Hey everybody! I'm a pro battler, currently on break and at home!
I tend to go by a lot of different names for personal reasons, but you can call me Laser! If we include my break, I've been battling for TWENTY-ONE YEARS THIS YEAR (wow!) but honestly I've been around trainers and battle-trained 'mon my entire life.
I'd love to connect with people here, whether for battling tips, advice for pokemon in the home, or anything else!
I have/had a LOT of pokemon (I ended up opening a preserve/ranch with my S/O with our prize money for the pokemon that didn't want to be released into the wild or become a housepet at the end of our journeys, so please rest at ease that everybody is being taken care of!) so I can answer questions about most any types.
I'm Hoenn native, and my Blaziken is my best friend. I've taken the gym challenge in: Hoenn, Sinnoh, Johto, Kanto, and Unova, so that's where my knowledge lies. I'm not very familiar with fairy types, sorry!
At home, feel free to ask about any of my 'mon! I've got a bunch, so don't feel shy about asking!
And now I have Sponge Cake the Feebas as a non battling mon (atm!) I'll see if he wants to evolve and maybe enter him in battles or contests, but it's definitely too early to force him into anything.
Newest Ranch Arrivals:
Popstar the Sneasler
Bokeh the Metagross
Amanda the Aerodactyl
Michael the Flareon
Custard the Lillipup
Sequel the Banette
((ooc stuff under the cut!))
(If any of my backstory doesn't fit your blog's canon, I am A-OK with saying that we somehow connected internets through a spatial rift!)
I am totally and fully okay with 'is the picture cute?' style blogs interacting! In fact, I encourage it!
I have memory issues, so I apologize if I don't recognize your blog or remember where you are in your storyline
I am slightly less likely to interact with blogs containing canon characters from Gen V or before, mostly bc I don't know what to say haha. Feel free to interact first tho!
The games that are canon to Laser's life are Ruby, Platinum, SoulSilver, and Black! I'm definitely counting other games as having 'happened' but Laser did not live through them, and only sort of knows what went down.
Laser has defeated the Elite 4 in those games, but takes pains to disguise itself in each new region it takes the challenge in, to avoid too much publicity. However, after beating the league, it doesn't care to maintain the disguise, leading to being kind of a famous cryptid type character.
Because of this, it will be cagey about its life, but may let things slip accidentally!
As a side note, I want to play the emotional ramifications of the events of those games somewhat seriously! Laser was in therapy for a good long while, both because of said events and also a tragedy that occurred at some point which it was struggling to cope with.
I don't wanna expound too much on its backstory yet, but I will keep record of anything discovered here for ease of access to newcomers! Feel free to poke a bit at it, but please keep in mind it will react like a real person!
pelipper mail is off while Laser is traveling, but on while at home, magic anons are always off, but musharna mail? I think is crazy funny so that is ON. Mystery gift is tentatively on, will make a concrete decision once I catch the vibe better. Union Circle is sooooo on!
BACKSTORY UNLOCKED:
-Has serious beef with Giovanni and Ghetsis, but seems to give the other teams wiggle room...
-Knows Maxie well enough that he calls it out on its bullshit and bad habits
-big thing happened sometime between leaving kanto and going to unova
-makes occasional trips to the Distortion World, but is hesitant to speak on that
-started its journey early, back when ten years old was the standard
-Someone named Thomas lives in a cave on preserve grounds
CURRENT PLOT: Old Wounds!
-laser has just pulled Cyrus out of the distortion world! he is in a catatonic state, occasionally interrupted by extreme emotional outbursts
When I say medium stakes, what I mean is that while I don't intend on killing off anybody, there WILL be risk of non life-threatening injuries. There's also going to be a risk of worsening Laser's own issues.
This plot is going to be dealing with the distortion world, so if anything about gen iv presents an issue for you, this is your sign to block the tag.
full list of triggers: canon-typical child endangerment, themes of depression, distorted sense of self, and paranoia.
I'll RB this a few more times so that anybody who doesn't want to deal with it can see it before I start on the plot.
since Saturn is back from his trip to the Distortion World, I may as well give an update on Cyrus
he's doing better! He's still not well, not mentally present or talkative, but he doesn't scream anymore
PLUS he can walk around! we've put some trained service mon with him to make sure he doesn't wander away, and are slowly returning his team to him in the hopes that that 'wakes him up' so to speak
Oh! and in case anybody was wondering, Cyrus' pokemon are doing (mostly) pretty ok.
They're still obviously concerned for their trainer, but like. Pokeballs tend to keep fainted pokemon in stasis, and time runs way slower in the distortion world, so all in all there wasn't much in the way of physical damage or all too much psychological ramifications.
His Crobat, though, is taking it REALLY hard. Refuses to mingle with the rest of the ranch, just hangs around Cyrus.
Gonna try giving Cyrus some fresh air. He doesn't scream so much anymore, so I figure it's okay to wheel him outside so long as we stay near the non-aggressive pokemon.
