↷ 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 - [Pokémon x Reader]
↳ Before Requesting;
Please note the following;
Please don’t request NSFW (smut, lemons, limes, etc.) of any kind, thank you.
 I write these in my free time, so I apologize for any sort of delay when releasing any content.
Please specify if you want an imagine / headcanons / one-shot (or more).
Don’t be afraid to mention another character / request for another character that’s not on the list. Keep in mind I only write for Pokémon people!
I mostly write for in-game characters, but feel free to request any characters from the anime!
I do not own Pokémon nor any of the characters by any means. All rights go towards Nintendo, Creatures, Game Freak & Satoshi Tajiri- as well as their amazing teams that brought us Pokémon!
↳ Characters I Write For;
KANTO; Gary, Blue, Red, Ash, Misty, Brock, James, Jessie, Lance, Erika, Koga, & Sabrina
JOHTO; Silver, Falkner, Clair, & Will
HOENN; Brendan, May, Roxanne, Brawly, Flannery, Winona, Wallace, Steven Stone & Wally
SINNOH; Lucas, Dawn, Barry, Gardenia, Fantina, Volkner, Cynthia, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn
HISUI; Akari, Rei, Cyllene, Laventon, Kamado, Adaman, Arezu, Mai, Melli, Irida, Palina, Ingo, Volo & Cogita
UNOVA; Hilbert, Hilda, Nate, Rosa, Cheren, Bianca, N, Hugh, Cilan, Chili, Cress, Lenora, Elesa, Skyla, Drayden, Iris, Marlon, Grimsley, Alder, Ingo & Emmet
KALOS; Calem, Serena, Alain, Shauna, Tierno, Trevor, Viola, Grant, Korrina, Clemont, Valerie, Olympia, Siebold, Malva, Diantha, Sycamore & Alexa
ALOLA; Elio, Selene, Hau, Lillie, Gladion, Kukui, Burnet, Lana, Kiawe, Mallow, Olivia, Kahili, Guzma, Nanu & Lusamine
GALAR; Victor, Gloria, Hop, Bede, Leon, Sonia, Milo, Nessa, Kabu, Oleana, Marnie, Piers, Bea, Allister, Gordie, Melony, Raihan, Peony, Klara & Avery
PALDEA; Florian, Juliana, Nemona, Arven, Atticus, Brassius, Eri, Giacomo, Grusha, Iono, Jacq, Katy, Larry, Mela, Ortega, Penny, Sada, Turo, Ryme & Tulip
↷ What I Write
Forms Of Writing; Imagines, Textfic, Crack, One-Shots, Headcanons, & Songfics
Relationships; Romantic ( s/o, crush, etc. ), Platonic ( friend, family member, rival, enemy, etc.)
Genres / Types; Fluff, Angst, Friends to Lovers, Enemies to Lovers, Rivalry, Character x Reader x Character, Jealousy, Isekai, Forbidden Love, Crossover, Darkfic, Alternate Universes, Unrequited Love, & Hurt/Comfort
↳Note; Other types of genre may be unlisted.
↳ Work(s);
KANTO; None Yet
JOHTO; None Yet
HOENN; None Yet
SINNOH; None Yet
HISUI; None Yet
UNOVA; None Yet
KALOS; None Yet
ALOLA; None Yet
GALAR; None Yet
PALDEA; None Yet
↷ ‘ ‘ Now get on out there, trainer! ’ ’
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I started thinking about Boris' story from the isekai I was posting chapters of here and what that story might be. Starting with who the necromancer who created him was.
I pretty much immediately decided it was a necromancer character i created awhile ago, and got a short chance to play, Kerila/Nisharven. They have a very distinctive appearance I created by melding together visual cues from xenomorphs, Yzma, The Sassomancer (props to @kadabura for such a cool character), and then added some of my own "way overthinking things" to, like how they actually style their hair like that. While Nisharven didn't have a particular race when i created them, Kerila was a githyanki.
I had recently watched a video talking about the Gith (tho i strongly disagree with Pointy Hat's taste, but then I'm an avowed xenophile, so), and decided i definitely wanted to use some of the Gith/mind flayer lore in Boris' backstory.
There's a small problem with that, but a fairly easily surmountable one- WotC claims the Gith and mind flayers as "Product Identity." Which is bullshit, because neither of them originate from D&D. The Gith were created by Charles Stross for a White Dwarf article, and the name was pulled from an old GRR Martin story. Mind Flayers are just starspawn of Cthulhu with the serial numbers and wings filed off. The Gith/Illithid war takes from a book by Larry Niven. So, I personally consider them fair game, since they represent a history of artistic theft. I just need to call them something different and make a few differences.
And given that I actually think about how fantasy species and cultures function, that's easy to do.
Which is a long ass prologue for what I actually am making this post to talk about:
How To Create Truly Alien Cultures
Mind Flayers are described as utterly alien in mind and body. They see themselves as the apex of life, superior to all other life, and as destined to rule the multiverse, creating order under their rubbery grasp.
They see "lesser" lifeforms as only fit to be food, brainwashed thralls, or, essentially, breeding stock. They believe that they are giving these creatures "a gift" when they eat their brains.
These two things don't fucking compute.
This "we are superior to you, and true order can only be found if you submit to our rule" bullshit is all too fucking human. If this is your take on illithids, they're not alien, they're Nazis with squids for heads and slightly more complex justifications.
But, I read up on the canon, because there's this inherent tension between "we eat brains" and "we reproduce by putting our larva in brains." I wanted to see what the existing lore was to see if I needed to square that circle. I don't. A mind flayer only *needs* one brain a month because they actually primarily subsist on the psionic energy of the brain. A mind flayer who can might eat one or two brains a week, but in general they eat a brain every couple weeks, along with other things, such as organs other than brains, which are like healthy snacks to them since they contain the non-psionic stuff their bodies need.
But the lore also contains the seeds to actually start making them genuinely alien.
Let's start with the thing I remembered and didn't need the lore to refresh my memory on- for an Illithid, the Good Ending of life is for their brain to be put in their home elder brain's pool to become one with it. Every Illithid, no matter their personal goals, unless they've gone rogue or something, is aiming for an afterlife where they become one with the ruler of their personal community. That is Illithid Heaven.
Now, the things I needed the lore to remind me of-
When an Illithid consumes a brain, they receive the memories, personality, etc of the person whose brain they eat. The mind of the victim is absorbed into the Illithid's own mind.
There is one major point of lore I discard, the idea that illithids have no gender and instead individually lay one or two clutches of eggs in their lifespans. Like, I'm here for genderfuckery, but if we're going to make aliens, let's fucking make aliens. Have the tadpoles spawn directly from the elder brain through budding.
This is how you make the "brain consumption is a gift" thing work from the mind flayers' perspective!
The Cycle of One and Self
Ok, so, first you have to step into the webbed, two-toed feet of a mind flayer. You value your individuality, but also long to return to the elder brain which spawned them. For you, your individual life is but a short time in which you serve as a node of the community, to accomplish its goals away from the pool.
Further, you absorb non-illithids into your number when you eat. You don't see the act of consumption as an end of that person, you see it as helping them ascend to be part of a greater whole, which you likewise wish to ascend to. Your brain and mind is a way station for those who were not spawned from the Great One and are not destined to become extensions of it through ceremorphosis.
Now, we can understand this way of thinking, from an academic sense, but it's substantially non-human, in a way that "you are lesser beings and must be controlled by us superior beings" isn't. It gives the illithids a philosophy and a pathos that a person can almost sympathize with, but not, because to accept that perspective, one must sort themselves into "food."
This isn't a whole genuine alien mindset, but it's a good start. A much better start than, say, "look they just do things that seem random, but that's because we don't understand them." There's a logic, however abhorrent or frightening. It actually makes internal sense and isn't just "this is a thing we don't like to think of historical human actions, so it seems alien to us."
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Closing thoughts on Sasaki and Peeps
This was a fun little show, though it's unlikely I'll remember it much longer. It also adapts just the beginning of a ranobe series so there's no real proper ending, and the magical girl was barely in it, but regardless I had a pretty good time.
(spoilers I guess if you're really wary of them)
So the story is about Sasaki, an office worker who gets a pet bird, which turns out to be a reincarnated superwizard and grants Sasaki OP magical powers. Then Sasaki gets involved in three different genres (isekai, psychic battles, and a little bit of magical girls) even though he'd rather just live quietly and comfortably.
It's very much a power fantasy story; Sasaki's power is far greater than anyone else in the series (other than Peeps who is even more powerful), and for the most part Sasaki is able to speak himself out of many tricky situations. Even when things start to fall apart around him (like characters from two different storylines meet up and he gets into trouble because he's told different lies about himself to different people), he somehow manages to stumble out of it alright. But I dunno, I like it and I think it's kind of funny how everyone is super serious about the plot and then this pkmn Larry-looking guy wanders into the scene and casts lightning bolt and saves the day. The tone is light and the characters pretty shallow, but it was fun for a 1 cour show.
For the magical girl, she was in a villain role but as I said she had very little screen time and we didn't even learn anything about her motivation on attacking the psychic bureau. And she wasn't interesting enough for me to check out the source material for her, but I'd watch a season 2 if they ever make one.
My least favourite aspect is that everyone in the group of girls that forms around Sasaki is teenager at oldest (except the one who looks like a teenager but is supposedly 100). And nothing is ever done about it but it's like, you know why this yandere neighbour girl is included in the ranobe.
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So the Magatama randomly re-appears to Phoenix after Larry/Maya's trial? So what about for Miles? Does he have a special Item that re-appeared to him or is that Wright shenanigans?
Each of them have like a little item that usually works as a catalyst for their abilities (and for their like magical-girl transformation) although sometimes in high-intensity situations they might be able to do a thing or two with out them. Like, when Phoenix finds Mia’s corpse in the office he accidentally manifests chains across the office door.
Phoenix still has his magatama. He usually carries it in his pocket, but eventually he wear is somewhere on his person, although I’m still playing around with exactly where.
Miles has the gem that goes on the breastplate of his armor. It used to feature white chess pieces but now they’re black. It showed up in his office after the Maya trial. He used to leave it at home but couldn’t stop thinking of it and it started to effect his work, so he carries it in his pocket. Eventually, I’m thinking he wears it on his cravat.
Larry’s catalyst is a small paintbrush that can become a big paintbrush. While he recovers his around the same time, he has a lot of paintbrushes, some bought because they looks like his catalyst, so he doesn’t notice for a while.
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