4: While Peony and Doppelganger Arle are doing magic studies the fact that "Pierrot" is actually a stage name comes up in passing and she comes up with "Dapple" as her "real" name on the spot. She plays off the fact that she's been going by Pierrot as thinking that Dapple is too plain for a performer, while Peony reassures her that it sounds lovely.

[archeo-starwars]

"Fine," Mace said, grabbing hold of TC-16 and pointing him in the direction of the terrified aliens. "See if you can make sense of what these folk are saying." The droid listened to the babbling, responded in kind, and turned to face Mace. "They are Unets, General. Speaking their native language, which is called Une." Mace regarded the huddled, shivering group. "What are they doing down here?" TC-16 listened, then said: "They say that they haven't the slightest idea where they are, General. They arrived on Coruscant in a shipping container that was air-dropped at a decrepit landing platform some twenty kilometers from here. The personage who was to have guided them into the depths of the Uscru Sector stole all their credits and abandoned them in The Works." "Undocumented refugees," Valiant said. Mace frowned. The tunnels beneath the Grungeon Block held countless surprises. "They almost got themselves killed." "Apparently that's nothing new for them," TC-16 said. "Their planet fell to the Separatists, the freighter they originally took passage on was attacked by pirates, several of them - - " "That's enough," Mace said. "Assure them that they're not going to be harmed, and that we'll see to it they reach a refugee camp." He nodded to Valiant, who in turn told two of his troopers to carry out Mace's command.

Labyrinth Of Evil by James Luceno