How Much Responsibility Should A Champion Have In The Matters Concerning Their Region?

How much responsibility should a Champion have in the matters concerning their region?

(HEY STEVEN)

"This might sound like a surprise to you, considering I'm a Champion, but I don't think we should have all the responsibility. Hoenn actually has a Hoennese Council of Elders that works above the League, and as the League we're actually just one part of the larger governance structure in the Hoennese Peoples' Collective. One huge part of that is that we acknowledge the need to trust local governance structures to do their jobs. I would respect and listen to a village elder just as much as I would respect the Council. When we make decisions, we do so with a strong sense of interconnectedness and community--even in the days of Hoennese royalty like my family we all knew it was a bad idea for the upper levels of governance never to listen to their people. The League's power, the Collective's power and the Elders' power all comes from one thing: the fact we not only work for our people, we work with them--and we are them."

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2 for Volo B)

#2: If you had to choose between a Pokémon you really like but who isn't as strong versus a Pokémon you're less bonded to but who is stronger, which would you pick?

"What a ridiculous false dichotomy. The answer depends on the situation, and in many situations you don't have to choose at all. If I were in a low-stakes battle and yet still wished to win, I might pick the former. If I were to battle to achieve my revolutionary aims, I would pick the former because I would need the Pokémon who fought by my side to be loyal and trusted partners. Sometimes you do need to choose the stronger one in order to get the job done--but sometimes, strength also isn't everything; if I need an expert rather than a fighter, I wouldn't even care about battling strength when choosing who to fix the problem. And if I were to battle to raise my Pokémon companions' experience, I would use both--the former to increase their strength, the latter to increase our bond. Who comes up with these sorts of questions?"

choices made in anger is such a crazy image. if you know what i'm talking about

🖨 my opinions on callouts

🔑 my favorite type of threads

📫 my favorite type of ships

My opinions on callouts

Sometimes I see a callout going around and I think oh yeah that was definitely warranted. A lot of the time, I see callouts going around that I don't fully agree with or that in some aspects could have been written better but I understand the other parts. I tend not to reblog these though because when it comes to serious things like that I only want to reblog things that I endorse 100% unless I add commentary, and I don't usually add commentary because it's not the hill I want to die on. And sometimes, whether a callout is warranted or not, it will have been done out of spite--which is not something I would ever want on my blog. A lot of the time though, if a callout is very long and involves a situation I have no familiarity with--to be honest, I can't even read it. Not even because of the content or anything. It's because my brain is just completely unable to parse that much text & that many screenshots' worth of information about conflict. I also don't end up reblogging these even if I do see enough to know I should avoid the people called out because given the fact I don't reblog anything serious that I don't completely endorse, I also don't reblog anything serious that I haven't read all the way through because when it comes to accusations I am a massive stickler about seeing everything with my own eyes.

No matter what, the reason I don't feel like doing them anymore--or even trying to warn people in private as much as I used to in my now-long-ago college days--is because I've learned the hard way that no matter HOW justified your callout is, SOME FUCKSHIT is going to happen in the backlash that makes the situation a whole lot harder. I just don't have the mental capacity or the energy to get involved because callout = you get yelled at and even if I'm 100% sure I'm right I don't like getting yelled at. If one wants to do a callout it involves weighing whether the emotional toll is worth the benefits such as putting your story out there and speaking out about something important to you…Usually for me it isn't.

My favorite type of threads

As you've seen I hate getting involved in OOC drama…But I can't get enough of stirring up drama IC! One of my favorite thread types is anything involving conflict. I have a special love of petty drama type threads, heck in the past I had multiple Pokémon Contest RP events centered specifically around petty drama in the Coordinating scene and my last one even resulted in one of my characters losing his whole-ass CHAMPIONSHIP POSITION because he was a petty little shit. On the other hand, I also love hardcore serious angst--characters getting called out for their faults, villainous/morally grey muses going ham on their targets, threads touching the nerves of deep trauma or muses' deeply-held personal beliefs, horrible fights where everyone says something they regret…If anyone's looking to start a fire, I'll show up with matches and gasoline!

But of course, I can't have angst all the time. I also love seeing my muses happy and especially healing from all the horrible trauma I like to inflict on them--the endgame for all of my morally grey blorbos is finding at least some measure of redemption, healing and happiness. As such I also love tooth-rotting fluff! I haven't threaded these things yet but I have a lot of plots planned and wishlist ideas where my characters show affection and care toward those they love and they get the same back, where my muses mostly Volo engage in lighthearted mischief, where they have fun with and bond with their Pokémon--and since some of them are shapeshifters where they even get head scritches and belly rubs as Pokémon! Man, I always thought I was bad at fluff/slice of life type things because I viewed it as like "small talk" which my autistic brain cannot do, but with sweet events like @floccesyfluff-fest that I had an absolute blast at and the type of threads I'm doing right now, I think that's changing.

My favorite type of ships

I notice that over the years as my desire to write stories covers more and more characters in my hyperfixation regions (and more and more interrelations between my characters in general), I've started shipping a lot more of my characters with each other. The unavailable status of muses like my Steven/Wallace/Zinnia polycule might cause some people not to want to RP with those muses, but when I get a beautiful mental image of two of my characters together I just can't help it, I have to make them kiss LOL. I will, however, do polyamorous ships where my paired-up characters also partner up with other muns' characters in a polycule. So I think now that is my favorite type of ship! GDLSKFJDLKFJ

In theory when shipping with others my favorite type of ship is a slow burn, but in practice I usually end up not having the energy or headspace to write it all out. I usually also stumble into ships rather than approaching someone specifically to ship, which I feel is a much more natural and organic way of doing things--I don't think I've ever thought of shipping my muses right off the bat with any of my partners outside muns of muses who have canon romantic relationships with mine. Once you get to ship with me though, unless your muse doesn't want kids, it's a guarantee that I will dive straight into making fankids because honestly I love fankids as much as I love the actual ships. GASLKDFJDSLKFJASDKLFJLDASFJ

1 and 10 for Zinnia

#1: What is the proper balance of pragmatism and compassion for your friends when choosing who remains on your team?

"There are two different answers to this question. One is if you're picking Pokémon who come with you when you're fighting to kill. Take it from someone who has fought in an actual revolution: it takes a very specific kind of Pokémon to be both willing and able to do that. And if a Pokémon isn't one of them, you HAVE to say no, no matter how 'awesome' or 'badass' they think that joining a revolution is--otherwise you endanger both them AND everyone they're fighting alongside. Just make sure you help them understand that there's absolutely no shame in not being right for that kind of work, and that you'll still be their friend no matter what.

"When it comes to training Pokémon for more casual battles or for Contests, I have an altogether different philosophy: There is no such thing as bad Pokémon, only bad Trainers. Of course, if a Pokémon really doesn't want to do either Contests or battles or both, you shouldn't force them--you should let them choose what they want to do. But if they want to be the best there ever was, you BETTER put your back into making them shine and you BETTER not ditch them just because you're too impatient or incompetent of a teacher to bring out the best in them. Anything less is downright anti-Pokémon, and that's a hill I'm willing to die on."

#10: Trainers have grown so powerful that they can singlehandedly defeat the likes of Legendaries. How much power should a single Trainer be allowed to have?

"Girl, I'm as strong as the gods, and they actually let me say that without smiting me. Of course I'm going to have a bias for this answer. I think people should get to be as strong as they need to be. Like, my sister? Who's a literal Archchosen? Whose job it is to punch the stuffing out of Rayquaza if he pulls some fuckshit like Arceus did by threatening to flood the world a second time? She gets to be as strong as she wants, okay. But when it comes to people like pigs--well, I mean cops--in the countries that still have them, I think we can all agree that they neither need nor deserve to have Pokémon on the level of living weapons of mass destruction in their pocket."