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Pokemon Poll Results! (Patreon)

Published:
2024-11-03 21:54:55
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2024-11

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Alright, everyone! I've had a little free time in the last couple of days, so I went ahead and closed down the Poll About Which Type of Vulpix to Give 2B. The results were extremely decisive from pretty much day 1 anyway. With 79% of the vote, the Alolan Vulpix flat out ran away with poll :-p. I've already gotten down about 3,000 words of another small update. This one will be two chapters, totaling maybe 5k total word count. A little more substantial than the previous one, but still only about a third of what poll-winner stories get.

Look forward to a bit more of 2B's pokemon adventure showing up sometime in the not-to-distant future. I can't promise exactly when, since I'm also already about 5,000 words into the next update of Halfway Broken as well. As the actual poll winner, that story obviously takes priority, and I'm only working on A Very Confused Pokemon Adventure in small snippets of time here and there as a result.

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Keht Jelicho

Looking forward to 2B and the vulpix meeting a wild Ninetail. Ninetails are shown to be able to make illusions capable of human speech, so wonder what they'll say/how they'll react to the variant vulpix/ninetails

Novus's Fanfiction Works
>>154258671

Huh. I didn't remember that little detail about the Ninetails until you mentioned it. On the other hand, the chances of running into a wild Ninetails on the Routes probably aren't very good. So they'd have to wander pretty far afield to even have a chance of running into one. Of course, wandering far afield is almost certainly in the cards, so its posisble...

Keht Jelicho
>>154258671

Yeah, I just couldn't figure how else 2B and/or her vulpix could even learn that was a possibility without meeting one. As far as making illusions/appearing human go, besides Zorua/Zoroark which is literally "the illusion pokemon", there is Ninetails and Froslass too. Pretty sure there are others, particularly if legendaries/mythic get included, but those three are the ones I remember (mainly because I'd want an Alolan Ice/Fairy Ninetails, the Ice/Ghost Froslass, and a Hisuian Normal/Ghost Zoroark- though potentially with a modern, Dark, Zorua which I go back and forth on.) Not sure if a zorua can have their illusions talk, I think a zoroark can, but I do remember that a zorua learning to make illusions frequently fails to hide their tail, so something similar for if Vulpix learns might be appropriate. Also a zorua/zoroark' illusion is supposed to be only visual I think/trying to touch it reveals the pokemon beneath? And a Froslass' illusion is more a mental influence type, at least when it shows up in the anime it "presents food" to Ash&Co that is later revealed to just be snow and ice- also I am not sure it ever spoke, but the lore for a froslass is that it was a human girl that got lost/trapped in Snowy mountains or something of the sort, so a bit of hand-wavery could have one able to speak. (Also, I really wish they would re-type Ninetails to be a fire/psychic after they made the alolan ice/Fairy, it would make a much better parallel and help explain the lore about mystical powers and ability to lay a curse that ninetails have- the alolan's having theirs based in fairy/aka fae magic, and the normal then having theirs based in psychic/aka "Esper" abilities. That's just a personal opinion/frustration/venting)

Novus's Fanfiction Works
>>154258671

Hmmm, the only example I can find of the Ninetales illusion speaking is the ancient one that spoke to Brock. Honestly, I suspect communication via telepathy abilities would come sooner, as both variants of Ninetales learn a small pool of Psychic moves. As for meeting a Ninetales, the Vulpix she's getting is the daughter of two of them ;-). Though that does bring up the interesting issue of where their illusions come from. There isn't a single move in their move pools that could explain it, and literally the only example of a Ninetales illusion I can find is that ancient one that took a liking to Brock. I assume the animation took liberties by drawing on stories of Kitsune. Which means I need to decide if they have that ability in my version or not. I'm leaning toward 'yes,' since illusions are fun to play with... As for the Pokedex entries? I pretty much consider all of them bullshit. Too many of them contradict reason, each other, or world lore. I essentially treat them as a 'interesting mythology facts.' In fact, I fully intend to adopt something I've seen in Hard Enough and a dozen other Fics, where the Pokedex has multiple settings for how scientific the data it provides is. With the default setting being 'interesting myths fit to entertain flighty teenagers and keep them from poking the dangerous pokemon' while a more accurate setting would produce things that actually make sense -_-.

Keht Jelicho
>>154258671

Eh, I like some of the "fluff" from pokedex entries, and things shown in the anime where pokemon do things that don't fit into the hard limits of "moves" from the games. Like, I know there is an anime episode/movie where a Dragonair makes the little cheek wings super large and flies faster, or the aforementioned Ninetales befriending Brock/having a speaking illusion, or any of a number of other examples. They serve to me as examples of just how much more there is to discover about pokemon/that they are Much More than just a battle pet, and that they can learn to do more than the same standardized basic movesets. In fact, the "standard movesets" I would have as pretty much solely a result of TM/TR/HM artificial Move Learning Methods. They impart a rigid, specific, defined way of performing an action. So, especially for those rarer wild pokemon in final evolutions, particularly when the evolution requires a stone, have managed to learn to use their powers/energies to accomplish feats that do not line up with any kind of specific move/attack as known in the games, that seems more realistic and entertaining. I think I once read a pokemon fic that had Moves that are recognized/allowed in League battles, but also "Abilities" or "Techniques" or some synonym for things pokemon could do that don't fall into the "moves" list.