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Whats your favorite part about cap?? What drew you to the mon the myth the legend????
I'm grabbing you I'm grabbing you so tightly you don't understand I can't explain it to you but look. Listen.
A character must be at least a little Cringefail to get on my F/O list, right? I've said as much. It's my staple. I love a pathetic guy (gender neutral) who has something bullyable about them.
Except. For some ungodly reason. Pokémon.
A Pokemon does not have to be Cringefail to catch my attention. Rather the opposite. A Pokemon just has to be a little cool, have a neat animation, use a sick move, have a really epic battle in the anime, and I'm all over them like a Shounen girl is over the OP Protag boy.
And I don't. Know. Why. But it's happened Five times now so I simply must acknowledge the pattern.
My favorite thing about Captain Pikachu? What drew me to him? He's cool as hell. He's so cool. Babe this Pikachu, this yellow rat. Is so damn cool.
His thunder punch, his volt tackle, the way he protects the kids teaches them challenges them. He's the Captain of an Airship, he loved the sunrise so much he taught himself to fly just to see it, he faced a raging Moltress with no hesitation. He drinks coffee. He perches above people and scoffs in a Knows Better way.
And yeah at the end of the day he is just the Mascot Pikachu with a lil hat. He's got the same Overpowered anime Pikachu power as Ash's Pikachu.
But man does he use it to look a lot cooler
#Captain Pikachu#Thankyou for asking#Proship Selfship#pkmn selfship#gif heavy#I'm not a shounen person#But I sure do become one for the Pokemon anime specifically#The FIGHTS recently have been AMAZING LOOKING#I'm English only so I'm like waaaaay behind but I'm having a blast#I love this super cool over powered Pikachu#And yes I count his spars with the kids where he very easily dodges all their attacks in his coolness factor#I don't know why this exception is Pokemon only but it really is#Cringefail or a Badass Pokemon those are the only two types on my F/O list#...That's not true but it's fun to say#Ask to tag#Sorry if my blog feels quiet recently btw#I am just. Sitting around thinking about Captain Pikachu#But there's only so many posts to reblog about him#Especially when you're English Only
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I rest my case.
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Fuckin BULLSHIT the one on the right is way better you only need 1 stroke to draw it!
Speaking of some things being objectively better than others for very important reasons, I booted up my brother’s old copy of Hyrule Warriors yesterday and tried to get A-ranks in the adventure mode, only to gradually realize just how important the level-up system is, meaning that no matter how good you are, the only way to have a chance of getting A-ranks on the later stages is to grind until the enemies don’t take 5 whole minutes each to kill.
Then I ranted to myself in my room about how Ultrakill’s P-ranks are way better
#asks#what kind of legend of zelda game has a fucking level up system?#the game already has 3 other progression systems to make you more powerful#why include a level up system? in a zelda game?#have i ranted about my hatred of number inflation/number-go-up progression on tumblr before?#because i REALLY hate when a perfectly good game has a level up system slapped onto it for no reason#especially this one!#why am i being punished for using a character that i don't play very often?!#absolute nonsense#and when i was playing and trying to a-rank a level i kept getting closer and closer to doing it#and i was like 'yes i'm doing it i'm learning the level and mastering my character!'#'now that i know my character better i'm killing the enemies so much faster! :D'#no. it was just because my numbers were going up :(#'We added a progression system.'#ruined a perfectly good game is what you did. look at it it's got a treadmill attached#some games actually USE their level up systems#pokemon uses it for evolution and to teach new moves#i still don't like the number inflation aspect but at least it's SOMETHING#and Tunic has you finding offerings in hidden treasure chests and choosing how you spend your currency#but hyrule warriors? nothing. it just boosts your health and damage#which i repeat: THERE ARE OTHER PROGRESSION SYSTEMS IN THE GAME THAT ALREADY DO THAT#except you actually have some control over those ones#you get heart containers by finding treasure and getting a-ranks#and you get better weapons by getting loot from enemies and getting a-ranks#and there's ALSO the badge system which does a whole bunch of Stuff#i swear the only reason to have the level up system is to artificially extend the playtime#i guess there might be a skill barrier because the other progression methods require a-ranks#but forcing less-skilled players to spend hours grinding to get up to the level of better players is NOT the solution
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Hi I'm back. How are you?
How about... A yandere that has had a bunch of lovers and either killed them because he got bored or broke their heart beyond repair? But them he meets the reader and something changes?
Idk it seems like a fun dea.
Yandere! Male! Player x gn! Barista! Reader
Uh ohz, here is the player 🙄 there's a little twist to the request, meowing! I hope you don't mind. (Another Greek mythos twist. Not as blatant as Hades though. Only a bit of the Greek mythos is grabbed, not all.)
I'll see to it how can we break this little man
ヘ( ̄ω ̄ヘ)
AND, I AM GOING TO STOP TAKING NEW YANDERE REQUESTS! But, I am going to take asks about the existing yanderes now!
Yandere! Player name: Amor
A resounding slap echoed throughout the bustling cafe, silencing the people talking to each other. The woman, tear stricken and angry, looked at the man in front of her.
"We're over!" She yelled before stomping away from the cafe, leaving the man behind.
The people started to gossip amongst each other, but one particular action by the man stunned them.
He just sat down, took out his phone, and called somebody.
"Hey, fancy meeting tonight? I just know of this nice cafe. Date, my treat."
Shameless, the people thought as he chuckled and ended the call with a lazy smirk, stirring his coffee and sipping it.
Amor. Extremely handsome man. Charming, always knew how to get the ladies.
That's what made him full of shit since being handsome is his only redeeming quality.
He's arrogant, a bastard, selfish, has a pride taller than the Eiffel tower, and a total player.
He juggles women left and right, flavor of the day, who's gonna be my girl for the morning, afternoon, and night?
Why do people flock to this man again?
Ah, because the Gods favor this bitch.
What did he do in his past life that women love this man?
Well, in his past life, he's a boring nerd.
His family loved him dearly, and wanted him to succeed in life.
So, attending academic camps, prestigious schools, goddamn Kumon? He got it all.
Awards, upon awards. He collects them like pokemon.
Did it make him interesting?
No. All he knew is academics, and no outside skill.
He's book smart, not street smart.
Poor guy wasn't even attractive. So, when he finished University in an Ivy League Uni, he's lost. He doesn't have charisma to charm employers, he doesn't have the confidence to do public work...
Well, that, and NASA already hired him.
What? He is not street smart and has a hard time finding a job himself, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have connections.
In short, he's a Nepo baby.
At least he's a genius so NASA made sure to use him thoroughly.
But, he felt... Bored.
He wanted more from this life of his.
He wanted a girlfriend for fuck's sake!
So, by some stupid and desperation he himself never thought of doing, he turned to the old gods.
The old Gods, surprised by a sudden influx of eager and desperation of faith from only one man, decided to entertain them.
"PLEASE! WHEN I DIE, MAKE ME EXTREMELY HANDSOME AND HAVE WOMEN LEFT AND RIGHT!"
Oh... That's not...
He's really superficial....
Did the Gods care though? Nah. He's really entertaining. Awakening old Gods just for... Women?
So they granted his wish.
When he died of old age (unfortunately for him.), He woke up to another wealthy and loving family. But this time, he's the son of a world renowned Kpop idol, and a Miss Universe.
"This is overkill." Amor thought to himself as his mother cradled her. "But damn, ain't I happy!"
Growing up, even as a kid, girls liked him. He felt like on the top of the world. He retained his memory, so he's practically a gifted child. No, perfect child even!
Except that he's actually a foul kid.
He became arrogant, a snob. Someone who viewed himself too highly for people.
But do his parents care?
Eh...
They spoil the kid a lot. And turn a blind eye to his lack in manners.
Again, went to prestigious Universities, to Kumon, academic camps.
Everything was a breeze for him now.
He got a job as a model immediately. He decided to not go down the academic path, but use his parents' connections once more to climb up the showbiz ladder!
He's still a Nepo baby in this life.
Well, again, his handsomeness is almost too good to be true (work of the goddess of beauty), so his model career is skyrocketing in success.
And women.
Countless of them.
He cycles through them like toilet paper. Throwing them away once he's got his fill.
Yet, people don't care.
He somehow built a reputation off of being a player. When people say that "he broke somebody's heart again!"
"Eh, what did you expect from being in a relationship with Amor?" They would say with a shake of their head and a smile.
That's how much the Gods intervened with his life.
Once he sets his eyes on someone, he 100% would get them.
Unless....
"Tsk. Where can I go now..."
Amor paced around the street, turning heads left and right as this man sculpted by the gods had a worried look on his face.
The cafe he frequents closed down, now he needs a new place to take his women to dates to.
He's about to get his phone when a flyer hit him directly on his face. With an irritated glower, he grabbed the flyer.
"ow! What the f... Oh?"
He stopped, seeing the content.
"new cafe open?"
It looks like a generic cafe. But what was interesting was that the cafe is located in an indoor garden. Like a greenhouse.
"This is interesting. Women love flowers, don't they? And a garden of all places!" He laughs, making the gods stir from the sudden new cafe they got.
They all fuzzed, saying that this would be a good place. But, the goddess of Beauty stirred. Saying she got a bad feeling about this.
"relax, nothing will happen."
And when he got inside the cafe, he immediately got shocked by the barista, you.
Has there ever been an ethereal beauty like you? Someone... Someone who rivals even the goddess of beauty herself?!
The goddess stirred again, shackles raised. She never made you, so why are you this attractive?
Then, the goddess whispered on his ear.
It's to make you fall in love with a monster. Someone ugly, a beast... Anything to get your status down! Nobody can be as beautiful as her!
Envy filled the goddess as she gave Amor arrows to hit you with.
Now, assigned with the task of making you fall in love with what the goddess call a 'monster', he sets off to your house in the middle of the night. With the help of the other Gods, he became invisible and flew on to your balcony.
With a creak, your balcony doors opened. Making him shimmy inside through the small crack.
Yet, fate tempted him as the moonlight hit your form. In a vulnerable state, your androgynous beauty is amplified. Your long eyelashes, your skin... Your figure...
Truly, your beauty rivaled the goddess. No, you were more beautiful than her.
His throat dried, eyes glazed over.
Gods, are they tempting him?
It would be a waste for you to fall in love with an ugly guy.
His fingers twitched, trying to grab the arrow.
"OW!"
He seethed, doubling over as he clutched his finger. It got pricked by the arrow.
He somehow forgot a crucial information.
'whoever the first person the pricked sees if the arrows only pricked one, they will fall in love with the first person they sees.'
And, as his eyes irritably looked at you, overwhelming love filled inside him as he gasped in the sudden influx of emotions.
He kneeled down, eyes wide.
He's rigid. All he could see is your form. Lovely and so bright.
And hid eyes softened. A dull light in it as his lips twitched into a lovesick smile.
He was already attracted to you before, and now, pricked by the arrows, he's utterly obsessed with you.
With a twitch of his hand once more, he grabbed the arrow and stabbed himself fully to the thigh.
"GAGH!"
He doubled over, gasping, twitching for air as his heart pulsed through his ears. His eyes frantically finding your sleeping form before letting out a shaky moan from the satisfaction.
It was like a drug. Everytime he sees you, he gets overwhelmed with feelings of affection.
Is this what love is about?
And before he knows it, the arrows are all used up.
It was morbid, seeing this man stabbed with so many arrows.
But his face says otherwise. Like a drugged up man, overdosed on ecstacy, he was in a drooling trance from the addictive feeling of love for you.
The arrow is effective enough by one arrow, and now this?
Well, let's just say...
"I count, right?" He shakily asked the gods. "I'm a monster, somebody who breaks women's heart left and right."
He trembled, standing up.
He walked over to you, legs unsteady as he dropped to his knees once more and planted his lips on your own.
It tasted, you tasted so sweet, divine upon his lips.
He wants more, but he can't risk waking you up.
"Goodbye, my love. See you tomorrow." Amor whispered, grabbing your hand and dragging his nose on your skin and inhaling your scent. Exhaling shakily, he stood up and flew away.
Let's say, the goddess of Beauty was really angry at him.
But her condition, a 'monster', fits him. So, what can she do?
She gritted her teeth and looked at him with hatred, yet complacency.
You're so pretty, it hurts.
"Welcome to the Psyche cafe! How may I help you-- oh hello, sir Amor! The usual?"
Amor slowly nodded, clearing his throat.
"yes. The usual."
It's been weeks since then. And he made sure to make himself a regular in the cafe. He stopped going on dates, and pulled a lot of strings to somehow burry the player accusations. He knows he can't really burry it all.
So he made (threatened) the women he dated to be positive about him.
He wants to fly on your radar, spot on the middle, so bad.
So, with the invisibility power he got from the Gods, he always followed you. Even up to your home.
At first, his heart pounded like crazy. What if he suddenly appeared? Will you be freaked out? Surprised? Will you run away--
No, you can't run away.
Like you can, anyways.
He knew of your favorite food, fashion sense, hell, your taste in men...
He slowly changed himself into the man of your dreams.
Like a persona he integrated into himself, this sudden change shocked the people. But, they welcomed this change.
"Is he in love, that's why he's changing?"
More than that.
He's making himself into the perfect boyfriend for you.
Now, all he needs is you!
"Here's your coffee, sir!" You greeted with a sweet smile that he swore he had to grab his soul from leaving his body. "Enjoy!"
He gently grabbed the coffee and as usual, gave you 200$.
"sir..." You grimaced.
"Please, just accept it." He smiles. "You've always been a pleasant person to talk to, y/n. So, just see it as a generous tip. That I frequently give."
You looked down at the bill and smiled. Warmness spreads through your chest.
"thank you s--"
You looked up, and froze from the look he's giving you.
Deep, crazed...
Obsessed.
You shivered in fear.
Sensing your eyes on him, he coughed loudly, averting his eyes before returning to the man you knew.
Or did you actually know him?
You don't even know anymore.
But hey, he gives huge tips.
"Thanks again for the coffee." Amor smiles, trying to sweep what happened under the rug as he waved at you.
He went to his usual table. Somewhere secluded, yet has a clear view of you surrounded by flowers.
He observes you. Plans on what to do next.
He knew he can't just waltz in and whisk you away. That's barbaric.
But he's not opposed to the idea though...
He smirks.
He can probably pull tons of strings for you to end up in his arms.
He loves you, don't mistake that.
But, a little bit of... Force would be good.
He's an impatient man.
Also, did he mention that he's a selfish asshole?
How about, making your life so miserable. Getting you kicked out of this cafe, your family suddenly getting a huge debt...
Something he knows you can't pay immediately.
And his family would coincidentally sponsor you by giving you a condition of marrying him!
Anything to be with you, really.
Or, just steal another arrow and hit it with you. That's also plausible.
But, the goddess is pissed with him. So that's the last resort.
He sips his coffee and crosses his long legs.
He's favored by the Gods anyways.
His eyes narrowed slightly as you interacted too amicably with your coworker. An obvious blush on the coworker's face as he got too touchy with you.
No, everyone in the cafe is enamoured with you. Your beauty too good for this world.
He gripped the handle of his cup.
But first, let's get rid of potential rivals, yes?
You are only his.
What is there to fear? He has the resources in his hands to make you his.
You didn't know yet, but your fate is already sealed, tied, and shackled to him.
You don't really have a choice.
#lizzaneiaelizalde#yandere writing#yandere imagines#yandere boyfriend#yandere male#male yandere x reader#tw yandere#yandere x darling#yandere x you#yandere fic
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Current Pokemon team:
Sylveon, Gothitelle, Ribombee.
Female pronouns.
Guzma:
•Okay listen. . . When he first met you he really didn't know what to think, let alone say anything about you.
•That is not to say he wasn't curious about you.
•He's never met someone like you before, that's for sure, but for some reason he couldn't help but convince himself that you and him were complete opposites.
•He was also more concerned with beating you down then about what clothes you wore but thats besides the point.
•You and your poofy dress, with enough ribbons on it that you could probably tie a bow around the world and still have enough to complete your outfit. You didn't exactly look like a local.
•He had to laugh at the idea of you doing all these trials in this atire and here he thought he was bad for wearing a jacket in the Alolan heat.
•Well he shut up pretty fast when you almost destroyed his team with only three Pokemon to your belt.
•Emphasis on the almost.
•Yeah not the most well rounded team you still put up a decent fight with just your Sylveon, Gothitelle, and Ribombee.
•And here the "big bad boss of destruction" thought he was going to sweep the floor with you, but your ability to take him on and stand your ground brought something out in him.
•Guzma: *Tsk* I'll admit it you had me worried there for a bit. Your teams strong for being a bunch of "princess types", but not strong enough. If I see you around I might humor you for another battle kid.
•(Y/N): and what makes you so sure that I'm just a kid?
•Guzma: *Turning back around to face you*: Is that a serious question?! Have looked in the mirror today? Your doll costume isn't helping your case here dollface.
•As the grunts around him start snickering you couldn't help but bite back. You might dress in lolita fashion but mark your words you were not a doormat.
•(Y/N): . . . Oh . .oh I'm sorry. *you playful pull your hair back to hold your hand against your ear* Do I hear circus music?! Whats with the clown trying to lecture me on fashion or do I need to remind you that if it weren't for your MASSIVE ARMORED THING my beautiful Pokemon would have kicked your ass into next week!
•Guzma: Oh Ho HO! So the gal has some spunk in her? Listen princess your Pokemon would have never stood a chance no matter how much glitter you would have thrown at us. . *He leans in almost inches fron your face* so unless you're capable of showing what you bark out I suggest you's keep that pretty mouth shut. . . Although *he begins to walk past you* I will admit that it was an interesting fight for someone who dresses like a doll.
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•Over the following weeks you had gone back to Ula' Ula' Meadows to try and fight Guzma.
•Some days you were able to run into him but most of the time you resorted to fighting the grunts.
•They were no trouble considering a decent amount used dark types and sometimes their defeats would cause them to run back to their boss. If you waited and hour or two the boss man himself would appear to challenge you once again.
•Though the outcome was always the same given that a three on five Pokemon battle was hardly a fair fight.
•Guzma: Whats the deal huh? *Teasing* You got a crush on me or something?
•(Y/N): *Stern* Can it! You know why I'm here.
•Guzma: *Flustered* Well. . Shit Ha! I didn't except you to be the sensitive type.
•(Y/N): *Gritting teeth* I'm not sensitive. *sigh* I'm just trying to show you I'm not a doormat.
•Guzma: Never said you were.
•(Y/N): Well. .uh . hmmm. Do you want to keep fighting me or not? I mean if this is such a chore for you why do you bother humoring me? Don't you have a gang to run?
•Guzma: Woah woah woah! Easy this ain't an interview! Yeah I got my gang to run but getting the chance to beat you down does wonders on my image. Besides don't you have a trial to finish? Not that I'm encouraging that bullshit or anything.
•(Y/N): Whats it to you?
•Guzma: Tck. Fine don't answer.
•(Y/N): *dusting off some particles on your dress you tell him in a whisper* I quit alright.
•Guzma: *Whipping his head back to face you: Wait seriously?
•(Y/N): Whats the big deal? Isn't your crew of misfits made of nothing but quitters?
•Guzma: *playfully he holds a hand to his heart* Ouch! Thats low! And No! We ain't just quitters. . well. Ehh. Just whateve! We're quitters with a goal! A goal to take down that stupid Alola League and show everyone that these pansy traditions are nothing compared to pure strength. Whats your excuse?
•That wasn't easy to talk about. You barley knew the guy beyond battling and taunting. You weren't about to spill the beans on exactly why you quit.
•Guzma: Well?
•(Y/N): I . uh. Well. . shit. Um. Look just not enough hard trainers is all.
•Not a complete lie. Most of the trainers were a cake walk especially that Kahunas kid and any of his friends he brought along the way.
•Guzma could tell you were holding something back but decided not to push his luck.
•Guzma: Mkay well *He nods his head as he walks closer to you*. I'm flattered that you felt the need to quit for me seeing as you must think I'm pretty tough to keep running back to.
•(Y/N): Ack!? *blushing as you punch his arm* don't phrase it like that!
•Guzma: Hahaha . . sure doll. Still Don't you have any friends? Like a group or a gal or someone to chat with besides whatever we have going on.
•The area got quiet as you took longer than usual to respond. Guzma sensed he struck an insecurity of yours.
•Guzma: . . Shit really. . . Shit REALLY?!?!
•You look up to glare at him while Guzma fumbles on his words.
•Guzma: No kidding? I mean why? It's not like your ugly or anything?
•(Y/N): *shocked you glare at him one last time as you try to walk away* Wow! WOW! Unreal. . *you shake your head*
•Guzma: Ahgh! Fuck wait shit. No I. . I didn't mean it like that!!
•(Y/N): Listen sorry for wasting your time. I won't be bothering you anymore.
•Guzma: No waitwaitwait! You listen. . you uh. Look! I didn't mean to hurt you like that let me make it up to you! Uh. Tapu Cocoa! Can't say no to that!
•(Y/N): Tapu Cocoa?
•Guzma: Yeah!
•(Y/N): Tapu Cocoa?!
•Guzma: ye yeah got a problem with it? Look you can get something else, but I ain't paying for it! I only offered the Tapu Cocoa!
•(Y/N): *whisper* Arceus. . . ughh you either have the worst pickup game or I am easy to please.
Guzma: Hmm, soooo is that a yes?
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•What are you doing here? I mean it's not like people staring at you was a new phenomenon but this. . yeah this was a new level of peeping.
•Guzma: Whats the matter sweetcheecks? Afraid to be seen with me?
•Oh great! Sweetcheecks! Add that to the list of colorful nicknames.
•(Y/N): I have a name! It doesn't hurt to ask for it.
•You sink in your booth trying to avoid the onlookers as you silently sip on your Tapu Cocoa.
•Guzma: Alright! Alright! Whats your name princess.
•(Y/N): (Y/N). It's (Y/N).
•Guzma: Cool cool cool. (Y/N). . Yeah. I like it!
•(Y/N): Hm yeah cool. Anyways you mind telling me why I'm here?
•Guzma: *exacerbated gasp* Oh well excuse me princess!
•(Y/N): *you glare at him*
•Guzma: Right! My bad! Anyways. Yeah! Weren't you the one in desperate need for some friends?
•(Y/N): Oh I see what this is. *sarcastically* Thank you my savior! I'm so glad you came down to offer support. Look I appreciate the gesture but I'm better off alone.
•Guzma: You sure? You seem to come to me too often for that to be true.
•Well there was no denying that. Even if you wanted to battle him for the challenge you did grow fond of his eccentric personality. Still though, you wouldn't put it past him to forget you in due time if you had stopped showing up. Though what were you supposed to do then? Go home? No. Not again. That's the last thing you felt like doing, unless you wanted to prove the family right. You just couldn't. It's already bad enough you bailed on this whole trial thing. Oh Arceus word probably got back to thrm right? Right?!! You weren't sure but the thought was making your stomach turn and their stupid smirks were forming in your mind. It was making you sick! Food. You needed food. The lone drink wasn't filling you up so you decide to get up and order something.
•Standing up you weren't expecting a tug on your arm as a worried look formed on Guzmas face.
•You didn't think he was expecting it either as he quickly let go while he tried to covering the blush forming on his face.
•(Y/N): . . . damn . and here I thought I was insecure.
•Your comment was enough to shake of his embarrassment as he started yelling from the booth.
•Guzma: Shut. sSHUT UP! . . I . ack. . man. .
•(Y/N): *you giggled lightly* Calm down. I ain't leaving you. If that was what you were thinking.
•Guzma turned away to face the wall as he messed with his hair.
•(Y/N): *You playfully pat his side* I'm just getting something to eat. . figured you want something too.
•Guzma started tapping on the table as he stared off into the distance, grumbling under his breath about how the food here was never good.
•(Y/N): Alright! Don't eat then. Just wanted to treat you since you treated me.
•Before you walked off you heard him ask you to get him a sandwich. . . with no mayo though, and that you better make sure there was no mayo because they always "fuck it up" when he asks.
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•Cashier: Alright! Your total today is ₽780.
•(Y/N): Uh yeah sure. Thanks! Oh! And you're sure there's no mayo on this sandwich right?
•Cashier: *she looked a bit flustered* There shouldn't be?
•You take the time to double check just in case. The lady looking a bit confused. You had to wonder if any of the other "normal" customers had any trouble with their food or if it only applied to gang leaders and their members.
•Feeling as if you checked every nook and cranny of this sandwich, even between the pickles you closed the bag and headed back to your seat, that was until you ran into a past problem and his annoying girlfriend.
•A males voice rang throughout the cafe: Well well well. If it isn't the princess of the Alola trials! We haven't seen your mug around in a while. *He steps closer to you as he starts to mockingly wave his hands at you with his girlfriend following suit* Oh I'm sorrrryy did I forget! We weren't supposed to stare! Gives you issues or whatever!
•You grip onto the bag of food like your life depended on it as your words come out harsh through gritted teeth.
•(Y/N): Its NOT the staring thats the issue. It's when I find out photos have been posted online without my permission is when I have ISSUES.
•The male trainer and his girlfriend were just one of many trainers that would stare, gossip, or overall judge while on your trial and was one of the many reasons why you felt the need to quit. This mans issue was when his girlfriend clearly took a photo of you and decided to post it to her socials that you felt the need to confront them and politely ask to delete which they gave you shit for.
•Male trainer: Holy ARCEUS! You're still bothered by that crap? Didn't your parents teach you that if you don't want attention then don't dress to attract it? My baby girl didn't do anything wrong so stop acting like a bitch already!
•Oh you really wanted to kick his ass again. You don't even know why he bothered picking a fight considering he lost horribly last time! Though the tense air and stares from onlookers were enough to keep your cool. The last thing you wanted was to start a fight within the cafe.
•(Y/N): Look I really have no interest fighting you at the moment. I'm just trying to enjoy my meal so leave me alone.
•Trying to walk past him he blocked your way.
•Male trainer: Yeah right, not until you apologize for making my girl feel bad for doing nothing.
•The nerve of this guy! Feeling backed into a corner your pokeball started shaking.
•No! No. No. No.
•You try settling down sylveon. She was always the feistiest of the bunch, but your efforts were in vain when she popped out ready to claw at this guy.
•Male trainer: Oh ho ho! Is soneone trying to pick a fight in public like this? Really? Where did your manners go?
•His smug mug started to crack when your sylveon started to lunge at him. Guess he was still frightened from the last beat down you gave him. All talk and no game! Of course this asshole would try to rial you up in public. The lady at the counter started to freak out as she threatened to kick you out had you not settled your sylveon.
•Trying, and failing, the guy and his girlfriend only watched with amusement as your embarrassing display was worrying the other patrons.
•Male trainer: Hahah oh man! What a performance! Arceus I wish I had a camera. Oh wait I do!
•Just as he began recording, the rest of the patrons around him go dead silent as his phone is promptly snatched from his hands. His girl lets out a yelp as she latches onto him causing the trainer to stumble.
•Male trainer: Aye yo what the fuck!? *turns to his girlfriend* get the hell off me! *he looks back as his face goes pale*
•Guzma: Sup? I think. . *he snaps the phone in half* someone's askin for a beat down wouldn't you agree (Y/N)?
•Guzma shoves the guy aside as he makes his way to help you back off the floor.
•Before he could say anything else the cashier yells at you both to get out. Apparently Guzmas presence was enough of a sign for this women to get the impression that a fight was going to break out.
•(Y/N): But we haven't done anything? He's just trying to help me!
•Cashier: I . I don't want to hear anymore! Leave!
•(Y/N): But.
•Chasier: GO!
•Guzma: Tsk. . always the same with you people. *He grabs your shoulders and guides you out the door, half yelling out to the staff* Your lucky the place serves the least shitiest tapu Cocoa! I'll be back next week. He said that last part a bit quieter not really giving a shit anymore about making a statement. He was more concerned about you, who seemed to be a mix of rage and sadness at the moment.
•Guzma: *sighing* alright. Walk with me.
•(Y/N): To where?
•Guzma: . . the beach.
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•Stumbling onto the beach you had ditched your frilly heels as your pink sparkly tights became dirtied by sand. You were unsure how to approach your feelings at the moment. Normally you'd huff off and scream out to the world but being accompanied by Guzma you didn't want him to be subjected to that. Instead you found some comfort in kicking up the sand while crumpling up different parts of your skirt and blouse. Occasionally fidgeting with your hair the more you thought about what happened at the cafe the harder you began to grip onto various parts of your outfit.
•Guzma had been observing you the whole time and having one too many outbursts himself he could tell you were on the verge of exploding. Walking towards you he tried to think back to what Plumeria would do for him when he got upset.
•Guzma: He.. Hey don't be doing none of that now. . Uh your gonna mess yyour dress If.f.f you keep that up.
•Fuck he was so shit at comforting others. How Plumeria was able to talk sense into him and calm him down was beyond him. Still, he did actually care about your feelings. He was probably the only person who was able to understand exactly what you were going through.
•Looking up at him, although terrible Guzma may be at encouraging people, you found it sweet that he was willing to try for you.
•Feeling a bit more relaxed you started to think about the right words to say to him. Luckily you didn't have to think long as you began to absentmindedly speak about your experiences with dressing alternatively.
•(Y/N): *sigh* shit. . it's like. . i don't know. . look. .uh okay so . uh. mmm this is gonna sound whiny . or okay so maybe not whiny but more just dumb if you don't get into this whole fashion thing. . like so. *sigh*
•Guzma: . its cool . . take your time
•(Y/N): *you smile lightly* thanks. . anyways back to what I was trying to say. . When I was younger, and I had discovered the Internet for the first time, I managed to stumble upon a world full of pastel pinks and blues. Frilly skirts and bloomers. Goth styled dolls. Dresses and cute school girl type outfits. Not only that, I had found a community of beautiful people wearing beautiful clothes that I so desperately wanted to be a part of. For hours on end I would spend my free time just scrolling through forums and posts all about this style of fashion. All without my parents really knowing... not that I was trying to hide it or anything! I just wasn't sure if they would even like that sort of stuff.
•Guzma was listening to every word you were saying as if it was the most important conversation in his life.
•(Y/N): Well when I had gotten older, and could make my own money, I began buying and creating outfits of my own and man I had never been happier! Even still it wasn't enough, especially when my parents got involved. Well, I was right about them not being happy about the fashion. My mom kept calling me childish for wearing "girl doll clothes". She began freaking out about me "finding a real job and partner" some day. As if me wearing fashion in my free time effects my work performance or ability to find love! My dad took it the worst. . Arceus, it makes me sick to my stomach just thinking about his opinion. . . for some fucked up reason, and I don't know how he got it in his head, but for some reason he was adamant on believing that this was all . .some sort of . . kink thing.
•Guzmas eyes grew a wide at the thought of your father speaking to you like that. Damn, guess this worlds full of shitty dads after all.
•(Y/N): *Looking at Guzma you took his expression as a response* I know right! It's fucking gross that he'd assume that frilly girly clothes on a woman means fetish! I tried explaining over and over again that this is nothing more than Kantonian street fashion but he kept brushing it off. At that point there was no convincing them . . or so I had thought. *sighing* I don't know what compelled me to do this but I had convinced myself in my own right too, thinking that if I joined the trials while wearing this stuff and I became someone special. . someone important, than I could prove my parents wrong.
•Standing in silence for what felt like forever you began to speak again. Only this time you couldn't stop the tears from forming.
•Guzma was now completely by your side, hushed and focused on your every expression and word, not wanting to butt in and fuck up the moment. Though, he couldn't help but silently hold your hand and stroke your fingers hoping it would stop you from crying.
•(Y/N): *sniffing* welp as you can fucking see it didn't turn out so well. . *hick* fucking stupid. . so fucking stupid. *sniff* it's like .. why the fuck did I even bother. .. heh guess they were right. . yeah?. *hick* guess they were right. . because here I am crying on the beach currently not participating in the stupid challenges because I couldn't actually handle people looking at me weird. . so yeah. . how stupid of me to believe I could change their opinion . . they probably already know. .wouldn't put it past them to find out. . fuckers always find out. . I can see their dumb smug faces laughing already. . should have never been so invested in this stupid style. .
•Guzma: Its not STUPID!
•Looking up at him you weren't expecting him to shout.
•Guzma: It's not stupid okay!? And you shouldn't have to change for no one.
•Feeling his hand on yours he pulled you into a gentle embrace. Your face smushed up against his chest as he began softly and slowly petting your back.
•Guzma: Look or . .okay listen.. Yeah listen. . I don't exactly get this whole "style thing" either. Trust me you wouldn't even begin to understand how long it took for me to process what I was starting at when I first saw you . . but it for sure wasn't me thinking about it as some . . fucking kink thing?
•He said that last part with such disgust you could almost taste the bitterness of his words.
•Guzma: Alright . . I admit. . this thing may not be my thing but I for sure ain't gonna make you change for me okay! And no one should make you feel as if you should. . fuck your parents, and fuck that asshole and his side chick for making you feel like shit for the some clothes. . because your right 'bout that (Y/N). . dollface. . *he lifts your face up so that your gazing into his eyes* . . all it is is clothes.. and they don't look bad on you at all.
•You could tell he wasn't expecting to say that last part as he quickly tried to push your face back into his chest, trying to stop you from seeing his beat red face.
•Pulling yourself off of him, Guzma was still trying to look into the opposite direction, but he still hadn't let go of you entirely. His arm was still wrapped around your side as his hand snaked its way to the top of your head to ruffle with your hair for a bit.
•Guzma: *fake coughing* So . . tsk. Uh. I'm still hungry . . and uh if you want .
•He got cut off by the sound of you rummaging through the crumbled bag of cafe food. The sandwich you had ordered for him was beyond smushed and your mini sliders had fallen apart.
•Guzma huffed as he snatched the bag out from your grasp and threw the damn thing into the ocean.
•(Y/N): AUcK! GUZMA! *hmph*
•Guzma: What? Told you that cafe only serves shit food.
•(Y/N): Well it WAS better looking when it was fresh and that's besides the point! You . . you . ugghhh!!
•Guzma began to laugh at your little outburst.
•*You playfully punch his side* He could have at least taken the contents out of the bag before littering all over the beach! Now you had to get the paper bag back to make sure those poor slowpokes don't mistake it for food.
•Stomping off to get the bag, mad at the idea that your socks were going to get soaked too, Guzma was watching you the whole time.
•Guzma: Hehe . . cute. . . wait.
•Shaking any thoughts from his head the sound of his stomach growling grew louder as called you over.
•Guzma: Look I know your hungry too and if you want. . uh.. you can come over to my place. . I'm not gonna lie I make a mean grilled cheese!
•(Y/N): You mean the old dilapidated mansion?
•Guzma: *monotone* yes that one. . and man screw you *he said so playfully* that "old mansion* keeps us dry and has a lot of charm to it.
•Walking up to him, Guzma was the one to playfully punch your arm this time.
•(Y/N): *Blushing* Hahaha alright. . alright! You care about the shack. I get it. . and about that grilled cheese.
•Guzma: tsk . you gonna make fun of that too girly?
•(Y/N): No no. It actually sounds nice. . I'd love it actually.
•And so the two of you walk in tandem back to Po Town talking about new things and interests, knowing that you had found the one individual that made you feel like a person for once made your heart beat ever so harder. Little did you know that the bug boss himself had been feeling the same way. Eating that grilled cheese with him on his worn bed in that old spray painted house was one of the best moments in your life. A moment you'd remember forever.
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END OF PART ONE.
BONUS:
The two of you laying on his bed
•(Y/N): Wow. This is actually really good grilled cheese.
•Guzma: Oh! Uh thanks? . yeah I think if I had to choose one food to eat it would be grilled cheese. I could eat it for every meal. Or just constantly without stopping.
•(Y/N): *giggling* but then you'd get fat.
•Guzma: No, why would I get fat?
•(Y/N): because bread makes you fat.
•Guzma: Bread makes you fat!?
sorry i had too. :3
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tighnari saying cyno and sethos are like brothers at the end of this quest... cyno really is collecting siblings like pokemon. good for him!!
Yeeeessss!!
In my HC, Cyno put a lot of attention in family.
Firstly because Cyrus was his only one family when he was a kid with amnesia, but also he grown up with Lisa as colleague under the same professor, but both of them consider Cyrus as a parental figure : without saying anything, a link it made of brother/sister. Cyno never knows his family by blood, and I think he was curious once. But he is satisfy with his current family ! And for him, family doesn't need to blood related. And if I remember well, Cyno said (during Windblum event, EVENT EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR ME 😭🫶) something like it is pretty current people in Akademiya becomes a family for study. It was his case ! Cyrus becomes his dad figure, Lisa, her senior, is like a big sister (I wouldn't never forget when she calls him little brother/baby brother) (AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA !!! <3). And when in windblum Cyno came visited Lisa, during their conversation, Cyno is the one mentionning the family bond she has with Cyrus "you are also part of the family, Lisa. It is normal for a daughter to talk like his father" (*CRYING*)! It sounds a tiny detail but I feel like this is so important for him.
Then came Tighnari, aka the first friend he had ever ! (I am a bit lost in chronology tho. In Tighnari's backsto, we learn they met when Cyno was already the general mahamatra while Tighnari was a student new-ly popular. But in Cyno's quest, we learn that they were student when they met ?? So Cyno was student and General ? 🤔 welp, I am still unsure but now I include it in my HC/brainrot kskdkd). And also Collei ! Collei is a bit more complicated, in term that she wasn't comfortable around him for a long time being. But even when she wasn't comfortable around him at first, she still gave him a bookmark handmade during windblum and saying he is like a family for him (I AM ON THE FLOOR). Tighnari and Cyno both consider Collei like a little sister, and bahaha when they "fight" about "who is the older one" and tighnari don't want to admit this loser being the older oh gosh i love theeeeeeem (I will never recover from "oh yeah but you're younger in your head, Collei could be your big sis !" "I wouldn't never say I am the youngest !!! Except if it is for an opportunity for winning TCG by shocking my opponent.." cyno you are so real). But during this windblum event again, Cyno said something like "you know Collei, tighnari said we are not an akademiya family, and he doesn't want to work on a post together" and this is SUPER IMPORTANT because for Cyno, as you can see earlier, only had family by study (Cyrus, Lisa). He worked, studied and published with his father and Lisa. And also, he did homework with Tighnari that he considers like a brother in soul. But the fact he was "refused" to do work with Collei and him, kind of make him feel to tell Collei "yeah we r family but, tighnari... ):"
As Tighnari answered "You know, we can consider ourself as a normal family" AND THAT'S SOSO IMPORTANT. In my HC, Tighnari is the one in group having a "good family" (not in sumeru cast, I believe it is Nilou who has the healthiest family). He knows what a family is supposed to, he grew up with parents who teach him a lot of thing and he explored with them. Anyway Tighnari is a healthy kid, he knows that they don't need to work on a project together to be a family. Oh and that's also why I HC him Aromantic, AroAce persons value platonic and familyship a lot more than romantic, so he doesn't know mind that Collei and Cyno who are not blood related to him are like a true family for him !
(Before continue, I want to talk his bond with Collei ; I believe he can relates on how Collei suffered from the seal, because Cyno who might forget his past, he remembers the pain. That's how in Tighnari's voiceline, Cyno often check how Collei is going w/o her noticing. Even when Collei was aware of Cyno and under Tighnari care, he was ready to help her. And in the first story quest, Tighnari said that she still awares of him. I wonder how often they talk abt Collei !! I am sure Cyno shares to Tighnari how much he woud like to get along with her, and that's how Tighnari gives him opportunity like this one official art when in description Tighnari said "I asked Collei to bring Cyno")
And so, that's how in Cyno's quest we were able to see all his closest friends. Tighnari Collei Kaveh Alhaitham Candace Dehya Faruzan (and Traveler). Everyone was worried for him, was wishing to help him, and was here for him. And Cyno also noticed he is less alone (GOOD FOR HIM). And now, there is Sethos, a man coming from nowhere in this life, but an important man ; they didn't spend life together but they can feel a deep connection bcuz of both of their backstory. Sethos might be the closest to understand all his doubt a long time ago (and Cyno IS the closest person for Sethos to relate). And IN CYNO'S VOICELINE ABOUT SETHOS "Aren't we his best friends of whole Sumeru city ?! 😐" Cyno pulled the power of friendship and adopt him in his big family circle.
ANYWAY WOW IT IS ONLY 8AM AND I AM HERE ALREADY YAPPING ABOUT CYNO BAHAHAHA
But genshin impact is for me more family impact that anything 😭 🫶 (and that's also why I am stuck with sumeru while FONTAINE AND THE HOUSE OF HEARTH ARE JUST RIGHT HERE ?!?!) after all, we are playing a traveler who is searching their twin !
Thank you for reading my talk, anon
#reply#I feel embarassed everytime I do a long text because I know there is mistake but I am lazy to look at it#“so abt cyno..” and for an hour I will talk about them.#cyno is my comfort character as you can see KGBSKGKS#i am less into deep lore and theory even if I try#but my attachment to him manifest on how I analyse his feeling/reaction to something#and I love it when he talks in game and it matches my interpretation#bUT THAT'S ALSO I AM STILL SHOCK ABT THE FACT HE WAS STUDENT WHEN HE MET TIGHNARI ????#it is not a bad thing but I clearly didn't expect that since in my head he was already a general who already graduated#that's the only thing I didn't expect and it disturb me in sense of “oh weird do i need to change my perception?”#it is hard to explain#glad I am flexible with my point of view tho haha
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I'm always a big proponent for localizing when necessary so I'm interested to hear your takes. For example, I'd much rather remove things like "senpai" or honorifics. If necessary, fully localize to the setting all the way down to the location (ex: Because Ace Attorney is a game that so heavily focuses on modern day Japan's legal system, there's the chance that could put off American players from buying the game for fear of being lost due to the differences in the systems, even though the game itself has no such issue. So localize to LA to break through that initial barrier and get the player to pick up the game). If not, keep the location (MOST stories don't need their location changed) and explain that which needs explaining, but fully translate all dialogue and speech patterns (I actually approve of P4s decision to use frequent bear puns in place of -kuma).
You don't need Japanese honorifics, English has its own honorific system. It's why children are expected to call all adults Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss [last name], except when they're family. It's why, if your boss lets you call them by their first name, they're considered more relaxed ("Please, call me [first name]. Mr. [Last name] was my father's name!") but if your university professor does so it's considered a sign of respect. And it's why it's noticeably, but not unprofessional, if someone goes by last name only without an honorific. If you're localizing a game, I believe you should use that language's honorific system. No -sans, -kuns, or -chans.
Same with things like "senpai." You don't need it. Find a way around it. I honestly don't think the solution to Teddie is to add more untranslated words. The problem with Teddie isn't what he's saying. It's dropped context. It's not clear enough that Teddie doesn't really get what he's saying. It reads more as if he doesn't get why what he's saying is wrong. But those are two different things. Knowing what you're saying but not knowing why it's wrong is a different problem than not knowing what you're saying at all and just repeating things you've heard. There isn't anything wrong with Teddie using the word "scoring," it's entirely in the way it's delivered.
Of course, that's just my thought on localization. I'm interested in yours!
I think I understand what you're saying, and I understand the exact sentiment. Normally, I feel that adding honorifics can be annoying- esp if the story doesn't really call for it.
However- Persona is a kind of series where it doesn't come off as annoying- because the story is very Japanese as well as being a game about the relationships between a bunch of super powered teens- so its implementation is more organic than say.. idk, if Pokemon did, where that relationship nuance isn't as needed.
There's a lot of nuance that gets lost when those aspects are translated or localized away. Rules like using a person's last name is wildly different in JP than it is in english. Sure, the relationships between first and lasts name have their own rules in ENG, but referring to someone via their last name can be seen as insulting, mocking, or scolding. Maybe even a bit demeaning depending on the context whereas in JP its seen as respectful and using a first name or lacking those honorifics can be seen as affectionate.
Being able to step into the headspace where these honorifics matter in relation to how the characters relate to one another is an integral part of steeping yourself in the narrative. IMO, Making it digestible for English audiences would be more akin to like... "Do we need child characters to refer to themselves in third person?"
English is no stranger to loan words to express things. American-English especially. Schadenfreude, Safari, Rendezvous. Doppelganger? If using "Senpai" is important in the narrative to define a relationship or denote authority or respect between two characters, then I believe it's important for the narrative. I mean, people don't step away from the game clueless on what a Persona or a Shadow is, right?
How I see it... Using English: If Naoto called Yu "Yu" it feels too personable, if they called him "Narukami" then it could be seen as dismissive. "Mr. Narukami" feels stiff and "Mr. Yu" is childish and unfitting. "Sir"? Maybe. But again, that feels too yielding? (AU where Naoto refers to Yu as "Dude".)
Kanji's use of honorifics is important to his characterization, too. Even though he's rough and easy to anger and slacks in a lot of social rules, he's still respectful and that's a really important.
However, I'm no linguist nor a philosopher- let alone know more than a few japanese terms at best. So that's just a train of thought. I know the balance between pure translation and necessary localization is a fickle one.
thought: If this was a fantasy world with fantasy terms and honorifics, is that annoying too? or is it good worldbuilding?
Localizing the area? N.. No. I fully disagree with that. No matter what. If someone needs to be coddled enough that they cannot handle a location change, they can go play a different game. It's like asking Pathologic to be anywhere but the Russian Steppe. That is a different issue divorced from being able to understand the meanings and implications of language.
That being said, I think most people who would find interest in a game like persona would be smart enough to pick up context in a story to give meanings to words. (imagine if persona or even SMT was localized to Soul Monsters LMAO)
(Topsicle is a translation I don't like, especially when they could have called it.. idk, a "Vanilla Bar" or just "Vanilla Ice Cream". "Animal Crackers" too. It's not hard, like.. make up more accurate names for them. "Nillabar" or "Cheeseas Crackers" idk. They had the copyright granted for them to use the originals. Weird.)
Taking a step sideways: Teddie was absolutely fumbled. And yeah, I think the blame lies less in him specifically and more in how the other characters treat him. You are correct in saying the issue isn't "scoring" vs "gyakunan", but I felt that it was the best way to express the issue curtly. But then, I must further inquire... why Scoring? Why not "I to be [Girl]'s hot stud!". I mean, I know why. but "scoring" has negative implications. Hell, they could have just used "hot wife" or "mistress" smth, which carries the ridiculousness forward more.
"Maybe I can be Yukiko's mistress!" "*gasp* YOSUKE, were you trying to be Sensei's Mistress?"
Just thinking out loud at this point.
(I want to emphasize, tho- that I LOVE Teddie. I think he is SO silly and sweet and he is absolutely in my top 5, if not top three, fellas from 4. And yes, I love his bear puns too. I like to use both them and the "Kuma" tics when writing him.)
They really needed to telegraph that the characters don't take him seriously and think he's silly WAY more. Not even in the sense of "child coded". He's a shadow. It's not that abstract that he's immature. But the rest of the world around him needs to act like he is, otherwise the reader/player isn't going to get it either. This is telegraphed suuuuper clearly ingame by the JP team, whereas the ENG team... does not. It is SO clear how fond the girls are of Kuma it's almost comical- and yeah, it even detracts from Yosuke's interactions with him. His annoyance is a little disagreeable in JP, while way more justified in ENG.
anyway, getting rambly. Hope I was able to express something akin to a reasonable opinion.
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Just started playing Pokemon Go again and I was wondering, which of the skeletons would play? What kind of player are they?
Do they really want to catch them all, who’s only after shiny pokemons? Who sucks at it?
Just picturing the lazier ones just going around in a car instead of walking is really funny to me
Love your works, by the way 😘
Undertale Sans - He just started playing and somehow that lucky bastard has only shinies. Papyrus is losing his mind. Sans only has to take two steps out of the house to catch a random shiny Evee, just hanging there. He doesn't understand why everyone is so shocked. Isn't it how you play the game?
Undertale Papyrus - Papyrus has a small huge addiction to the game. He goes to run every morning to catch new Pokemon, he goes to random places the game tells him to go to catch rarer Pokemon and he's determined to catch them all. The problem is that his luck is so bad. He can catch 2000 Rattata in a row but not be able to catch the only different Pokemon showing up because his Pokeballs don't work. He's getting frustrated.
Underswap Sans - Blue is not exactly a good loser. And there's no way this arena is falling into the hands of some kids. His Pokemon are overpowered and he's so proud he's making all the neighborhood's kids give up on the game because it's impossible to beat him. Except that one time someone did and then Blue ragequitted the game, so mad. He reported them just because he could.
Underswap Papyrus - This is not a good game for Honey. Sure, it's fun to see him lazily ride his tricycle in the street looking for Pokemons until he sees one, forgets there's a sidewalk between him and that Pokemon, and then falls head first on the floor. He has the attention span of an oyster and can't drive and catch Pokemons simultaneously.
Underfell Sans - He played once, lost against a Rattata, classified it as "a game for the babies" and never touched it again. He's playing REAL games on his computer, games that he doesn't lose, actually. He loses interest right after for Pokemon Go.
Underfell Papyrus - He doesn't get it. What's the point to capture monsters virtually??? He can do that in real life and way better than these shitty games. Tiny balls to contain a giant whale, really? That's so unrealistic! He's going to show the dev how to capture things properly by capturing them all.
Horrortale Sans - Oh, a pretty bird, he wants that! But... Uh... After catching the pretty bird, he looked up and now he has no idea where the hell he is. Oak completely dissociated while chasing pokemon and now he's just lost in the middle of the forest. Maybe he should call Willow for help. Not sure "there's a tree" is a good indicator of where to search though.
Horrortale Papyrus - The notifications are stressing him and he can't walk too much outside anyway because of his painful back. So he opens the app and prepares to uninstall it. ... Wait, is that a shiny Charizard? OMG! HE NEEDS IT. And here he goes. He wants not to be addicted to that game but that's too late.
Swapfell Sans - Yes, he caught one of these things. Now what? He doesn't understand what is the point of the game. Why would you need to capture virtual creatures again and again? What do you even gain from this? You can't even train your creature properly! What's the point of catching wild animals if you can't use them as weapons? He's confused.
Swapfell Papyrus - Is he the only one realizing that the devilish app is just trying to make him do sports? Because he knows when someone tries to manipulate him. He's definitely not going to walk outside to catch Pokemon, he's taking Nox's car to do it without effort. See? He's more clever than the devs! What are you going to do now?
Fellswap Gold Sans - You think he has time in his day to think about that? Wine played for maybe 10 minutes, got bored, and never touched the app again. He doesn't have time for this and he's judging so hard anyone who has.
Fellswap Gold Papyrus - He wants to play the game, he really wants to, but his phone is too old to be compatible with the game. Coffee is just lying in bed, head faceplanted in the blanket, so frustrated about that. He's mad. Let him catch Pokemon...
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Digimon Adventure 02x03 - Digimental Up! / A New Digitude
Previously on Digimon Adventure: Miyako got to visit the Digital World and didn't like it very much. Sadly, she's in too deep so I guess this is her life now.
We open in near silence on what can only be the true face of evil. Our first glimpse at the boy beneath the smug Digimon Kaiser. The malevolent Ken-chan.
He's working at his computer; The faint sound of his typing against a dead silence.
The dub gives him dialogue.
Ken: Let's see... Just a few simple modifications... Perfect. Huhuhuhu....
The following day, the school bell rings and the children of the local elementary school head home for the day. Except a handful of children who make their way to Computer Club.
Hiding in the clubroom, the Digimon lie in wait for their human partners to return. When the door opens, they very sneakily check to see who it is.
Chibimon: Daisuke? Daisuke: You there? Chibimon: DAISUKEEEEEEE!!!
...by calling out to whoever's behind that door and hoping for the best.
Daisuke, Hikari, and Takeru enter the room. The Digimon emerge from their hiding places, with Chibimon hopping up to hug Daisuke.
Daisuke: Aww! Are all of you doing well? Poromon: Where's Miyako-san? Upamon: Is Iori coming? Hikari: Don't worry. They're both coming. Daisuke: Ah, here they come!
It's not the both of them, but Miyako comes running up the stairs and down the hall with a grocery bag in her hands.
Miyako: Sorry I'm late! I brought presents!
Entering the clubroom, she opens the bag to show everyone the various snacks and drinks she has.
Takeru: Oh, that's right. Your family runs a convenience store, don't they? Daisuke: It must be great to have a convenience store at home. You can have all the sweets you could ever want! Miyako (sets down bag in front of Digimon) Here. (responds to Daisuke) Not really. I have to help out sometimes. It's a lot of hard work. Daisuke: Aww...
Not only does Miyako have a year on Daisuke but also mileage. She's had to balance responsibilities to her family against her schoolwork and club activities. She's not Jou in personality or Crest virtues, but she is the upperclassman of our group.
In the dub, the Digimon chat a bit before the kids arrive.
Patamon: The classroom is empty! I think it's safe to come out now. Gatomon: Hold on, I'm still taking the spelling test! Patamon: Shh... I hear someone coming! (Door opens) DemiVeemon: (sniff sniff) Smells like Davis. Davis: Are you saying I stink!? DemiVeemon: IT IS DAVIIIIIIIIIS!!! (DemiVeemon hugs Davis) Davis: Haha! DemiVeemon! Did you guys have a good day at school?
...why are they doing a spelling test in the computer clubroom? Even if this does get used as a regular classroom, it's a weird place to hold language arts.
Upamon and Poromon retain their names in the dub, but Chibimon is changed to DemiVeemon. This is a weirdly arbitrary choice. Kids might not know what "chibi" means, but it's not like they'll recognize "upa" or "poro" either.
For the record, "chibi" means a small cutie-patootie and is well recognized outside of Japan these days, but not so much in the 90's.
Upamon is named for the axolotl, which Japan calls a wooper looper or ウーパールーパー Uupaa ruupaa. This is also where the Pokemon Wooper gets its name from.
Poromon is named for the fictional character Pororo, from an old manga where birds rule the world.
Between the three, Chibimon seems like the reference kids are more likely to get. But okay.
Poromon: Where's Yolei? Upamon: Yeah, and Cody too! Kari: Don't worry about it. They're both on their way over. Davis: Ah, here's someone now! (Yolei comes running) Yolei: Sorry I'm late! I brought goodies from my family's convenience store! (Yolei enters and reveals the bag) T.K.: Good idea! In-Training Digimon are bottomless pits. Davis: If my family owned a convenience store, I'd eat candy all day long until my teeth fell out. (Yolei sets the bag down) Yolei: It's not that glamorous. I have to pay for anything I eat even when I work there. But the job comes with a great pension plan! Davis: Huh!?
The dub opts to have Yolei explain her family's convenience store rather than T.K. This honestly makes sense. T.K.'s known her for like two days. It's not impossible that they've discussed her family's convenience store offscreen, but it fits better coming from Yolei directly.
They then use T.K.'s freed up dialogue line to have him exposit veteran wisdom about In-Training dietary habits. I think this is a good shift.
Yolei's line, on the other hand, is a pivot. Instead of complaining about how tough working at the store is, she complains that she doesn't get freebies. Guess the capitalist Americans didn't like the idea that Yolei's parents aren't charging her for goods and services.
While the kids chat, the Digimon dig into Miyako's bag.
Chibimon: What is this? Poromon: Can we even eat it? Patamon: We can eat it, and it's really good!
Patamon takes one of the squeezable packets from Miyako's store and demonstrates to the other Digimon. These kinds of packets are common in convenience stores, containing yogurt, drinks, ice cream, or other squeezable drinkable tasty treats.
Patamon picks up a packet and squeezes it into his mouth, rolling over onto his back to enjoy his treat. The sight of it gets Upamon excited.
Upamon: LET ME TRY DAGYAA!!!
While Chibimon digs into a chocolate candy bar, Upamon throws himself into the bag and digs out a packet of his own to drink. Once he's finished, he exclaims:
Upamon: Ahhh! Yummy! It's so delicious! Tasty tasty tasty tasty tasty..... Chibimon: Tasty! Upamon: ...tasty tasty tasty tasty....
Seeing the positive reception it's getting, Poromon decides to give one of these packets a try. He loves it so much, he takes flight and zooms around the room squawking in delight for seven seconds before colliding into Chibimon and Upamon.
The trio proceed to dance with joy, singing the word "Tasty" over and over, while a stern Token Adult Tailmon looks on disapprovingly.
Tailmon: (flatly) I fear for our future.
Incidentally, the packets that the Digimon are drinking are labeled Chu x2. They're a type of fruit-flavored jelly drink. I cannot say with certainty but I think ChuChu jelly is a real product that was sold in convenience stores at the time, as it's referenced not only here but also in the Legend of Zelda series.
In the dub:
DemiVeemon: What is it? Poromon: Can we eat it? I'm hungry. Patamon: Of course you can eat it. Watch me. (Patamon demonstrates) Upamon: The buffet is now open! (Upamon grabs a packet and chugs it) Upamon: It's delicious! This is the best thing I've ever eaten in my whole life! All two days of it! DemiVeemon: Me too! Upamon: Aha aha aha aha aha! (Poromon tries one and goes flying around the room) Poromon: Ahhh! Hot! It's hot! Fire! Ah-ah-ah-ow! (Poromon crashes into the others and they all start cheering and laughing) Gatomon: (flatly) I hope my first litter doesn't act like this.
Poromon's reaction is explained in the dub as the Chu x2 jelly being too spicy. That... sounds wrong but I can't say with certainty.
Upamon inexplicably claims that he's only existed for two days despite having been asleep in stasis last episode, not newly hatched. This isn't a different versions thing; They were in stasis last episode in the English version too. This line is just wrong.
This is probably due to a misunderstanding of the verb 生まれるumareru, which gets used a couple of times this episode to refer to new Digimon coming out of the Digimental. 生まれる Umareru primarily means to be born, but it can also be used to say that something emerged or was released from something.
New Digimon are being 生まれる umareru from the Digimental, which a lot of people would translate as being born. So when the dub team got their translated JPN script from the translators, they probably saw that and wrote the ENG script with that in mind.
(That the Digimentals resemble eggs and the dub even calls them Digi-Eggs probably isn't helping, either.)
While the Digimon enjoy their snacks, the humans get to business.
Daisuke: By the way, is the Gate open? Miyako: Oh, hang on.
Miyako checks the Gate on the computer. It looks closed; There's a blank red screen inside the Gate rather than an area of the Digital World. But it does give off a pleasant access chime rather than the rejection buzzing we've heard in previous episodes.
Miyako: It's open! Daisuke: Yes! Let's go! Hikari: Wait a second! Iori-kun isn't here yet. Daisuke: Iori? What is he even doing?
Cut to Iori in an empty classroom. He has a single cherry tomato on his lunch tray, along with a carton of milk and an empty bowl. He idly rolls the tomato around with a plastic spork.
Hikari: I checked in on him a moment ago. He's determined (ganbatte) not to leave until he finishes his school lunch.
Iori is so stuffed that he can no longer convince his brain to do the motion of consuming food, but has made it a point of personal integrity that he will eat that tomato. An epic battle is unfolding between a third-grader's willpower and sense of civic responsibility, and his involuntary biological rejection of any further sustenance.
His teacher, who probably also can't leave until Iori does, tries to intervene on reason's behalf.
Teacher: You don't have to eat all of it. Iori: No, you should never leave any food behind. That is what my late father taught me. Teacher: (resigned) Oh, sure.
I mean. You can't argue with a child's dead loved ones. What are you even supposed to say at that point.
Iori splits the tomato in half with his fork. He lifts one half of the tomato to his lips and steels himself, struggling to take the next step. Cutting back to the clubroom, Daisuke summarizes.
Daisuke: What is his deal!? I'm getting antsy!
Though he isn't the team's senpai like Jou was, already we're seeing the way the virtue of Sincerity/Reliability manifests in Iori. The strong moral fiber and desire to behave as a faithful and upstanding member of society are all rolled up in this deadly duel with the sinister tomato.
In the dub:
Davis: Let's check and see if the Gate's open. Yolei: It's open! (Yolei runs to the computer and checks the Gate) Yolei: PERFECTO!!! Davis: Great! Let's go to the Digital World! Kari: Wait a minute, guys. We can't leave yet. Cody's not here. Davis: Cody!? What's taking him so long? Yolei: He's still in the lunchroom. Last time I checked, he was still chewing the same carrot fifty times.
Yolei somehow knows the Gate is open before she's even checked.
They opt to have Yolei be the one who recently checked in on Cody rather than Hikari. I guess because Yolei and Cody have a tight-knit pre-existing relationship like T.K. and Kari do?
Given that Yolei had to run home from school, fill up a grocery bag full of stuff, pay for it (dub-exclusive), and then race back, I'm not sure when she had the time to do that. Hikari having that line makes more sense and segues straight out of her previous line urging patience.
For reasons of culture shock, they also try to sell the classroom Cody's eating in as a "lunchroom". Japanese elementary schools don't have a lunchroom. Meals are taken right there in the classroom. It's only some high schools that have dedicated cafeterias for eating.
Cody: I'm so stuffed! I only have one more tomato to eat.... Teacher: You don't have to eat every bite, Cody. Cody: You should never throw away any food unless it smells bad. My father used to say that before he passed away. Teacher: Oh... I see... (Cody cuts the tomato in half and lifts it to his face) Cody: (sniff sniff sniff sniff) (Cut to clubroom) Davis: Does he know we're waiting? He's holding us up!
The dub adds the "Unless it smells bad" qualifier so they can recontextualize Iori's reluctance to take the bite. The shot of his face quivering is given sniffing sounds to imply he's trying to use that clause in the hopes of not having to eat the tomato.
It's different, but still conveys the deep personal conflict between what his moral fiber tells him he has to do versus what his body is willing to do.
Well, while we're waiting for Iori, Miyako has an idea.
Miyako: Let's watch some TV while we wait. Hikari: Sure. What's on?
Tabbing out of the Gate, the children gather around the computer to watch the news. Exciting, I guess.
Reporter: A computer programming contest was held a few days ago. Today, I would like to introduce its winner: Boy genius Ichijouji Ken-kun.
They shoot Ken from behind so he can dramatically spin around in his computer chair and address the camera.
Ken: Never in my wildest dreams could I imagine a kid like me winning the whole contest. It was incredible. Reporter: We go now to one of our judges, Professor Shotsuki of Jonan University.
Iori enters the clubroom, but nobody notices because they're all invested in the report.
Shotsuki: No, it was a total shock. When I saw that program, I couldn't believe that it had been made by an elementary school student! I have no doubt that he's a true genius.
It's high praise, but given the accomplishment it's entirely warranted. Behind the kids, Iori silently finds Upamon and picks him up, excited.
In the dub:
Yolei: Let's watch some TV to pass the time. Kari: Yeah! Let's see what's on. Reporter: We interrupt this broadcast to bring you this latest story! Davis: (groan) Aww.... Reporter: The results of a national computer programming contest were just announced! And the winner is boy genius Ken Ichijouji! Ken: There were many well-deserving geniuses out there and I am humbled to think that the judges chose me to receive the top prize! Reporter: Now, let's go live to the scene of the contest with our field reporter, Jerry Rivera! Jerry? Jerry: Thank you, Debbie. Young Ken wowed the judges by creating a computer program that can actually brush your teeth for you! The rumor is next year he's planning something with floss! I can't wait. Back to you!
...did he also create a physical mechanism to run it? This feels more like a feat of engineering than one of programming. Though I guess you'd still need a complex algorithm but, like... I dunno, this feels outside the scope of a programming contest.
The dub changes Professor Shotsuki to fellow reporter Jerry Rivera. An oddball choice. He still delivers the important bit, that Ken is an incredible genius with a talent for programming, but isn't able to offer it as a firsthand professional opinion the way Shotsuki can.
This segment is presented as Breaking News interrupting whatever the kids wanted to watch. This makes sense because, at least in the U.S. where this is being localized to, few children would seek out the news to watch it on purpose.
Though whoever it is at that news station who thinks the results of a programming contest warrants BREAKING NEWS should probably be fired. Only a niche audience cares, news station! We're trying to watch Jackie Chan Adventures! Jackie just told Jade she has to stay behind and I have a sneaking suspicion how that's going to go!
The news report goes on to talk about what a superstar Ken is.
Reporter: At a recent chess tournament, he played against 20 adults. And not only is he talented in programming and academia, but also in sports! He's active in Judo and soccer.
Flipping between footage of Ken, it shows him first at the chess game, going around a ring of tables. We're probably meant to assume he won those twenty games but the reporter doesn't say, which makes it a little less impressive. I can play 20 games of chess at once, sure.
He's then shown filling out the answers for giant math equations, though those equations are all just basic addition with large number sets.
The Judo footage sees him perform a shoulder throw.
Then the soccer footage shows him making a shot. Daisuke assures us that it was a very impressive shot.
Daisuke: Whoa, what an amazing shot!
Thank you, Daisuke.
Reporter: Now, let's hear from the parents who raised this boy genius. Was there anything you paid special attention to that may have nurtured his brilliance? Ken's Mom: No, we didn't really do anything special. Ken's Dad: How do I put it? It's like a kite gave birth to a hawk.
I'm sorry but so far as I know, Ken's parents have never been named. We're not getting names for Daisuke's or Miyako's parents either.
"A kite giving birth to a hawk" is an old Japanese idiom. It refers to exceptional circumstances somehow arising from incredibly mundane origins.
The subs mix metaphors here with "ugly duck laying the golden egg". Those are separate fables, sub writers.
In the dub:
Debbie: Ken's talents include being able to play one game of chess while everyone watches! Just last week he actually balanced the world's biggest checkbook! And that's not all! He's a champion in Judo and a star on the All-State Soccer Team. And girls? He's single! Davis: Wow! He's almost as good as I am! Debbie: Now, let's talk to the proud parents who raised this genius: Mr. and Mrs. Ichijouji! What are some of the advantages of being the mother of one of the most brilliant children in the world? Mrs. Ichijouji: Oh, it's great in the kitchen! He invented dishes that clean themselves! Mr. Ichijouji: Like father, like son! I once guessed how many jelly beans were in a pickle jar.
This is one of those times when the dub script feels like someone meant to write an Abridged Parody. "He's able to play one game of chess while everyone watches" is a silly riff on the "twenty games at once" thing but it has to have been a weird line to people who didn't know they were watching a spoof.
There's a meta-gag here where they're making fun of the original for how the reporter shills Ken for two straight minutes. "And girls, he's single!" certainly made me laugh because, yeah, this does read like a puff piece. But in the context of a Breaking News emergency report, it's super weird.
That gags in the parent interview, meanwhile, miss the mark by a wide margin. There's key foreshadowing here: That there is no reasonable explanation for why Ken is the most talented infinity-times omega genius ever to be born in Japan. His parents are utterly clueless about how he could have turned out this way.
The dub's too busy cracking jokes at the Japanese script to get that across.
They also turned Davis's line into a brag.
Watching the report, the kids discuss.
Iori: It's hard to believe there really are people like Ichijouji Ken-san. Hikari: Huh? When did you get here? Iori: Ah, just now. Takeru: But that was amazing. He really is a genius.
Takeru definitely saw Iori come in but kept it to himself.
Miyako turns off the computer and folds her arms bitterly.
Miyako: I can write some programs too! Daisuke: But he's good at sports too. Miyako: Feh! Tailmon: Hikari.... Hikari: Oh? Patamon: What's happening in the Digital World? Takeru: Oh, that's right! We have a full team now that Iori-kun is here.
The children tab back over to the Gate.
Miyako: The Gate to the Digital World is open! Daisuke: Yes! Let's get going!
We needed to take a quick distraction to gush about how cool some rando named Ken is. (Where have I heard that name before?) But now we're finally ready to go!
In the dub:
Cody: I heard this kid is so smart that one time, he gave his teachers homework. Kari: Cody! When did you get here? Cody: About a minute ago. T.K.: Hey, maybe Ken knows how to defeat the Digimon Emperor!
XD We should definitely ask him.
Yolei: Hmph! I know more about the Digital World than that stupid kid! Davis: He may be stupid, but he's still a genius! Yolei: Ugh....
Yolei picks a weird flex only for Davis to "Nuh-uh" her. In the original, their lines were valid points, despite Miyako's pettiness.
Gatomon: Hey, Kari? Kari: Yeah? Patamon: We're ready to go back to the Digital World now! T.K.: All present and accounted for! Let's get going! Yolei: The Gate to the Digital World is open! Davis: Then what are we waiting for? Yolei: Yeah! Forget all this talk about geniuses! Davis: Next stop: The Digital World!
I like that Yolei manages to squeeze in another jab at Ken. She's still jealous.
While the Children presumably enter the Digital World, we cut to Ichijouji Ken walking in the streets of Tokyo.
A small puppy approaches Ken and licks his shoe.
Ken: You're making my shoe dirty.
So he punts it. Ken literally kicks a puppy. He is so evil that he kicks a puppy. The dog hits the sidewalk a few feet away and runs away, letting out helpless yelps as it flees.
Once he's finished with animal abuse, Ken returns home.
Ken's Mom: Ken-chan! I'm going to my part-time job soon. I'll leave your snack right here.
She sets a small tray down on the table. It has a carton of milk and a slice of cake. Ken says nothing and simply continues on to his room.
Ken's Mom: Ken-chan, I know you're busy studying--
Ken cuts her off with the closing of his door. Doesn't even spare her a word to acknowledge her.
In the dub, the streets are a lot busier, with the sounds of people talking filling the scene. Then they start to notice Ken.
Girl: There goes the winner of the computer contest! Woman: Isn't that the boy genius!?
Ken literally kicking a puppy gets cut. Instead, he just says,
Ken: Beat it, you mangy little mutt, or I'll call the pound.
And then the dog runs off yelping.
Mrs. Ichijouji: Oh, Ken! You're home! I'm going to work now, sweetie. I'll just leave your snack on the table. Oh, I bought a new label maker today! I just can't stop playing with it. I even labeled the toilet. Ken: (exasperated sigh, leaves) Mrs. Ichijouji: Ken sure spends a lot of time alone in his room.
The dub adds a gag with the label maker bit which makes Mrs. Ichijouji look like a bit of an airhead. This changes the context of Ken's rejection, and now he comes off as a bit irritable but also exasperated by her antics.
In the original, it's clear that she's nothing but a kind and doting mom, and her cold-hearted puppy-kicking son won't even give her the time of day. Like she's beneath him.
Once he's shut away inside his room, Ken logs into the Digital World.
An ominous black obelisk stands in the distance, towering over a Digital World forest. The Digimon Kaiser cracks his whip, chasing out an Elecmon. The frightened Digimon hides in the bushes, cowering from the Kaiser's wrath.
Kaiser: I know you're out there! Come on out.
Elecmon scampers out of the bushes and flees for their life. The sight brings a smile to the Kaiser's face.
Kaiser: Trying to run away? This will be fun.
The Kaiser whistles, summoning a nearby Tuskmon already enslaved to his service.
Kaiser: Give me a ride and chase after them.
Tuskmon pursues Elecmon until they get close enough for the Kaiser to whip the poor creature. Struggling to crawl forward, tears flow from Elecmon's eyes. The Kaiser grins sadistically.
Kaiser: Run... run...!
In the dub:
Emperor: It's no use trying to hide from me! Come out! (Elecmon flees) Emperor: Ooh, a chase! Interesting.... (Emperor summons Tuskmon) Emperor: Let's go! We have a little errand to run! (Tuskmon chases Elecmon down and the Emperor whips them) Emperor: It's not as fun if I catch you right away.
Solid.
From there, we follow the Kaiser to a circular pit dug in the ground, with a ring of cells lining its walls. Just like the puppy earlier, he gives Elecmon a hard punt, kicking them into a hatch to drop them into a vacant cell.
Out in the trees beyond the edge of the ring, a trio of Gotsumon watch and whisper about the Digimon Kaiser.
Gotsumon 1: Another one caught. Gotsumon 2: Guys, when he captures someone and puts one of those collars on them, they change completely! Gotsumon 3: We should get out of here! Gotsumon 1: But we can't just abandon our nakama! Gotsumon 2: But....
Gotsumon 2 and 3 are pretty sure this will end terribly for them if they remain, but Gotsumon 1 is determined to jailbreak this place.
In the dub, they do an absolutely terrible job of censoring the kick. The Kaiser's foot clearly connects with Elecmon, then the Gotsumon are inserted gasping, and then we cut back to Elecmon falling. I think they cut more frames of Elecmon falling than Elecmon getting kicked.
Gotsumon 1: He caught another Digimon! Gotsumon 2: They all change once he puts those Dark Rings around them. Gotsumon 1: If he thinks he's going to catch us, he's got rocks in his head! Gotsumon 3: Then again, so do we! We've gotta run! Gotsumon 1: We can't abandon our friend Elecmon!
Gotsumon 3 makes a strong argument.
Taking his place on a throne overlooking the arena, Ken releases a second Elecmon, this one with a black ring around their neck. The controlled Elecmon charges into the cell of the newly captured on, pulling them out into the arena and then shooting them with lightning.
The Gotsumon watch in horror from their hiding space.
Gotsumon 1: Another defeat! Gotsumon 2: After being captured, they're made to fight their own nakama until they're beaten. Gotsumon 3: And he enjoys watching it, the terrifying freak!
Gotsumon 3 accidentally snaps a twig while fretting, giving them all away. The Kaiser reacts quickly, lashing his whip and knocking the three of them to the ground. Gotsumon 3 screams and flees for his life while 1 and 2 freeze up.
Cut to Gotsumon 1 and 2, now in the ring with black rings around their necks, bashing their skulls against one another to see who'll give in first. Gotsumon 3 watches helplessly from the bushes.
Gotsumon 3: (crying) They were friends....
While the Kaiser watches, sadistic grin plastered on his face, Wormmon watches the Kaiser with concern.
Wormmon: Ken-chan, is this really what makes you happy?
This scene is part of why I think the Digimon Kaiser arc was a "Shots Fired!" at monster taming games like Pokemon or some of Digimon's own entries. The Kaiser catches a new monster, then proceeds to subjugate that monster and make them fight gladiator-style duels for his amusement. And the monster in question used to demonstrate this is a small, juvenile mammal that shoots lightning.
It's pretty on-the-nose.
In the dub:
Gotsumon 1: He's making them fight each other! Gotsumon 2: Digimon who are friends would never hurt each other if they weren't under his evil spell. Gotsumon 3: He enjoys watching their agony! What a terrible person! (Gotsumon 3 accidentally gives them away, then flees) Emperor: You two are next. (The two Gotsumon fight in the arena) Gotsumon 3: (crying) How can they fight!? They're best friends! Emperor: Huhuhuhuhuhu.... Wormmon: Master, is this really the kind of thing that makes you happy?
Basically the same, but Wormmon's still using the detached and formal "Master" instead of the personal and emotional "Ken-chan".
Elsewhere in the Digital World, the Chosen Children finally arrive.
Iori: Huh? They're back to normal.
V-mon, Armadimon, and Hawkmon are back in their Child stages.
Armadimon: We turn back when we return to the Digital World dagyaa.
Suddenly, the kids' Digivices react. On Daisuke's screen, we can see three blue blips gathered, two red blips, and a large white blip. The blue blips are probably the new Digivices, with the red ones being Takeru and Hikari's old Digivices. But the large white blip is a mystery.
Unlike last episode, this time everyone seems to be getting the reaction.
Daisuke: Huh? Hikari: What's this? Iori: It's a Digimental! Takeru: Eh? V-mon: A Digimental? Iori: There's a Digimental nearby! Daisuke: There are more Digimentals? Miyako: What does this mean? Hikari: In any case, let's go look for it. Daisuke: Yeah! Let's start searching!
This won't be so simple, however. Back at the arena, the Kaiser's Dark Digivice gives him the same readings. His sadistic grin turns to a scowl.
Kaiser: (quietly) Them again? Irritating....
The original goes to commercial here.
In the dub:
Cody: You guys are back to normal. Veemon: Yep! Armadillomon: We change back when we return to the Digital World. (Digivices go off) Davis: Hmm? Kari: What's going on? Cody: Hey, a Digi-Egg. T.K.: What? V-mon: Where is it? Cody: The Digivice says it's not far from here. Davis: More Digi-Eggs? We already have ours. Yolei: Who are they for? Kari: We'll never know unless we look for them. Davis: I'll do anything you want, Kari! (Cut to Digimon Emperor) Emperor: Huhuhuhu--hmm? (angry) It's those kids again! I've had enough.
The dub swaps Daisuke sincerely agreeing with Hikari for Davis sucking up to her. They also skip the commercial break here, shifting it down to later.
The Chosen Children follow the signals from their Digivices. Daisuke takes the lead, tracking the signal while the rest of the team follows him.
Miyako: Where is it? V-mon: I think it should be somewhere around here. Takeru: I wonder what kind of Digimon will be emerge from this one? Armadimon: Ah, I can't even imagine dagyaa. Hikari: But does that mean there are more Chosen Children? Hawkmon: That's... We don't know.
It's a valid question. Three new Digivices, three Digimentals, for three new Chosen Children. The existence of further Digimentals is certainly eyebrow-raising.
Daisuke: It's this way-- Kaiser: What are you doing!? Miyako: IT'S HIM!!!
A transparent Digimon Kaiser appears in the path. Daisuke minces no words.
Daisuke: Hey, asshole! This is for the other day!
Daisuke runs forward and punches the Kaiser in the face. His hand passes harmlessly through the Kaiser, followed by the rest of him. The force of his punch carries Daisuke to the ground. KO!!!
Takeru: That's not the real one; It's a hologram!
Thank you, Daisuke, for testing the Kaiser's realness with your fist. We should make this a habit.
In the dub:
Davis: Hey, it's getting pretty dark in these woods. Here, Kari, I'll hold your hand so you don't get scared. Kari: (offended) I'm not scared. T.K.: And it's not her hand. It's mine! Davis: Oh, sorry, T.J. Kari: (furious) And that's not his name! It's T.K.! Davis: Whatever.
They cut out the Q&A segment, replacing it with unrequited crush banter. Most of the Q&A is okay to cut; They're just idly pondering their current circumstances. But Hikari wondering if there are even more Chosen Children they don't know about is something the audience should be thinking about, so losing that sucks.
All we get out of this new dialogue is that Davis is still such a douche. Also, the animation doesn't work super well with it, as T.K. is visibly positioned too far back for Davis to have grabbed his hand. That was Cody's face.
The dub adds more beeping sounds suddenly emerging from the Digivice, to signal we're near the target.
Davis: Shh! I'm getting something! It's just up there ahead of us! Emperor: WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?!? Yolei: LOOK OUT!!! Davis: I'll get you once and for all! (Swing and a miss) T.K.: It's just an illusion! He's not really there!
The dub typically censors out kid-on-kid violence but they let Davis's punch through. Failing a punch and wiping yourself out is A-okay.
This time, it's the Kaiser's turn to ask questions.
Kaiser: How is it that stupid people like you have the freedom to come and go from this world? Iori: How?
Yeah, that's going to be three counts of "Rude" and two counts of "Do you know who you're talking to!?"
While the Kaiser talks, Daisuke picks himself off the ground, clutching his shoulder and wincing. He wiped out so hard he hurt himself. Goddammit, Daisuke. XD
Kaiser: Only those who've been Chosen should be able to enter this place. Group: EH!?!? Daisuke: Then why are you here!? Kaiser: Because I'm a Chosen Child. Takeru: A Chosen Child? Hikari: Eh? You too? Kaiser: In any case, your existence makes me uncomfortable. It's as if all of you are being treated the same as me. Daisuke: And what's wrong with treating us the same--eh?
Having vented his elitist outrage, the hologram vanishes suddenly. Heavy footfalls announce the arrival of the Digimon Kaiser in person. He appears, riding the shoulder of an enslaved Tyranomon.
Group: Wha--!? Daisuke: What the--!? Kaiser: A Chosen Child should be a perfect human being, like me! Not any of you! Daisuke: A perfect human being!? Takeru: Who the hell do you think you are!? Kaiser: The Digital World belongs to me! Get out! Immediately! Miyako: What's with him? Kaiser: If you interrupt my game, then I'll have no choice but to react accordingly. Go, Tyranomon!
Yeah, he started this conversation as a hologram because he was chomping at the bit to yell at them and couldn't wait two minutes to reach his destination. Probably putting them on mute occasionally to scream at Digi-Traffic.
So much privilege and elitism rolling out of the Kaiser's mouth right now. He is so mad that he's not the universe's special little guy with unique access to something that was made just for him.
He legit thought these kids were just some nobodies who found some kind of backdoor way to hack into his private server. Which is utter nonsense but the only way the giant ego on display here could rationalize their presence without compromising his superiority.
In the dub:
Emperor: Who do you think you are, sneaking into the Digital World!? What do you think this is, a movie theater or something!? Cody: What's he talking about? Emperor: Ordinary children are not allowed in the Digital World! Only the DigiDestined are! Group: Huh!? Davis: We are the DigiDestined, Wonder Boy!
What is the secret of your powe~er!
...actually, a very important question.
Emperor: You? The DigiDestined? That's physically impossible. T.K.: Why is that impossible? Kari: Yeah! Why can't we be? Emperor: It's simple. Based on the laws of physics, I have determined that only perfect human beings can be DigiDestined. And, of course, I am the only perfect human being. Davis: Oh yeah, big shot!? Well, what about Kari!?
Davis. Just. Shut the fuck up. He is laying it on so thick this episode.
"Based on the laws of physics". What? This is an irrational, entitled boast, not a scientific study.
(Tyrannomon arrives) Davis: Oh no! Emperor: You are intruders in a place where you don't belong. You are ordered to hereby evacuate the premises without further notice. Davis: The landlord told my uncle the same thing. T.K.: We have just as much right to be here as you! Emperor: This world and everything in it belongs to me! Now all of you GET OUT!!! Yolei: Try and make us! Emperor: Why must everyone question my authority? Does it always have to turn into a great big production? Get 'em, Tyrannomon!
The dub glosses over the important detail that the Emperor, too, is formally DigiDestined like the rest of them. The point of this scene is confronting both sides with the reality that neither he nor they are here by some sort of trickery or subterfuge. They've all received the same calling, something that unsettles both him and them.
And also to convey just how delusional and up-his-own-ass the Digimon Kaiser is. He sincerely believes that he is a special class of person and deserves unique privileges. After that puff piece we just saw where the news worshipped the ground he walked on, I can't imagine where he got that idea.
The dub's take on this scene is janky and misses its mark with the two sides' mutual discovery of each other's legitimacy. However, it does hit its mark with conveying the Emperor's entitlement.
Now, get 'em, Tyranomon!
Narrator: Tyranomon. Their two fully-developed arms give them a strong offense. Their special attack is Fire Breath.
The rundown here emphasizes Tyranomon's arms. I think this is meant to contrast against your expectations of a T-Rex, pointing out that Tyranomon has strong, proportionately well-sized claws to strike with.
(I blame the frog DNA.)
The previous show's rundown told us that Tyranomon is well-adapted for wilderness survival. Neat.
Hikari: LOOK OUT!!!
Hikari gets the team moving before Tyranomon's flame breath incinerates the area they were standing. Scampering out of range, Daisuke whips back around to yell at the Kaiser.
Daisuke: What are you doing!? Kaiser: Hmph. V-mon: Let's go, Daisuke! Daisuke: Yeah! DIGIMENTAL UP!!!
V-mon Armor Evolves into Fladramon, but the Kaiser is unimpressed.
Kaiser: Hmph. Do you really think the same trick will work every time? This is why I can't stand idiots. Daisuke: This jerk is seriously pissing me off! Kaiser: Tyranomon.
At the Kaiser's command, Tyranomon smacks Fladramon with their strong, well-developed arm. Fladramon rights himself in the air and lands on his feet, kicking off a tree to return to the fight.
Fladramon: I can take this. KNUCKLE FIRE!!! Kaiser: Huhu...
Fladramon shoots off his fire rockets. Tyranomon spins, smacking the projectiles out of the air with their tail. It's not going to be so easy this time.
Daisuke: What!? Damn it!
Nothing worse than when the uptight asshole's smugness is validated.
In the dub:
Emperor: (rundown) He's one of the most powerful Digimon. His Blaze Blast attack incinerates his enemies.
He is not one of the most powerful Digimon. I don't know where the Emperor got that idea. Someone's never heard of Ultimate or Mega levels. In fact, according to the Reference Book, Tyranomon is a solid "Beginner's First Digimon".
The dub lets Tyrannomon call his attack, robbing Hikari of her "Oh shit, I know what this is," moment.
Tyrannomon: BLAZE BLAST!!! (Kids run away) Davis: Is that all you've got!? Emperor: Rrrrrrrgh.... Veemon: Are you ready for me, Davis? Davis: Yeah! DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE!!! (Veemon Armor Digivolves into Flamedramon) Emperor: See, this is why I'm a genius and you're not. You keep using the same attacks against me yet I keep coming up with something new. Davis: I've heard enough of your babbling! Let's get to it! Emperor: (disappointed) Fine, have it your way. (Tyrannomon smacks Flamedramon away) Flamedramon: FIRE ROCKET!!! (Tyrannomon deflects the attack with his tail) Davis: No way! He blocked it!
The Emperor honestly sounds disappointed that Davis doesn't want to banter with him. I think Davis hurt his feelings.
Time to kick things up.
Hawkmon: Miyako-san! Miyako: Mm! DIGIMENTAL UP!!!
Gliding forward low to the ground, Horusmon skirts around a shot of Fire Breath.
Horusmon: RED SUN!!!
Horusmon returns fire, landing a direct hit on Tyranomon's chest. Doesn't hit the black ring, but knocks the enemy Digimon flat on his back.
In the dub:
Hawkmon: Now, Yolei? Yolei: Mm! DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE!!!
As before, Tyrannomon calls Blaze Blast when shooting at Halsemon, and Halsemon calls Red Sun as Tempest Wing.
The Kaiser seems to be on the back foot. But he came prepared for this.
Kaiser: Do you think you have the advantage in numbers? COME FORTH, MY SERVANTS!!!
On cue, four more Tyranomon emerge from the woods, surrounding the Chosen Children.
Daisuke: What the heck!? Miyako: There are five of them!?
One for each of us! Which isn't a good thing, since the five kids only have three Digimentals to go around. With the Dark Digivice in play and Tailmon nerfed, Hikari and Takeru are helpless.
In the dub:
Emperor: You think you can beat me with a little addition!? Hmph! How do you like multiplication!? (Four more Tyrannomon appear) Davis: Huh!? How can that be!?
This is where the dub takes its commercial break, on the shot of all five Tyrannomon surrounding the Chosen Children. We come back a moment before, with the Tyrannomon still emerging from the woods.
Emperor: The more, the merrier! (The Tyrannomon surround the children) Yolei: There are five of them now!
That multiplication jab was pretty good. Solid villain quip. XD
Well, we're outnumbered but we do at least have one more fighter we can put into this.
Iori: Armadimon, can you help? Armadimon: I'll take care of it dagyaa! Iori: DIGIMENTAL UP!!!
Watching Armadimon Armor Evolve, Tailmon and Patamon feel left out.
Tailmon: Why can't we evolve!? Patamon: We want to fight too! Kaiser: So long as I have this Dark Digivice, you'll never be able to evolve! Servants, converge your attacks on those two. Takeru: Wait, what!?
Acting on orders, two Tyranomon focus fire on Patamon and Tailmon. They scamper away from the blasts, straight into the path of a third Tyranomon. It only takes one swipe from Tyranomon's strong, fully-developed claw to slam them both against a nearby tree.
Patamon: We're dead weight like this! Tailmon: It's frustrating!
It's true but also. Like. Okay. Nobody help or anything. Fladramon, Horusmon, and Digmon standing around watching this happen and munching popcorn.
In the dub:
Cody: You ready, Armadillomon? Armadillomon: Ready when you are. Cody: DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE!!! (Digmon evolves and does fuck-all) Gatomon: Why not let us Digivolve so we can fight!? Patamon: Yeah! What are you afraid of!? Emperor: As long as I have this Dark Digivice, you'll never be able to Digivolve. And you two are useless; I might as well destroy you first! T.K.: Leave them alone! (The Tyrannomon fuck up Gatomon and Patamon while nobody intervenes) Patamon: I thought that cats were always supposed to land on their feet! Gatomon: Oh, shut up....
Patamon, we all saw your back hit that tree. You're in no position to be making fun.
One of the Tyranomon moves in to crush Patamon and Tailmon. They rise and flee back into the killbox, where two Tyranomon are waiting with shots ready to go. The ground erupts behind them, blocking both shots. When the smoke clears, Digmon is left standing there.
Digmon: I'll be your opponent dagyaa!
Better late than never. Patamon and Tailmon collapse. Daisuke and Fladramon stand protectively between them and the Kaiser's Tyranomon.
Daisuke: That's unfair, Digimon Kaiser! Kaiser: Unfair? There's no such thing as unfair when it comes to winning and losing.
Digimon Kaiser is an unbearably toxic gamer.
In the dub:
Digmon: Hello, boys! Looks like you have some cavities that need filling! (Davis and Flamedramon protect Patamon and Gatomon) Davis: That's not fair! We're outnumbered! Emperor: Remember the old saying: It's not how you play the game, it's whether you win or lose.
Dub team seems to have misunderstood the context of Daisuke calling the Kaiser out as 卑怯 hikyou or cowardly, unfair, underhanded. He's not complaining about the number of Tyranomon present. He's complaining about the Kaiser having them converge on the two Digimon that can't fight back.
He's calling out the Kaiser for choosing to bully the helpless instead of face them in a straight fight.
This is going nowhere, but Iori has an idea.
Iori: We'll get nowhere if this keeps up! We should take our chances with the Digimental! Miyako: But we don't know whose Digimental it is! Daisuke: Let's just give it a try!
Iori leads the way into the forest, following his Digivice.
Hikari: Tailmon, we're going to look for the Digimental! Takeru: Patamon, over here!
Patamon and Tailmon follow the humans while Digmon, Horusmon, and Fladramon stay behind.
Digmon: We'll handle things here dagyaa!
In the dub:
Cody: We don't stand a chance like this! We've got to go and try to find the other Digi-Egg! Yolei: But Cody, we don't even know who it belongs to! Davis: It doesn't matter! It's worth a try! (Cody's Digivice starts beeping) Cody: I'm getting something! This way! Kari: Gatomon, let's look for the other Digi-Eggs! T.K.: Patamon, come this way! Digmon: OPEN WIDE!!! GOOD!!!
Solid.
While the Children go search for the Digimental, their Partners hold the line.
Horusmon lets out a pair of circular pulses from his eyes, which he names Udjat Gaze in English. To briefly explain that weird name, there are two key eye symbols in ancient Egyptian language: the Ra's right Wedjat Eye and Horus's left Udjat Eye. Horusmon's Udjat Gaze is a reference to that symbol.
Horusmon: UDJAT GAZE!!! Fladramon: KNUCKLE FIRE!!! Digmon: BIG CRACK!!!
I'm. *snerk* I'm going to need us all to be very... very mature... hahahaha... about Digmon's Big Crack. Hahahahahahaha.
The pulses from Horusmon's Udjat Gaze meet one Tyranomon's eyes, freezing them in place.
Fladramon nails a second in the side of their face with Knuckle Fire, which is a lot more painful than momentary paralysis.
And Digmon's Crack proves to be so Big that it can take two at a time.
The dub, as usual, dumbs these moves down to all being the same one name for each of a Digimon's attacks.
Halsemon: TEMPEST WING!!! Flamedramon: FIRE ROCKET!!! Digmon: GOLD RUSH!!!
That's boring.
From his perch on his Tyranomon, the Kaiser watches the Iori, Hikari, and Takeru flee with Tailmon and Patamon. I guess Daisuke and Miyako are staying behind.
Kaiser: Don't let them get away! After them!
One of the other Tyranomon turns and pursues. Presumably the one Fladramon was fighting, as we cut to Fladramon attempting to pursue.
Fladramon: CRAP!!!
Fireball to the temple was not as incapacitating as what the other two were doing. Fladramon needs better attacks. He should take some notes from Horusmon's eye and Digmon's crack.
Fladramon doesn't get far, however. Kaiser's Tyranomon blocks the path, intercepting Fladramon's pursuit. One of the five Tyranomon is now free to assault the retreating children's flank.
Patamon: AIR SHOT!!!
Patamon strikes the pursuing Tyranomon in the face with his attack, a compressed gust of air spit from his mouth. Tyranomon flinches briefly from the hit, but it didn't do much.
Tailmon: Let's get out of here!
Recognizing the futility of fighting, the two Digimon give up and rejoin the children in their escape. As they run, Iori spots a small cave opening. Small enough for humans to fit through, but much too tiny for a creature the size of Tyranomon.
Iori: Into that cave!
The kids slip into the cave, losing their tail. Tyranomon stomps past outside, continuing their search for their quarry.
In the dub:
Emperor: You can run but you can't hide! (Tyranomon chases the kids) Flamedramon: Going somewhere!? (Emperor's Tyranomon blocks Flamedramon's path) Flamedramon: You'll have to go through me first to get to them! Patamon: BOOM BUBBLE, PAH!!! (The Boom Bubble does nothing) Gatomon: Patamon, it's no use! Run! (The kids flee until they see the cave) Cody: Let's hide in that cave!
The dub seems confused by the action here. Flamedramon's lines indicate that he's stopping the Emperor from pursuing. He clearly isn't, as you can see the pursuing Tyrannomon behind the Emperor disappearing into the distance. Then we cut immediately to their unimpeded pursuit.
Gandalf and the Fellowship are on opposite sides of the Balrog. It's a weird time to try and play YOU SHALL NOT PASS.
While the Children catch their breath inside the cave, Iori checks his Digivice. How far to the Digimental?
Iori: Huh!?
Oh, not far at all. He looks up to see two shimmering artifacts down one of the cave's tunnels.
Iori: Are those...? Hikari: ...Digimentals? Takeru: So if we can lift those Digimentals, then new Digimon will emerge? Hikari: But there aren't any more Chosen Children. Takeru: There's nothing we can do.
Not with that attitude, anyway. Down the tunnel, sitting on a ledge, are a pair of Digimentals. One with tiny Patamon wings and the Crest of Hope, and the other with yellow talons wrapped in wings and the Crest of Light.
In the dub:
Cody: Huh!? What are those!? Kari: They're Digi-Eggs? T.K.: (sarcastic) Great! What do we do now, wait around for a new kid to come along and lift it so another new Digimon will be born!? Kari: But there aren't any more DigiDestined left. T.K.: What are those symbols on the front of them?
Despite agreeing to come search for the Digi-Eggs, T.K. suddenly decides to be a rude jerk about it.
Looking over the Digimentals from a distance, Hikari suddenly recognizes the symbols on them.
Hikari: Is that... the Crest of Light? Takeru: Eh? Hikari: (getting excited) And the other one is the Crest of Hope! Takeru-kun!
Hikari sprints down the tunnel to get a closer look. Takeru joins her shortly after.
Takeru: It is! Tailmon: Then those are Takeru and Hikari's Digimentals! Patamon: Takeru, try to pick up that Digimental! Takeru: But-- Tailmon: Give it a try, even if it doesn't work! Hikari: There's no point! We won't be able to move it! Tailmon: JUST DO IT!!! Takeru: Okay.
Tailmon makes a strong argument but I can see where Hikari's reluctance is coming from. When you know something isn't going to work, it's emotionally easier to embrace futility than to invite certain failure.
As Takeru and Hikari approach the Digimentals, their Digivices suddenly start to glow brightly in their pockets.
Takeru: The Digivices are glowing!?
They pull their Digivices from their pockets just in time to watch the gadgets morph into the same new-style Digivices that Daisuke, Miyako, Iori, and the Kaiser have. Takeru's is green while Hikari's is pink.
Hikari: This is the same kind of Digivice that Daisuke-kun and the others have! Takeru: But why...?
Awfully rude that the other Digimentals didn't do that for Taichi, Sora, and Koushiro.
In the dub:
Kari: Huh? One of them is the Crest of Light! T.K.: What!? Kari: And the other one has the Crest of Hope! Wow! Come on! (Kari and T.K. run to the Digi-Eggs) T.K.: You're right.... Gatomon: Then these Digi-Eggs must belong to the two of you. Patamon: Go ahead and try to lift them up, you guys! T.K.: Yeah, but-- Gatomon: If you don't try, you'll never know. Kari: But we've already got our Digimon. Gatomon: Just do it! T.K.: Gatomon's right! Kari: Huh?
Kari struggles to see what part of that was so convincing. XD
(T.K. and Kari approach the Eggs; Their Digivices glow) T.K.: Huh!? The Digivices are glowing! (T.K. watches his Digivice transform) Kari: These are the same Digivices that the new kids have! T.K.: But why...?
Pretty straight translation. Minor change in Kari's reason for arguing with Gatomon. In the original, she's expecting failure due to how the other Digimentals have gone. Dub Kari makes the logical argument that her Partner Digimon can't be waiting in the Digimental when she's right here arguing with her. These are both valid points, but ultimately falter in the face of Tailmon/Gatomon's rock-solid position of "Just do it!"
Hikari and Takeru relent, lifting the Digimentals of Light and Hope. They come up effortlessly.
Hikari: It's light! Takeru: We lifted them!
Oh, it's light, is it? Huh? Huh? 軽い Karui? More like ヒカルイ Hikarui, amirite? ...I'll show myself out.
Pink and yellow light pour out of the pedestal as before, though new Digimon do not emerge. (Be funny if Patamon and Tailmon suddenly popped out like rabbits from a hat, complete with offscreen yelps from wherever they were yanked away from.) Hikari and Takeru don't even need to say the words.
Tailmon and Patamon, ARMOR SHINKAAAAAA!!!
Pegasmon: Soaring Hope, Pegasmon! Nefertimon: Smiling Light, Nefertimon!
A note about Pegasmon's title. When he says "soaring", he doesn't mean like an eagle or a hawk. The word here is 天駆ける amakakeru. It's a composite of 駆ける kakeru, which is a horse verb to describe running or galloping and 天 ten, Heaven.
So 天駆ける Amakakeru basically means "Galloping across Heaven". Pegasmon "soars" like an angel or spirit descending upon the earth. We don't really have an adjective for this in English so "Soaring Hope" is the best we've got, even though it fails to really capture the angelic nature of the word.
There is similarly a bit of nuance to Nefertimon's 微笑み hohoemi. The word 笑み emi already means "to smile". Adding 微 to it makes the smile sound dimmer, as the kanji means small or slight or minor. But the composite is generally recognizes to be, specifically, a smile of affection or grace.
Putting it in context, it's the kind of smile an angel might share with her followers. Not a reactive smile of joy or mirth over something funny that just happened, but a passive smile filled with benevolence and love.
It's also an ironic choice of title for a Digimon who wears a full-face mask, which seem to only have a neutral expression on offer.
In the dub:
Kari: Wow! It's light! T.K.: I'm stronger than I thought! (Patamon and Gatomon Armor-Digivolve) Pegasusmon: Pegasusmon, Flying Hope! Nefertimon: Nefertimon, the Angel of Light!
The dub makes Nefertimon "Angel of Light" in order to capture the heavenly essence that can't be conveyed by the English word "Smiling" alone. And doesn't even try to do the same for Pegasusmon, who they slap the missing "su" into the name of and call it a day. We'll talk about Pegasmon's name in a moment, when we hit the rundowns.
Watching the pair evolve, Iori is stunned.
Iori: Patamon and Tailmon Armor-Evolved! Hikari: They were ours! They were our Digimentals, Nefertimon! Nefertimon: That's great, Hikari! Now we can fight too! Pegasmon: Takeru! Takeru: Yeah, we aren't dead weight anymore!
Thrilled to be back in the fight, Hikari and Takeru give their Partners a hug.
In the dub:
Cody: Gatomon and Patamon were able to Armor-Digivolve! Kari: Nefertimon, you're beautiful. But the best part is, now that you can fly, we don't have to walk anymore! Nefertimon: Well, don't get too excited. These wings aren't broken in yet. Kari: Heh.... Pegasusmon: T.K.! T.K.: Alright! My very own Armor Digimon!
Kari and T.K. are just excited to have new forms for their Partners. It's Christmas in April!
Outside, despite how hard the Chosen Children were crushing it in the fight last time we checked in, the tide's turned on them. V-mon, Hawkmon, and Armadimon lay defeated and helpless in front of Daisuke and Miyako, who've been backed up against the edge of a cliff by the Tyranomon horde.
The searching Tyranomon seems to have given up and returned, as the Kaiser now has all five with him.
Kaiser: Hmph. Giving up already? Daisuke: What's that supposed to mean!? Kaiser: Look behind you. Where could you even run??
Daisuke glances at the cliff behind him. He doesn't have a retort for that.
An interesting point of characterization for the Digimon Kaiser is that, unlike the villains of the first series, he isn't playing for keeps. At least, right now. This is "a game", after all. He wants Daisuke and Miyako to concede defeat and then leave.
But before the Kaiser can clinch his victory, the winged cavalry arrives.
Iori: DAISUKE-SAAAAAAN!!! Daisuke: Ah! Miyako: What!?
Nefertimon and Pegasmon fly in, letting their riders and Iori down on the cliff's edge with Daisuke and Miyako. Now we can ALL fall to our doom!
Alright, let's talk shop. Patamon and Tailmon have distinct attributes, but they become Free attribute when they Armor Evolve, like the other three. Nefertimon is named for the Egyptian queen Nefertiti, while Pegasmon draws his name from the Greek horse god Pegasus.
Why Pegasmon and not, say, Pegasumon? The Digimon Reference Guide translates it as Pegasmon as well, but why? Japanese, after all, doesn't have a letter for a flat 's'. The lettering is ペガスモン Pe-ga-su-mo-n. So why not call him Pegasumon? Is this another "Nobody knows how to fucking translate Horusmon" situation?
Well, no. As a translation, Pegasmon actually makes sense. The Japanese name for Pegasus is ペガサス Pe-ga-sa-su. Since the Japanese written languages have very few letters for single consonants with no vowel component, the ス su here stands in for the ending 's'.
For the Digimon, they carved the サ sa out of his name and added the モン mon, creating ペガスモン. Since ス stands in for a singular 's' in Pegasus, it's translated as a singular 's' here as well. Thus, we end up with ペガスモン romanized as Pegasmon. That's how the Reference Book refers to him, and I can see where they're coming from.
It is, nonetheless, pronounced "Pegasumon".
Narrator: Pegasmon! A Holy Beast-type Digimon who displays absolute strength against all wicked things. His special attack is the holy ray of light, Silver Blaze! Narrator: Nefertimon! A Holy Beast-type Digimon who purifies the darkness with the strength of her powerful light. Her special attack is a red-hot ray of light that fires from the ornament on her head, called Curse of Queen!
Curse of the Queen would probably flow better. Or possibly Curse of Queens. But, like most attacks, it's English. I don't translate English into better English, so we're stuck with Curse of Queen.
In the dub... Okay, I don't know if I've talked about this before but the dub has voice actors make animal noises for a lot of its bestial effects. And in this episode, it's really noticeable that the Tyrannomon snarls are all this one dude going "GRRRYAAARGH".
The original has, like... actual animal roar noises coming out of them.
Emperor: Do you guys give up yet? Davis: Not a chance! Emperor: Look behind you. Where do you think you're going to run to? (Winged cavalry arrives) Cody: Davis, we're here! Davis: ... Yolei: (gasp) Cody! (Nefertimon and Pegasusmon drop off the humans) Armadimon: (rundown) That's Pegasusmon! He's one wild horse! When he attacks with his Star Shower, his enemy will be blasted into outer space! Veemon: (rundown) And that's Nefertimon! She's a flying, fighting machine with nine lives! And she's quite a shot when tossing those Rosetta Stones of hers!
Armadimon and Veemon are really underselling the holy radiance of these Digimon, but given the censors' disdain for religious themes, I can't say I'm surprised.
Rosetta Stone is a weird attack name if you only know it as a tool for learning languages. But the Rosetta Stone was, specifically, an ancient Egyptian stele inscribed with the same message in three separate languages, which became instrumental in deciphering the written languages of ancient Egypt.
So for an ancient Egyptian queen, it's a fair reference if a bit arbitrary nonetheless.
Alright, introductions are over. Time to fight.
Getting down from his Tyranomon, the Kaiser exclaims:
Kaiser: That's only a temporary evolution! Don't think something like that will work every time! Tyranomon: (together) FIRE BREATH!!!
Yeah, the non-verbal Tyranomon call this one in the Japanese version too.
All five Tyranomon fire at once, converging attacks on Pegasmon and Nefertimon. Three dimensions of movement gives them a lot of maneuverability, however, as the pair take to the sky and avoid their shots entirely.
Nefertimon & Pegasmon: SANCTUARY BIND!!!
Not missing the opportunity, they counter with their holy shit duo attack. The armor on their front legs glows and they pass each other in the air, forming a ray of light between them. Circling the Tyranomon horde, they bind the light around all five and release, creating a ring that ties their enemies helplessly together.
Pegasmon: NEEDLE RAIN!!! Nefertimon: NILE JEWELRY!!!
Then they unload, making strafing runs around the targets. Pegasmon shoots a machine gun flurry of needles from his mane, while Nefertimon lets off diamond projectiles from the red jewels on her foreleg bangles.
Their combined assault targets the necks of the five helpless Tyranomon until finally an explosion breaks the Sanctuary Bind. Five Tyranomon collapse on each other, while their black ring collars shatter into pieces.
Miyako: The Rings are gone!
In the dub:
Emperor: Don't think Armor Digivolving will save you! It won't be long before I figure out how to stop that too!
The Kaiser/Emperor comes off like a pissy whiner in both versions. It's great.
In a surprising reversal, the dub does not call Blaze Blast when the Tyrannomon fire. For once, they removed an attack call instead of adding one.
Tyrannomon: (together) RRRRGYAAAGH!!! (Nefertimon and Pegasusmon dodge) Nefertimon & Pegasusmon: GOLDEN NOOSE!!!
(spit take) Holy shit, what!?
I mean, Sanctuary Bind isn't exactly a very accurate name. They wrapped them up to shoot them all at once which is... like... exactly the opposite of what a sanctuary's for. But how the fuck did the alarmingly accurate Golden Noose get past the censors!?
Pegasusmon: STAR SHOWER!!! Nefertimon: ROSETTA STONE!!!
Unlike in the original, the attacks Nefertimon and Pegasusmon use are the ones the rundown told us about. We're not seeing Silver Blaze or Curse of Queen this episode.
(Nefertimon and Pegasusmon defeat the Tyrannomon horde) Yolei: Their Dark Rings disappeared!
An interesting note that we still don't have a formal name for the Dark Rings in the original at this time. Miyako just called them "Rings" in English.
With the five Tyranomon released, the fighting is over. And I guess the Kaiser quietly peaced out while his dinos were being machine-gunned into freedom, because we do not hear from him.
The Children linger long enough to watch the five Tyranomon disappear into the distance. No one says a word, but Hikari takes a picture with her camera. It's not just a replacement neck dangly for her old whistle.
Returning to the human world, the children complain about the Kaiser while looking over the photo Hikari took.
Hikari: In any case, there's no excusing that kid! Who targets a weak opponent that can't even evolve!? Daisuke: Yeah, that's right! (pounds fist) He won't be talking when I'm done. Hikari: You think so too, right, Takeru-kun? Daisuke: (face falls comically) Takeru: Completely. I can't believe he's human like us. He's crazy if he thinks the Digital World belongs to him!
Poor Daisuke. This episode makes the Takeru/Hikari shippers happy for a few reasons. Most notably the unprecedented duo attack, that's shippy as fuck, but also this moment too. Daisuke's trying to be macho but Hikari defers to her nakama partner of three years.
In the dub, Kari gets a line while the camera's not focused on her.
Kari: I want to get a digital picture of this for my computer scrapbook! (Cut to the human world) Kari: These photos turned out great! Except the Tyrannomon all have red-eye. Oh, wait a minute! I forgot, they always have red eyes!
They do not. Their eyes are blue. They were only glowing red because of the Dark Ring, something that happens to all Digimon under the Emperor's control. It's been nine seconds since we saw them all open their bright blue eyes, now liberated from the Emperor.
Additionally, they were walking away from Kari when she snapped that picture. None of their eyes are visible in the shot she took. This joke does not remotely work.
Davis: I'm so mad! (pounds fist) Just wait 'til I get my hands on that Digimon Emperor! Kari: You'll defeat the Emperor, won't you, T.K.? Davis: (face comically falls) T.K.: I'm not sure, Kari, but we'll give it our best shot! The problem is we've never faced an enemy who was human before. How do we fight him?
Oh wow, I hate Kari's line here.
Hikari is the one driving this conversation about how much the Kaiser sucks. Both Daisuke and Takeru are responding to her outrage. The dub dropped that to make room for the red-eye joke. So instead, Davis drives the Emperor topic, which Kari immediately swipes from him to give to T.K. instead.
She blows off Daisuke in the original as well, but here, she's asking T.K.'s opinion of what Davis said, rather than what she said. She's not ignoring Davis but purposefully snubbing him.
And she manages to do it in a way that implies that she, Kari, will not be involved in the fight. The Emperor is a problem for Kari's favorite boy to solve by himself.
Additionally, this whole conversation leaves Davis as the only one who's actually mad, which makes him come across as unreasonable. In the original, everybody's pissed off. And why wouldn't they be, after the shit he pulled today?
This sucks. Terrible job. 0/10.
Meanwhile, Miyako, Iori, and Tailmon watch Chibimon, Poromon, and Upamon devour what's left of Miyako's grocery snacks. Miyako seems to find them adorable but Tailmon remains unimpressed by the Kids These Days.
Iori: By the way, our Digimentals seem to vary from person to person. Daisuke: Huh? What do you mean? Iori: Daisuke-san, Miyako-san, and I all had our Digimon emerge from the Digimentals, but it was different for Takeru-san and Hikari-san. No new Digimon emerged, but instead their original Digimon became capable of Armor Evolution. Takeru: Yeah, I wasn't expecting that. Hikari: I was happy about it, though.
Iori raises an important point. Going forward, we can't expect consistent behavior from the Digimentals. This isn't like the Crests where we all get a Crest the same way and they all have the same rules and work the same way. The Digimentals are more scattershot and arbitrary. We can assume nothing.
Miyako, who was too busy having cuteness overload from the snacking babies to get in on the Kaiser Sucks conversation, finally weighs in.
Miyako: That guy pisses me off! Iori: Eh? The Digimon Kaiser, right? I wonder who he really is? Daisuke: Whoever he is, the things he's doing are unforgivable! Group: Mhm! Iori: (thinking) But I'm not cut out for fighting other people....
A reservation that Iori should probably share with the class, but is keeping to himself.
Miyako: Ahh! Isn't this like an adventure game? Daisuke: What's this now? You were freaked out at first!
Miyako crouches down to resume basking in the cuteness.
Miyako: Mm... (singsong) Don't care!
Finally, we close where we began: One last brief snippet of Ken in his room, working at his computer. Doing... something... with the program for his Digimon Kaiser goggles on the screen.
In the dub:
Cody: T.K. brings up a very interesting point we should all consider. Davis: (aggressively) Oh, yeah!? What point is that!? Cody: Well, this is quite a little army we've put together so far. We've met our three new Digimon and they've been able to Armor Digivolve. And even Gatomon and Patamon have found a way to bypass the Digimon Emperor's Dark Digivice as well. But even with all our power combined, we still haven't had the strength to defeat the Digimon Emperor in the Digital World! Yet we still keep forgetting the fact that he's human. T.K.: Yeah, but I still don't get it. What's your point? Kari: He means we have to fight differently? Yolei: How do you suggest we do that!? Cody: If we find out his human identity, maybe we can defeat him from this side where his powers aren't as strong! Davis: What do we do, knock on doors asking for the Digimon Emperor!? Yolei: Hmph! Cody: (thinking) I knew I shouldn't have expressed my opinions. Now they'll all just make fun of me. Yolei: Well, you're a little young to be worrying about those things, Cody. Davis: Yeah! Just let us older kids come up with a plan! (Yolei crouches down to bask in cuteness) Yolei: Aren't they cute!
This scene continues to be holy shit terrible.
Cody still brings up the Armor Evolution, but only to point out that our Digimon are killer powerful but the Emperor is too strong to defeat. How he got that impression from our three consecutive victories, I have no idea.
However, Cody proposes a solution: Hunt him down in the human world and I guess jump him? Beat the ever-loving shit out of him on this side? IDK but it's a wild interpretation for a character who, in this scene, actually has the line, "I'm not cut out for fighting other people".
But everyone else thinks Cody's idea sucks. They all promptly bully him into shutting the fuck up and learning his place. The end.
This isn't quite "The gang swipes Joe's money and leaves him to starve haha" but it's up there. Dub Team really shit the bed in the final leg of this episode.
Finally, they give Ken a line in the final shots.
Ken: Tomorrow's another day. Narrator: Will the DigiDestined find out the human identity of the Digimon Emperor? Don't miss the next Digimon: Digital Monsters!
The answer is no, they will not. That's several episodes away. But okay, clickbait.
Assessment: Just like that, our team is complete. Still more Digimentals to go, but we have a full roster for the Kaiser arc.
And I'm happy to see it because Nefertimon and Pegasmon are my favorite Armor Digimon. Horusmon's pretty cool too. I guess I just really like that sleek "Armored flying quadruped" design.
It's funny how the setup here seemed like it was gearing up for a five-on-five battle once Nefertimon and Pegasmon joined the crew. Like how the previous episode did a three-on-three with Fladramon, Horusmon, and Digmon each taking an opponent.
But no. Nefertimon and Pegasmon are so fucking awesome that they'll take care the five Tyranomon themselves. Y'all can relax.
You can kinda feel the experience gap between Hikari and Takeru's 'mons and the others.
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I recently started watching AITA videos while playing Pokemon fangames because sometimes the thing you need to win a battle is not only strategy but anger and AITA is just a massive rage bait. But a thing that gets me is the tittles. Because AITA tittles tend to either go:
"Am I The Asshole for cold-blooded murdering my brother"
And like your first reaction is YES. Obviously. You killed your brother. In fact you should be arrested.
And the story is:
"When I (M, 50) was younger my father forced me and my brother to work at the family bussiness. My father was a miner and had just got his own mine. I hated it. I was young and never wanted to be a miner. I hate the mines more than anything.
My brother loved it. He was genuinally a great miner (and a great brother) and would try to cheer me up when we were mining together. Mining is stressfull even if you like it and I didn't. So one day I was mining with my brother and I got just so fed up with it all I decided to angrily kick a rock. I had no idea the rock was what was sustaining the celling of the mine. It was a disaster. The celling feel and it killed my brother.
This was years ago but since them I live with massive guilt over having killed him, he was the best brother one could have asked and way better than me and I should just have died instead. My friends, my partner and my therapist all say it was not my fault, that I didn't knew the rock was important but I know I'm an evil murderer."
Or
"Am I the asshole for being a good pet owner?"
And you are like: No? Why would you be the asshole? But the story is like:
"I (M,26) recently adopted a mixed race dog named Brutor. He soon became like a son to me, I teached him everything about being high class and would dress him up in fancy clothes.
I would also takie him with me to my adventures. After all he was pretty much my heir and squire. Except in one of the adventures thanks to circunstances beyond me control I throwed him out of a building. He died.
So after I abandoned my companions (my brave friend and some random tag along poor people) and went to a grief indulced quest with temporary new peers (a very hot *insire the r slur here* and a nerd) I came back and faced a robot that could fix all my problems. He brought my dog back and told me I could replace his traumatic memories with good memories about how I was the best and he should adore me. I of course agreed. It was for the best really.
Except he found out and now is mad with me. I don't think I did anything wrong and am posting this to gather support."
#reddit#aita stories#aita#rqg#rusty quill gaming#zolf smith#sir bertrand macguffingham#bertie macguffingham
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assorted tptm hcs :3
splitter girl has really bad brainrot. she says "skibidi" after every sentence and everyone hates it
irreverent girl and disposable girl are online friends, they managed to meet in person and now they hang out often because it turns out that they live in the same town :3
splitter girl and chemical girl are roommates and they often help each other deal with their symptoms n stuff. yay :D
faineant likes to make plushies... she enjoys making bunnies.
she also owns that one etsy jacket weevildoing made a comic about an eternity ago because. it goes hard
chocolate-box girl and taxidermy girl hang out to bake together. mostly it ends up with chocolate-box actually baking stuff whilst fighting taxidermy off because she wants to eat all the dough.
speaking of taxidermy, she actually does taxidermy. specifically, insects.
splitter girl acts all high and mighty online but when you actually meet her she's extremely withdrawn. only her friends can get her to show off her silly goofy guy side.
disposable girl has a vinyl collection (she likes 90's and 2000's bands). so does faineant, but her vinyls are vintage collector's items she doesn't let anyone touch except for her. And by vintage, I mean from the 1930's kind of vintage.
caliber girl is trying to find artists to design the characters for her game (I think i saw something abt her wanting to make her own video game so.)
also, her pokemon connection is ever expanding thanks to faineant's input.
caliber girl's mother is a single mother. they don't talk often because she's very oppressive, but caliber understands why and she wants her to be in a good condition.
splitter girl is a creepypasta enjoyer, she knows almost all of them, she played the slenderman games, she also played the jeff the killer game(s) and she watched marble hornets. they played a huge part on her childhood.
taxidermy girl and irreverent girl are myth nerds
irreverent girl likes the Mandela catalogue
faineant girl played all the slendrina games because she was sick and bored and knows all the lore. she's actually a shitty game store/apple store mobile games enthusiast.
disposable girl tries to take good care of her hair, but she always fails (she just like me fr)
caliber girl only knows about a few internet horror things and doesn't want to keep up much, really.
taxidermy girl has a nsfw kink blog where she mainly textposts and reblogs THOSE aesthetic black and white gifs. she doesn't want anyone to see it because she thinks it's embarrassing
chemical girl boxes (does boxing? idk) and it helps her cope with the anger a LOT.
speaking of chemical girl, she gets emotionally overwhelmed pretty quickly so she often has to take breathers from socializing and stuff.
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Could you review Astral form terapagos
When this form first came out and I was looking at a small thumbnail of it, I was like "what the hell am I looking at?". And now that it's been more properly shown to us, I... still don't know what the hell I'm looking at, at least in terms of visuals. This thing is just such a mess, with entirely too many things going on that make it nearly impossible to discerning what's happening.
Conceptually, it's based on turtles all the way down, which is kind of funny (mostly because I really like saying "turtles all the way down"). It does kind of fit with SV's plot basically being a bootstrap paradox inside of several other bootstrap paradoxes. And I do really like the idea of it sitting on top of that dome, which looks like the earth as shown when held by the World Turtle and also kind of looks like a turtle shell in and of itself. The dark navy color also makes it pop against Terapagos' primarily turquoise base.
However, everything beyond that is really kind of a mess. The type symbols floating around the base are just so unnecessary, given that they're already on Terapagos' shell and they only clutter an already cluttered design more. The bottom base also has two weird little points it sits on, which I'm not sure I understand. They can't be turtle legs because there's only two of them, and they make it seem like the entire thing should fall over.
Similar to the base, the tera crown jewel on Terapagos' back has a bunch of colored diamonds for the types, which once again, feels redundant. Perhaps they did it to keep the type idea present when Pokemon other than Terapagos' use the Stellar type... except when that happens the ring of type symbols around the base still appear, so it's redundant either way.
And speaking of that jewel, the little Terapagos' shaped gem is just... really silly? And makes the design more of a mess, because it makes it hard to even tell which one's the Pokemon. Like I said, it's turtles all the way down, but I feel like the base looking like a turtle shell was more than enough to get that across. It's also particularly silly because it sticks around when other Pokemon become stellar types, thus making it go from silly but meaningful to completely nonsensical.
(I also have to point out the above render doesn't have any crystal effects. It's even HARDER to discern anything about the design with the crystal effects. The entire thing just becomes visual white noise at a glance.)
What's weird is that this sketch of stellar-form Terapagos, which is effectively concept art, shows a much cleaner design. No type symbols around the base, no tiny Terapagos-shaped gem, just a clean, easy-to-read design with a smaller tera symbol floating at the top. Not sure why they felt the need to add so much Stuff(TM) to it, but something like this would've read a lot better while still keeping the same concepts present.
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what about luxiem with a bold person?
hi hi, anon! thank you for the idea!! i actually like this idea since it's the opposite of what i wrote bfr for vox and luca. sorry it took a while to do this, i'm a little sick rn T.T anyways, hope you liked this one <3
Luxiem with a Bold! Gender Neutral Reader
characters: luca kaneshiro, shu yamino, mysta rias, ike eveland, vox akuma
notes: gender neutral reader, i wasn't sure if i wanted to make reader be in a romantic or platonic relationship but i guess you can interpret it as you like, i used different interpretations of bold here so some might be slightly suggestive, nothing else enjoy!!
luca kaneshiro
you know how luca's always saying how he's not bullyable and tends to (playfully) bully others instead?
yea so when you counterattacked his teasing, safe to say this guy was absolutely shocked.
like, he knew you were cute and all, but he didn't expect for you to be on the same level as he is when it comes to teasing.
it's like he'd be all brave and kusogaki, and then you counter him, and the next thing he knows is he's a mess, a blushing mess.
you're pretty observant, so you notice the way he reacts, which will only entice more reaction from him.
one time you playfully touched his thigh while he was gaming, and the poor dude started stuttering so bad.
an idiot, for sure.
he's fine with pda, but for some reason, you like teasing him while touching him, so he's wary of it (like he gets really red)
overall, this man is too pure for the world. you'd feel a little bad but how else will you be able to see such a reaction from a mafia boss?
shu yamino
believe me when i say this, but shu definitely is chill as hell when you act all bold around him.
you'd say the most shocking thing, and this guy will just snicker at you.
which is why you get braver around him, just to get that reaction out of him.
if you're lucky, he'd say stuff back to you.
kind of like the type where you flirt and say stupid shit, but he says it back seriously and it just goes haywire.
if you're someone who's bold with the way you talk, i believe shu is like your #1 supporter. he doesn't seem like a man who would say much, but this guy would have your back no matter what. it's you both against the world fr fr.
i believe in bold and flirty shu agenda (real!!)
though shu won't like it if you do bold stuff around other people/in public, because he doesn't want you to get hurt.
to top it off, i believe shu is pretty cool with have a bold person around. don't piss him off though, he's feisty.
mysta rias
mysta's pretty bold, isn't he. so i expect a you + mysta combo to be double the trouble.
the unstoppable duo that just does whatever they want, says whatever's on their mind.
you both just fit right with each other (match made in heaven)
but trust me, if you reciprocate back his words, this guy goes brain dead from it.
kinda like the type that can tease you, but can't handle being teased. sort of like luca in a way, except he's more brazen.
y'all did the pokemon pass or smash thing, and this guy is just dead ass surprised from your play at it bcs what the fuck.
mysta's a sweet boy though, he still gets really shy when you say stuff.
he's gotten used to your affection, so i don't think it bothers him anymore.
but hug him for too long and this guy goes craaazy (because he's shy lmao)
anyways, mysta + you duo is deadly, physically and mentally.
ike eveland
ike is a man who's good with words, you can't fight him, nuh uh.
my lord have you seen eki? exactly.
he'd act like he's tired of your bs or like doesn't really like what you're doing, but you know this guy loves it, he's just tryna mask it.
you being bold either puts a nasty grin on his face, or the loudest sigh ever heard from mankind.
told him your darkest deepest secrets and this guy stares back at you, mouth wide opened tryna process what he just heard.
you just giggle in response.
ike lowkey likes seeing you be bold and defend yourself when people do things against your beliefs. he thinks it's endearing.
though he doesn't ever tell you, he just lets you run free, only holding you back when he deems necessary.
10/10, tsundere. acts like he doesn't like it, likes it like hell.
vox akuma
vox himself is already one hell of a bold guy T.T
some days, it's like a competition to see who's bolder. (you lose)
y'all could be platonic or dating, and this guy still says the sluttiest shit ever, and gets you a blushing mess.
he likes that your energy matches his, so it makes him really happy.
i'd say it's pretty crazy to see two people with such brazen language (ykwim).
he's a sweetheart though, kinda like the type that let's their partner say mean stuff, while they support wholeheartedly.
the first time you did a bold move and pretty much sat on him, this guy had the most shit-eating grin you've ever seen.
he held onto you, which made you panic, and then laughs seeing you get all red.
trust me, it doesn't work. he's too powerful T.T you think you're bold until you face vox akuma.
a/n: hi, sorry this one's pretty short and somewhat really ooc. i wrote this based on what i picture each member would be like! also, i'm getting a lot sicker so i'll probably not be able to write a valentine's fic today, but i'll try tomorrow since it might be valentine's in other places of the world! happy valentine's by the way everyone <3 stay safe! - eden
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#luxiem x reader#nijisanji en x reader#nijisanji x reader#njsj en x reader#njsj x reader#luca kaneshiro x reader#shu yamino x reader#mysta rias x reader#ike eveland x reader#vox akuma x reader#nijisanji en#luxiem#luca kaneshiro#shu yamino#mysta rias#ike eveland#vox akuma#luxiem imagines#luxiem x you
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Fablehaven Pokemon AU; pt. 1 (Kendra)
what i have worked out so far:
Kendra as an aspiring pokemon researcher; she and Seth are sent to Fablehaven (daycare/sanctuary) to help out their grandparents
the main point to that is to get them some field experience with a variety of pokemon. you can't get the full experience of pkm handling as a city kid!!!
child labor laws in the pokemon universe are extremely dubious, but still, Kendra and Seth don't really work Work like Dale. they get the menial jobs, i.e, grooming, feeding, and occasionally training pkm
this works out great for Kendra!!! she gets to see (and register in her pokedex) all types of pkm while also learning all about their behavioral patterns
I can't really see Kendra as a big fan of battling; she has the occasional friendly battle when prompted, sure, but her team selection is in no way geared towards competitive strategies
they are just Her Little Guys 🙁
absolutely a fan of contests. those are basically the equivalent of idols for the teenage girls in the pkm universe
obligatorily i have to make most of her team fairy types but i think she'd enjoy the occasional water and grass type
NOT immune to magical horse propaganda! her biggest little-girl wish was a galarian ponyta
the Sorenson are all the way over in Unova unfortunately . sorry kendra no unicorns for you
(she doesn't Know)
Kendra drifts more toward defensive pokemon — the ones that can take a hit and hit back harder
speed isn't much of a priority (leafeon & rapidash as the only outliers)
she spends her time differently depending on the pokemon. swimming with azumarill, going on runs with leafeon, making the psychic horse read Jane Austen, etcetera
team! from oldest to newest
Azumarill: azurill is a fairly easy pokemon to raise — that's why it was the first one Kendra ever trained, a gift from her parents. high friendship comes easy after a few months, and a marill quickly evolves into Azumarill. they so sunbathe together by the edge of the pool
Leafeon: originally an eevee, given as a graduation present for trainer's school. it only evolved after Kendra was already in Fablehaven — there was most definitely a mossy rock in the middle of those woods. they make a good match! leafeon as a species don't enjoy battling all that much
Altaria (Raxtus): same old story of dragon egg raised by fairies except this time they were actually fairy-type pokemon. methinks Raxtus was a wild pokemon who took a liking to Fablehaven as a sanctuary, and upon interacting with Kendra, took a liking to her as well. technically, Kendra hasn't caught him, since a pokeball would restrict his ability to wander around, but Raxtus always comes back to hang out or to help with anything important, so! they're besties. also he mega-evolves bc that's about as close as a can get to canon Kendra's battery abilities.
Galarian Ponyta: remember when i said she wouldn't get to have the unicorn bc she hadn't ever been to galar. well. SOMEONE who does a fair amount of traveling may have ACCIDENTALLY stumbled upon a wild ponyta and decided to catch it and bring it back all the way to unova upon hearing Kendra did very much wish to have one. who would do that though haha. loser behavior (→→→→→ bracken ←←←←←)
Decidueye: originally a dartrix Seth caught in a ranger mission (will elaborate on this. eventually)! they got along fine but this whole evolution line is unbelievably prissy. they need one grooming down daily at LEAST. it was simply not feasible for Seth to take care of it especially since rangers spend most of their time with their partner pokemon only. so Kendra kinda takes care of it unofficially. when it evolves they start practicing archery together. yay
this au has been gnawing on my brain for a while now and im happy to share my genius. seth should be next!
#fablehaven#fablehaven x pokemon#pokemon au#dragonwatch#kendra sorenson#have to do everything MYSELF in this place#my au#my art#seth sorenson#one of my scraped ideas was sudowoodo as mendigo#i didnt write it down but ponyta is glory btw#the closest youll get to a speaking literate horse is if its psychic i guess
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crack theory 🤨❓
Okay, how do I explain this...
There are parts of this theory that are rooted in logic and parts that are wild speculation, but I think the overall theory is possible, albeit a little crazy. Then again, a lot of things in this game are crazy.
In short, my theory is that Zetta also has a form of Archetype power just like Melia does. But I don't think it comes from the actual Archetype; I think it's something similar but opposite. Because the Archetype is depicted as a golden triangle, I've been imagining this inverse Archetype as an upside-down silver triangle. Hey wait a minute.
Yeah, my theory is that this "inverse Archetype" is actually the Core. Outside of the visual similarity, we know that the Core is linked to the Interceptors' power, and they can transform just like Melia and Erin. The Core is also connected to the Ley Lines, and in the Karma Files, it mentions that Rifts form whenever a Ley Line is pierced. Zetta is the only character we know of who can directly interact with the Ley Lines to create Rift Pokemon*. Perhaps this is his version of the "superpowers" Melia, Erin, Allen, and Alice have because of the Archetype. If that's the case, then it would make complete sense that his power comes from the Core instead.
(*Quick note, I'm aware that there are other "Rifts" not created by Zetta, but a lot of them aren't Rifts in the lore, just in the gameplay mechanics. Carnivine, Dufaux, and Talon all became "Rifts" through alternate means, and though Ferrothorn and Hippowdon are real Rifts, they were created from rift matter that Bladestar stole from Team Xen (so they likely come from Zetta's power too, in a very roundabout way). The only other Rifts can't be explained this way are Volcanion, which Zetta very well could've made off-screen, and Aelita, which makes sense because Aelita turned into a Rift due to Vivian's curse. And Vivian already had a connection with the Ley Lines, that's how she could sense where people and Pokemon were. Okay back to the theory!)
The description of the Core also mentions that it contains and transports information about all life on Earth. That sounds a lot like something Zygarde, the pokemon responsible for keeping balance, would use, right? We currently don't know anything about the Zygarde host except their age: 25. Oddly enough, this is Zetta's biological age too. I say it's odd because most of the Xen Executives don't have specific canon ages, and if he's a clone of Melia, why make him so much older in the first place? It could be a coincidence, but I find it suspicious. Especially considering that everything with a Z name has been linked to the Core in some way: Zygarde, Zeight, Zorrialyn being where Castle Zygara once was.
To be clear, do I think Zetta being connected to the Core means he's an Interceptor? Absolutely not. Do I think there are three other Core-hosts like with the Archetype? Probably not. But I can't look past the fact that just after we get this lore dump about the Core, Crescent gives Zetta's pokeball to Melia. And in this teaser screenshot for v14, there's a new icon in the top left with Zetta's face and what appears to be the Interceptor's Wish. I'm not going to speculate about this screenshot because I have no idea what it means really, but at this point it's impossible to deny that Zetta is going to be important in Chapter 16.
Some last bonus points in this theory, aka the part where I start wildly speculating: When you combine the Archetype triangle and the proposed inverse Archetype triangle (whether it's actually the Core or a different thing), it would make the alchemical symbol for aether.
In alchemy, aether represents the space that isn't filled by any of the natural elements. It was thought to be the breath of gods, and harnessing the power of aether could connect the physical world to the spiritual one. Since Rejuvenation is a pokemon game, most players are already familiar with the word aether because of the Aether Foundation. The Aether Foundation created Type:Null, which was intended to be a manmade Arceus but failed, and they had to put on the helmet to contain its power. Rejuvenation acknowledges this backstory, calling it an "inconsistency" that two more Type:Null can be found in Aevium. Zepto is an obvious metaphor for Zetta's backstory as a clone, but I'd like to think the aether connection could mean something.
Speaking of inconsistencies, when you play chess against Zetta in the Nightmare Realm, all of the pieces depict characters in the game, and they all have a quote related to the character. For example, Neved's piece says "Your family before all else." All of the Xen executives are depicted as chess pieces here except for Zetta. This might just be because he's literally sitting across the board from you, but Risa (the Risa from the Nightmare Realm, not Clear pretending to be Risa) is also a piece on the board. Her piece is broken though, and it's not the only one. Eden's piece is broken too, and their quote ends in "Defiled." One other chess piece ends this way, one that seems to be missing a head. The full quote is, "To perpetuate consistency through inconsistency. The descendant of Zed. Defiled." There's the letter Z again. In an absence of other characters this could refer to, I'm assuming this piece is meant to be Zetta, which would mean that inconsistencies and being a "descendant" are more important to his character than we've been lead to believe. Could this be a hint that he's connected to the unknown Zygarde host?
Again, this last part is just wild speculation! The core (pun not intended) of this theory is that Zetta has his own version of the Archetype powers and maybe even his own transformation. I think it's likely that those powers would come from the Core, considering the lore we get in the Karma Files, but I'm not entirely sure. Whether I'm right or not, I'm just really excited for my favorite solosis to get more screen time.
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The way Zelda redditors behave like BotW is going to be the template for future titles is absolutely hilarious. They are convinced that Nintendo is done with classic Zelda elements forever. TotK proves it! Never mind that they can barely agree on whether this even deserves to be called a new game or overpriced DLC. Or that Nintendo themselves have said that this was a very big experiment, where they let a team comprised of mostly younger devs run the show, and the director of BotW has actually left the company to go work on Infinity Nikki of all things. I don't know what the future of Zelda is going to look like. I can't see Nintendo just walking back everything they did in BotW. (And they better not. Skyward Sword is the worst mainline Zelda title, and BotW was the exact opposite of the hand holding the series had gotten really bad for). However, we can guarantee one thing for sure. The open-air game concept that specifically defined Breath of the Wild and its direct sequel Tears of the Kingdom is not simply going to be the new template for the series.
I could leave it there with a "because Nintendo said so" but it's midnight and I'm already making bad decisions, so I'm going to go one further and back this up with a second supporting argument. That's not how Nintendo as a company works. That's not how they've ever worked. They stopped doing rational, clear iterative upgrades when they followed up the Gamecube with the Wii. The Zelda series itself has constantly been one of self reinvention. Ocarina of Time is incredibly special in that Breath of the Wild is the first time they've so clearly broken away from the model it set. But when you look at the rest of the series, it's obvious BotW was the biggest experiment, but not even remotely the first. Majora's Mask turned the main gameplay concept on its head by putting everything on a Very. Tight. Timer. When you hit midnight of the third day, that was it. Rewind or die. All your progress was reset except for your sword (iirc), your masks, and your rupees if you put them in the bank (because the banker was a time traveler?). Wind Waker flooded the whole continent and had you sailing around on a boat, using a proto-physics system to fill your sails. The wide open world of OoT was gone altogether, and Princess Zelda didn't show up until halfway through the game (we won't talk about what they did to Tetra). Twilight Princess made the game super linear and made Zelda herself almost secondary to the plot. Actually, TP almost feels like the most direct callback to OoT with the doubling down on horse mounted combat, an art style that looked more like it next to whatever WW was doing (but which would ultimately age a lot worse), dungeons that also felt more directly inspired, and a combat system that was a little less fluid and reactive. But it also had Link temporarily become a werewolf, and gave us an egregiously underappreciated Spaghetti Western shootout that came out of nowhere and was all together too brief. Then Skyward Sword came along, which was the least reinventive of the bunch mechanically, but which did at least try to turn the classic narrative on its head. Also Zelda went from being barely there to being a driving character in the narrative. And she walked so BotW Princess Zelda could run. That said, imho, you can see why they leaned so much harder into experimentation with their next game that nearly skipped a whole console generation, because by SS the series tropes were getting a little too strong. The series was actually drifting into iterative territory, and that's not the typical Nintendo way. Especially not with one of their two core in-house franchises.
(Please don't bring up Pokemon here. I know it's Nintendo's third core franchise. But please remember, Zelda and Mario are solely owned by Nintendo, while Pokemon is at this point is at the center of an entire corporate conglomerate, which Nintendo is only part of).
I get that some people didn't enjoy BotW. I can sympathize with the people who did not want more like it and who were consequently less than thrilled by TotK's arrival. But bemoaning the fall of the franchise and saying Nintendo is going to be like Ubisoft, EA, and all the other trend chasing studios out there is really going too far. Nintendo has spent too many years baffling investors to start doing that now. Yes, Tears of the Kingdom exists. No, it's not proof of the trend. It was a planned sequel (itself an enormously rare concept in Zelda history). You can't make a planned story and gameplay sequel to a game and just throw away the concept you're following up on. That would be an enormously bad idea. (Worse, even, than trying to make your sequel game stand on its own for new players and erasing nearly all memory of Link from the same people he helped save. I love TotK so much, but I am not blind to its flaws, what few there are).
ALSO yes Echoes of Wisdom has Zelda stacking beds into a diy staircase. NO that doesn't mean we're seeing a return of this apparently beloathed systems-based physics gameplay in 2D fashion. If there were physics, the beds would have fallen over. That's like calling Minecraft or Dragon Quest Builders a physics based exploration game just because they have objects you can stack. That is the dumbest take I've seen come out of a community that is profoundly skilled at coming out with dumb takes.
#this post brought to you by people being dumb on reddit and me not wanting to start a direct argument#so instead I'm staying up late ranting on tumblr instead where probably none of those people will see it but maybe others will#zelda#the legend of zelda#nintendo
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Hi it is I with more questions for ironheart au.
Can Ingo potentially use steel type moves? Like obviously this man isn't gonna be using Gyro Ball or Flash Cannon, but what about Heavy Slam? Like yeah he's a twig and thus wouldn't hurt anyone with it, but it's a cool thing to think about. Quite honestly, Heavy Slam is probably like, the only move he could realistically use (if he COULD hypothetically use steel moves), or I mean he could offload his entire savings with Make It Rain. Or scream so loudly it's essentially Metal Sound.
How does his body work? I know his heart is the plate, but is everything else human tissue and bones? His bones could def have a higher concentration of iron in them without any of the negative drawbacks, thus basically making it impossible for him to break his bones. The same could apply to his blood. But what about skin? Ingo's already a very pale guy, and in the post 'got his heart ripped out by Giratina like this is Metal Gear Rising' he's gonna have to worry about his torn skin.
On a funny note, I imagine he's COMPLETELY unpalatable for wild pokemon. Like can you imagine if he got biten by a Luxray trying to eat him, and then it suddenly lets go and scrunched its face like it just ate a lemon and is like "why do you taste actually disgusting wtf". No predators have tried messing with him since that incident.
Another question : would his body produce/react to magnetic fields? Could you stick a magnet on him and make it stay on his body? Imagine if that's how he met his two steel types : they both were like "woah strong magnet" and then got stuck to him.
Is he a good conductor (heh) of Electricity?
Does he have a natural human lifespan? It's not like his heart will ever stop beating.
Was Ingo even aware of any of his... oddities before the revelation? Or was he like "wait Poison is supposed to hurt you??"
Anyways, love your au, I'll probably come up with more questions later.
Ohh so many questions thank you thank you!!
First of all, moves. Yep!! He can indeed use some Steel type moves, if he yells loud enough it can become a Metal Sound for instance, he can activate Iron Defense too, though he isn't quite aware of what he's doing. He's not quite directly using it but if he sees a pokemon coming at him and has a little bit of time to register it might happen on survival instinct. He does gain a bit of bulk in Hisui because of all the walking, etc so maybe that Heavy Slam could do something...
The rest of his body is very human. Arceus basically used the Plate as a convenient core to shape Human around so he's mostly normal. Mostly, he's affected by the type matchups (more resistant to cold, not very good in the heat etc) but in a way that is weird but not impossible for a human. He's a decent more resilient to injuries, random cuts and bruises but like... if he got punched he'd feel it y'know? I do think he's a bit denser and heavier than anyone expects because of the vaguely metallic vibes he's got going on. Arceus went for Steel because it would give useful resistances to the dangers of Hisui (then everythinh went wrong and it brought a random teen in instead). Except poison, he's completely immune much to everyone's confusion, this includes stuff like food poisoning mostly because it's funny.
HA YEAH. He tastes pretty metallic and most pokemon don't like it. Wild pokemon sense something odd about him and don't really bother. The Iron Defense incident tm happened when a Gliscor attempted to hit him with like. An Aerial Ace and Ingo barely?? Reacted?? He took the hit and was fine (only because of the Iron Defense) so. Yeah word spread quick that Sneasler's warden is weird but he'll also give you berries if you hang around him.
I... actually haven't thought about him.being magnetic, that would be so fun! And how he bonded with Magnezone and Probopass too! I like the idea! Not that he could out magnet Mt coronet but still. I think he can conduct electricity but it works more like a human lightning rod and isn't very helpful. He gets electrocuted like anyone else. Lol Akari tries to slap fridge magnets on him when they both go to her time.
On his lifespan... genuinely idk. He could easily be around forever, why would Arceus consider giving him a lifespan when creating him for the job, essentially? He functions human enough, he sleeps, he eats etc but age... possibly not. The fact he's an adult (and looks like an old man) hides this but if someone notices...
Ingo was aware he was weird but had no reason why. His eyes glow in the dark? Surely that's Melli being dramatic- oh. No he's not. Huh. He had to be told Sneasel's were venomous even after he got scratched a few times by Lady Sneasler's little ones. Irida or Sneasler herself pointing to the Pecha supplies and Ingo's like "wait... they're poisonous???! I'm fine though don't worry."
Thank you for all the questions!! I love talking about my ideas!!
#pokemon#edam's aus#ironheart au#i imagined Metal Sound from him sounds like a tannoy#one of those ones u can barely understand what the persons saying
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