I had just barely got to my new house in my ancestral homeland of Ballonlea, which was given to me largely for free due to it being A. very old and B. supposedly haunted. My pokemon and I settled into the foyer (I wasn’t going to go to other rooms just yet) when I started hearing the weird noises the former owners had warned me about. I went out to investigate and discovered the weird light they had warned me about - it was a Dynamax Den (this was before the Dynamax phenomenon became more widely known, though not long before). Like the idiot I am, I took it on by myself. Inside was a powerful Dynamax Sigilyph - the source of the “haunting”. I tried to back off but it didn’t seem like the Sigilyph was going to let me. With no other choice I sent out my pokemon. I was fortunate that I had an Electric-Type (Vizier) and a Ghost-Type (Raygor) with me. I defeated the Sigilyph, but afterward it kept following me around. I gathered the house was its patrol route, but even when I left a day later to buy supplies the Sigilyph followed me. I then decided to catch the Sigilyph because it very clearly wanted to be with me. I named him Tlaloc and to this day he is valued, if mysterious, member of my team. I still don’t know why he wants to be around me so much

//ooc: Background image credit: @\clubpengy

When I had just barely landed in Galar, I took advantage of a promotion to get a free stay at a high-end hotel in Wyndon. The place was nice, but the management did not have very good energy. The workers were fine, just the owner and people who ran the place seemed very unpleasant. I went to my room, but then they told everyone to stay in their rooms for a surprise the owner had planned. However I had overheard that the owner was instead using that to cover the fact that they were dealing with a Joltik and Galvantula infestation. The whole move to Galar had drained me, so I snuck away through the underbelly of the hotel to find the hotel’s systems, where I could sit and listen to them, as a way to calm myself. While I was there, I began seeing a weird gas flowing from a certain part of the power room, and another part started heating up. I crawled into a vent to investigate, when on my way there, I saw a Galvantula and a clutch of Joltik escape. I kept investigating, until I discovered that A. their method of “removing” the Joltik involved poison gas and Heatmor, and B. One of the Joltik, likely the runt of the clutch, had been left behind to face the Heatmor and the gas. Seeing the Joltik, I called to her, but she was apparently weakened and too scared to move. So I pulled out a spare Pokeball and spun it toward the Joltik. The capture succeeded, and I got her out of there. I then proceeded to leave the hotel, and was banned from ever staying there again (not that I ever need or want to). I named the Joltik Zapple, and even after evolving into a Galvantula, she still is reluctant to leave my side, and her favorite place seems to be attached to my chest

Ballonlea City, Galar

Slateport City, Hoenn

In the backyard of an old house in Hoenn, Quasar set up a bottle on a table, watched by his Hisuian Lilligant, Lily and his Sigilyph, Tlaloc. His objective: find some way to break the bottle with Convetezynce.

He positioned himself a ways from the bottle, then willed a bit of Convetezynce from his chest into his hand. When he had formed a little green glowing cloud, he hurled it at the bottle.

The bottle was knocked over, but otherwise intact

“That’s something, at least” Quasar thought, setting the bottle up again.

He then thought back to a conversation he had had with his friend on the subject. She had mentioned 2 approaches she used for her power, which by Quasar’s understanding, had at least some similarities to his. These were: convincing the target to change, and having a focus image for the “casting”.

Quasar made another Convetezynce cloud, but this time tried to infuse the cloud with his desire for the bottle to break. But when he hurled the cloud, the bottle was harmlessly knocked over. “Guess that’ll be a no-go” Quasar thought

Quasar then thought of the other approach: mentally drawing an image and projecting it, like an illusion. Illusions were great and all, but if it was true that Convetezynce had the power to change the fates of entire multiverses, why not push himself, Quasar thought, and try to give some substance to those images?

Quasar readied himself, and started forming a mental image, when he remembered something: when he had used a Banishment ability against Shadowglass in the past, a very distinct mental image of a spiral - a shape - appeared in his mind. What if… he applied a similar technique to this exercise? 

Quasar faced the bottle again, closed his eyes, and mentally thought of a shape, for this exercise, a line, but as he was preparing to send this line toward the bottle, he imbued the line with the desire for the bottle to break. 

Watching vigilantly, Tlaloc observed as Quasar’s extended fingers began to glow green, before a bright green line sprung from his fingers, hit the bottle, and shattered it to pieces

Quasar opened his eyes, and saw the bottle in pieces. He was elated, but it wasn’t time to celebrate yet. Getting more bottles, Quasar performed this exercise several more times, until he got the hang of casting the line. He then decided to try imbuing the line with other effects, mainly one that weakened whatever target it hit. 

Prior to my joining Team Galactic, I would spend the summers with my aunt, cousins, and great uncle in Sunnyshore. I got along with them fine, except for one of my cousins who was particularly sadistic, particularly to certain species of pokemon. One memorable time we were on a week-long trip to Unova and I saw him and his Sneasel being needlessly cruel to a group of Golett, and tried to stop him. While attempting to reason with him, he said this: “So what? They’re useless pokemon anyway”. Those words stuck with me, but not in the way he probably thought they would at the time. Instead, I became determined, that one day, when I could have pokemon of my own (my father was… not the best person, but that’s its own post) I would raise a Golett, and give it all the love and kindness they deserve, regardless of whether or not they were much of a battler. Fast forward to right as I’m first in Galar. I have 4 pokemon already (Tingles, Vizier, Azurno, and Zapple), and I’m putting distance between me and Team Galactic (as part of my plan to expose Cyrus), and I’m moving through the wild area looking for somewhere to weather out a rainstorm (I wasn’t exactly using hotels due to the circumstances that led to me getting Zapple) and I saw a Golett, clearly injured looking sad and frightened, out in the rain. I decided then and there that it was time to make good on my younger self’s promise. I caught the Golett and brought it back to the cave I was staying in, and named the Golett Raygor. I have since made good on the other part of my promise, resulting in Raygor becoming a strong, gentle, and happy Golurk.

The Nexus is, as a rule, empty. However, sometimes I have found strange, human-shaped entities milling about. I have called these entities Polymers. As far as I can tell, they lack any kind of intelligence or sentience, and instead merely operate certain tasks. I have not been able to ascertain the exact nature of their operation, but I infer that they act based on preloaded programs, much like automatons. What could have created them? How do their programs function? Why were they created and then dispersed at random through the Nexus?

Might as well make an ongoing post about the Convetezynce Core since clearly that’s going to be an ongoing experiment 

From what I can tell the Convetezynce Core, or Green Core as I call it, is an alien artifact that, according to… not-exactly-reputable sources, has the power to “change the fates of entire multiverses” that for some reason whatever’s in charge decided it was best for me to have (I disagree but I can’t really do anything about that since it’s embedded in my chest). It’s been granting me several abilities, but it’s been implied that using said abilities will come with a price.

So far it grants me:

Understanding all languages written or spoken

Powering technology

Regenerating me incredibly quickly

"Banishing" hostile entities (I shoot this laser out of it that sends them away through a 1-use portal the laser makes)

Shooting lines that break the object at the other end

Being a glowing light in my chest