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[night-chimeras-cry]

BlogTember Day 8: “Nothing Bad Happens”!

Welcome to the Everything’s Alright AU, where Inari has their parents and their babies and…. Yeah! That’s it. It’s the good feels AU, where Mochi (pictured, smol) and his sister (not pictured, lorg) are Mew, and Inari’s trainer—[REDACTED]—and nothing bad ever happens!

[inaris-pokemon-world]

(Anon-Pigeotto@Kamis.) ...Did it hurt? Waking up and realizing your tail was gone? I imagine it must have been anything but pleasant. How did you manage to treat the wound on your head and the amputation site without excessive blood loss or infection at the time?

Also, isn't a Mew's tail a critical anatomical structure for your species' psychic abilities? Considering the tail is an extension of the spine, which in turn is an extension of the brain, it seems like it would play a major role.

You’re probably wondering how a little bird like me knows so much about medical stuff. Well, I spend a lot of time perched on power lines near medical centers—very educational watching what goes on in hospital rooms through the windows.

Oh, and I hope I’m not prying into sensitive territory with these questions. If I am, I sincerely apologize. Bad habit of mine.

“I cannot say for other worlds, but my lack of tail hasn’t affected my psychic powers that I can tell. My balance was affected a lot until I got used to it. Honestly, I’m surprised my head injury didn’t do more damage to my abilities. Just… a stutter when I speak aloud.”

“I was out of it for awhile. Most of what I remember after waking is pain. My sister did what she could. Honestly, I probably wouldn’t be here without her. My wounds were deep, and she healed what she could, but…”

”Well, we were young. And even legends have limits.”

[demon64]

So... I just had this fun idea for the crossover. An alternate universe Rindo, having maybe sort of tapped into the power of Dissonance, accidentally ending up in the SMT world. This alternate Rindo may have accidentally changed his vibration. Considering the Rindo we play as can mental time travel, imagine a sort of "bad end" Rindo just doing something crazier. He could maybe be an optional boss fight that maybe you could recruit later, and only recruit, y'know, considering Rindo is human. Or maybe demon fusion doesn't work for Noise? Oooo! Or a Rindo with the power of Phoenix Cantus as a potential boss fight/recruitable ally.

Or, fun silly idea, imagine a shared universe kins of deal, and Jack Frost getting jealous of Mr. Mew. Or maybe being a fan of Mr. Mew.

Going with alternate shared universe, imagine the gods and monsters of SMT looking like the Noise, or being Reapers. Imagine Matador as a Reaper, the form we know him for being the form he takes when he powers up. Think something like Minamimoto turning into Leo Cantus. Imagine the Reaper's Game that the SMT characters are participating in has them teaming up with a Reaper. Now, some may ask why that idea... well, I think it's all but outright stated in Neo: TWEWY that different areas, like say Shibuya and Shinjuku, have different rules to their Reaper's Game. Shibuya's is built more like how it works in the first TWEWY, Shinjuku's is built more like how it works in Neo. So, imagine protagonist of SMTV and Aogami being a Player/Reaper duo in a different Reaper's Game.

Different idea: imagine Minamimoto being a crossover boss in an SMT game. One battle could be him in base form, another battle as Leo Cantus, and maybe another where it's basically a two-phase boss fight. First phase in base form, second phase as Leo Cantus.

You know... sometimes even I think I come up with some strange crossover ideas. Sometimes they're pretty basic, sometimes they're a bit fleshed out. One crossover that I came up with recently is a Shin Megami Tensei/The World Ends With You crossover. It all started because I have been playing SMT V: Vengeance recently and for no reason TWEWY has been in the back of my mind. So, a crossover idea formed, not helped by some kinda similar enough looking characters.

Some may or may not see it, but Hishima Sakazuki and Yuzuru Atsuta just look kinda similar to me. It's probably the hair and glasses. I also think Shiba Miyakaze looks kinda similar enough to Lucifer's human forms in SMT 3 Nocturne. Like, he almost looks like a middle ground between his old man and child forms in Nocturne.

Does anybody else kinda see it? Am I crazy?

Anyways! Considering Angels do exist in TWEWY, just in a different way compared to in SMT, living in a higher plane of existence, a plane higher than both the UG and the RG, imagine someone like Hanekoma being an old acquaintance of Lucifer's. Or, for a more fun idea, imagine Minamimoto just hopping universes and deciding to investigate the SMT universe for the hell of it. Maybe he thinks it could help in targeting the Composer. Imagine the Demi-Fiend or Nahobino encountering Pi-Face and just the chaos that could ensue.

Going back for a second to Shiba and Lucifer, I had the crazy idea earlier of imagine Shiba being a piece of Lucifer that the Lord of Chaos had separate, for whatever reason. Or maybe in a fan crossover, it could be some variation on that idea. Maybe that piece of Lucifer did not separate willingly?

Or, maybe better idea, Minamimoto meeting Lucifer and the Lord of Chaos taking a bit of an odd liking to this chaotic math-man. Maybe he sees Sho's pursuit to usurp the Composer as similar enough to pursuit to usurp the God of Law.

Overall, it's a fun crossover to play with, with how Gods and Monsters work in SMT, and with the Higher Planes in TWEWY.

EDIT: I don't know if it was like that for everybody, but on my end, after posting, the image for Yuzuru wasn't showing up, so hopefully I fixed it

[weaselandfriends]

The Making Of: When I Win the World Ends

(For my previous Making Of post, see The Making Of: Cleveland Quixotic.)

I. 1999

It was the year of the cubicle movie. It was the year of Fight Club, of Office Space, of Being John Malkovich, of Three Kings, of The Matrix, and of American Beauty. It was the year of suburban malaise, of eternal sunshine, of ceaseless normality. A year of United States hegemony; a year whose chief terror was that THIS WAS IT.

Before the millennium turned and the towers fell, there was an initial challenge to this order, a completely inconsequential one made consequential by a newly minted 24/7 news media machine running out of noise to fill dead air now that people were sick to bursting of the Clinton impeachment. This challenge came not through war, revolution, or violence, but through entertainment. Children's entertainment.

And I was a child. Unaware of any cultural context, I knew only one thing: I loved Pokémon. I really, really loved Pokémon.

I owned Red Version, Blue Version, Yellow Version, Pokémon Pinball, Pokémon Stadium, Pokémon Snap, Hey You Pikachu, a Pokémon Tetris sort of puzzle game, even the Pokémon TCG game for Gameboy. I had ten to fifteen strategy guides for the games, an encyclopedia of the 151 Pokémon, a choose your own adventure book, an I Spy-style book. I had Pokémon figurines, Pokémon plushies, toy Poké Balls, toy Pokédexes. I had Pokémon stamps and Pokémon stickers and a deck of Pokémon cards. Not trading cards, just a standard 52-card deck with Pokémon pictures on it. Of course I also had the trading cards. A complete set of the first three runs, plus a special Mew card you could get from I dunno Toys R Us or something as part of some promotion. I had a guide for the card game that explained which cards were good or bad even though I didn't even play the card game. I had a Pokémon Tamagotchi and Pokémon pencils and Pokémon erasers and Ash Ketchum's hat and I dressed up as Ash Ketchum for Halloween. Of course I watched every episode of the anime, and in notebooks I drew doodles of existing Pokémon and came up with names for new Pokémon. My father had died that year.

My father was a sports fanatic. Traditional sports. He, too, collected. Sports memorabilia, baseball cards, figures of famous stars. When I was an infant, he drove me on a cross country road trip to Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where I became a part owner of the Green Bay Packers. He had always wanted me to grow up and pursue professional sports. When I was born, the doctor apparently said to start looking for football colleges, a quote he saved in a scrapbook of baby photos. He had played sports himself, in college; he was a baseball catcher, until a hitter accidentally struck him in the head with a full force swing.

Almost everything I personally remember about him involves him dying. He was sick for a long time, and I remember hospitals and hospital beds and strange smells and gauze. And then one day my mother told me he died.

He was a charismatic man, very social and very popular. He had many friends and a lot of family, all of whom had constantly been around our house. Once he was gone, they stopped coming around. Then it was just me and my mother, who was not a fanatic for anything, except maybe her job as an elementary school teacher, which consumed her time as she assiduously prepared lesson plans and graded tests until late at night. When my father died, she got into some argument with his side of the family, the details of which I still don't fully understand, and afterward they no longer spoke. Her own family lived far away, out-of-state, seen only at Christmas. The house became quiet.

And I… played… Pokémon.

II. The Electric Tale of Pikachu

Toshihiro Ono was a mangaka primarily known for shotacon and futanari hentai. His credits such as Innyou Megami and Anal Justice made him a no-brainer pick for the officially licensed Pokémon manga, Electric Tale of Pikachu, as it too would feature a 10-year-old boy as the protagonist.

This manga would be the foundation for my conception of what Pokémon was, narratively. Though I also had the Pokémon Adventures manga that ran concurrently and which has by now long outlasted it, Electric Tale left a significantly deeper imprint on my memory.

In summary, Electric Tale is a retelling of the first two seasons of the anime. Ash Ketchum is the main character, he's accompanied by Misty and later Brock, his rival is Gary, and Team Rocket harangues him.

What sets Electric Tale apart is its tone, which is far more adult than Adventures and the anime. Obviously, part of this comes from the author's primary area of expertise being hentai. Even in the censored English version, there is a sense of sexual playfulness in how every single female character is an older woman who likes to tease Ash about his romantic interests.

But there are other elements that creep in unrelated to sex, due to the perspective of someone only used to speaking to adults who suddenly has to speak to children. Ono doesn't really get the childish fantasy of leaving at 10 being normal in society, so he introduces an element where Ash can only get a one year deferment from school and will have to return unless he hits it big. Team Rocket are former competitive hopefuls who flamed out and then, with no education or work experience to speak of, had no choice but to turn to crime. The Pokémon are depicted more realistically, often eschewing the toyetic mascot elements of their designs.

And the landscapes are often wistful, even apocalyptic in their presentation:

This more sedate, mature, realistic depiction of Pokémon became what I wanted Pokémon to be, what I projected onto an original Red and Blue version that left everything open to interpretation, and what would increasingly frustrate me with the series as it deviated more toward bombastic villain groups with goofy destroy-the-world plots. (Which was what put me off Pokémon Adventures.)

Amid all this, one panel stuck with me in particular. One panel I would think about ever since I first saw it as a child, that would turn around in my head and keep coming back. That panel would eventually—over two decades later—become the basis for When I Win the World Ends, the seed from which an entire story grew:

III. The Unkillable Demon King

But in the interim, the seed remained dormant. 1999 fell away. I grew up. I played later Pokémon games and increasingly lost interest by around Gen 4 and 5. Then I went to college.

That's when I started playing League of Legends.

I was something of a psychopath in college. I operated on a strict schedule and did not deviate. Wake up, read 50 pages of classic literature, write 2,000 words, go to classes, study, and then by about four in the afternoon all my obligations were done and it was League of Legends until midnight.

I wasn't actually interested in the League of Legends esports scene in its infancy. In 2012, I was actually invited to attend its World Championship in Los Angeles and refused. (When I received this invitation, I had just finished reading Homestuck for the first time, and was caught in a month-long haze in which I could do little but bask within what I considered the greatest artistic achievement I'd seen in my life. It was this month that inspired Modern Cannibals.) I only liked playing the game and watching Dunkey videos.

It wasn't until the next year, when a girl I was interested in recommended I watch, that I tuned in to my first professional League of Legends game, at the 2013 World Championship. It was there that I got to watch this new, hyped, upcoming Korean player who had apparently taken the pro scene by storm that season. That player was Faker.

It has seemingly become essential to the narrative of any sport that there is "the man who always wins." American football has Tom Brady, and the moment Brady retired, he was replaced by Patrick Mahomes. Basketball has LeBron James, picking up the mantle from Michael Jordan. It's as if someone being "the best" validates the skill-based promise of the sport, the fundamental top-down fairness of its premise, the idea that the person who wins is the best and deserved it. Faker would become the backbone of League of Legends esports and his ascendance correlated to that of the sport itself, from its humble roots at small-scale tournaments in places like Jönköping, Sweden, to max capacity arenas in the biggest cities in the world.

It's surprising, though, how the legend of Faker had already begun even before he won his first World Championship. League of Legends was designed as a clone of Defense of the Ancients (DotA), a popular mod for Warcraft III that emphasized competitive play. In its infancy, the competitive scene was mostly dominated by players who had migrated from DotA to League. They were older, winning thanks to a fundamental conceptual understanding of the game that was superior to everyone else, and frankly not very good in the aggregate. As League of Legends esports exploded in popularity from 2013 to 2015, these old pros would get filtered out swiftly, with even the biggest and most popular names retiring after only a couple of years in the scene.

Even once the new generation of League-grown talent ascended, though, careers were nasty, brutish, and short. The best players only remained on top for a season, as game patches dramatically changed viable strategies. Internationally the sport was dominated by Koreans, with the Korean regional league sometimes being seen as more difficult to win than the World Championship, where Koreans often breezed through uncompetitive Chinese, European, and North American squads.

This possibly affected the demographics of the professional scene. South Korea has mandatory military service, and leaving the pro scene to join the military was basically the end of a Korean player's career. This meant that it was rare to see a Korean player older than 25. Retiring in your early 20s was and remains common. Korean organizations, which had an infrastructural leg up on other regions due to the popularity of StarCraft 2 esports in the country, became adept at scouting promising players at 15 or 16, building them into top level competitive pros, wringing them dry for a few seasons with brutal training regimens, and spitting them out.

Faker was the exception. Though he had been discovered young by SK Telecom, a major Korean telecommunications company that did esports on the side, and gone through the training regimen, he refused to be spit out. He simply didn't stop. He won in 2013, then with a completely new four-man squad around him won again in 2015 and 2016 before narrowly losing the 2017 finals in a nail biter. Given League of Legends esports had only existed since 2011, he basically accounted for half of the championships up until that point. Nobody else, except for his teammates, had won more than once. And it was like it was known he would be this juggernaut the instant he manifested ex nihilo. Like it was known, even in 2013, that he would always win.

Then, Faker stopped winning.

By 2017, League of Legends esports was a titan. Venture capital firms, seeing the millions of eyeballs, thought that this was the next NBA in its infancy, and decided to get in on the ground floor. Multiple millions of dollars were pumped into the scene as even mediocre players in weak regions like North America pulled seven-digit salaries. In China, where League of Legends had become the national pastime, the nation's richest oligarchs ran teams for fun and vanity, outbidding Korean organizations for top Korean players in pursuit of a trophy that had gone to Korea every year since 2013. Riot, the studio developing the game, pumped tons of money into creating a professional sports product, with skilled announcers, dedicated arenas for regional leagues, live performances by musicians like Imagine Dragons and Lil Nas X, and all the other bells and whistles one might expect from a program watched on ESPN.

In this milieu, it seemed like Faker had finally reached his limit. He was still good, but not the best. Even as an individual, while everyone still considered him the "greatest of all time," he was considered outmatched by newer pros like Chovy and ShowMaker. 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 passed with no championships. In 2022, on a team of mostly rookies, he reached the world finals, but was ultimately beaten. Korea's stranglehold over the sport had been shaken by China, which had finally strung together some championships. People wondered if Faker would retire, although he had managed to avoid mandatory military service by representing Korea in the Olympics-esque Asian Games. He'd dealt with wrist injuries and his level of play dropped year over year. He just didn't seem to be that good anymore, potentially holding back his team of talented young players rather than leading them to victory.

Then, in 2023—

And in 2024—

In the end, never count out Touchdown Tom. 11 years of professional play, 5 world championships.

From this longwinded explanation, you might have realized that after watching that game in 2013, I became a League of Legends esports fanatic, fulfilling the prophecy set before me by my father though perhaps in not the way he would have expected.

And the things I become a fanatic about, I want to write a story about.

IV. Modern Cannibals

There's a deleted scene in Modern Cannibals, as Maximillion is driving Z. and her friends through the Utah desert. He starts to talk about Pokémon.

"I bring it up because my university thesis was about Pokemon in particular how Pokemon has basically trained an entire generation of children to think in a completely different way than preceding generations my generation for instance our fad was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles now I don't know how much you know about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but from an educational standpoint we're talking absolute bankrupt complete and utter goose egg but Pokemon now Pokemon you see it's more like there's some substance to it you know that refrain Gotta Catch Em All right?" "..." "Well to most parents it looks like a marketing gimmick you make one hundred fifty-one characters and structure a game around collecting them the merchandising potential is astronomical kids buy one hundred fifty-one trading cards stickers coloring books figurines uh collectable lunchable toys I'm sure you've got some yourself."

He continues:

"But really you look at the game itself before the big toy explosion the game itself the focus is placed less on the collection and more on the catalogue you're given a blank encyclopedia to fill and you fill it by capturing one hundred fifty-one Pokemon but the goal is to create a complete database of each and every one and this is what I argue is the educational core of the Pokemon series." His hands left the wheel to conceive of his idea in the cool air of the car, which remained steady on its ever-forward path. "Our modern era is no longer one of singular isolated knowledge it is one of the catalogue the database which is most clearly personified in the advent of the internet because now all knowledge can be at the fingertips of any one human being all that is needed is someone to go and put the catalogue together and presto whiz bang it's there think about it Z. when you catch a bunch of Pokemon where do you store them?" Z. didn't need to think long to remember the game's mechanics. "In the PC." "Exactly now isn't that odd consider it in real life terms you have real life creatures made assumedly of flesh and bone and yet you store them in a computer how does that make sense you'd expect a farm or a holding pen but no it's the computer and that too prepares the budding portion of the millennial generation to become cognizant of the linkage between the computer the encyclopedia and the database structure of knowledge in a new era." "So," said Z. "So you're saying Pokemon taught kids how to think in the digital age?"

There's also a deleted character in Modern Cannibals. Well, mostly deleted—he still shows up, unnamed, in a couple of pages. He is Cole Coulter, Z.'s older brother, a popular League of Legends streamer. Before I deleted him, his role was to accompany Mrs. Roddlevan and Frederick in an attempt to bring Z. back home. He had POV scenes that gave insight into the weirdness of his cotravelers, but ultimately, I decided he didn't add anything to the story and removed him almost entirely.

Even then, though, I was already considering the future of Cole Coulter as the protagonist of a story about League of Legends esports. Playing under the ID MadKing, he would be a North American professional top laner, once known for his aggressive duelist style but recently forced into playing boring tanks as the esports metagame became more sophisticated and tactics-based.

The story would be simple, something I envisioned as a "sports story" only about esports instead of regular sports. It would start with Cole's team being relegated from the league, only for Cole to get a last chance signing to a new team with two promising Korean imports. One import, the mid laner, would be a charismatic and eccentric player in the mold of Doinb/Ganked By Mom/Huhi, while the other, an AD carry, would be introverted and pissy and elitist, in the mold of Piglet. The team would initially struggle, cultures would clash, then a mid-season replacement to sign a psychopathic Tyler1/Tarzaned style streamer as jungler would revitalize the team, put them on a major run, and get them to the World Championship. Though they would eventually fall after a miracle run, Cole would get a moment to truly shine on the biggest stage when he won a pivotal game by aggressive split pushing rather than tank play.

Thematically, the story would be about two things. First, a counterpoint to the idea of American exceptionalism, featuring a league where Americans are particularly bad compared to Korean or Chinese players. Second, an exploration of what it means to be exceptional at all. Cole would be an all-around mediocre person. Middling at school, at (real) sports, at the various popularity contests of being a teenager. League of Legends, this niche sub-sport, is the one thing he truly excelled at, the one place where he was good, better than 99.9 percent of all players, and yet even within that statistical greatness he wound up, ultimately, in a professional scene where he was once again mediocre, relegated to "tank duty," to facilitating other players to carry.

What does it mean to be the best? How can someone be so, so good, only to reach a level where they were still nothing special? Is there any way to win if you're not "the man who always wins"?

I remembered that panel from Electric Tale of Pikachu. The last people filtered before the final champion. It's certainly no walk in the zoo!

This idea was pretty detailed for a story I never wound up writing, something I mostly blame on the years 2018 and 2019, when a lot of bad things happened to me and in retrospect I consider it a minor miracle I managed to finish Chicago at all. As a human being, I would be decimated for the next three years, and so a lot of stories I might have written in that time never came to fruition.

Meanwhile, League of Legends esports reached a peak, then the venture capital bubble burst as investors realized there was no monetization scheme in place for any interested party except Riot Games. Money hemorrhaged out, Riot shifted resources to Valorant, and a sport that had been overinflated based on projected exponential growth in perpetuity fell back down to earth.

Also, Players came out.

Players was a 2022 mockumentary about a fictional League of Legends team competing in the North American league. Conceptually, it was doing a lot of what I had planned for my story: following a single team on a rags-to-riches run, focusing on the interpersonal drama of the team members, asking questions about greatness and its pursuit. It's a pretty good show if you're familiar with League of Legends esports at all, with a lot of on-the-ground fidelity that gives it an authentic feel, which is exactly what I had been hoping to use my esports fanaticism to accomplish. It completely took the wind out of my sails; it was like my idea had already been done.

So by 2022, the idea of a League of Legends esports story was dead. But there was still a drive to create something with that spirit, that would delve into those themes.

What remained after all these years of sifting the sieve, letting sand slip through, was that one panel from the manga. The number of people pursuing greatness slowly filtering until only one remained. And if I wasn't going to pursue that idea through League of Legends, maybe I could pursue it through another vehicle. Maybe the vehicle through which the idea had originally been exposed to me. Pokémon. It all came back to Pokémon.

V. Everything Evolving Into Crabs

I knew immediately that if I were to write a Pokémon fic, it would be a tournament arc. This was the natural evolution of my esports story idea. Also, if I were to write Pokémon, I wanted it to be a story about utopia, immersed within Pokémon's near-future ideal world, where everything is clean and healthy, where society is neat and ordered.

This idea caused me to remember the novel Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley, which I had read a few years back. A mostly autobiographical bildungsroman written on the precipice of World War II, the novel ends with the young protagonist on a journey to Central America, where he meets an idealistic doctor who believes sport to be a proper substitution for war. He tells the story of two tribes locked in internecine conflict through generations, able to replace that violence with soccer matches.

And wasn't that what the world of Pokémon was, a utopia revolving around neutralizing weapons of war by using them for competitive sport?

This tournament, I envisioned, would not simply be about deciding who was best, but an ideological battle for the future of the Pokémon world. To that end, I imagined a war between an entrenched trainer class, who competed as philosopher-warriors, intense individuals with deep connections to their Pokémon, and an upstart commercialization that sought to replace the ideological underpinnings that made their society so safe and prosperous with economic accumulation. It was from this kernel that the character who would become Aracely Sosa arose: charismatic, appealing, human-empathic, and propped up by a support staff who did all the hard work of teambuilding for her.

I imagined the story having an ensemble cast, focusing on nearly every competitor equally, with the Aracely character not having any especial focus until her improbable rise to the top. I imagined a final round where she faced off against "the man who always wins," and though she would lose to him, she would seem to have won the ideological battle, altering the course of society as major corporations scrambled to employ her formula for success at a much grander scale. The story would end with this realization of the earth-shattering importance behind her run, only for Aracely to sink in disappointment. Because in the end, all she really wanted was to win.

The more I thought about it, though, the less I liked the idea of an ensemble cast. The ensemble cast element of Chicago hadn't gone over very well (though I like it), and I figured it would wind up inflating the length of the story considerably. I was coming to the end of Cleveland Quixotic, after all, and once more wanted to write something smaller, tighter, and denser.

So I oriented my thinking to instead have the story revolve around Aracely and one major rival, to give an interpersonal mirror to the ideological war being waged. Thus, Toril came about as an antithesis to everything I had imagined Aracely to be: gruff, antisocial, independent. Their rivalry would culminate in a semifinals battle, before Aracely went on to fight "the man who always wins" in the finals.

I forget exactly when the gender theme came into the equation, but it evolved as an outgrowth of (once again) my competitive League of Legends expertise, where women are essentially nonexistent despite there seemingly being no biological blocks against them. This dovetailed nicely with Pokémon, a world where women seemingly could be powerful competitors, but where—in the anime at least—none ever are. For instance, look at this chart of every major tournament in the anime:

Every known winner is male. Every known finalist and semifinalist is male. Only a handful of female characters have reached the quarterfinals. What possible in-universe justification could there be for that?

This question was actually far more prominent in early planning and drafting than it wound up being in the final work. Initially, I had Aracely's personal motivation revolve around a drive to be the first female trainer to win; this would increase the ideological conflict between her and Toril, who attempted to ignore that she was female altogether. Over time, this theme would see diminished importance in face of the last piece of the thematic puzzle: cults.

It came from reading Underground by Haruki Murakami, a nonfiction journalistic account of the 1995 Tokyo sarin gas attacks carried out by the cult Aum Shinrikyo under the direction of its leader Shoko Asahara. Japan in the 90s was experiencing its own End of History, one taken literally by those disaffected with modern society's grand narrative. The prophecies of Nostradamus became fashionable among the young, who believed that 1999 would be the final year before the world was destroyed. Murakami interviewed both survivors of the gas attack and members of Aum Shinrikyo, collecting worldviews of people who simply thought they were "different" and who were willing to give everything in their lives to the one place that seemed to accept that difference.

The 1995 attacks were a watershed moment in Japanese culture. In their wake would come pivotal works of Japanese pop media, like the titan of otaku culture, Neon Genesis Evangelion:

(What's scary about Nostradamus' prophecy is that it might not come true. A year whose chief terror was that THIS WAS IT.)

Pokémon, whose first games released in Japan in 1996, also emerged within this post-Aum world where fixation on the minutiae of pop media was becoming a primary pillar of meaning for the youth, and it's hard not to see echoes of cultism in the evil teams that dot the series' landscape. Even Team Rocket, originally more modeled on organized crime than occultism, veers that direction in Gold and Silver, and afterward the organizations and their world-ending plots become increasingly absurd, to the point where it starts to become unclear why anyone would ever follow, say, Lysandre.

As I mentioned earlier, my personal interest in Pokémon was at odds with these clownish, Saturday morning cartoon villain organizations, but Murakami's account of the Aum attacks recontextualized them for me, made them make sense even within the framework of a "realistic" utopian world. The last elements snapped into place, and I knew my main character would be the member of one of these cults. A cult dedicated to, what else? Evolution. A core element of the Pokémon series, a perfect metaphor for the frustrating lack of movement of the End of History 90s. I imagined a cult leader as a surrogate mother figure for Aracely, who would have a strained relationship with both of her own parents, and deciding on that, the idea of making Pokémon's canon evil mother Lusamine the villain was a no-brainer. I imagined a post-SuMo Lusamine, unable to move on from her experience merged with Nihilego, languishing in Kanto after being sent there to consult with Bill, who had his own experience being merged with a Pokémon... It didn't take long to figure out how all these pieces connected.

The full form of the story had taken shape.

VI. Showdown

I knew immediately I would be following Showdown rules for the battles. No alternative even crossed my mind. I had dabbled in Showdown a few times over the years, first in Gen 3 OUs, then later in Gen 7 OUs, and I knew from experience that Pokémon is a monumentally more interesting competitive game when operating at a high level compared to either its depiction in the anime (shounen logic, mid-fight evolutions) or the general playing experience (spam your best move on your overleveled starter). I knew I would use competitive rulesets before I even considered the thematic or worldbuilding aspect I would eventually take in the story itself (i.e., that the specific rulesets prevent battles from becoming bloodsport and enforce order on the world). I simply thought doing battles this way would be far more entertaining.

To prepare, I started playing Gen 9 OUs under the guidance of a few friends who were into the competitive scene. I grinded the ladder for months, eventually getting a good enough grasp on the metagame to reach 1500 Elo on the Showdown ladder, which is not very good but generally higher than someone can reach with dumb luck.

Crafting the tournament format and rulesets used in the story wasn't difficult. I modeled the tournament format on the League of Legends World Championship, with region-based seeds (having been selected due to performance in regional tournaments) competing in four groups before the highest performers advanced to a single elimination bracket. Initially, I envisioned a 32-competitor bracket instead of the 16-competitor bracket that would appear in the final draft, but otherwise the format came quickly and easily.

In terms of the rulesets and available Pokémon, my considerations were made primarily in terms of what would be most entertaining to read. I decided to include Mega Evolutions and not include Z Moves, Dynamax, or Terastallization, because Mega Evolutions are cool and those other gimmicks are not. The bring-9-pick-6 format, while unusual in Showdown rulesets, is similar to the rules in Pokémon Stadium and VGC tournaments, and also adds a level of intrigue to which Pokémon each competitor uses. (It also enabled Red's Zapdos at the climax of the story, which was something I knew I would bring out from very early on.)

With the help of one of my friends who knew competitive Pokémon, I scripted out each battle assiduously before I wrote them. Every battle was tested using Showdown itself, with only a few turns mocked up to account for luck. For instance, in Aracely versus Jinjiao, Slowking is meant to stay asleep for three turns. Rather than rely on luck to ensure Slowking actually slept that long during the test, I could give Slowking a useless move and have him use that instead to simulate being asleep.

The only thing that couldn't be tested in Showdown was the 7 PP Kingambit trick Red uses at the end of the story, because it's impossible to set a Pokémon to have fewer than max PP in Showdown. This led to one of the bigger mistakes of the story, as it turns out that Encore would simply wear off if Kingambit ran out of PP, rather than forcing him to use Struggle like I assumed. Luckily, even if this were the case, it wouldn't change the outcome of the battle, so it's not an error I lose too much sleep over.

Character teams were chosen to thread the needle between a few considerations. The team needed to be competitively viable, reflect the character's personality in some way, and be distinct from other teams for the sake of variety. (Variety is somewhat unrealistic in real top-level competitive Pokémon, where you'll often see many almost identical teams in the top ranks. But that would be boring.) Some lack of optimization was allowed under the conceit that actually training these Pokémon to peak form would take a lot of time in the real world, compared to Showdown were optimization can be determined quickly due to the ability to immediately adjust stats and builds.

I also tried to give some preference for Pokémon that would be more familiar to layman fans, though this was difficult because Gen 8 and 9 have outrageous power creep and many popular early generation Pokémon have been completely phased out. (Using Megas helped with this issue.) It was this consideration that led to Azumarill being Aracely's ace. There was also an innate challenge to imagining what the competitive scene would look like without legendary Pokémon. Zapdos and Landorus-Therian have been inexorable staples of the competitive scene for generations. What happens in a world where they aren't used at all?

In the original 32-person bracket, I imagined Aracely competing against Jinjiao in the first round, then minor characters Adrian da Cunha and Jacq Ray Johnson in the next two rounds, before facing Toril in semifinals. I imagined Adrian da Cunha as a "hometown hero" whose team wasn't great but he was plucky with a lot of grit, and Jacq Ray Johnson as a self-aware heel who liked to use cheesy strategies and gimmicky Pokémon like Smeargle and Ditto. Condensing from 32 to 16 occurred around the same time I had settled on Lusamine as my villain/cult leader, which led to replacing those two with Gladion. I developed full brackets for both the 32-man and 16-man iterations, with character names and regions, just in case I ever needed to mention them.

All that was left to do was write the story.

VII. Unbroken Line of History

I began writing in September 2023 under the tentative title Unbroken Line of History, which I would later change to simply Lines. In the original drafts, I opened the story with a modified version of the panel from Electric Tale of Pikachu detailing how people are filtered over time in their pursuit of being the best, this time starting with all 8 billion people in the world until only one remains. The story then cut to Aracely's perspective in the restroom as she mentally prepared for her final group stage match.

At this point I was more set on Aracely being the clear protagonist of the story, so she had a few facets of her personality designed around that. First, as I mentioned before, there was a feminist angle where she was motivated specifically to be the first female trainer to win the championship. Secondly, I threw in some more generic nervousness/fear of failure. The other major difference is that I did not lead with the cult prophecy of the world ending. I originally envisioned the cult reveal to be a mid-story twist, and only obliquely hinted at it.

The scene still played out with Toril appearing and the two getting off to a bad start. Then, Cely's father tried to talk strategy with her while she ignored him, before the battle transpired in much the same form as it does in the final draft.

I showed this early draft to my friends and most disliked it. My girlfriend at the time told me Cely sounded like an edgy 13-year-old boy, while my neuroscientist friend whose aspirational idol is Bondrewd from Made in Abyss wanted to know more about the oblique hints of a cult, finding everything else boring. Another friend said it was stupid that there were 30 seconds between turns during the battle and that the Pokémon should just go at each other; nobody would actually want to watch a battle that was paced so slowly. (I vehemently disagreed with that take. Basically every popular sport balances between slow-paced moments of strategy and fast-paced moments of action and execution.) Some people I showed it to did enjoy it, though. Gazemaize, the author of Chili and the Chocolate Factory, was especially enamored by the Brittany/Gardevoir reveal and the Bud Light Analyst Desk, and implored me to keep both of those elements at all costs. 7th, one of my friends who helped me with the Showdown stuff, was so into it she drew fan art of all the characters (which I've posted before) and also wrote eight pornographic short stories about them.

I rewrote the same opening scene several times across October and November, though these were minor iterations without significant adjustments. Frustrated with the lack of progress, I decided to take a break from writing to simply think about the story for a few months.

During this time, to fix Aracely's edgy 13-year-old voice, I decided to lean into her being from Pokémon Los Angeles (with her native region, Visia, being a play on "visual" as a reference to Hollywood) and gave her a Valley Girl accent. To prepare for this, I listened to hours and hours of ASMR videos of people speaking like Valley Girls and took notes on their inflection and syntax. It was here where I decided on Aracely's underlining quirk, as a way of capturing the unique style of emphasis Valley Girls used.

This also made me realize I needed to adjust Aracely's personality. Despite the tone of her voice, she was still acting antisocially. She didn't want to talk to her father, she didn't want to talk to Lachlan Nguyen, she didn't even really want to talk to Toril. Toril herself was a lump of coal. My own misanthropy kept leaking into the characters, even when I conceptually didn't want them to have it. I thought back to Cleveland Quixotic, and how what made the Jay and Viviendre romance work was that they actually both liked each other, and figured—even though I didn't have explicitly romantic plans for Aracely and Toril—that I needed to do something similar to make their rivalry truly pop. Rather than avoid people, Aracely would lean into talking to them, even if they were annoying. Although Toril remained frigid, there would be a part of her yearning for emotional contact, a way to coax her out of her shell.

I also thought deeply about the structure of my stories in general, and my inability to come up with good hooks. It was around this time that someone I knew was reading Chicago. They pointed out that the plot of Chicago doesn't really start until Chapter 26; that I was "burying the lede." I considered this. My logic, when writing Chicago, was that the Empire moving to take over Washington would be a twist, something that would shock and excite people and change their perception of the entire story.

But did that make sense, when really the story was "about" that twist? Didn't that just make everything before the twist harder to get into for a reader? Chicago might look radically different if I revealed the Empire's goals immediately, but it would also probably be a more immediately engaging work. I'm a big fan of delayed gratification in storytelling, but had I taken it too far?

This was a major revelation for me, and immediately I understood what I needed to do for my Pokémon story: move up the cult plotline. Place it front and center. Name the whole story after it even. I decided on framing the opening scene from Toril's perspective, depicting Aracely initially more as an alien other, emphasizing the fact that she was in a cult rather than hide it behind foreshadowing. This could also lead to Aracely and Toril having more of a dual protagonist setup, which would make my planned two-half finale (one half where Aracely battled "the man who always wins," one half where Toril got involved in stopping the cult's doomsday plot) work even better.

Confidence resurged. At the end of January 2024, my girlfriend of seven years  and I broke up. A few days later, I started writing the sixth—and ultimately final—draft of When I Win the World Ends.

VIII. When I Win the World Ends

Now it's the part of the Making Of where I actually make the thing I'm supposed to be making, but there's a lot less to say about it. Once I have a plan, the actual writing of the story is the easy part, and most of what I wrote—with a few exceptions—looks similar to the story as it exists now.

There were some oddities. I wrote the first seven chapters (everything up to the end of the Jinjiao battle) and then had to take a two week break to write a short piece for a writing contest I had entered in December as part of an effort to stop overthinking WIW. After this interruption, I returned to WIW writing perhaps a bit more perfunctorily than I usually would, leading to an original version of Chapter 8 (the chapter where MOTHER makes her first real appearance) that was short and abbreviated. Later, in editing, I would rewrite most of this chapter.

A few ideas emerged while writing, like the motif of serendipity/Logos, which I felt tied nicely to the ideas of evolution and history. It was also in this draft that I introduced Cely's friends Haydn and Charlie, as a nod to an earlier work of mine also featuring a fashion-obsessed girl from Los Angeles. (Speaking of nods to earlier works, in the original 32-man bracket, Cole Coulter featured as one of the competitors, but he didn't make the 16-man cut.)

The process went smoothly. I finished the draft at the end of May, a little under four months after I started it. I had envisioned the full story as being about 70,000 words, but the draft ended up closer to 115,000. Underestimating story length is just an essential element of the trade, though.

A few days after finishing the draft I went on a four-day Oklahoma Darkness Retreat where I had access to zero electronics. The goal was to think about my story deeply and how it could be improved in the editing process.

In this time chamber, where I did nothing except complete crossword puzzles and read The Recognitions by William Gaddis, I came to a realization. There was one element the story needed that wasn't already there.

That element was Sabrina. In the original draft, Sabrina was not present during the scene where Aracely meets the Old Man. She was mentioned obliquely a couple of times in conjunction with Aracely's "psychic powers," but it never really built to anything. There was still a scene where Aracely was interrogated due to her relationship with MOTHER, but only by nameless goons, and the scene lacked tension as it was clear Aracely could talk circles around them.

When I returned from Oklahoma, I prepared for my conception of Sabrina as a character by writing an 8,000 word short story from her perspective, which hashed out an entire backstory for her. Then, I started editing the draft.

For me, a lot of editing is just polish. Usually, cutting out needless sentences and fixing clunky ones, as well as emphasizing a few of the more understated themes and motifs. For instance, during editing, I made slight additions to emphasize the thematic connection between Aracely's suicide attempt and the global war that almost destroyed the world, as well as the connection between the moon and cyclical insanity (lunacy, etymologically, being related to the moon). I made the Old Man more of a Walt Disney-esque figure (from my notes: "a dying Disney"), rewriting much of his dialogue to either be direct quotes or to evoke his ideals. I also expanded on several of the scenes where Toril and Aracely interact to make their relationship more complex and nuanced. I gave MOTHER some new dialogue, including her speech in Chapter 18 about loving a child for the potential it promises, while also paradoxically wanting it to remain a child forever.

The largest changes were in the three chapters I almost fully rewrote. The first was Chapter 8, which as I mentioned earlier was overly terse. In the original draft, it depicted MOTHER as more pathetic, more dependent on Aracely. I decided to make her a more threatening figure, and incorporated a few references to the Moloch sacrifice scene from Valle Verde to make her seem more like a false idol. Similarly, I rewrote Chapter 12, which was originally a very short chapter that focused solely on a conversation between MOTHER and Nilufer that ended with the order to kidnap Aracely. In rewriting the chapter to include Fiorella, I gave myself more opportunity to flesh out the respective philosophies of her and MOTHER (including some of the story's most salient discussions about why cults exist), as well as give more of an insight into the inner workings of RISE as an organization. And lastly, I fully rewrote Chapter 19 to include Sabrina.

The last changes I made in editing were to the final chapter. When I finished the final draft of the story, I sent it to several readers, many of whom had looked at the original drafts of the first chapter, as well as julirites, the author of a Fargo fan fiction called London. There was an immediate and minor backlash to the final chapter, which was originally much more pessimistic, from most people who read it. In the original version, Aracely and Toril were not still in communication. (Fiorella was also dying of cancer instead of jockeying to replace the Old Man.) The finale had a much more somber, sedate, tragic note. Juli and 7th disliked this sad ending, while Gazemaize wanted me to cut the final chapter altogether. I felt confident that the final chapter was necessary, though, and revised it to its current version, which was much better liked.

And then... the story was finished, near the end of July. I crunched the numbers and realized that if I posted two chapters to start and then did a twice-weekly posting schedule, I could end the story serendipitously on October 12. So I did.

IX. Names and Special Thanks

In my Making Of post for Cleveland Quixotic, I had a fairly extensive list of where I got all the character and place names from. The list is a lot less extensive here; most names I constructed for the purpose of sounding evocative, rather than taking them from someplace specific. For instance, I chose the name Aracely Sosa because it sounds like whistling with its repeated S sounds, compared to Toril Lund which is a lot harsher with its consonants. You can see a similar rationale behind names like Fiorella Fiorina, Yui Matsui, and even some of the background characters, like Jacq Ray Johnson, Jr., where there is a lot of emphasis on alliteration and rhyme.

There are a couple of exceptions. Jinjiao is the in-game ID of a longtime Chinese League of Legends pro of middling notability. He picked the name (which means "Golden Horn") as a reference to the Golden Horned King, a villain from Journey to the West.

Lutz, Fiorella's cameraman, was named after an extremely minor character from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, who is not playable and only appears in a singular cutscene before being killed. They are so irrelevant that despite naming a character after them, I actually forgot their name, which is Lotz, not Lutz.

Haydn is named after the famous classical composer.

Special thanks to 7th and Elick320 for helping me with the teams and battles. Thanks to Gazemaize and julirites, among others unnamed, for reading and providing feedback. And thank you all for enjoying the story.

[does-it-introject]

QUEUE CHECKLIST

[pt: Queue Checklist /end pt]

... will get updated every once in a while! Also hidden below the cut due to the amount of requests!

In the queue waiting is:

Spider Gang (Music Collective)

Silent Hill (Universe)

Helldivers 2

The Magnus Archives

Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)

DC Cinematic Universe

My Demon (Kdrama)

Needy Streamer Overload

Stardew Valley

Honkai Star Rail

Hellpoint

Alien vs. Predators

Cookie Run (Franchise)

OneShot

Critical Role

Castlevania

Markiplier Cinematic Universe

Gravity Falls

Palworld

Stray Kids (Kpop)

Soul Eater

Bendy And The Ink Machine (Universe)

Shakespeare

Ace Attorney

Kid Icarus

Slimecicle Cinematic Universe

Signalis

LGBTQ+

Kancolle

Loop SMP

Parkour Civilization

Warframe

Jacksepticeye Cinematic Universe

Sherlock BBC

Dimension 20

Friends (/factives, not the show)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)

Tiger X Bunny

Just Shapes And Beats

Puyo Puyo

Tale Of The Nine Tailed

Wuthering Waves

Alter Ego (Mobile Game)

Warhammer

What Remains Of Edith Finch

My Little Pony

Rabbit And Steel

GrayStillPlays

Magic The Gathering

Epic The Musical

Azur Lane

Magical Girl Raising Project

Nevermore (Webtoon)

Destiny 2

Numbers

Remnant II

Vermintide I and II

Mr. Robot

Severance

Sailor Moon

Eddsworld

Kingdom Hearts

Dead By Daylight

Arknights

Kamen Rider

Ni No Kuni

Arrow (TV Show)

Nimona

RWBY

I'm The Grim Reaper (Webtoon)

Welcome To Demon School Iruma-kun! (Mairimashita Iruma-kun)

Call Of Duty

Plants Vs Zombies (Original Game)

#Actually Plural (The Tag)

The Concept Of Math

The Evillious Chronicles

Cry Of Fear

Kingdom Hearts

Family Members

Resident Evil (Franchise)

Lego Ninjago

Five Nights At Freddys (Rerun)

Umbrella Academy

Professor Layton

Helluva Boss

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

Zenless Zone Zero

JoJos Bizarre Adventure

Steven Universe

Warrior Cats

Fight Club (Rerun)

Bojack Horseman

Battle For Dream Island

Spongebob Squarepants

House MD (Show)

Team Fortress 2

RanFren

Colors

Land Of The Lustrous

NomNomNami Games (Collectively)

Pressure (Roblox)

The Amazing Digital Circus (TADC)

The Coffin Of Andy And Leyley (TCOAAL)

Ic3speak (Band)

Baldurs Gate 3

Ensemble Stars / Enstars

Star Wars (Franchise)

Kirby (Franchise)

The Batfam

Tokyo Mew Mew

The Beatles

Osomatsu-san

Undertale AUs (generally)

Apps (like, on the phone)

Welcome Home

Dead Poets Society

Zero Day

Voices Of The World

ContentSMP (by DoctorR4t)

BigTop Burger (Show)

The Hunger Games

Doors (Roblox)

Percy Jackson

Shin Megami Tensei

Lucifer (Show)

[berrychanx]

Article from the Megami Magazine, related to the airing of Tokyo Mew Mew in 2002

Scan by MyuMyuCheerCh on Twitter

[longhairedboybracket]

Long Haired Boy Bracket All Contestants

The polls will start this tuesday the 2nd

Bracket A

1 - Ling Yao Fullmetal Alchemist vs Will Turner Pirates of the Caribbean

2 - Chigiri Hyoma Blue Lock vs Kasanoda Ritsu OHSHC

3 - Squidward Tentacles Sponge Bob Square Pants vs Link Legend of Zelda

4 - Heimdall Mcu vs Enoch Drebber Ace Attorney

5 - Izuru Kamukura Danganronpa vs Silver Pokémon

6 - Wei Wuxian Mo Dao Zu Shi vs Hua Cheng Heaven's Official Blessing

7 - Wataru Hibiki Ensemble Stars vs Akoya Gero Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-Bu Love

8 - Su Honkai Impact 3rd vs Reyson Fire Emblem

9 - Vanitas Vanitas no Carte vs Athos 3 musketeers

10 - Destruction The Sandman vs Eliot Stardew Valley

11 - Neightan Rot Monster High vs Haruka Hashida Blue Period

12 - Kian Stone Just Roll With It, Show vs Aion Show By Rock

13 - Shulk Xenoblade vs Antonio Identity V

14 - Beelzebub Granblue Fantasy vs Kiun Noragami

15 - Alex Harvey-Iniguez Magical Warrior Diamond Heart vs Fabian Blush Blush

16 - Lord Cedric W.I.T.C.H vs Eithan Aurelius Cradle Series

Bracket B

1 - Korekiyo Shinguji Danganronpa vs Hong Lu Limbus Company

2 - Alucard Castlevania vs Finn The Human Adventure Time

3 - Sakurayashiki Kaoru "Cherry" Sk8 Infinity vs Rosado Fire Emblem

4 - Geralt Of Rivia The Witcher vs Elrond Lord Of The Rings

5 - Inigo Montoya The Princess Bride vs Fire Lord Zuko Avatar The Last Airbender/Avatar The Legend Of Korra

6 - Natural Harmonia Gropius "N" Pokémon vs Loki Mcu

7 - Samsom The Old Testament vs Aramis 3 musketeers

8 - Interdimensional Prince Monster Prom vs Furanui Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-Bu Happy Kiss

9 - Ichirota Kazemaru Inazuma Eleven vs Lucas Rune Factory 5

10 - Helia Winx Club vs Gunpowder Tim The Mechanisms

11 - Shinjiro Nozomi Entropic Float vs Dia Akedia Court of Darkness

12 - Jareth The Goblin King Labyrinth vs Br'aad Vengolor Just Roll With It

13 - Little Creek Spirit vs Bigby Wolf Fables

14 - Terry Bogard Fatal Fury vs Prince Phobos W.I.T.C.H

15 - Dyuradyura Show By Rock vs Noah Kawaii Mansion

16 - Howell Wizard Bee and Puppycat vs Zero Megaman

Bracket C

1 - Inuyasha Inuyasha vs Lucius Fire Emblem

2 - Legolas Lord of the Rings vs Greg Universe Steven Universe

3 - Melli Pokémon vs Shatterstar Marvel

4 - Klavier Gavin Ace Attorney vs Lan Wangji Mo Dao Zu Shi

5 - Chewbacca Star Wars vs Cousin it The Addams Family

6 - Captain Hook Peter Pan vs Edward Elric Fullmetal Alchemist

7 - Tarzan Tarzan vs Razor Genshin Impact

8 - Gerard Keay The Magnus Archives vs Deidara Naruto

9 - Yan Qing Fate Grand Order vs Porthos 3 musketeers

10 - Yue Cardcaptor Sakura vs Headmaster Precure

11 - Kurama Yu Yu Hakusho vs Gillion Tidestrider Just Roll With It

12 - Sitka Brother Bear vs Lord Cob Tales Of Earthsea

13 - Kidou Yuuto Inazuma Eleven Go vs Takumi Ichinose Nana

14 - Peter Cook W.I.T.C.H vs Alec Swordspoint

15 - Peking Duck Food Fantasy vs Karurusu Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-Bu Happy Kiss

16 - Blue Knight Tokyo Mew Mew vs Yakari Yakari

Bracket D

1 - Asakura Hao Shaman King vs Soren Fire Emblem

2 - Sesshomaru Inuyasha vs Christopher Yugioh Zexal

3 - Lord Farquaad Shrek vs Katsura Kotaro Gintama

4 - Jesus The Bible vs Sephiroth Final Fantasy VII

5 - Aoba Seragaki Dramatical Murder vs Basil Hawkins One Piece

6 - Kamui Gakupo Vocaloid vs Nahyuta Sahdmadhi Ace Attorney

7 - Jon Snow Game of Thrones vs Grusha Pokémon

8 - Terumi Furo "Aphorodi" Inazuma Eleven vs Joseph Identity V

9 - Nahobino Shin Megami Tensei vs Kite Hunter x Hunter

10 - Ogron Winx Club vs Niklaus Just Roll With It

11 - D'artagnian 3 musketeers vs Monmon Show by Rock

12 - Xie Lian Heaven's Official Blessing vs Olivier Vanitas no Carte

13 - Xiao Yin Dislyte vs Thane Bauer Watashi no Oshi Wa Akuyaku Reijou

14 - Toki Wartooth Metalocalypse vs Madmartigan Willow

15 - DJ Grooves A Hat In Time vs Jae-ha Akatsuki no Yona

16 - Nezumi No.6 vs Ashe Bradley Witch's Heart

[mahnati]

I wanted to try doing this list because it sounded like a fun challenge, even if the rules are a bit vague and rely on one's subjectivity. I tried to not repeat the characters said on Crim's list, so this is the list I came up with:

1- Pearl (Pearl)

2- Zenya Okinaga (sweet pool)

3- The shopkeeper (Hashihime Of The Old Book Town)

4- Edelgard von Hresvelg (Fire Emblem Three Houses)

5- Emperor Arvis (Fire Emblem Genealogy of the Holy War)

6- Emperor Rudolph (Fire Emblem Echoes Shadows of Valentia)

7- Prince Lyon (Fire Emblem Sacred Stones)

8- Takumi (Fire Emblem Fates Conquest)

9- Líf (Fire Emblem Heroes)

10- Egil (Xenoblade Chronicles 1)

11- Jin (Xenoblade Chronicles 2)

12- N (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

13- Daiba Nana (Revue Starlight)

14- Susukichi (NEO The World Ends With You)

15- The Shadowlord (Nier Replicant)

16- Devola (Nier Replicant)

17- Popola (Nier Replicant)

18- Zero (9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors)

19- Zero (Virtue’s Last Reward)

20- Nagito Komaeda (Danganronpa 2)

21- Sue (The Substance)

22- Red (Us)

23- Walter White (Breaking Bad)

24- Cytherea (Gideon the Ninth)

25- Kei Madarame (Slow Damage) 

26- Emma (Togainu no Chi)

27- Dracula (Castlevania animated series)

28- Dr. Simon Bacamarte (O Alienista)

29- Megan (M3GAN)

30- Abdiel (Shin Megami Tensei V)

31- Hama (Avatar The Last Airbender)

32- Yua (W.I.T.C.H.)

33- Quiche (Tokyo Mew Mew)

34- Mary (Ib)

35- Adam (Nier Automata)

36- Eve (Nier Automata)

37- Mustache Girl (A Hat in Time)

38- Sharpay Evans (High School Musical)

39- Jetstream Sam (Metal Gear Rising Revengeance)

40- Marie (Skullgirls)

41- Omori (Omori)

42- The scientists from Cabin In The Woods

43- Amanda (Rule of Rose)

44- Misty (Yellowjackets)

45- Mitsu Uchida (Whispering Woman)

46- Bowser (Mario & Luigi Bowser’s Inside Story)

47- Mastema (Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance)

48- Viridi (Kid Icarus: Uprising)

49- Jack Delroy (Late Night With the Devil)

50- Ameinda (Escritório BR)

Lily. You are no match for the supreme powers of my evil autism. Here is a non exhaustive list of well written, complicated but inarguably villainous characters the audience is intended to and does sympathize with!

Josh Kiryu (The World Ends with You)

V (V for Vendetta)

Light Yagami (Death Note)

Crowley (Supernatural)

Sephiroth (Final Fantasy)

Ryo Asuka (Devilman)

Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts)

Azula (Avatar the Last Airbender)

Jennifer Check (Jennifer's Body)

Killmonger (Black Panther)

Ben Linus (Lost)

Ashley Graves (The Coffin of Andy And Leyley)

Andrew Graves (The Coffin of Andy and Leyley)

Poison Ivy (DC)

Gollum/Smeagol (The Lord of the Rings)

Doctor Freeze (DC)

Satan (Paradise Lost)

Makima (Chainsaw Man)

Hades (Hadestown)

Eric (Phantom of the Opera)

Sister Jude Martin (American Horror Story)

Johnny (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac)

Miranda Priestly (The Devil wears Prada)

Sweeny Todd (Sweeny Todd)

Velma Kelley (Chicago)

John Gaius (Locked Tomb)

Solas (Dragon Age)

Griffith (Berserk)

Javert (Le Miserables)

Starscream (Transformers)

Mystique (X-Men)

Zim (Invader Zim)

Frankenstein's Monster (Frankenstein)

Vriska Serket (Homestuck)

Lotor (Voltron Legendary Defenders)

Elphaba Thropp (Wicked [Book Only])

Simon Laurent (Infinity Train)

The Batter (OFF)

Blaine DeBeers (iZombie)

Zoisite and Kunzite (Sailor Moon)

Annie Wilkes (Misery)

Woodes Rogers (Black Sails)

Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Aravose (The Dragon Prince)

Kagura (Inuyasha)

Demona (Gargoyles)

Two-Face (Batman)

Tai Lung (Kung-Fu Panda)

Roy Batty (Blade Runner)

Lelouch (Code Geass)

Your mileage may vary of course, but we all know the reason why Lily said 50 to begin with was so that no one could possibly challenge her. Unfortunately for her, I, an extremely autistic man am not afraid of a challenge. If anyone else wants to add to my list go ahead! 😊

[myaphelion]

hey man 👉👈 do you have a list of all the series you used for your school uniform dress up game??

p.s. will you add more hair options in the future?

hello!

unfortunately i had a computer crash since then and lost the psd file for the game so i can no longer work on it :( i can tell you what series i used though! under cut -

aikatsu!

tokyo mew mew

sailor moon

katawa shoujo

angelic layer

black*rock shooter

jewelpet

pretear

revolutionary girl utena

magic knight rayearth

princess tutu

kamikaze kaitou jeanne

mermaid melody

cutie honey

sugar sugar rune

mewkledreamy

kaitou saint tail

ore, twintail ni narimasu

doki doki literature club

fushigi yuugi

little witch academia

magical girl ore

menhera-chan

mahou yousei persia

pretty cure

maidencraft

neon genesis evangelion

wedding peach

cardcaptor sakura

persona

shin megami tensei

mahou shoujo madoka magica + spinoffs

pokemon scarlet and violet

...as well as some custom ones and ones from a set of cute stickers i found on etsy :) hope this helps! (i think that should be everything? fdjhbsdjfd)

[conflagrate]

Spring 2023 Anime + TV Season

Anime I thought I would watch more shows (lol the target of 15) but as usual, I always get derailed by something or the other…

Rankings

1. Tsurune S2 2. Buddy Daddies 3. Bungou Stray Dogs S4 4. Tonsuki 5. Trigun Stampede

Shows Completed: 10

Spring is here! As always, totally unready :D

Must Watch: MIX S2, Maho Tsukai no Yome S2, Gundam Witch S2, Kimi wa Hokago Insomnia. Golden Kamuy S4 (restart) [5]

Sounds Interesting! Hope It Doesn’t Suck!: Tengoku Daimakyo, Skip to Loafer, Jigokuraku, My Home Hero, Otomari ni Ginga (Well it’s the Amaama to Inazuma author….), Ao no Orchestra, Kimetsu no Yaiba: Katanakaji no Sato-hen (I’m actually bored af of Kimetsu now lol), Birdie Wing S2 (I didn’t looove S1 but I guess I might tolerate this for the stupidity…), The Marginal Service (THAT PV) [9]

Not My Thing but Who Knows!: Yamada-kun to Lv999 no Koi o Suru, Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto desu! (I’m not that fond of the manga…), Opus.COLORs (art anime but looks like idol shit lol), Edomae Elf

Do I Have To…? (No I Don’t): Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu, Tosochuu: Great Mission, Jijo o Shiranai Tenkosei ga Guigui kuru, Alice Gear Aegis, Kaminaki Sekai no Kamisama Katsudo, Yuusha ga Shinda, Kawaisugi Crisis, Mashle, Megami no Cafe Terrace, Rokudo no Onna-tachi, Maho Shojo Magical Destroyers, Kanojo ga Kosakutei ni Itta Riyuu, Dead Mount Death Play, Niehime to Kemono no O, Bosanimal, Chibi Godzilla

Sequel/Spinoff Hell: Edens Zero S2, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear S2, Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni S2, Tokyo Mew Mew S2. KonoSuba Bakuen, Dr Stone: New World, Tonikaku Kawaii S2, Gunma-chan S2, Osama Ranking S2, Pokemon (2023)

Light Novel/Isekai Hell: Tensei Kizoku, Isekai de Cheat Skill blah, Isekai One Turn Kill Nee-san, Isekai Shokan wa Nidome desu

Idol/Vtuber/AI/Musical Hell: Kizuna no Allele, Idolmaster CG: U149, World Dai Star, Oshi no Ko (IT’S JUST NOT MY THING OK)

Expected Load: 8-9

TV & Streaming Seems a huge chunk of my time is still going here…

What I’ve been watching over 1Q23:

CBS: NCIS S20*, NCIS: Hawai’i S2*, NCIS:LA S14*, Fire Country*, East New York* Disney+: Gannibal, Alaska Daily (ABC), Will Trent* (ABC), Devs Netflix: The Night Agent, The Recruit* Amazon Prime: Swarm*?, The Consultant*? Gameshows: Only Connect S18* Others: The Gold (BBC), The Chosen S3 (app), Poker Face (Peacock), The Terror: Infamy (AMC), Cunk on Earth (BBC), Broadchurch S1 (ITV), The Future with Hannah Fry (Bloomberg TV)*

Series [to be] completed: 10 Series Ongoing: 10 Full-length Films watched: 24

What I’ll hopefully be watching in 2Q23:

CBS: NCIS S20*, NCIS: Hawai’i S2*, NCIS:LA S14*, Fire Country*, East New York* Disney+: Will Trent* (ABC), American Born Chinese, The Good Mothers? Netflix: The Diplomat?, Florida Man?, Sanctuary?, Black Knight? Apple TV: Drops of God, The Last Thing He Told Me?, Silo, City on Fire Amazon Prime: The Power, Citadel, Dead Ringers HBO: Love & Death Gameshows: Only Connect S18* Others: Rabbit Hole? (Paramount+), Maryland (ITV), Mrs Davis? (Peacock), Six Four? (ITV), Malpractice (ITV), Blue Lights (ITV), TWD: Dead City? (AMC)

* - continuing series or a marathon of old series, ? - will try, no guarantee of watch

Expected TV/Streaming Load: 13-14

WELL on the plus side, all the network shows are coming to an end this quarter! Summer will be quite quiet (thank fook)

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[pokemoncoloursplash]

Dahlia Batch List

121 requests total in only 24 hours! Thats impressive ^.^ 

Full list is under the cut

Alcremie – Shamrock Komaeda (Dangan Rompa)

Polteageist – Fave Celestial Seasonings tea

Polteageist – Shiny Hope/Prediction

Polteageist – Mrs Potts (Beauty and the Beast)

Polteageist – Agathion (Shin Megami Tensei)

Polteageist – Asexual flag

Polteageist – Transgender flag

Polteageist – Red/Orange like lava/orange soda

Alcremie – Rainbow Sherbet w/Cherry on top

Umbreon – Nonbinary/Asexual flag w/Galaxy

Houndoom – Rocket Exec Archer palette

Ampharos – Blue eyes/Pastel body/Orange stripes/Blue gem

Gengar – Pansexual flag and Galaxy

Lugia – Luigi palette

Meloetta/Steenee – Palette swap

Phantump – Galaxy normal and Shiny

Absol – Edits of my choosing

Raichu/Espurr – Transgender flag

Gourgeist – Entrapta (She-ra) palette

Bisharp – Transgender/Bisexual flag

Magearna – Gold/Pink partial edit

Swablu/Altaria – Green screen cloud

Deoxys – Asexual flag

Eeveelutions – Kokichi (Danganrompa) palette

Chandelure line -Pink flames

Flareon/Froslass – Hades/Persephone palette

Meowstic – Dahlia and Iris Hawthorne palette

Steven Stone – Gay flag

Mew – Mewtwo palette

Umbreon/Espeon – Butch Lesbian flag and Spinel (Steven Universe) palette

Lunala – Purple galaxy wings

Lilipup – Isabelle (Animal Crossing) palette

Pikachu – Chuchu (Pokespe) design

Golurk – Celesteela palette

My Choice – Persona 5 palette of my choice (I’m going to consult a friend on this one)

Celesteela – EVA-1 palette

Ultra Necrozma – Shiny redesign

Serperior/Altaria – Crowley/Aziraphale (Good Omens) palette

Ninetales/Mega Rayquaza – Shiny vitiligo

Ariados – put in shorts (??? I’ll try)

Houndoom – German flag

Cyrus – Giratina palette

Mega Gallade/Vivillion – Count Bleck/Tippi (Super Paper Mario) palette

Diancie – Spinel (Steven Universe) palette

Necrozma – Pink/Yellow/White/Blue Diamond (Steven Universe) palette

Bulbasaur/Sobble/Turtwig – Albino

Giratina/Shaymin – Gay flag

Whitney – Fairy type theme

Litwick – Rainbow flame

Cresselia/Lunala – palette swap

Luxray – Purple/silver/grey/pink

Volcarona – Moth of my choice

Goomy – 50/50 shiny

Lurantis – Pink/Orange

Mimikyu/Meltan – Calico pattern

Charizard – White face/hands/wings

Eevee – Brown-grey w/green vitiligo

Haunter/Gengar – Pink w/blue mouth and pink w/blue eyes

Pikachu – Shiny redesign

Suicune – Transgender flag

Scyther/Haunter – Pansexual/Demisexual flag

Eeveelutions – Asexual flag

Quagsire – Demiboy flag

Rayquaza – Guardian Stalk (Zelda BOTW) palette

Leon – Kaito Momota (danganronpa) palette

Sonia – Athena Cykes (Ace Attorney) palette

Blanche – Nonbinary Lesbian flag

Sonia/Leon – Sonia/Leon (danganronpa) palette

Aggron – Shiny redesign

Victor – Apollo Justice (ace attorney) palette

Gloria – Trucy Wright (ace attorney) palette

Diancie/Mega Diancie – all diamonds (steven universe) palette

Zorua – Racoon

Valerie – Water type theme

Sobble – Shiny Mudkip palette

Valerie – Pink Vitiligo hair

Cheryl – Pink hair/shirt

Karen – Black hair/top

Blacephalon/Naganadel – palette swap

Weavile – Spidergwen palette

Ghetsis – Angelcore

Legend Dogs – Asexual flag

Doduo/Dodrio – Asexual flag

Pikachu – Lesbian/Butch lesbian flag w/heart tail

Fave/Least Fave Eeveelution – palette swap

2x Wooloo – Waluigi palette

Darkrai – my fave colour/scheme

Furret – Mutliple palettes of my choice

Zorua/Zoroark – Sou (Your Turn To Die) palette

Serena – Full redo

Sabrina – Shiny Mega Gardevoir palette

Vaporeon/Flareon – palette swap

Growlithe – Galaxy

Rapidash/Eevee – palette swap

Magby/Gardevoir/Aggron – Mario/Peach/Bowser

Chikorita – Colress palette

Braviary/Luxray/Sawsbuck – Fire Emblem ThreeHouses

Delphox/Ninetales – Palette swap

Rapidash – Princess Cadence (MLP) palette

Eeveelutions – Gay flag

Pachirisu – Black/Pink shiny and White/Pink normal

Rosa – hair down

Sylveon – Genderfluid

Jolteon/Vaporeon – Purple/green

Hilda – Long sleeves/Pants with no pockets

Silver – Ponytail

N – Transgender flag

Togekiss/Deoxys – palette swap

Partner Eevee – Byleth (Fire Emblem) palette

Deoxys – Bisexual flag

Deoxys – Genderfluid flag

Giratina/Togekiss – shiny palette swap

Meloetta – music in hair

Jessie/James – Asexual flag

Allister – pink hair/pink and black clothes/ green eyes

Sylveon – Lesbian ribbons

Deerling – light blue

Roserade/Sharpedo – Dahlia colour

Meloetta – Genderfluid/Asexual flag

Skitty – Asexual/Pansexual flag

Pichu – Pastel Pink

[inaris-pokemon-world]

[continued from here]

Inari asked the question timidly, slowly breaking away from the death grip she’d had on her father. The Sylveon looked thoughtful before answering.

“When I met her,” Takeo began, “she’d been disguised as an Umbreon.”

“We kept running into each other while hunting. She was far better a hunter than me, I’ll say that!” Takeo chuckled fondly. “One day, I told her I loved her. That she was fire and ice and everything good in the world. And she said she felt the same.”

“She seemed so nervous. I’d thought maybe it was because it was her first litter, but… Looking back on it, I’m not sure.” The Sylveon’s gaze dropped to the ground for a moment before he continued. “I just tried to reassure her, all the way up through the egg laying.

“After that, well, I was extremely distracted by fatherhood. This was my first clutch too. I was so excited, I nearly keeled over when the egg started cracking.

Takeo trailed off, eyes misty.

[the-bejeesus]

      You ever thought to yourself “Fire Emblem, Pokemon, and now Persona?? Super Smash Bros. is practically an anime get together, not a video game get together” and then began to wonder just how many Smash Bros. series have an anime or manga? Well I gathered a list right here and put it in order of series, but in no particular chronological order.  This includes series that are represented by fighters, stages, music, items, assist trophies, stickers, trophies, spirits, or anything else. They all have the name they do on MAL, even if there is an English translation.

~Super Mario Bros.

Anime:

-Super Mario no Shouboutai

-Super Mario Brothers: Peach-hime Kyuushutsu Daisakusen!

-Super Mario World: Mario to Yoshi no Bouken Land

(Also part of Yoshi series)

-Amada Anime Series: Super Mario Brothers

-Luigi's Toy Adventure

Manga:

-Super Mario-kun

(Also part of Donkey Kong Series)

-Super Mario Adventures: Mario no Daibouken

-Super Mario 4-koma Manga Gekijou

~The Legend of Zelda

Manga:

-Zelda no Densetsu: Toki no Ocarina

-Zelda no Densetsu: Majora no Kamen

-Zelda no Densetsu: Fushigi no Kinomi - Daichi no Shou

-Zelda no Densetsu: Fushigo no Kinomi - Jikuu no Shou

-Zelda no Densetsu: Fishigo no Boushi

-Zelda no Densetsu: Yottsu no Tsurugi+

-Zelda no Densetsu: Kamigami no Triforce (1992)

-Zelda no Densetsu: Kamigami no Triforce (1994)

-Zelda no Densetsu: Kamigami no Triforce (2005)

-Zelda no Densetsu: Yume wo Miru Shima

-Zelda no Densetsu: Kaze no Tact - Link no 4-koma Koukaiki

-Zelda no Densetsu: Mugen no Sunadokei

-Zelda no Densetsu

-Zelda no Densetsu: Skyward Sword

-Link no Bouken

-Zelda no Densetsu: Twilight Princess

~Metroid

Manga:

-Metroid (2002)

-Metroid: Shounen Ou! Shorts

-Metroid Prime: Episode of Aether

-Metroid: Samus & Joey

-Metroid (1986)

~Kirby

Anime:

-Hoshi no Kirby: Pilot

-Hoshi no Kirby

-Hoshi no Kirby: Taose!! Koukaku Majuu Ebizou

Manga:

-Hoshi no Kirby

-Hoshi no Kirby: Dedede de Pupupu no Monogatari

~Star Fox

Anime:

-Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins

Manga:

-Star Fox: Farewell, Beloved Falco

~Pokémon

Anime:

-Pokémon

-Pokémon: The Origin

-Pokémon XY

-Pokémon Best Wishes!

-Pokémon XY&Z

-Pokémon Sun & Moon

-Pokémon Generations

-Pokémon Best Wishes! Season 2

-Pokémon: Kimi ni Kimeta!

-Pokémon Best Wishes! Season 2: Episode N

-Toho Cinemas x Pokémon Go

-Pokémon Movie 21: Minna no Monogatari

-Pokémon Best Wishes! Season 2: Decolora Adventure

-Pokémon Ranger: Hikari no Kiseki

-Pokémon Housoukyoku

-Pokémon Diamond & Pearl Specials

-Pokémon Black and White 2: Introduction Movie

-Torikaekko Please

-Pokémon XY: Sora no Hahen

-Pokémon Introductory Recap

-Pokémon: Celebi Toki wo Koeta Deai

-Pokémon: Kesshoutou no Teiou Entei

-Pokémon Advanced Generation

-Pokémon: Maboroshi no Pokémon Lugia Bakutan

-Pokémon: Mewtwo no Gyakushuu

-Pokémon: Mizu no Miyako no Mamorigami Latias to Latios

-Pokémon Advanced Generation: Pokémon Ranger to Umi no Ouji Manaphy

-Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai

-Pokémon: Pika Pika Hoshizora Camp

-Pokémon Advanced Generation: Mew to Hadou no Yuusha Lucario

-Pokémon Advanced Generation: Rekkuu no Houmonsha Deoxys

-Pokémon: Mewtwo! Ware wa Koko ni Ari

-Pokémon: Yadoking no Ichinichi

-Pokémon: Pichu to Pikachu

-Pokémon: Senritsu no Mirage Pokémon

-Pokémon: Odoru Pokémon Himitsu Kichi

-Pokémon the Movie XY: Ring no Choumajin Hoopa

-Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Arceus Choukoku no Jikuu e

-Pokémon Advanced Generation: Nanayo no Negaiboshi Jirachi

-Pokémon: Pikachu to Eievui Friends

-Pokémon: Pikachu no Dokidoki Kakurenbo

-Pokémon XY: Odemashi Ko Majin Hoopa

-Pokémon: Bokutachi Pichu Brothers - Party wa Oosawagi! no Maki

-Pokémon 3D Adventure: Mew wo Sagase!

-Pokémon Best Wishes!: Victini to Kuroki Eiyuu Zekrom

-Pokémon Best Wishes!: Victini to Shiroki Eiyuu Reshiram

-Pokémon Best Wishes! Season 2: Kyurem vs. Seikenshi

-Pokémon XY: Hakai no Mayu to Diancie

-Pokémon XY: Mega Evolution

-Pokémon Best Wishes! Season 2: Shinsoku no Genosect - Mewtwo Kakusei

-Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Giratina to Sora no Hanataba Sheimi

-Pokémon XY&Z Specials

-Pokémon: Pikachu no Natsuyasumi

-Pokémon XY SP: Road to Kalos

-Pokémon XY: New Year Special

-Pokémon 3D Adventure 2: Pikachu no Kaitei Daibouken

-Pokémon: Pikachu to Pokémon Ongakutai

-Pokémon: Pikachu Tankentai

-Pokémon: Pikachu no Fuyuyasumi (2000)

-Pokémon: Meloetta no Kirakira Recital

-Pokémon: Pikachu no Fuyuyasumi (2001)

-Pokémon: Pikachu Tanken Club

-Pokémon: Pikachu no Natsumatsuri

-Pokémon: Pikachu no Obake Carnival

-Pokémon: Pikachu, Kore Nan no Kagi?

-Pokémon: Fushigi no Dungeon: Shutsudou Pokémon: Kyuujotai Ganbaruzu!

-Pokémon: Pikachu no Fuyuyasumi

-Pokémon: Mewtwo - Kakusei e no Prologue

-Pokémon Crystal: Raikou Ikazuchi no Densetsu

-Pokémon: Fushigi no Dungeon: Toki no Tankentai, Yami no Tankentai

-Pokémon: Pikachu no Fushigi na Fushiga na Daibouken

-Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Clip Show

-Pokémon: Pikachu no Summer Bridge Story

-Pokémon Daisuki Club

-Pokémon the Movie XY&Z: Volcanion to Karakuri no Magearna

-Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon: Magnagate to Mugendai Meikyu

-Pokémon: Pikachu no Wanpaku Island

-Pokémon XY: Koukoku no Princess Diancie

-Pokémon: Pikachu Koori no Daibouken

-Pokémon: Pikachu no Kirakira Daisousaku!

-Pokémon  Fushigi no Dungeon: Sora no Tankentai - Toki to Yami wo Meguru Saigo no Bouken

-Pokémon XY: Hoopa no Odemashi Daisakusen!!

-Pokémon: Utae Meloetta - Rinka no Mi wo Sagase!

-Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire: Mega Special Animation

-Pokémon  Movie 22: Mewtwo no Gyakushuu Evolution

-Pokémon XY: New Year's Eve 2014 Super Mega Special

-Pokémon XY&Z: Subete no Nazo wo Tokiakase!

-Pokémon  Best Wishes! Season 2: Decolora Adventure - Iris vs. Ibuki! Dragon Master e no Michi!!

-Pokémon Best Wishes! Season 2: Decolora Adventure - Dent to Takeshi! Gyarados no Gekirin!!

Manga:

-Pocket Monsters

-Kaitou! -Pokémon 7

-Pokémon HGSS

-Pokémon Get da ze!

-Pokémon Ranger: The Comic

-Pocket Monsters Kin Gin: Golden Boys

-Kiwamero!! Pokémon BW

-Pokémon Pocket Monsters

-Gekijouban Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl: Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai

-Pokémon DP: Pocket Monsters Diamond Pearl Monogatari

-Pokémon Platinum: Aim to Be Battle King!!

-Pokémon Try Adventure

-Pocket Monsters: PiPiPi★Adventure

-Dengeki! Pikachu

-Gekijouban Pocket Monster AG: Mew to Hadou no Yuusha Lucario

-Pokémon the Movie XY: Hakai no Mayu to Diancie

-Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon: Ginji no Kyuujotai

-Pokémon Ranger Vatonage the Comic

-Pokémon 4Koma Gag Battle

-Gekijouban Pocket Monster Best Wishes: Kyurem vs Seikenshi Keldeo

-Gekijouban Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl: Arceus Choukoku no Jikuu e

-The Best of Pokémon 4-Koma

-Gekijouban Pocket Monster Diamond & Pearl: Genei no Hasha Zoroark

-Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon: Honoo no Tankentai

-Pokémon Colosseum: Snatcher Leo

-Pokémon: Mewtwo no Gyakushuu

-The Best of Pokémon 4Koma

-Pokémon 4Koma: Diamond and Pearl

-Gekijouban Pocket Monster Best Wishes: Shinsoku no Genesect - Mewtwo Kakusei

-Pokémon Chamo-Chamo☆Pretty♪

-Gekijouban Pocket Monsters Best Wishes: Victini to Kuroki Eiyuu Zekrom

-Pocket Monsters: Ruby-Sapphire-hen

-Pokémon 4Koma: Gold and Silver

-Pokémon the Movie XY: Ring no Choumajin Hoopa

-Pokémon Quiz Puzzle-land: Pikachu wa Meitantei

-Pocket Monsters Zensho

-Pocket Monsters RéBURST

-Pocket Monsters Horizon

-Pocket Monsters DP

-Pocket Monsters XY-hen

-Gekijouban Pocket Monster Advanced Generation: Nanayo no Negaiboshi Jirachi

-Pocket Monsters BW-hen

-Satoshi to Pikachu

-Gekijouban Pocket Monster AG: Rekkuu no Houmonsha Deoxys

-Pocket Monster BW: Enrai no Eiyuu

-Pocket Monsters HG SS: Jou no Daibouken

-Gekijouban Pocket Monsters: Celebi - Toki wo Koeta Deai

~F-Zero

Anime:

F-Zero: Falcon Densetsu

~Mother (Earthbound)

Manga:

-Mother 2: Ness  no Boukenki

-Mother 2: 4-koma Manga Oukoku

~Fire Emblem

Anime:

-Fire Emblem

Manga:

-Fire Emblem: Hasha no Tsurugi

-Fire Emblem Gaiden

-Fire Emblem: Thracia 776

-Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War

-Fire Emblem if: Nibelung no Hokan

-Fire Emblem: Ankokuryuu to Hikari no Tsurugi

-Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War

-Fire Emblem: Hikari wo Tsugu Mono

-Fire Emblem: Kakusei Comic Anthology

-Fire Emblem: Kakusei Koushiki Comic

-Super Comic Gekijou: Fire Emblem

-Super Comic Gekijou: Fire Emblem - Thracia 776

-Super Comic Gekijou: Fire Emblem II - Monshou no Nazo

-Super Comic Gekijou: Fire Emblem III - Seisen no Keifu

~Kid Icarus

Anime:

-Shin Hikari Shinwa: Palutena no Kagami

-Hikari no Megami

~Pikmin

Anime:

-Pikmin Short Movies

~Sonic the Hedgehog

Anime:

-Sonic X

-Sonic★the★Hedgehog

-Sonic: Night of the WereHog

-Sonic X Pilot

-Hi☆sCoool! SeHa Girls

(Note: Sonic characters are only a supporting role in this)

Manga:

-Dash & Spin: Chousoku Sonic

-Sonic World Adventure

(Also a part of the Wario-Ware/Wario World series)

-Sonic the Hedgehog

-Sonic 4-koma

-Sonic and the Black Knight

-Sonic Colors

-Sonic Generations

~Animal Crossing

Anime:

-Doubustu no Mori

Manga:

-Dobutsu no Mori: Hohinda Muradayori

~Street Fighter

Anime:

-Street Fighter II V

-Street Fighter II Movie

-Street Fighter Alpha: Generations

-Street Fighter Zero The Animation

-Street Fighter IV: Aratanaru Kizuna

-Super Street Fighter IV

-Street Fighter II: Yomigaeru Fujiwara-Kyou - Toki wo Kaketa Fighter-tachi

Manga:

-Street Fighter Alpha

-Street Fighter II: Ryu

-Street Fighter: Sakura Ganbaru!

-Street Fighter Gaiden

-Street Fighter III RYU FINAL

-Street Fighter II V Retsuden: Shouryuu Souha

~PAC-MAN

Anime:

-Pac-World

~Final Fantasy

Anime:

-Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile - Episode: Denzel

-Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete

-Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children - Venice Film Festival Footage

-Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV

-Final Fantasy

-Final Fantasy: Unlimited

-Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

-Final Fantasy VII: Last Order

-Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

-Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XV

Manga:

-Super Comic Gekijou: Final Fantasy - Crystal Chronicles

-Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Hatenaki Sora no Mukou ni

-Final Fantasy Reishiki Gaiden: Hyouken no Shinigami

-Final Fantasy XII-2: Fragments Before

-Final Fantasy XII-2: Fragments After

-Kyle's Final Fantasy

-Final Fantasy XIII: Episode Zero - Promise

-Final Fantasy X-2.5: Eien no Daishou

-Final Fantasy III - Yuukyuu no Kaze Densetsu

-Final Fantasy XI: The Out of Orders

-Final Fantasy: Lost Stranger

-Final Fantasy Reishiki

-Final Fantasy XII

~Bayonetta

Anime:

-Bayonetta: Bloody Fate

Manga:

-Bayonetta: Bloody Fate

~Splatoon

Manga:

-Splatoon

~Castlevania

Manga:

-Castlevania: Curse of Darkness

~Persona

Anime:

-Persona: Trinity Soul

-Persona 5 the Animation

-Persona 3 the Movie 3: Falling Down

-Persona 3 the Movie 1: Spring of Birth

-Persona 4 the Animation

-Persona 5 the Animation: The Day Breakers

-Persona 3 the Movie 4: Winter of Rebirth

-Persona 4 the Golden Animation

-Persona 3 the Movie 2: Midsummer Knight's Dream

-Persona 5 the Animation: Dark Sun...

-Persona 3 the Movie Meets "Walkman"

-Persona 4 the Animation: No One is Alone

-Persona 2: Another Self

-Persona 5 the Animation Recap

-Persona 4 the Animation: The Factor of Hope

-Persona 5 the Animation: Stars and Ours

-Persona 4 the Golden Animation: Thank you Mr. Accomplice

-Persona 4 the Animation: Mr. Experiment Shorts

-Persona 4 the Animation: A Brief Lesson on Izanagi & Izanami

Manga:

-Persona 4

-Persona 3

-Persona 5

-Persona Q: Shadow of the Labrynth - Side:P3

-Magami Ibunroku: Persona

-Persona: Tsumi to Batsu

-Persona Q: Shadow of the Labrynth - Side:P4

-Persona 4 The Magician

-Persona x Tantei Naoto

-Persona x Tantei Naoto

(Light Novel)

-Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena

-Persona 4: Kiri no Amnesia

-Persona 3 Portable Comic Anthology ~Dear Girl's~

-Persona 4 DNA Comic Anthology

-Persona 3: Owari no Kakera

-Persona 3: Shadow Cry

-Persona 3 Comic Anthology: Memento Mori

-Persona 4: Your Affection

-Persona 4: Yasoinaba Case File

-Persona 3 Portable: Velvet Blue

-Persona 4 Dengeki Comic Anthology

-Persona 3 Portable Dengeki Comic Anthology

-Persona: Trinity Soul - Novel

-Persona Q: Shadow of the Labrynth - Roundabout

-Persona 4 Hinotama Game Comic Anthology

-Persona 4 Bros Comics EX Comic Anthology

-Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold

-Persona 2: Innocent Sin Comic Anthology

-Persona 3 FES: Alternative Heart

-Megami Ibunroku Persona: Shadow Maze

-Super Comic Gekijou: Persona 2 - Tsumi

-Super Comic Gekijou: Persona 2 - Batsu

-Super Comic Gekijou: Megami Ibunroku Persona

~Bomberman

Anime:

-Bomberman Jetters

-Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden

-Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden Victory

Manga:

-Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden

~GoldenEye 007

Manga:

-007 Series

~Monster Hunter

Anime:

-Monster Hunter Stories: Ride On

Manga:

-Monster Hunter Episode

-Monster Hunter Epic

-Monster Hunter Trip Edition

-Monster Hunter: Senkou no Kariudo

-Monster Hunter Orage

~Virtua Fighter

Anime:

-Virtua Fighter

-Virtua Fighter: Costomize Clip

~Xevious

Anime:

-Xevious

~Culdcept

Manga:

-Culdcept

Note: If you thought something to the extent of “What about the Detective Pikachu Movie” or “I thought Castlevania had a Netflix show” those are all American and/or live-action, and aren’t in this list. I might make a list for those later however.

        Anyways, the total comes out to 315, 154 anime and 161 manga. Now that would be one hell of a binge-watch/read. Imagine how long it’d take to play all the games!

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questions what fandoms have you been a part of? did you have a powerpuff girls art style phase?

Okay everyone, time to head down memory lane!The first fanart I ever drew was indeed in the powerpuff girls style (the style around the point when the RRB were reborn by Him) so I’ll count that as my first fandom. My favourite out of any round, bug eyed character there was without question Butch.The second one was Bakugan Battle Brawlers. I started there during the second half of New Vestroia and was a major fan, and I still have many of the toys I got then, such as the ventus Dynamo that sits on the underside of the stand my bedroom tv sits on. Shun and Ace are my alternating favourites, but Shun was part of the original six so I guess he’s my actual favourite.My third was Tokyo Mew Mew, or Mew Mew Power concerning the English dub by 4Kids. I had a few OCs, such as Mew Dream and Auber (a Cyniclon). Most of the OCs in that fandom were recolours of the five heroines, although the style looked pretty annoying to try and mimic anyway. Mew Zakuro is my favourite here.Then was the fourth, Pokémon. I seriously wish I got into it sooner. My main point of being a fan in pokémon is Pokémon Special… I think I just like Silver too much, and I’d love to translate some of his lines to Welsh.The fifth was Hetalia. I got into this through a Germany lemon on DA all because of curiousity. I recently made an OC here actually but this is about fandoms, not OCs. My personal favourite there is Romania. He’s a good big brother.My sixth. The sixth. Good old Yandere Simulator. It started (as a mention) in April 2015 and caught me in the September of 2016. I only made an account to be part of the fandom in February of last year, 2017. Marena Resaiyume is my current main OC there, and I even have a drag queen in my OC roster there by the name of Tsukito Kunin. I’d say if anyone asked me about obscure things, I’d answer them best on the topic of Yandere Simulator. I love Chojo the most and it’s nota surprise, considering he’s like a mini comfort character for me.Steven Universe is seventh and very brief. My pfp currently is my gemsona, Lizardite Serpentine, she’s under Blue Diamon according to her clothes but don’t count on her being nice about it. Pilot Garnet is current favourite. She’s too damn fabulous for me.Eighth is Persona, and on my wall is a persona I made for myself, Thelxiope, of whom is a Wheel of Fortune… Or Wheel of Fxrtune in my case. I got in just before Persona 5 was released and honestly, Persona influenced my opinion of the Occult club in YS more than I’d like to admit. Naoya Toudo, aka MC of Megami Ibunroku Persona is favourite, hell, he’s in the center of my phone’s background.Ninth and fairly recent is Homestuck. More specifically Hiveswap, and I even have Thelxi Opeleu on this blog under all the random reblogs I have. I’m gonna wait for Hiveswap to finish before I choose favourites here.The tenth while I was typing, which is Sanders Sides, and I even have my own sides; Aethlin (Morality), Mar (Creativity), Kyna (Logic), Sorrel (Anxiety) and Pandora (Deceit). Picking a favourite Thomas? Impossible.So there’s that.

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🖖- What “Fandoms” would your muse belong to?

(( OOC: Frisk would be part of the anime fandom, thanks to Alphys. Their first one to join in is Mew Mew Kissy Cutie. She would only show it if it gets mentioned. Most likely cosplays too if she goes to anime conventions or Halloween if she doesn’t feel like being too scary. They would be part of video game fandoms. Most of her favorites would be in reference to what Undertale was inspired from like Cave Story, Earthbound, and Shin Megami Tensei. Other games made from the RPG Maker would definitely get played by her.Dating sims too for being so flirty. But cries if she reaches a bad ending.For TV Shows, there’s Steven Universe and Wander Over Yonder. Got to love the main characters that want to solve problems with little to no violence. There’s also being supportive for her favorite webcomics. That being Helvetica and Homestuck. One inspired for the skeleton brothers and the other being Toby’s music works. If she’s with a muse that’s part of Homestuck like Dave Strider, she would find Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff as well as the other MS Paint Adventures charming their own ways. ))