#(so mango accused molly of not caring about the run bc her coping mechanism was to not reflect on it and keep looking forewards…)

[glitchfang]

ok i was gonna post a video but tumblr wont let me: here are the results of the nuzlocke

leon swept half of my team with haxorus, he landed two critical outrages on molly and then mango, and then pango took the fall while i was attempting to heal bruno.

i was genuinely so scared i was going to lose the nuzlocke here, because he still had five pokemon and i only had my three left, and one of them had already been weakened. but we pulled through!! i had bruno set up a double toxic spikes so all of leons pokemon were badly poisoned from the start, and before he went down, mango set up a reflect that lasted for most of the battle. once his full restores were used up, it was a waiting game at worst. the rest of my team wore him down until hubris two-shot charizard!

im sad that i lost everyone from the original team. but im happy that mango at least got his swan song during the eternatus fight, and i wouldnt have defeated leon without his help. im glad that (barring dusty bc i put him back in home) the original team is together again at least. im proud of my guys <3

this was the most emotionally attached i got to a mainline pokemon game in a while i think. getting emotional over a game i used to firmly dislike wasnt on my 2025 bingo card.