Tyki

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@Letter Bee

Teleporting onto the hive ship is... uh... not reccomended... especially in the queen's chambers... at least if you want your characters to live anyway

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@Letter Bee

There is another counter measure that's alot less annoying to deal with or bring into action, but i'm not going to say it. Also, gonna give gin a feebas as his first pokemon... magikarp as his second and it's going to be from the manga universe not the anime

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@Letter Bee

Still gonna stick with it as is just simply because trainers are professional dog fighters. You can make a dog you have fight respect you, that doesn't mean it's not going to turn on you and tear your throat out if you let it, and they're being let do so.

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@Letter Bee

They've actually been bringing his character back for the latest season since they're thinking about ending it :V

Either way, the person doesn't change the universe. I personally prefer the mangas over the anime due to a depth and more mature take on the universe. i.e. the lady that took a bath with her tentacool, zombie pokemon, actual death, etc.

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@Letter Bee

however, there's the issue of that fluxuating so i guess it's up to personal preference. mine is for pikachu to be female so menh. Outside of that, the only point at which ash cared about earning the respect of his pokemon was in the first season, all later seasons were pretty much "you wanna be strong like us? then do what i say" plus, there are occasions when trainers force pokemon to do what they say even on the rare occasion that they don't like each other. This is, of course, not thinking about the fact that ash may very well already be dead after the first episode's lightning strike, a very popular theory and one i personally support just simply because IT'S BEEN ROUGHLY 12 YEARS AND HE'S STILL 12. Outside of that, you're still left with the issue that pokemon just suddenly lose all forms of agency in the anime, and alot of them are trapped in their pokeballs for untold amounts of time and only able to come out for plot convenience or to do battle with other pokemon, that doesn't help their psyche at all. Now, even if you can discount all of that and more, there's still the fact that gym badges are supposed to be able to help you control more powerful pokemon. I see no reason this would be neccessary if the pokemon were, in fact, acting of their own accord and listening to you out of free will.

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kinda like wraith

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@ShadowVentus

It does, however, pikachu's gender was established in gen 1 before gender differences were physical thing, so it's female even if it physically doesn't look it.

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And for a small explanation: when a pokemon is captured by a pokeball, they immediately become obedient to the trainer's every word, and since letter bee went with the anime world where this is true rather than the manga world where trainers ACTUALLY HAVE TO FUCKING TRAIN AND BOND WITH THEIR POKEMON BEFORE THEY DO WHAT THEY SAY, the only logical thing that would cause this is mind control, which the psionic powers that be amongst the swarm can reverse, essentially causing your actions to give them reinforcements and a snack. BY THE WAY PIKACHU'S A GIRL FOR THOSE THAT DON'T KNOW

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@ShadowVentus@supertinyking@Letter Bee

"sure, here's your shit, try not to lose it again" gin says evenly as he hands evokers, pokeballs, and digidevices (no clue what they're actually called...) back out to those gathered, asking cornwall a few questions while the children went out to play at war. "you're not very high ranking are you? you don't have that aura of instant death that arch demons put out or the mind numbingly good voice of fallen angels. you new wave?" gin asks, turning to cornwall and heading outside since it was obvious the demon couldn't get anything done there anymore.

At the site of tokyo tower things were much more dire, with beings capable of freeing pokemon from the brain washing caused by the quantum physics marvel of pokeballs, trainers that had never bonded properly were finding their pokemon turning, killing and eating them, leaving even ash's pikachu turning on him, long supressed hatred at being forced to do battle while only able to bear witness to what his body was being forced to do causing even her to turn against her slave master. "are you alright? you've just been kinda staring at me this entire time..." the queen asks tiny, giving him a poke when he sits there, unresponsive while the invasion went off without a hitch, the psionic powers of some of the troops causing the pale imitations of the trainers to be thwarted and turned against them.

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also, sorry for not posting, i've been busy/lazy