Ryik

Pokémon Dreams (Reboot)

Toshi

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Name: Toshinori Akutagawa
Gender: ♂
Age: 18
Hometown: Tohjo City
Appearance: Average height, with a varied wardrobe that he thinks makes him look cool. He is metrosexual enough that it generally does.

Personality: "Confidence is either a coat you wear until it fits or a balloon that rises higher until it pops. It's important, and nearly impossible, to know which."

Toshi is the greatest. Grand soliloquies could and should be written about his sheer unbridled "awesomeness". His jokes are the peak of comedy, and his pokémon are all without equal. Oh, and the humility! Bro's been awarded the definitely real title of "most humble person in all of Eidda" for five years running, and wouldn't you know it, he's about to become the greatest trainer who ever lived. Truly, he is, and could only ever be, the greatest of all time. Totally.

Backstory: Toshi's upbringing was relatively uneventful up until his application for a sponsorship with professor Camphor was unexpectedly and unusually accepted. It was time for him to go on a pokémon journey, which meant leaving his family and hometown behind. Maybe for good, if things worked out.

Toshi's relationship with his parents is complicated. They are old, stuck in their ways, and disapproving of his aspirations. They are also just not very good at parenting, and seemingly have no interest in connecting with him on a personal level. They are neglectful in a non-malicious way, give pretty terrible advice, and when Toshi imagines the worst personality a person can have, various aspects of his parents immediately come to mind. Toshi has long since come to the decision that his parents do not deserve to be a part of his life. Nonetheless, he is dependent on them, and even if he wasn't, the idea of them passing away would still scare him. Toshi has a few siblings whom he loves and adores, and he is the oldest among them, if only barely. His relationship with them tends to be jokingly adversarial, though the second oldest, his sister, gave him a good-luck charm before he left home.

Toshi was raised by television, so to speak, and found himself drawn to the pokémon league circuit from a young age. His parents have always demonstrated contempt for the idea of him becoming a pokémon trainer, but otherwise didn't try to stop him from becoming one. He studied videos of top trainers, dreaming one day of not just becoming one of them, but the best to ever do it. Whether he ever gets there or not, now's his chance.

Talents & Quirks:

• Surprisingly sensitive and observant. Knows when to lighten the mood and (sometimes) knows when to shut up.
• Surprisingly knowledgeable about pokémon strengths and weaknesses, particularly when it comes to flashy or popular pokemon, or outliers with unique or exaggerated properties.
• Habitual flirt with a penchant for not actually knowing what to do when someone reciprocates interest.

Aspirations: Toshi wants to be the best pokémon trainer he possibly can be, of course. He wants fame and fortune and the strongest team of pokémon he can imagine, who all love him for being a better caretaker than his parents ever were for him. But, more important than all of that, he wants to love himself, which, sometimes, he just doesn't. Not good at anything, super annoying, boring, stupid, unreliable, and never, ever enough. Sometimes he feels like all his personality boils down to is constantly trying to make sure no one realizes it. So, above all, his goal is to be able to say he is the greatest, and mean it. Fake it 'til you make it, as they say.

Favorite Genre of Pokémon: The best pokémon, obviously.

Inventory

• 1000
• Body Spray
• Good-Luck Charm
• Various Personal effects

Items:

• Potion x1

Nincada

Species: Nincada
Type: Bug/Ground
Gender: ♂
Level: 5
Moves:

• Night Slash
• Scratch
• Harden
• Sand Attack

Ability: Compound Eyes
Held Item: N/A

Pokémon Dreams (Reboot)

Yo. Color me interested.

There are some details the main post implies I should ask about, (which I think will be self-evident) but I decided to go ahead and put together my app first since I had the character ready. If anything needs to be changed I'll edit it accordingly.

Felix

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Name: Felix Conroy
Gender: ♂
Age: 18
Hometown: Born in Fallarbor town, raised on route 111, would teleport to Mauville for school, recently moved to Giervor City for a job with the Eidda historical society
Appearance: Felix' favorite color is green, and it shows in his wardrobe, which tends to lean towards function over form. He is above-average height, standing at 5'11", and has a relatively wiry build from rigidly regimented exercise.

Personality: Felix is an intense person, simultaneously excitable and serious. He has a no-nonsense demeanor that belies his hasty nature, and he generally tries to cut right through to the heart of matters, whether it be because they interest him or so that he can move past them. He is relentless when it comes to his goals, and while he can be patient, he strongly prefers decisive action over the wait-and-see approach. He often becomes laser-focused on subjects of his interest, to the exclusion of all else, and to the extent that he often forgets to eat or sleep. While he may seem impulsive at times, he is enough of a realist to know to prepare properly, and is relatively comfortable taking on inconveniences if it brings him closer to his goals. Because of these traits, he has a bad habit of overlooking or disregarding rules or risks when it suits him, though he isn't particularly competitive, and is generally honest to a fault.

Backstory: Born an only child and raised on the northern end of Hoenn's route 111, Felix grew up lacking any friends his age, and often had to find ways of playing all by himself. For better or for worse, Hoenn's only major desert was always just a short walk away, although the ash-covered route 113 and its devious lurking Skarmory wasn't a much better option. For as long as he could remember, he's always been drawn to the mystery of the desert's ruins, and as a matter of living there, his family had to get him go-goggles of his very own for the rare occasions when sandstorms blew out from the desert. He's been relying on one pair of go-goggles or another for so long that nowadays, he feels naked without them.

Although he originally wasn't allowed to enter the desert without supervision, his proclivity to explore it day after day wore down their wariness until his parents allowed him to go it alone, as long as he brought along one of their teleporting pokémon, Claydol or Xatu. Although he was supposed to teleport away at the first sign of trouble, his desire to explore the bizarre, seemingly disappearing and reappearing structures found there led him to push for more, and sometimes Claydol or Xatu would humor him. While they could handle most wild pokémon themselves, it also offered Felix the opportunity to take up the role of pokémon trainer by commanding them in battle. He liked the experience, and how it brought him closer to the pokémon that were essentially already family.

As he grew older, so too did his hobbies evolve, though his fascination with old ruins and other such liminal spaces remained. During school breaks, he'd ask his family to travel to other ruins and anomalous locations around Hoenn, such as Route 105, Route 120, Sky Pillar, or the Abandoned Ship on Route 108. He even got them to help him look for Mirage Island, but ultimately they couldn't find it.

Felix has always excelled in academics, from math to science to history to P.E. As such, he graduated summa cum laude at Mauville high, and after a couple of applications, he secured an offer from the Eidda historical society thanks to a paper he wrote on Route 111's mirage tower. In essence, they would pay him for his findings on the local ruins and certain other areas of note. Field work in abandoned ruins often meant braving dangerous areas, and Felix certainly had no lack of curiosity regarding legendary pokémon themselves. Both meant Felix needed strong pokémon by his side, and if he was going to document his explorations of mysterious and long-abandoned places, he might as well use it to fund further travels.

After considering his options, Felix decided to try catching a wild Flygon he knew about on Route 111. With Xatu and Claydol's help, he figured he could do it. He even managed to win against it, despite it finally being an even battle with his parent's pokémon. However, after the battle, as Flygon lay on the sand, exhausted, a number of Trapinch emerged from the sand to gather around them. Realizing the Trapinch needed Flygon's protection, he decided to leave, opting to look for a starter on another route. When he returned home, his parents informed him that a Trapinch had followed him home, which he welcomed with open arms.

With his first pokémon by his side, he was ready to move to Eidda. That being said, he'd need to spend time catching more pokémon and raising them all up once he got there, so he applied to the professor of the region, only to get a cryptic email in reply that implied he had gotten the sponsorship. In any case, he packed up his camping gear, preparing to spend inordinate amounts of time away from civilization, and made his way to Byjerlfal.

Talents/Quirks:

• Shockingly good survivalist, was taught camping, foraging, and various water filtration techniques due to all the time he spends outside and the location he grew up in. Could easily have become a pokémon ranger if he felt so inclined.
• Very good at math and logic puzzles. Mostly alternates between Futoshiki, Kakuro, Nonogram, or Sudoku puzzles on his phone when he has nothing else to do. Hates trick questions and lateral thinking puzzles.
• Wants to poke and prod just about every legendary, mythical, and particularly rare pokémon out there. The number he would actually want to own and take responsibility for, he could count on one hand, maybe two if he squinted.

Aspirations: Felix mostly wants to explore and satiate his curiosity about legendary/mythical pokémon ancient ruins, and unexplained phenomena, which are not always different things. He needs powerful pokémon partners to achieve that, though he mostly views that strength as a means to an end rather than part of the ultimate goal. That being said, he also enjoys battling, and wouldn't mind becoming a strong trainer just for the sake of it.

Favorite Genre of Pokémon: Felix has an inexplicable affinity toward pokémon with angular features.

Inventory

• 1000
• Go-Goggles
• Escape Rope
• Camping Gear
• Various Hygienic and Personal effects

Items:

• Potion x1

Trapinch

Species: Trapinch
Type: Ground
Gender: ♂
Level: 5
Moves:

• First Impression
• Astonish
• Sand Attack

Ability: Arena Trap
Held Item: N/A
Nature: Hasty, not unlike his trainer.

Pokemon: Professor's Academy

By the way, what classes are you guys planning on?

So far I know I'm giving Ryoka an advanced biology class as an excuse to collect DNA samples and play god during class hours, and a Battle Innovations class where students use their field of research for new applications in pokémon battling, with an emphasis on experimentation over competition.

Pokemon: Professor's Academy

Ryoka
When the class finally came to a close, Ryoka found that most of her notes had less to do with the relationships between pokémon and their environments, which frequently felt like common sense, and more to do with theoretical subversions thereof. As an example, Sneasel around Snowpoint city largely subsisted off of stolen Hoothoot eggs, resulting in relatively few Noctowl in the area. However, if you crossed the local Noctowl with Blissey who produced eggs in abundance and freely handed them away for consumption, they would likely achieve a symbiotic relationship with the Sneasel resulting in rapid population growth. It follows, then, that making the local Machoke populations more carnivorous by crossing them with, say, an Arcanine, would probably take care of that problem, but then the Beefy Fire Dog might threaten the local Snover populations.

Would making all these changes actually accomplish anything of value? Probably not, but it was fun to think about.

In any case, the biggest roadblock to her research going forward was, rather consistently, DNA samples. She had samples from her mother's battling team and her father's army of Shuckles, and she's picked up samples from common pokémon around Jubilife and her home back in Tōno, but as far as serving as a proper sample database, it left much to be desired, especially when certain species seemed completely incompatible with the methods she was using for Alk. The best avenue for acquiring more samples right now seemed to be from other students, but she wasn't sure who to approach about it first. Classmate thesis topics could be looked up on the website the school used for assignments, but a lot of them were a little too vague and nebulous for her to feel confident that her work could advance their own. I mean, pokémon cuteness? How do you measure that?

Well, when in doubt, might as well pick arbitrarily. As the other students were packing up their things and leaving, Ryoka walked up to the front of the class to talk with their temporary professor stand-in.

"Jason? I'm Ryoka. If you have time before your next class, I was wondering if you'd care to discuss a potential collaboration regarding our respective topics of research." Gender-based evolutionary dimorphism was certainly a niche subject of research, but the genetic markers within chimeras certainly presented a potential avenue of evolution for pokémon that otherwise couldn't due to their gender. She wouldn't be able to demonstrate as such, given a transformed Ditto can't undergo a true evolution like the subject of their transformation, but maybe she could talk about the applications of gene sequencing with the man.

Pokemon: Professor's Academy

Pardon my absence, I was just kind of at a loss.

Response is fixed if we're still on.

@RisingRobin

So, in my post, I know I didn't explicitly state that Ryoka returned her pokémon to their pokéballs, but I meant to imply it when she gathered up their pokéballs to leave her dorm room, which is why I brought it up here. I didn't think it would be the default assumption that pokémon are let out during classes; I figure they'd take up quite a bit of room, and I don't imagine, for example, that Jason's Nidoking is messing around in the corner.

So, in short, Ryoka enters the classroom with none of her pokémon out. She was messing around with her Ditto in her dorm room. Jason couldn't have seen a Ditto related to her, and Jenny hasn't released her Ditto yet either.

It's not that important, but it's an inconsistency I was getting caught up on because pointing out her Ditto is in her pokéball IC felt passive-aggressive and sending it out apropos of nothing to retroactively match the comment felt awkward.

As far as classes, you're free to control the professors as NPCs provided you don't do anything that conflicts with their personalities or canon.

@RisingRobin

The problem I have with actualizing a post right now is that we are currently in a class where the only professor is Jason, and I don't think (?) you intended to give us control of him. I'm not sure if you meant we were allowed to skip ahead to whatever classes we felt like or what, but it seemed like you expected us to be able to pick up what you were putting down from just that post and I didn't feel like my question was actually answered in the specific. In the current circumstances, where the students are in a lecture hall and the teaching content is completely ambiguous, Ryoka is going to default to listening quietly like a "good" student, so there's nothing of any real substance to post about.

From context I'm guessing you want to run a sandbox-style RP where everyone just does whatever they want, as opposed to something more rigidly on rails, but I'm not sure to what extent, and if you explained the way you want to run the RP anywhere, I must have missed it.

So, yeah. To repeat myself, how do classes work from here on? Specifically this class, and when we're allowed to leave/end the current class and transition to other classes or non-class settings. I'm not sure what I'm allowed to do in terms of the overall narrative, my character's class scheduling, or arbitrary time advancement. As an example, can I make up an event (e.g. a battle tournament), skip ahead to another class, and start talking about said event to another character in that new class? What about skipping to the end of the day to follow up on preparations for that event in my next post?

Pokemon: Professor's Academy

The rest of the students were either bored or had their heads shoved in their laptops like one girl who was messing with a ditto.

Ryoka's Ditto is currently in its pokéball.

Birch's slideshow

So, how do classes work from here on? Because I'm not sure what I'm allowed to do in terms of classes or the overall narrative.

Pokemon: Professor's Academy

Team Rocket would love to fund Ryoka, I'd think.

Pokemon: Professor's Academy

Ryoka

"Hrm. The eyes still need some work, not that Typhlosion eyesight is anything to write home about, but otherwise I'd say it's a success."
At those words, The Typhlitto or whatever you would call it began to vibrate before partially melting like something out of a horror movie. Eventually Alkahest had to give up and revert to their natural Ditto form. They still haven't mastered putting other pokémon heads on the body of a Ditto, but they've been making slow and steady progress, and the data generated was already valuable by itself.

Ryoka turned to her laptop to see that Archidoxis, her Porygon-Z, gave the transformation a stability rating of about 75%. Such a data point might have been useful if she didn't already know that Doxis was just making numbers up based on vibes. "Come on, don't you think that's a little harsh? It's certainly better than Shinx-Ditto. This transformation is at least an 80%. It's a solid 'B' grade in my book. We'll keep that version for now."

Archidoxis made its eyes appear on-screen for the express purpose of rolling them at her before bringing up an image of the Typhlitto and zooming in on its upper half, highlighting how its mimicry of Typhlosion coloration make it look like it's wearing a goofy hat.

"Those are arms, Dox. Well, half of it is, anyway."

Archidoxis responds by generating a poorly photoshopped image of Alkahest wearing a gaudy fur coat that was lazily color shifted to match Typhlosion's fur. The Ditto's small dot eyes were replaced with humanoid eyes with exaggeratedly extended eyelashes, and a handbag with a small Lillipup inside was edited over one of Alkahest's arms.

Ryoka simply gave her laptop The Look™, and Archidoxis silently deletes the image before bringing the compiled details about the Typhlitto back to the forefront. It was a collection of all the data they had gathered about the form recently, along with ballpark estimates of its relative capabilities.

"Let's see... Fire/Normal, has Flash Fire like Mom's, though a different sample would likely yield different results. We haven't been able to do much testing on the form's capability, but what we have found is consistent with the biased split we've found in Dittosion, only backwards. It seems Ditto-bodied pokémon aren't very physically inclined, though I suppose that was to be expected, and they likely make up for it elsewhere..." Ryoka is pulled out of her thoughts by some wibbly wobbly sounds, which she realizes is coming from Anthroparion, her Reuniclus, who non-verbally informs her that she's spent too much time on this instead of breakfast. Oops. She grabs a granola bar, her laptop, her bag, and everyone's pokéballs, and is soon out the door and on her way to class.

Pokémon Ecology was far from the top of her priority list, but if she put it off until her third year and her research had a breakthrough that prompted a visit from some government bigwig looking to farm Nine-tailed Slowpoke or to give beached Pyukumuku feet so they could walk themselves back into the ocean, she'd probably want to squeeze in a more advanced Ecology class in her third year to be able to give them a proper action plan. For that, she'd need to take the 101 class first, and if nothing else it was a graduation requirement, so she'd need to get it done sooner or later for the Professor title that some people cared more about than actual results.

She found a seat, took out her laptop, and began compiling the results of some of her previous experiments until some guy in a stained lab coat announced that he was the TA for Professor Birch and would be acting as a substitute until the Professor returned from Hoenn's Desert Underpass. After finding it, she opened up the class syllabus and began reading through it while mentally criticizing Professor Birch's inconcise wording and, simultaneously, listening to the TA just enough to register what he was saying. Basic habitats and biomes didn't seem like it would contain much new information, though she supposes classes always need to start off like this to make sure people don't get left behind. If it proved to be too boring, she could always just tune out the redundant information and start making plans for future experiments. In fact, she already had one, which she promptly began composing a message to Professor Birch for. DNA samples from uncommon regional pokémon weren't easy to come by, after all. Surely a professor wouldn't mind gathering a small piece of Trapinch carapace for a student, would they? Whatever else he can get his hands on would also be nice, but a Trapinch's jaw strength was truly something to behold.

Pokemon: Professor's Academy

Ryoka Shikimi

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"The question should never be, 'has science gone too far?' What you should be asking is, 'was it worth it?' Because I assure you, the answer is yes."

Full Name: Ryoka Shikimi

Age: 23

Year at the Institute: Second

Dialogue Color: Cyan-Turquoise #35FDF3

Thesis Subject: Pokémon Fusion: The Viability and Utility of Pokémon Gene-Splicing and Its Applications Within the Field of Pokémon Epigenetics

Appearance: Ryoka is a perfectionist, and it shows in her composed outward demeanor and immaculate attire. She's not one for dresses or jewelery, though she is known to wear red-rimmed glasses and the occasional colorful accessory. She tends to appear more unapproachable than she actually is, and when there are "more important matters", the last thing she'll care about is how she looks.

Personality: Ryoka is a bit intense in a lot of different ways. She isn't very good at small talk and her best customer service face just makes her look annoyed, so if you register as a distraction to her, she's likely to come off as cold and dismissive. On the other hand, if she comes to see you as a person she can bounce ideas off of, she's rather casual, uses a lot of deadpan snark, and can talk your ear off for hours about obscure pokémon biology and its highly specific niches in nature, battle, and commercial industries.

Outside of her interests, which are rather dense in content, she tends to cut straight to the heart of matters and is offputtingly forthright. Her words are sometimes as sharp as a blade, and it is very easy to end up cutting yourself on her metaphorical edges, only for her to be blissfully unaware.

She is driven, goal-oriented, and chafes at being told what she can and can't do. For her, almost every problem has a solution, and she is simultaneously humble enough to seek help and arrogant enough to keep looking when she doesn't immediately find an answer. She can be difficult to get along with, but her preferred solution to conflict resolution is to simply battle about it until it stops being a problem.

Bio: Ryoka was born and raised in Tōno City, which is North of Kanto, South of Sinnoh, and east of Sinjoh and Kitakami. It's a relatively quiet place with a lot of history, and Ryoka has always regarded it as kinda boring. Her father works at a Brewery, while her mother used to be a trainer of some renown before her Ace Typhlosion suffered an unfortunate career-ending injury. She is still a trainer, but not a particularly competitive one, and she mostly works at a local hotspring since her pokémon are good at temperature control. Ryoka decided she needed to get out of Tōno as soon as she could, and so when she was old enough and got her first pokémon, she did just that.

Although pokémon journeys were comparatively less popular in Tōno on account of the lack of local pokémon league, she had no trouble convincing her parents to let her go on one, and her goal wasn't to complete a gym circuit anyway. She mostly just wanted to see the world outside of her city full of old temples. She had already loosely planned to become a pokémon professor with a focus on epigenetics on account of the many tricks of her mother's aging Typhlosion, but it was only after going on a journey with the peculiarity of a Solosis with an atypical ability that she really began to dig into the possibilities. She learned how to battle, evolved Solosis, and even won a few gym badges, but as her plans for the future began to solidify, she began to reprioritize. She didn't need pokéballs, but she did need the money for an expensive second party member and their evolution requirements. After much toil, a Porygon was acquired, though as she got to know them, her plans for the future shifted further. Eventually, she settled on the path she is on today, and in what she would call a stroke of genius, she decided her team needed at least one more party member.

The rest is less history and more an insane hyper-fixation with world-shaking socio-political ramifications. Not that most of those ramifications are her problem anyway, at least for a while. In any case, after returning home and producing her first partial success at gene splicing and publishing the results, she made headlines, and was recommended to apply to the Laventon Institute, which offered some very attractive facilities and resources. She was accepted, and has since been slowly producing more results in her research without paying much mind to the growing controversy surrounding her work taking place behind closed doors. She was always good at arguing her way through unfair teachers anyway.

Come her second year, she realized she had missed Pokémon Ecology 101 since she had been excited about the other options in her first year, and it would only be useful to her in the latest stages of her research. Since it was a graduation requirement, she figured she might as well get it over with, and it would likely become useful eventually, if releasing Chimeras into the wild ever becomes a desirable outcome.

Pokémon

Anthroparion the Reuniclus (Peri for short)

Ability: Trace
Ryoka's first pokémon and the one that arguably set her on her path aiming to become a pokémon professor specialized in genetics. Peri's father was a Gardevoir, and whether through chance or environmental factors, he inherited his father's Trace ability, which makes him an anomaly among Reuniclus. Although unnoticed at first and arguably a detriment in battle compared to standard Reuniclus abilities, Ryoka came to appreciate the uniqueness of Trace. This eventually extended to her research as Peri's partially transparent body and ability to mimic pokémon abilities provided a unique opportunity to study pokémon biology. Nowadays, Peri's ability to mimic aspects of other biologies combined with its permeablility and psychic power makes it perfect for keeping DNA samples alive and stored away within its body, ready for artificial cellular reproduction if more samples are needed and modification via Dox's instructions when Ryoka is ready to conduct a new or revisit an old experiment.

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Archidoxis the Porygon-Z (Doxis or Dox for short, Archie when Ryoka wants to annoy them)

Ability: Download
Although Ryoka initially sought out a Porygon for a Trace user to compare with Peri's Trace, with the added benefit of being able to look into Porygon's code during the process, Porygon are hard to come by, and certainly not cheap. It took long hours in jobs Ryoka would rather not talk about to be able to afford one, but in the end she simply adopted one (albeit for a non-negligible fee) after a crackdown on poachers in Sinnoh after a certain "reputable" pokémon delivery service used by a certain rich eccentric was revealed to be less than reputable. By the time she realized Doxis didn't have the Trace ability, she was already knee-deep in being able to study a fully artificial pokémon, with all of the potential genetic modularity inherent to that. The Download ability simply came as a welcome surprise, and caused her to pivot her plans for Doxis yet again. It allowed Doxis to ascertain relatively detailed information on a pokémon not unlike a pokédex, and when they evolved into a Porygon2, they were able to meaningfully contribute to pokémon gene sequencing efforts. She doesn't regret evolving Doxis into a Porygon-Z. She knew the risks of doing so, but make no mistake, Porygon-Z are much more powerful, and she needed that kind of processing power for her purposes. A touch of madness here and there wasn't so bad anyway. In any case, Doxis came to be the digital side of her DNA database, helping Peri index his catalogue and serving as the main vehicle through which she plans gene edits. In conjunction with Peri's psychic abilities, it is enough to modify DNA, simulate the outcome, and prep the samples for use in conjunction with her third party member.

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Alkahest the Ditto (Alk for short)

Ability: Limber, changes with transformations
The star of Ryoka's research, Alk's transformative capabilities allowed her to do safe experiments and ultimately skip to the practical applications of her research. With help from Reuniclus' DNA database, Alk can transform into any pokémon Ryoka has taken a sample from. With help from Dox's gene editing software, variations can be made, and with enough work on Alk's part with Ryoka, Dox, and Peri's help, Alk can transform into a chimera: a stable fusion of two separate pokémon, with a mix of their strengths and weaknesses. Currently, Alk has mastered shapeshifting into various Ditto-based forms, mainly those with the face of a Ditto and the body of other pokémon.

Ditto forms of varying stability

Alk is able to do this with decent consistency even with new pokémon and minimal assistance from Ryoka, Peri and Dox. Some species, according to Alk, are too unstable when combined with Ditto, though being able to meaningfully battle with an untransformed pseudo-Ditto at all is a major breakthrough. Whether Alk's limitations are personal or generalized, Ryoka has not yet confirmed. However, the hard part comes from trying to maintain the face of other pokémon and the body of a Ditto. Alk has had some success with such forms, but cannot reproduce them consistently. Ryoka hopes to use these Ditto-based fusions as a stepping stone towards combining the genes of two different non-ditto pokémon via Dox and providing it to Alk to enable fully realized pokémon fusions. Once a perfect end result is achieved, Ryoka believes that she can extrapolate the method in reverse to create stable pokémon chimeras from scratch.

Quirks:

• Has an inexplicable obsession with Azumarill ears, among other specific pokémon body parts. She Insists Azumarill ears are supreme in terms of capability, versatility, and aesthetics. She moves the goal posts away from capability when Audino is brought up.
• Ryoka is the type of person to binge bulbapedia articles at 3 am.
• Despite knowing how to synthesize the exact chemicals used to light up Chinchou's bioluminescent lamps, she has a lot of inexplicable blind spots about a number of common pokémon. She could tell you the number of bones in a Pidgey (120-130ish based on age and region) but couldn't tell you the difference between a male and female Starly.

Yugioh - Digital Advance

”So. What are all of your strategies going into this? Honestly, I just chose Simorgh for personal reasons.”

@Darkmoon Angel

McCoy

"Honestly? I knew I didn't know shit, so I let the AI take the wheel. From the looks of things my cards are only good at messing around and wasting time, or maybe swarming the opponent with cat assists. Dunno for sure. Haven't tried battling yet."

It was actually a bit troubling. Attribute Bomb was an obscenely niche card, and it seemed to be the only direct and reliable offense any of his cards offered. The blurb on Cat Meeting about how unreliable the cats are certainly didn't inspire confidence. Speaking of which, Cat Meeting implies that he needs to let his cat out to mingle, so he surreptitiously summoned Dark Cat with White Tail into stealth, which ended up meaning it appeared beyond the treeline. It gave him a meaningful look before casually and silently walking away.

That means they'll follow the group, right?

...Right?

He suppressed a grimace as the others gave run downs of their own strategies, only for Simorgh to come flying back, making a racket that initially had McCoy worried that Dark Cat had attacked them while unsupervised. To his relief, numerous pillars of dark smoke began rising up above the treeline. Oh, good, it's just an ecological disaster. It was also too far off for it to have been the work of Dark Cat, so he seemingly had nothing to worry about.

"Yeah, let's go."