me_first | -002- [Text] [Action for Violet City]

while we're all getting ready for this storm - very curious this sort of thing, not something i've dealt with before. not something that happened in cloudbank. would have caused many problems though fixing them would have been simple i suppose!

in any case, yes! the subject of this post!

from what i have seen and heard many people give their pokemon names. i suppose it makes sense! but i cannot decide on names for mine. nothing seems to fit! i have not named many sentient creatures before. the ones i have i have been told my names are not very creative.

['Jerk' is a totally valid name for a creature, okay.]

i am a programmer and engineer by trade but i do not think those terms are very fitting for my pokemon.

[Red took all of the function names already. He's tempted to name the cat 'Asher' even if the cat is female.]

i have:
- magnemite (neuter)
- sentret (male)
- purrloin (female)
- dratini (female)
- skarmony (female)
- gastly (female)
- bronzor (neuter)

i did not realize how many female pokemon i have until just now. oh well nothing to be done about it nothing at all. i would prefer if they follow some sort of consistent naming theme but if one seems fitting i suppose it can be an anomaly.

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[And if anyone wants to speak to the nerd, he's sitting in the Pokemon Center in Violet City with a Magnemite orbiting around him and a Dratini clinging to his leg.]

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[Royce, you had Jimmy at "Sentret", I hope you know.]

Naming your Pokemon is easy! I just go with stuff that reminds me of them. Like, my Furret, Cherry- I caught her near Cherrygrove City! Sooo, I named her after that! Cherry!

My Volcarona is a fire type so she's called Inferno, but she had her name before I got her. Then there's Lucius, my Houndoom, who I named after a super good friend from back home.

So like...what kinds of personalities do your Pokemon have? Or do you have any friends from home you think you'd wanna name them after?

most of them are fairly calm and quiet. except for dratini! she does not seem to like me much. it's curious - i don't know why.

i don't think one of my friends would appreciate his namesake being a female cat. and i think i'd rather shy away from some of those names in general.

[Red probably would not appreciate them very much.]

[Do only what Red would approve of, Royce.]

My Buizel didn't really like me too much when he hatched, either. I mean I think he's getting better now that he's getting stronger, but I dunno! He's a little jealous of my other Pokemon for evolving before him I think. His name is Lucky, though.

Y'see he likes to pick fights with other Pokemon a lot, so he ends up getting hurt and I have to take him to the Pokemon Center...but he keeps on fighting anyway! So he's lucky he's still in one piece, haha.

[Jimmy...]

My Sliggoo's name is Guava. That's um...that's a fruit I think? I'm not actually sure but I remember that name being a fruit I'm pretty sure...But yaknow, just things like that.

So let's pick one. Magnemite are all shiny and metal and stuff, aren't they? You could always name it Chrome...or maybe something to do with electricity, like Spark or Static?

[He'd rather not get punched in the face though.]

hm. 'ampere' could work. it's a unit of electrical current. and metal is electrically conductive!

There you go! That sounds cool, too.

ampere it is then! as for sentret... i don't honestly know. he's rather fond of standing on my head...

Mine did that too! Until she got too big, anyway. Lemme think...

You said most of your Pokemon are pretty calm, right? Is there anything else that might set your Sentret apart from the others?

he runs in and flushes out pokemon from the tall grass a lot. he enjoys sleeping near me too - or at least close enough to get his tail in my mouth.

Sounds like he's really helpful, then! Well maybe you could go off of something like that...like I named my Manectric "Leader" cause he's kindof like...the leader of my team, you know?

it sounds a bit childish but... perhaps 'scout'?

[Childish, are you kidding? This is Jimmy you're talking to.]

Aw, I think that's a perfect name!

[But he is a grown man, Jimmy.]

then scout it is! purrloin... gets on my hands a lot while i'm working.

[You are a grown man surrounded by colorful battle monsters.

The line has long since been crossed.]

Sounds like they're real curious then. Nosy, maybe.

hm. something more regal i think.

cats... felidae... feli... felicia?

That sounds like a good name to me!

dratini might be difficult. she doesn't really seem to like following along with things from me in general.

[Dratini pls.]

Aww, I understand. Well, there's gotta be something that'll catch on that you both will like, yeah?

[There's a pause as he flips through the Pokedex function to look at what her evolutions are.]

[... Huh.]

[He takes a moment to try out some of the names with her.]

well she didn't try to bite me for 'bianca'.

That's a good start! Maybe try some more, see which one she seems to like the best!

i'll try a few.

skarmory is going to be 'dynamica'. but i have no idea how to name a ghost or a... whatever bronzor is.

Well I've never had a ghost before, but I've met ghosts...try to think of stuff that reminds you of them, maybe? Though I dunno if you've ever met a ghost before either...

i haven't, no. though i suppose it might be similar to a trace!

A trace? What's that?

it's the

i suppose you could say it's the 'impression' of a person, what their particular skills are.

....weeeeeiird

so it's not like, their soul or whatever?

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