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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · 27d

I think it depends on the person! For you and me it's the flow state, but for others it's probably like, uhhhhhh, a flow CHART?

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Sep 7

Every so often I forget that there are battlers who aren't vibes-based like me, picking up all the neat details along the way, and that these other types of battlers have so much down to a SCIENCE....

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Sep 7

They have spreadsheets of EVERY MOVE THEIR POKEMON HAVE BEEN SEEN USING. And they have familiarity rankings of each move. And synergy notes. AND THAT'S BEFORE YOU GET INTO THE DOUBLE BATTLING SHEETS.

It makes my head spin!!

Silver @silversakaki.bsky.social · Sep 7

Kotone looked at me in horror when I showed her my battle spreadsheets.

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 31

((It doesn't matter that I feel like dogwater, I spent over a month making smilesunday art for Kotone, I'm gonna post it even if I'm not in a position I can reply on her yet!!!))

Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 31

#SmileSunday from the #Pokeathlon Dome!! Just beat Whitney in the speed course again, so the after-event smoothies are on her!

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Lep, the Multiversal Explorer @infinitehorizxn.bsky.social · Aug 22

"War is such a waste of time. Can't we all just not fight and not be mean? I-I'll give you a cookie if you don't wage war! Even a-an entire PLATE of cookies!"

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Lep, the Multiversal Explorer @infinitehorizxn.bsky.social · Aug 22

"Greetings and sa-lu-tations!"

"I want to reach out in peace and kindness to someone who desires it! Do you want a cookie? Pizza fresh out of the oven? Help with personal problems (if I can actually help in any meaningful way)?"

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

I hope you're right! It's something that worries me a lot, which is sooooo silly I know! Like girls my age would KILL to look as young as I feel I do, but with me I feel it gets me taken less seriously?

She really does a good job to be fair! Like, sometimes I study her work before you clean it off~

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

is actually one of those things I'm self-conscious about. So like I'd LIKE for it to not be the case? But I genuinely believe it is.

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

Girl, you don't need a professional to do it! Let me do it! I might only wear the same three makeup sets most days, but I know now to do some REALLY awesome stuff!

Also like, I hope you mean you just don't buy that I'm right on me having such a baby face, because, like, aaaa, the baby face thing++

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

The problem is my hair being styled mature makes me look more baby 😔
I totally do though! Or at least I genuinely *feel* like I do!

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

((CUTE!! Goldie is actually @aurummeddle.bsky.social , but I am SO happy to see pet pics!))

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

Two things can be true at once~ Hot AND fun! Let's do it!

I mean stunning, and mature, but I don't know about *posh*. Meanwhile you have a face that is soooo good for pulling off mature looks with just a little makeup. Very versatile! That and your hair works well in mature styles, too!

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

Oh the first one is lovely, and I'd totally wear it on a date with you! It's just not posh!

I DO have great legs though. It's from all the pokeathlon rounds, also the needing to be moving a lot! They are one of the few things that don't add to the baby face!

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

((I'll get to other replies later. Goldie gets preference because it's easy to think of replies to her even when I'm faultering. ))

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

We both know that first one would have me looking like a life-sized doll! But the second and third... Hm you have a point... Though the third one, I'd totally look like a kid wearing her mom's dress! I just don't have the bust for it. 😔

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

((Genuinely one of my FAVE things about roleplaying in the pokemon world.))

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

Oh not a CLUE! She left last night, giving me a kiss on the cheek, which is what she does when she's going to be gone a day or two. She's probably being a little gremlin somewhere in time!

Ribbon, Goddess of Size & Friends @ribbonsylveon.bsky.social · Aug 22

Ooh, sure! :3

Where is Celebi, anyway? :)

Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

Ooooh! I need to invite you out for crepes when Celebi is back! I feel like even though she's not a fairy *type* you two will have SUCH a fun chat!

... I have crepes on the mind right now. It doesn't have to be crepes, for the record! It can totally be other sweets.

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

How do the academies handle it in Paldea? I know the group I'm with has worked with some professors in the region, but we're usually getting pokemon *from* Paldea, not sending them there after training.

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

Here in Johto and in a bunch of other regions, it's a program ran by the League, but that works in direct contact with our regional professors, and type specialists and breeders. I guess it's more accurate to say the League *funds* it? I'm a bit wobbly on the details there!

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

((I totally forgot you guys have been interacting, so I could have just outright called you Lep-mun!

I am enjoying the fact that this is like, a series that is incomprehensible with a single video, but as you watch the narrative is obvious, and that's a FASCINATING storytelling choice!))

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

We're totally not perfect! But we've learned how to work *with* pokemon and nature in order to enrich everyone's lives!

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

Oh I am a BIG fan of trains! Like, I'm no otaku, but they're really convenient and efficient! It's faster to use the bullet train to get to Kanto than it is to fly there. Teleporting would be faster, but... Well I just never caught a porter!

We're pretty balanced globally.+

Lep, the Multiversal Explorer @infinitehorizxn.bsky.social · Aug 22

+ comforts of modern life."

"That being said, I'm well aware that industry sustains itself off nature, and if industry exhausts nature, it exhausts itself. And that's before taking into account how the wildlife feels."

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

Ooooh! I need to invite you out for crepes when Celebi is back! I feel like even though she's not a fairy *type* you two will have SUCH a fun chat!

... I have crepes on the mind right now. It doesn't have to be crepes, for the record! It can totally be other sweets.

Ribbon, Goddess of Size & Friends @ribbonsylveon.bsky.social · Aug 22

Yeah, my Fairy Typing causes me to grow via friendliness like hugs, headpats, compliments, etc. :3

It also causes me to grow whenever I eat sweet stuff! :3

And I have a big sweet tooth! :3

Though I'll eat anything! :3

Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

Anyway! Anyway! What's your favourite food? Does eating it make you get bigger by default? It seems like you start to grow when you get happier!

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Kotone Ayatori [RP] @wakabaquality.bsky.social · Aug 22

It's awful she put so much work on you though! I guess she might have been in quite a pinch to really pile up work on a childhood friend..?

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