okay! powers and shit have always been a problem for me. nice thing about having pokemon ocs is that you don't usually have to think about it too much. there's an established formula for it. unfortunately once some fool starts handing out godlike powers to their blorbo, balancing starts to get quite difficult. dal's powers have changed a Lot over the years, partially due to my shit memory and mostly due to my frantic efforts to nerf her. let's start with her original power level and go from there!

so uhh base mew powers. we've got your standard telekinesis, telepathy, transformation, teleportation, and aura sense. moveset-wise she started out with psychic, aura sphere, heal pulse, and embargo. however her moveset didn't really matter for reasons i'll get into soon. also not that it matters to anyone except for me but her nature is rash, her characteristic is quick tempered, her tera type is poison and her hidden power type is fire. she is currently level 40 but was in the 30's for most of main rp.

so let's get into the good part. the primal power part. this is like the #1 thing that made dal actually interesting for so long. what the fuck is it?

,,,,so originally it was a power that let her copy and keep the abilities of a legendary pokemon after seeing and fighting them. it also gave her aura and stats a massive boost, gave her a healing factor, and allowed her to use any pokemon move without the 4-move moveset restriction for the length of time it was activated. upon activation her eyes would normally glow white, but depending on her emotional state the glow could bleed into yellow, orange, and eventually red, which y'know eyes glowing red = beating up friends time. it had to be activated to be used so it wasn't, like, always on all the time.

the main drawback i gave the power in order to keep dal from using it often was to make it heighten the impact of her emotions. sooo if she activated it during a battle where she was already panicking and/or angry, shit got out of hand quickly. and basically anytime she used the power for too long, she ended up hurting people she cared about, hence the whole. not wanting to use it thing.

this worked kind of decently okay as a balancing tactic for a while but after a hot minute i realized man. using the powers of literal gods is really overpowered. and half the time she's not even using primal power for that anyway. soooo i cut that out of the power set. pretty sure i also nixed the healing factor at one point but considering access to all moves means access to shit like slack off and synthesis it didn't really matter lol.

primal power stayed preeeeetty much the same after that up until final's final fight, after which i uh,,, ,,,,,,,, got rid of it LMAO. canon explanation was that she used up too much power beating the shit out of a god called night. irl explanation was THE NERFING AGENDA. and also i love just being able to uhh change the status quo for characters. just enact massive changes onto their lives or how they work. not sure if that's good writing at all, but i feel really,,, trapped otherwise. this is why i'm willing to do shit like let a semi-major character die because i needed to go eat dinner,,, (haha i might rant about that guy next), or let someone else's character cause dal a permanent injury. because it would be FUN. anyways point is, dal does not have primal power anymore.

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AND THEN IT GOT WORSE SOMEHOW

due to some nonsense involving the OCs of someone who isn't around anymore, dal acquired a power called Ashes, which honestly had a lot of. fuckin facets to it. like she could blow up volcanoes but also just summon lava and ash and like one time she melted sand and made glass spikes,,, it was basically. the power of the earth. shiny's a jojo's nerd and the way he designs powers (complicatedly) very much reflects that. the power itself was very interesting to me and i enjoyed using it! unfortunately it was also extremely, EXTREMELY overpowered, even moreso than primal power considering it could. kill gods. and also blow up the world if she wasn't careful. so. when shiny left the rp iiiiii simply had ashes disappear fuck yeah. and then i made dal cry about it really hard. because she reaaaaally relied on having at least one nuclear bomb of a power to fall back on in desperate situation despite the drawbacks and now she has NOTHING.

oh, side note! the reason dal and shiny started beating the shit out of each other during the buildup to the empress fight is because shiny found out dal had ashes. the god-killing power. and then, being a god, decided to fight his extremely unstable sibling, who had a god-killing power. that was fun :)

oh right uhhh so yeah. before i summarize dal's current abilities let's take a look at her cybernetic paw! after losing her flesh paw in the whole tournament thing she got a replacement pretty quickly from a friend.

ooh lookie a cool person named silver drew this oooooh

so yeh! this design was black with red accents and i believe originally didn't have any special powers? it got fixed up by shiny at some point down the line and at that point,,, she got a flamethrower installed as well as a grappling hook and some magnet-powered energy gun that i never ended up using. the flamethrower i uhhhhh had her use one time to my memory and it was for angst lmao. wasn't too good at making use of that powerset. she ended up ripping off the paw so she wouldn't get sucked into a giant electromagnet while shiny's mansion was getting attacked by three random gods. bye-bye paw

she got a replacement cybernetic from shiny pretty soon after. this one was made out of aurium, which doubled the power of her aura. it uhh also had a built-in shield that i did in fact end up remembering to use! it could also shoot her full of adrenaline and bring her back from the brink of death for some reason and i cannot remember if i had her use that feature...? if i did it would've been during the empress fight.

very VERY recently she did get rid of that paw by choice and swapped it for one her therapist gave her. the aura boost was contributing to her emotional instability and she was having this whole arc where she was learning how to pick herself back up and accept herself for where she is in life while also working to improve on her own strength and blah blah blah

no more special powers from the paw. it's just a prosthetic. i will have an easier time this way lol

in terms of moveset! dal underwent a few changes, originally she only used frenzy plant when primal power was activated but then i was like,,, man she uses it a lot and it's kind of her thing, so i replaced embargo with it in her normal moveset. she also learned a special move called void claw from kei (guy who's related to a lot of guys who live in the voidlands don't even worry about it). it's like,,, 100 base power and 80 accuracy? dunno what type it is besides like. void. if it were in-game i'd probably treat it like a typeless move maybe. either way it's cool and i like it

now we're getting much more current. last thing to go over is how her psychic powers have taken aaaaaa bit of a hit over the course of the uh. the everything. now she can't transform or teleport anymore without a significant boost to her aura, like if she got primal power back or something. the telekinesis/telepathy/aura sense are all still there but bro her mental defenses are SO shit that not one not two but three separate people in recent memory have managed to just,,,, INSERT themselves into her head and establish a mental connection. her therapist had her like start meditation and shit to build up her psychic powers bc she was mostly focusing on aura shit up until that point so she'll get better at it. but it's still really funny to me.

besides psychic powers, a standard four-move moveset, and her pretty decent physical fighting skills, the oooonly other things dal can use to give her an edge in combat are weapons! oh god i forgot to talk about the weapons lol let's make this quick

revive knife! i. don't know why she had this. it's been there since like 2021. i don't remember why i conceptualized it as a weapon. she just kept it in her bandanna pocket dimension. and only used it once. beofre proper main rp even started. i might sneakily dispose of it offscreen at this point

the battle-axe!! oh this is a throwback, i almost forgot about this. she used to just carry around a double-blade battle axe that i canonized as being three times her size. she's 2'04" so it was 7 feet long lmaooooo. she gave it away to final a while back. i almost miss it

a poison barb. like the item. the item in pokemon. + damage to poison-type moves. does she use poison-type moves? no. does she use psychic powers to transmogrify the weapon into a giant psychic fishhook? fucking obviously what else would you do with it bro. wait does that count as a psychic ability?? ah whatever she doesn't have the poison barb anymore. probably threw it at a different electromagnet. (okay i checked and no she stuck it into the side of like an eldritch horror wolf thing, of course, mb)

tyler's sword!!! okay dear reader i'm not sure if you remember but vivi's castle has GUARDS and one of them was a shiny gardevoir that did NOT get along with dal and he was really cool but unfortunately died to berserker/choco BUT ALSO left behind a REALLY cool sword that dal got to keep annnnnnd now it's the new thing that she can transmogrify into a giant fishhook. because literally what the fuck else would you do with a sword.

note to self: between raven's anchor and dal's giant fishhook you'd think i had a problem with giving characters explicit connections to the water when they canonically shouldn't have any because it's not relevant to their ARCS OR BACKSTORIES AT ALL DAL anyways

and some final notes to leave us off for good for a while hopefully. a couple things i forgot to bring up before

another thing that dal carried around for a while and lost recently wassss her signature red bandanna. it was given to her by her friend from the second universe and she viewed it as a symbol of their connection. it also had a pocket dimension so, convenient way for her to carry things around without me having to worry about a bag lol. it got destroyed while she was in therapy and that reaaaaaaally fucked her up. she crocheted a replacement scarf during therapy so she's got that now

a note about her scars, i kind of like to have her scar from very significant events n shit. so she has scarring around where she lost her paw, a scar on her side from where mari sTABBED her, scars around her neck from when shiny tried to kill her, and two slash wounds (back and front) frommm various things happening during the empress fight.

and last but certainly not least. dal eats pinecones. she also eats moss. but pinecones are her favorite. she cannot stomach foods with rich flavors. this is not the reason she loves pinecones. she loves them because they're.......pinecones.

okay we're done we're done we're done!!! the funny part is, even after four(??) different rants about her, there's probably important shit i forgot! she's done so much!!! she's been so many places!!!! and goddamn if i had to summarize main rp i'd be here for literal months hahaaaaaa. i shall miss ranting about my favorite child but! fortunately i might get to use her in roleplay again soon so. hoping for the best for that.

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dal's backstory yay. it's kind of hard to pin down what's backstory and what's just explaining roleplay events? i'm just going to start rambling about shit that's happened to her in a chronological order and stop when i feel like stopping. A WARNING: this is going to be so incredibly self indulgent lmao i'm sorry if it doesn't make sense.

so let's start with origin obviously. dalchar was created by dialga and palkia. this used to be more important than it is now tbh lol. their motivations for creating her were to have like a little helper to basically do the shit they didn't want to do, but they very quickly butterfinger-dropped her into that hostile universe i think i mentioned so that became a bust. after dal finally got to akimitsu (the part where the roleplay actually started), they did TRY to get her to do a few things for them, but she often just straight up fought with them which dissuaded them from interacting with her pretty quickly.

who dal was before dialga and palkia got involved is the subject of my technically-a-headcanon-since-i-haven't-confirmed-it-anywhere thing. all i'll say is, dal is her own person, but she also came from someone else. she wasn't made from nothing. and it's not that relevant for anything onscreen other than explaining her power which imo doesn't necessarily need to be explained? getting ahead of myself tho that's an entirely different post

anyway. i've already gone over it a bit so i'll keep it brief here, dal experienced two universes before entering rp - the first one she was stuck in a time loop and did her best to save two people who also betrayed her a whole bunch because that place SUCKED and you had to do anything to survive, and the second one which was actually A pokemon universe where dal learned that at least one really good and kind person does exist, and she made the decision to protect that person at all costs. their relationship was more like, pokemon and pokemon trainer rather than an equal friendship which is partially where the whole not-seeing-herself-as-a-person thing got started.

okay yay now i've gotten to the part where i can rant about cool roleplay moments yaaaay

so i conceptualized dal as a shiny suicune at first because it was a pokemon i happened to like at the time. somehow one of the first times i used her, she got killed pretty quickly and formed a friendship with a regice because it uhh made her ghost a body out of ice. and then they had some adventure and kissed at the end for some reason, which is the first example of dal somehow having masterful seduction skills back in the day.

the second iteration of dal was a zoroark, since i realized pretty quickly that i couldn't decide on one pokemon i wanted her to be, i decided to make it easy on myself and let her disguise herself as whatever i felt like at the moment. this era is where she met toon link! she was having trouble with her illusions because of hashtag trauma and toon link helped her out along withhhh i believe a silvally? i think i incorrectly said she met toon link when they fought a kracken in a previous post now that i think about it - this was technically their first meeting even though she wasn't a mew yet.

the whole kracken incident wasn't too important in the grand scheme of things except that it was the first instance of dal using primal power in akimitsu, so that was cool. (uhh shit i cannot remember if i've mentioned primal power uhh fuck it's her signature power that's all you need to know for now i'll elaborate in the next post i promise)

after dal met final, phan, and vivi, we hit another important milestone! dal joined a tournament, got her ass handed to her by a literal child, and lost her right paw for her troubles. yet another example of me just letting people do whatever they wanted to my ocs and just making it canon lmao. originally he did also fucking kill her but i did retcon that so. not entirely spineless. i'm going to asssssume this was another case of dal using primal power as well, but i'm unsure, this was a while ago.

but now we get to the good stuff!!! we get to dal's first big snap!!!!!! this stupid fuckass never talks about her problems so her anger comes EXPLODING out in big bursts sometimes, and primal power both boosts her abilities AND amplifies her emotional state so. back in the day she had these moments where she just fucking attacked her friends and right after the tournament was the first one! i'm mostly excited because of nostalgia lmao i don't think i wrote it very well but this was such a large part of dal's character for so long- anyway. dal went berserk and beat up final, vivi, phan, and a lopunny named chi. this was the biggest instance of me allowing dal to be incredibly overpowered as i allowed the fight to end in a fucking draw instead of dal being fuckin. overpowered by the FOUR OTHER POKEMON ONE OF WHICH WAS DARKRAI. but ahhhh it's a classic.

on a related note, whenever i think about this era of rp, i tend to think of dal snapping MULTIPLE times, but looking at my old notes i can only find this one instance. i know she has at least one other snapping moment once we get into more serious rp but i can't remember more than that, which is quite odd.

ahh okay i do need to end this off soon. around this time i formed an actual group of people to rp with and got a lot more serious with it, so a LOT more things happened that are actually canon, so many things that i cannot remember and summarize them all. i did start on an entire rp timeline a while back because i realized i couldn't remember everything that had happened in the 5+ years of rp we've been doing, but i never got very far. ANYWAYS point is i'm going to explain the setting for what i'll lovingly call Main RP and then we'll do bullet points from there

so the inciting incident for a plot that drove main rp's story for a very long time was the death of valentine, vivi's older sister. valentine was unnaturally perfect in every way and vivi was often expected to be as perfect as she was growing up, so there was a lot of bad blood between the two of them, but valentine ACTUALLY DYING was a shock. vivi, final, shiny and dal learned that the murderer was an alternate universe version of valentine called the empress who was an extremely evil warlord planning to take over her universe. the main goal for most of main rp was figuring out how to take the empress down. a LOT of things happened in the meantime and we weren't always, like. completely focused on the main goal. so we need to bullet point now because it wasn't a clean point a to point b (and also i don't remember most of it lmao)

onesemo's introduction happens either right before this or right after this!! there's possession again i really don't remember much dal throws a rock at his head because he was being an ass to theo, it's a good time

also right before the inciting incident, dal snaps for the second time because final's dad, Night, has his cabin attacked by a giant clay thingie and the emotional control is not strong with this one

dal tells valentine's mother to her face that she's glad valentine died lmao

dal snaps for a third time after shiny tells her off for this. night's cabin gets destroyed again

valentine's snow angel, marigold, makes an appearance,,, and dal destroys the necklace that was holding her memories so....she got her memories of being horrible sister valentine back.........and then dal snapped for a fourth time, fought amber down to 1% power, and got turned into milk by shiny.....i love my daughter

amber has to stop dal from running away forever and there's this really funny part where she pours soup in dal's ear to force her to eat and i think about this more often than i should. also she gives dal a dreamcatcher to help her sleep better because hashtag trauma nightmares

one of my favorite rp moments yaaaay! a castle guard named tyler has to fight a member of the empress's army, which, reminder, all of those guys are alternate universe versions of people from the main rp-verse, so this was actually an alternate of caramel (another resident of vivi's castle and one of vivi's friends) aka choco. anyways choco kills tyler and it's really cool but then shiny kills her immediately afterwards and dal's technically there watching but i mostly just wanted to yap about my favorite rp moment lmao

night's cabin is attacked by a giant clay centipede and dal snaps for a fifth time and summons a hurricane lmao why are all of these happening at night's cabin what the fuck

uhh further in the future we get another massive rp event known as final's final fight (which is related to the reason night's cabin kept getting attacked btw). there's a lot of gods fighting and the main gang has to defeat a poison goddess named blight but basically final dies in the process and this fucks everyone up. after i think probably her sixth snap i'm not sure, dal leaves the universe in order to process, basically just abandoning everyone else to grieve on their own

when dal comes back we get the yuri!! she goes off with velvet (alt vivi, no longer mind controlled by the empress) to find the death sage to try to bring final back and gets told off multiple times for being selfish and refusing to let go of someone who's already dead when there are people alive who need her, and it's all quite fun. also dal loses access to primal power around this time

okay uhhh REALLY skipping forward now because 1. it's late 2. i can't remember much of this period. in the leadup to the empress fight, y'know the part where they have to fight all the lower-ranking guys first, dal and shiny literally stop in the middle of the assault to beat each other nearly to death because they hate each other so much and it's so stupid and so fun

dal has a crisis after really not doing much if ANYTHING to help in the final empress fight and gets therapy for 1 year and 151 days i means uh a couple weeks..........i finished this arc a couple days ago and now we're mostly caught up yay! ignore the fact i skipped 90% of everythinggggg

dal spent most of her life just really stressed and angry pretty much all the time. there was NOT a period of time when a big bad wasn't looming over the main gang's heads basically until therapy arc. as much as i love how horrible dal was with the whole snapping-every-five-fucking-minutes thing, there was always going to have to be a point where she had to change or she was just going to be a bad person permanently. i had a looooot of fun with this and i'm hoping i can continue to enjoy both the angst and hopefully the healing in future arcs

i'm very aware this is the least cohesive post by far probably so ummm very sorry this one was mostly for me i'll be real. thank you for reading all the way if you made it here lol. next i get to yap about all the weapons and powers dal has had over the years and then we're free!

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