#kabuto beloved...

[bl00dalchemist]

I offer Kabuto a nice egg :]

🥚

he's misteriously egg shaped

[whitesnakewine]

[tanukitsuneko-suki]

keep your dog

[doitforthelentilsoup]

helmet kiss

[sleeplesslark]

So as it turns out I have a type. Spoilers for Alice in Borderland.

Alice in Borderland, chapter 56

Naruto Chapter 356

[lilalilan]

High fives for fellow kabuto fan~ <3

High fives !!! <3

[yakureii]

happy halloweenie!! ^_^

[thatsneakymedic]

"And just like that... another poor soul has fallen victim to the King of the Night sake."

[peapodsinspace]

I like to imagine a glasses flare too, like I’m a villain giving an evil monologue

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[whitesnakewine]

[oh-no-its-bird]

<climbs in through your windows and falls fca first onto the floor>

Hey so uh I don't remember if you found a third to Huohua and Hana's team and I just wanted to jump in real quick with a suggestion that I think is around the same age as them-

Nara Ensui

My reasons are thus:

1. While the Ino-Shika-Cho trio is a big thing, clearly not all Yamanakas/Naras/Akimichis can be in one of those cells, and based on the naming convention, it seems to mainly apply to the clan heirs/main family, probably for political relations reasons

2. Ensui (seemingly) wears eyeliner and I feel like that should make him pivotal to the plot

I did actually choose someone to be their third on the team !! They're getting stuck with Kabuto bc I find him fascinating and it'll be a fun way to get Houhua dropped onto Orochimaru's radar

However Ensui is such a fun choice too, I might have to put him in my back pocket for later use. Ur so right, any character w eyeliner immediatley deserves to be elected for plot significance

I will say, I think it'd be so fun if he was added and we did play with like. There weren't enough kids to make an even number of ino-shika-choi teams. Do u think he'd feel left out? How do you think he'd be chosen to be the one excluded that year? So many fun thoughts ,,

Might have to play with that later actually, I like the crumbs of that narrative. Idk if Houhua is gonna pass the chunin exam yet so if he doesn't, maybe his second team can include him? Hana would pass for sure, and Kabuto's whole thing is that he fails it every year.

Actually quick side, note: the fact that this is possibly Kabuto's first chunnin exam (how old is he again ?? I don't fucking remember but not that old) is interesting too, he won't know what he's going into like he does other years

Anyways team (whatever number) my beloveds <3

Does their team number change w the teachers they're given ? Bc like, they were handed to Kakashi first, which would make them team 7 (for like half a day) but after that, are they still team 7? Could be cute if they're called smthn like team 7 and a half

Their team number is constantly shifting w each new teacher they're thrown at, the other teams just start calling them team 7 and a half to make fun of them and it sticks

Team 7 and a half my beloveds <3

Actually. Thinking ab Kabuto now. Having thoughts. Experiencing emotions.

I do think the most interesting result in Houhua being on a team w him would be he recognizes that Kabuto wants to fail the exam on purpose, then somehow, some way, tricks or corners him into passing.

VERY big wrench in Kabuto's plans and Houhua is suddenly on his list of least favorite people. He has BEEF. No idea how we'd get there tho, or if I even wanna fr take it there, I just think it'd be interesting.

ANYWAYS UHH

While I'm here and talking ab the au, take this comment from the vault fic chapter where I posted about the au:

I absoloutley think Jun and Kisame should get to know eachother for sure, itd be so fun !! Idk how exactly, but if nothing else Kisame seems to be great at handling standoffish ice prince bitches (*cough* Itachi *cough*) so he should be surprisingly good w interacting w Jun !

Which also brings up the fact that like. Jun and Itachi interacting would be the funniest thing ever. Because before Itachi hearing that Houhua has some mystery relationship w this guy, they're probably just standing next to eachother in dead silence (it's very peaceful)

But then Jun gets potentially rather violently recruited into Akatsuki, so now he's being very frosty (they are still standing together in dead silence)

And then by the time he melts a little, Itachi has noted the weirdness w Houhua. And now he's being super frosty and incredibly passive aggressive. And also possibly plotting a silent murder.

But Jun has no fucking clue who Houhua even IS so he literally has nothing he can say to explain this shit to calm Itachi down. And also does not care enough to even try to explain. And also Itachi is Itachi and isn't explaining why he himself is mad anyways so Jun has no fucking way of knowing why he's even mad. Or even telling that he is mad bc hes shit at reading people

(They are still standing next to eachother in dead silence)

Kisame comments on how whenever they're w Jun, Itachi is the most animated he's ever seen him. Very impressive work there Jun!

I do not think that Itachi would make a conscious plot to pretend to be in a relationship with Kisame. But I do think it'd be really fucking funny if Itachi, completely without thinking it through, blurts out that he's in a relationship w Kisame w some very vague (and possibly a little manic) only half-thought idea of making Houhua jealous.

Kisame is ???????? but doesn't argue bc Itachi is... probably going somewhere with this? Tho he doesn't understand where.......?

Itachi immediately regrets it (his face is still dead blank and unreadable, but he's screaming internally) but refuses to backtread bc that's embarrassing. He has never admitted to a mistake in his life, and he is not going to start here. (Kisame is going to RUTHLESSLY make fun of him for all of this later, and he will deserve it)

Itachi also blurted this out like. Totally unprompted and probably in the middle of a battle. No one (especially not Houhua) fucking asked. So Houhua, very very confused, goes "????? Good for you ???????? You still murdered our entire clan tho so um ?? I'm gonna keep fighting u? If thats ok?"

(No one in this conversation is leaving with their dignity intact)

I THINK ITD BE SUPER INTERESTING IF HE DID ACTUALLY? Hmm I might have to think ab that one. I wanna make sure all the mangekyou awakenings in this au are as heavy and significant as they really should be, yk? So idk if I'd wanna use Houhua's play dead jutsu for it, it'd feel a bit cheaper to me, just a bit. But then if I played it right ig it could be as heavy as it deserves. Mmmm, choices

Kabuto and Houhua are making direct eye contact going "I smell a rat in here and I KNOW it's not just me"

[generouskittensong]

It angers me to think about this.

Team 7 was apparently a team for barley 6 months. Sasuke spend barley 6 months with them. Then comes minus 1 month for the preparation for the chuunin exam (training with kakashi) and Sasukes 1 month hospital stay (after his beloved saint brother tortured him mentally and physically for hours).

So after the chuunin exam Team 7 had no mission together and after our saints visit Sasuke was not in the picture anymore for a long time till they brought that gambler into the village.

So you want to tell me, that Naruto, that blond fascist brat... chased after Sasuke for years.. he chased after someone he barely knew for 4!! damn months??

And he talks about commaradeship, friendship and brotherhood bullshit to someone he tied up at the beginning of the manga because he was fucking jealous? In the beginning in the manga it was said that Naruto is not a hard worker, he barely doesn't do anything. He doesn't train, doesn't study, doesn't work on himself but was mad and jealous over Sasuke cuz he was perfect at everything because he was not only a prodigy but because he worked hard, studied hard, worked on himself. A sharingan alone did not make him great. Hell even if the sharingan was taken away from him, he would still be the best because he's a hardworking guy. But take away Kurama from Naruto and he's nothing. A mere loser.

So after what kind of "friendship" is that blond shit after? Sasuke doesn't liked Naruto at all. Yes he helped his ass and that pink garbage ass out and that's it. And no, he doesn't had "special feelings" to pink shit. Sasuke helps everyone because he is not a shithead who helps people only to gain something in return. He does not abuse people or take advantage of them. He's a good guy that's why he helped and protected them. But on a personal level he didn't liked them. I wouldn't even say he hated them because to hate someone you need to acknowledge them first. He was indifferent to them because he saw no value in wasting his time hating them.

And Naruto chased after whom again? For years? And forced himself on him with his fascist mindset? And manipulated him?

Sasuke knows Orochimaru, Kabuto, Karin and to some extent Suigetsu (because sui was in that water tank so I suppose he didn't talked that much with him but they definitely interacted because Suigetsu was shocked when sasuke came after him and he talked in that bossy manner, which tells me that sasuke was very kind to him and also to karin because she also didn't understand why he talks in that bossy manner) more compared to that shitty team 7.... .. uhh I'll stop. I'm annoyed...again

[asanjou]

as follows: an excessive number of words on a topic i have frequently described as "pointless bullshit"

unfortunately i have the dialectics temperament and i ♥️ arbitrary categorisation so i have a lot of thoughts

i do like a pointless fandom argument it must be said. well argument is the wrong word for it i think because i think if you're getting genuinely heated about who kabutos tertiary is you gotta take a step back. but wrt secondaries/tertiaries it's interesting because what that is is a beloved fandom pastime of sorting things into boxes applied to a framework that doesn't really exist consistently throughout the franchise

cut because i rambled on this more than i thought i would

i like reading those threads because it's kind of fascinating to see how people interpret what "secondary" and "tertiary" mean & how they try to apply that when the setup isn't "two main guys, one marginally less relevant guy, and everyone else" because there's a lot of different approaches. i think on here most people will apply the logic secondary = second most plot relevant character with a rider form tertiary = third most plot relevant character with a rider form but there's also the logic secondary = guys who shows up second tertiary = guy who shows up third

which is where the kabuto argument arises because even though thebee is the third rider form to show up, like five different people use it and then it disappears. compared to sasword where he's like the fourth or fifth rider to debut but tsurugi is undoubtedly the third most plot relevant rider character (or gets the third most screentime at least)

continuing with kabuto this is where the second logic starts to wobble because you'll consistently see the argument that kagami isn't the secondary of kabuto because gattack doesn't debut until episode 20. that's where we get into the plot importance argument because no one is arguing he isn't the deuteragonist (well they are, they're arguing he's the protagonist but you understand this isn't relevant to what im talking about right now)

here's where blade and geats come in because these are the big two of slap fighting over the secondary title. in blade, garren appears before chalice and the plot heavily revolves around him for the first however many episodes before taking a backseat for mukki spiders for a while, with chalice's stuff is happening in the background consistently throughout.

geats has a kind of kabuto-like structure to start with where keiwa is our audience insert despite ace being the protagonist, so throughout the show even despite him spending big chunks off time offscreen you still kind of consider him the deuteragonist, even while michinaga has a lot more plot importance and there's more focus on his relationship with ace.

i think it's interesting to contrast how people talk about those two because the takes im seeing a lot will be "garren is secondary, chalice is tertiary" and "tycoon is secondary, buffa is an evil/rival rider" with naago as tertiary, but i don't ever really see "chalice is a rival rider" or "leangle is tertiary" despite chalice also existing as a third faction for chunks of the show.

(the reason for this is almost certainly that people were having these arguments while geats was airing and therefore opinions were formed before the plot shook out, in comparison to blade which is usually viewed as a complete work so people are aware of how the character focus changes after shou aikawa took over and wrote the greatest love story ever told)

these are the main two lines of thinking and they're probably the ones id also go by but the interesting part is seeing the ones that clearly come from people who get very different things out of the media than i do. a big one i see on reddit is that the secondary has the second most prominent final form after the primary. this gets applied to the garren/chalice argument too because while they both only have one upgraded form (until the story is continued in kamen rider outsiders) garren's jack form exists in the context of blade's jack form, which is then upgraded to king form, and wild chalice is framed as hajime's equivalent to king form within the narrative. the presentation is tha wild chalice is a final form whereas garren jack is a mid season upgrade. this isn't helped by the fact that chalice tends to eat shit less than the rest of the cast in general and that garren will still be tachibana sakuya no matter how many fancy capes you give him

most other lines of logic seem to be highly subjective. "i think this character is secondary because he has the coolest suit" "i think he's the tertiary because his fights were more fun to watch" "he has to be secondary because i, personally, believe he has the second largest penis in the cast" and so on and so forth.

ultimately though the final designations are up to toei because what these are are marketing terms applied to characters that take wildly different roles within the stories because the people writing the shows are more focused on nonsense like "dramatic tension" and "character arcs" than remaining beholden to rules decided by the council of r/kamenrider users that say secondary form must be second to debut. it's definitely a little frustrating in comparison to the 6th ranger categorisation which is fairly uniform with the exception of maybe five seasons tops. but then sentai is more formulaic to begin with

All this being said I will paypal five american dollars to anyone who can write me a convincing 500+ word argument on why leangle is the secondary rider of blade

[dejabooooo]

Gravity Falls Characters Pokemon Teams Part 2: Ford

Unlike Stanley’s team, which is small and contains common Pokemon he loves like family, Professor Pines’s team is VAST. Full of unusual Pokemon he’s captured for study to catalogue in his handwritten Pokédex.

While he possesses far more than six, here are some of his most essential partners. In depth little story blurbs about how they’d meet and get along under the cut, along with some honorable mentions!

Omanyte > Omastar (Spiral Pokemon)

Miraculously, Ford’s first Pokemon was an Omanyte. As a prehistoric Pokemon that had been deemed long extinct, it should’ve been absolutely impossible for one to just be sitting on the shore of Glass Shard Beach as if he were waiting for Ford to find him—yet that’s exactly how he appeared to him when he was a child. A docile and unassuming little thing that’s seemingly unaware of what a rare and sought after specimen he is. He became willing to follow Ford anywhere upon seeing his immediate and immense starry eyed fascination with him. Ford’s quickly formed bond with this mysterious creature was his first of many encounters with anomalous Pokemon. This would awaken a yearning for exploration in Ford, a certainty that there could be many more wondrously mysterious and impossible beings to discover. Back then, he specifically wished to explore the sea on the Stan O’ War in hopes of finding more of Omanyte’s friends from the primordial ocean.

Omanyte especially liked to accompany Ford and Stan on beach adventures and loved to play with them by giving them turns using Surf to ride across the water with him. He wasn’t sure why Stan suddenly wasn’t there anymore one day. He missed him and wished all three of them could go swimming again someday even after he and Ford moved far away from the ocean.

As the years went by, Omanyte remained beloved by Ford but became less of a fixation as Ford’s collection of even more fantastical and powerful Pokemon expanded. Omanyte’s favorite place in Gravity Falls is the lake. He doesn’t swim in the water here but he likes sitting beside Ford on the shore, it inspires him to hold on to his dream.

Omanyte finally evolves into Omastar when Stan and Ford go sailing. He becomes central to Ford’s team once again after years of being excluded from Ford’s dangerous missions in an effort to protect him from foes deemed too formidable for him to handle. He’s changed a lot and become scary strong, and just scary in general (his eyes… no, it’s just a coincidence! Ford struggles to hold eye contact with him though. Just a coincidence, he reminds himself…) but despite how he may look and how brutally he fights he is just overjoyed to be in the brothers’ company on the sea again. And they do discover more Pokemon like him in their sailing, finding Kabuto and Tirtouga just like little Ford had always wanted.

✨SHINY Noctowl✨ (Owl Pokemon)

Noctowl Pokédex entries: “When it needs to think, it rotates its head 180 degrees to sharpen its intellectual power. … When it turns its head entirely upside down, you know it’s troubled by something. If you don’t leave it be, it will peck you. … NOCTOWL never fails at catching prey in darkness. This POKéMON owes its success to its superior vision that allows it to see in minimal light, and to its soft, supple wings that make no sound in flight.”

An observant and wise assistant. Noctowl is Professor Pines’s signature partner and one of his most valuable allies.

Noctowl was the first Pokémon Ford obtained upon his arrival in Gravity Falls which confirmed without a shadow of a doubt that the town was a hotspot for oddities (shinies have a much higher encounter rate in Gravity Falls than anywhere else on earth).

Often perched atop Ford’s shoulder wherever he goes, Noctowl proved himself a useful pair of eyes both in Gravity Falls and the multiverse. Back when Ford was researching anomalies in his home dimension, Noctowl helped him locate the most elusive of anomalies by surveying the town from high above in the night skies—especially ideal since night is when anomalies are most active. While Ford was stealing gathering parts for his quantum destabilizer in the multiverse, this often required stealth and rigorous reconnaissance, both fields in which Noctowl excels. Though Ford and Noctowl have an immense respect for each other and their intelligence, they do occasionally butt heads about what is the best course of action to take. Often, Noctowl is right! He even tried to sway Ford into listening to McGucket’s warnings about the portal. As he’s aged, Ford has learned to trust Noctowl’s inherent wisdom more.

Ford’s Noctowl and Stan’s Thievul shared a bit of a contemptuous relationship when Ford returned from the portal. However, when they set sail, they begin to find a deeper understanding of how the other operates, an understanding that turns into trust, and evolves into playful comradery. They end up a good team that covers each other’s weaknesses.

MissingNo. (??? Pokémon)

(Another canon addition as Alex said that Ford would have a MissingNo. too! He mentioned that his reasoning would be that, in Ford’s words, “It’s the most powerful Pokemon, and it can destroy your computer!” Oh silly Ford, your hubris has gotten the better of you again! If it exists in your world, it can destroy much more than that! ^_^)

MissingNo. is a being that shouldn’t exist. In fact, it doesn’t until it’s summoned by someone whose morbid curiosity gets the better of them. This creature–if it can even be called that–was nothing more than a infamous legend, one Ford was fascinated with since his youth. According to the incredibly cryptic and little known tales, it had the ability to irreversibly change the world in odd and unsettling ways if it were to ever appear. The legends warned that a single encounter was incredibly dangerous, and capturing it would result in something even worse. Ford interpreted this as little more than superstition, the stories weren’t terribly informative and were most certainly born from fear of the unknown.

Besides, Gravity Falls was already odd and unsettling as it was–he figured the changes couldn’t be that drastic. Bill eagerly told him exactly how he could find MissingNo. and on an expedition with McGucket–against his the man’s vehement disapproval–Ford caught the affront to nature.

The changes were immediate. And very much drastic.

The single bag of jelly beans he carried with him suddenly multiplied into 128 bags of jelly beans. He tried to go about his life as usual for a time, but… apples now tasted like oranges. When he got a papercut, the page bled instead of his finger. The towns folk began speaking backwards. Pixelated blocks appeared in the sky, on the bark of trees, on his furniture and made him question his very reality. The kicker was that suddenly none of his equations added up any more.

Now unable to deny that MissingNo. was a problem that needed to be rid of, he considered releasing the beast but feared that unleashing it unto the world would be even worse. Finally, McGucket suggested just transferring it to a box in his PC (a new system he invented) to see if that would help. Luckily, this seemed to return things in the outside world back to “normal”, though it irreparably corrupted the data of the laptop he’d gifted to Ford, rendering it useless and unable to function past the password screen.

And… years down the line, the internet in Gravity Falls is often plagued with odd, blocky graphical glitches and other adverse corruptions. Maybe it’s just rural internet being rural internet…

Alolan Meowth > Alolan Persian

Alolan Meowth Pokédex entries: “It’s impulsive, selfish, and fickle. … Highly intelligent and prideful, it’s famously difficult to handle—but that’s also a reason for its popularity. … Deeply proud and keenly smart, this Pokémon moves with cunning during battle and relentlessly attacks enemies’ weak points. … It’s accustomed to luxury because it used to live with Alolan royalty. As a result, it’s very picky about food.”

A crafty little thing that immediately took interest in Ford as soon as they met. He was delighted to find her in the wild since she’s a rare tropical regional variant that shouldn’t be local to the area at all—yet another instance of Gravity Fall’s ability to inexplicably attract a wide variety of creatures.

What Ford doesn’t know is that she was actually a pet that escaped from Northwest Manor. Since she lives for showers of affection and adoration, she couldn’t stand the fact that she wasn’t the constant center of attention for the guests and members of the family—their attentions divided among other excessively lavish things.

Overjoyed by Ford’s attentive study of her, she quickly learned she could get away with anything and he wouldn’t intervene so as to observe her “displays of natural instincts and behaviors”. Ford was just the sucker she’d been looking for! She demanded to be fed the best food in his pantry, never settling for scraps, and aggressively made sure he polished her coin by hand—and if he missed a spot he was in for a scratch!

Despite her exhaustingly needy personality, Ford still took pride in having such an internationally esteemed Pokemon. In fact, a rivalry between Stan’s Meowth and Ford’s quickly developed upon his return from the portal. Stan claimed his Meowth was better since she helped him scam rubes while Ford was the rube his Meowth was scamming. Ford still relented that his was better since Alolan Meowth had a better reputation. They were renowned worldwide as royalty. They were smarter. Prettier. Finally, a definitive winner was revealed when both their Meowth evolved while sailing.

Stan won.

Absol (Disaster Pokemon)

Absol Pokédex entry: “It senses coming disasters and appears before people only to warn them of impending danger. … As a result, it came to be known as the disaster Pokémon.”

When Ford returned from the portal, Absol led the way before him. Stan, Mabel, and Dipper saw her before they saw Ford.

This exceptionally cool and calm Pokemon was a gift to Ford from the oracle. Jheselbraum told him she would accompany him to “warn of the perilous coming change”. Taking her gift as an effort to protect him from the terrible dangers he was about to face, he greatly appreciated the gesture and did his utmost to care for his new companion well and remain attentive to her. From then on she vigilantly led the way for him.

Upon Ford’s return home—while tensions between the family remained high at said return—Absol was the least avoidant. In fact, she unnerved everyone with how ever present she was. She stood in the doorways and watched the rest of the family with her gleaming red eyes. Stan in particular felt creeped out as she shadowed him most. She’d often stride over to him while he was watching TV, sit at his feet, and keep her piercing gaze on him for hours. He confronted Ford about this, assuming that Ford trusted him so little that he was the one who instructed her to stalk him.

As they were, both stubborn and unyielding to each other, the fight went nowhere. But Ford wondered… It wasn’t until everything was said and done and they were sailing did he realize that Absol had never warned him of anything.

She wasn’t there to warn him of disaster brought about by others, she was there to warn the others of the disaster that would be brought about by him.

Ah, Jheselbraum and her delayed punchlines at his expense. He wishes he could tell her he gets the joke now, both of them, though he’s sure she knows.

Cosmog (Nebula Pokémon) > Cosmoem (Protostar Pokemon) > Solgaleo (Sunne Pokemon)

Cosmog Pokédex entries: “In ages past, it was called the child of the stars. It’s said to be a Pokémon from another world, but no specific details are known. … Cosmog is very curious but not very cautious, often placing itself in danger. If things start to look dicey, it teleports away.”

When Ford was first flung into the multiverse and forced to hide away from Bill in the place where missing things end up, among the refugees was this trembling little living nebula. Even in the dire situation he was in, Ford was awestruck by the living star stuff. Like a frightened lost child, no one else knew where the mysterious little creature came from. Entirely uneasy and confused about the world he’d found himself in much like the star child, Ford quickly resolved to take the little one with him, reassuring him that they’d figure things out together.

He finds quickly that his new little friend is quite feisty and curious. Comfortable and safe with the security of Ford’s protection, his true childish nature comes out. Childish… curious… reckless. He gets them both in a fair share of trouble. Still Ford wouldn’t dream of abandoning him. He’s a bright little North Star in a dark world and he’ll follow him anywhere.

Ad astra per aspera.

Cosmoem Pokédex entry: “Motionless as if dead, its body is faintly warm to the touch. In the distant past, it was called the cocoon of the stars.”

When Cosmog evolves into his silent cocoon, Ford instantly misses his energy. He feels lonely. He wouldn’t ever say it, he wouldn’t ever show it, but he thinks too much in the quiet. He remembers telling Stanley about the names of his favorite constellations, the story behind Ursa Major. Stan interrupted him a lot when he started in on “nerd things” but not when he talked about stars while they were lying under them ontop of a blanket on the incomplete deck of the Stan O’ War.

He hasn’t seen that constellation in a long time. He can’t here.

He wonders what kind of star Cosmoem will become.

Solgaleo Pokédex Entries: “In writings from the distant past, it’s called by the name “the beast that devours the sun.” … This Pokémon is said to be a male evolution of Cosmog. At the activation of its third eye, it departs for another world. … Sometimes the result of its opening an Ultra Wormhole is that energy and life-forms from other worlds are called here to this world.”

He becomes the brightest star of all. Ford would have never believed that the little cloud of star dust he met all those years ago would grow into such a powerful beast. Solgaleo is Ford’s strongest Pokemon and an invaluable asset while traveling the multiverse. Riding atop his back, Ford is able to traverse worlds much easier. With Solgaleo’s newfound unmatched strength and prowess, they are an unstoppable team, as if they were fated to stop Bill together from the very start. Solgaleo is a hero’s partner.

However… the bounty on Ford’s head catches up to him. Though Bill himself didn’t pursue him, his unsavory acquaintances did. One of them being his Necrozma—the beast who feeds off light. Unprepared to reckon with a Pokemon of equal if not greater strength than Solgaleo, they lost. Necrozma overpowered Solgaleo, and…

Possessed him. 

Dusk Mane Necrozma Pokédex entires: “When it dominates Solgaleo, it takes on this form. … It siphons away its host’s limitless energy, exploiting that energy to fuel a rampage.”

It stole him away to the Nightmare Realm, fleeing before Ford could even attempt to save him. Now more than ever, he’s renewed with anger and desperation fueled determination to accomplish his thirty year long goal and purge Bill Cipher for good. 

And once his quantum destabilizer is finished and he has an army of Ultra Beasts on his side, he returns to the Nightmare Realm and fights tooth and nail to relinquish Solgaleo from Necrozma’s clutches.

And… he’s victorious. In that, and only that, however. He manages to free Solgaleo, but the moment he reunites with his friend and they turn to Bill ready to finish things once and for all after decades of fighting alongside each other for this moment, it’s cut short when the portal reactivates and they’re drawn in. 

…

Solgaleo out of all of his Pokemon is the most he was apprehensive about introducing to the children. He is an eleven feet tall lion that breathes fire, after all. He fully expects them to cower in terror. Yet, Dipper seems awestruck and Mabel gushes over what an “adorable giant sunshine kitty” he is. Solgaleo is close to him but typically very aloof with others, so he’s surprised at how quickly he gets along with them. His chest warms at the sight of them running around in the yard. That bright little nebula is still there... Soos makes the mistake of using a laser toy to play with him. When he points it at the wall, Solgaleo tackles it, crashing straight through it and nearly bringing the shack down with it. That troublesome little nebula is very much still there...

Honorable Mentions!

Sandyghast is a sand castle built by a child that became haunted by an evil spirit. If anyone touches it, it will possess them, and force them to build up more sand for its body. As kids Ford knew what it would do beforehand and willingly got caught by one hoping that if he helped it get bigger he could see it evolve. Stan talked him out of it, and good thing too. What ford didn’t know is that when it evolves it buries anyone around it in sand and steals their soul.

Every. Single. Ultra Beast. All 11. Since his goal while traveling throughout the multiverse was to gain as much power as possible before challenging Bill, amassing a legion of Ultra Beasts became as much of a priority as building his weapon. They certainly helped by keeping Bill’s own powerful allies at bay while Ford faced Bill head on. 

Ford found many Unown while in Gravity Falls. The Unown in town have a unique quirk where they will appear to people in an order that spells out messages warning of dire future events, however they are often misspelled. The Unown Ford encountered—and promptly ignored—spelled out, “B-A-T-C-H  O-U-T  F-O-R  W-I-L-L”.

Bronzong is a Pokemon known for bringing rains by opening portals to other worlds. Farmers utilize this Pokemon to produce plentiful crops, and Ford believed they could help him with construction of the portal. For some reason none he caught seemed crazy about the idea, they only seemed interested in helping people grow corn.

Sigilyph are known as “guardians of an ancient city”. While doing research in the library, Ford unearthed documents linking the Pokemon to an ancient indigenous shaman named Modoc. Apparently he trained the Sigilyph to guard the area. Ford catches one without much trouble, but something truly unprecedented happens soon after. It suddenly turns on him, attacking him out of the blue one day. He didn’t realize it at the time, but it was the same day he first spoke with Bill. Unable to quell its fury, he was forced to release Sigilyph back into the wild. He had to hide whenever it or any of its kin crossed his path again.

[r4ve-k4ndi]

One thing I will headcanon and say is that I feel with orokabu, is that orochimaru will act so serious in the relationship. Like daddy dom to the max and kabuto is just like malewife with his little pink apron on, ready to cook dinner. And yes ofc Orochimaru is soft as shit to, I mean the man is cold blooded so he would cuddle up to his beloved boy toy if have to. Man I would pay to see that😔

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This has been sitting on my head for a while, what kind of Pokemon would the FoM cast have for as their team ?Au?

This one was tricky- i’m not gonna lie. My confession is that i’m not a huge Pokemon nerd, I know like maybe up to Gen 4 confidently. But- I do know how to pair these funky little guys. So, here you go!

HC’s under the cut

Adeline: Off the bat, I think she’d have physic type pokemon. She needs someone who can help her use paperwork and also help her take a load off. So I think her team would be: Raltz, Galarian Ponyeta, Espeon, Hattere, and Delphox.

Balor: Being our beloved rougish character. I think he would have both cute- and scary pokemon. So his team would probably consist of a lot of fairy type and ghost/dark types. I think his team would be: Mimikyu, Marill, Mawhile, Sinestea, Phantump, and Haunter.

Eiland: Look me in my eyes rn and tell me he would not have rock/ground type. He’s an archaeologist. Of course he does. His team would be: Leafeon (Not a ground type but I think it’s cute if him and Adeline both have eveeloutions), Phanpy, Onyix ofc, Silvally, Clodsire my boy, and of course the fossil pokemon- Kabuto.

Celine: She would definitely have grass or fairy. Just look at her. I’m giving her togepi because she would look so cute walking around with her. She’d also have Bonsweet, Given roses are a loved gift- i’d say she’s have Roselia too, Deerling for the vibes, she’d also have marill and a wooper.

March: Once again. Look me in my eyes and tell me he wouldn’t have steel/rock type. If you say no you’re wrong. He’d have Metaln- I mean it’s little molten metal. That’s like- his thing. I can not explain it- but Lucario. He’s a sucker for cute things, so Togedemaru. TINATINK. She’d like to help him hammer. Geodude. And Rockruff.

That’s all I got for now! Because this hurt my brain 💀 but if you want more specific pokemon teams you can let me know! Or- better yet @mistriarts is a pokemon connoisseur ask her lmao