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A real time reaction to also me reading the explanation of who AZ is. I thought he was just a silly tall guy with a cute flower fae!? It was wild also listening to my friends explain during our chat and I needed a moment a;lskdfjsdf

Thank you to @square-the-cyan-idiot542, @rin-mowlung-aka-kichi and @miu-rai-li for your help and responded to this post!! : tomorobo-illust.tumblr.com/post/778545962194010112/see-hi-res-version-here

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who’s the scariest?

- the depot agents truly respect and admire, care for, and are intimidated by their bosses all at once and at different levels

- despite this, they also know that their bosses are total dorks

- in terms of how long they’ve been employed at gear station, with the first being here the longest: agent brad, agent chris, agent josh, agent carl, agent july

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Kalosian Emmet ideas are very entertaining rn, keep them coming ahah!!

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emmet makes a peace offering to volo

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bad news

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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! 

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Chandelure is so pretty! I wish Pokemon were real! :"<

Lil extra:

They ride home with Chandelure when they work too late.

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ship of theseus

- I drew this with the idea that ingo is having a nightmare <- a manifestation of his own doubts that he can’t become what others expect him to be. hisui changed him

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How the hell haven't these two got fired from train commuter jobs yet?

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See hi-res version here: patreon.com/posts/70277572

@drunkenmantis is big brain for seeing the potential of these two and also loving bug types! I was re-reading ‘The Way of the Househusband’ and I got inspired to do a redraw of the two pages with Guzma and Emmet gushing over each other’s cute bugs >w< 

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secretly ripped emmet (because his pokemon like to be carried around everywhere)

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missing

this is a scene from one of my favorite submas fics, Give Not In To Sorrow! I highly recommend you give it a read; this scene in particular comes from chapter 8

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the man in white

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are you still making things for the therapy emmet au? i just stumbled across it today and it has grabbed me by the heart and will not let go

he’s taken up another hobby now! he’s doing well ;w;

- hc that emmet repeats certain pieces of advice word for word to remember and help follow them better

- the depot agents check on emmet more often now; they are happy to see him get better

- emmet looks forward to his visits with dr. amin now

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the broiling concoction

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pla thoughts part eighteen million and one: even after everything, kamado still always refers to the player character as ‘a mysterious stranger who fell out of the sky’. which is insane frankly to say about someone who’s been there that long but also. it just occurred to me i kind of see his point. the protag IS effectively a stranger because it isn’t about time or even accomplishment, it’s about relationships

like the protag has been doing work, work, work the entire game, but limited socializing. there are plenty of small sidequests but you never really get the chance to bond with the galaxy team as a whole. these are people with families and common roots in wherever they came from, while you’re just a lone wild child and a walking question mark. and these facts never change. no one ever figures out much more about you other than that you’re super strong and hardworking so you must be trustworthy right? i hope? you’re on our side out of the goodness of your heart, surely? like that never really goes away even after the red sky incident is over

like it was the galaxy team’s idea for the protag to go to work for them basically. surely this will help you find your place in town. then work kinda consumes the protag’s life because ten thousand world ending crises kick in. and by the time they’re resolved? the damage to the player has been done, basically. they just keep being hyper independent and doing tasks. haha. yay. kamado and cyllene meant well there but their plan only resulted in further alienation. congrats you produced a 15 year old hermit workaholic. hooray!

in terms of writing it feels like those relationships are intentionally weak. almost like love is more than acts of service… friendships are more than sacrificing yourself over and over again…. but alas. we don’t seem to learn that. there are festivals and happy moments but it is mostly about Doing Tasks in this game and that actually goes hand in hand so well with the pervasive themes of loneliness. argh. you are worth more than what you can do for others mannnn 😭

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parable

thinking about how sad it would be if ingo being sent in time really was just an instance of bad luck