» tres | anonymous

[spacebaloney]

is there anyone who has issues with their starter? like what happens when your starter doesn't like you and would rather kick your ass instead of other pokemon's asses? or if it just doesn't want to listen to you? that means you suck as a trainer, right? what if you do suck as a trainer and can't be a breeder?

and is everybody here really happier here than they were wherever they're from? there's got to someone who feels like they'd probably be better off back home and be more useful there than here. it just seems weird that all the people brought here don't really want to go back home, that's all.

Comments

Anonymous

[unwantedgirl]

I don't think that means you're a bad trainer. Maybe there's something going on with your Pokemon you just haven't seen yet or that they haven't let you seen yet.

Sometimes personalities don't match well. That could also be the problem. You just have to find a balance.

I think a lot of people here are happier here because they come from bad circumstances in their original worlds, that's all. I miss home and I'm worried. I'd go back if I was given the chance. But I don't mind being here.

[spacebaloney]

shouldn't a good trainer be able to see that by now? or is it because the pokemon won't let you see it because you're not a good trainer? how can someone find a balance when they're busy trying not to get hit?

i guess i'm just running into people who are just YAY I LIKE IT HERE AND NEVER EVER WANT TO GO BACK HOME BECAUSE ABC and i'm the only one who is thinking maybe me being here is a big fat joke at my expense.

ANON BACK because why not

[pidge_out]

maybe it's just violent by nature and that's how it shows its affection? i doubt it means that you're a shitty trainer

can't speak for everyone, but i doubt EVERYONE's happier. to me it feels like being stuck in purgatory

[spacebaloney]

nah i looked it up and i think it's just because this one doesn't like me. i don't really blame it, either.

purgatory? how so?

anon 5ever or until that changes

[bertall]

I can't speak on behalf of my starter since we're pretty close, but I have two other Pokemon who I have a hard time controlling. It's a problem because one of them is said to be able to bring down an entire mountain just to make a nest and make rivers completely vanish from a map. I've been trying to find a good place to release her because I|

The person I could trust her with isn't here anymore.

As for the second half, I think a lot of people are. Before some things happened this place was a total upgrade for me for a number of reasons, but now it's all I have. I can never go back where I came from, even if I wanted to.

[spacebaloney]

i guess when it's other pokemon, that's one thing. but everybody i know gets along with their starter and i'm just trying to figure out what i'm doing wrong here because mine acts like it can't stand me.

i thought about releasing it, but that would confirm i can't cut it as a trainer and then everybody'll know i'm shit for everything but making dumb jokes.

why not? because they don't let you go back until they decide to let you?

Text

[isleavepossible]

Nah, that just means you have one pokemon that doesn't want to listen to you and it just happened to be your first one. You can switch over to being a breeder if you really want though.

But I'd suggest talking to your pokemon first. There's a women here named Botan that can actually talk to pokemon. She was super helpful with my starter when I was worried it would try to possess me. /it was a ghost pokemon.

As for people who are happier here? I can only speak for myself but back home I have nothing left but a fate worse then death. Maybe this place just brings over more people who have bad things going on back home, that this place seems nice in comparison.

still anonymous until he decides not to be

[spacebaloney]

i don't really want to be a breeder, to be honest. i thought about it but i don't think i'd be any good at it when there's so many other better breeders out there. plus i don't have enough pokemon to start anything anyway.

she can talk to them? is she a psychic or something? i tried talking to mine, but it almost gave me a concussion so that was a fail.

it's just that back home, at least i felt there was a chance to see my family again. here, most likely i'll never see them. and a lot of good things i did at home, no one cares about here so in the end, it doesn't matter unless i can be a good trainer or something.

[Text] (Not Anon on his end)

[thenightsky]

I would try finding someone that can communicate with your Pokemon or another Pokemon that has psychic that can help you do it. Then you can figure out what's going on; get to the bottom of the problem. There's got to be a reason why your starter is acting like that.

I'm happier here but I'm also a lot sadder here. I'm happier because I don't have to follow some stupid prophecy here. I can live my life and make my own choices. I'm sadder because I'm the only person from my home world here now. I know time stops when we're here; that things don't continue when we're back home but I still wish my friends and family could be here with me. Anything's better than the bullshit we were dealing with back home.

But I know it has to be dealt with eventually. And it will. I've been home once already and now I'm back again. It'll probably happen again. Who knows. If that happens so be it.

While I'm here though? I'm going to enjoy the hell out of living.

we still anon as hell over here, yo!

[spacebaloney]

the last Pokemon it came into contact that was psychic, they got into a fight. not the usual battle we let the pokemon go for, but a i want to beat your face in fight. i don't know if it had psychic, but it didn't turn out well. for me, at least.

all my friends are here which is good, but they're all happy. they have their things that make them happy here and know what they want to do and i'm happy for them. but i don't feel like i have anything going for me. i thought i did, but then someone else came along who could do it better so now i'm just waiting for everybody to finally come out and say they prefer other things by other people. it kinda doesn't matter that time stops back home when everybody here came and found their spot just like where we're from. except me. i didn't know what to do at home and it's the same here. it's bad enough they all know things i don't and nobody tells me until it's too late.

sorry, i mean, what prophecy?

Text

[thedifferencebetween]

not my starter no but i did get 1 that has it in 4 me. sum pokemon are assholez.

and yeah, trust me, i'd rather have my old life back home.

anonymous

[spacebaloney]

probably, but i think it stings worse when it's your starter.

good. i was starting to think i was going loco here or something being the only one homesick. i mean, shit wasn't great back there, but at least a few people cared about something i did there than no one really gives a shit about here.

Text; Not anon, we post like men.

[schachmeister]

I do not believe someone is a bad trainer based on the inability to get along with one particular pokemon. Personally, I never had any problems with my starter, however, there have been some other pokemon I've caught over the time I've spent here that weren't so easy going. In some of those cases, those pokemon needed a very specific approach for us to bond, but there were also pokemon I had to release or trade away. I do wish I had been able to better provide them with what they needed but at the same time, every pokemon is a unique individual and so is every trainer. I do not think it is surprising that sometimes those personalities are going to clash, especially when we obtain so many pokemon completely by chance without knowing their personalities beforehand.

Personally, I'd say that the only bad trainer is the sort of person who ignores the needs of their pokemon. But I feel that by reaching out for advice, that is not something that applies to you.

Furthermore, I've always wondered about how the specific pokemon that we are given as starters are chosen for us. I do not think it is purely by chance. If that was the case, I feel there would be a more even spread of different pokemon species. But if these starters are not assigned to us by chance, then logically, each starter must be chosen for us for some reason. Of course, this is just speculation on my part, and I may end up being completely wrong, but if we assume, for a moment, that it is true, perhaps you were given this particular individual for a reason? Perhaps there is something about this situation that is meant to help you grow.

As for being happier here than back home - I think such a thing largely depends on what sort of world you come from. This world is remarkably peaceful and easy-going. I think for many, their own homeworlds are nothing of the sort. I know mine is not. I have opportunities here that I would never have back home. Despite missing my best friends, I cannot deny that I am happier here. Of course, that does not change the fact that I should probably return to my own world if given the choice, but I suppose I am fortunate that such a choice is not up to me.

I'm sorry, I feel that I am starting to ramble. What I mean to say is that if your world is similar to this one, I can imagine that there would be much more of a draw to go back home. Especially if you have an opportunity in your home world that is not present here. But somehow that does not seem to be the case for the majority of people brought here.

still anon because he is not a man

[spacebaloney]

maybe they picked mine to have a good laugh at me. i mean i had a similar animal to my starter at home, but like... i didn't do anything with it? i only got it right before i came here so i have no idea why they thought it was a good idea to give me the same thing. i didn't even buy it. some dude just gave it to me.

i guess the only thing that's growing is my bandage collection.

my world was peaceful but it wasn't so much anymore before i left. i know it's not as bad as some people's, but there i was part of something big. huge, even. here, i'm not part of anything and no one really cares about what i did at home, so it's like... what do i do now that makes me useful enough that other people will want to keep me around? nothing, that's what. nothing when someone else comes around and does it ten times better than i could ever do it and i'm left with jack shit.

text | TOTALLY NOT ANON

[shiro2hero]

If you're having issues, you can always ask someone more directly. There's plenty of people here I'm sure who've had problems with parts of their team. I do. I've got a Gallade who won't stop trying to prank people, and a Furret I can't get to stop launching out of cabinets at peoples' faces.

[He traded the Furret away for just that reason.]

As for the rest of it...

I wasn't always happy here. For a long time, I wanted to get back to where I came from. I thought working hard and training would do the trick, but -- two years later, I'm still here.

Two years later, I think I'm happy here.

TOTALLY ANON BECAUSE OH HELL IT'S DAD

[spacebaloney]

pranking and scaring people are super mild compared to what my pokemon's doing. i'd say you have it good.

[And in Lance's eyes, Shiro does. He has Matt and Keith, a house of his own, Pokemon who don't hate his guts, and he's the leader. Lance doesn't think he has much in comparison.]

two years? i have to wait two whole years? that's bullshit.

[Ha! Can't scold Lance for language if you don't know it's him, Shiro.]

text | anon

[sassymaru]

I must confess, I likewise wish I were not present in this world.

Save for the creatures under my care, I find little ... comfort in it.

Very little.

[spacebaloney]

oh. you're honest. it's not just me, then.

same here. i know some people don't want to leave their pokemon behind, but me... sometimes i think maybe they're better off without me. pretty hard to find comfort when one of your main ones hates your guts.

anonymous text;

[notvaljean]

I had problems with my starter at first too
and he's still kind of a dick

but we had to figure out what worked for us

like, he's really protective, but he doesn't want me to KNOW he's protective?
and he got really upset when I caught my second Pokemon
so he was kind of insecure too
but I couldn't SAY I knew he was feeling insecure

[spacebaloney]

i honestly don't know what mine is other than a pain in my ass.

don't get me wrong. i want it to like me, but it just seems to ignore me most of the time when i give it attention, but when i stop giving it attention, that's when it starts yelling and bumrushing me? like either you want me to talk to you or you want me to leave you the hell alone. you can't have both.

[Ah the life of a trainer of a tsundere cow.]

Anoning it up in here

[icecastlemadonna]

I'm sorry to hear you and your starter still aren't getting along. I've heard that maybe talking to someone who has a Psychic type Pokemon might help? Apparently Psychic types are able to communicate more directly with people than others, so maybe a Psychic Pokemon can help you talk to your starter. Hopefully you can figure out what's going wrong in your relationship and then you can both take steps to fix it.

As for being brought here...personally, I have mixed feelings about it. I've enjoyed traveling, and learning about Pokemon has been really interesting. But I also have friends and family back home, and I know it's not like they're still wondering where I am thanks to the way time works here, but...I still really miss them. [Especially her family.]

[spacebaloney]

it decided to fight the last psychic pokemon it met up with, so that didn't turn out so well for any of us. especially me.

i miss my family too. i didn't get to see them for a really long time before i got here, but at least at home i still had a chance to? here, it's just... maybe if i'm lucky. and i never am, so i'm trying not to hold out any hope because then i'll just disappoint myself.

i think that's my problem. i think i can do great things when i'm just an all around failure.

anon

[kscience]

[pacific rim uprising spoilers are implied but left somewhat vague]

i dont really have a home to go back to anymore. so no

im sure some ppl feel otherwise but im terrified of waking up and not being here because that can only mean that i'll hurt people again that people will get hurt

[Newt doesn't let himself think about this stuff much. He can't. But it's at least easier to admit it when it's anonymous.]

[spacebaloney]

[That's why Lance did this anonymously. Nobody likes a whiner and he's been very good as keeping all this tucked inside his head for months. The last thing he wants is for the team to know how he sees himself and verbally confirm they really do agree that he's a shit for brains with no value. But this has been eating at him and things seem to keep piling up, making things worse.]

but if you did, would you change your mind?

hurt how?

Text - Not Anon

[sociallychallenged]

My starter has been fine with me, so I can't help you out there.

As for liking it here, to be honest? I fucking hate it. Yeah, it's bright, it's shiny, the air is clean. It's a vacation dreamland. But it's not a good that I've seen anyone have to work for, and because of that it doesn't sink in for me.

Maybe I would have liked it better a few months back, [Just two months ago, in fact, he was in a pretty terrible spot. He might have been glad to hide in here then.] and I'm glad the kids here are going to be safe. But personally, if I have the means to make the world a better place I'd rather be out there fighting for it. All I can do right now is ride this shit out and make the most of what I'm given.

still anon and i'm sorry i'm late. rl and stuff.

[spacebaloney]

yeah, that's pretty much the case with everyone else. thanks anyway.

so because we didn't work for it, you don't trust it? i guess i can understand that, even though i'm used to busting my ass doing things and not getting much in return. back home i was trying to make things better too, but i can't do that here. i'd rather be doing that than...

i guess this. posting on the network and being called a whiner.

non-anon

[islandshore]

Just keep trying. If your starter won't cut it, you can always try to pick up an egg. Catch another wild Pokemon. Work with them so you have backup.

Some Pokemon just have difficult personalities and you gotta be patient with 'em. Probably better to work out the kinks while they're small, though, 'cause let me tell you: an Aerodactyl that wants to eat your face is way worth than any small time starter.

still anon also apologies for lateness due to rl

[spacebaloney]

yeah i guess that'll what i'll have to do. i just thought maybe my starter wouldn't be so much of a dick when it's my starter. it's been a few months now so i don't know how much more patience i can have.

i think i'd take a small time starter over an Aerodactyl that wants to eat my face. i like my face. i kinda want to keep it.

anon

[keep_surviving]

not with my starter. both my first ones were great. it wasnt until i first caught one. he was a jerk at first.

ive had a couple since that were the same. i think some are just asses. like people i guess.

anon | apologies for being late. rl is rough.

[spacebaloney]

it seems like everybody is okay with their starter. just not me.

guess i got shitty luck.