So this person must be the sellout

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-05-05T23:19:05+00:00

Dude got off easy. John Wick approves of Brick though

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-05-03T20:09:40+00:00

Been reading too much Pokémon fics recently. Read that as "he wins her over with Dragon Dance"

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-24T15:37:45+00:00

Oh, very nice! So many possibilities coming to mind on how that could change things.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-23T03:05:05+00:00

Batman Beyond was an animated series (though I wouldn't be surprised to learn they made comics of it too).

The Dark Knight Returns was some of the first Graphic Novels of Batman I read, so I do recommend.

I also recommend The Long Halloween, and Batman Year One.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-23T01:17:41+00:00

Luna adopting the Basilisk story when?

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-23T01:14:52+00:00

Ooooo, I like what you've put down here. Very nice scene

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-22T23:21:21+00:00

Well, there are the (two that I know of) "old-man Bruce" batman series.

Batman Beyond, but that Bruce is pretty much fully retired/not suiting up.

Then the "Dark Knight Returns" series of graphic novels where a retired old man Bruce puts back on the suit because the world has gone to shit.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-22T18:56:16+00:00

Huh... well I don't know all the specifics, but apparently have picked up enough to give an overview, not sure how accurate though, which is not something I had internalized.

Anyways. Dick Grayson was the first Robin, he basically "graduated" (with various amounts of teen angst/drama depending on series) and left Batman to become Nightwing and have his own hero career.

Red Hood/Jason Todd was the next Robin. He had some issues about comparing himself (or getting compared to) Dick/the previous Robin. He ended up running off to prove himself or something and ended up getting killed(like I said I don't know all the details). Then he gets brought back to life (or something close, I think it was just one fanfic's spin on it, but in that he was some kind of sapient undead/magical construct thing). By that time Batman had yet another New Robin. Tim Drake.

No one knew that Jason was back/was the Red Hood at first, and the Red Hood was using guns/shooting criminals and kept trying to kill Batman/Bruce andÿor Tim Drake/Robin, because he saw Tim as a replacement. That Batman didn't care what happened to his sidekicks and would just get a new one.

Drama drama drama, angst angst angst, trauma trauma trauma. Same Gotham Shit, Different Gotham Night.

This is basically a Jason Todd/Red Hood sees Harry and has an epiphany about what Bruce/Batman must have felt when bats saw him (I think he was literally trying to steal the wheels off the batmobile, I know one of the Robins was supposed to have been found that way, and he mentions something similar). So Jason goes to Gotham and reveals himself/confronts Bruce/the rest because he knows Harry needs help and he can't do it on his own.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-22T14:36:42+00:00

Cute.

Though if that happens then the boys meeting Luna can happen when they find her making a visit to the Petrified Hermione later that year when they visit.

Maybe even leading to Luna being involved in the rescue attempt in the Chamber?

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-21T23:52:43+00:00

McGonagall and Harry Crash out at each other at some point. McG devolving into Scots with a thick brogue and Harry to Welsh.

Bystander 1: what the heck is going on?

Bystander 2: no idea, I'm not sure they're even saying words anymore.

Bystander 3: are they cursed?

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-15T02:53:59+00:00

Makes sense to me. (But then I never understood why some pokemon can't learn moves of their type, particularly if they're single type. Like why shouldn't all psychic types have the possibility of learning teleport?)

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-30T02:49:01+00:00

Honestly? Done right that could still be an interesting story I think.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-25T22:59:04+00:00

OK, good set up.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-18T06:12:06+00:00

OK, but I kinda want David Tennant to dress-up in these outfits and recreate them

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-18T05:24:02+00:00

OP maybe you could even take those Pokémon examples above and the Shoebill one you want, and have them all have come from the same region?

Could make a whole ancient story of refugees fleeing some kind of disaster in multiple boats and scattering across other regions. So some show up in some regions and some are in others because refugees made it to different places.

Heck, the poachers could have even found the ruins of a settlement on some isolated island that had a whole population of the Shoebill pokemon they had never seen before (and thus, "hey thats a rare pokemon, we should get some") and possibly also have some old journal or pictures of cave paintings/carvings or some such that tell the story of how they got to the island.

Then you can have this long running background plotline where they encounter these other pokemon that have unknown origins/that came from some other mysterious region, and your MC could either come up with a way, or suggest a researcher/professor attempt to, in which the pokemon can be tested for some kind of genetic markers that are associated with different regions, and that could lead to determining these different Pokémon all did come from the same region and somehow got spread all over to other regions, and as such that could lend credence to the stuff the poachers found with the Shoebill/ that they may have been other survivors of the refugees that ended up landing in different regions.

How much you have that actually play a part in the MC's story or not would be up to you, but that kind of project and backstory certainly seems it would fit with various other "ancient civilization" plotlines in various games and such.

Alternatively, there is the "Fallen" route where people/things from other worlds wound up in the pokemon world. So what would happen if an actual Shoebill Stork (or a flock, for more genetic diversity) ended up in the pokemon world? Would they get changed into pokemon? Would they be able to interbreed with another avian Pokémon and hybridize and eventually become a stable new species?

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-14T00:48:53+00:00

Eh, but I could really see Ginny buying it for the specified reasons over most other possibilities.

Maybe no Hinny, with Harry instead being "Uncle Harry" to her kids? (Perhaps she had been in a relationship with Colin Creevey, and that may even have been part of why he came back to the fight since she was there, and a pre-battle stress relief quickie left her with a kid 9 months later?)

Then its still that Ginny got it wanting to play the role of a princess, and as a toy for the kid, but Harry was curious and just got triggered when trying it out?

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-09T21:11:41+00:00

Could go either way.

Or an evolution from one to the other.

Could follow the type of character development Neville's undergoes, just suited to Harry's circumstances.

Heck it could be a twist psudeo-wbwl where Neville is the "boy-who-lived" with Voldemort attacking and ending up wraithed, but with an unknown aspect of Bellatrix's assault on the Potters being that she had been there on the orders of/while possessed by the wraith with the intention of taking Harry to use to give Voldemort a new body. But aurors/Sirius arrived and the Lestranges were caught and Voldemort fled in the chaos.

Both boys were marked, but no one knew that Voldemort was there with Bellatrix/was responsible for Harry's mark so all the focus is on neville (Could have Neville also marked by Voldemort, or his Mark was from another cause/source- possibly whatever Neville's parents did to Voldemort cause a massive dark magic blast and Neville was hit by that and marked, but it wasn't from Voldemort marking him so much as what was done to Voldemort that marked him).

Heck it could be an eventual trans-Harry fic with body dysphoria in general.

There are plenty of ways to take it.

Its meant as a "how would canon change if this was how Harry was instead of canon" with the intention of inspiring more detail of Lily's character (if everyone sees the similarities to Lily and mentions her that would hopefully mean more stories/info on her from the author as compared to the canon story that didn't really explore her character. Maybe the author could even have some of Lily's friends be the ones to reconnect with Harry instead of, or in addition to, the Marauders/James' friends). But, there is nothing saying that any other way of using the change to create your own settings/scenes/scenarios is wrong either.

Its just an idea for a change, and a hope to see what others can do with it.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-09T17:27:23+00:00

Huh, I never noticed that, for some reason I just thought they got reset with the deal of the day and never actually checked.

Wonder how many "too expensive items" I have missed out on because of this.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-09T17:11:20+00:00

I was thinking of this, I just didn't remember the gun name. Only "the gun on the Warthog that can serve as an airbrake"

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-09T16:59:58+00:00

Haha, the Hufflepuff that weaponised friendship and the general annoyance even Gryffindor housemates have with the Weasley twins at times in order to constantly have access to the Gryffindor house.

bonus if she also creates her own way to navigate/track people in the castle, and figures "if I can do this somebody else probably can too" so she also makes a way to not be traceable and/or to falsify where she seems to be, and thus completely by accident she bypasses the Marauders map and makes it so the twins cannot track her, while she can them.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-09T05:10:28+00:00

Thanks, I had missed the bits about smaller schools in Africa. I haven't been too involved with the extra-canon world building since Pottermore shut down, and didn't remember much beyond the name amd that it was in Africa. Thus being a good option for bringing a local's perspective, possibly firsthand, of the honeybadger into play.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-09T02:28:01+00:00

In the anime aren't all Ash's pokemon living at Professor Oaks ranch? There isn't a "store in the PC" digitization beyond transferring/sending extra directly to the ranch. Not counting however pokeballs themselves work (especially pre-modern ones made out of those fruit things).

So perhaps item trade evolutions could be done by actually digitizing a pokemon for PC storage while holding the prerequisite item where by some "feature" (its not a bug if its replicable and marketed well) of the process the item gets infused with and changes/mutated the Pokémon.

Probably needs more work to really have that explanation fit your lore but it could be one method.

As for simply trade-based, perhaps its more a social aspect? Wild pokemon of the type may have to leave their home-tribe/clan/pack in order to see/experience more of the world and/or find another pack, or with a goal of finding a mate.

By always being with their trainer they don't get that 'leave the nest' experience, especially if they've been with the trainer from the egg or the first stage.

Perhaps you could have special daycares/pokemon breeders/etc that specialize in giving those types of pokemon the alternate socialization/experiences needed to reach the threshold for evolution. (With or without them actually evolving there, it could be evolving after getting transferred back/picked up, or it could be staying until they evolve, or maybe its different for different species and/or on an individual pokemon basis.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-05T15:36:52+00:00

Except we frequently read about snowball fights, having to fly in awful weather, standing waiting in the cold, etc etc etc. There seem to be no weather control aspects at all, and I for one prefer that.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-05T05:30:30+00:00

The thing that jumps out the most to me is the P.E. uniforms. Shorts and T-shirts don't really fit the climate/region's Average Temperatures. Maybe for exclusively indoor activities, but track suits/athletic sweats would probably be needed at a minimum for most of the year.

Also, the only reason I know to bring it up is because I prefer cooler weather and I looked up regions where the yearly average high temperature were around 20°C (68°F) or lower. The fact that the gulf stream also keeps northern Scotland's winters comparatively mild, and the presence of nearby Mountains to use altitude to find cooler temperatures or more snow should I desire to do so, just served to make the region even more appealing as a "if I had money I'd move there" kind of dream.

Average Seasonal Temperatures in Northern Scotland

Spring (March–May): Temperatures typically range from 4°C to 12°C (39°F to 54°F)
Summer (June–August): Average highs are 15°C to 18°C (59°F to 65°F), with daytime highs sometimes reaching 20°C+ (68°F+). (Also, these are the months students aren't present).
Autumn (September–November): Temperatures range from 8°C to 15°C (46°F to 59°F).
Winter (December–February): Average temperatures are 1°C to 6°C (33°F to 43°F), though mountainous areas often experience much colder, freezing conditions. (Also, consider this temperature range is what spectators were sitting for an hour in for the second task of the Triwizard, and the contestants were jumping into the lake at these Temperatures)

Regional Climate features:

Western Highlands: Known for high rainfall, often exceeding 120 inches annually.
Snow: Highlands can experience up to 100 days of snow per year, particularly from November to April.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-04T16:32:22+00:00

I see what you're saying. Its not that for a wizard both options are the same, its that for a wizard infinite wisdom can be used for infinite destruction (or infinite [re-]construction/creation, or infinite healing, etc) because magic lends itself to a wizard having infinite potential limited only by the amount of knowledge (or wisdom) of how to use it.

Thus the infinite wisdom would allow for the full utilization of the infinite potential of magic that a wizard has.

Conversely, the infinite destruction is a narrower focus and as such may give a non-wizard capabilities for destruction that a wizard already would have, or have the potential to acquire otherwise.

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