YOUNGSTER wants to fight!

[PKMN IRL]

[viridian-rat]

What's up Rotomblr! Call me Rat! That's not my name but mom told me not to give my name to strangers online. I'm a 14 year old girl and I live in Viridian City! I like to stand outside in front of the road and battle trainers that pass by so that me and my Pokemon can be the strongest kid in my school!!! Even stronger than my brother!!!!

For my Pokemon team, I have a Rattata named Oliver and a Pikachu named Sparx! But I wanna catch more! I'm gonna have so many cool Pokemon just you wait!!

anyways here's my trainer card

Follows come from @turtblurts-pkmnirl-hub

Mun is an adult, but character is a minor, so please interact as you would any other minor online

Pelipper Mail and Magic Anon are OFF

Mystery Gift is OFF!

Overall a low-stakes blog! It's mostly just the joke of a kid who's one of the first route NPCs you'd run into in-game!

I generally won't be acknowledge the multiverse on this blog at all. I am a firm believer in the philosophy of Fuck It We Ball and that i can do whatever the fuck i want /silly.

> GENERAL TAGS

#rat rambles -> in-character posts made by Rat

#rat rb -> in-character reblogs

#the rat pack -> rat’s friends posting on the blog

> RATVENTURES

Essentially an episode list of prior mini-events. Not required reading in the slightest! Moreso... reruns of previous episodes!

> MENU

A more in-depth tags page. "Rat Lore" is accessible here.

Fullbody Rat Refs:

[viridian-rat]

🌙 Is Rat's brother involved in Rocket or some other crime thing? The recent post about the Growlithe being on edge/super wary got me rereading as much of the old information I could find on him and the rest of the family, and I noticed a few things that could potentially point to that.

// ooc response.

[viridian-rat]

Send 🐚 (or [Shell])+ A character, and I'll give a fact/idea I haven't talked about/I think is underrated about them

//Bugs, since coming up in ooc ask game chatter

// ooc response

"ohhh i dont know if im showing Bugs enough love compared to the rest of the group" and then i get TWO back-to-back asks about him. not sure if this means i'm absolutely FEEDING the Bugs fans or if y'all're just starved for content lmao

well not to bring up Fang's speech in December again but there's another part of her dialogue that I've always wanted to go more in-depth on.

The only reason you’ve managed to get as far into this tournament as you have is because you were carried here by your birdbrained boyfriend.” Bugs visibly flinched. “Face it: you’re the deadweight in your duo, contributing nothing of note to the team with your lax attitude.” She wrinkled her nose at him. “Until you start taking this club seriously, you’re only dragging Koudaka behind.”

Why did her calling Robin his boyfriend make him flinch like that?

Funnily enough, it's not what many of y'all would think.

Bugs and Robin's relationship is soso important to me. I know we're all for shipping and romance here on Tumblr and we loooove to see two characters (especially men, I've noticed) that have any sort of relationship and go "hey! you two should kiss!" And that's all fine and good, you can do whatever you want forever and ever.

But I think that a lot of the times people seem to struggle with the concept of a meaningful relationship between two characters that doesn't result in romance.

A bit hypocritical coming from the guy who writes Pokemon yuri on Tumblr dot com, I know (/silly). But people's inability to grasp the idea that a platonic relationship can be just as strong and meaningful as a romantic one is an issue that I often see perpetuated in fandom a lot, and it's always irked me.

so for me Bugs and (especially) Robin are my way of projecting lol

Bugs and Robin are best friends, probably closer to each other than they are to Rat. No one understands one another like they do. They practically complete each other. They feel at their most comfortable when they're with each other. They spend more time together than they do anyone else. Hell, on weeks where Robin’s dad is working in Victory Road, Bugs’ moms have him stay over for the week so that he isn’t home alone. So Robin basically lives with Bugs every other week.

But most importantly, Bugs and Robin have no romantic interest in one another whatsoever. They see each other more as brothers.

We’ve seen Rat allude to it before in a Discord conversation to Kat (though it was not posted in-character), but Robin in particular just doesn’t enjoy the idea of being in a romantic relationship. Like at all. Just the thought of being expected to start dating people makes Robin uncomfortable, and Bugs knows this.

So when Fang called Robin his boyfriend, it left a very sour taste in his mouth. He wanted to shout, “No! You don’t get it! That’s my brother! Don’t force that type of relationship onto us! Especially Robin!”

None of these kids really have the vocabulary to describe Robin’s discomfort towards dating yet. But it is clear that Robin is very much a romance-averse aroace individual that has had people try to shove him into an allonormative box time and time again.

So in that moment, Bugs was angry not only on his behalf, but on Robin’s as well.

[viridian-rat]

//☀️ Honestly nice having a normal kid in a pokemon world on here to look at. Good tonal contrast and fun watching you poke around with that.

//Also have a fun fact to go along with that: I know Rat's probably never going to acknowledge any of the more out there aspects of Astra, or the rest of the site, because of tonal and story reasons, but she ICly likes seeing a kid get a regular childhood she was denied in the torment nexus that is rotomblr

// ooc response

i know ive said it a thousand times, but i really really like the idea of getting to explore the more mundane aspects of the Pokemon world through the lens of someone who could realistically be an early-game flavor text NPC in a pokemon game. like i said before: "give me someone who won’t grow up to be the very best like no one ever was. give me someone who isnt going to save the world. give me someone whose biggest problems are figuring out a career path and navigating her first crush. and pokemon are there."

and while i could have done all of this with a character who was already an adult, i wanted to give this blog the sort of 90s vibes that Sugimori's old artwork and the Indigo League anime had, so i felt that exploring this concept through the eyes of a child would add that layer of nostalgia i was looking for. in a way, we get to relive childhood vicariously through Rat and co. as they navigate all the ups and downs of growing up in the Pokemon world. despite the fantastical nature of their world, we can relate to them and empathize with the struggles they may face because they're very similar to ones we've experienced ourselves. we root them on because we see a bit of ourselves in them-- past or present. growing up is difficult and stressful and confusing, but everything is going to be okay.

in this way, Rat is a love letter to my past self. or perhaps a love letter from my past self to my current self. a letter telling me that everything is going to be okay.

its going to be okay

[wishmaker-astra]

//Yeah, you're doing a great job showing that play out. Also interesting getting to see the hints that Rat IS going to have things turn out fine with the support she's going to get from those around her. The computer fixing references and the whole arc with Sparx. Even if it's going to be super awkward at times (still remember you running through every possible way to misinterpret math homework advice)

[viridian-rat]

// okay. so. that wasn’t just me purposefully misinterpreting advice to get it wrong, some of yall were just REALLY bad at explaining math to a child lmao. i remember sitting there like “hold on i already know how to divide fractions and even IM confused here. what????” and if i as an college student was getting confused by what people were saying, then an 12 year old with undiagnosed adhd certainly wouldn’t have understood.

the biggest issue people were having was that no one was explaining why. why the methods that they were giving her worked the way they did. why dividing by a fraction is like multiplying by its reciprocal. why the quotient comes out higher than the dividend. most people were just telling her what to do, but not why she should do it. if you dont understand why the process works, then you haven’t learned anything.

and then several people would come in to interject with unrelated math stuff like variables and roots and imaginary numbers, which only served to overwhelm Rat further. an overwhelmed preteen who’s convinced she’s bad at math isn’t going to be able to think clearly over a math problem when she’s too stressed out about the fact that she’s eventually going to have to worry about teachers throwing “letters” and “plants” and “made-up numbers” into math. if she wasn’t already convinced she would never be good at math then, she certainly would’ve been now.

the only reason she finally understood the concept was because her mom called her ex-husband (Rat's dad) to help explain it to her. he was able to connect with her way of thinking and communicate the process in a way she could conceptualize and understand.

if it takes 5 halves to get 2 ½, then how many 1/4s does it take? right? so itd be 10 right? cuz like. it takes 5 halves to get 2 ½ and ¼ is half of ½ so itd be double the amount of halves right?

if folks thought that experience was frustrating for them, imagine how she mustve felt. it was an aggravating experience for her. one that she’s looked back on with a bit of a sour taste now that she’s diagnosed + medicated and is able to concentrate better and think more clearly when she gets overwhelmed. she looks back at that moment and thinks “…how much of me struggling in school was because my teachers failed at explaining anything to me?”

[viridian-rat]

🐚 Bugs

//Look, is Bugs my actual favorite or did I just say that because it'd be funny? A bit of both, so I am curious and I'm not letting the other anon ask all of the questions

// ooc response!

oughh Bugs... sometimes im scared that i don't give Bugs enough love compared to the rest of the group but then i realize that i have Bugs speak a lot more than Robin. tbf tho Robin doesn't like to talk as much as Bugs does slkdfjlaksfj

anyways! this is something i mentioned on my main once before but after what Fang said to him in December, Bugs feels this constant need to prove himself as someone strong and capable in order to keep up with the rest of the group. He wouldn't have cared as much if Fang had just called him weak, but by insinuating that his weakness was holding Robin back, she had hit him right where it hurts. And now this insecurity has extended to him worrying that he's dragging them all behind by being the weakest link in the group. Keeping Azure on the team is him overcompensating for his perceived weakness. It's him telling himself, "See? I can be strong too! Now you won't have to worry about me holding you all back!"

But it's important to note that he's not as interested in battling as the rest of the group. He's more into catching and studying Pokemon than battling with them. And don't get him wrong, sometimes battle is an important aspect of studying Pokemon, but it isn't his passion the way that it is for Rat and Kat. While he does enjoy the art of battle, he mostly does it because his friends do it too.

And that's why Fang's words had struck him so deeply. He isn't in Battle Club because he genuinely likes to battle, he's in Battle Club because his friends are in Battle Club. He has no interest in climbing the ranks and making it to the top, he isn't taking this as seriously as everyone else. And if he isn't going to take this seriously, then why is he even here to begin with?

It hurt because he knew she was right.

[viridian-rat]

//☀️ Honestly nice having a normal kid in a pokemon world on here to look at. Good tonal contrast and fun watching you poke around with that.

//Also have a fun fact to go along with that: I know Rat's probably never going to acknowledge any of the more out there aspects of Astra, or the rest of the site, because of tonal and story reasons, but she ICly likes seeing a kid get a regular childhood she was denied in the torment nexus that is rotomblr

// ooc response

i know ive said it a thousand times, but i really really like the idea of getting to explore the more mundane aspects of the Pokemon world through the lens of someone who could realistically be an early-game flavor text NPC in a pokemon game. like i said before: "give me someone who won’t grow up to be the very best like no one ever was. give me someone who isnt going to save the world. give me someone whose biggest problems are figuring out a career path and navigating her first crush. and pokemon are there."

and while i could have done all of this with a character who was already an adult, i wanted to give this blog the sort of 90s vibes that Sugimori's old artwork and the Indigo League anime had, so i felt that exploring this concept through the eyes of a child would add that layer of nostalgia i was looking for. in a way, we get to relive childhood vicariously through Rat and co. as they navigate all the ups and downs of growing up in the Pokemon world. despite the fantastical nature of their world, we can relate to them and empathize with the struggles they may face because they're very similar to ones we've experienced ourselves. we root them on because we see a bit of ourselves in them-- past or present. growing up is difficult and stressful and confusing, but everything is going to be okay.

in this way, Rat is a love letter to my past self. or perhaps a love letter from my past self to my current self. a letter telling me that everything is going to be okay.

its going to be okay

[viridian-rat]

Send 🐚 (or [Shell])+ A character, and I'll give a fact/idea I haven't talked about/I think is underrated about them

Kat

//ooc response

Katsumi oh Katsumi. hand to window. Nekomura the girl that you are...

just as i've been hinting that Rat's self-esteem is at an all-time low, i've also dropped several hints that Kat's opinion of herself isn't much better. in a sense, the two are parallels in how comparison and envy is the thief of joy. they both see one another as everything they wish they could be-- everything that they're not.

Rat says shes stupid and reckless and mean. Kat sees it as determined, brave, and good-hearted.

Kat struggles to find something that she likes about herself, and settles for her "patience". Rat would disagree and offer a lot of other things she likes about her Kat should like about herself, but who would she be to correct someone on their own opinion? and when Bugs offers alternative words to reframe it into something less passive, Kat doubles down because she believes that words like "determined" and "persistent" aren't meant for her. those are Rat words, not Kat words.

they both admire one another. they both envy one another. they both wish they could be more like the other. they both wish the other could see themselves the way that they see them.

[viridian-rat]

Send 🌺 (or [Flower]) + your own unique ask/ooc questions and I'll answer them to the best of my abilities

//I'm honestly sort of interested if that time Rat may have been in the same town as a legendary ever had any plans for that, or if it was just flavor posts

// ooc response

for those wanting context. at least im assuming what you're referring to?

yea no i WAS alluding to the elders talking abt having seen Suicune before, but only in the past. it's got the same kind of energy as "y'know, once when I was your age, I saw a ghost in them there woods!"

i dont generally have any plans for Rat to meet any legendaries or mythicals, at least nothing more than maybe catching a glimpse of one like Ash in the very first episode of the Indigo League. cool as it would be, i find that its more fun to try to bring about mystic, intrigue, and peril to a story in ways that dont involve legendary pokemon. when you're a kid with just a Rattata and a Pikachu, any fully-evolved beast of a Pokemon seems just as awe-inspiring (and terrifying) as a legendary.

[viridian-rat]

Send 🐚 (or [Shell])+ A character, and I'll give a fact/idea I haven't talked about/I think is underrated about them

Rat

// ooc response!

something im glad im finally getting to showcase more and more is Rat’s low opinion of herself— the way she talks about herself is very telling of her self-esteem. she keeps “jokingly” calling herself things like stupid and reckless and mean, but if confronted about her self-flagellation, she’ll either default to “its just a joke bro its not that deep” or she’ll try and change the subject entirely. she underestimates herself and her abilities because she’s always comparing herself to the people around her. Bugs is smart, Robin is collected, and Kat is nice. standing next to them, of course Rat feels stupid and reckless and mean by comparison. she feels like the weakest link in the chain, and its only a matter of time before everyone finds out that she’s lame and unworthy of being their friend. she doesn’t think she deserves them. especially Kat.

she wont ever say this aloud of course, especially not on the blog, because she knows she’ll just get pity lectures from everyone about how she’s “special in her own way” and that she “shouldnt talk about herself like that" or "she shouldnt compare herself to others all the time”. it wouldnt come across as helpful to her, it’d just feel condescending. and she hates being condescended to. it makes her feel even more stupid.

besides. you cant be too vulnerable on rotomblr. anons can smell your insecurities like blood in the water. if she gets too angry or too sad or too personal, she’s just going to get poked and prodded at. so she keeps it to herself. if it gets too much, she might vent it out in a post and save it to drafts so that it never sees the light of day. but she knows one misclick and its all over.

a small part of her hopes it happens one day. just so that she finally gets to show everyone the real Rat.

[sporefilled-oc-posting]

Out of Character Rotomblr Ask Game

I have been looking for certain ooc ask games but they've all alluded me so I decided to make my own mess off them (almot none of these ideas are mine originally)

Send 🌙 (or [Moon]) + A theory about arcs/stories/lore and I can confirm it and elaborate, deny it and eleborate or simply say "spoilers" and not elaborate

Send 🌱 (or [Plant])+ A headcanon you have about a certain character, and I'll talk about how canon compliant (or not) it is

Send 🐚 (or [Shell])+ A character, and I'll give a fact/idea I haven't talked about/I think is underrated about them

Send ☀️ (or [Sun]) + Your favourite part of my character/their portrayal and I'll talk about why I chose to do that/the reason behind it

Send 🌺 (or [Flower]) + your own unique ask/ooc questions and I'll answer them to the best of my abilities

[viridian-rat]

Is that how you feel about all the Kat hateposting? Cringe? Because I would feel cringe in that situation

yeah

it was cringe of me

[catbreon-draws]

I’m p

Yes I’m

Yes hmmms ow

Eh

Tnhk

[catbreon-draws]

Tumblr wouldn’t let me upload the video but I let the mice write a tumblr post for me and this is the result :^)

[ohfuck-abastard-deactivated2023]

i thought that was just. a regular tumblr post and accepted it

[chatmeow9]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[viridian-rat]

wait oh my god i just looked at the date i posted my intro. in a like a lil more than a week this blog will officially be 2 years old….

[viridian-rat]

yknow one thing that does kinda suck abt having long hair is that during the summer months it gets REALLY hot and having my hair on my neck makes it feel worse. but i dont wanna cut it off or put it up in a ponytail bc thats oliver’s lil Rat’s Nest.

[espers-n-espurrs]

have you tried wetting a towel and wrapping it around the back of your neck? once it dries youll have to wet it again and you yourself would be soggy however ☝️no longer hot for at least a bit

[viridian-rat]

oh wait fr? ill hafta try that sometime! thanks for the tip!!

[viridian-rat]

yknow one thing that does kinda suck abt having long hair is that during the summer months it gets REALLY hot and having my hair on my neck makes it feel worse. but i dont wanna cut it off or put it up in a ponytail bc thats oliver’s lil Rat’s Nest.

[pokemon-n-peppers]

last weekend i was explaining what “non-binary” means to my darling little cousin and he’s just. not getting it until suddenly he says “oh! like auntie tina’s klingklang?” And I’m like “…….yes. Like auntie tina’s klingklang”

[pokemon-n-peppers]

happy pride everyone

[viridian-rat]

That's what you think

ill look back and wince but itll be different.