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funny thing is I was lazy af to do the route 2 puzzle, so my first ever Reborn run is to this day on halt just before I have to go searching for Hardy lol but after learning wtf to do, I actually like this puzzle - I'm prolly in the minority but it's one of my favorites I don't like the Adventurine Forest puzzle because it takes a lot of time, but I think it's a cool design I dislike the magic squares puzzle because Idk wtf how to solve it and I haven't tried to either xD

Imo though, out of all the episodes, I think Vanilla was less of an un empathetic savage in this one (criticizing Tania by thinking of what'd happened to herself, hugging Shelly which I think is almost uncharacteristic of her lol), though if you emphasize with Tania... then yep she has zero mercy for her

I see sumone is biased >.> jk I've been thinking but I'm going to cheat it and force Reshiram-path it lol You'll see what I mean when we get there. The reason is simple: on my main save somehow I ended up fighting him and thus playing Zekrom path. I wanna play Reshiram path too, even if I've gotten massively spoilered already xD But I might make it a poll decision if there's enough interest in determining Vanilla's fate~ Probably you can catch froakie in the wild... except it's a 0.00001% rare encounter Also, that mini scene was something I pulled out of mah b00ty in one minute (hence the random froakies), but it's based on this old scene in Ep 13 back in Season 1 lol It's the scene just before Vanilla and Shelly have their gym match, but Shelly is still uncomfortable around Vanilla due to her explosiveness being reminiscent of Cal.

*nincadas singing in the background* Shelly: ... Pikachu: ... *croagunks and froakies croaking in the background* Shelly: ... Pikachu: ... *river flowing in the background* Shelly: ... Pikachu: ... Shelly: Um, may I, um, pet you? Pikachu: *squeaks and gets closer to Shelly* Shelly: *pat pat* Pikachu: *blissful* Shelly: *blissful* jk I don't know, I leave it to thy imagination xD

I didn't want her to watch it, but since she's right there I couldn't not have her lol poor Shelly will be traumatized until they get Waterfall and find out Amaria ain't dead. I don't think I made Titania more humble (90% of what she says is copy pasted from the game) but having someone equally sharp (Vanilla) instead of the usual silent protagonist might've made her seem more vulnerable. She already has guilt in her, but doesn't show weakness in the game because the MC doesn't go like "Titania how could you do this shit to Amaria?? *angery*" while Vanilla's like "she'll turn into your worst nightmare" xD

From Everland to Reborn ~ Episode 47 I helped Shelly through the difficult steps of the path, and though she did scratch her knees and palms a little, she did not complain. Even then, I knew she was tired from the trek, since she was probably not used to all this physical exertion, so I told her to sit on a large rock and wait for me while I climbed up the stairs to retrieve the TM from Amaria. I left her with Pikachu, so that she would have some company while I was away. Entering the house, I only found Titania in the living room, which they hadn’t bothered to clean up even though they did expect visitors this time around. She had been reading some book, or perhaps scribbling on it, but when she saw me she stood up quickly. “So you’ve beaten Samson, I guess? Amaria’s out for a walk, so I’ll fetch the machine,” she said, and went upstairs. I waited for five, then ten minutes, but Titania seemed to have quite some trouble finding the TM. Judging from how their entire house was a mess, I had no difficulty imagining it, though it did irritate me slightly since I had Shelly and Pikachu waiting for me. I looked around the place, which was mostly made of wood. I sat down on the couch where I’d found Amaria sitting last time, but stood right back up when I found some R-rated magazines between the cushions. I returned to the desk Titania was at, and sat down on the chair which she’d left open. A simple glance to the book, though, marked the tragedy. “I still cannot foresee any happily ever after to this fake fairytale romance,” I read, because the word “fairytale” made me assume this might be a book about Everland. However, the tone was very different from what you would expect from a guidebook, and I confirmed what it was when I found the words “Dear Diary,” on the header. I stood up from the desk, but the damage had been done. Titania found me almost knocking the chair over due to my swift movement backward. “Here, catch,” she threw the TM at me, and I caught it with one hand. “Don’t tell me… were you reading my diary?” I did the most sensible thing to do: I admitted I had. “Have you no regard for personal privacy?” she shouted. “Had I known it was your diary, I’d not have-” “Excuses! Who doesn’t love excuses when your guilt was witnessed?” “If you don’t care to know why I read it, then my job here is done,” I waved the TM and turned my back to her. She was right: I needed not make excuses, for I didn’t care for her opinion. “Wait,” she stopped me midway. “About what you read… if you have even a single shred of decency, you will not breathe a word of it to anyone.” I faced her once more as she went on talking. “I’m aware it was a wretched choice, but she is my closest friend, and when she threw herself at me, I reacted poorly,” Titania said, lowering her voice and pacing. “She already struggles with depression and suicide. I will not be the reason she goes over the edge.” “Now you’re the one making excuses, aren’t you?” I sneered. “Nothing changes the fact that you’re currently lying to her, making her believe a fantasy that isn’t true.” The redhead was about to interrupt me, but I carried on. For some reason, I felt personally invested, now that I saw more of the story. “She will find out, you know. Perhaps not by me, since I’m an unrelated third party, but by some means because the truth can never be concealed to perfection. Sooner or later, she’ll find out, and then she’ll turn into your worst nightmare.” I blurted out that last part on impulse, but I realized I was no longer talking about Amaria. I was talking about me, the current me, after the whole ordeal at Everland’s Underworld. Titania was silent, and perhaps it was just the lighting, but she looked a little pale. When she spoke, her voice wasn’t as firm as it had been when she was shouting. “Fine. She will find out eventually, but let it not be today,” she almost sounded as though she was pleading. “Let her find out another day.” Before she finished her speaking, though, the door opened and Amaria entered the house. “Were you talking about me?” she asked, and noticing us staring at her, added, “What’s with the grim faces?” I softened my facial muscles after she pointed them out. “Perfect timing. Couldn’t be better,” Titania said, and placed a hand over the handrail for support. “What don’t you want me to find out, Tania?” Amaria insisted, and walked closer to her. I saw Tania tense up even more, since Amaria was now standing right next to the desk with the diary still open to the same page. Her eyes glanced to the book and back at Amaria, but she was silent. Since her lover didn’t seem willing to explain, Amaria looked at me for an answer instead. Amaria’s inquisitive blue eyes and Titania’s sharp but desperate gaze landed on me, and for a moment I debated whether to tell her or not. I asked myself to whom I owed loyalty, but the conclusion was that it was to neither. Hence, I kept silent, to Titania’s relief. I’d stated the truth wouldn’t come apparent by my interference, and I remained true to my resolve. “So that’s how it is,” Amaria lowered her eyes, and I could tell she was disappointed in me for apparently taking Titania’s side. “Then, I’ll just…” Amaria grabbed Titania’s diary, and started reading. “Don’t do that,” the redhead blurted, but it was all too late. Amaria dropped the book, and the dull thud sound it made seemed to resonate in the absolute silence. Titania didn’t speak up, and I wished I could just leave, but I didn’t feel it to be appropriate. “... Fake fairytale romance,” Amaria finally said. “Tania, what’s the meaning of this?” “I warned you,” she replied without looking at Amaria. Amaria was silent again, and when she spoke up again, I could hear she was crying even though I could only see her back. “You… don’t love me, do you?” “Amy, you’re my best friend. I would choose you over anyone else,” Titania explained. “But that’s not the same as having romantic feelings.” Amaria was silent, so Titania took it as a cue to explain herself further. “I feared if you knew, you’d hurt yourself. I know I acted foolishly, and I’m deeply regretful.” “Being with you, it felt as though someone was picking up the pieces of my shattered glass heart and fitting them back together bit by bit,” Amaria sniffled. “But now, the glass has all been shattered once again.” The cyan-haired girl swayed a little and I thought she might pass out, but instead she turned her back on Titania and started running past me toward the door. “Amaria,” Titania called. “Amy, wait!” She also ran past me, almost tripping over the stairs. When they were gone, I was left wondering how I’d gotten into this mess. Had I not accidentally read what was Titania’s diary, I might’ve evaded this all together, yet fate seemed to always be luring me to more and more misfortune, like a small insect is drawn to the burning flames. When I exited the house and jogged down the hill, Shelly was standing, waiting for me. “Vanilla, um, I just saw two girls run past here and, they’re... there.” Shelly pointed her shaking finger to a patch of land that hadn’t yet been consumed by the rapid currents of the river. I slightly regretted not having a water type on hand to teach Surf to, for as I approached the two women, I saw that Amaria was on the edge of falling down the cascade. “Amy, enough of this. Let’s go home,” I heard Titania speaking as I approached them. Shelly and Pikachu followed me, but I told them to stay where they were. I had a bad feeling about this, and Shelly had already been through this type of stress. “Shelly, don’t come. Pikachu, keep her away,” I ordered. “I don’t want you to see this, in case something happens.” However, Shelly insisted on coming; every time I turned my back on her, she moved closer and closer, until we were both on the edge of the river. Once I was there, though, I didn’t know what to do. What could I say, and when, to prevent any misfortune for Shelly’s sake? To my dismay, a third party could do nothing, and thus the only thing left for me to do was watch and hope that Titania may somehow dissuade Amaria from going over the edge. “I only wanted to help you, even if that meant ignoring my own needs,” Titania said. “So you lied to me? About everything? How does that help?” Amaria retorted, and when the redhead attempted to speak, she cut her short. “How long have you felt this way… how long have you been lying to me?” Titania hesitated and looked away, but answered in a low voice. “Since the beginning,” she said. “I have only treasured you as a friend.” Amaria looked down, then up to hold back her tears, but they seemed to overflow her eyes nonetheless. She clenched her fists and seemed to be in pain, but that only lasted a couple of minutes, before her shoulders relaxed. “You were my whole world, you know,” she said with a surprisingly calm voice. “With you, my heart was set free from the daily darkness that engulfed me… but I was just your prison.” “It’s not like that.” “It won’t be, anymore,” Amaria took one step closer to the edge of the waterfall. “With this, I set you free.” “Amy, don’t be stupid,” Titania said and took two steps forward. “P-please, stop! Please,” Shelly also joined in and screamed, but it was for nothing. Amaria plunged into the abyss, leaving the words, “Goodbye, my love” hanging in the air. “No, n-no, Vanilla. This can't be... Why? Why?” Shelly said with a trembling voice. I couldn’t explain it, though there must be a reason I am not aware of, but I said nothing and lightly embraced Shelly as she sobbed for the probable death of a person she didn’t personally know. Titania looked at Shelly and me, but made no comments about the crying child. “I’m going after her,” she told me with a stern expression, and was bold enough to use my words against me. “But I don’t have a way back up. Figure it out, or I will become your worst nightmare.” So she plunged down the waterfall, knowing whether or not it was a survivable distance way down. Likes attract, and so must fools attract too. Such were my thoughts as I watched the rushing water fall off the cliff, while trying to calm a child with waterfalls on her eyes. VANILLA RATES: REBORN CHARACTERS QUICK LINK TO NEXT EPISODE

Given we know the last gym leader is I'd say it's good that you have mimikyu on standby. Maybe get an ice type also since it's likely that one of the elite 4 will be So ice should be useful for both. As for recommendations, I'm a fan of alolan ninetales, but it depends if you EV train Speed and would rather speedy sweepers or set up trick room and sweep that way.

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Lol luckily Shelly will be out of Terra's reach for a while now The thing is in writing, having just the protagonist doing stuff by themselves is mighty boring because there's not much conversation going on other than maybe inner reflection. So I've tried to minimize the time Vanilla spends truly alone by giving her a traveling companion (S1 pachirisu, S2 illumise, S3 mimikyu) and sometimes a human companion who can actually talk (most of the time this is Shelly). I chose Shelly because her timid and not confident character is foil to Vanilla, and hence both would have something to learn from each other, compared to, say, if I paired Saphira and Vanilla who are quite alike each other. Eric, dear, you have no tatas But thx I try to bring fresh but in-character dialogue lol Oh yes, everyone says Samson is easy but friggin that hawlucha alone could sweep my team Doesn't help that klefki ("Golden Key") missed Play Rough first round... Poor Shelly might have a mental breakdown, witnessing one suicide and an "attempted" one oof

afaik, no I don't think it is

From Everland to Reborn ~ Episode 46 Hardy and I entered the waiting room and heard Ciel asking Terra about the source of a signal over Agate City. “Oh, Vanilla,” Ciel said upon seeing us. “I see you managed to find the boy.” Cain, Shelly and Aya all turned their faces toward us at the same time. Hardy wasted no time in joining Aya on the far side of the room, while Shelly moved my way. “It took long because Hardy’s sister found him in Route 2 ahead of me, and brought him to her home,” I explained. “What were you saying about a signal over Agate?” “Oh, we found out that there is a certain signal over Agate City, which we believe to be involved with making people fall asleep in that area,” she informed me. “No one has ever guessed, but Terra here is quite dexterous with computers, and has been helping us track down the source of that signal so we can destroy it.” “Computerzzz isnt all im d3xter0us with ifuknowhatimean,” Terra smirked at Ciel, who coughed and made an attempt to keep the conversation pertain to the topic at hand. “Have you found the source of the signal yet?” she asked. “Nawwh but calm yo tits. T3RR4 is SUP3R 1337 hackar. Nothin ezzcape my b00ty.” “It has taken so long already, though. You started just after Vanilla left, and she was out for hours.” “Did I or did I nawt tell u to calm yo tits bitch,” Terra shrieked. “Undo the calamity that is yo mammaries! Hakuna your tatas, exclamation point!” “Can we not keep it PG for the young ones,” I suggested, for I’d noticed Terra had a knack for stressing my nerves whenever Shelly and she were less than 10 metres from each other. “PG? PG, u say? Yez I’ll do sum PornoGraphy with Ciel anytime bby.” I pitied Shelly, but there was nothing more I could do. If Terra was indeed so crucial to finding the wretched signal, I couldn’t just knock her daylights out of her. Not that she didn’t give me enough encouragement to. “Just stop. I can feel my brain cells dying off one by one,” Samson joined our conversation. “Indeed, you are cruel to rob Samson of his few remaining ones,” Ciel smiled. It appeared that I wasn’t wrong about Samson. Perhaps he has a reputation for being a musclebrain after all. “Woah, no need to put your cat fight on me. I’m innocent here.” “You werent so innocent last night,” Terra said with a wide grin on her face. “How would you know?” Samson asked back. I caught Shelly shifting her gaze from Terra to Samson and to Terra again, which I took as a cue to cough and catch Samson's attention. “I received this ticket,” I said, taking the battle pass out and placing it in his view. “I assume it's a pass to battle you. I didn't know you were a gym leader, but the ticket does state your name.” “Yeah, I'm the new fighting type gym leader. Finally Ciel, Terra and I can be known as the Agate Triumvirate and also the three gym leaders of Agate Circus. The previous leader was very kind to step down.” “It wasn't a true voluntary step-down,” I commented. “But that's beside the point. Will you battle me then?” “Neither gym leader nor strongman’d refuse to fight a challenger. Come on, let's go to the arena!” I followed Samson, but the one who took most pleasure in my challenge wasn't neither of us, but the ringmaster. “Ah, you have no idea how glad I'm right now,” she said, taking my hand in both of hers for a moment before I retrieved it from her grasp. “I increased the amount of battle passes distributed, but it's been 3 days and no one had challenged any of our gym leaders yet. But if I eliminated the battle pass system, I bet we'd have gym battles every hour! Who understands these people!” The arena had three roaming donphan, who were encouraged to move to the sides on Ciel’s orders. Many of the spectators weren't really spectators, but they'd found the tent a cozy sleeping place, especially given that it'd started to snow outside. Whether or not they were happy to be awoken by Samson’s loud voice, I couldn't tell, but at least most of them stayed in their seats when they found out a gym battle was about to take place. I took my place opposite to Samson on the field, which was when I noticed it was unlike any other field I'd fought in. The floor was made up of tiles that depressed upon walking over them. I had no idea what their function was, but judging from the field notes of the Big Top Arena, and the high striker on one corner of the field, I was braced for a lot of random damage based on Pokémon strength. Luckily, though, I noticed trapezes hanging on the ceiling, which Pokémon could take advantage of to attack Samson’s fighting types from above. “Ready?” asked the ringmaster, who stood as the referee of the match. I nodded. “Then, without further ado, let's introduce this show, shall we?” The audience was silent for a few moments after my Gretel dealt the final blow to Samson’s conkeldurr, but soon one after the other started clapping until the tent was filled with sounds of applause. I wasn't used to so much applause being directed at me, so I was torn between the part of me that wanted it to stop, and the other which happily received it. “Good work, Vanilla. You showed me a battle of wits- watching my team's pattern and choosing the best moves, even if they weren't the strongest,” Samson smirked. “I guess this badge belongs to you.” He walked over to where I stood, and handed me the badge along with a ™ for Brick Break. “Congrats, Vanilla,” Cain said as the four of them rushed toward me. “You really know how to dominate a battle.” “Yah, Vanillla seems quite a tough one,” Hardy agreed. “See Aya? Now you can stop stressing knowing that you aren't the first or the last gym leader she will beat.” “Cain. Shut. Up. I wasn't stressed at all,” Aya said, looked at me, and added as an afterthought, “Congrats.” “Um, um, congra-” Shelly was saying when she got cut short by a sudden repetitive noise. “Raaaaawwrrrr! Raraaaaawwrrrr!” Terra’s voice combined with her hammering the arena’s tiles made for quite a deafening explosion. “Stop that, Terra. I know you're a ground type user, but stop shaking the arena like an earthquake,” Ciel said, and Terra at least stopped the hammering. “Flying types are immune to ground moves, but u aint immune to me bby,” Terra said and sent a flying kiss in Ciel’s direction. “Anyhow, M3G4T3RR4 aka SUP3R L33T H4CK4R haz found very important stuffz about the source of tiiiny sleeping signal.” “Wow that's great Terra,” Ciel said with honest admiration. “Let's head to the waiting room so we can discuss what to do.” Hence we - except the Ringmaster, who stayed at the arena to get other shows going - relocated to the waiting room, out of sight of the nosy spectators. Terra quickly walked up to one of her three PCs, and pointed at a flashing point on the display. “This is timmy. His hobbies include cross-stitching, motorbiking, and planting lizards in the knicker drawers of old ladies,” she said. All of us looked at it closely, but other than getting an idea that it was a point on the top of what looked like a pixelated white mountain, we couldn’t extract any information. “Timmy? But what does that tell us?” Ciel ventured to ask. “What he tellz us? WHAT HE TELLZ US?” Terra took a pause, and then finished her speech. “He tellz us… Ciel’s wearing a thong!!” A couple of heads turned toward Ciel, and the rest, including Ciel’s, moved in closer to the display. Still some others - or maybe just Shelly - asked what a “thong” was in a barely audible voice, but no one attempted answering the question. “What? But like, there’s nothing there that says that at all,” she said. “What do you mean, Terra?” “Ya didnt deny it bb,” Terra smirked triumphantly. “I-- Look, let’s just focus on this. What does timmy really tell us?” “Apart from it telling us your wearing a thong? Rawr.” “YES, apart from whatever or that or whatever!” “I dunno. I just haccku’d it from the broadcaster but I ain’t no statistician,” Terra shrugged. “BUUT if I had to take a guess, I’d say the signal’s RAWRRRRing out from somewhere in Ametrine City.” So it was determined that the snowy mountain the data point flashed on was Ametrine City. “In other words,” Samson said. “You’re saying someone in Ametrine City is broadcasting the sleeping signal over Agate City?” “That’s RAWWWR!” “Alright then, someone needs to go there and stop that signal pronto.” The issue about crossing the many rapid current rivers inside Ametrine mountain came up. Given that the TM for Surf was only authorized for use to Reborn League challengers with 10 badges, only I out of all this bunch of gym leaders and Cain could have a shot at making the way to Ametrine. Hence, it was quickly decided that we would split into two groups: one group would go to Calcenon City directly in order to provide extra support to Saphira and the rest, while the other group - my group - would head to Ametrine and stop the signal first, and then join the Calcenon team. “Um, I’d like to go to Ametrine,” Shelly said. “Heather is there, and I’d like to make sure she’s, um, doing okay.” “Sounds good. So Shelly and Vanilla’ll go to Ametrine, and Cain, Aya and I’ll go to Calcenon,” Hardy summarized. “In order to get the TM for Surf, you’ll need to visit Amaria and Titania’s house near Celestine cascade,” Ciel reminded me. “Yes, they told me so,” I nodded, and looked at Shelly. “If that’s all settled, let’s go.” “Good luck in Ametrine, mate,” Hardy said. “We’ll stay here a little bit longer, at least until I can make sure Aya is in good shape to make the hike.” I quickly healed my team, and Shelly, Pikachu and I left the waiting room. VANILLA RATES: REBORN CHARACTERS TEAM RECAP Ugg I wanted to include Titania-Amaria scene here too but it got way too long (and I'm not even done) so had to cut it so I can go sleepo Well, that must mean the next episode will be uploaded soon, right? ... right? ... And also~ Thx for the continued support! 19,000 views and counting which means there must be a good number of anonymous viewers, which means say hi this smol candy don't bite but is usually bitten cause candy... jk QUICK LINK TO NEXT EPISODE

When you moved the new save file in, didn't you get a prompt that you were moving in a file with the same name? The same Saved Games folder that has Loucanroc's save file should have yours too

Can't thank you enough for summarizing wtf these midterms are about. I'm not American but am studying in America and hence wanted to understand what's going on without having to go through too much reading lol

I've used Waynolt's SMW mod (sans Exp Share full team, item ban), Personthing's follower Pokemon mod (up to E17) and the Speed Breed mod. I'm busy with school, lab and just managing my life in general, so these mods make it quicker for me to advance my game and also breeding because I like breeding from time to time but it's time consuming without a mod. Otherwise I don't want to cheat like get unavailable mons early on which might be game breaking (Reborn is supposed to be hard) unless it's for a specific run (such as my fairytale run) but even then I put some sweat by breeding all those shinies. Tl;dr as long as it doesn't make the game easier in the battling point of view, I'm all up for mods

Welcome welcome welcome~

What about Nadia Puortos? Lol

You do us a favor in not elaborating on your choice ifuknowhatimean Mine though, is Steven and I also will refrain from elaborating heheh

Looking forward to Flannery stepping on Reborn soil- hope old Reborn City won't shock her too much after spending so much of her life in the pretty landscapes of Hoenn

Attack and Speed imo should be 31- that's what I meant by right IV spread hehe

All non-breeding Pokemon like type null and baby Pokemon have 3IVs guaranteed. Hope you got the right IV spread for silvally

Hehe me too- if it had just been one crustle, I might not have forfeited my first ever Reborn run. Funny enough, once I knew how to solve it, it's become one of my favorite puzzles. Wow your memory is astonishing! In fact, I was also looking forward to the match with Charlotte - what will be said and done. How to outmatch someone with the force of burning fire! Tania and Amaria matches will be on the year of the blue moon from how fast my writing pace is, but we'll get there. For the time being, I'm more concerned about what kind of relationship Vanilla will form with Tania. I think what Tania did to Amaria, even if her intentions were benign+toxic, echoes what treatment Vanilla received just before she fled Everland, so it'll be "interesting" to say the least (probably, hopefully?) xD