Currently thinking about how Cubone is a hero option in Red rescue team. A lot of their dialog implies that they're mourning. There's some good tragedy in there somewhere. A distant sense of longing, mourning a person that you don't remember the name or face of. That crippling guilt of not being able to remember someone you love. The heartache from the idea that you may never remember who they were. But despite that you still feel that longing for them. You can't accept they're gone, but you can't even remember who they were. The loneliness that comes from a hole in your heart that you dont know the shape of. Those feelings are still there, but you don't know who they were for.
Kicking off the new year with a doodle I made last year, and one I did today. Here are the protags from my Rescue Team DX save file: Corazon "Corey" the human-turned Eevee and Vivian "Vivi" the Cubone of Team Palette.
...Honestly, Cubone having Brutal Swing as part of the starting moveset was NOT something I saw coming, lol.
chet, a greedy raichu and leader of his rescue team, and omo, a peculiar little human unfortunate enough to be taken under his wing. hijinks will ensue and witch hunts will be held
For some reason, Rescue Dungeon DX uses a sort of spacing limit instead of a character limit, so while I couldn't bring back Autism Gang for this game, I was fully able to go with Autism Club. So, introducing Rescue Team Autism Club!
bros I just finished pokemon mystery dungeon (rescue team dx) and the ending had me sobbing??? the silly pokemon friendship game had no right hitting that hard??????
also if anyone remembers the beginnings of this blog where I made that satogou pmd au? yeah on that run of the game I got stuck at the volcano level and recently I wiped that and started over
also I named all my chars after pokemon chars. I was an eevee and my partner was a totadile named hugh. the third main member of the team was a poochyena named gladion.
Expanding on that last concept, imagine the hero questioning if their thoughts and feeling are even their own. They would have no meaningful way of determining the difference between their instincts as a pokemon, and their feelings as a human. They would probably try to distance themselves as much as possible from their identity as a pokemon even though that's who they are now. And then they feel like they can't relate to the pokemon around them because their instincts and personalities are inseparable. Those other pokemon wouldn't be able to understand the absurd cognitive dissonance that comes from having emotions born of love for a person they feel no love towards. Their partner wouldn't understand, other Cubone couldn't understand. Heck, even Gengar wouldn't understand because he fully embraced his identity as a pokemon. The loneliness that the hero would already feel, by virtue of being a Cubone, would multiply exponentially.
I’m absolutely dying with my foggy recollection of Gengar’s character compared to this interpretation of the Rescue Team hero.
I need to play Rescue Team in full with this hero so I can make legit content of her.
PMD DX did learn from how it was nigh-impossible to meaningfully recruit anything in the original versions, but I feel like maybe it leaned a bit too hard in the opposite direction.
I can think of at least one dungeon layout in other games where this number of Pokemon would not fit.
been playing some of rescue team dx again since my old file got deleted (weird switch data transfer shit; im playing as a Cyndaquil and my partner's a Treecko). here are some things id like to note have happened so far
my rescue team's name is Team Transgender. not only does that mean basically every pokemon part of the team is trans but also that some npcs are like "Is this where Transgender is based?" or the game's like "[Pokemon] has felt a kinship with Transgender..." it honestly enhances the experience
the sheer amount of pecha and rawst berries ive found and never needed
can't remember what pokemon wanted it but one request was for something called a Famous Stone. help
somehow got not one, not two, not three, not four, but FIVE Ledyba to follow me in one mission. only 4 of them joined because I already had one but the extras all have names like "jason derulo" or "Among Us"
also all of them helped in a mini boss battle. the entire fucking hive got their asses
"HE HAS THEM? FEET?"
me making a Poochyena do a dojo thingy in the Dark Maze but realizing said Poochyena does not have a single dark move
MULTIPLE Wurmple requests that are almost identical
me using a Wigglytuff orb then realizing I don't have enough money for what i wanted anyway so just wasting it
imagining humanized designs of the ones that are like basically ocs but not drawing them
having a Beldum and a Baltoy tag along and the Beldum says they'll defeat any baltoy and the baltoy says they'll defeat any beldum. both of them ended up joining the team btw
i threw a reviver seed and it just hit the wall and landed exactly where I threw it from. yay!
everyone just throwing gravelerocks at far away enemies the MOMENT i register them