#crabnoises

⚪ White - What drew you so much to your muse?

*holds face in hands* i have no. damn. idea. my best guess is that my brain saw similarities to pecking. Taako from TAZ and was like "that one. we're grabbing that one" because i have written fic centered around him in the past. though i can't roleplay him so who the peck knows at this point. brains are weird

regardless, it wasn't a conscious decision. i just looked around somewhere around end game and realized Melli had decided to take up residence despite the fact that one of the friends i was reacting to while playing hates him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

figured i'd make a blog for him to play with a different friend. and then Daybreak happened and it was revealed how they used to be shy and that pecking enabled me to go so far with the somft headcanons

🟣 Purple - Is there a fandom you are in that’s unrelated to this muse?

i mean it depends on how to define "in a fandom" tbh but uh. i have roleplay blogs for uhhhhhhhhh characters related to five other fandoms? if i counted right. and have written fic for a variety as well. main blogs (as opposed to side blogs like this one) for roleplay are Kaito's (Magic Kaito), Elphie's (Wicked), and Robin's (One Piece) though i'm not super active like. anywhere tbh XD

i don't even have any pokemon fic on my AO3 tbh, though i've been tempted to post my ficlets from here on there. just haven't gotten around to it

there's also a fair amount of shows i enjoy (mostly animated) that i haven't made content for

i've also been to a show specific con multiple times in the past but let's be real, i was mostly there for the cider and because someone else drove and paid for the hotel room. voiced a couple fan characters for that fandom too, but i do not want this showing up in the search stuff for that fandom so i'm being vague on purpose

🟢 Green - How far, if at all, do you think you have deviated from cannon?

oh gosh. uhhhhhhhhh. i mean i deffo play Melli softer than ever gets shown in canon, that's for sure. also like? i look at all the clues that they put in the game saying that Melli is awful (doesn't get a crobat, has a pokemon that it specifically says in the dex does not do well in the cold live right at the snow line, the whole everything with how we met him) and like? dig into it to make it Less Bad™

crobat? he worries that she won't be able to walk and take breaks as well as she can as a golbat. plus a fear of how people around him might view him. he's built up a reputation and is afraid of what will happen if he loses it

skorupi? look he found a friend at the beach it's not his fault he ended up living in the highlands. he makes sure there's blankets and someplace warm and they sleep together for warmth

the stuff about how they were when we met them? they're a bunch of insecurities all tied up in a rancid little bow. none of what they did is good but they had reasoning for it

basically i try to make the character a bit more sympathetic. also i refuse to have a character who's abusive to pokemon be in charge of the care of such a special one. especially one so prone to self damaging moves. does that feed into how Melli acts? yeah, a little. he doesn't have to pay as much attention to making sure fainting doesn't happen as Iscan. but also he's prepared to deal with recoil damage being a thing