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[sunnysidewalkstreet]

[ Oh hey, it's a text from Prompto - made pretty quickly after the Silph Co bulletin. ]

I guess you guys saw that thing from Silph? IDK about that but I got one of their prototypes when I arrived. I don't know about all this designer baby thing though, it sounds really cruel. I mean they're alive, not some sort of twisted experiment. Well, they are.

And besides why did they call them something like Type: Null? If they made another Pokemon they could have chosen a super cool name, or even one like Porygon and not an insult to these guys. Anima's a good boy, even if he doesn't like battling - but there's other Pokemon like that.

Aaanyway, if you have any questions about Nulls ask me and not Silph Co.? I think taking some on is a good idea, try and show them what it's like to not be kept by that company?

also where do you get porygon

[ Attached are like... lots of pictures of his Null, Anima, mostly ones of him having fun and playing - even if it's clear that in the sun, the Null seems to be very uncomfortable. And tellingly, there's no shots of the Null in-battle.

Though the day, Prompto is near the Pokemon Center with his Null - keeping the chimera close, trying to keep his nerves down. Why... him? ]

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[lordofthefries]

[Sure, Sasha heard the announcement, but she pretty much tuned out once they said she needed six badges for a Null. She doesn't even have one badge. Heck, she doesn't even know what the word synthetic means, so really, any excitement over the new technology is lost on her.]

idk? prototype? whats wrong with the name? i dont know what a porygon is.

here comes grandpa to shit it all up

[meteorman]

I think you're reading a lot of ill intent into this that isn't actually there. A synthetic Pokemon whose type can be chosen is an incredible innovation and a vast improvement over Porygon, though Porygon is a marvel in its own right.

My point is that there's nothing cruel about changing a few lines of code, nor is there anything insulting about giving the resulting Pokemon a name that reflects such a unique and astounding feature.

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[cyan_maid]

I don't know much about naming an apparently synthetic species, but I certainly don't oppose the idea of taking one of those dears in!
No matter what, a Pokemon is a Pokemon, and it's probably happier living outside of a lab than inside.
The way they described it IS a little creepy, though...

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[thenightsky]

As soon as Noctis saw the announcement, he'd asked the owner of the restaurant he'd been working in since they arrived in Goldenrod if he could cut his shift short. The man had been alright with it so the Prince had darted off once he'd finished what he was working on, heading for the Pokemon Center since he knew that's where Prompto had been picking up shifts.

A synthetic Pokemon..made in a lab. That explained so much about Nu--about Anima.

When he arrived at the Center it was with Shepard and Bean in tow, both Pokemon looking uncharacteristically serious..thoughtful. It was a mix of those two. It wasn't hard to find the blonde and Noctis immediately slowed his pace so he wasn't barreling at the other, making his way over to where his boyfriend was seated with his Null.

"...Hey."

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[thedifferencebetween]

Excuse you, Null is a friggin badass name!

Do you know what a null symbol is in computer programming? Yeah I'm guessing not. It's a stupidly important symbol with a bunch of different uses that can do all kinds of stuff. Combine it the right way with other symbols, put it up against them, so to speak...it neutralizes them. Or it can be even more powerful. Huh. That...wow! That almost sounds like it could make sense in terms of Pokemon! It's almost like someone knew what a null symbol was and went 'hey, look, this Pokemon does the same thing!'. But I'm sure your reading of it is the right one, yeah, the team working on these guys just picked the most obscure word for 'nothing' they could.

Nulls are named after something important and powerful, trust me here.

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[rambling_runner]

The thing that gets me is...they didn't have a cap on the number of 'Beta Testers' they needed. They're just gonna make them FOR whoever asks for one; 'made to order' they said, right? So they'll make tons of em; you said to 'take some on' and show 'em life outside a lab, but they're being made when people ask for one. If nobody asked for any, they wouldn't make em.

They shouldn't make them either way if they got problems and it means they're gonna suffer or be in pain. Fucking around with nature it a thing but with Pokemon, they're sentient - they can think and feel and understand shit. It's like purebred dogs, where they get super fucked up and deformed because of inbreeding.

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[captainash]

The way they were talking about the poor things, you'd think they'd created a new model of mobile suit, not a living creature.

[Wait, weren't the Vagans- stopping that train of thought right there.]

What can you tell me about their moveset and talents? I can trade a Porygon egg for the info, if you'd rather not spend weeks gambling to earn one the normal way.

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[kissmyaspis]

I don't like it. Corporations like that? Pulling dubious experiments like making living creatures?
It never goes well.

[Sure this doesn't seem like it's on the level of anything Atlas or Hyperion have done... but it's only a matter of time. People get the taste of creating life, the power to change living beings however they wish... it corrupts them.]

Not just for them. There's only so much time you can spend breeding and grooming something for a specific purpose before it begins to rebel against that purpose.

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[faintwaves]

I don't like it. I really don't. People like that don't just make something for no reason, it's for a purpose, like they were meant to combat something else or infiltrate.

And the name, "Null."

To "null" something means that it failed, in my experience. It didn't do what it was made for. So why are they making these and having people test them out?

[She remembers being made, No. I used to be her name, the imaginary number. They changed it to Xion to match the rest of the Nobodies. Why would something be named Null if it was just created?]

...I remember Anima from the party. He's a good boy.

[pipers_son]

it could be ill intent or they are just a bunch of bookworms who don't know what theyre saying is bleeding inappropriate
never know with those types
anyway how has yours been doing