>>44548214>Playing Pokerole, a Pokemon TRPG with the boys.>Solve fairy/grass vs. ghost/dark gang war with diplomacy and ancient relics in spooky forest.>Go to a town to get fairy gym badge before heading to next town for more gym badges.>Gym leader is a 7' tall buff, middle aged doctor with pink hair, super tough and hardcore but still gentle and kind, wanting to help Pokemon.>GM says his name is Dr. Joy This dude is probably the source of all Nurse Joys in setting and is, IMO, a great subversion of fairy=feminine. The GM's done a lotta work to move away from that trope, associating the type with mystical spirit magic for healing, illusions, and almost Celtic/Arthurian druid stuff rather than the usual "cuteness type". After multiple people getting kidnapped to be sacrificed, and one player almost getting instakilled by a Hatterene's G-Max Smite for speaking up in her court, our perception of the fairy type has been forever changed.
