#pokemon rejuvenation melia

[kiroonsmoon]

Stormchaser Era Melia :)

[owlhead650]

I remember reading about how some other pokemon rejuvenation players, those who experienced early versions of the game, felt that the old Melia wasn't a good friend. They felt that Melia only kept the interceptor around because they were useful, like her favourite sword or something.

I haven't played these early versions so I don't know if that's a fair assessment, but I do know that the devs almost definitely never intended for the dynamic to be seen this way. Maybe Melia just wasn't written as empathetic enough. Maybe her vibe was different to the version of the character I first knew.

So getting to the point, I think M2 was attempting to manufacture exactly this dynamic between herself and the renegade interceptor. She stated in her diary that the interceptor is the one who she hates most in the world, probably because of the heartbreaking betrayal. Yet this betrayal wouldn't have hurt so much if she never cared. Melia always cherished her bond with the interceptor, but perhaps M2 tried to soften the pain of betrayal by telling herself that she really was just using them. When she gets the interceptor to help her with the (s)hit list she probably thinks that it's mission accomplished. She's got them now! They're doing as she says! Ha...!

Except that's not the truth. It wasn’t the truth back then and it isn't the truth now. The interceptor only takes orders when it suits them to. They could walk away at any time but chose to stay. I think that's why the vacation to hoenn ending is a thing. Not just a joke, that ending shows that from the start the interceptor could've walked away from everything.

Honestly I find it so telling that although M2 hates the interceptor, they're the first person she turned to for help. She knows she can rely on them. She knows that they'll never fail her, whether that's as a friend... or an enemy.

[aevimeli]

someone's probably already pointed this out but,

it's interesting that they hinted at the whole time travel plotline this early on

[honeyuuyuu]

idk what came to me but it did after playing V13.5 and it’s not (so) related to plot at all 😭😭

(also- I’m changing laptop so no tablet for a while- back to paper and pencil-)

[zakura-ss]

How it started and how its going

[harvestmoth]

is this anything

[owlhead650]

Forgot to reblog this. Poor Melia.

[rivalkieran]

and she's just venam

[shenanananagins]

hapi's bath time

[moonpaw]

whoag!! happy 10 years, rejuvenation!!

[jazz-kitty]

this is a reoccuring issue

[kiroonsmoon]

Egg on her head <3

[owlhead650]

I've been thinking about how fucked up the interceptor's relationship with M2 is. And I'm not talking about shipping them even if that's a uniquely intense way to show what their life experiences did to them.

I'm talking about how M2 was in the same position Crescent was in, even if M2 probably never thinks of it. While she and the character we selected (in my case Aevis) are both in the frozen despair world for a few years (not the official name but still accurate) she writes in this diary. She writes about how she hates the fact that she's stuck there with Aevis of all people. If she made a tier list of everyone she could tolerate being stuck with from most favourable to the worst, then Aevis would be at the fuck bottom of F tier.

This is because he looks like the interceptor, he sounds like the interceptor, but he's actually a total stranger. She hates the interceptor but can't even take her anger out on them because they aren't with her. She's stuck with this skin walker imposter. Of course we know Aevis is technically 'the original' but not to Melia. Like Crescent was frustrated by her old friend acting like they didn't know her, and on renegade comes to see them as a parasite that stole his body, M2 basically experiences that with Aevis because to her the interceptor is 'the original' and 'real one'.

M2 writes in her diary that she wants to see the colour red again, that she wants to see the interceptor again. That she's going to hurt Aevis, just because he looks like the interceptor. Except unlike Crescent M2's wish comes true. She gets to see her beloathed old friend again. They say that love isn't exactly the opposite of hate, that paying that much attention to someone makes them important to you, even if it's in a bad way.

This is M2 and the interceptor.

[endspace-robot]

i'm melia

and i'm zetta

🖕🖕🖕THE FUCK YOU SIBLINGS 🖕🖕🖕

[meliajenner]

heavenly wing

[zakura-ss]

A sort of sketch dump