Devious battle tactics

Blaze, Gilly and Aurora were sat around their campfire, eating another soup. They ate a lot of soup recently. Everyone knew that eating the same thing every day would get very annoying very quickly but lucky for them, Gilly was not a bad cook and had managed to get many distinctive soups for them to try. Yes the meal was the same almost every day but, the taste was wildly different. That being the case, Blaze still wished to get himself some huge steak soon.

The new girly monster, Sunny or Sunsun, as she liked to be called, was cuddled against Aurora's leg and fixing Blaze. He was pretty sure she was reading into his mind, or at least trying to. He didn't really care. From what he knew, those things were extremely loyal, whatever she found in his head, she would only tell Aurora. He already had no secrets for her or at least, no intentional ones.

Aside from the fact that he was currently being studied very meticulously by Sunsun, the small monster was charming. He was very pleased that Aurora managed to get one without too much problems. With her, or it, he wasn't sure, they were ready to go get the next team member and, Aurora would be able to learn about her psychic powers. The faster she did, the better it would be for everyone.

While she learned all that, they either needed to cross the mountains again or walk all the way around them. They were going to hunt a Demuret and the devil lived only in the snowy region up north. Once they got one, they'd need to use the helicopter to move all the way to Florence where Blaze intended to get most of the beasts he wanted.

Getting that devil would take a long while, worse, they didn't really have the appropriate type of monster to deal with all that cold and ice. Houndy would be their main strength there and to be honest, Blaze didn't trust that the dog would do a reliable job. He needed to convince Gilly to train it intensively. Hopefully, it would evolve from a demon-dog to a devil-dog before they reached the coldest part of the region.

He said hopefully but he wasn't convinced that the dog would follow orders after it evolved. It was worrying to think about considering he had nothing but a grass typed monster to go against it. With how annoying that dog was, it would probably do something crazy like kidnap Gilly. He had just started thinking about it that he had already changed his mind, let's not try to buff the unreliable dog just yet. He needed a plan B, there was only one valid choice then.

He focused his attention back on Sunsun who shivered sensing his heavy gaze on herself. He needed her/it to get very strong very fast. The devil they were hunting would be very weak to its fairy abilities and its psychic powers should be able to keep the rest at bay. Sunsun was now his top priority to train.

What sort of skills did she posses? Did she know any good abilities or did she just spend her days idling about? He could ask but he probably didn't need to, she was reading his thoughts after all wasn't she? She understood he was doing that to get Aurora her next team member yes?

||Yes, I understand this is to help Aurora. I will do my best but I'm not that strong. I usually just flee using teleport when danger shows up.||

Hearing a voice in his head was pretty weird. How was he supposed to answer exactly? Maybe there was a convenient way to learn it like one would learn another language.

||You just have to think and I will see, or you could talk aloud, I have hears you know?||

"Right, that's a good point."

"What?" Gilly answered a bit confused.

"No, I was talking to Sunny."

"Oh, I see."

||Your mind is weird, it goes deeper and deeper. Aurora has some memories older than her birth and it is strange but you are weirder, I get lost trying to find my way in your head. it just keeps going and going, where are your feelings even stored?||

"That's irrelevant. Tell me what you can do instead of searching my brain."

(Why are you searching through his brain anyway?)

|| I wanted to know who we are dealing with.|| The small fairy glossed over the subject but projected the answer to everyone to make it easier for them to follow the conversation. || I can mess with the head of people, project my voice into their heads, I can have them believe there are two of me, teleport and I can sing prettily.||

Was singing a good ability?

|| I like singing.||

"Fine, anyway, how does one train psychic abilities? Do you have mental gymnastics to do or do you have to train on the mind of someone else? I know how to train the body of someone but I'm unfamiliar with psychic powers."

|| I just need to practice more, It's all about speed, precision and knowledge. I don't think you can really help me get better. If you are sure Aurora has the potential to learn, I will do my best to help her along as well.||

Since Sunny was saying so, Blaze left her training to herself. To give the two girls some time to get better at it, the group agreed to go around the mountain instead of through it.

Afterward, Blaze told them the result of his training in the mountain. Unfortunately, Dawnshield wasn't quite ready to evolve yet. There was nothing much he could do about it. He could make it stronger and stronger but the small monster was just not ready to grow yet.

This wasn't dramatic though, he didn't need him to grow up so fast, he was just eager for it and a bit worried about the security of the group.

Looking at the mails him and Gilly received and the recent news, things weren't getting better.

First of all, the neighbor Russ kept sending them messages but since they didn't respond, he got very frustrated and set out to go after them himself. Apparently, he had already collected a badge as he was scouring the region for them.

Their houses were still under surveillance, their mothers were both fuming and worried and the police was still blocking all paths going in and out of Hitawar.

People from team Solaris sent him very angry emails about how he was an asshole. All the things they were supposed to ship out of town were stuck inside because of the ridiculous police blockade. Blaze didn't care at all.

Everyone on the net was freaking out at how Gilly said they would keep everyone up to date just before going AWOL for almost two weeks. They had also heard about what Gilly's mother said and hated him even more for beating his girlfriend even if it was only half true. Gilly herself repeated time and again that this wasn't true at all but people just dismissed it saying she was trying to protect him despite his hateful conduct. That and their outrage about her list made Gilly scream angrily at the screen more than once, threatening people that couldn't hear her that she would slap them so hard they would get thrown o the sun and back.

News reported that a great amount of shady people started appearing in Hitawar after Aurora was seen there. Apparently, the hotel staff reported they had housed her for a day and now angry workers showed up everywhere to track her. Many got arrested for a bunch of minor crimes, they said they were 'working' for the working order.

That working order was apparently a new team that appeared after the massive layoffs from Starfuel. Their goal was to go after all the corrupt head of the major company across the world and create a world where the workers would be truly respected and paid as they should, a world where the CEO's and directors wouldn't siphon all the money for themselves. Of course, they wanted to start with the one who offended their original members, Aurora.

According to the news, their team 'uniform' was a set of ordinary office working clothes imprinted with a 'O' inside a 'W' and a construction hat. Blaze thought that they were ridiculous but they somehow got a lot of traction early on, gained a lot of followers and massive funding from who knew were. It was another thing to worry about, now they weren't safe behind Aurora either.

The working order wasn't even the most worrying thing they saw. Blaze was getting spammed by messages from the police all the time so he usually didn't take a look at them but one came from someone very highly ranked in the hierarchy of the Alemany region, the director of some agency he couldn't read the name of. The content of the message was troubling.

<Sherwood, we request to know the truth under all this nonsensical masquerade. Were you or were you not paid by the government of Florence to launch the nuclear attack against Alemany?>

The rest of the three pages long email was a list of proofs they had gathered suggesting that Dragonlaw was only a pawn following orders.

Of course, Blaze had no idea if this was true or not. He hoped it wasn't though. Everyone knew there was a lot of bad blood between Florence and Alemany. Not only the old war three thousand years ago but also the war of the low mountain and the much more recent world war.

If it turned out that his father had indeed been incited to do it by the Florenci government, it might turn into another war.

Not knowing if it was true or not, there wasn't much he could do about it, even if he answered, the guy at the other end would not believe anything he said.

<I have no idea. If that's the case, I have not seen the color of that money. You should ask my father.>

That was far from the best answer, that was obvious, but there really wasn't anything he could do. Not knowing the truth, anything he said could turn around to bite him.

He went to bed worried about that and was awakened by a nightmare again. He woke up Gilly in his struggle and almost made the tent collapse. When he opened his eyes again, he saw that Sunsun was fixing him again. The small creature was shivering in fright.

She was there because Aurora refused to sleep alone so they had bought a much larger tent he had the pleasure of raising and dismantling every time they moved somewhere else.

||There was something messing with your head.||

Blaze was still half asleep so it took him a while to understand what she was saying through the usual calming attempt of Gilly.

"You saw that something was messing with my head? What was it?"

||Not sure, it was too powerful and scary. It was far stronger than me. Just getting a glimpse of what it was doing in your head, was... too much for me to handle. I'm scared, I don't want to feel it this close ever again.||

At least now he knew that there was nothing wrong with himself, it was really an outside force messing with him. It didn't bring him any closer to a solution though as the only monster they had that was able to barely sense it got so scarred of it that it hid in its ball right after telling him and refused to come out for hours. Even after Sunsun came back out, she did her best to stay as far from him as possible.

"At least now we know that you really have a ghost after you." Said Gilly to cheer everyone up a little.

"Why does it have to be a ghost? It could be anything really."

"I've been saying it's a ghost for years now, I'm sure it's one." Said Gilly stubbornly. "I don't know why it's after you but we'll find a way to get rid of it."

The more he thought about it, the more Blaze felt that it was probably the 'Damned' thing he got for the adventure along with the thing that made the police go after him. If that was the case, he was unsure they could be rid of the entity so easily. Since he wasn't convinced it was really the case though, he kept his worries for himself, at least for now.

While Aurora was angry at him for scaring her new friend and the others were busy training, Blaze spent his time reading about how to pilot an helicopter.

Just a few days ago, he was thinking that it was a waste of his precious time but now he had reluctantly changed his mind. The reason was that not learning it was a waste of his precious money. They would soon need to travel all the way to Florence, doing it would require one of three things from them. Either they needed to have powerful flying monsters, either they needed to take a plane or find someone to pilot the helicopter.

Obviously, there was no way they would have flying monsters in a short time so this wasn't the way to go. Taking a plane would be best but there was no way they would just accept them wearing the masks and not showing any identity proof near a plane. The only thing left was to use the helicopter, this meant that he either needed to pay someone to pilot it for them or he needed to do it himself.

There was no way he was trusting anyone to bring him up in the sky without being able to take control if something went wrong. If that was the case, wasn't it better to take control right from the beginning? Anyway, he didn't have the money to pay a pilot.

Because of that, even though he felt like he didn't have the time for it and would much rather push everyone to train harder, he was forced to admit that he did need to learn how to fly that thing. Luckily, you could find almost anything on the internet as long as you knew how to look. Blaze being someone that was apparently able to launch a nuke easily, finding out all he needed to learn how to pilot the thing wasn't challenging at all.

He spent most of his time on their way north reading about this while the rest trained. The surrounding got gradually colder over the days until they reached the point where both Gilly and Aurora complained all the time about the cold, even though they both wore thick coats.

By the time they reached a place where there was nothing but snow and ice in the surrounding, Blaze knew everything from how to pilot it all the way to exactly how it was built, passing by how every single buttons and mechanisms worked and influenced the vehicle. Not being able to forget a thing was very useful for that kind of task. Now the only thing he needed was practice. Technically, he also needed a licence but honestly, he didn't care.

Going back to the cold, getting surrounded by snow this quickly just by walking north should have been impossible. Blaze felt that it was probably because the elevation was much higher than the rest of the region. Either that or an old and powerful creature was dormant under the land, freezing it's surroundings.

They had bought everything they'd need to survive the snow back in Hitawar. They had more blanket than one could ever need, electric heaters in case fire wasn't enough, snow boots and snowshoes and a lot of warm clothes. (1)

Even with all that, most members of the group weren't fairing too well. First of all, both Dawnshield and Magus felt sluggish and didn't want to get out of their balls to train. The other three monsters weren't as effected but Sunsun stayed hidden in Aurora's coat all the time and Houndy kept spitting foul-smelling burning saliva in front of him to keep itself warm.

As for the two girls, one of them lived in a desert all her life and the other complained at the smallest things. Aurora wore two coats over one another, a thick wool scarf over most of her face, a toque, sky pants, enormous mitts and boots large enough to give the impression her feet were trice as large. Even with all that, her cheeks were still red from the cold and her whole being was shivering. The worst part was that because of all this, she couldn't speak properly and had to use Sunny as an intermediary to transmit anything at all.

In comparison, his girlfriend wasn't as cold as her and only wore normal winter clothes but she still kept complaining loudly about how cold it was. Blaze wasn't sure if she was really cold or if she was just trying to get him to hug her more, either way, he was happy to help her.

Since they used much less traveled paths far from large towns and roads to get up there, they came across a great amount of wild monsters on the way. Depending on what it was, they either did their best to ignore it or used it to test out the progress of one of their own monsters.

The fights including Sunsun were particularly pitiful to watch, not because of her but rather her opponents. More often than not, they were reduced to a twitching mess before doing anything against her. Maybe Blaze had underestimated the power of psychic monsters. Even simply inducing confusion into the head of their opponents was devastating. They wanted to step forward but raised their arms in the air instead, trying to ram into her only to fumble and fall headfirst down in a ditch, every fights ended in a similar way.

The only problem they encountered was the demurets themselves, the guys they were looking for. The first one they saw just ran away at first sight, the next one came in the dead of night to steal some of their supply in their sleep. Like he had thought, when he met Levy, she was really bad at keeping night watch. She just stared at the moon all night long and didn't react to the theft.

They finally managed to challenge the third and final one they met but it had a massive advantage against them.

To be a good capture and inspire its respect, Aurora needed to defeat it herself. The demon was immune to the psychic powers of Sunsun, magus was basically unable to fight because of the cold and Starburst was far from the strongest monster around. Not only that, because of all the winter clothes, she couldn't play her keytar without removing at least her mitts and playing with freezing fingers disturbed the notes greatly. Considering all this, her best chance was to use Sunsun and hope her small powers as a fae would be enough to make the demon submit.

The encounter took place in a cramped space between the tall coniferous trees. The sun was high but everything seemed grey and drab anyway. The demuret jumped down from a tree not too far in front of them making Gilly jump in surprise.

"There's one! It's time to try your luck Aurora." Blaze told her before retreating a bit further with Gilly.

With how long it took them to reach this place and find the monster she needed, she had plenty of time to think about how she would proceed beforehand. She threw her mitts in the snow at her side, released Starburst and gripped her freezing keytar tightly despite the painful sensation. The plan was to weaken it with Starburst first and then, finish it off with Sunsun.

"What? You wish to fight me? Iya! How exciting! It's the first time a trainer want to fight me! Bring it on! I'll be a star once I defeat you! Everyone will grovel at my feet!"

The monster threw its meal on the side and showed its claws in a mix of happiness and menacing attitude. Judging from her voice, it was a girl too.

Even though she was like that, Aurora felt she was very cute. Her fur was short and dark and her feline appearance gave her a lithe and devilish feel. But, her few bright red feathers and her sparkling excited eyes showed her fun side. The small demon was almost three feet tall, showed a roguish smile of sharp teeth and put her long deadly fang upfront.

Maybe Aurora was weird to think this way of a demonic monster, but she felt the urge to cuddle it too.

Now wasn't the time to do this though, she needed to defeat her first. Starburst was raring to go as well.

"You big black got nothing on me! I'll show you my great, amazing, sensational, unbeatable moves that will make you shit yourself!"

Starburst was always a bit weird. Aurora didn't mind. Every time she talked about the strange things he said, Blaze kept taking the voice of an old man to say 'Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.' as if it was the funniest thing. Aurora didn't get it but it was true that Starburst had more than enough confidence.

She tried to play the battle notes, they were messy, out of rhythm and half of them were wrong. Luckily, the bird understood anyway and took flight.

The wild demuret followed him by swiftly jumping in the nearest tree. It started climbing up nearly as fast as the bird took some altitude. At this rate, the demon would jump off the tree and onto the bird. She wanted to ask it to back off a bit and stir up some wind while it was stuck on the tree trunk but the notes were all wrong because of her freezing and shacking fingers.

"Faster than ever!" The bird called thinking she was asking for a quick charge.

Starburst swooped down at an incredible speed and managed to knock right into the demon, and the tree.

The bird crashed so fast into the demon that it got squashed into the tree and they were so high up that the shock snapped it in half. Starburst, the demuret and the top of the tree all fell crashing through the branches and needles littered the snow. Luckily, no huge branches fell close to her or her friends.

Starburst pierced through the first layer of snow on its back and Aurora heard it say "Err... so good." before it fainted.

"My god that bird is dumb!" Half complained half yelled Blaze, unable to laugh at the ridiculous turn of events. (2)

The demuret on the other hand managed to grab onto a branch on it's way to the ground to slow itself down and managed to fall back on its feet. Despite the fact that it was still standing, it was clutching its chest trying to get back the air that had been knocked out of it, racked by an intense coughing fit.

Aurora was shocked at how badly the fight went but really, there was nothing she could do about it. She recalled the bird into its ball. At least it had done some damage before knocking itself out. She was unsure if she had to praise it or scold it later though.

"What the hell was that!" The demuret complained. "I'm the one that's supposed to use unfair tactics, not the other way around!"

Now, the short demon seemed eager to prove herself as the most devious around, that couldn't be a good thing.

||It's your turn now Sunsun. I'm sure you will do better than Starburst. I believe in you.|| (3)

||I'll do my best! How do I beat it?||

||Demons hate cute things, all you have to do is to be so cute it loses the will to fight. Use the disarming voice and teleport away if she tries to hit you.||

All aurora could do now was leave it all into Sunsun's hands. Sunsun nodded and slipped out of Aurora's coats. The air was cold outside of it, Sunsun wished to go back in quick.

"Bleh, a fairy."

The demuret seemed to dislike her presence but charged towards her anyway. Raising its claws towards Sunny, the demon slashed at her head only to hit an empty space. Sunsun reappeared high in a tree behind the demon.

"You know, my friend Aurora thinks you are cute."

"What!"

Shocked, the demon turned back towards Sunsun and sped towards the tree.

"I think you're kinda charming in your own way too. Not as pretty as me though."

"Shut it fairy spawn! That's not funny!"

The demuret jumped up while conjuring a blast of freezing wind, coating the branches in a thin layer of ice. Sunsun just disappeared and stepped in the snow elsewhere while the claws of its opponent carved into the frozen pine bark.

"I'm not being funny though, we really think so."

"Stop!"

The demuret feinted left and right before swiping at Sunsun but missed again.

"Don't you want to be our friend? We could have so much fun together."

"No. Stop teleporting away!"

Another miss, she furiously shredded a nearby bush in frustration.

||You're doing great!|| Thought Aurora. ||Keep at it!||

"But Aurora really wants to hug you though." Sunsun continued.

"I don't care! Fight me seriously! Come here and show me what you got pipsqueak!"

"But I 'am' fighting seriously. It's not my fault if both your heart and your mind are closed to me. Wouldn't it feel much better to open yourself up a bit?"

"No, I will cut you in half!"

Sunsun teleported herself back not too far in front of Aurora and made a crystal clear laugh. The same joy could be read in Aurora's silent eyes.

"How you get angry like that is cute too. My friends think the same. You can't help but be charming."

"St-stop it!"

The small demon clutched her head with her long claws. Despite how ridiculous that 'fight' seemed, entities of darkness really were sensible to feelings. Seekrids were masters of emotions, empaths, even with those simple words, she could easily throw the opponent into emotional turmoil.

"She saw through you, the moment she saw you, we knew you're a fun person to hang out with."

"I am but, wait, what? I mean, no! What are you doing?"

"Nothing, I'm just trying to open your heart."

"That's devious!"

"But you love devious, would it not be even more fun together?"

The demuret shivered and had to place a knee in the snow to stop itself from falling forward. Sunsun went for the final push. She raised her small arms up to her face and placed them into her hair.

"You only have to look into my eyes to see that I'm sincere."

Sunsun parted her hair to reveal her expressive eyes to the demuret who just stopped breathing in shock. It was like looking into a pool of pure feelings.

"Aba, aahhh, asajaeeeeh?..."

No coherent words came from her mouth so Sunsun was sure she had won but the moment she lowered her guard, the devious demon took the opportunity. Claiming revenge for this humiliating defeat with the last of her strength, she pushed herself forward with a jump. One of her legs had been conveniently bent in the right position for a jump-start moments ago after all.

In an instant, the demuret was right in front of Sunny and her huge claws dug in her side spewing blood under her triumphant look.

Gilly gasped in surprise on the side while Aurora recoiled. Sunsun seemed utterly surprised of what had just happened but instead of showing fear or panic, she instead made a forgiving smile and wrapped her small arms around her opponent.

The victorious expression on the demuret's face vanished just as swiftly as it had showed.

||Warm||

She hung her jaw in confusion and collapsed with the seekrid, her mind shattered by the overdose of feels. Under them, the snow turned pink at a rapid pace.

The moment she saw Sunny fall, Aurora rushed to her, loudly crunching the snow under her boots. She didn't have that much of a reaction for Starburst's blunder but that was because he was always doing this sort of mistakes. It was something entirely different for Sunsun. She was deeply scared for her and imagining the worst, she separated the two monsters.

The revealed wound would not have been that deep on a human but poor Sunny was so small. She started crying, she didn't know what to do. He heart was just filled with worry. While munching on her lips, she shook her arms up and down trying to figure out how she was meant to help Sunny but it was Blaze who gave her the answer.

"What are you doing? Give her a healing potion quick."

That was right, she did have some healing potions! She threw her bag in the snow, yanked it open and searched through it in a frenzy. She found the all purpose medicine and immediately sprayed all of the bottle's content onto the wound.

Meanwhile, Gilly and blaze walked up to her. Both of their aura showed that they shared her worries too. Even though Blaze seemed really calm and told her what to do, it did not mean at all that he didn't feel anything about Sunsun's wound.

"Now call her back to her ball and we'll go to a monster center right away."

Aurora nodded. He was right, she was glad he was here if only to think properly when she was too worried. She did as she was told, brought back Sunny into her ball and picked up her mitts and bag.

"Don't forget the demuret, it would be a shame to leave it here after all that trouble."

Aurora looked at its unconscious form. She hesitated.

"Or maybe you're angry at it because of Sunsun? It's okay too, we don't have to capture it, we can find something else." Gilly tried to be compassionate.

It's open mouth full of sharp teeth and its claws, still red at the tip. Every time she thought things were going well and she started to feel more at ease, something came to remind her that this wasn't a jolly walk in the park.

Gilly was right, she was really angry that the demuret hurt Sunny but she was the one who had attacked it first. Not only that, she didn't even help Sunny through the fight. She just gave some basic guidelines at the beginning of it and watched it unfold curiously as if it was a show on TV. She was to blame too. She could have at least tried to do something. The egg stealing demon wasn't in the wrong, creatures of evil really were sensitive to feelings. What Sunsun did was probably true torture for it.

More importantly than all that, she didn't want Sunny's efforts to go to waste. She grabbed a ball and threw it strongly at the monster. it made a dull thud from her resentment as it impacted its forehead and absorbed the monster inside it. She would probably forgive it at some point but for now, she was still angry, she wanted to be angry.

"I think you're doing the right thing." Blaze praised her decision.

Blaze invited Gilly to climb on his back and he jogged all the way back to the nearest town with Aurora who could barely keep up. There, they got inside the warm medical center and gave all their balls to the care of the nurse.

Aurora made a sigh in an attempt to stifle her tears and sat with Blaze and Gilly in the waiting room. In the corner of the room, dangling from the ceiling, a television broadcast the news.

"I'm asking the league and the international police to begin on official investigation on the misdeeds of the region of Florence. If it is not done, our government will have no choice but to take it to the council of nations." A man from Alemany was yelling at other officials.

"This has nothing to do with the incident. You're just trying to take advantage of our security blunder to force us out of the ownership of yet again another powerful weapon." The representative of Florence stated. "You just want an advantage over us."

"Maybe they have a point though, Florence doesn't seem to be able to control any of its weapons properly, ancient or otherwise." Snickered a man from Newone.

"Outrageous!"

Aurora wasn't paying attention at all, only thinking about Sunny but Blaze was captivated. What was the goal behind all those events?

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(1) In French, snowshoes aren't considered shoes, we call them snow rackets. I do not understand how it became snowshoe in English, it doesn't even make sense.

(2) The brain of that bird is unexplainably juicy.

(3) She isn't really talking using her mind, she is just thinking it and Sunny reads it. It's just faster to write it down as mind talk even though the drawback forbids it. I will probably use this method again in the future.

About lvls

I'm sure you noticed, things should be of a much higher lvl here according to the game. I just felt that in real life, the lvls of every wild creature shouldn't be conveniently curved for a specific progression or else, people being born in the final town of the games would be stuck there forever because of the high lvl of everything surrounding them.

Instead, I think that the rarity should determine the most likely strength of the wild monsters and then, a reverse exponential curve should be drawn to express the chances of finding a wild creature of increasingly high lvl. What I mean is that you are far more likely to meet a regular bear in the forest than you are to meet one knowing kungfu moves.

As for the trainers, they probably have a way to know if potential opponents would be a fair fight or not. I think it's probably linked to the number of badges one has.

I believe it would be incredibly rude and lowly regarded for the holder of six badges to challenge someone who only as one. The lvls of the monsters and trainer in the games are only like that for the convenience it brings to the game, we don't have to follow them to the T, we don't even have to use lvls.

I barely look at them to know what sort of moves they should know or not at a specific point in time. Again, my goal isn't to cheat, I just want to make it all a bit more logical because it's easier on me to write in a universe that makes sense.

About monster descriptions

Speaking about making sense: In the beginning I was keen on describing everyone of them in detail in order to expose the differences between the games and what it would take for them to look more real. As I'm sure you have noticed, I switched to a minimal description style instead. I'm still not sure which I like best but here is my reasoning for the two styles.

- All the details.

I like it best, I like to detail every little things in stories. I want every small details in them to make sense and have some explanation as to why they are the way they are.

It's also easier to express things like; look, that thing is goofy in the anime but here, it's kinda gross and creepy.

In real life, a thing that can dissolve anything else on contact isn't fun at all to cuddle.

On top of all that, it puffs up the chapter and makes it look bigger than it really is because a good chunk is taken to explain how everything looks and works. It saves me some time I can use to work on more things.

I'd like people to read that and be like; yeah, if it was real, it would probably work like that rather than the way it's depicted in the game/anime.

- Minimal description.

Even if all the above is true, I do understand that people aren't here to get a creature they know get ultra detailed in a text, they are here for a story. The whole point of the story isn't even really about Pok*mon it's about jumping in many universes. Maybe I shouldn't waste all that time describing them. It may be annoying for some reader and I'll get accused of padding up my chapters with meaningless stuff.

I'm sure many think; Yes, I know what it looks like, I don't need you to describe it.

Or maybe they have a personal canon they abide to and believe that those monsters should really work that way. It may be frustrating to be told; here is how they work now. Even though that's not what I really meant, I know some will think that way.

Finally, I also have a problem with humanoids characteristics and reproduction. If I want to describe everything in a realistic way rather than in a cartoonish way, there are things I need to explain.

For example, Seekrid or R*lts, if you prefer. Obviously, there's no way that describing it as a creature looking like it's wearing an over-sized pajama is fine on its own. What the hell is that thing? Is it flabby skin? Is it really a gown? Then, is it nude under it? Maybe it's semi-solid or some kind of jelly?

Even for those that make more sense, like a Luc*rio. Surely he must have reproductive bits somewhere. I could just gloss over it but if it's described from the point of view of Aurora for example, there's no way someone as innocent as her won't notice that.

I don't mind at all talking about genitals or reproduction but I'm pretty sure not everyone is as open minded and more importantly; It would put a character of unclear/convoluted age in front of it all. Honestly, I would have no problem with it since they aren't humans, they're just surprisingly smart creatures. They're like a bunch of talking dogs, except none of them had their jewels removed. But, I'm not in the head of the readers, I have no way of knowing what you all think of this.

I'd describe everything as logically and realistically as possible but I don't want to get crucified for it. Let me know on reddit or Patreon or Webnovel if you feel cheated of the descriptions.

Remember, I'm the guy who has a chapter sized anatomical analysis of Arachnes on my Patreon, you better believe I can and would explain it all.