#|| but you gave me an opportunity to talk about preuzien

[eldunea]

Lmao I play as a young/just started out trainer with NO CLUE on what they're doing. They want to prove themselves, /somehow/. Nothing too special about them. Just a kid with their Pokemon flailing aimlessly in the wilds. They're doing their best. And even they know its basically suicide to try your prussian (sp?) League - anon

first of all i want to congratulate your muse on being smarter than lotor in spite of his 200+ IQ, because they were smart enough to never go into preuzien and he wasn’t. you’re absolutely right that for 99.9% of people, going into wilhelmine preuzien is SUICIDE because unless a character and their pokémon are psychologically ready to be put in near-constant life or death situations? no matter how good of a strategist the trainer is are or how much they want to prove themselves, they are not going to make it. indeed, the league gets fewer foreign trainers coming in than any league other than north korea’s, so yeah, in hindsight i’m surprised any mun would have wanted to go through it at all.

i will say however that in lotor’s preuzien, the prussian league being “suicide” is more figurative than literal. it’s still dangerous to be in some of the cities because the trainers haven’t yet learned not to beat the shit out of each other, but with team blade as a well-trained police force, and with trainers now being able to afford all of their necessary resources instead of having to rob and kill random strangers for them, the streets are a lot safer than they were. the battling is also safer, since the fight to kill clause has been amended--you’re only in danger if you choose to challenge lotor or if both you and your opponent agree beforehand to wanting to kill each other during the match. some people might still call it “suicide,” however, because holy heck, the thing takes 36 wholeass badges to complete (i have it at 35 in lotor’s bio but with 18 typed badges and 17 strategic badges i felt like tacking on one more strategic one for evenness’ sake). going through the league is called running the gauntlet for a reason: even without the killing aspect, it is no doubt THE most difficult league in the world, one where even if you think you’re good enough, there’s a 9 in 10 chance that you’re wrong. i have to go in-depth even more about exactly why it’s the hardest in another post but yeah, i’m an overachieving asian who fetishizes difficulty and accomplishment, don’t @ me. 😂

i just wanted to close this post by saying i really admire you for being willing to play a pokémon muse who is just an average person. this may seem extremely hypocritical coming from me, who just spent an entire post talking about why my league is Teh Most Unbeatabul!!!1! but consistently playing muses who are super OP is something that i want to branch out from because doing the same thing over and over again is super tiring. and since i have started to find the abundance of OP-ness annoying sometimes and wish for more “average person” muses in the rpc, i have to lead by example. in fact, i’m releasing a new OC soon who is also just an average person making their way through the pokémon world and given what you’ve said about your muse, i think she’d love to meet them. if you’re interested in interacting by any chance, keep your eyes peeled!