[Application] Sunflora, from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 2: Explorers of Time/Darkness

[omg_sunflora]

[[OOC: For simplicity sake, the player and partner character will be referred to as Piplup and Chimchar, following the anime episode based on the game

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[arrogantmage]

Of course Lezard knew what Pokemon were. The Philosopher's Stone had explained this to him, same as it had explained Barney and Carrot-top. While his understanding of Pokemon was perhaps somewhat patchy, he grasped the general concept, he believed. They were weird little animals. Children had to catch them all. They were the child's best friend in a world they must defend. PO-KE-MON!

"Tell me, Sunflora," he said, his voice as smooth as ever (he couldn't really change that, even though he was talking to a sunflower and not a hot valkyrie). "What are the powers of Wigglytuff?"

[omg_sunflora]

Sunflora jumped. "Eek! Are...are you a human?" Sunflora never actually saw one before, and only knew about them from hearsay, and from the player character her friend who once had been human, then turned into a Pokemon.

[arrogantmage]

"I was once a human," Lezard informed the sunflower pokemon. "Now I am greater than a human. But you have not answered my question."

[omg_sunflora]

"O-oh!" That was unusual. But Sunflora didn't pay much attention to it, she had a question to answer. "Well, I'm not too sure...I've never actually seen Wigglytuff fight, but it's said he's supposed to be strong! And he saved Chatot from a mean Kabutops and Omastar once. And he used to be part of Team Charm, so he must be good!"

[arrogantmage]

"Fascinating. And how do Pokemon develop their powers? How do you become stronger?"

[omg_sunflora]

"Well, we fight. And we grow stronger the more Pokemon we fight. And some of us get even stronger when we evolve. I'm a lot stronger now than I was as a Sunkern."

[arrogantmage]

"Ahhh, the power to evolve!" That was what separated the static gods from the dynamic elves and mortals. That was what made Lezard, as a human who had consumed the power of a god, so generally awesome. That was also why he had transferred Lenneth into a mortal vessel, endowing her paradoxically with far greater power than any she'd possessed as a mere valkyrie.

Now, out of his extreme generosity of spirit, Lezard would offer greatness to a Pokemon.

"Tell me, Sunflora ... if you can evolve into a more powerful Pokemon in your own form, how much more powerful might you become if your soul could be transferred into a more powerful Pokemon's body? Say, the body of ... Wigglytuff?"

[omg_sunflora]

"I...I...But I like being a Sunflora... I don't want to be Wigglytuff...and where would he go?"

[arrogantmage]

"Wigglytuff? Where would he go?" Lezard seemed almost surprised that Sunflora would even consider such a question. Why should she care? "Why, he would go to Hel, I suppose."

[omg_sunflora]

"EEK!" Sunflora knew about the concept of hell, though Pokemon used different words. Thank god for the babelfish translation whatever Hogwarts has.

She jumped back and shot seeds at Lezard like bullets.

SPARKLYPOO >.<

[arrogantmage]

Because he was Lezard Valeth, and because he had taken certain measures even before his little tango with Odin, the Pokemon's bullet-seeds passed right through his body as though he'd been a hologram or a mirage. (Once the Lord of the Undead had run right through him. Lezard hadn't even noticed. One presumes, however, that the Lord of the Undead might have liked a shower afterward, just on principle.)

The barrage of seeds didn't hurt him. It did piss him off righteously.

"Ungrateful flower-creature! I could have made you a goddess among Pokemon, so strong you need not bow to any human child, nor seek the aid of any Pokemon guild! I could have empowered you to fulfill your own destiny and be the very best! And this is how you requite my generous offer?! May you ever lack for water, and may Wigglytuff dance upon your barren bed when winter withers you to nothing!"

All of which was to say:

"I VOTE SPARKLYPOO!"

The mage stalked away.

Re: SPARKLYPOO >.<

[omg_sunflora]

"Says you."

Pokemon didn't have a concept of gods or goddesses anyway, the closest they had were legendary Pokemon, and if Sunflora was supposed to be legendary she'd have been born a Celebi.