Je M'appelle Riona. Je Suis Loser.

[rionaleonhart]

I was going to play Pokémon Crystal, you guys. It was going to be the first time I had ever played a second-generation Pokémon game. I was really excited.

And then it turned out that the cartridge was corrupted and wouldn't register saves.

I am genuinely woeful. I WAS GOING TO HAVE A CYNDAQUIL AND I WAS GOING TO NAME IT MERLIN. (And my Red-version save also appears to be corrupted, so I have to start again. Fortunately, the cartridge still registers saves. Had my beloved Red cartridge been rendered entirely useless, I would probably have wept. I got it for Christmas when I was ten. It was my first ever videogame. My first Pokémon was a Bulbasaur named Bulby, and oh how I loved him. (Oh, how I completely failed to train any of the other Pokémon on my first team.))

In order to make up for this sad, sad lack of Pokémon-playing and soothe my ten-year-old soul, I would like to request that you either share your own Pokémon-related stories (what was your first Pokémon? Which is your favourite? What do you always have on your team? What do you name your Pokémon?) or write Pokémon-related ficsnippets (crossovery or otherwise) in the comments. Pokémon-related photomanips or doodles would also be very welcome. JUST POKÉMON UP MY COMMENTS, GUYS. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.

To kick things off:



"Where's Merlin?"

"I'm afraid Merlin is busy, sire," Gaius replies, rummaging through his bookshelves.

"He's not busy. What's he doing? Where is he?"

"I believe he is running an errand for Morgana."

"He's not Morgana's manservant," Arthur points out, straddling the wooden bench by Gaius' worktable. There is a creature on the table, he notices: some sort of large, dark-furred rodent. It is staring at Arthur in a most disconcerting fashion. "Do you have a rat problem?"

"Just a pet," Gaius says, glancing over. "A whim, if you like."

The stare seems almost familiar. Arthur has the unpleasant feeling that Gaius' pet thinks he is an idiot. "What sort of creature is it?"

"A species of mouse," Gaius says. "They're very common in the western regions. I wouldn't go too near if I were you; he can be quite vicious."

He can't be sure in this light, but Arthur would almost be prepared to swear that its fur is blue. He reaches out to touch it.

There is a burst of light and heat, and Arthur immediately draws his hand back to shield his face.

A moment goes by.

"Gaius," Arthur says, "your mouse is on fire."

Comments

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

I started with Silver before those episodes were on television here, so half the time I had no idea what the Pokemon were, and I got a Cyndaquil because I liked the fire Pokemon. I got to the last person you had to defeat but then I had to train my Pokemon and level them up and I couldn't be bothered so I started to play Red instead.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

I feel bad for your perpetually weak Pokemon. I feel even worse for myself, because I was about to type, 'Oh, was Claire too much for you? Or were you talking about Lance, the champion?' *sigh* I'm so horrible with names that I should not remember this as opposed to my coworkers and relatives.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

The annoying thing about levelling up in the end is that you've already beaten all the trainers, so you're left battling Pokemon that're half your level, so you get a TINY amount of exp from beating them.

[rionaleonhart]

I love Cyndaquil, and I don't know why. It is adorable! I have known it would be my second-generation starter since long before the second-generation games came out. Unfortunately, as I have yet to actually play a second-generation game, my dreams of training a Cyndaquil have not yet been realised.

Tell me about your experiences playing Red!

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Cyndaquil was so utterly adorable in the TV show! It was also a bit useless, but at least it wasn't crazily in love with Ash or the Pokemon version of Brock.

I mostly remember lots of looking up which type was good against which other type and then thinking 'screw this, I'm getting an Abra! Psychic beats pretty much everything!' And going 'LOL I BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF BROCK GO ME'.

Also, in Silver, I DID name the first Pokemon I caught, but then I got a lot and I couldn't remember which one was which so I gave them names to go with what they were, but then they EVOLVE and change names. I do remember calling my Parasect 'Paranoid', figuring that that was at least a word starting with Para.

And my Abra was called Big Cheese because it looked like the Big Cheese from the Samurai Pizza Cats.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

crazily in love with Ash

Ahahaha, Chikorita.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Seriously, what were the creators thinking?! 'Yes, what this show needs is more across-species loving!'

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

Well the fandom seems to eat it up. (I have no room to talk. I wrote Ditto/Jeremy. Um, I mean I SO DID NOT WRITE THAT. YOU CAN'T PROVE ANYTHING.)

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

O RLY.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

IT WASN'T MEEEE. IT WAS THE SKIN STEALER THAT'S RUNNING AROUND IN MY SKIN. (/lame Silverstein reference)

(And I have just realized that my default pic is totally relevant to this entry!)

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Hm-mm.

Have you seen the deleted Vietname Special footage? IT HAS A STIG.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

WHERE IS THIS FOOTAGE I MUST SEE IT NOW PLEASE LET IT BE STREAMABLE PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE.

Darn it, I have to go to work soon. I'm so not going to be able to concentrate now.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

It's in my latest LJ post.

HE IS RED AND RIDES A BIKE AND ALMOST DRIVES INTO RICHARD'S AND JAMES' CROTCHES.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

Why do you tell me these things when I can't watch them? All day at work I am going to be imagining Red Stig and his wierd attempts to woo James and Richard. (or perhaps get them together.) Boss is going to be furious. I am going to get fired and it is all your fault.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Because I am EEEEEEEVIL.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE. YOU ARE AN EVIL EVIL PERSON.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

BUBBLES YOU SHOULD SEE IT BECAUSE IT IS AMAZING AND I HAVE GONE CAPSLOCK WITH CAPSLOCKINESS AND I NOW WANT TO WRITE WEIRD MAN/MAN/MOTORCYCLE/STIG THREESOMES OF INSANITY!

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

AND ALSO, WHEN I DO THAT MAD SPY THING WITH AMNESIAC RICHARD AND THE STIG-HUNTING CIA, THE COMMUNISTS REALLY DO HAVE THE STIG, AND MAYBE HE CAN ESCAPE ON A MOTORCYCLE, AND HELP RICHARD AND RICHARD CAN BE ALL "THANK YOU, MYSTERIOUS STRANGER!" BECAUSE HE HAS AMNESIA, AND THE CIA AND THE WHATEVER THE KGB IS THESE DAYS AND THE VIETNAMESE ESPIONAGE AGENCY CAN BE CHASING HIM BECAUSE EVERYONE WANTS A STIG!

AND ALSO RICHARD, HIS MINSK, AND COMMUNIST STIG CAN HAVE A THREESOME BEFORE THE STIG SPEEDS OFF MYSTERIOUSLY INTO THE NIGHT.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

WRITE IT. WRITE IT NOW.

ALSO, LUCHA LIBRE TG AU, Y/N? RICHARD COULD BE EL HAMSTERO BECAUSE HE CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO HAVE HIS NAME TRANSLATED! (I'm going to discuss it at length in a journal entry, but y/n?)

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

I AM GOING TO GO WATCH IT NOW OKAY?

ALSO ALSO ALSO, RIONA HAVE YOU SEEN THIS? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5_EQR8eC2E&feature=rec-HM-rev-rn) The link was up on my 'recommended viewing' because of the ones you linked to on your journal that I watched.