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  1. Mindlack

    Remember the first time you played Reborn?

     

    How a charming, enthusiastic, somewhat not-quite-down-to-earth young girl encouraged you to go to her "really nice" friend Mr. Shadow because there was a door he could open? And then, you found yourself in the Power Plant? 

     

    Imagine that happening to you in real life. What would happen then? 

     

    [Ominous music background with lots of tense pauses]

     

    A new chapter of The Odd One Out is online.

     

     

     

    And we're still respecting the Candy-approved guideline of a Gym battle every at most five chapters, I didn't think it was possible. 🤣

  2. Mindlack
    I just can't let that one pass, sorry in advance for the source. Same here. The feelings I had with Reborn were... complicated, when I first watched a playthrough. I mean, it was so... so obviously not right! So much was wrong, so many characters were screwed up beyond belief. So I googled the name and found the forums and wanted to rant I felt it all was. But I read a bit instead, I eventually calmed down, and... well, I certainly didn't think I'd end up doing a fanfiction of it at the time. I'll let Caz's Desolation answer for me:
  3. Mindlack
    I really should wait for a better time to do this, because there's a lot I have to do, but I'm also seriously mismanaging my time and my sleep schedule so I don't think I'm good for anything until next morning. So, let's do something overdue. Chapter 36: Worse Worries Character ratings: Death count:
  4. Mindlack
    I'm speaking about the very first sentences of the game (which are also pretty much the first sentences of your prologue):
  5. Mindlack
    So the caring parents can turn dictatorial, but they can be reasoned with. And the Nurse Joys are a dynasty.. I guess one has to take the good with the bad. Desolation question: Do you know when this start-of-game conversation is occurring in the Desolation timeline? Have we even reached that point? Because it sounds a little like (early e5 spoiler) yet some of it doesn't really fit (especially the part about consequences).
  6. Mindlack
    Nice. I appreciate that Felicia’s parents show actual concern as to a Pokemon adventure – this is like first-class care for the Pokemon world – but it’s funny how Felicia “doesn’t get it” (although, she’s 10, it’s normal). And yet the Desolation plot wants her to become a heroine... I’m looking forward to reading what’s going to happen!
  7. Mindlack
    I'd never have thought that Candy would try and deliver Lin the Queen's message. That's more than reckless! Shouldn't she, like, know better? Then again, of course she's a Pokemon Champion so recklessness is literally part of the job. Why does Vanilla believe the training isn't going to be pleasant? You sort of asked for it by not waiting for E19, but I feel that's the better choice. It would lessen the fun to read (or, I guess, write) if we knew you already had the answer, instead of us knowing you have to try and accomodate an incomplete canon and tell events
  8. Mindlack
    Yes, it is, isn't it? It's always nice to invent some, but making it rich enough and fully consistent is a complex task, which you've done quite well in my opinion.
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    Honestly, I didn't want the Doctor to not care at all after the children. After all, he's canonically been in the Orphanage for quite a while, so I thought it was unlikely for him not to care at all. But that's not the only reason why he acts -- like many people, he has stated motivations, motivations he knows but won't claim out loud, and motivations he's barely (if at all) aware of. So I wouldn't dare assign him an alignment -- a 'lawful' guy does not call up Meteor muscle to do something for him, when he has the law on his side. But as the head of the Orphanage (and attached to law and proc
  10. Mindlack

    Have you ever wondered what Shade was doing in its free time? When it's not terrorizing people? Foreseeing future disasters? Being randomly cryptic at mysteriously glowing Trainers from nowhere? 

     

    The new chapter of The Odd One Out might provide you with an answer! 

     

     

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    2. DelRad

      DelRad

      But really though trying to document more than 8.7 million animals for the encyclopedia is just

      torture

    3. DelRad

      DelRad

      My computer lagged and sent an extra message sorry

    4. Mindlack

      Mindlack

      I’m aware you were joking. I’m just really bad at answering that kind of joke. 
       

      But that’s a very good idea you were suggesting, it would go a long way towards explaining why Shade became, well, Shade... 

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  11. Mindlack
    @Evi Crystal: Yes... it's a lot of the point of this entire section. And the nastier bits are still to come, obviously. Also, the thread has now over 5000 views and 35 chapters. I wasn't confident I'd keep going on when I started (slightly less than a year ago), but well, here it is. Thank you to all of you who read! So... new chapter. If you've followed the status posts (or discord maybe? I don't remember), you've read that the Shade chapters were a bit of a headache during summer break, and that I had to, er, rework them quite a bit. It might be somewhat weirder than
  12. Mindlack
    I googled it and I found it was a (slightly modded) Dr. Seuss quote. I have no idea whether it's really a random post emanating from too long a Discord chat or there's a puzzle to unravel here...
  13. Mindlack

    The Odd One Out's new chapter is online! We're closing the Orphanage arc -- and re-instituting character ratings, and chronological order as well.  

     

     

  14. Mindlack
    Here's the new chapter, we're ending the Orphanage arc here. Which, alas, leaves us to deal with the consequences afterwards... Something something Shade fight something something Azurine something something screenshots something something Amaria something something Blacksteam (don't pay attention, that's just my subconscious complaining about the next chapters not coming too smoothly -- but it'll work out in the end). Chapter 34: Breaking Out Character ratings:
  15. Mindlack
    As a Wise Old Wizard (TM) once said, it’s easier to forgive people for being wrong than for them being right. For very many people, it’s hard to acknowledge they’re wrong and the other speaker is right even when you know (or “subconsciously” believe) it. It’s easier to grudgingly apply their advice. Also, isn’t Vanilla a bit selfish when considering how Pikachu’s death affects her (or her plans)? After all, she’s denying the actual victim their desire to fight. Then again, it’s a really understandable reaction. I wish I could find the drive to read back the mom chapter and
  16. Mindlack
    I remember beating that Sirius fight with revives, x items, and lots of save scumming (not that I didn’t struggle with many other fights as well!). This is one reason why I don’t know where you are now, but if that fight is the one you remember, I think you still have lots of difficult battles ahead. Enjoy!
  17. Mindlack
    Regarding Nova: Regarding the real world: I 'm not sure, but it looks like Toxicroakite isn't available yet.
  18. Mindlack
    I would switch them (even though the grinding is going to be a pain) but I am not that great at the game. Noivern has slightly better defences virtually everywhere, far better speed and its special attack significantly beats Pidgeot's attack (also iirc fighting-type Pokemon rarely have a great special defence). It also learns Hurricane, Dragon Pulse, and perhaps even Boomburst (if you can use the move relearner) which is boosted on the field. It also resists everything Pidgeot resists, nullifies its electric weakness and fighting weakness, at the cost of being *4'ed by ice and weak to fai
  19. Mindlack

    I've been trying out Zumi's Rejuv character sorter. I had 68 characters, after removing Rifts and PCs. But when looking at the results, the only thing I can think of is how it took over 320 ~ log_2(68!) comparisons to sort the list. Truly, you can feel the difference between O(nlog(n)) (minimal average number of comparisons for a list-sorting algorithm) and n when you have to specify each comparison by hand (Volta or Florin? Jolene or Alexandra?...)

     

     

    1. SilverAngelus

      SilverAngelus

      Melia, although before taking this sorter my top 3 were (and still is) Erin, Tesla, and Risa!

    2. Mindlack

      Mindlack

      Yes, it's strange how the sorter doesn't always do what you think it would do (I hadn't even thought of Tesla when I started, I then realized I perferred her to almost everyone).

      Spoiler

      So I take it you don't support the "Risa is Freya" theory?

       

    3. SilverAngelus

      SilverAngelus

      The sorter is good for helping you realize characters that might not come to mind right way, yup!

      Spoiler

      I don't 😛 

       

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  20. Mindlack
    That’s not a bad idea, but the timeline doesn’t seem to track, does it? Amanda says their plan has been in motion shortly before the MC returned to Aevium. But I’m pretty sure the Interceptor project is much older than that (at least Garufa old).
  21. Mindlack

    I recently found out that my Reborn story's title (The Odd One Out -- there's a new chapter just available btw) was almost the name of a (entirely unrelated) YT channel with millions of subscribers. People (including me) are weird, I guess?

  22. Mindlack
    Hey, new chapter here! Perhaps I should apologize to Ame for how I portrayed her self-insert... You'll decide for yourselves, I guess. Chapter 33: Shocking Authorities
  23. Mindlack

    Time spent procrastinating the Shade fight because I feared I would get so wrecked: a couple of weeks. 

    Time spent preparing for said battle: a few hours. 

    Final score after first battle: 6-0. 

     

     

    Maybe, just maybe, counting the number of times I fail makes me overthink stuff? Or am I just getting better?

  24. Mindlack
    Thank you @Evi Crystal for your comment! I was trying to answer yesterday and it devolved into more or less a retelling of every internal monologue Gabriel had to this point... so something pretty useless. So I'll try to summarize Gabriel's attitude differently. He's lawful good at heart, but he's in Reborn City, a place almost as far as possible from everything he's ever witnessed. A harsh, torn apart, unforgiving place, where he doesn't even believe he had any reason to go to in the first place. So he has two main goals: survive and leave. Hence, as he's not a fi
  25. Mindlack
    Hey, it's been quite a while since the last chapter -- that's summer vacation for you. (I swear, I'll try not to make that many excuses from now on) The views counter keeps growing, I'm quite amazed -- thank you to all those of you who read. This chapter and the next one follow a nonlinear time structure, meaning that some events in chapter 33 happen between some of those of chapter 32 and some of those of chapter 31. I've tried to keep mentioning the correct timelines so that you don't get too confused. There is also a little riddle in the chapter -- do yo
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