Start, End Dates for Legendary Bird Trio Announced for GO

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Niantic has announced the official start and end dates for the original legendary bird trio in Pokémon GO via twitter!

  • Articuno: now until July 31st
  • Moltres: July 31st to August 7th
  • Zapdos: August 7th to August 14th

Like Articuno and Lugia, Moltres and Zapdos will only be encountered and caught via Legendary Raid Battles. Each only last one week, so catch ’em while you can! No official end date was given for Lugia.

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  3. Do any of you have a Pokemon NPC that you hate the most in the franchise?

    Mine is that girl who trades you a Haunter in Snowpoint City. She is literally evil…

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  4. Do any of you have any ‘original’ works? Like stories/comics/video games you’re working on that aren’t based on existing media? Just curious because my cousin brought up his book series ideas and they reminded me of mine :0

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        • Well my first IP was something called Flash Adventures
          it is a 3D action adventure platformer starring the titular character Flash Motors a young 13 year old youth with a metal prosthetic claw on his left arm and his floating spherical robot Zap

          they work in tandem where they both attack individually or together, and it is not limited to these two because you gain 3 more playable characters
          Abbie “Lanch” Winters a timid/hotheaded young girl with ice powers and high speed and low defense
          Bruce Grover a laid back feral boy with a mutant tail and plant powers and the rare triple jump
          and lastly Steel Metway, a gruff stalwart son of a famous professor who gave him cybernetic arms and legs granting him metal powers

          (originally they all had little robots but i’m considering scraping them since Zap and Bruce’s Vine were the one who got the most attention in development)

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          • Zactly and not to mention weapons
            Flash: Chargerang a electrical boomerang that can link enemies at a range
            Abbie: Aura Jewel: a aurora projection that can be used like a whip
            Bruce: Wooden Hammer: a log on a stick that can pound seeds in the ground and plant them
            Steel: Multi-tool: a large wrench that can mess with machines and transform into a slingshot

          • and it gets better, after a third in the game you gain a new elemental attack!
            Flash: Blaze Bolt: a searing fire blast that incinerates objects
            Abbie: Aqua Aura: she gains watery whips
            Bruce: Air Blast: he sends out a twister on a controlled path that rotates fans
            Steel: Earth Link: he summons three orbiting boulders he can spin and smash with

          • I see, four element ensemble with each character also having a ‘secondary element’ as their main one (plants/electricity/ice/metal)

          • Yes i use a 10 element system the Classical with my Beta Classical Electricity/Ice/Plant/Metal and Light/Shadow

          • Huh

            I’ve never used it for anything specific but I’ve always had this system

            Fire/Water/Earth/Air

            Fire + Earth = Metal
            Fire + Air = Electricity
            Water + Earth = Plant
            Water + Air = Ice

            Sometimes I add Fire + Water = Steam and Earth + Air = Sand but they both seem dumb to me as elements so I usually don’t include them

            Spirit, Light, and Dark are off to the side by themselves

          • When I’m doing secondary elements I tend to do

            Fire/Metal (Metal comes from fire – you smelt ores to get the metal)

            Water/Ice (Ice comes from water – obvious)

            Air/Electricity (Electricity (as lightning) comes from the air)

            Earth/Plant (Plants come from the earth)

            Although metal really belongs with Earth as well and I can’t find a good secondary for Fire, which is why I traded from a subset secondary system to a fusion subset system

    • Basically, my book idea is an anthology series that has loose connections, and it is set in a modern world where magic does exist (I know, cliché), but is completely hidden from mortal eyes after the Salem Accords are made – to prevent normal humans from feeling vulnerable and lashing out, the gods of the world (in reality, most deities are just powerful nature spirits) veiled magic from the mortal eye.

      The series stars six young magical individuals and their own struggles, the first of which is:

      Nicola Riley – A 19 year old girl, born of a black witch and a strict Irish Catholic father. Her mother forgone magic when she fell in love, but allowed Nicola and her siblings to make the choice of whether they’d get involved with it. When Nicola’s father finds out she’s a lesbian, an intense argument leads to him drunk driving and getting into a fatal crash. Nicola must deal with the aftermath, and both the freedom and restriction it brings her.

      I made the character a few years back. She’s always been varying degrees of mixed race black (African)/white of Irish decent (it’s been paternal grandfather, one of hermaternal great grandmothers, etc) but I realised it makes the most sense to tie together the mixed race and father conflict aspects together. I always imagined the character as black, because like most of my characters, unless the writing depends on race (like if I want to tie specific racism into it, or have a character from a specific culture) I don’t really care what race they are?

      She used to be MtF trans rather than a lesbian, but 15~ year old me realised he probably couldn’t write a trans character. If I can’t write a trans character I’m certainly not gonna put her up front and risk offensive or hilarious inaccuracies, I’d rather wait until I’ve got the skills to do a trans character justice tbh

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      • huh you described a secret fantasy i once came up with
        Just the idea of magic being obscure to mortals and i meet one a young witch named Sophie Wikkins

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        • The whole ‘secret magic world in an urban setting’ thing is common tho, hence why I said cliché. I mean Perch Jackson, Harry Potter, Shadowhunters etc all do it

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  6. a follow-up to Fairy’s IP
    so far in my lifetime
    Flash Adventures
    Flash Adventures 2: The Blade of the Chronics
    Squire’s Quest
    Wicca
    Insectica
    Some fan games include: Wario & Waluigi: Quest for Cash, Paper Mario: Time’s Up

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      • Squire’s quest is about this a medieval realm where the four knight’s protected the realm from evil and you Squire Danny Fyro are the squire/future Red Knight in training, throughout history the Red Knight is the most courageous heroic and selfless leader….unfortunately this Era’s Red Knight is a pompous blowhard who think’s he’s the greatest thing ever (i even gave him Patrick Warburton’s voice)

        Wicca is a more….spiritually game where a young girl finds herself in a magical druidic world of nature and spirits and she must find her way home and fight back the corruptiong, the main gimmick is Animal Talismans that give her abilities, like a Hawk to glide, Bear to move heavy things and a Mouse to shrink down

        Insectica is just a world of Anthropomorphic Insects and you are Stox the Beetle Knight and you have Lua the Lunar Moth and Jacker the Yellow jacket Mechanic

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  7. I just remembered an idea I had a few days ago.

    A slice of life animated show about a witch girl who runs a potion shop but its all in space so she has to visit planets to get ingredients she needs

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  8. Yo thought I’d submit another one of my characters kinda out of boredom, kinda because I want feedback

    Cherie Bellerose, 17, French, witch. The Belleroses are an ancient magical family, and their teenage daughter is their greatest pride. She’s intelligent, skilled, and attractive, as all Belleroses are expected to be. She’s a passionate soul, but can is quick to anger and martyrs herself for her allies, which can damage her, them, or her relationship.

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        • Well……it was this fantasy novel i wrote (or just thought of in my head) about myself…
          It starts off with me the real me the one you all love and worship having a severe depression episode in the middle of the night, i was toiled about finally commuting suicide and decided to go out of the house and walk around the neighborhood in the dead of the night, as i go to this field behind my neighborhood the moon lit sky became awash with clouds and rumbling and lighting crashes down striking this extremely old tree i was nearby nearly frying me but opening up a hole which i slipped down
          as and it was a deep hole so deep i got a series of scars and bruises and somehow landed in some totally different forest, confused and in tremendous pain i collapsed from exhaustion. the following morning i was trying to find heads or tails of where the frack i was the plants were weird and i saw creatures that were not of this world then i fell into a hole but it wasn’t a hole…it was a footprint… a big one

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          • its not directly one
            point is it belonged to a Colossal Elemental Goddess Alizia
            a earthshaper and weaver of plantlife who decided to stay in this realm and does as she pleased instead of some kinda “ascend into a godly plain where her soul is enriched” but no she was like nah i like doing this gig and just wanna spend my days making mountains and lakes and beautiful forests

          • Anyway borrowing your template
            Appearance: even though she’s technically a goddess she looks like a Caucasian women, pale white skin and long messy hair that starts out red but gets green tints, with a hand woven headband of vines and flowers, a well rounded face with emerald eyes and full lips (kinda like Amethyst) and a well rounded body with clothes all made from leaves and animal skins and all sorts of jewel and bone wristbands and anklets (leaving out her height)
            Personality: she’s very laid back and creative always thinking of new ways to shape the land or how to grow new topiary, but underneath this calm collective shell lies her truer self just a loner who only had herself as company since like forever

    • Appearance: She’s tall, lean, somewhat tanned, blonde, and with warm, brown eyes.

      Magic Skills: Generally skilled, but as with all Belleroses she’s skilled with love magic (although modern Belleroses mostly use this to deconstruct illegal love magic). But she’s also a savant with fire magic, being trained by her grandmother, known as one of the greatest Fire Elementalist (people who specialise in a certain element) from youth.

      Weapon Skills: She prefers to use a rapier, as she has been raised with grace and poise as all Belleroses are. She’s terrible with heavy weapons, alright with daggers and knives as well as lighter swords, but absolutely hopeless with projectile weapons, from the simple slingshot to the bow and arrow.

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  9. Yo it’s probably gonna be a while before this happens (probs not until PokéSwitch, but I might set one up for USUM) but I was wondering how you guys would feel about a ‘Blind Discord’? Basically, it’d be a space where we just don’t talk about upcoming main series Pokémon games, so you can go in blind but still discuss old Pokémon games and shitpost with people from here? How would that sound?

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  17. Put in all that work to defeat the legendary at the raid, and then it’s next to impossible to catch. Getting sick of this shit.

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  18. well i’m running out of steam, work tomorrow and that’ll suck….and just got the first Star Sprite but tomorrow is nothing but story mode
    anybody else got anything else to say to me say it now……

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          • ‘I believe Sun Moon’s writers aren’t dumb enough to make a comedic relief character in their comedy series’

            Rowlet’s probably the most marketable first stage Alola starter, probably more marketable than Deci will be. And we’ve had a Totodile in every region but Kanto (where there was two unevolved starters) and Hoenn (where every starter was owned by a different character and none of the first stages were as marketable).

            Seeing as Rockruff is growing restless and we have a potential new form of Lycanroc, if anything is going to evolve soon, it’ll be Rockruff. And seeing as Ash has a smaller team rn (three team mates that can actually evolve), they’re not going to evolve this close to eachother.

            And tbh the possible Continental Crush VS Bloom Doom clash just reeks of Blast Burn VS Water Shuriken pt2 – Dead Owl Boogaloo

          • But why does the Comic Relief have to go to Ash? We have the cute not-evolving togedemaru as comic relief, Rotom Dex and so far in most of the episodes there was no comic relief, most of the characters were doing funny things. If they wanted Rowlet to be the 1st stage comic relief, why didn’t they give it to Mallow? They wouldn’t waste a spot on Ash’s team

          • We can have multiple comic reliefs though? We had Emolga and Oshawott in Black and White.

            This isn’t a serious series like XY, it’s a comedy slice of life series. Thus no team slot is ‘wasted’.

            Also, Ash had both Totodile and Oshawott, so they’ve ‘wasted’ slots before

          • And it could evolve and be a little bit of a comic relief (The hair) and at the same time want to fight with Ash. And then evolve once again and leave the comic relief behind.

          • Except the hair gag isn’t as cute or quirky as sleeping in the bag and thus isn’t going anywhere soon

            And also none of Ash’s comedy reliefs have evolved past being comedic relief, one of his only comedic reliefs that evolved was Bayleef and even then the evolution didn’t impede her comedy, whereas Rowlet outgrowing the bag will screw up that skit.

          • All I can see is it trying to do, is sticking his head in the bag and getting it stuck if it did become a deci but even then that would get old

          • XY wasn’t more serious than Sun Moon. XYZ was. So probably USUM series will be more serious too. Watch the litten arc again. Was that comedy? This series has a lot of potential and it probably won’t waste it.

          • Why? It’s not a wasted slot for one, Ash’s non evolving Pokemon have shown themselves to be capable (Gible and Corphish especially come to mind, as well as Squirtle and Bulbasaur), and it adds to the comedy – the main focus of the series.

          • XY was still serious compared to SuMo tho. More battle-driven, less slapstick comedy, reoccurring plotlines. SuMo is a slice of life comedy anime, whereas XY was comedy second.

            Even comedic shows can have drama and sad parts. Straight after Stoutland died it was straight back to comedy.

          • Also they’re not gonna suddenly flip to serious, USUM will most likely continue to have comedy with serious parts.

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