#battler's promise

[coschins]

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[simikae]

DREAD OF THE BEACH EPISODE (MORE SEAGULLS)

bonus;

[vilevampire]

Hitting you with an idea beam that just struck me while I was trying to sleep. So, Kalrobi. But what if Kalego actually wants it to happen, but the reason he refuses is more linked to his dedication to his duty (because a relationship would be a distraction), so he just keeps. Pushing Robin away. Or maybe a combination of both hmmmmmm... Thinking

[kobitoshiningneedle]

Truly, one of the most wonderful and compelling aspects of beabato is how it was Battler who initially taught Sayo to see the heart of a story...

It's not that Battler himself is some unique or groundbreaking archetype of a silly-billy corny protagonist_with_heart_of_gold - but I like how believablehis genuine attempts to engage with everything in his life with care and give grace to it (okay, nevermind that actually in Umineko as we read it making Battler relearn these qualities were the meat of his arc, so it's not something he had from square one)

In any case, Sayo (through Beatrice) took this sentiment of his and multiplied by ten. She turned it into the red thread of any her struggle which resulted of the main motto of the VN itself. If it was just Beatrice teaching Battler to seek the truth with "heart" and it was just something Battler would understand through his journey wouldn't be as compelling - however, less tragic too, considering Battler's plotlines in both real world and meta. Which makes the whole thing more remarkable

Perhaps some degree of this vent about the importance of whydunnit was just his childish self-aggrandizing and flex in front of a meek cute maid girl, but there's still a good amount of ingenuity, especially if the receiving end was this same meek cute maid girl. His promise to return wasn't the only thing that made Sayo cling to Battler and his ideal image of her first love - it also his open mind and a certain courage to seek meaning in something that was important for them

Maybe it's no wonder Battler had to return to Rokkenjima at some point? He just could've left a piece of his own heart on Rokkenjima despite what the Ep7 flashback lead us to believe

[wildflowercryptid]

florian's always struggled to make friends so he didn't really have any back in galar... uh, actually — it might be more accurate is that he USED to have one...

headcanon explanation + bonus under the cut!

like mentioned above, florian has always struggled a lot with making friends. while he's a kindhearted and friendly kid, he can come across as kinda intense to others, ( especially when discussing his interests, ) and that's led to him often being alienated amongst his peers. though he's grown used to being by himself and has learned to not care if others dislike him, he still hopes that he can find at least a few people to connect with outside of his family. it's a hope that's always been present, ever since he was growing up in wyndon.

of course, he wasn't the only loner amongst his childhood peers. around 7 years old, he found a friend in bede fee, who attended the same primary school as him. bede themself wasn't exactly the friendliest kid out there and often had spats with people who made fun of them for their family's low-income status, but florian managed to get them to warm up to him. the two got along pretty well and found comfort in having a friend that seemed to understand them, both being lonely kids who were often picked on by others. after a while, they became pretty much inseparable as they frequently played, read, and laughed together. to florian, it didn't matter that people picked on him just as long as he had bede there to be his friend. bede shared a similar sentiment... at least, at first he did.

admittedly, florian has a habit of resting on his laurels when it comes to things he doesn't have an interest in improving. ( it doesn't matter if he isn't as good of a battler as his sister, all he needs is to be strong enough to keep himself safe during field research. it doesn't matter if he's ostracized amongst his peers and looked down upon, he's alright as long as he has someone to call a friend. etc, etc. ) bede, however, couldn't keep themself from caring about their place in the pecking order. they were sick of others looking down on them, sick of others thinking they were better than them. they just couldn't understand how florian could stand people treating him poorly without getting angry. over time, frustration and resentment towards his attitude festered inside them. these feelings were only exacerbated by their struggles at home and being sent to the orphanage. while they would still call each other friends, their bond had definitely become strained.

everything came to a head when they were both 11 years old, when rose visited bede's orphanage and his acknowledgement caused a major shift in their personality. after all, someone that important seeing their potential surely meant that they better than their peers, right? they soon became much more pompous and rude in nature. florian still stayed close by despite bede's worsening attitude towards him, but it wasn't before long until all of their pent-up feelings came flooding out. their friendship ended with massive fight, with bede telling florian that they were sick of being weighed down by an " annoying pest " like him. while they expected for him to take their cruel remarks in stride like he always did with everyone else, bede couldn't help but feel a little guilty when florian ran off in tears. the two stopped talking after that fight and ever since then, there's always a worry in the back of florian's mind that his friends will eventually get sick of him like bede did. ( thankfully, the friends he's made since then have helped make him feel a lot more secure in their relationships. )

apologies for the long-winded explanation, here's the bonus i promised to make up for how sad this hc got :

the goofy ass side effect of coming up with this headcanon is realizing that they accidentally shaped each others' taste in guys rip

[catboxcoffin]

Battler/Kinzo/Projection

Battler’s narrative assault & sexualization is pretty interesting to me as an inversion of sexed roles, so I’ve decided to refine and paste some of my thoughts on it, beginning with Yasu-trice. Battler repeatedly has Kinzo’s (amatory) role projected onto him, both by Piece-Beatrice directly and Yasu’s authorial insinuations. (I won’t incorporate Meta-Beatrice into this analysis for a few reasons, the main being that I don’t think she is Yasu in the same sense as the others; secondarily that she is so gratuitous in her assaults and references that it would be nonsensical to lend any nuance to it. Plus, her indiscriminate performance in the earlier episodes is what sets up such a divergence later on)

I. Episode 4

Gameboard events are a requisite to understanding the skeleton of the stories that we’re actually being shown. Given the nebulous nature of the Meta and what it represents, a tale created and decorated in-universe in an attempt to communicate is generally more useful in viewing its subjects. On that note, the end of Episode 4 is a scarce instance where we are given a physical interaction between Piece-Beatrice and Battler. As Battler stands before the balcony denying her riddles and threatening her, Beatrice doubles down on her stern insistence regarding ‘testing’ him as the Successor, yet engages in innuendo the second he attempts to physically approach her. This presents a noticeable incongruence between Beatrice’s projected mythos and Piece-Beatrice as played by Yasu. She is physically distant, reading as almost shy. She’s stepped down from being an active harasser, instead functioning passively and reactively, ungracefully shifting between goals for the conversation. She is clearly very alienated from an autonomous sense of eroticism, which is why she instead endeavors to lure it out of him (despite her performative disdain). Her drunken sexuality is framed in relation to what she thinks hides ‘within’ Battler; her musings are based on the assumptions regarding <The Head>. She arrogantly asserts that her superficial form is his type, making sure to paint it as a shallow preference she’s pinpointed. (However even this is something she already knows as a fact, erasing any chance of the ‘unpredictable roulette’ she seems to exalt. She has little real confidence in her desirability, and even less in her ability to make him remember his sin)

She continues her attempt at testing his resolve, presenting herself for her ‘new master’ to own her flesh and soul as furniture, victimize her into surrender, and, crucially, remind her of Kinzo. Because that’s what Battler is to her: a reincarnation of Kinzo, carrying his spirit and blood most strongly. And how could he be anything else? Yasu is ‘Beatrice’ incarnate, her predecessors being both swept away and brutally betrayed by Kinzo, and by virtue of Battler’s failed promise, he has done the same. Her conflict arises here: her love for Battler meshing with her repulsion towards Kinzo, and her inability to reconcile them as full people. The same assumptions about Kinzo’s relationship to preceding Beatrices that traumatize her into hatred are simultaneously twisted into a romanticized ideal, and she is continually unable to conceive of her relationships without paralleling these identities and dynamics she’s latched onto. She is an ancestral fatalist, resigning not only autonomy within her own life but puppeting her relatives’ souls as her own. They cannot sleep peacefully as themselves, and neither can an unadulterated Battler. Beatrice indirectly castigates Battler (or her idea of him blurred into Kinzo) through her earlier ramblings on the nature of love-as-lust and the cage of flesh, but later turns around and flirts with the ideas, even going as far as writing her piece to romance Kinzo directly, despite knowing she’s caricaturing her own mother’s harrowing circumstances.

II. Message-Bottle Furniture

Lovelessly—or, perhaps, in a twisted abundance of love—Yasu’s message bottles distort Battler’s entire character into something alien in his six-year absence. This is what it means for new truths to triumph over old truths. Battler, the boy who left his own family due to his indignation over infidelity and who sought the heart in every story, is suddenly a perverted beast. He is a vapid womanizer like his father and an exploiter of status and naïveté like his grandfather. Beyond his will, parodied projections of his profanity are exposed within the message bottles, existing to cement his sin as irredeemable. I believe this is both a semi-conscious self-justification on Yasu’s part (cutting out the moral ambiguity of him simply forgetting) and a way to cope with her own undesirability (by manufacturing a more ‘active’ sin, one that would require Battler to care in the first place).

(…Side Note: I like how the attempted grope of Shannon in EP1 encompasses both this hostile projection and a dance around the desire to be discovered… [Fake breasts]. It adds another layer of selfish assumption to her narrative: he was always a piece. He doesn’t solve the epitaph and he doesn’t remember her because he never had the chance.)

To reiterate, his character is degraded and he is manipulated as a plot device within the message bottles. The narrative hinges on his existence, yet he has little room to move—In fact, his actual presence is hardly necessary. He committed a sin that permanently scarred someone, and he cannot apologize. The victim no longer exists. Battler, as a concept, constitutes a motive for murder. In his absence, he is a myth.

Remind you of anyone else?

III. Kuwatrice-Kinzo / Chick Beatrice-BATTLER

This parallel creates an interesting issue. The line of descendant/reincarnation is blurred and there’s an explicitly incestuous tone, but it quickly becomes more of a foil than a mirror. Kinzo’s idea of reincarnation is pure delusion, Battler rejects it despite it being true; Kinzo is affectionately dominating, Battler is cold; Kinzo rejects his status as a father, Battler grows to accept it.

So, Kinzo’s role is subverted. This should be a good thing, right?

It isn’t. At least, not to the judge of sin.

Chick-Beatrice is not a new creation; this is a glimpse of the Beatrice that first adopted Shannon’s bud of love for Battler six years prior. At this point, ‘Beatrice’ was still individuated. She wasn’t yet mutated by the legend of the witch, the solving of the epitaph, or, arguably, her Battler-desirability complex. This, I assert, is the closest we see to a pure ‘Yasu’ in later years, as the remainder of her true self that resided in Shannon had already been compartmentalized by that point. This is why Dawn is so tragic. Battler has allegedly solved her heart, yet even in his ‘enlightenment’ he is dismissive of her. To the first-time viewer, this rejection is bittersweet: he is waiting for the ‘real’ her to return. Issue is, that is the real her. This is the ‘Shannon’ he knew, before she was twisted into a sadistic amalgam of escapist fantasies dressed up with his desires. By all rights, Chick should align much more with the ‘Shannon’ that loved Battler. The dutiful “blindness of a girl in love,” willing to wait a century to be noticed. But he doesn’t understand that, bemoaning being too late while literally being thrusted another chance to do it right. Of course this chance doesn’t apply to reality, but it never did. He was already facing a postmortem trial for his failure in life, and the end of Meta-Beatrice marks his failure in death.

Battler is fated to only ever have a paternalistic, sympathetic affection towards Chick. Even after learning the truth, it will always be Beatrice that he loves. As much is clear in his Twilight gameboard. He recognizes Yasu as a vessel, but she’s virtually indistinguishable from Piece-Beato, an actor serving as the means for the illusion and providing a sympathetic backstory. Ange was right—there’s no point in having someone love in your place.

Regardless, Battler is himself. If he’d only inherited enough of Kinzo’s blood, maybe he could have loved all ‘iterations’ passionately and indiscriminately. Kinzo fabricated connections out of nothing, he ‘understood’ the reincarnated soul, and he was willing to die before he let her escape. His overbearing, cloying affection had a certainty that I believe Yasu envied, in a way. To be kidnapped and caged forever would be morbidly romantic, to her at least. How tragically ironic that the fatalist who desired to be carried away ended up having to orchestrate the game of love&communication herself…

IV. The Head

Aside from what I’ve mentioned, Yasu has a final, strikingly obvious reason to project Kinzo onto Battler: deflection.

Yasu is a disastrous parallel to Kinzo. They share the disturbing quality of willpower exceeding their body, a flippancy regarding life and death, living in spite of frailty. They are born with and die with nothing. She too dances with the magic of the roulette, staking fate on a miracle. She too ‘met’ Beatrice as an attempt at severing her regrets in life; she too summoned the Golden Witch and received a fortune at the cost of her soul; she too felt blessed and mocked by the myth of Beatrice, after wandering half-dead in a life that was not her own. A life in which she had been suddenly given power as a prank of fate, with the included (mis)fortune of polydactyly. They were each forced to endure Endlessness, awaiting the revival of love that may never come, desperately discarding their dignity for the sake of resurrection. The epitaph chooses both Kinzo’s and Beatrice’s successor. To ‘see’ is to answer the riddle. Just as Kinzo did to ‘Beatrice,’ Yasu has sewn the Ushiromiyas’ souls onto the island with magic, allowing them neither power nor form. Both are vulnerable kings protected by their own castles, refusing to speak the truth. Their massive wealth will be distributed, but the secret tales die with them.

Yasu was afforded unbelievable power by solving the epitaph, but it ended up destroying her with knowledge she did not want. She was given the reasoning that kills love. Upon the horrific discovery that her romantic feelings not only couldn’t be consummated but were incestuous as well, it is almost certain that she would feel the same repulsion towards herself as Kinzo. From that moment, she too was lying about the true nature of her relationships with the ones she loved. She too could not curb her affection or fear in time to tell the truth. There is no path she can make for herself, as she cannot live independently of projected roles. Incapable of individuating herself from Kinzo with self-identity, the logical conclusion is to invert the roles and make herself Beatrice, and more importantly, Battler Kinzo. Then, she must pray for the miracle that someone would come and solve the epitaph, taking back the role she was so haunted by and carrying her to a better life…

[batbeato]

The true tragedy of Umineko is that of the 8 episodes, Sayo only got to write two of them. This is a tragedy not just from that fact alone, but also the fact that Sayo's writing style is distinct from Tohya's and, I'd argue, is in many ways superior.

Tohya prefers these very elaborate metaphors that go over the top - Tohya's writing is very over the top in general - like the "good witch" Beatrice of EP3. Does it mean that Beatrice is learning to value her own life, regretting the massacre/plan, learning to value and respect Battler's opinion, or just learning that she should present as a more benevolent figure for Battler so that he will engage with her mystery more? There are a lot of options, and sometimes it doesn't seem clear. There's also other instances of this, like the Chick Beatrice/Elder Beatrice of EP6 that confuses a lot of readers.

Meanwhile, Sayo's writing feels very dense - she puts a lot more focus into the general family/servant 'mundane' interactions. In Episode 1, her use of Rosa's gift to Natsuhi to bring up a fulfilled promise and her use of the exchange between Battler and Maria (George reassuring Maria, saying that Battler can't be trusted, warning Battler to be more careful with his words) come to mind. Their metaphors are more dense, but also easier to unpack once you know what you're looking for - while Tohya's are more elaborate, and difficult to parse.

There's an elegance to Sayo's writing that is somewhat absent in Tohya's - his feels messier, more emotional, more over the top. He discards the horror-mystery for fantasy-romance-mystery bundled up together. It's beautiful - Chiru has my favorite episodes - but I feel as though we missed out on being able to see Sayo tackle more of the sort of over the top overt 'fantasy' that Tohya so often uses, or to see how Sayo would have expanded the red truth, the blue truth, and so on.

I love that the two are so distinct - whether by Ryukishi's design or even just happenstance - but I regret that we didn't get Land. Not just because I wanted to see Virgilius and Black Battler, but also to read more of Sayo's writing. Honestly, it's an even greater tragedy than how the concept of Black Battler was discarded.

[a-trainer-on-the-internet]

As previously promised - pokemon pics are here!

The drowzee is Mochi, and she is a menace. She's retired from being a service mon, trained to consume night terrors, bad dreams, and some intrusive thoughts, but it also means she knows how to unlock doors and turn off/on appliances, so she's a menace. Don't let the rockruff-eyes fool you. She's not supposed to be on the bed.

The trubbish is Artie/Aurthur and he is a sweet lil baby who can do no wrong. Also, despite stereotypes, Artie is very well groomed and enjoys dust baths, brushing, and generally being treated like the lil prince he is.

Neither of them are battlers, but they're both great companions, especially when I take them with me for research projects.

(ooc: Artie is just drawn over my real actual dog, and Mochi is literally just a large stuffed animal I drew over. Credits for Artie's name go to @weareclarity go check them out they're cool! Also hopefully next I can do a trainer pic.)

[bossbutch]

halfway thru chapter 1 of umineko. idk how meaningful it is to speculate this early, The Real Umineko hasnt even properly started. these arent fully thought out and organized it's just scattered thoughts

battler's gender politics are entertainingly weird. he's like "when i meet a woman, even if she's my cousin or my servant, i NEED to make a big show of grabbing her tits so that she can hit me and everyone will laugh at the Classic Gag and it'll lighten the mood" which is just ridiculous enough to be something a rich teenager in the 80s could convince himself is okay. and then he sees the dinner seating and he's like "damn my family's so patriarchal. thought gained: inexplicable feminist agenda". i'm assuming this is a genre deconstruction thing. also lol that he is right next to maria in grandpa's tier list

maria is awesome btw i hope she gets to infodump about magic a lot more. some goon in the SA thread said the umineko author was once a social worker, so like. even if they don't use the word because it's japan in the 80s she's gotta be Intended as autistic

kinzo's room is so telegraphed to be a locked room mystery. he's entertaining too but i kinda zone out when he's talking about how his magic system works. i get the basic of more risk = more magic power but i worry it's the kind of thing that has Important Clues that my brain autofills with [arcane rambling]

battler constantly gasses up how good george is with kids and then george sees a family member repeatedly hitting their 9 year old disabled child and says, out loud, "not my problem"

assuming the epitaph is a puzzle intended to be solved and not the kind of puzzle that frames all the other puzzles and isn't solvable til the end: until the first butterfly i thought all the death and traveling was metaphorical. it still could be. like the six chosen by the key could be objects. the hands of a clock may be involved because that's in all the promo stuff and chapter start art. kinzo acted like the riddle was totally solvable by the doc or kanon or any of his kids. but if it was unsolvable until People Started Dying, it seems kinda pointless to have put the painting up years ago? but beatrice is a Dramatic Bitch.

Who Took The Rose?! no idea, but i'm sure it's important. if there's a 19th person, definitely them. totally possible the wrapper fell off but they'd still recognize the withered rose i reckon

Who Gave Maria The Umbrella?! again, if there's a 19th person, it's them. if not, natsuhi was my prime suspect because her alibi didn't have any witnesses but everyone else's did (if you really count grandpa and the doctor, like doc could easily say "i was with kinzo" and no one would verify that with kinzo). but then there was a scene right after from natsuhi's pov (migraine and can't sleep without meds, literally me) where she speculates who did it. so either the narrative is heavily fucking with me, it's gramps or the doctor, or it's someone with an accomplice

the narration is from battler's pov except when it's not and it's strange. it even isn't from his pov in some scenes that he's in, like the letter reading scene. this is the type of thing that could Mean Something way later but is just a little confusing sometimes right now

kyrie saying there's a contradiction in beatrice showing herself to maria but hiding from everyone else, failing to consider beatrice may be a Dramatic Bitch. i think there's probably a 19th person even if they are not necessarily a witch with magic powers

the furniture being totally able to break promises but can't disobey orders is the kind of exact words semantic sillies that umineko memes made me expect

goes w/o saying that the way the servants are treated is supremely fucked up. going to servant school and then working in the mansion at age six... george proposing to a girl that he has so much power over is lol. it's nice that umineko cares who the servants are and why they're there, and other logistical human things like how kinzo made his money and what they're all doing with it

at midnight, where was the doctor?

they drop some hints that the non-shannon, non-krauss bodies have their faces disfigured and Could be other people but that is pretty ridiculous and there's no reasons to consider that yet

i wish the LP used the doughy original art but that's the price i pay for convenience

[blenthii]

Following up on my canon outfit promise, here are some of the men of Umineko! For everyone that just has easily recolorable suits, I think I just missed Hideyoshi...and Okonogi, if anyone even cares.

Battler/Black Battler & Genji/Gohda are alts in the same package, everyone else is separate! Also, Battler is divided into top and bottom, everyone else is full body. Should be Base Game Compatible!

Please enjoy!

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[most-screwed-by-writers-tourney]

Propaganda:

Beatrice and Battler: This is not really a ship as this relationship is cannon. As for the fucked up part.... it is fucked on many levels, but it does involve major spoilers. TW: incest, rape Non-spoiler parts: In most of the games, Beatrice and Battler engage in a wit battle about the existence of Beatrice. Beatrice will show gruesome murders of Battlers to make him acknowledge that she killed his family by magic, and Battler will try to prove that a human did it without magic. While nobody forfeits, the game continue. This game is qualified as an "endless torture" for both. BIG BIG SPOILERS parts (please include a skip): Basically*, Beatrice is the persona of Sayo Yasuda. Sayo is the child of Kinzo (the grandfather of Battler) and Kuwadorian Beatrice, and Kuwadorian Beatrice is the daughter of Kinzo and Beatrice Castiglioni. Sayo was born after an incesteous rape. So Sayo is related twice to Battler. Also Sayo has a two alters: Shannon and Kannon. They are both dating a cousin of Battler (George and Jessica). Six years prior to the story, Battler and Shannon had a teenage crush. Battler promised to come next year to Rokkenjima and "with a white horse". He completely forgot it never came to Rokkenjima. Shannon, then Sayo, suffered a lot about this and sank deeper into depression. Finally, Sayo didn't actually killed Battlers family, but they was ready to do it. To conclude, this is a doubly-incestuous relationship between a suicidal system who is ready to kill the other's family, and a dummy incompetent who make other suffer by negligence. It also involves other members of the family. And rape backstory. * I know it's more complicated, Umineko fans don't kill me!

[psn-stalling]

Hello Rotomblr!~

It's your favorite poison specialist (and former champion of the BB league, also formerly a BBA student) Atlas! I go by He/Him primarily, and I'm 17! Welcome one, welcome all! I truly do hope you enjoy your stay here!

...Let's not go too far into prying about the history of this blog though, shall we? I'd appreciate it if you didn't. Bringing up mistakes I've made in the past aren't exactly... Relevant per say. So let's not!

Anyways, I'm sure you all would love to see my team wouldn't you? Well here you go! Granted. I don't really battle much anymore. But it's the thought that counts here okay-

And here are my non battlers! Just for fun!

Also uh. My five shiny Sentrets aren't stated by name on here but they ARE in fact there. (Lime, Grapefruit, Orange, Tangerine, Yuzu)

(Ooc under cut)

//Hello!! I'm Midnight/Castor (He/It/They) and welcome to my chronically online son's blog!! Here I'll just state the rules and such!! 🎉

Please no magic anons unless stated otherwise! Pelipper AND Musharna mail/malice is on! Though I might be picky, so keep that in mind!

Sapient Pokémon are allowed, but he might not believe them at times. Along these lines, ANYONE can interact with him! I promise that I won't get annoyed if you send in asks or want to interact as long as they follow my boundaries ^^

In character hate is more than allowed! In fact, I actively encourage it as long as it's IN CHARACTER!! The moment it goes ooc, you'll be blocked immediately. No exceptions.

Atlas is a MINOR, so if you try to do anything NSFW you'll be blocked immediately. There are no exceptions to this. Clearly silly suggestive jokes and whatnot are fine, but there's a very fine line between that and just being straight up weird.

If I take some time getting to your ask/reblog, please don't take it personally! As active as I am on here I do get pretty busy sometimes, so it might take me a few. Sometimes I also get brain fog or am really tired due to medical issues, so that might be why! I also just sometimes don't know how to respond to things, so I apologize if that happens.

Thank you so much for reading this! :3

Atlas references vvv

[kushanna]

what i'm understanding from all this is that the epitaph in reality has no relation to determining how the murders happen. by "all this" i mean the gold being found and the crimes continuing (again), the murders happening in a slightly different way from how it's presented in the epitaph and that whole conversation with virgilia. i'm not saying the epitaph is meaningless, just that its meaning doesn't actually depend upon how the murders are committed or the gold being found. if the whole point is that battler (and maria...? she always stays until the very end too) has to make it until the end, then the murders would continue anyway, they were never supposed to stop. almost as if the gold itself is what's meaningless, it has no effect whatsoever on the grand scheme of things, you find it, you don't, nothing changes, you yourself live to see october 6th but that's it. the gold and the murders are only there to put focus on the epitaph for battler, which is what matters. but she keeps her promises and isn't it a promise that the ritual should stop? or the ritual stopping means something else? ..............................? i very much not do see yet how i'm supposed to connect 1986 rokkenjima with beato, who at the very least is Not An Alive Person At The Moment, in a fully "realistic" way, without taking into account other planes of existence at the least, which is the biggest problem i have. i'm not really seeing the tools that are supposed to help me (i believe they exist lmao just not seeing them yet), but i do understand it's as if they're "reenacting" previous scenes, like with eva and the receipt and the chain in the door, but there's a focus on natsuhi for reasons i don't fully understand. i am very lost 👍🏻

[tinka-tank]

(They didn't have the Paldea one 😭)

Part 3 in the DC Pokémon AU, please see previous posts for more lore and I'm still open to more help and suggestions

Check the #dc pokemon au for it

These are just things I shit out and maybe someday I'll properly render everything but my design process for these is make them have a color that their typing has as in pink for fairy and blue for water etc.

Very special thank you to @illusionsignmisdirection for the help with this au and all the wonderful suggestions and ideas

Alec:

Alec is the ice type gym leader, he is the 1st gym leader overall. His gym is a library and he is the main librarian. He's planned to be apart of the villain team (known as Team Idol) as their leader so under the gym is the secret base which has those annoying ass ice puzzles we all are too familiar with.. and the gym is on top of an ice mountain because your first task is going to be haul ass up that mountain #absolutely and yes he is divorced and his wife took their son as she should #yup He's the only one with a party decided with a Delibird and Snorunt and his later party as the final team boss is to be decided.

For his design I went with icy librarian man that's literally my thought process and a tattered coat to show age and tired energy

Gabby and Ellie:

Gabby and Ellie are the grass type gym leaders, the second gym leaders overall. It started off as Gabby, but I imagine she had Ellie join her seeing as Ellie is a good battler herself. I like to think they're married or at the very least promised to each other, as see by the matching rings I gave them. They are so in love really... and I like to think Ellie made their outfits for each other (I couldn't pick which Gabby design I liked better so I put both) because I still think she's a fashion designer and probably her job is working at an office or freelance design, as seen w the pencil skirt and flats I gave her. I wanted her to look cute and professional to show that looks can be deceiving because she's also apart of Team Idol and maybe Gabby might be too, depending on what happens in dcas w her and the villains alliance. Gabby is supposed to give whimsical yes, like the most whimsy grass girl ever who waters her flowers and would shoot you if you litter type of shit. I think sometimes Gabby is solo then Ellie takes over other hours or sometimes they both battle together. Gabbys job is probably the city/town gardener, probably sells herbs and healing items that aren't found in Pokémarts

Hunter:

Hunter is the ghost type gym leader, he is the 3rd gym leader overall. I like to think his gym is some kind of abandoned warehouse or some other abandoned place turned ghost rave ! Ally is the DJ and does all the electrical work while Hunter battles challengers and puts on performances with the fellow ghosts roaming around. I based his design on the fact that he should be allowed to wear whatever he wants and the neon glowsticks and bracelets are based on his team colors !! Also the pale face paint and make up bc he's a performer duh and a crinoline with tattered fabric bc he's fancy like that. Didn't wanna add too many skulls bc that's Jake's brand he was the first one move over Hunter and his job really just is performer like he performs all the time for cash and relies on Ally dj money too 😭

Riya:

Riya is the flying type gym leader, she is the fifth gym leader overall. Yes her flying type is because of her assassination attempt on Aiden no one can change me I'm a woman. And also because her with a Bombirdier fits and also an Altaria and Vespiquen, but it's still to be decided. Her design was inspired by sky trainer bodysuits and her shoes height are to reflect her incredible balance and how she's always above everyone else both physically and mentally. I liked adding armor that looks like she's a warrior because let's be real here she is here to WIN. Also gold. She's regal. Love her sm... I think she puts on air show performances and is a celebrity, movie star all over again... like she's so fabulous how can you look away ? Her gym in my head is probably a runway of sorts or movie studio, probably shoots her battling to add into her movies really and yes she's apart of the villain team, she's second in command because why wouldn't she be

Miriam:

(Queen) Miriam is a retired gym leader, she once was the fairy type gym leader, formerly the eighth and last gym leader. Jake now is in her spot and she sometimes visits the gym. She normally is at home baking and providing for the neighboring Pokémon. I like to think her ace is Alcremie cause of obvious reasons and that Jake gifted her a Fidough to keep her company when he's busy at his job and the gym. She has a more bright and "good" aesthetic than Jake, so her gym was more different than his currently is. I like to think she could be challenged later on if this was a game, like post game ! I like to think she also exposed Team Idol and either was kidnapped or just. Roams free who knows. But she's strong and a wise mentor to Jake who helped him calm down a bit so he doesn't destroy everything with his powers when losing.

Other tidbits:

- This is the Tipiskaw Region and it's like side game regions where no new Pokémon are introduced but old ones are available like from previous generations

- The order is:

1st gym: Alec (ice type)

2nd gym: Gabby and Ellie (grass type)

3rd gym: Hunter (ghost type)

4th gym: Connor (steel type)

5th gym: Riya (flying type)

6th gym: James (electric type)

7th gym: Grett (dragon type)

8th gym: Jake (fairy type)

Elite four: Oliver (normal type)

Elite four: Emily (psychic type)

Elite four: Derek (dark type)

Elite four: Trevor (ground type)

Champion: Kristal

- The name of the Villain team is Team Idol, consisting of Leader Alec, second in command Riya, Grett, Yul, Ellie (maybe Gabby) and Fiore and their goal is for complete domination

- Yul is the first fight due to being brash and a show off, many people believe he's the leader of the team because of this and he is a fire type speicalist (also Yul has big beef w James as they are rival idols and both have Oricorio aces)

- Fiore is a NFE specialist (not fully evolved) specialist with Pokémon that just aren't fully evolved yet, but she is still strong in her own right and she trashed Tom's cop car definitely

- Grett is the dragon type specialist and a gym leader herself who later decides to help you the player (Lake and Drew) to stop the team bc she realizes it's wrong and gives the key pass to the secret base she is STRONG

- Also yes Lake is the female MC and despite not being an all star, Drew is the male MC. Lake is the talkative protagonist Drew is the silent protagonist

- Aiden is the friendly rival with legit one Pokémon, that being Pidove and it eventually evolves into a Tranquill and just stops there. Ellie is the hating ass rival, maybe, I think so yeah

- Tom is a police officer and almost a Looker figure as he is constantly going around the region and yes him and Jake had a thing and it's going poorly like in all stars

- Tom will be kidnapped by Team Idol yes, and other shit occurs which the gym leaders (that aren't in on it) have to help save the day

I like to think this is Jake's reaction to the shit storm Ellie throws at him bc she kidnapped Tom:

I'll make another post later on with all the complete details of all the characters and their rolls, I'm primarily focusing on the dcas cast

[belltrigger]

Submastober Day 08!

Inspiration: There's an older OC-tober prompt-list here that I am using.

Title: But Who's Watching the One Who Watches? Prompt: Graceful Word count: 954 Synopsis: Emmet becomes jealous without realizing it.

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Emmet was frustrated.

He and Ingo were in the middle of a battle, one that had been taking longer than usual. Their challenger matched them nearly blow for blow, and it was exciting to see what trick they would pull next. In normal circumstances, Emmet would be loving this drawn out battle, eager to glean the way to break through a strong challenger's defenses.

Ingo, on the other hand, enjoyed faster, more decisive battles. Usually, his stamina (and patience) started to wear during these longer battles. It wasn't as though his brother started to get sloppy or anything, but it became more and more obvious that he was trying to end battles the longer they went. In fact, that was his excuse whenever he used earthquake in their battles together. Emmet thought he just found it funny.

Today, however, Ingo was just as energetic as he had been at the start. Every time the challenger pulled off a particularly powerful move, Emmet could hear his brother proclaim 'Bravo!' with his usual enthusiasm and fervor. His brother was always wordy, but not so much during battles. But he gave encouragement and praise nearly every round this time.

Tilting his cap down to partially obscure his glower, Emmet turned his gaze away from his brother towards their challenger. Ingo pulled off a barrage of attacks that drew the challenger's attention away, so Emmet's stare was not noticed for now. People sometimes said that he and Ingo had very unnerving stares. Emmet knew this but wasn't sure why they thought so. He thought Ingo's eyes were perfectly nice.

What a trainer looked like never mattered to Emmet. First and foremost, he wanted a good battle. But he had never asked Ingo if he found anyone, let alone a challenger, appealing. Maybe he did, and therefore found battling her more fun? To Emmet, this challenger was no different than any other. But something must be different to Ingo. So Emmet stared as much as he could in between rounds and attacks.

Firstly, he noticed she was shorter than them, but most everyone they came across was. Her dress was long and white with purple accents, but Emmet also wore something long and white with colored accents. She had long flowing hair with a little flower tucked into it at her temple, none of which Emmet had.

Was it the stance? She stood delicately, holding her white hat (which Emmet also had) in front of her with both of her hands as she gave out commands to her pokemon. Emmet had a verrrrry good stance. Ingo liked the stance so much that he copied Emmet after telling him how good it was.

Emmet's movements were crisp and snappy. But their opponent's gestures were soft and flowing, much like her dress. She had stepped onto their train with all of the grace of… well, Emmet couldn't think of any comparisons that weren't to pokemon. Primarina maybe? Though, Ingo had told him multiple times that most people didn't like to be compared to pokemon, no matter how correct the comparison was. Emmet would keep it to himself this time too, but he wondered if Ingo felt the same.

Eventually, finally, the battle came to an end. He and Ingo won, and the lady who was battling them bowed in thanks for 'a wonderful battle.' All while closely watching Ingo's reaction, Emmet told her that she had to come back again to try and beat them. He meant it sincerely, as he always did, but something in his chest tightened when she stood up straight and agreed brightly.

Ingo clapped in response, and said the things he always said to promising battlers. That loosened the knot in Emmet's chest a little, knowing that his brother didn't have something special, something unique, something more intimate to say to this challenger. But the concern still lingered even after she left the train.

Tugging his hat down over his eyes again, Emmet thought over the weird feeling that settled in his stomach, becoming so wrapped up in his thoughts that he didn't notice Ingo speaking to him. But then, he felt a pat on his shoulder. Looking up, eyebrows knitted in silent question, he was greeted with Ingo looking even more enthusiastic than he had in battle.

“Bravo Emmet! You were most magnificent in this battle!” Emmet could almost see stars in his brother's eyes, making him even more confused.

“Eh?”

“I was certain that we were going to be brought down in round three, but you were most alert! Truly, no one can get past your defense when you are prepared!” Ingo removed his hand from Emmet's shoulder, cupping his elbow as his other hand crooked a finger at his chin. “You looked very impressive, Emmet. I will admit that it was hard to focus on the battle in the moment.”

Emmet could feel his face heating up. His brother had been watching him during their battle? That knowledge mixed with the weird feeling made him squeak and tug his hat brim further down. “I… I am Emmet. I was focused on the battle.”

Ingo's voice took on a warm tone, and Emmet could hear the smile in it even without looking up. “Yes, and it was quite a sight. I hope all of our battles together allow me to see you looking so graceful and in command.”

Unable to stand it any longer, Emmet popped his head up with a flustered sputter. But, Ingo's face was closer than anticipated, expression a smoldering look that Emmet had never seen before. There was no time to savor it, however, as Ingo closed the gap even further with a kiss.

[nyaagolor]

New theory for Battler’s “sin” (or at least one of them): he definitely flirted with Shannon in some capacity according to the things she says in Chapter 3, so I think Beatrice is mad at him for breaking her heart and leaving her behind. He did not show up on that promised white horse in that lil princely outfit and he did not throw out those cheesy catchphrases, so now she has to settle for George.

As for why this leads to mass murder: A lifetime in jail or literally anything else is preferable to being that George’s tradwife