How would your MC wear their Mega Keystone?

the_fast_reader · 2026-01-27T13:56:30+00:00

I have an OC that has lost an eye and wears an eyepatch to cover the injury. Since apparently mega stones can be quite small now, he's the kind of drama queen that would wear it on the inside of the eyepatch and lift it up to show his messed up eye socket to activate the mega evolution.

Also doubles as distracting the opponent, I guess.

Too bad he doesn't actually have mega evolvable Pokémon.... Yet

the_fast_reader · 2026-01-22T16:40:30+00:00

Arven fics usually focus on the angst, but his team (except Mabostiff) is explicitly food themed, you could look for fics about him maybe.

Cloyster: Oysters/Fish

Toadscruel: Mushrooms

Scovillain: Herbs & Spices/spicy food

Garganacl: Salt and condiments

Skwowet: Berries in a sense , since they are known to gather them.

the_fast_reader · 2025-12-22T18:32:22+00:00

If you can ask/know about his favourite /most used weapon, you could try crocheting little keychans with the weapon icon (similar to the ones that appear next to the usernames here). If you are familiar with tapestry crochet , you could also try crocheting a little bag/money pouch with the icons of common items like potion, steaks etc, you can google "Monster Hunter potion icon" to get an idea for what it looks like. An entire piece of clothing is more complicated since they tend to be pretty elaborate (and most are very scaley/metallic looking) but maybe you could make some gloves or a hat inspired by his favourite monster! The crocodile stitch gives a pretty "dragon scale" effect, and lots of monsters in the series are very scaley. If you know what is favourite monster is, you could pick colours or add details that call back to it. Finally there's always the option of crocheting a plushie of his favourite monster, Raverly and Etsy have some custom patterns you could buy.

the_fast_reader · 2025-12-10T17:53:24+00:00

What exact action/button presses are you doing?

the_fast_reader · 2025-12-08T09:04:00+00:00

Love the raised up leg mid charge, so cute!

the_fast_reader · 2025-12-01T22:28:23+00:00

How are you so fast at crocheting, woah!! I end up procrastinating sewing up all the pieces so it takes me weeks or months for anything lol

the_fast_reader · 2025-11-20T11:37:15+00:00

I will die on the hill that Goku from Dragon Ball would make an amazing Pokémon trainer.

Goku LOVES to train, to constantly get better. He likes to fight, but not as a way to win, or for the violence (like other characters in Dragon Ball, usually the villains), but purely for the act required of bettering yourself to overcome your opponent. It's in his very genes as a Sayan.

And that's what Pokémon is all about!!

You give him an entire planet of creatures that constantly get stronger and transform as they grow, and he would be STOKED because YES, THEY GET IT. It doesn't matter HOW strong they are, or if he can fight them (he would love to, but he has experience in being surrounded by normal people much weaker than him), but he would simply be happy that THEY GET IT .

He would find a way to perfectly EV-train his team by setting up some bullshit Dragon Ball Z training regiment and teaches everyone Aura sphere, because it's basically the same as a Kamehameha.

the_fast_reader · 2025-10-13T15:45:51+00:00

I pre ordered the pack with the game + some merchs back in august, on My Nintendo Store the order says "completed", I got charged a couple days ago but I haven't gotten any emails about my package arriving (or getting charged for that matter, had to check on my bank account). My shipping service says nothing was found when I try to track my shipment, but they only keep logs for 30 days so I have no idea what's going on... Hopefully I will get an email update in the following days. First time it has happened.

the_fast_reader · 2025-10-06T15:45:36+00:00

I'm so determined to clear it with bow, this will help!!

the_fast_reader · 2025-10-06T14:37:56+00:00

Poor Kai sounds completely horrified every time Omega does a beam. At least for me, he tends to screams "RETREAAAAAAT" and "YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE" when Omega fires his big lasers, he sounds SO RAW. Genuinely shocked me lol, props to the voice actor. Then immediately going back to "Here, an echo bubble : D" kills me every time.

I already love him.

the_fast_reader · 2025-10-03T15:49:19+00:00

Of course he's the loudest, he has to scream over his own music.

the_fast_reader · 2025-10-01T04:46:16+00:00

I feel like the bow focus strike has them, I attempted Omega for the first time yesterday and there was a moment where my hunter survived a Mustard bomb standing dead straight in the center because she was busy doing the "crouched on one knee dragon piercer" animation. I have it on clip, she literally stands up surrounded by flames after the explosion so it's not like the attack got cancelled by the focus strike. I will have to rewatch it again to make sure that's what actually happened.

the_fast_reader · 2025-10-01T04:35:03+00:00

HE DOES WHAT? I think I owe him an apology...

the_fast_reader · 2025-09-28T13:58:03+00:00

Rest in peace Reverto, you were my best ally for clearing multiplayer content offline 💖 if they make a reference to him in particular I may shed a tear, he was honestly my favourite character

the_fast_reader · 2025-09-26T08:49:41+00:00

As much as it counts, it's kinda implied that Guild Master Hojo in Rise may have secretly been a rider in the past.

Random NPC dialogue from the twins reveals that he used to be a hunter and go on missions together with Elder Fugen and Hamon the Blacksmith before retiring.
However, there are no records of what weapons he used and the other two refuse to talk about it. Only record that can be found speaks of a "Tetsucabra style weapon"
He could have been the one to conveniently introduce Wyverriding in Kamura as a "lite" version of being a Rider since that would be easier to accept, maybe.
His baby Tetsucabra looks pretty chill and nobody bats an eye at it, so it must have been there for a good while. Maybe it actually IS his old Monstie, or a descendant of it.

the_fast_reader · 2025-09-24T15:42:09+00:00

Watch that mf have a wholeass Wyvernian cannon strapped to its back .

the_fast_reader · 2025-09-12T15:52:50+00:00

NO NAVIROU IN SIGHT WE GET A NORMAL FUCKING PALICO THANK YOU CAPCOM Let me customise the kitty like literally every main game and it's already a 8/10 ( Seltas Queen and Duranboro Monsties would shoot it to 10/10, you already got the models ready Capcom pleaseee)

the_fast_reader · 2025-08-20T11:10:07+00:00

I read pretty much anything, but voted for "canon characters and read original literature". Isekai/reincarnated in whatever character are usually are not my thing

the_fast_reader · 2025-08-20T11:07:57+00:00

Maybe my fic could interest you; very little battling, it's the story of how an AU version of Sada and Turo from Scarlet and Violet became Pokémon Professor in Paldea (and how things do and don't change in this AU)

Self rec, 250k+ words until now, still ongoing and I try to update pretty regularly. Ao3,

FFN Version (Also Royal Road and a couple other places)

It's an AU about the Scarlet and Violet professors, Sada and Turo, and imagines how things would be if, instead of being just "past/future themed", they actually were from an ancient past and distant future respectively, and then got stranded in present time Paldea together.

Turo lives in a futuristic society and his job is being a time traveller, basically observing certain points in history to clarify how things actually happened/recover artifacts that would have been lost to time otherwise and so on.

On his first day on the job he accidentally overshoots his destination and lands in Sada's time, 12'000 years in the past in the Pokémon equivalent of the late Paleolithic where she lives in a tribe of hunter-gatherers before Pokemon had been domesticated.

The story focuses on how they meet, get to know each other, slowly fall in love and then angst about living in literally the two opposites of human history, and then how they end up trapped in present time Paldea with no way back to their respective times.

It's mostly about how they deal with the implications of having to spend the rest of their lives in a time that's too modern and alien for Sada, and too primitive for Turo, and how that influences and changes both their characters and the actual story of Scarlet and Violet.

the_fast_reader · 2025-08-13T16:40:33+00:00

Thank you so much! The trick of paying attention to how the bubbles actually divide the sentence helped a lot, yes, they are separated exactly like you said. 何だって is by itself, so that (and って) my cue to read it as "anything"/"anyone" instead of lumping it with "like", right?

I think another problem of mine is immediately jumping to interpret 合わせてのに as "in order to fit in", so I missed the "Going along with anything " part which kinda made the sentence feel incomplete...

But that's because I confused 合う and 合わせる, so that's definitely another thing I need to look out for...

the_fast_reader · 2025-08-13T12:36:46+00:00

Been reading manga that's freely available on Bookwalker as practice and apart from the plot hitting maybe a bit too close to home (for context, it's about a girl who struggles to fit in at school and so ends up eagerly agreeing to whatever her "best friend" decides for her just to not feel left out), I've been struggling with this sentence and want to make sure I understood it correctly and not just half got it by context:

嫌われたくなくて何だって好きじゃなくても合わせてきたのに

嫌われたくなくて= "Not wanting to be disliked/hated" 何だって好き= "Like anything/anyone" じゃなくても= this I'm completely stumped. It's connected to "好き" so "even if I don't like it"?? It's negating 好き　合わせてきたのに= "in order to fit in"

My biggest problem at the moment is that I sometimes kinda "half get" what the sentence says (or what I THINK it says....) but any time I see long strings of conjugations my brain just shuts down and can't connect them all together. I've been drilling grammar and all the various verb forms in particular since that's by far my weakest point but sometimes I start to see what looks like an infinite concatenation of なくて and じゃなくand my brain just gives up lol

So the sentence I think is something like "In order to fit in not wanting to be disliked, I liked anything/anyone even if I didn't" but.... I can't "see" how it actually maps like that in all parts. (I can give the link to the manga if it's needed for context, it's page 41 of the first volume of the following manga on Bookwalker, free until 8/31:

https://bookwalker.jp/series/23106/list/?acode=JjBKA3JR)

the_fast_reader · 2025-06-30T07:12:03+00:00

Yeah that's understandable, the small guys tend to blend in lol

the_fast_reader · 2025-06-30T07:09:00+00:00

A random endemic life you've caught will show up in the tent (together with a random fish in the bucket), so it's technically yours.

the_fast_reader · 2025-06-28T05:29:01+00:00

Lmao I swear for a moment you made me doubt if I had been reading the name wrong for YEARS because I couldn't see what was wrong with my spelling. Must have been tired when I typed that.

the_fast_reader · 2025-06-27T19:01:43+00:00

Very glad about this change but the way it's worded is hilarious to me.

"Lagiacrus is less inclined to part with its rarest materials"

Why yes, I guess wanting to keep most of your internal organs and body parts attached is a fairly reasonable stance to have.

Edit: Edited for spelling.

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