book+ my Pokemon heartgold guide
quest+ figuring out my pokemon trainer cosplay, including properly scaled pokemon in semi-transparent pokeballs
upper+ i'm having fun going to that obsessively nerdy mental state
downer+ cosplay is expensive
attire+ black drawstring pants and my red and navy rugby tee
drink+ Dr Pepper
this week i absolutely got Kyu's jacket fixed up for him, and i made more progress on Heart Gold, which was fun.
while Kyu and Muffin were at A-Kon i was at home dealing with an ill Harley, which was less fun than their weekend. today she's doing better though. really when Kyu got home we talked about the different types of conventions we've been to together and apart, and we talked about our favorite parts of cosplay on a personal level. then we lost hours getting into how much time we've both spent thinking about what we'd be like if we lived in the pokemon world, and what kind of teams we'd put together. i've had a pokemon team figured out for myself since i first played (in about 1997). the second generation brought me the bulk of it and very little has changed since then.
when i imagined myself as a trainer, i figured i wouldn't be one of those lucky enough to magically know a professor willing to give me my choice of incredibly rare specimens to figure things out with, so my starter was always Dratini (which i evolved to Dragonair then put an everstone on, because Dragonite is ugly and i freaking hate looking at it). i supported it with an Oddish (eventually Gloom then Vileplume), a Pidgey (then Pidgeotto and Pidgeot) and an Abra (evolved to Kadabra, but never Alakazam because trade evolutions are stupid). i had a Lapras for my surfer and that was basically my team until gen2 happened. so basically: Dragonair, Vileplume, Pidgeot, Kadabra, Lapras (empty slot never really filled with anything).
with gen2 i decided to go for Bellossom instead of Vileplume (because the Oddish/Gloom move list is still pretty freaking great and i just had to use a sunstone instead of a leafstone) and i dropped Lapras added Houndour (then Houndoom) as my fire type, prior to that i had my Dratini learning flamethrower via TM35, now i used HM03 instead and it was my surfer. so basically: Dragonair, Bellossom, Pidgeot, Kadabra, Houndour (empty slot never really filled with anything).
gen3 brought another change, i dropped Abra (which has ALWAYS been a PITA to catch in the first place) for a Ralts (then Kirlia and Gardevoir) because it has a better movelist, it's prettier, and it's so much easier to raise effectively. because it was essentially unavailable, Pidgey was dropped for Swablu (then Altaria) as my flying type. i wasn't thrilled with this choice what with being four times as weak to ice, but it was my best choice at the time. this generation of games brought me a surfer i was actually happy with though, Feebas (a pain to catch, and a pain to evolve, but Milotic is tied for strongest non-legendary water type). i finally had a 6 pokemon lineup with this generation. so basically: Dragonair, Bellossom, Gardevoir, Houndour, Altaria, Milotic.
gen4 is the most recent i've played so there's nothing gen5 in my lineup. the changes it brought me really evened things out. Pidgey was still fuinctionally unavailable, and Altaria was still a risky replacement, but Starly (and subsequently Staravia and Staraptor) was plenty effective as a placeholder until i could recruit Drifloon (and evolve it to Drifblim gaining the ability to transport passengers). so basically: Dragonair, Bellossom, Gardevoir, Houndour, Drifblim, Milotic. with this lineup i can take out most types with effective attacks, and the one i can't really is electric, which isn't super common really. these six pokemon cover Dragon (with the capacity to also learn ice, thunder, fire, and water moves), Grass (with remaining Poison moves from its earlier forms, but not the weaknesses), Psychic, Dark, Fire, Ghost, Flying, and Water types.
that's probably way more Pokemon talk than most of you care about, but it's what i've been thinking about lately, so it's really all i can think to talk about. basically the introspection on the list is so i can effectively plan how to construct accurate chibis of the whole team to place in pokeballs as part of my trainer costume (the evolutionary levels i'm going with are the ones i bolded at first mention).
i wanna do balls accurate to the manga, where the red top half is translucent, so you can see what's inside. Kyu had an idea to make the translucent balls, so i just have to figure out dimensions for chibis that are still accurate enough to please my OCD. then i wanna do scale plushes of a few of them (mostly the smaller ones) to walk around with out of their balls. Bellossom and Drifloon are both only 1'4", full size plushes would be lightweight and super cute as costuming props. a fully-to-scale Dragonair would be 13 feet long, but wrapped creatively around my torso and a leg, with the head draped over my shoulder it could be freakin adorable. xD
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