One lunatic's love-hate relationship with the Pokémon franchise, and his addled musings on its rights, wrongs, ins and outs. Come one, come all, and indulge my delusions of grandeur as I inflict my opinions on anyone within shouting distance.
I appreciate that even Lusamine thought it was terrible to make Hau cry.
Well, even evil has standards, right? Besides, Lusamine seems to be fond of Hau. I thought that was a good addition to the whole “wait, who’s the real bad guy again?” theme that I used for that “episode.”
Screw it I love these FMKs how about Guzma, Professor Kakui, Plumeria
oh god
well… Plumeria scares me… and she might kill me back… so I’m going to go with fuck Plumeria to theoretically mimimise the risk to my own life…
Gotta kill Guzma because he’s a jerk
And that leaves me with Kukui to marry, which is fine by me
Since the last FMK question was so interesing… Heres another: Blue, Burgh and Volkner??
oh god
Well, let’s see… I mean, you gotta kill Burgh ‘cause he’s incompetent, pretentious and annoying… but then again, Blue is a huge jerk… eh, I suppose he gets better as he matures though. Volkner has this kinda hot brooding quality to him but seems like he’d be a super high-maintenance partner. So… let’s go with fuck Volkner, marry Blue, kill Burgh.
F*ck, Marry, Kill: James from Team Rocket in the anime, Silver, Grunt B from Team Skull.
Okay so
gotta marry B because let’s be honest I’ve invested way too much quality writing into that relationship for it to end in a one-night stand
James has old money and shows kindness to Pokémon and all, but he’s also really annoying and would probably be the most fun to kill, maybe by lowering into a pit of snakes or something
Silver’s daddy issues might make things a little uncomfortable but he also seems like he’d be into really rough sex which, let’s be real here, is worth experimentation, and I do kinda have a thing for redheaded guys, so…
While playing Black, I encountered a Youngster near the Cold Storage who claims to be a gym leader’s son and fights with Bug types. Is that Clay’s kid? I mean Burgh doesnt seem to be old enough to have a kid who is a trainer….
I feel you should know that this question resulted in a deeply uncomfortable conversation between me and Jim the Editor about whether Bugsy, from the generation II games, could possibly be old enough to have fathered a child, including a line about whether he is able to “produce the… requisite… y’know.” The answer, for the record, is “OF COURSE NOT HE’S F&$#ING TWELVE”
And then I went and searched for a Let’s Play video of the relevant bit of the game from Youtube in order to look for the asshole in question and find his word-for-word dialogue, and all he actually says is “My dad is working in a Gym! I am receiving special training there!“ So his dad isn’t necessarily a Gym Leader at all; he’s probably just some random trainer on a Gym Leader’s payroll who hangs out and helps people train, just like we see in most Gyms.
Jim: so this whole conversation was for nothing?
Me: Gonna be honest
Me: seems like
Since you so cleverly figured out Kalos’s Champion during your playthrough of X, I challenge you to try and figure out who Alola’s Champion is! No hints, not even whether or not you’ve met them so far.
Well, at the moment I don’t think Alola even has a Champion. At the point I’ve reached in the story (obviously I’m ahead of what I’ve actually written, since writing takes time), I’ve learned that Professor Kukui is currently working to form a Pokémon League in Alola; it seems likely that the creation of the League and the selection of Alola’s first Champion are going to be focal points of the rest of the story. That being the case, it seems possible that the story could end with the player being appointed to the position. Kukui himself isn’t out of the question either, since he’s clearly far more martial than other Professor characters. That Hapu chick also seems like a good bet, since she’s clearly very powerful, but doesn’t wear a Captain’s insignia and doesn’t really act like a Kahuna either (she doesn’t hang out on just one island). She just shows up from time to time, helping people and offering advice, which is consistent with the role Champions tend to have in Pokémon games before their formal introduction. If I were a betting man, my money would be on her.
Hi Chris! Just like you like the Pokemaniacs, my favourites are the Hex Maniacs and Channelers. While randomly surfing Bulbapedia, I found references of two Hex Maniacs who look at the player and say, ” oh you are not the one” Do you have any head-canons on what they are referring to?
Well, I didn’t before, but since you ask, I suspect they’ve probably been told by their ghost friends to expect someone who will change their lives, in some vaguely horoscope-esque fashion – you know, “you will meet a tall, dark, handsome stranger who will sweep you off your feet,” that sort of thing.
I mean, either that or they’re just saying confusing things to spook you.
I’m so happy you’re writing up your Moon playthrough!! Your posts already made me laugh out loud a few times and, as always, you make make thorough observations & bring up interesting points. Side note, did you notice Rotom call Ilima a dreamboat? Anyway, I wanted to let you know that different forms of the same species get their own dex entries in Sun and Moon. I strongly suggest looking at them all at some point! Several shed a new light on some of the pre-existing Pokémon forms.
I did notice, and he is. And that’s good to know; I’ll look out for it. I think maybe when this playthrough is over I want to do a sort of Alola Pokédex appreciation post, because some of this stuff is gold (and possibly dethrones the original Ruby and Sapphire in my personal rankings for best-written Pokédex).
Continue reading “Anonymous asks:”As you’ve often mentioned, a predominant theme of Pokemon is that humans and Pokemon both prosper by working together and treating each other with respect and friendship. It’s not only the ethos of most inhabitants of the world, but built into the metaphysics of the game itself (friendship evolution, etc). Why is it that (most of) the evil teams seem so convinced that it’s better to treat mons like tools or slaves instead, when their ideology is demonstrably wrong? Obviously, it shows that the evil people are, in fact, evil, but Team Rocket, who cares solely about money, should at least be able to crunch the numbers and see which technique is more profitable in the long run. Plus, who’s on the buying end of these smuggling rings? Do you think something else is going on? Either something implied or an unintentional interpretation?
Hey, what are youre thoughts on the gym leaders? I always have fun thinking what they could do in Pokemon society
Well, there seem to be basically three things Gym Leaders do in a community: they test and certify trainers wanting to challenge the Pokémon League, they provide instruction and a learning environment to junior trainers, and they solve people’s Pokémon-related problems. Most of them – with some notable exceptions, particularly in Kanto – are pillars of the community, well-known and generally trusted. The last few generations, particularly V and what I’ve seen so far of VII (if we say that the Captains are basically equivalent to Gym Leaders), have been making a very deliberate effort to show that most Gym Leaders also have “day jobs” in addition to their Pokémon-related responsibilities – Cilan and his brothers run a restaurant, Clay is a mining tycoon, Viola is a photographer, Clemont is an electrical engineer, Ilima is a painter, etc. So it might well be that, in some regions at least, Gym Leaders actually work as volunteers. These are people who just care so much about Pokémon training that they will devote a significant portion of their own free time to running what is basically an entire sports facility (or, in Alola, administering trials) so that members of the community can learn more about it. Which I think is pretty neat.
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