i am so glad you have the same amount of unbridled love for the scvi pokemon as i do. there are only like one or two i dont vibe with theyre all So!!!
YESSS they're all great! the team i beat the champion and final boss with ended up being all new guys, actually :)
BUT there's so many other good ones (paradox pokemon especially) that i wanna use too.. they just did a really good job with the pokemon designs this gen
So after you finish the team star route you can go back to the bases and have rematches with all the leaders and yes Giacomo has the new Bisharp evo on his team. I love Giacomo I love the team star kids I'm signing custody papers right now
Oh I have got to get through this game already then 👁️👁️
I still need to play the Scarlet and Violet DLC, but since Blueberry Academy is a thing, I kinda wanna find a way to at least reference it in pokemanda's lore? If that makes sense?
for all you pokemon scarlet and violet gamers, i put together a little shiny hunting guide because quite a few pals of mine have taken an interest in shiny hunting with the release of these games!! and tbh i think shiny hunting is in a rly fun state so i wanted to blabber on and on about it LKDFG;KDFG
it’s hosted over on my neocities w/ a link to the original google doc, but i thought i’d mention it here too jic anyone’s interested :-)
Shiny encounter from the other day that I'm super proud of myself for catching - I had actually seen the blissey from afar, and thought, "wow that's more vivid than I'm used to. I'm pretty sure it'd be washed out like chansey if it were shiny but let me get a closer look jic"
Glad I did! I was so focused on Blissey, I hadn't even LOOKED at the Happiny until I put the dex down and saw the two in front of me. You can almost hear the gears turning as I waited for them to step out of the grass for a proper comparison lol
In a recent reblog about Dune and Chani, I was discussing with OP that the issue isn't that Chani should have been left alone, but both that:
despite what OP was sayaing abt execution being dunt Pt2's failing bc Chani was never important canonically to warrant a change anyway
AND that issue, I thought, was that Chani needed some sort of agency bc of how..."shiny native helpmeet" Herbert already made Chani in a story against imperialist dictators as if gender wasn't already an intrinsic layer of such history and politics
And that I needed to then question why I was so opposed to Alicent's HotD rewrite (even though I've said it several times jic, to myself bc that's just how critical thinking works) in a way that I am not for Chani's when both of their original stories had them arguably stereotypical.
Besides how I don't actually think bk!Alicent was all that stereotypical or that i her case this would be a bad thing:
book!Chani wasn't that politically active or unique as book!Alicent
bkAlicent is part of the ruling class, goes even higher, able to practice real political authority more than Chani ever does while being a woman. Chani is part of the exploited/oppressed class of indigenous folks so her role in the 1st 2 books is *so* questionable
"you should know better by now. fate has chosen... and cannot be denied."
idris elba + cis man + he/him ✧ welcome to new york, harvey dent (two-face) ! as a fifty year old villain you’re no doubt itching to get back to meeting with your lackeys — but first, if you could repeat your story for the record. you woke up on new year’s day with a double-headed coin beside you, right ? and you were dreaming about cross-examining himself for the acquittal of james gordon ? thank you for your answers, and we’ll be in touch soon.
canon: new earth with some batman: the animated series thrown in!
AT A GLANCE:
full name: harvey dent
alias: two-face
age: 50
birthday: assigned may 30th by me ( dc says it's either january 1st or march 30th but. calendar man in the long halloween arc keeps saying harvey dent is a gemini so <3 he has a third birthday now <3 )
gender: cis man
pronouns: he/him
sexual orientation: bisexual
romantic orientation: biromantic
career: lawyer... and also gang leader?
notable traits: i mean... half of his face fell victim to an acid burn, so... that's pretty notable.
threat level: medium
SCRATCH IT:
affiliations: my manz is barely even affiliated with himself !, injustice league unlimited (past)
abilities: toxic immunity
weapons: handguns, double-headed coin
strengths: genius level intellect, law, hand-to-hand combat, kung fu
weaknesses: biiiiiiiiig instability
DIG DEEPER:
*all following connections are liable to change depending on muns !
positive personal connections: ...
complicated personal connections: bruce wayne/batman (i just... really love them...), gilda dent, duke thomas/the signal (albeit, that's prime earth, but jic he's brought in!), pretty much all of the major rogues
negative personal connections: himself, sal maroni, thomas elliot/hush, renee montoya/the question, most of the robins...
DIG REAL DEEP:
* expansion will be offered through task ! ( the double-headed coin is very important, mhm. )
mother: deceased (suicide)
father: christopher dent, professional poor excuse for a human being
brother: murray dent, deceased (burned alive ; inadvertently killed by a very young harvey (on accident!))
cause of 'ability' manifestation: sal maroni splashing him with acid during a questioning ( although it had been building up through a slew of ignored mental disturbances and the ignored trauma of his father's abuse - that was just the straw that broke the camel's back )
ABILITY & WEAKNESS EXPANSION
toxic immunity: it's never explained how (not to my recollection, at least), but harvey is unfazed by ivy's kiss, thus implying he's immune to toxins.
handguns: harvey is proficient in... a bunch of weapons, but his weapon of choice is the handgun. more specifically, he's known for his double-barreled gun -- big surprise there !
double-headed coin: not a conventional weapon, but he literally uses the coin to make, like... 85% of the choices in his life. it's always had a dark past, having been a coin his father would use to trick him into thinking there was a chance he wouldn't be beaten (see: he'd say if it landed on tails, harvey would be fine... but it's double-headed, so...), but the darkness amplified when half of it got scarred by the acid attack. shiny side, you get harvey. scarred side, you get two-face.
genius level intellect: my manz is brilliant, idk!
law: due to his career as a lawyer, harvey has an in-depth knowledge of the law... and the loopholes.
hand-to-hand combat: he can hold his own in a fight.
kung fu: ...
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'biiiiiiiiig' instability: sure, all rogues are unstable, but very few are quite as unstable as ol' harvey! i'd argue that even the joker is more predictable since he doesn't rely on the flip of a coin.