Yesterday I overheard someone talking about how he was taking classes at the University of Maryland because they offer free tuition if you’re over 60.
My brain IMMEDIATELY began scripting a screwball comedy in which a broke millennial who desperately want to finish his long-abandoned degree but is drowning in student debt pretends to be a senior citizen in order to attend college for free.
I’m picturing someone Channing Tatumesque, applying age makeup every morning before he heads off to class. It’s sort of a cross between 21 Jump Street and Mrs. Doubtfire. He keeps forgetting which hip is supposed to be his bad one. His classmates laugh every time he uses slang. There’s definitely a scene where he attends a college party and busts it up on the dance floor.
He catches the eye of a fellow returning student, a woman in her 50s, but she thinks he’s like 70 and she’s already buried one husband, you know? She’s not interested in doing that again. When his charade unravels (hilariously) at the end of the movie, though, she finds out he’s actually like 30 and has abs you could bounce a quarter off. And he’s still super into her. And really, maybe it’s time she gave May-December romance a chance.
Okay so to refine this concept a little:
Our Hero is stuck in a job where he keep seeing people get promoted past him because they have a 4-year degree and he doesn’t. He can’t afford to go back to school until he finishes paying off his student loans for the degree he’s one semester from completing. If he got the promotion he wants he could pay them off a lot quicker. But he can’t get the promotion without the degree.
Along comes a clerical error in his almost-alma mater’s records which lists his birth year as 1948 instead of 1984. He gets a call from them about their “free tuition for seniors” program. “Wow, that sounds amazing!” he says. “I’ll be sure to tell my, uh, grandpa, as soon as he gets home.”
It’s one semester. If he can keep up the charade, he’ll have the degree, get the promotion, pay off the student loans. Hell, if they figure it out after the fact and come after him for the tuition, he’ll be able to afford it by then. He just needs to pass as a 70-year-old until graduation. How hard could it be?
(also, someone in the notes suggested “Senior Year” for a title, which is PERFECT.)
After I made my blade-wielding crow fakemon, many people suggested I should make one also based on another knife-weilding animal, this crab
Many even suggested this two should be rivals, and after many consideration I though I would kill 2 birds with one stone and include more than just one meme into the equation. Some of you might not remember, or might not even have been around the internet at the time, but back in the day, probably some good 10 years or more, “Ninjas vs. Pirates” was a very big “thing”, not sure if it would classified as a meme or not but it was everywhere, specially on DeviantArt, there were events, roleplay groups, contests, people where choosing sides and such. SO I decided my two weapon wealding pokemons should follow this old theme, and since CORVLADE is based on a Ninja Assasin this little decapod shall be A PIRATE!
???-CRUSTAZOR [Crustracean-Razor] -Steel/Fighting -The Corsair Pokemon -Ability: Mean Hook*-Sturdy(HA) -Dex: “CRUSTAZOR is well known for carrying a hooked weapon at all times, usually an anchor or fishing hook, which it takes from sunken ships at the bottom of the sea. Sometimes CRUSTAZOR will come to land and steal the anchors and hooks from docked ships, or even from shipyards and workshops, this has gained them the monicker of the ‘Pirate Crab’ among sailors and fishermen. Its pincers are not big or quick enough for catching its prey, but they are hard and strong enough to cut the chains of anchors with ease, like if they were bolt cutters.” -Moveset: -Sig. Move: Hook-and-Reel “The user catches its foe with its hooked weapon and slams it against the ground with full force. If the foe is in the air or underwater the damage doubles ” Type: Fighting PP: 15 (max 24) Power: 85 Accuracy: 90% -Dragon Claw -Shadow Claw -Hone Claw
*increases the power of the Pokémon’s Claw and Hook moves by 50%
When I was making CRUSTAZOR at first I was going to give it a knife just like CORVLADE, but I thought it was no longer original so I went for a Hook instead, to go along with the pirate motif, of course a normal hook wouldn’t cut it, so I went for the next large hook-a-like thing I could find: An Anchor. But after looking around I saw a large fishing hook for whaling that was almost as big as an Anchor and had even more pointy tips and I got conflicted, then I saw a Harpoon and it was then I decided “why choose at all?” so, you would be able to find CRUSTAZOR in the wild carrying one of 3 possible hooks: Anchor, Fishing Hook or Harpoon; This makes no difference in its overall stats nor give them any special ability, its purely aesthetic
OK People gather ‘round, this one comes with a story: One day I was showing my wife @chronnelliansome memes when I showed her one with this picture attached
She laughed and told me “which one of your fakemons is that?” and I just looked at her and said “JUST FOR THAT ONE COMMENT I AM MAKING IT A FAKEMON, AND I’LL MAKE IT AS EDGY AS I CAN!!” and she said “DO IT”, I meant to make it as a joke but the more I played with the design I saw potential to it, so I went for real with the design and this came out!
???-CORVLADE [Corvid-Blade] -Dark/Flying -The Bladed Pokemon -Ability: Razor’s Edge*-Hyper Cutter(HA) -Dex: “CORVLADE is always seen carring a blade on its beak at all time, leaving it only to eat, and even then it will have it held on its claw, never loosing sight of it. Its blades are made from scrap pieces of shiny metal it finds and meticulously sharpens against riverstones, they are so good at doing so it has gained them the moniker of ‘blademasters’. In the wild no 2 CORVLADEs have similar blades, and some have even stolen real blades from humans as their own blades, some has been seen carrying real antique man-made swords, probably taken from old ruins, yet sharpened and polished as if they where new.” -Moveset: -Sacred Sword -Air Slash -Night Slash -Sword Dance
*increases the power of the Pokémon’s Slashing moves by 50% -Air Cutter -Air Slash -Cross Poison -Cut -False Swipe -Fury Cutter -Night Slash -Psycho Cut -Razor Wind -Sacred Sword -Secret Sword -Slash -X-Scissor
CORVLADE is based on Corvids and their natural tendency to pick up shiny things as well as their ability to use tools due to their high intelligence, design-wise it is based on the Corvus frugilegus or Rook as well as taking some inspiration from Ninja Assassins
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
