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She tried and failed to organize a Bulbacast Radio Drama, but hopes to try again with better results in the near future. | She tried and failed to organize a Bulbacast Radio Drama, but hopes to try again with better results in the near future. | ||
===SOVA=== | ===SOVA=== | ||
Pie | Pie was an unofficial figurehead for the [[Save Our Voice Actors]] campaign after creating the original SOVA Website. She insists on calling it Save Our Voice Actors since she does not like the acronym accompanied with its alternate name, Save The Dub. She avidly supports the original voice actors, particularly [[Eric Stuart]], and she stopped watching as soon as Season 9 of the [[Pokémon anime]] began airing since she cannot stand the new dub voices, particularly of her favorite character, [[Brock]]. To show her support for the original voice actors, she has folded 1000 cranes out of sticky notes for her wish that they remain the voice actors of the series. | ||
Her heavy involvement in the controversy has caused her to both gain considerable popularity with some of her fellow fans and lose a comparable amount of popularity with others. On a personal level, it has made Pie consider becoming a voice actor herself. | Her heavy involvement in the controversy has caused her to both gain considerable popularity with some of her fellow fans and lose a comparable amount of popularity with others. However, more recently, her role has become that of a sideline supporter due to other personal obligations. On a personal level, it has made Pie consider becoming a voice actor herself. | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
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Pie is more obsessed with [[Brock]] than pretty much everyone. She is the official Brockoholic of Bulbagarden. Because of this, there are several people who think that there should be a [[Shipping|ship]] betweeen the two. However, little do these people know that Pie x Brock already has a name, and it is ClothesStealingShipping. | Pie is more obsessed with [[Brock]] than pretty much everyone. She is the official Brockoholic of Bulbagarden. Because of this, there are several people who think that there should be a [[Shipping|ship]] betweeen the two. However, little do these people know that Pie x Brock already has a name, and it is ClothesStealingShipping. | ||
The name, despite sounding dirty, originates from the fact that the event which ultimately led to her fan-worship of Brock was her unwittingly dressing in an outfit with a remarkable similarity to his. Since then, she has taken hundreds of screenshots of him, made fanart and fanfiction for him including a little with mature content, created an original character to ship him with, roleplayed him as a character, and even attempted to cosplay as him, failing only due to a lack of quality hairgel. She is also a fan of his voice actor, [[Eric Stuart]], and owns two Eric Stuart Band CDs; however, she is not nearly as obsessive a fan of his work as she is of Brock. | The name, despite sounding dirty, originates from the fact that the event which ultimately led to her fan-worship of Brock was her unwittingly dressing in an outfit with a remarkable similarity to his. Since then, she has taken hundreds of screenshots of him, made fanart and fanfiction for him including a little with mature content, created an original character to ship him with, roleplayed him as a character, and even attempted to cosplay as him, failing only due to a lack of quality hairgel. She is also a fan of his voice actor, [[Eric Stuart]], and owns two Eric Stuart Band CDs; however, she admires Eric Stuart as an idol or role model, and is not nearly as obsessive a fan of his work as she is of Brock. | ||
It is currently under debate whether or not Pie's obsession is great enough that she should be seeking therapy. | It is currently under debate whether or not Pie's obsession is great enough that she should be seeking therapy. | ||
====BrailleShipping==== | |||
While some actually do support the ship between Brock and Pie, Pie's greatest loyalty lies with a shipping between Brock and an adorably modest original character of hers named Ariel (アリエル). The name, which was not the idea of Pie herself, comes from both the name of the two characters and their vision (Brock is well-known for having squinty eyes, and Ariel has poor eyesight particularly when she is not wearing her glasses). | |||
Originally, Pie was completely opposed to the idea of shipping an original character with a canon character, but as she claims, the two paired themselves even despite her best efforts to resist the idea. Ariel was designed twice. Her original incarnation, who was designed in the days of [[Generation I]], was a {{t|Flying}}-type [[Gym Leader]] with aviator goggles and purple hair (who Pie believes was somehow ripped off for the design of [[Winona]]) whose main Pokémon was a {{p|Pidgeot}}. This underdeveloped character was discarded when [[Generation II]] was introduced and [[Falkner]] took the role of a Flying-type Gym Leader. | |||
However, Pie revisited the character while working on fanfiction ideas during [[Generation III]], and Ariel was modified considerably: rather than being a generic Gym Leader, she became a sweethearted Pokémon Biologist (still with the affinity for Flying-types, but now with a love of more unusual ones like {{p|Crobat}} and {{p|Aerodactyl}} rather than Pidgeot) who was curious, timid, and preferred learning about Pokémon than battling them. Her goggles became a pair of glasses, and her outfit became a modest white long-sleeved shirt and long skirt. | |||
While looking at comparisons of relationships between different characters, Pie was struck with what she found at the time to be a frightening realization: Ariel and Brock would fit together perfectly. After struggling to resist expanding the idea, she caved and began fleshing out the dynamics of such a shipping. In fanfiction, an RP, and even [[wp:The Sims 2|The Sims 2]] (in which it was almost completely out of Pie's control), the shipping has manifested itself with surprisingly similar and effective dynamics. | |||
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