Lady @Lady@cat.family

*pokémon black 2 and white 2

pokémon black has like five different people who all canonically knew each other in college and it's like the marauders only they’re all milfs or cat ladies in the present day

(the answer is because nobody else has, for some reason)

why do i want to write about lesbian Gen Xers in pokémon graduate school in the 90s

ugh help i came up with more story ideas

« I think I'll have a little ice cream to cool my head... Ice cream... That ice-cream cone Fennel brought was sure delicious. » this is clearly a prompt

pokémon fans have zero imagination

i can’t believe there is not a single Professor Burnet / Fennel fanfiction

this is a question about professor juniper

do cat moms count as milfs

the pokémon is older

@gaditb (importantly one of the ways they bridged it relies on hidden abilities, which would not be introduced until gen v

now, they didn't HAVE to use hidden abilities; when they bridged pokémon let's go (which used basically the same data structure) they just randomized the abilities instead; but the currently implemented transform could not have been applied in gen iii)

@gaditb yes, although i think there is an open question as to whether they were incompatible in design or incompatible due to there being no technology for communicating between a game boy and a GBA

in the latter case the data structure might be considered forwards-compatible but stranded

however, i'm not sure i believe that; i think it was never intended to be bridged even though they later did find a way

you CAN

a) play pokémon in an emulated version of games released prior to the publication of ECMAScript 1.0, and

b) transfer those pokémon into a game released in 2022 and use them like any other mon

the previous pokémon data structure, which IS as old as (standardized) javascript, was later made forwards-compatible (with the virtual console releases of red and blue on the 3DS), but since there is no way to get a pokémon from a game boy game into the current ecosystem i’m saying that the original pokémon data structure as present in the original physical games still doesn't qualify

but you COULD argue it does