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Space☆Dandy ([personal profile] adandyinspace) wrote in [community profile] victory_road2019-05-06 11:00 am

003 | Video

[When the video starts, Dandy isn't looking exactly thrilled. Despite this, the joyful sounds of his Pokemon can be heard in the background because right behind him are his giant skuntank and equally giant toucannon cooing and fussing over the egg he got from those legend seeking weirdos.

Even Martini, the Pokemon he always used as an excuse as to why he shouldn't have an egg, seems to be getting in on this. Although instead of chowing down, when she manages to wiggle away with the egg, all she can do is nuzzle it and make weird yet oddly content growling noises. Almost like a deino-style purr.

They're all crazy for this egg. Too bad Dandy can't say the same.]


So...like, is there a point to eggs or am I missin' something here? All I do is lug this thing around and nothing's happened yet.

Can't even put it in a ball... Or teach it sweet moves...

I'm seriously this close to eating the damn thing.

[And at that, all three of his girls in the background bristle up in protest, even the comfey around his neck stirs and gives him a very disapproving look.]

Oh, whatever.
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[personal profile] schachmeister 2019-05-07 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
You'll probably get into trouble if you try and eat it.

It does take some extra time to hatch a pokemon from an egg, especially if it is a rarer species. But there can be a lot of pay-off too. Depending on how they were bred, pokemon that hatch from eggs can already know a ton of moves. There are even some moves that pokemon can only learn through having the right parents.
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[personal profile] schachmeister 2019-05-08 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
No, not me. But the Jennies might.

[Listen, they might do approximately absolutely zero about evil organisations like Team Rocket, but you know they'd come down hard on an egg-eater.]

I guess that depends on who you got the egg from. Though I'm not sure if laser eyes are exactly in the cards...
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[personal profile] schachmeister 2019-05-09 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[This is one face that says Armin definitely didn't need to know about Dandy's thing for police officers and handcuffs. He really, really didn't.]

Uhm. There is a pokemon shaped like a sword. And several that are capable of shooting projectiles, but...

Why would you want a pokemon to have a gun?
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[personal profile] schachmeister 2019-05-13 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Coming from a world where guns are not only very very old-fashioned but also very very useless against titans, Armin just can't share Dandy's opinion of guns being cool.]

I suppose, if you say so... but aren't guns pretty limited? They are really only any good against human opponents.

In fact, they probably wouldn't do much in a pokemon battle. I don't think bullets would be able to take down any rock pokemon, for example. And a fire pokemon could probably melt a gun's barrel before you could shoot it.
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[personal profile] schachmeister 2019-05-14 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait. How could a gun shoot a laser? It is concentrated light, right? How can you fire that with gun powder?

[Sorry, Dandy, he comes from a time when the musket is still a fairly fancy recent gun.]
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[personal profile] schachmeister 2019-05-19 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose...

[He doesn't sound particularly convinced but is clearly trying to be Polite about it.]

But... couldn't you just teach your pokemon a move like Solarbeam or Hyperbeam? That is... sort of like a laser, I think.
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[personal profile] schachmeister 2019-05-19 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, there are a lot of pokemon who naturally learn those moves once they are strong enough. Mostly grass type pokemon for Solar Beam and normal type pokemon for Hyper Beam.

But you can also teach the move to your pokemon using TMs. I'm not sure where they are sold exactly. The department store in Goldenrod city sells a lot of them, so your best bet is to try there. Even if they don't sell them, they'll probably know of a location that does.

And [he frowns for a moment as he thinks.] I know there is one gym that gives out Hyper Beam as a prize when you beat it. I'd have to check my notes for which one exactly though.
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[personal profile] schachmeister 2019-05-19 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Armin came out here to have a nerd time and he is feeling so attacked right now.]

Not as she is now. She'd have to fully evolve, but then she should be able to learn Hyper Beam.

[Whether she should for, you know, everybody else's sake is something else entirely.]
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[personal profile] schachmeister 2019-05-19 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[That is not how this works! That is not how any of this works!]

D-demand from who?

[Armin is only the messenger.]

It's not like there is a regulatory body who decides what moves pokemon get to use. It's just... biology. You can't make demands of biology.
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[personal profile] schachmeister 2019-05-20 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not going to tell you that if you are going to fight them! That'd be crazy!