A Pup on an Adventure!

Older Puppy, who goes by new name by now, at around 2+ years old.

I worry about her everyday…

Charti, what’s ‘innocence’ mean? Can I get in trouble for it?

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It means ‘cute’, Pup, so you don’t need to worry about getting in trouble. You’re fine the way you are, innocence incarnate and all.

Granny told me a whole bunch of them!

There was the one with the fearow and the one with the drilbur and the one with the goat chase and the one with the ursaring, and a ton more! The ursaring is my favorite though because mom was really smart in it and got the fighting to stop.

Oooh! I’ll tell it to you!

One day mom went with her family to the berry patch that was in their territory. When they got there a great big ursaring stood up roared at them!

Granny was quick to jump to her pup’s and territory’s defense! She leapt forward with a fire burning in her mouth and met the Ursaring head on!

But mom knew that this was a battle that didn’t need to be fought and as Granny battled the Ursaring mom looked around to see what she could do to stop the fighting. She noticed that in the bushes behind the Ursaring some cubs were hiding and she realized why the bear wasn’t running away.

Then she did the one thing that none of of her siblings would have tried; she talked to the cubs. 

I dunno why mom’s siblings wouldn’t try talking to the cubs but Granny told me that that’s just not how things are done in the woods. It seems really scary living like that.

Anyhow!

Mom learned from the cubs that the Ursaring would try to leave if given the option. Their mom was only fighting to protect them like Granny was fighting to protect her pups.

Mom bravely stepped into the fight and told this to Granny. At first Granny didn’t believe her but then she noticed that the Ursaring wasn’t trying to attack anymore.

Once the fighting was over the Ursaring was quick to find her cubs and leave. And that’s the story of how Mom stopped Granny and the Ursaring from hurting each other over a problem that wasn’t really a problem!

Pup really took all of us, minus Daryl I guess, by surprise. None of us here on the farm had suspected that there was a romance going on between them. 

As for what I do know, it really isn’t much.

Since she never ventured too far into the farm I really didn’t ever get to talk to her myself. She was pretty big news around the farm pokemon when she first showed up though, and given that this place doesn’t get much big news it didn’t take long before we all knew about her.

Daryl was always kind of tight lipped about her but the miltank loved to gossip when they had a chance and I guess she’d talk to them every now and again.

According to them she was really smart. Not to make her seems special or anything since this is all second hand info, but apparently she knew a lot about farms and humans even though as a forest pokemon she shouldn’t have had a chance to learn about that stuff. 

I’d normally call BS on that kind of tale but who am I to decide that since I’ve never held a conversation with her in the first place. 

But um… If you want to know more ask Daryl or Lady. They actually knew her. Oh, and maybe Pecha too? She was brought to the farm only a few months before Pup was given to us and their mom disappeared but she acts like she knows some kind of big secret about them.

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Wow! Those smell great~!

Alright!

Once upon a time…

I found some good smelling flowers for you on the way!

The danger of the woods is more of the normal sort. Predators and other aggressive kinds of pokemon call the woods their home.

60 or so years ago it was quite the different story. When the farm was built the farmers could just go into the woods and shoot or trap whatever pokemon was giving them trouble. Between the different farms in the area they just about wiped out the native predators like Houndoom, Mightyena, Ninetales, Zoroark, Linoone, and Ursaring.

Even though they threatened our herds it was still quite sad.

However, about  30 years later a law was put into effect that turned the woods into a protected space so Rangers could start reintroducing some of the native pokemon. Needless to say it didn’t go over very well with the agricultural community. The farmers could still trap or shoot any predator that came onto their lands but the woods were off limits so they couldn’t completely fall back on their old methods.

With the woods protecting them predators flourished over the years. Occasionally we’ve had one or two trouble makers that attack farm pokemon but those don’t tend to last very long. Generally the rule of thumb is that farm pokemon are safe on the farm and wild pokemon are safe in the woods. Go where you don’t belong and… well…

But you would be correct! I am quite ‘large and in charge!’ … Without actually being large and all that.

Hmm… Your ‘old lady’… wouldn’t perchance be that geriatric Ariados that Daryl had to chase away the other day? I believe I heard somewhere that she was from a good stock, she’d have to be to reach whatever age she is now, so I can see her becoming somebody I could tolerate. Maybe. 

So I’ve been thinking and I’ve come up with a few options!

1) The standard character fan art/reference piece (3 winners)

2) A set of pixel character emotion/reaction like the ones I use on the blog (3 winners with the set size decreasing)

3) Sketchy run/float animation of a character (1 winner)

4) Maybe some pokemon designs or variations since they’re pretty hot right now.

Any hoo, reply with your preference! 

A little self care wouldn’t hurt but nothing beats good genes.

Which I have by the way. I’ll have you know top of the line contest breeding went into making all of this fabulousness.

(Did somebody ask for Puppy in a sundress?

No?

Just me?