I feel like I would be a Prof in the Pokémon universe. Just interested in studying, experiments, generally dilletante shit and fieldwork.

No desire for fame or publishing if I can get around it or get someone else to take credit for it as long as I get a little scratch

Edit: try and keep things nice at 69%, lol

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      So Trainer, right?

      As an aside, totally, shorts are for everyone, not just for the Youth trainers. I find pants make me overheat, same with socks ☀️

  • null_vector@infosec.pub
    15·
    10 months ago

    There’s no animals in Pokemon but you always see them eating meat in the cartoon. I would go on a quest to eat all the Pokemon. At least the original 151.

    Gotta eat 'em all.

    • Dandroid@dandroid.app
      4·
      10 months ago

      I’m racking my brain trying to figure out what I would be, but this is probably it. Food is probably the biggest part of my personality.

      • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
        1·
        10 months ago

        You’d be, like, one of those sailors feasting on harty fare in Olivine or whatevr came before it

        [Not the actual guy, too obscure lol]

      • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        10 months ago

        Thank you so much for this! I love the granularity of people’s knowledge here and this was a super provocative notion for me that I failed to interrogate further absent your piping up :)

        Thanks again

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      It does have a weird relationship with Magicarps, altho I appreciate they obfuscate this fact for the time. Same with Milkow

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      10 months ago

      Grr, that was my very close second, but I would hate to have to constantly “defend” my title and be open to getting fired or superseded bureaucratically.

      Definitely gotta have the hubristic Jessie laugh (“hahaha” one word) before battle to be damn cocky

      Edit: who are you referencing btw? There’s so many of 'em

      • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        I’ve actually played very little Pokemon, and was just gesturing vaguely at something that presumably exists 😅

            • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
              3·
              10 months ago

              Like Blue/Red?

              Also, there will be no gatekeepers allowed here, I shall protect+reflect+mirror shield+WonderGuard you 🤣

              Edit: + MeanLook and PerishSong + (switch Pokémon) the haterz

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      7 months ago

      You have to do the Jessie laugh with three syllables too whilst doing it. Like “HawhawHaw!”, super freaking arrogant too

  • HopingForBetter@kbin.social
    81·
    10 months ago

    I’m the mom/dad.
    I’m so proud of my kid!
    (I have no clue what they’re doing, I just know at age 10, every child has to leave home).

  • MrVilliam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

    I’d be one of those forgettable NPCs who has one or two Pokemon who help me with chores and then we hang out in our small house. Squirtle would be my helpful, friendly bro. But I’d also like one of the dog ones to pet and snuggle with. Maybe Growlithe. Water and fire moves would be super handy in everyday life. They’d be occasional Flintstone appliances, but mostly something between pets and children. I would love them so much.

    And then you assholes would walk into my house uninvited and be annoyed that I wasted your time by not giving you anything. Like bitch, you’re lucky you didn’t catch a Flamethrower from my boy Growlithe over here for breaking and entering. Don’t look in my trash can, you nosey fuck. Damn Pokemon gym brings riffraff into this town. The shit I put up with for free healthcare…

  • umbraroze@kbin.social
    7·
    10 months ago

    Probably some other NPC that does some highly specific thing. Like the name rater, or whatever.

    Not important in the grand scheme of things, but people all over the world come for that one weird task I can do, and that’s enough for me.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    7·
    10 months ago

    I am a filthy casual player, so I suppose I’d be a clueless tourist collecting endangered Pokemon who should be left alone, and stumbling into dangerous situations.

    Still mad that they made the 3 team leaders so dorky looking in the last update of their clothing but Team Rocket so suave and cool in their outfits.

  • nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    I’m one of those girls that are obsessed with ghost types.

    I don’t particularly care for ghost pokemon, but it’s important to have goals

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      11·
      10 months ago

      Why do you think you tend towards that type particularly?

      Mine were psychic but I always loved ghost (particularly Gengar -> fucking bad ass) and Dragon(ite). I do really feel a strong affinity to Fairy (no jokes please) because they seem to resonate with me as joy and antifragillity embodied.

      It low-key viscerally hurts me every time a Fairy-type Pokémon gets poisoned/burnt/paralyzed/KO’d. I feel like they represent ourselves as we were and could return to being in the face of the fact we’re all poisoned and hurt by the world in various twisted ways.

      Nonetheless, I genuinely believe that the goodness inherent to our essence is conserved and made latent rather than corrupted per se.

  • Norgur@kbin.social
    5·
    10 months ago

    I’d be some bloke telling everyone the same boring bullshit about some glass bottle or other, hanging about in a pokemon center dong absolutely fucking nothing. Seems to be a viable career option in the Pokemon universe given how many ppl pursue this line of work.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      Are there actually bottles in Pokémon, I literally can’t remember or if everything is just á la carte/one time use…

      Edit: I love the PokéCenters and Store folks in Pokémom and Earthbound

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    I would be a Pokemon trainer of the Cool Beauty trainer class wielding a togepi, unown, shedinja, phione, keldeo, and porygon-z and wait by a landslide area that causes the trainer to fall once they beat me so they’d have to go up the slope a second time to get to their destination.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      Delightfully specific and on brand ;) We gonna get along just fine 🦄

      That slope bit is also endearingly petty. If you don’t mind me saying, that you thought of that and articulably threw that out there is beyond a green flag for me lol

      Like, I would literally caveat with something like that IRL to reinforce my negotiating position and also on a precedential level to deter someone from f-ing with me not only at the time but also secretly hope it spreads so my reputation for clever pettiness does all the work for me going forward ;)

      It really is a beautiful thing and we are beautiful people for intuiting it, while still hopefully retaining our goodness and a sense of grace

  • RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 months ago

    I’ve always thought of myself as a gym leader. I’ve been doing martial arts since I was 10, I love Fighting types and Blaziken has been my absolute favorite Starter since forever.

    I also really like the idea that gym leaders have a bunch of Pokemon ready to take challengers and different levels. Taking on some kid just starting out with Riolu while my Machamp and Bewear wrestle in the background sounds awesome.

  • flicker@kbin.social
    3·
    10 months ago

    I’m a pokemon breeder. You never get to fight me because I’m always telling you whether there’s an egg or not, but if you got to see my perfect IV, perfect EV, perfect nature team, every single one is shiny.

    And a side effect of all that needless effort is that I’m frickin loaded.

    My appearance is the Alolan girls’ (braids, cowboy hat, overalls).

    Need a better, less kinky name for me though.

  • wattanao@fedia.io
    3·
    10 months ago

    Ghost gym leader, which would be kind of ironic given how easily scared I am, but ghost types are so cool. And everyone loves horror/reaction content, so I could make a whole game and stream out of a haunted house.

    I guess that means I’d have to have some responsibility over the town my gym is in, but I guess I can live with that.