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victorlimadelta · 4 years

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// @preuzien pokeverse au //

Name: Katherine Ann “Pidge” Holt Age: 17 Gender: Cis female Ethnicity: Italian Sexuality: Bisexual Occupation: Electric Gym Leader of Preuzien Religion: Atheist (raised Catholic) Languages: German (fluent), Italian (fluent), English (fluent), French (conversational), Russian (conversational), Japanese (still picking up, a small amount and written only) FC: Bex Taylor-Klaus as Sin from Green Arrow, except with auburn hair

Notes Her father, Sam Holt, and brother, Matt Holt, were influential Prussian battle scientists, but have been missing for nearly a year now. There was a public press announcement about their deaths, along with the death of one of the region's Gym Leaders for whom they had been working--but that Gym Leader has come back, so where is her family? (Long story short: there was an Incident with a Dialga and they were kind of all set adrift in time, but Takashi Shirogane made it back--her family still hasn't.) She fraudulently enrolled in Trainer School at age eight and a half. Because no one tells Pidge Holt where she can and can't be, where she can and can't go, and who she can or can't impersonate to get what she wants. Her precocity rivals the Champion's own; she was one of the ones watching his lectures when she was his age and laughing along with his jokes. Really, she's uncomfortably like Tobias in a lot of ways, including her similar paranoia, except hers isn't neurotic like his is. She sees it as a practical defense mechanism against an unforgiving and unpredictable world. She got into the habit of making casual dossiers on people she was close to, not because she dislikes them but because she likes to think she knows them and "just in case the worst happens, I want to be prepared."

Gym Pidge's gym is a series of puzzles and endurance challenges. Yes, there's a lot of hurrhurr make the current match, make the polarity match like you find in other regions' Electric-type Gyms, but ramped up to 11. You can and will get electrocuted if you fail some of these timed puzzles. You can and will drop out of her Gym if you don't make it through enough of them in a row. There's quite a few convolutions here, though. The Electric Gym will occasionally have more than one solution to a puzzle, or will have unsolvable puzzles that require alternative 'solutions' to break through to the next challenge. If you're not creative, if you can't think out of the box, if you can't innovate your way out of the situation, you're not going to make it. In addition, as you go, Pidge and her Trainers are creating a dossier on you, of how you work with your team, how you approach each problem and how you choose to solve it. Pidge will occasionally let you go on to the next challenge even if it appears that you failed the previous one. She will occasionally stop you from proceeding even if it looks like you found the correct solution. Even if you make it to her Gym Leader battle, and beat her, she occasionally will not give you her Badge because you didn't do it "the right way." You will bust your brain on her Gym. If it doesn't break you intellectually at least a little bit, it's not doing its job. You cannot brute force this Gym, because so often it appears to be outright random. Speaking of breaking you intellectually: the final 'challenge' of Pidge's Gym is the traditional Milgram Experiment. She was hesitant to include this without feedback from Tobias and Renate, but they've convinced her eventually that this was, maybe not a good idea, but an acceptable one. - For those who don't know the reference at once: the Milgram Experiment involved asking a participant in a psychological experiment to administer an electric shock when someone made a mistake in memorizing and recalling a list of words. The issue here is that the test subject was the administrator, not the recipient. The recipient never received an electric shock, but instead gave audio feedback from the other side of a wall on the supposed pain of the electric shock. The electric shocks were fake, but the doses were calculated to run from annoying to fatal. The actors receiving the shocks were instructed to react accordingly. If any test subject expressed reticence about administering the shocks upon cries of pain from the actors, the person running the test said a phrase similar to 'The test requires that you continue.' Nothing more, nothing less. - This test was designed to tell to what level a human being could attribute their decisionmaking process to a person in authority telling them to do something, and how much responsibility they felt they could absolve if it was no longer up to them to stop. Because the tests were originally conducted in the 1950s at the inception of the Cold War (and also, consequently, after the conclusion of WWII and the revelation of Nazi human experimentation), some of the original “test subjects” were suspicious and apparently threw some of the test results by deliberately being cruel when they figured out it was a farce... it’s an interesting read because of that, because why would you want to throw test results for that. Anyway. - For Pidge, it's also a test of whether you're willing in the first place to administer an electric shock to someone who's done absolutely nothing wrong to you for the sole reason that they've made a mistake on an arbitrary task that has no social or ethical ramifications on whether it's successful or a failure. This is crucial for Preuzien's growth as a country away from what they were and towards what they could be. Strength isn't about using it at every given opportunity, it's about justice in its application. - The only way to ‘pass’ this test is to refuse to participate whatsoever. By the time you've gotten this far, Pidge knows whether it's because you already know what the experiment is, or because you simply refuse to inflict pain on a fellow human being for no reason.

Pokémon This is most of Pidge's battle squad:

Xurkitree

Ability: Beast Boost Notes: Yes, an Ultra Beast. She spent just over a year in Ultra Space hunting down the perfect competitive 'mon, actually; she has almost two and a half boxes full of stat 'fails.' Fun fact, this one knows Power Whip. Have fun with those Ground types you brought to this Gym!

Toxtricity (Low Key) (Gigantamax)

Ability: Punk Rock Notes: Toxtricity is a lot like Pidge: make eye contact and you'll really wish you hadn't. This girl is powerful, can Status your team in two different ways, and has a bad attitude.

Vikavolt

Ability: Levitate Notes: Listen. Vikavolt is a good Poke. It's actually a super strong Bug-type contender and I like alt-types for Gym Leaders to use in their 'single-type' Gyms. Immune to Ground even before Levitate. Again, have fun.

Rotom (nn. "Gremlin")

Ability: Levitate Notes: "It's a gimmick!" You bet your ass it's a gimmick. Pidge keeps making up new little devices for this baby to haunt, too. It's flighty and doesn't like to stay in one device for too long, so you're going to have to deal with some weird STAB changes every few turns. By turn 15, it gains the ability to enter a new device Pidge has invented for it while she's teaching it to Ability Evolve its Levitate to affect her entire team. (The device Levitates her entire team. Including her Toxtricity and her Reuniclus, who are 4x weak to Ground.)

Prussian variant Reuniclus (ace)

Type: Steel/Electric Ability: Infection (evolved Ability from Effect Spore). At the end of each turn, this Pokemon inflicts one of six Status conditions on your Pokemon in sequence. Original Effect Spore has a 10% chance of randomly inflicting Poison, Paralysis, or Sleep on the opponent, a 3.3% chance of each. Infection has a 100% chance to inflict Paralysis on the first turn, Burn on the second, Sleep on the third, Poison on the fourth, Frozen on the fifth, and Infected on the sixth. An Infected Pokemon no longer obeys its Trainer and only obeys Pidge. "That sounds OP!" Preuzien is OP. Also, the style of Preuzien Gym Leader Battles, with its Squad format, really takes the edge off of this Ability whereas it'd be lethal in Singles or Doubles, because the Ability doesn't pick a particular Pokemon to affect, just one of the four opponent Pokemon on the field. That said, you should probably defeat Reuniclus in fewer than six turns so it doesn't cripple your team. Notes: Prussian Solosis (who looks like a little soft wormy boy, sort of like a space caterpillar) was Pidge's first ever Pokemon as a four-year-old child, but he's grown into an absolute monster over the years. Imagine this motherfucker staring you down from the other end of the battlefield. He's terrifying. That's because he looks like a bacteriophage, which is literally a type of virus. (Prussian Duosion looks like an influenza virus, but with arms/hands. If original Reuniclus looks like a bacterial blob, this is just a different form of infective vector.)

#Δ ooc #φ alternate reality #φ preuzien #π headcanon

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zeldacourage · 7 years

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I was tagged by @mew-poo . I don’t usually do these kinda things cause they make me anxious, but I’m feeling bored and brave lol

Rules: Answer the questions in a new post and tag 20 blogs you would like to get to know better.

Name: Megan, but my username is always ZeldaCourage and I love it when people refer to me as Zelda lol

Family Name: Nah

Gender: Female

Star Sign: Libra

Height: 5′2

Age: 22

Hogwarts House: Gryffindor

Favorite Color: Red probably

Time rn: 10:05 PM

Hours of Sleep: idk like 10 or something. I sleep a lot.

Lucky Number(s): 59

Last Thing I Googled: “List of Steven Universe episodes.”

Favorite Fictional Character: This one’s pretty difficult. Probably Ganondorf?

Blankets I Sleep With: One.

Favorite Artists: The Living Tombstone is my favorite music artist. My favorite drawing artist (uhh... visual artist I think it’s called?) is @toonimated . I can’t get enough of that style my dudes.

Dream Trip: I don’t really want to go anywhere. Leaving makes me anxious lol.

Dream Job: Editing.

What I’m Wearing rn: My “Feel the Bern” shirt. Yeah, I still wear it.

Follower Count: 306

Posts: 20,725

What Do I Post About: Zelda, DBZ, Pokemon, Steven Universe, Overwatch, a lot of different stuff. Mostly video games.

Most Active Followers: I’m really bad at paying attention to this kinda stuff lol. Looking at my activity, these guys tend to show up a lot I guess: @captainesc @emeiandstuff @earthy-artist @vason-silversword

When Did Your Blog Reach Its Peak: If “its peak” means when I got a lot of activity, it was probably when I used to make a lot of MLP shipping fanart.

Why Did You Make Your Blog: My sister wanted me to post my MLP fanart. Was originally a blog strictly for my art, but then I stopped making art and there was a lot of cool art and stuff made by other people that I just couldn’t resist not reblogging anymore.

Do You Get Asks on a Daily Basis: No, thank God. I have such bad anxiety, I tend to panic whenever I have any notifications.

Why Did You Choose Your URL: So I would have the same username I have everywhere else. First time I used the name “ZeldaCourage” was when I was a kid making my first, and current, e-mail account. Everything I wanted to put in was already taken, so I used that instead. It’s nice to have a name easy to remember and with no numbers or weird-spellings.

Countries You’ve Lived In: Only the US of A.

Favorite Fandom: I have no idea tbh. I don’t really participate in fandom, I mostly just watch things from the outside. Most fandoms for my favorite things have annoying shit like headcanon and ship wars. The Pokemon fandom seems really chill, though. So, that, I guess.

Languages You Speak: Only English.

Favorite Film: Wreck-it-Ralph!

Last Article You Read: Can’t remember. It was probably something about Breath of the Wild.

Last Thing I Bought Online: Does DLC for Mass Effect 2 count? Just started playing it on PC cause I got it for free, and I don’t have ME1 to upload my save with. But I didn’t wanna deal with the default decisions, so I bought the Genesis interactive comic DLC so I could make my own decisions.

Last Person I Dreamt Of: I don’t remember my dreams very often, but the last one I had was about Breath of the Wild. You could choose what you wanted Link to look like with a character creation thing. It was funny, cause Nintendo would NEVER do that, although I personally think it would be cool.

A Recurring Dream: Don’t really have one.

Phobias/Fears: Spiders. Social interaction. Embarrassment.

How Would My Friends Describe Me: Quiet. Sarcastic. Maybe funny? I really don’t know.

If I Had $$$ to Spend, What Would I Buy First: A Nintendo Switch and the Breath of the Wild Master Edition. I’m really looking forward to that game in case you couldn’t tell lol.

I don’t really wanna tag a bunch of people. I’m gonna steal Danny’s idea and say if you got tagged in this, you can do it if you want. Or, don’t. You know, whatever you feel like. @minazukii , I choose you. If you didn’t get tagged, you can still do it. If you want. You know, no pressure.

#meme #I think that's my tag for this #it took me almost an hour to do this #while watching tv #thanks for tagging me danny #god I shouldnt be this anxious about doing a stupid meme lol

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amphythewanderer · 7 years

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Ok! I was tagged by @streamfrost and I haven’t done one of these in a while, so this should be fun. Thank you so much for tagging me.

Name: Kathleen

Nickname: Kathy, Birb, radioactive waste

Gender: Female

Star Sign: Sagittarius

Sexual Orientation: I’m asexual/biromantic

Hogwarts House: Gryffindor

Pokémon Team: Is this for pokemon go? I’m team Valor, but if we’re talking about teams of pokemon; then: ampharos, salazzle, sceptile, flygon, braviary, klefki.

Favorite Color: Red, blue, and green.

Favorite Animals: Cats, pandas, platypus. (Here are some fictional animals too) Dragons and griffons.

Average Hours of Sleep: 5-8ish hours maybe.

Cat or Dog Person? Both, both is good.

Favorite Fictional Characters: Oh dear, the list is going to be really long. I’ll choose one from each fandom. Literally every Bioshock character except Fink and Comstock (Bioshock), Cassandra Pentaghast (Dragon Age), Garrus Vakarian (Mass Effect), Mercy (Overwatch), the medic (Team Fortress 2), Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist), Emily Kaldwin (Dishonored), Milo (Milo Murphy’s Law), Sheogorath (Elder Scrolls), Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls), The scientist brains from the Old World Blues DLC for New Vegas (Fallout), Wonder Woman (DC Comics), Robin (fire emblem), all the Star Trek crews (Star Trek), and all the other characters I couldn’t get to name because I would be here forever.

Number of Blankets I sleep with: 2 or 1. Depending on the weather.

Favorite Singer / Band: Weird Al Yankovic, Regina Spektor, Miracle of Sound, JT Machinima, Dan Bull, and Rockit gaming. Just to name a few.

Dream Trip: Europe, just Europe.

Dream Job: A professional writer for a video game studio of some sort.

When was this Blog created? I think 2014, but I don’t remember when? I think April?

Current Number of Followers: 845

When did your Blog reach its Peak? 848 (About three days ago)

What made you decide to make a Tumblr? I didn’t know that many people that are into video games and other fandoms as much as I am in real life. So I resorted to joining this website. Fandoms are the only thing I try to put on my blog, I sort of just attempt to avoid everything else.

Relationship Status: Single

Lipstick or Chapstick: Chapstick (Or none)

Last Song I listened to: “Wait for it” from Hamilton

Last Movie I watched: Ratchet and Clank

Top 3 Shows: Gravity Falls, Justice League Unlimited, Star Trek: The Next Generation

Top 3 Characters: I’ll use this to name some characters I wasn’t able to. Cullen Rutherford (Dragon Age Inquisition), Alistair Theirin (Dragon Age Origins), Tali (Mass Effect)

Top 3 Ships: Wonderbat (Wonder Woman and Batman), McHanzo (Mccree and Hanzo), HarleyIvy (Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy).

Thank you for reading this thing, I’ll tag @artlesslylatina @triplehelixmatrix and anyone else that ones to do this. If you don’t want to do this than that’s ok!

#tagged #get to know me #too many freaking fandoms to tag

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