#skitl

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37506838/chapters/93609349

It'd be about some kids playing in an alley somewhere. There'd be a cool music box type thing going on that the kids would discover and try to figure out – the show wouldn't spend much time on that part, but once it does get into it, the show will get into that pretty hard.

There'd also be a bunch of fantasy stuff that the kids would encounter – they'd live in an alley where the walls keep growing, one boy is a princess in a city where magic is real, an evil dragon keeps coming around to kidnap kids, there are aliens from another planet that are like kids, etc. There'd be some cool fight scenes but mostly they'd be a bunch of goofy slapstick.

One reason I can't give the answer to this question in good conscience is that the name I would choose is a terrible name and it will cause terrible problems if I ever have a child and it shows up on their report cards, etc.

Skitl ->->-> Vaelastar

The thing I know about all three is that when I was a kid one of my favorite things about Pokemon was that the game could be completely impossible as far as I was concerned, because it had no way of telling you whether a random guy was a Gym Leader or not, but you could learn how to use some types of moves and you could also buy a bunch of them using the money you earned in the game (because the money you earned in the game was so valuable)

(Also, the ability to pick which starter character you got and what you wanted to look like was kind of a big deal for me, so maybe that helped.)

Sprigatito - The first thing I noticed about it when I played it in Pokemon Crystal is that its move list is full of moves I know I would have absolutely no use for – it has moves like "Foul Play," "Piss," "Squirtle Splash" … not even that many of them, but they are all things I don't know what to do with – you really only get about seven or eight moves, and the bulk of them are "Piss" and the like, so I'm guessing there is some strategy you can get for those. It's really a bad move at its intended use (pun), and is probably in the bottom fifth of the game if you're going to play it at all. If it was put into battle without a gym leader and you had no moves that helped it, it would be completely useless to you. However, it has the ability to turn a normal attack into an electric attack, which means that if you have an electric type Pokemon, then it will sometimes have an ability called "Thunder Bolt," and you can then use "Thunder Bolt" as an ordinary move and use it as an electric attack on enemies who don't have electric types. This is a really cool move, and I love the "if this isn't an electric type, it has Thunder Bolt" aspect of it.

It's cute. It looks like what a baby pokemon would look like if it was raised by a human, or, like, the baby that evolves from the baby bird from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," if it were like five years old and the kid in that movie. It's cute, and its face is vaguely anthropomorphic and I like anthropomorphic animal Pokemon characters in general. I mean, this is the best of the three as far as I can tell, just because it's the one I'm actually going to take care of and have the best use for if I'm not playing for very long, so I can't be too critical of it right now. It will get better when I start to play it, as is pretty much the case with everything.

Fuecoco - Here I have a few complaints:

It's the one with the least to do, because its whole concept is "move your starter in your party to help it get a better position in battle," which is a fairly boring thing to do to an evolution (and it's possible to do this with all three but it's just a waste of time to do it with Fuecoco).

It just feels kind of ugly. There's lots of Pokemon which are cool-looking and have interesting designs, there's lots of Pokemon that look really weird but I can make them work because they kind of look like they were drawn by an actual Pokemon artist, and there's some of them which are so weird they look like they just kind of "fell off a rock," and this is one of the latter. I really don't understand why Fuecoco's design is like this. It reminds me of a combination of a really ugly baby bird and a very ugly, scaly baby animal. It has no cute cute baby bird aspects whatsoever. Also, it looks like it was designed by a really bad artist who just kind of threw something together and said "okay, that's the shape of the whole thing now." It really looks like someone just made something up and decided it should be a Pokemon without paying attention to the actual Pokemon itself, and that's a problem I have with the whole genre.

Again, it's the one I'm actually going to play with and spend time on, but wow. This is like someone made a really good-looking drawing of a human, colored it in on the computer, then added a bunch of ugly fur and horns on the top so that it looks like some sort of monstrous alien. It's like something a very angry, very angry human being would make.

Quaxly - Wow, there's lots of things to say about this.

This looks like the worst possible combination of things: it looks like a normal-looking human with a lot of tentacles and a bunch of really ugly eyes on a big blob face. The blob face feels particularly ugly in comparison to its human counterpart, it really gives the whole thing a very bizarre, ugly, alien feel.

It looks kind of like a creature from the planet Ymir that has been in an accident and is leaking fluids everywhere.

It also just looks kind of like a pile of tentacles that are just jutting off in random directions. I don't know. I feel like someone was trying to make a weird, unsettling blob thing and completely failed to produce anything more than that.

It's like something from the planet Ymir that just got blown up, or something that fell off the face of the earth like a comet.

All of these descriptions are very true, and I am actually, in real life, playing with this Pokemon right now, and it is indeed not a pleasant thing to look at, and I feel kind of like a little kid who's just been given a gift of a big, ugly stuffed animal. Not exactly a nightmare monster but still not exactly what a little kid would choose for itself to play with.