her name is nicole. she fucked up some folks frfr. also she is the smallest member of my winning team by far.

relicanth is an ocean floor-dwelling filter feeder so i figured it didn't need eyes for much. got em closed all the time in the original design anyway lol

claydol is from the same desert as cacturne and flygon and is pretty based by association. i couldn't resist the temptation to do a funky halo but i have a lore-based justification that that is a combination of the psychic aura claydol uses to protect itself from the rain and the remnant of the magic light which apparently brought it to life in the first place. i have no idea what mine (named dolor, spanish for pain) did in the final fights honestly, can't remember

flygon is from the same desert as cacturne, so is cool by association. mine didn't get to do that much against the elite four/champion i think, but she did know screech and dragonbreath, so i'm assuming she helped against some generally tanky enemies and against enemy dragons

cacturne is my favourite pokemon for reasons

drawing some pokemon from my recent (ie this year but really not that recent) playthrough of pokemon ruby. this is a breloom, which i had in my party for the final challenges, who ohko'd sidney's entire party and defeated steven's last standing pokemon (his armaldo) by tanking an aerial ace and countering, which i think was an ohko but there might have been some health already chipped off.

took way too long but i managed. now i get to the fun part of writing a story, which is the, uh, writing it part. should go well.

tomorrow's summary-writing time i guess, and then hopefully i finally get back in the swing of things.

could you overtake me please, just for a moment

So between uses of PayPal (a period of a few months) I changed numbers and now it wants me to verify my login with the old number. The only way to resolve this without doing shifty third-party shit is to call customer service and they won't answer my calls. Today I got sufficiently impatient to try adding my old number as a contact to try and message it on WhatsApp and see if the new owner of that number could help but the number, on WhatsApp at least, still has the icon I attached to it, meaning either that no-one has occupied my old number yet or that someone has but they don't have WhatsApp meaning if I want to contact them I have to pay money for it and I ain't wanna do that. Guess it's back to my futile phone call attempts, or DM'ing them on Twitter I guess.