ZEL

There's a guy living somewhere around here who somehow made it his habit to wander the streets almost every night between 3 and 4am. I don't know who he is or what's up with him, but pretty much every night I'll hear footsteps outside as he walks along the street, up our and our neighbours' shared driveway, and away again. He never does anything else. Just comes and leaves. Been going on for years now. I'm used to it now, but the first times I noticed, I found it to be quite scary. Thought he might try to break into our house or something.

^Probably both of them. I'm chuckling. That's some awesome art. Samson's butt, man.

>tfw two cute birds are named after me x When will Azery finally be a duck o: Edit: Wait since when am I a Solrock? I missed that! Solrock is cool~ I name all my Reborn 'mons, usually randomly. Which means I just either pick some name that pops into my head, or I make one up from scratch. Though with some I just have to name them after specific things. I especially like to name them after/reference Reborn characters, kinda like Shelly except half the time it seems to end up being Meteor names :'D I've got Luminous (Lumi) the Espeon, Eventide (Eve) the Noivern, Star (Tara) the Dewgong, Eclipse the Absol, a shiny Staraptor named Zero, and a shiny Houndoom named Sirius. As for the characters we're allied with: Anna the Froslass, Caine the shiny Scolipede (she's female, I don't think Cain would mind), Aya the Skrelp (still gotta train her) and I might name my Volcarona Charlotte because it's a Firebug huehue.

Oh my god, that Decibel <3 Badass, especially with that magnificent coat whirling around. Can I just say you draw really cool poses?

You and I are gonna get along just fine I see :3 Skarmory is my favourite as well~ Welcome to the madhouse. I'm your resident Meteor Agent, here to inform you that we are still recruiting, and that someone of your calibre will surely find a place among our ranks. I mean, Slytherin/Ravenclaw, what's not to like there? Ambition, leadership, intelligence, creativity, it's all there in that mind of yours! Don't miss out on the opportunity! ...That said, enjoy your stay here c: Reborn's a great place if you can deal with the inevitable loss of your sanity.

Name: Amalia Animal: Albatross Boys Name: Alexander Girls Name: Alice Occupation: Actor Colour: Auburn Something you wear: Anorak Drink: Apple juice Food: Asparagus Something you find in the bathroom: Avocado-scented soap (not even kidding. I don't like the smell either...) Place: Aachen Reason to be late: Alarm didn't go off Something you shout out: ARCEUS Argh!

I'm another one of the crowd who didn't really think about it so far, gotta admit that. Ever since learning that many of the characters are based on real people, I just figured that the high number of female characters could be explained that way, but I haven't looked at it in contrast to the mostly-male villain cast before. More female villains would indeed have been nice; I mean, Lin seems pretty cool as a head honcho so far. But thinking about it, Lin is the only high-profile female Meteor member who is portrayed as unambigulously evil/made-to-be-disliked so far. Eve gets significantly less villainous with the backstory reveal, and Lumi has never been portrayed as a villain anyway. So besides Lin, the Meteors do lack some despicable, non-male leadership. Same goes for the orderlies and cultists, though with those, they generally don't have all that many important characters to offer, besides their respective leaders. I didn't see female characters being any more portrayed as damsels in distress than males, however. It only looks that way because the ratio of female to male is higher. We did have to save Cain and Noel, two of the guys on our team, and we get assistance from the girls just as much as we save them. Currently, Aya is the one in need of saving, but she only got into that situation because she saved the PC from Sirius, and if she hadn't done that and Sirius subsequently decided to take her captive, then both she and the player would have ended up like Eclipse.

Triple battles, including Rotation battles. I love Rotation battles, they're so cool. All the double fights we've had so far were cool and I like it a lot to get to team up with people, or even to stand alone against teamed-up opponents. It'd be awesome to see the oher battle varieties make appearances. Triple/Rotation battle against ZEL when? It's the perfect opportunity. Dunno, I just like those battle forms and wish they were present in the game. Though to be fair, I don't know if this is possible, since I'm clueless about the limitations as far as programming goes.

All I can say for the field effects based on my personal experience is that I don't think you really have to train a huge variety of Pokemon to take advantage of them. Sure, if you trin the right Pokemon, you can optimize your advantages, but as for me? I'm a very casual player. I don't do competitive, I barely ever EV train (only did it crudely for some of my Reborn 'mons because I wanted to try it out), and I don't try to get good IVs. I take what I get. I don't try to assemble a perfect team. I play this game with my favourites, because that's how I enjoy it the most. And I can still make use of the fields, and haven't wanted to ragequit the game yet. I almost always find at least one effect on each field that makes things easier for me. Even if it's something as stubborn as sending out a Fire type against Charlotte to make use of the Heated Field. Even if it's just utilizing flinching moves for extra damage on Rocky Terrain. And I have not once yet had to use a Pokemon that I didn't want to use anyway. Besides my main team, I have four others in the box, one of which I consider active in rotation, the other three of which I dropped because I no longer wanted to use them on my main. I have no doubt I still could, if I wanted. I beat Ditto Arceus with two NU tier 'mons, if that's anything to judge by. Reborn isn't easy, and it's not supposed to. But I don't think the field effects or limitations on us players make it too hard to be enjoyable.

Gotta admit, it always puzzled me why some people find it difficult to understand that one can think people look attractive without being attracted to them. It's not such a strange concept to acknowledge that someone or something is aesthetically pleasing~ Would be a shame to only be able to compliment the looks of those who we could possibly be attracted to. I mean, I like complimenting people, compliments are nice and there's lots of pretty faces in the world. Preach it.

Aye, first of all, welcome to the madhouse! To be honest, I think playing Reborn as a casual player and then being confronted with those battled where you have to think up a bit of strategy to win was a really cool experience for me, too. It was nice to be challenged c: As you've already been told, sanity is not needed here, and hey, you know what? I think you sound just crazy enough to make a fine addition to Team Meteor, so you should totally consider joining :3 You wanna be the very best? We can help you. I guess. I mean, the hard work's gotta pay off eventually, right? Aaanyway, enjoy your stay here~

Ooooh, I'm pretty darn sure I've seen your art float around on tumblr before o: That style looks familiar to me~ Anyway, welcome to the actual madhouse of Reborn, hope you'll enjoy your stay! You know, someone with your artistic talent would surely find a good place among the ranks of Team Meteor. I mean... okay, actually I don't know what we'd need artists for, but uh, maybe it'll prove useful one day? Just sayin' you should totally join us. It'll be fun. ...Really!

Wait, when did those arrive D: They must've forgotten about m- err, I mean, of course they didn't, everything is in order. You see, I'm not among them because I'm fulfilling the very important task of letting new members know that Team Meteor is still hiring, and that you, too, can become a part of the New World~ Honestly, you should totally consider it. You'll even get a cool hood for free. Now, welcome to the madhouse, enjoy your stay c:

I consider my best trait to be that I'm a very caring person. I would and already have repeatedly and readily put my own feelings and wellbeing aside in order to be there for others. I'm proud to know that there are people for who I managed to make a huge difference. My worst trait is that I'm irresponsible. I frequently get in the way of myself when it comes to getting stuff done, even if it causes others problems, too. I constantly talk myself out of doing things, and it results in an ever-growing mountain of issues that I'm too scared to deal with.

Muckilän the scarlet macaw, and to this day I have no clue where the name came from. I guess I just... randomly made it up? But honestly, no idea *shrugs* He's the oldest plushie I have and I love him, and child Ama even made their parents buy another macaw as a friend for him. I always loved parrots~

Hmm. First I thought that maybe I should skip saying something here, because I haven't been around for very long yet and didn't make that much private conversation with people yet. But perhaps that's exactly why I should post. Because despite being new, I've already met great people, and I'm very thankful for that. For starters, how about Odybld and DarkSpite who went out of their way to message me. I really, really suck at keeping conversations going because I feel like I'm annoying, but I appreciate it a lot, and I'm sorry for just... dropping it like I did. I'm a very awkward person :c Similarly, shout out to Wendel for being awesome and fun to talk to. One of these days I'll take you up on the offer to visit you, and you better make sure there's cookies. Dan totally needs more than one appreciation week, because yo, he works really hard. And is super friendly, too. Where can I donate to sponsor you a professional massage or a holiday trip, because you totally deserve both. Last, but definitely not least, Ice. You know why you're on here. Literally the coolest, hoping to chill with ya IRL in the near future. ...No, for real, I couldn't be more glad to have met you. Thank you.

I'm bigender, one of the genderfluid variety. I only discovered the label around the time when I was 18, but that doesn't change that I've felt what I am since... well, I can remember that feeling since Kindergarten. It was a confusing experience for me. At some times I'd be fine the way I was; born female, feeling female. But other times it simply felt wrong. I'd be upset and angry for not having been born as a boy. I'd say that I'd rather be one, and that it wasn't fair that I had to be a girl. I think people always just pinned me as a tomboy, because especially as a little kid, I fit right into most of the gender roles for boys. From the way I liked to dress to the games I played and the interests I had, I was "boyish". But it was more confusing for me to deal with my feelings about myself. Sometimes I'd just say that, yeah, well, I want to be a boy, no wonder I'd have "boy's interests". But then I'd turn around and be upset about the notion that I as a girl was perceived as weird for it. My parents did teach me about gender as far as they knew it. They told me that some people's gender didn't match the body they were born with. Ever since they told me that, I've wondered every so often if maybe I might be trans. Maybe I really was a boy, I mean, I felt like it, right? But then I'd always remember that I also felt like a girl, and it made me doubt myself, because I didn't know about non-binary genders, didn't know about genderfluidity. I thought maybe I was just being stupid, or even conforming to stereotypes by assuming I'm male. But the feeling never went away, so I started calling myself a tomboy, too, and that's what I figured fit. It got more frustrating once I reached puberty because it means that the differences between male and female sex were getting bigger, and oh boy did it suck to have to deal with being female during the times when I didn't feel like it. I would not have had the courage to bind, so I spent many days wishing I could just make my boobs disappear or my face structure more masculine, or anything other than clothing that could somehow help me look more like I wanted to look. I eventually got a pretty neat short haircut that worked well for female and male presentation, and that gave me a huge boost of confidence back then. Still, things were complicated. It's pretty annoying to have those insecurities about your own identity. Until I heard of the term genderfluid, and, by extension, bigender. Suddenly, everything made so much more sense, because it described exactly how I felt. Sometimes male, sometimes female? Yeah, that was how I felt, and I can't describe how incredible it was to learn that this is a thing, that it exists and I'm not just being confused. And in all honesty, I know now that I'm not confused. As for being pan, I never really needed to figure that out. Rather, it was simply something I never even gave much thought. I didn't always know about the term, and only learned about it at the same time I learned about NB genders. But I never perceived a person's gender as a factor in whether or not I'd be attracted to them. I'd just go "huh, well, if I love 'em, I love 'em". My parents are accepting of all different sexualities, and when I told my mom about being attracted to a female, she just said "So? You're not the first in this family" and that was all she had to say about it. As such, I never gave a damn about who I'm attracted to.

Shush, doesn't mean you'd be related to him by blood. Could be married into the family, y'know I mean... that'd probably not go over well either, but it'd be legal and not quite as morally questionable :'D

Favourite: Jasmine. Look, first of all she's a Steel type trainer, second her Steelix used to be a nightmare for me when I was a kid, third it's lovely how she's worried for Ampharos, and her design is also pretty damn cute~ I just really like her. Least favourite: Chuck on the basis that I completely forgot his existence until I realized I couldn't recall all the gym leaders of Johto for some reason. Look, Johto is my favourite region, GSC/HGSS my favourite games, and I still manage to forget about this guy. I wondered if maybe that's just because I'm used to the German name, but nope.

Ho-ly shit dat Arclight. Damn. I mean, damn. Ridiculously hot y/y? Please do ship with Cain. Please. I beg you. I'm sorry, but he turned our perfect IMO. Just... yes. And I figure that considering the "I'd hit it" comment, you would talk to Sigmund at family reunions c: But hey, not bad-lookin' there. Though it would be cool if he could have some sort of lab coat at least, even if it's not resulting in the same, messy look from the game. Have fun on your cruise! Seconding SHIA's request - take us with you, I could use some time out on the ocean

[owl screeches] YOU'VE DONE THEM <3 It's actually a bit unclear what's underneath their hood; word of Ice has it that he didn't really think about what kind of hairstyle they'd have, and the game sprites don't show us much either. That smirk, though. Perfect. And I love them eyes <3 Love the other two as well, especially Serra. She's pretty~

I've always felt that Fern's biggest issue is that he never got the attention he craves. First he's overshadowed by his sister, to whom he's merely the reserve gym leader, and then, when he goes to take on the Reborn league, he probably poured his best into the training, getting badges at an insanely fast rate, but he keeps losing to the player, and his personality doesn't help him get along with people at all. So he joins the Meteors in hopes of finally getting the attention and admiration that he believes he deserves, only to fail immediately after being told he'd have to prove himself... And then Solaris compliments you. Begrudgingly so, but he takes note of your talent and your progress. Hard to say what made him so desperate for attention in the first place, but he seems to have some serious issue with not being acknowledged enough for his efforts. It's felt like this from the begnning of the game on, especially when he gets so antagonistic about you wanting to battle Rini, but it only gets worse. Fern keeps being overshadowed, and that can't feel very nice.

Gonna put it in spoiler because it's less intense discussion and more a heap of praise:

Shellyshellyshellyshellyshelly <33 Can't wait to see her, she's one of my faves <3 That's a majestic Cradily. Rini must be so proud~ I just hope that no unfortunate incidents will come between her and her most prized possession :3

Chamomile tea. I don't think I've ever run into a person who didn't tell me that they only drink it when they're sick and otherwise hate the taste. Meanwhile, it's my favourite~