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Don't get too excited, I found enough hiccups to keep me going. :P Still, you do seem to be retaining a few of my mini-lectures.

In conclusion: Cassie is pleased.

... the way they just KEPT ON SAYING IT had me in hysterics.

(Rather like that old Batman storyline floating around the net where they keep saying "boner" - meaning mistake, but ...)

*Neuralyzes*

Seriously though, its as good a PPC as I've ever seen. Curse you for beating me to the first Haloverse PPC. :p

Would you be willing to beta a Haloverse PPC I'm writing in the near future?

Disclaimer - my entire knowledge of pokemon is based on my having watched the first series of the cartoon when I was about eleven or twelve, which is over ten yeras ago now.

Pokemon biology ... yeah. I can't really say much on the front of the mechanics of Pokeballs or of the whole laser thing, but as for the 'evolution' ... well. There are things I can say on that score.

Evolution, for a start, is the wrong term. Metamorphosis is the correct term. Yes, that's right, what butterflies do. I know there are different types of Pokemon and that only some of them are 'insect type', but if I had to fit them into an Earth phylogenetic system I would put them in the phylum Arthropoda.

Yes, I *know* some of them are mammal-like and rock-like and plant-like, but hear me out :)

See, the thing about arthropods (not just insects, but we'll get to the classification thing soon, I promise) is that they are incredible mimics. There are arthropods that are almost impossible to distinguish from bits of plant, from bits of stone, from snakes and so forth. And arthropods metamorphose, which is very important.

Animals and plants are grouped based on different charactersitics, and the idea of grouping them is to make sure that each group contains only organisms that are more closely related to each other than they are to everything outside the group. And modes of life are very important criteria for dividing up organisms - outward appearance is actually one of the least important criteria - it is so easily changed by selection pressure. So given that all Pokemon have this same basic mode of reproduction/metamorphosis, which can be catalysed by rocks, of all things (and I'll get onto THAT later as well), I'm going to group them in their own class, part of the phylum Arthropoda and a sister-taxon to the classes Insecta, Chelicerata etc etc. This group is cladistically correct because it is monophyletic (nothing that belongs in the group has been left out - no other animals reproduce like Pokemon do)

As for the rock catalyst thing, it is possible (not probable, and not likely, but possible) that these magical rocks contain essential elements or compounds that catalyse the chemical processes that cause them to metamorphose, or that stress them into changing, somewhat like bad water conditions force axolotls (which are normally neotenous and happy about it) to undergo the last stage of development and become newts.
This is a poor and depauperate explanation but I'm sort of scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

I would like to state that this is me mostly me waffling on about biology and probably mostly talking out my arse and that I claim no authority on Pokemon canon. That said ... if these ideas are any use, feel free to use them.

the keith laumer bolo series, or the velgrath series?

or david eddings?

Thank you! :)

Like bl games, the lesser known Minekura works, things like that.

Well, you know I've read it, but still. Well done mate.

Excellent. I love reading your missions.

And I absolutely collapsed when Edmund was saying 'I want you to be the first to bugger me," golden moment made even better by the delightfully snarky observations of the agents, xD.

*goes to read the next part*

Hi. welcome to the PPC.

have a combat spork and bleeprin.

any examples of rare fandoms?

Hello from the Urplefilms Ltd. production team: Trojie, Cassie and our newest addition, KG.

We've collected almost everyone's lines now (Ansela, Pads and Plat, yes, we ARE looking at you), so we're looking for people to start drawing pictures for us!

Before you all start complaining that we've not given you any details, we've decided to be incredibly generous and share the entire script with you. We're looking for environments such as RCs and other rooms, and character sketches. There are plenty of details to be found on the PPC wiki about characters, too.

Movie script - due to the sheer length of it, we've split it into five documents. There are a wide variety of imags in each document, so feel free to read through and draw whatever catches your interest.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddkcfxr651f6gc2hc9&hl=en - scenes 1-10

<a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddkcfxr652dvhdcff9&hl=en">http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddkcfxr652dvhdcff9&hl=en - scenes 11-20

<a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddkcfxr653ggg8sfgq&hl=en">http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddkcfxr653ggg8sfgq&hl=en - scenes 21-30

<a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddkcfxr654fxww4vf8&hl=en">http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddkcfxr654fxww4vf8&hl=en - scenes 31-40

<a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddkcfxr655mthqm6f2&hl=en">http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddkcfxr6_55mthqm6f2&hl=en - scenes 41-47

Ignore the highlights on some bits; they're for our convenience and have no bearing on what we're asking you to do.

Any artwork you do can be sent to either Trojie or myself (though if you send it to me I can't guarantee when it'll be looked at). You people who regularly comment on this subject should have our email addresses by now. If you don't, well...

Trojie - trojanhorseshadowfax at gmail dot com
Cassie - cassie.dramateacher at googlemail dot com

Oops! You should forget that. Anyway, thanks! Your help is acknowleged.

There are several Elemental fields in the pokemon world, one for each element (including normal, which may just be a simplified lumping of whatever doesn't fit into the other fields). Those elemental fields interacted with the cosmic microorganisms that were the ancestors of the pokemon, giving them their powers and capabilities.

Nothing says their fluffy cute electric sheep is biologically identical or even similar to our fluffy stinky decidedly non-electric sheep. Perhaps over in that reality it is perfectly normal for mammals to produce eggs. (Note I said produce. Not lay. Because. Some things even my brain won't do.)

I think part of the point is that their creatures are not like our Earth creatures. Sort of like some logic. =P

( *kind of does want a lecture* I'm sure they'd make it more interesting than the last biology teacher I encountered~ )

I mean, you can't just go around saying that those come from eggs, unless you want to be subjected to a lecture by Trojie and Pads, like the list says.

I thought "What if she gets back in time to read this? Eeek!"

Since it is aimed at children, the characters don't age so that they can continue to connect with their audience. Other anime that is set over a long period of time (many anime aren't) do have characters that age. One example is Dragonball. The main character started the series as 12, but by the end of GT he's in his 60s with grandchildren (even if he does age spectacularily well).

As for the other stuff... It's a children's show. It doesn't need logic. The manga might have more detail though, I think that was aimed at an older audience.

thank you!

But if you're back I'll wait for you to beta too. I wanted your opinion on something anyway. :p Buta seems to think my spelling and grammar is fine this time.