beyond what theories can tell…

　 　 　 　 　 pokemon oc. rules & about. folklore heavy. high activity. 　 　 　 　　 　 crossover friendly. mutuals only. penned by sats. 　 　 　 　　 　 　 　　　 follows from @fluffghostrp.

Sorry for the inactivity - after dental chaos, i've been migrating my pathfinder game over to foundry, so that's been taking up my free time. ... i've also semi-spontaneously wound up on a local Pride event planning committee.... aaand kind of had to step up as a rotating gm for a group of local folks who want to play dnd. so i've uh... i've been wrangling things.

nothing puts the fear of god into you like a severe weather + tornado warning/watch spanning multiple states at once, all at the same time, in a row. creating 60+ simultaneous danger zones.

Oh, plenty. Most detection tech, in particular. The iron poisoning she went through damaged to her body, and has made her internal mana reserves less stable. She passively leaks/radiates a low amount of raw life energy, which means she will actively ding on any device keyed to detect inhuman energy signatures. Even if they aren't scanning her form or her location, such detection devices will also go off any time she speaks, since she's actively radiating energy out from her body to trick others nearby into thinking she's spoken something, when she's really just transmitting her intent. So her energy signature spikes when she speaks. She normally plays it off as 'detecting psychic power'... even though she isn't remotely psychic. She just hopes that whoever is using the device isn't savvy with it enough to have made it specifically filter out psychic wavelengths. Other devices she needs to be wary of include pokedexes and pokeballs - she actively steps out of range of pokedexes and the like if she sees them pointed near her, they WILL pick up on her sheer internal power and mark her as an unknown entity if they scan her. If a pokedex can scan and correctly label a ditto or zoroark that's hiding in a different form, then it will consider her no different regardless of what form she's in. Thankfully, pokeballs won't register her as a plausible capture entity, as they are likely specifically coded to reject human biomatter. It might open and try to pull her in, but it will ultimately suffer an internal error and fail. Transforming into a nonhuman form won't change that she's from the human evolution line. Hacked or specialized pokeballs, however, are another story. Historically, 'witch balls' have been a problem - created to negate a mage's power or control them outright, or more commonly to contain the souls of executed mages. Thankfully those things only show up occasionally in museums as a bookmark of the time. As far as surpassing goes.... one man's science is another man's magic, and vice versa. She doesn't see terribly much of a difference between the two - mages were considered some of the scientists and doctors of previous eras. Both are capable of warping the world around the wielder according to their intent, it's just a matter of whether or not they are manifesting that with their own body and mind, like their pokemon neighbors, or whether they've managed to replicate that outcome through external means. She doubts science will surpass a mage's abilities, since it literally warps reality. But likewise, she doubts magecraft will surpass pure human problem solving and brute forcing the world to bend to their will regardless. In the end, they're both tools used to achieve the same result, and powerhouses on equal footing. Doesn't mean she isn't wary of scientific progress, though - humans really don't like what they don't immediately or innately understand, so it's not unusual for them to see their more magically inclined counterparts as tools for their theories and experiments, rather than potential colleagues. Or as obstacles that need to be controlled, managed, or overcome. If she fears anything, it's that scientific progress could be used maliciously against her kind. The Psychic branch of abilities were only recently accepted or acknowledged into human society - who knows what sort of plans are being made behind the scenes to ensure they don't become a problem for non-powered humans in the future? (She can't use phones, computers, or anything else of that nature 'cause not only does she not really understand how it works, her body's power leakage tends to cause them to break before she can figure it out how to work them properly. Also because the dang things keep upgrading and changing every few years, so by the time she thinks she's figured it out, the device is completely out of date or obsolete. she just got used to figuring out how to type on a keyboard, now everything is holographic touch screens.)

Thinking about it, and Bridgette really hasn't actually addressed (or at least opened up to anyone) regarding what she's gone through (the witch hunts, getting caught, the loss of her voice), nor has she emotionally dealt with the death of like half her immediate family during the same relative timeframe. Girl has a lot of emotions about how her mom probably got hunted and she doesn't know how or why her mom got caught (and is also adamantly ignoring the thought that her mom was probably the one who accidentally set the blaze that gave Bri her fear of fire), and how her dad disappeared like a century or two later (he couldn't keep it together after the death of his wife, but bri doesn't know that and thinks he abandoned the family). And how she feels directly responsible for the death of two of her other siblings (they were the actual target and she was there by chance, so they all got caught. she was the only one who survived albeit at the loss of her voice). And she can't really talk about it with anyone, since it's not like she knows how to hold a healthy trusting relationship with someone that would allow that sort of conversation..... aaaaand also she holds a (pretty understandable) fear that if she slips up and mentions she even still has living family, they will get identified and targeted, and she could lose the only family she has left. She's had no outlet for any of that. So she's currently a shaken bundle of bottled fears, trying to make sure it doesn't blow sky high.

　 “I wonder how long it will take before humanity figures out a way to manufacture these...”

　 “You obviously know what I am, and have some degree of knowledge about how we operate. So. Why should I get involved?”

　 　 “My apologies, I did not mean to ignore you. Were you perhaps the contact I was supposed to meet?”

The reputation and history of loup-garou (aka kalosian werewolves) being man-eating creatures, absolutely did not help the various fairytales and thus overall reputation of witches supposedly eating people. And it's not wrong, since loup-garou did do that. Those who wear pelts of large, carnivorous animals usually take on those forms specifically with harm or malicious intent, so it's not unusual for them to get lost in the blood lust and intent of the magic, or lose themselves in the embedded instincts of the animal they were taking the form of. It's one of the warning that witches tend to give to those interested in shapeshifting: if you cannot control the transformation, you will not be able to turn human. And that is a prime example. But it's definitely the exception, not the rule. Witches do not naturally have an instinct or preference for the blood or flesh of their own kind, and any who have shown or acted upon such things are usually afflicted by outside sources or lost themselves to their malevolence. Witches who succumb to barbarity or cannot control their malevolence, especially if it's directed against their own kind, are given a wide berth by the rest of their community as a whole, and may even be marked as a 'loose end' that needs to be pruned for the endured safety of the community as a whole.

Been debating what the Kalosian Beast of Gevaudan was. Given it's description (Red fur with stripes or streaks; Carnivorous Mammal (wolf, wolfdog, lion, hyena, or now-extinct animal); Larger Than Normal; Eats People) so far i've got 4 options: - Pyroar (red furred lion) - Shiny Mightyena (wolf-like hyena, red-adjacent fur) - Arcanine (exotic, not found in Kalos but could have been a menagerie escapee, red furred canine) - Unknown Now-Extinct Pokemon (red-furred canidae or felidae mammal)

Getting Bri to fight you properly is all fun and games, since it makes her get away from her usual 'murkrow and flee' tactics and actually use her powers properly. Until she gets desperate and starts pulling out forms of pokemon that went extinct in the past 600 years.

finally got my horrible dentist stuff out of the way, now i'm in Recovery. still working on those starters, but it may be a day or two before i can properly put words to post, since Recovery takes priority.

ngl, my american ass has never heard of a tv license before in my life. but if it's something that exists in the uk, then galar probably has it too? depends on how the government in galar operates and whether that would be a successful funding model overall in the pokemon world.

Not related to Bri's pokemon companions, but pokemon in general: Trainers with a fairy-type pokemon are actually partially safe from being turned into a bird. Not completely, but Bri does actually take their closeness with a fae into consideration before making any moves or decisions. She'll usually try to talk to that fae beforehand, just to ensure her suspicions are correct and that fae has 'claimed' that trainer, akin to how fleta staked a claim on her. If they say 'no' (or if they don't understand what she's asking), then she takes it as they don't want to stake a claim, and that trainer is fair game! But if they say 'yes', as in that human is theirs and don't even consider it, then Bri will actually respect that and keep her mitts away. She'll steal things yes, mostly (especially) people she finds interesting - but she respects a fae's staked claim over someone, and isn't about to commit a faux pas between fae over a passing fancy (even if she's just a fairy-typed witch with a foot on both sides of that line, and not 'true' fae by fairy standards). So yeah - trainers with a fairy-type are conditionally safe, depending on if their fairy decides to throw their hat in the game.