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[ikoni-dweebs]

Which of your Pokemon….

👽 has the weirdest origin story?

(i'm being late to the party i know. Also sorry if this was asked before, i don't feel like going through the backlog to check :3)

@koffing-time

No big @koffing-time! You're actually the first, lol!

Sorry for the late reply. Anyway, I'd have to say Maximon, my Gengar. I met him as a Haunter in Clymene City, which isn't exactly the kind of place you usually find wild ghost pokemon around here.

Basically it went like this and... man, the first part of this story is actually kind of embarrassing. It was in the middle of my pokemon journey and I'd been pulling some all-nighters trying to get from one city to another (remember kids, your journey isn't a race, make camp and SLEEP!) I got to Clymene and, instead of finding a place to rest, I decided to go to the big mall they have there. I know, I know, really stupid. Well, if you can believe it, not only did I wind up falling asleep in a camping store while checking out a display tent, NOBODY NOTICED!!! Cue me waking up at like, 1am, store completely empty.

Thankfully there was a door instead of a gate and I was able to get out of the camping store. Next thing I know though, things around me are floating, I'm hearing noises, seeing things out of the corner of my eye. I'm telling myself I'm just imagining things, but it just keeps getting crazier and crazier, I'm getting more and more terrified, until finally it's nearly dawn and here's this Haunter just floating in front of me... laughing at me.

Honestly, if I hadn't been so relieved, I probably would've been pissed. As it was, I was so relieved, I started laughing too.

Catching him wasn't hard after that. Honestly, I think he was just lonely. I did make a point of finding a good place for a nice long sleep before even trying the Clymene gym though, lol.

~Aelita

[ikoni-dweebs]

🫣 - for the ask game... (@official-allister )

My Gardevoir, Titania, hands down! lol. Poor girl is the shortest of the group and very shy. Maximon (my Gengar) delights in startling her, though I try to keep things from getting too rough there.

~Aelita

[ikoni-dweebs]

Hey Rotomblr! Totally normal question that just came into my head for no particular reason

Is it normal to not date or not want to date while you're on your pokemon journey?

Or... um, hypothetically speaking, become so very very engrossed in your work, say as, I dunno, hypothetically, your duties as a Champion Rank ambassador, that you just don't bother with it? At all?

Just curious what everyone's experiences have been with this, lol

~Aelita

[ikoni-dweebs]

Hello.

Hi there! : D

~Aelita

Hello?

-Dave

[ikoni-dweebs]

Hi! I thought I'd take a moment to share the Ikoni League logo with you all in case you were interested!

~Aelita

OOC: This took all of ten minutes to design and two hours of tweaking to get where I wanted it. If you're wondering why I haven't drawn Dave yet, that's why, lol.

[ikoni-dweebs]

Does your region have any cool myths you'd be interested in sharing?

A few actually! We have three important parables here and whether they are events that actually happened or not depends on who you ask. The Two Sisters, The Foolish Farmer, and The Digging of the Path. Since everyone loves a good Legendary story, I'll tell you the first one.

The Two Sisters

Once there were two sisters who lived together on a little plot of land on the island we now call Aura.

These two sisters worked well together, tending the garden that fed them and otherwise supporting each other in all things.

One unlucky year however, there was a terrible frost which left the ground of the garden hard as a beldum's back. The sisters feared their garden would not thrive and they would have nothing to eat.

"I shall do a new thing!" Declared the younger sister. And so she sat in her room and thought and planned, and after she had so planned she worked and whittled and constructed the first plow.

"Oh foolish sister!" declared the elder, "wilt thou bring disaster upon us? The work of our forefathers, blessed by the spirit of Ikoni cannot be so casually disregarded! We must abide by the things of old!"

"Well!" exclaimed the younger, "let me do a new thing, and thou an old thing and we will see whose methods bear more fruit!"

And so the younger sister hitched her plow to a pair of hardy mudbray, and she used her newly made tools to plow and to sow. Difficult labor it was with ground so hard, but she persevered nonetheless.

Meanwhile the eldest prayed for rain and sang to the earth. She collected dung and compost to feed the ground and daily she checked the garden for weeds and bugs.

Each sister performed her labor in spite of the other's mocking, and come harvest time the garden flourished greater than it ever had before.

And yet, the sister were not happy.

"T'was my new tools that made our harvest so great and plentiful!" cried the younger sister.

"Nay sister," argued the elder, "t'was my dedication to the old ways that made our garden flourish!"

The bickering continued on until it so vexed the neighbors that they declared they should have it settled soon or be put right out of the village to trouble them no more.

"Go take your quarrel to the spirit!" they declared, "and keep your bickering far from us!"

And so the two sisters went to the shrine of the spirit of Ikoni, the flower set by Arceus to watch over our land, Manafyfe, and each declared her own efforts and demanded to know whose work had caused the garden to flourish so.

"Oh dear sisters," sighed the spirit, "do you not see? T'was neither the new tools nor the old ways, but the efforts of two kindred souls in harmony, working together, that caused your garden to flourish so. Without the efforts of both the garden would surely have perished. Go in peace, and quarrel no more."

The two sisters, hearing this wept and embraced one another, promising they would never fight again, and while we cannot be sure they never quarreled again, we can be certain they went away much happier in their kinship.

My favorite is actually "The Foolish Farmer" but a lot of people really like this one and it features our region's legendary so I thought I'd share it.

Hope you enjoyed it!

~Aelita

[ikoni-dweebs]

(@fire-type-problems ) re: contests, Lady has a great moveset for contests... it's just as a butch lesbian I've never really thought of doing them?

if there's a way to compete and stay true to myself we could try it? what do you think lol

I decided to ask my rival, Honey, on this one. I'll copy-paste her answer here.

"Hm? Oh of course. I don't know what her style is exactly of course but I'll bet she would look divine in a suit! I'm seeing ringmaster with vibrant reds and oranges! Or perhaps a lovely button-up with flare pants! Oh, there are so many options! And of course she must dress up her darling little Typhlosion. Probably just a cute necklace, and/or maybe a masquerade mask. Not too much, you don't want to detract from those gorgeous flames!

Presenting more masculine hardly means one can't show off the bond and synergy they have with their pokemon! I do hope your friend decides to try out contests. I'm sure she and her lovely Lady will love them!"

~Aelita... well... Honey actually, but Aelita is posting? You know what I mean!

[ikoni-dweebs]

Hi! It's me! The wigglyman!

start running

OH NO!!! NOT AGAIN!!!!

~Aelita

This you bro?

-Dave