pokespe | [OPEN] 9/15 - Team Meeting

[ With an info-gathering session on the eighth, Nanami decides to wait a few more days until they're about two weeks into the month to gather everyone again. She realizes that all the team members haven't sat down properly to bond with each other in a single group setting. She knows the importance of making sure that you get every single unit to have at least an A-rank with someone (S-rank if they're super compatible) and keeping up team morale so, on the thirteenth, a familiar shiny Mimikyu comes running up to everyone with a written note pinned on his costume: ]

team meeting
plans to go to other islands
and other discussions
free food at Restaurant Le Nah
tomorrow at 6:00pm
- Nanami

[ Upon entering Le Nah the following day, a waiter will show the trainer to a large area in the back with multiple tables pushed together. There are already some appetizers ordered and spread across so feel free to help yourself. Nanami sits near the middle with her Mimikyu, feeding him by dropping little bits of food in front of him, and talking with her Mudkip, who just :V :V :V, as if she understands what he's saying. ]

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Hmm, I guess we can make one of the choices "gay baby jail" if enough people like it.

[ Hey, whatever the team wants, the team gets. She doesn't think of herself as the protagonist or the leader of this game. She's just that helpful NPC. ]

...I don't like that one.

[This is anti-babyface discrimination.]

Is there another name that you like better?

[ Puts Sagi into the straight baby jail. ]

[Jail is for people who didn't assassinate any political figures semi-recently.]

N-Not really... I don't really get why we need one, anyway.

Every team should have a name.

[ That's just how it is. ]

I just think we mostly know who we are. We're not here to get good publicity or anything.

[It's confusing!]

Mm, I guess that's true. I've never had a team without a name, though.

[ Even without some informal sort of name. ]

[Ah. Team cohesion nothing, she just really wants one.

...This is the type of "reasoning" that makes the clearest sense to Sagi, honestly. He'll take a second to think about name suggestions after all.]

If you want it to catch on, it should at least be short and make sense. Like... the Dimensional Rift Rangers, because we fell out of one. "Rift Rangers, move out!"

[He even points a finger and strikes a pose, like he would while playing with kids back home. He holds it for maybe a couple seconds before remembering he's not quite among friends here.]

...Something like that.

[ !!!!! ]

Oh, you even have a pose! Mmhm, Rift Rangers is short and easy to remember.

[ Sagi sure caught Nanami's attention with his dramatic flair. She's not often excited nor does she, well, emote more than being sleepy so he's doing something right. ]

[Aww, she liked it! That's a relief. He might have been remotely self-conscious otherwise.] Guess that's my suggestion, then.

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I want it on the record that I don't like it. I'm not a baby and I'm not going to jail.

[He's definitely gay tho.]

[ After taking out baby and jail, the team name just becomes Gay then. ]

Okay, I'll put a vote against it. What kind of names do you like?

Something cooler.

[We're trying to help the people of the island, right? So...]

Gay Teenage Toran Liberation Front.

That does sound like a really strong name. It might be hard to chant it, though.

[ It's almost like a tongue twister if you try to say it really quickly. ]

Will we ever need to chant it?

[When you're fighting a Gym Leader you have to have a cool chant, Akira... everyone knows that...]

Maybe something Pokémon related.

Hmm... which parts of "Gay Teenage Toran Liberation Front" are you really attached to?

[ Then they can just take that part and combine it with something Pokemon-related like... Gay Pikachus or something. ]

All of it?

[But they have to come up with something that's better and doesn't translate to 'seafood', Gira.]

I guess not all of us are gay teenagers, but the Toran liberation part is important.

Ah, well, it was mostly a joke. I wouldn't consider it a serious suggestion.

[ In before someone actually votes for it though.]

Joke names are still names, though. If it makes some people happy then we can at least have it as a suggestion.

[ Some people name their villages in Animal Navigating in strange things. She can't go against it if people are having fun. Everyone can play games in their own way. ]

Fair point. No harm if people are having fun with them I suppose.

[ Not that he really cares too much about names. Though, he's more curious about her so. ] Are you gonna contribute any names?

Mm, the protagonists are normally the ones who choose the names.

[ Translation: nah because she's a side character. ]

In this case, you would be the supporting character then.

[ Dokja may not know video game logic, but he does know webnovels and even more familiar with a particular protagonist. His next words come with a chuckle. ] The protagonist I know here won't be very useful with names unfortunately.

[ She's glad that Dokja understands what she means. So far, a lot of people seem to be having trouble getting her gaming references. That's just how she talks. It's hard for her to talk in any other way... ]

Oh, who's your protagonist?

Joonghyuk Yoo.

[ He points at the man nearby, who just gives off the aura of a protagonist honestly. Even if his personality is sharp and he's distant.. he has a way of speaking that moves people in particular moments. ]

Hmm, he does look like a protagonist. The tall and silent, but kind-hearted and brave archetype who also secretly loves animals.

[ See many JRPGs as examples. ]

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