Pokemon Umbral Discussion 12: Is Impact the Piccolo of Pokemon Umbral?

[Geminex]

Nice. Good luck with the theater. What play/what role?

And what is this? Nobody's online! You're all supposed to be online around this time!

[DanteFalcon]

I'm the assistant stage manager for Blithe Spirit.

[Menarker]

Originally Posted by Geminex

Also, are we leaving Dantefalcon behind? I'd hate to drop down to three people.

*In Black Mage Voice*

"You forgot to count yourself, you clod! You'd hate for us to drop to FOUR!"

Also, the love potion thing comes a bit from the anime, so I'm not just making shit up... well, not all of it.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP170

[Geminex]

Motion to declare the anime non-canon and silly? Really silly.

And yeah, I mis-counted somehow. Silly me.

Also, I just realized I haven't criticized Menarker's new pokemon yet. I shall do so vigorously tomorrow.

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Geminex

Impact just used stimulants and an assault rifle. That's about as serious as it's gonna get, until he gets out the flamethrower. Whereas Pierce hasn't even deployed his pokemon, insisting on fighting himself.

Now, I'm not sure, but I'd say that the guy who's going all-out seems to be taking this more seriously than the guy who desperately wants to prove himself by intentionally weakening himself.

And besides, Pierce's plan is in no way an effective strategy, nor is it in any way "realistic". It's silly. There's so many flaws there that it physically hurts. I mean, I'm sure seeing Impact get turned away and humiliated by an angry Shizuka might turn Pierce on, but he needs to learn to live out his Freudian fantasies on his own.

Okay, maybe "realistic" and "serious" wasn't the way to go. How about this: Pierce is laying down groundwork for the future. See, he's going to fight Shizuka again if the opportunity comes up, and he plans to be better prepared. To that end, he wants to know what buttons she has that he can push, if any. (Besides, if he used pokemon it would suck). Of course the flirtation plan isn't likely to work, but Pierce wants to know for sure whether or not Shizuka is secretly a thirteen-year-old girl (you wouldn't expect her to be, but then, you wouldn't expect Rayleen to be one too and guess what happened?). If Impact was serious about the rivalry, he'd be trying to find out too.

The reasons for making Impact do it are: again, she and anyone would see right through it if it was Pierce. Secondly, if it works, whoever did it is in a world of hurt. Better Impact than Pierce.

Originally Posted by Geminex

If anything, when the battle's over I might have Impact approach Shizuka, discuss their performance, maybe make some clumsy attempts at flirtation and then, midway through the conversation, pull out his revolver and try to shoot her. That'd be an effective way of exploiting sexual tension. Not groping Shizuka to make her angry.

But that wouldn't help us at all for this battle.

Originally Posted by Geminex

Edit:
But they're not dependent on them. Even if Pierce goes Battle-master, he'll at least in part rely on pokemon. And besides, I doubt the Kimonos would actively fight again Impact's long-term plans.

Okay, I gotta figure out how to tell this to Impact in the RP, but Pierce doesn't rely on pokemon at all. He could've become a Slayer at any point, I mean hell, look at him now: against any enemy that isn't a seven hundred and fifty year old superstrong superfast Demon he would do well enough, and that's without any actual Slayer training. And Impact knows Pierce doesn't think he has to rely on pokemon because he's not doing that right now.

Pierce doesn't use pokemon because he has to, or because it's been imprinted into his brain since forever because that's what people have always done that he has to. He does it because he wants to, because he trusts his pokemon with his life, and, most importantly, because they want to. Pierce didn't actually catch any of his pokemon, they approached him and wanted to join him. Well, except technically Tyranitar. And he encourages them to do what they want (this is why he hasn't been harder on Nagarai, even though he was plenty hard on her during the months she was stalking him), even if they want to go back into the wild. His pokemon are content to protect him, help him, and follow his orders in battle (even Nagarai does what Pierce tells her in a fight).

I could list how Pierce met and befriended his pokemon, if you'd like.

Also, there's a huge flaw in Impact's plan for world domination. Mainly, even if he takes away pokemon from people he can't exterminate pokemon everywhere. The world would still be dangerous, and without pokemon people would have to learn how to fight for themselves. He'd be asking people to risk their lives, instead of the safer choice of having pokemon fight for them (and even the pokemon wouldn't be at risk because they just return to their balls when fainted!).

Originally Posted by Geminex

Drac, if Impact were to kiss Shizuka (purely as a combat ruse, of course), could Pierce use the distraction to jam a knife in her back?

Theoretically yes, but his knife is currently in his jacket which is next to his belt and the scythe handle on the ground a distance away.

He could try to drive a sword through her back, though. Or a katana. Or a sword and a katana. Provided he doesn't aim for anything to vital, she should be mostly all right. Plus he can't drive them in too far or he could hit Impact.

Maybe he'll "slip" and run a sword through both Shizuka and Impact.

By the way, I can already tell Shizuka is going to realize what Impact's doing. Pierce is gonna have to try and stab her in a way that doesn't screw Impact if she dissapears, shows up behind Pierce and pushes him, sword first, into Impact.

EDIT:

Originally Posted by Geminex

And what is this? Nobody's online! You're all supposed to be online around this time!

No one is ever online at that time! Only you, because you're German!

Well, sometimes me. If I get up early. So almost never.

EDIT 2.0: I just gave AB the best setup ever. We have more than enough girls for a cheerleading squad. Mmmmm...

[Menarker]

We may have enough girls for a cheerleading squad, but I don't think any of them are emotionally invested in the fight enough to be anything but a mildly interested audience at most. I don't think any of them are currently interested in Pierce or Impact romantically or so, and none of them dislike Shizuka enough to cheer for you guys attempting to beat her down.

Well, Mika is somewhat interested in Impact...

Aria is pretty much doing it solo for Pierce.

*Will be leaving for work fairly shortly*

[Dracorion]

They don't have to care about the fightor anyone in it!

All it takes is for them to think it'd be fun to play cheerleader.

[Menarker]

Well, entirely possible if they were in the sort of exhibitionist mood, dancing for the sake of showing off. (Which I'm not being sarcastic, some of them did some karaoke.)

[Dracorion]

Plus, a few beers can go a long way.

So go do it AB.