I love Hardcore Portales.
Also, I really need to think up some sort of Bug-type villains for the AU arc. Maybe they could be a Butterfree and Beedrill duo? Oh! They could be assassins hired to kill Unite!
They could go to ridiculous lengths to try and get rid of him, such as hijacking a semi-truck and chasing him through Castelia City as they try to run him over.
But chances are I'll be free by the time I go away on vacation.
Err, assuming I even get freed...
Why only Bugs? As we can see, Scolipede has non-Bug minions. And Artemis isn't a Bug, either.
edited 6th Jul '11 9:54:26 AM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!![]()
Well, one my possible ideas involved Artemis and/or Scolipede sending out some of their minions to re-capture you after you were freed.
With that in mind, I guess we could explain your characters' absense with him having to stay low for a while to avoid capture.
edited 6th Jul '11 10:00:37 AM by DarkerShining
Will anybody besides Tagg be visiting PEFE HQ during the AU? Plan is to have the facility taken over by an AI, PEFeDOS, who is running everybody she can get her hands on through test chambers. With working portal guns, since Palkia isn't exactly free to smash them up this time.
(And Jane, clearly Sollux's 1% was taken off for only putting red and blue in his rainbow.
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(But of course. He always stuck to Red and Blue, but he used them in creative ways)
Please consider supporting my artwork on PatreonOur HQ's? They are in [REDACTED].
Fanfic Recs orwellianretcon'd: cutlocked for committee or for Google?Oh, I thought this was the facility in Undisclosed Location.
...which is either in Seattle or Chicago, I can't tell
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...Wait, my post was not edited... WHAT THE HECK? Did the PEFEgons hack into TV Tropes and install a filter? Damn I knew I should have hired programmers from [REDACTED] University instead...
Fanfic Recs orwellianretcon'd: cutlocked for committee or for Google?Something has come to mind about the Unova gym leaders being replaced by Zoroark in the AU arc... What happened to the gym leaders' Pokémon?
Some possible answers is that:
- They were brainwashed into working for Scolipede and Artemis.
- They were killed and replaced by Pokémon of the same species as them working for Scolipede and Artemis.
- Some were killed and replaced, while others started working for Scolipede and Artemis out of fear. A few may also have replaced after the originals ran off to join the resistance.
This might also bring up a question about what would happen to Ribbons in the AU, since, depending on when Caitlin's Gothitelle laid her egg, said egg may not have come into DS' possession in the AU.
If that is the case, I do have some ideas:
- Ribbons simply was never born in the AU.
- Or, her egg may have ended up in possession of Scolipede and Artemis.
Whoa.
Some of that is pretty dark.
I prefer to think that the Gym Leaders Pokémon just don't simple realise that there's a problem. They don't suspect that there's anything wrong, apart from the odd time when their trainers' suddenly announce that they want a cracker. Or the occasional growling and snarling.
Apart from that, they've been acting normally.
Yeah, that could also work.
As for what to do about Ribbons, I can't really imagine her as truly evil. So if we do go with her egg having ended up in Scolipede and Artemis' possession, then I imagine she might be working as an intern at a company owned by the Greedy Golett or something.
edited 7th Jul '11 7:28:05 AM by DarkerShining
Since I'm probably going to end up restoring Scolipede's memory at some point, I'm wondering if the Greedy Golurk should serve as a Bigger Bad of sorts since there's probably going to be some time between fixing Scolipede and restoring time. Or would it be a very one-sided battle what with Scolipede and Artemis ruling the earth?
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I don't see much of an issue with Scolipede being nothing but The Ghost for a week or more. That would make him seem that much more menacing. His troops will still be active with other people playing them, but otherwise Scolipede Himself doesn't have to show up until he feels like he wants to stop being Orcus on His Throne and actually do something.
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