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Sir Devoir Blog #1: Introduction - WildfireMicro - 11-27-2022
"Greetings everyone, and appropriate salutations to you all! My name is Sir Devoir, and as a lot of you already know I am the current main goaltender for the Baltimore Platoon SHL team. I was born in a traveling carnival that was based mainly in Tokyo Japan, so that is where I consider myself from. Also yes, I am a Gallade, and my sister Anna is a Gardevoir. We can both speak English and Japanese due to us doing a lot of voice training in the past. I do like doing occasional extra voice training to help keep my English and Japanese sharp.
Anna told me that I should keep an occasional blog in order to do communication with the media and the Baltimore Platoon fans. I guess the first thing I should talk about is how much I actually love the city of Baltimore. Honestly, I just love living near so many great seafood restaurants and living pretty close to the coast is a great perk as well. During the next offseason, I am thinking of trying to go out on a fishing trip with a few friends I met in the city. I've only been fishing exactly once in my life, smd that was with a few of my carnival friends when I was a Kirlia, and that was in Tokyo and not America.
Yeah talking about being a Kirlia brings up another point I want to discuss, and it involves the fact that a lot if people ask me how it feels to evolve. It is hard to explain the feeling, but I guess I can say that it involves feeling very warm. It never really hurt thankfully, but it did feel really odd and I did have some cramps in my legs afterwards. Yeah, my sister evolved through growth and training but I had to do it the quick way with a Dawn Stone because it was the only way I could become a Gallade. I was bred to be a Gallade goalie, but ultimately I did not mind it one bit.
I really enjoy playing hockey, so being bred and trained for it from birth doesn't really bother me. I was used as a Carnival attraction until my Masters passing upon which I was sent to a training facility to see if I had the potential to play with some pros at the SMJHL and SHL level. Turns out I did, so eventually I came up to the Maine Timber and then the Baltimore Platoon. As for how I was user as a carnival attraction, people would pay money to try to get a puck past me for prized. Again, this may seem extremely odd to some of you but honestly I really enjoyed doing this and I would get breaks where I would eat and get a drink of water of course.
I do sometimes miss the carnival atmosphere. I have seen and heard of some carnivals that are not well taken well of at all, and just seem depressing. My carnival was not like that, and cleanliness and taking care of the employees is a big priority with the place. However, I do enjoy being able to know where my home is at all times and having a sustainable period of time where I would not have to be on the road. I love my log cabin house, amd chose it because it reminded me of the log cabin I had in Maine while I was with the Timber but the one I have now is quite a bit bigger. Plus, I live near a lot of my fellow Pokémon where I can talk to them in my native language.
Honestly it is more natural feeling to talk in my native language then human language, but the voice training really helps me keep my voice in check. Speaking of those Pokémon, a few trainers have tried to send some Pokémon at me and try to train thier pokemon using me. Besides the fact that I am an Independent Pokémon with a mark on my neck to prove it, I just don't usually like fighting unless I challenge someone. I usually politely decline, but some trainers keep pushing and pushing to get me in a battle. If that happens, I call out some of the stronger pokemon in the forest to scare the trainers off. Also yes, they do try capturing me sometimes.
Luckily, the fact that I have an independent Pokémon mark means that the poke balls deactivate when they scan the mark. Trying to capture me is honestly just wasting your poke balls, and one guy tried to do this with 3 ultra balls, not understanding why it was not working until the third one failed. However, getting off that topic, recently I went to a local wrestling show in downtown Baltimore amd it was a pretty good time. Some of the performers mistook me for one of the wrestlers or perhaps a manager, but luckily I was able to tell them who I was pretty quickly. A few of the wrestlers acknowledged me in thier promos as well, which was pretty cool.
I even got to give one of the wrestlers my chair to hit another one with before he tried to give me it back. Unfortunately, when I tried to sit down in it, it was dented so much that it nearly made me fall over. I just handed it back to him and just stood there until the show was over. Thankfully, it wasn't too much of an issue since the match with the chair in question was the main event of the evening. You know, I may be part fighting type, but I do not know if I could do a lot of the same things that the wrestlers do or take as much punishment as them. I know that it is all predetermined and they try thier best not to really hurt them in the end, but I once tried to take a chest chop from a Japanese wrestler on a dare and it hurt like hell.
It did take him a minute to figure out how to chop around the spike on my chest though. However, I can tell you, he definitely did figure it out. I have never questioned the pain in wrestler not being legitimate again since that incident. Alright I think that is enough for one blog, so I hope to be able to write another one of these and I will see you all on the ice!"