Mewtwo has some funky aura that he don’t like, it’s all of Mewtwo’s past demons and his aloof personality that makes him seem so unappealing whereas Newtwo’s aura is much more inviting, she’s been at peace with herself a lot longer
i was playing pokemon blue on stream earlier at 350% speed and i got to thinking
what if the reason nobody in the pokemon world has any good teams is because its considered a dick move to have a proper team comp
like culturally everyone is like “haha pick the pokemon you want! if you’re happy with three geodudes, thats you and your life!” and then you’re supposed to just have a friendly battle with any other pokemon trainers and whatever pokemon they just happen to have
like the average trainer is probably just walking around with a growlithe because that’s their pet, or a hiker has three geodudes because the geodudes help him with hiking. and if this pet owner and geodude hiker meet, you’re supposed to have a friendly battle but nothing too serious
now imagine the 10 year old kid that has six pokeballs on their belt comes up. you’re like “haha, we’ll have a friendly battle!” and you throw out your geodude
and they throw out a fucking gyarados, and it one-shots your geodude
and then you throw out your pidgey you have because the pidgey helps you navigate mountains because you’re a hiker
and then electricity crackles around the gyarados and a thunderbolt flies off of this giant dragon and evaporates your pidgey
so you’re down to your last pokemon. you tell them you’re gonna send out your bulbasaur. the ten year old is like “oh okay in that case i’m gonna pull out my vulpix.” like not only is this kid walking around with an amped-up super dragon, but theyve also got multiple pokemon specifically for making type advantage counter-picks?
this kid’s a fucking asshole! really, kid? what are you trying to prove here? this is a friendly match between strangers for fun! why are you composing real-ass competitive teams? what a fucker!
i mean if you look at how npc’s talk about their pokemon, they’re service animals mostly. some of them are just pets. apparently they really enjoy sparring, so you let them battle other people’s pokemon for socialization, it’s like going to the dog park.
hell yes i’d be mad if i took my chronic pain support chow-chow to the dog park and some asshole with four rottweilers and a husky was like SIC EM THUNDERNUTS even if my dog enjoyed the tussle at first.
look, kid, the paras helps me weed the garden. it’s not a special forces attack paras. it’s just a bug that eats dandelions. please calm down.
This is precisely why Cooltrainers are exiled to the mountains
Listen, I was happily going on my journey until you locked eyes with me and insisted we have a battle. I had no way out of it after that other than to win or lose, and I hate losing. Not to mention winner takes half the loser’s money. I don’t want to leave you destitute or anything, but I also need my own money for supplies and stuff? And, again, you’re the one who demanded we fight. I’d have been perfectly happy training up against wild Pokémon and getting money selling items one of my partners found with Pickup, but here we are.
You don’t get to force my pets to fight your pets without even giving me a chance to warn you mine are competition trained because I’m currently actively doing the gym/league/challenge/whatever the regional thing is circuit and then get to act like the victim when my completion team curbstomps your casual team to the center of the planet.
Basically NPCs get what’s coming to them picking a fight without even giving their opponent a chance to say “yo I’m out of your league this isn’t fair to your team”
Hey since nearly every time I get stopped (in Sheild), the npc sometimes comments on how I’m a challenger, I kinda figured they were just challenging you to help with training and also to keep an eye on the bunch of ten-year-olds that think it’s fun to challenge the local legendary to fight.
What society lets a bunch of ten-year-olds run rampant without at least some form of supervision?
if theyre gonna challenge every person who they see to a battle, then theyre gonna face the consequences.
If Jet didn’t die in Lake Laogai imagine how fucking pissed he would be to find out that the new fire lord is Lee from the Jasmine Dragon. It would prove all of his convictions correct but he can’t bitch about it because what are they gonna do? Arrest the fire lord? For firebending?
why the fuck is it that THIS post is what made me realize that jet died?? i’ve seen the show 100 times and it never registered to me that jet fucking dies what the fuck
If Jet didn’t die in Lake Laogai imagine how fucking pissed he would be to find out that the new fire lord is Lee from the Jasmine Dragon. It would prove all of his convictions correct but he can’t bitch about it because what are they gonna do? Arrest the fire lord? For firebending?
Its Jet, you know that boy would at least TRY to have Zuko arrested
Do you think that zuko would try to claim hes a different person? like he could get iroh would go back to the jasmine dragon and tell jet “no, my nephew isnt the firelord. His scar is on the wrong side”
does every game start with link waking up late and if so how did i just now realize
introductory narration character: hi link! it’s time to complete a series of tutorial tasks and then experience a traumatic event followed by an extended explanation of fate meant to stimulate your own thoughts on the nature of free will
all 26 different incarnations of link:
you think it gets bad in games like LTTP where he doesnt wake up until his uncle is dying, you should play links awakening. He doesnt fucking wake up until after youve beaten the game!
i almost forgot catra can always understand melogs meows even though she doesnt translate them - that on top of melog being an entity that reflects and exposes her own emotions back at her. imagine what its like to have a pet cat that follows you around and verbally calls you gay and no one else can hear
Honestly I’ve long enjoyed the idea of Zelda as a heavy-armor, heavy-weapon warrior type build in contrast to light-armor versatile rogue Link and overwhelmingly robed magic-user Ganondorf, but, it actually occurred to me that looking at her tactics in-games, rather than her visual design, she operates like a tank.
The only reason you have peace and time to work with in Breath of the Wild is because Zelda responded to Link being direly injured by drawing Ganon’s attention and fire and then holding a defensive line the entire time. When he slips past those defenses in the form of the blood moon, she warns Link ahead of time.
Twilight Princess Zelda appears to hold out against Ganon somehow until she heals Midna at her own expense. She’s also shown fighting among her own soldiers, and her dress- like that of a lot of different Zelda designs- features armored pauldrons.
In Wind Waker, Tetra’s piloting a huge, heavily-armed galleon compared to Link’s zippy little sailboat. Her advice to facing an opponent while unarmed is “thwart them with your defenses, disarm them, and then pound them with their own weapon” which is not an especially roguelike attitude- especially when you can sniff around and find spare weapons to fight the guard with instead. And during the second raid on Forsaken Fortress, she again, acts like a tank- baits Helmaroc away from Link’s rescue attempt and then comes back to attack Ganon.
Spirit Tracks, which is the closest we’ve come in a ‘canon’ game (not like Hyrule Warriors or Smash Brothers) to directly playable Zelda, has her piloting a Phantom body which is a heavy-armored warrior with a huge sword.
And, yeah- Breath of the Wild Zelda uses magic to hold down Ganon and dresses like a Sacred Maiden rather than a warrior, Twilight Princess Zelda has a slender, delicate thrusting sword rather than a heavy zweihander. Tetra’s a sword-and-pistol pirate. But that feels like furthering a trend of visual design where Zelda is required to be dainty and magical, against a context where that doesn’t seem to be much of her personality.
Entirely outside of “it would be nice to explore Zelda as a fighter in the context of her own narrative”, I feel like it would suit Zelda’s shown qualities a lot more to depict her as more of a paladin build, since she’s depicted as the type to try and take the world on her shoulders, and, often, hold it up, even at great personal effort. That’s a front-line tank’s mentality. Heck, even the Bow of Light in Twilight Princess is a big heavy war bow!
So, just. consider: Paladin Zelda. Managing multi-layer court dresses and full plate armor aren’t that different, right?
okay but if we’re talkin about the true classes of the triforce users, I wanna just say that link is neither a rogue nor a ranger like most people classify him as. hes far more versitile. In most games hes got some levels of magic and in nearly every zelda, hes got some sort of instrument. While zelda is a tank, link is 100% a bard. Ready to play music and stab people.
