July - August Test Drive Meme

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➞ Post with a character you wish to test drive in this game's setting.
➞ Tag other people's starters and thread out shenanigans!
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Comments

[driventowin]

[Between the clacking beak and the loud voice, Tobio finally pulls his eyes away from the tower to look at.......]

Is that a cat?

[Or a fox? These creatures here were still very confusing. His Murkrow lets out something like a sigh and somehow looks rather done with his trainers observation.]

[crystalmaster]

[Radley chuckles and picks Evie up.]

She's an Eevee. Pretty much a cross between a fox and a rabbit. And a cat.

[Evie nuzzles him.]

Hi, I'm Radley.

[driventowin]

[Cat-rabbit-fox. Who said Pokemon had to make sense. They certainly don't to him with an oversized crow with a weird hat. He does nod as this info is relayed since this Radley man seems to know what's up.]

Kageyama Tobio.

[With the name Radley, this guy was some kind of English speaker... which is confusing since his English skills are not the greatest. How is he understanding everyone??]

And this crow thing is a Murkrow.

[crystalmaster]

[Radley is Spanish-American and indeed speaking English. He does know some Japanese too.]

Yeah, I've seen Murkrows from time to time. I've never been this close to one, though.

[Evie tries again to say Hi!]

[driventowin]

[In the future, Tobio will know another language. But for now? He's just a monolingual sort-of-idiot.

As for the Murkrow? He snaps his beak at the Eevee. About as close to a hello as she'll get.]

Do they stay away from people?

[Sounds about how crows are back home unless you feed them.]

[crystalmaster]

[Evie's ears and tail droop. Radley pets her.]

Most of the ones we saw wanted to battle us, unfortunately. But that's pretty standard for a lot of the wild Pokemon we see, not just the Murkrows.

[driventowin]

[That just sounds like a crow in general. Though he's used to seeing entire flocks, not just the one on his shoulder.]

Fighting an entire flock with that fox cat would be hard.

[Even Murkrows have weaknesses if this whole typing chart was to be believed.]

Is catching them the only way to make them stop fighting everything?

[crystalmaster]

Fighting an entire flock would be hard with any one Pokemon! Unless maybe it's a powerful Psychic or something. Thankfully, we've only encountered one at a time.

[He ponders.]

Probably not, since all Pokemon have different personalities and some will still wanna fight.

[driventowin]

[So Psychic was good against Dark? Wait... that didn't sound right from the typing he's looked at.]

Murkrow are immune to Psychic, aren't they?

[If he doesn't have volleyball to focus on, Pokemon it is.]

So he'll always want to fight everyone...

[Maybe he should name this Murkrow Hinata...]

[crystalmaster]

... Yeah, that probably wouldn't work against a Dark type. I have trouble keeping all the battle rules straight. I was just picturing a Psychic blasting the whole bunch away.

[He chuckles, then sighs.]

He might. I guess he could grow out of it....

[driventowin]

A Fairy type would be able to do that.

[Wait. Are there fairy types that are that strong...]

Grow? That evolution thing? I haven't seen it happen.

[crystalmaster]

Really? Cool.

[He shakes his head.]

I just meant he might mature beyond that. But yeah, maybe evolving could do it too. I've heard evolving can sometimes change Pokemons' personalities.

[driventowin]

[A whole personality change? That seems extreme...]

He's fine how he is, I just need him to fight less. This isn't volleyball.

[crystalmaster]

[Radley thinks so too. It's one thing that seriously annoys him about evolution. That, plus losing the kind of Pokemon you started with.]

It doesn't happen in all cases, though.

[He chuckles a bit.]

It's sure not. You're into volleyball?

[driventowin]

[Honchkrow is at least cute. Though Kageyama needs a Dusk Stone first.]

I was on the volleyball team at my high school.

[And fighting at nationals to get to the top.]

[crystalmaster]

Cool. Some of my friends like it, but they just play casually.