The Ask(y)box

Pardon the pun. Or better yet, don't! 8U

Anyway I figured I might as well make one of these. I've felt a little too quiet and only slightly social on here so far so this might be a way to easily break the ice. I gotta go pick up my parents from the airport rn, so hopefully there'll be some questions when I get back!

 

To be honest I don't actually watch too much anime, hah! I can list the amount of proper anime I've watched on one hand (Pokémon, One Piece, a little bit of Hero Academia, Steins;Gate, and a tiny bit of Slayers), so there isn't much to tell. I'll always love and remember the original Pokémon opening, though. If manga counts, I like MAR a lot!

Sort of? Honestly it depends on how and who you're living with, which... I guess applies to everywhere. But for the sake of actually answering the question, I'd say yeah. A lot of stuff needs to be shipped here from other places (granted we do have farms and stuff on the islands that grow local, but that's just some food, and doesn't account for other things or even other foods), rents are high even outside of the city, so on and so forth. The price of living here is one of the highest in all of the US, so it can be rough. I'm lucky I'm still hanging with my parents.

That said? It's gorgeous, and probably one of the most friendly places I've ever seen in my life. I grew up in Houston, which is an extremely flat and really boring concrete zone of a city (sorry, any fellow Texans on the forums :u ), so Honolulu itself is a massively-different place, both in the sense of having mountains and ocean both right outside and in the sense of the architecture and everything being so different. It's a small island (not Kauai small, but still very consolidated) so it's easy to make a plan to go here or there and do it, and there's still all sorts of neat things to see. I've been here for five years and there's still stuff I've only seen once or twice, or I'm discovering for the first time nowadays. I feel like I've gotten a lot more spiritually centered, too, if that makes any sense - not like, religious or anything, but meditative, thoughtful and "healed", I guess. There's a lot of influence of stuff like that (chakras, chiropracty, that sort of thing), and I like it a lot.

Though I do miss seasons. Since it's basically always summer here you don't get the kind of color-changing leaves and stuff. At most you'll have all the flowers blooming in the spring, and that is really pretty, but it's not quite the same. Plus we don't get a lot of rain on the west side of the island and that means it can get hot, hot, hot. When it's stormcloudy but also sunny and not actually raining, that's the worst.

As for Lyft, I wouldn't say I've had any extremely weird customers (and I haven't had a single outright "bad" customer, which I'm counting my blessings for), but I'd say the most awkward was probably a couple frat boys heading out into Honolulu for drinks one time; they ended up having a conversation about some... weird, stripper birthday party thing gone wrong (bad service/money handling rather than anything NSFW, thankfully). Definitely one of the more surreal things I've had to listen to on the clock. :V

Lavender, maybe? Speaking of the spiritual-y stuff here, I occasionally drop a couple droplets of lavender oil in the shower, so maybe that counts. I dunno. :V

 

For sentimental value, probably my small collection of Pokémon plushies, particularly the Mystery Dungeon Riolu. Basically anything Mystery Dungeon I own, I probably value dearly. Same goes for the fanmade Guildmaster Rank badge I wear on my visor. For more practical value, though, probably my phone. Hard to do much when I'm out and about without it.

As for the introvert/extrovert thing, probably somewhere in-between? I'm actually very friendly online and I like to meet new people and talk to everyone and everything, but offline I'm generally a lot quieter and need a lot of time to myself to recuperate after talking with people or doing things. When neighbors come to visit for dinner or whatnot I do enjoy spending time with them if I'm not already too frazzled, but I definitely need a day or so to relax afterward, that sort of thing.

Also would a lifetime supply of "no writers block" count? :V If not, then a lifetime supply of chocolate.

It is indeed! It's a cropped part of the intro to Explorers of Sky (the scene where Skymin flies over Treasure Town), alongside some sprites I edited of the team I write in my stories - Billcario with the blunted chest-spike, Rose with her scarf, Cyan and Erin with the small-stache-only (Samurott) and the Oran 'medicine' bottle (Mienshao), and then Star the thief (silver spike daggers) and Vale, her accomplice/best friend (Flying Gem necklace).

I'm very much an Explorers fan, if you couldn't tell

As for a Pokémon world visit place, I'm not too sure! My gut would suggest PMD because... y'know, PMD and being a Pokémon and all that, but it'd also be really cool to visit some of the main series areas. I'd like to see Johto or Unova, maybe, they're both my favorite regions and I've only ever visited their IRL counterparts once (and I never actually went to Kyoto proper, eheh).

 

Well, if we don't count the player teams (for obvious reasons)... hmm. That's actually kind of a hard one, hah. I do have a soft spot for Team Poochy, though, if mainly because I often picture them going after outlaws and the like. I also like Team Raider, even though they don't really do anything in-game. Plus, Team Skull and Team Meanies are both great, well-done characters.

As for music, I don't exactly have a whole lot of normal musical taste; most of what I listen to is videogame stuff. Anything by Yoko Shimomura is usually a safe bet to get me energized (and usually out of a writer's block, heheh). Ys music (Yuzo Koshiro, Ryo Yonemitsu, etc) is also great, and I usually think more about PMD than Ys whenever I hear it :U

 

Explorers by far. Aside from their character development generally feeling the best-written, I also just generally feel like they're the most relatable (particularly when I first played the game, which contributes a great deal to why I'm still so attached to them as a character, heheh).

Not sure, to be honest! If we can count Mystery Dungeon then my Explorers team again, since they're both level 100 and I've almost maxed out their stats to boot (except HP).

If we're only counting main-series games, though, I might actually have to say my Haxorus from back in Gen 5. I basically just followed his Smogon build to the letter when I trained him, so he wasn't exactly anything fancy or personal, but he was the only Pokémon I could consistently beat the AI-Team-Up Battle Subway with. Maybe my Shaymin could also count, though obviously I had no way of telling.

...give up? :V It's a lame answer but honestly I don't have much of a competitive streak. If I had to pick anything I'd probably pick some kind of mundane, sneaky thief plot, since that's always my favorite playstyle in WRPGs, though.

 

Hmm... I'm not sure, to be honest! Usually palettes don't bother me at all, unless it's one of the neon-green shinies like Espeon or whatnot. If that counts as an answer, then I'll go with that.

 

Pokémon, of course Though specifically I've gotten a lot more fond of Mystery Dungeon than the main series as time's gone on. Not that the main series is bad at all, but I still haven't finished Sun and Moon even though I picked it up at launch last year, eheh. I think I'm just a little tired of it; Mystery Dungeon is more my speed gameplay-wise and setting-wise anyway.

Zelda, too, is another big one. Between the two of them I'd say they're the ones I like the most and have had the most impact on me, anyway, heheh.

Anything I can get my hands on, eheh. My metabolism is fast and kinda weird, so I need to eat a lot in order to have it stick with me. Cookies, apples, handfuls of dried fruit or a granola bar or something, I just tend to snack a lot in-between meals. I do have a soft spot for chocolate in general, though. :u

As for cats and dogs, I'm a bit of both! I like dogs because they're generally friendly and perpetually-happy-looking and pleasant, and I like cats because they're usually pretty relaxed and loungey and sometimes weird. We had a couple pet cats when I was very young (the manx hopped in my crib once to see what I was soon after I was born), and currently we've got a Cavalier Spaniel, so I've very used to both. (That said, since I like certain aspects of both cats and dogs, it probably explains why I like foxes best, hah!)

And for second fav Pokémon typing, probably Fire. It's always good to have a Fire type on your team, whether it's for battle/team comp reasons or if it's for more for writing stuff (in my PMD stories, Rose the Ninetales is the campfire starter, for instance).

I'm not sure I have a real specific favorite. When it comes to most "favorite" things I always end up picking two or three because it's too difficult to narrow it down (sort of like how my "favorite Pokémon" are always the main four I like, not just Lucario or Ninetales or Samurott individually).

That said, one of my earliest memories is sleeping over at my cousin's house during a trip up to see the extended family, and then sitting down in the morning and exploring around Kokiri Forest in a new file on his OoT cart. That was one of my first experiences with Zelda and with games in general, and even though I didn't even get to any combat or anything, exploring and sniffing everything out (like the Kokiri Sword) was wonderous.