it could take Cipher as an example of what all humans are like, and become revolted by all of them. It will think of the species as "disgusting", which it 682's opinion on the species. It sort of makes sense for it to take a weaker form of that creature.

Should I mention the ending to Goggles' backstory under the Mind Screw trope on the We Are All Pokemon Trainers trope page now? Or wasn't it confusing enough?

edited 24th Mar '11 8:45:27 AM by DarkerShining

I have a problem. I won't be able to get to a computer until somewhere around six. Can someone cover for my dilouge, please?

On Draca's back, en route to Kanto after defeating Missingno

Wow, what we did was really awesome wasn't it?

Draca: <Your parents probably won't believe it.>

Which is why I won't bother telling them.

Draca: <They never did ask about Orre.>

Frankly, I'm glad they haven't, I already know Mom doesn't really like my tendency to disappear for long periods of time.

-Mama Chandelure has had enough of her daughter's anitsocial nature, and decides to bring it up with the Elgyem's mother. Seeing as the Elgyem and his mother are not in direct contact with each other, she instead decides to bring it up with that one Beheeyem she sees him talking to occasionally.-

Mama Chandelure: A-hem.

Beheeyem: You have something to say to me? -she turns around and faces the Chandelure-

Mama Chandelure: I want to talk to you about your Elgyem.

Beheeyem: -blankly stares- I am in charge of approximately one hundred forty nine Elgyem. The most notable ones are the Bravest Elgyem, the Kindest Elgyem, the Littlest Elgyem, the Meanest Elgyem, the Happi—

Mama Chandelure: I want to talk to you about the Elgyem that speaks with my daughter on a regular basis.

Beheeyem: Aah, the Littlest Elgyem. What do you wish to speak about pertaining him?

Mama Chandelure: First off, I'd appreciate it if you didn't talk so patriotically. Second, I have reason to believe my daughter is having her social abilities cut off by interacting with your 'Littlest Elgyem'.

Beheeyem: And why do you believe that?

Mama Chandelure: My daughter met your Littlest Elgyem as a Litwick about a year ago. Ever since she met him, she has been interacting with him and only him, and has had difficulty making other friends ever since. Before she met him, she was a social Beautifly, and now has only him to call an actual friend.

Beheeyem: Perhaps she has found more in common with my Littlest Elgyem than any of her other peers.

Mama Chandelure: -gets all up in Beheeyem's face- I'm on to you, space-butt. Your Elgyem's been messing with her head, I know it. I've seen what you do. You get close enough to something and then you mess with their memories, they forget what you've done to them and you bend them to your will like puppets! And I won't stand for that, ya hear?

Beheeyem: I assure you, madam, the Littlest Beheeyem has not modified your daughter's memories in any way.

Mama Chandelure: And how do you expect me to believe you?

Beheeyem: You have my word.

Mama Chandelure: And I know just how much good that does.

Beheeyem: Madam, if you truly are worried this much about your daughter, I suggest you bring her with you o an intervention so that I can hear her side of the argument.

Mama Chandelure: Why should I?

Beheeyem: If it will convince you to agree, I will also bring the Littlest Elgyem to this meeting.

Mama Chandelure: I haven't agreed to come to any meeting yet!

Beheeyem: It is merely a suggestion. I highly doubt your daughter will take kindly to any separation from her friend.

Mama Chandelure: Oh really? And what if I'm right and your Littlest Elgyem really is messing with her brain?

Beheeyem: Then I will punish him accordingly. But so far, we have had no proof for or against this accusation.

Mama Chandelure: Fine. I'll go with this meeting you want to host. -leans in even closer to the Beheeyem- But mark my words, space-butt. If your puny little Elgyem keeps on messing with her memories I will not hesitate to Shadow Ball you to oblivion!

Beheeyem: -glares at the Chandelure- Challenge Accepted.

-With that, the Chandelure floats back down to her usual floor of the tower, while the Beheeyem stays in the same spot she was before. The Beheeyem glances in the direction of the Littlest Elgyem, hiding behind a tombstone as always, and teleports away-

Lampent: Hey, Elgyem?

-The Elgyem looks up at his friend, worried-

Lampent: You haven't... really messed with my memories, have you?

Elgyem: What? No! Never!

Lampent: Tell me the truth!

Elgyem: I didn't to anything to your head, I swear!

Lampent: Okay okay! I believe you. I'm just... -shakes her head- nevermind.

Elgyem: -looks down- I don't like this place.

Lampent: -sighs- You know what Elgyem? I don't like it either. -looks out the window- But you know what Elgyem?

Elgyem: What?

Lampent: Someday, we're going to get out of here. We're gonna leave and we're gonna be friends and no one's going to keep us from being friends!

Elgyem: Are you sure? It might be dangerous.

Lampent: -nods- I'm sure. And we're never gonna get caught and we'll be wild forever!

Elgyem: Have you been reading a book? Because this sounds kinda familiar to a book I read once.

Lampent: Pfft. I've only read like, one book, and I haven't even gone past the first chapter.

Elgyem: Which book was it?

Lampent: That's not important! What is important is that, once we get that stupid meeting your mom wanted over with, we're going to be friends and we're going to stay friends, no matter where we go!

Elgyem: -smiles- I'd like that.

The saddest story clover never told!

Amoongus: <I am so happy. I heard our child will hatch soon.>

Lilligant: <I cant wait to see her.>

-lilligant picks up the egg and hugs it-

Lilligant: <Our first child will be hopping around happy like that Xatu said.>

Amoongus: <I bet will be a wonderful Petilil just like you honey.>

-amoongus sees a figure heading here and it is a venipede-

Amoongus: <Hello there sir our child will be be born soon would you like to her?>

Venipede: <Don't get in my way!>

-venipede fires poison sting at lilligant and she is stabbed and poisoned-

Lilligant: <OW!>

Amoongus: <HONEY!>

lilligant: <darling.....Protect our child....Lets hope when she hatches.....She has a good trainer to catch her...>

Amoongus: <I will sweety.>

-amoongus grabs egg and runs while crying-

Amoongus: <sniff...Oh petilil I hope when I leave you close to the entrance you stay safe.>

edited 24th Mar '11 9:16:29 AM by Littlequeen

What a Dark and Troubled Past! I feel sorry for the Lilligant. D:

It happened when she was a egg and the worst part is she never knew.

-amoongus puts egg behind bush while it wobbles-

Amoongus: <I hope you stay safe. I'm sorry I cant see you born but I bet you will be wonderful...>

-amoongus runs from egg to where lilligant is-

-clover hatches from egg-

Clover: <Hi mommy! Hi dad....dy...Mommy? daddy where are you? Mommy? daddy?>

The end.

edited 24th Mar '11 9:20:37 AM by Littlequeen

Ruins of Alph, Johto

-Approaches his Xatu just after it finishes seeing into the future-

Now I wonder if...

-Xatu suddenly shows me images in my mind, but they go so fast that I can't comprehend them-

Oof..

-Falls unconsious-

Oh, the Ruins of Alph! That reminds me of my Gallade. He's not inside the Spoiler Text though. He's an obedient Gallade!

Portales pokes his head in from behind a tombstone

edited 24th Mar '11 9:20:09 AM by CalamityJane

This is Kratos here. Gamer is busy trying to figure out how to kill SCP-682, in case he does decide to have 'M turn into it as a One-Winged Angel form.

You never did extrapolate the details of how Gallade nearly joined the collective.

Perhaps a prayer bomb like how we defeated Missingno the first time.

A lake in Hoenn

-Fishing on the surface of a very large lake outside of the Route network-

Man this is boring, I haven't seen a Whiscash all morning.

-Suddenly the line starts pulling, and an absolutely massive Whiscash comes out of the water-

That's the biggest one I've ever seen!

-The Whiscash gets an angry face and charges Muddy-

edited 24th Mar '11 9:25:34 AM by rmctagg09

Maybe once I'm done with Portales' backstory.

So, I didn't get an answer to my question. Did I make the ending to Goggles' backstory confusing enough to qualify as a Mind Screw?

Muddy, we're getting out of here!

-We try to get away, but the Wiscash rams us and then has me in its mouth-

-Thinking- Shit.

-Grabs the gills-

Whiscash: <Urk.> -Goes catatonic-

-Gets on Muddy and swims back to shore-

That was close.

Yes DS, you did. It's not as confusing as the word house always being blue, but it's still pretty confusing.

Goggle's backstory is wacky, but compared to the rest of the stuff he does, it's not really confusing. I think Goggles in general should be listed as a Mind Screw, though.

So this Nuzlocke comic I just read gave me the idea to do a Q&A with all of my characters, sort of as a writing exercise to flesh them out better.

Maybe I'll post them when they're done.

It was definitely weird.

-The Whiscash gets a second wind and starts streamlining towards shore-

Damn it, does this thing ever let up? Muddy, use Brick Break!

-Muddy swims over and cracks the Whiscash's head against a rock with a mighty chop.-

Aren't you supposed to take other people's questions to do a Q&A? Q&A's never interested me though, so I'm not going to do one for my Nuzlocke.

Kratos again. To answer Tagg's response, I e-mailed Dr. Clef on it. His response was that we would need the prayers of every human and Pokemon on the planet for it to even have a chance of it working. But he also said that, in every attempt to duplicate it, mostly in the aftermath of the local bar's happy hour, it did not retain the indestructable qualities of the origional.

Well, I was intentionally going for a confusing ending.

Now, I'm still wondering if I should try writing a backstory for Crush. I do have a few ideas, but again, considering it would take place 100 million years ago, I'm not really sure what kind of Pokémon should be around in that setting...

Put cave pokemon in it! You know extinct pokemon could be common in that time.

edited 24th Mar '11 9:45:30 AM by Littlequeen

Well, you could just have him live in a colony full of Carracosta or something.

Well, apart from obviously using the Pokémon revived from fossils in the setting, I'm not sure what other Pokémon would be it. Make up some ancient Pokémon from scratch? Come up with some Pokémon that later evolved into some of the species of Pokémon that exist in the current timeline? Both?