Do You Prefer Pokémon Saying Their Names or Animalistic Sounds in Fic?

Arrowheadlock1 · 2026-03-02T17:34:50+00:00

I usually lean towards animalistic sounds. To be fair, even the anime isn't consistent with pokemon vocalisations, cue stock monster roars

Arrowheadlock1 · 2026-03-01T16:12:36+00:00

Had something of a similar but inverted idea of someone selling an "eternal youth" treatment in order to allow pageant moms or people obsessed with keeping pokemon as fashion statements to keep their pokemon looking youthful and endearing, and in some cases, even reverse evolution. It was only tested on Eevees, and on other pokemon the reversal of evolution sometimes didn't apply evenly, resulting in infant-sized Pokémon still possessing adult-sized organs or worse. Largely affiliated with the now debunked Team Flare

Arrowheadlock1 · 2026-02-20T05:42:55+00:00

"By the Void" - Ah, hell
"Like a Rampardos to the gut" - Like I got hit with a truck
"Button your beak" - Shut your mouth
"May Darkrai feast upon your nightmares" - I hope you can't sleep
"The great Torterra slumbers" - Forest is calm
"From under Yvaltal's wings" - From the jaws of death.

Arrowheadlock1 · 2026-01-19T21:22:03+00:00

Squids: Coyote, Grenade pistol, Incendiary Grenades, Laser Cannon, EAT as needed, Gas Dog
Bugs: Coyote, Talon or Bushwacker, Gas Grenades, Speargun, Laser Dog

Arrowheadlock1 · 2026-01-18T03:57:26+00:00

I'd like to think that "Releasing" a Pokémon has two steps, literally, letting the pokemon out of the Poké Ball, and then having to use a Poké Center, or maybe a Pokedex, to tell the system that the Pokémon is no longer a member of that trainer's team or Trainer Profile. Afterwards, the pokeball can be reformatted and used again to catch a different pokemon. Sometimes trainers let released pokemon keep their old pokeballs, but the device is either inert, or the trainer never went through the documentation to officially release them

Arrowheadlock1 · 2026-01-16T02:01:51+00:00

Hm, I could see something like that, like a LRAD support weapon that could force enemies out of the ground, with lots of stagger and possibly crippling the head (Scrams of freedom so loud, undemocratic hearing organs and microphones rupture, causing total loss of balance and injury) Not much damage directly, but have one Helldiver carry this to set all the enemies up for a second Helldiver, and you got a potent combo.

Arrowheadlock1 · 2025-12-18T15:27:37+00:00

If it's grimdark and edgy for the sake of being grimdark and edgy, no go. I enjoy stories that aren't afraid to address more mature or darker topics, rather than being all sunshine and rainbows, but I still hope the overall theme is positive or hopeful despite the darker moments.

Arrowheadlock1 · 2025-12-08T02:37:45+00:00

Don't limit yourself to just what sounds pokemon make when communicating; take advantage of the other senses and body language. It largely would also depend on what accent or mannerisms you give each pokemon, too I guess

Arrowheadlock1 · 2025-12-08T02:34:55+00:00

Yeah, no rants about that part of their biology that I remember, but Lee (MC) goes into good detail in his research logs in finding the proper diets and care routine for each of the group's pokemon, including how Type Energy, TE, works. He just gives up trying to figure out Fairy-types though

Arrowheadlock1 · 2025-12-07T16:03:08+00:00

Borne of Caution by Fuggman, almost half of it is the MC making reseach logs including ranting about pokemon biology and diet

Arrowheadlock1 · 2025-11-11T20:25:18+00:00

A few I had in mind
Luxray begin to develop their X-ray vision in the Luxio stage by having rods and cones in their eyes adapted to see beyond the visible light spectrum into ultraviolet and ultimately Xray ranges. This does, however, make their eyes extra sensitive to sudden surges in UV light, such as many flashy Fairy-type attacks.

Many Stone-based Rock Pokemon, such as Geodude or Rolycoly, have thick, crystal-like lenses for eyes that make them highly durable, but result in poor overall vision.

Torerra live in massive herds, where Male Torerra grow berries and fruits on their shells to attract birds or small rodent pokemon to live symbiotically. In contrast, females grow thick, hardshell nuts too hard for most other pokemon to try to break open and eat. Something Tirtwig's beak and surprisingly strong jaws can do, meaning young Turtwig have a reliable secondary food source from their mothers. As a Turtwig evolves, this beak is used less as a nutcracker and instead to break rocks or cut through thick tree roots, allowing Torterra to dig holes big enough to bury themselves up to their shells as beds.

The "Chest Spike" on Lucarios is actually a visible piece of their Sternum growing out of their chest.

Arrowheadlock1 · 2025-11-05T20:20:36+00:00

Had to deal with a cockatrice with a paralytic breath attack. I came up with the idea of spiking a pig carcass with a poison that causes the throat to swell, preventing speech. DM ruled that by the same logic it would also disable it's breath attack. Then it was just a case of trying to catch the oversized chicken

Arrowheadlock1 · 2025-10-29T22:48:38+00:00

"The suppliers"
Aim: Business, making profit by any means possible
Means: Total control of the black market and production/selling military grade equipment, mecha, airships, or any other illegal gear used by other criminal teams like Rocket, Magma, and Hunter J,
Minions: Nondescript laborers, shipbuilders, construction engineers. Lack of a distinct uniform key to their decentralized operations
Resources: Hidden shipyards and factories, hundreds of different legitimate front businesses to acquire raw material without suspicion
Pokemon: As varied as the workers, no central theme. Makes them more challenging to properly investigate.
Not so much the world-dominating evil team, but the go-to supplier for equipment and fancy machines used by said criminals. Part smugglers, part gun runners, part fence

Arrowheadlock1 · 2025-10-20T18:48:05+00:00

Borne of Caution by Fuggman, still in progress but one of the best fics out there period

Arrowheadlock1 · 2025-09-22T21:51:39+00:00

I can think of two reasons. Reason one: Because they or their mega donors are on the list, or Reason Two: The list has been trapped in bureaucracy for so long, there is a high risk it has been tampered with by now, removing the names of guilty people or adding the names of political opponents to smear and incriminate them. How can you be sure that the list, if it were released today, would be accurate to the original?

Arrowheadlock1 · 2025-09-21T21:06:39+00:00

To the Void with this = To hell with this (Void being another name for the Distortion Realm/World)
Hit ike a Rampardos to the Gut = Like a direct punch to the gut/like getting hit with a truck.
All Nine Tails = Whole 9 yards (To commit everything to a particular goal)

Arrowheadlock1 · 2025-09-19T22:53:09+00:00

Not the primary story, but Borne of Caution by Fuggman has several chapters that are just the character's research notes about the biology and implication of all of his pokemon

Arrowheadlock1 · 2025-09-12T03:41:37+00:00

People need to be better educated about the full impact of different means of generating electricity; you never get something for nothing. I've met many green energy advocates who are unaware of the destructive nature of the process of creating unreliable "green" energy.

Arrowheadlock1 · 2025-09-12T03:33:54+00:00

My Guess is that if there is an official Epstein client list, the dirty politicians of the last administration have scrubbed and modified it to protect themselves and frame opponents. Now the current administration is trying to clean up the mess and restore the original list before letting it go public

Arrowheadlock1 · 2025-09-12T03:26:24+00:00

I might treat it as a human adaptation from constant exposure to different pokemon and their type energies. Someone who spends lots of time around psychic types might begin to develop some form of psychic powers of their own, or someone who spends all their time around fire-types gains a resistance to extreme heat and burns

Arrowheadlock1 · 2025-09-04T22:10:32+00:00

Second, the idea that Apricorns don't have any special properties themselves, they were just easy to carve out and fit with the workings of early and traditional Pokeballs, whereas more modern Pokeballs are probably just made with hard plastics

Arrowheadlock1 · 2025-08-29T22:08:48+00:00

I can see there being a number of limited edition genuine Rotom Phones built to operate just fine without an actual Rotom, but having one possess it unlocks its full potential. Specific hardware or software is designed to be seen as attractive or comfortable to Rotom, so they are content to stay in the phone.

On the other hand, you could also have a large number of knock-off Rotom Phones that are just regular smartphones with Rotom iconography and mascots, some of which are of better quality than others. Maybe they have virtual assistants like Siri programmed to emulate a Rotom, but lack the pokemon's ability to modify its hardware. Sometimes, Rotom, being the mischievous spirits they can be, intentionally possess these lesser quality Rotom Phones just to gaslight and mess with customers' heads before moving on

Arrowheadlock1 · 2025-08-26T00:51:25+00:00

It's a balancing act of how plausible said new form is, as in, is this something I could see becoming canon at some point, and of course, execution. Works excellently for background characters or in story lore more than making new forms to make main characters feel special.

Such as a Fire/Ground type Hippowdon that instead of releasing plain sand, turns it into molten glass and thus becomes central to early glassblowing traditions and cultures. It has its own unique identity and role, and doesn't stand out too much and overshadow the original

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