#pp and nqpppnl are brothers

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Leo and Pepe have the sweetest brotherly relationship, and Iqarus is the last person Arceus should have made immortal

[February 5 2023]

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Writing the script for another Ultra comic, the scene after Pepe and Cynthia defeat Lum and the brothers reunite and it’s nice to put in a few feelsy scenes to the Trollkitten original :StarsWeep:

{Trollkitten:}

I love this

{Popia140:}

Thank you :BeePog:

{Trollkitten:}

I love seeing what I would consider one of my favorite TPP works for one of my favorite TPP runs get some more love from another lorewriter

Ultra really has everything I love about TPP. Character development, weird reality-bending shenanigans, a fantastic villain, unearthly creatures from beyond the pale, and interesting ties to other runs

{Popia140:}

I guess I just really liked the gentleness of Pepe’s character, and still wanted to put some of his old sensitivity here, considering the stress he’s been in during the run

And also soft Leo??!! 👀

{Trollkitten:}

Yeah

He may have been decapitated, but he hasn't lost his head

{Haji:}

Yeah :tppAYAYA:

On that note, anyone else find it funny "Leo" ended up being the short name and not "Leon"?

{Trollkitten:}

...I guess that is kind of funny

Because if it had been Leon...

Then when Sword happened and we just happened to have a Champion Leon who just happened to have a little brother...

:LUL:

All things considered, I think it was for the best. Pepe and Napoleon have had enough adventures for a while, they don't need Eternatus on top of that

{Haji:}

Yeah

{Trollkitten:}

Although I can imagine one of them saying, "Great. That's, what, our THIRD planet-eating eldritch abomination in the past five years?"

{Haji:}

Now I'm laughing to remember that joke I made about Leo, Pepe, and D being told Icarus was their great-great-something-or-rather and being confused. In actuality, it was Leon, Hop, and Iris and explains so much about the champ's perceived invincibility :Kappa:

{Popia140:}

That’s a pretty good explanation!

{Trollkitten:}

There was some lore back when we did Conquest for the first time that Napoleon and D were descendants of the ancient warlord Abin the Third (Pepe didn't exist back then), which made them distantly related to Bill and Alice

I wonder if Iquarus's 'invincibility' was more a gift or a curse. Given how Iquarus had the self-preservation instincts of a masochistic lemming, it was likely a little of both

{Mitzi:}

it's less 'invincibility' and more 'fence horse refuses to deal with iqarus's family until forced to' :Kappa:

the horse would foist this off on yveltal/plume/ho-oh/the death god of your choice, but a side-effect of its deal with iqarus is that it has to deal with his descendants until his genes work out of the gene pool :Kappa:

... actually that'd make a fairly significant chunk of the human population invincible surprisingly fast

{Trollkitten:}

That could explain why so many of our Hosts can walk into walls for days on end and not sleep for a moment of it

And how humans even survive in a world full of things like Scyther and Hydreigon

{Mitzi:}

lore discussion question: who did iqarus make babies with :Kappa:

{Newbie:}

akari? :Kappa:

the idea of Terra being his descendant is funny to me so i kinda wanna go with that

{Mitzi:}

'everyone in the tppverse is invincible because of an extremely ill-considered deal god made that one time'

{Newbie:}

immortality is inheritable? 🤔

{Mitzi:}

well, The Deal arceus made with iqarus must be, to an extent, if leon is supernaturally invulnerable

{Haji:}

I personally don't think so, but those descended of an immortal tend to have some weird side effects 😂

{Trollkitten:}

I don't even know why Arceus chose Iquarus to begin with

Maybe he figured no one would miss that idiot

{Newbie:}

or Iqarus did something in a past life and Arceus decided to make him its errand boy in retaliation or something

{Trollkitten:}

Perhaps Iquarus died the first time he did something stupid and Arceus reached out to him in the afterlife for a deal: "You do this for me, and I'll ensure you live to a ripe old age"

Arceus is still slapping himself in the face for thinking that was a good idea

He really should have asked Iquarus how he died to begin with before evaluating whether or not he could be trusted with a matter of this magnitude

Iquarus probably tried to cross the street without looking both ways (or at all)

{Mitzi:}

those trams, bro

{Haji:}

-cackles-ICARUS GOT LITERALLY ISAKEI'D

Truck-kun said hi

{Newbie:}

i was just about to say—

{Mitzi:}

more like train-kun in this period. possibly tram-kun

{Trollkitten:}

And created a major time paradox because his passing down the gift/curse to his descendants ironically caused the version of him born in the new timeline to be sturdy enough to survive the incident

{Haji:}

Probably

{Mitzi:}

... would not surprise me if iqarus managed to grandfather paradox himself

the fun way, as opposed to the murder way

{Trollkitten:}

Haha yep

{Sol:}

iqarus is actually elfilis from kirby, getting hit by a kirby truck sent him to the pokemon dimension :DBStyle:

[popia140]

[Image description:

First panel: Pepe, who is wearing a turtleneck with king sleeves, walks into Napoleon’s room. Pepe is also wearing Lull, the slime Pokémon, as a beret.

Napoleon is reading in his bed with Flareon curled up next to him. Napoleon’s back is resting on a plushie of a Pichu and an Eevee.

Second Panel: Pepe, concerned, asks, “Hey, have you seen my canvas?” Lull watches.

Third Panel: Napoleon replies, “It’s on the table. The one in front of the TV.”

End Description.]

[Image Description:

Fourth Panel: Pepe leaves the room through the open door. Napoleon watches as Pepe leaves, and places down his book on the bed.

Fifth Panel: Pepe is gone, and the door is still left open.

End Description.]

[Image Description:

Sixth Panel: Above Napoleon is the text: “He did not close the door.”

Napoleon looks disappointed, and there is a shadow highlighting his narrowed eyes and angry eyebrows. His hoodie is revealed to have the head of a winking Shinx on it. Above the Shinx is the word “mignon,” which is the word “cute” in French.

End Description.]

When your sibling walks in your room unannounced, and doesn’t even bother to close the door on his way out.

[dispatches-from-the-lorecord]

Brotherly love (also the pokétch sucks)

[January 14, 2023]

{Popia140:}

Reading through my messy draft [of a work-in-progress comic about Napoleon and Pepe] :LUL:

[Screenshot of text, reading:

Oh wait! Leo! Is Leo okay?! Pepe scrambles to turn on the poketch? (IT’S AN APPLE WATCH NOW, OMGG it got an upgrade) and calls Leo.

/end text]

Very messy sneak peak, but it’s something

…for the purposes of this comic it will act like an Apple Watch, the poketch could have had an Xtransceiver-like update

{Haji:}

Yeah that makes sense

The Poketch is cute but... It sucks 😂

Hoenn and Johto peeps going "at least mine has a phone!!!" And Sinnoh peeps are like "hey, the mountain makes reception REALLY hard, okay? Besides, look, I can make the Luvdisc make kissy faces~ Isn't that adorable?"

"...."

"...Coin flip? I mean, that's fun too"

"I guess notepad is useful."

"Yeah, but if I hit a wrong button, it won't save anything."

"....."

"I'm not helping my case any. OH! But let me show you what's really cool! I have a Berry Tracker!"

"[Hoenn] Give it to me."

"[Johto just face palms]"

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Another sneak peak, I’m literally restraining myself from revealing the entire script, but it’s too wholesome :StarsWeep:

[Screenshot of text, reading:

P: I’m sorry, I’m bothering you. I’m gonna end the call.

L: No. Don’t. You said you had a nightmare. Tell me about it.

P: You… care?

L: Of course I would, I’m your brother!

P: (shyly) … thank you. Lull, he was gonna hurt you. And then I called. I wanted to see if you were okay. Like an idiot.

L: Pepe.

P: Huh?

L: You’re my idiot.

Pepe pauses, then smiles.

P: Jerk.

Napoleon smiles upon hearing this.

L: Thanks…

/end text]

Oh wait, rip

Spelling error, not lull but LUM

{krizste:}

You're my idiot(affectionate)

{Trollkitten:}

Yep, that's Pepe all right

[popia140]

[Image Description:

First Panel: Pearl crosses his arms, smiling confidently with sparkles surrounding him. Pepe and Napoleon look at him. Pearl “says something stupid,” according to the description above him.

Second Panel: Pepe and Napoleon look at each other in subtle, quiet judgement.

End Image Description]

I feel like Pearl is the type to say stupid things. Sometimes. It’s one of the few things that the brothers can agree on, but Leo just thinks Pearl says dumb things all the time.