#pokemon red

greentrickster:

@someoddmix  #LMAO RED’S ALBUM #you never know if you’re gonna get something mundane or jaw dropping #it’s only a practice battle blue! =) #makes sense with cyrus’ memories #for the best that they stay hidden #especially if someone who WANTS cyrus back somehow catches wind of this #lmao it would be funny if they also had a hard time recognizing cyrus now #oof yeah the japanese characterizations make things INTERESTING #completely understandable caution from mewtwo #taking things nice and slow #weeeeellll mewtwo and akari are only a few degrees of separation from each other #linked through cynthia #or giratina #or maybe mew tells arceus at some point and arceus wants to meet this man made pokemon? #not sure if they’d want to send akari on ANOTHER quest tho #or that she’d want to go #ooooorrr maybe mewtwo is looking more into cyrus/giratina now 

Yeah, life with Red is certainly never dull! You learn to either roll with the punches or stop returning his texts. ;)

It’s definitely going to be an interesting day if the rest of Team Galactic ever catches wind that Cyrus is back, because they’d probably want to confront him for multiple reasons (which probably vary from member to member).

And I’m not quite sure how it would happen at the moment, but I think I’d like for Mewtwo and Arceus to meet. With how Arceus is under my pen, I think it could be a very good encounter. As for Mewtwo and Cyrus, I think that Mewtwo can appreciate Cyrus’s willingness to just sit there and be quiet. He goes to Red to talk about things he wonders or is confused about (because he trusts Red the most of anyone), and Blue is good for discussions and debates. Cyrus, it turns out, is good for those times when you don’t want to be alone, but you also don’t want to talk. When you’re still figuring out your place in the world, even if you are pretty certain at this point that you’re a part of it, sometimes you just want to silently share space with another thinking being.

@someoddmix  #ooohhhh I love the image of cyrus and mewtwo just #existing together #vibing #lmao I bet Blue sometimes wishes he wouldnt return Red’s texts #but he always does =) #red knows where he lives and works anyway it’s too late now

^^ Thanks! Also, XD, Red and Blue pack-bonded years ago, they’d both find life boring without each other at this point. They text pretty frequently when they’re not in the same location, Blue visits Red’s mountain when he can. Red also sends Blue field research he gathers while wandering and training, and a lot of pokemon professors are actually quite jealous that Blue has such a strong source of reliable data. Though it does make reading Blue’s unedited notes and papers very interesting to read.

“12 May 20XX, Two more diglett sightings in Mount Moon, look into tagging to ensure this really is a single stray and not a sign of encroachment into new territory. Also, Red ran into Entei again - still hasn’t gotten those proper measurements for me, because he’s a moron. Did get some good notes on how Entei interacts with wild pokemon while a human is present, though, so I guess I’ll forgive him.”

greentrickster:

greentrickster:

greentrickster:

@someoddmix  #too bad red missed the action! #but I’m sure cyrus will be happy to introduce them when they meet on the mountain

Red is distraught that he missed the action, absolutely desolate. Blue considerately tells him to get over it, he wouldn’t have been allowed to battle Giritina anyway, stop pouting, you wouldn’t’ve-!!! …why am I expecting dignity from a grown man is a baseball cap, you have no dignity, you are a disgrace, yes I’ll make pasta for you for supper, stop it. Nerd. (affectionate)

Red and Blue both get to be there the first time Cyrus meets Giritina on the mountain! Because Cyrus is excited to properly see his friend again, but he’s also feeling nervous and understandably delicate after having learned the truth of his past, and he wants a bit of supervision for this.

Upon Giritina’s arrival:

Red: (eyes alight with shonen protagonist excitement) (slowly starts to raise a hand with a pokeball in it)

Blue: (without even looking) (calmly pushes Red’s arm back down)

@someoddmix  #LMAO YES #‘absolutely desolate’ XD XD XD #‘considerately tells him to get over it’ XD XD XD #I LOVE their dynamic so much!!! #‘you are a disgrace YES I’ll make pasta for you’ #nerd (affectionate) #I LOVE THEM #aw I’m glad the supervisions comes from friends #who are also excited to meet your very strong legendary friend #'shonen protagonist excitement’ XD XD XD #pushes his hand back down!!! #freaking love that!!! #maybe giratina will agree to a battle later #for fun!  

Thanks, getting on three years in the Ace Attorney fandom has taught me well when it comes to writing rivals who are also very close friends! ^U^ And Cyrus really lucked out in that they’re his friends now, too. :)

Speaking of whom, Cyrus isn’t paying any attention to either of them, he’s looking over Giritina, wait, I don’t remember you having legs? Oh, wait, gravity works differently here, doesn’t it? Yes, then it would be more convenient to have them here - they look very nice. I think… you like scratches, don’t you? I can’t get up there, would you please lean down…?

Red and Blue then have the honour of being the first people in existence other than Cyrus to see Giritina flop over on its side to get the area behind its golden crown-ridge scratched. This goes a long way towards making Blue feel better about the whole situation, because 1) Yeah, Cyrus is still acting like the Cyrus he knows and 2) he’s been friends with Red his whole life, this situation really isn’t that weird to him, Mewtwo still shows up from time to time to raid his tea supply, this isn’t that different. (Yes, this is movie Mewtwo, because I love him. Events here didn’t go down exactly as they did in the movie, but the important thing is that Red and Mewtwo are pals, and Mewtwo also likes Blue well enough.)

Also, fun fact: the reason (in this universe) that Giritina has a mouth in its altered form is so that it can ask for snacks. >U>

@someoddmix  #scratchies!!!#oh snacks are VERY important! #aaaaawwww giratina is so cuuute! #blue is like 'oh good it’s like the mewtwo thing’ #i can handle that #yeah mewtwo pals!! #lmao I imagine Giratina’s a bit like #oh a mountain that isnt Mt Coronet? #nice #aaww I bet Cyrus’ pokemon are happy to see Giratina again and vice versa!

Giratina’sfinally found their friend again, life is good! Scratchies! Finally getting to try berries! Head bumps! Getting all that nasty ultra wormhole energy off him so Giratina can easily find their friend again next time they want to visit! Playing with Tiny Pokemon Who Do Not Fear Them! Meeting new people! Enjoying new scenery!

And yeah, Mewtwo’s the most obvious and present force, but Red just has a thing for running into legendaries when he’s out and about - he’s met a good chunk of them, and he’s got the photograph album to prove it! Mewtwo is the main one who tends to visit, though - Red was his first human friend, and Blue’s interesting to talk to (the fact that he studies pokemon but doesn’t experiment on them means that Mewtwo is willing to tolerate the lab coat, but Blue will take it off when he can if Mewtwo’s around).

The first time Mewtwo shows up for a visit after Cyrus’s past is revealed is also the first time he properly meets Cyrus (instead of avoiding him), upon Red and Blue’s request (and slightly Cyrus’s too), just to take a quick look in Cyrus’s head and see what’s going on in there. Since, you know. When you’re friends with the world’s most powerful psychic pokemon, who is also capable of human speech via telepathy, might as well ask, you know? Prior to this, Mewtwo has avoided Cyrus as he tends to avoid most humans - he’s slowly (very slowly) starting to feel somewhat more comfortable around them, but he’s very choosy about who he interacts with. However the whole reason he teleported in this time was because he felt the weird space-time-rift-unquantifiable-thing that happened near his own friends, so he went to check on them. And if Cyrus is involved with that, better meet him, see if he’s okay (see if Mewtwo needs to wipe his mind).

Cyrus is a little startled on meeting Mewtwo for the first time, because he wasn’t told who this ‘expert’ Red and Blue offered to get in touch with for him was exactly (because friends respect friends’ preferences to not let others know the details of their existence if asked), but he’s used to Giratina, so he rolls with it pretty well.

Mewtwo floats over, stares at him for a few minutes, circles him a couple times, then floats over to stare into Cyrus’s ear.

Mewtwo: {I can see daylight.}

Red: (turns to scowl at Blue) You are a terrible influence and this is your fault.

Blue: What I’m hearing is that Mewtwo thinks I’m funnier than you. :3

Red: >:O   >:[

A bit more snarking, and Mewtwo clarifies that, yeah, Cyrus’s memories of his life prior to his time in Distortion World seem to just… not be there, or not in a way that Mewtwo can find. He assumes that they’re probably in there somewhere, since Cyrus still all his language skills and can write and make food and other learned skills, but Mewtwo can’t find any way to access them.  Which… honestly relieves Cyrus a bit. It makes him feel a bit more secure in the concept that he’s not going to just… wake up someday and be that guy Cynthia told him about again.

After this it turns into more of a regular visit, and Cyrus earns the valuable status of ‘humans Mewtwo is willing to tolerate knowing of his existence.’

@someoddmix  #giratina is getting SO MUCH ENRICHMENT #good for them! #lmao I love Red’s photo album of legendaries #oh man it WOULD be concerning to notice strange space time rift near your friends #especially that one friend that always somehow runs into other legendaries #and danger #adding giratina to the photo album!!! 8O #LMAO MEWTWO WAS REALLY LIKE #'no thoughts head empty ’#AMAZING #lmao I wonder if mewtwo was like #'if he still has those memories I can get rid of them for good’ #red and blue were probably like 'NO’ #but cyrus was like 'hmm maybe’ #'I can see daylight’ XD XD XD #'what I’m hearing is that Mewtwo thinks I’m funnier than you’ #RED’S FACES XD XD XD #awwww cyrus making more friends! #i’d wonder if mewtwo would ever meet giratina #but mewtwo #might not be all that interested in meeting other legendaries

Yeah, Giratina’s really starting to understand why the rest of their family likes these ‘human’ creatures so much. They had come to understand and accept their role as guardian of Distortion World, and as the counterweight to the Pokemon World in many ways, but it’s still kind of a lonely job (though sometimes you don’t realize that you’re lonely until you finally get some company).

(And I see that Giratina floated that one thing it did to Cyrus while visiting on the mountain right past you, as well as the people who were there. ;) )

The best part of Red’s photo album is that it’s organized completely chronologically. Meaning you get pictures of his pokemon or cool places he’s been, shots of him in battle taken for him by friends, then, boom, selfie with Suicune right next to one of Blue asleep at his computer. He absolutely got a selfie of himself, Blue, Cyrus, and Giratina during that first visit, though! It’s probably got a note under it that says, “Blue won’t let me challenge the pokemon god of antimatter to a practice battle because he’s mean” under it.

Fortunately for Mewtwo, he’s known Red since the guy was ten, and twenty years has gotten him relatively used to this sort of nonsense. It doesn’t usually follow him home to Viridian or Pallet Town, though, which is why he decided to check in. In regards to Cyrus’s memories, other than the ones he has from Distortion World (which are still pretty scrambled and fractured) onward, Mewtwo can’t actually locate them. He assumes they’re still in there because, if not, Cyrus wouldn’t have arrived on Red’s mountain able to walk, talk, and function, because complete lack of memory would have reduced him to an infantile state where he had to relearn everything from scratch. So he can’t offer to get rid of those memories permanently, because he can’t locate them to do so.

Mewtwo’s still figuring himself out in many ways, especially in regards to how he fits in with the other legendaries of the pokemon world, since he was created in a lab rather than made by Arceus personally. And his first experience with Mew was… not the best first impression. He doesn’t know how similar he really is to other legendary pokemon, how well they’d accept him claiming to be one of them or even just his existence in general. (Going more with the Japanese movie take on Mewtwo and its initial interactions with Mew in regards to characterization, because they’re the ones that interest me more and feel like they fit best with this AU. It’s not a 1:1 ratio of how events played out in this world, they’re more a mush of the movie and the FireRed postgame with a higher percentage of FireRed for what happened and more original Japanese movie for personalities and characterizations.)

…

(quietly considers what it would take to get Mewtwo to have a meet-up with Akari and her Arceus fragment…)

In the meantime, Mewtwo’s probably pretty hesitant to meet Giratina for now, out of understandable caution, and overall is taking the role more of an observer to humanity and pokemon than a more interactive one.

greentrickster:

greentrickster:

@someoddmix  #too bad red missed the action! #but I’m sure cyrus will be happy to introduce them when they meet on the mountain

Red is distraught that he missed the action, absolutely desolate. Blue considerately tells him to get over it, he wouldn’t have been allowed to battle Giritina anyway, stop pouting, you wouldn’t’ve-!!! …why am I expecting dignity from a grown man is a baseball cap, you have no dignity, you are a disgrace, yes I’ll make pasta for you for supper, stop it. Nerd. (affectionate)

Red and Blue both get to be there the first time Cyrus meets Giritina on the mountain! Because Cyrus is excited to properly see his friend again, but he’s also feeling nervous and understandably delicate after having learned the truth of his past, and he wants a bit of supervision for this.

Upon Giritina’s arrival:

Red: (eyes alight with shonen protagonist excitement) (slowly starts to raise a hand with a pokeball in it)

Blue: (without even looking) (calmly pushes Red’s arm back down)

@someoddmix  #LMAO YES #‘absolutely desolate’ XD XD XD #‘considerately tells him to get over it’ XD XD XD #I LOVE their dynamic so much!!! #'you are a disgrace YES I’ll make pasta for you’ #nerd (affectionate) #I LOVE THEM #aw I’m glad the supervisions comes from friends #who are also excited to meet your very strong legendary friend #'shonen protagonist excitement’ XD XD XD #pushes his hand back down!!! #freaking love that!!! #maybe giratina will agree to a battle later #for fun!  

Thanks, getting on three years in the Ace Attorney fandom has taught me well when it comes to writing rivals who are also very close friends! ^U^ And Cyrus really lucked out in that they’re his friends now, too. :)

Speaking of whom, Cyrus isn’t paying any attention to either of them, he’s looking over Giritina, wait, I don’t remember you having legs? Oh, wait, gravity works differently here, doesn’t it? Yes, then it would be more convenient to have them here - they look very nice. I think… you like scratches, don’t you? I can’t get up there, would you please lean down…?

Red and Blue then have the honour of being the first people in existence other than Cyrus to see Giritina flop over on its side to get the area behind its golden crown-ridge scratched. This goes a long way towards making Blue feel better about the whole situation, because 1) Yeah, Cyrus is still acting like the Cyrus he knows and 2) he’s been friends with Red his whole life, this situation really isn’t that weird to him, Mewtwo still shows up from time to time to raid his tea supply, this isn’t that different. (Yes, this is movie Mewtwo, because I love him. Events here didn’t go down exactly as they did in the movie, but the important thing is that Red and Mewtwo are pals, and Mewtwo also likes Blue well enough.)

Also, fun fact: the reason (in this universe) that Giritina has a mouth in its altered form is so that it can ask for snacks. >U>

@someoddmix  #scratchies!!!#oh snacks are VERY important! #aaaaawwww giratina is so cuuute! #blue is like 'oh good it’s like the mewtwo thing’ #i can handle that #yeah mewtwo pals!! #lmao I imagine Giratina’s a bit like #oh a mountain that isnt Mt Coronet? #nice #aaww I bet Cyrus’ pokemon are happy to see Giratina again and vice versa!

Giratina’sfinally found their friend again, life is good! Scratchies! Finally getting to try berries! Head bumps! Getting all that nasty ultra wormhole energy off him so Giratina can easily find their friend again next time they want to visit! Playing with Tiny Pokemon Who Do Not Fear Them! Meeting new people! Enjoying new scenery!

And yeah, Mewtwo’s the most obvious and present force, but Red just has a thing for running into legendaries when he’s out and about - he’s met a good chunk of them, and he’s got the photograph album to prove it! Mewtwo is the main one who tends to visit, though - Red was his first human friend, and Blue’s interesting to talk to (the fact that he studies pokemon but doesn’t experiment on them means that Mewtwo is willing to tolerate the lab coat, but Blue will take it off when he can if Mewtwo’s around).

The first time Mewtwo shows up for a visit after Cyrus’s past is revealed is also the first time he properly meets Cyrus (instead of avoiding him), upon Red and Blue’s request (and slightly Cyrus’s too), just to take a quick look in Cyrus’s head and see what’s going on in there. Since, you know. When you’re friends with the world’s most powerful psychic pokemon, who is also capable of human speech via telepathy, might as well ask, you know? Prior to this, Mewtwo has avoided Cyrus as he tends to avoid most humans - he’s slowly (very slowly) starting to feel somewhat more comfortable around them, but he’s very choosy about who he interacts with. However the whole reason he teleported in this time was because he felt the weird space-time-rift-unquantifiable-thing that happened near his own friends, so he went to check on them. And if Cyrus is involved with that, better meet him, see if he’s okay (see if Mewtwo needs to wipe his mind).

Cyrus is a little startled on meeting Mewtwo for the first time, because he wasn’t told who this ‘expert’ Red and Blue offered to get in touch with for him was exactly (because friends respect friends’ preferences to not let others know the details of their existence if asked), but he’s used to Giratina, so he rolls with it pretty well.

Mewtwo floats over, stares at him for a few minutes, circles him a couple times, then floats over to stare into Cyrus’s ear.

Mewtwo: {I can see daylight.}

Red: (turns to scowl at Blue) You are a terrible influence and this is your fault.

Blue: What I’m hearing is that Mewtwo thinks I’m funnier than you. :3

Red: >:O   >:[

A bit more snarking, and Mewtwo clarifies that, yeah, Cyrus’s memories of his life prior to his time in Distortion World seem to just… not be there, or not in a way that Mewtwo can find. He assumes that they’re probably in there somewhere, since Cyrus still all his language skills and can write and make food and other learned skills, but Mewtwo can’t find any way to access them.  Which… honestly relieves Cyrus a bit. It makes him feel a bit more secure in the concept that he’s not going to just… wake up someday and be that guy Cynthia told him about again.

After this it turns into more of a regular visit, and Cyrus earns the valuable status of ‘humans Mewtwo is willing to tolerate knowing of his existence.’

greentrickster:

Another thing about Blue and sign language in this AU, I think it’s something he takes a lot of advantage with when talking with Red. Generally he’ll use primarily spoken words (combined with signing these days if his hands are free), but he will actively and on purpose take advantage of the fact that he and Red are both fluent and a lot of people aren’t if he wants to be private or exclusive.

He will also take advantage of it when Red is driving him crazy to talk with his hands while vocalizing sounds of extreme frustration at the same time. Red generally finds this amusing.

He also uses it to mess with Blue right back, generally by closing is eyes and doing the whole, “Oh, oh no, I cannot hear you. Oh dear.” routine. Because it not only forces Blue to use his vocal words if he wants to keep yelling at him, it means that Blue’s going to have to figure out how to do so without swearing, because Blue’s gotten very firmly into the habit of only swearing in sign (he’s a gym leader and a pokemon professor, he encounters a lot of young, impressionable minds who are looking to pounce on the first bad word they come across). And this does throw off Blue’s train of thought and make him trip over his words. (Blue is the main troll in this rivalry-friendship, but Red is far from helpless when he wants to retaliate.)

In regards to Red himself, his inability to speak vocally comes from his vocal chords (and I’m sorry, I’m not going to research a specific medical explanation for this because my horrible brain will use anything I find as nightmare fuel as I’m going to sleep, again, apologies), not his tongue or mouth. So while he can’t talk like Blue can, he is able to still make sounds that don’t involve the vocal chords though, again, signing is easier and more convenient for him. He still doesn’t tend to make these sounds very often, and he’s fully capable of clicking his tongue or giving a distainful ‘tch’ if Blue is being especially annoying.

One thing he does relatively frequently is whistle - he can easily carry a tune and is much better at it than Blue (does Blue find this annoying? Of course he does). He also uses specific patterns of notes and a clicker to train and battle with his pokemon - each one of them has a special pattern of notes that is the whistled equivalent of their name, and knows the pattern of clicks and/or whistled notes for their various moves and strategies. (They also all have name signs, but that’s not as useful in battle.)

Clicker training is an acknowledged and accepted method of both training and battling according to overarching international pokemon league guidelines, but it’s not as common as ‘traditional’ methods just yet, and, while your average gym leader or Champion will be familiar with it, the average trainer can often be thrown when encountering this method for the first time, as it means they have to pay much closer attention to discern their opponent’s tactics and what move they’re going to use. At this point in his life Red has a laminated card explaining clicker training and why he’s doing it that he can just hand to people if they get annoyed or confused about what he’s doing, so he doesn’t have to type or sign it out every time.

@aoxizu  #what if red had like a geodude or something that could use rollout named rick astley #and whenever he wanted it to use that move he could just whistle the notes of never gonna give you up #to deal double damage to both the pokemon and the trainer #physical damage to the opposing pokemon and psychological damage to the trainer #and also a pokemon that could use one of the something cannon moves #just variants of the first 8 notes of pachelbel’s canon in d #d a b fsharp g d g a but in different scales not just d major #would probably be 2x effective against any trainers who play the cello

I don’t think the pokemon world would have any songs or musical pieces that we’d recognize beyond ones we know from the show, our worlds are too different, but I think the concept you’re talking about here is absolutely spot on! Using a few easily recognizable notes from songs he’s familiar with that have some sort of obvious connection with the move would be a great mnemonic! And he probably pairs signals like these with a single click, to make the signals to use these moves distinct from times he’s just whistling that particular song or piece of music.

Some trainers do indeed take extra damage from this, some don’t notice, and some think it’s really funny or clever.

Also, just in regards to pokemon, Red’s main team in this is the one he uses in Sun/Moon (since that’s the game that’s closest to where he is in age at the moment). So that’s Pikachu, Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise, Lapras, and Snorlax.

In the same vein, Blue’s main team is Alakazam, Aerodactyl, Arcanine, Gyarados, Machamp, and Exeggutor. They do have the other pokemon they use in other battles in other games, but these are their primary teams at the moment, with the others tending to be running around Blue’s lab, because Arceus has cursed him for his hubris and his work is never done. (Or at least that’s what Blue says. ;) )

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