#i still subscribe to the clone theory but the idea that their clone came out and was like WHY ARE U DOING THIS is VERY funny to me

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everybodys a critic...

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Wraith I

It's a common fan theory that the Eye of Michael's members are hybrids of human and Plant. It's interesting to read about, and I encourage its exploration.

However, I confess that I don't subscribe to it myself. Because I've got my own, even crazier theory.

Knives, I think, does not want humans and Plants swapping body parts. Knives is violently possessive, hates humans, and cares, first and foremost, about empowering himself enough that he no longer feels afraid. If he has a second priority it's keeping his loved ones close - but personally I believe that folds into the first, because he tries to do that by making them more like himself.

He doesn't do that by giving away what belongs to him, because that's not what he does. It's what he's afraid of. The closest I've ever seen him come was grafting Vash's amputated arm onto Legato in the first anime adaptation, and that speaks more to... something. I don't know. (If you have any idea what Knives thinks he's doing with Legato, you are way ahead of me.) Regardless it was Vash's arm, not his own. If anything, Knives was reclaiming what was his and putting it to a better purpose. He didn't have it removed from himself.

Connections like this?

I suspect they're misdirection. I don't think the special abilities these individuals display have anything to do with Tesla. I don't believe Knives has any intention of letting anyone else touch her. They're more like echoes, motifs, reminders - but for us, not for Knives.

And if you like, I have proof. Click to embiggen.

1) Leftmost image, Tesla's eye is still part of Knives (at least if you trust the advertising material - and it's a subtle enough nod that I do, since it delights my black little heart). He didn't pull out an eyeball and hand it over to plug into Elendira. She's simply cloned from his cells, a bit like a dependent Plant. 2) Central image, Vash's sliced-off arm was consumed by the out-of-control Gate, and Tesla's amputated left arm looks too small and ravaged to have been grafted to Legato. 3) Rightmost image, Wolfwood was simply 'lucky' enough to be born compatible with the drugs used by the Eye of Michael. They just had to prime their syringes and get jabbing. At most the chemicals used may have been Plant-derived. Insert dirty joke about being receptive to Plant fluid exchange here, if so inclined.

I do believe Tesla has a presence and trajectory of her own through the story, though. Just not as a body, which has been fully integrated into Knives.

I think she's a spirit. Knives genuinely believes he's doing what his sister wants of him. He is the son of his father, and Tesla is his holy ghost. She grants him power. At least... as long as she's with him.

Because Tesla, in Stampede, is specifically listed as being alive when the twins stumble across her and Vash accidentally removes her from cryogenic suspension. Then Knives, controlling the memory, skips over something... but rather than focus on that, I'd like to draw attention to the colour she was giving off.

I'll point to this post about the way Plants speak and this post about significant colours and this one about Tesla and how she's represented. It's a lot of reading, but if you don't like my yammering about Trigun Stampede I genuinely have no clue why you came even this far (and please, do tell. I'm curious).

Tesla isn't giving off blood red light, like Plants who've lost use of their Gates. It's pink, like the ones reacting to an incompatible environment. I think that means only is she still alive, she can still access her Gate. So she can still communicate. And I suspect, like Vash, she can receive communication from other Plants. She's horribly wounded and sick, but she can still take action. She still has power.

In Trigun Stampede, Tesla has agency.

So. That means she can make a choice.

Part II

Part III TBA

* I'm starting to become morbidly curious about what it takes to truly kill an Independent Plant. Vash, as always, looks like he lost a wrestling match with a combine harvester, Tesla's still alive, and Knives took several seconds of planet-busting Angel Arm discharge to the face, melted off his flesh and almost certainly survived, for a given value of "survived". He's right about one thing: humans have reason to fear Independents.

I'm also starting to have some queasy suspicions about how Orange intends to get him back in the game, but that's for another day.

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Dan

Dan is an interesting character. Mostly because of all the potential implications he has for Danny’s character development, but also because despite being given his origin story there are some massive holes the fandom has been trying to fill for years. 

What we know is that sometime in the middle of Danny’s first year of being a half ghost, his friends, family, and teacher all die in an explosion. That part we know is real because we see it happen several times and even see the graves of everyone.

The rest, however, is where things get fuzzy.

We’re told that after the explosion Danny goes to live with Vlad. This also makes sense given what we know. Vlad wants Danny as his son and has the money to convince whoever he needs to that he’s the best guardian for Danny. Danny would also not be in a good headspace to really argue, and might even go willingly since Vlad is the only one he can talk to without having to hide his ghost side.

Now we get into the part that has problems. We’re told that Danny asked Vlad to separate his ghost and human halves. Vlad agreed and used clawed ghost gauntlets to pull them apart. Danny’s ghost half then broke free of Vlad and separated Vlad’s ghost and human halves. He then fused with Vlad’s ghost half and was overwhelmed by the ‘evil’ which created Dan. He then did something horrible to Danny’s human half and left to go on his 10 year rampage.

Now most of the fandom doesn’t believe this. Not only because it came from Vlad, who is a known liar and manipulator, but also because it doesn’t make sense.

Danny wanting to get rid of his ghost half can be accepted since he’s shown to want it gone before and given how the explosion happened he might even blame it for what happened to his loved ones.

However, why would Vlad agree to it? Vlad would know that separating Danny’s two halves wouldn’t work the way he wanted it too, and Vlad wants his perfect half ghost son, taking away the ghost half kind of defeats the purpose. So I can’t see any motivation for Vlad to do this.

Also Danny’s ghost half turning evil because it fused with Vlad’s ghost half makes no sense. Ignoring that it would mean that Dan is equally Vlad as much as Danny, which would make the Observants and Clockwork only focusing on Danny kind of stupid, the idea that Danny turned evil because of the evil influence of Vlad’s ghost half is just bad writing. It turns this story about Danny being brought to his lowest point and loosing himself, to none of it mattering and it all being Vlad’s evil ghost half. The episode turned into a completely different story than the one it’s telling.

(This is also why I don’t subscribe to the Dan is a clone theory.)

So this is what I think happened. Danny goes to live with Vlad and since Vlad is the poster child for not letting go of your trauma Danny doesn’t heal or move on. He continues to spiral and blames his ghost half for everything. His loved ones would still be alive if he hadn’t gotten into that fight that caused the explosion, and he wouldn’t have gotten into that fight if it wasn’t for his ghost half.

It comes to a point where he wants his ghost half gone, but Vlad, realizing he has to be responsible for Danny’s well being now, refuses to help him. So Danny takes matters into his own hands and breaks into Vlad’s lab to do it himself. Unfortunately, he’s so angry he ends up hurting himself in the process.

Danny’s ghost half is separated from his human half and it’s clear neither half are in good shape. Human Danny is hurt but doesn’t have his ghostly healing anymore and Ghost Danny is running on grief, anger, and self hatred with no human mind to help him rationalize it. Unfortunately, do to the circumstances of their separation it’s not as easy as just fusing back together.

Vlad hears the screaming and runs down to see what was going on.

This triggers Danny’s ghost half and he lashes out. By the time he calms down he realizes that he’s destroyed the lab, and injured Vlad. He looks for his human half realizing he messed up but it’s too late, his human half isn’t breathing. Danny isn’t a separated half ghost he’s a full ghost with a dead body.

Of course this is when Vlad tries to but in, setting Danny off again, which is where the whole ripping out Vlad’s ghost happens. 

Danny could have either fused with Vlad’s ghost half or just flat out destroyed it doesn’t really matter at this point. Danny is full ghost now, full of very volatile emotions and has only learned to lash out as a coping strategy. He’s in so much pain and only knows hurting others makes him feel better in the moment.

So that’s what he does, he lashes out at everyone. Humans, ghosts, it doesn’t matter, he just doesn’t care anymore and after 10 years of this he’s convinced himself that he enjoys it and doing anything else would send him back to that horrible depressed state he was in before.

This makes Dan a direct result of Danny’s actions, making the Observants and Clockwork focus on him make a lot more sense and it’s also not so far off from what alternate future Vlad said happened.

The only question would be why would Vlad lie about this? Why would he put more blame on himself, when that goes against what we know of his character? Because alternate future Vlad is not the same as present Vlad. This is a Vlad who regrets what he’s done, not just with Danny but with Jack and Maddie as well. He’s also been hiding alone and stewing in his own guilt for 10 years. He couldn’t help his Danny when he should have so when a Danny from the past shows up he might feel a need to help in any way he can. Even if it means taking the blame in order to not burden Danny anymore than he already is.

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Bella Goth Disappearance FINALLY Solved!

Back in the day, I had originally subscribed to the theory that Bella was abducted by aliens that were set on her by the Caliente’s who then murdered her when she returned, and so I went in the game to do a walkthrough as to how I came to that theory. That’s when I found that I WAS WAYYYY OFF, there is a whole ass rabbit-hole here, and like a total Alice, I fell in it.

And, after 16 years of wondering and imagining different scenarios, I finally found out the truth. Turns out, we were ALL wrong, and the truth has been staring at us in the face the whole time.

Just as a warning, this is VERY dark and bleak and depressing. Bella wasn’t dealt a good hand, guys. What happened to her was all sorts of MESSED up.

Just for clarity, I do base this off of events that happen in the official sims storyline, because while the game is ultimately up to us to live life as we like, go ahead and do whatever with your game, there IS a story being told here, but in a way that doesn’t conflict with our own free will. It’s ingenious, really. This goes with the main Sims games released for PC and Mac. However, the console versions do provide a lot of insight to further details and situations. Specifically the Sims 2 for PSP, and the Sims 3 for the Nintendo DS.

 So, first off, it has been verified what happened to her: In 2014, Twitter held an AMA for the SimGurus just before the release of the Sims 4. Someone asked the following question, and SimGuru Sarah responded.

It was later confirmed that Bella Goth of Lunar Lakes IS the Bella Goth of Pleasantview. She does look like the rest of the ghosts there with pale skin and yellow hair and eyes, and with that in mind, you can see for yourself…

That’s her, alright.

Okay, if she died on Lunar Lakes, there are still questions that need answers:

1.       Did she ever go home?

2.       Does her family know what happened to her?

3.       How did she die on Lunar Lakes?

Well, she died of old age, that can be found out easily enough, but I found the answers to the other two: Kinda and no.

 So, just to recap, I’m gonna review Bella’s life as we know it canonically.

Bella was born to Simis and Jocasta Bachelor of Sunset Valley. She grew up the road from her childhood best friend, and later, husband, Mortimer Goth, with her older brother Michael. She always had a sense of the macabre and dark and was known as “the best dressed girl in town.” Even then she wore a red dress. A more child appropriate red dress, but a red dress. She just came from an average suburban family who had a fascination for the not average. She’s still a child, and not a Goth yet. She still goes by the surname Bachelor.

Twenty-five years later, she shows up in the Sims 1 with her childhood best friend and now husband, Mortimer Goth, and they have moved into their own home, and have a daughter, Cassandra. Her in-laws moved out of their home in Sunset Valley and moved into what would later become the Goth House of the Sims 2 in the beginnings of what would be known as Pleasantview. Unless you got her a job, she was a housewife, and she was known to be athletic, elegant, and friendly towards her neighbors. I remember her often being the first to come and say hello to any new Sims I’d move into the neighborhood. Her brother, Michael, is also in town, however, there is no acknowledgement of them being siblings. A family tree system didn’t really exist in the Sims 1, and I’m sure they didn’t even think to make them siblings back then, but the fact remains that they have no relationship at this point in time. The only reason why it’s known that Cornelia and Gunther Goth are Mortimer’s parents is because it straight up says so in the bio. That and their names are the same, but anyway.

So far, things are simple.

That’s because in the 25 years between the Sims 1 and 2, a series of events occurs that really makes things interesting.

Michael joins the science career track. One can assume the reason why he settled into domestic living years after Bella had done so was because he was at grad school. Because he was graduated from grad school, he gets a jumpstart in the career and climbs the latter a lot faster than Mortimer does.

1.       Scientist Sims contribute an invention into the Sims world. Michael’s invention was cloning technology. He cloned himself, and a test subject: Skip Broke.

         a.       Even though he died before it happened, arrangements were made so Brandi could be the next test subject and the first female subject, and when you start Pleasantview for the first time, she is pregnant with her own clone. The baby is always born a boy.

       b.       Michael’s clones have a 100% rate of being male, genetic identicals to those they were cloned from (Brandi’s just being a boy rather than a girl) and so far, a 100% rate of dying at the same time as the original. They are genetically identical, but wear different clothes.

2.       Michael and Bella don’t really have a relationship in their adult lives because Michael leaves Pleasantview early on while Cassandra is still a child and moves to the city.

3.       Mortimer follows after Michael, and invents the age reversal serum. Bella is the first test subject, and, the day of her abduction, she takes the serum until she reverts back to being a brand-new adult. Probably to allow herself to fit in her red dress as strikingly as she does, I don’t think an elderly woman could pull that off.

4.       Cassandra enters private school.

5.       Around this time, Gunther Goth dies. Bella, Mortimer, and Cassandra move out of their home and in with Cornelia to be with her in her last stages of life.

6.       Michael marries Dina Caliente. It is speculated that, because of the age gap, they only marry for Michael’s money. But it is worth noting that Michael was Dina’s first serious relationship and she didn’t begin to cheat on Michael with Don until years later just before Michael died.

7.       Alexander is born.

8.       Shortly after Alexander’s birth, Cornelia dies at the same time Michael does.

9.       Dina inherits Michael’s estate and moves in with Nina. They then move to Pleasantview.

10.   Don follows them and moves the next day.

11.   Bella goes to introduce herself to her new neighbor, Don. They get along, and Don gets the wrong idea and puts the move on Bella. Bella rejects him. He then runs off to go be with Kaylynn and is not there when Bella is abducted by aliens.

12.   Bella is never seen again, but shortly after her abduction, a UFO crashlands in Strangetown, and reports that Bella is in Strangetown start rolling in. But, spoiler alert, that’s not the real Bella.

Then, after Bella’s abduction and before you start Pleasantview for the first time, the following happens:

1.       Mortimer and Dina hit it off rather fast, and marriage is definitely in the picture when the game first starts.

2.       Cassandra, Mortimer, and Alexander all age up on the same day 2 days after Bella disappears.

3.       Cassandra goes to Don’s house to find out what he knows about what happened to Bella (jack squat since he wasn’t there) and that’s where they meet for the first time. Don tries to seduce her, probably not knowing who she is, and Cassandra, as much as you gotta love the girl, is naïve as all hell and thinks she won the jackpot and falls for Don quickly.

4.       Alexander goes to private school

5.       Mortimer retires

6.       Cassandra gets engaged the VERY day the game starts.

That is an important thing to note because people like to speculate that Don had something to do with Bella’s disappearance because he made the moves on her mother and they were engaged and he didn’t want to jeopardize that by Bella opening her yap. This is NOT the case because Cassandra was still a teenager when Bella vanished. Don may be a hoe, but he isn’t a pedo. Chris Hansen doesn’t need to be called for this one.

Another important thing to point out is that it’s not known if Dina and Nina knew Bella. At least, not well, since it can’t be established if Michael and Bella had a relationship at all. Despite the fact that they were friends when they were younger, Mortimer has no memories of Michael, and neither do Cassandra or Alexander. They never met their uncle.

ALSO, yes Dina and Nina do have alien ancestry. Their father was a result of an alien abduction pregnancy. But he was born human, so they’re not part alien. Which means they didn’t order ANY aliens to go and kidnap anybody. Why would they? They don’t know her. Not even normal alien sims do that, y’all are just racist.

It’s also worth noting that Mortimer is COMPLETELY fine with Bella being gone. He’s not heartbroken and he isn’t desperately trying to find her like the game tries to suggest. He’s strangely cool about it.

Why is Mortimer fine with Bella being gone?

Because they are no longer married and haven’t been since around the time Alexander was born.

And THAT, guys, gals, and nonbinary pals, is the BIGGEST part that y’all need to just remember. If you can only take one thing away from this part, take away the fact that they’re divorced. It’s S U P E R important.

 Now, it is possible to bring Bella back with the Tombstone of Life and Death. She’ll only stick around for a short while because she has a death token that activates when you save the lot, go into Pleasantview, and reload the Goth House. She’ll disappear. Interesting to note that if she’s in the middle of doing something, like talking with a sim or cooking food, she doesn’t disappear completely until she’s done. She does turn see-through and it kinda glitches out…it’s really creepy. Give it a try, you’ll see what I mean. But when she’s done, she’ll disappear, and you’ll get a notification saying she died somewhere else and her spirit has returned to where she was buried.

However, if she dies this way, you cannot resurrect her with the resurrect-o-nomitron. It doesn’t matter who tries it, where they are, or anything. Grim acts like he doesn’t know anything about Bella being dead and even if the Sim COULD resurrect a sim, Bella is not listed.

Since we know Bella is buried in Lunar Lakes, this means she died sometime between the week of her abduction and Cassandra’s wedding where the game starts.

However, while you have Bella in your household, you’ll find she’s brought back with no personality points. She has no memories besides what happened to her children after the first load of Pleasantview. So let’s say that between loading the game and bringing back Bella with the Tombstone, Cassandra gives birth to twin boys. Bella will come back with memories that Cassandra had twins, and she will even know who her grandchildren are. (I use this example because in my most recent Pleasantview playthrough, Cassandra had twin boys named Hendrick and Caspian with Don Lothario.)

Bella will have NO relationship at all whatsoever with Mortimer. You can see before you bring her back on the Goth family tree that they are not married at that point, and Mortimer and Bella start their relationship over as acquaintances. If you let them progress their relationship naturally with no cheats, they actually fight a lot and do not get along at all.

Now, any townie and NPC created before Nightlife will have their turn-on and turn-offs randomized. But it seems to constantly make it so that Bella is never attracted to Mortimer and Mortimer is RARELY attracted to Bella. This is a consistent thing. Interesting to take into consideration.

It’s clear to me, at least, that there were some problems boiling up for some time before Bella vanished.

--they get divorced at around the same time Alexander is born

--they do not get along at all

--Mortimer is completely fine after Bella’s disappearance and isn’t the frantic husband he’s marketed to be at this point in time.

--Mortimer gets into a relationship with Dina Caliente extremely soon after Bella vanishes.

--If Bella does come back and Mortimer is still alive, they naturally do not get along at all.

Which is weird, right? They were always shown to be this desperately in love couple who couldn’t live without eachother. I remember them having a good relationship in the Sims 1.

Also worth noting, Bella is a romance aspiration sim. In the Sims 2, they tend to hoe around a lot. There are a few other adult sims in Pleasantview who are also romance aspiration sims.

1.       Don Lothario (the epitome of the romance aspiration)

2.       Nina Caliente

3.       Daniel Pleasant

4.       Skip Broke was also a romance aspiration sim when he was alive.

What is interesting is that while for the most part, romance aspiration sims like to hoe around, there is one exception to this rule so far: Nina Caliente. Nina Caliente’s only romantically involved with Don Lothario. Unless you have another sim start putting the moves on her, then it’s a whole other story. If it were a thing back then, Nina would have been a soulmate romance aspiration while the others would have been serial romantic aspirations.

Bella COULD have been the same way, but that wouldn’t make any sense with the myriad of problems with her relationship with Mortimer.

So, in conclusion, Bella had an affair. Mortimer found out about it, which caused them to, at the least, separate for a while. Then, Bella became pregnant with Alexander, which would have brought up an important question—who is Alexander’s father? Once Alexander was born, and as he got a little older, it becomes clear that he resembles Cornelia, therefore verifying that Mortimer is indeed his father. This would have caused them to try their relationship again, and Bella would have turned down Don in good faith to Mortimer.

Who did Bella have an affair with?

Don wasn’t in town yet, and they hadn’t met. Neither did she meet the Caliente’s yet. Which leaves two possible contenders for Bella’s secret lover: Daniel Pleasant and Skip Broke.

On one hand, Daniel was Bella’s neighbor. She knew the Pleasants, and was friends with Mary-Sue. Daniel had an affair with Kaylynn going on, so he definitely could have some action on the side with Bella, too. My only reservation on that would be that I couldn’t imagine her doing that to her best friend. But then again, she did have an affair on her husband, so who’s to say what her morals are.

Then, there’s Skip Broke. This one makes the most sense to me, personally. While she wasn’t close with Michael, that doesn’t mean she completely avoided him altogether. She would have heard about Michael’s cloning experiments and could have met Skip that way, or she came to say hello and that was how they met. There is a theory going around that Brandi found out Skip was cheating on her, and that’s why she killed him and took his insurance money.

Maybe I’ll do another thing on that because the Skip Broke incident happens to be another rabbit hole altogether.

 So, we know that Bella had an affair with Mortimer and things weren’t going so well between them at the time of her disappearance. We know that the Calientes and Don are completely innocent, at least as far as her disappearance goes. (And Nina is innocent altogether, she just loves Don and is completely oblivious to the fact that he’s doing her sister and two other women. She is ALSO a victim here, you guys. Give some love to Nina Caliente, she needs it.)

She dies sometime in the week between her abduction and the first time the Goth household is booted up from old age on Lunar Lakes despite the fact that she was a brand new adult again thanks to Mortimer’s reverse age serum.

Then a UFO crashlands in Strangetown and shortly thereafter reports of Bella Goth being in Strangetown start swarming around.

And yes, this Bella is a clone—there are subtle facial similarities, she is not in the family tree at all for the Goth house, but other than that, she’s structured exactly like the Real Bella goes as far as her outfit, her personality, and her aspiration.

(The Wiki says it’s her despite the fact that it’s been verified she’s not, and it also has MANY discrepencies, saying she’s related to the Curious Family and they appear on her family tree, which is incorrect because Strangetown Bella’s family tree is COMPLETELY EMPTY.)

So, clearly, when Bella was abducted, something went wrong. But what?

Well, why would the aliens even abduct her in the first place?

They tend to go after sims who are wealthy, high-skilled, good-looking, popular, anything like that. Bella was ALL of those things. She was the epitome of the perfect sim to the aliens. They practically worshipped her and their queen took her name and appearance. (This is referenced several times, specifically in the Sims 3.)

So, if something were to go wrong, why would the aliens worship her unless she had been being watched for some time before her abduction?

And what went wrong that caused her to lose her memories, her skills, her personality, her youth, everything?

Aliens also do not abduct children, the elderly, and pregnant sims because their experimentation could go drastically wrong.

She wasn’t a child, and reversed her age so she wouldn’t be an elder for quite some time—

So the only thing that’s left is that she was pregnant when she was abducted and that was why things went wrong.

She wouldn’t have known this, and neither would the aliens—it’s possible that the baby was conceived that day, which helped Bella in the case where Don was hitting on her—she wouldn’t go cheating on Mortimer if she were trying to rekindle their relationship and they had made it to woo-hoo that day.

Also worth noting is that there IS another Goth on Lunar Lakes who happens to look exactly like Bella.

Anyone recognize her?

This is Mathilde Goth.

She is the long-lost third child of Mortimer and Bella Goth.

No, they don’t appear on eachother’s family tree, but they wouldn’t if Bella died shortly after giving birth to her and Mathilde was put in the orphanage.

Mathilde looks almost identical to Bella with the exception of her blue eyes. She also has a preference for blue where Bella preferred red.

Mathilde has no idea where her mother came from and the fact that she has a family on Earth who is just as oblivious to her existence as she is to theirs.

 What happens to Cassandra and Alexander after they find out about Bella’s death?

Remember how I said scientist sims end up inventing something?

Cassandra’s invention is time travel. She makes a time machine and the first use is to send Don to the future after her, Dina, Nina, and Kaylynn find out that he was playing all of them. She then goes on to live her life. We don’t know how that looks yet, but she never finds out what happened to her mother and that she has a younger sister.

Alexander is greatly affected by his mother’s death. He has no memories of her being abducted by aliens. Normally toddlers remember things like that so it’s odd that he doesn’t when the rest of his family does. What he does remember is her disappearing, Mortimer being okay with it and getting together with Dina really fast after she vanished, and then finding out that his mother was dead.

Alexander is a child prodigee. He’s a smart kid. So, he would go with any other conclusion someone would go with that limited information: he believed Mortimer killed her.

Well, Cassandra still has her time machine after she uses it to get rid of Don. And as we all know, Alexander’s name shows up in the Sims 3 a few times despite the fact that he doesn’t exist yet. And, according to the Goth family tree, it’s not a family name of an ancestor of his, he is the only Alexander Goth.

Once again, we’re going to reference a console game. This time is the Sims 3 for the Nintendo DS. Alexander actually makes an appearance, and this time, he’s not alone: he’s married to a woman named Cecelia. The family bio says that their gloominess is BECAUSE of Mortimer. Alexander dyed his hair orange. Probably he was trying to bleach it and didn’t know what toner was.  He doesn’t have that great of a relationship with Cecelia, as a matter of fact, she has a better relationship with Don Alto than she does her own husband.

Back in the realm of the PC games, Alexander wrote two books when he went back in time to the continuity of the Sims 3:

Baron Graff Van Gold, which comes with Supernatural,

And then there’s the one that appears in the base game.

Murder in Pleasantview.

To string it altogether, Alexander remembers her being gone, then learning she died. He suspects Mortimer was the one to do it but he never actually talks to his father about it. He doesn’t know anything about the abduction, if anything thinking it a ridiculous rumor. He grows up, gets married, and decides at some point in time to go back in time to try and prevent his mother’s death. So he and his wife go into the time machine and try to go back to when it happened, but instead get sent back wayyyy too far to when his parents are still children. What happens to the time machine? It breaks. He’s stuck in a period of time where Time travel wasn’t a thing and no one really knows how to help him and he sure as hell doesn’t know himself. Effectively, he’s stuck there.

So, he writes A Murder in Pleasantview to tell the story of what he thinks happens to his mother. He doesn’t know it’s really all for nothing, but at the same time, it is because of what ends up happening as a result. A result he probably didn’t even know would happen.

See, A Murder in Pleasantview is a best-seller. It blows up the world of 50 years before his time. Every bookshelf has a copy of this book, standard-load. Sims would have read this, and would be influenced accordingly. They would have made better decisions, not wanting this tragic thing to happen to them.

And yes, it does literally take the world by storm. Better decisions in the past truly make for a better future.

This is where the Sims 4 comes in. It is a different continuity, but it is different because they are aware of what Alexander believes to have happened to Bella. This would be why their personalities are so completely different, why the age gap between Cassandra and Alexander aren’t so extreme, why the Goths are so much more reclusive.

Alexander did something that inadvertently changed the future, eliminating himself and his circumstances entirely. He vanished suddenly, probably in a series of events identical to Back to the Future, where he is then allowed to live his life as a child with his mother in the picture, having no idea what he believed happened to her, nor knowing the truth. He erases his little sister altogether, but he can’t be blamed for that since he didn’t know she even existed.

What happened to his wife? Did she get erased like Alexander did?

No, actually she died. She tried repairing the time machine, failed, and was electrocuted to death as a result. She died young and is buried in the Goth mansion’s graveyard, confusing future generations because no one knows where she comes from because she has the surname Goth but they can’t find her on their family tree.

Lolita Goth was the wife of Alexander Goth.

Yes, it says she’s single, which means one of two things happened:

Either she tried repairing the time machine one last time after Alexander vanished and died,

OR

Like Alexander’s marriage to Cecelia, they didn’t have the best relationship and they ended up getting a divorce, then, possibly with Alexander still around, did the same and died.

She clearly wanted to go back home to her time and wasn’t happy with Alexander for being stuck there.

And it makes sense that she would have been electrocuted with the time machine because there are no other objects in the Goth Mansion that would result in her electrocution.

Which would ALSO explain why the Goths of the Sims 3 can’t figure out who she is. You can’t list a descendent and their wife on your family tree if they don’t exist yet, can you?

 Tragedy is just par for the course in the Goth Family, it matches their dark and dreary macabre air. But Bella’s story is just really extra sad. Imagine trying to repair your failed marriage, going to meet a new neighbor only for him to put the moves on you without invitation, then get abducted by aliens where their experiments go wrong, causing you to lose your memories, your personality, your youth, and then you find out that it went wrong because you’re pregnant, which you didn’t know about that either, and your kidnappers take a tissue sample from you, and then drop you on a strange planet far from home where you have no way to communicate to them that you’re there, but you don’t remember anyone but your children anyway, leaving you to have a baby you didn’t even know existed when you were abducted and live just long enough to name her?

The truth has been staring at us in the face since 2014, but we all missed it. Me included for the longest time. It’s been 16 years since Bella went missing, and we all had theories and ideas, but THIS is the truth, and it’s really. Messed up. Yeah, I found out what happened to Bella, but do I like it? No, not at all. Bella deserved better, and so do her children. Mathilde especially. She grew up in an orphanage never knowing she had a family who would have loved her so very much, only to become a mailcarrier on her home planet. Not that there’s anything wrong with being a mailcarrier, don’t get me wrong.

Dina Caliente is innocent, but seriously? Bye.

Nina Caliente is innocent, and really deserves better.

Don Lothario is innocent, but yet he sucks.

Mortimer Goth used to be my favorite out of the Goth family, yes, even over Bella. But after learning everything about him I have mixed feelings about the guy. I don’t blame him for not trusting Bella, and I don’t blame him for wanting to move on, but jeez, at least show a little genuine emotion, Morty, she was your childhood best friend, and, if nothing else, the mother of your children.

There was no plot to get rid of her and swipe the Goth fortune.

It was just poor timing on the alien’s end, and bad luck altogether.

So, yeah.

That’s what happened to Bella Goth.

[olivemeister]

what are your thoughts on the roxas is ventus theory (and the "vanitas is sora's antiform theory)? the former's been thoroughly jossed ofc, but still?

i think “roxas is ven’s amnesiac heart” was something that initially was sensible, but as soon as ddd hit it was obvious that it was no longer possible. a lot of people who still subscribed to the theory seemed to me like they were attached to it/believed it had to be true solely because they look the same, even though literally the second game in the series featured a 100%-match doppelganger that was most definitively not riku since they literally fought each other. days went on to give kairi a face clone. but ven has a very unique tie to sora, which made it far more possible that something was seriously up beyond “face clone”.

so, basically: i believe that while “ven became roxas so he always had a heart” was not a dumb theory in the slightest, ddd came out only a few years after bbs and thoroughly disproved it.

as for anti form being vanitas, i think it would have been cool to link it to him in some way but imo it was always impossible for it to literally be “vanitas takes over”. admittedly this likely happened before bbs came out and potentially before vanitas was thought up, but i do recall nomura confirming at some point that anti form was a result of sora becoming a heartless in kh1. i think i would prefer it to be that, because even though i’m a huge vanitas fan i like the idea that sora’s transformation had lasting consequences re: his humanity. additionally, anti form is very animalistic and i don’t see a strong tie to vanitas as a character in that.

[airoasis]

Did Detective Pikachu Prove Pokemon's Greatest Fan Theory?

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Did Detective Pikachu Prove Pokemon's Greatest Fan Theory?

All right Pokemon HQ let’s take our most usual personality recreate him in loving detail cast the web’s favorite voice of sarcasm adhere to based Canon and drop in fairly just a few Easter eggs to fanatics of this sequence movie I opt for you in the meantime over at Sonic HQ yeah guys let’s do it they did however alternate everything about the persona put off any ties to based lore and set the entire element to basic gangster rap come on cash hiya internet welcome to film theory the exhibit that is kinda cringy when it tries to be humorous however at the conclude of the day stays to be endearing same to detective Pikachu hey so headquartered on the web’s collective reaction it looks like we finally got ourselves the essential great online game movie of all time do not overcook it it’s fun it is first-class it can be wonderful it can be about as simply right as a are living-motion Pokemon film might be and by and large say it may be the primary watchable videogame film ok dialing again the reward right right here the essential watchable videogame movie of all time No in all honesty I saw it final night time time and that i ought to agree it was once without difficulty countless gratifying nothing groundbreaking but it surely used to be only a relatively fulfilling movie to appear at and as an expertise it confirmed really just a few things for me Ryan Reynolds nevertheless humorous Pikachu still lovable mr.

Mime still ordinarily creeping on children at night time time nonetheless more so than any of that detective Pikachu appears to have provided the ideal portions of proof wanted to affirm one of the vital longest-going for walks and coolest Pokemon theories that is been taken round for the reason that the primary iteration of video games method back within the 90s inside the method of fixing the thriller of what happened to Tim Goodman’s father detective Pikachu can have additionally readily solved a way more most important thriller a case that is been open for over two many years a case whose answer has colossal implications about the legitimate nature of Pokemon so pull out your magnifying glasses and put on that deerstalker cap due to the fact we have got purchased ourselves a case to comfort a case begins with the video video games manner once more in 1998 365 days when every individual idea that they had been king of the world and the peak of cell gaming used to be an 8-bit egg to your pocket named Tam gachi little did we all know then that we had been in the core of a revolution the pokken revolution iteration 100 fifty beautiful little pocket monsters that may provide upward push to the simplest-incomes media franchise of all time devour your coronary heart out good day Kitty two years prior in 1996 the sector had been met with pokemons purple green and blue but that came pokemon yellow in 1998 which contained one principal trade Pikachu is now your starter Pokemon simply followed you throughout the overworld that was most of the time it other minor variations had been to make it think towards the vastly general anime sequence at the time the health club chief Giovanni utilizing a Persian phrase characters like Jessie and James replacing popular personnel rocket grunt appearances but versus that it was without problems the usual video games in every single place over again or was as soon as it you see there used to be one other very subtle alternate made in Pokemon yellow within the direction of your ride across the Kanto neighborhood you seek advice from a place referred to as the pokmon mansion on Cinnabar Island a tremendous constructing stuffed with rubble scattered during it our journal entries referencing the invention of MU within the journals of Guiana and the following production of the highly powerful enormously violent mu to the wreckage around the mansion is the sport’s procedure of telling us that he was created right here and later escaped some thing that later video games in specified the modern day let’s go Pikachu and Eevee series makes rather more certain you ultimately to search out Mewtwo within the cerulean cave the location he can sooner or later be caught however that is the major exchange in pokemon yellow a company new wild pokemon can also be decided roaming the halls of the mansion ditto the turn out to be Pokemon a little bit blob of pink goo particular for its ability to shape-shift utilising DNA as his pokedex entry says equipped of copying an enemy’s genetic code to immediately transform itself into a replica of the enemy appears find it irresistible’s most effective a minor shift in spawn areas correct maybe it looked as if it would many to be more than just a twist of destiny that a genetically headquartered Pokemon would show up in an subject the place Mewtwo was being created utilizing genetic experimentation might be there was once a way that ditto was involving each and every Mew Mew 2 made just probably dittos had been the failed clones of mute the experiments that didn’t make the minimize unless science was once ultimately capable to create the excellent new clone in Mewtwo seems love it’s somewhat little bit of a stretch rice purists like me grasping at straws all they did was as soon as exchange one spawn region but the nearer you regarded into this factor the extra details started out to line up the connection between the 2 most effective obtained better when avid players observed that once more in yellow the only different spawn area for ditto was the cerulean cave the place Mewtwo finishes up hiding out after his get away from the mansion so anywhere Mewtwo was as soon as dittos seemed to agree to it was once ample to get theorists like me to staring at nearer and boy hello did we ever find a treasure trove of proof the similarities between Mew and ditto are indisputable in the video video games to have the particular identical weight of kilos they’re the one two Pokemon which probably ready to be taught the emerge as move simply by way of levelling up even their coloration appears to investigate I mean detailed ditto is traditionally purple and Mew is more often than not crimson however in lots of instances some iterations of the sport Mew is crimson and most commonly in some iterations of the video games ditto is red and in detective Pikachu the ditto was once once surely as an alternative more in the crimson spectrum nonetheless there’s no denying that continually every ditto and you will have got vibrant sorts which can also be each the same color of sunshine blue and that is all simply the superficial stuff if you happen to dig further into the sport’s information even the numbers inform the story of how they may be linked every Pokemon has base stats that govern their common attributes like HP assault protection speed and lots of others mu is a fashioned jack-of-all-trades on the discipline of his base stats he has equal base stats throughout the board if you occur to appear at dittos base stats you’ll find the distinct identical thing same base stat distribution throughout the board now all of dittos are fifty two percent minimize than muse nevertheless it’s precisely 52 percentage for all six of the principal stats the distribution of those knowledge is same it’s almost as if dito had been a weaker replica of the original mew and that there’s the point dito is not Mew it’s a lower than ultimate replica it’s the impact of failed cloning experiments cloning experiments eventually provide upward thrust to Mewtwo and go away the little pile of gooey DNA ditto over there within the corner wandering round looking at for stuff to do form of a bizarre Pokemon all of it supplies as so much as an awfully compelling wide variety of circumstantial proof however for the two decades in view that yellows liberate that is all it may be been circumstantial a bunch of similarities not ever outright validated by way of utilizing any singular piece of Pokemon media after which bought here detective Pikachu let’s lay out what we realized from the film and sure we’re gonna have to have some minor spoilers right here not the gigantic twist of what passed off to Tim’s father or whatever like that however for the smaller mysteries which maybe uncovered alongside the best way where i’m going to give you three seconds so you have to use that factor to click away and/or click the subscribe button to get notified of every time now now we have a cool concept like this one help this channel get to 10 million subscribers please it would be ample to get that glorified paperweight o.K. All of us excellent everyone is certain who’s gonna shore exceptional inside the film it’s stated that Mewtwo is a genetically altered clone of the ancient pokmon Mew confirming everything that we simply recounted nonetheless the film goes one step further they explicitly say that Mewtwo disappeared from the Kanto regional two a long time ago now the Kanto region is the situation the first video video games took location and where the anime started enjoyable twist of fate but nothing earth-shattering it may be that twenty years detail that exceptionally disorders you see detective Pikachu is coming out conveniently over twenty years after the discharge of the generation 1 games and exactly two decades after the release of pokmon Mewtwo strikes back the primary ever Pokemon film which used to be all about you guessed it Mewtwo’s escape it is all related and that is no longer even hypothesis it’s something outright established by the use of the screenwriters in an interview they did with polygon quote the implication which the screenwriters confirmed to polygon is that that is the equal Mewtwo from the Canon Universe finish quote I imply I gotta quibble with them saying dull can and universe due to the fact it may be like which Canon universe are you speaking about nevertheless hello i’ll take it so now we have now an based and validated canonical connection between detective Pikachu and the broader Pokemon franchise cool however the writers went on in yet another interview this with display Rant to affirm that they have been mindful of the ditto Mew theories when engaged on the undertaking quote all over again so we went into the historical past of ditto we checked out all of these concerns and we form of desired to leave it as much because the viewers of men and females which are extra mindful of the story we didn’t always consider that we wanted to go an excessive quantity of into that nevertheless all of these matters are a aspect and that i consider the deep opening place of ditto is a provocative question that we desired to trace at for the reason that of the interplay with Mewtwo’s genetic fabric it did appear like there used to be a shrewd connection between MU 2 and the ditto so we’ve now writers who’ve been accepted to work throughout the reputable canon who had been additionally aware of the doable connection between ditto and mute so now the question is how does that obviously translate to what we see on reveal well within the film we see ditto taking part in a pivotal operate via the highest of the film it is released that Howard Clifford the founder of rhyme metropolis is our precise villain a man or woman who’s out to hijack Mewtwo’s mind so he can acquire the psychic pokemons powers for himself so that you could do this he makes use of his partner pokemon ditto nevertheless this isn’t any traditional ditto you see Howard’s ditto has the capabilities to transform at will and within the film’s climax we see him do exactly that he transforms correct right into a champ to beat up Tim then reworking right into a cubone to offer him only some knuckle taps to knock him off a constructing and later remodeling right into a raging Charizard hack his ditto can also trade into into humans which is a whole different communicate for an extra day all of these behaviors though immediately conflict with what we find out about a traditional day doze abilities we’re recommended time and again at some point of the animes and video video video games that ditto can simplest reproduction matters it sees in gameplay phrases seeing that of this ditto are usually not capable to only grow to be into any random Pokemon it continually has to repeat whatever enemy it is dealing with but this is not only a gameplay mechanic it’s whatever that is a component of this wider franchises canon as situated via quite numerous pokedex entries ruby and sapphire emerald diamond and pearl black and white ditto rearranges itself constitution to transform itself into one of a kind shapes nonetheless if it tries to convert itself into anything with the aid of counting on its memory this pokemon manages to get details wrong a ditto rearranges itself structure to convert itself nonetheless if it tries to vary centered on its reminiscence it can get predominant aspects incorrect it has the ability to reconstitute its entire mobile constitution to convert into whatever it sees that is further supported with the aid of utilising what we see within the anime the primary ditto we meet within the anime are these belonging to the copycat duplicate and in her episodes we found out that ditto are simplest competent of remodeling into Pokemon which might be bodily reward and that it’s a situation of the species as a entire likewise all the other episodes which have ditto fine show ditto reworking into Pokemon which can also be present for it to repeat throughout all of our learn there have been zero canonical circumstances of ditto randomly shape-shifting at will without having a Pokemon regional to repeat to this point Howard’s ditto and detective Pikachu to cycle between varieties so swiftly and so precisely varieties that it is not seeing and continues to be in a position to repeat flawlessly it have got to be some type of significant ditto something that we’ve got no longer seen on this series before some thing that was artificially birthed out of a laboratory off of Mewtwo’s genetics keep in mind that every one this time the working notion that we have now been looking for to show is the connection

Between Mewtwo and ditto that like Mewtwo ditto was once additionally born out of the equal genetic checking out now in detective Pikachu twenty years later we see ditto and Mewtwo related yet another time Howard Clifford is doing genetic experiments on Mewtwo and outskirts of Rhyme metropolis and in the system produces a ditto with powers that surpass the opposite members of its species Tim says what type of advantage was once that that was once one amongst my father’s genetic experiments for individuals who had been watching for the final piece of affirmation for the hyperlink between new Mewtwo and ditto that is it and almost always as express as we’re ever gonna get ditto is constructed from the genetic stuff that Mew and u2 are additionally created from it is extra viable now than ever that ditto is only a bunch of failed protoplasm coming out of Mew cloning experiments again in 1998 it was all about creating the primary sorts of Mewtwo and the random regular dittos that spawned out of that process now 20 years later in 2019 with detective Pikachu it may be elevating and exploiting Mewtwo’s powers for the following stage of Howard Clifford’s evolution and within the process he’s Cree a larger more evolved sort of ditto subsequently it took a movie suggestion to verify one of the vital crucial noted recreation theories of all time however hi there that’s handiest a concept a multimedia go-platform idea and in case you wish to see extra on detective Pikachu verify out my movie thought on why detective Pikachu himself would absolutely be Ash’s Pikachu the film does now not outright D verify it an act you relatively likes using on Tim’s shoulders the entire time or hop on over to my exclusive channel activity thought for some extra Pokemon pleasure i’ve over 20 episodes theorizing the whole lot from how geography influences evolution within the Pokemon series to dead Pokemon and what happens in heck this final weekend just about did one exposing the real story behind one of the crucial mysterious ghost women that haunts the Pokemon video games honestly i am gonna hyperlink to the whole Pokemon playlist right correct here so that you could be comfortably binge watch Pokemon theories to your coronary coronary heart’s content so now if you’ll excuse me I obtained to move lure them all catch the whole distinct titanic unencumber movies that hit in like a one month span there is a lot to look at that I have got to get by way of so have to run back to the theater now that this episode is done confidently produces some just correct theories

[batterymonster2021]

Did Detective Pikachu Prove Pokemon's Greatest Fan Theory?

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Did Detective Pikachu Prove Pokemon's Greatest Fan Theory?

All right Pokemon HQ let’s take our most usual personality recreate him in loving detail cast the web’s favorite voice of sarcasm adhere to based Canon and drop in fairly just a few Easter eggs to fanatics of this sequence movie I opt for you in the meantime over at Sonic HQ yeah guys let’s do it they did however alternate everything about the persona put off any ties to based lore and set the entire element to basic gangster rap come on cash hiya internet welcome to film theory the exhibit that is kinda cringy when it tries to be humorous however at the conclude of the day stays to be endearing same to detective Pikachu hey so headquartered on the web’s collective reaction it looks like we finally got ourselves the essential great online game movie of all time do not overcook it it’s fun it is first-class it can be wonderful it can be about as simply right as a are living-motion Pokemon film might be and by and large say it may be the primary watchable videogame film ok dialing again the reward right right here the essential watchable videogame movie of all time No in all honesty I saw it final night time time and that i ought to agree it was once without difficulty countless gratifying nothing groundbreaking but it surely used to be only a relatively fulfilling movie to appear at and as an expertise it confirmed really just a few things for me Ryan Reynolds nevertheless humorous Pikachu still lovable mr.

Mime still ordinarily creeping on children at night time time nonetheless more so than any of that detective Pikachu appears to have provided the ideal portions of proof wanted to affirm one of the vital longest-going for walks and coolest Pokemon theories that is been taken round for the reason that the primary iteration of video games method back within the 90s inside the method of fixing the thriller of what happened to Tim Goodman’s father detective Pikachu can have additionally readily solved a way more most important thriller a case that is been open for over two many years a case whose answer has colossal implications about the legitimate nature of Pokemon so pull out your magnifying glasses and put on that deerstalker cap due to the fact we have got purchased ourselves a case to comfort a case begins with the video video games manner once more in 1998 365 days when every individual idea that they had been king of the world and the peak of cell gaming used to be an 8-bit egg to your pocket named Tam gachi little did we all know then that we had been in the core of a revolution the pokken revolution iteration 100 fifty beautiful little pocket monsters that may provide upward push to the simplest-incomes media franchise of all time devour your coronary heart out good day Kitty two years prior in 1996 the sector had been met with pokemons purple green and blue but that came pokemon yellow in 1998 which contained one principal trade Pikachu is now your starter Pokemon simply followed you throughout the overworld that was most of the time it other minor variations had been to make it think towards the vastly general anime sequence at the time the health club chief Giovanni utilizing a Persian phrase characters like Jessie and James replacing popular personnel rocket grunt appearances but versus that it was without problems the usual video games in every single place over again or was as soon as it you see there used to be one other very subtle alternate made in Pokemon yellow within the direction of your ride across the Kanto neighborhood you seek advice from a place referred to as the pokmon mansion on Cinnabar Island a tremendous constructing stuffed with rubble scattered during it our journal entries referencing the invention of MU within the journals of Guiana and the following production of the highly powerful enormously violent mu to the wreckage around the mansion is the sport’s procedure of telling us that he was created right here and later escaped some thing that later video games in specified the modern day let’s go Pikachu and Eevee series makes rather more certain you ultimately to search out Mewtwo within the cerulean cave the location he can sooner or later be caught however that is the major exchange in pokemon yellow a company new wild pokemon can also be decided roaming the halls of the mansion ditto the turn out to be Pokemon a little bit blob of pink goo particular for its ability to shape-shift utilising DNA as his pokedex entry says equipped of copying an enemy’s genetic code to immediately transform itself into a replica of the enemy appears find it irresistible’s most effective a minor shift in spawn areas correct maybe it looked as if it would many to be more than just a twist of destiny that a genetically headquartered Pokemon would show up in an subject the place Mewtwo was being created utilizing genetic experimentation might be there was once a way that ditto was involving each and every Mew Mew 2 made just probably dittos had been the failed clones of mute the experiments that didn’t make the minimize unless science was once ultimately capable to create the excellent new clone in Mewtwo seems love it’s somewhat little bit of a stretch rice purists like me grasping at straws all they did was as soon as exchange one spawn region but the nearer you regarded into this factor the extra details started out to line up the connection between the 2 most effective obtained better when avid players observed that once more in yellow the only different spawn area for ditto was the cerulean cave the place Mewtwo finishes up hiding out after his get away from the mansion so anywhere Mewtwo was as soon as dittos seemed to agree to it was once ample to get theorists like me to staring at nearer and boy hello did we ever find a treasure trove of proof the similarities between Mew and ditto are indisputable in the video video games to have the particular identical weight of kilos they’re the one two Pokemon which probably ready to be taught the emerge as move simply by way of levelling up even their coloration appears to investigate I mean detailed ditto is traditionally purple and Mew is more often than not crimson however in lots of instances some iterations of the sport Mew is crimson and most commonly in some iterations of the video games ditto is red and in detective Pikachu the ditto was once once surely as an alternative more in the crimson spectrum nonetheless there’s no denying that continually every ditto and you will have got vibrant sorts which can also be each the same color of sunshine blue and that is all simply the superficial stuff if you happen to dig further into the sport’s information even the numbers inform the story of how they may be linked every Pokemon has base stats that govern their common attributes like HP assault protection speed and lots of others mu is a fashioned jack-of-all-trades on the discipline of his base stats he has equal base stats throughout the board if you occur to appear at dittos base stats you’ll find the distinct identical thing same base stat distribution throughout the board now all of dittos are fifty two percent minimize than muse nevertheless it’s precisely 52 percentage for all six of the principal stats the distribution of those knowledge is same it’s almost as if dito had been a weaker replica of the original mew and that there’s the point dito is not Mew it’s a lower than ultimate replica it’s the impact of failed cloning experiments cloning experiments eventually provide upward thrust to Mewtwo and go away the little pile of gooey DNA ditto over there within the corner wandering round looking at for stuff to do form of a bizarre Pokemon all of it supplies as so much as an awfully compelling wide variety of circumstantial proof however for the two decades in view that yellows liberate that is all it may be been circumstantial a bunch of similarities not ever outright validated by way of utilizing any singular piece of Pokemon media after which bought here detective Pikachu let’s lay out what we realized from the film and sure we’re gonna have to have some minor spoilers right here not the gigantic twist of what passed off to Tim’s father or whatever like that however for the smaller mysteries which maybe uncovered alongside the best way where i’m going to give you three seconds so you have to use that factor to click away and/or click the subscribe button to get notified of every time now now we have a cool concept like this one help this channel get to 10 million subscribers please it would be ample to get that glorified paperweight o.K. All of us excellent everyone is certain who’s gonna shore exceptional inside the film it’s stated that Mewtwo is a genetically altered clone of the ancient pokmon Mew confirming everything that we simply recounted nonetheless the film goes one step further they explicitly say that Mewtwo disappeared from the Kanto regional two a long time ago now the Kanto region is the situation the first video video games took location and where the anime started enjoyable twist of fate but nothing earth-shattering it may be that twenty years detail that exceptionally disorders you see detective Pikachu is coming out conveniently over twenty years after the discharge of the generation 1 games and exactly two decades after the release of pokmon Mewtwo strikes back the primary ever Pokemon film which used to be all about you guessed it Mewtwo’s escape it is all related and that is no longer even hypothesis it’s something outright established by the use of the screenwriters in an interview they did with polygon quote the implication which the screenwriters confirmed to polygon is that that is the equal Mewtwo from the Canon Universe finish quote I imply I gotta quibble with them saying dull can and universe due to the fact it may be like which Canon universe are you speaking about nevertheless hello i’ll take it so now we have now an based and validated canonical connection between detective Pikachu and the broader Pokemon franchise cool however the writers went on in yet another interview this with display Rant to affirm that they have been mindful of the ditto Mew theories when engaged on the undertaking quote all over again so we went into the historical past of ditto we checked out all of these concerns and we form of desired to leave it as much because the viewers of men and females which are extra mindful of the story we didn’t always consider that we wanted to go an excessive quantity of into that nevertheless all of these matters are a aspect and that i consider the deep opening place of ditto is a provocative question that we desired to trace at for the reason that of the interplay with Mewtwo’s genetic fabric it did appear like there used to be a shrewd connection between MU 2 and the ditto so we’ve now writers who’ve been accepted to work throughout the reputable canon who had been additionally aware of the doable connection between ditto and mute so now the question is how does that obviously translate to what we see on reveal well within the film we see ditto taking part in a pivotal operate via the highest of the film it is released that Howard Clifford the founder of rhyme metropolis is our precise villain a man or woman who’s out to hijack Mewtwo’s mind so he can acquire the psychic pokemons powers for himself so that you could do this he makes use of his partner pokemon ditto nevertheless this isn’t any traditional ditto you see Howard’s ditto has the capabilities to transform at will and within the film’s climax we see him do exactly that he transforms correct right into a champ to beat up Tim then reworking right into a cubone to offer him only some knuckle taps to knock him off a constructing and later remodeling right into a raging Charizard hack his ditto can also trade into into humans which is a whole different communicate for an extra day all of these behaviors though immediately conflict with what we find out about a traditional day doze abilities we’re recommended time and again at some point of the animes and video video video games that ditto can simplest reproduction matters it sees in gameplay phrases seeing that of this ditto are usually not capable to only grow to be into any random Pokemon it continually has to repeat whatever enemy it is dealing with but this is not only a gameplay mechanic it’s whatever that is a component of this wider franchises canon as situated via quite numerous pokedex entries ruby and sapphire emerald diamond and pearl black and white ditto rearranges itself constitution to transform itself into one of a kind shapes nonetheless if it tries to convert itself into anything with the aid of counting on its memory this pokemon manages to get details wrong a ditto rearranges itself structure to convert itself nonetheless if it tries to vary centered on its reminiscence it can get predominant aspects incorrect it has the ability to reconstitute its entire mobile constitution to convert into whatever it sees that is further supported with the aid of utilising what we see within the anime the primary ditto we meet within the anime are these belonging to the copycat duplicate and in her episodes we found out that ditto are simplest competent of remodeling into Pokemon which might be bodily reward and that it’s a situation of the species as a entire likewise all the other episodes which have ditto fine show ditto reworking into Pokemon which can also be present for it to repeat throughout all of our learn there have been zero canonical circumstances of ditto randomly shape-shifting at will without having a Pokemon regional to repeat to this point Howard’s ditto and detective Pikachu to cycle between varieties so swiftly and so precisely varieties that it is not seeing and continues to be in a position to repeat flawlessly it have got to be some type of significant ditto something that we’ve got no longer seen on this series before some thing that was artificially birthed out of a laboratory off of Mewtwo’s genetics keep in mind that every one this time the working notion that we have now been looking for to show is the connection

Between Mewtwo and ditto that like Mewtwo ditto was once additionally born out of the equal genetic checking out now in detective Pikachu twenty years later we see ditto and Mewtwo related yet another time Howard Clifford is doing genetic experiments on Mewtwo and outskirts of Rhyme metropolis and in the system produces a ditto with powers that surpass the opposite members of its species Tim says what type of advantage was once that that was once one amongst my father’s genetic experiments for individuals who had been watching for the final piece of affirmation for the hyperlink between new Mewtwo and ditto that is it and almost always as express as we’re ever gonna get ditto is constructed from the genetic stuff that Mew and u2 are additionally created from it is extra viable now than ever that ditto is only a bunch of failed protoplasm coming out of Mew cloning experiments again in 1998 it was all about creating the primary sorts of Mewtwo and the random regular dittos that spawned out of that process now 20 years later in 2019 with detective Pikachu it may be elevating and exploiting Mewtwo’s powers for the following stage of Howard Clifford’s evolution and within the process he’s Cree a larger more evolved sort of ditto subsequently it took a movie suggestion to verify one of the vital crucial noted recreation theories of all time however hi there that’s handiest a concept a multimedia go-platform idea and in case you wish to see extra on detective Pikachu verify out my movie thought on why detective Pikachu himself would absolutely be Ash’s Pikachu the film does now not outright D verify it an act you relatively likes using on Tim’s shoulders the entire time or hop on over to my exclusive channel activity thought for some extra Pokemon pleasure i’ve over 20 episodes theorizing the whole lot from how geography influences evolution within the Pokemon series to dead Pokemon and what happens in heck this final weekend just about did one exposing the real story behind one of the crucial mysterious ghost women that haunts the Pokemon video games honestly i am gonna hyperlink to the whole Pokemon playlist right correct here so that you could be comfortably binge watch Pokemon theories to your coronary coronary heart’s content so now if you’ll excuse me I obtained to move lure them all catch the whole distinct titanic unencumber movies that hit in like a one month span there is a lot to look at that I have got to get by way of so have to run back to the theater now that this episode is done confidently produces some just correct theories

[thisinbetween]

Where Is Your Family From

—-I AM, I AM, I AM—Sylvia Plath

“Chester?” I called out, a little shy as always. Every time I come back home I remember that home isn’t quite normal: it was the way the air currents mixed, with the faint smell of whiskey and creativity. Or maybe it was that the man himself. Either way, I entered our apartment with my nerves behind me.

"Rory?” He called out from the living room.

"Yeah, it’s me Chester.” 

The difficult part, was going by his office.  It was an absolute mess, and the door was alwaus open to me. Manuscripts lay about, half finished, their emaciated paper arms reaching up to me, choking out old words as if little children inviting me to pick them up. 

I subscribed to a pet theory that if you were to collect some of these manuscripts and arrange them just right, you would be able to get a proper book out of it.

It was a current dream of mine, following theory, to put all these together for the sake of proving it myself, and for Chester’s legacy. Even if that legacy would sit, still reaching out to me, on my own dusty book shelf; rather than inhabiting bookstores and libraries with clones of itself. I stepped over a shattered globe.

"Well, hurry up; none of my dishes are done.” He said.  

I found a dismantled smoke alarm on his table.

"You’ve been smoking again, Chester.” I called out.

"Is that a problem?” He whined.

"No, as long as I can, too,” I challenged.

"You’re very forward today,” Chester joked.

"And it looks like you did jack shit today, so we can both be sinners.”

"I hear hell is balmy this time of year.” Chester sighws.

I snorted as I reached the kitchen. In the week I had taken off, Chester had made an awfully large mess. Another theory of mine, always proven, was geniuses were messy, in at least one way. For Chester, he was messy in his house keeping. For some, it was their handwriting. To each his own.  Chester’s messiness made me feel like I could actually do something for someone.  You might say being a live-in house keeper was not feminist.  But it was free room and board and food.  So, fuck you, too. 

I started with the dishes, humming a little with the soap and spuds. I liked doing dishes, though I would never tell Chester. It was the way the water colored and the bubbles gathered like seafoam, how I would inevitably get lost in the little circles I made on the plates, the scratching on the pans and the fights with dried food. I dried them carefully and put them away. I gave the kitchen floor a good sweep, which was nowhere near as enjoyable. Then it went to organizing the other rooms, quietly dusting, trying to vacuum a little before Chester got aggravated by the noise and called me in.

"Rory!” He yelled, covering his ears, “Can you not? Just get in here, I want a little company.” 

That was Chester. He was awfully scared of people, but he wanted nothing more than to be with them. He announced once that I was ‘too smart’ to kill him. I shrugged my shoulders and said I was ‘glad I could still fool him’. 

I rolled my eyes. He sat, taking up the whole good couch, smoking an unfiltered cigarette and looking at an old manuscript. 

"Where were you, Rory?” Chester asked.

"Are you kidding me?” I asked.

"No,” he said simply.

"I was gone to on vacation. And you didn’t notice.”

"I noticed you were gone, but I just can’t put it all together.” Chester laughed.  

I took one of his cigarettes and lit it, inhaling as I hit the wall, sinking down like the Titanic, falling apart and hitting the floor. I stared up at the sluggish ceiling fan.  “Work on your object permance, asshole,” I said, “you would drown in your own mess if it weren’t for me.”

"Exactly why I notice when you’re gone,” Chester replied. 

We both inhaled, sucking on the cigarettes, synchronized. I picked off a piece of tobacco from my tongue, breathing out heavy tendril of smoke. 

“Where do you go on vacations?”

"Me?” I asked.

"No, the other person in the room,” he sassed.

I shrugged. "I go home,” I answered, “where I always go.”

"Yeah, and I always forget,”

"You forget everything, even basic hygiene,” I responded. His clothes weren’t stained, like they could sometimes be, but his hair was messy and greasy, tell-tale signs he hadn’t taken a shower recently.

“You condense me down to some two-dimensional character of some dirty author.”

“Hey, hey, sometimes I throw a little genius in there. But, you’re always going to be grimey.”

“And you’re always going to be the sweet, poor college student that has to work with a crazy author.” He sucked on his cigarette.

“I don’t mind my label,” I smiled.

“So where did you go?”

“I was with my family.”

“But where were you?” He quizzed, again. I thought for a full minute, but had no answer for him. I shrugged in place of a proper response.

“You never know where you go,” he moaned.  “Not during the day, not when you leave for a week.”  

“That rhymed. Maybe you should write it down,” I laughed.

“Make some damn money?” He joked.  “You never eat anything, anyway. You don’t cost me much.”

“This place grosses me out too much to eat.”

“Speaking of which, I’m having some colleagues over tomorrow night.” He shrugged.

“That’s good.”

“Not for you,” Chester smiled.

“I have to clean, don’t I?”

“Yep.” Chester stared at me for a long while, as if he was looking right though me. I rubbed my neck and twisted my kinked hair, trying to ignore him.

That night I tried desperately to remember where I went when I visited my mom. I had no idea. I tried to call her, but the line was busy. It was two in the morning. Why would the line be busy?

I spent most of the day cleaning. It was just vacuuming and emptying make-shift ashtrays.  

At eight the people came, in wet boots from the rain outside, passing hands through their hair and shaking out their umbrellas. I opened the door for the first couple. 

“Hi, I’m Rory. Chester is in the other room, he’s setting up for all of you.”

“Chester?” The woman called out.

“He’s in the dining room, to your left.” I continued on.

“Chester?” She said again.

The man shrugged.

“In here!” Chester called out.

I slammed the door, which made the woman jump up, and look around.

“Sorry,” Chester said, coming around, “the door slams.”

“I slammed it,” I murmured.

“And it just opens?” The woman laughed.

Chester laughed too.

I went to the kitchen and poured myself a glass of wine. I downed it quickly.

More people came into the house.

The first man and woman came into the kitchen.

“Chester keeps the place nicer than I’d imagined.” She said.

“Yeah, I wonder if he has any help.”

“He does,” I started, joking, “this one mess he made. He’s sometimes the worst to live and work with.”

“He’s up for tenure,” The woman spoke over me.

“I hope the idiot gets it. He needs something, since he doesn’t have someone.”

“He does, I live here,” I echoed. I moved to leave and bumped into the woman. She started, “What was that!”

I sat down at the place I set for myself, ready to eat something, if the nausea from angst I was feeling would dissipate a little.

“You set an extra place,” a woman said, gesturing to me. Chester looked over at me, and we made eye contact.

“Chester, meet me in the kitchen.” I snarled, standing up.

“Excuse me for a minute.” Chester nodded, inclining his head toward his guests.

I stood alone in the kitchen, for a little while as Chester filled a pitcher for water. “What’s wrong with these assholes?” I snapped.

“They just can’t see you darling, not like I see you.”

“I’m not a damn window. Those awful fucks! It’s because I’m not an author, not a genius. I’m a glorified maid.” I yelled. My wine goblet smashed against the floor, somehow hopping off the counter. I began to shake, feeling quite odd and alone.

People came in when they heard. As they all cleaned it up he apologized, working on the floor with them, I cried very softly.

“Are you okay, Karen?” A woman next to the lady right by my feet asked.

“I’m doing fine?” Karen stopped and smiled reproachfully at her friend.

“Just thought I heard you crying is all,” the woman murmured, softly.

When the people left the kitchen, Chester stayed, tying a bag of the glass and paper towels studded with tiny blades and dusting together.

“What’s going on, Chester?” I asked him.

Chester paused, and spoke very quietly. “I moved here and you just showed up in the hallway one day. I figured you were some kind of delusion. But you seemed awfully nice so I never told anyone. In fact, you made me feel actually human.”

“What do you mean? You’re my favorite author and I went to school around here and I networked to find you,” I said. I felt like laughing. Maybe this whole thing was too much for him and too much for me, this whole dinner party.

“I don’t remember that,” Chester said, softly. “But with you around the apartment was cleaner. Maybe it was a very, very realistic delusion. But, but,” he stuttered as he spoke too quickly, “the guests heard you. They couldn’t see you. But they heard you every once and awhile. You bumped Dr. Jameson. And Lynn heard you crying. And you opened and slammed the door on the Mr. Jameson,” Chester mused.

“Because I’m here! Right here!” I whispered as harshly as I could.

“Where do you go when you leave?” Chester asks me again.

“To my family!” I said.

“Where? Who? What college? Which family? What state or town?”

I stared at the floor, suddenly very confused and very scared. I was scared because I couldn’t remember.

“Are you dead?” Chester asked.