#also keeping the S and V alliteration by giving Wake and Leaves new names based on Suicune and Virizion would be a cool detail
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fierykitten2 Ā· 1 month ago
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I love how the combination of Wake and Leaves not being in any of Perrinā€™s photos of their trio members and the two of them being not only exclusively found outside Area Zero but also being event-exclusive kinda implies (to me at least) that the two of them escaped and decided to explore. I was having this conversation with myself while having my breakfast this morning (itā€™s 2 minutes past noon as Iā€™m writing this so Iā€™m sure I finished breakfast in the morning) and I was thinking that the two of them (as a result of being event-exclusive) have probably spent a lot of time outside Paldea but at the very least Wake (assuming it travels without Leaves, which is pretty likely given theyā€™re version-exclusive) probably hasnā€™t got much further than somewhere in Kalos (not really sure how to fit this into the conversation but now feels like I good time to mention that even with the argument that thereā€™s land between Kalos and Paldea the Teraleak showed that was meant to be in X and Y so Iā€™m counting it as Kalos for the time being). I donā€™t see either of them scaling that cliff (despite Wakeā€™s strong legs) but Wake can walk on water while Leaves is part Psychic and can probably Teleport (turns out I donā€™t take into account the ability to learn the move Teleport when I think about Psychic-types being able to teleport. As far as Iā€™m concerned, they just have to be part Psychic to be able to teleport. Might explain why Jirachi and two of the Lake Guardians can use it illegally in the anime) and that thought made me realise itā€™s sad thereā€™s no chance of them appearing in Z-A. What I think should happen in place of that is there should be an NPC in Z-A who mentions sightings of an unidentifiable (I mean theyā€™re technically not in the Kalos Dex) PokĆ©mon resembling a feminine-presenting Legendary from a far away region in either Southern Kalos or one of the seaside cities (I was thinking Shalour City because it was the first one that came to mind. Iā€™d like to think that Wake followed the water and ended up there. Leaves probably felt like playing with its type advantage to Fighting or something). I mean the location they are rumoured to have been sighted in could vary per day and maybe sometimes theyā€™re not mentioned to have been sighted at all (the implication there being theyā€™ve gone back to Paldea for their event raids although this doesnā€™t have to coincide with a rerun of their event in SV. Would admittedly be pretty cool if it did though). Iā€™m also thinking that because theyā€™re version-exclusive it would make sense that only one of them has been sighted in Kalos. Iā€™m thinking (because presumably thereā€™ll be a ā€œchoose your version, X or Yā€ situation like how PLA makes you choose between the clans or something) that the NPC (or NPCs, maybe theyā€™re spreading a whole rumour about it rather than just one person being like ā€œI think I saw not-Suicune/not-Virizion in [insert location here]) could start off being ambiguous and describe stuff that applies to both Paradox PokĆ©mon at first but then go into more detail after youā€™ve chosen a version to be loyal to (I guess colour-coordinating their original versions would mean if you choose X you get Leaves being described and if you choose Y you get Wake being described but I like the idea of doing it the other way round. Mainly because I prefer Leaves and Y but if youā€™re just looking at the PokĆ©mon and not which versions they represent then Wake makes more sense with the blue X choice and Leaves makes more sense with the red Y choice plus Wake and X tend to get listed first while Leaves and Y tend to get listed second. Wake is my second-favourite PokĆ©mon so itā€™s admittedly no big loss if I chose the Y option only to discover the mystery (Paradox) PokĆ©mon was a big fluffy Walking Wake the entire time but I think Iā€™d still prefer for Yā€™s Paradox PokĆ©mon being Leaves)
It wonā€™t happen but I can dream
#walking wake#iron leaves#pokĆ©mon legends z-a#thereā€™s an illegal combination of tags but I just canā€™t let my top 2 favourite PokĆ©mon go and I am now excited for Z-A#and I mean the idea of them getting lost in Kalos because they wanted to explore is adorable#additional ideas:#it could be determined by save data. I however have both versions so idk what they would do#I guess probably have a girl who knows about Wakeā€™s sightings and a boy who knows about Leavesā€™s sightings#I think I prefer the ambiguous until you choose your canon version option personally#even if we say X Wake Y Leaves I reckon Leaves has befriended a Xerneas#also X Wake Y Leaves is kinda funny#because Xerneas is a Fairy-type (immune to Wakeā€™s Dragon-type) and Yveltal is part Dark (immune to Leavesā€™s Psychic-type)#theyā€™ve got the automatic dominance there I wouldā€™ve loved Terapagos to have (even though Fairy/Dark doesnā€™t make sense for Terapagos)#technically Teraform Zero gives him ā€œautomatic dominanceā€ over them anyway just not in the way I wanted him to have#also maybe the NPC(s) has/have tried to come up with their own code names for Wake and Leaves due to not knowing their official names#maybe they even went for more standard names (I still love TV Tropesā€™s suggestion of Suishodai and Viridiode)#bonus points if they start speculating about the rest of their trio members#although any suggested names might not be as fitting given they havenā€™t seen those four yet#TV Tropesā€™s choices for those four arenā€™t as interesting and if the other five alliterate with their modern-day counterparts#I think Boulderā€™s speculative name should start with Terra#also keeping the S and V alliteration by giving Wake and Leaves new names based on Suicune and Virizion would be a cool detail#Iā€™m fine with them keeping their official names#pokĆ©mon
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