OH MAN I AM THE SAME WAY. Case in point: Twin Peaks and Albert. WHOOPS. I hope you enjoy Tenipuri! Yagyuu and his school don't show up until pretty far in — at least chapter 150+, I think — but they're well worth the wait, in my opinion.
Oh, see, and now you've gone and mentioned Zack, which is dangerous because I like to talk about my little cybernetic tinybird. One of the things I like to work in where I can with Zack is the thought that, y'know, he's a computer bird, he's very decidedly not human despite being able to interact socially and make dumb jokes and stuff, and he's much more attuned to computers than your standard Pokemon; he's less animal and more AI, in my perspective. In my headcanon he actually spends the vast majority of his time inside Carmen's Gear because that's where he's most comfortable, and sometimes I have him make subtle remarks that hint at that — when we had the Suddenly Anonymous event back in September, he panicked because suddenly "all his friends were gone", because the network had glitched and he couldn't see their IDs anymore. Or when he doesn't know a word he'll run his little worddef.exe program and try to define it. He's got a handful of little programs he's written for himself that way that sometimes come up ICly: worddef.exe is the most frequent because it's the "I don't understand a word, what does it mean" response, but he also has pingbot.exe that he uses as a sort of extremely rudimentary GPS, and then with Aradia now searchbot.exe has come up to let him do a quick scan of old chat logs on the network. He's also written an antivirus for Carmen from back when we had the powers plot (everyone was getting sick and he was worried about her so he wrote her a kickass antivirus to install on herself to protect her), his music-editing software which is basically Audacity, and now the voice-changer program he released for Christmas. Being part computer is a big part of who he is, and I like to show that off when I get the chance because it makes him different from most other Pokemon, and it's a difference I like to highlight.
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Oh, see, and now you've gone and mentioned Zack, which is dangerous because I like to talk about my little cybernetic tinybird. One of the things I like to work in where I can with Zack is the thought that, y'know, he's a computer bird, he's very decidedly not human despite being able to interact socially and make dumb jokes and stuff, and he's much more attuned to computers than your standard Pokemon; he's less animal and more AI, in my perspective. In my headcanon he actually spends the vast majority of his time inside Carmen's Gear because that's where he's most comfortable, and sometimes I have him make subtle remarks that hint at that — when we had the Suddenly Anonymous event back in September, he panicked because suddenly "all his friends were gone", because the network had glitched and he couldn't see their IDs anymore. Or when he doesn't know a word he'll run his little worddef.exe program and try to define it. He's got a handful of little programs he's written for himself that way that sometimes come up ICly: worddef.exe is the most frequent because it's the "I don't understand a word, what does it mean" response, but he also has pingbot.exe that he uses as a sort of extremely rudimentary GPS, and then with Aradia now searchbot.exe has come up to let him do a quick scan of old chat logs on the network. He's also written an antivirus for Carmen from back when we had the powers plot (everyone was getting sick and he was worried about her so he wrote her a kickass antivirus to install on herself to protect her), his music-editing software which is basically Audacity, and now the voice-changer program he released for Christmas. Being part computer is a big part of who he is, and I like to show that off when I get the chance because it makes him different from most other Pokemon, and it's a difference I like to highlight.
And thank you so much! ♥