Welcome to the Appendix! (Something I don't personally have anymore)
Like I said, it's an assessment of the major pokemon from the 1st book and this one, so to kick things off, let's start with my first pokemon, Fireball
Fireball: Fireball was actually, not who I wanted in a Kanto region nuzlocke, but when I use dice to determine my starter, I don't have much of a say in the matter. Fireball himself was actually really useful to me in the early days of that nuzlocke, and owes his true death to a critical hit rather than someone's stupidity, granted, it was an Onix that did him in.
Thrash: My favorite Mankey ever. Thrash was such a useful pokemon for me to have, especially right before Brock's gym. I can't remember why, but while playing i decided that this Mankey would be the black sheep of Mankeys and be the calm one of the team. He helped me almost as much as Fireball in the early days, and his death to Lt. Surge's Raichu was untimely. It should not have been using double-team.
Lucky: Not much to say about him. I mean, sure, he, and he alone tanked Mt. Moon, but when you get your head bitten off by a Rattata's hyper fang and force your trainer to go through emotional stress he didn't think a pokemon game could put him through, you sort of leave him speechless. Lucky as a Kakuna was the last thing I wanted to see in the Viridian Forest, but Lucky as a Beedrill was the last thing I wanted to die first.
Braveheart: Here is the original Braviary guys. Like, if Braveheart had been a Braviary, he would have kept the same name. Braveheart got a very special treatment mainly due to me wanting to make sure that what just happened to Lucky didn't happen to Braveheart, and he became my pseudo starter in a sense. I mean, at least when I, the author say "Perils of Pokemon Hard Mode" or even "Hank Coro." Braveheart the Fearow is the first pokemon that comes to mind. I was so happy when I got Return in that game because I knew with the frequency I used him, Braveheart would very rarely have to hit a pokemon twice. Ever since he single-handedly took down Misty, Braveheart remained my strongest pokemon for the rest of the LeafGreen Nuzlocke, and most of the HeartGold to boot (Granted, he was dead, and I had to start over, but it did take quite a while). Braveheart's death was not deserved by him, but it was by me. I, like an idiot, wasted great money on Revives because it was a natural reflex for me to buy revives when challenging the pokemon league, and I bought a bunch since my pokemon were pathetically low-leveled for the league, Braveheart being the only one at Level 50. Shame on me, I know. But even then, Braveheart had some awful luck with Bruno, mainly due to Rock Tombs out of nowhere. Braveheart was a great foil character for whoever he needed to foil for, and was overall, just fun for me to wreck shit with in general. Because of Braveheart, to this day, my favorite pokemon, undisputedly, is Fearow. And nothing will ever change that.
Live Bait and Great Blue: Those of you who read the first book (Which let's be honest… a two is in the title, the summary points to a previous adventure, all of you should have read it, especially if you're okay reading an appendix for this crud) know that Live Bait and Great Blue are two names for the same pokemon, and I believe that he is amazing and epic enough that he deserves two names. For those who have not read the first book, Live Bait was a Magikarp that i named Live Bait because I was convinced that he wouldn't live to evolve into a Gyarados, but instead, the rest of my party barring Braveheart is slaughtered, leaving Live Bait and Dracula the Zubat in the PC, and a tunnel full of rock pokemon to conquer. I took Live Bait out and used Braveheart to grind him up to level 20, so that he would evolve, and taught him water pulse. The fact that I caught him saved that entire nuzlocke, and now I had a gyarados named Live Bait running around with me. And as hilarious as that was, I knew that he deserved more than a name that mocked him, enter the name Great Blue. (Not the most creative, but you don't get points for creativity in a Nuzlocke) Great Blue and Braveheart became quick frenemies and for good reason, Great Blue and Braveheart were both far more than capable of carrying the rest of the party, and Great Blue had better type coverage. Unfortunately, it didn't help him (in the game) when Lorelei's Lapras used Perish Song. I won because of that, but if I had just sacrificed someone less important, instead of attempting to defeat the Lapras, Great Blue might have survived to help Braveheart against Bruno.
Jealousy: She's really the last pokemon from the first book I want to talk about, but Comet deserves a spot so she'll appear along with Twinkle later on. Jealousy the Haunter, who was once a ghastly, won me over when she was accidentally the first pokemon in the party when we encountered the ghost of Marowak, and then showed me that she was immune to all of its attacks. I would have loved to run a Dream Eater set on her, but she lacked any moves to put pokemon to sleep and I was not about to go get fucking mushrooms for a weird guy on two island, mainly because they were hard to find, and partly because I would normally catch a ton Paras to find them, and we were in a Nuzlocke. So Jealousy instead got the move Psychic. Very helpful, especially when she One-Shot all of Koga's pokemon. Her death against Sabrina was not unexpected, since she's part poison, and a Shadow Punch can only do so much damage, but her death was undeserved and untimely. It was, in reality, a Future Sight attack that did her in, and that, is bullcrap.
Flint: Alright, let's talk Book 2. Flint, much like Fireball from the first book, was chosen at random by a die. This time however, he was exactly the pokemon I wanted. Meganium would not be very useful for many battles in the Johto region, and the Gen 4 Feraligatr is just….yeah….(Fun fact: Although Feraligatr was my favorite thing ever and the first pokemon I attempted to use in my SoulSilver Game, I quickly realized that in Single Player, the moves he learned without hogging too much experience all kind of sucked except Aqua Tail and Crunch, all sort of sucked given the situations you'd think to use him in, and so he would often be my hm slave, and that's not right. Your starter should never be your HM slave). Flint was amazing as a Cyndaquil and evolved before I even set foot inside Falkner's Gym. Flint as a Quilava was fine, but that phase of his life was marred by the fact that he was the pokemon that knew Cut, because of the one tree that was necessary to cut. When we reached Blackthorn, we deleted Cut out of there and Blast Burn took it's place. Flint was a very valuable asset to the team and never ever ever went into the PC for anything ever. Flint actually single-handedly defeated Karen's team, with the exception of Houndoom. Twinkle defeat Houndoom. Flint's highlight would probably be single-handedly defeating Ho-oh, which doesn't seem like a big deal, but it was a big deal for me.
Talon: Probably the only pokemon I didn't want due to the fact that I wanted either Sentret or Rattata, since it was the morning, but nooooo here's the normal/flying type that you had hoped to save for Togetic or something. Talon was such a boss though. The highlight of his career was definitely using Attract to defeat Clair. I was not joking around in that chapter, that actually was how it went down. It felt so good to be able to do something like that since I had a female Umbreon in my (now lost somewhere in Mar Vista) copy of Soul Silver that used the same gimmick on Bruno. Talon was the pokemon to defeat Mewtwo in the game, but truth be told, Flint did more battling. Lucius tried, but his special defense was just atrocious as was his speed, so we got him out of there. Talon being Braveheart's son was a fitting title considering he became my highest level pokemon of both the books, getting all the way up to level 61.
Gabriel: I named him Gabriel after the angel, but his nature was Naughty, so I guess he might be named after Gabe from Good Luck Charlie...Anyway his highlight would be evolving the same battle a really unimportant pokemon died, at level 16. (The earliest friendship evolution I had ever seen without using any tricks) and then proceeding to kick Morty's ass with his Extrasensory move, and finally, winning all the medals at the Pokeathlon. Gabriel never died, and was the first pokemon of like, 2, in my entire nuzlocke career, to have been put in the PC not because he wasn't strong or I needed some other pokemon, but because he was doing so well, that I wouldn't have been able to handle it if someone or something killed him.
Liteweight: I'll be honest here. This Jumpluff was basically just along for the ride. Sure, he would occasionally be used, but he was really only there because of type coverage which I next to never needed. His biggest achievement was probably defeating Brock with only Giga Drain, but it isn't much of an achievement. He was frail, and he almost died like, 3456 times in the game, so he made sure that I would always be scared.
Powerball: Again, I can't say too much about this guy. He didn't do too much. He kicked Pryce's ass with Flint at the beginning of his time on the team, and yes, He did win the League for me by using Explosion (He would have died anyway. The Dragonite was spamming Outrage), but I think that might have been all he did. He was just randomly used in random battles and is basically the Liteweight that didn't scare me to death every time I sent him out for a battle.
Lucius: Lucius's highlight was even existing. If it weren't for him, I'm positive my challenge would have ended with Will. Hell, my challenge would've ended back in the Radio Tower, where Flint evolved. Let me tell you about Cliff Cave. You can encounter like 4 pokemon there. Krabby, Geodude, Zubat, and Golbat. But Steelix? how is that possible?
I didn't think it was, and I nearly shat myself when I saw that thing. I wasn't even looking for a new pokemon there. I was planning to go to the Safari Zone (Which I never did), and I was looking for a Water type of all things, but no. Steelix have 2% encounter rate, and it looks like Hank was in that 2%. It is probably one of my favorite moments of all time playing pokemon, whether a nuzlocke or not, and is my second favorite Nuzlocke moment, the first of which revolves around a Dustox and Norman, the Petalburg Gym Leader. Lucius was instrumental in many battles, and the fact that his nature was awful for him, and for something that looks like him, was hilarious. (He was a Timid nature, which lowers attack and raises speed).
Comet and Twinkle, Hank's Starmie collection: One was supposed to be a great battler, but became a bit of an HM slave, one was caught expressly to be an HM slave, but had half their moves deleted and became a great battler. The former of these is Comet, the OG Perils Starfish, but besides defeating Moltres all by herself, she didn't have much to boast about. Twinkle on the other hand, is more akin to someone like Jealousy, who uses the abnormally high special attack from Arceus to their best of advantages. Even when Twinkle was a Staryu, (Which was most of the game by the way. Twinkle really only evolved once I reached Lance's room, but that matters not in this book.) And when Twinkle only knew the HM moves, Twinkle managed to kick some serious butt, and together, the two have made Starmies and Staryus some of my favorite water types. I currently have an EV trained Starmie named Eimrats in my White 2 game, and he is an ohmage to Comet and Twinkle, the pokemon species line that, collectively, has spent the most time with Hank.
So, those are the pokemon that I felt were important to my journeys and instrumental in completing my nuzlockes, but before you go on to read the epilogue, it's time for some real talk:
I have proven that I can, in fact, finish chapters and books, albeit not in a very scheduled way. The reason for this is that my head is buzzing with countless ideas that spit themselves out at the most inopportune times. This is one of those times. I have stated previously that there are in fact, 3 Perils books, and that the third book is far more creative than the first two. This however, may not be the case.
There will still be 3 Perils books, but I must withdraw the adjectives I have used to describe it because, well, I'm not sure the story I originally had planned will be the Perils 3. As it stands right now, I have a few options, and was hoping somehow, you guys could help me decide what to do. First thing is first: I have ideas for each option, and the means to make them happen, but 3 is a magic number and I do not want this turning into some Land Before Time type stuff. Only 3. If I make another one later, it will be written differently than Perils, and won't be Perils at all. Second thing is second: Hank Coro, the main protagonist? He's done. He is not coming back as the main character in the next book no matter what. (that doesn't mean he won't be mentioned, or won't appear, or whatever, maybe he won't appear or be mentioned, idk, idc right now, but the point is the focus is going to shift off of the same person. The third book will follow a different main character.)
Third thing is third: Two releases have made things difficult and have given me many options. I have around 6 to be exact, and here they are:
Nuzlocke Emerald: This was the original plan, and I do already have many things figured out about it, but I'm not sure it would keep as many entertained.
Nuzlocke Black or White: I did this once, and It was pretty fun. It almost makes playing black and white bearable. (Way too much handholding. That's my gripe guys. And not a big post game for these two.)
Nuzlocke Black 2 or White 2: I have tried this multiple times, and never made it past Nimbasa. (That's my record. Nothing in Nimbasa is really stopping me, I've just been sucking at this) But it would be probably one of the most diversified pokemon nuzlockes out there if it were to be completed.
Nuzlocke Y: I have done this twice, and was successful both times. One of those times, I wrote everything down, and even have a chapter written already.
Wedlocke Y: If there is one thing that comes to mind when I think of Paris, I think of it's popular nickname: The City of Love. What better way than to pair up as many pokemon as I can and force them to avenge their spouses or die with them?
Wait until OR/AS come out and Nuzlocke one of those bad boys: I want to. I want to so badly just get it and Nuzlocke it on my first playthrough. I probably will do that no matter what, but It would be absolutely awesome to be able to upload new chapters as I play through, which I haven't done since the middle of the first book. I'm still unsure of whether I would get Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire, since Emerald was the game I explored Hoenn for the first time in, but I know that I will absolutely have one as soon as I can. Needless to say, this option means that the new book will not start for some time.
Final thing is final: those are the region options, but there is always the biological sex of the character. Hank Coro is male, but what sex should the third book's character be? Trust me, this is probably more important the region the next book takes place in.
So If you guys could somehow convey to me what you would like to see, go ahead. I should mention that I am totally open to throwing anything I have out the window and starting a brand new journey so that you don't get the half-assed crap I pulled on you for this book's finale. (Im sorry….But, this happened to me too. I was called by a friend while playing, and just sort of pressed buttons and missed the final battle.) As always, thanks for reading this very much a sequel of a book. Enjoy the epilogue.