Dear readers,
Thank you so much for your patience! Bill and I will be returning from our hiatus tonight with a brand-new series of entries. In honor of our friends in the Unova region, we are happy to announce the start of Unova Month, thirty-one days of Unova pokémon. That’s thirty-one straight days of pure Unovan content.
It was quite exciting to put Unova Month together, so we hope you enjoy. Please watch our feed this evening for the first of these entries.
—LH
Dear readers:
We apologize for the suddenness of this announcement, but we will be taking the next few days off in order to write a large batch of entries for our upcoming series. We will still happily take requests in the meantime.
Thank you for your patience. See you soon!
– LH
If we don’t count any pokémon my family collectively owned, my starter was a mudkip, which I had received at the age of ten from a newly instated Professor Birch. That mudkip eventually grew into a swampert, one of my closest friends, aside from my sister and the other administrators.
As for your second question, I own a modest collection.
— LH
She owns enough to fill a bed and several shelves. They’re quite literally everywhere in her house. —Bill
Yes. As I’ve said, a modest collection. —LH
Unfortunately no, anonymous, although I’ve certainly seen the effects of the Hoenn-based legendaries’ awakening. It’s rather difficult to ignore the abnormally torrential downpours or the excruciatingly bright sunlight. My poor berry plants suffered as a result of that.
Of course, it’s always been my dream to see one, but as a researcher and pokémon enthusiast myself, it’s merely logical that I would. That being said, contrary to what Bill would have you believe, I’m thoroughly convinced that the best legendaries to meet are from right here in the Hoenn region. I’m speaking, of course, of specifically Jirachi and the Lati twins. It’s hard to resist a legendary that can grant wishes or the mysteries of the guardian duo. Or perhaps a better answer might be Deoxys, whose origins as a mutated extraterrestrial virus make it particularly scientifically fascinating.
Then again, Sinnoh also hosts quite a number of interesting legendaries itself! Beings that control time and space, a dragon that occupies a completely separate dimension from our own, a fairy that gave us intelligence (although perhaps not Uxie, given that it also possess the power to erase a human’s memory…), the empress of dreams … it’s quite difficult to choose, I suppose.
On the other hand, perhaps Jirachi, when everything is said and done. After all, if it was possible to wish for anything, then it would stand to reason that one could simply wish for other legendaries to appear, wouldn’t you agree?
—LH
(…It seems I don’t have the heart to tell her this would be cheating. —Bill)
Hello, dearest readers. The editor here.
First, I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to all of you who read this blog. As you can tell, it’s never easy to edit my partner’s work, as he is … a bit of a free spirit, to put it politely. Because of this, my partner and I appreciate all of the activity we have been receiving on this blog, and as always, we thank you for the feedback.
That having been said, as we are quickly coming upon our six-month anniversary, we would like to do another series of entries, but this time, we hope to do something a little different. While it’s true that our ask box is always open, for our six-month anniversary, we would like to release as many reader-requested entries and answers as possible. Until then, please feel free to submit as many of your favorite pokémon or as many questions you have for either of us as possible. (You read that correctly, dearest readers: I will be available to answer all of your questions as well.)
Thank you again, and we look forward to hearing from you.
—LH
Well, seeing as I’m not allowed to tell you the story of what happened in Lavender Town, allow me to tell you another. Once, when we were scouting for an administrator for the storage system in Sunyshore City, Bill got drunk with two of the candidates. He proceeded to punch out one of them over an argument concerning the proper pronunciation of the term “tamato berry,” and the second candidate helped. We hired the second one. Her name is Bebe. As for the first, that candidate went on to become the city gym leader, and suffice to say, Bill isn’t exactly welcome back in Sunyshore anymore (even though two of the Elite Four members, including a friend of the candidate’s, thought the whole thing was hilarious). —LH
For the record, this is not how we met Bebe. —Bill
Yes, but it’s proper tea.
As in, not the kind in tea bags. The kind you pour into the cup, add boiling water to, stir, and serve with virtually no additives, unlike the style consumed by certain people in certain regions who prefer to throw it into the harbor. Or worse—serve it with milk.
Editorial Note: On behalf of the writing and editorial staff, we would like to extend our apologies for Bill’s tone in this response. This is what an entire childhood of tea ceremonies with tourists will do to an impressionable youth. I am certain it was somehow horrifying. —LH
Technical difficulties. Please stand by.
We apologize for the inconvenience. For those curious, the robotic turtwig burst into flames upon its initial test run, and I am now allowed to comment on its lack of practicality. —LH
Technical difficulties. Please stand by.
We apologize for the inconvenience. The robotic turtwig is evidently a portable poké ball transporter, and I am not allowed to deride him for attempting to create it until the prototype is complete. —LH
Technical difficulties. Please stand by.
We apologize for the inconvenience. Bill will be back just as soon as he learns how time management works. He also adds that he understands perfectly how time management works, to which I must respond by reminding him that he has spent the past three hours attempting to build a robotic turtwig in lieu of working on his pokédex’s database. —LH
The Pokédex According to Bill 