I also have a Trainer OC who's like, not really a type specialist at all, but does a short stint as a Gym Trainer under Kanto's Surge with a Magnemite at her side.

Frick good question I'm not sure. I tend not to favor particular types.... I think maybe Steel is pretty neat??? I know my buddy really associates me with like, Rock Types and Dragon Types, but I have NO idea where she's getting that lol.

GOD I'd never even CONSIDERED the Riyo characters getting the Redline treatment. That would go crazy... That's a really fun idea!

I see that you are already drowning in replies, but I also am evil and selfish. So you know who no one ever draws??? Linhua! How about Linhua!!!

said it in another comment but a lot of it is just weird leftover shit from the early 2000s "japanese/foreign games are SOOO wacky and nonsensical" journalism shit, did forever lasting damage on people's opinions of non-western storytelling in games

This is actually really helpful because I'm sick and sleeping weird so I'm having trouble taking my meds (my routine is all fucked)

I should go take those. Thanks!

As a KH, BB, and Nasuverse fan, I am SICK of being a fan of complex sprawling narratives and being told the stories I like are "completely nonsensical" by people who haven't played all the games and/or only know the lore through fandom wiki articles.

Her outfit I commissioned @firestiart.bsky.social to make!! It's amazing!!

But in this story, the repeated failures add up to experience- and the repeated RETRIES add up to a slightly lower chance of failure.

You'll never stop fucking up. But after enough fuck ups, you'll look around and notice that you've somehow made your way a little further past the starting line.

This is just like, some motivational anecdote he was fed in rehab. But hearing it did a lot of good for me. I feel like my repeated failures just add up to, like, a bigger fucking failure. Evidence that the success if never gonna come and I just look fucking stupid.

Everyone fails. But out of the number of people who try to get sober TWICE??? Their success rate doubles. 2% still means a fuckton of failure though.

Then the number of people who try to get sober three times??? 6%. If we fuck up a few more times we might get to 10%. And so on.

I might hate my repeated failures, but I'd hate not DOING it more. I'd be even MORE SUICIDAL if I just sat with the L.

Besides, my crackhead uncle gave me some neat advice; the number of people who try to get sober is like 1%. The number of THOSE who succeed is like 1% of that.

I've flunked out of college twice (three times??? can't remember) but I'm STILL doing this shit. Because I really don't believe I'll ever succeed, but what ELSE are my options??? Hating myself for having not succeeded??? I'm already DOING that. I at least feel better when I try to chip at it.

Or you might as well keep going. That's what I learned after years of depression. You fall back down to the absolute bottom of the misery pit enough times, and you're still forced to wake up tomorrow, no matter how bad you feel.

So you might as WELL do something fun with that time. Just for you.