and the way your character is diegetically just. sneaking into warehouses all spylike to wrestle with huge piles of spheres to get them to stack up on each other just right so she can zap em
and the dude who’s ride you’re infiltrating just goes hey wtf and starts. throwing rocks into the pile. to inconvenience you.
the trozei beamer poses absolutely insane implications if it's canon to the rest of the series (which i want it to be). like what do you MEAN if you have multiple of the same species of pokemon nearby a total stranger can mass transfer them using private satellite. right out of their POKEBALLS????? Like is that ALLOWED???? Ma'am you are UNREGISTERED
And I am just SENDING. SO MANY Pokémon back to my shifty boss??? WHAT IS OUR JOB. WHAT ARE WE DOING. WHO DO THESE POKEMON BELONG TO AND WHO AM I SUPPLYING WITH THEM.
the trozei beamer poses absolutely insane implications if it's canon to the rest of the series (which i want it to be). like what do you MEAN if you have multiple of the same species of pokemon nearby a total stranger can mass transfer them using private satellite. right out of their POKEBALLS????? Like is that ALLOWED???? Ma'am you are UNREGISTERED
where are the phobos guys getting??? all these pokeballs???? where are they coming from????
coolest fucking buglegs train what the hell
the trozei beamer poses absolutely insane implications if it's canon to the rest of the series (which i want it to be). like what do you MEAN if you have multiple of the same species of pokemon nearby a total stranger can mass transfer them using private satellite. right out of their POKEBALLS????? Like is that ALLOWED???? Ma'am you are UNREGISTERED
the trozei beamer poses absolutely insane implications if it's canon to the rest of the series (which i want it to be). like what do you MEAN if you have multiple of the same species of pokemon nearby a total stranger can mass transfer them using private satellite. right out of their POKEBALLS????? Like is that ALLOWED???? Ma'am you are UNREGISTERED
"I've never let anyone dictate my destiny in the past and I'm not about to start now. None of us are! We can't change who we were yesterday or in a past life or a hundred lifetimes ago. We live with the choices we've made but what matters is the choices we make right now. Only we decide who we are and what we do with the power we have!"
"Nice hero speech bud, but you know better deep in your hearts, you don't believe a word of that."
So. That happened.
The circlet is some recurring imagery in LMK, but this scene hit really, suspiciously hard.
First of all, the ink clone emphasizes the concept of "role" when speaking to Wukong, all the while removing the circlet on its head and spinning it effortlessly. The same one he could never willingly remove.
The Monkey King, when on the Journey to the West, was forcibly inserted into a role that didn't fit. Any time he made a choice to step outside that role as defined by Tripataka, he was punished harshly with the headache/torture device strapped to his head that he couldn't get off.
That's some trauma.
Just as Wukong is finishing his rallying heroic speech about choice, he is abruptly reminded that more often than not, he had no choice in the matter for what he used his power for and who he was supposed to be. Be a good little monkey who takes the verbal abuse (because according to JTTW, often no one believed his words of a demon in diguise) and take the physical abuse when you try to step outside of that role and use your power against those against you.
His destiny was dictated from the moment he had that put on, and even now he is kludged into a role he wants to escape from without much control over it at all, always having to be what other people either want or need him to be.
Sun Wukong is stuck in the role of a Hero, constantly forced into being the invincible, infallible paragon persona due to his power, giving him little choice. He tried to escape that with retirement, but it caught up with him.
So in essence, he still has a metaphorical circlet strapped to his head that he can't remove without incredible pain and suffering occurring, but also actively causes him the same thing.
The thing is? Wukong was always trying to go at it alone.
Now? He actively has friends trying to help, if only he would learn to let them in a bit more.
hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious