a group of mystery-solving teens break into my wizard tower and—after a series of whimsical and spooky hijinks—manage to tie me up and say “alright gang, time to see who’s really behind this ugly ‘evil wizard’ mask,” and then they pull on my face and i go “ow…”
Would you like Krongus to remove the teens from the premises
jeepers. just throw em in the pit
Which pit?
The tower possesses 3 pits
the—the death pit, obviously
Krongus is unsure of the morality of condemning the teenagers to the death pit
It’s weird how foreigners have this direct mental link between windmills and don quixote. It’s like seeing a regular-ass lamp post and being like “oh yeah. like from narnia”. You blorbo’d everyday civil infrastructure
A few years from now I’m gonna win a prize for diagnosing Blorbo Brain
whenever i see burgers i think of samuel L jackson saying “thats some real gourmet shit right there”
Shoutout to these hero academia edits from like 2017 that made me feel weird
“Wow that looks great haha it might even be better if he was a girl… Wait why do I think that would be better. That’s a weird thought. I wish I was a girl. Wait”
I feel like all the way up to summer 2018 you could hear the pained straining of my egg shell holding on for dear life despite all odds
One gameplay abstraction the pokemon franchise makes that I’ve always found interesting is the way traded pokemon only obey you if you have enough badges. While it obviously exists to avoid people trading in overpowered pokemon and stomping the game, the idea that a pokemon would know or care how many badges their trainer has always struck me as odd, and with the Arceus game instead attributing obedience to a player’s rank as a researcher, I want to make an argument that it is not literally about the badges, but about experience.
With every badge, the player character becomes more experienced. They, in-universe, exude more confidence, and appear more formidable to others. Rather than an arbitrary badge or rank, this is what the pokemon respect, they see the confidence the trainer issues the commands with, confidence gained from experience, and that’s what makes them follow the orders. By the time you’ve gained your last badge in a pokemon game, you’ve usually taken down a crime group and stared down a god. The trainer with 8 badges is simply a different beast than the one that set off from their starting town.
That’s just how I like to think of it anyway.
in the manga the badges were made of special stones that exerted will over pokemon
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
