From: Adrian Tymes <wingcat@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: [PW!] Like A Zubat Out Of Hell Date: Saturday, January 29, 2000 7:17 PM Shimarisu wrote: > And being literally NAMED "Fake Article" by the scientists that had > created Nisemon, was just the absolute end of everything! Oh, how > Nisemon had wanted to murder those scientists, one by one. But as the > Ditto had learned from the Rocket who was training it at the time, some > crazy Pokemon had gone and done the job in its place! > > And now, here it was. The reflection in the mirror. The permanent > reminder of Nisemon's true identity, or lack thereof. And Nisemon had > asked this nightmarish creature to turn into something more palatable! > > How completely STUPID could Nisemon be? > > "This stupid," thought the Ditto, and passed out cold before its > nemesis. Doppler blinked. This one must have been nearly fainted...perhaps it was looking for him? Regardless, he had to find out more. "Cinder! We've got pokemon down. I'll have to get him to your base to recover." Cinder blinked. "Your base is closer." "He's one of me." "...don't you mean, 'one of *us*'?" Doppler shot him a look. "I know what I said. And that means I have to be sure before I can trust him." "Whatever." Doppler hoisted Nise-Meowth on his shoulder, then nodded to the trio of humans. "Now, you were saying..." "CLE!" The mass of clefairies and clefables walked up and started piling up, determined not to let their entertainment simply leave. "Umm, look, song night's over. I'm going home." "FAIRY!" Doppler wrinkled what little nose his current form had. "Well, I'm glad *you* liked that song. I didn't." "CLE!" "I didn't mean it like that! Look, look..." Doppler tossed the keyboard into the mob. "Do karaoke night or something. That unit's got a five song memory; just call up number two and *you* sing to it, if you like it so much." "Clefairy..." One of the younger members of the bunch fiddled with a couple controls, and soon got the desired music to play - minus vocals, of course. Cinder had, by now, rejoined Smasher et al. "I suggest we leave this party *now*." Those who had not followed Seymour into the cavern needed no prompting. They all left the room before the first verse of "Konya wa PUFF!" ended. TBC? > > > - Shimarisu (Christ, it's hard writing an eitherly-gendered > > > character...) > > > > [Really? I always thought Nisemon was more genderless than > >either/or.] > > [Nisemon tries to be whoever he/she is at the time, often to the extent > of actually being convinced of the identity, only to later brush it off > and become somebody else. Or rather Nisemon *thinks* this, but is in > actual fact completely unhinged at all times. Nisemon likes to be one > or other gender, but can't decide which. > > I was referring to having to come up with substitutes for 'he' or 'she' > all the time. It's a real test of my writing skill. :( > > I *think* that made sense...] [<shrugs> So what's wrong with 'it'? Imagine if you're writing some naturally genderless creature like a robot or a...wait a minute... ^_^; Better example: when writing a gender-changing creature, use 'he', 'she', or 'it' as per the current identity. You can even change the identifier midsentence to denote a gender change. I don't suppose you've ever heard of Ranma 1/2?]