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waltzing-with-my-inner-geek replied to your post “is bill short for william”

Billiam.

No.

darthcaken7 replied to your post “is bill short for william”

Good, strong name. No doubt the name of your father, eh?

My father’s name is Jack, actually. It’s short for [CENSORED].

It’s a pet name for John, and you know it. And anyway, how would he feel if he read that on his own son’s blog? —LH

Disappointed that I didn’t use something more creative, probably. —Bill

LMAO Bill there’s fanfiction everywhere about you! I… don’t recommend reading most of it.

Don’t worry, anonymous. I’m very much aware. It’s one of the downsides to being known enough to gain fans.

I try to avoid reading it, actually, as I know from certain members of both the Kanto and Johto Leagues that there is quite a lot of, ah, fascinating content on the internet these days, much of which I can’t even describe in mixed company. Of the material I have read (when my curiosity had gotten the best of me), I believe the most favorable depiction I’ve stumbled across was the one where the author had killed me off before the events of the story. It was more a work about Lanette, if I recall correctly, but needless to say, that should perhaps tell you something.

What? Why haven’t I heard about this? —LH

You’re welcome. —Bill

hiphoppip replied to your post “Bill are you sure you’re exclusively human in the first place? It…”

If your problem is with things being sent at the same time a solution could be simple: Place doors on the teleporters, and only one can be physically opened at a time. It might be a bit of wiring with a lock system, but it could prevent mistakes.

Strangely enough, there are already doors, and that’s what they’re supposed to do. Unfortunately, the safety lock system doesn’t entirely work if you have one pokémon in a pod already and something else accidentally trips on a wire and stumbles into the other pod or accidentally forgets to turn off the auto-activation system and then accidentally pulls the door closed behind them with their shirt or accidentally believes the system really is powered down thanks to a blackout but actually it isn’t…

Do you ever think a higher power might be trying to tell you something? —LH

No. Why? —Bill

Given the pokemon Bill, uh, had “incidents” as, would anything interesting happen if we exposed him to a Moonstone? Bill, have you tried?

Passively. I happen to own a collection of evolution stones, one of which is a moon stone, so I’ve handled one since the incidents. Luckily, because even evolution by stone requires a certain level of will to initiate, nothing really happened. It’s just that it can be uncomfortable for me to hold one for long periods of time; they get unusually warm the longer my skin is in contact with them.

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Of course, I haven’t tried be open to evolution, and given my presumably (or hopefully) mostly human physiology at the moment, it would be rather interesting to see what would happen if I tried to consciously use one.

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This may need further investigation.

No, it would not! —LH

Bill are you sure you’re exclusively human in the first place? It shouldn’t be so easy to fuse with Pokémon like that, even by accident

Originally? Yes. Contrary to Sinnohan folklore, it was never possible for a human to mate with a pokémon, so I can say with the utmost certainty that I don’t have any sort of pokémon heritage deep down my family tree.

The problem lies in the fact that the teleporter isn’t actually designed to transport more than one living being per session. Putting it another way, think of the teleporter as having a Point A and a Point B. You can activate the pad on Point A as a sending pod to Point B, or you can activate the pad on Point B as a sending pod to Point A. Even if you’re sending objects nearly at the same time, so long as there’s even a percentile of a second of difference, the teleporter can safely transport objects from Point A to Point B and vice versa.

However, if both Point A and Point B are activated at the exact same time, within the same session, the computer gets confused. It thinks there’s only one subject when there really are two, and thus, in an effort to rectify this, it will merge both subjects together and call it a day. It’s a flaw, yes, and highly dangerous at that, which is why I keep experimenting on the teleporter—literally to fix the exact problem that keeps happening so that trans-regional teleportation can be made both perfectly safe and possible.

In other words, as I’ve been asked more than once, yes, what I’m working on is a new method of transportation that should hopefully be safer and quicker than even taking an airplane or ferry between regions. You may think this is outside of my area of expertise, but if it helps you better understand my motivations, rest assured I’m building this for trainers. And because I hate flying that much. The unfortunate downside is that this won’t be possible until I work out that nasty bug, and, well, it’s a work in progress, to put it lightly.

As for currently (or at least after the first incident of this occurring), though, that’s a bit of a complicated question. My cell separation system, as effective as it is, was a bit of a rush job, I’m afraid. It’s mostly accurate, of course, but it would be more accurate to call me something along the lines of, oh, about 98.99% human. It’s not enough to mean anything, really. I don’t have special powers or odd internal organs. Just about the only noticeable differences are that I recover slightly more quickly from pokémon attacks than the average human (of course I’ve tested this) and that pokémon are slightly more eager to befriend me than they had before (which I haven’t yet discovered the reason for).