#neved rejuv

[pokefangamebrainrot]

hello i did warn y’all you were getting more nevstasia propaganda

(once again used one of melon_morii’s bases… they’re just so perfect for them…)

[harvestmoth]

what do we think about pet store workers team xen

[cherubinym]

holding the community to make them give me rejuv charas to outfit swap lmao

-> Erin2 and Ren2

-> Rorim B and Zetta

-> Neved and Angie1

Do not give me more yet. I still have a backlog sobs

part 1/???

[heretodefyfate]

sometime i forgot that MC have the snag machine

Like, i'm still aware that we can catch shadow pokemon but like, my brain just registered that it's part of our ability instead that "oh, we have a machine attached on our arm".

[kaitopedestrian]

HSR and Rejuv players how do ya'll feel about Firefly Melia and Sam Zetta (yes I'm making them different people)

And Sparkle Geara, Blade Neved, Silver Wolf Nastasia, and Jingliu Madelis

Serval's Venam (Melia and Venam aren't a thing in this if anything it's Firefly and Stelle until Dan Heng came into the picture)

Dan Heng's Aelita due to the reincarnation shit and I just like Danstelle and Aelita x Interceptor is great

Stelle is the interceptor and is an absolute gremlin

Caelus is kind of like Ren and Crescent in a way (he looks a lot like Stelle and is a second interceptor and learned much faster but kept it a secret) (Variya left him in Goldenlead Town where he was found by Qingque)

Qingque is Reina and in this Caelus's adopted sister

Jing Yuan is a less depressed Keta

Seele is Valarie, Gepard is Adam and still Serval's brother, and Bronya is Saki

Lynx is Ryland

Robin is Flora and Sunday is Florin (the roles are switched)

Himeko is Tesla and March is Amber (March is adopted :3)

And I still don't know who to make characters like Erin, Kanon, etc but I'm sure I'll get there, there's a lot of star rail characters

[cresvalkyrie]

HI VAL!!!

Who do you feel is the most interesting antagonist in Rejuv?

HI AXEL!!!

Most interesting rejuv antagonist, huh? Okay, this one is admittedly a tough question, because they're all intriguing in their own ways. Yes, even the silly ones like Team Anti-Assist (seriously, I really want to know why this organisation is even a thing. What did the Help Centres even do to them that made them this way??)

(potential spoilers incoming)

Madame X and Team Xen are the first antagonists encountered in the game. Their goals seemed straightforward at first, but as we progress through the plot it starts to get into ambiguous territory. Why do they fight for oblivion? Clearly each Team Xen admin has their own reasons for joining, most of them being for survival or for the sake of their loved ones (exception being Geara who most likely joined because of Vitus' influence), but if they knew that Team Xen is working towards oblivion why would they keep going? Sure there's the whole Soul Crystals thing which keeps them compliant, but by then they'd have realised there's no point staying loyal to Team Xen. Especially in Neved's case, which I'm not sure if he's that delusional to hope that his daughter would be spared from the oncoming oblivion if he remained loyal to Madame X's cause or he's also given up and decided he's past the point of redemption so might as well play the role of a villain until the bitter end.

Also, speaking of Madame X. She's the main antagonist, but she doesn't seem be wholly evil if ch12 is any indication. Her goals have something to do with breaking free from karma's cycles, but why? Who exactly is she? Why did she think that oblivion is the answer to what she wants? What connection does she have to Vitus? Too many questions, so little answers...

Vitus is also interesting one, and one we all love to hate with the sheer amount of shitty things he's done and how he's basically the root behind some of the game's most prominent antagonists (i.e. Geara, Angie, Melanie in the Bad Timeline arc, Angelus, Alice in ch14 and .karma files, and maybe even Madame X herself if her appearance in the prologue cursing him out and her Yveltal is any indication). But if you really look at it, isn't he just doing what he's made to do? He's the Yveltal host, a literal sentient exe file made for the purpose of destruction as part of the cycle of life and death. The only problem is that he's gone way out of control and destroyed more than he should most likely due to Zygarde's disappearance, not to mention his obsessive fixation with Arceus and the Archetype. For what purpose does he seek the long-dead god? Does he want to become the next Arceus, or is he trying to revive Arceus in a vain attempt to salvage this world and return it to "paradise"? Is that why he and Nymiera had a falling out in the distant past? Again, a lot of mysteries...

...okay, I've gone on a ramble here so. tl;dr, I find them all equally interesting.

[holidaywithahobbyist]

im trying to think of a "give me a top 5" thing i can suggest but for some reason the only thing on the brain is "top 5 loose old men" and i swear to GOD i am trying to think of literally anythign else . give me your top 5 favorite cards of yojr favorite sekai character or something

This ask is literally from like a week ago but I don’t care . I was strong before but I literally can’t stop myself from making a top 5 loose old men list . In fact I’m going to make a top 10 list. This CAN continue and the world is a beautiful place

1. Batman

2. Kazui mukuharu milgram

3. Rei sakuma enstars

4. Ken shiraishi prsk

5. Ashe Bradley wh

6. fuyu from zeno

7. Neved from team xen pkmn rejuv

8. Wilardo adler wh

9. Radomus pkmn reborn

10. Diluc genshin impact

[aaronieros]

for the rejuv asks..... 9 13 and 28?

9. Is there something you felt should be talked about more? (Could be a character, a scene, anything really)

i don't actually know yet because i haven't been around here for very long so i will just say what i want to talk about more. SO i am very intrigued by kieran's repeated implications that he cares about humane practice, both when he scolds you for saying "nice" when he tells you about a xen grunt's "tragic accident" and when he says multiple times that his Process (from platinum route) is painless. obviously he still hurts and kills people and has a big silly smile on his face at all times no matter how much suffering he's causing but he's also just carrying out his mission in the end. he makes me wonder. [chews on him]

13. Do you have random theories?

not sure what qualifies as a random theory so i am thinking about predictions instead but i think that by the end of v14 we'll have to Deal With all the xen executives and i think madelis and nastasia will definitely be recruited, zetta is basically already recruited (and shown to be a party member in the one v14 screenshot we were provided with), i think geara will be difficult because he's at a very conflicted time in his life now that he's no longer possessed but when confronted by nastasia will feel like he wants to side with her.

for neved, i don't know if this would actually be implemented because it'd be a pain in the ass and probably totally unnecessary, but i think it'd be really cool if you're given an opportunity to gather more information about his daughter's curse if you've done maman's quest and if you complete the sidequest that gives you more info, you can talk to him about franchesca and maman and end up recruiting him. if you don't get that info he's doomed to stay on team xen forever i think. this is the least likely to come true by the way.

28. Favorite custom shinies?

i actually haven't seen a whole lot of them but i did encounter and catch a shiny meowth that i thought was super cute. i also really like aevian volcarona's shiny (i debugged one in for my renegade file) but i don't think aevian mons count

[shachihata]

me rambling about rejuv’s storytelling structure under the cut i didn’t edit this post so if i’m unclear well. That’s what you get

ok so basically as i do my *checks watch* third replay of rejuv, i’ve basically been putting together what i’ve been calling like... a “lore walkthrough” of it? essentially, i’m writing synopses of each of the “story beats” of rejuv in correlation with the “gameplay beats” of rejuv, as laid out by jra’s 100% walkthrough. which seems kind of nebulous, but i mean something like this...

where i’ve put the “story beat” next to, in parentheses, the one or more gameplay sections that they correspond to. and the way i’ve split up the story beats is, i’ll admit, pretty subjective. i’ve been sort of basing it off of the natural “flow” of events, with each chapter having some sort of exposition and then a main conflict/climax. for example, chapter 4 looks like this:

“goldenleaf town” sets up the exposition for the chapter conflict, while “wispy tower” is the main climax that provides some sort of resolution to this conflict. simple!

most chapters, i’ve noticed, are around 2 story beats long, with each story beat taking place in a different area from the last. chapter 4 is divided into the goldenleaf town exposition and the wispy tower conflict/climax; chapter 8 is divided into the magma stone exposition and the valor mountain conflict/climax; chapter 9 is divided into the past aevium exposition and the west gearen sewers conflict/climax. longer chapters sometimes break this flow by introducing what i call a “falling action” beat. an example of this would be chapter 5: from the pre-blacksteeple exposition of the disappearance of akuwa town, the blacksteeple castle conflict where you confront neved and madame x, and the terajuma island falling action where you’re introduced to the next main “hub area” of rejuv. i’m on chapter 12 right now, and the only chapter that’s been shorter than two “story beats” is chapter 3, one of the shortest chapters in the game gameplay-wise, anyway. the exposition and climax both take place inside of chrysalis mansion, and occur in such short sequence with basically no falling action to speak of; story-wise, there’s nowhere that feels “right” to split it up, if that makes sense.

now, i’ve noticed that what i consider to be the “weaker” chapters of rejuv actually are the chapters that have three story beats -- these chapters, as you might imagine, are the longer ones that tend to drag on in terms of their conflicts and resolutions. chapter 5 “naturally” ended with the ending of blacksteeple, but you have to sit through a sequence at terajuma island that imo breaks the mood of the chapter by introducing you to... a tropical jungle where everyone’s complaining about the heat, literal minutes after the INCREDIBLY intense sequence where melia reveals that she’s still alive, you’re introduced to who madame x even is, and madame x kills nancy. the conflict has come to its natural close, and yet you’re immediately thrown even MORE problems that DON’T have a natural conclusion with the end of the chapter. instead, they get “dragged on,” meaning that to end your gameplay session with the end of the chapter leaves you feeling “unsatisfied” with the few answers you’ve received: saki is missing and nowhere to be found, alex and sam reveal that angie is the next big bad guy of the terajuma arc, nim is getting weirdly sick and weak, a cutscene with ren shows him joining team xen... and so on.

obviously, in any story, there has to be an overarching plot and conflict that does span multiple chapters. like, i’m not saying that all the problems in a chapter need to be resolved in that chapter. i’m saying that the “weaker” chapters introduce multiple smaller conflicts that simply aren’t on the level of the main plot that don’t get addressed to any satisfying degree, which weakens the overall impact of the chapter’s conflict and makes it feel longer than necessary. if that makes sense!

it’s this tendency to “drag on” that makes rejuv’s storyline much weaker after act 1 (the ending at valor mountain), imo. chapter 8 was an incredibly strong chapter, definitely one of my favorite in all of rejuv -- magma stone exposition plus a powerful ending at valor mountain where a lot of subplots are either resolved or, at the very least, addressed in a way where the player’s reassured that they haven’t been forgotten about (just off the top of my head... crescent’s connection to the player, jenner’s love for melia, nim’s psychic powers and inhuman nature, zetta’s problems and disorders, team xen’s weird immortality-at-a-cost, etc etc etc). it’s a natural ending to the main conflict of act 1: Team Xen Has Problems And Wants Melia Soooooooo So Bad. you win! ...at a major cost. it provides satisfying resolutions to the problems that’ve been presented in the first half of the game, while still setting up the stakes of the next act (angie, team xen at large, Crescent’s Connection To The Player). you’ve got a pretty clear idea of What To Do Now and What The Plot Is Going To Address Next, but the main threat still on the table is Madame X And Co.

...and then act 2 comes in and starts muddying stuff up. the reason why act 1 works so well is because even though there are so many minor problems being introduced, the major problem is still hanging over your head at any given moment. melia dead? it’s team xen. keta’s dead? it’s team xen. aelita’s being tortured? it’s team xen. amber’s being kidnapped? You Guessed It, It’s Team Xen. there’s no ambiguity about what the overarching plot is, as opposed to the myriad of “overarching arc-spanning problems” that are introduced in each chapter in act 2. once again, off the top of my head: your role as the “interceptor,” the role of bladestar, kieran and clear, the puppetmaster, nim/lorna, angie, vitus/indriad, the stone incident... and team xen’s previously-monolithic strength is undermined by madame x’s role in the doomed future, as she becomes a semi-ally even though there was very little prior character development for her besides “evil lady who killed your mom and warned maria in the prologue and has some sort of goal that you’re unwittingly ruining.” their importance in act 1 is diminished by all of the new problems suddenly being thrown at you in act 2 that have arc-wide importance, even though you, as a first-time player, have no idea why so many problems seem to be having arc-wide importance.

expanding off of what i was talking about earlier with chapter 5: the problems “drag on”! a TON of problems are introduced with VERY little resolution in each chapter, and the previously-rigid story beats start falling apart, making the story less satisfying to play through even though you know there will be a resolution at some point in the future. take my (very very tentative) outline for chapter 11 so far:

i wasn’t... very sure how to split this one apart, tbh, because every beat has so many problems and so little resolution, everything ends up blurring together. the first beat, “grand dream city”: the missing rune. bladestar. valarie not recognizing you guys. alice and allen and karen and their connection to the theolias. cassandra’s connection to team xen. madelis’s new job. the second beat, “stone incident”: venam being turned into stone. isha and the hospital of hope. nightmare city. who the fuck is the puppetmaster. nightmare zetta. aelita’s problems and issues disorders. being the “interceptor.” the xenpurgis. the last beat, “rose theatre”: what happened to aelita. souta’s connection to the eldest. your crew being signed up for the festival of dreams tournament.

...how many of these are resolved by the end of chapter 11? uhhhhhhhhhhhh. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. yeah. compare this to how much “tighter” chapter 4 felt! the first beat, “goldenleaf town”: geara coming to intercept you in goldenleaf. ren’s connection to goldenleaf. narcissa’s problems with goldenleaf. mosely’s conflict with goldenleaf. the wispy tower incident. the second beat, “wispy tower”: mosely comes back to help you! you realize that the wispy tower is somehow connected to team xen/houses information important to team xen, and beat geara’s ass in the process! you beat narcissa in a gym battle, and goldenleaf changes their ways! ren tells you that he has problems with goldenleaf because it was his father’s last wish that he “save” goldenleaf! it sets up future conflict (ren’s dissatisfaction with the outcome, what sirius and co. were studying in wispy tower, geara meeting up with jenner/zetta/nim in the altered dimension), but there’s a clear main conflict that gets resolved and ties back to the main enemy, team xen. it’s clear-cut, it’s strongly written, it’s done.

yes, act 2 expands the scope and heightens the stakes of rejuv a lot, which is why so many problems Are Introduced At All -- but the main conflict gets very heavily muddied with all of the minor problems that are thrown at you with every single conversation, it feels. i’m only on chapter 12 but from what i remember, this “dragging on” problem happens a lot throughout act 2 (although there are some sections i think are very strongly written, don’t get me wrong). that’s why chapter 15 is so good, in comparison: it provides so much fucking resolution. it’s a “return to form,” in a sense -- conflict is set up and resolved in that chapter, while questions from previous chapters are brought back and answered (to... some “vague” degree of “clarity”). this is very much opposed to a lot of the chapters in act 2 imo, where a bunch of problems are set up with no resolution in that chapter at all. idk. my memory of them is kinda fuzzy and i gotta just keep chugging through the game, it’s interesting just to break down how all this stuff works in a meta storytelling sense ig :T

[felikatze]

what the fuck do you MEAN neved is maman’s husband. are they divorced. does he know about his presumably wife’s death. rejuv i can’t handle this

[pokefangamebrainrot]

was inspired by some very lovely people to post my nevstasia art here <3

enjoyyyyy (and expect more)

[pokefangamebrainrot]

too much happy content. wanted to balance it out :3 (if this happens in v14 i will go on my villain arc)

[pokefangamebrainrot]

TEAM XEN CHATFICS

Names-

XxxG34R4xxX- Geara

neved.hollows.11- Neved

DeltaTasia- Nastasia

Dazzlingdarling- Madelis

!Z3TT4!- Zetta

brokenheartedd- Sharon

Eli!Eli!- Eli

R0boRen- Ren

“Setting up the GC”

DeltaTasia: ok have we got everyone here?

neved.hollows.11: I am here, I asked Zetta to invite anyone else that needed it.

XxxG34R4xxX: neved what in the everloving hell is your user?????

neved.hollows.11: My name?

XxxG34R4xxX: thats not. what usernames are for

neved.hollows.11: Well how are people supposed to know that it’s me if I don’t make my user my name?

Dazzlingdarling: You make sure its obvious! Like I do! I mean who else is the dazzling darling of team xen?

XxxG34R4xxX: i didn’t know nastasia had an alt account.

Dazzlingdarling: Not funny >:((((((

!Z3TT4!: ok sharon and eli are joining now.

-> brokenheartedd has joined the group chat!

-> Eli!Eli! has joined the group chat!

brokenheartedd: hi, ty for letting me and eli join 🖤🖤

Eli!Eli!: bonjour, c'est tellement bon d'être ici!

brokenheartedd: eli no one understands what you’re saying…

Eli!Eli!: le clavier ne me permet pas de taper en anglais??

DeltaTasia: tu dois changer la langue de ton téléphone, eli, c'est facile, je t'enverrai un message privé comment

Eli!Eli!: mercí nastasia!!

!Z3TT4!: ok so we’ve got me, madelis, nastasia, geara, neved, sharon and eli. Is there anyone we’ve missed @everyone?

DeltaTasia: can someone invite ren? i’m helping eli with his keyboard so i can't right now. his user is @R0boRen, neved i gave you admin permissions so you can invite him @neved.hollows.11

neved.hollows.11: On it.

-> R0boRen has joined the group chat!

R0boRen: 👋👋

R0boRen: (Reply to @DeltaTasia) Nastasia I didn’t know you spoke Kalosian??

DeltaTasia: i’m a woman of many mysteries and many talents.

Dazzlingdarling: Omg twinning!! 💖✨

R0boRen: R u fluent? I tried to learn when I was younger but it was sooooooo hard…

DeltaTasia: nearly fluent, yes. my mother thought it would help me get into a good school, plus one of my friends spoke it so it wasn’t too hard. Ok @Eli!Eli! test your keyboard here

Eli!Eli!: hello everyone!

!Z3TT4!: does this mean i can finally understand what youre saying /lh

neved.hollows.11: /lh?

!Z3TT4!: light hearted. its a tone tag

DeltaTasia: yes, please use tone tags where appropriate.

neved.hollows.11: I will!

brokenheartedd: ah damn cassandra’s calling us, ttyl, tysm 4 inviting us 🖤

Eli!Eli!: goodbye!

-> brokenheartedd has gone offline

-> Eli!Eli! has gone offline

DeltaTasia: 👋

DeltaTasia: okay we should all get back to work. i’ll send over all my findings on melia & co in a bit when i have time. goodbye.

[pokefangamebrainrot]

usernames for the team xen chatfics i’m gonna do

XxxG34R4xxX for geara

neved.hollows.11 for neved (i made hollows his placeholder last name since i don’t think he has one)

DeltaTasia for nastasia

💖🌟DazzlingDarling🌟💖 for madelis

Z3TT4 for zetta (him and geara are matching)

brokenheartedd123 for sharon

Eli!Eli! for eli

R0boRen for ren

[pokefangamebrainrot]

SHAKDUCIXHZJAO PART TWO ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

[pokefangamebrainrot]

PEAK NEVSTASIA CONTENT

….is he throwing her???