#pikmin don bergman

[nartblartmallcop]

Two waves. That counts as an avalanche

[higgyisobsessed]

pikmin 4 spoilers! it's over a year old now so I don't really feel bad

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finishing up my deathless runs of the 4 games, so I'm back in the Pikmin brain. Anyways brainrot about the bootleg Koppaite Trio in Pik 4

They're really cool to me! I love that even though Hocotatians are known to be the treasure hunters, these three form an unlikely trio to find treasure to help solve the food crisis. A skilled mechanic, an ex-ranger, and a veterinarian! I also love that they're each individually connected to part of the Pik3 Trio. How did they meet? Did the Pik3 Trio know about how they're tangentially connected before their mission to save Koppai (ignore timeline shenanigans)?

Don Bergman is also super interesting to me. His nickname for Charlie, his old partner, is Ducky! I know it's comedic that his scar came from him and Charlie fighting over a piece of food, but imagine the angst potential. Imagine the two friends who were once partner rangers being stretched too thin during the food crisis, changing them and tearing them apart. Imagine adding personal stakes.

[sirwow]

ducky

[sylunisart]

Oops

Poorly explained pikmin lgbt+ hcs part 2 electric boogaloo

Part 1 btw

Yorke: bi

Nelle: lesbian(I can see Brittany being bi, just with really high standards for men. Nelle though, yeah no she’s a lesbian)

Don Bergman: gay(he and Charlie are exes lmao)

Delta(character D): aroace, uses they/them pronouns

Aunty Bea: trans lesbian(I want y’all to take a look at Brittany’s descriptions of her and tell me she isn’t gay as fuck, especially with the dusk pustule notes)

Grandpa Drake: doesn’t really talk about his sexuality at all, but the grandkids suspect he’s bi in some capacity

Lin(Oliwife): I think she would be the same as Olimar, either a straight ally or demi

Sagittarius(Olimar’s son): bi(he and Libra came out to Olimar as teenagers)

Libra(Olimar’s daughter): lesbian(she looked at Brittany and Momo one day and went “I can date girls”)

Santi: honestly I flip flop around his gender a lot, but he is gay or maybe achillean, she/he for transfem Santi

[diesaur]

who are these guys

[mutelunacy]

What’s your opinion on the Pikmin 4 Koppaites.

Or as most people call them.

“Bootleg Alph, Britanny & Charlie.

this might be a little unpopular but personally, I like them. given how p4 is... all over the place in terms of timeline, I'm glad we got their relatives instead of the actual p3 koppaites.

they add to the worldbuilding of koppai pretty well and they also confirm that p4 is a prequel to 3 (thank god the timeline at least got confirmed in THAT way. now fix the rest) and overall i like the lore they give for the p3 cast.

that being saidddd. i do prefer yorke and nelle. they make sense; both alph and brittany comment on their family members. don however... i feel like if don was someone else without any connection to charlie these three would've come across as less "bootleg." he kind of sticks out and doesn't really contribute much to the overall narrative which really does make his character read as existing only to reference charlie and nothing else.

but i still do like him, even if there's the least to go off for him. personally, i like to write him as being really bitter and jealous over charlie and being a really unreliable source about him. he seems to blame everything about their relationship on charlie so i just think it'd be interesting if it was projection. i mean, most of the times characters in this series complain about other characters they've got something going on (cough cough, brittany's fruit notes and olimar arguing with his damn car, cough.) so i just think it'd be interesting. i honestly ship him with charlie in an inverted way, being purely interested in how their relationship ended and how they had to learn to put up with one another as their lives remained entwined. i have a playlist for them with far too much fall out boy in it, mostly songs from infinity on high, so that should probably explain it to those who know what the fuck i'm talking about.

yorke is pretty solid. making one of alphs many siblings into a character with some degree of plot relevance is neat. given how it's established that their grandfather inspired alph it makes sense that he'd have other siblings in the same profession. iirc, he has a line (or one of them anyway) where he says that alph is better than him at the trade, which i also find pretty silly. as a younger sibling who beat their older sibling's exam results... yeah, the topic still comes up to this day. they're neat.

nelle is also again pretty neat. her being noted to not like talking about her family aligns pretty well with brittany's notes where she only elaborates on her homesickness in writing and only ever mentions her aunt. it adds another layer of depth to both of them; why don't they like to talk about family much? very interesting to speculate about. i also find their differing reactions pretty interesting. brittany despising louie and nelle essentially asking the player directly to not hate him. vets and botanists are both rooted in biology, too.

so yeah. those are my thoughts. i like them a lot, though don leaves... much to be desired. i can change that for myself by headcanoning him as a major fucking prick, though.

[fullmoonfireball]

did anyone hear a single angelic note

[mewkwota]

There be those other two Koppaites from the other set of Koppaites. No I didn't forget about them, I needed to figure out how to draw their head shapes. (The top two sketches are my very first tries)

[artist-squared]

[greenbeansartgallery]

*Drops you Oc x Canon because Greeny is very predictable that way*

[sludge-wizard]

Made a handy dandy height/size comparison chart for all the characters in Pikmin! There's a huge number of characters in pikmin 4 who use the base models of character creation, and the sizes are consistent. This is the best accuracy I could get, since model comparison isn't viable due to many models being different sizes and getting resized in-game, but here's all the heights written out from tallest to smallest.

5.2cm - Moss 3.5cm - Oatchi (1.6 as a baby) 2.6cm - Collin, Shepherd, other characters with the tall/slim and tall/buff base model, Louie for some reason 2.3cm- Charlie, Dingo, other characters with the medium/chubby base model. Potentially the President, but I can't find or create a good size comparison screenshot. 2.1cm - Brittany 1.9cm - Olimar, Alph, other characters with the smallest base model

-There's a bit of a discrepency on Olimar;s size because of Alph- Olimar's size in early games was 1.9 cm. Alph's is purportedly around 1.6 cm. Since I can't find a source for Alph's size, I'll stick to Olimar as reference only. -Alph is maybe a teensy touch smaller than Olimar in game, but he's actually a bit taller in the menus. We'll compromise and go with a matching height. -Olimar is the same height as the smallest player (Pom for example) -The character creation base models are the same size as the unique NPCs who use the base, for example, Collin is the same size as the tall/buff base. -Interestingly, Brittany and Charlie are smaller than Nelle and Don Bergman, their modern-model counterparts. -Louie's size matches the tallest modern model, interestingly.

Hope this was interesting! I certainly think it is. Maybe i'll do some more size comparisons to unique objects of the world (enemies, ships, etc) in the future if there's demand.

dubs to @hugsohugs and @fullmoonfireball for helping me get a few screenshots for size comparison also helping me with some other comparisons!

[thehyperrequiem]

Pikmin Voice Headcanons

Let me show you my wisdom of how I imagined the characters of Pikmin would sound like! 🌱🚀

Olimar - Piotr Michael (Otto Mentallis)

Louie - Jonah Scott (Legoshi/Formaggio)

The President - (Pops)

Charlie - Eric Edelset (Grizz)

Brittany - Carrie Keranan (Mami)

Alph - Ben Diskin (Jack)

Collin - Max Mittelman (Filbo)

Shepard - Kimberly Brooks (Hollis Forsythe)

Russ - Lee Tockar (Fidgel)

Dingo - Sean Chiplock (Mista)

Yonny - Kyle McCarley (Wizard Cookie)

Bernard - Zeno Robinson (Nino)

Don Bergman - Patrick Seitz (Dark Cacao Cookie)

Yorke - Richard Horvitz (Raz)

Nelle - Kira Buckland (Jolyne)

If I am missing a few characters, please let me know.

[sirwow]

Rescue corps: casual

and thats all my references for the time being! just to have a post that i can keep track of for all my casual references, im putting my Hocotations and Koppites casual here as well

[sylunisart]

You know that one ship dynamic meme with the gay couple and the annoyed 3rd wheel lesbian?

That’s the pikmin 4 koppaites in a nutshell

[diesaur]

okay i do like them

[l-amplights]

PIKMIN 4 RESCUE CORPS/CASTAWAY+ MORE REF SHEETS I MADE

I WILL REBLOG WITH MORE WHEN I HAVE THEM

IF THERE IS A SPECIFIC CHARACTER YOU NEED SHOOT ME A ASK/DM AND ILL MAKE THEM A PRIORITY SPOILERS (not in the demo) WILL BE UNDER THE CUT EACH TIME

collin, shepard+alts cause her bandana(?) changes colour too, dingo and russ

SPOILER BREAK

benard and yonny

puddle (guy who changes your look)

KOPPAITES yorke (alph sibling), nelle and don bergman