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Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 00:14:56 No.58709286 View View Reply Original Report

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Army Mink Edition
Continuing the 'I Woke up as a Pokemon, So What?' AU
Previous Thread: >>58662080

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Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 00:18:36 No.58709295 Report

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>FAQ
>What is this?
People are turning into Pokemon. Some are having the time of their lives, and some are struggling to survive. These are their stories.
>How do I join?
Just start posting.
>What's the lore?
People and animals (and at least one tree) are changing at random in their sleep, waking up still in the real world, but now as Pokemon, and nobody knows why (that includes you. Please don't try to explain it). Just enough transformations are occurring to notably change day-to-day life without collapsing civilization. This is not the apocalypse, even if it might feel like it to some characters in the moment. Some people are more in touch with their instincts than others, and some have lost more of their humanity than others. That's about it. Avoid legendaries if possible

Ongoing Stories:
>Transformed Into a Lucario
https://pastebin.com/dNfCG4se
>Herding Cats
https://rentry.org/HerdingCats
>Copanon the PokeWhisperer and other stories
https://rentry.co/PolicemanPokemonStory
>Super Macho Mon
https://rentry.co/MachampStory
>Digigirl
https://pastebin.com/rvUJh1Vd
>Professor Decidueye by ProfD
https://rentry.co/ProfD
>VetPhox
https://rentry.co/DelphoxStory
>Serpent and Wyrm by Snivyanon
https://rentry.co/SerpentAndWyrm
>A Loser and a Very Lost Snowpix by Drifteranon
https://rentry.org/tcab223e
>The New Police Animals by Snivyanon
https://rentry.co/larsonkurt
>Kartanimator
https://rentry.co/kartanimator
>The Pokemon Pit by ProfD
https://rentry.co/r7aa9bzy
>Churchanon
https://rentry.org/cb24k1ti
>Swiss Army Mienshao
https://rentry.co/whipping-back-into-action/
>Drifteranon's one-shots
https://pastebin.com/4K9M6uJ2
>Other one-shots
https://pastebin.com/UtXMsyyD
>One-shots that were too spicy for pastebin
https://rentry.co/wokeuponeshots

Archived stories:
>0332
https://pastebin.com/WMdqhP8H
>Tinkanon
https://rentry.co/TinkatonStory
>Not a Pikachu
https://rentry.co/notapikachu
>Lopunanon
https://pastebin.com/ecBem3sz

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 00:31:43 No.58709339 Report

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>thread theme
If I knew how much walking I'd be doing, I would be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usQ5_u7myic

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 01:43:37 No.58709516 Report

Quoted By: >>58710064 >>58710252 >>58710487 >>58710623 >>58711458

I had this finished earlier but wanted to wait for a new thread so it didn't get buried
https://rentry.org/cb24k1ti

And I got a lot of helpful replies to my last post. I don't think I have the time to respond to everything individually so some cliff notes

Isaac having a "Pokemon companion" doesn't sit right with me. I'm not sure why, I just don't see it working well. Kayden is good enough for the time being.

I was surprised to see how many people didn't outright say that him turning into a Pokemon would be terrible for the story. I still don't see it happening in the foreseeable future but I guess I won't dismiss the idea when the well of ideas has fully dried up.

And also in regards to that litwick character. There is a reason I never wrote that story. While the concept was interesting there was really nothing for me to do with it. A graveyard just isn't a good setting for a story in the long run and the character itself was pretty two dimensional. At best, I could reuse it for a future encounter here, but I kind of doubt it.

I don't remember if I posted about it last thread, but I am incredibly happy that there's a new herding cats chapter. That was the story that really made me want to write here. I don't find it as dark or grim as other people here, but seeing the shift in his perspective from chapter 4 escalate further was interesting. We'll see how real that decidueye ends up being.

And now Europeans exist in this world. Crazy lore development, who knows what impact this will have on the thread. I've heard Japan mentioned a few times offhand but I haven't seen many other countries mentioned so having a story centered around the swiss cheese army is exciting.

I saw mentions of a discord in the last thread. I've no desire to join anything like that but I hope that turns out well if that's what people decide to do

Snivyanon

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Snivyanon Mon 08 Dec 2025 03:44:34 No.58709821 Report

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>>58697474
>Kurt got comfortable on the couch, draping his tail over the back of the sofa and gently resting his bad arm atop one of the throw pillows.
>He grabbed the remote and flicked the TV on. The familiar blare of a whistle and roar of a crowd filled the room.
>Football. The universal background noise of Thanksgiving.
>"So," Kurt called out over the commentary, watching the Chiefs line up for a field goal, “Anything interesting happen while I was stuck in purgatory?”
>"Sthame ol, sthame ol," Larson replied from the stove, lisping around the box of premade stuffing in his mouth as he poured it into a pan. He spat the empty cardboard into the trash before continuing.
>”Nothing exciting. Long days, longer reports. Luckily it's been sort of a quiet, standard week. You would’ve been bored to tears. Don’t know how you stomached doing these forms by yourself, stuff’s a pain.”
>Kurt waved him off with his good hand. “Eh, they’re whatever. Wouldn’t take me that long to do ‘em, but you know I love to procrastinate.”
>”Well maybe with me helping you out with them from now on, we can avoid it all piling up at the end.”
>Kurt laughed. “Oh yeah? I’d like to see you type with those murder mittens of yours.”
>”He’s using a voice-to-text software I recommended,” Emma piped up while stirring the mix into the boiling chicken broth. “Seems to be doing the trick for the most part!”
>”So now I’ll be pulling my weight, no more excuses from either of us.” Larson added.
>”Ok, ok, message received. I can sense I won’t win any arguments today,” Kurt sighed, his focus pulled away from the game and towards the two. “What about you Emma? Get up to any nerd stuff?”
>Emma huffed. ”Nah, honestly same as Lars here, boring work week. Hate my manager, but nothing new there.”
>She was floating plates and cutlery from the cupboard to the small dining table, arranging them with a symmetric precision only a psychic type could pull off.

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Snivyanon Mon 08 Dec 2025 03:50:29 No.58709830 Report

Quoted By: >>58709831 >>58710569

>>58697143
>Kurt got comfortable on the couch, draping his tail over the back of the sofa and resting his bad arm atop one of the throw pillows.
>He grabbed the remote and flicked the TV on. The familiar blare of a whistle and the roar of a crowd filled the room.
>Football. The universal background noise of Thanksgiving.
>"So," Kurt called out over the commentary, watching the Chiefs line up for a field goal, “Anything interesting this week while I was stuck in purgatory?”
>"Sthame ol, sthame ol," Larson replied from the stove, lisping around the box of premade stuffing in his mouth as he poured it into a pan. He spat the empty box into the trash before continuing.
>”Nothing exciting. Long days, longer reports. Luckily it's been sort of a quiet, standard week. You would’ve been bored to tears. Don’t know how you stomached doing these forms by yourself, stuff’s a pain.”
>Kurt waved him off with his good hand. “Eh, they’re whatever. Wouldn’t take me that long to do ‘em, but you know I love to procrastinate.”
>”Well maybe with me helping you out with them from now on, we can avoid it all piling up at the end.”
>Kurt laughed. “Oh yeah? I’d like to see you type with those murder mittens of yours.”
>”He’s using a voice-to-text software I recommended,” Emma piped up while stirring the mix into the boiling chicken broth. “Seems to be doing the trick for the most part!”
>”So now I’ll be pulling my weight, no more excuses from either of us.” Larson added.
>”Ok, ok, message received. I can sense I won’t win any arguments today,” Kurt sighed, his focus pulled away from the game and towards the two. “What about you Emma? Get up to any nerd stuff?”
>Emma huffed. ”Nah, honestly same as Lars here, boring work week. Hate my manager, but nothing new there.”
>She was floating plates and cutlery from the cupboard to the small dining table, arranging them with a symmetric precision only a psychic type could pull off.

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Snivyanon Mon 08 Dec 2025 03:51:39 No.58709831 Report

Quoted By: >>58709839 >>58710569

>>58709830
>"We went out to that brewery you two like the other night, though," Emma added. “Just to get out of the house for a little bit.”
>Larson moved to the sink to drain the green beans, passing behind Emma.
>She leaned back into him for a split second, her tail giving a tiny, involuntary twitch that curled the tip around Larson’s leg before letting go.
>Kurt didn’t miss Larson’s fur bristling the way it did whenever he got embarrassed.
>”...Oh yeah? How was it?” He asked, eyebrow raised and struggling to keep a grin from growing on his face.
>”Crowded,” Larson grunted, placing the empty pot by the sink before the strainer with the green beans was outlined with a blue hue and transported to the table. “...But good. Good drinks.”
>”Wasn’t the only thing that was good,” Emma impishly teased, bumping him on the side in time with a loud cheer from the TV.
>Larson was wide eyed and looking in every direction that wasn’t Emma or Kurt. “You’re evil,” Kurt thought he heard the Luxray mutter to the pink cat.
>“Almost ready!” he announced after clearing his throat. “Stuffing should be done in five-ish minutes, everything else is good to go. Hopefully the mashed potatoes aren’t too lumpy.”
>"They look fine," Emma assured him. She floated the gravy boat over to the table, then turned her attention to the centerpiece, the honey glazed ham.
>Her gem glinted as she took it out of the oven and unwrapped the foil, the crinkling sound sharp in the warm air. "I can handle getting all the food over to the table if you want to grab the drinks?" she asked Larson.
>”On it.” he replied, nudging the fridge open.
>Emma trotted around the table, organizing the main dish and the sides onto the table and double checking for anything missing before she froze. Her ears shot up straight.
>”Oh! Almost completely forgot!”
>"Forgot what?" Larson asked, emerging from the fridge with a six-pack of beers hooked on one claw.

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Snivyanon Mon 08 Dec 2025 03:54:47 No.58709839 Report

Quoted By: >>58709842 >>58710569

>>58709831
>”You know, the thing! One sec!” She darted, her paws thudding softly against the carpet as she sprinted up the stairs, presumably towards Larson’s room.
>Kurt craned his neck, watching Larson set the drinks down. "What’s got her all fired up?"
>"A gift. No clue what it is though," Larson shrugged. "She's been vibrating with this secret all week and didn’t want me spoiling the surprise."
>Kurt hummed, standing up from the couch and walking over to Larson. He placed his hand on the Luxray’s shoulder. Larson froze.
>”So. How long?”
>Larson looked confused. “How long what?”
>”You know, you and Emma. Together. Being all lovey-dovey. You’re real bad at hiding this kind of stuff, and she’s not doing you any favors.”
>Larson groaned. “...Uh. Since the night at the brewery. Like, two days,” he mumbled, ears swiveling back.
>Kurt gave him a firm slap on the back in congratulations before whipping his phone out from his jacket, typing up a storm. “Finally! I’m both am and not surprised it took this long. Happy for ya!”
>”Uh, thanks. Sorry, I wanted to mention it but, didn’t want to upset you for some reason? Not that I thought you would, you know I hate awkward situations.”
>”Well I’ve been rootin’ for ya to finally find someone! We’ve been friends for, what, almost two decades? Unless you completely changed yourself up for some girl, I wouldn’t get mad,” Kurt replied, punctuated by the sound of a sent text message. “Plus you made me like, fifty bucks, so that’s cool.”
>Larson looked up at Kurt, brows furrowed. “The hell do you mean by that?”
>Kurt let him connect the dots. A moment later Larson gasped, “Oh my god, you were betting on us?!”
>Kurt chuckled as he pocketed his phone. “Yup. Brandon and I were betting on when you were gonna finally ask Emma out. It was totally obvious it was gonna happen. He said before New Years, I said before December. Knew you had it in ya! You guys bang yet?”

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Snivyanon Mon 08 Dec 2025 03:55:55 No.58709842 Report

Quoted By: >>58709850 >>58710569

>>58709839
>Larson flushed, fur bristling and sparking as he whirled around at the laughing Inteleon. His response died in his throat as he heard Emma trotting back down the stairs.
>She skidded to a stop next to Kurt, a large, soft-looking bundle wrapped in festive paper levitating just above her head.
>"Happy Get Well Soon slash early Christmas present but not your actual Christmas present-present!" she beamed, sitting back on her haunches, her tail sweeping the floor excitedly.
>Kurt looked at the package, then at her. "You didn't have to get me anything, Emma."
>"I didn't get it, I made it! Open it! I want to see how it looks."
>Kurt grasped the package and walked over to a clear space on the counter, awkwardly tearing at the paper with his one hand. Larson padded over and sat beside Emma to watch.
>As the paper fell away, Kurt pulled out a massive, heavy-knit scarf. It was a deep forest green, thick and chunky, but the inside was lined with an incredibly soft thermal fleece.
>"I figured the cold’s been hitting you pretty hard," Emma explained, wringing her paws together slightly, “And I know you mentioned that wearing heavier clothing bothers you, so I figured this might help! I used some leftover thermal fabric from a cosplay I did last year. It should lock in body heat super well."
>Kurt blinked, staring at the bundle in his hand. He carefully looped the scarf over his head.
>It settled around his neck like a warm hug, instantly cutting the draft he hadn’t realized was still tickling his throat.
>He looked down at the Espeon, his yellow eyes softening. "This is perfect. Seriously. I was freezing my tail off."
>"I can make a tail-sock too, if you want!" Emma offered eagerly.
>Larson chuckled, reaching down to nuzzle his chin between Emma’s ears. “All that skullduggery for some fashion. Seems like it's a hit though. Good job.”
>Emma leaned her head back into Larson’s, eyes closing as she purred, pleased with herself.

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Snivyanon Mon 08 Dec 2025 03:57:57 No.58709850 Report

Quoted By: >>58709852 >>58710569

>>58709842
>The meal was a clumsy, yet snug and perfect affair.
>Emma used her telekinesis to slice the ham, floating wedges of meat onto everyone’s plates.
>Despite being down one arm, Kurt managed best he could, offering to help pass out the sides while Emma was preoccupied.
>Larson, not having the pressure to maintain an image in public, simply lowered his muzzle to his plate, eating with enthusiastic, predatory gusto.
>The trio quieted down as they followed Larson’s lead and attacked their plates, broken up by the occasional chatter from someone with a mouth half-full of potatoes.
>Emma had to hold a small telekinetic hold to wipe a smudge of gravy off Larson’s cheek with a napkin.
>Larson didn't even flinch; he just leaned into it, his tail giving a slow, contented thump against Emma’s chair leg.
>The sight made Kurt coo a soft ‘aww’. He checked his phone under the table, seeing the notification that he was begrudgingly sent the prize money.
>The festivities were interrupted as a certain red and blue schizoid floated down the hall.
>”Well well well, look who finally decided to come out of their cave. Glad you could pause your game for an hour to come visit!” Emma teased as Porygon-Z peeked around the corner at the table.
>Kurt’s eyes instantly locked with it. Porygon froze stock still. Kurt placed his fork down, making the ‘I’m watching you’ gesture and giving it the stink eye.
>Expressionless as always, it still gave an aura of slight fear as it slowly floated backwards out of sight.
>Larson snorted. “A little rude. Probably deserved.”
>”Oh, there’s going to be a LONG chat between it and me later,” Kurt hissed with venom, turning back around to finish his meal.
>By the time the last of the ham was gone, the post Thanksgiving meal lethargy was already starting to set in, hitting the trio harder than any previous year.
>Maybe being a pokemon amplified the instinct to gorge and then immediately hibernate.

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Snivyanon Mon 08 Dec 2025 03:59:20 No.58709852 Report

Quoted By: >>58709863 >>58710569

>>58709850
>They did their best tidying up, with Kurt placing any leftovers in tupperware containers while Emma floated all the dishes into the sink.
>Larson stared at the mountainous pile of dirty dishes in the sink, his ears drooping. "I think this is the one case where we get to procrastinate and let future us handle it."
>"Future Emma agrees," the Espeon yawned, stretching down on her front legs until a satisfying pop from her spine. "Future Emma thinks present Emma needs to be horizontal before she falls asleep standing up."
>"I'm not arguing," Kurt said, clutching his stomach with his good hand. He was already tired coming back home, now he was ready to fall into a twenty-four hour coma.
>They migrated to the living room like a slow moving herd. The largely ignored football game was still droning on in the background, the soft roar of the crowd serving as white noise.
>Larson bypassed the furniture entirely, collapsing onto the thick rug in the center of the room with a groan that was half-lion, half-old-man, sprawling out on his side.
>Emma curled up almost instantly, fitting herself into the curve of his chest, resting her head on his front paws.
>”Do the thing,” she murmured to Larson. Emma purred as the larger cat obliged and began to warm up his fur.
>Kurt settled back down in his previous spot on the couch, glancing out the window of the living room. Small flurries of snow were gently falling. It wasn’t cold enough for them to stick, but the sight was still pretty.
>”Not gonna join us? It's so nice and warm and cozy down here, you’re missing out,” Emma called up to the Inteleon.
>”Ehh, three’s a crowd.” Kurt waved her off, “I’m comfy up here. Don’t want to interrupt the lovebirds.”
>One of Larson’s eyes cracked open, a low, insistent rumble in his throat. “Don’t be a loner. The poke-pack’s gotta stick together, or whatever cringe shit you called it.”

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Snivyanon Mon 08 Dec 2025 04:03:08 No.58709863 Report

Quoted By: >>58709869 >>58709894 >>58710064 >>58710252 >>58710569 >>58711458 >>58717177

>>58709852
>A blue aura surrounded a throw pillow and moved it down to the floor, positioning it right against Larson’s back. “Come on dummy, I know you said you had literal cold feet when you came in, and hey, it's pretty warm down here,” Emma mumbled sleepily, not opening her eyes.
>Kurt hesitated for another second, looking at the invitation, awkwardly pulling the scarf tighter around his neck as he bit his lip in thought.
>”Screw it, it does look warm,” Kurt sighed, defeated. “But if you shock me, I’m suing.”
>Kurt lowered his long, lanky frame onto the rug, settling against the pillow Emma leaned against Larson’s back. The warmth was instant and heavenly.
>Larson shifted slightly, adjusting to the added weight, and let out a contented exhale. “Comfy?”
>"Shut up," Kurt grunted, but failed to keep the smile from his tone of voice. He closed his eyes, finally truly relaxing. "Happy Thanksgiving, you freaks."
>"Happy Thanksgiving, lizard brain," Emma purred.
>Within minutes, the only sounds in the townhouse was the commercial-interrupted game commentary on the TV, the flurries gently tapping against the window, and synchronized breathing of three very full, very content pokemon.

https://rentry.co/larsonkurt#thanksgiving-special

Finally done with the last part, definitely escalated well past the expected size but, at this point that's to be expected from me. Hope you guys enjoyed! I'm planning on doing some sort of new years episode, and might try to get out some smaller scale stuff this month, time permitting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 04:05:48 No.58709869 Report

Quoted By: >>58710623

>>58709863
Emma's a sweetheart and Larson's a bro. 10/10, couldn't ask for better friends.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 04:15:39 No.58709894 Report

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>>58709863
I can’t take it. My heart is melting. Thank you anon.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 05:15:28 No.58710035 Report

Quoted By: >>58710038 >>58717177

>>58688517
>"How're you feeling...?" I hear her ask.
>Some shuffling. Guess Amaro's moving out of the way...
>She and pap are standing at the edge of my bed now...
...denrut I retfa emit tsrif eht rof em gniees er'uoy woh si siht yrroS<
>Luckily, my phone's still by my side to translate...
>"Oh come on, that's not the thing to be thinking about right now. You're holding up alright, aren't you? Suzannine here told us a friend of hers would heal you. Did she?" Asks my dad.
>"Well, my body doesn't hurt that much anymore so I think she did..." I say, and the phone translates.
>Mom's getting close, I think she's-
>"Wait, please be careful! D-don't touch me, I don't want you to get cut!" I need to exclaim before it's too late.
>She... almost looks hurt by me saying that alone. Dang.
>"I... I understand, wouldn't want a paper cut right? Have had enough of those at the editorial... Well, can I... at least pet you someway...?" She hesitates to ask.
>Man, I...
>...
>I always make sure to hug mom and dad whenever I see them.
>It's... nice.
>But now, I...
>...
>Shouldn't even think of that.
>Kartana's pettable in the games, right?
>Just... gotta do it from the front and make sure you don't run your fingers along the edges.
>Maybe if I softe-
>"Is... this ok?" Mom says as she carefully places her hand on me.
>It's... warm.
>I hadn't realized how cold I felt even with the blanket on me.
>It's... nice.
>Before I realize it, I wrap my arms around her hand, making sure to dull my edges as best as I can, and curving them away from her hand.
>I missed this.
>I can see her smile.
>Even if I don't have a face, I feel like... she can see me smiling, too.
>"Thank you." Is all I can muster.
>Pap gets closer too. He carefully puts his hand on top too. I make sure my blade doesn't cut him either.
>Couldn't have asked for better parents.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 05:17:04 No.58710038 Report

Quoted By: >>58710041

>>58710035
>"What happened? Suzannine told us that Amaro picked you up in pretty bad shape and... something about a fight...? Did... well, were you assaulted by someone?" He asks. He's... always been very forward, but he cares a lot.
>"Y-yeah, I was... making my way home after visiting Amaro and Suzannine for dinner when this... I think you 2 don't know the name of the Pokemon he was, it's one that has swords for arms. He just... appeared in the middle of the road. I couldn't even tell when he showed up..." I say, hesitantly...
>"Doesn't seem like he was trying to rob you at least" pipes in Amaro "that bag of yours seemed to have all your belongings when I picked it up."
>"We told you to be careful out there... But at least Amaro managed to get to you before things got worse." Says mom, lightly scolding me before giving Amaro an eternally grateful look.
>...Mom carefully leans in to give me a kiss on... well, where my forehead would be.
>"I'm... sorry we can't be of more help," she adds after she backs off "just know that we're here for you in case anything happens..."
>"We reported your case to the police so they can be on the lookout. They've been very busy as of late so they handed us a form to give the desk lady once you're making your way out of the hospital. Can you still write, or do you need help?" Pap's always thinking ahead.
>"I... should be able to do it alright. I think... I feel better now." ...and I wouldn't want to stay in the hospital longer than necessary... "C-can you get your hands off me so I can get up...?"
>The 2 of them hastily back up and I try pushing myself up.
>The cool part about levitating being how you move is that you can still get up even if your legs would bend at the effort.
>At least I think it's a bit cool.
>"There we go..." I say, as I feel pap lightly pat me on the back once I'm the air.
>"Always knew you were strong." He says before turning to the couple who'd helped me out through this. "We... really can't thank you enough."

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Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 05:18:06 No.58710041 Report

Quoted By: >>58710045

>>58710038
>Amaro briefly shakes his wing dismissively.
>"I-it's nothing! If anything I feel bad for not checking up on Cruz sooner, but at least things didn't get any worse. Suz already checked how much the bill would be, we already covered half of it, at least it wasn't much for just the overnight stay given Ren's help. It's the least we could do, he did get jumped after coming to eat with us after all..." He says, more apologetic than he has any right to be.
>Come on dude, you saved my life, you really don't need to go overboard like this.
>Mom gives him a hug, and then Suzannine. Very much deserved.
>"Seriously, thanks for your care. We'll... handle him from here." She turns to me. "We'll... Give you a ride home, is that alright?"
>It's always nice seeing her smile.
>I nod.
>Amaro blinks a couple of times.
>"Oh wait, we never told you what the doctor said! Apparently, even if you were pretty beat up, from what he could see... You're not really hurt at any deeper level, I guess everything's skin-deep when you're paper-thin huh? He said that despite the fact it seemed like you'd suffered a lot of blunt-force trauma, there was no noticeable lasting impact. He said, and I quote, 'it's like there was some sort of barrier at a subcutaneous level that forcibly stopped any damage that could've been lethal from going deep enough'. Also said he couldn't really give you any painkillers given a lot of them are still under research in terms of how they react to Pokemon biology, but given the damages, it seemed like something motrin could aid in. It was him who told us to ask around for a Pokemon friend who could heal since that was likely the best result. And so far, it does seem to have helped at least! Look at yourself!" Amaro finishes recalling as he points to me.
>On a second look...
>All the scars I had a minute ago are gone.
>"Pokemon healing seems great huh?" He says with a peppy tone.
>Mom and pap look at me again, as surprised as I am.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 05:19:22 No.58710045 Report

Quoted By: >>58710252 >>58710487 >>58710623 >>58711458 >>58745647

>>58710041
>"Actually, I think you can learn some healing for yourself Cruz." Chimes in Suzannine.
>"Was looking up stuff about 'Kartana' on this WikiDex site, apparently you can learn something called 'Synthesis' to heal yourself, and it even works when there's no sun out! Even if not as well... oh, and when the sun's harsh out you can heal even better!" She's scrolling through her phone. I did forget Kartana could do that. But I don't want to think too hard right now...
>"T-that sounds amazing!" My mom adds. "Are there any tutors or... someone that teaches Pokemovements or something like that to help?"
>"He just woke up from getting attacked in the street, don't mortify him like that, let him take a break." Pap says as he pats her back.
>"Right, right, just... needs to rest after that. Still, thank you so so much for your help you 2. We'll make it back to you, promise." Mom says.
>"Again, it's nothing! Just glad he's ok now... If you don't mind, Suz and I will be headed out now that we're here, it's about time my class starts and I need to drop her off at her barre session..."
>"Of course! Please take care, and thanks again!" Mom says as she waves the couple goodbye.
>"So. Do you want us to take you home already or do you want to stay here for a while?" Asks my dear father.
>"I... Think it's better if we just go home... Sorry if I'm not particularly talkative, I'm... a bit tired from it all still even if I'm 'healed' now." I try to say as eloquently as I can.
>...god it feels like the bastard punched me in my non-existent throat...
>Probably did given that last flurry of his...
>"Are you sure? You could stay longer if you need to, we'll take care of it..." Says mom, worried.
>Dad looks at me, a sense of understanding in his eyes.
>"You remember how badly I wanted to leave the hospital after that surgery, don't you? Let's just get outta here." He tells her, as she nods in begrudging acceptance.
>Soon enough, we make our way to their car.
>Feels like old times...

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Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 05:30:01 No.58710064 Report

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Been needing to get this outta my system for the last couple of days. Being sick sux but at least I feel better now. More of a "bridging" update but one I did want to do. Also felt like if there was a time to at least partially show Cruz's parents, it'd be now. Hope it doesn't come across as too hasty, hospital situations are always kind of... Awkward, I'd say.

>>58709516
Oh crap, hadn't noticed, new Churchanon hell yeah! Read it just now, good stuff, honestly Kayden's very complimentary to Isaac so far I'd say, an eager kid and a kindhearted priest, and Kayden being a Pokemon fan will definitely make researching easier (if a bit more thorough than Isaac'd probably like I figure). Interesting cliffhanger to leave us on, good stuff as always!
>Litwick
Yeah that's fair, sometimes an idea can be neat but just kinda hard to develop fully. I workshopped the Gallade quite a bit before settling on him for thematic reasons, was a Bisharp at one point, but Gallade was a mon that compliments what I'm going for thematically much better. Some ideas are better just left pinned on the corkboard and explored later for sure.
>I've heard Japan mentioned a few times offhand but I haven't seen many other countries mentioned
Mentioned, yeah. ; >

>>58709863
Man I'm not even American and you got me feeling the Thanksgiving cheer man, great stuff! You've got a rock solid dynamic with these 3 for sure, it's always just... endearing, reading their antics. They're super personable but still interesting in a way that's just... Fun to follow. Also glad to see the schizoid show up even if just for a bit. Phenomenal stuff as always!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 05:42:22 No.58710087 Report

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>>58710064
Apologies, I haven't gotten around to your stories yet. I'm currently working through Snivyanon, and I took a bit of a break from the thread these past two weeks

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Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 07:14:16 No.58710252 Report

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>>58709516
Thank you so much. Sorry I still haven't had a chance to finish your story, but I've enjoyed what I read of it.
>>58709863
Dangerously cute. I like the creative application of Pokemon powers for stuff besides fighting. Also Emma giving PZ the cave treatment cracked me up.
>>58710045
Also very sweet. I don't think it felt rushed at all. Hope you get to feeling better, Kart.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 07:15:48 No.58710256 Report

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>Live view of my two muses fighting for my attention
While searching for art, I discovered two things. Apparently there’s a twitter user by the name of Professor Decidueye. Completely unrelated. I didn’t realize until now Decidueye can’t learn quote-unquote “Fly”. That’s unfortunate. My story was never about leaning into game mechanics anyway, so I’m not going to worry about it.

Great work on all of the recent updates. I still post even without the pictures so don’t think I’m ignoring others.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 07:22:45 No.58710271 Report

Quoted By: >>58710274 >>58711379

What a retarded and homosexual fetish.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 07:24:23 No.58710274 Report

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>>58710271
And I'm very proud to have it

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 07:58:48 No.58710322 Report

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>>58710256
I was gonna suggest Prof paying a visit to PokerMonsters, but I have to imagine the more you know about math the less fun a casino gets.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 08:23:53 No.58710359 Report

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>>58710322
Laws of probability say that no matter what the chances are, as long as there is a chance, it will happen eventually. If I was a smart guy, I'd be at the poker table every day going all in

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 10:23:38 No.58710487 Report

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>>58709007
>that has border California
Should be "that has a border with California"

And yeah, you definitely get the sense that he's coming more unglued as time goes on. Might want him to reiterate that he refuses to stop at least once more during the passage, just to make it very clear that he's not resting. Otherwise looks good.

>>58709516
I'll admit it did feel like we were spinning our wheels just a little bit here waiting for the next ghosite to come along for Isaac to deal with. I would've liked to see some interaction between him and those coming to receive food myself, but I suppose most people in that situation aren't feeling particularly chatty. If the Goodmans' daughter has turned and they decide not to violently reject her like Kayden's parents did, that could make for an interesting contrast though.

>Europeans exist in this world. Crazy lore development
Total madness. Mass hysteria.

There's no sever, just peeps keeping in contact since it's easy to lose touch on 4chan. Throw up a burner if you're down for that, or not and not. Either way.

>>58710045
Cruz's parents are entirely too good for this world, but at least he's finally learning how to touch people. Look after your mental health, kids - touch starvation can sneak up on you.

>tutors
Ha! From the mouths of babes.

>>58710064
>too hasty
Not really. Nobody enjoys staying in hospitals longer than they have to, and there's plenty of further opportunity for more conversation with the parents. Still don't see the point of not showing their faces, but that's just me.

>>58710322
He doesn't seem like the type true enough, but it would certainly be amusing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 11:20:17 No.58710569 Report

Quoted By: >>58710623

>>58709830
Kurt's had way too much excitement, so it's nice to come home to some normalcy.

>>58709831
Oh I'll bet it wasn't, Emma. Probably even more good than we as the audience saw.

>>58709839
See? Even Kurt's thinking it. It's not just me having a dirty mind. Totally. Absolutely isn't. Gotta love Larson, man - too shy to navigate social situations, but not too shy to be a cop. He is "a bean" incarnate.

>>58709842
Now Kurt can join the hallowed likes of Mew and Mewtwo's Mewtwo.

>>58709850
Love the image of Larson just nomfing his cat chompers all over the plate.

Oof. Kurt might have some Porygon-related trauma he needs to work through.

>gorge and hibernate
If Mystery Dungeon is anything to go by? Yes, but it's every single day.

>>58709852
>>58709863
I feel like convincing Kurt to join a cuddle pile on the floor is a bigger step for him than any of them realize, in multiple ways. That part easily cements this as one of the best and most adorable updates in the entirety of /sip/ - was definitely worth all the extra attention you gave the LarKurt Thanksgiving. Whatever troubles their Pokemonness may bring these three, they'll be fine as long as they have each other. You selected some fabulous picrels for this part, too.

Absolutely top-shelf work once again, Snivyanon. He just doesn't miss.

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Snivyanon Mon 08 Dec 2025 12:03:31 No.58710623 Report

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>>58709516
Good update! Kayden continues to be adorable, and I like that he's been 'helping' with pokemon research. Probably make sure that laptop has an adblocker, though, just to be safe. I am curious why he didn't consider asking Stephen to watch Kayden while he was gone. Given how willing Stephen is to help out, he didn't really seem like the kind of person that would outright refuse to watch after someone who turned, especially if they were a kid who was going to be left on their own for a few hours. I guess churchanon didn't want to get into the weeds of the situation?

Interesting hook at the end. Good to see the plot progressing. While I don't fulling agree that the narrative was stalling, it did seem to want to do some world building-esque stuff without exploring them beyond surface level, so I can see why it seemed like there was simultaneously a lot but not much happening story wise.

>>58710045
Hope you feel better soon, colds suck.

Lovely little update, and cute art as always! Like the dynamic of the doting mother and the worried but reassuring father, Kartanon's lucky he has good parents. Mom asking about the existence of pokemon move tutors so Kartanon can learn healing moves was funny in an adorable way. The physiological explanation for his sturdiness is interesting, I like stuff like that. Also funny that doctors there aren't prescribing him pain killers but the doctors treating Kurt went ahead and gave him the good shit, fun seeing little differences like that.

>>58709869
>>58709894
>>58710064
>>58710252
>>58710569
Really happy you guys enjoyed this monster of an update and the chemistry between the trio! Always very grateful to hear everyone's thoughts and feedback, means more than you know.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 18:53:59 No.58711188 Report

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Hey, don't die on me because of the maintenance will ya?!

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Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 19:32:21 No.58711331 Report

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>>58709295
Was thinking about what social support would each transformee get depending on what they turned into.
Not every mon would be capable of working their dream job because of either being too dangerous, needing absurd accomodations, or just not being able to use the tools needed. Even worse if the transformation renders years of training/education worthless and forcing you into a job that you despise but your biology is tailor made to do it.

I don't expect to find many fire types working at gas stations, and I doubt there would be a lot of job offers for Slowpokes, Snorlaxes, or Slakings except for maybe the DMV.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 19:37:16 No.58711349 Report

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>>58711331
There's a related subject none of us have broached so far: What happens to the fishmons?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 19:39:22 No.58711354 Report

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>>58711349
Now that you mention it, I do wonder what became of that 1 magikarp that got tossed into a river in one of the stories...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 19:40:52 No.58711362 Report

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>>58711349
I really like to assume that people who get turned into Pokemon turn into Pokemon that suit who they are and what they'd be happy as. Living a life as an Olympic swimmer and then turning into a Voltorb would be getting the really shit end of the stick.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 19:45:37 No.58711379 Report

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>>58710271
>Writing is a fetish.

Kay.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 19:47:08 No.58711385 Report

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>>58711349
My wife is a Starfish?
Pretty sure that was real.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 19:52:26 No.58711408 Report

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>>58711354
I’ve been waiting for that Chekov Gun to go off since it was introduced.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 19:53:08 No.58711411 Report

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>>58711354
I'm sure it's happily eating minnows and not evolving and causing massive infrastructure damage.
>>58711362
Yeah, "oh no I'm a fish" is a level of body horror even I wouldn't actually want to write. Anything I'd come up with would be too depressing.
>>58711385
I was thinking a full-on, can't leave the water fishmon, like Goldeen or something. I did like the detail in that story of the Starmie having to spend time in a kiddie pool to stay moist.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 20:06:17 No.58711458 Report

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>>58709286
Ma, I made it in the /sip/ OP! How very unfortunate that I probably cannot work on chapter 1 this month. The postbus broke down, so our recruits have to wait for the next one to come and pick them up. I actually just have to finish my diploma thesis that is due at the end of the year.

>>58709516
>>58709863
>>58710045
Three new stories to start the thread? Sign me up! Thanks you three, I enjoyed all of them thoroughly!

>>58709516
>And now Europeans exist in this world. Crazy lore development.
t. native American tribesman in the 15th century.

Seriously though, I wouldn't feel comfortable writing about something I basically only know from watching TV. It would've just been stereotype galore.
Also, with so many anons writing about Thanksgiving, I kinda want to write about some local traditions as well, like the "Fasnacht" or the yearly "Onion Market" in the capital.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 20:57:45 No.58711626 Report

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>I am curious why he didn't consider asking Stephen to watch Kayden
Ah, had a cut line explaining that Isaac didn't want to have him in his house right after it was haunted. It was a pretty mediocre throwaway line so I was just gonna remove it and replace it with something better, (and apparently I didn't). Stephen was also going to be in the previous part but he got removed be the conversation with him wasn't going anywhere

>>58711362
That would be nice to believe but let's be honest, at least 10% of Pokemon would just go completely extinct if this was the case

>>58711331
>I doubt there would be a lot of job offers for Slowpokes, Snorlaxes, or Slakings except for maybe the DMV
Kek. I relate to this though. I've lost job opportunities because of suddenly developed medical issues in the past. One day normal, next day your life is fucked. It would be worse for a Pokemon I imagine.

Partly wish I could've written for Thanksgiving but like... What do I write that's even relevant, you know? Christmas has more potential, I'll consider that

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 21:08:11 No.58711692 Report

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>>58711626
>That would be nice to believe but let's be honest, at least 10% of Pokemon would just go completely extinct if this was the case
A lot of wild animals are getting turned into Pokemon too, so there's ways to populate the less desirable species out there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 21:31:10 No.58711802 Report

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>>58711692
Fair enough. For obvious reasons I wouldn't make this canon but it's a very fun thought to have

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 22:22:32 No.58711963 Report

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>Was he even the same person? Was this his body, transmuted into the shape of a fantasy creature? Was his heart, his lungs, his brain, all the bits and pieces that made him Simon still Simon? Or was everything replaced and his memories and sense of self copied into a new body? He was like some messed up Ship of Theseus paradox.

The way this is written is reminding me of SOMA, and the character being named Simon really isn't helping

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Snivyanon Tue 09 Dec 2025 01:52:00 No.58712707 Report

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>>58711349
They find Atlantis and a new global underwater superpower rises up.

>>58711354
It turns into a Gyarados but is actually a chill guy

>>58711963
Oh wow, I somehow never made that connection... I was going full on Ship of Theseus existentialism when I wrote that section, honestly having Simon make the connection to SOMA would have been funny in an ironically sad way. At least there isn't someone gaslighting him about a coin flip?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Dec 2025 04:44:02 No.58713122 Report

Quoted By: >>58714093 >>58714782

>>58712707
The coin flip was that he was born a human and woke up one day as a pokemon instead of being born a pokemon and one day waking up as a human.

Snivyanon

Snivyanon Tue 09 Dec 2025 10:47:39 No.58713801 Report

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late night bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Dec 2025 13:10:22 No.58714093 Report

Quoted By: >>58714506 >>58714589 >>58714782 >>58714920 >>58715918 >>58717177

>>58713122
>instead of being born a pokemon and one day waking up as a human.
Has anyone ever written that, ever?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Dec 2025 15:20:19 No.58714506 Report

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>>58714093
I’ve seen a gag image of a Zoroark turning into a human before.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Dec 2025 15:45:45 No.58714589 Report

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>>58714093
Back when there were plans to write Lliam, his backstory included the later defeated villain throwing an Espurr into the human world to try to create a more easily defeated human champion.
So, technically not but planned for /pmdg/?

SuperMachoMon

SuperMachoMon Tue 09 Dec 2025 16:49:15 No.58714782 Report

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>>58713122
>>58714093
You could sort of do that in this setting by making an animal transform into a Mr. Mime or something like that.

Anyways, let's do this... only like six weeks late...

>The next part of the process was relatively straightforward compared to moving entire pallets with your bare hands. >Plastic wrapping obviously posed no kind of obstacle to you, although your first attempt at removing it did see you employ a bit too much enthusiasm.
>Fortunately, Xavier was ready this time and intercepted the resulting falling box before you could do any more damage.
>You rubbed the back of your head while he just looked at you with a raised eyebrow, a kind of awkward smirk indicating just how against his better judgement all this was.
>You did your best to be more delicate after that. With these four big, meaty mitts that could crush bricks (probably. It wasn't like you'd tried that yet. You made a mental note to try that...), you were still figuring out this whole "manual dexterity" thing.
>Still, being able to casually lift a half-dozen boxes of soda cans made transferring stock from the palettes to the cages a breeze!
>Poor Riley, for his part, just tried to do his job and keep his distance, while Xavier stayed closer... probably to keep an eye on you...
>Antonio was still no help to the team alive, of course, tapping with increasing annoyance.
>"Oh c'mon, c'mon... only 13 views after 15 minutes...? This shit should be going like... crypto viral...!"
>"That's not how any of that works..." Xavier deadpanned. "Give it a few hours, at least, man."
>"Nah, I gotta moderate the comments!"
>There he went again with his excuses. Xavier said nothing more, merely rolling his eyes and getting back to supporting/babysitting you.
>While it wasn't quite record time and wasn't the neatest the cages had ever been loaded up, you couldn't help but preen a little once the job was done, partially in compensation for not having had a chance to do so earlier.

SuperMachoMon

SuperMachoMon Tue 09 Dec 2025 16:50:17 No.58714788 Report

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>>58714782
>The chirp of Antonio's phone snapping a picture as you put two hands behind your head and made V-signs with the other two gave you a little rush of energy.
>You flexed and puffed out your chest.
>"Huh..." Xavier noted as he starred at the cages. "That... could've gone worse..."
>"Uhh... s-sure, but now we gotta do the hard part..." Riley piped up uncertainly.
>"Hard part?" Xavier quizzed. "How is that the...?"
>His words died as Riley frantically gestured at you with a clawed pointer finger while indicating the employee entrance to the store proper with his head, teeth gritted and making little sequaky 'ehh... ehh...' sounds in the most supreme display of awkwardness since... well since Riley about a week ago, honestly...
>It took Xavier a second to process the implications, but then his face fell.
>"Ah..." he exhaled. "Crap, yeah, my brain was on autopilot there..."
>He turned to you ruefully while you just tilted your head.
>"No good way to say this, man..." he conceded. "Think you should just stay back here."
>"Y-yeah, we can't... umm..." Riley tried.
>"You girls could stop pissing yourselves for five minutes and live a little, y'know," Antonio, perhaps unsurprisingly, dissented. "I wanna see everyone's stupid faces! Especially the overbitch..."
>"No, man, c'mon..." Xavier insisted, giving you a pleading look. "Charlie, you know we can't just... right...?"
>You weren't torn.
>As amusing as the look on your manager's face would surely be, you really, genuinely, had intended to do the good and right and smart thing here.
>After all, you could scare people, or damage something, or...
>NO TRUE MACHAMP WOULD DARE DENY...
>...shit.
>It had only come on for an instant - just a short, sharp ping in your brain - but it had been stronger than any of the previous intrusive thoughts, like that Akira meme.
>...and you had to admit, it had a point. You came here to be seen, didn't you?

SuperMachoMon

SuperMachoMon Tue 09 Dec 2025 16:51:19 No.58714791 Report

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>>58714788
>"Charlie, what are you doing?" Xavier bleated in alarm. "Charlie!"
>...really, what was the worst that could happen? Not like you'd hurt someone who didn't deserve it, right?
>A true Machamp would never!
>...sure, pal.
>"This isn't happening... God, please tell me this isn't happening..." Riley whimpered, his hands covering his mouth and nose.
>"Oh fuck, this is gold, this is gold, this is gold!" an elated Antonio practically vibrated in place as his phone swung right back into action.
>Unfortunately the two cages plus you were too wide to fit through the doors, so you had to sort of awkwardly crab walk out to the shop floor.
>Probably wasn't giving Antonio the BEST footage, but it'd do.
>The lifting was what mattered.
>The doors swung obediently out of your way as you pushed the nearest cage sideways into them, the change in lighting stinging your eyes for the briefest moment.
>The image resolved into one of slightly furtive mundanity. No Pokemon out here that you could see, but the shoppers in the produce section (the one closest to the door you'd exited) had this faintly nervous energy to them.
>None of them noticed you right away, accustomed as they were to not seeing "the help", so you just scooched toward the usual place where you and the others would line up cages before taking them to the specific aisles they were needed.
>Clearing your throat for attention was unnecessary - you let your new muscles do the talking.
>And sure enough, it was only a few seconds before the first shopper did a double take and gasped.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Dec 2025 17:24:28 No.58714920 Report

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>>58714093
I’ve had an MD story percolating for a while that was gonna end with the hero’s whole party getting to go to the human world for a little while.
>>58714791
Glad you’re back and (presumably) feeling better! Far be it from me to complain about a story taking too long. Fun update, Antonio’s probably about to get some really good public freak out footage.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Dec 2025 20:23:22 No.58715635 Report

Quoted By: >>58715918 >>58715963 >>58716142 >>58716178 >>58717727 >>58720650 >>58721311 >>58722337 >>58724349

Writers: have you ever written anything before, or is this thread your first work?

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Anonymous Tue 09 Dec 2025 21:33:08 No.58715918 Report

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>>58715635
This isn't my first, and this isn't even my first attempt at something like this. I had a story like this that originally took place in the African campaign where the Allies, in their infinite wisdom, fuck with something that they didn't understand whatsoever, and accidentally caused people to start transforming.
It didn't get very far.

>>58714093
I've done roleplays where the Pokemon have to come to the human world to retrieve the hero, and they end up as humans that can't use their moves. Well, at least until the human world starts falling apart because the antagonists are trying to track them down, causing the separation between the two worlds to rapidly shrink.

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Mienshanon Tue 09 Dec 2025 21:47:06 No.58715963 Report

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>>58715635
This is my first time coming up and sharing a story in well over 15 years. I've forgotten how fun it actually is. After posting the prelude to "Whipping Back Into Action" (still need a better name for it, I gladly take suggestions) last thread, and getting feedback and praise for it, I felt like picrel.

>>58715918
>filename
kek'd
>that other story
Sounds like something straight from an Indiana Jones movie, except it's not the Axis doing the fucked up shit this time around. This would actually be a fun premise for some adventure-esque story.

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Anonymous Tue 09 Dec 2025 22:38:32 No.58716142 Report

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>>58715635
This is the first multi-post story I’ve done, but I do a lot of short one off green texts wherever I go.
>>58715918
>pic
Not with that tiny pea shooter

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Dec 2025 22:50:29 No.58716178 Report

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>>58715635
I have written before. I had many attempts at PMD stories that never got past the first chapter. Also had the idea for this sort of "furry post-apocalypse" that I never wrote but still kind of want to. It's a little too complicated to get into, but qrd is I Am Legend except instead of turning into vampires, they turned into feral animals and the protagonist isn't a doctor, he's a hunter. I also did one roleplay in the past if that counts but none of my characters ever turned into pokémon. I didn't stick around long enough for it to happen, and I was still debating with the tranny mods about the circumstances surrounding it. Initial transformations had to be described in detail. Something that I didn't know about because most people either started out as pokémon or had their characters turn long before I arrived. Was pretty obvious to me at that point that the server owner was secretly getting off to the idea and I left pretty quickly after that conversation. Was putting up with enough bullshit like not being allowed to give my character any weapons because they "don't exist in pokémon." Tell me you didn't watch the Indigo League without telling me.

>>58715918
So in this unwritten story, were they turning into pokémon too? That's gotta be some weird shit since nobody knows what pokémon are at that time. I actually like how confusing that would be to them, it seems like it would be fun to write.

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Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 00:48:12 No.58716652 Report

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>>58714506
Found it

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Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 01:49:39 No.58717177 Report

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>>58709863
Good stuff

>>58710035
>>58714782
Don't have time right now, but I look forward to reading this later

>>58714093
When I was the only one writing for the first week or so, I sketched out a couple story outlines. Didn't go in these directions for many reasons, but I could have made a good, cohesive plot out of this one. This one was a little darker, and it was:

A lucario did bodyswap with the protagonist. Lucario in (you)r body is utterly miserable. He hates the aches, pains, and limitations of being human. Unable to see aura makes him feel disabled and powerless in a world he doesn't recognize. The lucario uses (you)r "fake memories" to find his way to (you)r home in the faint hope it would somehow put things back the way they used to be.

It doesn't. He tries to make the best of a bad situation. The bitterness of losing so much is a constant echo.

Eventually culminates in him hearing rumors of Jirachi existing, and not-cario setting off to wish everything back to normal. The protagonist, (you), don't ever want to be human again and pursue. Jirachi might just be rumors, but (you) won't risk it.

It doesn't end well. I'll leave what happens to your imagination.

Snivyanon

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Snivyanon Wed 10 Dec 2025 02:23:04 No.58717727 Report

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>>58714791
Oh yay, more Charlie! Unfortunately you won't go viral in 15 minutes, gotta wait at least a few hours like Xavier said. But you know what would get more of a reaction? Live fans! And even the Machamp-brain agrees! Nothing like some eye candy while you shop for groceries. Great stuff, excited for the next part!

>>58715635
This is the first time I've ever written full on stories. The most I've done is little world building stuff or one page character backstories for TTRPG campaigns.

>>58714920
>party getting to go to the human world for a little while.
That's always a bittersweet moment, I like those.

>>58717177
Thanks!

Interestingly dark concept, would be interesting to read but I can see why you didn't go with that option in favor of something more lighthearted.

Snivyanon

Snivyanon Wed 10 Dec 2025 04:25:58 No.58719104 Report

Quoted By: >>58719128

Absol Z survival bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 04:28:12 No.58719128 Report

Quoted By: >>58719159 >>58719168 >>58720650

>>58719104
First new Mega that's actually pretty cool.

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Snivyanon Wed 10 Dec 2025 04:30:51 No.58719159 Report

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>>58719128
Da one-winged angle........

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 04:31:35 No.58719168 Report

Quoted By: >>58719183

>>58719128
I've heard that a dozen times this year and it's never been true. Still not true now

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 04:32:46 No.58719183 Report

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>>58719168
Shush, I like it. I also like Mega Golisopod for being a Droideka.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 04:38:32 No.58719221 Report

Quoted By: >>58719246 >>58719354 >>58720175 >>58720650 >>58724349

I like all the Z-A Megas honestly, only one I'm kinda eh on is Gatr (no surprise there). Honestly would like having a Lucario Z show up in my story at some point but for that I'd need to justify Mega Stones proper in the first place, maybe I could just cop out with a Rogue Mega situation...

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 04:43:35 No.58719246 Report

Quoted By: >>58719354 >>58719371

>>58719221
I'll grant you Lucario Z. It's not bad. There's a bit too much going on in the design and I don't like the weird glow that mega evolutions have now

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 05:01:37 No.58719354 Report

Quoted By: >>58719449

>>58719246
>>58719221
The original Mega feels like it’s more about the tough “Fighting” side while Z feels like the mystical “Aura” side.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 05:04:05 No.58719371 Report

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>>58719246
I like Z (and pretty much all the new megas) better in fanart than in official art.
I think that Mega Meowstic looks cool if it’s real.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 05:13:59 No.58719449 Report

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>>58719354
>while Z feels like the mystical “Aura” side.
Precisely why I'd like having one show up. Lotta potential there imo

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 05:24:49 No.58719519 Report

Quoted By: >>58719608 >>58720650

>>58715963
Yeah. The Italians were there first, but the Italians had kind of wizened up to the phenomenon for whatever reason(I didn't get to explaining why the Italians bailed out, perhaps it could've been because they accidentally transformed someone and realized that this was a power far beyond their ability to handle,) so the Free French colonies were the ones responsible for accidentally creating a new age for the world instead.

>>58716178
It was fun, but it just didn't get far. I didn't know where to go beyond "wow, shit, the Afrika Korps don't have tank drivers to execute their Blitzkrieg anymore and the entire British line is in chaos."
At least the German supply lines would've been solved by the influx of Pokemon that can carry long distance supplies?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 05:36:17 No.58719608 Report

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>>58719519
Maybe the Italians fell into disarray when they didn’t get their “Pasta Point” for the turn.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 07:26:34 No.58720175 Report

Quoted By: >>58720240

>>58719221
I had an idea. But it involves breaking on of the rules here.
And no it's not fug.
It involves Diancie.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 07:41:00 No.58720240 Report

Quoted By: >>58720267

>>58720175
The rules here are more a suggestion. If you want, just make it clear you're ignoring the prompt. I know the Mew story got blasted but it was mostly because the auther wrote before that his explanation "seems like a fair assumption for the prompt."

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 07:48:42 No.58720267 Report

Quoted By: >>58720296 >>58720650 >>58720657 >>58720831 >>58721479

>>58720240
Well the idea is that Diancie just appears in a diamond mine in Arkansas.
Like all the legendaries we have seen she isn't human, just a Manifestation of a sentient force of nature, and her arrival is causing the Mega stones to appear.
Se my idea is Legendaries are not human at all, and that makes them even more mysterious and terrifying to the changing world.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 07:56:44 No.58720296 Report

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>>58720267
I like that concept a lot personally. I assume other writers here won't use it for their settings but if you could create a story with it, it'd be cool

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 09:15:10 No.58720650 Report

Quoted By: >>58721289 >>58722337

>>58715635
I've been doing long-form text RPs for 15 years. 20 if you count shitty forum games. I may've struggled with actually writing Charlie's story, but contributing to and organizing the sort of thing is like slipping on old, comfortable runners. Good lord am I ever old and crap...

>>58717177
I'd say you made a good call there considering how many people we've managed to bring together by making these stories (broadly) positive and uplifting. Fascinating concept, mind you.

>>58717177
I always knew the grocery store experience needed more Chippendales.

>This is the first time I've ever written full on stories.
Good thing you started - you have INCREDIBLE talent for it.

>>58719128
>>58719221
Absol Z kinda gives me the same energy as Starmie in that it takes things to such a height of absurdity that it actually kinda words. Crawling in my crawl indeed.

>>58719519
Italians getting wise? There's a first. Jests aside, putting Pokemon into WWII's definitely a fun idea, not unlike Drifter's foray into the American Civil War.

>the entire British line is in chaos
More chaos that it already was, that is to say.

>>58720267
Solid enough concept.

Mienshanon

Mienshanon Wed 10 Dec 2025 09:17:10 No.58720657 Report

Quoted By: >>58721285

>>58720267
As long as it doesn't take away from the mystery or steps on any writers toes, I'd say go for it. An explanation for mega stones isn't immersion breaking, like explaning the whole premise, like what that Mew story did. I also like, that legendaries are not just turnees, but a force of nature, like Elder Dragons in Monster Hunter. Could lead to some cryptid greens, where someone innawoods gets trolled by an Uxie or something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 10:08:32 No.58720831 Report

Quoted By: >>58721285 >>58721289 >>58721479

>>58720267
I would personally prefer if legendary pokemon just don't appear, or if they do aren't written out of character. I don't want wise-cracking Groudon. This isn't a bad explanation for legendary pokemon though if they were to ever appear in a story.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 12:12:36 No.58721285 Report

Quoted By: >>58721319

>>58720657
>>58720831
Absolutely, infact I was essentially writing an Anthology based on human interaction. My first one was in Japan with Mt. Fuji erupting and a Moltres coning from it.
My biggest concern is making sure that some of these walking apocalypses still retain an intelligence but a blasé attitude to their destruction that isn't just psychopathy.
It's Like trying to give a voice to a forest fire, or an Avalanche.

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Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 12:13:21 No.58721289 Report

Quoted By:

I have no excuse for this delay, but at least I pushed myself to do something. Hopefully I'll do more tomorrow.

>>58720650
>Drifter's foray into the American Civil War
Yeah... It definitely shows signs of it being me, don't it?

>>58720831
This explaination really works for certain legendaries, but yeah. It does work pretty well for anything that isn't expressly man made or not gods of something(IE: the Tapus.)

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Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 12:18:36 No.58721311 Report

Quoted By: >>58724349

>>58715635
First time that isn't an isolated greentext or some worldbuilding on /tg/.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 12:21:27 No.58721319 Report

Quoted By: >>58721354

>>58721285
>Mt. Fuji, Moltres
I know Moltres is said to heal from taking a dunk in a volcano, but Entei's the one who's described as having the heated passion of magma and also their barks erupt volcanoes. Also, one of the dex entries even states that it's said that one is born every time a volcano erupts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 12:30:34 No.58721354 Report

Quoted By: >>58721465

>>58721319
Just thought a giant fire bird being born from a volcano made sense.
And for some poetic irony that a gen 1 legendary is being created in Kanto.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 12:56:04 No.58721465 Report

Quoted By: >>58723064

>>58721354
I mean, I guess that makes sense. Or maybe it wasn't born, but simply heralded the eruption? Showed up a day before the eruptions and then stuck around?

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Snivyanon Wed 10 Dec 2025 12:58:43 No.58721479 Report

Quoted By: >>58724349 >>58724387

>>58720267
Mega stones were just going to show up as a random replacement of crystals in my story. Big enough collection of them in one place and well...

>>58720831
Yeah legendaries are incredibly hard to write as characters. Its why I never liked gods being more than esoteric forces in fiction, because if you can kill a god then it isn't really a god. Also PMD fics just soured me on legendaries in general outside of a few cases where they were used well.

I think the one's with more mundane powers could work in one of these stories though.

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Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 16:00:40 No.58722337 Report

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>>58715635
Herding Cats is the deepest I’ve ever made it into a story, but my computer is littered with false-starts of other fanfic. And I play a lot of TTRPGs, but I’m not a heavy RPer.
>>58720650
You reminded me I used to do forum RPs all the time back in middle school. That was fun, even if I always had a nasty case of main character syndrome. I wonder if people still do those.

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Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 18:25:38 No.58723064 Report

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>>58721465
More like is created from the pryocumulonimbus blasting Into the atmosphere. (Picrel)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 20:21:13 No.58723609 Report

Quoted By: >>58724890

This news story would go crazy in a pokemon TF world.
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2019/05/regular-pokemon-players-pikachu-brain

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Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 23:02:28 No.58724349 Report

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>>58714788
Oh hell yeah, new Charlie! Was antsy for an update of this, seems like he's having some degree of fun with his Machamp shenanigans at least, even if somewhat reluctantly. Wonder how it'll all work out for him...

>>58715635
Mainly some rps and a few greentexts, my attempts at writing just kinda stick to me trying to worldbuild for vidya projects as of late. Haven't published a proper "big" thing until now though.

This >>58719221 was me by the by, I do have a very strong bias towards legendary or big powerful stuff (most of my writing is the direct aftermath of me listening to final boss themes on loop), and I do think like there's some potential with Lucario Z thematically speaking with some aspects of Kartanon I wanna explore, like I said though, gotta find a good enough excuse before I jump ahead on that front. I know I've already been kinda skirting the line of "no legendaries" with Kartana and throwing more into the mix would probably be overboard but... I promise I have some interesting ideas and hope you'll bear with me if they come to pass in the story.

>>58721311
Copanon? Shit man given how good your stuff is you could've fooled me, you've got some great writing skills man!

>>58721479
>because if you can kill a god then it isn't really a god
You're tempting me to ramble unendingly about Mesoamerican deities and Japanese ones, which are also kinda why I'd like bringing more legendaries into the mix. I'll find a way to make it work, I swear.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Dec 2025 23:14:12 No.58724387 Report

Quoted By: >>58725067 >>58725287

>>58721479
>because if you can kill a god then it isn't really a god
This fact is only shared by a very select few religions. Even the Greeks had mortal gods(albeit they only died if people stopped believing in them.)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 01:06:15 No.58724890 Report

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>>58723609
Finally, an explanation for our brain damage

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 02:05:34 No.58725067 Report

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>>58724387
Or were killed by other gods.

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Snivyanon Thu 11 Dec 2025 02:59:23 No.58725287 Report

Quoted By: >>58725590

>>58724387
I'm aware. I just have weird tastes in fiction and like gods being esoteric forces of reality rather than really strong dudes. Leave that to their champions, or whatever divine creature spawns from mortal worship due to what they believe its is they're worshipping (Honestly the way PoE does the Atlas of Worlds conflict is an example of something similar that I like).

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Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 04:31:47 No.58725590 Report

Quoted By: >>58726903

>>58725287
Leave it to him

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Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 05:47:34 No.58725843 Report

Quoted By: >>58725982 >>58726903

>Convention season in Vegas is a unique experience all its own.
>One week you have literal rodeo cowboys strolling through the floor fresh off a tournament win
>The next, you’ll have a mix of stuffy engineers and their entourage of big spender sales representatives trying to woo business for the next year
>Maybe the next will be college professors discussing admissions trends
>The week after that, nothing but tech frat bros and basement dwelling hackers testing every inch of cybersecurity they can get at
>Not to mention that big motor car race that turns the normal nightmare of traffic into a nightmare squared by taking over the streets
>This was all layered on top of the regular background noise of college and professional sporting events
>If the world was panicking about people turning into Pokémon, people’s poker faces had gotten a lot better in the last couple of years and they were hiding it well
>As a dealer, it was important to develop a sixth sense for these different types of people and know what they’re expecting from their experience
>Talking with David, it was clear that almost everyone who had settled on working in the pit long term had developed some kind of a gimmick
>>”The public can get someone slinging checks and making corny puns anywhere. If they want things jiggling at them while they play, there are places for that too. They come here because they’re curious about our, let’s call it an alternative lifestyle. You gotta give them some kind of ‘shtick’ to latch onto, it doesn’t have to be much, we’re not asking for a song and dance number. A young gun like yourself, you can probably develop a pretty sizable shtick. Just gotta decide, do you want a long shtick, or maybe you want it girthy? Who doesn’t love a girthy shtick!”
>Buried beneath the entendres was a good point
>Casino games are fundamentally a form of entertainment people are paying for and you’re part of the show
>Give the people what they want

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Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 06:29:23 No.58725982 Report

Quoted By: >>58726044 >>58728794

>>58725843
>First, you should know what people are expecting so you can play it up
>[With skillful misdirection, it rigs foes with pollen-packed flower bombs. Meowscarada sets off the bombs before its foes realize what's going on.]
>What? That’s not happening.
>[This Pokémon uses the reflective fur lining in its cape to camouflage the stem of its flower, creating the illusion that the flower is floating.]
>Cape? You always thought it was a scarf.
>[Meowscarada occasionally attempts to perform magic while it sleeps. However, this performance tends to not go as planned.]
>Note to self: set up the Paranormal Activity cameras in the bedroom
>That could explain why, even though you didn’t wear socks anymore, they seemed to be disappearing from the drawer
>[Meowscarada has a proud, showy personality; however, it is also sensitive and prone to jealousy.]
>You always spoke your mind and weren’t shy about who you are so that wouldn’t take much getting used to.
>Isn’t there something more you could do to add some pizzazz?
>[Magician Pokemon]
>Huh, that’s actually straight and to the point
>You could definitely work with that
>You were already pretty dexterous for having paw hands
>Might be worth trying after some practice
{LATER…}
>After clocking in and checking with David, you took your place at the game
>High Card Flush, not the most technical game, but a favorite as players get to hold a whole lot of cards in their hand
>Partnered behind you was a Lucario you hadn’t met yet, but David had introduced to you as Gene.
>Dressed in a plain button up shirt and shorts, you noticed how he was standing on a pressure relief mat on apple crate to reach the proper height.
>Poor guy, hope he doesn’t have to deal with the manlet torture.
>Anyway, game on. The crowd this week was from the International Roofing Expo
>No really.
>If their business is doing well enough to attend an event like this, surely have have some budget for gaming

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Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 06:55:41 No.58726044 Report

Quoted By: >>58726144 >>58727435

>>58725982
>After playing carnival barker to entice guests, you were eventually able to fill up the table and get the crowd going
“Are you sure you’re roofers and not plumbers? You guys are doing great with all these flushes!”
>Ugh, that was a reach. But they seem to be enjoying it so far, even if it was a pity laugh
>The big spender of the group laid out a wager for you on each of the side bets
>Now seemed like as good a time as any, say thank you by putting on a show
Alright everyone, let’s see some good hands and make it rain!
>With practiced skill you made a large arc in the air with the cards, up to eye level and catching them back down in your other hand
>After an extra shuffle and cut, you dealt them out
>Most lost, but a couple players were able to keep their hot streak going so you paid them out
>They were loving it now
>Suddenly you heard the pit phone ring
>You kept dealing, not daring to look over
>After finishing the hand, David came over and tapped you and Gene out
>>”You two both need to take your break. That was surveillance. Gene, you paid a push five hands ago. As for you Alex, they’ve got to review those last couple hands. I know you’re trying to play the crowd, but the cameras lost focus during that trick arcing so high. They’re afraid you might have exposed some cards doing that. Next time you try something like that, warn me. I’ll let you know what they find out.”
>Damn it.
>Well, you could use the break anyway, I guess
>Drat.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 07:41:13 No.58726144 Report

Quoted By: >>58727081 >>58727435 >>58728794 >>58738260 >>58745749

>>58726044
>The two of you weren’t ready for a meal break yet, so you decided to just take a lap walking through the utility corridors
So, what’s it like being a Lucario? Being one of the most famous mons can’t be easy can it?
>>”No, it really isn’t. But hey, what’s a girl to do? I guess I could be out playing human lie detector if I wanted to be a… wait a minute.”
“What?”
>>”You suddenly felt confused. Not when I stopped talking, before that.”
“Yeah. How did you know?”
>>”My aura can make me feel people’s emotions. Like empathy, but constant. What confused you?”
“Wow. Uh, I guess when you said what’s a girl to do?”
>>”Why did that confuse you?”
“I’m not a girl. I’ve been called for one before”
>>”I know you’re male.”
“Then why did you say that?”
>>”Oh. Then you can’t… oh man not you too! What am I supposed to do? Wear a pink bow? I’m trying my best!”
>The Lucario sat down on the ground with their head in their paws
“I’m so sorry. Is there something I can do?”
>>”No, no. It’s fine. Don’t panic. Please don’t worry about me. I just get overwhelmed with these things. Just breathe girl, breathe.”
>The realization made you feel like an idiot
>>”Don’t feel bad. Please, genuinely don’t. I know it’s weird. Let’s start over. My name is Jeanie but I’ve always gone by Jean. I am a female Lucario. Yes, this blue dog body is built muscular and not very curvy so people get confused. But I am still 100% female. I have a kid getting ready to graduate from UNLV. My husband is incredibly supportive. I get unsettled by unexpected emotions so I have to keep a guard up. Please don’t feel sympathy, let’s just move on.”
>She straightened her self out and dusted herself off after literally jumping up from her seated position
“Uh… Okay… Uh… Do you think UNLV will make the playoffs?”
>Your attempt at levity must have shown through as she gave a smile of relief

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 14:07:54 No.58726903 Report

Quoted By: >>58728899

>>58725843
Waking up to more Meowscarada. Love to see it. Love the description of the city and how this game is treated as a performance. Gives the scene energy. Also, is this a new Lucario? Funny to see another one who's clearly more formal than our vigilante

>>58725590
This is such a stupid thought running through my head now, but how does Dante react to all of this? I mean throwing him in this setting implies all the lore of DMC as well and that's all a mess. Do transformed pokemon make good demon hunters?

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Snivyanon Thu 11 Dec 2025 14:39:08 No.58727081 Report

Quoted By: >>58728899

>>58726144
Great update, always look forward to more gambling!

Alex's thoughts reading up on Meowscarada made me chuckle, I wonder where those socks are going. I like him having to find his own showman's gimmick, guess once the novelty of magical talking creatures wears off you gotta figure out a way to keep people around. Card tricks is the most obvious choice, so its easy to see how Alex landed on that first. Interesting to learn that they're being recorded to prevent them from accidentally giving the players an advantage, makes sense though. And poor Jean, I doubt being that sensitive to negative emotions is fun when you work at a casino.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 16:11:34 No.58727435 Report

Quoted By: >>58728899

>>58726044
I was wondering if card tricks might get you in trouble. Casinos are serious business.
The line about being an entertainer got me thinking that a Pokemon pro wrestler would probably be a cool idea I’m too busy to write about.
>>58726144
As a guy who used to get mistaken for a girl all the time, I feel you Jean. Maybe she can get ahold of that mascara the Lucario girls are always wearing in fanart.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 20:18:19 No.58728405 Report

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Just because I'm struggling to write my story doesn't mean this thread needs to go in the archive.

Mienshanon

Mienshanon Thu 11 Dec 2025 22:00:00 No.58728794 Report

Quoted By: >>58728899 >>58729375 >>58738260

>>58725982
A new casino story bit, hooray!
I find it amusing that turnees look themselves up to get a grip on their own situation. I would think that the instincts would be the key indicator for finding out the intricacies of their new bodies. But honestly, I like your approach more.

>>58726144
Poor Jean... must be nerve racking to be in that situation. Give that gal a bow or some fake eyelashes, and an emotional support Companion Cube, pronto!
>supportive husband
Big W, a Chad amongst Chads!

I also just realised something. Except for the parents of Lucarioanon and Kayden's dad, all the families were supportive until now. Very wholesome, but also makes me crave some family drama.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 22:27:13 No.58728899 Report

Quoted By: >>58728954 >>58729375 >>58738262

>>58726903
Yes, definitely a new Lucario. I felt that the overwhelming influence of Aura probably wouldn’t be something everyone can handle as easily as our OG Lucario.
>>58727081
>Interesting to learn that they're being recorded to prevent them from accidentally giving the players an advantage
I thought this was more common knowledge, but every table has at least one dedicated surveillance camera along with dozens on the rest of the floor watching all the machines. This is to help identify criminals, find people who have been trespassed or put on the voluntary exclusion list to kick them out, identify dealers making mistakes, keep track of chips, and crack down on cheating by either the player, the dealer, or both in collusion.
>>58727435
A pro wrestling syndicate with Pokémon would probably be as close as you could get to legal battles.
>inb4 fans tell you the best wrestling in the world is in some random Japanese parking lot
>>58728794
I felt for this moment especially, it made sense because you’re trying to “play the character”

Thank you all for the positive response! I predict another three chapters or so before going back to the professor.

Author lore dump for anyone that cares:
I turned 21 while I was in college during COVID so after not being able to go anywhere to celebrate, my autistic ass decided to learn as much as possible about how casinos work instead. Almost all of my knowledge comes from a real world casino dealer school’s youtube channel and the weekly vlogs they posted during the pandemic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 22:43:20 No.58728954 Report

Quoted By: >>58729277

>>58728899
>A pro wrestling syndicate with Pokémon would probably be as close as you could get to legal battles
Somebody show this man street beef

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Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 00:07:33 No.58729277 Report

Quoted By: >>58729375 >>58729497

>>58728954
>"Webster defines the 'poke' moment as a moment where ignorance overwhelms the mind of an otherwise logical pokemon male, causing him to act in an illogical, self-destructive manner."

Snivyanon

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Snivyanon Fri 12 Dec 2025 00:42:46 No.58729375 Report

Quoted By: >>58731042

>>58728794
Poor Emma (or maybe lucky Emma, in this case) has no instincts, she's basically figuring everything out from wiki pages and her own experimentation.

>>58728899
>surveillance cameras
Interesting. Yeah I'm not sure why I didn't expect that, but it all makes sense from the casino's perspective.

>>58729277
"Wait a minute... *chuckles* I'm a normal type!"

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Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 01:22:05 No.58729497 Report

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>>58729277
Wasn't referring to those individuals. Street Beef is an organization and youtube channel that hosts semi-professional fight clubs in the US. 100% legal by the way. Here's my favorite fight from them. Blackie Chan vs Meyham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPql1XEqa5Q

Could see pokemon fight clubs sprouting up over time as these things become more normalized

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 05:54:11 No.58730178 Report

Quoted By: >>58730188 >>58730866 >>58731042

Concept:
>Person transformed into pokemon not only gives up control of their life to their new foreign memories and instincts, but does so trying to ease the pain of the Pokémon personality that must now exist in a world they were never meant to live in
>”In a way, you’re more trapped than I ever could be. I have only lost my body, you have lost your world. The most precious things left are memories, and the chance to have a better tomorrow.”

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 05:58:45 No.58730188 Report

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>>58730178
I dunno. Our world and the world of the mainline games (at least in older gens) aren't that different

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 10:40:02 No.58730866 Report

Quoted By: >>58730948

>>58730178
Sounds pretentious and contrived

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 11:02:27 No.58730948 Report

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>>58730866
Okay I wouldn't go that far. It's not a bad idea on its own portraying the sort of transition of consciousness like this. I think there's potential for a good short story here

Mienshanon

Mienshanon Fri 12 Dec 2025 12:05:05 No.58731042 Report

Quoted By: >>58731404

>>58730178
Frankly, this reads more like some kind of schizophrenia.
Now that I think about it, some of the stories having more involved Pokémon instincts, like Kartanon and Lucarioanon, makes me wonder if it *is* some kind of schizophrenia. Because there are also a lot of cases where the instincts feel more like reflexes and urges, like LarKurt, Emma, and Fedoark.
Amaro could be on either side, we just don't know (yet).
Simon and Myriim would probably fall into the first category, same as MachoMan Charlie with the intrusive thoughts.
ProfD is probably in the latter category, as is possably a lot of the gambling den cast and Matsui.
Ben is definitely a schizo, the poor lad.
Dunno about Kayden. We still need some info on that.
As for Etienne, I haven't decided yet.

>>58729375
>Emma has no instincts
Maybe not instincts, but certainly urges like shaking herself after getting soaked.

Snivyanon

Snivyanon Fri 12 Dec 2025 14:33:41 No.58731404 Report

Quoted By: >>58731929 >>58732903

>>58731042
Pokémon Induced Psychosis Syndrome.

They all have varying flavors of schizo too, it’s been interesting to see the differences in these mental battles (or lack thereof).

Oh poor Simon. Everyone in that forest is going absolutely crazy.

Mienshanon

Mienshanon Fri 12 Dec 2025 17:46:59 No.58731929 Report

Quoted By: >>58732903 >>58738262

>>58731404
PIPS, now that's a medical term I can get behind! Way better than calling random transformees schizo.

>varying flavors of schizo
Agreed. It's an endearing topic and one I want to exploit/explore in my story to some capacity as well.

>Oh poor Simon. Everyone in that forest is going absolutely crazy.
Considering the cliffhanger at the end of the last chapter, I'm really looking forward to your next chapter. Some crazyness in an otherwise serene forest sounds perfect.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 21:17:27 No.58732772 Report

Quoted By: >>58733099

Still waiting for more CopAnon myself. I think the man's due for more Police Business.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 22:01:32 No.58732903 Report

Quoted By: >>58734438

>>58731404
>>58731929
Would love to see someone force that term into a story somewhere, no matter how out of place or clunky it is.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 23:05:56 No.58733099 Report

Quoted By: >>58733207 >>58733932 >>58733953 >>58734243 >>58734438 >>58738262 >>58739439

>>58732772
>>58695620
>It has been over two weeks since your new friend moved in with you and over a week since you returned to the force.
>For the most part nothing happened between you except for the kitchen drawer incident, but that was admittedly an honest mistake on her part.
>The job was as boring as usual.
>In a way you wanted to be stationed in an area with a higher crime rate because the "nothing ever happens" energy the station exuded was just tiring.
>Your friend from the FBI was usually walking in, looking at the paperwork, and then leaving with you.
>The captain just assumed that you had bad luck.
>Your colleague wanted to ask you about what happened to you, but you kept delaying it while your FBI friend was in the vicinity.
>Which was all the time recently.
>But an opportunity did arise when he drove you and your FBI friend home.
>She entered the home first so you had a moment to talk about things.
>"So you are her emotional support now?" he asked.
>"In a way," you replied.
>"Well that sucks for you. But if it makes you feel better, I myself ended up with another Pokemon at my house. And this time I can't get rid of it," he replied.
>"A ghost type?" you asked.
>"Nope. A green cat," he replied.
>"A Sprigatito?" you asked.
>"Whatever. Wife found it eating out of our trash and decided to keep it as a pet. Obviously I wanted to get rid of it, but she said no," he replied, not very happy about the situation at his home.
>"Do you think it was a human at one point?" you asked.
>"If it was a human, it was either retarded or a massive asshole, so I assume this was a cat before," he replied.
>"That doesn't sound so bad..." you said.
>"Until it is 4 in the morning, then it sounds really bad," he replied.
>"Well those are the perks of owning a cat," you replied.
>"Speaking of, I have to buy some cat food. Don't let her get you killed. See ya on Monday," he replied.
>"See you," you replied while leaving his car.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 23:41:07 No.58733207 Report

Quoted By: >>58733449

>>58733099
>Roommate or pet? Roll of the dice!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Dec 2025 00:47:27 No.58733449 Report

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>>58733207
>tfw one day you wake up to a bipedal cat person in your house

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Dec 2025 03:43:27 No.58733932 Report

Quoted By: >>58733953

>>58733099
Dialogue tags could be improved. I just notice that there's a lot of repetition of "he replied, you replied, he replied"

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Anonymous Sat 13 Dec 2025 03:50:46 No.58733953 Report

Quoted By: >>58733958

>>58733099
Kitty
>>58733932
I don't mind that, personally, though if it's a back-and-forth you probably don't need most of the tags at all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Dec 2025 03:53:40 No.58733958 Report

Quoted By: >>58734243

>>58733953
I think it is better to have no tags than this repetition as long as it's clear that only two characters are talking

Snivyanon

Snivyanon Sat 13 Dec 2025 06:04:53 No.58734243 Report

Quoted By: >>58738262

>>58733099
Emotional support masochist. Also plot twist, the Sprigatito was some homeless guy who’s now roleplaying as a cat for food.

>>58733958
Yeah for long stretches of one-on-one conversation, that’s usually how you do it, unless you want to add details on their tone of voice, body language or gesturing.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Dec 2025 07:02:33 No.58734332 Report

Quoted By: >>58738262

Technically most of this already existed, I just ended up reworking some of it. I needed to do SOMETHING though, to try to start momentum. This will, with hope, provide some context to why Valentine returns to the house after looping around the cul-de-sac.

Mienshanon

Mienshanon Sat 13 Dec 2025 08:01:04 No.58734438 Report

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>>58732903
How convenient that I have a whole chapter on the recruitment process ahead of me.

>>58733099
"Gee, it sure is boring around here."
Funny, considering this city supposedly has an increased amount of turnees in the first place.
CopAnon nearly died twice by a Pokémons hand and he still craves for more? Your picrel is just a portrait of CopAnon himself, isn't it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Dec 2025 12:41:21 No.58734892 Report

Quoted By:

A bump before bed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Dec 2025 13:13:39 No.58734951 Report

Quoted By: >>58735183 >>58738725 >>58742941

Woke up and for some reason got the energy to write a new (albeit short) part.

https://rentry.org/cb24k1ti

And I am also halfway through Serpent and Wyrm. Slow reader, very sorry. Will be continuing when I leave to get breakfast in a few minutes. Of course the tradeoff is that I'm now behind on the Meowscarada story. I cannot keep up with you guys, but it does mean there's always something to check out when I come here.

Mienshanon

Mienshanon Sat 13 Dec 2025 15:07:11 No.58735183 Report

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>>58734951
Good little chapter! Stephen proving again that he's the goat.
Goodman pulling out a gun and wanting to go camping, is it perhaps time for an Innawoods chapter?

My bet's on a Banette that goes around kidnapping kids, maybe multiple Mons doing it. I wonder if bullets will do the trick, though. That shotgun is a hazard for collateral damages, if that ghost is anywhere near the child while travelling.

>Slow reader, very sorry
No need to apologise, everyone reads at their own pace. Having fun is the important part!

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Anonymous Sat 13 Dec 2025 20:36:13 No.58736133 Report

Quoted By: >>58736149 >>58736478

Another idea I won’t write: Pokemon as a guest at an anime convention. I’m picturing someone in a Lucario costume taking a picture with a real Lucario.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Dec 2025 20:40:23 No.58736149 Report

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>>58736133

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Anonymous Sat 13 Dec 2025 21:57:23 No.58736478 Report

Quoted By: >>58737358

>>58736133
>"It's easy!"
"No."
>"C'mon, it'll be fun."
"I hate crowds."
>"It isn't that bad, they'll be in lines."
"The smells makes me nauseous."
>"They have a hygiene policy, we can kick 'em out."
"I'm not stupid, I know what happens at these pla-"
>"$50 per photo!"
"..."
>"Free money, furball, you're famous!"
>"There's already a waiting list!"

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 01:50:20 No.58737358 Report

Quoted By: >>58738725

>>58736478
Even if you say just photos without touching, do you really want to be that close to those types of people? Really think about how uncomfortable they could make it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 03:14:01 No.58737628 Report

Quoted By: >>58737631 >>58738725

>You can't help yourself, you have to peek again
>Looking through the blinds you can see that it's still there. A “Sudowoodo” the dex called it, standing atop a stump in your neighbor's yard.
>Its empty, beady eyes staring off into space, not moving an inch, like a statue. . .
>A chill goes down your spine and you close the blinds.
>It had been two weeks since it appeared there.
>Two weeks trapped inside your home.
>Somehow the world kept turning, you didn't know how. People still drove and walked down the street like nothing was wrong.
>They were idiots. Not you. You listened to the CDC, you weren't going to get infected and turn into one of those things.
>You tried to sleep as little as possible after hearing horror stories of people waking up changed.
>You were going to get through this with your humanity intact.
>Your stomach growled
>You tried to ration food but that thing showed up just before your weekly grocery run, so you didn't have much on hand.
>You were terrified that in the small amount of time it took to get in your car you would catch something and wake up a monster.
>You'll just drink some water to push back the hunger.
>The cool water manages to calm your anxieties somewhat, it’s refreshing, relaxing.
>You manage to stop pacing and plant your ass on the couch with a sigh.
>It feels like the whole world is coming apart, but right now your only focus is on the plush cushions that feel like heaven to your sleep deprived mind.
> You close your eyes and rest for what feels like the first time in years.
>. . .
>Wait. Stop. This sort of carelessness is what gets people transformed. You bolt upright as fast as your lethargic body permits.
>But something's wrong. You can feel it. Your back doesn't bend the same as before.
>You look down at your hands.
>Fuck.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 03:15:03 No.58737631 Report

Quoted By: >>58737637 >>58737757 >>58738636 >>58738659 >>58738725 >>58745749

>>58737628
>You didn’t think you were exposed to any pokemon, so how did this happen?
>You checked the clock and you were half asleep on the couch for only five minutes.
>Now there's a giant purple isopod inside your mirror looking back at you.
>Is this thing even a pokemon? You just look like a regular pocket-free monster.
>you're vaguely reminded of a book you read in high school about a guy waking up as a giant cockroach.
>Moving your new body is strange
>The two big arms with the claws are easy enough to move but you can’t get the little arms to do more than curl inward.
>You can’t use your nose anymore as it doesn’t exist, but your antenna can smell just fine.
>At least you're tall now.
>you’ve gained a few inches in height even in your hunched posture.
>The only thing that's the same is that you're still incredibly hungry. Actually you're even hungrier now that you're bigger.
>The fridge has some condiments, but nothing more.
>The cabinets contain little else except half a jar of peanut butter.
>You'll take what you can get.
>. . .
>The jar of peanut butter sits on the counter like a gored deer. Its shredded carcass has been licked and scraped clean of any PB you could get your claws on.
>You couldn't get the lid off.
>And you're still hungry.
>You've the strangest craving for seafood. Lobster, crab legs, fried shrimp, fish cakes, salmon, cod, tuna, anything at his point.
>You don’t even know what cod tastes like but the mental image gets your mouth watering.
>Just one problem, you don't have any of that stuff, and to get some you'd have to go outside.
>Where the sudowoodo is.
>And other people.
>Your stomach growls.
>There is one place you know that might have something, but there’s no way you’re going to fit inside of your car. You’ll just have to get there on foot.
>luckily the sun is starting to set so you can travel under the cover of darkness.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 03:17:05 No.58737637 Report

Quoted By: >>58737646 >>58738725

>>58737631
>You hear it before you can see the headlights.
>Thinking quickly you dive behind some foliage between you and the road
>The headlights move past you.
>you’ve been at this for what feels like hours, but you know you're close.
>You didn't spend all that time sneaking past that tree thing in your neighbor's yard to give up now.
>With your wallet safely in the grasp of one of your little arms, you continue on your quest.
>Soon enough you can see it. A convenience store off to the side of a gas station.
>you run over to the double doors as fast as your legs can take you.
>Nobody is inside save for the cashier who's fast asleep at the register.
>There’s not much that interests you in the freezer section, it’s mostly ice cream and beer.
>In the last freezer all the way at the bottom, you see it.
>A single bag of frozen fishsticks.
>With your prize between your claws you go to leave but it seems like the cashier woke up.
>She’s hiding behind the counter looking at you.
>”N-no it’s just kinda wandering around”
>And she's talking to someone.
> “What! No, that thing’s gonna kill me! H-how long until they get here?”
>She’s definitely on the phone with the police. Shit.
>Based on her reaction you’re definitely going to get shot on sight.
>Better make this quick.
>Dropping the fishsticks on the counter causes her to flinch.
>”Just this, please.” You say, all cool and casual like.
>Unfortunately your new body gave you a bit of an accent so it sounded more like-
>KCHCHCHCHC *SCREEEEE*
>Her eyes dart between you and the fishsticks a few times before she realizes what you want.
>”Th-th-that’ll b-be eh-eleven f-fifty s-six”
>You pinch your wallet with one of your big claws and pull out a twenty.
>You’re also a bit nervous and put the bill down with a little too much force, accidently punching a pair of holes clean through the bill and the counter.
>The cashier is shaking now, but otherwise completely frozen.
>you take your prize and leave.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 03:19:37 No.58737646 Report

Quoted By: >>58737653 >>58738735

>>58737637
>The trip home felt longer than the trip to the store.
>You weren't taking any chances, after that reaction from the cashier there was no way you could get spotted.
>The real challenge was getting past the sudowoodo.
>You kept your eyes on it the moment you could see it, never letting it out of sight.
>One slip up, one moment of carelessness would give it all the time in the world to run up and club you to death with its big rocky leaf-hand-things.
>Slowly, making no sudden movements, you slipped back into your home.
>Once safe inside you practically collapsed, exhausted and panting, but alive, and successful with your mission.
>You didn’t care to cook the fishsticks right now, you needed to eat.
>Just like the PB jar, the bag was no match for your new claws.
>One by one they disappear until the bag is empty.
>With one need satisfied another rears its head
>you’ve probably only slept a total of six hours in the last week. And transforming didn’t change that at all.
>You stumble into your bedroom and flop down onto the mattress.
>At least you can lay somewhat flat on your stomach.
>Your arms and legs still drape over the sides though.
>At least you don’t have to worry about transforming anymore, or being in contact with pokemon.
>Well, they are still extremely dangerous, super-powered monsters.
>Was the CDC right when they called it a virus? As far as you can tell you weren't in contact with any pokemon and you were magically transformed in less than five minutes of half consciousness.
>Magic.
>yeah, that sounds about right. Maybe there wasn’t any logic to what was happening, just some random interdimensional incident.
>This is starting to sound like some eldritch horror story.
>You don’t really want to think about something like that, you just want to sleep.
>So you close your eyes and pass out.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 03:21:37 No.58737653 Report

Quoted By: >>58737655 >>58738735

>>58737646
>Throughout the day you had discovered many things about yourself.
>First, you could thankfully still use a keyboard.
>This allowed you to tell your boss you were going to be using all of your vacation time.
>Second, you are what’s known as a “Golisopod”
>You were supposed to be a giant kickass samurai bug, but you didn’t feel that way.
>You couldn’t do any of the cool shit you saw on youtube like making water swords or firing missiles out of your back.
>And third, you're still hungry.
>You’ve been planning to make another run to the convenience store but you can’t build the courage to do it until night falls.
>If that cashier’s reaction was any indication then the general public would most likely prefer you stay away.
>Darkness eventually came and with it, opportunity.
>Slipping out of the back door, and sneaking past the monster in your neighbor’s yard you went on your merry way.
>Unfortunately when you made it to the gas station again there was someone there.
>You wanted to avoid leaving the sparse foliage until you were certain that it was safe.
>Eventually they stepped out of the store and drove off.
>Rushing through the double doors, you were met with a very much awake cashier.
>It was the same one as the night before.
>The moment she saw you she let out a frightened squeak and froze.
>Better make this quick
>B-Lining it to the fish freezer you discovered that the fishsticks had been restocked.
>Just two should be fine for now. . . actually maybe three would be better. Or four.
>This time when you approached the register the cashier didn’t lock up, but she was still looking around nervously
>You put the fishsticks on the counter and she scanned them
>”F-Fouty-six, twenty four. Please”
>Grabbing some bills from your wallet you place them on the counter (gently this time) feeling a pang of guilt as you spy the holes you made last time.
>As you go to leave, you hear her call out to you.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 03:23:01 No.58737655 Report

Quoted By: >>58737667 >>58738735

>>58737653
>”Have a good day-night, I-I mean night”
>You turn around to face her “You too”
>She flinches
>Shit, right, your “accent”
>You turn back around and leave the store in a rush.
>>the moment you’re outside your skin crawls. Something is watching you.
>You turn left, then right without seeing anything.
>And then you look up.
>Perched on the gas station canopy is a bird.
>It stands like a person and is just as tall, its feathers are an eye-catching neon green.
>And its eyes, its far too human eyes, are staring right into your soul.
>You move slowly, shuffling along the side of the convenience store keeping the bird in sight.
>Its head doesn't move, but its eyes are still looking.
>Once you’re a safe distance away you bolt, making as much distance as possible.
>You can’t tell if it’s chasing you so you keep running.
>Only once you’re out of breath do you take a moment to scan the sky.
>Nothing, good.
>You plop down on someone's lawn, putting a bush between you and the road and praying that the homeowner isn’t awake right now.
>Thank god you decided to grab multiple bags of fishsticks, you weren’t going to be leaving your house for the foreseeable future after that.
>It’s a real shame you’re a giant crustacean monster, otherwise you could go outside during the day with other people. Safety in numbers and all that.
>But no, you are a big scary bug from hell that makes people piss their pants when they see you.
>You nearly gave that poor cashier a heart attack yesterday.
>At least she wasn’t as frightened today.
>Hmmm
>That thought makes you feel . . . Disappointment?
>Something about her acclimating to your presence leaves a bitter taste in your mouth.
>She shouldn’t feel safe around you.
>You should be big and intimidating, that way nobody will pick a fight with you.
>You’ve never thought of it that way before, but now it just seems right.
>Yes, you are scary, and that’s good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl9FQIT-6iY

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 03:27:20 No.58737667 Report

Quoted By: >>58737792 >>58738735 >>58742941 >>58745749

>>58737655
>You peek at it from around your house.
>It doesn’t move, just keeps looking off into the night sky.
>Deep breaths now, you can do this, you’re scary.
>With hesitant steps you move to the front of your house.
>you can’t tell if it can see you.
>You creep up to the side of the road.
>No reaction.
>There's no time for hesitation, if you want to look strong you can’t be shaking like a leaf.
>You cross the road with bold strides, ironically the closer you get to your neighbor’s yard the less you shake, the easier it becomes to keep up the façade.
>You come up to the stump it’s standing on, looking it in the eyes.
>Perfect poker face, both of you.
>”G-Get out of here” you stutter out, like a complete dumbass. Hopefully it can’t understand you.
>It makes no indication of having heard you.
>”GO” you say a little louder “GO AWAY”
>It flinches but otherwise stays rooted.
>Its flinch makes you flinch, but you quickly put up the mask again.
>Fuck. It's like dealing with a spider, you can’t tell when it will move or if it’s just going to jump at your face.
>If words alone won’t work.
>You raise a claw like youre about to strike and shout “FUCK OFF!”
>You feel your heart leap out of your chest as the thing screeches and skedaddles away.
>You let out a sigh of relief as you watch it waddle down the street at incredible speed.
>Only to watch in horror as the sudowoodo stops and roots itself in place on someone else’s lawn a few houses down.
>Whatever, at least it’s not looking into your window anymore.
>Your neighbor’s yard is suddenly filled with light.
>To your horror one of the lights is on and there’s a silhouette of a person in the window.
>Hoping against all odds they didn’t see you, you scamper back into your house and slam the door.
>Flopping back on to your bed helps your heart rate steadily drop.
>Today was too much. But you feel pride welling up in your chest when you replay the memory of spooking that sudowoodo.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 03:59:20 No.58737757 Report

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>>58737631
>>You checked the clock and you were half asleep on the couch for only five minutes.
Holy owned

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 04:17:01 No.58737792 Report

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>>58737667
Poor Golisopod guy, he's having a bad time.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 07:59:53 No.58738260 Report

Quoted By: >>58738262 >>58738636

>>58726144
>If the world was panicking about people turning into Pokémon, people’s poker faces had gotten a lot better
That is actually a brilliant line. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle - perhaps people are less inclined to panic because Pokemon are so friend-shaped and also, if they are inclined to panic, are already jaded from COVID. Both is good.

Ha! Being Mr. Generic Man ain't gonna fly in David's gambling establishment! No sir! Naturally "rules for thee" very much applies here considering his own schtick.

Yeah, pollen might not be the best idea. Now if you could figure out how to rig up Meowscarada's flower with confetti instead, THAT might work...

It... actually does look like a scarf though, now that you mentioned it... fair play.

>You always spoke your mind
I do like it when my everyman protagonist is the "cuts through the bullshit" sort. Would be nice to see more of that in his actual interactions.

Maybe these roofing guys got the formula for Spray-on Shoes.

Gotta say, a Lucario wearing shorts that go perfectly over the thighs is kind of a cursed image...

You do exactly what your boss told you to do and then you get in trouble for it. Bloody. Typical.

Okay, maybe I'm just retarded, Jean, but wouldn't wearing a dress instead of shorts help you to be perceived as a girl? Lucario isn't THAT masculine - it's actually fairly androgynous - but when you put bloody shorts on it...

Also, does anyone else feel like Lucarioanon might instinctively look down on Jean a bit before catching himself? Like she's not living up to her species or something? This is definitely a very instinct-low environment. I suppose instinct-high transformees would probably usually be some mixture of unable, unwilling, and considered unsuitable to fill this role.

>>58728794
Well most transformees don't get the instincts in the form of a helpful talking how-to manual like Cruz got.

Also, you're forgetting VetPhox's family. That was certainly a thing.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 08:01:03 No.58738262 Report

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>>58738260
>>58728899
In a weird way Jean might actually be handling it better considering Lucarioanon avoids crowds like the plague.

I wonder what the guy posting those vlogs would think of your story. Definitely worse ways to spend COVID. I should know.

>>58731929
That's a new definition of endearing. Well, however much or little "PIPS" you decide to give Etienne, I know whatever you come up with will be great.

>>58733099
Hmm. Does this feel like a burnout post to anyone else? Copanon experiences the most interesting them to ever happen to him, then two straight weeks of plain nothing? That feels unlikely to me, even if it was just weirdly wholesome slice of life shenanigans with the new resident psychotic. I also note that the partner doesn't seem to have any opinion about any of this., which also feels off. It's also short by your standards and I notice you've just scrapped the scene between Fedoark and Derek rather than trying to fix it.

You doing okay, Copanon? You don't have to force yourself if your muse isn't cooperating.

>>58734243
>homeless guy who’s now roleplaying
That would be kinda horrifying, but also pretty amusing.

>>58734332
>what part of town I was
Should be "what part of town I was in"

>to take a double
I'd write that as "to do a double take", but I don't actually know if "take a double" is a valid alternative.

>for a moment longer
I'd write that as "for just another moment" just so there aren't two "longer"s in the sentence, but that's just me.

>I hadn't walked far
Should be "I haven't walked far", but granted one's internal monologue won't always be grammatically correct.

Pfft, fucking ROBLOX. Honestly as good an excuse to be delayed just long enough to get your ass asploded as any.

Mienshanon

Mienshanon Sun 14 Dec 2025 11:14:33 No.58738636 Report

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>>58737631
Oh sweet, a new story! I was wondering when we'll get a Gregor Samsa reference. After all, the Metamorphosis is right up /sip/'s alley. I just hope our Golisopod fren won't share Samsa's fate.

>>58738260
How could I forget VetPhox' hellscape called family! Mea culpa!

>>58738262
>That's a new definition of endearing.
I should probably stop posting after I've exhausted my brain and reduced it to a smooth, goo-like substance... "Intriguing" was the word I was looking for.
>Well, however much or little "PIPS" you decide to give Etienne, I know whatever you come up with will be great.
Gee, thanks for the encouragement! I'm already brainstorming on how to implement PIPS. Might be a score from 0 to 5, with 0 meaning no instincts (Emma) and a 5 meaning full loss of humanity (Ben).

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 11:19:24 No.58738659 Report

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>>58737631
Reminds me of this

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 11:38:58 No.58738725 Report

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>>58734951
Oh giving someone who's never even handled a gun before a fucking garbage rod is gonna go GREAT. Between that, the extremely strong possibility of hitting the kids, and his apparently being under the impression that guns work on ghosts in the first place*, I think Brother Goodman might be a chucklefuck, even if his desperation is justified under the circumstances. I guess that counts as another form of reaction to the phenomenon, though.

*Actually, a gun would probably be a steel type attack rather than normal type, but I guarantee you Brother Goodman doesn't know that.

>>58737358
Frankly, even the innermost thoughts of completely ordinary people would make you as a Lucario want to curl up into a ball. If Jean can handle the casino, a transformee Lucario can handle this. Easy money, frankly.

>>58737628
This has such a strong start. The dude violently shitting himself in terror over the funni rock tree of all things is really funny, and he kind of aptly demonstrates just how impractical avoiding Pokemon entirely would actually be in this scenario. It's like a guy actually trying to live out all of those "stay in your home and don't make a sound" EAS mocks. Then after two weeks of self-destructive Don't Rest Your Head paranoia, the phenmenon strikes and his only reaction is...

"Well, shit..."

And thereby the tension of our protagonist's introduction is popped in glorious fashion, honestly feeling like, if anything, the phenomenon just did him a favour.

>>58737631
>You just look like a regular pocket-free monster.
Absolutely glorious line. Dude can blame Game Freak's increasingly desperate attempts to make bug types relevant without re-working the type chart.

>>58737637
I guess bro doesn't trust delivery people, huh? Ooof, yeah, that first day awkwardness definitely ain't fun. At least he hasn't damaged as much shit as Charlie yet, and at least Charlie's not the only one who can't talk now. Heh, "accent". Sure, pal.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 11:43:16 No.58738735 Report

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>>58738725
>>58737646
>Maybe there wasn’t any logic to what was happening
Funny how the paranoid guy's the most uncannily close to the mark, huh?

>>58737653
Bro had more than two weeks of vacation time saved up? Daymn, lucky guy. Definitely interested to see whether he's a no instincts case like Emma and the casino crew, if they haven't kicked in yet, or if his paranoia is suppressing them.

That cashier's got some guts coming back to work after the first time. I guess the primal fear of giant bug pales in comparison to the adult fear of homelessness. The evil twin of people not panicking because friend-shaped.

>>58737655
We've now seen Golisanon's response to a Pokemon standing perfectly still paying him no mind and his response to a Pokemon standing perfectly still but watching him. One can only imagine what'll happen the first time one tries to greet him. I wonder if that Xatu's prophetic ability will become important.

Ahhh, THERE you are, Golisopod instincts. Glad to see ya. In a weird way, this guy, like the Gallade in Cruz's story, also reminds me of a better version of the Pichuguard Scyther. But will he choose violence as those two did?

>>58737667
>keep up the facade
Bro was essentially a human Wimpod before, so Golisopod was all too perfect a transformation for him, huh? Heh, wait until he figures out how to make Emergency Exit work...

Not sure he should be proud of scaring an innocent 'mon minding its own business, but I guess he didn't do any real harm and, hey, if it helps build up his confidence enough that he can actually function.

Honestly a REALLY strong start to a new story and I'm very much hoping we'll get to see more from you. There's so many fun places this one could go.

>>58738636
Not sure if the study of transformee psychology would be quite so developed so soon, but I could definitely see the army having some preliminary guidelines about how animalistic a transformee has become.

>>58738659
Would unironically be perfect for /sip/ DESU

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 13:33:01 No.58739023 Report

Quoted By: >>58746375

I apologize for the uptick in mistakes. I haven't been able to sleep properly, so I decided I'd write then. Unfortunately, that means that I'm also exhausted when I'm writing.
Also, shit, so many good stories I need to catch up on. Once the first draft of this is out, I'm going to be doing so.

>>58738262
Ah, thank you so much.
>take a double
"Take a double" is not valid, but it technically would work anyways as a variation of the original idiom. It was still a mistake.

>thought grammar
This was because mid-writing the chapter, I had a change in how I portrayed the internal thoughts of Valentine.
Originally, I did not quoted the thoughts at all and more "integrated" with the rest of the paragraph, which led to some confusion when I got to the part where he's supposed to be muttering them without realizing.
I guess I rushed this one in particular and forgot to change it to the correct tensing.

I'm going to make a request that on the day of reckoning, you guys keep an extra eye out to make sure you can snag the internal monologuing I forgot to change. I'm sure there's a LOT of instances, since I haven't really gone over this with a fine tooth comb yet.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 16:01:19 No.58739439 Report

Quoted By: >>58739550 >>58740772

>>58733099
>You entered your house, and your friend from the FBI was sitting on the couch watching TV.
>The window blinds were shut ever since she moved in with you.
>She never used a disguise while inside your home.
>In a way it felt good knowing she was comfortable enough around you to not use it.
>"What can you tell us about PIPS?" asked the reporter.
>"As of now, not much, beyond the very basics. The classification is still under review, and nothing is set in stone yet," replied an older man wearing the stereotypical clothes of a psychiatrist.
>"But are there any initial theories you would be willing to share as of now?" inquired the reporter.
>"Well... we think PIPS might have two forms that might overlap. A retrograde and anterograde form. These forms might coexist but can also exist on their own. The retrograde form mostly affects the memories already formed, altering the details or even the entire context behind them," continued the psychiatrist with a bit of uncertainty.
>"Could you give an example of how it would look to help our audience visualize?" asked the reporter.
>The man was consumed in his thoughts for a while.
>"Yes. Let's say you have a childhood memory of going to a party. Retrograde PIPS would make the place the party took place look like, for example, a den and make the partygoers other Pokemon despite them not having turned. In more serious cases we encountered, there might be a complete lack of ability to remember the human faces of friends and family," continued the scholar with a certain firmness to his tone.
>"And the antgrade form?" asked the reporter.
>"Anterograde. This form causes the individual to display non-human thought patterns and desires..." said the psychiatrist before the channel changed.
>"Why did you change the channel?" you asked.
>"It made me feel uncomfortable," replied your friend.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 16:49:30 No.58739550 Report

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>>58739439
>"Why?" you asked her.
>"I... I don't know," she replied with unease.
>"If you don't feel comfortable with it, then I'll stop digging, but maybe you should hear what he had to say. It might be helpful information for you," you said to her, trying to help her.
>"From my point of view, PIPS is just bait," she replied, scoffing.
>"Why do you think so? The guy seemed knowledgeable about the subject," you inquired, trying to understand her thought process.
>"Maybe the condition is real, but giving it a name also serves another purpose. Making it seem that turnees are being normalized by society," she replied.
>"Isn't that a good thing?" you asked, a bit confused about what she said.
>"Giving the illusion of normalization would cause certain individuals who collect mental health conditions like Pokemon to out themselves on social media. It looks to me like they are testing the waters for performing a countrywide census," she said in a somewhat calculating tone.
>"I'd say bullshit on that, but I'm not the fed in the house. But I still think you should watch that interview to the end. It might have some tips to help you with your... urges," you replied to her calmly.
>"I guess you are right," she said while switching the channel back, but the interview had already ended.
>"Eh... I'll just read some articles on the internet instead," she said with dejection.
>You sat next to her.
>"Don't worry," you said to her, trying to reassure her.
>"I'm not worried. I'm just... I don't know anymore," she said while slumping over onto your arm.
>"Scratches?" you asked.
>She just nodded silently.
>"I'm pathetic, aren't I?" she asked with her eyes closed.
>"Nah, you are kinda cute in a way," you replied.
>"Hmph... How many times have I threatened to kill you at this point?" she asked with a smile.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 17:12:38 No.58739621 Report

Quoted By: >>58740772 >>58745749

>>58709286
Is there a convenient list of every character and their species, and other info about them? The first post has a story list, but I was thinking of a quick reference page so you don’t have to click through each story and read to find out who’s who.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 17:59:48 No.58739785 Report

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>>58739550
>"Why are you asking?" you inquired about her intentions.
>"Because by the 3rd time I'd expected you to throw me out, and I'm pretty sure we are wayyy past 3 times," she said with her face melting like butter.
>"I know you didn't mean it," you said.
>"You can't read my mind," she replied with her eyes still closed.
>"Because I don't need to," you replied.
>"Hmph... I'm going to kill you," she said, smiling but not maliciously.
>"Yeah sure you are," you replied to her, not making much of her empty threat.
>She just continued smiling with her eyes closed, continuing to enjoy the scratches.
>You sat there just watching the usual slop for a while.
>"Say... Would you want to come with me to the forest tomorrow morning?" you asked her.
>"What for?" she asked with curiosity.
>"To find that Trevenant."
>"You still are trying to find it? Ehh... Why not? Not like I have anything better to do tomorrow," she said while stretching on the couch.
>"Great. But now I'm going to sleep. I have some sleep debt to sleep off."
>"Sure, I'm going to watch some more TV before I go to sleep. Sleep tight," she said while waving goodbye with her hand.
>You cleaned your teeth and went to sleep.
>The night was calm, no blood on your hands, no frostbite, nor weird dreams.
>Your alarm woke you up.
>You felt refreshed.
>As you were about to get out of bed, you noticed your arm.
>It was covered in long, white, flowing fur and red boils.
>Your fingers are replaced with claws.
>You were in shock.
>In a frantic attempt to get out of bed, you ended up falling on your face.
>"If only you could see your face! Haha! Priceless," you heard your friend's voice.
>Once again you looked at your hand, and it was back to the soft pinkish human normal.
>"In a mood for pranks, or were you trying to kill me with a heart attack?" you asked, pained.
>"Oh it was the first one, but the second one is a good idea for... later," she said, chuckling to herself.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 19:54:03 No.58740138 Report

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>>58739785
>Punked with an H.Zork illusion
Yeah, sounds about right. If he eventually turns into a regular Zork those two will be peas in a pod

Mienshanon

Mienshanon Sun 14 Dec 2025 22:10:57 No.58740772 Report

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>>58738735
>Not sure if the study of transformee psychology would be quite so developed so soon
I feel like the universities would develop some kind of diagnosis method rather quickly. Just to make helping turnees easier. My story also takes place a bit more than six months after the first Pokémon were spotted. It's also just some ideas I had and wanted to share.

Talking of which.
>>58739439
I think thats a good first implementation of PIPS. Depending on the severity, there could be subclasses or whole new classes as well in the future.

Also, good story bit, CopAnon! A pranking Rusefox is always welcome.

>>58740138
The world isn't ready for this pair yet.

>>58739621
We currently only have the list of stories. I guess you are looking for something like what the anons at /pmdg/ have? As we don't have much collaboration between stories, it would be rather overkill to have such an extensive character list.
A page with a short synopsis of each story and/or main characters could be created, I guess. On the other hand, some stories like to shroud their characters in a bit of mystery and don't immediately tell you what Pokémon they write about, like Churchanon's story or to some extent mine as well.

What are the other authors thoughts on this topic? I'm curious as well.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 22:41:16 No.58740914 Report

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>>58740772
You could use AI to generate a list of characters from the stories (^ө^)

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Mienshanon Sun 14 Dec 2025 22:51:37 No.58740959 Report

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>>58740914
I'm still the anti-AI fag. So, nah
Nice Porygon, though.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2025 01:43:06 No.58741480 Report

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>>58740772
I could write a logline for Herding Cats. Anything to avoid actually writing Herding Cats.

Snivyanon

Snivyanon Mon 15 Dec 2025 05:42:25 No.58742129 Report

Quoted By: >>58743642

Lots of stories to catch up on! I’ll give em a read and comment when I get back home.

(Trying to push out Ch 5 of S&W this week but my motivation to write is pretty shot, so we’ll see)

>>58740772
I suppose a character list wouldn’t hurt just so new people have an idea of who we might be mentioning without having to dig through all the stories. Could literally just be as simple as Name - Species - Story of Origin.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2025 13:17:28 No.58742851 Report

Quoted By:

Skipping tonight, will do tomorrow though.
Been busy programming a mockup. Or rather, a mockup viewer. I haven't actually started on the mockup yet, which is moderately amusing.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2025 13:45:13 No.58742903 Report

Quoted By: >>58742941

>>58738735
>Would unironically be perfect for /sip/ DESU

I took it from clover guild, and I don't know how they'd feel about it. Thoughts on this thread are a little mixed

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Snivyanon Mon 15 Dec 2025 14:08:14 No.58742941 Report

Quoted By: >>58743045 >>58743072 >>58743091 >>58743642 >>58745059

>>58734951
Dude bringing out the guns is about as silly as a self-proclaimed demonologist wrapping a rosary around his knuckles so he can fist-fight a ghost (still my favorite 'ghost hunting' show). We'll have to see how well this goes.

>>58737667
Man this is really good. Macho pointed out that the dude was basically a human wimpod before he transformed, and I had the same thought while reading lol. Maybe this guy and Derek would get along, what with their night time grocery shopping. I like the dichotomy of not wanting to scare other people, but then feeling disappointed that the cashier seems to be getting used to the giant murder bug. (AC: For Answer mentioned). The scene scaring off the Sudowoodo was funny, finally some payback after weeks of being terrorized by a tree.

>>58739785
I'm glad PIPS has taken off, lol. Honestly exploring why some people are having these strange false memories versus just instinctual urges is interesting from a scientific narrative standpoint, so its neat seeing you come up with the whole retrograde and anterograde forms of it. Can see why this all would make Fedoark uncomfortable, but honestly she's gotta confront this stuff at some point if she doesn't want to completely deteriorate.

And here come the fox pranks.

>>58742903
Did we somehow slight them, or are they just being hostile like usual.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2025 14:58:38 No.58743045 Report

Quoted By: >>58743642

>>58742941
>Did we somehow slight them, or are they just being hostile like usual.
Cringe is only okay when they do it, y'see.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2025 15:10:07 No.58743072 Report

Quoted By: >>58743642 >>58746375

>>58742941
You didn't slight them, it's just some people don't care for the stories here and some people do. They're different in general tone, a little more grounded and gritty than what pmdg writes which isn't a bad thing but it does turn some of us off because of personal preference. Not like clover guild is a collective hive mind, I know a few people who lurk this thread. I couldn't gauge a reaction to their image being used as a thread OP but it might be awkward is all

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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2025 15:18:20 No.58743091 Report

Quoted By: >>58743132 >>58743642

>>58742941
>are they just being hostile like usual
I never heard them be accused of hostility before this post

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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2025 15:28:03 No.58743110 Report

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Does anyone remember the name of a fic on Ao3 about a girl who was in love with the local Pokémon Professor of the town but then turned into a eevee?

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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2025 15:36:03 No.58743132 Report

Quoted By: >>58743642

>>58743091
Because they're not. I'm just saying it might be a little awkward

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Mienshanon Mon 15 Dec 2025 18:10:25 No.58743642 Report

Quoted By: >>58743712 >>58746375

>>58742129
>character list with Name - Species - Story of Origin
We could very much do that. I'm just not a huge fan of full blown character sheets, at least not in the near future.
How do we handle the current list of archived and ongoing stories, though? Keep it or move it to a rentry as well? Only list stories that were active in the last thread, perhaps? The list will only grow as time passes and the 2k character limit will get to us sooner rather than later.

>>58742941
>>58743045
>>58743072
>>58743091
>>58743132
All that non-beef with /pmdg/ makes me hungry... Live and let live. Those that want to contribute, can, the ones that won't, just don't.
I will continue to enjoy stories from both threads. In fact, the more the merrier!

Now, to bring the thread back on topic. I liked that other anon asking a question to the writers. So...
Readers and writers as well: With PIPS making its debut, what is another topic you want to see in a future story?
Could be anything from amusement parks to heavy philosophical themes on what it means to be human after turning. The sky's the limit!

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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2025 18:27:12 No.58743712 Report

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>>58743642
Clothing. People can only take so many exposed crotches before things get uncomfortable. Plus, it helps to reinforce the general “yeah, it might technically be an apocalypse, but society just keeps running, so whatever” vibe. Yeah, you’re a Flygon now but we really need you to still come in on Monday to get this project wrapped up.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2025 23:15:04 No.58744614 Report

Quoted By: >>58746577

>>58743712
Besoke Pokemon clothes wouldn't be the biggest market but it'd be a very well cornered one.

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Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2025 01:18:04 No.58744930 Report

Quoted By: >>58746375

Told ya I'd do something today. Even took a nap before this, so hopefully the quality is much higher than the last post.

>>58743712
I'll try to touch on how some of the humans miss their clothing(Matsui already does, that's kind of why she acted that way, but she hasn't verbalized that yet,) but for the most part, clothes are only really practical for the bipedals. Nothing has been done to make good clothing for quadrupeds or spiders before.

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Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2025 02:11:50 No.58745059 Report

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>>58742941
>Honestly exploring why some people are having these strange false memories versus just instinctual urges is interesting from a scientific narrative standpoint

Wanted to do it in the Vaporeon story, but I decided to give the basics here and somewhat expand it there instead.

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Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2025 06:51:51 No.58745647 Report

Quoted By: >>58745648

>>58710045
>I don't really say anything on the drive home.
>I'm just... glad I'm lucky to have parents like these.
>I think I fell asleep at one point...
>Luckily it doesn't seem like I cut into the seats.
>...man maybe i should sell off my car if i'm not gonna be able to use it anymore, given my state of affairs...
>We reach my driveway sooner than I expect. Guess the hospital wasn't that far.
>"We're home Cruz! Come on, get up." I hear mom's chipper voice call out.
>"What, need me to carry you there? You don't seem particularly heavy so I guess I could do it, eh? Just like when you were a kid and you'd ask me to pick you up!" Pap prods me, fully aware of my lack of fondness towards him feeling the need to mention that I'm certain.
>Need to pull up my phone again... does it even have any charge...?
>Huh. Seems it does. Maybe Suzannine plugged it in while I was out cold.
>...doubt amaro could finagle it with those wings of his...
>"I can manage myself alright, d-don't worry. Though... If you could help me out with the bag and keys I'd appreciate it..." I squeak out, thank god for that app. Still, should try and learn how to talk backwards at some point for convenience...
>"Sure thing!" He says, as I hear the car's door click open and hear some shuffling, followed by the bag being dragged away.
>"It's still the small one, right?" Asks mom as I lazily nod.
>...need to push myself up without damaging the leather...
>There y'go.
>Home sweet home.
>...ah crap I didn't account for mom lecturing me over my living room being a...
>egh, doesn't matter, got other things to worry about
>Both of them still very much making themselves at home.
>It is, in a way. Doubt I could've afforded the initial rent without their help.
>'least the Toei pay is nice enough for me to upkeep it on my own now...
>"You know, I'd ask why you haven't cleaned up around here but I'm guessing cleaning with... knife arms isn't easy, now is it? I think I'll help you out for the day." She says.

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Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2025 06:53:21 No.58745648 Report

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>>58745647
>Got spared the lecture for today. Win for me.
>Dad whistles. "Are those cuts yours or Amaro's? He did tell us about how you 2 met and all." He gives a couple taps to a drawer I'd... somewhat abused that first day without meaning to. "Hey, you might as well get some use out of me while I'm still here y'know? Can still teach you to restore wood if you'd like me to. I'm sure we can weld you some grabby hands to fit over your arms with some cleverness here and there so you can do things right around here."
>"Oh weren't you the one telling me not to mortify him just earlier?" Mom snarks.
>"Hey, I'm just offering him some help!" He replies. "But really though, if you'd be interested I could try and help you find a way to work with restoring wood and the like in case you cut anything. Useful life skill as you're well aware."
>Well, after "pap will fix it!" almost became an in-joke of a catchphrase for me in the family when I was a kid I'd be a hypocrite to argue with that now.
>"I... Think I'd like that, actually. But... are you sure you've got the time for it?"
>"If anything time's what I've got more than enough of as of late, just make sure to drop by early, you know I like taking my afternoons easy mijo." He says, laughing lightly.
>"I think that'd work, actually... I'm really sorry for the trouble you 2, I can't thank you enough..."
>"You're our son, you don't need to thank us. We just need you to be good, alright? Not like you asked to get assaulted, sometimes we're just... Unlucky. What matters is that you're safe and sound now, and you've got a home to come back to." After I hover to the sofa, she comes by and again gives me a kiss on my would-be forehead, before sitting next to me.
>"...don't think I haven't noticed the mess of posters you've got around here, but that's a talk for another day." I hear her threaten me.
>i should've known i wouldn't get off the hook that easy but i still had hope dangit

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Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2025 06:55:46 No.58745654 Report

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>>58745648
>"Can you still eat even as a paper man?" I hear pap ask between shuffling noises from the kitchen. "I'll help you with food for the day while you recover. It's a good thing you've got some beef around here, was worried you would've gotten lazy about your cooking now that you're on your own."
>"Hey, I always told you I could cook even if not as good as you didn't I?"
>"Have you even given the grill a shot yet or are you keeping to the stove still?" He asks with an audible grin.
>I turn to face him. "Well, even if I could, I'm not sure that'd be the brightest idea given my current state of affairs now would it?" I ask waving my papery arm.
>"Guess so." Before long, he'd turned on the stove and started preparing some beef on one of my pans. "Dang, couldn't find a smaller one could you?"
>"Not like I need much more when I mainly cook for one..."
>"Still, you never know when you could have guests over, you should get a bigger one son." Dang, it's smelling great already...
>Always wished I had pap's touch when it came to the kitchen. He's still a wizard at it even if he says he's not...
>"Maybe when my next check comes in."
>Mom quickly made herself at home. This couch was a hand me down from their place, so it's kinda nostalgic sitting down next to her again.
>...hell given my size it's almost like when i was a kid...
>"So... how's it been? Adapting to being a Pokemon and all. Given your arms I can't imagine it's been easy... You should've asked us for help yourself, you know?" She did always worry about making sure things were easier for me, no reason for that to change now...
>"I think I just... I dunno, hoped I could figure it out on my own. I think I did for the most part."
>"Well, if that's the case, I'm glad. I just wish the first time we saw you in person like this hadn't been due to you being assaulted like that. I always thought Pokemon were cute, but they can also be dangerous, now that I see them in person." She sounds nostalgic as she says that.

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Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2025 06:56:50 No.58745655 Report

Quoted By: >>58746577 >>58747037 >>58764065

>>58745654
>I guess I did somewhat talk her ear off about Pokemon a lot when I was a kid.
>She'd start making cheesy jokes about "feeling like a Snorlax" at a certain point.
>...leaning against her still feels nice, as she gently places her hand on me.
>"I think... I should just be glad you turned into one that lets you defend yourself, shouldn't I...?" She sounds... hesitant in that.
>...being... carried in her arms is nice...
>I'm... glad I'm at least not poking her as she hugs me...
>"I'm sorry, I just... Really hoped none of us would have to deal with this. Your dad and I are getting on in years and I just... hoped things wouldn't get any harder..." ...I can feel as the salty water is absorbed into my arms. It's... odd...
>"I guess it's a good thing it was me that got hit with it then, right? I can handle myself, not like you 2 should worry about me over this..."
>"I know, I know, but... It's hard for us not to worry about you." She holds me tighter...
>"You've only been out of the house for 2 years or so, it still feels like you're just going to pop back in through the main door after classes any time you know?" Dad says as he comes by with 3 plates of beef and asparagus. Nearly forgot I had those in my fridge still. "We're still not used to just having the house to ourselves. Your Japan studies were the closest but even then that was half a year."
>"Guess so... At least I don't live that far, right?"
>"Don't threaten us with moving back to Japan again, will you? You know your dad's not willing to make those kinds of trips even if I am..." She says with a light chuckle.
>"Give my knees a break will you? You 2 are still more than free to go if you'd like to." He replies snarkily.
>...I lose track of time eventually.
>It's... nice, just being with them again. Specially over some of pap's cooking.
>I really regret not having met up with them sooner, but...
>I'm glad I did now at least.
>...I really am blessed to have them as family, aren't I...?

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Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2025 07:38:30 No.58745749 Report

Quoted By: >>58747037

And with that, finally got that update outta the way. Lotta stuff to catch up on too so I think I'll be a bit brief, but I DID read everything in full, great stuff as always!

>>58726144
Jean seems like a nice lass and I definitely feel for her, hope Pokefashion develops sooner rather than later so she can feel more herself... Always fun reading about the casino gang, and Alex's endeavors are definitely funny, hope he gets his grasp on a good shtick soon!

>>58737631
Same as it ever was...
>>58737667
God DAMN this was a good opener, really loving this guy already and it's very much funny seeing that "sleep for 5 minutes, get turned anyway" idea play out in some way proper, good shit, excited to see more of him. Very much agree with the idea of him basically being a human Wimpod prior to turning, good stuff.

>>58739785
Love me some Copanon, glad you're getting mileage outta that Fedoark doodle. What an amusing prank for her to pull, though at least it's better than trying to physically kill him I think?

>>58739621
>The first post has a story list, but I was thinking of a quick reference page so you don’t have to click through each story and read to find out who’s who.
I may be willing to provide those little thumbnails (picrel) for the stories that don't have 'em for this if necessary, mainly depends on if I have the energy for it, but I definitely do have some scenes in mind for Alex and Isaac, maybe Etienne too but I'd rather wait till that one's more developed...

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Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2025 14:04:07 No.58746331 Report

Quoted By: >>58746375 >>58746385

Oh shit, Kartanon posted. I haven't read anything after the first post but I liked it.
I should've been asleep 2 hours ago, fuck. And I got a new captcha??? THE FUCK??????

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2025 14:30:09 No.58746375 Report

Quoted By: >>58747037 >>58747251

>>58739023
Wait, so this dude managed to fall asleep listening to his rave music? Huh. Could be a heavy drinker I guess. Was it the window that shattered? It's not entirely clear.

>>58739785
Seems with Snivy's PIPS suggestion, humanity is taking its first steps into figuring out what is even happening with these creatures. I don't think anyone will blame Fedoark for being skeptical, but surely there's better ways to prime the transformed population for a census. Of course any census would quickly become outdated anyway given that there's a steady drip of people transforming over time.

Ah, okay, the forest, so is this where we're gonna get the re-worked encounter with Derek, I suppose? So that last post was just bridging rather than burnout. That's fair, but I'm not sure if pushing the timeline out from a few days to a few weeks was strictly necessary.

I mean I hate pranks, but I guess that counts as a productive outlet for H. Zoro instincts...?

>>58740772
>six months
Ahh, got'cha.

I guess if anyone wants to write blurbs for their stories we could include a rentry with those.

>>58743072
>grounded and gritty
What's funny about that is that for all my talk of mundane realism, our portrayal of the "real" world is still generally significantly more optimistic than the actual real world. I guess CloverGuild's content is pretty WAFFy, huh? Kinda makes me wanna check it out, actually. I have grimdark fatigue going back literally two decades.

>>58743642
>another topic you want to see
Well we've had plenty of cops and a few medical professionals here and there - how about some firefighters next?

>>58744930
I'd replace the second "knocked me off my feet" with something like "had struck me". Yeah, Val kinda digs his own grave there, but to be fair, most of us don't expect a house we've decided to stop and admire to just randomly explode.

>>58746331
Yeah, shit's weird.

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Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2025 14:32:42 No.58746385 Report

Quoted By: >>58746577 >>58746936

>>58746331
Image upload seems to be allowed in “Incognito” modes as well. The time between requests for new captchas has gone way up however, if for some reason you can’t read these piss easy ones.

Nice of the admins to think about those poor mons with low dexterity.

Snivyanon

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Snivyanon Tue 16 Dec 2025 15:35:15 No.58746577 Report

Quoted By: >>58747037

>>58745655
Comfy doting parents slice of life update with all the teasing and threats of lecturing you'd expect. Really like how dad is trying to make the situation feel as normal as possible, given the circumstances and everything, so the comments about teaching Kartanon wood restoration or how his cookware sucks was funny. His mom being wistful and trying to keep it together, and also not afraid to give him a hug. All very comfy.

>>58744614
This sounds like a perfect task for Emma.

>>58746385
Another destroyed bed for the tally!

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2025 18:10:06 No.58746936 Report

Quoted By:

>>58746385
You still have hands
Not human hands, but you can figure out how to write messages to communicate

Mienshanon

Mienshanon Tue 16 Dec 2025 18:56:42 No.58747037 Report

Quoted By: >>58749439

>>58743712
>inb4 Temu flooding the market with cheap ass clothing "made for Pokémon" (They're just trousers that have been cut up and strung together haphazardly)

>>58745655
Great stuff as always, Kartanon! I love the casual conversation between the parents and Cruz. Also some nice parallels to the kid nostalgia. Nothing beats a motherly embrace in times of hardship!

>>58745749
>I may be willing to provide those little thumbnails
That would be absolutely phenomenal!
>mainly depends on if I have the energy for it
Might not be December, nor January, but I'm sure you'll find the energy someday. Your art has been a godsend for the threads so far!
>maybe Etienne too but I'd rather wait till that one's more developed...
Definitely wait at least until chapter 1 is out. Should come out in mid January (hopefully) and will give him some more personality to work with.

>>58746375
>Wait, so this dude managed to fall asleep listening to his rave music?
I regularly doze off to some metalcore or other heavy stuff. What can I say, some of us metalheads and ravers are just built different.

>>58746577
What a nice Emma you got there!
>Another destroyed bed for the tally!
How many is this now, two? Charlie destroyed his bed in his lifting frenzy, are there others I forgot?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2025 19:31:03 No.58747106 Report

Quoted By:

>People cloistered away in their own homes after turning be like
https://youtu.be/KFS9c852M_k

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2025 20:22:27 No.58747251 Report

Quoted By: >>58748669

>>58746375
>how was the window shattered
So, the guy who shouted WTF is not the guy who transformed.
The Claydol is not even human. The glass shattering was actually a reptile tank.
I'll let try to piece that together before I write the sheriff's fight.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2025 20:34:41 No.58747287 Report

Quoted By: >>58747792 >>58748669

If you don't want to figure it out, in the unluckiest transformation timing ever possible to write, the Claydol was a mouse that was being consumed by a snake at the time.

There's yet another captcha by the ways.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2025 23:37:27 No.58747792 Report

Quoted By: >>58747802

>>58747287
HOW THE FUCK DO YOU SOLVE THIS SHIT
>Triangle
>Half Circle
>Circle
>Rectangle
>Rectangle
WHICH ONE IS SUPPOSED TO BE UNIQUE?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Dec 2025 23:41:03 No.58747802 Report

Quoted By:

>>58747792
>Porygon Anon unable to use 4chan

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Anonymous Wed 17 Dec 2025 03:53:54 No.58748352 Report

Quoted By: >>58748367

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcT-i9xzC-8
>…
>…
>Uh oh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Dec 2025 04:08:40 No.58748367 Report

Quoted By:

>>58748352
That would be alarming to wake up to, ngl.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Dec 2025 06:11:33 No.58748669 Report

Quoted By: >>58749446

>>58747251
I think I see where you're going with this, but let's see what happens.

>>58747287
Oh. Well nevermind, I guess. That's certainly a new one on me. Very unique, though - I like it.

Snivyanon

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Snivyanon Wed 17 Dec 2025 12:59:26 No.58749439 Report

Quoted By:

>>58747037
>How many is this now?
I just assume there's a bed destruction pandemic across the globe with how many large and pointy/sharp 'mons there are.

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Anonymous Wed 17 Dec 2025 13:03:55 No.58749446 Report

Quoted By: >>58750783

>>58748669
If people change while they sleep that would make some public places like trains, planes, and busses more dangerous. Imagine seeing a business man falling asleep on the subway, looking away for a moment, and then when you turn back there’s a Pokémon in his clothes
Or another one:
>University library is open 24/7 during finals week
>At least one student turned while trying to cram for an exam they had the next morning
>Other students are jealous since they don’t have an excuse to miss their exam

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Dec 2025 13:51:19 No.58749538 Report

Quoted By: >>58749560 >>58750783

I think it happening while people are sleeping can also add some tension to anyone writing a human character. You describe them falling asleep and there's always that chance that they won't wake up the same as they were

Snivyanon

Snivyanon Wed 17 Dec 2025 14:01:26 No.58749560 Report

Quoted By: >>58749602

>>58749538
There's some furry out there taking 5 minute naps all day trying to intentionally turn...

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Dec 2025 14:17:10 No.58749602 Report

Quoted By: >>58749735 >>58750418 >>58750783 >>58751529

>>58749560
>New at West Fur-gin-Nya Con 20XX, dedicated Poké Sleep Rooms!
>Take a break from the convention and rest easy knowing our therapist team is on site to help you in case you transform!*
>Conveniently located next to our on-site AIDS testing clinic on the 2nd floor.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Dec 2025 15:02:02 No.58749735 Report

Quoted By:

>>58749602
Made me kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Dec 2025 18:46:21 No.58750418 Report

Quoted By: >>58750470

>>58749602
>Proving that there is some justice in the world, no one has ever turned at these events

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Dec 2025 19:01:29 No.58750470 Report

Quoted By:

>>58750418
Careful, you might inspire a story

Mienshanon

Mienshanon Wed 17 Dec 2025 20:26:47 No.58750783 Report

Quoted By: >>58750913 >>58751529 >>58751577 >>58752607 >>58752636

>>58749446
I believe we touched the subject a few threads ago? It's kind of an unspoken rule that transformations only happen if nothing is catching a glimpse at this point. A double-slit experiment of some sorts. While writing about it is probably fine to some extent, it also has the high potential to just step into fetish territory - at least deeper than the general theme already is.
But just imagine the news: "Train derails after overworked man turns into Wailord while commuting – 200 dead." There's some great slapstick humour potential here.

>>58749538
It definitely could, but it also would be in conflict with the whole "Just enough transformations are occurring to notably change day-to-day life without collapsing civilization. This is not the apocalypse[...]" premise. Falling asleep and turning into a Japanese fantasy critter has probably the same chances as being hit by lightning.

>>58749602
Conventions would be even more frowned upon than they deservedly already are. At least they wouldn't need to buy overpriced suits any more...

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Dec 2025 21:02:12 No.58750913 Report

Quoted By:

>>58750783
>At least they wouldn't need to buy overpriced suits any more...
I’m not so sure about that. I can imagine a situation like:
>furfag has a feline oc and fursuit
>turns into a reptilian pokemon or something
>hates the new body
>they just keep wearing the old suit and continue roleplaying as a cat

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 00:32:21 No.58751529 Report

Quoted By: >>58752306 >>58752801

>>58749602
If I was a turnee and heard that a furry convention was taking place in the area, I'd either larp as a roof Korean or get as far away as physically possible for the entire duration of the event.

>>58750783
>TFW the being under observation 24/7 is the only way to not get transformed.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 00:33:20 No.58751531 Report

Quoted By:

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 00:51:39 No.58751577 Report

Quoted By: >>58752607 >>58752634 >>58752636 >>58752801

>>58750783
>It would conflict with the whole "this isn't the apocalypse" theme
What? I brought this up in the context of writing, not world building. What does any of this change?

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Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 04:51:36 No.58752306 Report

Quoted By:

>>58751529
>sleep together in shifts they said
>it will keep you all from turning they said

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 06:35:21 No.58752520 Report

Quoted By: >>58752607 >>58752634 >>58752636 >>58752801

As sort of ridiculous as the "nobody has to be looking for a transformation to happen" rule that's being thrown around is impractical and unrealistic, I still really like it for some reason. Just further adding to the paranoia the world is experiencing is fun. I kind of want to write about it in my own story

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 07:19:20 No.58752607 Report

Quoted By:

>>58750783
>transformations only happen if nothing is catching a glimpse at this point
I don't think that was ever actually established. I think we were just avoiding writing public transformations under the broader principal of not writing transformation scenes. It would make sense to me that they can happen, though. Plus, given that spoiler Drifter recently provided, it appears the Claydol in his story did indeed transform right before a dude's eyes. It seems to happen quickly, which lends credence to an earlier suggestion I made that it looks very similar to how Pokemon evolution in the anime does, but there's a reason Drifter doesn't have Val actually see what happened with his own eyes.

>>58751577
I think what he's suggesting is that the sheer panic the idea that you could transform any time you sleep would realistically cause might be enough to rip society apart all by itself. I think Drifter made a similar suggestion for the revelation that people can turn feral, but he's also argued that the relatively low amount of overall panic in /sip/ stories actually IS realistic. In any case, it's what most have gone with for /sip/ stories.

>>58752520
Given that there isn't (and won't be) a hard-and-fast rule about this, go ahead and write that if you'd like. Doesn't matter if your story has it that only the unobserved can transform and someone else has a public transformation. Like I've said before, trying to keep all the stories mutually compatible is just something I've been doing for fun - it's not in any way required or mandated.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 07:26:15 No.58752634 Report

Quoted By:

>transformations only happen if nothing is catching a glimpse at this point
I don't think that was ever actually established. I think we were just avoiding writing public transformations under the broader principal of not writing transformation scenes. It would make sense to me that they can happen, though. Plus, given that spoiler Drifter recently provided, it appears the Claydol in his story did indeed transform right before a dude's eyes. It seems to happen quickly, which lends credence to an earlier suggestion I made that it looks very similar to how Pokemon evolution in the anime does, but there's a reason Drifter doesn't have Val actually see what happened with his own eyes.

>>58751577
I think what he's suggesting is that the sheer panic the idea that you could transform any time you sleep would realistically cause might be enough to rip society apart all by itself. I think Drifter made a similar suggestion for the revelation that people can turn feral, but he's also argued that the relatively low amount of overall panic in /sip/ stories actually IS realistic. In any case, relatively low overall panic is what most have gone with for /sip/ stories. Whether that particular aspect is realistic or not, more broadly what most of us have been going for is just enough mundane realism to make the fantastical aspects pop, moreso than trying for perfect realism.

>>58752520
Given that there isn't (and won't be) a hard-and-fast rule about this, go ahead and write that if you'd like. Doesn't matter if your story has it that only the unobserved can transform and someone else has a public transformation. Like I've said before, trying to keep all the stories mutually compatible is just something I've been doing for fun - it's not in any way required or mandated.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 07:27:41 No.58752636 Report

Quoted By: >>58752801

Not only did I have to delete, I had to delete twice. I really ballsed that up and I do apologize. Tired out after work.

>>58750783
>transformations only happen if nothing is catching a glimpse at this point
I don't think that was ever actually established. I think we were just avoiding writing public transformations under the broader principal of not writing transformation scenes. It would make sense to me that they can happen, though. Plus, given that spoiler Drifter recently provided, it appears the Claydol in his story did indeed transform right before a dude's eyes. It seems to happen quickly, which lends credence to an earlier suggestion I made that it looks very similar to how Pokemon evolution in the anime does, but there's a reason Drifter doesn't have Val actually see what happened with his own eyes.

>>58751577
I think what he's suggesting is that the sheer panic the idea that you could transform any time you sleep would realistically cause might be enough to rip society apart all by itself. I think Drifter made a similar suggestion for the revelation that people can turn feral, but he's also argued that the relatively low amount of overall panic in /sip/ stories actually IS realistic. In any case, relatively low overall panic is what most have gone with for /sip/ stories. Whether that particular aspect is realistic or not, more broadly what most of us have been going for is just enough mundane realism to make the fantastical aspects pop, moreso than trying for perfect realism.

>>58752520
Given that there isn't (and won't be) a hard-and-fast rule about this, go ahead and write that if you'd like. Doesn't matter if your story has it that only the unobserved can transform and someone else has a public transformation. Like I've said before, trying to keep all the stories mutually compatible is just something I've been doing for fun - it's not in any way required or mandated.

Mienshanon

Mienshanon Thu 18 Dec 2025 08:58:29 No.58752801 Report

Quoted By: >>58752810

>>58751529
>tfw Orwell's 1984 happens just to prevent transformations
>"Big brother is keeping you from transforming"

Ah, shucks, looks like I started an argument... I know it's not a rule - probably not even an unspoken one. A gentleman's agreement would honestly be a better term to describe it. Apologies.

>>58751577
See >>58752636
Humanity is kinda stubborn when it comes to such things. Sure there would be the odd case of paranoia, like Golisopod-Anon, but the majority would just continue to live their lives.You still need to buy food, after all. Obviously there would be exceptions to that sentiment, like in every other event in human history before.

>>58752520
Sure, go ahead. The only true rule we have is to have fun with it.

>>58752636
>non-spoiler
That's a much better way of putting it than what I wrote. Again, it's more like a gentleman's agreement.
>spoiler
There was a snake in the way of directly viewing it, but I see your point. Also, I'm not counting this to be part of the story itself yet, as it was posted outside of it. From Val's perspective, the Claydol could've just as well entered from the backside of the house and blow the dude up. The moves explosion and self-destruct also glow before going off. If Drifter puts it in, I'll gladly accept it, though.

I also just realised, that I was subconsciously trying to explain the phenomenon. Fuck me...

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 09:09:39 No.58752810 Report

Quoted By:

>>58752801
Oh, it's no argument. Just a conversation.

>58749538
>58751577
Both my posts and apparently I need to clarify further. I do not mean that everyone in the world is going to feel tense about sleeping or anything like that. I am not referring to ANYTHING here in the context of worldbuilding because frankly I am fucking awful at worldbuilding. I am saying that a reader may feel some tension whenever a character sleeps. It'd help especially if other characters in the story were turning and there were more descriptions of characters falling asleep. Just an idea if someone wants to try it

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 11:40:54 No.58753062 Report

Quoted By: >>58753292 >>58754047 >>58754572 >>58754581 >>58757140 >>58764065

This was finished last night. Don't know why I didn't post it then
https://rentry.org/cb24k1ti#part-12

Fuck this new captcha by the way. There's a lot of talk here I see of people turning in their sleep and our little PIPS term. Being unobserved as far as I understand was never a rule, just something people did to avoid writing a transformation sequence. Not like you couldn't write someone transforming in front of another person without actually describing it, but it'd certainly be difficult.

I just like the idea that people just poof into being Pokemon when nobody's looking. There's something funny about it, but I'm not gonna establish it as a rule in my stories. Avoiding establishing any rules around transformations really. I also write my stories with the idea that they could be in the same setting as the other ones posted here, and I've made plenty of references in the past already. I am not the one writing canon, though. I think other people are doing a great job at that stuff.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 13:36:22 No.58753292 Report

Quoted By: >>58753450

>>58753062
Good writing, appropriately tense.
Personally, I don’t think there’s anything anyone could say that would dissuade me from killing that ghost thing. Maybe the brother has a more forgiving heart, but anything that abducts or manipulates children deserves to die in my mind, even setting aside the idea of infecting or causing others to transform.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 14:25:56 No.58753450 Report

Quoted By: >>58754075 >>58754572

>>58753292
I didn't view it as abduction when I was writing as much as convincing them to run away. The kids weren't being held captive or anything, but it obviously wasn't a good thing.

Also lacking ideas on what to do next. Suggestions would be appreciated

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 17:41:23 No.58754047 Report

Quoted By: >>58754087

>>58753062
Marshadow?
Never thought we would see a mythical like that in out stories.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 17:51:00 No.58754075 Report

Quoted By:

>>58753450
Maybe visit the mother?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 17:53:37 No.58754087 Report

Quoted By: >>58754182 >>58754572 >>58755178

>>58754047
It's a mythical? I actually didn't know. I didn't plan to include any mythical or legendary Pokemon

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Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 18:23:54 No.58754182 Report

Quoted By: >>58754194 >>58754581 >>58755178

>>58754087
Yep, though was far as mythicals go this one is pretty mundane.
So a good choice if inadvertently.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 18:29:24 No.58754194 Report

Quoted By: >>58754210

>>58754182
Well going by a dex description, it's just hard to find because of how they hide. I don't really want to retcon the whole chapter so if it's okay with everyone, I'm gonna leave it as is and just be more careful about it in the future

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 18:34:32 No.58754210 Report

Quoted By: >>58754572 >>58755178

>>58754194
Again it's fine, it's not Mew or Celebi level of power.

Mienshanon

Mienshanon Thu 18 Dec 2025 20:19:27 No.58754572 Report

Quoted By:

>>58753062
A nice little chapter to sweeten the evening/night. Really didn't expect Marshadow, but I like it. The little shadow man is just lucky our shooters suck at hitting.
Though I must say, it's rather strange to see them both shoot on sight, especially Isaac, who has no training whatsoever in using a rifle or shooting other living beings. I would have expected him to hesitate more, maybe even freeze up. I guess it makes sense, considering the Chandelure incident, but still.

>One of its weird wispy bits on the side of its head hand been clipped,[...]
Probably shouldn't be a hand here.

>His fury competed with the wrath of God himself.
That's one angry man right there! Also, I love how you play with the different formatting in Marshadow's dialogue. Nice touch!

>Bursting through the trees were three children.
Deus ex children! Only two seconds away from traumatising three, possibly four people with some top quality gore.

>Marshy, the Marshadow
Adorable

>>58753450
>Suggestions
Some things come to mind. Bringing the children home and make Marshy apologise to the parents. The return of Dusknoir and Misgmagius. Perhaps Isaacs mother could meet little Kayden, if she wakes up from her coma? Maybe something could happen on the Sunday service? Perhaps he has to take Kayden with him somewhere, because Stephen cannot look after him?

>>58754087
It is indeed. Keep it in, though. By writing it like a normal Pokémon, you coincidentally wrote it more down to earth and avoided the "look at muh kewl mythical" trap.

>>58754210
The way it's written, it works either way, even if it had the powers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 20:26:09 No.58754581 Report

Quoted By: >>58754718 >>58755178

>>58753062
Nice little chapter, I always had a soft spot for Marshadow so seeing Marshy get literally shot stung, but at least things were resolved peacefully. I am kinda curious about what his deal is though, given how he acts it seems like he could've very well been just another kid before turning, which... makes him getting shot even more fucked up.

>>58754182
>far as mythicals go this one is pretty mundane.
A lot of mythicals are fairly mundane outside of just raw stat spreads and lore all things considered. Keldeo's a water horse that could pass for just an alternative to Ponyta, Meloetta just kinda sings good, Kat kinda shows that Zeraora could be similar to many other "elemental anthro" mons imo, Zarude just... kinda overlaps with Rillaboom in a lot of ways, Meltan and Melmetal could frankly feel along the lines of the Nacli-Garganacl line if not for how fuckin' odd they are to get. I do feel like at least a few of the mythicals could just pass for average mons if not for the lore background, interesting story potential there in my opinion. Still have an idea I really would like trying with a certain one but given the mon it's for I definitely would need to be pretty cautious about how I'd handle it... I'd say if you can handle their power appropriately or keep it more in check just in general mythicals should probably be fair play, I mean, again just look at Kat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 21:24:33 No.58754718 Report

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>>58754581
Even the writing explains that Lucario tree respects and even fears the aura Kat possess, he knows that a pissed off Kat is a thunderstorms worth of electricity being released on a poor fucker.
And even her airhead nature makes it so she just zaps anything anyways.

As for the others yeah i hear ya. But maybe they hold more implications to our modern world, melmetal is a living grey goo scenario, and Meloetta could probably take over the Pop world over night.
And Arceus... that's a thread we should never really pull in our stories.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 00:36:58 No.58755178 Report

Quoted By:

>>58754087
>>58754182
>>58754210
>>58754581
Yeah Marshadow is right up there with Heatran in the "most likely for people to forget that it's a legend" stakes. Not a big deal.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 08:22:59 No.58756253 Report

Quoted By: >>58756554 >>58756674 >>58757140 >>58757387

Finished a chapter on a completely different story earlier today, how’s everybody else’s creative processes holding up?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 10:39:52 No.58756554 Report

Quoted By: >>58756895

>>58756253
All of my ideas are stuck in my head. They're not going on paper very easily

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 11:22:19 No.58756674 Report

Quoted By: >>58756895

Had a bit of a weird and experimental idea: You meet a transformed human, but something's not right. They keep making references to long dead cultural trends, and they don't seem to be up to speed on what's going on today. When asked what year they thought it was, they claim the year is some distant past year with full certainty.

I'm considering a character who either somehow time traveled, was in stasis(same thing as the time travel really,) or just had their memories wiped out before a certain point, and I'm not sure what's more interesting or fitting for a somewhat serious story.

>>58756253
On pause. My muse has left me and I cannot figure out how to compose this action scene. Kind of need it too...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 13:08:36 No.58756895 Report

Quoted By:

>>58756674
>>58756554
It’s funny to me how people describe their muse as if it was some magical animal that keeps running away from them or forcing them to do strange things.(Despite the drug theming, that’s actually what this song is about https://youtube.com/watch?v=3DKHqAnmLxo)

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 13:40:09 No.58756947 Report

Quoted By: >>58756986 >>58757387

>>58709286
I have no idea why, but sleeping in a tree like OP’s pic or pic related sounds really comfy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 13:57:23 No.58756986 Report

Quoted By:

>>58756947
Almost does but I'd prefer a hammock. Feel like it'd be more versatile for whatever pokemon I'd potentially wake up as

Snivyanon

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Snivyanon Fri 19 Dec 2025 15:08:26 No.58757140 Report

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>>58753062
I liked this update. I really like that we have another non-antagonistic ghost. Wasn't expecting Marshadow either. I didn't realize it was a mythical until people pointed that out, I honestly don't really know what makes it special enough for that category. Marshy is a cute nickname, and its adorable that Lila thought it was her imaginary friend.

Even if it wasn't brainwashing and kidnapping them, its still not a great situation all around. It being able to live in shadows, maybe it feels more comfortable when its completely dark, and that's why it wanted to play at night? It seems pretty childish and naive, so a scolding is probably due, but I don't think it was intentionally being malicious like the Chandelure was.

I'll also echo that it felt strange for Isaac to immediately start shooting after feeling so apprehensive about it before the encounter.

As for suggestions, I like the idea of checking up on his mother. "The Talk" about what's been going on still needs to happen, and I feel like she knows more than Isaac realizes. Could make for an interesting scene.

>>58756253
Not great. I want to write, I have ideas for characters and plot, but once I open my document for S&W I either get intimidated by the scope, agonize over details and story beats, wonder if anyone would even think its any good, or just lose all energy. Feeling very stuck, but still chipping away. Its very slow compared to my already slow writing cadence. Idk, maybe once the holidays pass I'll get some motivation back, but right now it feels like I'm writing more out of wanting to provide content for the thread rather than actually having fun with it.

Mienshanon

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Mienshanon Fri 19 Dec 2025 16:57:00 No.58757387 Report

Quoted By: >>58757510 >>58758239

>>58756253
I still have no time to actually write chapter 1, but the ideas are mostly written down and I can't wait to start in early January. Picrel is an overview of things related to chapter 1, Some blips are characters, while others are concepts/ideas, or plot points. And yes, PIPS is part of it :)

>>58756947
It probably feels great, as long as the branch is wide enough and you have something to shield your skin from the bark. Nothing beats lying in a sleeping bag on a haystack, though. That shit will knock you out in a heartbeat!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 17:30:03 No.58757510 Report

Quoted By: >>58757589 >>58758239

>>58757387
I haven’t seen a graph like that before, how does it work?

Mienshanon

Mienshanon Fri 19 Dec 2025 17:58:08 No.58757589 Report

Quoted By: >>58757606 >>58758239

>>58757510
The green dots are tags, while the grey dots are notes. Dark grey dots are existing notes, while light grey dots are just internal links that lead to potential notes. Potential notes are "created", if an internal link points to nowhere. The lines are just the links between the notes.
You can read about it on the graph page for Obsidian: https://help.obsidian.md/plugins/graph

I'm basically using the Zettelkasten method to sort my thoughts into small chunks and then connect them to each other with said internal links.
eg. I have the following sentence in my outline note
> This chapter is mainly about the [[Recruitment Centre]] and introducing the character of [[Etienne]].
The note for Etienne already exists, so it becomes a link with the dark grey dot. "Recruitment Centre" has no note yet, so it becomes a potential note (light grey) instead.
In the future, if I have something to write about the RC, I can just create this note and the links will already be established. It's really neat for keeping taps on ideas or possible connections.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 18:04:25 No.58757606 Report

Quoted By: >>58758239

>>58757589
Interesting. I just write all my story notes in notepad or my phone notes app.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 21:19:12 No.58758239 Report

Quoted By: >>58758261

>>58757387
>>58757510
>>58757589
>>58757606
You people make notes?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 21:30:46 No.58758261 Report

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>>58758239
I usually just have an idea, try to find a semi-relevant picture I haven’t used before (or at least not lately to avoid being an avatar-fag) and just go for it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 23:40:50 No.58758653 Report

Quoted By: >>58758672 >>58758717 >>58764069

>>58739785
>Even if it seemed initially difficult, you did manage to reach the forest without any incidents.
>She has been keeping a hold of your arm for the entire time.
>Which in a way was good because you knew she wouldn't try to jump anyone on public transport.
>But on the other hand, your arm felt like it was going to fall off.
>You really should do something about that, Lax, at this point.
>Maybe some company is offering Lax relocation services, or maybe you could try pulling some strings with the help of your friend from the FBI to get the army to do it.
>But that was a problem you'd work on solving once you got back home.
>As of now, you were focused on dealing with finding the Trevenant.
>The forest was calm; the leaves had fallen a long time ago.
>But some signs of activity were still visible.
>Tree roots forming pillars were the most common.
>There was always some sort of charred wood, rocks, and camping supplies in the vicinity of them.
>Like the Trevenant used the roots to quickly extinguish campfires.
>You didn't receive any reports of things like this happening.
>Someone was bound to have reported this by now.
>It was strange no matter how you'd put it.
>Did the trevenant turn them?
>Make them disappear?
>Or were they just too afraid of admitting that they started a fire in a forest?
>"Have you found something interesting?" she asked.
>"Nope. Just as usual, these root pillars," you replied.
>Your attention was brought to a squirrel she had been holding in her hand.
>Still moving and still trying to wiggle out, still squeaking.
>"Uhh... What do you have there?" you asked, not sure about what the answer would be.
>"A squirrel. I got hungry and decided to catch myself a quick snack," she replied nonchalantly.
>"Don't eat that," you told her bluntly.
>"Why? I caught it, and I'm hungry," she replied with confusion about you asking the question.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 23:47:39 No.58758672 Report

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>>58758653
>>"Why? I caught it, and I'm hungry," she replied with confusion about you asking the question.
She's clearly in need of a reminder of her humanity, cleanliness, and propriety.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 00:13:30 No.58758717 Report

Quoted By: >>58758734 >>58758827 >>58764069

>>58758653
>"First you should have made yourself some breakfast before we left. Second, this is a wild animal, and it might carry rabies or parasites or some other bullshit, and I'm not willing to take any chances with you catching any of that," you replied sternly.
>"I'm already dead; I doubt I can get double dead, but whatever you say," she said while breaking the squirrel's neck with her fingers and throwing it away behind her.
>"Why did you do that?" you asked with a bit of terror in your voice.
>"Oh. When I caught it, I broke some bones in its body. Accidentally, I swear. It would have died either way," she quickly replied.
>"Well at least I know you are capable of mercy killing, which is... an improvement, I guess?" you replied with a certain unease in your voice.
>"Oh shut up, or I'll show you an improvement," she said in a semi-laughing tone.
>"No need for that," you said while grabbing something from your jacket.
>"I have some beef jerky if you want it," you said to her.
>"Well I want it then," she replied.
>"Here you go, just try not to kill anything again, ok?" you asked.
>"Yeah yeah sure," she grabbed the jerky and went for a hopefully not very enthusiastic walk into the forest again.
>You, on the other hand, were considering your options.
>Calling some backup could help, but you weren't sure if it would help much.
>Finding the owners of whatever camping supplies were left would be a fool's errand, especially considering some of them have been lying here since at least before fall.
>Starting a fire was also out of the question, especially since you didn't want to get mulched by the Trevenant or have to deal with one of the government agencies that are still arguing about it.
>Maybe you could ask your friend to make an illusory fire?
>Your thought process was disrupted when you heard a familiar voice.
>"Hey man what are you doing?" said the voice.
>It was Derek, but you couldn't see him.
>"I'm up here," he said.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 00:18:03 No.58758734 Report

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>>58758717
that poor squirrel...

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 00:49:54 No.58758827 Report

Quoted By: >>58758930 >>58764071

>>58758717
>He was hanging upside down on one of the more massive-looking tree branches.
>"What are you doing here?" you asked him in a mix of a whisper and a shout.
>"Waiting till night so I can get back inside my house without raising suspicion. I went on a trip out of state, you could say," he replied.
>"How long have you been here?" you asked him with your fingers on your nasal bridge.
>"I just landed. I've been circling the area for a while to find a tree that could support my weight till I finally found this one," he replied.
>An uneasy silence followed.
>"Are you ok, man? You seem a bit on edge today. Is Layla giving you a hard time?" he asked with concern about you.
>You yourself felt like you experienced the mental equivalent of a kick in the balls.
>"What?" you asked, completely dumbfounded.
>"I didn't want to spy on the two of you, but when I circled around, I unmistakably heard your and her voice. I didn't hear what you were talking about, but I recognized your voices," he replied shyly, as if he knew he fucked up something.
>"Not that. You know Layla?" you inquired further.
>"Oh yeah, that. We are cousins," he replied assuredly.
>You didn't know what to do with this information, just squeezing your nasal bridge even harder.
>On one hand, you found a family member of hers who also turned; on the other hand, he was still alive, and you didn't know how she'd react to this knowledge.
>"I don't like the way you are reacting to this. Is there something wrong?" he asked, concerned and a bit fearful.
>"If only one thing was wrong," you replied.
>"What is going on?" he asked now with a clear hint of panic in his voice.
>"Let me just say this. You aren't the only one in the family anymore," you replied.
>"You are saying that she turned? She looked normal to me," he said.
>"In her case, looks may be deceiving," you replied.
>"I have to talk to her!" he stated firmly.
>"I'd advise against it," you replied coldly.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 01:26:53 No.58758930 Report

Quoted By: >>58759055 >>58764071

>>58758827
>"Who are you talking to?" you heard Layla ask you.
>"Oh noone you must have misheard," you said to her while giving Derek signals to GTFO, but he either didn't see them or ignored them.
>"Yeah you were just talking to yourself all this time," she replied, clearly seeing through your bullshit.
>Derek still hung upside down on that branch with his mind reaching the density of a dying star.
>You were hoping that he would at least stay silent, but that wasn't meant to be.
>"Uhh... Hi, Layla?" you heard his voice reverberate through your head.
>The cat was now out of the bag.
>"D-Derek? Where are you?" she replied while looking around to find him.
>"Just for your knowledge, I turned, so please don't panic," he replied calmly.
>She grabbed your arm and was shaking.
>"Whatever you do... don't get anywhere close to me," she said with a shaking voice.
>"I'm not going to hurt you... Don't be scared... Please..." his reply was pained and scared.
>"It's not it! It's not it! It's not it!" she kept saying.
>"Derek... She is not afraid of you hurting her. She is afraid of her hurting you," you said calmly.
>Layla was still shaking and coddling your arm.
>"What?" he asked in shock and confusion.
>"Do you remember the way you acted towards me the night you crashed into my shed?" you asked him.
>"Yes," replied.
>"She is..." you tried explaining before she cut you off.
>"No. I'll explain it to him," she said.
>"Are you..." you tried asking before being cut off once again.
>"Yes I am now shut up," she said to you.
>"I-I'm afraid that I hate you.I'm afraid that... I might want to kill you. And I don't want to..." she muttered out.
>"What?" asked Derek in shock and confusion.
>"I can't look at anything living without having a desire to kill it..." she said.
>"Does that mean that he..." Derek tried asking.
>"No he is still alive even if I have tried to kill him multiple times, and the desire for it still lingers at the back of my skull," she replied, crying into your arm.

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Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 02:10:50 No.58759055 Report

Quoted By: >>58759493 >>58764071

>>58758930
>"I think we should go home," you suggested to her.
>"No," she replied, still crying into your arm.
>"You can continue this conversation at a different time through different means. Now come," you said to her.
>She didn't protest when you started walking.
>"See you, Derek. And I'm sorry you had to learn about it this way," you said to him while going away.
>Maybe you should have let her speak with Derek some more.
>But you weren't sure if it wouldn't make the situation worse for everyone involved.
>Honestly, you felt like a piece of shit because of all of this.
>Taking her to deal with that Emboar was a bad idea, and taking her with you to the forest didn't help either.
>There was no one step forward, two steps back in this case.
>There was only one step forward into the minefield.
>The way back home was uneventful.
>Her disguise was still perfect, not showing any emotion, with the only sign of her Zoroark nature being her tears periodically dropping onto the ground.
>When you returned home, Layla dropped her disguise the second you closed the door.
>"Do you want to talk about it?" you asked.
>"Yes but not now. I-I need to calm down after all of this first," she replied, her voice tired.
>She phased through the door to her room, and the only thing you heard was her falling onto the bed.
>You yourself needed to have a drink to calm your nerves.
>You grabbed a glass, poured some whiskey, and asked yourself what in God's name you were supposed to do now.
>Derek probably didn't have his phone with him, so you had to wait till you'd be able to text him about the whole situation.
>The entire situation felt like it was bound to happen at one point or another, but you didn't expect it to happen so soon.
>You'd rather it happen at a later point in time or with a fellow ghost type.
>"Fuck all of it" you thought to yourself as you downed the entire glass.

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Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 04:03:55 No.58759457 Report

Quoted By: >>58764071

You guys are killing it in these threads, keep it up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 04:16:43 No.58759493 Report

Quoted By: >>58759911 >>58760184 >>58761008

>>58759055
If CopAnon got Layla pregnant, would her mood stabilize?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 06:28:08 No.58759911 Report

Quoted By: >>58759942 >>58759968

>>58759493
She hates life and is now going to be creating life inside her.

That sounds like a torturous kaffka trap for her sanity.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 06:38:54 No.58759942 Report

Quoted By: >>58759968

>>58759911
Or maternal instinct levels out her hatred for all life in order for the life inside her (which she will want as a family oriented species) to succeed. I know the original point sounds kinda shitposty, but I was completely serious about that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 07:01:01 No.58759968 Report

Quoted By: >>58759978 >>58760080

>>58759911
>>58759942
Are HZorua alive?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 07:05:16 No.58759978 Report

Quoted By: >>58760080

>>58759968
They're spirits given form by the mysterious magic of the hisui region. Technically not alive

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 08:10:38 No.58760080 Report

Quoted By: >>58760184

>>58759968
>>58759978
I think they're no more undead than all Ninetales are nine sages. The original Hisuian Zoroarks may have been revenants, but they can breed, and by definition, their offspring literally can't be.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 09:40:52 No.58760184 Report

Quoted By: >>58760198

>>58760080
I can think of at least 3 ways to make their offspring undead too.

>>58759493
Look man, I don't know why you'd think adding more hormones on top of all of this would cause her to stabilize. It sounds like you're going to add gasoline to the fire.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 09:52:36 No.58760198 Report

Quoted By: >>58760421

>>58760184
>Look man, I don't know why you'd think adding more hormones on top of all of this would cause her to stabilize. It sounds like you're going to add gasoline to the fire.
Hatred for all things living is not conducive to survival. Expecting mothers psychologically adapt to conditions in ways that are expected to be conducive to her success, and that includes being more outgoing with outgroup (threat) individuals. Reasonable expectation is that she'd mellow out and her hormones would tone down the urge to kill.

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Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 12:26:17 No.58760421 Report

Quoted By:

>>58760198
What if it makes her maternal, but not necessarily mellow or protective?
>Anon, catch!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 13:20:27 No.58760502 Report

Quoted By: >>58760577 >>58764071

>What if he impregnated a zoroark
Not a fetish thread, right?

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Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 14:07:06 No.58760577 Report

Quoted By: >>58760716

>>58760502
Sir, this is a /vp/ thread
>*cronch*

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 14:22:09 No.58760601 Report

Quoted By:

>Cop-Anon gets a H.Zoroark mask and starts wearing it around her
>Her personality flips and she feels compelled to protect him instead of kill him

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 15:21:11 No.58760716 Report

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>>58760577
No, bad Umbreon! I store my fetishistic /sip/ stories on there! >:(

Snivyanon

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Snivyanon Sat 20 Dec 2025 16:04:30 No.58760830 Report

Quoted By: >>58761271 >>58761722 >>58762439 >>58764071

https://rentry.co/serpentandwyrm#ch5-the-knight-and-the-squire

Serpent & Wyrm chapter 5, The Knight and the Squire, has been released! Simon and Miirym play lifeguard, and a strange duck with a pretty rock starts yelling at them.

Sorry its taken me this long to get this out, I hope you guys enjoy!

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Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 17:17:22 No.58761008 Report

Quoted By: >>58761616

>>58759493

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Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 18:53:46 No.58761271 Report

Quoted By:

>>58760830
Oh... I think I know what we are dealing with.

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Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 20:43:35 No.58761616 Report

Quoted By:

>>58761008

Mienshanon

Mienshanon Sat 20 Dec 2025 21:15:22 No.58761722 Report

Quoted By:

>>58760830
That was worth the wait tenfold – good job, Snivy! A very charming pair of bird-brains indeed.
I can't figure out what that last paragraph is hinting to, though. It honestly drives me insane.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 23:36:31 No.58762439 Report

Quoted By: >>58762479 >>58763160 >>58763174

>>58760830
>It was almost like a trick of the eye, but he swore he saw ghostly prismatic tendrils bleeding off its edges, thin ripples of color boiling across the air, like rainbows in an oil slick. It pulsed with a faint, rhythmic luminosity that made the object seem blurry, as if it were vibrating at a frequency reality couldn't quite handle.
Migraine with Aura representation? In my pokemon transformation fanfic?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 23:43:42 No.58762479 Report

Quoted By:

>>58762439
Pretty sure its /spoiler eternautus spoiler/

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 02:51:35 No.58763160 Report

Quoted By:

>>58762439
Pretty sure it's >||Eternutus||<

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 02:53:57 No.58763174 Report

Quoted By: >>58763234 >>58763241 >>58763247

>>58762439
Pretty sure it's ||Eternutus|| based on the magenta color description and what it can do.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 03:10:55 No.58763234 Report

Quoted By: >>58763250 >>58763269

>>58763174
It’s okay newfag, you’ll figure out how spoilers work one of these days.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 03:12:21 No.58763241 Report

Quoted By: >>58763269

>>58763174
You spoil text by writing it like so, but without the spaces inside the brackets:
spoiled text here

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 03:14:06 No.58763247 Report

Quoted By: >>58763269

>>58763174
If you're on PC, do Ctrl+s for the shortcut. Otherwise it's (spoiler) text here (.spoiler) but replace parentheses with brackets

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 03:15:50 No.58763250 Report

Quoted By:

>>58763234
To be fair, it's not very intuitive even for regulars. I only learned it because I replied to stories in pmdg and had to spoil things

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 03:25:19 No.58763269 Report

Quoted By: >>58763279 >>58763303

>>58763247
>>58763241
>>58763234
I looked up like a million ways to do these damn spoilers.
I took a gamble either way hopefully i didn't ruin Snivyanons story, just seemed logical

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 03:28:38 No.58763279 Report

Quoted By: >>58763298

>>58763269
You at least know how to triforce, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 03:36:02 No.58763298 Report

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>>58763279
Been here for years, and never tried. Lets see how bad I fuck it up.
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Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 03:37:06 No.58763303 Report

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>>58763269
For future reference, if you click the checkbox and then hit Delete(the button at the bottom of the page,) you can delete the page. You have to wait a minute before this becomes available, and then it's available until the post is 30 minutes old. That allows you to take down a post that was screwed up, but please don't abuse it.
(If you're not considered "trusted" by the system yet, you have to wait 10 minutes before you can delete things. It's weird.)
Also, https://4chan.org/faq#spoiler
For some reason no one checks the FAQ on websites anymore, even when shit like that is RIGHT there. (Even worse, that FAQ hasn't been updated to mention shit like linking thread through searching EX: >>>/vp/sip )

>>58763298
It has unfortunately been impossible to triforce for at least a decade at this point. White space characters get purged.

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Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 03:37:28 No.58763305 Report

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>>58763298
Ouch.
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Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 03:39:07 No.58763310 Report

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>It has unfortunately been impossible to triforce for at least a decade at this point. White space characters get purged.

Well that sucks.

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Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 03:42:43 No.58763317 Report

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>>58763298
Heh. You're alright, newfriend.

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Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 05:58:18 No.58763685 Report

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I am not suited for writing action. Critiques welcome on the whole scene.

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Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 09:48:42 No.58764065 Report

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>>58745655
Don't have much to comment here that Snivy didn't already cover. For those of us with family trauma, I'm kinda reminded of that one Deltarune fan comic where Susie begins to dissociate when she realizes how normal and lovely Toriel is to Kris - that's how deeply you can feel the love in this family. Dig also the subtle allusion to the ongoing "not panicking because friend-shaped" undercurrent in the stories.

>>58753062
If Goodamn is an ex-serviceman, he should know damn well what a terrible idea giving a rifle to someone who has no idea how guns work is. Feels like he's only bringing Isaac because something something buddy system. Also, how did he learn that crosses and holy water don't work? I don't think Isaac told him that, unless I'm just dumb and missed it.

I won't criticize Isaac firing as others did because there is that whole thing about how, regardless of training, you never truly know how a person will react to combat until it actually happens, but it does emphasize that Isaac is ultimately a liability here and really only present to give us our needed audience perspective on what's about to happen. As I said, you could consider guns a steel type attack, so no notes on it actually hurting Marshadow.

I don't care how confident Goodman thinks he is at distinguishing human and non-human targets - him firing randomly into the woods like that was just BEGGING to hit one of the kids. Bro also thinks he's being slick throwing his weight around, but if he'd actually let his frustration at his own actions in having terrified the Marshadow into silence overwhelm him into actually killing the thing he would've felt pretty frickin' stupid afterwards with his daughter still being lost in the woods with nothing to go on, wouldn't he? This thuggish chucklefuck oughta count himself lucky that Marshy clearly has no proper understanding of how to use his powers, or else he would've been fuuuuucked.

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Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 09:49:47 No.58764069 Report

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>>58764065
I would've liked to see Goodman torn between whether or not to blow the 'mon's head off regardless before he eventually, reluctantly, lowers the gun, rather than just skipping ahead. Maybe Isaac could've gently suggested that he at least not do it in front of the kids, and the kids ultimately make him promise not to and he can't exactly say no to his daughter. What I'm curious about is how Marshy managed to convince the kids to do all this. Roughing it in the woods might seem fun at first, but it's something most kids are going to get sick of fairly quickly and want to go home. At least Isaac proves useful for something at the very end, but I feel like Goodman relented on allowing Marshy to stay a little too easily.

Decent number of typos in this update, too. I do like the vengeful father angle and the hunt angle, with the humans having one over on the 'mon for once, but I kind of felt that the entire sequence could've used a little more, overall.

>>58758653
Fedoark holding Copanon's arm on public transport definitely isn't going to give people the wrong idea at all. I feel like if numerous campers have run into the Trevenant, whether they escape or disappear, someone would've reported it, regardless of other factors. Silly as it is, I actually kinda like Copanon treating the pillars like the most normal thing in the world at the same time Fedoark is treating carrying a squirrel around like it's a muesli bar like the most normal thing in the world, because it gives that appealing, "they're sharing one brain cell" energy.

>>58758717
Why hopefully not very enthusiastic? Because she'll kill something again if she's too enthusiastic? It's not entirely clear. Also, those government agencies didn't seem to notice any of the previous camping incidents, so...

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Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 09:50:52 No.58764071 Report

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>>58764069
>>58758827
Derek's entrance is MUCH better handled on the re-write. I guess Layla was still wearing her human disguise just in case anyone else was wandering the woods, which makes the squirrel that much more disturbing in hindsight. Good stuff, honestly. "She's too dangerous" would've been better than "I'd advise against it", but one can't really blame Copanon for being a little blindsided there.

>>58758930
"You're so dense, I'm amazed even THAT branch doesn't break /)<_<" - Copanon, probably

Shouldn't that be "that's not it"? I kinda like how badly everyone's burying the lead here. Derek's cousin is telling him she has the insatiable desire to slaughter all living things, but she still looks human and he probably doesn't know about Zoroark off the top of his head, 'nor are they telling him that's what she is. That's gotta be a mindfuck right there, poor guy.

>>58759055
Might've wanted to make it more explicit that Derek is so stunned at Layla and Copanon's behaviour that he doesn't follow. I probably would've tried to deal with the revelation on the spot, but I definitely get where Copanon is coming from here, poor guy. There's no reason he shouldn't text Derek right away so that it's there for him next he accesses his phone, but, hey, again, I get it. With Layla around, situations like this are by nature a big ol' ball of suck until proven otherwise. We'll have to see how well both parties handle it going forward. Optimistically, Layla might find she's able to restrain her killing urges around her Pokemon family members better than she thinks. But perhaps not.

Yeah, big ol' improvement on the re-write here. Not perfect, but nicely done overall.

>>58759457
We try, anon.

>>58760502
In our defence, nobody asked that anon to write that.

>>58760830
I only ever fall further behind with this one, huh? Man I gotta pull it together...

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Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 09:52:13 No.58764073 Report

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>>58764071
>>58763685
I'd write, "my mind repeated over and over as it raced and I broke out in a sprint, not even bothering to look back"

"I'd only get" should be "I only got"

"I'd weave" should be "I weaved". "would come from" would be better as "came in the form of". "I'd race" should be "I raced".

Since this passage seems to be implying that the 'mon can see him but he can't see it, I'd put "fell out of its line of sight" rather than "eyeshot", since the latter would suggest to me that Val should be able to see the 'mon as well, which doesn't fit with the deliberately mysterious way the 'mon is being presented. I presume part of that is to reduce the amount of description you need to do for this action scene, which considering you're not confident about writing action was a savvy choice.

However, besides the above, you actually did pretty well I feel like. I don't see anything that screams "this man can't write action" particularly strongly here. I think you're doing well, and the numerous tense snarls kinda suggest to me that your biggest problem here is just that you're getting in your own head a bit too much. Maybe try to relax and just focus on "I'll write what will logically happen next" rather than "I'll write an action scene".

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Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 10:25:50 No.58764122 Report

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>>58764073
Ah, the good old trusty advice that's (probably) from machoanon. Thanks man.

>tense snarls
Eugh, annoying...
The tense snarls are weird that they're showing up, but I'm going to attribute that to being ground to a near total standstill for over a week at this point. I was barely writing anything, and this is the most I've written in a bit.

>to reduce the amount of description
That, and also I didn't really have a good point to really describe the Pokemon. I'm keeping the part where Valentine doesn't know what the hell a Farifarig is.
He's going to look over the rock, try to figure out which Pokemon it is, and then promptly regret that as it notices him and attacks again. That's what I want to write, anyways.

>what will logically happen next
See, that's what I did with the LAST attempt at this, and it came out terribly, which is the catalyst to why I'm so worked up over this. (It didn't really help that I put it off rewriting the action scene for 7 weeks and 5 days.)
We'll see where this goes. This is feeling pretty difficult because I have an established end point already, so I have to now work forward to that, rather than letting the writing just go freely off in its own direction. I just hope it's enjoyable when it's finished.

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