I feel like I would be a Prof in the Pokémon universe. Just interested in studying, experiments, generally dilletante shit and fieldwork.
No desire for fame or publishing if I can get around it or get someone else to take credit for it as long as I get a little scratch
Edit: try and keep things nice at 69%, lol
I’d be one of those forgettable NPCs who has one or two Pokemon who help me with chores and then we hang out in our small house. Squirtle would be my helpful, friendly bro. But I’d also like one of the dog ones to pet and snuggle with. Maybe Growlithe. Water and fire moves would be super handy in everyday life. They’d be occasional Flintstone appliances, but mostly something between pets and children. I would love them so much.
And then you assholes would walk into my house uninvited and be annoyed that I wasted your time by not giving you anything. Like bitch, you’re lucky you didn’t catch a Flamethrower from my boy Growlithe over here for breaking and entering. Don’t look in my trash can, you nosey fuck. Damn Pokemon gym brings riffraff into this town. The shit I put up with for free healthcare…
I like shorts! They’re comfy and easy to wear!
This was going to be my answer. I wear shorts all the time!
So Trainer, right?
As an aside, totally, shorts are for everyone, not just for the Youth trainers. I find pants make me overheat, same with socks ☀️
I am a filthy casual player, so I suppose I’d be a clueless tourist collecting endangered Pokemon who should be left alone, and stumbling into dangerous situations.
Still mad that they made the 3 team leaders so dorky looking in the last update of their clothing but Team Rocket so suave and cool in their outfits.
They got the important part right, otherwise how do I evn take them cereal?
Gym Leader towards the middle of the game with a really annoying gimmick
Grr, that was my very close second, but I would hate to have to constantly “defend” my title and be open to getting fired or superseded bureaucratically.
Definitely gotta have the hubristic Jessie laugh (“hahaha” one word) before battle to be damn cocky
Edit: who are you referencing btw? There’s so many of 'em
I’ve actually played very little Pokemon, and was just gesturing vaguely at something that presumably exists 😅
Ok what did you actually play tho, like which game? That doesn’t come from nowhere lol
The first one, partially, and then Shield.
Mega poser.
Like Blue/Red?
Also, there will be no gatekeepers allowed here, I shall protect+reflect+mirror shield+WonderGuard you 🤣
Edit: + MeanLook and PerishSong + (switch Pokémon) the haterz
You have to do the Jessie laugh with three syllables too whilst doing it. Like “HawhawHaw!”, super freaking arrogant too
When I was a younger I made up a dark type gym leader OC who’s thing is he acts like an edgelord when he’s on the clock but is otherwise pretty chill when he punches out. I always thought it was a pretty funny concept that I’d love to see in a game. So that’s me.
Were you ok otherwise, I’m curious about the whole edge-lord schtick as a lifestyle even while recognizing that we all get fed-up sometimes and spout some bullshit lol. Nobody is innocent or at least I know I sure as hell am not but I hopefully get downvoted if I have no articulable basis and its just as well
Yeah, I was fine. Mostly. Probably. I just thought it would be a funny concept to have a character like that who’s dark and brooding exclusively when he’s on the job, and is friendly to just about everyone the rest of the time.
I would be a Snorlax.
…does that count as a valid answer?
Hey?! That is…valid aha. Rest eazy
I’m one of those girls that are obsessed with ghost types.
I don’t particularly care for ghost pokemon, but it’s important to have goals
Why do you think you tend towards that type particularly?
Mine were psychic but I always loved ghost (particularly Gengar -> fucking bad ass) and Dragon(ite). I do really feel a strong affinity to Fairy (no jokes please) because they seem to resonate with me as joy and antifragillity embodied.
It low-key viscerally hurts me every time a Fairy-type Pokémon gets poisoned/burnt/paralyzed/KO’d. I feel like they represent ourselves as we were and could return to being in the face of the fact we’re all poisoned and hurt by the world in various twisted ways.
Nonetheless, I genuinely believe that the goodness inherent to our essence is conserved and made latent rather than corrupted per se.
I would be a Pokemon trainer of the Cool Beauty trainer class wielding a togepi, unown, shedinja, phione, keldeo, and porygon-z and wait by a landslide area that causes the trainer to fall once they beat me so they’d have to go up the slope a second time to get to their destination.
Delightfully specific and on brand ;) We gonna get along just fine 🦄
That slope bit is also endearingly petty. If you don’t mind me saying, that you thought of that and articulably threw that out there is beyond a green flag for me lol
Like, I would literally caveat with something like that IRL to reinforce my negotiating position and also on a precedential level to deter someone from f-ing with me not only at the time but also secretly hope it spreads so my reputation for clever pettiness does all the work for me going forward ;)
It really is a beautiful thing and we are beautiful people for intuiting it, while still hopefully retaining our goodness and a sense of grace
I’ve always thought of myself as a gym leader. I’ve been doing martial arts since I was 10, I love Fighting types and Blaziken has been my absolute favorite Starter since forever.
I also really like the idea that gym leaders have a bunch of Pokemon ready to take challengers and different levels. Taking on some kid just starting out with Riolu while my Machamp and Bewear wrestle in the background sounds awesome.
Chuck?
Rock/Ground/Steel gym leader. There are a lot of chonky lizard bois and I am going to love them all, even as a 12 yr old destroys my shit with a monotype starter.
Pokémon trainer aspiring to be a gym leader but I have too balanced of a team to pick one gym.
What types?
My last team was dark, grass, fire and ghost.
How did you settle on that, pree specific?
They looked cool and they were strong.
Nice, sounds cool. Who was your flagship pokemon?
I don’t remember exactly and I can’t check because I gave my copy to my brother but from what I remember my frontliners were Ceruledge and Meowscarada.
I don’t feel like I’m to the level of Pokémon professor, but I do feel like I would be something along the lines of a Pokémon teacher or maybe the gym guy.
Luv the @gym_guys aha. Every-a-body likes to feel useful
Probably none of those. I’d probably be the big bad. For whatever reason when I was a kid and picked up blue I thought “friends? no I taught these monsters to be strong, they ain’t no friends.” When the friend secret mechanics came in I realized I hadn’t done anything but instilled Stockholm syndrome in them.
I allter them with drugs, use machines on them to force them to learn things. If they end up useless they stay in a box forever.
Pokemon are how I get rich, pokemon are how I get power, pokemon are how I enact control.
A powerful pokemon is a good pokemon.
I always 'member the forgettables the most 🤪
