Pokémon Umbral Discussion 8: I'll Guard Her Voir! Wait, That Makes No Sense...

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Geminex

This doesn't reassure me. It just means you'll find allies before you fight me. I can totally imagine the entire team rallied against me. Y'know, Pierce and Renny, shining heroes, Lola, Rachel, maybe Rayleen.

Charlotte'd be on my side, of course. Maybe Matt.

Not necessarily. If you made your objectives public, Charlotte probably wouldn't take kindly to you trying to take her killing machines away. Matt too.

And that's the whole point of keeping Impact's mind control thingy undetectable. Pierce wouldn't know if he could trust everyone else, he'd just take his pokemon and bring the beatdown on Impact.

[Geminex]

Oh, they wouldn't be made public. At least not to begin with. I'm thinking, I'll base my political position on the subsidization of human enterprise and research into non-pokemon-related areas. Trainers would be regulated more strictly and be far more likely to lose their trainer's licenses for abuse of pokemon. Also, the police force would be strengthened, with special emphasis being placed on the training of further slayers. In my first term, I'd work primarily on eradicating the mob and finding areas (say, communications and transport) where the fruits of human ingenuity is obviously displayed to the public. Of course, since all that spending would require budget cuts in other areas, pokemon centres would suffer, but I'd probably make up for that by centralizing pokemon care. Since transport will have improved considerably, it shouldn't be a problem for the entire region to have, say, 20 huge facilities instead of 1000 smaller ones.

I'd probably also be building up my secret service. Charlotte at its head, naturally. Disguised as the last faction of the mob that still survives, terrorizing the general population with pokemon. As far as Charlotte knows, I just want to keep Homnyr intimidated. Of course, having the general population fear pokemon would also be quite convenient.

In my second term I'd probably go for more drastic methods. By the second year, human enterprise should have driven out pokemon-based enterprise. Technology beating out supernatural beasts, with expansion still to come. Trainers would be... disadvantaged. Battles would be frowned upon most strongly, as would any kind of training. A lot of attacks (say, earthquake or blizzard) would be banned entirely for environmental effects. My government would fund and release reports of survival rates of wild pokemon vs. trained pokemon and find that the latter's lives are almost halved. As (very biased) scientific evidence builds up, and Charlotte's attacks continue, protest groups against keeping pokemon will form. Half will declare that all pokemon are evil and must be destroyed, the other half will call trainers monsters, who enslave poor innocent creatures. Pokebrids will of, course, catch their share of public discontent and be offered special habitats by the government, where they can live in piece, away from an unforgiving society. My second term would end with Charlotte being caught and dying while "resisting arrest", the mafia being destroyed, pokemon being outlawed entirely (in response to public pressure, of course), Impact being declared dictator and homnyr turning into a communist utopia.
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Maybe not that last bit, but you get the idea.

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Look, I'm German, when I talk about political domination, I actually put some thought into it, ok?

[Bard The 5th LW]

I would say something like 'Charlotte would kill Impact first', but the thing is ... she wouldn't. Charlotte doesn't care for a position at the top. She is actually very far removed from being a StarScream type accomplice.

If Impact can successfully win her favor/trust, she would likely be a very loyal minion as long as she got some blood. Although if Impacts intentions ever became clear to her, which is unlikely, she would rip that communist bastard to shreds. No warning and no planning. She would pull out the strongest kill-mon she had at the moment and kill him right there. Maybe even do it herself if she has the means.

[Geminex]

I fully intend to get her on Impact's side before the political campaign begins. And what I wrote above is pretty much what he'll explain to her. He'll just emphasize the "You get to be a terrorist!" aspect more, and forget to mention that among the individuals unfit to wield pokemon, Charlotte is, like, #1.

[Bard The 5th LW]

What I find funny is that the revelation of that plan arguably makes Impact a worse person than Charlotte. Sure, Charlotte should be locked up, she's sadistic and shouldn't have any power.

But Impact? He is on the road towards being a Knight Templar extremist, and attempting to basically let Charlotte do what she does on a large scale so he can use the resulting fear and pain, that he caused, entirely for his own gain.

I'm sure that is intentional though.

[Geminex]

Well, Impact's not that bad a guy, as long as pokemon aren't involved. He wouldn't make a bad world leader. Political extremist, yes, but only an extremist in one area.

And, well, yes, of course it's intentional. I have certain resources, among them an individual who'll make a valuable ally as long as her taste for violence is sated. She's gonna be violent anyway, might as well have her be violent in my service. Ok, so Impact's actually helping her, and exacerbating her violent tendencies, but he justifies that by the fact that however many lives are lost, being rid of pokemon will make up for that in the long run.

[Astral Harmony]

Remind me why I didn't post last night because I was really enjoying playing FFXIII? Just like last time, another fucking wall of text that I'm in no way going to read. All I picked up outta skimming it is Impact wants mind control for purposes I'm certain I won't like.

I'll get to posting now, if only to get you all to shut up.

[Geminex]

It was pretty much me outlining what abilities I was hoping to get when I go full-demon, and then outlining how I'd make myself ruler of Homnyr.

Edit: Other people might have said something as well, I'm not sure. If I didn't know better, I'd say that Pierce was saying he'd oppose me, but that would be very, very foolish.

[Astral Harmony]

So, to put a long story short...

Impact: "You can't possibly defeat me, Pierce. My mind is far beyond your reckoning!"
Pierce: "You overestimate yourself, Impact. You'll never stand a chance against my harem of doom!"

Yes, I can actually imagine this happening in the story proper. By the way, post is nearing completion of Allied Force side. You wouldn't believe some of the stuff I done did. But I'm sure Pierce and Charlotte will be happy that I done did it.

[Geminex]

Well yeah, but Impact'd probably wait with his political career until after these Ruinous Origins. So if anything, we'd need a PVP sequel.