Pokémon Ghost-type Memorial Medicine {GTMM}

[Coffeegrigus]

Fanfic inspired by PKMN RN on comicfury by Storiesofheroes :3
What makes a ghost type a pure ghost type, and if Cofagrigus isn't a ghost /steel type? Then what's the Steel Cofagrigus variant, an actual Egyptian royalty/nobility(I don't remember Egyptian history) that died and possesses their saphagirgus {made the headcanon on the spot, I'm so happy}
No, I do not understand jobs yet :D So, too, healthcare professionals, my bad
This isn't the most formal thread, as I plan to make short fics for this, that might focus more on characters {unless I edit, remove, and add on to posts,} the wordcount will be inconsistent. It is planned to be short, and under 500 words, but that's just a goal.

Spoiler: Trigger Warnings

Medicle... innacuracies? Probably descriptions that may make others uncofmtble when relating to medicle stuff, and injuries. Implied death, blood, but I suppose not in the first few chapters.

Gen 5 just means what generation they were born in, making Haunter and Ghastly older than my Gengar.

Gen 5 Gengar​

Spoiler: Married to a painting

My plushie has some projections from myself, from wanting to be a neuroscience major :D and having a keychain/badges/figurine collection... I bought him a painting of another Gengar, so she'd have a husband. The third con I went to had a smaller Gengar holding a heart, so now they have a kid to raise together.

X

Gen 3 Haunter X Ghastly​

Married couple

Spoiler: Haunter Mr Night eater

Haunter is from Paldea. Born in Cascarrafa, raised in Levincia when migrating as a ghastly, and stayed in Porta Marinada for some time.

Spoiler: Mr. Star

Ghastly, the New York-accented ball of gas. Unova. Pretty laidback, and smokey.

If you're asking, which region is the hospital at.......................................................................................................somewhere near purgatory, I just wanna get jiggy with it. The earth rumbled, and regions moved around a bit.

Spoiler: Ramblings of a 17 year old <3

originally brainstormed title was Ghost-Type Health & Mental wellness clinic, which ended up as H&M..... didn't like it. Googled hospital names and memorial came up, so I ended up going with that one because of its association with funerals... but I wanted to use Ghost-Type, and maybe nightmare eaters.- Ok, went back with the memorial since it worked with medicine. The initial of the title has to work with me

Spoiler: Rambling 2.0 of a future chapter I will explore

I ADORE MAKING GHOST TYPES HAVE HEALTH ISSUES- curses give a ghost-type more likely to have sickness, Rotom may possess things but can still get a virus, Treavant and phantumpt can be affected by wood rotting and tree diseases. Although in my headcanon, there are Treavent variants that are ghost/poison types, either because I made them a Gengar and trevant hybrid, or not. I liked reading Persephone Aololan Pokedex about them. Considering the fact that their ghost, it would make sense for them to also be able to curse trees with rot curses. So my own headcanon is that it probably affects them too. {Even if they are originally a dead lost kid, they died sad, which probably bonds them more closely to wood.} Mental issues, yippie- I will go in the order of Pure ghost types to bring up my interpretation of ghost types to a whole

 

[Coffeegrigus]

Maybe this isnt cohesive, im still trying to find my footing back into writing, and idk why my anxiety is eating me up for bad writing, perfenciist in the first draft isnt helpful. I apoligise if you dont know whos talking. but if you'd ask me, my lore is odd as is and i find it fun playing in that realm! i made ghost types and ghost pokemon who used to be alive slightly diffrent from eachother. because on one hand ghost tyepes arnt dead people, spirits more similarly. I made dead pokemon have their bodies be their souls of the ghost pokemon they shift into, and ghost pokemon have a soul that is their body but under a layer.
Where if one get sctrached, one is wispy and the other is flamey, the flamey scar means the other is dead, still burning with liveless yknow... mb this isnt cohesive, like in the mornign i was sleepy
486 words! yay, im happy! this was short for me
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A slightly smaller Misdreavus has a ponytail up with the tag on the red scrunchie saying ‘0200’. Her eyes look back at the door, as a Gengar walks in
Looking up from their clipboard, “Hello, I'll be your doctor-”
“Why am I even here? I'm a ghost.” Misdreavous was nervous but would prefer to leave.
“Well, do you have any phantom pain?”
Misdreavus gets confused, ”How would I get phantom pain? I'm not dead.”
Gengar went to look in the cabinets.

“Well, curses, other mons can give you curses that mimic medical issues, and you'd end up getting phantom pain,

A lot of the time, it is straining to learn how to feel normal about randomly having a heart rate without a heart. Due to us being ghost-types that aren't quite dead, it ends up more stressful.
“Take pot’s for example, a lot of dead Pokémon that had pots wouldn't have veins and blood to worry about, except for random phantom lightheadedness.” “The dead can get phantom light-headedness,” the little missy interrupts, tilting her head.
“We turn into pots. Or pot like… Sickness.” The kids don't understand the metaphor, and wasnt understanding what pots had to do with veins, except for the veins of the leaf.
“It's short for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. It’s a type of intolerance, stand up too fast and all the blood in your body goes down to your legs.” But I suppose it was because it wasn't a metaphor at all, “Although in yours and our cases, visibility to the upper part of your body, having a body gets more transparent, you get more lightheadedness and dizzy. The veins you've never had might tighten, as if someone put burning wires in your hands or just body lower than the head in general. The only way to feel comfortable is you stop levitating so high up, which might be a problem if you're levitating off of a mountain.”
They grab a pile of board games, and walk up to the smaller table
“And if you have that curse long enough before it's removed, your body may think you've always had that. Well, I guess not for me, since I'm a dual type with poison, you're a pure ghost-type, which makes it easier for your body to develop medical conditions from or by curses.”
They tick off something on their clipboard, making the misdreavous a bit agitated and taken aback.
“How would we get from a curse?!”
Gengar opens up a plain brown box.
“Not just curses? Physical trauma can make your body weak, yknow, like close to dying. “
Gengar shrugs as they got a chair for themselves.
“Pretty different from mental scars showing up, ay.”
Msdreavus was horrified.
“I have Tetris.” They hold out an old retro item: “Did you know that for human psychology, after something traumatic happens, playing this game afterward helps their brain cope with the negative impact.”

 

[Coffeegrigus]

The tomb of 108 outlaws VS 108 bad parents
Divorce Bombs
Little baby spiritbomb

"Hehe, my parents killed a 100 and 8 humans to get me to be born."

 

[Spiteful Murkrow]

Heya, I was a bit crunched on time and energy today, so I went hunting for shorter stories that would help me pick off a few names from my hitlist in the process. That brought me here, and a story built around a Ghost-type hospital, huh? Not fully sure what that’s going to look like, but let’s just jump in here.

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Spoiler: Line-by-Line

A slightly smaller Misdreavus has a ponytail up with the tag on the red scrunchie saying ‘0200’. Her eyes look back at the door, as a Gengar walks in, looking up from their clipboard.

“Hello, I'll be your doctor-”

[ ]

“Why am I even here? I'm a ghost.”

Misdreavous was nervous but would prefer to leave. [ ]

“Well, do you have any phantom pain?”

This is going to be a setup to some sort of punchline, isn’t it? Though I would recommend taking some time to tighten up the presentation of your story here since when I reviewed it it was fairly messy at the moment.

I do think that you probably should consider expanding things, especially to get into Misdreavus’ head a bit more, especially if the point is to play up the whole absurdity of this whole exchange here, since showing characters’ thought processes can help a lot with that.

Misdreavus gets confused, ”How would I get phantom pain? I'm not dead.”

Gengar went to look in the cabinets. [ ]

“Well, curses, other mons can give you curses that mimic medical issues, and you'd end up getting phantom pain,” he explained. “A lot of the time, it is straining to learn how to feel normal about randomly having a heart rate without a heart. Due to us being ghost-types that aren't quite dead, it ends up more stressful.”

[ ]
“Take pot’s for example, a lot of dead Pokémon that had pots wouldn't have veins and blood to worry about, except for random phantom lightheadedness.”

[ ]

“The dead can get phantom light-headedness,” the little missy interrupts, tilting her head.
“We turn into pots. Or pot like… Sickness.”

The kids don't understand the metaphor, and wasn’t understanding what pots had to do with veins, except for the veins of the leaf.

Wait, kids? But isn’t it just Misdreavus and Gengar together at the moment?

“It's short for ‘Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome’. It’s a type of intolerance, stand up too fast and all the blood in your body goes down to your legs.”

[ ] But I suppose it was because it wasn't a metaphor at all. [ ]

“Although in yours and our cases, visibility to the upper part of your body, having a body gets more transparent, you get more lightheadedness and dizzy,” the Gengar explained. “The veins you've never had might tighten, as if someone put burning wires in your hands or just body lower than the head in general. The only way to feel comfortable is you stop levitating so high up, which might be a problem if you're levitating off of a mountain.”

They grab a pile of board games, and walk up to the smaller table.

Once again, I feel like this would benefit heavily from some formatting cleanup. And from showing a bit more off of Misdreavus’ thought process.

“And if you have that curse long enough before it's removed, your body may think you've always had that.”

[ ]

“Well, I guess not for me, since I'm a dual type with poison,” Gengar corrected themself. “You're a pure ghost-type, which makes it easier for your body to develop medical conditions from or by curses.”
They tick off something on their clipboard, making the misdreavous a bit agitated and taken aback.

“How would we get [ ] from a curse?!”

The underlined feels like it’s something that’s better off being communicated through Misdreavus’ actions or internal thought process. And I feel like you’re missing some sort of word in between “get” and “from” in the last paragraph in this block.

Gengar opens up a plain brown box. [ ]
“Not just curses? Physical trauma can make your body weak, y’know, like close to dying,” Gengar said, shrugging as they grab a chair for themselves. “Pretty different from mental scars showing up, ay.”
Msdreavus was horrified.

“I have Tetris.” They hold out an old retro item: “Did you know that for human psychology, after something traumatic happens, playing this game afterward helps their brain cope with the negative impact.”

I can’t tell if this was meant to be a punchline or be played seriously. If it’s the former, I feel like there was something missing to lead up to it.

Alright, made it to the end, and… uh… I’m not really sure what metric I should judge this chapter by since I admittedly still can’t fully decipher what its intent was supposed to be and if this was meant to be played seriously or for comedy. Either way, I feel that things probably merit taking a step back and giving things a once-over since the formatting when I wrote this review was admittedly a mess riddled with punctuation, typos, and spacing errors that made it hard to get through. I also felt like part of the reason why it was so hard to glom onto the intended vibe of the story is that we didn’t get much in the way of characters’ inner thoughts or reactions described, which would’ve helped a lot for gauging whether or not this was meant to be a drama or a comedy, or something completely different.

Sorry if that wasn’t what you wanted to hear, @Coffeegrigus . Though on the positive side, since this is a fairly compact chapter, if you were so inclined, it would be relatively straightforward to tidy things up and throw in some additive editing. Since I feel that you have a potentially quite interesting premise here, it just kinda struggles to come through with the present presentation at the moment.

 

[Coffeegrigus]

That is completely fair. I tried hard to put myself on deadlines and write consistently. Learning more ways I can actually sound medically smart seems to be something I want. Unmystifying ghost Pokémon, as still being Pokémon with limits and lack of research on what some may need medically.
I had no idea what i was going for either! drama? comedy? I had sub-plots idea, and mostly notes on what type of common issues diffrent ghost type would have medically. Almost finnished it too, lol. Except for girritina, i didnt add him on the list yet... Maybe just normal therapy. I got really into hypothetical medicle scenarios.

Oh yeah, and reading theline by line, is quite helpful! I really appreciate it :] and enjoyed you helping me out with writing pointers

 

[K_S]

Hi, figure i'd drop a line to "Mr. Ghost who fills up profile posts" and see how writing's been treating you...

(I've been curious)
Lets see how this goes.

Maybe this isnt cohesive, im still trying to find my footing back into writing, and idk why my anxiety is eating me up for bad writing, perfenciist in the first draft isnt helpful.

Understandable. I'll keep my kidskin gloves on for this one than, alright?

I apoligise if you dont know whos talking. but if you'd ask me, my lore is odd as is and i find it fun playing in that realm! i made ghost types and ghost pokemon who used to be alive slightly diffrent from eachother. because on one hand ghost tyepes arnt dead people, spirits more similarly.

Sounds like in your fics ghost mon are like kami (a coagulation of spiritual energy, usually considered bad/agressive) verses the whole dead people with TRAUMA rpute most people take it.

CoughEvilRedCoughFicCough

That'll make an interesting change of pace.

I made dead pokemon have their bodies be their souls of the ghost pokemon they shift into, and ghost pokemon have a soul that is their body but under a layer.

Like onions? Okay Shrek joke aside when a regular mon kocks it a ghost mon hermet crabs tjier bodies residual energy to... make a body and be able to interact with existance?

Thats weird. Curious to see how youre going to show it...

Where if one get sctrached, one is wispy and the other is flamey, the flamey scar means the other is dead, still burning with liveless yknow... mb this isnt cohesive, like in the mornign i was sleepy
486 words! yay, im happy! this was short for me
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Liveless? Yeah you lost me. I felt like i got about 20% of that, perhaps its expanded on later?

A slightly smaller Misdreavus has a ponytail up with the tag on the red scrunchie saying ‘0200’. Her eyes look back at the door, as a Gengar walks in

So one tiny quibble. Eyes dont look. A person looks with thier eyes. As it stands it makes it seem like her eyes are doing an out of body experience and fixating on the door.

So as a gjost type did gengar go through the door (opening it and clpsong it behind him like a human would?) or did he just float through the door?

Looking up from their clipboard, “Hello, I'll be your doctor-”

Tell me shes not patient 200...

“Why am I even here? I'm a ghost.” Misdreavous was nervous but would prefer to leave.
“Well, do you have any phantom pain?”

Cue snare drum solo ending with a crash of a snare. Sorry i couldnt resist the pun was right there.

Misdreavus gets confused, ”How would I get phantom pain? I'm not dead.”
Gengar went to look in the cabinets.

Not quite how phantom pain works (loss of limbs, nerve signals being confused, ect its pretty complicated).

“Well, curses, other mons can give you curses that mimic medical issues, and you'd end up getting phantom pain,

Mon attacks make you feel like you lost a limb? Makes horrified noise. Yeeeah if thats the case i can't see any self insert 'mon wanting to fight anyone for anything...

A lot of the time, it is straining to learn how to feel normal about randomly having a heart rate without a heart. Due to us being ghost-types that aren't quite dead, it ends up more stressful.
“Take pot’s for example, a lot of dead Pokémon that had pots wouldn't have veins and blood to worry about, except for random phantom lightheadedness.” “The dead can get phantom light-headedness,” the little missy interrupts, tilting her head.

The little missy?

“We turn into pots. Or pot like… Sickness.” The kids don't understand the metaphor, and wasnt understanding what pots had to do with veins, except for the veins of the leaf.

... not only the kids are misunderstanding the metaphor....

“It's short for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. It’s a type of intolerance, stand up too fast and all the blood in your body goes down to your legs.” But I suppose it was because it wasn't a metaphor at all, “Although in yours and our cases, visibility to the upper part of your body, having a body gets more transparent, you get more lightheadedness and dizzy. The veins you've never had might tighten, as if someone put burning wires in your hands or just body lower than the head in general. The only way to feel comfortable is you stop levitating so high up, which might be a problem if you're levitating off of a mountain.”
They grab a pile of board games, and walk up to the smaller table
“And if you have that curse long enough before it's removed, your body may think you've always had that. Well, I guess not for me, since I'm a dual type with poison, you're a pure ghost-type, which makes it easier for your body to develop medical conditions from or by curses.”

Tips head, this gets weirder and weirder.

They tick off something on their clipboard, making the misdreavous a bit agitated and taken aback.

Yeah mood that....

“How would we get from a curse?!”
Gengar opens up a plain brown box.
“Not just curses? Physical trauma can make your body weak, yknow, like close to dying. “
Gengar shrugs as they got a chair for themselves.
“Pretty different from mental scars showing up, ay.”
Msdreavus was horrified.
“I have Tetris.” They hold out an old retro item: “Did you know that for human psychology, after something traumatic happens, playing this game afterward helps their brain cope with the negative impact.”

Yep i did know that. And i can only imagine ghost types all having a nessescary one more level escape hatch so they dont mull themselves into a million little health issues.

Thanks for sharing this interesting snap shot into the psyche of ghosties from your fic.