Sooo TELL me what you want what you really really want

[callbacks]

✭ A HEADCANON/QUESTIONS MEME ✭

Blatantly ripped from the last one Alex put up

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→ Comment to other people asking them questions about their lineup. Ask anything you can think of: questions about personal headcanon, thoughts on your CR, hypothetical situations, off-screen interactions, future plans, serious business, random crack, whatever!
→ Respond to the questions you receive!
→ LEARN NEW THINGS ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE'S CHARACTERS THAT YOU NEVER KNEW BEFORE.
→ Discover things your characters have in common and forge excellent CR and shenanigans accordingly.
→ Repeat steps 2-5 forever.

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[callbacks]

I know Kirigiri takes her coffee as black as a moonless night, but what about the rest of your crew?

If your characters were stuck as a Pokémon for the rest of their lives, which would they choose and why?

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THE COFFEE RUNDOWN:

▶ Carmen actually prefers tea over coffee, when it comes to her caffeine fix, but when she does drink it, it's usually less about her own personal taste and more about her remembering someone else who did like/drink coffee a lot. So I think she'd take it generally black, maybe with a little bit of sugar to help kill some of the bitterness, and then probably pair it up with a sweeter dessert to help the rest of the way with making it a little less overpowering.

If she were doing it purely on her own, though, instead of in tribute to someone or something, then I think she'd be inclined to have a bunch of chocolate and caramel and whipped cream put into it to make it more tolerable to her, because in the grand scheme of things she really doesn't like coffee all that much.

▶ Schuldig actually doesn't have a preference because he'll potentially run the entire spectrum from "I have no opportunity to be picky so I don't give a shit, just give me the caffeine" to "boy howdy am I going to ruin this Sawsbucks barista's day today". So it's really less that he has a particular preference and more that, like with most other things, he's the Rum Tum Tugger — he will do as he do do, and there's no doing anything about it!

▶ Meridiana is also a tea drinker, thank you very much, but if she drank coffee she would have a preference, and it's that she'd always want it to be as sweet and taste as little like coffee as possible, part because she wouldn't like the bitterness, part because she'd see having it sweet and dressed up as a mark of status, and part because she'd be trying to figure out what the most "feminine" version of coffee was and gravitating toward that, because appearances are important to her and she'd want to be perceived as drinking a very ladylike coffee, whatever that might mean.

THE POKEMON QUESTION:

▶ Carmen would be a toss-up, I think, because part of her would want to say Porygon because she's seen how versatile Zack is, but Zack's gigantic drawback is also that he does not have hands. So I think that while she'd want to be a Porygon most, she also wouldn't pick it because she'd see it as irresponsible to not pick something that would still leave her able to take care of herself or her roster, which is where I think she'd choose Kadabra, like her starter.

▶ Kirigiri would probably pick Misdreavus, I think? It's not her favorite, but it's elusive and purple and I think she'd generally be happiest as a Ghost-type because of their ability to slip in and out of places and get around quietly, which is a natural state of being for her.

▶ Schuldig would pick Arceus because the question said he could be any Pokemon and if you're going to leave the question open like that, why wouldn't you immediately go for Llamagod, I mean really.

▶ Meridiana would pick something like Talonflame, I think — it's maybe not the best for her, but I think she'd be kind of whimsical about it and like the idea of being a bird probably better than the reality of being one, so maybe it's not the best choice for her but it's the one she'd gravitate to, I think. Elegant and able to fly.