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here comes lasagna, destroyer of worlds,

Noodle is deeply unimpressed and commits a hyper beam crime upon lasagna.

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you're past your best, lance. there's so many kids out there doing way better than you

"And yet! Here I remain, the Champion. The highest authority in the region, with my hand on every important pulse and in every important department. They may be doing 'better' but they're still trapped in a system I control."

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yellow was right

"They were not right. They were just lucky." Totally different.

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//i just woke up and i had the WIERDEST fucking dream about emmet and shadow the hedgehog was there for some reason but i need time to reboot my brain before i can look at my drafts and decide if im doing any to queue before i leave tonight

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Send my character messages that you think will strike a nerve.

Whether the reaction be anger or sadness.

(meme originally made by avengingson, who has since deactivated)

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Has Lance been responsible for someone being un-alived before?

*gestures vaguely to the headcanon tag

i think i've mentioned in at least one post that he's refused to regret any of his actions bc it would invalidate both the lethal and non lethal harm he's committed against others in his quest but even if i did not, yes. he has in fact committed more than one murder in the implementation of his plans over the course of the rgby arc. some were intentional and done for specific reasons, others were simply a side effect of something else he'd done and were indirectly his fault.

(in the timeloop au he succeeded and completely annihilated viridian city off the map, along with a good chunk of humanity in kanto and johto. and then viridian forest took offense to that)

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“Why are you looking at me like that?”

Yeah Eli is totally trying to pretend that he doesn't know who this is and isn't freaking the fuck out internally.

"Like you're guilty of something? Probably because you look like you're guilty of something." Guilty of what? Lance has no idea! Entirely unimportant.

"Are you guilty of something?"

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Gameverse notes:

publically, lance is a beloved figure in kanto and johto due to his status is the kanto/johto champion.

his public persona is a justice driven, kind man who loves pokemon and encourages young trainers to do their best and reach as high as they can in the league.

in reality, he harbors the same powers and beliefs as he does in the pokespe manga; the powers are a closely guarded secret as are his true plans.

in this universe, he has not enacted his plans as the elite four members do not share his goals in this universe and he's working alone. his plan is MUCH slower to move due to this, and he spends more time putting the pieces in place.

he loses his champion title officially to blue/green, who then loses the title to red not more than a few hours later.

red manages to keep the title for roughly a year and a half before the pressure gets to be too much for him and he abdicates the title in favor or leaving to hang out on mt silver and train alone, and lance resumes the position of champion

he SUPER needs team rocket to fucking chill for awhile, it's very hard to get an evil plan moving when they keep popping up and he has to take time off his evil plotting to root them out and arrest them for his public image come ON guys

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"...A lot of these quotes heavily advocate for murder."

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what's your inspirational quote?

"I have no idea what this means."

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//lurking for a bit, tired myself out throwing up dinner :(

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//i don't know wtf the ceiling creature is up to but in between rattling my light fixture it genuinely sounds like it's either building a house in my ceiling, throwing boxes around or having a musicless rave. maybe all three

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anyway now that gameverse is a thing feel free to smack the post if you want to do something in it, i am open to threads rn

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tag drop for a gameverse -> v: it's time for a new empire

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Lance vs memories of human kindness and self-sacrifice

he sees a few in his tenure as Champion, before the RGBY plotlines; unfortunately while the memories of kindness towards pokemon are frequent, the memories of self sacrifice are far less. lance writes them all off as flukes, as shallow moments meant to be a performance, to keep their pokemon feeling loyalty.

it's the pokedex kids where he first really sees self sacrifice and kindness for what it is. where the pokemon themselves are so deeply in love with their trainers, with their best friends that they'd rather die defying him than lose their human partners; red's pikachu remembering red and how they progressed from pika disliking red to so close pika is willing to die for his trainer, puriri's love for blue when she and blue had only each other (and silver; blue's love for silver, their bond as siblings and how blue loves silver's pokemon like they're her own). how green's pokemon respect their trainer and their loyalty to him even at his harshest because he does love them. yellow.

yellow is like him, they can see (have seen) everything he has, and yet they choose this current world and the pokemon with them believe in yellow the same way they believe in their pokemon.

all four of the kids are the first time he sees and feels those memories of a pokemon experiencing kindness and self sacrifice that deep in his soul and i think that's what enables them to win at the end of the day. lance is so thrown off by these unexpected memories and feelings that he is not at the top of his game and for a single second in time he's conflicted on whether he's really right or not.

ofc he resolidifies his stance on the matter immediately after and never regrets anything he's done, but by then he's already lost lmao

interestingly, it's only after the RGBY arc that lance starts looking for other trainers like this; he wants to see if the kids themselves are a once in a lifetime fluke of kindness and self sacrifice, or if it's really as common as they think it is for trainers to just. be like them. he wants to know if their belief in the bonds between themselves and their pokemon exist in other people. (does he find it? who knows. it isn't going to change what he thinks and feels, or what he's done so it's more curiosity than anything. he's been himself for too long to change in any real way.)

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thinking about the first time a young lance met a pokemon that had been hurt by a human; the way it felt to have a pokemon flinch away from his hands, the sheer betrayal in their memories and not knowing if it was his own feelings or the pokemon's feelings bc the feeling was THAT vivid in his mind.

lance sitting quietly for hours trying to coax the pokemon into trusting him enough that he could heal it with his powers

this happening again and again, to more and more pokemon until more of lance's memories are filled with the memory of humans being cruel to pokemon than they are of humans being kind

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" Go catch me a bird. "

No further elaboration. No specification. Just catch your wife a bird.

"I assume you'll elaborate at some point in the future?" He's already putting on his cape to go catch a bird. Do Togepi count as birds? Togekiss is a bird and it evolves into that eventually. Do pre-bird birds count as birds?

He'll ask Professor Oak. Non-threateningly this time.