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Pokemon Crossbreeds: Diamond-Back

Diamond-Back is the name for members of the Squirtle line whose fathers are Amaura or Aurorus. They get their name from the diamond-like gemstones on their shells.

Squirtle

Diamondback Squirtle gain the sails of Aurorus above their eyes. The breed is recent, and was first bred in captivity. After the mass release of Amaura and Aurorus in the wild, the breed has become more common, but is still incredibly rare. These squirtle can be found in arctic oceans.

Wartortle

My personal favorite of this breed. Diamondback Wartortle gain the traits of Aurora upon evolving. While slower in water due to its body temperature, these wartortle are praised for their beautiful sails. They're very popular for contests.

Blastoise

These Blastoise are bigger than the standard breed and the water they shoot out of their water jets is very cold. Despite their stature, this breed takes the tempermant of Aurorus, and is known to be quite calm.

//My designs can be used by anyone if you credit me for the original design! Also, I'll do charizard at some point, I already have the outlines finished.

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Why does my dwebble dig holes in rocks that are too small for her to move into? Sometimes I'll see her just go to town on one way smaller than she is and keep digging holes until it breaks into pebbles. She has plenty of larger rocks to move into if she needs to, and she seems happy with her current one. Is she playing or is she trying to do something?

she's having fun! digging is a pretty common behavior in dwebble, and sometimes pokemon just like breaking things. it's like the dwebble version of a growlithe tearing up a toy.

when dwebble want to use a rock as a home, they don't dig at it. instead, they secrete an acidic liquid from specialized glands in their mouths and drip that into their rock of choice. this helps prevent situations where they accidentally shatter the rock and also helps smooth out the inside so it's more comfortable. if she's digging at a rock, it's because she's having a good time and displaying foraging behaviors! you can even try getting rocks with small pockets in them and hiding little treats in them to encourage her exploration.

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Happy pride month everyone!

I'm a proud member of the Rainbow RAG, the ranger advocacy group for LGBTQIAP+ issues. All rags have to be self-funded, and Rainbow Rag survives with member dues. But extra money from donations and fundraisers helps us do things like: -Run/host/organize pride events -Fund peer support groups -Advocate for legal issues -Have a fund to support individuals (like covering name change fees and similar costs for people who would struggle to afford them)

So I hope I don't sound like an advertisement, but check out the pride buttons and other things Rainbow Rag is sending or donate if you can!

//OOC: I just wanted to make fun pride-buttons and this is my in-universe excuse. There is no actual sale/purchase. All art made by me, I will explicitly note in the rare exceptions where I used another source.

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► reblog to let your mutuals know that... YOUR RP BLOG IS NOT TIME-SENSITIVE!

...That there is NO time limit or expiration date on asks, memes or threads.

...That your partners NEVER need to feel they have to apologise for not responding to a thread or ask yet.

...That you welcome replies to "OLD" threads and memes, even if they've been sitting quietly untouched for weeks or months.

...That there is NEVER any pressure or obligation for your partners to reply until they feel the drive and enthusiasm to do so.

...That YOU will happily respond to things at YOUR OWN leisure, and you would like your partners to feel comfortable doing the same.

Not everybody enjoys running their blog this way and that's a-okay. But removing the idea that RP interactions are something that can "expire" or that the asks in your inbox have an unspoken "due-date", takes the pressure off of both your partners and yourself and can help bust feelings of stress/anxiety from the hobby. Reblog to let your partners know that you're just jazzed to receive new writing from them, whenever it comes.

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Kiddo has been doing bug-type coloring books. He showed me some art of his and asked if there were any purple spinarak (his favorite color), I said kind of! Shiny spinarak could be blue, though some looked more purple-y in areas of Johto.

It took a few weeks of trips to the forest (which was a lot of good practice!) to find this beauty. It has been nicknamed "Cotton candy" for all the pink and blue.

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kind of a random q, but how did scientists figure out that friendship could cause/was causing evolutions?

it's been known for a very long time- we have a passage from the roman author pliny the elder describing the close bond formed between riolu and the shepherds that sometimes tamed them, where he writes that the best way to guarantee a riolu's evolution is to take it from its mother and raise it yourself.

as for how we figured out the actual process behind it, a landmark study in the 1980s tested hormone levels in a variety of pokemon in the months leading up to evolution and found that the presence of a high enough level of the bonding hormone oxytocin is what eventually triggers a "friendship" evolution. there have since been a lot of really neat studies on the effects of bonding hormones even in pokemon that don't evolve because of them, and i highly recommend checking some of them out! they're a great way to learn about how to bond with your own pokemon.

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Sedge is A Big Helper when it comes to her little brother's gardening.

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So

So people just

Get GIVEN Pokémon?

Like they're objects?

That doesn't sound very nice, nor pleasant for them.

Pokémon are living things, not toys or ornaments! You give gifts, not Pokémon!

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A history of Ranger Capture Stylers (from the view of the various models)

Howdy! This is a post I have been meaning to make for a while, this is essentially a list of every (publicly known) Capture Styler, not all of these will have photos but I have done by best none the less. Now first as many people know Hastings was originally going to call the device we know as a Styler "The Capture Loopy-Looper" and this is where some weird naming nonsense comes into play. So the first ever "Styler" was the Proto-Styler.

Proto-Styler.

Or as it is labeled the S.T.Y.L.E.R. (Spin-Tuned Yoked Link for Emotional Regulation), this was the first ever styler, its a bulky machine about the old style Poke-Center healers they used in Kalos, or for a less specific example about the size of two Metagross staked ontop one another. This big ol' boy had a small screen and a keyboard used to direct the Capture Disc. The capture disk for this original was about a foot across and weighed about 10 lbs. The machine itself required a constant power supply to run and was basically stationary so it wasn't very useful. Not to mention you had to do the calculations for how far the disc had to move yourself before typing in those numbers in on the keypad. It gets its mention here for being the first device to do basically what the modern Styler does today. Now onto the weird naming, so the Ranger Union and Hastings himself refer to this device as either a "Proto-styler" "The Prototype Styler" or "The Looper" however Hastings' documentation and patents call it the acronym I listed at the start of this section. From what I was able to find by looking through old interviews with Hastings it looks like the "The Capture Loopy-Looper" name was played around with because he feared the S.T.Y.L.E.R. acronym would be too weird for most people to understand and it wasn't until he noticed that his assistants were calling the new portable model they were working on a "Styler" to avoid saying the long official name did he decide to change it to the "Capture Styler" we know today.

Styler MK. 1

This is the first version of the Capture Styler and the first one I ever used, when I joined the rangers these guys were in their prime so its what I am most comfortable with even if that is kind of crazy. So the MK. 1 has a hand held section that's similar in design to the the fine styler but has an antenna like the MK 2 with the MK 1's antenna being about as long as the device itself. You hold it like you would hold a TV remote and make gestures to guide the Capture disk, the disk itself is released from a launcher on the bottom end of the handheld. The handheld is connected by a wire to a large battery pack. The larger ones could be worn as backpacks with the smaller ones hanging from your hip. These bad boys had enough power to keep the Styler charged for a whole three capture (six with the backpack sized pack). And if the disk was hit by a pokemon that would essentially knock you down a capture. It was not the best but it did its job, though I will never be as fit as I was back then lugging a 40 lbs. Battery pack to base so I could swap it out with a fresh one and continue work after capturing a beedrill. The one upside of the MK. 1 is the capture effect tended to be much stronger than with the modern stylers, as such if a capture with a MK. 1 would take 3 loops it might take a modern Styler 7 or 8 loops. But for most people that doesn't make up for the downsides, it cant use Pokemon Assist, it cannot be charged using pokemon and power cable on the handheld is damaged or severed its down for the count. The disks themselves were rather large not as big as those for "The Looper" but they still weighed a whole 3 lbs. and really hurt if you didn't seat them properly into the launcher, I am getting phantom toe pain just thinking about it.

Styler MK. 2 The second version of the Styler was a massive upgrade, it first introduced an internal battery, the disk was more durable so instead of losing a third of your charge from any contact the disk itself loses charge, pokemon can now recharge the styler.

The MK. 2 is one of those stylers most people think of when the imagine a pokemon ranger the hand-held device with the top and the pointing. It is the first Styler to be able to use Pokemon Assists. Styler MK. 3

Now we get to the not-so-fun part of this history, now if you look at the MK. 2 you will notice they were manufactured by "Mill Bros. Electronics" who used to be a large electronics manufacturing company in the Fiore region, though they had factories in many places. For the MK. 2 they had been hired to mass produce the stylers, and they were also tasked with the same for the MK. 3 however by this time Mill bros. was doing pretty poorly, they had just lost their factory in Fall City, which was one of their largest and had also lost contracts with a few other companies they had been producing products for, so with money tight they decided to cut some corners, specifically with the battery, the batteries planned for the MK 3 were heavy duty numbers designed to take a beating and handle electric type attacks like a champ, instead Mill Bros. used a weaker and cheaper battery and hoped no-one would notice, and probably they would have gotten away with it, except these batteries had a tendency to explode rather violently often injuring the rangers using them with nearly 300 injuries related to it in the first year (most were minor, just mild burns, others not so much) needless to say Mill Bros. does not exist anymore and the ranger union has their own manufacturing company now. As for the MK. 3 Itself it looks like a MK. 4 (what most people associate with a student styler) just slightly larger, with a longer handle, the handle was deigned to stick out of the hip-holster designed for it, so it could be pulled out at a moment's notice. You can tell a MK. 3 from a MK. 3.5 or 4 by looking for the Mill Bros. logo on the bottom of the device near the charging port (there will also be the model number MB30141). If you find you have been issued a MK. 3 or fine one in like a drawer or something you can turn it in to the ranger union for ₽2500, or 1 years worth of credit at the Ranger Union HQ cafeteria. Styler MK. 3.5 A rapid follow up to disaster of the MK 3. was the 3. 5 they look almost identical to the MK 3 but use a smaller more stable batter and tend to be slighter smaller over all. Not much to say it is just the MK 3 but does not explode.

Styler MK. 4

This is the styler most rangers reading this have use or have used, if you have been to any ranger academy you have used a modified MK. 4

Small compact with the disc being released from the yellow launcher seen on the head of the device. These guys are still in wide use today and are designed to be semi-disposable, if it is damaged just turn it back in for repair or replacement.

Fine Styler (MK. 5)

The Fine Styler aka the MK. 5 is a more powerful version of the MK. 4. It is strapped to the wrist instead of held in the hand and require a lot more training to use.

Super Styler (MK. 5.?)

Not much is known about this one so I wont be covering it, but I know if I did not list it I would have to deal with the tsunami of people saying I forgot it.

Styler MK. 7

The most recently released styler, its designed to be worn on the wrist similar to a watch and is similar in power and features to the Fine Styler in a much smaller package. It also has a built in AI that can help keep the ranger informed. These came out last year and I have yet to see one in person so I can say too much on how effective they are but the Union seems proud of them.

So yeah, thats all the publicly available styler models, for those interested I use a modified MK 1. (the union let me keep it after I retired, an antique for an antique I guess haha) I modified it to use a MK 2. Capture Disk so its a lot more useful. It's not winning any awards for looks though.

Anyway hope I was able to teach you something, stay safe out there.

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Shelgon -- Yuka Morii

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Everyone, meet Victor!

Adopted from an event with @ranger-rai and now home in Fiore. 'Victor' was already his nickname, and I intend to keep it. But I think joining a new family is an occasion momentous enough for a middle name, so officially his full name is Victor Jacima (Aiello). He's an ex-battler but will hopefully be having some peace and quiet now. I decided to gently introduce him to the region with a nice walk aound Lyra forest.

//ooc Victor's tag will be "Victor'y Garden"

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"Victor, eh? And that's all right. I like sunbathing and pondering quietly a lot myself. It shouldn't be a problem to set something like that up for him. And yes, you're welcome to check in or visit anytime. Thank you again for all your help."

Lark schedules a visit date in advance, if possible. When he arrives at the Ranger Base, he looks almost like a textbook stereotype of a Union Ranger in classic Fiore Uniform. A small, bright-eyed rockruff sits at his feet.

"Hello! I'm Lark Aiello. I'm here for the in-person observation for the adoption event?"

"Glad you're here!"

"We have everyone set up in their own areas so you can spend time one on one with each."

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(From here, you can just reblog with what happens next. You can build up new lore and relationships. Feel free to tag me if you have questions or need info from Rai)

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I love Dwebble. And I love the pokemon variations going ‘round. And I had to draw Dwebbles with different rock shells! Also drawn the Dwebbles based on actual hermit crabs too!

Art©J.Pawlik

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The whole wurmple evolution line is now complete!! ^O^

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Lark is not a person who makes decisions quickly. Even in his ranger work, he could spend an hour simply watching a pokemon, observing it's motions and quirks, before busting out the styler. At the base, he spends several more days observing the candidates. He notes their personalities, their habits, their strengths and difficulties. He thinks about his own life and work and where a new pokemon might fit into it. He writes out lists and researches resources. Once he's pretty sure of his ultimate decision, he spends time calling people back home in Fiore, making sure everything is set up to receive his new friend.

On the morning of the fourth day from his first visit, Lark finally approaches Ranger Rai. "Thank you for your patience. I'd like to adopt the pinsir. Is there anything more I should know about it? Does it have a nickname from previous trainers? Anything about it's nature or abilities? Any other details you can think of?"

Lark schedules a visit date in advance, if possible. When he arrives at the Ranger Base, he looks almost like a textbook stereotype of a Union Ranger in classic Fiore Uniform. A small, bright-eyed rockruff sits at his feet.

"Hello! I'm Lark Aiello. I'm here for the in-person observation for the adoption event?"

"Glad you're here!"

"We have everyone set up in their own areas so you can spend time one on one with each."

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(From here, you can just reblog with what happens next. You can build up new lore and relationships. Feel free to tag me if you have questions or need info from Rai)