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LabradoriteWolf — Labra's Heartgold Nuzlocke: Chapter 4
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Finally done. This chapter kept me busy for quite some time.
Not very surprising though, considering my terrible decision to animate some parts of this chapter. Yes people, animations! I'm thinking about animating stuff in my nuzlocke every now and then, so that means you're going to see things like this on a regular basis XD
What else do we have in this chapter? First of all: Faya. I like Faya, I really do. I've always enjoyed bitchy types in comics/movies/books, so when I saw her nature and description, I knew right away what kind of role she'd play in my comic. I hope you're going to like her as well c:
Oh, and I was finally able to fit in all the scenes I had in mind for the previous chapter, so now we're on schedule again, kinda :3 That's why this chapter is so long, hehe ~
Anyway, that's all for chapter 4. What's Tairo's secret? Will Faya keep her sharp tongue forever? What's the meaning behind the hidden message Labra saw? Stay tuned for all the answers.
Pokémon ©
Art, characters ©
If you don't know what a nuzlocke challenge is, here you go: bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wik…
My personal rules:
- When a pokemon faints, it's dead
- Turn battle mode on set *so you can't switch out pokémon during a battle before the next pokémon comes in*
- You're only allowed to catch the first pokémon on each route. The first two routes are just bad luck, as you don't have pokeballs yet XD
- Shiny means holy, you can catch it at any time and migrate it to bring it to safety
For those who wish to know, the music that plays under Ho-oh's appearance is 'Airless shift' from freeplaymusic.com.
Enjoy!
PS. If you like to follow the progress of my nuzlocke, you'd better make sure to watch my tumblr, since I'll be posting nuzlocke-related stuff there every now and then
labradoritewolf.tumblr.com/
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I'm getting all wound up now wondering what's wrong with Tairo- poor baby, must be stressful for him
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Yeah, poor lad :'c Hopefully my long awaited next chapter will shed some light on the matter (or will it?)
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Thank you :> I must say she's one of my favorite characters as well ;3
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Thank you so much, Bear
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You have really done great job with this Nuzlocke. The start of the journey has been well-paced and interesting to read and watch. I believe I have commented on your choice of media before, it is really unique and interesting and works really nicely with the story. The intro to each chapter is so beautiful and it makes me anticipate a lot great things from this run!
The way you draw the Pokemon is wonderful. I especially like how Tairo looks like. I wonder what's his secret, he seemed rather secretive about it. Also, Faya is awesome. The whole scene with her cocoon dropping and her "being done with this shit" was so amusing. It still makes me laugh. What a wonderful Caterpie.
I have a few more comments about the media. It allows you to do a lot of things a regular comic cannot and in some points it might also mean that regular comic features might not work in the most beneficial way. For example, instead of filling a slide, or whatever you should call it, with speech bubbles you can make them appear one by one or two at once etc. Two or three speech bubbles is fine if they're not too long, but if there is a lot of text it might be good to think about dividing it on several slides. Also, when it comes to text the same thing appeals to both a format like this and comics. I think with the vast possibilities of pictures present it would be good to show as much as possible and tell only the necessary, really utilize the power or images. You've done that wonderfully in some part, for example by including a few animated slides. The Pokeball throwing animation was amazing and really refreshingly hilarious and definitely showed what you had meant by Labra now being good at throwing things, that was a great example of showing and not (just) telling.
Also, while the size of the format you've chosen seems rather fixed you can think of ways to change it. For example, if you have a close-up shot of eyes that reflect surprise etc. you can make it more intense by cropping the picture a bit differently. Putting black bars above and below would work and make the eye shot more narrow and thus more intense.
Sorry if I sounded critical, that wasn't my intention. I'm just so excited about this format you use that I wanted to share a few thoughts. You can take the advice if you want, I'm not saying you should absolutely do any of this. I'm really looking forward to see how this continues and I hope you keep doing it. :>
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Thank you so much, Shinon! And I'm only very excited about getting feedback of good quality :> So no need to apologize, I'm actually really grateful.
I think you have a valid point about the huge chunks of text. I've given myself a moment to go through all of my chapters (which has been a while since I last did that), and I came to the conclusion that you are more than right. It's actually rather embarrassing to see how often a slide is filled with text. I could easily split those walls up and use the same picture or a slightly modified version of it (eyes looking in another direction, changed mouth positions etc.). I'm definately going to change that in the future, and I'm even considering to modify my earlier chapters to keep the textamount as low as possible. Same goes for the superfluous information, it's just too much, I see that now as well.
Changing the format of my slides every now and then is a very good suggestion either, it would break through the template feeling of the comic.
Again, thank you so much for being honest with me. This helps a lot ^^ And don't worry, I'm sure as hell I'm going to finish this thing eventually ;3
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oh wow 
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your style just makes it more believable! 
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what if the bird is nice, what if she finds a bat? what would be faya's reaction?
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I guess we will see later on c:
Though I can assure you that zubats won't try to eat her. Their diet solely consists of blood.
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Pokeballs: Can now go through Blimps.
Metapods: can be taken down by carelessness.
Marill: now fairy type.
I could go all day.
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Lol, the list is endless XD
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DUNDUNDUUUUUUUNNNNN
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Ahh this is amazing! I can't wait to see more of it! <3
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Thank you so much ^^ I'm working hard on the next update, so stay tuned
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Definitely will stay tuned!
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FINALLY!
Someone else realizes the awesomeness of the Caterpie line...
This is awesome. Can't wait for the next update~
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Haha, I love bug pokémon lines, to be honest 
Thank you so much ^^ I'm going to work on it again soon o3o
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Hmm, that's odd. It works fine for me ^^' Maybe you tried to watch it on an iPod device? Those won't let flash files work... Or maybe from a mobile Phone?
Maybe it was just temporary and it works again now?
Let me know if you still can't view it, and I'll upload it in stash, maybe that'll work
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I got it to work by changing to a different browser cx Thanks anyways, though c:
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Haha, no problem ^^ I'm glad it worked :3
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nvm I switched browsers and it worked x:
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Can't blame her for it XD
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Omg Labra, you just officially made Caterpies badass.
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Caterpies have always been badass. The majority of players just didn't notice ;D
(hehe, thanks ~)
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Some people did Epic Caterpie SWEEPS!
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Yush xD
you're wellcooome
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Still want to see your nuzlocke adventure soon >:3
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Ahahah...yeah >.>
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Well I just kind of...um how do I put this- FORGOT ABOUT IT D:
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*legasp* forgot about it?! D: Completely?! Nooooo!
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so are u actually not going to catch flying types now?
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Wait and see what'll happen when I encounter my first bird pokemon ;D
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No, don't die D: *starts using CPR on you*
Glad you like Faya's remarks though ;D
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*coughs and splatters back to life*
haha yes xD
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