Yep, it's ME! The person who has "found" you! Aren't you delighted...
Anyway, the reason I changed Earthquake around was that I came to a wall when I was first about to describe it. Pokémon being able to produce a real earthquake is very hard to explain properly. If they could make real earthquakes occur, we'd have Asia situations every day in the Pokémon world, just because an unfortunate trainer's Ground Pokémon happened to get a critical hit. Therefore, I changed Earthquake to work differently and simply have that name as a metaphor; basically, I write Earthquake to produce waves of energy which travel across the ground and disrupt the balance of energy in a Pokémon. It was made very clear much earlier in the fic that I imagine the Pokémon attack Earthquake to have nothing to do with real earthquakes, and Keleri did not seem to have a problem with it then. You're looking at it out of context.
Now, given that I had already changed Earthquake to work completely differently, I also made it so that these waves of energy did not travel through water. When Keleri commented that they would, I therefore assumed that the waves in question were the energy waves that I had described long before as being what my Earthquake consisted of, and replied accordingly. However, you start poking fun at me for thinking that's how *real* earthquakes work, without actually having read my original description of Earthquake and seen the obvious difference between it and the real thing.
As for the water-repellant spray, I was thinking more along the lines of "repels cold water, but hot water gets it out" when I wrote out the reply, but that was just a random half-asleep suggestion anyway. Stupid explanation or not, my point was just that it's some kind of a spray that repels water and somehow it can be gotten out, but it doesn't matter how. Mentioning the Pokéballs was for comparison because they are some kind of balls that can store life forms inside them and it doesn't matter how because that's just the way it is.
It's game canon that you can use Dive without drowning or dying from cold. I had to explain it, so I quickly thought up something. Lame, sure, but better than just having him magically able to go underwater and come dry out of it. I could have pondered it back and forward and thought of something that really made a lot of sense, but why bother since it was just a one-time mention anyway? That's how I thought it when I wrote the original, and that's what I tend to think when rewriting something that doesn't matter, such as how exactly Mark stayed dry on the way. If it really bothers you, I'll think up something better.
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Date: 2005-01-03 11:38 pm (UTC)Anyway, the reason I changed Earthquake around was that I came to a wall when I was first about to describe it. Pokémon being able to produce a real earthquake is very hard to explain properly. If they could make real earthquakes occur, we'd have Asia situations every day in the Pokémon world, just because an unfortunate trainer's Ground Pokémon happened to get a critical hit. Therefore, I changed Earthquake to work differently and simply have that name as a metaphor; basically, I write Earthquake to produce waves of energy which travel across the ground and disrupt the balance of energy in a Pokémon. It was made very clear much earlier in the fic that I imagine the Pokémon attack Earthquake to have nothing to do with real earthquakes, and Keleri did not seem to have a problem with it then. You're looking at it out of context.
Now, given that I had already changed Earthquake to work completely differently, I also made it so that these waves of energy did not travel through water. When Keleri commented that they would, I therefore assumed that the waves in question were the energy waves that I had described long before as being what my Earthquake consisted of, and replied accordingly. However, you start poking fun at me for thinking that's how *real* earthquakes work, without actually having read my original description of Earthquake and seen the obvious difference between it and the real thing.
As for the water-repellant spray, I was thinking more along the lines of "repels cold water, but hot water gets it out" when I wrote out the reply, but that was just a random half-asleep suggestion anyway. Stupid explanation or not, my point was just that it's some kind of a spray that repels water and somehow it can be gotten out, but it doesn't matter how. Mentioning the Pokéballs was for comparison because they are some kind of balls that can store life forms inside them and it doesn't matter how because that's just the way it is.
It's game canon that you can use Dive without drowning or dying from cold. I had to explain it, so I quickly thought up something. Lame, sure, but better than just having him magically able to go underwater and come dry out of it. I could have pondered it back and forward and thought of something that really made a lot of sense, but why bother since it was just a one-time mention anyway? That's how I thought it when I wrote the original, and that's what I tend to think when rewriting something that doesn't matter, such as how exactly Mark stayed dry on the way. If it really bothers you, I'll think up something better.