y'know what bothers me in terms of "i have literally never seen this be acknowledged before" when it comes to pokespe? the fact that literally Nobody acknowledges that pokespe was very adamant on having the rivals serve some sort of relevance to the plot up until hau where he was so fucking heavily sidelined. He was literally thrown to the side and discarded. Despite him being the main rival as opposed to Gladion, Gladion got ten times more plot relevance than him. And despite the fact that pokespe accounted for usum and had the absolute worst redemption arc with Lusamine ever they...... didn't do that with Hau they didn't make the fact that he's usum's FINAL BOSS AND WHO YOU NEED TO BEAT TO BECOME THE CHAMPION relevant at all. Hmmmm I wonder why this is — it's definitely not beacuse he's our first black rival/s
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pokespe would be so fun if it didn't hate women and trans ppl and disabled ppl and black ppl and—
tbh pokespe like. as a whole is so incredibly disappointing to me. like you'd think a manga series based off of the pokemon games would be cool as shit but then you read pokespe and half of the time the writing is just utterly terrible
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I can't remember if I've said this before or not on here but ppl are COWARDS stop making Red able to speak during some romantic moment (ESPECIALLY NOT IF SPEAKING IS PAINFUL FOR HIM OR HARD FOR HIM TO DO) make Blue sign instead. Instead of having Red overcome his disability or whatever (spoiler alert: you're being ableist) have Blue be accepting of it and proving that he's willing to accommodate Red by speaking to him in the language that he learned to be able to speak with Red properly.
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Btw if I see one more person go "oh actually Red isn't mute" and start digging through the games to start grasping at any straws they can to prove that he's verbal I am going to start screaming. That's ableist. You're ableist. Stop fucking grasping at straws to try and prove that a disabled character is not in fact disabled
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[Id: A digital drawing of an Azumarill from the pokemon series sitting on the ground. There are blue lyrics to the song "Bubblegum Bitch" by MARINA slightly changed to say "im miss sugar pink liquor liquor lips im gonna be your belly drum bitch". The background is pink. /End id]
twitter didnt appreciate this one
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I’m OBSESSED with how GameFreak accidentally made the most autistic character ever with Red when they were just trying to make him represent as broad a player base of the original games as possible. He’s canonically semi-verbal, and the number of times he actually speaks can be counted on one hand. He’s absurdly skilled at one topic he has an interest in, being a prodigy outranking almost everyone at fourteen. He immediately ran away from what was essentially a public facing job relating to it and hid away from people completely for several years to the point his own mother had no clue how he was. He rarely emotes and only people close to him seem to understand how he’s feeling. He’s almost always depicted as fiddling with the brim of his hat compulsively. He is seen as cool and badass BECAUSE of these traits. Fucking excellent. I love it. Best character ever. GameFreak should bring him back in every game.
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One subtle thing about Nemona that stood out to me: there’s this moment, around the 4th gym or so, where she runs up to you and apologizes profusely that she can’t battle you yet because her team isn’t balanced right yet or something
It’s a Funny Moment because
1) I’m not the one itching to battle; she is. She doesn’t need to apologize this much, it’s fine lol.
2) I’m not picky with opponents. I’ll happily fight her team in whatever wack-ass state it’s in. She’s fretting over an imaginary problem.
At the time, I wondered if it was like an honor student thing. Maybe Nemona's the kind of person who, inspired by the genuine skill, kindness, & dedication of those around her, grinds herself into a pulp trying to live up to that imagined standard.
That pressure is ENTIRELY self-imposed. If any of the adults she looks up to noticed this anxiety spiral, they’d tell her to relax, it’s fine, you’re doing too much as is and we’re proud of you no matter what, we promise. And they’d mean it, sincerely. Which of course would just make it worse, because “oh no, they’re even kinder than I thought they were, much kinder than I am, I need to work even harder to become as kind as them”.
Anyway, having completed the game, I think all of that is still *an element*. Nemona is a rich kid, student council president, honor student, and particularly close with the kindest & most influential adults in the country. The writers didn’t make her those thing on accident.
What I hadn’t picked up on was, the thing that was eating at Nemona the most was probably that she was worried she was fumbling her chance to make you her friend
Nemona, explicitly, has a weird autistic hyperfixation on Pkmn battling. Nobody else her age does. So her only real friends are adults, who, with the wisdom of age, are able to appreciate her idiosyncrasies, and know how to direct them toward something positive.
But they don't share them, as far as Nemona can tell. It’s hard to tell if someone Gets It or is just navigating around It, especially when they keep treating it as a means rather than an end.
Then you come along, showing a hint of sharing her Niche Special Interest, and she thinks “at last, this is my chance, I can make someone else Get It”.
So she tries to give you a guided tour, basically.
Nemona is already champion-rank; she is deliberately holding back & using a weak team so she can do the gym challenge alongside you. She isn’t worried her team is too weak. She’s worried her team isn’t properly tuned to give you the experience she wants you to have.
She's trying to streamline the process of you falling in love with this thing she likes. Which is of course a self-defeating effort.
The adults in Paldea are all hilariously hands-off. I think it’s fair to say that Nemona lacking a Nemona of her own is part of what helped her develop her weird special interest. The adventure of crawling thru a thorn bush is part of the fun. (I'd wager this is the ethos behind the school's mostly-unsupervised treasure hunt.)
And to her credit, I think Nemona knows this. She’s trying not to weird you out; she doesn’t want you to know she’s following you around. She *certainly* doesn’t want you to know how much she’s tying herself in knots over this, trying to determine how much contact is appropriate. She's attempting the impossible task of trying to suss out how someone is feeling without interacting or being fully honest with them, because doing either might make you think she's weird.
The arc ends appropriately anticlimactically. Of course you like the game; that’s why you started playing it. Nemona was fretting over nothing. All she had to do was consistently be there for you while you grew into what you were going to be. Which she did.
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My first thought is Lillie and Blue. Unsurprisingly but others like Lusamine are included
Hot take but I think that a lot of ppl have to search up canon pokemon dialogue or replay the games because the amount of common misconceptions and mischaracterization in the fandom is horrendous
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Hot take but I think that a lot of ppl have to search up canon pokemon dialogue or replay the games because the amount of common misconceptions and mischaracterization in the fandom is horrendous
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