#askthesunseekers

“You have my thanks, lad!” He chuckles, wondering if he actually guessed correctly on the Pokemon’s gender. “I admit, I have no interest in social gatherings such as these. However there are many Pokemon here that I’ve met in the past, thus why I’m still here to begin with.”

It’s quite obvious that the Gothitelle is trying to make small talk, Tapferkeit can see that. Upon closer inspection he realizes what the Pokemon is dressed as, the shoulder sleeves and the colors play a key factor in this. “Ahhh, I see you’ve chosen the God of Space for your disguise!” He gives a nod of approval. “You are the first to have chosen Palkia, such a glorious disguise it is!”

The gourgeist swiped against the screen of the tablet until a hologram of an image of certain species of ghosts appeared with the tagline Ghost Types that Cannot be the Souls of the Dead.

“I think the best place to start is what ghost types souls don’t become. Contrary to popular believe not all ghost types are really…spirits of the dead trapped in this mortal coil.” The scientist gave the Mr.Mime a glance to make sure they were still on board. “Some are spectral beings that either have the body consistency of ghosts or have properties such as being able phase through most solid matter.”

“These mons are gastly, haunter, duskull, dusclops, shuppet, shedinja, the frillish line, the misdreavus line, the golurk line, sableye, rotom, litwick and froslass. You may have noticed how I did not mention Banette, dusknoir, gengar, lampent and chandelure when I mentioned their pre-evolved forms. There is a good reason for that.”

The image that appeared on the next hologram showed the tagline Distortion World Ghosts. “When a living soul dies in the distortion world it tends to be horribly warped, losing the ability to pass on and becomes certain ghost types. Since dusknoirs, lampents, drifloons, drifblims and chandelures are often the common pokemon that ferry souls to after life, they tend to come back as that and are often coerced into collecting souls to bring them to the afterlife. Their reasons  for doing this job tends to vary.”

She swiped her finger again to bring up the hologram of the Tagline Emotion Based Ghosts.

“Some creatures come back as particular ghosts due to a strong emotional feeling. Banette come back if a grudge towards someone or somethingwas so great that they possess an object close to the thing they had a grudge on, or just take the appearance of the standard Banette. Gengars come from feelings of malice, mischief or a desire to cause any degree of trouble, or if the victim feels that they were the source of trouble, pain ect. The honedge line are souls that died heroic deaths, or died feeling a certain duty was not completed. Often times they are found in old medieval ruins or locations where swords are frequent.”

The next hologram to pop up was Ghosts Based off Location.

“There are ghosts that come back due to specific location where they died. The phantump and gourgeist line come back if they die in a forest location with a lot of living and dead trees, and even some normal grass types in some cases. The cofagrigus line tend to come back in either urban, or desert setting, where metal or dry soil is located. Drifloon can also come if someone dies in a location that has high elevation, namely mountains, planes exploding in mid-air and reeeeeeealy tall buildings.” She hoped she did not have to explain what an airplane was, or how one can explode in mid-air. “It is common for flying types or ones that fly really high to come back as these mons.”

“So does that answer your question?” The amount of time that it took Mercy to explain this to the poor mon never even crossed her mind. She did tend to go over every nook and cranny of certain details.

As this memory resurfaced in his mind, he recalled some of the nastier details. The many signal beams and dark pulses shot at him. The detail on how Grohl hit Gwen with ancient power so many times, that by the end of the fight, it took him three hours to not accidentally break anything due to his uncontrollable strength. The most vivid part of the memory was when Gwen shot a mirror off of his car which sent him into a fury. To the grass types credit he did not want to bring these details, otherwise Gwen would have been painted in a worse light.

“So after we fought, Freddy had to step in. He managed to pin me on the ground and knock the wind out of Gwen as well.” Grohl’s expression turned oddly cheery for a moment, despite telling a watered down version of a fight that happened. Freddy had always been really cool, even when he was kicking his ass years ago. “It’s also how I met Freddy and how he gave me this job!”

—Three Years Ago—

“You sure fought her pretty well” Freddy examined the damage on Grohl’s end. The injuries were nothing a trip to the poke center could not fix, same with Gwen’s. Though Gwen was far less happy about the cuts on her head and the bruises forming on her arm and leg.

The tangrowth felt very mixed on the toxicroak’s compliments. This was just after someone under his employment had tried to rob and felt like was going to kill him. On the other hand, he had just gotten a genuine compliment! “Thank you!”

“Not to mention you seem to have a knack for cars. Tell you what. How would you like a job?” The other two mons just looked in shock, Grohl’s being more of a happy kind of shock and Gwen’s being the inverse. “R-really?!”

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