First for GIT GUD

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>>824711
Really? You think adding Git gud keeps you from being the fag who says first post?

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>>824718
I'm just showing my hype. Better than leaving a name on

>>824700
[This pokeball of mine glows with an awesome power!]

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Providing some tips to acquiring waifus.
How was your week, Gobble? Will work keep being a bitch next week?

Who needs a waifu when we have best rock?

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>>824750
My thoughts exactly.

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“That was great!” Keira is bouncing with energy. “I didn’t think I’d start liking battles so quickly.” Her face is flushed with excitement. “But I think I’m starting to get it.”

Her Tropius and Nincada crowd around her. ‘Do you guys want to try battling?”

Tropius seems a bit worried about it. Nincada looks more receptive but with his face it’s hard to really tell.

The two of you walk back to the Pokemon center. Keira stops to quickly repaint a faded arrow on a signpost.

“There!” She looks at it with a sense of satisfaction. She looks at your confused face. “You don’t do that where you’re from? Give spirits directions to the next world?”


>You don’t believe in spirits
>You don’t believe that the dead need any help getting to the next world. They just get there
>Change the subject
>Something else

>>824754
I still hold to my claim that he resembles metaknight

Why not buy mace a mask ?? !!

>>824743
Is it sad that a large portion of this is what happens in waifu wars?

>>824760
>>You don’t believe that the dead need any help getting to the next world. They just get there

>>824760
>You don’t believe that the dead need any help getting to the next world. They just get there

>>824760
>>You don’t believe that the dead need any help getting to the next world. They just get there

>>824760
>change the subject

>>824760
>You don’t believe in spirits
Ya'know besides ghost pokemon, of course. Lets see that clash of cultures guys.

>>824786
We were afraid of spirits in a previous thread though.

>>824775
>>824776
>>824778
I've never gotten the sense John was very spirtual, but it is the pokemon world, hard to deny spirits when there are actually ghost mons.

>>824760
>>You don’t believe that the dead need any help getting to the next world. They just get there

>>824796
I was just thinking Herb was afraid of traveling through a dark forest at night. Not so must spirits as say possible ghost mons trying to spook you.

>>824797
When we first went into spook forest we were scared of spirits

>>824760
>>You don’t believe that the dead need any help getting to the next world. They just get there
Ghost pokemon seem to be compelling evidence.

>>824760
>>You don’t believe that the dead need any help getting to the next world. They just get there

>>824797
I don't really think of it as being very spiritual but as just common belief in the afterlife in general

>>824760
>You don’t believe that the dead need any help getting to the next world. They just get there

>>824760
>You don’t believe in spirits

>>824818
I thought that was more gauging why it was called the Spirit Woods and less about any belief in any actual spirits. I guess I could see it being read as a fear of spooks.

>>824873
We had to roll to not run from streetlight to streetlight.

>>824760
>Change the subject

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>>824743
[Exhausting. Work is ideally going to be lighter this week, but we'll see. I say/hope that a lot.]

>>824877
That's just a fear of the dark, doesn't have much to do with fear of spooks.

>>824901
Hope work becomes less tring for ya Gobble. I'm glad you were able to run today. I was looking forward to the quest all week!

>>824760
>>You don’t believe that the dead need any help getting to the next world. They just get there
>>Something else
Give her a brief run down on the difference in our spiritual beliefs.

>>824911
This
We also need to share our culture

>>824911
>>824922
I don't think we have that strong of beliefs.

>>824922
Need is a strong word.

>>824911
What do we believe in?

Xerneas and Yveltal? The lake trio? Arceus and his dragon pals?

>>824940
I'm not really in the know about these creation myths, what's the difference between them?

>>824940
>>824952
I thought in the first thread we decided that John wasn't that big into religion. I could be wrong though.

>>824940
Oh well, time to get some lore dump here. What do mainlanders believe in, Gobble? In the games, Arceus, the supposed creator, isn't even well-known unless you're an ancient history or myth nerd like Cynthia.

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You explain to her that you believe spirits don’t really need help getting to the afterlife. They just sort of get there.

“But that’s what ghost pokemon and other spirits are. Your homeland must have so many stray spirits. You wouldn’t even be able to sleep with all that noise.”

“I didn’t mean to offend you or-”

“No. Sorry. I’m the one that asked. I shouldn’t question you like this. I just...how..” She stops herself, then opens her mouth to speak and raises a finger, then stops herself again. She puts her finger down and gets lost in thought. You get the feeling that this will be something she digs into later.

“Hi!” Hana is there at the Pokemon center and getting her balls back. “How’d it go?”

Keira falls right out of her thoughts and gets really excited. She blurts out everything about your match. Most of it is out of order. Hana politely nods and pretends to follow every detail as Keira makes sound effects and slips in a few words in the native language.

You get your Pokeballs back.

Wait. Hana has two now. You ask and she tells you that she got her fossil from the caves revived. She sends it out.

“Say hello, Tirtouga.”

The turtle pokemon looks up at you quizzically.

“He’s still adjusting to this world,” Keira says as she squats down and waves. “What an interesting aura you have.”

The pokemon cocks its head.


>Ask if they’re going to challenge the gym
>Ask Keira if she’d like to try battling you
>Ask Hana if she wants to train together
>Go train on your own. You need to stay focused
>Something else

>>824930
Well, we still grew up in a different cultural milieu, which was informed by a particular set of spiritual beliefs.

>>824959
Only thing relevant I think is that John believes in Magic or the possibility of real magic, he's a bit naive, not really much about spirits and such I could find in thread 1.

>>824979
>>Ask Keira if she’d like to try battling you

>>824979
>go train on your own

>>824979
>Ask Hana if she wants to train together

>>824979
>Ask Hana and Keira if they want to train together

>>824979
>>Ask if they’re going to challenge the gym

>>824979
>>Ask Hana if she wants to train together
We haven't spent anytime with Hana yet that I can recall.

>>824979
>>Ask if they’re going to challenge the gym
>>Ask Keira if she’d like to try battling you
>>Ask Hana if she wants to train together

>>824979
>Ask Hana if she wants to train together

>>824979
>Ask if they’re going to challenge the gym
>Ask Hana if she wants to train together
>Ask if Keira wants to train with us too

>>824979
>Ask Hana if she wants to train together
Time to get stun spore and worry seed squared away.

>>824979
>Ask Hana if she wants to train together

>>824979
>>Ask Hana if she wants to train together

>>824979
>Ask if they’re going to challenge the gym

>>824979
>Ask Hana if she wants to train together

>>824979
>Ask Hana if she wants to train together
>Ask if they’re going to challenge the gym

>>824979
>Ask if they’re going to challenge the gym
>Ask Hana if she wants to train together

Maybe see if Keira wants to join too. Don't think now would be a good time for a battle though.

Wait. If ghost pokemon are the spirits of the dead who have not passed on, what is Shedinja? And how does breeding ghosts work?

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>>824979
>>Ask Hana if she wants to train together

>>824979
>Ask Hana if she wants to train together

>>825038
Some things are natural born spirits. Also Shedninja is the husk of Nincada that keeps on going

>>825038
So pokemon are a literal representation of Shinto spirituality. They are basically literally the spirits that reside in everything. Ghost mons are human spirits that bond with something in the physical world. Once they become pokemon, I believe breeding is just the same for all mons.

>>825061
>the spirits that reside in everything
Just to add a little note, Roman mythology also had those.

>>825077
Yeah but roman mythology isn't japanese. Pokemon is.

>>825077
It's just specifically in reference to Shintoism in the case of pokemon.

5 days till the games come out~ that said i've spoiled myself completely trying to figure out if the gen 7 mons that interested me were any good.

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>>824760
Keira's adorable. Here's some more.

>>825125
Unless you're in Europe. Fuck whoever decided to make us wait an extra week.

>>825125
Some shitters on /vp/ are hating on my fave, but I think it'll be good

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“Are you guys planning on taking the gym?”

“That’s more of the fighting clergy domain.” Keira says. “I’d like to watch, though.”

Hana adjusts her pokeball belt and grabs an apple. “I don’t know. But I want to do something.” She suddenly looks up. “Yes! I’m going to take on the gym.” The apple explodes in her powered hand. She looks horribly guilty at the mess. You and Keira help her clean up as Hana tries to become invisible. Eventually the eyes that were drawn look away and she relaxes a bit more.

“Want to go out back and work up a sweat together? I bet we could teach each other a lot.”

Hana freezes and stares at you. “What?”

“Train. Want to train our pokemon?”

She looks worried, but she narrows her brows and gains a sharp, determined look in her eyes. “Yes.”

You head to the open area behind the Pokemon center. There’s a small jungle gym that’s not in use and a nice shaded area to stand and train in. An old man strikes up a conversation with Keira. Sounds like he’s asking her advice on something. She really must get a lot of respect.

Hana and you stand in the shade. She rubs her arm.

Huh. You have no idea where to start.


>Start working on Mace’s speed. Ask Hana for help
>Spend the rest of the morning helping her with Tirtouga. You have experience with young Pokemon now
>Tell her she should probably find another new Pokemon if she’s going to take on the electric gym
>Something else

>>825164
>Spend the rest of the morning helping her with Tirtouga. You have experience with young Pokemon now

Bella and turtle time.

>>825164
>>Start working on Mace’s speed. Ask Hana for help
>Tell her she should probably find another new Pokemon if she’s going to take on the electric gym

>>825164
>Spend the rest of the morning helping her with Tirtouga. You have experience with young Pokemon now
>Chat about nerdy movies with Hana while you train

>>825164
>Spend the rest of the morning helping her with Tirtouga. You have experience with young Pokemon now

>>825164
>Spend the rest of the morning helping her with Tirtouga. You have experience with young Pokemon now
>Chat about nerdy movies with Hana while you train

>>825164
>spend time working with mace
She's nice and all but mace is our ace in this fight and we need him in tip top shape

>>825164
>Spend the rest of the morning helping her with Tirtouga. You have experience with young Pokemon now

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>>825164
>>Spend the rest of the morning helping her with Tirtouga. You have experience with young Pokemon now
we can train later today

>>825164
>Spend the rest of the morning helping her with Tirtouga. You have experience with young pokemon now.

>>825164
>Spend the rest of the morning helping her with Tirtouga. You have experience with young Pokemon now
>Chat about nerdy movies with Hana while you train

>>825164
>Spend the rest of the morning helping her with Tirtouga. You have experience with young Pokemon now
>Ask her about common nerdy movies interest in our down time.

>>825164
>>Spend the rest of the morning helping her with Tirtouga. You have experience with young Pokemon now
Have Mace help too being a fellow rock type

>>825164
>Start working on Mace’s speed. Ask Hana for help
>Spend the rest of the morning helping her with Tirtouga. You have experience with young Pokemon now

Considering the gimmick of the gym, there's a good chance anything that enters the fight will end up as a water type anyway; so no point forcing her to catch anything else just yet. Just work with what we've got.

>>825164
>>Start working on Mace’s speed. Ask Hana for help

>>825164
>Start working on Mace’s speed. Ask Hana for help
>Spend the rest of the morning helping her with Tirtouga. You have experience with young Pokemon now

>>825164
>Spend the rest of the morning helping her with Tirtouga. You have experience with young Pokemon now
>Chat about nerdy movies with Hana while you train

>>825193
So anything we can do to mitigate the obvious grass and/or electric type moves the leader will throw our way

We should do some training on the beach
Dodging waves and stuff to emulate the water cannons

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could we teach Bella Sunny Day? The cannon apparently act like the move Soak

If nothing else, it would power up her grass attacks later on.

Plus it would be cool to have a weather team

>>825271
I would rather get the basics down first. I think Water Sport will be useful here though if we can get the electric Pokemon covered in water also.

>>825271
That sounds good to me. Weather Ball could turn out to be a really versatile move if we go that route.

>>825232
Well, the main issue is the water and the cannons; focusing on movement to get out / dodge might be able to work. If we can get the cannons to hit the gym leader's Pokemon then Bella can probably do some good damage too.

>>825282
The gym battle is basically set in a shallow pool of water with Water Cannons soaking everything such that everything is weak to electricity and has trouble evading it. Only their Pokemon have stuff like Volt Absorb so it doesn't matter if they get hit for the most part.

>>825302
I didn't remember the shallow pool part. Gym sounds pretty rigged if the gym leader isn't a moron.

>>825164
>Develop fun training exercises for all the Pokémon
>practice jumping rope to work on speed and dodging
>have Hana throw pebble fastballs to work on dodging and defense
>stomp through the ocean or hula hoop to work on stamina
>see who can knock down the m most coconuts to work on power, then cook the coconuts

>>825311
Still better than Clair's gym. Now that was bullshit.

We should teach our pokemon to dance in order to dodge
It could work for gyms and contest

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>>825345
>we invent PokeCapoeira
fund it

>>825164
>Spend the rest of the morning helping her with Tirtouga. You have experience with young Pokemon now

>>825345
Not opposed; though for this gym its more jumping than anything that's needed to dodge and that might be tough.

Honestly I'm half inclined to just have Gobble attempt to tank everything with Amnesia and play defense while the others stand on his head throwing around attacks.

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Tirtouga makes me happy. I'm glad the little guy showed up.

>>825376
But hitmontop or whatever it's called already dose that

Also it was done in the anime wasn't it?

>>825389
*does

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You spend the morning working with her and Tirtouga. The little guy seems to be adjusting quickly. Apparently fossil Pokemon get a bit of accelerated aging and even some genetic memory. It’s not really yours or Hana’s forte though, so you’re not sure if you both have a firm understanding.

But all the science talk turns to sci-fi talk. The two of you have seen and like a lot of the same movies. Hana knows a lot more about them though. You mention liking a certain scene, and she goes on about the director’s cut commentary and the behind the scenes stuff.

You make an offhand joke about Tirtouga being like Gamera when he flops over a little sandcastle.

She stops and frowns. “No. That’s not fair. More like Rodan. He looks like a turtle, but his personality is different.”

Tirtouga seems to have gotten the hang of things and can move like a battler now. He even has some nice moves.

“Thanks.” Hana smiles at you. Somehow that does things to your body similarly to when Laki presses against you or Keira’s lack of shirt does. It’s like her honest smile is this mysterious and rare thing. “Let’s work on one of your Pokemon now.”

You guess Mace first makes sense.

Mace eagerly jumps up, ready to show his stuff. His brace keeps him slow, though.


>Work on a new move
>Train a stat
>Try to use his energy to get fast
>Try to use his energy to attack
>Try to use his energy to be agile
>Something else

Bella dance dodging sounds amazing.

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>>825389
armless capoeira thenwe need to keep up the lack of arms for the rest of the quest

idk about the anime though

>>825411
>Try to use his energy to get fast

>>825411
>>Try to use his energy to be agile
Move like sand, flowing across the desert. Twist with the wind, be one with the air

>>825411
>Try to use his energy to get fast

>>825411
>Try to use his energy to be agile

>>825411
>>Try to use his energy to be agile
gotta be able to dodge attacks before we can go fast

>>825411
>>Try to use his energy to get fast
Rocketrock!

>>825411
>Try to use his energy to get fast

>>825411
>Work on a new move

Self Destruct is probably a good idea.

Or Power Gem.

>>825411
>Try to use his energy to get fast
>Chat with Hana about why she wants to take the gym challenge

>>825411
>Try to use his energy to be agile
DODGE

>>825411
>>Try to use his energy to get fast

>>825411
>>Try to use his energy to be agile

>>825411
>Try to use his energy to be agile

>>825439
Seconding.

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!

And if I may, Herb's constant double entendres are hilarious.

Especially where Hana is concerned.

>>825411
>Work on a new move
Dig

>>825411
>try to make him agile
First we dodge their shit
Then we out speed their shit
Then we reach judo bellsprout levels of badass bullshit

>>825462
this would be a good idea, we could drain the pool so we don't end up getting Soaked

and Mace can hide in the tunnels and pop up to shoot rock blasts

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[Sorry for the delay. Dice rolls, please!]

Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>825545

Rolled 25 (1d100)

>>825545

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>825545

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>>825547
nice

>>825547
PROGRESS

>>825550
Oh god, that was close

>>825557
>1
>we have to roll to see if mace evolves on accident

>>825572
That was my worry too

>>825547
Nice
So Bella might be able to absorb the water and mace ,depending on how good he is at dodging, may be able to dodge the cannons

>>825547
>>825550
The dice are still as bipolar as ever.

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You’re a bit torn. Speed like Voltorb’s could be amazing. But the ability to pivot and move in a battle (or dance) is tempting too. You decide to do a bit of both.

You explain to Mace about releasing the energy in bursts to give himself a little extra push. He can make himself move around in less predictable ways and also get around faster.

“Alright. Now Mace, try it out.”

Mace takes a moment to center himself, looses a few bursts, the fires off like a rocket. He’s skimming on the ground moving around like a balloon losing it’s air and lifts off a few feet up. You automatically flinch as he zooms right at the jungle gym.

But instead of clanging against it, he zips around. Up! Down! Left! Right!

“Atta Boy! What a start!”

You train on it for the afternoon and he does amazingly. Hana offers a lot of insight, too, and helps you think about things like blowback thrust from being close to obstacles. He makes a lot of mistakes here and there, but each one teaches a valuable lesson.

He sputters out as he runs out of energy. You tell him to take it easy and rest. He’s done great. He sits down on what you guess you’d call his butt. He wants to keep going, but his body language concedes that you’re probably right about stopping. He’s got very little energy left.

You whip up a quick meal for you and Hana and your Pokemon. She helps with cutting things up.

“So what made you want to take on the gym?”

She looks at the ocean, towards the same direction you saw Keira painting that arrow before. “I made a promise.”

“To who? For what?”

She looks to you, like she’s deciding how vulnerable she can be. “I don’t know. I don’t want you to look at me differently.”


>Promise you won’t make a big deal out of it
>Leave it for now
>Offer to tell her something personal about yourself
>Something else

>>825661
>Promise you won’t make a big deal out of it
>Offer to tell her something personal about yourself

>>825661
>>Promise you won’t make a big deal out of it
>Offer to tell her something personal about yourself

>>825661
>Promise you won’t make a big deal out of it
>Offer to tell her something personal about yourself
Hana a cute, a cute! but Jane is best girl

>>825661
>>Promise you won’t make a big deal out of it
>>Offer to tell her something personal about yourself

>>825661
>the fires off like a rocket
>THEN fires off

>Offer to tell her something personal about yourself

>>825661
>>Promise you won’t make a big deal out of it
>>Offer to tell her something personal about yourself

So are we just gonna give each of our firends/rivals a secret of ours?
I'm okay with that

>>825681
Down boy, let's not start that again

>>825661
>Promise you won’t make a big deal out of it
>Offer to tell her something personal about yourself

>>825661
>>Promise you won’t make a big deal out of it
>Offer to tell her something personal about yourself

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>>825661
>>Promise you won’t make a big deal out of it
>Offer to tell her something personal about yourself
woo character development

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>>825694
I apologize

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>>825685

>>825661
>>Leave it for now
She does't want us to pry, don't.

>>825661
>Promise you won’t make a big deal out of it
>Offer to tell her something personal about yourself

>>825729
...Okay...

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>>825806
[Crap. Did I use that one before?

Update still being written. Sorry about the speed]

>>825830
I know you used THAT one before. The last one wasn't old I think.

So I just went back and looked at some of the abilities for SuMo

Holy shit that water bug thing can be insane

Its ability allows it to 2 shot skarmary as it doubles it's power THAN adds stab bonus

>>825839
>SuMo
Stop that, also keep in mind it is ONLY for water moves

>>825853
I have literally no other abbreviations

I haven't put much thought into it

And sure it's only water moves but it's still fucking insane

>>825830
No, just damn, that was some fine ass.

>>825869
S&M
The Pokemon will be alright, but insane is an overstatement.

>>825869
It's SM. Just like XY, RBY, etc.

>>825839
What the hell water bug are you talking about?

>>825881
Bubble Spider. It's main ability is Huge Power for water attacks basically.

>>825881
araquanid the bubble spider
it has the ability water bubble which reduces fire damage, prevents burns and has the secret effect of being a water type specific version of Huge Power.

>>825885
damn, gen7 is pretty good for bug types.

I'm hoping we get one for John, a Wimpod, Cutiefly, or the bubble spider would all be awesome

>>825885
>>825891
The actual fuck, it's huge power too? When did they find that out?

>>825900
The raw stats of it are still kinda shit. And it lacks any priority. Cutiefly's line is probably the most reliable of the them comp wise.

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“I’ll reveal something if you do.” You offer.

“Reveal...” Her eyes glaze over in that strange way. She shakes her head. “I don’t know. I don’t want you to feel bad for me and make it into this whole thing.”

“I promise I’ll look at you the same.”

“Well.” She looks over to you. “I guess I’d be missing the point if I didn’t take a chance. Okay. I’ll tell you. Just, remember that promise, okay? Please?”

“Okay.”

“Well, after the accident. The car accident. And the time in the coma, and the surgeries. Aaaaaand the rehabilitation. And the trials and errors with,” she clinks her legs and taps her fake arm, “all this. After that, I made a friend at the children’s hospital.”

You get a really bad feeling about where this is going.

“Jenny. She was really nice. I didn’t really have anybody.” She inhales sharply. “She couldn’t get out at all. So we watched movies together.” Her voice starts to quiver. She shakes it off and exhales deeply. “But she always felt guilty that I’d spend my time inside with her instead of going out. We...she got some bad news and when she knew it...it was going to be over soon, she made me promise I’d go out and live. Not just stay in with escapism all day, but take chances, do things, and have a life.” You can’t see her face. She’s keeping it looking away.


>Hug her
>Hold her hand
>Say nothing
>Change the subject to telling her something about yourself right away
>Something else

>>825916
>Hug her
Sad people need them

>>825916
>Hug her

>>825916
>Hug her

>>825916
>Hug her

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>>825916
>Hug her
>Hold her hand
make sure it's her real hand

>>825916
>Hug her

If you have to cross thin ice, then cross it in a dance.

>>825916
>>Something else
Ask her to dance

>>825916
>Something else
>"I'm sure she'd be really proud of you for going on this adventure."

>>825916
>Hug her

>>825916
>Hug her

>>825916
>Change the subject to telling her something about yourself right away
Told her we wouldn't be different.

She's concerned about being seen as vulnerable because she doesn't want to be pitied, so let's not treat her like she's vulnerable and make her concerned that she's being pitied.

>Hug her.
We're a pretty huggy person.

>>825943
Seconding this.

>>825916
>Hug her
>>825907
Pretty much what I deduced from looking at it after a few minutes. I'm glad it's better than we thought though, Golisopod and Ribombee still seem much better though.

>>825916
HUG HER
HUG HEERRRR

>doesn't want us to feel bad for her or make it into a whole thing
>Proceed to do just that
Good job everyone

>>825916
>Hug her
>"I'm sure she'd be really proud of you for going on this adventure."

>>825962
Herb is a huggy guy. We can promise to not to do it more.

>>825962
I see it as feeling sympathy, Herb isn't patronizing her and I honestly don't think he'll treat her differently.

>>825962
The alternative is to sit there awkwardly while she has her breakdown not knowing what to do.

>>825962
Eh, I get what you're saying, but I don't think that's what we're doing. We're just being nice, and it's probably just a quick hug. John is a pretty affectionate person, so this makes sense for him.

>>825916
>>Hug her
>>Hold her hand

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You aren’t really sure what to do. Is a huge inappropriate? Will she see it as pitying?

Ah. you can’t help it. You lean over and give her a good, hard, hug. She doesn't respond.

"I'm sure she'd be really proud of you for going on this adventure."

You feel her arms awkwardly decide what to do for a few seconds before pulling you in. You feel the warm sun vanishing behind a cloud and slowly fade from your back in contrast to the warm tears on the front of your shirt.

She keeps apologizing. You get the feeling that there’s even more to her story, but decide to let that be for now. You don’t know what to do so you just tell her that it’s okay. You keep your eyes on your Pokemon just in case but keep your focus on her.

She pulls away. “That wasn’t what I” she sniffs, “meant to do.”

She smiles. Her eyes are crystal clear. You can tell she’s feeling self-conscious and worried you’ll think differently of her. Especially after that hug and cry.


>Tell her the sad story about when your grandpa passed
>Tell her the embarrassing story about the time you farted in front of a whole auditorium
>Tell her about the painful time you tried to do a flip and ended up needing stitches
>Tell her about the time you were scared for your life from a wild pokemon
>Something else

>>826097
>tell her about a sad story of how your grandpa passed
Is mace going to start shipping us

>>826097
>Tell her the sad story about when your grandpa passed

>>826097
>Tell her the embarrassing story about the time you farted in front of a whole auditorium
I want to do the grandpa one but she needs a change of pace

>>826097
>tell her about a sad story of how your grandpa passed
Bella is probably shooting daggers at her over that hug

>>826097
>Tell her the sad story about when your grandpa passed

>>826097
>Tell her the sad story about when your grandpa passed

>>826097
>Is a huge inappropriate

>Tell her the sad story about when your grandpa passed

>>826097
>>Tell her about the time you were scared for your life from a wild pokemon
Never got over our phobia of Bidoof

>>826097
>>Tell her the sad story about when your grandpa passed

Poor Cubone, wanting it's mommy

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>>826097
>Tell her the sad story about when your grandpa passed
God, Cubone will never see Kangaskhan ever again. T.T

>>826097
>>Tell her about the time you were scared for your life from a wild pokemon
I've never seen that picture before. It makes me sad.

>Is a huge inappropriate?
Butts will cheer us all up.

>>826137
That isn't the mom

>>826097
>Tell her the sad story about when your grandpa passed
>Suggest taking the full gym challenge together. You can train together and keep each other motivated.

>>826140
I always thought it was. Which pokemon is it then?

>>826097
>Tell her about the time you were scared for your life from a wild pokemon

>>826149
Marrowak?

>>826149
Just a marrowak

>>826097
>Tell her the sad story about when your grandpa passed

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>>826154
>>826156
I always thought it was something like this.
>pic related

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>>826156
but then who's skull did the first Marrowak wear?

and which came first, the Torchic or the egg

>>826165
Nope, just a wrong theory

>>826165
Nah senpai, baby Khans just turn into khans

>>826111
>Bella with the handkerchief between her teeth

That shouldn't be funny, but it is

>>826165
Wat.

No, that's objectively wrong.

>>826165
>>826174
>>826191
This just reminded me about how much I wanted a cubone in this...

>>826205
Ground is my favorite type, but Cubone is probably one of the most boring of the whole type to me.

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>>826118
>>826139

>>826205
There's still time. Alternately, one of our friends could get one. I could see Hana or Keira getting one. Alolan Marrowak is too awesome to not have.

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>>826111

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>>826210
this butt unsettles me more than the butts you normally post

>>826213
If Alolan Cubone is ghost-type, Kiera can't train one.

If not... that complicates evolution.

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>>826213
It is pretty rad

>>826209
Honestly my favorite ground type is probably Donphan

>>826226
I for one approve of >>826210 , I think it is a joke pic about how it didn't have a chance to hypnotize her yet. I could be wrong, but that is what I think

>>826235
Gligar for life

>>826238
Wait I'm blind, Hypno is just making her skirt ride up.

>>826238
Gligar can't learn Earthquake, though, right?

Excluding TM or egg moves.

>>826238
I'd have to say my favorite type overall is steel though.

Bisharp and Metagross are my dudes

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>>826238
>not Nidoking
plebs the lot of you

I punish your shit taste with this pic

>>826247
I don't remember. Gligar's design is why I like it.

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>>826253

>>826235
Camerupt.
I have fond memories from 3rd gen. Little slow, but best tank I ever had.

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>>826253
why boner

>>826253
That's.. disturbing but attractive. Also Nidoking is awesome.

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>>826292
stop anon

don't go down that path, it leads only to /trash/

>>826300
see, now that one I can get behind heh

>>826253
Wow, that's just about one of the least sexy things I've ever seen.

Nidoking is rad though.

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You tell her about when your grandpa passed. He was always a big part of your life. You and your siblings would visit him at the daycare all the time. He’d always show you the new pokemon coming in, spoil you with candy, and you’d play around on the equipment meant for pokemon.

Then the heart attack happened. It’s not exactly like they show on television. It’s not like he just clutched his chest and rolled over. He was sweating and looking tired for a while, kept insisting he was fine, and only finally agreed there was a problem when your dad called the ambulance. Your dad lied to you and said it was fine. You lied to your little brother. Well, at least it felt like a lie. For all you knew, and for all your dad knew, or at least hoped, it was fine.

It’s her turn to hold you now. She pulls your head to her chest and you feel a little guilty about how distracting the soft feeling is. Your grandpa was a lot like your dad though and he’d probably be giving you a thumbs up right now.

For some reason, Bella looks incredibly eager to train. You pull your head up and look at Hana. She has that weird glazed over look mixed with a look of guilt and self-consciousness. She shakes her head. You both apologize at the same time but neither of you really knows why the other does it.

“Do you want to train?” She looks at Bella as the small pokemon headbutts her ankle.

Bella sits and pouts.


>Try to teach her a move
>Work on a stat
>Improve her draining power
>Something else

>>826330
>Try to teach her a move

>>826330
Aw poor Bella.
>Try to teach her a move

>>826330
>>Improve her draining power
draining moves have been her bread and butter so far, might as well increase them even more

>>826330
>>Work on a stat
Special Attack maybe? Maybe both attack and special attack?

>>826330
>>Try to teach her a move
I guess we can save the dancing for contest training if/when we do that

>>826330
>Try to teach her a move
Sunny Day

Every pokemon we get is gonna ship us with a girl.

Except Gobble. as far as he's concerned, we already are with our soulmate. Culinary Arts.

>>826330
>Improve her draining power

Now watch Bella get to be the best drainer ever and cry after she sucks the life out of all other girls except Laki.

>>826330
>>Improve her draining power
Aw, Bella. Her ship is under threat. It's always rough the first time. Give her a pick-me-up.

>>826330
>Try to teach her a move
leech seed?

>>826330
This is really cute. Hana is great, and Bella is adorable. I love how awkward John and Hana got here. It's a good precedent for later cute things.

>>826330
>Try to teach her a move
Leech Seed is a good idea

>>826365

Or lewd things.

Imagine when Herb finally gets what that look actually meant all this time.

He's gonna hear his grandpa laughing from the afterlife.

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>>826330
Bella a best, with superior tastes.

>Try to teach her a move

>>826330
>>Try to teach her a move

>>826365
It seemed to me like bella didn't like her? Are you reading it differently?

>>826390
Bella's ship is in danger, she doesn't want Hana to score points

>>826374
Or lewd things, yes. Man, now I'm rooting for John x Hana.

>>826330
>Try to teach her a move

Honestly I'd be okay with anything. I know someone else wanted to lock down Worry Seed though, and I think it could be handy at the next gym - Removing Volt Absorb could cause some friendly fire given the battlefield in the gym.

>>826390
Bella ships us with Laki. Lookit dis hussy moving on mama's man, oh he'll no.

>>826390
Bella opposing a ship by gently headbutt in John's ankle is adorable.

>>826395
please don't start this stuff up now

>>826390
Bella ships Laki, so seeing John getting close to other females isn't kosher with her.

>>826330
>Try to teach her a move
Worry Seed.

It's a missable, and has great utility for breaking synergy combos.

>>826403
As long as other people don't start an argument about what I like, you've got nothing to worry about.

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Oh hell.
If all of our pokemon have their own ship...
Gobble has made waifu wars canon.
We're going to have to moderate them.
What have we done.

>>826438
We knew this would happen since thread 2 or 3

>>826438
>We're going to have to moderate them.
>What have we done.
IT'S GOBBLE'S TURN TO SHITPOST US!

>>826438
Bell has best taste. The others will just have to learn to live with it.

>>826452
>Bell has shit taste. She will just have to learn to live with it.
FTFY

I'll be completely honest, I like all the girls.

And lewds. which is funny if you read my quest because those are a looooong way off

However, I mostly just like seeing cute people in cute situations, like this one.

>>826475
Agreed.

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>>826452
she's a baby, Bella doesn't have any taste at all

>>826524
This is one butt I'm happy to see return.

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You and Hana squat down to face the little pokemon. “So, what are we go-”

Bella uses Water Sport on Hana.

“Bella!” You scold as Bella sticks out her tongue at the poor girl. You turn to Hana. “I’m sorry. Oh man. She got it all over your face and chest.” You take off your shirt for her to dry her face with. She gets most of it off before she realizes what she has. Her face goes from surprise to glazed again when she looks up. “You didn’t need to do that.”

“It’s fine.” You assure her. “That fabric dies quickly. Your shirt won’t dry off for awhile, though.”

Hana looks down. Her sweater is soaked and clinging her chest. She goes off to the bushes and comes back in her tank top. You can tell she’s a bit self-conscious and you try not to stare. Dad was right about the girls on this island, though.

Bella looks very defeated. You sit her down and explain to her why that was bad. Hana says that maybe Bella did it by accident. You guess that’s plausible. They both seem to want to move on from it so you let it go for now.

>Teach Worry Seed (easiest)
>Start on Sunny Day (likely will take more than a session)
>Start on Toxic (likely will take more than a session)
>Start on Bullet Seed (Will take more than a session)
>Start on Giga Drain (likely will take more than a session)

>>826566
>Teach Worry Seed (easiest)
Do a basic thing for now.

>>826566
>Start on Giga Drain (likely will take more than a session)

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>>826566
>>Start on Toxic (likely will take more than a session)

>>826566
>Start on Toxic (likely will take more than a session)

>>826566
>Start on Toxic (likely will take more than a session)

>>826566
>Start on Toxic (likely will take more than a session)

>>826566
>>Teach Worry Seed (easiest)

>>826566
>>Teach Worry Seed (easiest)
>>Start on Sunny Day (likely will take more than a session)

>>826566
>>Start on Toxic (likely will take more than a session)

>>826566
>Teach Worry Seed (easiest)
Let's start with something easy to boost her confidence. Sunny Day would make a good second pick here.

>>826566
>Teach Worry Seed (easiest)
Alternatively I'd also like to teach her leech seed.