Tag: asks

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.

Tapu KoKo entry please!

Why stop at just Tapu Koko?

Tapu Koko
The Land Spirit Pokémon
Type: Electric/Fairy
Official Registration #: 785
Entry: The guardian spirit of Alola’s Melemele Island. Supposedly the bravest of the four Alolan guardians, Tapu Koko is known for observing islanders and bestowing blessings upon worthy trainers. These trainers are then encouraged to undertake the island challenge, a type of journey specific to Alola, geared towards the training and selection of each element’s next kahuna. While Tapu Koko tends to be the most active tapu in selecting such individuals, it is also known for being the most capricious when it comes to deciding which among them actually becomes a kahuna. For this reason, trainers on Alola may start out on a journey to become strong enough to represent their island and elemental specialties, but they could very well find their lives veering off into an entirely different direction thanks to one of Tapu Koko’s sudden change of heart. Not that the author is complaining about such a process, of course. We did get Molayne out of such an arrangement. As well as a wealth of fantasy YA novels that seem to keep the editor happy.

Once again, Bill, I don’t judge you for your literary tastes. —LH

Tapu Lele
The Land Spirit Pokémon
Type: Psychic/Fairy
Official Registration #: 786
Entry: The guardian spirit of Alola’s Akala Island. It is said that this legendary pokémon scatters glittering scales as it moves and that these scales have the ability to restore one’s health upon physical contact. The latter is highly useful because as with all adorable, pink pokémon described on this blog, Tapu Lele is also infamous for being fantastically cruel and sadistic, and it’s both telepathic and capable of warping the fabric of space to create a strange and highly dangerous pocket dimension around its immediate area. In other words, you will very likely need these scales as Tapu Lele uses its psychic abilities to thoroughly destroy you.

Tapu Bulu
The Land Spirit Pokémon
Type: Grass/Fairy
Official Registration #: 787
Entry: The guardian spirit of Alola’s Ula’ula Island. Supposedly, this pokémon is extraordinarily lazy. Rather than attack an opponent head-on, it simply wills the vegetation around it to grow and ensnare the challenger before it delivers a devastating, close-range blow itself. Honestly, though, the author is intrigued by the fact that some people of Alola consider this to be evidence of Tapu Bulu’s laziness. If anything, it’s a brilliant strategy, and given how much effort the author has put into trying to will plants to do his bidding, he can safely say Tapu Bulu’s battle strategy is really much harder than it looks.

Not a good harvest, Bill? —LH

Oh, the garden was perfectly fine this year. It’s a certain half-plant, half-toad starter with a penchant for eating my crops after I explicitly tell him not to that’s the problem. —Bill

Tapu Fini
The Land Spirit Pokémon
Type: Water/Fairy
Official Registration #: 788
Entry: The guardian spirit of Alola’s Poni Island. This mysterious island guardian is supposedly the most laid-back of the four tapu. Unlike the others, who either actively seek out humans to observe (Tapu Koko) or toy with (Tapu Lele) or who actively avoid human contact altogether (Tapu Bulu), Tapu Fini prefers allowing humanity to do whatever it likes and will often only reveal itself to the truly worthy as a result. This may seem like Tapu Fini is putting in extra effort to avoid being detected, but in actuality, given the fact that her shrine is located in the highly unrelenting environment that is Poni Island, the fact that it surrounds itself with a dense fog full of danger, and the fact that the aforementioned shrine is called Ruins of Hope for a reason, it may be safe to say that Tapu Fini allows the environment to do much of the work when it comes to protecting her—much more than Tapu Bulu does, anyway.

bill no. dont touch the tentacled abomination of nature. go touch buzzwoles abs instead HOW IS IT SO RIPPED

That is legitimately a good question. I’m tempted to say the reason why it’s so well-toned is the same reason why machamp are, but machamp train in naturally rugged environments. We know so little about the Ultra Beasts’ home dimension that I can’t rightly say that buzzwole’s physique can be credited entirely to it without knowing for certain what that terrain is like.

Hmm. Maybe I should create a portal to the other dimension, just to see.

Bill, there is a really good reason why this is a bad idea. Her name is Lusamine, and her very nice and somehow not traumatized daughter is staying in your laboratory-slash-cottage right now. —LH

Woah there Bill. It’s best not to go messing around with Nihilego. Their toxins don’t just cause odd behavior, they turn your wants and desires up to eleven, usually making you evil as a bonus. Under the influence of these toxins, you might create a PC system for people! You could become the leader of an evil team and force the other PC mods to help you take over the world! YOU COULD TURN YOURSELF INTO A CLEFABLE!!! These are all bad ideas. Listen to Lanette. Don’t mess with the ultra beasts.

Okay, but what if I found a way to turn myself into a clefable and back without any further assistance? Now that would be an interesting idea.

No, it wouldn’t. —LH

Hello Bill. I was under the impression that information on the UBs was classified by the international police. Do they know you’re doing dex entries on the ultra beasts?

Well, they didn’t have a problem with my entries on mewtwo or genesect. Nor did anyone else have a problem with my entries on the Elite Four and the Kanto and Johto gym leaders. Or the legendary pokémon.

…

…come to think of it, I do a lot of entries many people should be at minimum mildly upset about, haven’t I? I wonder why no one’s ever said anything.

I think it’s the same reason why you can go about your business without being kidnapped by the criminal organizations that keep coming into existence, despite the fact that you’ve built a matter-to-data converter, a method of storing physical objects and organisms on a cloud-based system, a literal teleporter, a device that merges and separates two completely different organisms, a handheld device that detects a trainer’s “battle-readiness” via technology that might as well be artificial telepathy, and a working time machine. —LH

To be fair, several of those things are actually the same invention. —Bill

…those people also run on the same kind of logic that drove you to think that was the point. —LH