#gym leader poppy

[dantelionwishes]

neurodivergent people convention

#pokemon #trainersona #gymleadersona #champion d #gym leader poppy #trainer turquoise #lionhe(art) #I MISS EMMMM RAGHHRHHGHHGH WOOF WOFOW OFOW O #poppy is so rude but thats just how he is he doesnt realize hes sounding rude #i actually would like to be accurate to what kind of neurodivergent they all are but idw to be non accurate or accidentally offensive #natural harmonia gropius #rival n #trainer n

[overchromatic]

She does NOT look like a nine year old.

#pokemon #pokemon sword and shield #pokemon scarlet and violet #pkmn swsh #pkmn sv #gym leader allister #elite four poppy #fan comic #i think its really funny that poppy is 9 because i had always had the hc that Allister is 9. which would make them the same age. #and frankly. they do NOT look like the same age at all.

[bitchapalooza]

I may have accidentally ran late to get dressed for work to make this

#pokemon #pokemon meme #pokemon shitpost #shitpost #pokemon scarvi #rival nemona #rival arven #team star penny #director clavell #professor sada #professor turo #elite four rika #elite four poppy #gym leader larry #elite four larry #chairwoman geeta #gym leader brassius #team star giacomo

[bb-ants]

Why is there even a child working in the elite four LMAOOOO

#pokemon #pokemon larry #gym leader larry #elite four larry #elite four poppy #i like to think larry plays the mobile games and gambles with the microtransactions #pokemon scarlet #pokemon violet #pokemon sv

[nellcher]

''These assholes told me it was a sweater party''

#pokemon #gym leader larry #elite four rika #chairwoman geeta #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon sv #C'MON YOU KNOW THEY WOULD PULL THAT PRANK WITH LARRY #but Hassel and Poppy would look for a sweater to wear as a symbol of solidarity

[peachy-doodles]

Whatever mane. hreeef

#submas #subway boss ingo #subway boss emmet #warden ingo #sneasel #pokemon #gym leader larry #pokemon sv #elite four rika #elite four poppy #elite four hassel #larry and emmet adventures #<- kinda.... ig #*raises from the ashes for a few hours to draw because the pain has gone for now and allowed me to do so #bad news is now i have no more memes. this sucks serverly </3 kshgkghs

[jadeazora]

I think this is our first full look at Grusha's face (via PokeMasModels on Twitter.)

No wonder Poppy thinks he's a prince lol

#pokemon masters #pokemas #gym leader grusha #elite four poppy #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon sv #the indigo disk #the hidden treasure of area zero

[munna-sato]

Link to YouTube video.

#pokemon #pokemon larry #larry pokemon #gym leader larry #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon geeta #geeta pokemon #champion geeta #pokemon rika #rika pokemon #pokemon hassel #hassel pokemon #pokemon poppy #poppy pokemon #pokemon animation #pokemon animatic

[vinlynce]

rahhhhhhhh

#pokemon #fossil fighters #pokemon scarlet and violet #elite four drayton #gym leader iono #elite four poppy #fossil fighters au #drayton trex . poppy microraptor ! and iono Irritator #drayton pokemon #poppy pokemon #iono pokemon

[choopkmn]

I can't wait to see them OMG. They are literally my favourites <3

#elite four larry #gym leader larry #larry pokemon #pokemon larry #rika pokemon #pokemon rika #elite four rika #elite four hassel #elite four poppy #pokemon hassel #hassel pokemon #poppy pokemon #pokemon poppy #paldea #elite four

[grey822aaa]

Steel

#pokemon #gym leader jasmine #champion steven #gym leader byron #pokemon colress #elite four molayne #elite four poppy #elite four wikstrom

[dantelionwishes]

from the persistent yells of a beloved mutual i finally drop sketches of the sunflowershipping kids

#poppy (masculine) and daisy (masculine) beloved . #sunflowershipping #lionhe(art) #pokemon #gym leader poppy #galactic leader cyrus #fankid #pokemon fankid #eldest kid got appearance from cyrus and name from poppy #youngest twins got apperance from poppy but name from cyrus #cos poppy is a flower and cyrus is the sun #so dawn and lucas mean light <3 right!! #hehe

[overchromatic]

Pokekids fashion!

#pokemon #gym leader allister #elite four acerola #rival wally #champion iris #gym leader tate #gym leader liza #elite four poppy #trial captain lana #trial captain sophocles #fanart #shit i had to tag so many characters jesus

[askmerriauthor]

Regarding this post I made earlier examining Geeta's antics in Paldea.

In Defense of Geeta

I feel like Geeta absolutely was written to be the shitty boss she is intentionally. There's too many situations where attention is drawn to her bad habits, either as them being directly pointed out or indirectly referenced. But what I really hope the case ends up being is that she's not at all a villain. Pokemon has gone the route of the suspicious CEO-type character being the "twist villain nobody could have seen coming!" for several games now. It's getting pretty old and I feel like it would be a weak direction for S/V to take.

Interestingly enough, one actually can look at all of Geeta's actions and not really see anything nefarious about them. Discussion after the jump for the sake of spoilers and wall'o'text.

It's very easy to look at Geeta and think she's a Bad Guy, given her strange behavior and all the negative attention she gets among the fandom. I'm certainly not innocent of seeing her in a less than endearing light, given my prior post. But a lot of that view does come from real world parallels and comparing the game's presentation to past Pokemon games in which nobody ever says the slightest criticism of the Champion, which may not necessarily be fair.

One of the biggest justifications Players have to indicate Geeta is bad is the way she meddles with the Gym Leaders and how corporate she's made the League. I pointed that out myself. But to flip it around... maybe she behaves that way because it's what the Gym Leaders need?

We constantly see Geeta inserting herself into events throughout the game. She shows up at the Academy, pops up at Gyms seemingly at random, and is always talking about how she has other pressing business that pulls her away from lingering too long. The only way she gets time to participate in casual encounters is when others (usually Nemona or the Player, if not both) take some of her workload off her plate. While I criticized the way Geeta had apparently deeply intertwined the Pokemon League, the Academy, and the Paldean economy itself, it does stand to reason doing so puts a ton of work on her having to maintain it. That's her own doing though, so it's a case of her getting what she signed up for and she never seems to shy away from it despite her habit of recruiting others to help.

The Gym Leaders, though? While they do remark about Geeta meddling with them, giving frequent reviews, and otherwise sticking her nose into their business, they've also shown that they're all pretty flaky. Rather, they're a total mess both individually and collectively. It's possible that the reason Geeta is constantly keeping an eye on them is because they need that in order to fit the direction Geeta is trying to guide the League in.

When we meet each of the Gym Leaders both in our first encounter and in the rematch post-game, we learn a lot about their behaviors through casual exposure. All of the Gym Leaders have a job besides running a Gym and, with the exception of Grusha, all of them show that running the Gym is by no means their top priority. Nor are any of them especially reliable when it comes to managing their Gyms. Based on past games, we're accustomed to Gym Leaders taking a large amount of pride in their position and holding it in esteem even when they also had other simultaneous jobs. We've seen Gym Leaders and Elite Four who were also artists, performers, athletes, CEOs, and such before. That's not the case with Paldea though; to these Gym Leaders, it's just a job and not necessarily one they put a lot of personal investment into compared to their actual passions/careers. It's mentioned that Geeta "strong-armed them" into taking on the role, which can be read that she went out of her way to convince strong, capable Trainers to become Gym Leaders for the sake of Paldea and because she saw the potential they held but weren't utilizing.

Katy flat-out forgot that she was under review and only appeared for the rematch by pure coincidence because she just so happened to visit that day. When we first meet Kofu, he and his assistant are both a totally scatterbrained mess. Iono only bothers with being a Gym Leader because it gets her viewership for her streamer career; if something else better came along, she'd surely jump for it immediately. Brassius is very upfront about his artistic passions being the number one thing in his life and openly abandons his responsibilities as a Gym Leader to pursue them during the rematch. Tulip's modeling career keeps her busy and she only has just enough time to show up for a brief match before immediately leaving to get back to her work. Ryme is more focused on her music career and wasn't even the original Gym Leader; that position belonged to her sister, Professor Tyme, who left the role to become a teacher. Larry, despite being the most vocal about his dislike of Geeta's habits, is also the most distracted as he has three simultaneous jobs and constantly works overtime. Finally, Grusha doesn't have any job besides being a Gym Leader, but that's only due to an injury that has made it impossible for him to pursue his original passion. That same injury has likewise cost him his motivation and drive to improve; he's only hanging onto his role as Gym Leader because he doesn't think he has anything else going for him now.

With all that in mind, it makes sense a rigid sort like Geeta would want to keep a close watch and short leash on all these unreliable personalities, doesn't it? She has to keep tabs on them because they risk failing the various Trainers who hope to challenge them otherwise, along with squandering their own potential. Geeta is always very open about her desire to foster powerful Trainers out of Paldea, if nothing else. After the rematch, all the Gym Leaders express a level of understanding and even appreciation toward Geeta for what she's done for them. Grusha and Larry stand out in particular, as they both confess that her meddling has helped motivate them to go beyond what they've settled into. Where Larry mentions that Geeta will dock his pay if he wastes time, he also mentions that she insists he stop overworking himself with overtime hours. So it's possible she's simultaneously trying to keep him focused without letting him overdo it as well.

When it comes to how corporate Geeta has made the League, that's not technically fair to say either. It's an easy shorthand but not entirely accurate. The goal of corporations is to make profit no matter what, but that's not really Geeta's motivation. She's not looking to get rich or powerful, but to rally as many genuinely powerful and talented Trainers up within Paldea as she can. That, in and of itself, isn't at all a bad thing and is commonly shared among all regions that have a League. While I criticize League Points as being company scrip, it does supply not just Trainers but all citizens of Paldea with an alternative way of funding themselves. This would include the Gym Leaders; despite common remarks (which I have made myself) about Geeta not paying the Gym Leaders a living wage, it's entirely possible they do indeed make plenty to thrive on and just have their non-Gym Leader job because that's their true passion that they want to put their effort into. Be it cash or League Points, they do have a salary. Larry himself mentions it outright, while Grusha and Brassius don't seem to be in any financial straits despite their unstable working conditions outside the Gyms. When it comes to the region's economy as a whole, subsidizing major commercial chains throughout the region just to make food and supplies more accessible can't be cheap; when you sell goods to the PokeMart for cash, you only get a fraction of the total value, but get significantly more (usually double) the value in League Points. Geeta's overall emphasis doesn't seem to be shaping the League and its sphere of influence within Paldea to make herself wealthy or powerful, but rather to make the whole affair as plainly efficient and self-sustaining as possible. In that regard, she's done a fantastic job.

When all is said and done, I genuinely hope Geeta isn't a villain but simply a boss with lofty visions, exacting demands, and absolutely terrible interpersonal skills. I feel like she'd be a lot more interesting that way in that she'd be a genuinely flawed person without her issues just being dismissed as "because she's the Bad Guy".

#pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon sv #pokemon geeta #pokemon larry #pokemon grusha #but seriously - where the hell are Poppy's parents? What's the deal? I NEED ANSWERS #Geeta ruins everything but maybe not #I'm down for Socially Inept Disaster Boss Geeta #Why are you Gym Leaders not being productive and happy? I specifically requested it.

[bb-ants]

The Elite Four go to McDonalds

#pokemon #elite four #elite four rika #elite four poppy #elite four larry #elite four hassel #pokemon sv #larry #larry pokemon #pokemon scarlet #pokemon violet #gym leader larry #rika ordered a big mac #why did i do this lmao

[k1spiegel]

i should post these. misc scarvi characters ive attached myself to ( including poppy n rika planning a fight + me struggling w larry and staraptor)

#brassius #ortega #eri #poppy #rika #hassel #larry #team star ortega #team star eri #elite four poppy #elite four rika #elite four hassel #larry pokemon #gym leader larry #gym leader brassius #theres so many tags for just the characters. good lord #pokemon #my art #im esp fond of the elite four ooooo i wuv them so much