Kibi
andrea
sorry for memeing on it.
Kibi
andrea : them being in the same guild means that she could conceivably just scurry over to his platform and be like "why aren't you replying to my post :-("
Kibi
https://images.plurk.com/7JqReas5LfdwWbRVmTTJKF.jpg does no one want to share their traumas with me? sad sad mommy...
andrea
JFKLSDFLKDSJFKLDF
Kibi
this is actually making me wonder if Read notifications technically exist in Grumpearl communications. like you have to be psychically connected to even see the video right.......so do you just get a lil mental ping that tells you someone looked at it but didn't reply? sad sad mommy!
andrea
this made me actually burst out laughing
andrea
imagine flowey physically sending the message "read at 10:03 PM" and logging off
andrea
1 second later lusamine bursts into his room or whatever and is like FLOWEY.... ARE YOU OKAY???
Kibi
SWEET FLOWEY....SPEAK TO ME
Kibi
did you forget how to use your Grumpearl or have you forsaken me? :-(
「 ᴄᴀᴛᴀʟʏꜱɪꜱ 」
help this mental image
「 ᴄᴀᴛᴀʟʏꜱɪꜱ 」
the funniest option: you are intentionally sending the sheer disregard that gets translated as [ read 10:02pm ]
andrea
he's nosy but also he's like i dont wanna talk about it MOM.... (turning back into a flower and feeling the weight of soullessness and the empty underground and then being forcibly transformed yet again)
Kibi
CRIES....
Kibi
i WILL send Lusamine to his room. if you want.
Usagi
KFFJFJFJDNFNF

'Read' 'read what dear. ... ....Read what?? dear??? hello??'
Pyrate Pyraiod
I may have missed this but.... Is Lusamine's last name Mendel because 1) weird genetics and 2) Mohn and beans?????
andrea
Kibi : this would be so funny. allowed
Feral Lapdog
every time folks talk about their experience dropping into the pokemon world there is inevitably firepaw jumping in like "idk man i was doing cat stuff and then OCEAN"
capnport
Due to Lusamine's Extra control over what she sends over the Grumpearl, Technus is assuming she's a Psychic-type.
Kibi
Pyrate Pyraiod : OKAY SO......short answer is yes. the slightly longer story behind it is that when i first started writing her (9 years ago?? ough..) i was trying to think up a last name for her that wasn't as obvious as just Aether because everyone else in the tumblr RP scene was doing that
Kibi
i wanted it to be thematically appropriate and also German...so i put Mendel on her page as a joking placeholder (because...because genetics and BEANS...)........but then i never came up with anything else so it stuck forever. i like it now. i think it fits with the similarly on-the-nose names that often come up in Pokemon
Kibi
LUSAMINE has become JEWISH.
Kibi
Feral Lapdog : i know he said "hunting" but he also said "catch" so i think she's going to at first mistake him for a Pokemon trainer.....woag...mice must be a very rare Pokemon. never seen it before
Kibi
you were hunting that animal to catch it in a Poke Ball right? :-) .......in a Poke Ball right???? :-(
Kibi
capnport : BAHAHA...it makes sense for him to assume that....but no she's just Insane™
Feral Lapdog
LMAO... sorry Lusamine she's talking to a member of The Most Invasive Species
Feral Lapdog
no one invades and destroys the ecosystem like kitties
Kibi
why wasn't anyone keeping you inside your Poke Ball, Firepaw??? so irresponsible!!!!
Feral Lapdog
a FAIR QUESTION HONESTLY, like why were his owners so cool about him going outside... they live in a town, there are cars.
Kibi
....i have to think about how she'd feel about him hunting + eating other Pokemon in BCB.....she is a strict vegan herself and will probably stay that way even in PMD world (until i force her to eat a Rattata for the funnies) but she's also like well...Pokemon should eat like they do in nature.....but there isn't really much natural about this place...?
Kibi
wtf....??????
Kibi
women will see a rat and eat it.
Lᴏᴏᴘ ᴅᴇ ɢʀᴀ̂ᴄᴇ
Feral Lapdog : I faintly remember that warrior cats is officially based somewhere in the UK(???)
which I thiiink fits with "way more people just let their cats outside"
Lᴏᴏᴘ ᴅᴇ ɢʀᴀ̂ᴄᴇ
me abruptly clotheslined by "lusamine is a strict vegan"
like yeah of COURSE she is and for strong moral reasons but also,
(I love her)
Kibi
i KNOW she is a vegan and specifically one of those extremely Weird About It and holier-than-thou type vegans....i just feel it in my heart and soul.....she told me herself
「 ᴄᴀᴛᴀʟʏꜱɪꜱ 」
the Pokémon character surname struggle...
Kibi
i previously played her in Ryslig and she was a strict vegan BUT ☝️ she had zero qualms with eating people. yes she still considered herself vegan. i think this was THE funniest form of her veganism https://images.plurk.com/3nCywgwQOnbvsy7W8XB3KM.jpg
Feral Lapdog
Lᴏᴏᴘ ᴅᴇ ɢʀᴀ̂ᴄᴇ : yeah that checks out, i know it was also way more common before the current decade. modern-day cats are very spoiled indoors, but I remember when i was a kid the general sentiment was "you can't expect them to stay in all day when dogs don't"
Lᴏᴏᴘ ᴅᴇ ɢʀᴀ̂ᴄᴇ
THAT ALSO SO TRACKS FOR LUSAMINE
Lᴏᴏᴘ ᴅᴇ ɢʀᴀ̂ᴄᴇ
you really can't beat that
andrea
this so tracks for lusamine
Feral Lapdog
important character question: does lusamine think honey is vegan
andrea
lusamine is like of course i dont eat honey... those poor combees work so hard to make it [directly behind her is a combee frozen in a big block of ice]
Kibi
HMMM i think probably no--KFLJ:KLH:KHH
Kibi
no yeah literally that.
andrea
women will see a rat and eat it.
andrea
the funniest part of this idea is that flowey of all people thinks that hunting is too far
Kibi
ONE DAY she has to see a Rattata and just enter a feeding frenzy. i have to, it's too funny......and also makes sense because Yungoos is constantly hungry and yet Lusamine refuses to be eating all the time. lady are you trying to enter a feeding frenzy. because that's how you enter a feeding frenzy
Kibi
crying at Flowey though.....in this world it's kill or be killed. but not like that
Feral Lapdog
flowey like 'the only unacceptable reason to kill is for food'
bre
he can excuse killing for the funnies, but for actual sustenance is where he draws the line
andrea
i have thought about this extensively actually............ 1. pokemon are too much like monsters too him and it feels weird. 2. even though he's still a little asshole he DID tell frisk "don't kill and don't be killed" so he's TRYING to get better. even if it is just hunting (and firepaw said some pokemon are 'different') it feels like killing.
andrea
3. he gets by just fine with sunshine and morning dew
Kibi
delicious delicious morning dew........
Lᴏᴏᴘ ᴅᴇ ɢʀᴀ̂ᴄᴇ
plant privilege
bre
honestly not everyone is born with a silver chloroplast in their cells....
Lᴏᴏᴘ ᴅᴇ ɢʀᴀ̂ᴄᴇ
I admit I have yet to actually decide whether or not Siffrin is willing to hunt so I've just been... not having it come up.............
my gut feeling is probably not but also several people they know and like have been hunting and it's not something I'm interested in having an IC conflict about. and. they are theoretically based on a carnivore
so ???
Lᴏᴏᴘ ᴅᴇ ɢʀᴀ̂ᴄᴇ
i played out all my eating people IC conflict threads when I was in Ryslig, I'm satisfied,
Kibi
🤝 REAL ACTUALLY...
Kibi
Shoka could probably eat meat (headcanon is she has incomprehensible teeth under there) but she just. really likes malasadas and other pastries. so she just eats those all the time FKLJ:LKHH
Kibi
and when she sees people she knows hunting she's kind of just like. I Pretend I Do Not See It
Kibi
i say i want Lusamine to enter a feeding frenzy but whenever i do that it will probably just be an attempted one. just that scene from the classic filme Madagascar
Kibi
andrea
FSDFJSLKFS
「 ᴄᴀᴛᴀʟʏꜱɪꜱ 」
tiny mongoose attempts to take a bite out of a much larger rat, read all about it
Lᴏᴏᴘ ᴅᴇ ɢʀᴀ̂ᴄᴇ
me, googling: what is the largest rat pokemon,
「 ᴄᴀᴛᴀʟʏꜱɪꜱ 」
i've managed to sidestep the hunting thing so far by 'emmet is consciously doing his best to act as unzoroark-like as possible for reasons', we'll see how that pans out
Lᴏᴏᴘ ᴅᴇ ɢʀᴀ̂ᴄᴇ
clearly we just need enough slowpoke in game to feed all the carnivores with dropped tails
quick everyone app more slowpoke-like characters
「 ᴄᴀᴛᴀʟʏꜱɪꜱ 」
how specific are the hunger pangs, is it rats specifically or can we find a bigger rodent
「 ᴄᴀᴛᴀʟʏꜱɪꜱ 」
lusamine attempts to chomp on a bibarel
Lᴏᴏᴘ ᴅᴇ ɢʀᴀ̂ᴄᴇ
just a little nibble
capnport
whats going on in this thread
Feral Lapdog
my immediate thought with slowpoke-like characters is 'ah yes, someone app patrick star'
「 ᴄᴀᴛᴀʟʏꜱɪꜱ 」
carnivores, obligate and opportunistic.
Kibi
Lusamine has constant hunger pangs because Yungoos being constantly hungry is apparently just like...a trait of the species? they are big eaters and are apparently just spend all day every day hunting. i think it's a general hunger and not specifically for rats
capnport
Kibi : oh?? woah
Kibi
i just mentioned rats specifically because of the lore where Yungoos was introduced to Alola to prey on Alolan Rattata (which is a reference to the fact that mongooses were introduced to Hawaii irl to counter rat problems) KLGJL:KH
capnport
https://images.plurk.com/1Cidk77jg5MxSXx2O4IIhs.png . hey man. jesus christ
Kibi
so i think if she sees a Rattata specifically she might be like oh! i should eat that! women will see a rat and eat it.
andrea
canonically an invasive species btw
Kibi
YEP....invasive species are extremely relevant to Lusamine as a character (she is a white woman living in PokéHawaii, the flower she's named after grows invasively in Hawaii irl, AND Ultra Beasts were apparently designed based around the concept of invasive species) so this was a big reason for me making her a Yungoos 😂
capnport
ooh...
Kibi
there was symbolic reasoning and i wasn't JUST doing it for the funnies.....though that was also part of it.
Kibi
https://images.plurk.com/6rRtLkE9geliLPb0ryK0fB.png hm............
「 ᴄᴀᴛᴀʟʏꜱɪꜱ 」
symbolic reasoning over just aesthetics
andrea
ribombee: have you seen our new recruit, rattata?
lusamine with a rattata-shaped stomach: no.
Kibi
KLJGK:KLHJLKHKLH NOOOOOOO
Pyrate Pyraiod
Kibi : LMAO thats so based
Usagi
JGDJDJDJDJFJD THIS ENTIRE POST WOW

lusamine u r a carnivor-
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