Tag: AMA Month

What would you be like if you were a video game boss? #AMA to Bill and Lanette. And the Mun if they would like to answer as well.

BILL
I must admit I don’t play video games that have bosses all that often. If I play video games at all—which I must also admit is rarely—it’s often creative or simulator games like Cavecraft. So I don’t entirely know what kinds of video game bosses there are besides the sort that just fire projectiles at you or something of the sort. Granted, Cavecraft has a dragon, but you don’t have to fight it at all, so I don’t think it would count.

LH
A queen. You know those bosses that always have legions of mobs surrounding them? That would be me. I would also be the MMO-style boss who enjoys inflicting unique status effects and uses one-hit kills. I would, in other words, be a final boss.

{THE MUN
The cracky one in a random dungeon in the middle of your quest. You know the one. The one you have to defeat by using the power of interpretive dance to make me surrender? That one.}

#AMA for Bill, Lanette, and the Mun. If you absolutely had to join one of the “regional criminal teams” which one would you join and why?

BILL
Likely none of them, to be honest. I would quite honestly prefer to die than be involved in that sort of thing.

However, if I absolutely must, I suppose Team Aqua is benign enough. Or, at least, it’s as benign as one can be when summoning a legendary that can, in turn, summon relentless rain to drown the world. Their goals were noble, at the very least.

LH
Personally, I would side with Team Flare. While, yes, they nearly destroyed the world, on the other hand, it would be a prime opportunity to work with the Eliseo Lysandre, head of Lysandre Labs. Not only would it be enlightening to work alongside one of the most brilliant minds in pokémon technology (or … another one, for a change), but it would also be nice to see what our competition is doing for once.

{THE MUN
Probably Team Skull, just because unlike most teams, Skull is open about the fact that they are meme-filled trash.}

#AMA Bill, Lanette (or any other devs who want to answer). What would your plan of action be if you found yourself abducted by an alien spacecraft? Happy holidays!

Happy holidays to you as well, anonymous!

BILL
Make friends with them, naturally. Imagine what we can learn from such a highly advanced race! We’d have knowledge of technology and worlds beyond our own star! So many opportunities to understand the very nature of our universe would open up instantly!

LH
Steal a piece of their technology, sabotage their transporter to transport me only, and beam myself back to Earth. Also naturally.

BEBE
Yeah, pretty much the same.

CASSIUS
That would be all of us, yeah. Except Bill.

AMANITA
I’d take a fuzzy alien pet if they have one and I knew it was benign, but then I’d run away to Earth.

BRIGETTE
Basically, what we’re all saying is that Bill’s the only one with weak enough self-preservation instincts to stay on board.

ALL, EXCEPT BILL
Basically.

#AMA. Are some of your answers as Bill/Lanette based on your personal opinions (hating milk, certain laws regarding relationships with pokemon…) or are they just things you believe would actually exist in the pokemon world.

{For the most part, I actually try to keep my personal opinions off the blog to avoid coloring posts with bias and whatnot. This is partially because I want to make what Bill says feel genuine (either genuinely his opinion or genuinely something that would happen in his world) and partly because I know that a lot of my opinions are unpopular ones in the fandom, lol.

I think the one thing that’s nearly based on my own personal opinions are the jokes Bill makes about Unova. I’m a New Englander transplant to New York, so part of Bill’s jokes are really me fulfilling my obligations as a self-respecting Bostonian at heart to make fun of New Yorkers. It helps that this version of Bill is the animeverse British one, so the other part of it is Bill fulfilling his obligation as a self-respecting British-descended foreigner to make fun of Americans. (We swear, we still love you. Bill’s just salty that you threw his tea into your harbor, and I’m just salty that a slightly more specific you believes the Yankees are better than the Red Sox.)

Other than that, most of the laws, culture, human-pokémon interactions, and even the science and other odds and ends are really the result of a lot of research, rather than my own opinions, and as such, they’re basically what I think is true about the pokémon world. Either that, or they’re really what I think Bill’s opinions would be about different pokémon or facets of his world.

But the milk thing? The milk thing is canon.}

{Below is another lost ask. Sorry about that, anonymous!}

Oh, without a doubt. Not to be sarcastic about this answer (because it’s the last thing I intend, I promise), but there are very likely many, many species of pokémon we don’t know about, even if they’re not technically legendary or mythical in any way. In fact, we seem to be discovering more and more new species every year. Many of these species are often inconceivable, too. Why, just five years ago, I doubt any of us would have thought there would ever be a pokémon that’s essentially a ghost inhabiting a pikachu costume, yet now we have mimikyu. So I know there are many new pokémon out there to discover, and I can’t possibly choose which one I would wish to meet the most. Honestly, I would love to meet them all!

Of the pokémon we know about, though, I’m afraid I haven’t met many pokémon from Alola yet, just because the region is so far away and because its league is so newly established they haven’t needed my services yet. Molayne has done a wonderful job setting up a storage system himself, so thus, I haven’t really had an excuse to go yet. If it counts, I am rather curious about the stories Lillie has told me concerning type: null and silvally in particular, but I would also love to befriend mimikyu as well.

#AMA Bill and Lanette, favourite colours? Please go into full detail. This is important.

BILL
I fluctuate between red and purple. Both have always been bold, striking colors to me, but from a scientific perspective, being on the very edges of the visible spectrum, they’re also rather fascinating. 

LH
Green. No reason, really. I just like that color. Pink as well, actually, which either is why or explains how most of my favorite pokémon are that color.

#AMA for both of you. Pancakes or waffles? (The mun may answer too, whoever that may be…)

BILL
That depends. Are we referring to lactose-free pancakes and/or waffles? Because if not, then both would make me rather ill, but if we are referring to lactose-free variations, then I really have no preference. And no, colleagues, it has nothing to do with the fact that I don’t eat breakfast to begin with.

LH
Waffles. There’s something satisfying about using a waffle iron … and then topping your creation with an abundance of whipped cream and chocolate syrup.

Again, why do you like dessert for breakfast so much? —Bill

Because unlike some people, I understand that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so you might as well make it thoroughly enjoyable. —LH

{MUN
Pancakes! :D}

#AMA Bill and Lanette, if you were in the Hunger Games (a fight to the death on live television, with 24 participants), what would be your strategy and how long do you think you would last?

BILL
Fight to the death?! I’d rather not, reader, but thank you.

LH
I would locate and gather as many poisonous berries as I can find, then put them in the containers given to me by sponsors and leave them all over the arena. I would use any remaining berries to taint any available food supply I can find, and I would strike up alliances, then claim the berries are perfectly edible and offer them as gifts for my new allies. If anyone is still standing after all of that, I would run them ragged through the arena and then force berries down their throats when they’re at their weakest.

Why are you so quick to answer this question? —Bill

#ama did you make up bill and lanettes last name or are they revealed somewhere

{Lanette’s is the easier one to explain here, and the answer is, yep, I made hers up! If anyone’s wondering, Lanette’s last name partly comes from her Japanese name (Mayumi, which refers to Hamilton’s spindle) and partly from this awesome systems engineer.

The history of Bill’s last name is a bit more complicated because I actually stole it from the official Pokémon website’s episode summaries back when they weren’t as well-written as they are now. Whoever wrote the summary for Bill’s episode pretty much just tried to turn his Japanese name (Masaki) into a western one, rather than use his actual localized name. I just thought at the time that it was about as close to a last name as we’re ever going to get, so I’ve been using it ever since. Long story short, I technically didn’t make it up, but it’s also less an officially given name and more of a translation error.}