#Isekai Larry

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So I have this headcanon about Larry...

[zeddertop-bugster]

larry goes to terraria. it sucks.

[yama951]

My mind suddenly gave me 'super spy or secret agent Larry' and I'm wondering if I should play with that instead of the 'Larry is actually Giratina trying out a normal human life a bit too much on the acting normal angle'

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[princess-of-the-corner]

Saw a funny pokemon fanfic where there were multiple "Fallers" (a.k.a IRL to PKMN Isekai's) and Larry was one of said Fallers, and one of the few thats actually productive instead of dying because of inaccurate game knowledge

beautiful

[chiefatticcreator]

Have you played Nikke: Goddess of Victory, Blue Archive, or Isekai Slow Life? Those three games have lovely waifus perfect for your list. I saw you had Samus Aran and Ciri, but how do you feel about Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn, 2B and A2 from Neir, Eve from Stellar Blade, or Lara Croft? (the classic for Lara not these modernized versions. Netflix’s Larry Craft, really?) Can never have enough waifus amiright?

I never played those gachas, but i think i saw pictures of the waifus here and there.

I never played Horizon, but i suppose i could add her.

2B, A2 and Eve will be added, because they're super hot waifus

Lara is already in my list, i think?

[sir-griswold-of-macelwain]

asking like that, completely innocently, of course. No isekai fic in store or anything. *whistles away*

[probablyevilrpgideas]

I started thinking about Boris' story from the isekai I was posting chapters of here and what that story might be. Starting with who the necromancer who created him was.

I pretty much immediately decided it was a necromancer character i created awhile ago, and got a short chance to play, Kerila/Nisharven. They have a very distinctive appearance I created by melding together visual cues from xenomorphs, Yzma, The Sassomancer (props to @kadabura for such a cool character), and then added some of my own "way overthinking things" to, like how they actually style their hair like that. While Nisharven didn't have a particular race when i created them, Kerila was a githyanki.

I had recently watched a video talking about the Gith (tho i strongly disagree with Pointy Hat's taste, but then I'm an avowed xenophile, so), and decided i definitely wanted to use some of the Gith/mind flayer lore in Boris' backstory.

There's a small problem with that, but a fairly easily surmountable one- WotC claims the Gith and mind flayers as "Product Identity." Which is bullshit, because neither of them originate from D&D. The Gith were created by Charles Stross for a White Dwarf article, and the name was pulled from an old GRR Martin story. Mind Flayers are just starspawn of Cthulhu with the serial numbers and wings filed off. The Gith/Illithid war takes from a book by Larry Niven. So, I personally consider them fair game, since they represent a history of artistic theft. I just need to call them something different and make a few differences.

And given that I actually think about how fantasy species and cultures function, that's easy to do.

Which is a long ass prologue for what I actually am making this post to talk about:

How To Create Truly Alien Cultures

Mind Flayers are described as utterly alien in mind and body. They see themselves as the apex of life, superior to all other life, and as destined to rule the multiverse, creating order under their rubbery grasp.

They see "lesser" lifeforms as only fit to be food, brainwashed thralls, or, essentially, breeding stock. They believe that they are giving these creatures "a gift" when they eat their brains.

These two things don't fucking compute.

This "we are superior to you, and true order can only be found if you submit to our rule" bullshit is all too fucking human. If this is your take on illithids, they're not alien, they're Nazis with squids for heads and slightly more complex justifications.

But, I read up on the canon, because there's this inherent tension between "we eat brains" and "we reproduce by putting our larva in brains." I wanted to see what the existing lore was to see if I needed to square that circle. I don't. A mind flayer only *needs* one brain a month because they actually primarily subsist on the psionic energy of the brain. A mind flayer who can might eat one or two brains a week, but in general they eat a brain every couple weeks, along with other things, such as organs other than brains, which are like healthy snacks to them since they contain the non-psionic stuff their bodies need.

But the lore also contains the seeds to actually start making them genuinely alien.

Let's start with the thing I remembered and didn't need the lore to refresh my memory on- for an Illithid, the Good Ending of life is for their brain to be put in their home elder brain's pool to become one with it. Every Illithid, no matter their personal goals, unless they've gone rogue or something, is aiming for an afterlife where they become one with the ruler of their personal community. That is Illithid Heaven.

Now, the things I needed the lore to remind me of-

When an Illithid consumes a brain, they receive the memories, personality, etc of the person whose brain they eat. The mind of the victim is absorbed into the Illithid's own mind.

There is one major point of lore I discard, the idea that illithids have no gender and instead individually lay one or two clutches of eggs in their lifespans. Like, I'm here for genderfuckery, but if we're going to make aliens, let's fucking make aliens. Have the tadpoles spawn directly from the elder brain through budding.

This is how you make the "brain consumption is a gift" thing work from the mind flayers' perspective!

The Cycle of One and Self

Ok, so, first you have to step into the webbed, two-toed feet of a mind flayer. You value your individuality, but also long to return to the elder brain which spawned them. For you, your individual life is but a short time in which you serve as a node of the community, to accomplish its goals away from the pool.

Further, you absorb non-illithids into your number when you eat. You don't see the act of consumption as an end of that person, you see it as helping them ascend to be part of a greater whole, which you likewise wish to ascend to. Your brain and mind is a way station for those who were not spawned from the Great One and are not destined to become extensions of it through ceremorphosis.

Now, we can understand this way of thinking, from an academic sense, but it's substantially non-human, in a way that "you are lesser beings and must be controlled by us superior beings" isn't. It gives the illithids a philosophy and a pathos that a person can almost sympathize with, but not, because to accept that perspective, one must sort themselves into "food."

This isn't a whole genuine alien mindset, but it's a good start. A much better start than, say, "look they just do things that seem random, but that's because we don't understand them." There's a logic, however abhorrent or frightening. It actually makes internal sense and isn't just "this is a thing we don't like to think of historical human actions, so it seems alien to us."

[glitch-e-stardust]

Adding on to the 'Larry the gym leader is an isekai victim actually' theory doing the rounds

He picked normal and flying types because they seem the most like just regular critters and birds to him - he has no idea why some people's dogs breath fire here and does not want to know (also think of the extra insurance paperwork alone.. no thanks!)

(With brainstorming thanks to Knacks) He does not believe ghost pokemon are real because ghosts aren't real in general. And since his normal types can neither hit nor be hit by them it kinda cements the argument in his favour really... clearly mirrors and lights and etc

[brendaniel]

What if Larry The Cable Guy was reincarnated as each of the leaders of the United States? Larry the Cable Guy Presidential Isekai.

[faline-cat444]

Larry(Aoki) might not be having his voice provided by the dimension-hopping man with a magical bird but in a weird way an isekai has still managed to balance itself out as far as my judgement is concerned on this matter.As a refresher the anime counterpart to Medali's gym leader is supposed to be voiced by Kohsuke Toriumi and as of learning about and watching the animated version to Salad Bowl of Eccentrics it looks like that's the source of this character named Suzuki.

His role in this series being that of a homeless man helping Livia who followed Sara from their original homeworld to Japan through the portal

[mahou-furbies]

Closing thoughts on Sasaki and Peeps

This was a fun little show, though it's unlikely I'll remember it much longer. It also adapts just the beginning of a ranobe series so there's no real proper ending, and the magical girl was barely in it, but regardless I had a pretty good time.

(spoilers I guess if you're really wary of them)

So the story is about Sasaki, an office worker who gets a pet bird, which turns out to be a reincarnated superwizard and grants Sasaki OP magical powers. Then Sasaki gets involved in three different genres (isekai, psychic battles, and a little bit of magical girls) even though he'd rather just live quietly and comfortably.

It's very much a power fantasy story; Sasaki's power is far greater than anyone else in the series (other than Peeps who is even more powerful), and for the most part Sasaki is able to speak himself out of many tricky situations. Even when things start to fall apart around him (like characters from two different storylines meet up and he gets into trouble because he's told different lies about himself to different people), he somehow manages to stumble out of it alright. But I dunno, I like it and I think it's kind of funny how everyone is super serious about the plot and then this pkmn Larry-looking guy wanders into the scene and casts lightning bolt and saves the day. The tone is light and the characters pretty shallow, but it was fun for a 1 cour show.

For the magical girl, she was in a villain role but as I said she had very little screen time and we didn't even learn anything about her motivation on attacking the psychic bureau. And she wasn't interesting enough for me to check out the source material for her, but I'd watch a season 2 if they ever make one.

My least favourite aspect is that everyone in the group of girls that forms around Sasaki is teenager at oldest (except the one who looks like a teenager but is supposedly 100). And nothing is ever done about it but it's like, you know why this yandere neighbour girl is included in the ranobe.

[zeddertop-bugster]

i think it would be really funny if we started isekai-ing larry into high fantasy completely illlfitting settings. this is funny to one person and its me.

[fluffypotatey]

I don't know if you know Pokemon, but there's this popular comic about Larry getting isekai-ed to the Pokemon world from our world and he's like "aight so I immediately went ok and went to get a job and pay pokemon taxes" and that's how I see Macky. makes sense how he's so full of rage and evil when his last memory might have been a brutal death and centuries in the diyuu. but still, you'd think he'd be a smidge more crazy sometimes, what up with the fake heroism and charisma and "yeah im just gonna ignore that kid that just fell off trying to climb up here" face until MK teleported in front of him???? but alas, he do be an actor. also cracks me up how they make him go "haha! you unloaded all your secret insecurities on me! but hey, no shame in that, its good to talk about your feelings, I don't really do it...maybe I should, buuuut we'd be here all day so >:)" like not only is that a hilarious call out about villains having trauma trope, but the 'maybe I should' and that there's so much of it, like blub u good 😭 am I watching a crack video. but how he laughs at the start there like you think accidental therapy monkey status is a big "gotcha" moment?? clown behavior. funniest thing to evil laugh about he looks manic and insane about it, what if I toss him out the window affectionately.

who tf is larry?

[cayteecat]

they should isekai larry next

[thestalkerbunny]

Once I saw post saying Larry was normal guy from our world that was isekaid in the pokemon world and but then just ended with an office job, again!

Larry is the isekai character who fell off a cliff once, said 'okay that's enough for me' and is now doing the accounting books for the Elite 4 while also serving on it.