ZEL

Frankfurt, huh? I almost got lost there once. For someone who lives in a big city I'm pretty awful at navigating them. But stupid jokes about your names aside, welcome to Reborn! I'll be the last person to tell you to change anything about your team, considering my own are pretty much built around the flawless, highly advanced concept of "idk I like this one, let's use it". I dragged a Noctowl around for 13 badges, I'm sure you'll do fine :') Anyway, enjoy your stay here!

It's 3am, I'm listening to stuff while aimlessly writing meaningless snippets for stories of mine, and I have an addition for this thread. Sorry for the revival, can't resist. Poets of the Fall - Change How I wish you'd only see how your own choices make your dream come out shining true, before it can leave you I wish that you could see how your own choices make your dream come out shining true all around you

What I learned from this is that Ice is a beautiful princess, that Cadence and Spike Dan and Ame saved the Crystal Empire Drool Planet, and that Jan is the worst meme yet. I am amazed.

I didn't use them at all, but I have to admit that's mostly because I don't like monkeys .-. Monkeys creep me out. Pansage is a bit cuter than the rest, but I never needed them for the gym, so I just dropped them into the box forever well ok no, until I needed them evolved to complete my dex.

Came here for the angry Zero you promised me, lost it at facepalming Solaris Please never stop, I need more of this all in my life (Now let me find the tumblr post because I was asleep and it's tragic I only got to see this now)

Oh dear lord, the Aussies are taking over, now there's another one of them ...Just kidding, of course. Welcome to the forums, enjoy your stay c: also, Goodra's the second cutest dragon, nice choice~

Happy Birthday, son! You're super fun to talk to/hang out with, as I already mentioned when I did that thing where I gushed about my friends here. But since it's your birthday, guess I'll repeat it because you deserve to hear it c: Honestly, you're a cheerful fella, and you always get a chuckle outta me somehow. Glad to have you around! Here's to a good year - enjoy your cake~

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUGS I'm sure you can use some birthday hugs I'll give you birthday hugs hugs I'd bake a cake but I'm terrible at that so maybe better not. As my bro in law once said, coal can be bought in stores. I hope you have a great birthday <3

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SMOLKA UM I MEAN IKEA ERR AIKA I hope you'll have time to drop by more often soon again; really feels like the chat is missing something when you're not around. Bibs is taking good care of your typos while you're busy kicking school's ass, but we'll all be happy to have you back again. I hope you have a great birthday! You're a little less smol now c:

I will burn this field and nobody will be able to stop me. I don't need someone trapping my 'mons on there for a three turn trip to hell, no sir. [noises of excitement but also terror]

Heyyy, happy birthday, Colin! You're always a friendly face around the server, definitely feels odd when you're not around as much o: I hope you have a great birthday and lots of cake~

To be honest that one boggled me when you defeat the first PULSEgrowth and Eve's just like "recover the model and escape at once". I mean, those machines do look kind of big... Perhaps someone got bored and invented a shrink ray.

So I take it the wall is gonna gain some more height.

"You have reached your quota of positive votes for the day" This thing is the bane of my existence I swear [whispers] I'm terrible at responding but I'll try not to fail too hard ok I tend to think of myself as someone who isn't particularly notable among the big number of regulars here, so I'm legitimately surprised when people who I don't talk to on a daily basis have a distinct impression of me, let alone enough of an impression for it to be positive. I really appreciate the kind words <3 and the ice cream sandwich. delicious~ Just you wait, all of you. One day you're gonna regret putting my family into the games. You want me to win a couple more times? Really though, I consider myself very lucky to have met so many amazing people here. Reborn is very different from what I am (or was) used to, and in the beginning I was doubtful if I would really fit in here. I was admittedly very intimidated by the fact that there's a certain wariness towards newer members, but despite that, I've managed to find a place to feel comfortable in. Don't get your hopes up, you won't get rid of me all that fast c: /shot

At the very least, it might be a nice thing to have a plce where we can swap them. Maybe something like "if you give me a plate I'll give you a random different plate for it", with the plate changing daily, idk. Because even though you can reset in front of the mining stone until you got what you want, I still vividly remember needing to mine over a hundred times before I finally found a single Mind Plate. Something that could potentially make it less of a hassle to get a plate you need would be neat.

I almost didn't make this, but a totally Innocent Boy told me I should. Anyway, because I'm highly creative and would never pick up ideas from other people around here, I'm making an Anniversary Thread. ...How do you mean everyone and their grandmothers have done this before? Oops. I, ahem, most definitely did not get this idea from your grandma. Tell her I'm sorry. But now that I'm here and typing this, might as well continue. I mean I spent what, three valuable minutes of my comparatively short existence on this so far? So here's the thing: It's my very first anniversary here on Reborn today. (Shhh it's 1:35am in my timezone.) When I started playing the game last March, I didn't expect to like it. I didn't expect that I'd genuinely enjoy it, or that I'd even finish it at all. Subsequently, I also didn't expect to join this community, let alone stick around. Y'see, I'm the kind of person who finds it really difficult to get comfortable in new environments. I came here because I couldn't stand that I had nobody to discuss the game with, and I didn't think that I'd ever want to do anything else here. Before I came here, I hadn't joined an online community in almost seven years. So why would this place be any different than all the other failed attempts? To be honest, I don't know. I don't know what made me try harder with Reborn than with all those other sites. Maybe I just met the right people at the right time. But oh well - here we are. You've been stuck with me for a year now. So it's time for me to say a thing or two. I've already said the first, I guess. Moving on to the other. Another thing that I'm totally not stealing from everyone else. 100% original, never seen before. ...Ok yeah you're right. It's the part where I get sappy and tell people that I love them. I'm not putting this in any particular order. And if you're not on there, you're very free to assume that you're a rad person, too. 'Cause I say so. I have no idea what I'm supposed to expect from this thread to be completely honest. I kind of just really wanted an excuse to praise my friends, so please forgive me if there's not much substance to all this besides that. I don't feel 100% comfortable making a thread because I don't think I deserve attention for having been around for a year, but I guess since so many people do this kind of thing, you can probably forgive me for adding one more to the pile. ...Hey - at least it's not an AMA. Well I mean... y'know... [cheap joke about my name here] That'll be all.

Oh I don't think he hates Florinia, not by any measure. I hope that's not how my post reads. He's certainly resentful because of her apparent neglect, but the fact that he blows up in her face about how she didn't show enough care for him is proof enough that he wanted to be close to her. He didn't say "I have no sister any more" lightly as a throwaway comment, he really did seem devastated at how she acted towards him at the Fiore Mansion.

I like Fern. He's interesting. I don't know where that one post I made about it is - I think it's sooomewhere in the E15 discussion, but I'm too lazy to find it. Edit: Shit, that's a wall of text. I really, really don't think that Fern is going to keep up his behavior for the whole rest of the story. Now, I do agree that it's unlikely he'll suddenly turn around and be a friendly little sweetheart, but the trope "Good Is Not Nice" exists for a reason. I think Fern is perfectly capable of coming to his senses about what side he should be on, and still be a jerk. Not everyone who fights for the same cause as you will always be your friend, or even a likable person to you. With Fern, I always feel like there are two main issues for him. First, he always, always gets overshadowed somehow. First by Florinia, who he is "only" the reserve leader for, and who appears to have been hugely popular during her trainer school days (more popular than Fern?), and later by the player, because no matter what Fern does, not only do you easily catch up with him, but you're also the one who gets sung all the praise. Of course, we know that people don't like praising Fern because of his bragging and the way he insults the people he battles against, but everything about his attitude just reeks of someone who is very desperate for attention, to the point where he doesn't even care any more if it's good or bad attention. At the end of E15, even Solaris compliments the player on their battling skills and shuts Fern down. I mean, wow, that must suck, especially when Florinia scolds him in front of everyone. Second, whatever it is that happened to Rini, it affected him more than he's been able to handle. There's a moment in E15 that I find especially memorable: I'm not sure what I want to think happened during the Onyx School days of the leaders, but whatever happened, we know that Florinia felt deeply hurt, and decided that "shutting down" (probably more like, forcefully suppressing) her emotions would protect her from hurt in the future. She's playing the role of the emotionless "Flobot" to keep herself out of more harm's way, but everyone else around her is left to deal with the change by themselves. Julia tries really hard to be the same as ever to her, she doesn't want to give up on her friend and I believe she refuses to accept Rini's current "situation" as the endgame. Fern is effectively telling us in E15 that he feels like he has lost his sister. We don't know how their relationship was prior to the incident, but with Rini's decision to suppress her emotions, she made no exception for Fern, and treated him just as indifferently as everyone else. We see it as early as during out first strike against Meteor - she "allows" Fern to be as dangerously reckless as possible (during the convo where she tells the player to stay safe). Of course he's already not being very nice to her at that time, but I can only imagine what it must have been like for Fern to watch his sister change so completely, never resolving the incident that hurt her, and refusing to deal with the consequences. Rini refuses to consider the consequences, instead insisting that it's irrational for her friends to still be emotional about everything. I don't know if Fern is so desperate for attention and recognition because of the situation with Florinia, or if he's always been someone who likes attention and everything's just been made worse by what happened back then. But to me it feels like everything Fern does, from being outrageously arrogant and condescending, to joining Team Meteor, is a giant cry for attention. He claims he joined Meteor so he can have his "rightful place at the top", and I feel like he is simply trying to create a situation in which people are forced to give him the recognition he can't seem to get from them otherwise. Is he an immature dick for it? Yes. But I very much think Fern can come to his senses if only the problem between Rini and Tania would be resolved properly after all those years. Give that poor boy his sister back, maybe that'll be a start to helping him be less of a jerk.

I refer to ZEL as they/them when talking about them collectively, since it just seems polite. Which does remind me, you know a little scene that I really liked? Everyone else (besides themselves) always uses the ZEL name, it's nice to see Sigmund actually differentiating (and likely being able to tell them apart.)

Your arguments make sense, so I feel like our differing opinions are pretty much based on us interpreting Eve (or Lumi, for that matter) as a character differently. I personally don't see her as being someone who would ever truly support Meteor any further than she needs to for ensuring survival. I don't think that if you gave her a choice, she would side with Lin or Meteor at all. She just doesn't have that choice and now tries to retain the bit of control that she has. But that's just my personal thoughts, nothing that can be explicitly proven through the game, so I can't use it as an argument. It's more... gut feelings I guess. So your arguments make perfect sense in your interpretation of her, is all I can say. I do hope we get to see them again soon. It's been so long :c I miss them.

Well uh, I wasn't... actually taking that seriously, y'see