Recent content by Persephone

@casablancamoon I continue to treasure these reviews. 1.6 Six chapters pre-journey is, or at least, was, a lot for the conventions of the genre. But this has always been a story about characters first and a journey second, so, I've never really had a problem with it. If anything, the...

This entry was commissioned by PA2. Lugia (Johto) “I think I’d always sort of believed in anthro-supremacy, even after so many years of studying dragons. Then I spoke with a lugia… YS-9, we called her. We talked for maybe twenty minutes and the whole time I felt like I was nothing more to...

@slamdunkrai I have really loved these reviews over the last few days. You caught on to a lot of things I intended and a few that I very much did not (or forgot about after several years). A few quick points: -Gen's chapter is largely a result of being half-original, half-edits based on where...

I haven’t got much time. Too busy managing a multimorbillion dollar multimedia franchise. Have a book pitch idk. Art by Reshiram Pixie Sixthborn is making friends and enemies. An unexpected class president runoff has led to the school doors being locked until the most popular emerges...

Metagross (Beldum, Metang) Diabolus estmachina Overview Beldum and metang are broadly helpful, reasonably powerful pokémon that many trainers would benefit from having on their team. Metagross possess the cruelty and power of a hydreigon combined with the intellect of an alakazam. Only a...

Ground 9.4: Everything We Cannot Keep Cuicatl September 10, 2020 It’s usually not that bad being in the back. Just weird. You can feel Pix—Kahakū’s fur under a hand. Feel legs burn a little as they rise and fall. Feel sun on a back and moist air on skin. Hear hard breathing. You can feel a...

Minior Altesupra leo Overview Most airborne pokémon regularly come to ground. Few fly higher than the tallest mountains. The list of species that leaves the stratosphere and enters the very edge of Earth’s atmosphere is smaller still. It is limited mostly to extraterrestrial creatures that...

Ground 9.3: Beneath the Armor Lyra September 8, 2020 There’s a weight pressing into your stomach when you wake. Too small to be any of your pokémon. Could be Madeline. She usually stays on Cuicatl’s side of the tent, though. You reach out a hand to feel it. Hard. Square. Great. This again...

Beheeyem (Elgyem) Scullensis mulderi Overview In 1948, metallic debris was found scattered near Roswell, New Mexico. Two weeks later, a new species was found wandering the desert. Scientists continue to debate whether the two events were at all related. Beheeyem have become synonymous with...

Ground 9.2: Den Mother Red the Pyroar You were the largest and healthiest daughter of your litter. You studied diligently at your mother’s side for as long as you were allowed to remain. Learned to fight and nurture. Excelled in all the ways a cub could. You were rewarded with exile and...

A commission by Crashmoth Azumarill (Azurill, Marill) Caudaolei littoralis Overview The world is full of small pokémon that receive relatively little attention outside of local beginning trainers. Azumarill, as a small herbivorous lagomorph, may seem like they should be no more useful in...

Arc 9: Ground There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. -Douglas MacArthur Ground 9.1: Cake Day Kekoa September 3, 2020 It turns out Plumeria’s goal really was to get independence quickly and violently. Great. But surely someone must have thought, hey, what if Alola...

Ogerpon – Kitakami “And when the noble Pecharunt fell back upon the earth, the monster from the northwest retreated back to her woods. She was not the first foreigner to attempt to conquer our lands. She will not be the last to try. Pecharunt rests now. He will return when Japan is threatened...

Ice 8.10: Usurpers Molayne September 3, 2020 Even with the most powerful flashlight you own to light the way, mapping out all of the darkened corridors of Blush Mountain Geothermal Plant has taken far too long. The full-face respirator you have to wear isn’t helping. Apparently, no one ever...