#psst see the Lucario ending credits to know what I mean

[runawaycarouselhorse]

@owls-den: #The scientist lost the point of his goal halfway through#At some point he stopped doing it for his wife and more for himself#He wanted to complete that journey but now that he doesn't have that goal to aim for anymore#He feels lost#Like something is missing and it can only be his wife's fault#Because he doesn't have feelings for her anymore

[in which I massively spoil the sixth Pokemon movie, Jirachi: Wishmaker, if you've never watched it, I recommend it, it's underrated!!!]

OUCH, OUCH, OUCH... but also, this reminds me of how the only fanlisting I ran back in the day was a Butler x Diane one and GOD, even though Butler was obviously driven by wanting to have the last laugh at Team Magma for laughing at his humiliating failure, by proving his mehtods were correct, he just needed more power... but he insisted to Diane (in the dub), "I'm doing this for you, Diane!" / "I never wanted this!" ... and he just looks so shocked before throwing her aside, ouch?!

And he succeeds, without her by his side for the first time since they were children... but the Groudon he resurrects is a monster, oozing red, magma burning in its core, light burning behind hollow eye socks.

The real Groudon.

Butler's genuinely-came-back-wrong Groudon.

... anyway, he only realizes what he's done is horribly, horribly wrong when it drains life from the land around it, he's walking in a daze, horrified by his own creation, which then proceeds to consume Diane, who manages a confession of love just before it absorbs her.

He loses the woman he loved who had stayed loyal to him for slong, because of their shared past and the memory of what he was like when they were kids, and that's what truly pushed Butler to the redeemption and righting his wrongs.

the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal