The All-Purpose PokéMeme!

[islandshore]

THE ALL PURPOSE POKéMEME

We've had plenty of memes about our characters in the past, so why not something a little different? After all, Pokémon is a huge part of what makes Route so special.

Feel free to use this meme to:

- Talk about your characters' teams!
- Plot for Pokémon CR
- Discuss any headcanon you have about certain species or Pokémon in general
- Discuss ideas for Pokémon related shenanigans
- Take suggestions if you're struggling with a Pokémon's personality, what Pokémon to get your character, or anything else!

The sky's the limit, folks, so have at it!

Comments

[islandshore]

...Dude, Shakespeare Metagross is the greatest thing ever and you should feel proud. I thoroughly look forward to this poetry post because that one little sampling totally falls into so bad it's good territory. B)

The way you've chosen those moves to fit artist stereotypes is incredibly creative, too. I never even made the connection for some of them, like Outrage and ExtremeSpeed, so A+ for that.

I also like what you've done with Abbie, since most trainers would take all those egg moves and be like, HECK YEAH, battles! That Carmen's taken a more cautionary approach makes a ton of sense, since Deino are blind (whether their evos are or not is... strangely ambiguous).

The way you choose to add Pokémon makes a ton of sense as well. I admit to going more along the lines of picking the type of Pokémon first based on what they would specifically look for and a little bit of Mario-themed irony for Bowser. It does make deciding personalities a lot harder, though, especially when you hit the point where your char has over forty beasts. +_+

As far as other Pokémon go, I find myself rather curious about Sly, Ringo, and Ivy. :o

[doitrockapella]

His other great literary accomplishment involved immortalizing the fact that Hiccup's Cubone once hit our poor Viking in the head with her Bone Club.

"A graceful swing! The club connects!
And as her father, sore, objects,
A growing lump upon his head
Is rapidly a-growing red."

Carmen applauds his artistic pursuits but concedes there is a certain amount of room for improvement, particularly in terms of vocabulary choice.

Yeah, honestly 90% of what I do boils down to either "would this be funny" or "is this a new twist on something I haven't seen yet". I know a lot of trainers, for example (Riku included!), have trained their rosters to respond to nonverbal commands, but I hadn't seen anybody yet who actually tried to train their roster to be outright autonomous, and for Carmen it seemed to make sense so I decided to give it a try. Which led me to breaking down the whole roster into groups and subgroups within an almost military-style hierarchy, such that I always know who answers to whom and what group will get deployed where depending on what special need requires it.

And details on Sly, Ringo, and Ivy are forthcoming!

[doitrockapella]

Sly is the second-in-command of the Criminal Underworld team on Carmen's roster, the right-hand man (fox?) to Macavity and one of the Original Mischief Trio, which consisted of Macavity, Sly, and Indy. Macavity runs the outfit because she's fierce, Sly's her partner in crime, Indy's the fun-loving third guy, and the minions are Mungojerrie and Rumpleteaser, plus sometimes Agent Cooper (though he outranks Macavity) and the verdict is still out on Isabelle. Basically, if you've seen the Oceans Eleven movies, Sly is the Rusty Ryan of the group. He's sneaky and mischievous and playful and fun-loving, and Carmen originally met him when he tried to scare her in the Ilex Forest and she totally didn't buy it. The thing about Team Mischief is that Carmen doesn't actually discourage their pranks or even their criminal activities; she just refuses to fall for them and by extension encourages them to hone their skills trying to get better at it. Also he's totally Macavity's favorite boy to get busy with but y'know, she's a liberated Liepard and who needs monogamy.


Ringo got picked up for two reasons: I couldn't find a Fire-type that suited Carmen, and like Shuckles, I have a stupid passion for the Pokemon that nobody seems to like because BY GOD, I WILL LOVE THEM SO THAT SOMEONE WILL. So nobody gives a fuck about Slugmas and therefore I decided to, so when Carmen went to Ecruteak, I had her go explore the Burned Tower, and then I needed an excuse for her to catch a Slugma and take it home with her, so somehow I arrived at the idea that she walked in the door and this one idiot Slugma was like "--ooo. red. ...Mom?" and started following her. And then there was something about y'know, slugs oozing around and stuff, and the sprite itself just looks like this tortoise-esque HYPERDETERMINED YET UTTERLY SLOW little guy, and eventually I just arrived at, "wouldn't it be funny if Ringo gave absolutely no fucks about anything and just cruised around being a Slugma with only enough mental capacity to hold a single thought at any given time?" So there was that juxtaposition there, of like HYPERFOCUSED ON ONE SINGLE THING but able to be distracted from thing to thing with relative ease.

There was a point, when Hiccup had seven eggs to hatch and he found out that Slugma could help them hatch faster, where he just put the seven eggs in a wide circle and dropped Ringo near one of them, and what ensued was Ringo going, "Oh, an egg. Snugglesnugglesnugglesnugglesnuggle — hey, what's that? (ooze over) Oh, an egg. Snugglesnugglesnugglesnugglesnuggle — hey, what's that? (ooze over)" around and around in a circle FOREVER. Until they all hatched. Yup.

Basically, I like Ringo because he is a dorky little fire slug who gives absolutely no fucks about anything and just cruises around occasionally looking for his mom, when he remembers that he's not entirely sure where she is.


Ivy doesn't get as much use anymore as she once did, but she was the original go-to fighter on Carmen's team; Chief could only have one attack up until he evolved and Zack's personality was that he didn't like to fight, which was intentional because it mirrors Zack and Ivy in canon — Ivy is the athlete with multiple martial arts disciplines under her belt, and Zack usually resorts to tripping people or throwing snowballs at them instead. But if Chief is the commander in chief of the Pokemon Assault Force and Zack is his intelligence division, then Ivy is his top general. She has authority over every other member of the roster save those two, and she primarily heads up the Pokemon who fight with special attacks rather than with brute force (which is more Eartha's specialty). Ivy's a lot like Carmen and a lot like her namesake, really; she's sassy and confident and in particular, she's creative — she figured out pretty early on that brute force isn't her specialty, so a lot of what she does revolves around unorthodox methods like using her vines in unexpected ways (to pull herself out of harm's way, for example) and making good use of her special attacks to garner advantage. She's sort of the original "fight smarter, not harder" roster member, and that's because she was the first fighter on the team in general.