#and most importantly. AMETHIO

[cloudbends]

IM ACTUALLY IN TEARS . WERE GETTING THERE

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Pokémon forgot to region lock latest ep so watched it there, maaaaaaan so much happening, good ep, but most importantly:

PREVIEW CONFIRMED CRAVE IS SON-IN-LAW HELL YEAH!!!!

Amethio no mama is pretty ❤️

AND AMETHIO ON RVT SIDE IN FINAL EPS OF THIS ARC YAHOOOOO

[hupla222]

Episode 68: Some Thoughts

First episode of the arc and its just fine. Its a set up episdoe and those tend to not be the most exciting, at least to me. But I still like this one. It was super cute seeing the kids explorer the Brave Olivine looking for changes and the Tatsugiri are fun little additions to the crew. Also very adorable watching Orla gush over the changes in the ship. The battles against the Six Heroes were fine, although they didn't get too far before Terapagos had seen enough. And fine, I will admit, Amethio's conversation with Zirc and Onia was sweet too. What really caught my eye most of all was the new intro however:

Not only did it give me this yummy shot of Sidian to be added to the collection, it, more importantly, gave me this shot of young Luciis and Gibeon, as well as...who the heck is that?! My curiosity is absolutely peaked. Who is this mysterious third person and how do they connect with Lucius. Looks like they're holding Terapagos too so that mean Terapagos had to be close to them too. Let's hope this question actually gets answered this arc. The new music is a total bop by the way, my second favorite song after Halo this series. Outro was fine I guess, its a little odd to me.

Anway next time looks like a lot of fun. I'm a sucker for body swap stories and I've always wanted to see one between trainer and Pokémon (and it comes out on my birthday too!)

[bengal-tigers-on-petunias]

As we say goodbye to 2023 we also say our farewells to 25 years of Ash Ketchum (ass_ketchup)

Goodbye N, the W character of the seris

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY TEAM ROCKET

THEY WERE MY GAY AWAKENING IM NOT READY😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

And hello liko and roy... but more importantly, amethio, a fictional character finally close to my age that im hyperfixating on rn besides hunter from the owl house

[kafus]

ok i am gonna share that nightmare i had yesterday actually. tw for a variety of topics including cults, attempted murder of a young child, kind of barely an age gap relationship between a younger child and a teenager, gun violence, listen it was crazy i have no idea what my sleeping brain was cooking. i should not have to say this about a nightmare i had while unconscious but to be clear i don't ENDORSE any of these topics IRL or some bullshit like that

also this nightmare involved pokemon horizons characters for some reason so if you watch the pokemon anime and don't want to hear about hypothetical nightmare scenarios of very AU things happening to them i would also avoid

so i'm setting the stage here. as far as i can tell i was just normal me in this dream (notable because i am usually Not "just me" in my dreams) but i was a teenager again instead of a 24 year old. i was living in a large multi-story house with the main cast of pokemon horizons (everyone on the brave asagi), and like a few other people not from horizons but they don't really matter. the dream timeskipped through a lot of years of me living there, like i had been there for a while.

despite me saying the cast of horizons was there my brain was very pick and choosey with what actual character traits or recognizable features remained of these characters other than their names/general appearances. importantly liko was a good bit younger than her anime appearance, not sure of her exact age but like, elementary school. she was Extremely chronically ill with some sort of undefined illness my brain made up, i guess. she lived in the basement of the house and was totally bedridden Most of the time, as to survive she had to constantly be hooked up to a somewhat bulky machine. she could be off of it for very brief periods but to get around anywhere, that machine had to come with her. she was generally way more timid and also way more woozy and relied on everyone for care.

^ like imagine her but even smaller and very sickly constantly. if you have never watched pokemon horizons lol

^ the main other person i interacted with was amethio who was probably the most recognizable - similar personality, though it was probably what i'd imagine him to be like after a hypothetical redemption arc, still irritable and brooding but like, he has a soft side. me and him were around the same age here (14?) and we were the main two watching after liko. he was like?? in love with liko??? my brain really never acknowledged the age gap here it was just normal and no one thought anything of it. that being said that's not something he expressed directly to her and they weren't in a relationship

anyway so the major thing here is that this household was pretty much a small cult. isolated from the outside world, general actual cult shit, but also we had some sort of belief we were all indoctrinated into by the higher up adults that liko had to Die at a specific time and date, i don't remember if it was for sacrificial reasons or if a reason was even provided in the dream at all, but tldr me and amethio were expected to unplug her life support stuff without her knowing and let her die with the assumption that she would be too woozy or confused to do anything about it herself. after a lot of implied bonding with her i was expected to pretty much murder a child. suffice to say this was horrifying

we actually did the deed and like halfway through watching liko's energy fade i started thinking like. wait. why am i doing this. i know that liko is supposed to die, but is she really? am i really doing the right thing? watching her die is awful. i've cared for her so much for years and i don't want her to die. so in the middle of all of this i take amethio aside (he was off in another room because he didn't want to watch liko suffer, i was taking the role of making sure it happened) and i'm like. amethio why are we doing this. you love her right. you love liko so you don't want her to die. i don't want to kill her. and he's like. Fuck you're right this is insane i don't care about the past however many years i cannot let liko die. so we agree to plug her life support stuff back in and confront the rest of the house

after ensuring liko was hooked back up and starting to recover, i made my way upstairs to confront the adults in the house while amethio worked on getting her out of there safely, and like. holy shit.

NEVER THOUGHT I'D HAVE ANY SORT OF DREAM/NIGHTMARE WHERE FRIEDE FROM POKEMON HORIZONS TRIES TO LITERALLY KILL ME, but i GUESS this is the life i'm leading now. i was like dude why are we killing liko you can't just make me kill a child i'm sorry and his positive demeanor quickly turned sour and the rest of the dream devolved into a blur of confusing violence, one because i was being chased after multiple fully grown adults in the body of a teenager, both by violent pokemon and like, literal guns, i was being shot at, and also because from here on out the dream started heavily deteriorating, like it became more weird and less linear and stuff that didn't make sense was happening. i never knew what ended up happening to amethio and liko because in a particularly close bout of violence i suddenly woke up sweating/shaking/heart pounding. and then after i caught my breath and realized i was awake i was just like. HELLO???????? WHAT THE FUCK?????

idk the last time i had a dream this vivid much less one this off the walls. i keep thinking about it cause like, due to Reasons if i'm dreaming about liko, especially as someone in such a vulnerable and awful position, that probably means something/pertains to my personal real life trauma, like the general aura of this dream read as a ptsd nightmare to me, but fuck if i'm gonna be able to parse all that today i have no idea what the fuck any of this means. i'm just losing my shit. especially because i went back to sleep afterwards and had another dream about pokemon horizons characters but it was literally just cute shit where i was liko and in a relationship with dot high school AU style and we were hanging out after class. like the complete tonal whiplash is so fucking funny. why on earth did my brain make the most wildly contrasting pokemon fanfictions of all time while i was asleep. helpppp

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New pokemon arc YESSSS