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I was looking at my old posts and realized I accidentally put in misinformation

In this old post I claimed that Kieran’s Japanese name, suguri, which is the Japanese name for currants, meant “hope and forgiveness” but apparently that was just the title of a blog post with no mention of currant symbolism whatsoever

Lesson learned: Always fact check your stuff

So to try and fix this, I actually searched up the proper symbolism of currants and found a flower language site with a page on currants with symbolism so that’s better than the last post that had basically nothing

Even with all I said in mind, you should do your own research instead of believing everything you see on the internet like idiot old me and please fact check me if I got anything wrong

The site is in Japanese so you have to use google translate to read the page. According to the symbolism section, it says “あなたの不機嫌が私を苦しめる” and “私はあなたを喜ばせる” which is translated as “your grumpiness makes me suffer” and “I make you happy” but considering it’s google translate, I decided to crackhead translate it myself using wiktionary because I wanted to make sure myself and I basically got the same sentences as the google translated ones and roughly got “your unhappiness makes me worry” and “I want to make you happy.” Which means that google translate was actually right and I did ALL of this for nothing _(:3」z)_ well I’m glad I went to seek out the answer and google translate doesn’t take tone into account so someone could phrase it more correctly than my crackhead translation

Here’s how this relates to Kieran

So if, and only if, this is accurate and actually true, this explains and foreshadows a lot of the scarlet and violet dlc. The first sentence of “your unhappiness makes me worry” is literally what happens near the end of the teal mask and all of the indigo disk, Kieran constantly comparing himself to others and the player especially and causing both Carmine and hopefully the player to worry about him. The second sentence “I want to make you happy” is even more explicit with the blueberry academy cast, Carmine, and the player wanting to know what is up with him and how to make him happy again.

Below is the toil of my efforts if you’re curious

(I was going to link the wiktionary pages to each kanji but it didn’t let me so here’s wiktionary if you want to do extra research but you have to either copy paste the kanji itself or use a Japanese keyboard to find the exact results)

I’d also like to put here that kanji has multiple meanings and isn’t always read as they are the sentences provided so this isn’t necessarily a kanji lesson.

First let’s take “あなたの不機嫌が私を苦しめる” in which the Hepburn romanji is “anata no fukigen ga watashi o kurushimeru.”

Anyone can probably recognizes watashi/私 and anata/あなた which are the Japanese personal pronouns for I/me and you respectively if we simplify it

The hiragana no/の is generally used as a particle to indicate possession. ex: watashi no kaban/私のかばん would translate to “my bag”

The kanji fu/不 according to wiktionary is commonly used as a prefix for un-, non-, in-. Basically it’s a negative prefix like the in- in insecure. Or it can be used to describe something as bad

ki/機 means a lot of things depending on the kanji paired with it which leads into the next kanji, gen/嫌 means disagreeable or unpleasant by itself however when both are combined, it reads as kigen/機嫌 which translate into mood or feeling and other kanji is usually meant to be placed in front of it

This makes the phrase fukigen/不機嫌 which if translated literally, it means bad mood. And according to its wiktionary page, can mean unhappy or despondent.

For brief explanation, Japanese uses particles to refer to things instead of word order like English which pop up a bit in the sentences

ga/が is used for multiple things but the most relevant meaning when looking at the full sentence is that its being used to refer to the subject of a sentence

That makes what we currently translated so far, anata no fukigen ga/あなたの不機嫌が could be read as “your bad mood”, “your unhappiness” or something similar

Finally onto the second half, watashi o kurushimeru/私を苦しめる. I already explained 私 so I’ll move onto o/を which can be read as wo and is usually used to indicate an object of a sentence.

The last part of the sentence is kuru/苦 which by itself means bitter taste, pain, suffering, and other synonyms. When combined with the hiragana, it means to cause worry or to cause one to suffer on its wiktionary page. Which means the second part roughly translates to cause me to suffer or worry.

That means that the full sentence, “あなたの不機嫌が私を苦しめる” means roughly “your unhappiness makes me worry” or something along those lines.

Onto the next sentence. “私はあなたを喜ばせる” has the romanji of “watashi wa anata o yorokobaseru.” I already explained Japanese pronouns and particle を/o so I’ll briefly go over wa/は which is usually read as ha. は when read as wa in this sentence, is the particle referring to the subject or topic so the subject is I/me and the object is you

Finally onto yorokobaseru. 喜/yoroko by itself is an affix meaning joy or to be pleased. And now we run into Japanese being weird, I couldn’t find what baseru meant until I realized that one spelling of yoroko was yorokobashii/喜ばしい so I searched up seru/せる by itself and it’s a suffix that is often conjugated which explains the structure. The definition that makes the most sense in context is the one “to make”. So that makes the final sentence roughly “I want to make you happy” or along a similar phrasing.

Conclusion: Dear god this was longer than I thought. I got way too lost in the sauce trying to brute force learning Japanese but I hope you enjoyed it i guess? I wanted to make up my blunder but ended up info dumping but this is tumblr so maybe it fits idk

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I’ve acquired two of them now

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S-so I was doodling volo in my sketchbook and he somehow looks really horny ._.

Look idk how it happened I was in an art trance and when I came to he was just?????

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So I’ve been trying to slowly work on this piece and I’m almost done coloring arven in :D

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Happy mochi mayhem anniversary so have this unfinished sketch I guess?

So funny story about this art piece, I was supposed to finish this for the scarlet and violet anniversary as a kind of thank you for the game being a solid rock in my life during the harder times but life got busy for me. So then I decided to finish it for indigo disk…. And still didn’t finish it due to life and lack of motivation

And then comes mochi mayhem and I just lost all motivation to do art and lost my confidence in my quality of work.

So now I have no idea if I’ll even finish it at all but I didn’t want it to rot in development hell so I’m posting the unfinished version

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I saw posts of kitakami siblings and bb league plushies and I started questioning whether I was dreaming

I was in fact not dreaming

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THEY ARE SO CUTEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

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Look man I love volo this scrumbly arceus man is fun as hell to look through a microscope with but MAN that is foul of you volo

I love this interaction so much because there are so many layers to it, especially when you look back at it after learning Volo’s true nature.

First of all, since Volo shows a lot of signs of being a total sociopath, it’s pretty clear to me that he doesn’t care about Ingo at all. He isn’t asking about Ingo’s memory loss or expressing hope that he gets his memory back out of any sort of compassion for Ingo; he’s only asking about it because he hopes Ingo can tell him what’s on the other side of the rift. Volo is only interested in Ingo as a potential source of information about the rift and, by extension, Arceus. Ingo’s suffering doesn’t matter to Volo in the slightest.

Volo’s suggestion that the space-time rift might be responsible for what happened to Ingo comes across as especially scummy in light of the reveal that Volo’s pact with Giratina is what caused the rift to open in the first place. Whether true or not, Volo theorizes that he may be responsible for Ingo’s plight, and that possibility doesn’t bother him at all. He believes his pact with Giratina may have completely ruined this man’s life, and he hasn’t lost a wink of sleep over it.

On Ingo’s side, his line, “I can’t remember my own home, nor my family, if I had any…” is particularly heartwrenching. The reason Ingo’s situation has struck a chord with so many fans is because we know exactly what he lost. In Gen V, Ingo and his brother were always presented as a pair, both in the games and in various adaptations. Now, Ingo doesn’t even remember that Emmet exists. Everything that he loved, everything that defined who he was, is gone, without explanation.

And there’s a very real chance that it’s all because of the man who has the audacity to smile at him and say, “Well, I do hope your memories return, Warden Ingo.”

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So I found this random thing in my drafts and I don’t know what depressive slump I was in to make this but ok then past me

I’m in an angsty mood today so here’s another Kieran possession idea

This one involves the usual kieran possession scenario of Kieran being possessed during the teal mask and seeing how he regresses during the indigo disk under pecharunt’s influence. He’s a lot more worse in this scenario and the poisonous peach is gaining more power from his rage leading up to a big battle with it having a tenser atmosphere as mc isn’t just fighting to free Kieran but the entire academy from Pecharunt. After defeating him, it leads to a violent altercation as Kieran already too far gone and Pecharunt start attacking mc, mc doesn’t want to fight Kieran like this and before they can get hit by a strong blast they are shielded by Carmine and are blown back by the force which causes Carmine to be injured and for mc’s Tera orb to break. Mc then forced to fight back attempts to terastallize their pokemon to defeat Pecharunt but the malfunctioned Tera orb blast Kieran straight through the chest leading to him being in critical condition and fall into a comatose state. After the whole ordeal and after the affected party members heal at the hospital, the rest of the story follows the characters reaction to the whole event and their slow recovery and grieving process as they reflect on themselves, how everything went so wrong, and their eventual forgiveness of themselves.

Also this may or may not have been inspired by the song lullaby for a princess okay bye

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Sorry haven’t posted recently life stuff and personal stuff made me busy here’s a shitty pencil sketch of Kieran

God he looks psychotic lol

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DISCLAIMER: datamine for pokemas

O H N O

All of my gems are going down the drain next month :,)

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G U E S S W H A T

something something projecting your period pain to your fav

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Dang one year since we met the kitakami siblings

One year since this wet cat single handedly rekindled my hyper fixation for scarlet and violet

Oh my gosh guys I just realized this but… we’re like 68 days away from the first anniversary of Teal Mask.

Like where did the time go???

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Pokémon scarlet and violet and its theme of isolation and overcoming that feeling

So I don’t know if people have pointed this out or not but I noticed with the main characters of Pokemon sv, they suffer from some type of isolation. This will only focus on the main characters which are Arven, Nemona, Penny, Kieran, and Carmine. This will discuss events of scarlet and violet and its dlc so spoilers will be in this post. I apologize ahead of time for my poor wording as I’m not good at putting my thoughts into words. (I also apologize if this theme was obvious and I just sound like an idiot for noticing it now)

Tl;dr the main characters suffer from some kind of isolation whether it’s visible or hidden

The most obvious one to notice in my opinion is Arven, first I’d argue he suffers from physical isolation as growing up, sometimes the one parent he has isn’t even home most of the time and at the very least had mabosstif. He has no parents in his life and the one that partially is, is now dead. Next from the way Arven latches onto the player later on especially when seeing how he acts in mochi mayhem and how he seems kind of jealous of the players new found friendship with Kieran. This to me also shows he doesn’t have any friends either (I believe he even says mabosstif is his only friend which is kinda sad). So in short Arven has no support figures besides mabosstif, but he doesn’t truly have any human connections. That is until he makes friends with the player, Nemona, and penny

Penny is the second one that I noticed, like Arven, she also suffers from physical isolation by locking herself in her room. She’s suffered from bullying which would obviously lead to isolation and has probably caused her to close herself off from everything, but at least she has her friends at team star right? Although she does, when she first was friends with them, her identity was anonymous. She knows and connects with team star but they will never truly know and connect with her until later events which finally allow her to bridge the gap.

For the next one, I’m going to skip Nemona for last and put the kitakami siblings into this one section (also this one relies the most on speculation since we don’t know exactly what their experiences were). Unlike Arven and Penny, both of them don’t suffer from physical isolation but mentally. Carmine and Kieran have both grew up in a remote village for most of their life until attending blueberry academy. The isolation they must have felt must have been staggering. Although from the sounds of it they eventually were able to find solid ground via the league club. Now with Carmine and her prickly attitude, that might have caused her to push others away and keep to herself at times (I admit I’m speculating, I wish the dlc was longer DX). As for Kiki, I admit it’s a lot more easier for me to speculate because I relate to him more I feel you get more insight into his character compared to Carmine sorry Carmine. He is a lot more introverted and shy compared to his sister and I bet his love for the ogre led him to being a bit of a social outcast and moving to blueberry academy most likely didn’t help with him, even just feeling like he was, an outcast, plus his already bad self worth. When he meets the player, he is still very shy but seems ecstatic to finally having a friend to talk to… until you have to lie to him. I could go on an essays worth on how Kieran’s self worth and paranoia caused him to quickly think he’s being betrayed and see himself as unworthy of the player’s friendship but that’s another story and this paragraph is already getting long enough already. By losing his friendship with the player, he further isolated himself from others and it’s even worse in the indigo disk. He now isolates himself by being a ruthless champion with everyone afraid to confront him. Now he’s not alone from being a shy outcast but instead from being champion and hiding his already fragile heart with thorns. Ignore the poeticism of that last line lmao and yep this section with Kieran is of course the longest. however while both were able to find some solace in the league club, I’d argue they were able to truly open with the help of the player especially Kieran who learned to accept himself as he is.

Now finally Nemona and one I find the most fascinating because she isn’t as visibly isolated as the others and admittedly is the reason I wanted to write this. First I’d like to point out something I think people forget often, just because people seem to have a great social life and friends doesn’t mean they don’t feel lonely. Nemona is champion rank, student council president, and is overall a star student. However because she’s at the top, some people are intimidated by her and in one area convo she mentioned how someone refused to battle her because she’s a champion and battle wiz that would wreck him. Then in another area convo, she laments over people thinking that battling is natural to her and ignoring the genuine hard work that she puts into her skills. And in her final convo in her dorm room, for this I’ll just copy and paste the quote from bulbapedia and let it speak for itself.

"People would tell me to my face that I'd only managed it 'cause I have some innate gift, or 'cause I was raised differently, or whatever. And suddenly I started to feel like there was this invisible wall between me and everyone else."

(Also I was also going to add more info from the scarlet and violet novel “after the rain with you” but it hasn’t been officially translated and the only translation I found was via google translate so I decided to take it with a grain of salt and not add any info despite it having the most insight on Nemona’s character imo, if you want to take a look here’s the link)

Despite being the at the top being up there can get pretty lonely… until she met the player and had someone standing right beside her.

Anyways if you’ve read this far then thanks. This was longer than I thought it would be as I mainly typed this in one go only taking a break to do more research for Nemona’s section so sorry again if it seemed kinda rambling at times.

Edit to add: rereading this I realized that Kieran and carmine in fact do suffer from physical isolation as they live in a remote region that resembles a traditional Japanese village which could add some cultural isolation. Another type of isolation I didn’t think about was class isolation(is that even a term?) coming from Nemona as she comes from a wealthy family which could also adds to the gap between her peers. I guess I didn’t think about it like that since in comparison Arven and penny’s situation is what would usually come to mind when you think of the word isolation, my bad.

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Thanks to autism and anxiety

All the time and never at the same time

It’s pure agony

do you ever think

Thanks to Anxiety,

Always

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Finally I did it

Full combo on love me love me love me

God my fingers are tired