#this dlc is making me insane istg

[feukt-42]

After a bit of time and a hefty amount of thinking abt the lore, SOTE really brings this post to my mind.

It's like. Miquella did love Malenia and Godwyn, but couldnt cure them the way he was. He did want to better the world, but it didnt help him as he retraced his mother's footsteps.

Midra did love, and was loved, he endured for ages in memory of the love he shared with Nanaya, and her entreaty. This didnt stop the inquisitors from ramming the sword of damnation through his throat.

Messmer did love his mother, and he obviously cared for her people. He cared for his knights, even when they betrayed him. He even seems to have cared about the hornsent in some capacity, judging by the amount of hornsent culture that remains preserved in the storehouse. And yet, despite all that, he still is responsible for the slaughter, and utter genocide the hornsent suffered. He still couldnt save the jar saints. He still couldnt get his mother to answer his pleas.

Marika did love Messmer. The amount of blessings she gave him is proof enough. She did love him, but it didnt prevent her from sending him on an endless crusade.

Marika loved her people. It didnt matter.

"Marika bathed the village of her home in gold, knowing full well that there was no one left to heal." "What was her prayer ? Her wish, her confession ? There is no one left to answer, and Marika never returned home again."

By the way, small addendum that is only somewhat related bc i dont want to make a full post abt it

The shaman village ost is the elden beast theme with only the harp, without the grandiose melody.

"Only the kindness of Gold, without Order."

[pokemon-my-beloved]

here's the other part of the dlc, btw!

spoilers under the cut!

here i am again

UNOVA *vibrates into the roof*

i BETTER be allowed to bring my friends with me this time clavell istg

VELLY GHKASLGJALKSGJL

carmine recommended me? that tracks tbh

do i get to say yes or no to this or am i just going

my fucking FRIENDS :(((((

okay bye friends :((((( i’ll miss you :(((((((

god cyrano’s a hot mess huh

“you’ll be battling more here than any other school” incorrect! i am friends with nemona

yes that DOES pique my interest the last person i knew who fucked around with the terastal phenomenon went insane and died

WHO IS LACEY’S FATHER. WHICH GYM LEADER. I NEED TO KNOW

what the FUCK is that what did you put in the fucking GOO

god okay that took LONGER than i would have liked but i finally caught a fuckin alolan grimer

aight i’m off to talk to carmine ig

i did not actually miss you but sure whatever you say

damn the kieran redesign???

what the FUCK happened to this boy

wild backstory??? no that’s my bestie arven

i don’t fucking know man AM i friends with kieran? i don’t think he’s forgiven me for catching ogerpon but like that was completely out of my control she said she wanted to come with me and i won the battle so

can i not be in multiple clubs? also why is blueberry academy more fleshed out than uva academy this is bullshit to the highest degree

WELL A DATE IS…

oh man she has a thing for me i guarantee it

in the cafeteria and having vivid flashbacks to being recruited to find the herba mystica… i miss my boy :(

yknow kieran i appreciate you letting me be in the league but you could’ve just asked for a battle

oh man he looks feral what the fuck

“not a little kid anymore” sir it’s been three months

ooh this tells me where in unova they’re from that’s AWESOME

oh and it gives me the recommended order to do them too! that’s really helpful!

alright did a bunch of bbqs and i’m off to fight crispin! or do his trial at least

oh jeez i did NOT need this much bp

man i do not KNOW what my history with kieran is. please help me figure it out

I AM DOING MY BEST, CRISPIN

i literally already am champion ranked, drayton

okay now that i’ve got way too much bp i’m just gonna fight the whole league one after the other so. amarys time!

“your name is agias” GJKLASJGLAJG

amarys where did you get herba mystica that allows miraidon to fly. and can i have some to bring home for arven

thank you for asking what my relationship with kieran is amarys, i have no fucking idea

did it! on to lacey

her description says she lives in nimbasa but cyrano said her father was a gym leader and unless elesa transitioned i don’t think that’s the case. something’s going on here

oh a pokemon quiz i’ve GOT this

god lacey's so cute i love her

drayton. you cannot just shade kieran like that and then immediately ask why lacey hates you

alright drayton time

drayton. stop trying to bribe me. idk what you’re doing it for, but it isn’t working

oh god oh fuck i need to use new pokemon. please hold

“your opponents are under the same conditions so you can’t be too mad about it” THEY HAD THAT ANYWAYS, DRAYTON

god fine. lemme just evolve the pokemon i’ve caught so far and maybe catch more

GOD FINALLY THAT TOOK ME AN HOUR

the music for each of the elite four slaps btw

kieran i beat the elite four in less than a day. what are you talking about

“i liked kieran better when his hair was down” JGKLSAJGLKASJG SIR??????

i mean i agree but still

HOLY SHIT HYDRAPPLE??? WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT

guessing it’s an evolution of dripplin but. goddamn

drayton you are making things actively worse. stop that

DON’T PLAY THE CHEERY FRIENDSHIP MUSIC I CAN LITERALLY SEE KIERAN HAVING A MENTAL BREAKDOWN IN THE BACKGROUND

i am NOT letting drayton in area zero briar i fucking REFUSE

carmine and kieran are fine i guess but i would really rather just get the crater crew back together :/

oh. hi geeta

RIKA!!!!!!!!

“recently we’ve had to confront the possibility that dangerous pokemon could escape the area” say professor turo died and go

literally just get the crater crew to do it and have clavell supervise us geeta like it’s not that hard

i’m in but only because none of you other fuckos know what to expect. you’re being so mean to my friends and for why

alright drayton's not going that’s... actually fantastic

jesus christ kieran is this whole thing STILL about ogerpon

BRING MY BESTIES. I HATE THIS GAME

oh god briar got scary all of a sudden what the fuck

rika you knew i trespassed. what are you talking about

i’m sorry and all but arven needed me so. i’m not that sorry

god if no one else. if NO ONE ELSE. let me bring nemona. she is also a champion and has also been there. this is bullshit to the highest degree

yes i’ve been here before. with my friends. bitch (sorry)

alright. here fuckin goes

briar you shut the FUCK UP about the secret room in the zero lab you don’t know SHIT

how disrespectful do you think it is to let these fuckin randos that neither turo nor arven knew/knows in

oh it’s been too long that makes sense

i am NOT saying anything about the professor being in the lab what is WRONG with this game

goddammit i said it anyway i hate it here

oh thank GOD i don’t have to show them the time machine

BRIAR GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM THOSE

i sure did but i’m not gonna fucking tell you your vibes get more rancid by the second

briar i am starting to become frightened. you are being professor turo’d i think

GET AWAY FROM THE PROFESSOR TURO STUFF BRIAR. I AM GOING AND GETTING ARVEN TO LET HIM LOOK AT THIS I SWEAR TO GOD

carmine is the only valid person here i think

god this really IS still about ogerpon

LISTEN KIERAN I’VE SAID IT BEFORE AND I’LL SAY IT AGAIN: IT’S NOT MY FAULT I HAVE PROTAGONIST SYNDROME also you were being a bit parasocial ngl

HATE the look on briar’s face what the fuck

this is going to go SO badly i can already tell

i knew it was coming but holy shit that’s a baby

a master ball, kieran? really?

briar. you can’t say shit like that it’s SO unethical

is he gonna use literally any other pokemon or

oh my GOD it’s still SO SMALL

that’s a fuckin BABEY

briar can this wait literally at all

oh man the master ball BROKE? that’s not good

BRIAR YOU WANTED THIS

briar has clearly never done a tera raid battle this is pretty standard i’m ngl

eyyyy kieran’s back in the game!

his eyes look normal now which is very encouraging

carmine why do we need your permission to go all out like what do you think i’ve been doing

oh shit he’s letting me catch him? nice

yeah what carmine said we do NOT need the second coming of professor turo

alright fine i guess we managed without my friends but. it would’ve been nice to have them with us

man i never had a problem with you of course we’re still friends

and that’s credits! alright!

okay so! overall? i liked the teal mask better than the indigo disk, but both were alright

the dlc DEFINITELY pales in comparison to the main game though. i understand why they didn’t bring back the crater crew, but i’m still upset by it, it felt like they thought if they introduced carmine and kieran we would automatically like them as much if not better than the other three, which is just not possible. while their story and development, especially kieran's, were good, it didn’t hold a CANDLE to the other three, ESPECIALLY arven. i’d say that the main game was a 9/10, teal mask was 7/10, and indigo disk was 5.5/10

so i played the dlc

and it was. alright? but while i was playing the teal mask, i was writing my thoughts down so i could make a little mini-review, and then i just. never posted it. so here i am now, with my thoughts from ALL of the dlc, but i have to separate it because i said. So Much. this post has teal mask stuff, i'll reblog with indigo disk thoughts

spoilers under the cut!

are my besties coming with me on this field trip. please please please

blueberry academy is in UNOVA????? holy shit i am IMMEDIATELY more interested and invested in the indigo disk

have my boy there. i am Manifesting him

listen briar i’m sure your intentions are pure and all probably but you can’t go into the great crater of paldea okay i say this as someone who has been there. leave my bestie alone

i don’t think my besties are coming with me :( one sec i gotta go say goodbye to them

okay nemona please try not to burn the academy to the ground, penny sunlight is necessary to your survival please leave your room at some point, mabosstiff please take care of arven while i’m gone

GOD i love these kids okay i’m going

i am. aware of the violet book. why

the paranormal???? oh so she’s a dork

and heath’s descendant alright that’s fine i’m no longer as concerned as I was before

OH MY GOD IS SHE SHOWING ME THE TERAPAGOS PAGE UNCENSORED????

SHE IS

i am…….. wary……. of terapagos, but continue

she wants to find it? bestie

okay so the other people on the trip are randos. three of them. this feels like salt in the wound, just a lil bit

this kid is NOT my “travel buddy” i have exactly ONE buddy and he is in paldea >:(

i’m not going to let that go i am NOT going to get over that

oh it’s my replacement besties or whatever. i’m not going to get as attached to them I’m saying this now because i know it to be true. unless these kids have daddy issues out the ass i will not get attached

okay so carmine is nemona 2 electric boogaloo except i like nemona more

sorry for continuing to play it up i just Love Them So Much

oh so we’re just going to. i was going to say block off the wholeass road but this is scarvi so. guess not

oh so this is just nemona if she was pacifica northwest huh

only one of them was giving me grief but i’m gonna hit yes anyways cause carmine is already getting on my nerves

man this is exactly what i said about arven huh. unless she pulls out a sick dog and daddy issues i’m not impressed and even then i'm not impressed cause like. quit copying homework from two characters who i already like more

mossui town is a very pokeani coded name i think

oh god which of these stupid fucking loser kids am i gonna be working with

nevermind it’s probably gonna be kieran

his hair is really fucking stupid I cannot see his nose at all it grates on me more the more I look at it. not what i would call good character design

hair’s not quite as egregious on carmine but still kind of a problem

WOAHHHHHH THE NURSE JOY RESDESIGN POG

this is literally jessie. like it’s just jessie i can’t fucking be convinced otherwise

i mean. define cool? but yeah sure this kid’s growing on me it’s cool

ohhhhh cool as in 3v1 cool. yeah alright that is cool

KIERAN NO WHY DID YOU SAY THE S-WORD

HOW DID YOU EVOLVE YOUR POKEMON SO FAST

probably because they were already like level 58 or whatever

okay so we are GUARANTEED going to get trapped in here or whatever since ogerpon was outside but i’m sure i can bust us out so i’m not really worried tbh

“you’re a sweet kid kieran” vs “wHEN CAN I MOVE IN” GHALKSJGKLASJGLKAJSG

yeah okay i’ll go to the festival of masks sure seems fun

ugh YOU

fuckin. i don’t get a mask i guess. absolutely fantastic (sarcastic)

yeah sure i’ll battle whatever

“stop using supereffective moves” she says, like that will stop me

oh is poltchageist/sistcha a divergent evolution of the polteageist line? nice!

ogerpon’s stUPID FUCKING PONCHO JAKSJKSJGLKSJG

“say chansey” is cute but i’m unsure why cheese wouldn’t work like cheese is very much in this game

oh, thank you for the candy apple kieran!

what the fuck does OUSTIN mean, game. that is NOT a word, what the fuck

wait. it is. fuck

what if i just. didn’t go after ogerpon AJKLGSJGLK

okay well i can’t leave the festival or do anything else IN the festival so

this bitch is GOING to punch me in the face i guarantee it jvaslkgjlags

apparently everyone just thinks its a kid. wild

oh that’s a cute cute CUTE face

ogerpon’s adorable. alright

I SOMEHOW DON’T THINK IT’S A KID, CARMINE

kieran i would NEVER make fun of you what the fuck

carmine you are SO mean all the time i feel like jet at the end of the sonic riders dub

oh did the loyal three attack and ogerpon defended the village. makes sense for pokemon tbh

“passed down by word of mouth” just write it down, man

OH SHIT THE MASKS HAVE TERASTAL GEMS IN THEM FUCK

i’m sorry kieran i was specifically instructed to lie to you okay listen

i guess i’m not going to the festival of masks tonight? damn okay then

okay yeah this is pretty as fuck but i’ve been to area zero and i did expect it to look like this, carmine

oh! a mitotic! hi! what the fuck!

well that’s convenient huh. i’m not getting in the fucking pool, i guess

oh briar hi! are these terastal crystals? cause i’m pretty sure they are

water? eh close enough

oh he’s gonna summon the loyal three isn’t he. that’s probably not good

kieran in our defense we were specifically instructed to not tell you this like did you miss that part i know you were eavesdropping

if nothing else it seems like he’s gaining some self confidence from all this it seems like

oh they were stuck in the monument? that’s… a bit weird, but i’m sure it’s fine

sure wish someone who could understand pokemon was here (hint hint) THAT SURE WOULD BE HELPFUL HUH (HINT HINT)

sorry i just. i Miss him

guess i’ve gotta fight the loyal three now. bet

ooh triple battle?

nevermind. this blows

you’re trying to recreate the crater crew and it isn’t working i’m not as attached to these two

oh i just noticed that the flying taxi has noctowls instead of squakabilly in kitakami that’s cool!

ogerpon was running in lil circles around me while i wrote that this bitch cute as hell

sorry for having protagonist syndrome kieran

HE GOT SO BIG

oh god HE ATE THE HERBA MYSTICA NOOOOOO adhsfjhfsfh

ogerpon cheering us on is adorable, oh my god

oh did kieran tell the village the truth i’m pretty sure he did

yup he did

i think this battle with kieran is the last of the story

oh damn he just COLLAPSED

okay do i battle ogerpon or does he just get in a ball

battle it is ig!

oh its poncho changes with its mask thats cool!

OH FUCK HE TERASTILLIZES WITH HIS MASKS JUST AUTOMATICALLY

“memories of adventuring with you grant ogerpon strength” THAT’S CUTE AS HELL WHAT THE FUCK

“memories of a partner from long long ago grant ogerpon strength” HEY WHAT THE FUCK OW

OH SHE’S A GIRL SHIT SORRY OGERPON DIDN’T MEAN TO MISGENDER YOU

her name WAS gonna be kieran but change of plans this is majora now

majora might be a guy actually i do not have a clue. i’m sure it’s fine

again. sorry for having protagonist syndrome kieran but i can’t do shit about it

carmine my home is in another country i understand what you’re going for but i live in paldea

WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING IN THE GREAT CRATER. I’M GOING HOME FUCK ALL OF YOU

kieran what the FUCK is happening bud

oh god he’s pulling a paulo from pokemas isn’t he goddammit

did terapagos get to him. is he gonna get professor turo’d

guess that’s it! i’ll be back for this shit when the indigo disk drops ig