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4. What are some major events in the history of your world? The biggest non-canon historical events established in TQftL are the two times there was a portal between the Pokémon world and the animal world, i.e. ours. The ancestors of Pokémon world humans came there thousands of years ago...

Dave made his way past S'more and Giovanni's cells, holding a takeaway bag from the X-Eye Cauldron in his mouth. He'd wound up bringing several cans of beer (may as well leave him a few if he was staying long), a couple of burgers and fries in boxes, and a large portion of mozzarella sticks for...

The amount of milk you would need to have to make the moon out of cheese would be more than has ever existed on Earth. Cibus isn't big enough to have that many Miltank. It's probably just a normal moon made of rock, like other moons. Pause. Where do you get the milk on Cibus? Is it talking...

Mia does not like Joule. He killed Dave and she does not want to merge with him and he is too bright and it's annoying. It does not mean anything very important that he is her biological father. The other her didn't even have biological parents because she was engineered from open-source genomic...

Dave raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, no. Pretty glad we don't, personally. Better no god than praying you win the fucking God Lottery and get one that isn't some form of maniac liable to murder half the population or turn people into salt or whatever the fuck. God knows the gods people have made up...

But what I said means that we're full siblings, Mia said. If we all had different extra parents other than Eien and Joule, we'd only be partial siblings. If you want to have siblings you should be happy.

Come on, this is... Look, we already knew familiars are partly based on our energy or spirit or memories or whatever the fuck. What exactly does this change? There's still nothing biological involved. You can't just say we're 'parents' in some new sense now just because the stone's some kind of...

Dave nodded slowly. "Right. I'll swing by tomorrow with something from the Cauldron." He paused. "Guess you should avoid the extra-hot sauce. Do Substitutes eat?" On the one hand, the idea that Squiggly'd basically been some kind of unholy sperm cell was disconcerting, but on the other hand...

Dave's gut clenched. The thought of Substitutes being left to just run around independently, forks of his psyche, until the inevitable moment their fragile bodies were destroyed and nothing remained, was somehow worse than them all simultaneously disappearing. "Do you want to stay in the...

Dave opened his mouth and then stopped. There were obvious answers. The way that the notion of discrimination hadn't even computed for Puff, holy shit. Souls and afterlives? Only if Soda was to be believed souls actually existed back home, too, and were just conveniently undetectable and...

Dave watched Soda apprehensively. He didn't like the idea of the real Soda still out there obliviously believing in his apocalypse plan one bit, and couldn't be entirely convinced that him destabilizing as a result of learning the truth was worse than him going on in his delusion. On the other...

Dave's gut stung with the absolute worst feeling about this. "Or it's fucking Soda's Arceus."

Dave raised an eyebrow. "If you say so."

Dave narrowed his eyes at Giovanni. "You didn't answer the question. Did you corrupt him with Blacklight and so on, or was he always like that?"

"Why? I mean, they deserve rights like anyone else, no matter how much trouble it is. What kind of question is that?"

Dave looked back over at Soda, who seemed to have completely zoned out of the conversation. He took a step toward him, speaking quieter. "Hey. Soda. You know anything about what your other self meant by that? Knowing what makes Blacklight Mewtwo tick?"

1. Tell us about your world. The QftLverse is roughly an interpretation of the Pokémon anime universe, with a lot of bits of worldbuilding accumulated over sixteen years of writing my trainerfic The Quest for the Legends and its offshoots. The anime is broadly canon to it, except for any bits...

Dave watched as Flesh pulled Soda into some kind of embrace, gaze lingering on him for a moment, but then turned back to Diyem and to the screen showing Giovanni. "Well, what are the odds it's just that Mewtwo, as an autonomous being? When you say it followed your orders alone, was it literally...

The description of a stained-glass mind held together with spider silk made Dave’s skin crawl. He glanced over at Brisa, the simultaneously sickened and frightened expression etched on her face even as she couldn’t look away. Fucking psychics. Soda was having some kind of goddamn breakdown and...

Dave looked at Owen, at Soda, at Breaker. Well, she sure could mess with a bunch of heads. Or any sufficiently powerful Psychic, like Karat. Or... omnipresent dark emotional void Overseer therapist Bean. "Soda, we just want to figure out what the hell is going on and what happened to your...