#tera engineer

[onedragonarmy]

I want to buy new earbuds so I can listen to Podcast again at work but then I look at my mountain of debt and I'm like maybe when it is slightly lower...

It sucks so bad that we're basically just managing to tamp it back down slightly but it legit feels like pouring buckets on a raging fire

[thebluebygracieabrams]

everything is so sad i need to go to sleep

[ninimagearchive]

ABOUT TRENT - Off an old website; 2005?

Full Name: Michael Trent Reznor Jr. Nickname: Stimpy Birthday: 17.5.65 at 7:30 Hometown: Mercer, Pennsylvania

Father: Mike Reznor – Commercial Artist, Interior Designer, Amateur Bluegrass Musician Mother: Nancy Clark One Sister: Tera, born in 1971. Lived with mother after divorce

Childhood Allergies: Cats, dust, grass and ragweed Enjoyed as Child: Fishing, skateboarding, building model airplanes and music Address: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Height: About 5'7" Eyes: Hazel Hair: Dark brown, dyed jet black every 6 weeks Status: Single

Previous Bands: Option Thirty, The Urge, The Innocent, Slam Bam Boo, Lucky Pierre (with Kevin McMahon of Prick), and Exotic Birds (with Chris Vrenna) Pets: Cat "Fuckchop", dog "Daisy May" Religion: Brought up Protestant Favorite Color: Green Favorite Candy: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, creamy High School: Graduated from Mercer High in 1983 College: 1 year at Allegheny College Majors: Computer Engineering and Music Instruments: Keyboard / Piano, Guitar, Saxophone, and Trumpet Tattoos: None ("I don't like shit on me") Piercing: Ears and, for about a year and a half, septum Smoke: N/A (his father gave him his first joint) Drink: Yes Drugs: Coke... maybe more Sexual Preference: Who knows... does it really matter? Present Car: $100,000 silver Porsche (his "fun-car") Best Kiss: "From my dog" Trent’s first kiss was when he was ten, and he lost his virginity when he was fifteen.

Childhood:

Michael Trent Reznor's parents both grew up in the same small Pennsylvania town, Mercer, where he would spend his childhood. They got married when they were still teenagers because they had to.

His father was named Michael, so they always called their son Trent. Michael Sr. was a commercial artist; his wife was a homemaker. But they were too young for all of this.

Trent's parents divorced in the early 1970s. When Trent was five, after his sister Tera was born, his father had a talk with him. "I'm leaving." "When are you coming back?" "I'm not coming back."

Trent just didn't understand what that meant. All he could think about was their Saturday trips down to the drugstore, where they'd sit at the soda fountain. A cherry Coke for Trent, a chocolate Coke for Dad. Afterward, though his parents were nearby, he lived with his grandparents, who raised him, and Tera stayed with her mother.

As a child, Trent was in the Boy Scouts, skateboarded, built model planes, and played the piano (according to his grandfather). Trent's piano teacher (Rita Beglin) compared Trent's piano playing to Harry Connick Jr.

In high school, Trent was clean-cut, handsome and popular. He played the tenor sax and keyboards in his high school jazz and marching bands, and he appeared in a couple of musicals: Jesus Christ Superstar and The Music Man. He was Judas and the Music Man. He was also voted best in drama by classmates and performed in local rock bands.

Interview with Trent About Sex:

Q: Tell me five words you associate with sex. Trent: (very long pause) The first things that pop into my head would be: taste, sweat, lick, come, bite.

Q: In your songs, sex always seems very carnal and violent. And watching your videos, one might guess that you have a personal interest in masochism. Trent: I do, to a degree. I'm not a hardcore practitioner.

Q: So do you like pain during sex? Trent: Sometimes. Just the psychology behind it. I'm somewhat uncomfortable talking about this too much...

Q: Have you ever kissed a man? Trent: Yes, I've kissed a man.

Q: In the fullest sense? Trent: Almost. A veil of drunkenness. It was kind of a mutual thing. It was weird. It was half joking around. It was bristly. And later—in the old Nine Inch Nails—if we wanted to get rid of people, the guitarist and I would start making out. It was a trick. I mean, I really love women. I don't dislike men, and there are many times I've thought about it. You get into certain scenes, and I realize I should experiment down that path, and I just haven't done it yet. I've been in situations where there are men involved, but not directly interacting.

Q: So are there a lot of orgies around the Reznor household? Trent: No, no, it's not a common situation. When I'm in a relationship, that overpowers the desire to... these usually arise from casual situations, usually intoxicated situations. You wake up and think, "Okay, we just stepped through another portal..." (pause) I think about giving head, though. I don't know why I'm saying this, but I think about that. I'd be good at giving head, because I know what... (laughs)... I mean, no one knows how to jack yourself off better than yourself, you know?

Q: Which kiss will you remember forever? Trent: (extremely long pause) I don't know.

Q: Are no kisses coming to mind, or various kisses? Trent: A variety of ones that are pretty high up there. It's the combination of the right environment and the right set of lips.

Q: So it's a ranking problem rather than a memory problem? Trent: Yeah. (a lengthy pause) From my dog, Maise, licking me in the mouth, after I had passed out drinking. I was sleeping with my mouth open and Maise never does that normally. (he nearly always speaks of her in the present tense)

Q: Did you kiss back? Trent: A little kiss back. I prefer to kiss her on the side of the mouth rather than getting right in. It's kind of incestuous, you understand, because she's part of the family.

Q: What should a woman never do on a date with you? Trent: It's all good. (pause) But usually fart lighting is not one of my favorites.

[dronebiscuitbat]

Oil is Thicker Then Blood (Part 110)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57014356/chapters/162064732

Khan approached the spasming droneling, lying on the ground in a pool of her own oil and foaming drool.

“Tera… Tera come on… g-get up…” He didn't know what to do, he didn't even know what to say.

N's voice cracked as he screamed from the entrance to the bunker. “Go! Start the Ship!”

Uzi's barely held back a tidal wave of tendrils from the interior, using her solver to crush the doors shut and try to keep it in just a little bit longer

“N!” V looked at him with her voice shaky and nervous, “N we…”

His gaze fell on his daughter, his sweet little baby girl, now being cradled in Khan’s arms as her body contorted “Tera!”

The siesure ended, her visor went blank.

…

[FATAL ERROR]

Everyone's eyelights hollowed, N sprung tears in his eyes and nearly doubled over when the weight of it hits him.

“Nonono! Tera! Jellybean!”

Thud!

No one noticed the silver and gold blur touch down behind him, not Uzi, too busy holding back the doors to even think about looking behind her. Not N, who'd just watched his daughter die, Not Khan with his visor too full of tears…

And not V, who stared at it all in abject horror.

“Don't worry. You'll join her soon.” Said that voice, prep and corporate joining together to make the world's most punchable tone. There's the sound of a laser charging, and N felt the barrel at the back of his torso, aimed at his core.

Beep!

A robotic tone pings from N's system.

“Safe mode: Off, Safe mode: Off. Saaaaffeeee mooooooo-”

The laser fired, but N's moved too fast for it to connect with anything but dirt, J's eyelights hollowed a split moment before Ns sword came from her left and cut her legs off, sending her into the ground.

The thrusters on the ship began to let out a high pitched whine as it cycled up, heat steaming from the sides. V shook her head, grabbed Khan, who was still holding the shell of his granddaughter in horror, and threw him into the ship.

She looked back to see Lizzy catch him, giving the girl a sad smile, the worker shook her head. “V! Don't!”

Uzi struggled to contain the creature in the bunker, using both hands to hold the doors closed, tendrils erupted out of the ground around her, burrowing under instead of through.

“S-shit!”

Red solver symbols cut them down with peices of scrap metal. Uzi blinked, looking back for just a moment.

Doll stood there, on top of a burnt out car, using her solver to watch Uzi's back.

“Doll?”

The young solver girl was filthy, infected, a black growth snaking from under her eyepatch, her leg covered in a red membrane of flesh.

And yet her eyelight still burned red, and her face was determined. [Uzi. Don't get distracted]

Uzi quickly turned back to focus on the door.

“I t-thought you were dead…”

[May as well be.]

More red symbols danced around her, chopping through tentacles like butter.

“Why come back…?”

[Repent]

The ships outer lights turned on, the engines began to hum, more and more smoke billowed out from underneath the thrusters.

The fence snapped, everyone was decended upon by the living dead, groaning as they rushed towards the the ship, V growled as she pulled out a flamethrower and started the charcoaling, screaming as flame poured out of the end and connected with the neverending hoard.

N kicked J's cut off legs away, a sick, twisted smile on his face as a soft giggle crackled out of his core. She switched to a missile… which was quickly cut off, then her other hand a gun; which is pulled off by N's claws grabbing the end and pulling so hard it yanks the entire joint out of her shoulder.

Her tail came up behind his shoulder, as a last hail mary, but he just moved out of the way and let her stab herself in the chest with it.

“Agh!” She yelped, trying to pull it out, but N leaned down and pressed his hand to her canister, making sure she injects it all into herself.

Yellow acid began to leak out around her core, sparks filling the spaces between, she choked, the golden acid filling her mouth and burning away… everything.

N watched the light drain from her eyes, tears filling her eyelights as she twitched and jerked, smoke filling the air around them

“Fuck you. J…” He growled under his breath.

He's just in time for the door to the bunker to burst open, Uzi and Doll being blown back as… IT, flowed out like a pressurized liquid

N made a sonic boom as he caught his girlfriend, moving faster then he ever had to grab her just in time to escape a tendrils clutches… Doll wasn't so lucky, she yelped as she's caught midair by one, and subsequently crushed, being absorbed into it like it was nothing.

“Doll!”

The ship began to push off of the planets crust, V flew up just in time to watch as the hoard of dead was burnt from the thrusters, incinerating them as the ship arced upward.

“The Ship! It's gonna make it!” Uzi almost broke into a smile.

N didn't say anything as he chased after it, even as his visor warned him he was overheating, putting too much power in his anti-grav and wings. It didn't matter, he just needed to get there-

The Thing was right behind them, a mass of tentacles and cameras, and claws that pushed off the planet right along with it, reaching up to grab it, tentacles piling on tentacles to make up the distance.

N crashed into the open door, V right behind them, both dissasembly drones panting and steam wafting out of every joint.

They watched as the world eater gets closer and closer, tendris stretching and duplicating, anything, to stop them.

Khan continued to stare at the little droneling in his arms, limp. Sitting against the shuttle wall. Tears rolling down his face as he brushed his hand over her mess of black hair.

“I'm so sorry… I'm so…” Bishop wiggled from sitting between his legs, turning his face towards his grandfather in confusion.

He chirped, peeped and chattered at his sister, not knowing she'll never respond.

“I shouldn't have trusted it… I shouldn't have. It was too good to be true…” He sobbed, pressing his forehead against her tiny one, heavy heaves leaving his throat.

The entire ship shakes, and stops. Khan's head came up from his mourning in confusion. “W-wha?”

The End… had grabbed the ship. Stretching itself so thin that it The flesh was creaking and groaning with strain.

But they'd been caught.

Everyone's eyelights went hollow. Lizzy leaped into V's arms, Thad cradled some of the kids, huddled in a corner, N and Uzi looked at each other.

It's… over.

**

N looked out the window. “M-maybe I could do something! I'm gonna-”

“No! Please, I'll go! I’m the one who had to go and lead us right to it!”

They argued, about who deserved to live, who deserved to die. Khan looked down at his grandson and… granddaughter. And brushed a strand of black hair out of the young drones face before standing up, and grabbing something from the bag next to him.

Uzi noticed.

“Dad?”

Khan sighed, he pulled up the unfinished railgun onto his shoulder, pulls out some wires, and plugged it into himself.

The gun glows white.

Uzi's eyes hollowed further. “What… what are you doing?”

He smiled at her kindly, the gun beeped to declare it's ready to fire. “Finally making things right…I'm sorry dronelette.”

Uzi gasped as he rushed towards the suddenly open door, she tried to go after him, wings popping out of her back but N grabbed her and restrained her, tears already in his eyes. “Uzi No! You'll die too!”

“Dad! Dad No! No! Don't leave me! Not again!”

Khan ran out the airlock door and shut it tight behind him, beginning to fall back towards the black ball that was now Copper-9.

The devil paid a falling peice of debris no mind as he aimed for the part most stretched thin, feeling his own core race as it's plugged into the gun.

He breathed in- and out.

Click!

The gun glew brightly, he screamed as his core is used one last time, jolts of white electricity arced out of both him and the gun before a white beam exploded out the end with a huge bang.

The creature screamed as it was severed in two, releasing the ship and letting it continue on it's journey.

With nothing holding it up, the Solver began to fall back towards the planet, it tried to create wings, but it's over indulged, it was too big- too heavy, too greedy…

Khan smiled as he watched the sun rise from the vantage point of the upper atmosphere, the front of his chassis with a hole blown through, exposing his quickly dying core.

It whined as it powers down, the white fading.

“Huh… Uzi was right… it is… beautiful.” His voice trailed off as he burns up on re-entry, becoming Copper-9's last ever comet…

Before the corpse of the Solver hits the ground, and the crust finally gave way.

The drones on the shuttle watched as what little was left of Copper-9's unstable core detonates, the planet cracking off into pieces as it makes it's fiery exit.

The shuttle was just out of range from the shockwave, the ship groaning from the damage it took from being grabbed, but continued on valiantly.

Every drone paused, freezing to wait… to watch, to see if the planet would come back to life and chase them.

But it didn't

The ship erupted in celebration, drones cheering and crying with joy as they realized they won! It's over! Truly over!

Uzi and N were not part of that group. Neither was V, or Lizzy, or Thad.

V was the one to pick up Tera's body and bring it to the mother that didn't know yet, that was still staring out the door her father left out of as if expecting him to come through at any moment.

N felt like there was a five thousand pound weight in his throat as he turned to look, his breath catching on it as his grief took back control of his emotions.

“Uzi…” The forlorn daughter turned to look.

And she screamed.

It's primal, the sound that cracked through the celebration like a whip, Uzi taking Tera's body in her arms and cradling it, rocking it and herself back and forth.

Everything fell silent as the news rippled through the crowd, Lizzy holding Bishop and covering his visor and audials.

N put a hand on his girlfriends back, it's all he can force his body to do as he's paralyzed in his own grief.

V sat in front of her, using her wings as a privacy screen as she touched Uzi's head while she wailed, closing her eyes to try and hide the silent tears.

Lizzy sat next to her, looking far away.

And Thad placed another hand on Uzi, under N's, and let her cry.

Because it's all she could do.

…

Tera wandered alone in a dark void, walking on all fours… she wasn't sure how long exactly she'd been walking for, it had felt like awhile.

She didn't feel sick anymore.

She… didn't feel much of anything actually, like she was covered in cotton, fuzzy, slightly tingly, and while running in a completely open space was fun for awhile, she'd… like to go back home now.

But… there was nothing.

Until there suddenly was.

A young human girl with long black hair, dual pigtails, green eyes, and darkened skin was sitting in front of her.

She jumped back in surprise with a squeak.

“Oh. Sorry little guy, didn't mean to scare ya.” She had an Australian accent, looking at Tera with the kindest smile.

She hissed at the creature she'd never seen before.

And the girl laughed. “Yeah… you've probably never seen a human before, ey tyke?”

Tera glared.

“I'm…Tessa. Or… I used to be, anyway, not sure how much of ‘me’ is actually left…”

Tera cocked her head, and furrowed her brow. “Tera.”

Tessa smiled wide. “I know, you're a very brave little girl.”

Tera looked around, it was just them, nothing else but thousands of miles of blackness in every direction.

So, she climbed into the human girls lap.

And there… she felt warm, like she was home. And yet…

“Where…. Out?” She asked, even as the warmth from the human threatened to send her into the long sleep.

“You want out?”

“I want… Mama and Papa.” She replied. “Where they?” She fought against the sleepiness as she looked up at Tessa determinedly.

“They'll… be here before you know it.” Tessa smiled, but it wavered, like she was about to cry.

“I… no want to stay.” She shuffled off Tessa's lap.

“No no… you have to stay little one.”

“Why?”

“That's just how it works…”

“What works?”

Tessa went silent. “You're so young… you don't even know what's happening…”

The droneling cocked her head. “Happen-ing?”

Tessa looks at her, really looks at her. Then looks up, seemingly at something, but Tera can't see it…

“Tess-a?”

A yellow solver symbol appeared in front of Tera, along with a text box.

[Activate (failsafesolverADMINHOST.exe) Y/N]

“Do you want to see your parents…?” Tessa asked, and Tera nods.

The human sighed. “Press the Y.”

Tera blinked, looked from the text, to Tessa and back again, contemplating… and then she slammed her hand down on the Y.

And then there's a very, very bright yellow light.

[nickee-zy]

Assigning every forsaken character a pokemon team part one!!! (made with Pokemon Showdown)

NOOB!!!!

(yap session below cut, cw for brief mention of weed?)

My theme for Noob's team was mostly Normal/Fairy type cuties, along with Electric/Dark types because of Noob's love of partying and raving. For this 'series' there will be an explanation behind every one of my choices!! I think they'd name their pokemon, so "these are nicknames" for their pokemon!! "Tac Nayn" Liepard - Tac Nayn, Noob's cat. I originally thought of Delcatty, but decided Liepard better fit the type theme. I think Sixer and Noob encountered Liepard as a Purrloin as a stray, and decided to take them in. Obviously a stand in for their cat, Tac Nayn. "Chungus" Lopunny - I feel like Noob would really like Buneary, but iirc Buneary evolves with friendship. I feel like Noob would be BEST FRIENDS with their pokemon, so naturally Buneary would evolve. I don't think they'd invest in everstones, as they want their pokemon to choose whether or not to evolve. Named after an old meme, "Big Chungus" I feel somewhere soon after Noob got Purrloin, They discovered they actually really like pokemon! So, they started hunting for other members of their team. They don't really do competitive pokemon battling, they just like taking care of their pokemon. "Dank" Exploud - Same reasons as Lopunny. Whismurr is a silly cutie, and Noob lets their pokemon decide if they want to evolve. Plus, Exploud is a 'sound' pokemon, so I feel like it fits with their love of raving!! Named after "Dank Memes", and also a reference to Zaza. "Pikachu" Clefable - A cutie fairy type. Named Pikachu based on an old meme/vine of 'Guess that Pokemon!'. "Mickey" Dedenne - A cutie. Also, it's electric type! I just feel like they'd name Dedenne mickey.. "Gir" Morpeko - Another cutie, it's dark/electric!! Named after a character from Invader Zim that I often see in scene fashion, Gir! I don't know much about Invader Zim though

If you read through, here's some extras!!

POKEMON SHOWDOWN TEAM:

Liepard (F) @ Leftovers Ability: Limber Tera Type: Dark EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Timid Nature IVs: 0 Atk

Dark Pulse

Hyper Voice

Shadow Ball

Hone Claws

Lopunny (F) Ability: Cute Charm Tera Type: Normal EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Jolly Nature

Acrobatics

Play Rough

U-turn

Drain Punch

Exploud (M) @ Choice Specs Ability: Scrappy Tera Type: Normal EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD Modest Nature IVs: 0 Atk

Blizzard

Boomburst

Focus Blast

Fire Blast

Clefable (M) @ Leftovers Ability: Magic Guard Tera Type: Fairy EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD Modest Nature IVs: 0 Atk

Alluring Voice

Future Sight

Hyper Voice

Heal Bell

Dedenne (M) @ Electrium Z Ability: Pickup Tera Type: Electric EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Modest Nature IVs: 0 Atk

Discharge

Signal Beam

Volt Switch

Agility

Morpeko (M) @ Assault Vest Ability: Hunger Switch Tera Type: Electric EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Jolly Nature

Aura Wheel

Fire Fang

Outrage

Stomping Tantrum

-- DOODLES + HCS:

-Gir is really nice and joyful, but gets unintentionally hangry. Noob keeps him well fed, though!!

-Pikachu REAAALLLY loves to sing. Noob and Pikachu do karaoke together at parties!! His favorite song is Drop Pop Candy

-Mickey is really interested in wires and cables, and is oddly good at engineering.

-Dank has a RBS, but is a real sweetie

-Tac Nayn and Chungus are besties!! They have a yapper and listener dynamic. Sixer and Noob find them similar to their own friendship!!

and lastly.........

POLL!!!!!!

note to self: remove one vote from taph, voted to check the status earlier Pokedex Entries for Noob's Pokemon: LIEPARD: This stealthy Pokémon sneaks up behind prey without making any sound at all. It competes with Thievul for territory. / Don’t be fooled by its gorgeous fur and elegant figure. This is a moody and vicious Pokémon. (Untrue)

LOPUNNY: Lopunny is constantly monitoring its surroundings. If danger approaches, this Pokémon responds with superdestructive kicks. / Once hot seasons are over, Lopunny’s coat will be replaced with fur that holds a lot of insulating air in preparation for colder weather.

EXPLOUD: In the past, people would use the loud voices of these Pokémon as a means of communication between distant cities. / This Pokémon can do more than just shout. To communicate with others of its kind, it’ll emit all sorts of sounds from the holes in its body. CLEFABLE: Said to live in quiet, remote mountains, this type of fairy has a strong aversion to being seen. / It has an acute sense of hearing. It can easily hear a pin being dropped nearly 1,100 yards away.

DEDENNE: It’s small and its electricity-generating organ is not fully developed, so it uses its tail to absorb electricity from people’s homes and charge itself. / Dedenne emit electrical waves from the whiskers on their cheeks to communicate with each other. When low on electricity, they curl up and sleep.

MORPEKO: Morpeko eats seeds constantly to keep its hunger at bay. If it’s hungry for too long, it grows wild and brutish. / It has a small stomach. If it isn’t constantly eating the seeds it keeps in its pockets, it will get hungry immediately.

[en-bitch]

If Pilots, Handlers and Engineers had tumblr

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Handler called me a good girl today awawawawawawawawawawawawawawaw

#Yippee #PilotPuppy #Can't stop wagging my tail #I'm a good girl

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How should I reward my pilot for its successful mission today?

Hand-omme-ler

Well, the people have spoken @TheSubbiestHound

#Tumblr polls

Engineerist-Evangelion follow

...

#vent #the next time a handler messes up and thinks just because they send their pilot I won't do anything since they weren't the ones making the mistake #I'm sending her back leaking so much cum out of her ass maintenance will have to put wet floor signs from the hangar to the barracks #need to stress fuck someone #🦎 #👾 #either of my lovely anons up for a round

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So uhhhhh does anyone else kinda wanna get railed by their mech? I kinda wanna sneak into the hangar and bend over for the tera lance, I think I can get the auto pilot to fuck me like that

TheSubbiestHound

Hopital

#owwwie

[destiny-smasher]

Nemona x Penny teamup art for my fic 'Operation Comet Punch!'

These were drawn by @yxorul as an comm and they did such a great job with it, including helping me finalize designs for the gauntlet/'mon!

Utilizing technologies and special stones from Paldea (SV), Ferrum (Pokken), and Pasio (PokeMas), Penny has been aspiring to achieve her dream of being able to inhabit the form of a Pokemon when desired, even if as an avatar.

Her solution? Reverse engineering Porygon and reconfiguring things to create a brand new, digitized 'mon manifested in physical form via Terastal Crystals. She dubs it: Veeveeon. It can switch Type loadouts, changing its 'collar'/colors and movesets by manipulating Tera energy.

Nemona, meanwhile, has spent a few years studying martial arts under Gym Leader Bea from Galar and fitness guru Dendra of Paldea. While her stamina can still be an issue, she's become so strong she doesn't need her arm brace, and has even learned to use Tera energy on herself.

Harnessing Terastal energy from a Tera Orb, she can make her spiritual Tera Type -- Steel -- become physical, applying crystal-made, metallic armor pieces to her form and boosting her abilities in Pokemon-like ways. This skill comes with various caveats and she's still ironing it out.

[windyboi101]

Windyboi's Dumb Murder Drone Pokemon Team Project #1 Starting with our champion, Uzi Doorman!

She may not be the highest-level team I made, but she would still end up the champion. Countless hours training, studying strategies, and overall companionship with her "super badass evil" team! Team Background Corviknight - Cmon, it's a metal crow. Can't be more spot on with this one.

Spiritomb - When you've got the consciousness of potentially 2 different people living in your brain, you share a lot of similarities with the pokemon made up of 108 different souls.

Tinkaton - Leaning more into Uzi's engineering aspect, I figured the cute tiny thing making a death weapon shared a lot with Uzi and her railgun. Gliscor - Gliscor gives me huge Zombie Drone vibes, especially with the stinger tail. Plus, its kind of a vampire, which fits Murder Drones as a whole. Mega Mawile - What's better than one mouth? Two! You can tell people to 'bite me' with twice the power! Plus, Mawile is pretty tiny and 'cute' despite their rough exterior, just like Uzi. Absol - One of the ultimate 'edgy' pokemon, said to be the harbinger of doom and destruction, when in reality it is just a sweet fluffy thing!

Poison Tera - Both to match her color and her personality, half of Uzi's personality is being venomous to those she isn't comfortable around, even if beneath the surface she is just like any other drone and wants companionship. Let me know what you guys think, and feel free to offer suggestions for a team remake / other character's teams!

[pokemontherapy]

that sounds fun! I'm definitely going to try but augh,, staying focused... my no.1 opp

but my favorite element of horizons dynamics are Liko, Roy, Dot and Ult's dynamics with each other and everyone else

they're so fun to analyze both individually, like looking into how they react to situations and why and all that.. and as friendships or as a group

we haven't seen Ult and Dot's dynamic yet but with all the dynamics we have seen they're all really unique and bring out different aspects of each character like how Ult brings out Roy's more irate side (unfortunately for Ult, I feel sorry for him sbdjdb), Roy gets Dot to make the most of being outside (ice skating scene), Liko and Roy constantly learn things from each other and encourage each other to be the best they can be, Dot and Liko being close friends while Liko is a huge Nidothing fan is really fun and Liko trying to get Ult to open up and join the group properly is so nice too

I also enjoy their dynamics with their pokemon though, Dot having a whole family dynamic with hers and Ult having Sableye being the only one he's fully open with are both such good dynamics, I don't think we've seen anything quite like that before in Pokemon? at least not recently

and the whole RVT + Amethio's trio both have SUCH nice found family dynamics which makes me so insane do not get me STARTED augh

genuinely all the dynamics in horizons are so so great I love them so much, I could still say so much more but this is getting rather long lol

so the final thing about horizons dynamics I want to yap about quickly is how in the Ash Series borrowing pokemon was treated like a big thing that no one really wanted to do even within a group for ten minutes. but in horizons amongst the RVT, it's just something they do. Murdock lets Rockruff go with Friede and Liko in episode 3 and in another episode leaves it with Mollie for the day, Friede leaves Charizard with Orla a lot to help with the engine, Liko asks Dot and Ann to look after Pagogo sometimes in the tera arc and in the art festival episode Roy was fine with Dot borrowing Wattrel to help with her project, and of course, Roy is now looking after Cap for Friede while he's dead missing. I really think it shows how comfortable all the crew (people and pokemon alike) are with each other and I love that so much and will never shut up about it ever <3

horizons my beloved

I am so sorry for not responding in so long TvT

Staying focused in anything fandom related is a whole chore and a half, especially when it comes to making creative content </3 You can do it though Nonnie!! I have a fanfic / AU I’m currently working on, and while it’s hard, it’s rewarding :D and if you don’t find it so, you could always post concepts and see what people create from those! The offer to discuss ideas still stands as well :D

The main kiddos’ dynamic in Horizons was one of the highlights for me, and Ult has been such a hilarious addition. I actually think Roy and Dot’s friendship is super underrated too; ‘‘twas just watching the Glaseado Mountain arc and they have fun moments, like the ice-skating (as you said) or when they were facing off against Coral and Sidian. Liko and Roy are fun too!! Their dynamic in Mega Voltage is really sweet, and I like how they battle sort of opposite. Liko and Dot’s friendship is so sweet, and I like how Meowscarada and Quaxwell reflect that bond, especially after Quaxwell evolved. And Ult… he brings out the worst (or at least confusion) in everyone /pos

RVT’s found family is really an interesting foil to Amethio and the Explorers’ frigid relationships with each other, and I always really appreciated that. And on the borrowing Pokemon thing; I hadn’t noticed it, but I’m glad you brought it up!! It really feels like that saying of “it takes a village to raise a child”; sure, each Pokemon has their respective trainer, but they wouldn’t be who they are without the influence of the entire RVT (e.g. Liko’s Hatenna learning Heal Pulse). It also serves to further how much trust there is among the RVTs <3

[lifewouldbebetteronmars]

The Full Beetee & Joule Backstory

‼️WARNING: Contains spoilers for SOTR & Feed Me Promises‼️

Beetee won the 34th Games at 15, the first Victor in six years, following Rosalind's victory in the 29th Games. He grew up an only child in an apartment in Three that was in the middle of six different electronics factories, his father (Isaac Latier; named for Sir Isaac Newton) was a foreman for one of those factories, while his mother (Leedee Crumpler; named for LED and Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler) consulted on electricity in all six factories. However, following his victory, he was disowned by his parents because they couldn't accept how he won his Games, they couldn't accept his "violent nature" because that wasn't the son they had raised. His parents never spoke to him for the rest of their lives and its presumed that they died at some point before or after the Second Rebellion. He lived alone in Victors' Village with Ada and Rosalind taking him in as their own, though he was very stubborn and determined to survive without the help of adults. He was practically a hermit before he met Joule, staying in his workshop and making inventions, day in and day out.

Joule Blackwell was a year younger than Beetee and lived in the "medical sect" of District 3, where her father operated an apothecary close to the medical factory, outside of the main town in D3. She grew up working in the biomedical device factory and helping out in the apothecary, due to her strong interest in medicine. If she'd been allowed to, Joule would've loved to go on to medical school and become a doctor. She was raised by a single father, Vikram Blackwell (named for Vikram Sarabhai, an Indian astrophysicist), following the death of her mother (Azure Blackwell; named for Azure Quantum Elements, a platform aimed at accelerating scientific discovery) in childbirth. She grew up with an older sister, Tera (named for “tera” the prefix that indicates a value of one trillion), who is three years older and highly overprotective of Joule. Joule suffered from clinical depression throughout her life, treating it with St. John’s Wort in her youth and then morphling in the later years of her life.

When Joule is 17, she comes up with the idea for some sort of medical device, but is unsure about how to go about it. She was more of the biology/chemistry science type, not the engineering type. One of her friends in the factory suggested that she write to Beetee Latier (18), D3's youngest victor, who was known to help others in Three with inventions and gain patents for those who couldn't.

Though he was known to be very picky about who he chose to help, Joule wrote to him anyway, not expecting any type of response. But she gets one and for the next few months, she and Beetee exchange letters, eventually growing close enough that he invites her to Victors Village.

Over the next year, they become a lot closer and eventually start a relationship. It's not the most romantic of relationships, more like a friendship with a high level of respect for one another and they also happen to have sex. They aren't in love with each other, not really. They're almost using each other in their own ways, Joule to further her device and Beetee to pretend like he's a normal teenage boy without a kill count.

There's a fondness in their relationship and like I mentioned above, a high level of respect between the two of them. They're both ambitious and working on important things in their own lives, Beetee with the Rebellion and Joule with her devices and experiments.

Joule likes Beetee, she admires him greatly for his brain and all of his quirks, though she doesn’t fully understand what he went through in the Games. But she enjoys his company. Beetee thinks Joule is probably the prettiest girl he’d ever met and bonus, she doesn’t treat him like a god or like he’s broken, she treats him like he’s some normal guy. And Beetee appreciates that, especially since after his Games, he didn’t have many friends in Three. They aren’t in love, but they’re happy with their relationship the way it is.

And it works for a while, until it doesn't.

They break up because Joule can't handle the idea that the Capitol will never leave them alone, their lives (her life) will belong to them and she wants a more normal life than Beetee can give her. And she realizes that as long as Beetee is in her life, so is The Capitol.

However, in July of 37 ADD, Joule finds out she's pregnant, right before her last Reaping. She doesn't tell Beetee until he returns from the Capitol following the Games. They get married in an effort to preserve both of their reputations and provide their child with a stable home. Joule’s reputation in Three would’ve been destroyed for getting pregnant by a Victor (Three is very protective of their Victors and puts them on this pedestal; therefore they wouldn’t believe Joule and claim she was lying for whatever reason) & the Capitol (Snow) wouldn’t react kindly to one of their Victors getting someone pregnant out of wedlock, which is what contributes to their decision to get married. Not out of love but out of duty, in a way. Joule is newly 18 and Beetee is still 18 when they get married, being 18 & 19, respectively, when Ampert is born.

Ampert was born the following March and he is the center of their world, they may not be in love, but they love him more than anything in the world.

Their marriage isn't the warmest, it's wrought with resentment and insecurity, there's love but it isn't always enough. They don’t always see eye to eye, but the one thing they always agree on is Ampert. He turns their world, their hearts beat for Ampert. He is their whole life, everything they do is for him.

Joule works for an apothecary in town, abandoning her factory and her dreams of helpful devices; as well as her father’s apothecary. She resents Beetee a bit, because she gave her dreams to marry him & raise Ampert, while he continues to invent and go off to the Capitol whenever Snow calls upon him, as well as his work with the Rebellion. Joule is heavily insecure in their marriage, convinced Beetee loves his gadgets and his patents more than her. Or that he’ll never love her the way she loves him.

Joule never really understands Beetee’s experience in the 34th Games (not that he would talk about it with her, because she’s asked and he refuses) and how it changed him or why he continues to work on rebelling against the Capitol. She has a very black-and-white view on it all, thinking it’s all a lot simpler than it truly was. They aren’t the most compatible of matches.

Joule’s relationship with her sister, Tera, was rocky after she married Beetee, as she didn’t agree with her sister marrying him. Tera thought Beetee would only end up hurting Joule and she just wanted to protect her, but Joule didn’t agree with her. They don’t talk for a while, until the death of their father (Vikram) in 48 ADD, where they begin to grow close again.

It takes years before their marriage is a lot happier, with them finally in a place where they love each other and focus all of their attention onto Ampert. Their relationship is at its strongest during & after the 49th Games, when Beetee brings home his first victor. Joule likes Wiress, the very smart, very pretty, and oh-so-weird young girl that has now become her husband's apprentice. They have an almost sisterly relationship, with Joule helping to fill the void Wiress had from having had four brothers and no sisters or close girlfriends growing up. Joule was the younger sister in her home and never got to experience being the older sister until Wiress.

She doesn’t hate Wiress, not even slightly. But she notices how close Wiress and Beetee become, how Wiress seems to understand Beetee better than she does. They have that shared experience of the Hunger Games, and the Victors Village was like a club she wasn’t allowed to join (as the only one who didn’t go to the Games in the Village). But Beetee seemed happier with Wiress around, as he finally had someone who understood the Games and his inventions. So Joule couldn’t really complain and for once, she doesn’t feel so jealous.

For once, Beetee and Joule are on the same page about themselves and their relationship. So they decide to have another baby, give Ampert the sibling he wanted so much. So they start trying and succeed in March 50 ADD, however, their joy is shortlived because in May, Beetee tells Joule about his actions months earlier and how he has found out that Ampert will be Reaped in the 50th Games.

Joule is beyond angry with him but sets it aside in order to spend their son's last few months with him not knowing anything different other than his parents loving him and each other.

However, they do fight a lot in the months leading up to the Reaping, as Joule becomes fed up with other things taking priority over herself and her children in their marriage. She begs Beetee to find another solution, to appeal to Snow, to the Capitol, expose other members of the rebellion if he has to; just save their son. No matter the cost, just save Ampert. Joule wouldn’t have cared if Beetee traded places with him, as long as it meant Ampert lived.

Joule refuses to talk to Beetee in the last week of Ampert’s life, talking to everybody but him, giving him the complete silent treatment.

They never recover from Beetee's actions in January of 50 ADD, Joule blames him for killing their son. This is the beginning of the end for them, leading us to the present, the time after Ampert dies & Wiress is tortured.

The distance between them just gets worse and worse until it's a black hole that sucks the life out of them and their family, in what should've been a happy time for all of them. But instead they were burying their son's bones and trying to heal from the trauma, not successfully, but they were trying. Not in their relationship, but in general

Which is how we get to Chapter 4, and everything else, you guys can fill in the blanks and make assumptions for yourself!!!

And to be fair, 16% of couples don't survive losing a child. Loss can either bring you closer together or tear you apart. Joule & Beetee just happened to be the latter

[ask-elliot-doorman-fam]

So, Tera, tell me about yourself.

I’m so professional. :D

"Uh, is this like a job interview?"

"Um, I can fly really fast, lift heavy stuff, and I know a bit about engineering weapons?"

"Is that what you wanted?"

[anamoon63]

Sabrina goes back to reading, Tera takes the opportunity to express to her son how sorry she is about his divorce. Tera: Your grandma called me, she said she saw you in court this morning. Tyron: Uh, yeah, Grams was there when Candice and I left Town Hall. Tera: She told me Candy didn’t look good, how are you holding up sweetie? Tyron: Well, I’m still dealing with it, but… the concert and the response from the crowd made me feel a lot better.

Tera: I’m happy for you honey, I hope the move to Starlight Shores helps you put all this behind you. You know you can call me or your dad anytime you need us. Tyron: Thanks, Mom. Just then the fire engine pulls up the street. Sure enough it’s Jasper, coming to pick up Madeline. Tyron: (Startled) Well, I’d better get going. I don’t want to run into a certain someone.

[valmnera]

I didn't post this here yet, but here's a screenshot I took of Richter during the Tera cutscene. God I love the sprite work in this shot.

Captured using a PS5, so it's fully HD. If you haven't played Rondo of Blood yet, go play it! It's considered one of the best, if not the best Pc Engine CD game ever made. Highly recommended for fans of retro games/anime.

And yes, this is what Richter's victory pose in Smash Bros. is based off of.

[dronebiscuitbat]

Oil is Thicker Then Blood (Part 89)

Another Day, another adventure out to find another pod to salvage.

This one was much further away, instead of a one day journey, this would at least be a three, traveling under the cover of night and resting during the day. It was a flipped schedule for most drones, but even Thad and Lizzy had gotten used to it at this point- so the rest of the engineers could too.

Tera was swaddled up tight against her mother's chest so that she wouldn't get cold, normally she would be left in the bunker during an excursion like this, but everyone she could've been left with had joined them. V was flying ahead, scouting for any infected and clearing the way for the forklift. N was next to her, one hand a rifle and the other wrapped tightly in her own like her own personal bodyguard.

Lizzy and Thad both were on lookout, keeping their eyes peeled for any infected V might have missed, and Khan was in front, on top of the forklift directing people better than she ever would.

He'd been decently hands off so far, letting her plan and direct while he looked over her blueprints for any errors and delt with stuff internally, but now, with such long journeys and Uzi inching closer to her ‘supposed’ due date. He didn't want his daughter being overwhelmed.

Honestly? Uzi was relieved, as much as she appreciated the amount of trust her dad was putting in her now. She wasn't sure if she was ready to be leading a squad of drones by herself. She didn't want to be held responsible if something went horribly wrong…

“It's kinda weird to be traveling in a big caravan like this.” N started a conversation, probably because the tense silence was starting to put him on edge. “And on foot, it's like one of those ‘finding the promised land’ movies.”

Uzi smiled, she could always count on N to keep the moment lighthearted.

“We kinda are… what kind of planet would you want- if you could choose?” Uzi asks, squeezing his hand gently for some silent reassurance.

“Something not snowy. The temperature is nice for cooling off but I am so sick of snow…” He replied, and Uzi couldn't help but agree. “No more snow. Maybe a desert?”

“And die as soon as we land? Our systems couldn't handle that.” N laughed. “Maybe…a big ocean?”

“We're metal. And not entirely waterproof. You just enjoyed Subnautica too much.” Uzi teased and N chuckled at himself, “Hey that game is good! You're the one who showed it to me.”

Uzi thought again for a moment. “A big forest… with lots of greenery. Maybe a jungle?” She suggested. “I've never actually seen living plantlife, man that's kinda sad.” She added after a moment.

“Oh! Y-yeah I guess you haven't… “ He realized, almost kicking himself.

Whenever he thought of Uzi, he always thought that she was always there with him, even on Earth. Which wasn't actually the case of course, Uzi definitely wasn't at the manor… but he always felt she was. Maybe it was because some of his memories were of her as a crow and those were bleeding into his actual memories.

But no, she'd never been off Copper-9, and she'd only seen organic life through pictures or a screen. She'd never had the feeling of grass tickling her casing, or the petals of flowers between her fingers.

Just cold steel and ice.

“Then yeah, I hope there's lots of plants, and it's so green you'll get sick of it.” He laughs, kissing her on the forehead as he pulls her in gently. And she laughs in such a content way… it's like feeling the sun on his silicone again.

“Halt!” He hears Khan shout, and the moment is broken. He can feel the bitter wind once more, hear the howling of it overhead, and the deep shuddering groans of urban decay. The ground is a muddy slurry from all the movement … and it's cold; leeching away any heat from his feet into the ground.

With a small squeeze onto his girlfriends hand, he flies up to see what was the matter, and it becomes immediately obvious the second he can see over the forklift.

A gigantic black tendril is blocking the road, laying inert- though still breathing, V was pushing people back to avoid the snaking webbing of flesh already beginning to grow around it.

N lands next to Khan on top of the forklift, and he looks… distressed.

“I know you've shown me pictures and holograms. But this is… something else.” Khan is trembling slightly, joints clicking as they tapped together.

“This one looks new… it's not moving yet. V and I can probably burn it away so we can get past it.” He puts a hand on Khans shoulder as a way to steady the man. And he takes a deep breath.

“I'll back up the caravan. Give you some room.” Khan agreed, before sticking his hand out to motion people to back up.

“You know, it took me awhile… but I know why Uzi chose you…” Khan started, looking nervous, N lifted his brow.

“You're… stable. You're reliable. You love with every ounce of yourself. And I… she didn't have that before, unfortunately.” He stopped himself from going into self-pity, shaking off that feeling to continue;

“You have a good head on your shoulders son. I'm sorry it took so long for me to get it. Better now then never I suppose.” He laughed softly and the caravan stopped moving backwards. N smiled, his wings coming out with a flourish.

“Thank you. Mr- Ah, Khan. Thank you Khan.”

Khan smiled brightly at that.

“Now go kick some tentacle ass! Don't want you back down here until it's a burning stump!”

N laughed. “Sir yes Sir!” as he flew off, his hands being replaced with duel flamethrowers. V hovers up next to him, her arms crossed.

“What's the plan boss?” She asks, a brow raised.

“Burn it enough so that the caravan can get through… might have to burn the ground too. Can't risk people coming into contact with it.” He replied, before blinking. “D-Did you just call me boss?”

V turned away for a moment, probably to hide her fluster. Before coming up right to his visor and flicking it lightly. “Don't read too much into it, idiot.”

“Okay, Okay!” He laughed, before they both made their way down with their respective flamethrowers, aiming it down at the gross fleshy tendril.

At the same time, they unleashed a plume of hot flame. The tentacle reacted violently, thrashing wildly as a loud screech ripped through the air from… somewhere. The ground itself rumbled, as if it were alive - and writhing in pain.

After a moment, the rumbling stopped and the screech faded back into howling wind, as an extra measure, both dissasembly drones burned the ground the tentacle was sitting on until it was charred.

“Think that's good?” N asked his pseudo-sister. And she nodded, testing it herself by walking across it. “Seems good, tell Khan he can start moving again.”

He flew up and gave a thumbs up. After a moment, the group began to move forward again. He spotted Lizzy climbing onto the roof of a car to see better.

Thad doing the same closer to the back.

“You think this is actually going to work?” V asks suddenly. A distant look on her face as she watches over the group walking underneath them.

“What? Building a ship?” He cocks his head and she nods. “It's a long shot, isn't it?” He agrees, his own concern shining through for a moment. “But I think if anyone can do it it's Uzi, you know?”

“And can you imagine? A whole new life. No more murder… or corpse spires, or… weird masses of tentacles.”

V smiles, but it looks slightly pained.

“You still sound like you did at the manor. We talked about running away together if you remember.”

He was hit with it, suddenly.

She was leaning against him, in a rare moment of peace. His arms wrapped around her as she nuzzled into his shoulder. He kissed her head and she giggled; light and airy, content to be in the moment.

“If we could go anywhere, where would you want to go?” He asked, a soft blush on his face, white, like his eyelights.

“We can't… we're not human.”

“Humor me?”

She sighed, “Um… out in the country, I think. Away from people.” She replied, her glasses were perched on her face, she was so cute…

“Maybe we can one day. You and Me.” He suggested, smiling fondly down.

“Are you suggesting we run away N?” She smirked, he loved that little smirk, the little fire that was inside her burning bright for just a moment…

“Yeah… kinda, can you imagine? A whole new life… no more masters. No more cleaning wine stains off the upholstery…”

“Or doing Mrs. Elliots gross hair…” V adds, making him laugh. “Oh god! I know! Why is it so greasy?!”

He blinks, smiling.

“I'm surprised you even remember that.”

And V laughs. “Of course I do! You said Mrs. Elliot’s head was greasy!” It's a different kind of laugh now, it doesn't make him feel the same way, but it's still pleasant.

“I was agreeing with you! You said it first!” He defended, laughing along with her.

Those times were so strange to think about now… like he lived two totally different lived. His feelings for V were familial now, weirdly strengthened but anything romantic being erased to time.

“That's weird to think about now.” He admits. “I feel like you're… my sister almost.”

She snorts. “Oh same. Every time I think about the manor I cringe a little… I don't regret it obviously… but it's just weird.”

“… I remember you being so nervous the first time we kissed…” He said slowly. And she exploded in yellow blush.

“Agh! I was actually trembling. For some reason I thought kissing was biting someone's mouth.”

N genuinely cackled at that.

“Are you serious?! That… that explains so much actually. You bit my lip.”

If anything her blush grew even worse.

“Aaaand I wish you didn't remember that…”

His eyes trailed down to Lizzy, and then back up to V. A teasing smile playing on his face.

“I'm sure your practice with Liz was better.” Came tumbling out of his mouth, and his ex-girlfriend turned ‘sister’ froze up, tail kinking up as they floated there.

“You… little shit.” She said, surprised and exasperated that he said that. “You so did not just say that!”

And suddenly she was chasing him, both ripping through the air as he laughed, even though she was clearly embarrassed, she was smiling.

He decided he liked this dynamic much better.

Next ->

[vro0m]

Been waiting for days for someone to say something sensible about the Petronas event like... if Lewis said that he was upset with the race strategy he got at said event then he would have said as much to the team in the post-race debrief and Merc would have put their hands up and said "Yeah you were right, we weren't. Sorry." (Jallison said as much in the debrief vid this week)

Like there's no massive conspiracy!!!!! Lewis is a grown man and doesn't need us getting white-hot angry on his behalf over every single mistake the team makes. These people are all human and make dumb decisions at work sometimes.

Lewis has spent all of 2023 berating his own team every chance he got because they didn't listen to him when it came to the car like he's some kind of head engineer and you think they would try to silence him for one failed startegy? Puh-lease.

And about the strategy itself I'm just a broken record but

We really need to take a step back when after the facts and with the benefit of hindsight we think ourselves more knowledgeable than race strategists with years of experience and several tera-octets of data under their eyes that we couldn't even make sense of if we tried

[ecargmura]

Pokemon Horizons Episode 45 Review - The End Of The Second Chapter

What a great way to end the second chapter! The raid battle against Rayquaza was intense but great! Liko, Roy and Dot show off their improved battling tactics alongside Friede and Amethio, who shows up unexpectedly after his colleagues retreated. Just seeing the fruits of their hard work from Amethio mastering Terastal to Liko and Roy battling so competently without the need of Friede’s handholding to Liko’s Sprigatito evolving into Floragato, a rare occurrence for Grass-type starters.

The battle between the Trainers and Rayquaza was really good. I loved how Friede chose to split them up as he took Roy and Fuecoco with him and left Cap with Liko and Dot so that he could command him to use Volt Tackle to launch up Quaxly and Fuecoco in the air. The way Roy even landed a hit on Rayquaza with Disarming Voice was so cool to see! When Amethio comes into the fray, he shows off his Tera Ghost Ceruledge and the double battle with him and Tera Dark Charizard was so cool! I can see why the kids want to learn Terastal now.

I was very surprised that the writers would allow Sprigatito to evolve into Floragato. Usually, the anime writers have a severe allergy towards making Grass-type starters evolve. Since Black and White, Ash’s Snivy never evolved; Clemont’s Chespin never evolved; Ash’s Rowlett ate an Everstone and couldn’t evolve; Goh’s Grookey didn’t evolve. I was expecting the same thing to happen to Liko’s Sprigatito, but the writers actually went beyond my low expectations. I have hopes that the same will happen for Roy and Dot and that all three kids will get their Starters to be fully evolved later on. Fuecoco also learns Flame Charge. It’s nice to see Fuecoco learning all sorts of moves. I do wonder when he’ll evolve. Maybe in ten episodes?

I’m glad that the rest of the Rising Volt Tacklers are okay after the major damage the airship took. I do worry about Carkoal’s safety as it’s not present with the other evacuated airship Pokemon. Hopefully, it’s just safe in the engine room as it does look quite heavy to be evacuated safely (yet they were able to move a Nosepass with ease). Because it will take a while for the airship to repair, their adventures come to a halt here. Since the kids will attend school, I do wonder what the adults will do. Will they take up jobs nearby and meet up with the kids occasionally?

The Explorers section was quite interesting. Gibeon tells them to lay low and wait for the Rising Volt Tacklers to get the Six Heroes and then take them from them. That sounds like a solid plan for now. He also wants them to monitor Terapagos and Liko. Uh-oh. The fact that Gibeon knows Lucius, which means that he is most likely aware that she is his descendant. A glimpse of Gibeon is seen towards the end. He has white and black hair, but in a different pattern from Amethio. I’m assuming they’re related, but as ancestor and descendant as Gibeon isn’t supposed to be alive in this era. I’m convinced he’s an AI. He also has a Shiny 10% Zygarde, meaning that Legends Z-A lore will be implemented in the near future, or it’s just an easter egg for the upcoming game. I’m also wondering why Spinel smirked at the end before being dismissed from the meeting. He seems to have more ambitious goals, so I’m curious what his deal is—and it’s not because he’s my favorite or anything, okay?

Overall, the Terapagos’s Shine chapter was a good arc. It was nice seeing progression for Liko and Roy as they grow from novices to more experienced trainers. I can’t wait to see how they will grow with Dot once they study about Terastal at Orange Academy. In fact, I can’t wait to see their school adventures! What are your thoughts on the second chapter now that it ended? Are you anticipating the third chapter?