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Post by Tarlar on Jan 10, 2024 5:00:20 GMT 11
Lei blinked and looked surprised at Alex, "Silver? I was talking about that guy I bought Budew of. I don't think Silver has many poison types, he has a zubat but I wouldn't call that many." She was thoughtful for a moment, "I find it very hard to imagine Silver letting any of his poekmon getting close," she mused. She certainly wasn't either, but she could imagine that other guy having some strange idea of exposing himself for their poison. She smirked when they once again misunderstood each other, "no no, Budew is named Budew, remember? But she is a roserade. I don't think her name sound feminine," if anything it wasn't really a name, "but she looks rather feminine, doesn't she? I would guess that some men find it hard to have something like that on their team, just like some females are afraid of being seen as masculine by having a primape," she explained.
The older trainer's eyebrows shot up when she saw the pokemon Alex casually brought out, he suddenly rose several steps on her mental ladder. "Impressive!" she said and had to fight herself to not stare hungrily at the shiny dustox, she had several herself and she suddenly wished she had brought something more noteworthy which could rival what Alex showed off. Reluctantly she had to admit to herself that she probably didn't have any pokemon which could rival his in strength, they looked awfully well trained and healthy. She of course had Dragomir but he wasn't exactly obeying her. Not that she would ever say that out loud.
"That's some... creative names," Lei said politely, as that was the best she could come up with. He at least had had some thoughts behind them, even though she found them weird. "I guess the wording Lodd comes from either lotad or lombre, as they sound similar?" she asked to avoid having to air her opinion on his names in general, although she could of course always just lie.
Her fishing pole gave a yank and all of Lei's attention returned to it, she fought a short battle and soon a lotad was pulled up from the water. "When you talk about the sun!" She laughed and glanced at the ludicolo. "Now Budew, it's time for you to show what you can! Giga Drain!" Lei called out, and Budew pranced forward and aimed her roses at the other part grass type.
Wordcount: 405 (ooc: Budew uses Giga Drain twice. Calculations looks right to me ^^ Updating my Rod level with +1 (now 8,5))
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Post by Tiki on Jan 14, 2024 21:50:31 GMT 11
"Oh! I am sorry, I mixed up the two people we were talking about..." Alex responded, disappointed at his own failure for easily mixing up the two. Then, he continued. "Yes, you said your Roserade is actuallt named Budew. As long as your Pokemon respond and like the name it was given, who cares what the seller named it before you had the Pokemon?" When she mentioned about female trainers not wanting Mankey line, he chuckled. "Primeape as too masculine? I am thinking more of the Machop line and then Sawk and Throh."Lei seemed delighted at his Pokemon and naming scheme, but he wasn't sure if she was just saying it politely and was thinking otherwise. "Thanks. I had two Wurmples when I started my journey. Now that they're quite trained, I don't want to drop them for like, tougher bug type Pokemon. I wouldn't think they would like that." Although when it came to his name scheme, Lei's response sounded really polite. He was expecting other people to find his naming schemes strange and weird, anyways. "I probably named Lodd after Lotad, despite I bonded with her as a Lombre." He smirked as he explained his silly naming idea. "What about you? How do you name your Pokemon? Not counting the Budew, of course. I've only seen your Bidoof, named Brune."Alex stopped talking as he was trying to remember if he had mentioned the sun, but certainly it wasn't when he was talking about his Pokemon's names! Conveniently, her fishing rod tugged and then she eventually pulled up a Lotad. The Roserade showed off her powerful Giga Drain, only to be met with the Lotad's weakling Water Gun. Budew didn't need to waste a lot energy to defeat the Lotad.
![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/roserade-f.png) Budew +3 levels and is now Level 16! +1 happiness, now +6! ![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/bw/hoothoot.png) Hoothoot +1 level from EXP share and is now Level 12! It can learn Reflect after deleting a move. lotad move tz2xRsCZp_1-4giga drain crit for the lol p_1-16 p_1-16ooc: didn't feel like rolling weather but it's winter/ cloudy for now 1-4·1-16·1-16
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Post by Tarlar on Jan 26, 2024 6:18:35 GMT 11
"It's alright, we all make mistakes," Lei said with a warm smile, internally she thought he was a bit dim but she wasn't going to let him know that. She sent him a weird look when he asked what the problem was, she looked over the lake for a moment as she tried to decide if it was worth trying to tell him. "I do care. Names are important and others will judge you on it," she said quietly, "if it was called roserade no problem, but Budew?" the roserade at her side tilted her head a bit and looked worried. Lei waved hand in the air, how did you explain someone about the expectations in the elite and that reputation was everything? If you became the laughing stock you would get nowhere and no-one would take you seriously. "I'm not some whacky poke-tuber who acts out to get attention, if I want to be taken seriously I need to think about how I present myself. You don't see Champions or gym leaders go around with pokemon who are not the best of the best." She looked darkly at Alex when he chuckled, "yes, primapes are too masculine, and so is machop and the others but they can be excused as a bodyguard. Mankey and primape are just too unruly and wild, a girl would be seen as a tomboy with one. If she wants to be that fine, but if she doesn't, then I just say good luck."
It took all Lei's willpower to not roll her eyes and groan loudly, Alex was one of those people, she should have guessed it, and partly already had to be honest which was why she had pretended to care about Budew and to see what she could do. She cleared her throat and put on a more cheerful tone, "well if you have worked a lot of them it would be a shame for all that to go to waste!" She looked at him with a mischievous smile, "I have a feeling you don't think your wurmples are weak at all."
The fisherwoman looked thoughtful as she tried to come up with an answer for her own naming but then got distracted when the lotad was pulled up, and Budew showed some great battling capabilities. "Impressive!" she said honestly and Budew grew several inches and was beaming with pride. "Let's see what else we can find down there!" She said as she sent the lure fly out over the water's surface once again. "Be ready Budew!" she ordered with a smile, Budew might not be fit for a battle with thousands of spectators and cameras running, but she might be useful elsewhere if she continued as promising as now.
"Right, you asked me about how I name pokemon," Lei said, "Brune is meant to be a gift for a friend, the name should mean brown and I thought it was fitting since she is very much down to earth," she smiled wryly. "The name depends a bit on what my plan for them is, for example I have a frosmoth, do you know that one? It's a bug and ice type, very pretty. I have bred it myself and therefore it has my breeder's name: Silverstone, and then I have named it Lapis Lazuli," she said with pride, she really liked that name. "I like names which fit them. Speaking of mankeys, the one I have I have named Fauda, that means chaos, pretty fitting right? And I have a dewpider, do you know that one? It's a water and bug type, they are basically a spider running on water, they hunt so I have called it Opochtli, which is the name of a hunting and fishing god." She smiled smugly.
Wordcount: 630 (ooc: fishing again, noting that only Budew is on the team now. Hoothoot forgets Tackle to learn Reflect, self updated) Whoops, "speaking of the sun" is the Danish version of "speaking of the devil" XD Didn't think further than just translating the expression.)
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Post by Tiki on Jan 27, 2024 20:59:38 GMT 11
Alex chuckled. "Haha, yes. However, if they're going to judge you for it, which means they'll likely underestimate you, and that's when you can surprise them, right?" He then thought about how to reply to the Budew's name problem. "Perhaps, if other people ask, you could just say that the name 'Budew' holds special memory to your Roserade? How are they going to know? They'll have to super smart and super rich to have a special machine to look into your Roserade's special memory!" His reply sounded outlandish and strange at the end. He shrugged at Lei's idea of how certain Pokemon species sounded. "Heh. I mean, there's female Machop and Mankey. I don't see why would it be considered tomboy. You can still crochet and sew and do feminine things?" He asked curiously, as he wasn't sure what would be the relationship between what Pokemon they have and how others view them as masculine or not. Alex smiled back at Lei's slight smile, wondering if she was genuine, since most people looked down on half of the bug type Pokemon, Silver included. He let out another shy chuckle. "Heh, well, they're not exactly known for their strength as a Bug type. They have their own weaknesses." Not just type weaknesses, their sort of mediocre stats. He watched as the fishing rod went into the water again, and listened to how she named her Pokemon. "Those are pretty great names! I have a Frosmoth too, but she's not as strong as my current Pokemon."-- since Galar Pokemon was recently introduced, he thought-- "Fauda and your Dewpider, I might mispronounce it if I tried it, sounds fitting too!" He smiled excitedly, although he didn't ask what language those words came from.
![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/lotad.png) A (Level 15) Lotad appeared! +1 to fishing level, now 9.5 Please double check then update it Yy5C4ke6p_1-100p_1-3p_1-42level range p_1-71-100·1-3·1-42·1-7
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Post by Tarlar on Jan 29, 2024 8:37:41 GMT 11
Lei wanted to facepalm, or perhaps smack Alex, as if she hadn't already thought of that! "That is of course true," she said pretending to be thoughtful, "I have taken opponents by surprise before." If she hadn't had such stupid name! "I will surely find some good use for it," she promised, it just wouldn't be on her main team, that would be too embarrassing. "I suppose," she said skeptically at Alex's suggestion about how she should explain how the name held a special memory to her. "But wouldn't it just start a long line of lies, where I have to remember what this special memory is?"Now Lei facepalmed, "you really don't get it, do you?" she said with a little chuckle. "See yourself lucky that you haven't had to worry about how others think of you, or how you want to present yourself."She looked at the young man, practically still a child in her eyes, wondering if she was able to get him to understand. "You know Whitney? Whitney likes to dress feminine and girlish, in pink and frills, surrounding herself with cute stuff and pokemon. A girl like that won't like to have a mankey around, as it would act wild and not cute and girlish, the gender of the pokemon won't change that. A mankey is wild and reckless no matter its gender. In the same way, someone who wants to look like a 'real' man," she did the air quotes, "wants pokemon who acts wild and outgoing and looks to be able to pack a punch, so something like.. flabébé would not be something they would be interested in, since it clashes with how they want to present themselves."She studied Alex to see if this made it more clear for him or not. "You like grass types, don't you? Wouldn't it feel weird to fill your team with, let's say ice types, and only use them on your main team?" She looked hopefully at him, that would make it clear, right? "Grass types? Grass types can be awesome under the right trainer, if it is the right pokemon," Lei said confidently. "A lurantis with Solar Blade? Then you're in for a tough fight!" She smiled confidently at some memories of that, said lurantis had been on her team. "Sunkern on the other hand will be hard to get very far, even if you evolve it," she pointed out as a matter of fact, which turned into a smug smile, "although even sunkern can do some impressive damage with a Bloom Doom," she eyed her roserade, "I'd love to see that z-move in the hands of this one though.""They are great pokemon, right? The frosmoth I man, I'm really glad I got my hands on one, even if it took some time to get it evolved." She smiled a chuckled, "yeah, that's why I call it Opo most of the time. I'm only using the full name when introducing it to important battles."Yet another lotad was pulled ashore, "seems like your pond is as popular among grass types as your garden," she chuckled and gestured for Budew to step forward. "Let me see your Petal Blizzard, and follow it up with a Giga Drain if it's still standing," she ordered as the roserade stepped forward and began whirling around herself. Wordcount: 559 (ooc: A bit tricky to follow your calculations when you haven't noted what roll is for what ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/2475952/images/j4x3M6WbsBpReeVALlIv.png) But from what I can see you have skipped rare all together and just rolled to see if I catch anything at all and then went straight to see if I got an uncommon or not? You know I can fish up things higher up than my rod level, right? Just a big(ger) chance they escape and I get nothing ^^ ) ~updated the fishing level
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Post by Tiki on Feb 2, 2024 17:46:34 GMT 11
The Roserade elegantly twirled and whirled as she unleashed a storm of petals. The Lotad was barely holding onto the surface as it was pelted with petals from all over. With its silver of health remaining, the Lotad let out a soft mist from its mouth to try to envelope the area, but it was quickly dispersed when the poison type finished it with a Giga Drain. The staggering Lotad ran away back into the pond.
Alex didn't realize he said the obvious thing to Lei, but he continued. "Well, you can just say the Budew was from a previous owner, so even you don't know what the memory was?" It wasn't like there's machine to read into the memory of a Pokemon or talk to Pokemon directly yet, and a Roserade wasn't one with telepathic powers anyways. He nodded as Lei explained, and perhaps he would understand better now her perspective. "I get what you are saying about how a Pokemon looks would affect others' perception. However, making it just a Pokemon's type would not make sense. The way I like grass and bug types have nothing to do with the presentation of how others see me." He paused. "Like, I am saying a Pokemon's typing don't exude masculine or feminine quality on its own.""Ha. I have neither Lurantis nor Sunkern. I think Lurantis was discovered recently, and I don't know if I have the capacity to train more Pokemon yet. Maybe another time. As for Sunkern, I don't even know where they live to catch one. Do you have either one of these Pokemon?" He laughed, at his own missing roster of grass type Pokemon, but he could only have so much time for his Pokemon. "I haven't used my Frosmoth in a battle yet. I am still thinking of what to name my Pokemon..." He trailed off, circling back to naming his Pokemon once again.
![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/roserade-f.png) Budew gained 2 levels and is now Level 18! +1 happiness now +7!
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Post by Tarlar on Feb 7, 2024 7:10:37 GMT 11
Lei really wanted to face-palm but Alex would probably be either confused or offended by that, which she didn't want to risk even if he wasn't a big name yet. She really needed the connections and circles she had been a part of back in Alola, it was tough to build everything down from the bottom, although it would certainly help when she had beaten some more gyms and proved that she was worth hanging around. Opportunities would arise. "That sounds terribly complicated, then I could just say that it was the former owner who had named it, but then they would question why I bought one with such weird name and we're back at square one," she said dryly. The former rich trainer just smile to Alex, "you might, but I can tell you that a lot of people do and will worry about such things. If you want to reach a certain audience you need to think about what signals you are sending," she explained and looked thoughtfully at the estate owner for a bit. "Let's say you want to make music for young girls who loves ponytas and mudbrays, if all your music are about the ocean and all your pokemon are fish, you'd have a hard time being a part of that crowd. There are groups and boxes with expectations whether you like it or not," she said with a wry smile. "What part of what I said made you think I was all about typing? Didn't I just mention both Lurantis and sunkern which are both grass types but of very different power level?" Lei asked kindly, "it was just an attempt to make it clear what I mean. You think that even if you want to be known as a grass type expert, then no one would find it strange that you only ever used ice types? Not just once in a while, but all the time and nothing else but ice types. Wouldn't people then expect you to know everything about ice types then?"She scratched her arm a bit, "I agree that a certain pokemon type isn't seen as more masculine or feminine, but some species of pokemon are, like gardevoir or chansey," she pointed out. This was kind of going in circles, wasn't it? "Discovered recently!" Lei exclaimed with a laugh, "now where I'm from! Lurantis is from my home region and is certainly not a newly discovery!"She smiled down to Budew who pranced over from having chased off the lotad, "well done," the words felt hollow as she wasn't used to praise her pokemon, it was her hard work which made the difference after all. "I have a fomantis which I'm going to evolve some day, sunkern I don't have any of," she said politely, leaving out the part that she wasn't going to waste her time on the latter. Useless pokemon. She didn't think much about Alex not commenting on the z-move, but to her it was something everyone knew about so why wouldn't he too? "Are you waiting to use them until you have named them?" Lei asked as she swung the lure out over the water again and watched it plop into the lake. Not that she expected to find much more interesting stuff here, perhaps it was time she found an excuse to leave? Wordcount: 559 (ooc: fishing again, probably the last time if I manage to catch something that is ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/2475952/images/j4x3M6WbsBpReeVALlIv.png) )
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Post by Tiki on Feb 11, 2024 19:15:41 GMT 11
Alex shrugged, "People don't have to know why you bought a Budew with such a strange name, but it's whatever." He will probably drop this topic now, unless the other party continued on with it. He let out a grumbled and nodded as the conversation seemed to be going in circles. He understood her points, but he wasn't going to continued on and on like he's an idiot. "I get the point you're trying to make, Lei." He spoke simply to also end the conversation. It's not really a conversation if both parties were circling around each other, is it? "Well, if you ever get the chance to evolve a Fomantis, let me know! I would like to see it in person and maybe in action too." He politely added his response, and smiled slyly. "More like I don't have any inspirations to name my Frosmoth now. Maybe one day..." He replied, and then watched Lei fished up something completely different up the shore. "Ooh! It's a Tympole! They're a rare find in this pond! Good job!" He cheered, and wasn't sure if this would be a Pokemon that this visitor would be excited about.
![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/bw/tympole.png) A (Level 17) Tympole was caught! +2 fishing level! Now 11.5 (update yourself?) I definitely didn't include tympole previously but now you got one! eeEK_1Ewp_1-42p_1-6hooking p_1-100reeling: p_1-100level p_1-7Level 17/2 = 9 9+ 10+ (10-9.5)= 19.5% to reel 1-42·1-6·1-100·1-100·1-7
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Post by Tarlar on Feb 22, 2024 4:42:39 GMT 11
Lei also decided to let the topic die out, Alex clearly didn't understand what troubles it gave having a strong pokemon with a silly name and if she tried to explain to him that they would be back at start: her opponents would wonder and laugh at that stupid name. Saying she had bought one, they would wonder why on earth she would buy someone with a name like that and not just find another one, she had money for it right? And if not she would have a hard time explained why she would have named it something like that herself. "That's true, but it won't be a problem anyway," she said with a smile, she didn't plan on using it in any battles where the name could be humiliating for her. It was a bit of a shame actually, since Budew had turned out to be much stronger than she had expected first she saw her.
The thirty year old shot Alex a quick glance when he grumbled and clearly cut off their conversation, perhaps not as elegantly as she had been taught but it was certainly effective. She wasn't quite sure what had made him had enough of the conversation, but perhaps he had just been frustrated about their conversation for some time and didn't know how guide it to his desired direction and this was the result. "Of course! I'm glad we're on the same page!" She said cheerfully to please him and sent him a smile. It was probably time to try end her visit here, she had gotten what she came for and while she could have stayed to continue training, she could just as well do that elsewhere, she wanted him to think positively about her after all.
"I will remember that!" She laughed and mentally noted to remember it to win a favor from him, perhaps he could later be interested in some grass types from Alola. "You are perhaps interested in a little battle against one at some point?" She asked innocently.
"I'm sure it will come to you," Lei said pleasantly, "you have managed to name all the others after all!" And, she thought to herself, he was obliviously free of any worries about what others thought about what he picked. She had to admit that must be kind of nice. "You have quite a collection in this garden!" Lei exclaimed as the tympole got pulled on land, "it would be a shame to take it away from the area I think, especially since I already got one." She gestured to Budew, "let me see your Petal Blizzard again," she said cheerfully, probably a bit of a overkill, but hopefulyl it should end this fast so that she didn't lay claim on Alex's time more than necessary.
Wordcount: 467 (ooc: Budew uses Petal Blizzard, twice if necessary. Exp share pokemon are not on this team ^^ Updated the Fishing level:)
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Post by Tiki on Feb 27, 2024 3:06:27 GMT 11
The Roserade kissed the rose petal on her hand and then jumped up. Then, she swirled and elegantly unleashed a flurry of petals that spun in the area like a storm. The poor Tympole was buried in a flurry of petals like a blizzard, minus the cold and unbearable temperature drop, and each and every little petals smacked the Tympole's body, like being slapped by multitudes of tiny smooth flier pieces. Its slightly over one feet tall body was pelted like there's no tomorrow, and then it fell unconscious as it slipped back into the pool. The area was now covered in a litter of tiny pink petals as the attacks completed, some floating on the water, some falling onto the soft grassy ground under. The scene looked like there was a mad clown parading with nothing to show but flower petals. Alex was starting to feel awkward with where the conversation was going, and was thinking of an excuse to go back to leave Lei alone. Maybe he had some chores to do or topics he needed to study tonight? "Whether it's battle a Fomantis or watch one battle, they're both good.""Heh, I don't mind you catching the Tympole, I am not their trainer. Maybe more like the area caretaker? I wouldn't say guardian either I am not here every day since I do go back out to travel for my trainer journey." Alex replied to her, shrugging as Lei catching Pokemon roaming in his shared estate wasn't his concern.
![](https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/roserade-f.png) Budew grew to Level 20! +1 Happiness, now +8!
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