#maybe ranger or colosseum

[pokemon-personalities]

Probably not an unpopular take but one I feel strongly: Pokémon should release a side game instead of a new game next years holiday season. I want to see a new Pokémon Mystery Dungeon or Ranger or something!! Pokémon Colosseum and/or XD remakes would be veeeery cool.

i would LOVE a new pokemon ranger game!!! or maybe a game fully devoted to pokemon contests or something that would be awesome!!! mainline games are cool and all but the pokemon world has so much potential for creative game concepts

[marinecorvid]

Hey corvid, how open are you to Ranger head cannons? DO you have any yourself?

I am ABSOLUTELY open to headcanons and i have sososo many. here are some of them, typed out haphazardly and not quite fully formed but are the basis by what lens i see GS through

OKAY so this is turned out to be. long. and some a lot the vast majority of these headcanons are way more in depth/personal than other generally applicable hc stuff so yknow look upon my works ye mighty and despair, etc etc. ended up [redacting] some stuff, partly because i'm not ready to share in the state it's currently in in my head, and sometimes because i am still figuring stuff out sorry this is probably way more than what you were looking for but brain cells go out the door when i think about GS.

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coolio FIRST UP. MY KIDS

Summer Serrano: A sensitive, romantic, and compassionate person at heart, but with a sharp chip on her shoulder from a rough early life, Summer enables the "offense is the best defense" strategy personality-wise, causing her to often be perceived as much more aloof/prickly than she usually actually is. Clever, creative, insightful. Observant. Open to new experiences and learning. Quiet. Quietly snarky. Easy to irritate. Has a deeply skewed sense of danger/self preservation due to a depression/trauma combo; operates by a "go hard or go home" mindset (part of an in-universe explanation for why, when faced with Mewtwo not once but TWICE, she didn't back down. The other part was "flight" in fight or flight wasn't an option here, it was do or die).

Fun facts: Is a polyglot - speaks the Orre dialect of Paldé (Poke-Spanish - considering that Orre is based on Arizona and how close that is to Mexico, I'm headcanoning there's a lot of cultural influence), Galaic (Poke-English), is picking up Almian, picked up Oblivian in Oblivia, and can stumble her way through a conversation in Kalaic/Fiori (French/Italian, based on the fact that they're both romantic languages like Spanish, there's enough similarity she can kinda get the gist), and Ben's taught her a few words in Kantese; considers Paldé her native tongue, is much more talkative in it than Galaic, in which she's fairly quiet. Has a hyperthymestic/eidetic memory, IE she can remember most things vividly almost to the point of exactly. Drinks black coffee, sometimes brews it with Red Bull instead of water when she's hyperfixated on something and is regarding sleep as a choice, not a necessity. Calls Ben a variety of nicknames (Benjamin, Benji, Benvolio) when she wants something (his attention, just to bother him); he tolerates this with grace. Has a height of a exactly five foot zero and is deeply disgruntled about it. Isn't a very material person but likes to collect little knickknacks and trinkets from where she and Ben visit/go on missions.

Backstory: Okay full disclosure I've been reworking her mental backstory a lot in my head, so there's gonna be some very vague/blank spots. Born n raised in Pyrite Town, Orre in a not great neighborhood but not the worst. Parents are out of the picture, I think lived with an aunt/distant relative/foster parent? that ended up wrangling a bunch of kids that pretty much meant Summer grew up kinda doing whatever the hell she wanted, the kind of young ne'er-do-well who would make a game out of throwing rocks through the window panes of the old abandoned factories because there's nothing better to do. Ran with most of the other local kids because that's what you did (safety in numbers. You don't want to get caught alone, especially after dark. That's how people disappear).

Except uhh maybe early-mid teens?? The local Colosseum itself is old as shit, hasn't had maintenance in a while, part of it collapses midmatch into the Under, triggering a bunch of landslides and cave-ins due to the unstable land from all the mining that was done in the past. Summer gets caught in one of these, gets stuck for a few days, experiences the worst 72 hours of her life, eventually gets pulled out by an emergency response team (now that I'm writing it out, maybe by some Rangers that offered Orre assistance??? food for thought). Spends a few days shuffled around at an overworked hospital/clinic. Because she managed to get out without any broken bones and only a mild concussion, they push her out the doors to focus on worse patients. Doesn't go home, kinda wanders the city in a daze thinking "what the fuck. what the fuck. fuck this place." wandering takes her to a some kind of high place where she can look over the city and all the emergency crews and smoke and thinks "is this really it? is this gonna be my life? stuck in a dusty city where the streets are collapsing and everything's always broken and constantly looking over my shoulder?" (because even though her neighborhood was once alright, things have been getting worse) and then thinks "fuck that. fuck that so much"

and maybe like… in a few days? wanders back home, grabs a backpack, takes as many snacks and scrounges as many dollars as she can from home, hikes herself out to the nearest tracks, and hops a cargo train out of Orre up the Western Coast. (In my mental map of this corner of the Pokemon world, passes through some unnamed regions and into Paldea.) Scrounges up enough currency to catch a ferry to Almia? and … sometime … she gets involved in the Ranger Union, huzzah. maybe a Ranger that pulled her out of the rubble got her thinking about the Ranger Union? it makes an impression? very haphazard. I'm working on it

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Ben Yuuko: If you'd ask your average Almian citizen to describe your average Ranger, 1 out of 3 would describe an archetype resembling Ben. Earnest, honest, easily trusting, fun-loving, with misplaced confidence to walk out of dangerous situations unscathed, Ben is the "possess social smarts - doesn't always use them" to Summer's "has street smarts - doesn't always use them." Similar to Summer, a deeply compassionate person. Prone to mild teasing. Had a relatively easy adolescence, somewhat naive - struggles DEEPLY during the events of GS, as a lot of rose-tinted lenses are being shattered, as he's now dealing with a traumatic happenings himself that he's only "experienced" second-hand through the people around him (Summer, former foster siblings in worse situations); dealing with how people will have seemingly irrational thoughts + actions that seem perfectly justified in the moment, why even the people you care for lash out at you, that people who seem villainous are still deeply human and rarely pure evil. Deals with some pretty bad anxiety.

Fun facts: Speaks Kantese and Galaic, kinda picks up Oblivian, Summer's taught him a little Paldé. Is a pretty decent cook! Can make some good food with minimal ingredients; it causes him physical pain to watch Summer dip pickle slices in Nutella like chips and hummus. Considers his most valuable possession to be a pair of 90s moon shoes. Takes dance classes for fun when not on duty. Calls Summer a variety of nicknames (Sunshine, Summertime Sadness) for fun; she is grumpy about it. Uses Summer's shoulder as an armrest when he thinks he can get away with it without being elbowed in the ribs.

Backstory: Born and raised in Johto, I'm thinking Olivine City. In contrast to Summer's chaotic home life, Ben was fostered with caring adults and a handful of younger kids, both biological children of his foster parents and other foster children that cycled through. However, though he deeply appreciates what they've done for him, and that he's rationally aware he was raised in a VERY good foster environment, he never really connected to them as parents. (He does keep regularly in touch with a few of the foster kids he helped wrangle though.) (Also sorry Ben. you don't have very detailed info in comparison to summer rn)

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Ben and Summer: Besties, partners, ride or die for each other. Queerplatonic relationship, in the sense that they're both queer and not romantically involved (though there was brief 5-second period of Summer accidentally concussing Ben and him thinking he was in love with her) but by the time GS has finished with canon events they pretty much always consider each other when thinking about what they want to do in life

The first time they met after spending a day together (under undetermined circumstances but shenanigans were probably involved), Summer (grew up in a dangerous place) looked at Ben and thought "this is the most harmless guy on earth. Jesus Christ he's gonna get eaten alive at the first sign of actual trouble" and decided protecting him would be her #1 priority from that point on. Ben (grew up being an armchair therapist to foster kids more troubled than he) looked at Summer and thought "she is so scared and so dysfunctional even in a safe environment :(" and decided he was going to be her best friend from then on.

Of course by living together and working together their perceptions of each other have evolved. Ben deeply admires her competency in the field (despite her unorthodox methods, usually lacking in self preservation) and by the time GS comes around, is looking to her blasé attitude towards danger as something to imitate, which is what leads to Ben kinda mouthing off to Red Eyes the first time they meet, which isn't really authentic Ben behavior; he gets better as the game's canon events continue and he realizes Summer's seemingly natural confidence is a carefully maintained mask that she keeps to prevent anyone from seeing how scared and nervous she actually, and to keep herself from breaking down from all the stress and anxiety she's under. Though Oblivia is a shit time for them in many ways and leaves them with many issues, it also deepens their understanding of each other and are far more open emotionally, and lays the groundwork for future growth.

on a less serious note

Them that's Them

Since you need to be at a certain rank to fly on Staraptor, I'm going to say they're actually pretty good Rangers in their own right before Oblivia

Oblivia is their first overseas missions, and Hastings specifically wanted them to have a mentor in Rand, who's an experienced Ranger and could help iron out some issues that were forming (worried they were getting too codependent w each other. ironically they just ended up with horrible separation anxiety); their modus operandi is that Ben talks more with people, and Summer does more of the heavy lifting

during Oblivia they picked up the habit of sleeping in the same bed; they don't feel safe not being able to reach out and feel the other nearby

Ukulele Pichu is technically Summer's partner Pokemon but they're equally attached to the little guy and vice versa. He likes to hang out in the hoods of their jackets when it's chilly

The first time Summer ever experienced a real winter, Ben stuffed snow down the back of her coat within 5 minutes. Summer retaliated by dumping a bucket of it on him while he slept that night

Ben would say one of the greatest challenges he faces in his life is getting Summer to stay in bed when she's sick

Summer is a chronic clothes stealer; Ben starts buying two of everything when they start sharing a dorm in the Union

In the years following Shadows of Almia and the very public dissolution of Altru/Team Dim Sun, there's been a surge in Ranger applicants and Union leaders are frantically trying to figure out where to house so many people; usually the people who get the best academic scores are stationed at the Union building directly, but lots of runner ups ended up being temporarily housed there while other accommodations are being developed. However, upon realizing that Ben and Summer are both more capable beyond their number scores, they were reassigned to the Union building.

General Ranger headcanon is that to prevent mental and physical burnout, all Rangers are required to take either staggered breaks or one big chunk of a break/vacation time throughout the year

Summer and Ben usually spend theirs in an apartment in dockside Puel Town (not allowed to live in Union building during mandatory break, as it might encourage one to act on duty even when they're supposed to be resting), but post GS incorporate Oblivia into their break time; Rand and Leanne more or less consider them their own kids and are always happy to house them

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OBLIVIA REGION + MYTHOLOGY:

Okay so you know how in canon Booker is Hastings' brother? The only reason Oblivia (who as a reason at one point definitely was under threat from some kind of occupation, so some older folks are pretty wary of outsiders) is so tolerant of Rangers coming in and solving shit is because whatever governance the runs the place collectively sees Rangers as "Oh those are some of Hastings' kids, yeah they're alright" (because Hastings helped found the Ranger Union, etc etc, and he's pretty smart and wants to keep Oblivia left alone as possible so if he trusts these people, so will we). I know in canon they're pretty. Well. Oblivious to all the shit that's going on but not so in the sandbox of my canon, in that the local folk are pretty hostile towards Pinchers and have their own grassroots force also working to keep an eye out and fend them off when Rangers are in a different part of the region.

Oblivia is also a lot bigger than the main islands we see! The reason we don't get to go to other islands is because they're by and large uninhabited: by not being able to support human life, because Pokemon have made their home there, or because they're forbidden on accounts of being cursed ground. Which is also why Purple Eyes needed Leanne to discern Zapdos' location, because it could've also theoretically been on any other treacherous mountain island (and also to translate a lot of other stuff he was having trouble with)

Misc. headcanon: a lot of people assume because Rand is the breadwinner man of the house that he's like the head of household, however 1) both he and Leanne would argue they are equals in this marriage and family, neither of them outrank each other, and 2) Leanne is head of the household. it is not acknowledged and she herself denies it with an fondly exasperated eyeroll but everyone else living there knows she is Mom, Terrible And Mighty and all decisions are run by her first

Misc Headcanon #2: Rand is a very good baker, and because I feel bad he doesn't have a partner Pokemon of his own I say he has a Mightyena named Lucky! he walks with Nema to and from school. Post game, Leanne gets a therapy/emotional support Espeon

Nema's somewhere on the autism spectrum. Sometimes goes nonverbal when she gets overwhelmed, but instead of learning sign language communicates with a pseudo-Morse code, using a combination of already existing codes and some ones they made up; Ben and Summer get pretty good at it and Summer starts using it frequently too

Suicune is the most no-nonsense of the legendary beasts, mostly because the Sky Fortress is hidden on their island and therefore they're the one who's working hardest to keep it hidden. Entei is like an old cat/dog, a little lazy, prefers a calm environment, sometimes casuallly shows up when Rand's grilling food outside, flops on the ground, and doesn't leave until they get thrown a steak or something. Raikou is like the little brother of the bunch, they're very active and like to run, nosy, always smells when Summer has treats with her.

Following the defeat of Sabios and the Sky Fortress in ancient times, Oblivia's Golden Age came to a close. The royal line thought to be ended, as Sabios fled the region in disgrace and Ravio sired no known heirs, and the ancient Oblivians were so desperate to bury the Sky Fortress, that if they couldn't destroy it or the Golden Armor the least they could do was to destroy everything else pertaining to it, burn any paper holding knowledge of it, seal the living batteries for it (titans of the sky) to the highest peaks, strike every wall naming it except for one they erected in dire warning in the hopes that should anyone be fool enough to stumble across it they would be persuaded against unearthing anything else. And so history became legend, legend became myth, and for a thousand years all knowledge of the Sky Fortress, the Golden Armor, and Ancient Oblivia passed out of almost all knowledge, even to modern Oblivians - until some guy calling himself Amun had to come dig it all up, realize his folly too late and try to bury it again, but by that time the Societea had already caught wind of it, and you know what happens next.

Summer didn't fall directly into the ocean from that height like in canon, once Ben realized what happened, he flew down after her and managed to grab her, slowing her down enough so that that fall distance would be survivable. Unfortunately for them, Red Eyes brought his Charizard to the party, Ben got grabbed, and Summer still falls. (She also isn't nearly as conscious as in canon when she hits the water, she's barely manages to get her rebreather on before her vision goes dark, and only sees the underwater Rainbow Dais in a very feverish state.)

The Celebi that transports you to and from the past is running the longcon. Bringing Summer back in time to inspire Ravio to become the ancient hero with Summer's stories of the ancient hero, while Summer is inspired by stories of the ancient hero to act as the next guardian of Oblivia. It has lived on this islands since before any other Pokemon or humans settled there, and the extent of its knowledge and motives are inscrutable to literally everybody. Post-GS Celebi wouldn't take a distressed Summer back in time to stop the sky fortress from rising in the first place because that would mess up the time loop it's got going on. The time loop is also why all the legendary Pokemon trust her so much immediately after meeting her and give her their sigils; they remember her from the old past

Before Ho Oh (and eventually the legendary beasts) was the main religious focus in Oblivia, many many years ago, Arceus was worshiped. However, due to [SEE BELOW], Arceus stepped to the side and allowed a spiritual leader in ancient times to take the mantle of Guardian of the Sky, being reborn as the first Ho Oh in recorded history upon her death. In a similar fashion, the legendary beasts, titans of the sky, and Guardian of the Sea all were once human in their first life, but bear only memories and not the emotions attached as their time as timeless guardians.

Alola was not the first region Ultra Necrozma terrorized in its desperation for light; after being nearly wrent asunder by an priestess blessed with the power to bend light, it fled down the equator, finally coming to Alola. A portion of Necrozma's light body settled upon the span of the Oblivia region, becoming the origin for a power that eventually fueled the creation of the Steelhead Armor, the Golden Armor, and the Sky Fortress.

I also know I've mentioned this before but Lugia absolutely is involved in storming the sky fortress. Ho Oh is too old and weakened to fight off the titans of the sky by herself so Lugia has to get involved and knock the shit out of em before Ho Oh can neutralize it enough that summer and ben can get in there. They're also the one who drags Summer onto the shore of Dolce Island instead of getting waterlogged when she gets knocked into the sea (headcanon made entirely by the fact that during the title screen, you can see lugia's silhouette in the background. and also my belief that lugia is one of the coolest pokemon ever and deserves screentime all the time)

Post-past missions and after the Sky Fortress is sealed away for the first time, Ravio summons Arceus to try to apologize for the sins of his father, who bound it to his will with the Golden Armor. It didn't end well.

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VILLAINS:

Red Eyes AKA Reid O'Sullivan: also born n raised in Pyrite, like Summer. (totally wild coincidence there. that won't affect anything at all) Grew up SUPER admiring the Colosseum battlers, got a Torchic from uhh somewhere? Anyways it's the Blaziken you see in the post-game. He was really looking forward to starting a mentorship kinda thing with a battler who had a habit of taking youngins under his belt, you know to keep them from getting into crime and whatnot. Unfortunately for everyone involved, said battler died when Pyrite's Colosseum collapsed midmatch, Red Eyes barely made it out as mid-teen, and lost some friends of his own in the fall.

Feeling distinctly fucked over, got into some worse circles, got a reputation for being a tough guy who's half-competent with good battle instincts, gets involving in a poaching ring. Eventually gets to be the de-facto leader of that poaching ring as a young adult. Eventually approached with an offer to expand, combine with another poaching ring or two by a backer who'd be willing to invest and whatnot. Red Eyes, generally a proud guy and flattered, goes "SURE" (he will later regret this) and actually takes on the moniker of Red Eyes because if he's gonna do bigger stuff he doesn't want to be throwing his legal name around.

And uh I'll be honest with you - by the time GS rolls around, he's not having a good time with the unified Pinchers. He hates his boss. His boss's bosses, whom he only barely knows about, are getting them involved in some Weird Ass Shit, like looking for wall carvings instead of poaching. He doesn't fucking like it, but because confusion and unsurety is weakness, he does not show any of this. He's actually at the end of his rope when Summer and Ben roll up, and is so stressed out that he falls for like, a basic level taunt from Ben and tries to shoot him out of the sky. Summer, of course, takes the hit, falls into the ocean, they drag Ben back to the sub so he can't cause any trouble for them. He stares at the wall in his room. He might've just killed a Ranger, and that's, uh, a potentially serious murder charge. Shit. Good thing's she's not actually dead! Somehow! and totally not someone he recognizes. at all. And then proceeds to have a somehow worse time as Summer just. keeps. beating him

Blue Eyes AKA Blaire Park: Uhh not sure if born but definitely grew up in Gateon Port, learned about boats n shit, why she's the one in charge on the submarine. I'm not sure exactly what she was doing before the Pinchers, but she was doing something that was going fine! right up until she, flattered in some way, goes "SURE" (she will later regret this) and actually takes on the moniker of Blue Eyes because if she's gonna do bigger stuff she doesn't want to be throwing her legal name around.

But by the time GS rolls around, Blue Eyes, like Red Eyes, wants Fucking Out. She, like Red Eyes, is stressed to hell, and from the time Summer shows up in Amun's mansion to accidentally getting trapped in an underwater cave, shit's a conga line of failure and embarrassment. She was not, perhaps, in the best state of mind when she decided to Plan Z the submarine. (Getting fired by Purple Eyes in the moment was not a fun thing, but she did realize she got away mostly scot-free, so she got what she wanted in a way.)

And that's how those two become friends/coworkers-with-benefits-who-sometimes-antagonize-each-other-for-environmental-enrichment, and also they bond over and complain about their asshole sadist of a boss, but not where he can hear, because he's an asshole sadist and they don't want to piss him off and invite him to be a sadist in their direction.

Fun facts: Red Eyes probably would probably stream playing Dark Souls IRL and despite being p good at it would get stuck on one boss for hours and Blue Eyes would be his maybe roommate maybe something else, who knows, who would intervene before he gets mad enough to break the controller and beat it in maybe. 3 tries just so he can continue in the game. chat goes nuts for Blue Eyes

Post-game when Blue Eyes hangs up the ol control gauntlet and decides to try to live a mostly respectable life, she ends up reading a lot and eventually decides to try and write her own :)

and Red Eyes eventually turns out to be a pretty good exhibition battler (kinda like wrestling matches, predetermined but still showy and intense)

Red Eyes likes spicy food. Unfortunately for him he is not good at making food. He's not allowed to use the submarine stovetop anymore

Blue Eyes is transfemme (look at her uniform colors! baby you are not subtle and i love you for it), and because I'm choosing to believe the Pokeworld is the better timeline in which HRT something you can get like over the counter, she's been living her best life

POST-POSTING EDIT: blue eyes had a tentative truce with red eyes pre-pincher unification with whatever gangs they were running, i don't think hers was a poaching group though - maybe something about resources? - she developed those skills as a leader post-unification; they kinda became more equals when the societea n purple eyes made them an actual group

And also they both have a crush on Summer because Red Eyes is the kind of guy to be "I like the kind of woman that can kick my ass" even if he's a sore loser abt it lmao and also [REDACTED]. but he takes a few levels in kindness postgame so he holds out hope. and Summer's saved Blue Eyes several times so there's some complicated feelings there. But also Summer is very pretty and very nice and considerate when she's not a stressed out Ranger on duty. so.

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Purple Eyes AKA [REDACTED]: This guy. One of my favorites of all time. He's hilarious. Drama queen. Utterly self serving. Charismatic enough to know how to function like a normal person most of the time, he just… doesn't care to unless he's trying to get something he can't get with force. How did he get to this point

Because canon is my sandbox, I say: I don't think Purple Eyes went into this whole venture /wanting/ to do the whole "rule the world through fear" thing. I think that's a combo of 1) truly horrendous mental health 2) spite, based on a couple of different slights against him 3) Oblivia Ruins are cursed, haunted to hell and back, and definitely fucked with his perception of the world + himself + what he wants after spending so long trying to decipher the place, and just… never recovered. not that he had a lot chances we see in canon, since so much happens So Fast and bonus wifi missions are wobbly hand motion on the timeline, but for however long he lives after GS he's just. so fucked over in the head. him metaphorically kicking the dog by usurping Ed was mostly entirely due to absolute spite at being kicked at Mt Layuda. he didn't have a plan for ruling the world he just wanted to get payback against Ed and his least favorite Rangers in existence while he was at it

IDK MAN I HAVE A LOT OF THOUGHTS. CONCEPTS. IT'S ALL IN A ROUGH STATE RN THO. just scrapped a whole 2 paragraphs bc i didn't vibe with it. so i'm not gonna say any more on this particular subject.

sorry my guy you're not the star of this very lengthy answer. ANYWAYS i'm torn between my desire to humanize all villains i deal with (because he's still very much a standard cartoon villain) VS desire to just see that guy go from 0 to 90 right from adolescence. stay tuned

HOWEVER he's definitely Sabios' descendant (from the past missions) and that's why the Golden Armor responded to him over Ed at the Sky Fortress. proof: share musical leitmotif, purple theme, evil second-in-commands, on the sky fortress he says something like "i did some research and learned something about the golden armor" which is never really expanded on so i think the implication was that the golden armor would choose him bc it remembers old blood

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SOCIETEA: I am gonna to limit this to Ed because he's the one I care to humanize the most and this whole thing started with him getting an idea. Altered character motivations and interpretations abound.

he hangs around a lot more with Summer n Ben than in canon, both because he's trying to get a feel for their progress, if they're a genuine threat to the Pinchers' progress, and also because they're not bad kids and he does want them to feel reassured that there are Adult adults in their corner. as untrue as it may be.

he's especially fond of Summer, he's definitely doing some grandfatherly projection. she reminds him of himself at a young age: restless, far more clever than she's allowed to be (for differing reasons), having experienced loss due to war (her parents; he lost an uncle and niece who followed in his footsteps as field medic), they both feel more jaded compared to their peers

you know how there's like fanon that there was a war before the games? like before of LT Surge's dialogue? there were a few wars. scattered across like a century or so, Pokeworld was in real bad shape

Ed's parents were rich Galaic folk, you know like old parliament lords that their families still hold places in the govt. and still have lots of old money? yeah he's from that kind of family. his father was an old military man turned politician. wanted ed to follow in his footsteps, ed wanted to go into medicine, they found an unwilling compromise when war broke out and he became a young field medic

eventually war he was involved in ends. father eventually dies. has the freedom to be a kleptomaniac to his heart's content across the world with his friends; focused on high profile art pieces, artifacts, expensive rare limited editions. tensions between regions erupt again, more war, acts as a philanthropist with money to help vets n whatnot. still socially runs in the old circles of politicians and whomever, isn't involved too much though

i'm getting tired so i'm gonna simplify the shit out of this and maybe come back to this later but basically: he and the rest of the gang have been doing some international-conspiracy shit for a decade or so and basically want to do the "last war to end all wars" kind of thing (because. i mean. regional tensions ARE picking up again at this point. nothing solid so far but things aren't are great as they could be) with no conflicting leaders so no more mass violence. except for these potential acts of mass violence. and the half sentient golden armor of course Does Not help with that thought process and is what leads to the destruction of Dolce Island

still definitely wants immortal life tho. war will fuck up your sense of life and death he's definitely got some problems that've been marinating for the past however-many years

he was never really liked purple eyes but was willing to employ him because he was efficient and finding half decent archaeologists who are willing to work for your evil schemes are rare in circles of villainy. but between him no longer really needing him once zapdos was located, disapproval of him kidnapping leanne and claiming he figured it out on his own, and disdain of him kidnapping leanne and nema (ed's not an evil evil guy and didn't have anything personal against rand & family), Ed was all too happy to kick him to the curb

#pokemon ranger #guardian signs #headcanons #my art #<- tagging as such for personal reference #oh god there's too much that i realize now that it's been pulled from my brain is almost incomprehensible without like #having thought about it and built on it for years #im so sorry for the walls of text #okay ive been working on this since yesterday afternoon and i'm tired of trying to reorganize it. enjoy

[themattress]

Pokemon Averages

Unfortunately, no fans this time. Only critics.

CORE SERIES: Gold/Silver/Crystal = 9.0 Red/Blue/Yellow = 8.8 HeartGold/SoulSilver, Black/White, X/Y, Sun/Moon = 8.7 Diamond/Pearl/Platinum, Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon = 8.4 Legends: Arceus = 8.3 Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire = 8.2 FireRed/LeafGreen = 8.1 Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, Black 2/White 2 = 8.0 Let's GO! Pikachu/Eevee = 7.9 Sword/Shield = 7.5 Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl = 7.3 Scarlet/Violet = 7.2

SPIN-OFFS: Puzzle League, Pinball, Pinball: R/S = 8.1 Conquest = 8.0 New Snap = 7.9 Stadium, Stadium 2 = 7.8 Snap, Pokken Tournament = 7.7 Trozei = 7.4 Colosseum = 7.3 Detective Pikachu = 7.1 Battle Trozei, UNITE = 7.0 GO, Ranger, Super Mystery Dungeon, Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX  = 6.9 Ranger: Shadows of Almia, Rangers: Guardian Signs = 6.8 Mystery Dungeon: Red/Blue Rescue Team = 6.7 XD: Gale of Darkness, Cafe Mix = 6.4 Duel, Masters, Quest = 6.3 Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity = 5.9 Rumble World = 5.8 Hey You Pikachu!, Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky = 5.7 Rumble Blast, Shuffle = 5.6 Channel = 5.5 Dream Radar = 5.4 Battle Revolution = 5.3 Rumble U = 4.9 Ranch = 4.7 Dash = 4.6 Rumble Rush = 4.2

I can mostly understand this, but one thing baffles me: Sword/Shield, the most divisive games in the franchise, actually had a higher score before the DLC expansions! Yeah, at its base the score was 8.0, but add the DLC review scores and it drops to 7.5. Most people, me included, considered the DLC expansions to be significant improvements! Considering both this and the lower placement of Black 2/White 2, widely considered among players to be among the best in the series gameplay-wise, maybe we should take the score for the freshly released Scarlet/Violet with a grain of salt until we’ve all had a chance to play it for ourselves.

#Pokemon #Analysis #Comparison

[firedragon1321]

Pokemon Games Based On How Much I Can Scream About Them Version 2.0

I remembered this post and decided to make a new one including some spin-off games. I only included the ones I played, at least in part. This is rated not by overall game quality, but the amount of feels I get from the lore, and also how long I can rant about them. The longer I can go, the higher it ranks. Near the bottom of the list, it does get kind of game quality-ish, simply because there's less positive things to discuss.

So the updated order is-

Sun/Moon

Ultra Sun/Moon

Scarlet/Violet (including DLC)

Black/White and 2

Colosseum/XD

Mystery Dungeon

Sword/Shield (excluding DLC)

Red/Green and Remakes (excluding Let's Go)

Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee

Ranger

Legends Arceus

Diamond/Pearl and Remakes

Ruby/Sapphire and Remakes

X/Y

Sword/Shield DLC

Battle Revolution

Conquest

Trozei

Gold/Silver and Remakes

And here are some notes-

I have so many FEELINGS about the Teal Mask and will have feelings about The Indigo Disk 100 percent. I just have more FEELINGS about the Aether Foundation.

Most of what I have to say abut USUM is actually bitching about how the original is better. Maybe it should be lower?

Black and White and their sequels are still about even.

Ranking Let's Go separately now because it's a separate story, but not connected directly like Gen 5. there's not much to say about it that I can't also say about the original games. So I put it right below Red/Green.

I originally forgot Ranger, which is a crime. It's been years since I played. I only played the first game. Most of what I have to screech about is nostalgia, but there's some great designs for certain NPCs (read- Spenser). If I ever play/beat the other two, I might rank it higher.

The Hoenn and Sinnoh remakes are about equal to the originals for me.

Rated SwSh DLC separately. It was useful for training, but story-wise? Kind of a waste of money. Placed where it is because Peony and Calyrex.

Also because it was my childhood- Battle Revolution. I wrote shitty fanfic about Battle Revolution, and I like its vibe. But there's not much meat to it canonically.

I added Trozei because it was also my childhood and hella fun. But that's all I can say about it.

I wish I got more into the Mystery Dungeon series, but I kept dying. So I'm just living via memes. They're good-ass memes though. I should play it again.

I ranked Conquest just because I played it, but ehhh...not that high.

Everything worth talking about Gold/Silver/HGSS is either directly or indirectly connected to Kanto (except PokeWalker, but you're technically not playing the game while using it). Taking Johto as an individual region, it will always rate dead fucking last. Though HGSS does have PokeWalker/good quality of life updates, and all the Johto games have the Red boss battle (Kanto-adjacent but still). So I'll give them credit where it's due.

#pokemon #ranking list #please don't kill me #my life my choices #i have an opinion

[dentist-brainsurgeon]

Idr, besides Unite, has Pokemon announced any other spinoffs? Since we got the PMD remake last year and now New Pokemon Snap is out, I expect another spinoff announcement sometime this year

#for what? i haven't a clue. MAYBE PMD EOS DX #maybe ranger or colosseum #or something new! #since their mobile releases have been uhhhhh not good outside of PoGO and Masters and Cafe Mix is in limbo #so i'm pretty sure they're going back to Spinoffs as buffers again

[gmod]

throws this at y'all. my newest pokepasta :)

#pokepasta #darkin writes #fair tw for implied death.

[antialiasis]

What's your least favourite Pokemon game?

That I’ve played? Hmmmm, unsure. Some spinoff. Maybe just Go, which I enjoy(ed when I was actively playing it) and appreciate but ultimately invokes less personal fondness in me than most Pokémon games.

PMD Explorers of Time was super frustrating to play but I loved the story; PMD Blue Rescue Team was definitely the inferior game of the two but didn’t feel as frustrating as I played it because I was a Bulbasaur and just cheesed everything with my Leech Seed/Sleep Powder combo. The Ranger games have done nothing wrong, ever, in their life. I kind of goddamn loved Trozei. Colosseum/XD were flawed but I love them. Conquest annoyed me a lot but I also enjoyed it.

OH. Wait. I own and played Battle Revolution briefly. That’s probably it.

...I'm actually close to saying Stadium, which I never owned, but I did play it at my cousins' grandparents' house, and was just kind of really put off by how off-model and bizarrely animated half of the Pokémon were. I know the vogue right now is to extoll Stadium's animations but my God I hate Stadium animations, I hate them where they were reused in Colosseum, they are so exaggerated and unnatural and offputting to me eugghhhh

If you mean main series, hmmm. Will I piss off the entire fandom if I say Emerald. I’m not quite sure why I was never quite as fond of Emerald as I was of Sapphire. None of the new features in it appealed to me too much, one way or another (animations were neat in principle but as implemented there were just pretty ugly; the Battle Frontier was cool but I didn’t get too much out of it; I didn’t like the new trees).

That said I haven’t actually finished Ultra Moon but from what I’ve heard of the changes in the story I strongly disapprove and might say that on principle. Don’t quite feel right saying that when I haven’t actually gotten to that part myself, but.

It’s hard to pick with these sorts of things, though. Usually there are things I hate as well as things I love and it just depends on how I weigh them up.

#pokemon #Anonymous

[galaxieflora]

POKÉMON MASTERS SPOILERS

https://mobile.twitter.com/absol__utely/status/1276031030734974976

So Jessie's apparently gonna appear in the game soon. I was pretty surprised to hear that. I thought they'd only stick to mainline game characters, though considering she has appeared in Yellow and Let's Go, maybe there was a loophole they exploited?

Then again, in an interview with Sasaki Yu (the game's developer), all he said was that he didn't have anything to share in regards to characters from spin-off series getting in, so it's not confirmed that it's not gonna happen.

I'd personally love to see Yellow from Adventures,Wes and Rui from Colosseum, and the characters from the Rangers' series get in if it's possible, though I'm not gonna hold my breath. If they do manage to get in, it would definitely be quite a surprise.

[doubleddenden]

Out of all this I think we can most definitely agree that Game Freak needs more time to work on things, as this yearly release stuff is hurting both them and their games tbh. They're so focused on new gimmicks that will be irrelevant by the next gen or on pumping out mediocre new games and okayish remakes and can't really focus on making something game changing- something fans can universally agree matches the DS golden era.

It all feels like they went from a decent sit down restaurant- nothing too fancy but somewhere with good food you can reccomend to friends and family- to a fast food restaurant where they do have some good food, but you've definitely had better and it's never as good looking or as good tasting as advertised.

Something I'd suggest is this:

Hire more workers. Screw what Masuda likes about working with smaller teams, this ain't an indie company anymore

Contract some other studios to work on something on the side using assets we already have. It's been done before with Colosseum and XD Gale of Darkness, and we could even take an indie trip with something neo retro, something akin to Sonic Mania (there's plenty of amazing fan artists and devs out there making beautiful fan games. Phoenix Rising, anyone?). This could ease up work load on Game Freak to focus on new gens and solidifying their mechanics, and most of all find the space in the 34 gigs of cartridge space for all the pokemon, while one studio maybe makes a Colosseum 3, or another uses the original plans from gen 4 to remake Platinum. Or hell, sequels and not just remakes.

Focus on fan favorite spin offs and let's give it another go. Maybe a new Mystery Dungeon that sticks closer to its roots, or a new Ranger game, or Pokken 2. Revive Snap and give us a much requested Sequel. More content to expand your brand. Simple.

Maybe venture into cross overs. Pokemon and Animal Crossing would probably work remarkably well together, and I'm sure plenty of people would love Wooloo as a neighbor.

Maybe have another company delve into something new. What if we got a Luigi's Mansion esque kid friendly haunted house survival type deal? Or maybe actually do like Digimon and venture into projects aimed at older audiences

Regardless of what they do, they should really stop introducing new gimmicks and hammer down and expand on what we have. Megas, Z moves, Gigantimax- where could we go from here? Fusion would be plausible since that's a huge anime trope and fairly popular with the fandom, but ultimately we know there will be a hiccup. What then? Armor? Type changing items? In the end we can agree that we just want a good game and don't really need new bells and whistles each game, just a lot of new pokemon and the return of our old friends.

Tl;dr: give Game Freak more time to make better games, give them more help, hire more studios for Colosseum like spinoff titles or do more Spinoff features like PMD or Snap, and stop making up new gimmicks each gen

#pokemon #pokemon swsh

[fyrapartnersearch]

Stories with Fandoms

bocajinsurgenc1

Hello there’  I decided to post a new post, given all the extra time I have! 

Let’s stay with quick things about myself!  -I am 23 years old and live in EST time-zone. -Usually, I have a part time job. Which is really part-time right now considering everything. -I ask that my partner and I write in 3rd Person, Past tense. -Reply/Post length can be set. As a bare minimum, I write a paragraph. More than happy to write more. 

-I am looking more than just having a ship together in a Roleplay. I want a plot. If that makes sense?  Not just romance.   Now onto the Fandoms.  Anything mentioned under, is a suggestion of thought I may Have on said Fandom. Of course, nothing here is needed to be used to build upon. We can build from the ground up.

Open to all sorts of genre themes like:

-Canon divergent,

-Canon-Rewrite/Rework,

-AU’s. What-If’s.

-Timey-Whimey problems. Groundhog Day,

and so much more.  Also, any Fandom with a *, is higher up on the list right now! All are open! *Star Wars: Considering (as time of writing this, May the Fourth two days ago), this is very fresh on my mind! I have seen all Nine-Saga Films, the Side Stories, and all the animated series of date. Not too caught on comics, thought. And my Knowledge, of the ‘Legends’ is very limited. So, ideally, I would want to stick to Disney’s Canon.  Open for all eras, to write with. Or, taking some of the Scrapped Battlefront IV art work of the What-If stuff and basing a story around them. Like Sith Luke and Leia, Redeemed Vader, etc. Or! I really liked the idea of a Imperial Navy Six like team, of Inferno Squad (Dice’s BFII). But, not have them jumps hip. Have them be Empire, ya know? *Final Fantas VII/Remake/Crisis Core:  I have finished the Remake and rather love it! I kinda hate seeing and hearing people on Youtube and online saying: Oh, its just Noruma adding his Kingdom Hearts logic to FF.  First, I don’t think KH is that hard to follow, and second. A HD remake of a story people already know, might not be so well received. Why not just play the original than? However! I love it! So, if we want anything to deal with the Remake, or the Crisis Core characters, I am so game. My good-boy Zack~ Kingdom Hearts: ‘None of this, makes any sense to me’ -Sora, Yozora.  Ahh, Kingdom Hearts. A series I love. Its precious to me. But, despite my love of all the games, and the story, I am more than happy to Re-work or Rewrite anything. Personally, I’d change up KHII alittle. Maybe go in a slightly more somber/dark route. Or, we can have our favorite characters in some AU, or Non-Canon adventure! Xion is my precious favorite character. Who is yours?  DC: First, I would mention I am a big fan of the CW shows. And, part of me (while I did enjoy Crisis on Infinite Earths, wanted a little more.) So, my first thought, would be to Re-write Crisis. One thing that really disappointed me, was the lack of Reverse Flash. He claimed, last Cross-over we would see him. And then just doesn't show up.  I would also, like more work in the fights and such. There wasn't much. Maybe more time with the Seven, who are stuck after they fail the first time around.  Another bit I wouldn't mind working with, would be the forgotten Synder Verse. I rather liked Batman V Superman, despite everything. It is one of those guilty pleasure type things. So, why not expand further where that universe was left off on? Power Rangers:  For this series, I have two major wants. (Of course, we can go in completely different route, too.) First, being a continuation of the 2017 Movie universe. I loved everything about that movie, and am heartbroken it will never go on. (Officially). Do what the cast suggested, and have a Female T.Oliver join the gang. Adapt more from MMPR.  The Second, would be a reWrite of Super Mega-Force (first by workshopping that name,) I am a fan of the Super Sentai Source of the season, and felt PR dropped the ball. We could create a new team for the pirate suits, have more Legendary Cameos and stories, and what not!  *Dragon Ball: From DB, to Z, Super, GT and Xeno-verse, I love most things Dragon Ball. I quite fancy the SSJ4 look, and Xeno style of Goku and Vegeta.  Though, in terms of plot ideas, I saw this Fan art of the Goku Black stuff from Super. However, Future Gohan was with Trunks, rather than Vegeta or Goku. I thought that could be a fun story! Or, we can play around with the Universe Six Saiynas. I rather enjoy them, so why not dive deep with Cabba, Caulifla and Kale? Persona 5/Royal:  The only Persona I have properly played; though, I am not fully done with Royal. (Aware of some spoilers, so no worries there). I love the world and characters quite a bit, so I felt the need to put this on the list, as the next entry as well.  Fire Emblem: Three Houses: I won’t lie, I haven’t finished all playthroughs yet. I was failing hard when the game came out, but given all the time I have had, I’ve been playing more! Another case of loving the characters and wouldn’t be against working out an idea!  *Pokemon: I know the games more, than anything else. Though, I have liked the concept of Re-Working Colosseum’s story. Give Wes a personality, actually. Not just the Silent-Protag trait. Maybe adapt some of the newer Pokemon into the region, as well. Explore what caused Wes to betray the Organization he worked for, what was the line they pushed that caused him to say, ‘I’m done, I can’t do this anymore,’ Perhaps we can even given him a reluctant attitude towards it. Not trying to stop Snag’Em, rather trying to keep his head down low at first.  Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Quick note, I am not fully caught up with Part-8. Thank you.  That’s it for now! Again, anything here is not needed. We can build from the ground up!  My contact stuff, as I do like using Email first, before maybe moving to a different platform, is: [email protected].  If interested in anything, let’s get in touch! Thanks for reading!

#multiple paragraph #para #semipara #long term #email #fire emblem rp #pokemon rp #dc rp #submission

[marinecorvid]

been keeping up w leaks and theories on what little remains of twitter and how ppl are speculating we’re getting closer to when a new Pokémon mainline game is set to come out and it’s like… obvious issues of Jesus Christ Stop Fucking Overworking Your Employees Holy Shit aside, it’s like with Star Wars all over again. back when Disney got their grubby little hands in the pie I was pumped bc yippee more Star wars!!!!! and now I’m just Are they really making another show? ugh. like I’m getting burnt out on things I genuinely love so much cuz there’s just more n more and we barely get any time to sit with things there’s just so much being shoved in our faces. genuinely the things I’m actually looking forward to the most are unlikely to be the things we’ll get (ranger remakes/sequel, colosseum/gale ports, pokemon z. maybe explorers of sky, but I don’t hold out hope). and it still feels impossible to not be interested in pokemon, bc it’s pokemon, but it doesn’t feel like there’s anything that really engages me on the switch except PLA. idk :/

#rlly not holding out hope for z tho. most recent remakes bad. third games have been assimilated into their dual versions. kalos is the unwan #unwanted child of the gens. we’re not gonna get z. #the only hope I have when the inevitable remakes come around is that they don’t pull as bdsp on us. #complete with all the code copied bugs #and like dude I WANT to be excited about Pokémon games!!! I love Pokémon!!! but things seem so half hearted

[latealzalost]

Are there any obscure headcannons you have for the orre region or just something you really wanna talk about but have t been able to bring up?

Well there are many things I’d like to point out and bring attention to for the Orre Region. With my Orrean Tour progressing as I play through the games, I’m getting a better picture of what Orre’s modern history would look like thanks to details surrounding Makan and Evice’s history and placement in the Orrean caste.

But since you asked, and let’s have fun with this, let’s discuss Team Rainbow Rocket AU scenarios and implications for a few of the Orre Region’s alternate timeline universes.

Now if you don’t know, spoilers ahead for Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, Team Rainbow Rocket is a trans-dimensional team of Pokemon villains who succeeded in their respective universes but were taken by Giovanni’s Ultra Beast to join his faction that would invade other universes. 

But the important thing to note about all of Team RR’s bosses, is that they never encountered the protagonists from their universes. There were no heroes to stand up to them, so there was no resistance for them to achieve their goals.

If you look at each game’s story as an equation, there are constants and variables to be considered. But when you remove a major factor like the protagonist from the equation, that is how you get a Team RR alternate universe where the villain wins by default. This should apply to all universes including the Ranger series. Just imagine everything is the same except there is no protagonist whatsoever. Its a whole different story at that point, in that case nothing can be the same and entire plot points may head in a different direction.

Now let’s return to the Orre Region where we have two possible universes where the protagonist may never exist.

We have Colosseum where Wes would never exist.

We have XD where Wes existed, but Michael would never have existed.

In the Colosseum universe: 

Team Snagem would continue to operate as normal with their alliance with Cipher. Their Snag Machines would not be stolen or destroyed.

Rui would be captured and brought in to Cipher. Her destiny would be uncertain, but she certainly would not be seen with no one to save her.

The Kids Grid’s resistance would fall with nobody like Wes to run their errands and infiltrate Cipher’s compounds.

Duking and Silva would comply to Miror B’s rule of Pyrite Town. Chief Sherles and his deputy Johnson would be powerless to do anything about the rampant corruption. The strongest trainers who won their Colosseum challenges would always be awarded Shadow Pokemon.

The Relic Stone would have been destroyed and Dakim’s acquired Time Flute from Vander would allow Celebi to be captured by Cipher, maybe it would even be turned into a Shadow Pokemon.

The foundations of Cipher’s hold over Orre would continue to remain uncontested as they root themselves deeper into the region, showing the true face of the governing power. The Admins including Miror B would continue to rein supreme.

And with the Realgam Tower raised, Cipher would go on to sell the concept of Shadow Pokemon battles across the world to ship Shadow Pokemon to all willing trainers who want to be strong as well as raise enough money to forge their own army. Shadow Pokemon Trainers would be hidden across the world waiting for the words of their higher ups to rise. And when they do, all the myriad regions would bow to the absolute power that is Cipher and the Orre Region they raised into prosperity themselves.

And for fun, here is visual scenario most like how I’d imagine a Shadow Pokemon uprising from sleeper agents in regions outside of Orre would look like. Notice how the people payed for what ultimately destroyed them in the end, just like Cipher’s original plan to disperse their seeds of destruction.

In the XD universe: 

Professor Krane, Lily, and Michael’s Dad would have constructed the HQ Lab and started the Purify Champer project starting with Wes’s victory five years ago, but Michael would not exist, leaving the family with only Jovi as the lone offspring of Lily and her husband.

Michael’s Dad was supposedly a great battler, but taking constants and variables into affect, he is in the grave and all the trainers in the HQ Lab may not have the same tenacity Michael or his Dad had when confronting Cipher.

Lily may try to continue the project left behind by her husband and Professor Krane, but she would be hard-pressed to find progress without a reliable trainer to run errands and utilize the Snag Machine to rescue the Shadow Pokemon already being distributed to unsuspecting citizens like in Gateon Port.

Lovrina would have gotten Krane to tell her about his research about Shadow Purification. Depending on what could be said, this would either speed up her progress on perfecting Shadow Lugia or it wouldn’t, but the professor would not be leaving for home anytime soon.

The ONBS Building would not need to be invaded for the Data ROM that was never acquired, but given where they stand as a form of defense for Orre’s free citizens, they may as well be suppressed. Cipher would easily have destroyed ONBS otherwise.

The Phenac City takeover would go on with all its people in captivity. Snattle would remain content knowing the operation to keep Libra’s Pokemon extraction covert would go swimmingly and his journey to become Orre’s governor as promised by Greevil would be safe with no media attention to his crimes.

The Cipher Key Lair’s Control Machine would never be overloaded, so the factory would continue to pump out more Shadow Pokemon to supply Greevil’s army.

All Admins would remain in their place in Cipher. Miror B would also get to keep any feral Shadow Pokemon he finds, but who knows how long he and his posse would get away with that before Cipher takes notice.

And with Greevil’s goal of creating the perfect Shadow Pokemon immune to purification achieved, he would go on to create more XD-Series Shadow Pokemon like Lugia to lead his army Shadow Pokemon that can work independently without the need of trainers, although he may still need squadrons of Control Gyros like what we saw in the intro. Realistically speaking, asserting control over legions of Shadow Pokemon probably wouldn’t be that easy even with XD-Series Shadow Pokemon to lead hordes and swarms. He would still need personnel to relay control and maintain facilities.

And so with this army, Greevil would retake Orre and proceed to invade the rest of the world in an all out war. Newly acquired Pokemon would be taken in for processing and assimilated into the army as the world slowly fell to the “Gale of Darkness” that is sweeping all nations.

Wes and Rui may still be out there, but by the time Cipher’s plan came to fruition it would be too late to handle the sheer number of Shadow Pokemon Cipher would create over the course of time. Total destruction would befall regions outside of Orre and Cipher would be victorious in this universe where nothing could have stopped this from getting out of hand.

And also for fun, here’s another visual scenario showing a legion of corrupted creatures flooding into cities and trampling opposing forces. The sheer number of Shadow Pokemon made to invade the world would be unstoppable and useless to fight against, most like the scenario here.

In conclusion:

I like to think about these Team RR AU scenarios time after time.

If Team RR is canon, then so is every alternate universe where the protagonist of said universe never existed. And sometimes I can’t help but smile at the thought of Cipher completely destroying the world beyond Orre in both these scenarios. 

Even more so if I imagine that the reason why Cipher’s Bosses were never in Team RR to begin with was because Giovanni was too afraid to let Evice or Greevil’s dreams seep into other other dimensions. It may be too terrifying to let happen. Cipher may even destroy Team RR too. Cipher certainly wouldn’t want to share space with those they deem inferior to their powers.

This is my take on what RR’s implications mean for the Orre Region.

Thanks for asking, honestly ^^

#mellylari #Cipher is one of the scariest criminal teams next to Team Plasma #Team Rainbow Rocket #Orre Spoilers #usum spoilers #/long post

[myopinionisimportant]

This is possibly my favourite card in Sentinels, for lore reasons that are extremely involved and kiiiinda weird.

See, one of the things about Sentinels of the Multiverse is that not only does it has an extensive history in-verse (of Legacy fighting Baron Blade, and the formation of the Freedom Five, and the whole Iron Legacy event, and the Southwest Sentinels getting powers, etc, etc, etc), but it also has the ‘Metaverse’ history of the comics that these stories appeared in. So for example, there’s a period where the hero Tempest was being written maybe not so great, and that version of him was retroactively declared to be a Fleshchild (evil doppelganger) and replaced with the real one again.

But the Sentinel Comics company didn’t just make superheroes. Like in the real world, there were wild west comics, and horror comics, and modern drama comics. Some of these did okay, some did less okay. And after a while, these other lines started to peter out and get less focus in favour of the superhero stuff. As that happened, some characters made the transition over - so Jim Brooks, a sheriff from the wild west comics, became Chrono Ranger, a time-travelling...well, sheriff, but in a superhero setting instead. The Cult of Gloom from the horror comics became a threat for superheroes like Nightmist, instead of constantly winning against unprepared horror protagonists.

And then there was Stylin’ Shirley.

Stylin’ Shirley was one of those drama comics. She was a fashion model, and gorgeous, and constantly having romantic drama. You know the kind of thing. And as the other comics began to flag, so did hers. So the company figured: hey, Chrono Ranger’s been doing okay, right? So why not do the same thing here? So they took Shirley and re-tooled her into a superhero. They made her a gadgeteer-type, with a bit of a steampunk style, and called her Fashion for the pun.

Unfortunately, it didn’t work great. Chrono-Ranger had the advantage that his stories had always had an action focus, so the switch to superheroism wasn’t as big of a deal, but for Shirley it never quite worked and she didn’t have the popularity. Her book was dropped before too long and she was written out of the comics.

And for a long time, that was it.

But then! Ages later, a villain called Kaargra Warfang returns. Her whole deal is that she captures people (heroes, civilians, whatever) within her Colosseum and forces them to fight against her gladiators (and if I recall correctly, that’s how Fashion left the comics - she lost a battle and got taken away with the Colosseum). So this time the heroes are fighting, and one of the heroes is this card, S’sdari the Bloody. She’s a gadgeteer with a steampunk style, and none of the heroes really notice anything untoward because they’re also fighting like...three-headed alien dragons and what have you. Bigger fish. But some of the readers are looking, and remember, ‘hey, doesn’t that look like someone from way back?’ And yeah, it does. It’s Fashion. Still there, fighting, years later.

And that’s all backstory for literally this one card. She never appears in any other shot, she’s not that important in the game. But they just decided she needed this intense, enormous background story Just Because.

I love this game so much.

#sentinels of the multiverse #this is pretty much all just straight from the Letters Page podcast #but I love it so I'm writing it down

[dailypokemoncrochet]

What human Pokemon character should I crochet?

I think it’d be neat to make a person from the Pokemon universe for a change, but I don’t know who should be the first!

A protag from the main games, maybe one from Colosseum/XD, the Pokemon Ranger series, from the tv show or movies?? There’s just so many to pick from

Reblog this / send me an ask with who you think it should be! 

#daily pokemon #pokemon #crochet #amigurumi #i probably won't do it immediately #but it's something fun to think about #text