The Pokemon Meme

[winterbolt]

The Meme


You are now on a quest to be the very best trainer in all the land! In your own, special way. I mean, everyone has their own thing they seek in the Pokemon world, right? Some want to gather badges. Other people participate in contests! Still others decide to devote their life to research and becoming a Pokemon Professor.


1. You're in a Pokemon battle! Is it a friendly battle? Is it a heated match between destined rivals? Or are you just mugging some preschoolers for their lunch money?

2. Either 1 went pretty well and you're just chillaxing, or 1 went pretty poorly and you're recuperating and healing up, or maybe you have no idea what I'm talking about when I say 1 because you didn't just fight a Pokemon battle. Regardless of the reasons, you are now at a Pokemon Center.

3. You are traveling on some route or another and enjoying the scenic vistas and the epic scenery of wherever you are. Or maybe you're getting ready to camp out for a while? Well. You're just stopping and smelling the metaphorical roses.

4. You are lost. So this is kind of like 3 except it's less enjoying the ride and more going oh crap what is this this is a cave I wasn't supposed to go into a cave was I? I can't use surf how am I supposed to get through this lake crap.

5. You're participating in a contest! You're getting ready to, you're appealing, you're sabotaging your competition, whatever it takes to get that ribbon.

6. You are somehow involved with a Pokemon Daycare. Maybe your Pokemon is expecting? Maybe you've got this...this egg you gotta haul about until it hatches. Or maybe you don't have enough cash to get your beloved Rattata back so now you're mugging preschoolers for their lunch money. It's a very dark and dire business you're involved with.

Comments

[nosentimentalist]

Ah, I am on my toes, shuddering in anticipation, truly.

[He says, in a rather deadpan tone.]

Rather bleak, I suppose. I mean, great for the Pokemon, not so great for the humans. I bet Pokemon would just run wild with no one to train them...and the cities would fall into ruin without people to live in them...I suppose nature would just take over when all is said and done.

[A pause, before he looks up, tapping his scruffy chin with the pen.]

You really think highly of Pokemon, don't you, Mr...?

[magistermentium]

[His Unown chime again, yet this time it's lower pitched, almost sounding more... despondent. Or possibly disappointed.]

Yaknow, people don't give Pokemon enough credit! They're not unintelligent creatures! They've helped human beings build their cities, develop technology, practically pave the way for their entire civilization! Not to mention...
There's some Pokemon that used to be human.
So what if it wasn't so much a world without humans, as a world without human bodies? What would change about society, if we no longer considered ourselves a separate species from the ones who made it with us?
Boy, is that fascinating to imagine...

Ha ha, I suppose I do...
Cipher! Bill Cipher. That's with an "I", not a "Y", if you're taking note! People make that mistake a lot!

[nosentimentalist]

Oh no, I definitely give Pokemon credit. It's just that humans have done things that even Pokemon haven't. [A pause.] Human bodies...? What, are you talking about a world where we all turn into Pokemon?

[He laughs. It's an interesting mental image.] I guess that would mean no more capturing and training, first of all, since we would be on the same level...but if we would keep our human intelligence or lose it over time is a question that really can't be answered.

And got it. Bill...Cipher? Interesting name. [He jots it down.] The name's Keats, by the way. It's a pleasure to meet you, Bill.