TRAINER INTERVIEWS INC.

Hi. I’m Ivaan Komal. I work as a joy (nurse), educator, and breeder at Green Araña Research Center, an independent research facility located in Artazon that dedicates itself to studying and education about pokemon. We’re very underfunded right now, and my manager wanted me to make a social media account for our center as she thinks it could help with funding. So. Here we are. This blog is mostly run by me, but I will be posting about the daily activities that go on here, not much about me. Still, a bit about me: He/him, 47 years old, From Lental, I’ve been a breeder for about 8 years and have been working here for 2.

My team consists of a female Blissey named Nursey, a female blissey-crossed Audino named Softcore Communist Propaganda (Rosy Red or just Rosy for short), a female Indeedee named Half-Eaten Vanilla Yogurt Cup (Vanilla for short), a female Alomomola named Loving Heart Medication, and a Ditto named Rated R. Rated R is not even my pokemon. It just fell out of a jet airplane one day, and now it WON'T LEAVE!!!

About the Facility

Our facility is run by a woman named Professor Araña. It was made around 30 years ago and was originally a place where she could study bug types, but it has expanded since then. Used to be a lot more active than it is now, but, due to lack of funds over the years, we don’t have as many people as we should have working here, and a lot of our biomes are empty. Just ignore those and focus on what we do have if you visit, k thanks. Still, we do have people who still chose to stick around and people who decided to work here for some reason (though, I can’t judge. I have no plans to quit).

Despite technically being a research center, our layout is closer to a zoo. Pokemon are divided by habitats and are cared for by type specialists. The exhibits we have are: Highlands, aviary, insectarium, caves, temporal forest, gardens, aquarium(s) + arctic, highlands, grasslands, and rockies. There’s also gardens but we don’t count that as an exhibit since it’s mostly there to show off plants. Grass types just like going there. Unless deemed dangerous to the public (like our cranky old Noivern named Toothless), many of our pokemon are free ranged and. You can enter their enclosures (with supervision) Don't be alarmed if an Eldegoss floats your way.

Also, if you're disabled: our facility uses ramps because our founder is disabled and because stairs are evil. Places are wide enough for disability aids, there’s brail, we’re all forced to learn at least three languages + Unovan and Paldean sign language, all that stuff. Under the cut is the workers we have here

(//go to bottom for rules)

low activity? new blog? back from hiatus/hibernation? just want some more asks? COOL! go ahead. promo yourself. I'll reblog your intro post as well!!!

DON'T FORGET TO LOOK THROUGH SOME BLOGS YOURSELF! LETS SUPPORT EACH OTHER! (that is. if this post does well).

things to include in the self-promo: species of character (hybrid/human/sapient pokemon/etc), region of blog, short description/tldr for your blog, stakes. all of this is optional but it might help.

okay. thats all I think. have fun. :) have this supportive magikarp too

We run the rotomblr branch of our website, Trainer Interviews! an ask blog where we offer you, yes you! the opportunity to ask any question to your favourite trainers from across the Kanto, Johto and Sinnoh regions, and get their replies!

We reach out to them and ask for you, anonymously or not, we hope to show the trainer world some of the most impressive people of our time in training — battling, learning or otherwise!

As we are a local Johtonian business, we need your help to keep our blog running, and we'd appreciate any support!

- Managing Director, Trainer Interviews INC.

// OOC: hello all of the rotomblr sphere! My ask blog is about asking the main characters from up to gen 4.. But the au itself expands more than that :')

It's an art + ask blog, with low stakes and just general fun about my little au

While the blog staff are in Johto, some of the characters featured on it are in Kanto or Sinnoh, because it's supposedly a video call interview

Basically, I hope you'll find something you'll like in it!🎊

it breaks my heart seeing this company promote the mistreatment, ownership and abuse of pokemon by hosting champions on here.

are you not aware of the damage you're doing by making this sort of content?

you're normalizing abuse. you're normalizing it in media. you're promoting harmful ideals and mindsets to impressionable children.

please, I ask this kindly: reconsider what you're doing. if you really care for pokemon you will wake up and open your eyes to the harm you're causing, and you will repent. you will find your way. I am willing to listen to your confessions, as long as you're willing to change.

We take complaints like these seriously at Trainer Interviews INC, and we are always open for feedback from the public.

While we investigated your claim and your account, we come to find to find it seems you, @atypical-harmonia , have a history of challenging and harassing our interviewees, and you are part of Unova's Team Plasma a high ranking official at that, And while being a part of an organization/Team would not get you excluded from our services usually, Team Plasma is notoriously known to be dangerous and to mistreat Pokémon and humans.

We do not accept false accusations of abuse towards our interviewees, this is a very serious topic and we do not take it lightly, we do thorough background checks and make sure our interviewees have no such history, as Trainer Interviews is meant to be viewed and transparent with people from every region at every age, and we obide by our laws and morals from the Johto Region.

The champions and ex champions hosted on Trainer Interviews have a history of defending Pokémon and trainers from previous organizations looking to mistreat, sell, or bring harm in anyway to the Pokémon or people of their respective regions. We suggest looking into the history of Team Rocket and Team Galactic in the Kanto, Johto and Sinnoh regions, and understand the true intentions of the people we host on Trainer Interviews.

And while we appreciate you acting in the best interests of both yourself as a consumer, and for us as a company, we, as a company, do not accept false allegations of Pokémon mistreatment from Team Plasma officials, and we humbly encourage you to read back on the previous inquiries you've sent us already, and the history of the regions mentioned previously.

Please do not tell us as a company to repent, we at Trainer Interviews do not accept the Team Plasma ideology and ways of moral, and we do not repent to officials in your organization.

Know that we take these allegations seriously, and if we didn't have the height confidence in our interviewees, we would take immediate action against the person, and seize them from using Trainer Interviews as a platform.

Best Regards,

now, a few things.

one. you claim to be “open for feedback”, yet you proceed to shut me down and not take accountability at all. how does that make you look, in your opinion?

two. I have not once harassed any of the people present on this blog. I have asked them uncomfortable questions. thats different. it's easy to cover up your guilt and entitlement by throwing fancy, loud terms around, but that doesn't work on me.

three. maybe your background checks are not thorough enough if you somehow missed the 3 years worth of keeping-pokemon-in-horrible-conditions from the ex-champion Red? do you support the idea that just because WE may be struggling that gives us the excuse to put pokemon in danger for OUR comfort? is that not mistreatment? is that not abusive to you?

four. I'm familiar with the history of both Team Galactic and Team Rocket, and so I pose the question: if you take a person from an abusive situation where they were ordered around, told what to do, forced to fight, and used for someone else's benefit, and then proceed to put them in a nicer-looking environment while ordering them around, telling them what to do, forcing them to fight and using them for your own benefit, are you really the saviour you claim to be? also, “defending trainers” in this context is the same as saying “defending the abusers”. so you defend both the abused and the abusers? that's not how it works.

five. “False allegations of pokemon mistreatment” is just not right. do I need to point at your ex-champion again, or should I move on and say that you're still promoting harmful ideals? because you are. you're making the ownership of pokemon look good, and you're advertising this to young impressionable minds. as I already said, you're normalizing the idea that being a pokemon abuser - sorry, a pokemon trainer - is a good thing that should be encouraged. are you not ashamed?

Perhaps we have not made ourselves clear, you are the prince of Neo Team Plasma, Team Plasma's original goal was to "liberate" all Pokémon from their trainers, by convincing the masses to release them, or by forcefully taking them.

After the splitting of Team Plasma, you've made it clear that your intentions have changed. the organization known for stealing Pokémon from trainers across Unova, feezing Opelucid City is known as Neo Team Plasma, that is the organization you run, and you and the other officials are responsible for it.

The reason we disagree with your accusations is part because we know our interviewees, and part because we know you are responsible for the theft of countless Pokémon, destruction and harming of Unova's environment, and more crimes.

We accept that you have criticism of the people hosted on Trainer Interviews, and we agree with them to an extent, however, we think it is good to allow people grow, change and evolve, you bringing up an event from 15 years ago, while the person was young, is a little ill-considered. and while very serious and open for (respecftful) discussion, we think you should focus on the time past, and the change in the person.

We also have to ask about your Team Rocket and Team Galactic point, selling, mistreating, and forcing Pokémon to battle is horrendous. But we seem to be speaking about different things, because the Pokémon freed from Team Rocket and Team Galactic were either released into the wild, taken into Pokémon Centers across the region, or the Caring Volunteer Pokémon House in Kanto. While the Pokémon stolen by Neo Team Plasma are presumed to be owned by the grunts to force more "liberation".

Our Interviewees not only have a long history of protecting Pokémon, but also stand up to Pokémon mistreatment even now. We would not accept any trainer that mistreats or harms Pokémon in any way.

Protecting trainers from the organizations mentioned previously is not "protecting abusers", many Pokémon want to be with their trainers and battle alongside them, sharing the world, sports, care and bonds.

Trainers and Pokémon share the world, and co exist together, they help each other. Normal Pokeballs nowadays cannot contain a Pokémon that doesn't want to be contained, Pokémon stay with their trainers and team because they want to get stronger, develop skills, be in a safe, loving environment. And you, or anyone in Neo Team Plasma cannot be trusted in your judge of that.

We hope for the best of all Pokémon, and the people we host strive for the same.