#bw brainrot au

[mechanoize]

might tweak his chest fluff in his final ref but also I think it’s cute

[marchy-emmet]

Glitchy Submas!!

You finally reach round 21 on the multi train. But there's a problem.

You've been repeatedly battling them separately on the single and doubles trains, over and over and over again... for weeks? Months? ... Or perhaps even a YEAR before you went for the multi train again...?

You begin to get strange messages every time you battle them and defeat them. They're incredibly upset. You made them separate for that long? Well, you hadn't realized their AI was sentient, now did you?

No, that couldn't be it, your game is broken. They aren't.... vengeful spirits inside the game or anything. What is this -- a Creepypasta?

[chopprface]

dinobot brainrot post cause im so excited about this fic like DESPERATE to ramble about it its so nuts

some of these are general hcs for dinobot and bw cybertron cause i really love digging into the implied flaws of post great-war cybertron. also i like to mix in little tidbits of various continuities i know about into everything so some elements like functionism from mtmte and extra stuff from beast wars comics throughout the years may show up. ill keep them as vague as i can so no one feels lost but i cant totally promise itll be coherent..

-dinobot has a pre-beastwars name! hes deadbolt :) yes i know hes supposed to be 'dynobot' before bw but thats lame. totally different names are cooler plus it gets to be like a dramatic moment when you mention their pre bw cybertron name because you KNOW shits getting serious. -anyway pre-beastwars he wanted to settle down be a historian/archivist, but because of predacon distrust, a resurgence in functionist ideas, and a repression of actual history, he never got to see it through and in normal canon he just joins megatrons group of predacons. -HOWEVER in the au im working on he instead decides to further science (mostly for plot reasons maybe ill flesh it out more as i write.) and fuses his spark with rampage/protoform x's on colony omicron. the experiment is overseen by the imperial peace marshal of the colony, depth charge. -all seems to go well at first, but deadbolt is frequently dehumanized by the maximal scientists eventually decides to escape, causing a massacre similar to what rampage does before bw starts

-flash forward 4 years/stellar cycles, several more violent escapes including one on starbase rugby (mentioned in the show) he ends up facing trial by the tripredacus council, who decide the best course of action to deal with deadbolt is to turn him back into a protoform, put on the axalon disposed of on a different, uninhabited planet. this totally will not go wrong and WILL NOT cause problems for the maximals on the axalon later. definitely not.

anyway thats all i can share right now :3 fic coming sometime before im dead (I HAVE TO WAIT A WEEK FOR MY AO3 ACCOUNT TO BE CREATED UGUUH) im working on finalizing the first like.. chapter idk fanfiction terms ive never uploaded anything ive written onto a site lol

[serotoninisheldinkiwis]

lore for the legendary aspect au (PART TWO)

beware my brainrot cannot be contained (it will be below a read more because it is LONG) (spoilers for bw, bw2, pla!)

Similar to Aspects are Facets. Facets are similar, in that it is a Legendary and human soul in one body. There is one crucial difference, though, and it is that both souls are twined together into one. Legendaries cannot control when this happens- it is a natural part of their life cycle, a reincarnation of sorts. When it's natural, it's an unconscious effect- the Legendary will go to sleep the night before, and slumber in the soul of the newly-born Facet until an appropriate age to awaken. It’s similar to reincarnation, and often Facets will form more often after injuries to a Legendary accumulate enough to significantly wound it, due to the long lifespan of many Legendaries.

This is Ingo and Emmet’s case. A prototype of Team Plasma was working for a long time to find the Dragons- they were found, and in the resulting fight, lucky Fairy-type hits injured both Dragons severely. They fled, but the wounds were too great- Reshiram and Zekrom curled up together, falling unconscious. Zekrom was the first to fall, and Reshiram roughly 10 minutes after. The exact time the Dragons fell, their souls were attached to Ingo and Emmet’s as the twins took their first breaths. Zekrom and Ingo have two identities, but are one being- the same with Reshiram and Emmet. They are wholly Ingo and Emmet until a proto-Plasma attack trying to take the twins causes manifestation out of a traumatic response, and it takes until their late teen years to fully transform into the Legends and not baby pre-evolution like forms. 

There are some crucial differences between Aspects and Facets due to this. Facets are much, much rarer- as they only form when Legendaries die or are injured enough to be ‘killed’- and this is incredibly rare. The only other known Facet is a Facet of Latias. Opposed to Aspects, who can spend their entire lives without changing form, Facets must, at the very least, show manifestations regularly- if they show physical manifestations and allow instincts regularly, full transformations do not need to happen more than semi-regularly. For Ingo and Emmet, who see the Battle Subway and the entire subway system as their hoard and keep hoard items in their offices and home, it is no struggle. 

Ingo and Emmet have no trouble with this- until the first Team Plasma invasion. Reshiram is the one to fall to Plasma, and through the Stone being held by N, Reshiram is controlled by the Team. Emmet is absent from the Battle Subway in this duration of time. In the Neo Plasma invasion, Zekrom is the one who gets stolen- the team uses Iris’ publicized Aspect ceremony to draw the Dragons out, and Ingo goes to keep his brother safe. He transforms into Zekrom and enters the hideaway of Neo Plasma with N and Hilda at his side, and this is when the fusion machine is used, and he is forcefully assimilated with Kyurem. This causes so many issues across the board for Iris and Emmet- Iris begins manifesting similarities to Ingo in both personality and traits and Emmet has a lot of issues emotionally surrounding it. At the battle for Black Kyurem, Emmet is present as Reshiram- the Battle Subway is closed for this. 

This all changes when Ingo is dragged into Hisui. 

Due to injuries to Ingo while he was in human form- a less durable form- Ingo still undergoes amnesia- which is only worsened with exposure to the Distortion Realm while injured and a rough landing. Due to this, Zekrom is suppressed unconsciously- as Ingo is surrounded by prejudice to Pokémon, he begins actively suppressing the Dragon, which actually makes the amnesia worse. 

Pokémon act different, too. When Ingo is around, it’s a mix between them being reverent and accepting of the Legendary in their midst, them bolting from the power hidden in him, and being actively aggressive towards Ingo due to him being such a ‘weak’(repressed) Legendary. Ingo does gain many scars from this. It’s the arrival of Akari, and the resurgence of instincts she provides, that eventually breaks that suppression.

this will, again, be continued

[distortedclouds]

Hi Clouds!

For Aruani writer ask game :3

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You sure didn't hold back haha <3 Alright, let's do this

Share your favorite part of your latest fic

.... my latest fic was a PWP :|

BUT if we're gonna keep it PG, then it's got to be the first quarter where Annie asks explicitly for the baby

if not then that bit about Armin being super focused on doing it right but still not noticing that he's going extra hard everytime he looks at her

2. Share your favorite part of your first ever fic

That's gonna be Black Water! Almost at 130k I have a lot that I love about it, parts that I'm especially proud of. But I guess the first chapter will always have a special place in my heart, the before the last scene were Armin and Annie make up and make out in the kitchen

3. If you look back at your first fic compared to your last, what's changed?

If we're gonna be technical, the length of paragraphs. I feel like I've gotten more comfortable with words and how I can use them to describe settings and emotions, in particular. (Also i've gotten better at filth lol)

5. Write about Armin and Annie's first meeting! Could be in anon setting or any other AU

When it comes to aot, I'm in love with the canon the most. For Armin and Annie, I don't think it was a love-at-first-sight type of situation. I don't think they paid much attention to one another until their personalities started to show: Armin brave, determined, and intelligent, and Annie secretly a nice and sweet person

7. What was the inspiration behind your shortest fic?

Answered here

So I'll do my second shortest fic! ... which is also a PWP :| (DAMMIT ANNA!)

Nothing special about Talk your shit, just some good ol' brainrotting that got out of hand thanks to @moonspirit

10. Write about their first kiss! (could be in tweets, screenshots, etc)

I'm a firm believer that Annie kisses him first after waiting for forever for him to do it. It's very short and shy and dainty and just "a question" on the state of their relationship.

11. What annoys you the most about your own writing habits?

Answered here

I think that's my main qualm, everything else I can manage and is part of the overall joy and charm of writing

12. What's a trope you'd never write? why?

I have a lot that I'd find unpleasant to write, but one that comes to mind right now is infidelity. I'm here to write love stories at the end of the day, no matter how angsty and tragic the journey might be. I get that it's just storytelling and some people may be able to develop their characters well in that scenario, I'm just not interested and likely never will be

14. Tell us about a detail you wrote that nobody commented on

Answered here

Another detail... Can I say Annie's pregnancy scare? I know a lot of people said they weren't surprised by the poll I did a while ago, but considering they've been careful in all the other smut scenes in the fic, I thought it'd raise some flags

16. Share a WIP you're excited about

I don't think I have solid WIPs right now besides the final chapter of BW. but I AM excited about coming back to Slow and steady plus a couple of one-shot and two-shots rather than something full-blown. I'm especially excited to write a sick-fic, them eloping, some Armin-centric stuff, and maybe even explore the world of BW with side-fics and one-shots

[cheemken]

Just thought of a small AU that I felt like sharing with you

The Unova kids as, kids.

Imagine if the six of them had somehow met before they became trainers and set out on their journeys

Just cute moments of them together, Iris boasting about how she’s already using her grandpas Pokémon to train to be a gym leader, N sneaking out of the castle to meet up with the five of them, Hilda, Hilbert, Cheren, and Bianca asking their parents to drop them off so they can hang out with Iris and N. Just the six of them being the best of friends

Now imagine when the events of BW happen :)

N is being forced by Ghetsis to turn against his friends and his friends being conflicted, cause on one hand The King of Team Plasma is causing chaos and wreckage in Unova, but on the other hand N is their friend since they were young. They don’t want to have to hurt him

Also it’s like 11:30pm and I’m tired so idk if this is even consistent with the story/plot of the games or if it even makes sense

WHY WOULD YOU HURT ME W THAT THE BW BRAINROT IS REAL LIKE YOU REALLY GOT ME ON THE FIRST HALF IM NOT GONNA LIE😭😭😭😭

HCKDBXMXBDN

No but,,, no but Ghetsis knowing abt N and how he'd sneak out from the castle just to hang out w the rest of his friends, and like, at first he wanted to take him and go on w that whole humans and pkmn speech, but like, him deciding to just let him be and let the betrayal break him soon and such

AND IT DID FUCKING BREAK HIM CNXMBXMDN

Like😭😭😭😭

Ghetsis forcing him to fight his friends and jus thcmxbxmx Omf sorry if I'm also incoherent??? But ouugghhhh ncmxbcncnc the Unova peeps just gets me fr

I do know tho that once N's friends hear Ghetsis call N a "freak without a human heart" they'd all go batshit, like I want it to be the breaker for them, that they'd really start attacking Ghetsis directly instead of just his pkmn, and it actually caught both Ghetsis and N off guard cause Ghetsis himself didn't expect them to really attack him directly.

And like cbdmnd imagine Bianca and Hilda taking N away from Ghetsis tho, bc despite the fact that he's the King of Plasma, and they did hear from Anthea and Concordia what Ghetsis did to N, all that abuse and manipulation, and they didn't know N was going through all that, so now that they know, they'll make sure that N doesn't have to go through all that anymore, they'll make sure of it

It would also be dope tho, if N got Reshiram in this, and like,, it flew over to Hilbert, waiting for his commands, and Ghetsis was shocked bc why would Reshiram, whose trainer is N, would listen to the commands of someone who isn't its trainer? Then he sees even Bianca and Cheren could command Zekrom and such, and then suddenly Reshiram listens to them too, and before they could land the finishing blow, he escaped

And just cjdmnd N's there wondering why they didn't just take him out too, he's the King of Plasma, surely he deserves the same treatment as Ghetsis, but just cjmdnd the others just hugging him and telling him that he didn't know any better, Ghetsis was a cruel man who used him for his own selfish deeds, they know that N was a good person, and they'll continue to believe that, and they'll make everyone see it as well.

But like,, N still wanting that space to think tho, and still left Unova to do some more self reflection stuff and such, and while it did hurt the others, they left him be, respecting his choices. On a lighter note, imagine his surprise the moment he got back, Cheren becams Gym Leader, Bianca became a researcher, Iris and Hilbert became Champions, and Hilda was still the Hero patrolling Unova, and he's just "I missed a lot"

"yeah, you did"

Anyways they're all soft after that bc I said tho and bc I'm so weak for them like your honour please I know for a fact they had a sleepover the moment N got back bc they missed him so much and they didn't want him to go anywhere anymore, not where they couldn't follow, please your honour N just telling them he's not going anywhere, he's finally home

[notzilon]

ha ha ha so i finished BW (and spoiled myself on a handful of plot points of BW2) and now i have severe gen 5 brainrot that can only be sated by drawing comics about my feelings

welcome to my ~four years later~ postgame au that's largely about healing, forgiveness, the passage of time, and enemies to friends to lovers slowburn bc im a sap

[kiwikipedia]

Mmm some more thoughts to what I call “Two Guys Got Eeby Deeby’d” AU but it’s probably better if it’s called Warden and Kahuna AU:

Externally, Nanu does seem to have a more stable grasp on his memories than Ingo does, able to connect things better and while it’s mostly all just fractures and fragments, he seems to almost... not care at all.

He actually does care and it bothers him that he’s missing so much of his memory (that’s a good fuckin 50-something years) but plays it off a lot better

Unlike Ingo, Nanu can tone his speech to match the others but will revert to using “odd” (modern) phrases around Ingo and Akari/Rei

He also refrains from using native Alolan speech, even though calling some people some really insulting words is right on the tip of his tongue (This is you, Kamado)

Though he remembers the language and the other languages he would have had to speak (ie: Pokemon’s versions of English, French and Japanese, with Aolan being Hawaiian)

Fun fact that has nothing to do with this, but Ula’Ula is based around the island of Hawai’i, which I think is intresting

Like Ingo, he knows for a fact he’s got family or something back home

Something something “There’s a brat, younger than you, of course, but she used to hang onto me a lot” 

He vaugely remembers the Faller Incident, and avoids Alphas for that reason (not because they’re dangerous, though. Simply because they’re big.)

He has the biggest adversion to Glalie, Tangworth, and Mamoswine (Big and Round, that’s all he can really say on the matter of why they unnerve him so much)

Similarly to Ingo, he also knows that he’s missing and once had a partner pokemon. He has more memory of her than Ingo does of Chandalure though because of the fact that Nanu probably has been in contact with Honchkrows and Honchkrow is one of his teammembers

He substitutes the fact that he’s missing a “Feline with a temper and a coat as silver as the moon” with a Luxaray, but states it doesn’t feel right and that he knows there was more of a dark feeling to his partner

Gravitates towards the dark typing of obvious reasons to us but not to him

Half his team is dark: a female Honchkrow (to which he states is familiar, but wrong, so he suspects he had one that was male wherever he was from), a Drapion, and an Overqwil. The rest of his team is Luxuray, Arcanine, and Gallade

He does rather like Sneasel and Sneasler but doesn’t keep one on his team. Lady Sneasler like him similarly with Ingo tho lmao. Those are her scrungly human idiots

He doesn’t really battle the Player though, unless called to the Dojo, but he walks around with Luxuray behind him which freaks people out

Nanu likely has an accent in comparison to the other characters. I belive that he’s native to Ula’Ula, and left the island because of InterPol, so he did mask his accent during that time but upon returning, he had no reason to, so when he was transported, he forgot the whole masking his accent buisness

It is masked when speaking other languages, though, and he does eventually figure that he should hide or at least temper the accent down if he can around the others

The language barrier would have been a wild sort of issue for Nanu, because the first few weeks he could clearly understand Ingo and vaugely understand the others, but it took some adjusting before he remembered “oh shit i speak Poke-japanese” but then realizing that this is a bit off and having to adjust

Basically i think that the language barrier would be more interesting, because Ingo and Nanu are both from Poke-America. Because of their positions as prominant figures (Ingo) or past jobs (Nanu) they would know other languages, but I don’t think Ingo would be fully fluent, and even if he was there’s the time gap in language and also the memory issue. 

So for a bit Nanu acts as a go-between for translation

For obvious reasons, Nanu detests like half of Hisui because of the weather difference— If we base Alola’s weather off of Hawai’i, then it’s more temprate and definitely warmer than Sinnoh/Hisui

He’s wearing sandals for christsake

He’s much older than Ingo, despite Ingo’s later appearence and knows somewhere in his fractured memories that he’s ill equiped for the sheer cold of the highlands, and even more so of the ablaster islands

He can’t climb clifts or move as fast as Ingo or the others can, though he's still very fit for a man his age, considering how he probably can, and maybe will depending on how I spin it, stand up to Kamado without breaking a sweat

Lord knows that he had to deal with Hala at times lmao and Hala has at least fifty pounds on Kamado

But despite being ill equiped and older, he does refuse to change into any of the uniforms or really other clothing, aside from maybe getting duplicates of what he was wearing. He might switch to boots instead of sandals though lmao

He refuses to part with the armband and stone that hangs around his neck, too. He has no idea what it is, or why its important, but he refuses to go without it

like how Ingo seems to be more comfortable in the caves and tunnels of the Highlands, Nanu seems to be more at ease down at the coastlands.

I don’t think that Nanu would join either of the Clans willingly, maybe he’s partial and considerd to be an honorary member of the Pearl Clan because he and Ingo stuck together for so long, but Nanu does eventually stake off on his own. 

He has a settlement by the sea, maybe. Where he’s collected a ton of Shinx, but he does like walking along the coasts and also through the lower lands of Hisui. 

Granted he will go up to the mountains to hang out with Ingo at times, but usually just flies Honchkrow up there

No one knows how or why Honchkrow just agrees to pick Nanu up and fly him, but it happened. It’s kinda rediculus looking

While part of his brain is very confused on how aggressive Pokemon are and how fearful people are of pokemon, Nanu doesn’t really seem to have a hard time adjusting to the new area

In fact, it seems as if he has muscle memory of wrangling pokemon as well

This is inpart of his InterPol Training, a personal Headcanon of mine is that every InterPol Agent is trained in CQC against both people and pokemon in the event that things go very south— meaning that Nanu subconciously knows when to dodge, duck, and counter both man and pokemon. 

He’s probably flipped Meli over his shoulder multiple times

[ircnwrought]

SEND A URL AND I WILL ANSWER THE FOLLOWING

*casually tosses my url in*   //   @whistlewidow​

Do I Follow Them?:  absolutely i do Why Did I Follow Them?: i was coming off my bw movie brainrot and fell so deeply in love with florence’s yel that i knew i had to find one to write with because nat loves her sister and we would both die for her no irony intended Do We Role Play?: yes! on both yel and the multi and it’s glorious! Do I Want To Role Play With Them: always, all the time,  give me more An AU Idea For Our Muses:  for yel,  having morgan reincarnate but work for shield or some org as a hero with her magic could be real fun (or this could be sort of translated over to my other witches like astoria where maybe she accidentally reveals her magic and has to work with yel).  on the multi,  nat could get into some serious fun spy adventures with napoleon solo either in a historical setting or in a modern shield setting A Song For Our Muses: for yel/nat,  i offer wherever you will go by charlene soraia What I Think About The Mun:  hades  !!  a gem,  a doll,  a pure human being.  you’re so kind and easy to get along with and you kill me with all the plot bunnies across all the blogs and characters.  we have so many deep hcs for our characters that i’m literally always thinking about them because they’re perfect,  just like you <3 Overall Opinion:  top tier content.  incredible mun.  i’m just going to sit heart eyes over here in my corner Blog Rate: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10

[serotoninisheldinkiwis]

lore for the legendary aspect au (PART ONE)

beware my brainrot cannot be contained (it will be below a read more because it is LONG) (spoilers for bw, bw2, pla!)

Legendary Aspects! The general idea of Aspects is that they’re humans, born human, with parts of a Legendary spliced into their soul. This includes some new instincts, a possible alternate form, and- in extreme cases and/or forced/non consensual Aspects, mutations to a person’s base form (again, touched on later). Many people are often unaware that they are Aspects, unless their manifestation is strong. Aspects cannot be undone- a soul can never be untouched again. A Legendary can actively stifle it and cut the bond, but the person will never be a pure human/non-Aspect again. 

Aspects can be either consensual or non-consensual. This consent can be either the human or the Legendary- it’s generally pretty rare for a Legendary to not consent and for there to still be an Aspect, considering the significant power difference. Still possible- after all, Iris and Volo exist (will get into that later)- but incredibly rare. Any singular Legendary can have multiple Aspects, and Mythicals can also have Aspects- but generally are limited to one or two. This also all depends on the power level of each individual! (For example, Manaphy is a Legendary, but is a lesser Legend- as such, it can’t have as many as Palkia, which exists outside of time and can have hundreds of Aspects spanning hundreds of years)

There are exceptions to this, though! Arceus never forms Aspects- this is because of the amount of power it holds, and the precision necessary to divide enough power to make one an Aspect but not too much to kill is an incredibly fine line. It can walk it, but it’s a delicate balance, and it doesn’t want to risk any lives. Kyurem, until Iris, never held an Aspect- it could if it wanted, but it never met anyone it wished to form attachment with, and that whole situation’s a special case. 

im gonna move on to some specific Aspects and explain how they work!

Irida is an Aspect of Palkia. When she became the leader of the Pearl Clan, there was a rite that unknowingly opened her to Palkia’s power. The process of becoming an Aspect began, but was never completed due to the frenzy. This left Irida with manifestations of draconic instinct, but nothing further. After the frenzy ended, Palkia reconnected her soul to Irida’s and completed the process, and Irida became an Aspect. Consciously, she didn’t know what was happening, but subconsciously, she was aware of the changes. Her manifestations post-frenzy are an alternate form and more draconic instincts. 

Adaman was similar. He had had Dialga’s Aspect slotted into him before the frenzy began, right after his own rite to open him to Dialga’s power. He never showed strong enough manifestation to make it clear that he was an Aspect in the first place beyond slightly heightened instincts and when the frenzy began, the last thing Dialga did was cut his own power off from Adaman as Palkia did to Irida. Post-frenzy, he reconnected to Adaman’s soul and completed the process, and he became an Aspect of Dialga. Post-frenzy, Adaman’s manifestations are an alternate form and more draconic instincts. 

There are some Aspects, tho, that do not have a good relationship with their Legend, or that take a long time to form that healthy relationship.

For example, Iris.

Iris was not intended to be an Aspect. In the Team Neo Plasma invasion, she was captured by Neo Plasma, and on television, Ghetsis forced Kyurem to bond to her as an Aspect ( a process called Molding). The rite was completed successfully, opening her to Kyurem’s power, but her soul fought back, resulting in Kyurem having to brute force its way into her. She is established as an Aspect, but due to its nature as being forced on her by the Legendary, it is incredibly unhealthy for both her and Kyurem- especially when Kyurem was fused with Zekrom (going w black kyurem for this for Reasons). For a long time, she had physical mutations in her base form due to this- yellow eyes, ice crusting along her skin, issues with blood circulation, an almost deathly-cold temperature, sore joints, and overwhelming draconic instincts. After she spends time connecting with Kyurem and learning to accept the bond, it opens and becomes healthier, and these mutations disappear. She gains access to an alternate form, and the draconic instincts tone back- but they are still much stronger than other Aspects have to work with. They lessen the more she works with Kyurem, but it can still be incredibly difficult to live with in day-to-day life. 

And....

Volo.

Volo is technically not an Aspect. His soul, however, does get tainted with Giratina’s presence through the Spooky Plate. As long as he has this plate, his soul and Giratina’s soul are in proximity, and this rubs off on him. This is one of the rare cases where the Legendary is not consenting to the process- Giratina has no chance to deny it with the influence of the Plate. The Spooky Plate is a direct link to Giratina’s soul, and with Volo holding it, both of their souls are influencing each other. Volo gains slightly higher draconic instincts and a more draconic way of thinking, and Giratina slowly becomes more and more vengeful and less merciful, driven by Volo’s own hatred for Arceus. It becomes a toxic bond- Volo gets more benefits, and Giratina gets more detriments. In the battle with Akari, the pain and shock of being defeated serve as a temporary shock to Giratina’s soul, injuring the connection- they take the Plate and flee, which effectively snaps the bond.

(Some Aspects across the games/anime: Giovanni and Mewtwo, Ash and Lugia, Maxie and Groudon (and respectively, Archie and Kyogre), Barry and Azelf, Iris and Kyurem, Lillie and Solgaleo/Lunala, Hop and Zamazenta/Zacian)

this will be followed up in my next post

[cheemken]

Man, how WOULD Iris react to her friends asking her about the champions dragging her to hell and back??

She’d definitely freak out because they KNOW. They know what happens behind closed doors and the last person who found out got murdered for it. She already lost her grandfather, she doesn’t want to lose the last people she truly cares about

Maybe she’s try comfort Hilbert, telling him that he had no idea what was happening and it wasn’t his fault. He couldn’t have known, she really, really didn’t want to tell any of them what happened because she feared for their lives

Also so true King “This is Home” is definitely the Unova Kids in the Villain AU. They (slightly) don’t care about what Iris was done, or how she acts now, they just want their friend back. Now that they know that her new personality is the result of the champions abusing her mentally and physically, they have a reason to help her come back to them. To come back home where she belongs, not with the champions

But ough just Hilbert pulling her close and hugging her, trying not to cry right then and there because they’re comforting Iris not him. And just the other four joining the hug and telling Iris that it’s okay, they’ll help her, she doesn’t have to do this alone anymore, and that they’re sorry they never truly helped her in the past

Man Iris is just sobbing. She finally got genuine comfort and love from someone for the first time in years. Not like the champions who’d do it to mess with her head. And she’s clinging so tightly to them, scared that they’ll disappear if she lets go, but she’s knows that her friends can’t do anything, she won’t let them.

Because the last person who interfered died, and she doesn’t want the same to happen to the only people keeping her sanity intact. She’s BREAK if it were to happen

And Diantha knows just that

Bro I'm

YOU CANT DO THIS TO ME😭😭😭😭

No but

OUGH‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

No cause I've been thinking abt that last night too😭😭😭

Like,,,, OUGH VHDMFBMDBD shit how can I be normal after this the bw brainrot is so fucking real today

Imagine tho, Iris almost doesn't wanna leave the others bc if she does, then the Champions might attack them the same way they did w Drayden, and God she can't lose them, not them, please not them I love them please don't take them away from me too, and god she's there clinging tight on to Hilbert, crying on his chest going on how she's fucking terrified to let go, she's terrified to leave them, cause the last time someone knew abt this, the last time she left that person too, she came back to him on the floor dead with all the champions around him, and just jcmcbcnd

And the others tell her that she doesn't have to deal w the Champions anymore, that they're taking her away from them, and if they have to fight them then so be it, they don't care, they'll save Iris from them

And suddenly... Suddenly Diantha's there, the other champions too

"my, my, have I not told you that a champion doesn't cry, Iris?" She says, eyes glowing, the other champions w her, a Master Ball in hand.

And god Iris could just feel the dread and terror sinking in too, her hands were trembling as she slowly looked at Diantha, that lazy smirk on the Kalos Champion's face.

"you know, when Gengar had told me about your meeting with your friends, I paid no heed. Of course, you and Hau have your own friends, don't you?" Then she sighed, almost disappointed, "and now you want to battle us champions?"

Hilbert pulls Iris close to him, growling at Diantha, "she's not the only one, we'll battle you too. You're not taking Iris away from us."

Diantha laughs at that, then she snapped her fingers, and a strong psychic surge went through them, and then the others except Iris and Hilbert were held within Gardevoir's psychic hold. "You two.. well, I heard Iris always wanted to share that Champion title with you. Very well. If you two beat me in a battle, we'll leave them be, Iris." She then walked to the other side of the field, the same poise and elegance she always had. "But if you lose... Well, they can just say hi to your grandfather for us, then."

God imagine if that's how the others found out abt what really happened to Drayden tho cjmxnxm that he really didn't die of health issues, he was killed, by the champions no less

and Diantha's there waiting for them, calling out both Gengar and Gardevoir on the field, her hand over her Key Stone, the other outstretched towards them, "you two go first."

Hilbert finally lets go of Iris, but took her hand instead, telling her that they can win this, they have to, they will, and Iris, finally feeling some of the weight off her shoulders, nodded at him, and both of them called out Hydreigon and Emboar. Kyurem and Reshiram at the helm, waiting for the right time to attack, knowing full well Yveltal is on the other side of the field, waiting to be called out as well.

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Follow up to that one AU comic I did

it doesn't matter if you have a pretty face and flowery language if you're still a FUKKIN DWEEB

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tough tomboy ♡ gentle stringbean

characters are adults, as portrayed as in my post-game AU.

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((I draw these characters from my post-game AU, everyone is an adult, leave me alone.))

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achillesmonochrome I really love this idea but, what bugs me is...why she became the champion if she didn't want it? I mean, you go to the league, and then the champion has been defeated by N, you eventually win, and then you have the post-game. You don't become the champion unless you go again to the elite 4

I'M SO GLAD YOU ASKED.

Okay so you bring up an excellent point and typically, yes, I would agree this is a plot hole! However I have incurable brain disease that makes me think about world building and the implications of children's media 24/7, so I accept no responsibility for the unhinged garbage that's about to come out of my hands and directly into your eyes Pokemon BW is a story whose major themes for the MC are consent, agency, and societal pressure. (As an aside, this is why I prefer Hilda - these themes particularly resonate with me as a lady.) Anyway. Stay with me here.

When Hilda, Cheren, and Bianca start their journey, it's so innocent, man. Bianca wants to find herself, Cheren explicitly wants to become champion, and Hilda is intended to be a blank slate to project onto. Except she's not, not entirely - we can infer a lot just from her character design and how the characters in the game react to her. She's tomboyish, probably rough around the edges. There's a good chance that she's not looking to do pokemon battling professionally but is still very good at it (many rivals are upset when they lose, but Cheren is consistently baffled by why Hilda always wins. It isn't like Silver who is learning how to love or something, Cheren is clearly intended to be a competent and skilled trainer in-canon, yet he just Can't Win,) she's most likely empathetic (see also: good at pokemon, these critters react to trust and love,) she's got a heroic nature (the average person is not willing to stick their neck out to throw down with a cult) and she's got a lot of hesitancy in literally every step of the plot. The last point might not be true for a lot of players, especially if you tend to say Yes to prompts, but the experience is a lot different if you let Hilda say No. Because, obviously, it's a game. But Thou Must. The show must go on. The script has been written and the prophecy has been foretold.

Hilda's life changed when she stepped out of her home town and met N, because in giving him the spark of doubt that would allow him to regain faith in humanity's ideal, she got an obsessive stalker. N decides, completely on his own, that if he is to be one half of the heroes of legend, then Hilda has to be the other half. What was supposed to be a fun journey adventure for Hilda and her friends soon becomes about fulfilling a prophecy, which N is constantly trying to goad Hilda into. He's pleased when she answers yes/agrees with him but any no answer is met with sneering, condescending nastiness. He wants Hilda to fulfill the prophecy because that's how he achieves his dream and proves that his way of thinking is Correct, giving him the leverage to change how Unova is structured. And like. The adults around Hilda just Do Not have her back like they should? Alder gives her Zekrom's rock prison and just tells her hey, good luck kid. If I lose it's all on you. And she can say no here!! She can refuse! And if she does, all Alder does is continue to push the Dark Stone into Hilda's hands, telling her that he's sorry, it has to be this way, it's not fair to her but she has to step up to do this if he fails. The whole of Unova is resting on her young shoulders.

And it ends up being true. Zekrom responds to her, at the final moment - because even if she said no every chance she got, when the cards are down, she still helps. Uncertain and unsure, dragged into this whirlwind of legends and fate, she counters the factually true statement that humanity is capable of unending cruelty with the ideal that humanity is also capable of incredible kindness and good. (As an aside, Zekrom and Reshiram represent yin and yang. Yin, the dark, the feminine, that which is acted upon. Yang, the light, the masculine, that which has its will acted out. It's interesting how it lines up.) The reluctant hero is victorious, and she certainly did choose to follow through with the plan, but how much of that agency can be attributed to the constant pressure held to the back of her neck? So there Hilda is. She's sixteen, she's the hero that saved Unova, and she's got every single eye on her. Of course she's going to be Champion. The Champion is the region's strongest trainer, the face of the region, the one who travels and solves problems. Who better but the one who is already a legendary hero? It doesn't matter if Hilda says no.

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Heeey

Thank you for blessing us with the good ferriswheelshipping stuff

I have one question though, in your AU what happened to Anthea and Concordia?

Hope you're having a good day!! 💖💖

Thank you for the kind comments!! To answer this question, I'm gonna ask you to get on board with a conceit: Team Plasma is a new-age commune turned dangerous cult under the leadership of Ghetsis. With this in mind, I would argue that in N's absence, a religious schism occurs among Team Plasma members, and we see this happening in BW2. While N is a puppet leader/Ghetsis is the one that was really pulling the strings, it's pretty clear that a lot of Team Plasma members have faith in N's vision of the world. A majority of the Sages in the BW postgame talk about how they favor N's vision and BW2 is littered with NPCs that are ex-Plasma who still are trying to live under N's ideals. We see Ghetsis's Team Plasma, but we also see Anthea and Concordia at the center of the ex-plasma members who are trying to repent for their actions. I would argue that while N is off finding himself, Anthea and Concordia have taken over temporary leadership over the non-Ghetsis sect.

I also think it would be really funny for Anthea and Concordia to orchestrate transferring all of Ghetsis's assets into N's name. Ghetsis disappeared, oh no, what a tragedy. Time to get everything he owns into the name of his next-of-kin!!

(Off screen, a shadow triad member informs Ghetsis that his card has been declined.) As an aside, I dislike the idea of N as this permanent wanderer, if only because he's explicit about loving Unova and still wanting better equality between humans and pokemon. One of the greatest revenges he could have is to be wildly successful where Ghetsis was not - not as a tyrant but as a kind leader. With the amount of people who have faith in N's vision and Ghetsis's resources, I can imagine him setting up an Aether Foundation-esque society with the assistance of Anthea, Concordia, and the Sages that remained loyal. You know, philanthropy without the desire to destroy the whole region to be friends with a cool jellyfish.

Anthea and Concordia are stuck in a balancing act between two roles - the caretakers for a young "king" and adoptive older sisters, and neither is easy when your prophet-little brother is an ooga booga boy that is letting bug pokemon nest in his hair because they're his newest friends.