#and bug motifs!! cmon!

[motherwench]

some favorites <3

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Ooooo yes I'd love to see them

Also, came up with some silly ideas for a persona 5 racing game would you like to hear it after you tell me your p5xpokemon ideas?

UHM HELLO???? YES OF COURSE !!!! atlus hellooo wheres the persona kart : (

ok ok, the visuals:

OK cute explanations. enormous shout out to my friend sage @thymeloop for having the biggest brain and discussing with me yesterday at 3am as to who should everyone be.

protag (in this case, my guy, sergio) : he is a zoroark, but he has disguised himself his whole life as other pokemon. most recently, a meowscarda. : ) aghhhhhhh

zoroark is the trickster pokemon ! with its ability ilussion it can appear as any other pokemon, and in the anime it can also copy their moves. obvs sergio has disguised himself as other pokemon because zoroark are seen as untrustworthy lying tricksters. a. mask if you will. and well meowscarada as his chosen outifit because. well just look at it. completely covers his face from the rest of the world. but also fits his cat-like image and his phantom thief motif.

ann: pyroar ! fire lion with cute nice hair : )

ryuji: luxio ! electric feisty lynx with huge fighting spirit. dyed his hair blonde.

mona: purrloin is perfect. its a dark type cat pokemon that is known to be a thief and have a lot of tricks under its sleeve.

yusuke: glaceon! we considered alolan ninetales too , but personally i prefer glaceon since it has more yusuke vibes to me! ice fox with a sophisticated apperance..

makoto: lucario ! we had a hard time with mako but i decided on lucario! bullet-punching steel and fighting type, known to keep a serious face and be stern with others. also keeps its own moral code up.

haru: hatterene. ehehehe. cute fluffy psychic/fairy lady with a lot of Violence in its heart.

fuba: orbeetle! cmon. funny weird psychic bug with UFO motifs. (hello g-max form) it also has telephaty. fuba..also made me like orbeetle way more hellooooo

goro: first a corvisquire, then after shidos palace, a corviknight. this pokemon was made for goro. crow knight of justice with a dark streak. look at corviknight. hello? black mask hello??? anyways in third sem outside the metaverse, goro doesnt actually have the usual corviknight face armor.. he just never seem to grow it outside the metaverse. so you can see his silly cute eyes : ) he tries so hard to be scary..

sumi: meloetta! ejheheh. i think, for her metaverse and her "kasumi" form, pirouette form with a ponytail is best! then, for her sumi form with glasses (that i didnt draw sorry.) , aria form is the way to go! a graceful, light-on-its feet kind pokemon !

thamk u : )

[punz4lyfe]

MisPokonceptions: Goh’s a Gary Stu?

Am I the only one who gets annoyed whenever Goh gets addressed as a “Gary Stu”?

Yes, the anime has been throwing a bunch of W’s to him lately, but it wasn’t always like that. Back at the beginning, he legitimately went through some struggles that opened some doors for character development.

One of which being his lack of battling experience compared to Ash. (trust me, I have a good reason why I wanna get this outta the way first) This issue was largely showcased in, of course, episode 7, where despite relying on type advantage with Scyther, ended up losing against Hodge’s Mightyena alone. This caused Goh to resent battling, citing catching as the superior Pokemon activity. That is, until he witnessed Ash battling Hodge himself, witnessing Ash utilizing both Mimey and Pikachu to pull off some wicked strategies that landed him the win. Impressed, Goh changed his mind on battling.

Goh’s whole thing with battling, however, wasn’t exactly addressed again after that episode. In fact, later in episode 36, Goh was able to pull off Ash-esque strategies with ease to defeat and capture a powerful Flygon... even though Goh stated in the very next episode that the number of times he has battled with Ash are minimal at best before practically losing hard to Kiawe, someone who’s just slightly lower on Ash’s own level (upcoming Trial Captain-v-Region Champion do the math guys), so it honestly makes it hard to believe Goh was able to pull anything remotely on Ash’s expertise. And yes, this is the reason why I wanted to get this struggle out of the way first. Even though this struggle kinda became non-existent as episodes went on (proof being Goh easily defeating Oleana despite it being a water-v-fire match and Goh being able to have just Cinderace keep up with Mewtwo for a while even though Ash had to use two of his own mons), there was still something remotely there, proving Goh wasn’t meant to start out as a perfect character.

Another struggle Goh had to went through involved his whole catching motif. Like the last topic, this issue disappeared into the void later on, but it was still there so it counts. In episode 10, Goh got carried away with his habit of throwing Pokeballs at a Dewgong, causing him to have none when he makes it to Dragonite Island which makes him unable to catch the titular mon of the island (though this does beg the question on why Ash didn’t let Goh borrow any of his own but whatever). Again, while never addressed again, it did at least remotely point of a small flaw in Goh’s ways of catching, so it was at least something.

Of course, there was his whole development in reconciling with Raboot after it had evolved. To summarize it for the sake of length of time, Scorbunny wanted to learn Ember, Goh didn’t understood its passion for learning a fire-type move and refused to help, Goh learned his mistake last minute and helped it master Ember, Scorbunny evolved into Raboot and grew distant from Goh due to their little tiff, Raboot befriends a bunch of wild mons in Hoenn, Goh considers leaving Raboot behind to ensure its happiness with the wild mons, and Goh finds Raboot on the train with them, allowing them to reconcile upon seeing how much they truly love and care for each other.

It absolutely bugs me that so many people, even to this day, give Goh so much crap to Goh for the events of episodes 17 and 22 when they were legit character struggles. It was still pretty early in the series and Raboot was the only mon he actually had a decent relationship with at the time, so of course he needed to develop that relationship and receive some pointers from Ash on how to properly deal and handle it when things got tense.

And lastly, there was Goh’s whole struggle with meeting people and making friends. While not perfect, this actually got somewhat proper and subtle development, as shown when Goh was shy greeting those he was unfamiliar with (which was especially emphasized in episode 37), but as the series developed, he became more open to people, as shown in the most recent episode where he and Ash volunteered to help Mulply when Divi was put out of commission.

So yeah, guys, Goh isn’t actually a Gary Stu. He legitimately went through some struggles and development at the beginning of the series that he slowly overcame as he traveled with Ash. Yes, none of it is perfect and honestly pretty rushed, but the instances are still there, so he’s not a total Gary Stu.

And while the exact definition of Mary Sue/Gary Stu varies between people, isn’t one distinct trait of Sue’s and Stu’s is that they are liked by virtually everyone, even by those who should hate them?

Looking at Goh, Team Rocket probably hate his guts when Grookey chose him over them, as does Oleana, and he does have a small, yet unsettled rivalry with Hodge, who has been confirmed to reappear in a future episode (yeah spoilers but cmon lets face it both the anime and fans dont do a good job in hiding anything these days), so maybe that could go somewhere.

Overall, no, in my persective, Goh is not a Gary Stu because he had some legit problems to overcome at the beginning of Journeys. The anime just needs to build a better path for him nowadays considering he’s been receiving an almost endless track of W’s.

also goh is not a thief either so pls shut up about that