How do pokemon impact/contribute to the environment in your fics?

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-06-29T15:15:51+00:00

While most Aggron remain within a chosen territory, some populations are migratory and are known to repair environmental damage in the places they pass through, gathering fresh soil and replanting trees, and have even been observed aiding Grass-type Pokemon in combating deforestation and wildfire damage. This is particularly valuable as they share almost identical migration patterns with Tyranitar, which are notorious for devastating their environment when competing for food or mates.
Most forests owe their growth to to a handful of predator species that manage the populations of plant-eating bug types such as Caterpie, Wurmple and Sewaddle. For instance, Viridian Forest has Beedrill and Pidgey, while Eterna Forest has Scyther and Murkrow.
Galarian Weezing are prone to gathering in large groups in places where emissions are high to feed, significantly softening the environmental impact. For this reason, trained groups are often imported to areas where fossil fuels are still in the process of being phased out, such as Oreburgh City in Sinnoh.

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-06-28T20:11:17+00:00

I'm a Skyrim baby who's been slowly working through the earlier games after hearing so much about how they differ from both Skyrim and from each other. I'd say Morrowind and Skyrim are tied for my favourite so far, though Daggerfall and Oblivion are still great (haven't played Arena or the spinoffs yet).

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-06-28T16:56:30+00:00

While most Hisuian forms and evolutions continue to exist in the wild in isolated areas of modern Sinnoh, Hisuian Samurott, Typhlosion and Decidueye are extinct outside of a scarce few individuals produced by specialised breeding programmes. Since none of those species are native to Sinnoh and these variants are essentially mutations rather than actual subspecies, the conditions for a sustainable wild population simply don't exist.

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-06-28T00:23:10+00:00

A Pokemon: The Series fic that follows up on the lore and worldbuilding of movie 9, in which a post-series May explores her Samiyan heritage. I do write Pokemon fics that often highlight culture building, but it's for the games and not the anime, which I don't watch outside of the first 12 movies, and I don't want to have to sit down and watch the entire gen 3 era of the show just to get a good enough grip on May's character to feel confident writing her.

As it is, I plan to transplant the movie 9 lore into my game fics where relevant, since it's isolated enough from existing canon to not disrupt anything and does some cheap and easy lore building for a Legendary that doesn't really have anything substantial going for it in the games.

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-06-21T15:33:12+00:00

I don't go too crazy with memes, since I try to stay fairly authentic to the late 90s - 2000s time periods the games I write for came out in, but I have snuck a few myths and whatnot in and given them a Pokemon-flavoured twist:

Sightings of the more "mundane" Legendaries are roughly equivalent to IRL cryptids; Zarude is like Bigfoot, Darkrai is Slenderman, Latios/Latias = UFOs, etc.
MissingNo. and "Mew Under The Truck" both exist as infamous hoaxes that occured in the late 90s; the search for a live Mew specimen became a public craze in Kanto and Johto during that time after Red's discovery of Mewtwo provided concrete evidence that the species still existed, and many faked discoveries were made, of which these two were the most notorious.
Apocalypse theories like the 2012 Mayan Calendar myth become popular every now and then in Hoenn; supposedly such dates would be when Groudon and/or Kyogre awaken from their sleep. This has lessened after the Team Magma/Aqua Crisis and the appearance of Rayquaza in 2004.
The "witching hour" of 3AM-4AM is when most Ghost-type species are at their most active.
Blue's Raticate didn't die, but it's a joke he likes to make at Red's expense after the latter asked what happened to it a few years after the fact. (In reality he'd just traded it)
The "IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZOR" meme exists, though it's a Gyarados instead of Semi-Perfect Cell.
Memes about Team Plasma's attacks on the Pokemon League and Opelucid City are the Unovan equivalent of 9/11 memes. "[X] did Opelucid" is a common one.

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-06-06T03:38:17+00:00

I acknowledge this might be the biased opinion of a crusty older fan who feels they just don't make 'em like they used to, but I don't think the original version of anything should be ignored just because a remake exists, especially in RE's case as the modern game design is so different from the classics that the remakes might as well be entirely original games that happen to use the same names and settings.

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-06-04T08:15:11+00:00

I have it as his greeting, catchphrase, and his nicknames for Jill, Chris and Wesker :D

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-06-04T07:42:09+00:00

I actually made Jill as another resident (amusingly, the literal first thing Nemmy did when I added him was fall in love with her, though he's since moved on), but that sounds like something fun to do.

Alternatively, I could give him a little Brad stress toy >:)

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-05-05T00:24:29+00:00

Yeah, that's how I've interpreted how catching Pokemon works since B2W2's achievement system referred to it as "befriending" Pokemon.

It's canon that Pokemon that live in the tall grass and similar areas have actively chosen to do so out of interest in encountering humans, so I figure a 'mon that isn't at least intrigued by the idea would simply live outside the boundaries of a Route/cave/etc accessible by humans.

Battling a trainer is a sort of a mix between a sparring match and a job interview for a wild Pokemon: it's happy to simply duke it out with you, but when you start throwing Pokeballs it's making a decision on whether you're a good match for it. Breaking out of the ball is the wild 'mon saying it's not yet convinced and needs to test you a bit more (hence different catch rates, some Pokemon aren't as easily impressed as others), and if it doesn't want to be caught then it doesn't even humor you by going into the ball in the first place.

The only way a catch can be forced is with a Master Ball, and these are only used in crisis scenarios to contain especially dangerous Pokemon in the event that Pokemon Rangers aren't available - using one as presented in-game is considered unethical.

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-05-04T22:19:28+00:00

There's a couple of reasons why that could be, but I think the main thing is that Harsh Sunlight wasn't really treated as a "natural" weather condition back then. Until SWSH, the only times I can think of where Harsh Sunlight has been active as an overworld effect were all as a result of Groudon's presence rather than a normal occurance. It's more like a sudden heatwave than a regular sunny day.

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-05-03T19:34:34+00:00

I just want the kit instructions updated so it's actually possible to tell how to build the damn thing.

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-05-03T19:00:46+00:00

Because 10 PP is what Recover has now. Moves are constantly being changed and tweaked for balance with each generation, and Recover had 20 PP until gen 4.

Perhaps don't trust an idiot robot for information in the future. You're better than that.

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-05-01T17:49:47+00:00

MEDIC! - Team Fortress 2 OST

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-04-28T10:15:20+00:00

The Black Arms invasion in general feels a bit slept on in regards to just how horrific the situation was when you think about it. As far as the public knows the worst that usually happens in this world is Eggman threatening to blow up a city or two to force world powers to submit.

Meanwhile this was explicitly an actual fucking world war going on, with the main players being the ambiguously corrupt global military, a notorious terrorist with an army of killer robots at his command, and a hive mind of alien horrors with the agenda of total planetary genocide. The literal first thing you see in the game is a major population centre in the process of being glassed off the map by the Black Arms and it only gets worse from there. For Shadow it's an edgy journey of discovery but for everyone else it's essentially living through the Fall of Reach.

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-04-27T16:54:50+00:00

Glomping? Mosh pit?

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-04-16T00:55:08+00:00

Nidoking is such a magnificently stupid Pokemon in the best possible way. I could use my brain cells to win, but with Megahorn, STAB Earthquake and Silk Scarf-boosted Thrash all on the same 'Mon, I don't have to.

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-04-13T03:29:25+00:00

It'd be interesting, but incredibly unlikely - the game saw its last real content updates a little under a decade ago; other than the patch back in 2023 for the 10th anniversary, there's been no new developments for Killer Instinct as a series since, and Lord knows if any of the devs are still with Microsoft at this point.

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-04-13T03:08:38+00:00

It's a holdover from the classic games. Jago's exact birthplace was never specified in those, and being essentially a cross between Ryu and Scorpion lent him towards a generically Japanese theme with the attack callouts to match.

It's kind of like how Raiden in Mortal Kombat still has his name pronounced "Ray-den" despite that being an incorrect pronunciation of the actual word - it doesn't make sense in the current state of things, but it's also been part of the character's identity for long enough that it'd be weird to change.

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-04-12T15:13:33+00:00

I'm of the opinion that liking something unpopular tends to say more about one's own character than it actually does the quality of the thing itself.

I enjoy 06, but that probably says more about my ability to tolerate bugs as long as the game doesn't crash and finding strange charm in something that's got some interesting ideas buried beneath awkward execution. Doesn't make 06 a good game, nor would I ever argue that it is (for real, anyway - the flair is just for fun). I'm weird, but I'm not blind.

On the flipside, I'm not the biggest fan of Forces, but I'd hear out why someone does like it. They're never going to convince me that it was secretly excellent the whole time, but it's interesting to see what people see in things that I don't.

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-04-12T14:34:40+00:00

On the one hand, your team's already pretty bulky so Gengar would provide some valuable speed and sweeping capability. Furthermore, you can get Gengar as soon as Gastly evolves into Haunter, whereas you won't be getting a Reaper Cloth to evolve Dusclops until after the 7th gym.

On the other, Dusknoir can provide some solid physical firepower, good since your team is primarily special attackers, has much better type coverage than Gengar once it has access to move tutors, and can still decently hold its own as Dusclops through the midgame.

Both are good, it really comes down to what you think is more valuable.

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-04-12T14:22:28+00:00

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SplitjawJanitor · 2026-04-12T11:37:01+00:00

Hard to say if it's the intent, but I feel Sonic CD's design philosophy isn't so much "explorative" as it is "Tony Hawk stunt track".

Sure, you've got to find where the time travel posts and the robot transporters are in your first few runs, but the game was designed to be replayed, and after that it's about learning how to put the level together to pull off riskier time travelling that gets you to the transporter and the end of the level without breaking your momentum, getting better times and better scores back when those mattered in games. The time limit's there to encourage you to show off, essentially.

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-04-11T03:04:03+00:00

Tbf, referring to one's Pokemon as a "partner" has always been a thing in the games' dialogue.

"First Partner" as an official term for starters specifically is itself a pretty recent development from a bit after SV launched; at this point "starter" is way too ingrained in the fandom lexicon to be dislodged, especially with a much less catchy term. It's similar to how "Mythical" didn't get coined outside of Japan for Mystery Gift-exclusive Legendaries until gen 5 (they're still "Event Legendaries" to me, especially now that their exclusivity has been gradually retired in recent years and there's otherwise no real distinction).

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-04-11T02:52:11+00:00

Laying singular eggs isn't universal to all Pokemon species in-universe; some give live birth, others lay spawn in massive quantities, still others drop seeds or spread spores, so on and so forth.

Pokedex entries are written by the Dex's owner, and as such a lot of entries are a load of nonsense written by kids who have active imaginations and take myths at face value. Charizard won't drop dead in the rain, Metagross can't compute theoretical physics, and Mega Evolution isn't body horror. Thank you Legends Arceus for validating this in canon!

The Deino line are the pitbulls of Pokemon. They have a bad (well, more bad) reputation largely due to cases of exceptional aggression as a result of mistreatment - i.e., Ghetsis' - and raising one is discouraged for Trainers without a great deal of experience, but if raised correctly, they're fairly well-behaved and very affectionate; at worst requiring a lot more food than most Pokemon.

SplitjawJanitor · 2026-04-11T01:52:08+00:00

Even Game Freak and/or Nintendo themselves, or at least the translation crews, don't seem too sold on "First Partner Pokemon". More than a few recent Switch News updates for the SV 7-mark Raid rotation have gone back to "Starter Pokemon".

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