Artist at Work

OK so I am not so into Pokemon anymore as I was years ago. But I do enjoy the game creepy pastas that have been written by some brilliant fans. So I decided to try a hand at my own. It's my first time with this, or Pokemon in general really but I think it came out interestingly.

Pokemon Yellow: Pikachu's Goodbye

So intrigued and excited by all the creepy pasta's I have read, I decided to search for a

suspicious looking used cartridge on Amazon and come across a copy of pokemon Yellow featuring a

pikachu with it's back turned as though walking away from someone on the sticker. Hmm, this looks interesting so I go for it.

The moment I receive it, I snap the cartridge into my old Game boy advanced SP. I click past the cute familiar Pikachu opening screen, and curiously decide to explore the file already on it when I see a 'continue' option on the menu screen. When I click 'continue' I cock my head at the character's name, ??? as the Gold/Silver rival is referred to before you are asked to name him. Somehow I don't give it much thought but somewhere in the back of my mind I know it's funky.

I find him in Indigo Plateau pokemon center/poke mart startlingly with no money and no badges. The sprite on the trainer card had squiggled vertical lines on the cheek and an exclamation mark over his head. Suddenly he has a name which the trainer card indicates, David. My instant thought is how

the hell did this guy get passed the guards without showing any badges but then I got this amusing

little notion; some asshole had beaten the shit out of this guy and ripped off his money and badges

after he had entered indigo plateau. Wow, poor guy. Taking to his Pikachu I receive a startling image of it's ears hanging down and shaking it's head with hands burying it's face as if in shame.

David has Ash's standard team; Charizard, Blastoise, Venusaur, Pigeot, Snorlax, and of course Pikachu all at level 255. They are all in perfect condition and all sprites were G/S/C but appear normal (I thought I might as well check everything for weirdness) except Charizard is looking away disrespectfully

and holding up what passes for his middle claw. Nice, I can't help but notice the fit with Charizard's disobedience in the anime.

David also seems to have used the missingno glitch because he has infinite masterballs, super potions and revives with the little indicating symbol by each. That’s actually strange, doesn’t pokemon Yellow not have Missingno? But Ok, I guess anything can happen with a hack. So I head for the elite four but a text box stops me asking me if I have each badge and turning me away when it doesn't find them just as the guards proceeding victory road would. Then suddenly I black out and am restored in my home

in pallet town, this is where it gets spooky. The scene opens with mom bitching poor David out:

"How could you get kicked out of the Pokemon league!?...What! You don't even have any badges! You tried to get into the pokemon leauge without any badges, you stupid little bastard, what's wrong with you!?...Stolen? Don't you start with such pathetic lies, you worthless failure of a trainer!" Then the exclamation mark continuously flashes on and off over David's head and I am pretty sure that mom must be beating him. When the exclamation mark flashes for the fifth time, an image pops up showing Pikachu who had been standing behind poor David watching the whole thing looking petrified and disappears a few seconds after followed by Pikachu running out the door.

The screen went white the way my recently late Blue did a few times due to my gamesharking it to

death which caused me to have to restart it. So naturally I thought the game had glitched but a few

seconds later it restored with Pikachu standing alone in the middle of the patch of grass where Oak

had captured it. I stared at the screen idly for a few more seconds waiting for something to happen, then randomly pressed the up button on my D-pad just to fiddle with it and Pikachu begun to walk. So not exactly sure what to do I proceed towards Viridian Forest curious to talk to one of the trainers. First thing I notice is that the kid who is usually standing right outside the door at the beginning of the forest (he doesn't battle though) is gone. Hmmm? I proceed on to the right and up the path to where the first bug catcher is located but I only find an empty space. Where the hell is everybody? I continue on my usual path, taking the parallel grass path south and the screen flashes as it does to indicate a wild pokemon battle but instead of encountering a wild pokemon, I encountered a once again G/S/C sprite bug catcher. Aha so that's what happened! All the trainers are now my wild encounters since I am a pokemon. It's like the game turned upside down. Just as in normal gameplay I had a fight option which gave me the choice of my four moves; Thunderbolt, Thunder, Double Team, and Seismic Toss(wow not bad). I easily KO his stupid annoying weedle and caterpie then continue.  Idiots, they actually think they can beat an electric pokemon? Why battle!? In the second encounter with another of the missing bug catchers I noticed my thunder is now thunder wave (crap downgrade XP). That continues in all of my proceeding encounters, one of my moves will have been changed, sometimes even to a move impossible for pikachu to have such as flame thrower. So far Seismic toss seems to have been the exception, it has always remained.  I also notice that when they attack me the Pikachu image is sliced into several pieces and flipped to face the opposite direction and vise versa which is what I experience in battle when I capture Missingno (not advised BTW I have heard it can actually be dangerous to your save battery, I just got lucky).

 I badly want to start running from these stupid bug catchers but I alwyas get the 'there is no running from a trainer battle' message. Damn.

Upon entering Pewter I visit Brock curious as to his reaction to a lone pokemon wondering into his

gym, and an electric one at that. His stupid little junior trainer(who BTW is pointless in real

Gameplay because you can easily avoid him) stops me and says

"Ha! Stupid electric pokemon, hahahahaha my sandshrew PWNS you!" and I am thinking oh God please don’t make me battle him. It didn't, so I proceed to Brock but when I click him he starts talking in a bunch of symbols...whoa is he actually swearing?

"....symbol symbol symbol symbol, How did that little shit DAVID take down my onix with a fucking electric pokemon!" he finally says, in all caps. Wow he's pissed. He continues in more symbols and then "God I need to get laid...where's my playboy!?...Oh yeah groan!"

ROTFL! Ok, that last bit, so Brock! Whoever messed with this game is Brilliant! I continue out of Pewter city, avoiding all grass. I have GOT to talk to Misty now! When I get to Mt. Moon I encounter a lass. She sent out a level 255 clefarey. I use Seismic toss but I miss and am then hit by a rock slide from Clefarey resulting from metronome and am reduced to 2 points of HP. Lass recalls clefarey and says:

"Come with me Pikachu, you'll be very happy."

Then it says "Lass used pokeball" followed by a pokeball flying across the screen and enclosing pikachu inside. This is new, I was not sure whether to allow myself to be caught or not, what would happen if I was? Would I be the lass then? Pikachu popped back out though first roll and I received the 'don’t be a thief' message despite that it wasn't me attempting the capture. The battle isn't over, so I go to choose my next move but now I only have one whose name is merely a bunch of symbols and it's type cooltrainer, the move you get when you do the cool ditto glitch. So I click it but of course it is known in the cool ditto glitch to barely hit so once again I miss, am somehow am hit with recoil (which does not happen in the cool ditto glitch) and faint. I wake up in Oak's lab with Oak standing in front of me saying:

"Pikachu? How could you abandon your trainer? You should go home. I am worried about David."

Screw you Oak, I want to see Misty! I leave the lab and go all the way through the Viridian forest and Pewter city again. The bug catchers are even more annoying now because I still only have the one move, the cool ditto move that takes several turns to hit. So it takes me an irritatingly long time to get passed the viridian forest and Mt. Moon (especially when I encounter Jesse and James in Mt Moon, their stupid Arbok poisons me). Finally I make it to Cerulean City and head straight for the pokemon center where the game actually performs normally (the nurse asks me to hand over my pokemon as though I were the trainer as I should be).  Somehow though I am still poisoned but now have that glitched never ending HP bar. So I guess I am ok and decide to head over to the gym and find a male hero trainer sprite in front of  Misty facing east and her west, and a togepi sprite I assume from SS/GG next to her facing south towards the entrance of the gym where I was approaching from. When I click her an exclamation mark appears above her head and she turns.

“Symbol Symbol Symbol symbol (Hmm I guess it’s not swearing after all, it’s just a glitch) Oh Pikachu, what are you doing all by yourself? It IS such a shame what happened to David.”

I assume she is referring to his badges being stolen, but how the hell did she hear about it? Too bad she didn’t have anything funny to say. I did interrupt a make out session though or so it seems hehe. When she was finished talking a screen pops up showing a happy Togepi  jumping up and down apparently happy to see me like the animations you get in regular game play when you talk to Pikachu. It’s followed by another screen with my Pikachu responding with the same gesture.  I want to see what Misty’s boyfriend says too so I click him and at first the text box only contains a few dots within quotes.

“Misty told me about your trainer, how does a pokemon just abandon its trainer?” he finally says. Yeah…I see his point. I decide I had better go home and see what’s up with David like Oak had wanted me to, but Pikachu can’t fly leaving Diglett cave my only way back to Pallet town. So I head for Vermillion city, the poison has gotten almost the entire second row of my infinite health bar by the time I reach the actual city passed the grassy fields. So I decide to try the pokemon center again, this time it only made me worse. My HP bar was once again normal and only a quarter full as well as still poisoned. When I leave the center my start menu automatically pops up as it does in the mew glitch and realize that I have the option to use all existing HMs almost like something was trying to tell me how to get past the tree to the Vermillion gym. So I head for the gym and select cut next to the tree. It says “*a bunch of symbols* used cut” and the image of the tree slices into two parts rather than disappearing as it’s supposed to. Luckily the tree still registers as gone and I can walk past. Like Brock and Misty Surge’s text box begins with a bunch of glitch symbols.

“Hahahaha, still a puny little Pikachu I see. Baby pokemon are useless! David knew that, he tried to evolve you, why would you refuse!? He was smart to get rid of the DEAD ringer. Hahahaha!”

Ha! Ok now that was entertaining, I actually like Raichu better myself. Something dawns on me here; the word ‘dead’ had been capitalized, the ONLY word in his speech that had been capitalized. I realize that had happened with the other two gym leaders as well, when they had spoken one word had been capitalized. Brock had said ‘how did that little shit David take down my onix with a fucking electric pokemon’ and David’s name had been in all capitals.  Then Misty had said ‘it is such a shame what happened to David’ with the word ‘it’ in capitals(which I no longer am sure is referring to his badges). Now the word ‘dead’ with surge, it was a message! The words that were capitalized in each of the gym leaders’ speeches made a sentence: DAVID IS DEAD! Crap! As soon as I leave the gym I get a text box that says “*a bunch of symbols* has fainted”. I black out and wake up back home in Pallet town as David again with Oak, Officer Jenny and mom in the room. I can’t move, I spam my D-pad but nothing happens. A text box appears with Oak speaking:

“We found Pikachu outside the Vermillion city gym, I am afraid we were too late once again.” I open my start menu and my trainer card. The sprite is shown with a noose around his neck, feet dangling. Instead of his trainer information next to it, there is a message:

“There is nothing left for me, it’s all been taken from me”. The screen goes glitchy so I turn it off.

I decide to begin a new game on it, and it seems to perform normally now. Mom’s sad to see me leave, Gary’s a jerk and makes me kick his eevee’s ass and I retrieve Oak’s parcel. After I deliver it to him, and am given my pokedex I go to save my progress. But instead of warning me that I will be overwriting an already existing file it says “In loving memory of David, he will be remembered”. It doesn’t let me save.

I have been working on this idea for a few days but finding the right shots to represent the idea was difficult.
I also wrote a poem for it which I had originally written on the piece but I decided that just the quote was better. I am a terrible poet. I will share it here anyway though.
I guess it's called 'The Grave I'll Never Have', that's the phrase that got stuck in my head when it started trying to write it last night as I lay down to bed(a very inconvenient time for me to come up with a poem or any writing).

No one will stand at my grave to weep
or have a memory of me to keep
I will never grow
I should have died long ago
but I never will
I am sentenced to eternity for my sins
to rob my own happiness
I will never have a grave
I will only send others to theirs.

So I had a couple of awesome Being Human related dreams and want to keep them.

April 26, 2012
I was in bed in this hotel room with Aidan and this other girl(Aidan was in the middle). I don't know who she was I didn't even see much of her, but I think I remember her being blond and I am pretty sure she was a vampire. So at one point these two little girls, twins I think had somehow wondered into our room and Aidan accidentally ate him and maybe the other girl too I don't know(I know sad). Later the police had come to our room investigating the twin girls not necessarily because they suspected us but to ask if we had seen them or maybe witnesses had seen them run into our room I forget. But we said we didn't know anything and we must have been convincing enough because they left. The other girl was irritated with Aidan over that I think. Sometime later, like maybe the next night I was trying to sleep and Aidan was having some kind of episode and was being loud. Some kind of torture over the twin girls I guess and I started to cry some because I was scared and he harshly told me to shut up and I apologized. Then I went back to trying to sleep, but once he had gotten through this thing whatever it was I felt him take me in his arms and pull me close to him and I tried not to seem to happy about it like smiling really big because I didn't want the other girl to get pissed(I had wanted to be in his arms for like the whole dream time but the only other time I kind of was he had put an arm around both me and the other girl). But at one point when I had gotten hot and removed my covers he started kissing down my neck and she made this irritated noise. But I was awake now and somehow we started talking about him turning me, I wanted to be turned and he was telling me what it meant and stuff I guess. I just remember he asked me something like "do you know what we can do once you're turned?" and I guessed "blood sexing!?" which is my word in this dream for what he and Rebecca did in that hotel in the one episode I forget which one. But you know where they got blood everywhere including themselves? I was a little embarrassed to have said that as my guess but I think it found it cute and said he was thinking of something better but I never found out what it was. I just remember feeling his fangs just inches from my skin. So I am turned and we are walking around outside, there is some kind of event going on at the hotel and there are a bunch of little kids around and I am having a hard time keeping in control but Aidan is soothing me saying he's there for me. My fangs are somehow out and all the kids think I am in costume and want me to bite them, so I pretend to just to make them happy. At one point Aidan gives me a hospital bag and tells me that it's not the same but it should help. So I try it and try to come up with a way to describe it to him that he'll understand. Somehow I come up with butter that's been sitting out of the fridge for too long because butter is the only food I can think of that they would have had in 1782 thus he would know what it actually tastes like. Suddenly a man approaches Aidan, a Dutch I supposed and seeing that he had a new vampire says "Well well well, didn't think she'd be such a handful did you?" and I remember watching and feeling badly, I didn't want to be a handful for Aidan but Aidan then says "She's worth it" and then I woke up. I just thought it was a pretty cool dream.

May 10, 2012
I dreamed I was Aidan in the ghost plain trying to find Limbo to rescue Sally except I called limbo the shadowland(I may have to rename my fanfic now, I just love that). And I think there might have been a part where Sally appeared on a wall as a shadow instead of her voice over a radio or whatever. So it would be an appropriate name. Apparently the ghost plain had this branch of psychics who showed the way or answered concerns I am not exactly sure except that I needed to see one of them to ask where limbo/the shadowland was. Basically I had to pick an empty room in the building and sign in to see someone. So I found one and when the woman arrived told her:
"I need to find the shadowland, my friend is trapped there." or something like that and I went on to describe it the way Sally had to me that day I/Aidan came home after running off with Suren. That one could see but there was nothing to see, but the place was full of torture and pain. There is a blank space in my memory a bit after that. The next thing I remember is that she gave me a reading with cards and I somehow felt the need to reveal that I was a vampire. She was pretty shocked and says:
"Ok...we need to restart your reading" and recollects the cards(there's the weirdness that whole reading thing). A few other psychics who had overheard somehow became anxious to take over, like I am such an unusual and fascinating case or something. After a bit one of them says
"I am afraid there is only one way to get to the shadowland, the way your friend got there. Shredding." I guess I must have mentioned that in my description to the first lady, I kind of do remember that.
But I was not going to buy that, which is totally Aidan and just as I was somehow being ushered back to the human world I turned and took another direction because there was no way in hell I was giving up on Sally. I ended up in this hallway full of doors and for some reason I remember being real wary of them as though I only had one shot to pick the right door. Now I can't recall if my Aidan character had just imagined this or if it actually happened but I had found my way to limbo/the shadowland where it was pitch black which fit's Nick's description of 'I can see but there is nothing to see'. I could not see Sally but I called her name and eventually found her hand and she was really scared.
"Don't let go" she cried "Don't ever let go"
"I won't I promise" I/Aidan said.
And I woke up around that time.
The reference The Shadowland is just epic. And the pitch black thing, I have tried to imagine that before that is what seems to come to mind from Nick's description.

I have been trying to make this work for a long time. It was one of the first pieces for BH that I started but there are not many decent shots of Josh transforming so it took a while to put together.
Lyrics are from 'Full Moon' by Sanata Artica .

So I spend all weekend watching all of the episodes of Smallville featuring Davis Bloome AKA Doomsday. I had been into Smallville years ago but stopped watching a bit before Davis Bloome was introduced and killed. Since I got into Being Human I have also gotten into Sam Witwer and when I realized that he was in Smallville I was sorry to have missed it.
I was completely captured by the character and saddened by his death, I felt he had deserved so much better than what he got. So I just had to make something in his honor.

lyrics are 'What I've Done' by Linkin Park, the song fits him beautifully.
R.I.P Davis Bloome

Oh and if anyone is interested in the link where I watched it:
http://www.tv-links.eu/tv-shows/Smallville-_616/

Yeah so whenever I am into something I can't help but notice how the songs I know and/or hear fit the characters. I have a large personal playlist for the Twilight Saga and now I have a fast growing one for Being Human US.

Running Away by Midnight Hour - Aidan leaving Bishop
Without You by Ashes Remain - Sally about both the guys but more Aidan since he's like the big brother she always relies on when she's in trouble. Well IMO anyway.
Send Me an Angel by Scorpions - Aidan descending back into darkness in season 2
Full Moon by Sanata Artica - Josh about his transforming
What I've Done by Linkin Park - Aidan in general

Will always be growing. :)

Here are some more pieces I made for Being Human US.

Season 2 Aidan - Send Me an Angel by Scorpions

Aidan Leaving Bishop 'Running Away' by Midnight Hour

Aidan and Celine (No song used)

Aidan and Julia (No song used)

Yes as you can see I like Aidan, he's the most complex and interesting character and he's HOT!
More to come.

I am totally hooked on the US version of Being Human. The UK is good too up until the new season now but I like the US one a bit better. Plus I find Adian totally HOT!



And, I am an Adian/Sally shipper.

Ok, so I have gotten quite a few comments to various entries here that are nothing but pointless shit(all deleted on contact), and I am starting to get vary annoyed with that! What's worse is that they aren't even anonymous, they have spammy usernames. I don't know if this is perhaps a new system started with guest posting but if it is I know I should remove the anonymous commenting but I would really not prefer to because it expands my reader range.

JUST PLEASE STOP WITH THE FUCKING SPAM OK! I DON'T WANT YOUR POINTLESS SHIT!

Also I am very sorry that 'Broken' is taking so long, I am working very hard to get chapter one right and chapter two done. I hate being so slow to make my writing satisfying and to come up with good ideas but at least it's worth it in the end.