#rival paulo

[deoxysacid]

did a shit ton of pss icons because i was art blocked and had no better ideas

[jadeazora]

Ngl tho, as much as I have been complaining over the anniversary, this art slaps 💕

[radish-vendetta]

If anyone wants to debate me in the notes go on. I won’t answer

[arche0ps]

pov you need to get stronger (by holding hands)

[ please reblog ! ]

[coldslaws]

so i had some thoughts today

[yume-shirokuro]

I think Paulo deserved to go more villainy!

[ghostatrandom]

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Guys I am so normal about Paulo like so normal I had to draw him in the hybrid AU because of how normal am I-

[catboy-cyrus]

What a nice young man I hope nothing bad happens to his dog

[pkmndaisuki]

if i had a nickel for every rival in a pokemon game that starts out as a standard rival but then gets depressed and starts going down a dark path and changing their entire personality out of a desire to beat the protagonist, i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.

[gima0801]

April 2023 art. Paulo Interlude

[frothy-commissions]

While I am here, Paulo is such a good villain in concept? Like there is something about a child wanting to be a hero so bad that he chases after the heros, but instead of listening to them, he ends up absorbing the morals of the villains? But he believes that he's better because his version of it is to go against those villains, so he isn't like them. Before finally, he embraces it and decides that not only will he defeat the other villains, he will be the worst one so that no other can rise up?

Like in concpet Paulo is SUCH a good final villain.

[deoxysacid]

this is gonna be hellish to tag

[jadeazora]

Paulo's EX reminded me of someone 😅

[mala-sadas]

Just finished the new Paulo Interlude chapter and I have some Thoughts...

I thought it was really funny that Ghetsis was getting more pissed off at Paulo's dog than at Paulo himself. and then he fucking VAPORIZED it. holy shit

I never thought I would feel satisfied seeing a character turn into a villain but in Paulo's case it's just...so satisfying to see his slow descent into villainy finally pay off.

His new theme slaps BTW. In a “holy shit he’s finally snapped” kinda way

It seems like a bit of a double standard that it's considered completely normal for a Trainer to form a sync pair with more than one Pokémon but when a Pokémon tries to form a sync pair with more than one Trainer it's treated like you're tearing friends apart. I know Paulo and Hoopa aren't exactly a sync pair since Paulo is apparently just controlling Hoopa with his sync stone, but still, the fact that Pokémon can't form sync pairs with multiple Trainers is something I've been thinking about for a while...

Which reminds me, I can't believe Giovanni is the only villain who's realized just how broken the power of sync stones is. These things can substitute for a Key Stone/Mega Stone, Z-Ring/Z-Crystal, Dynamax Band, and now the Prison Bottle? Is there anything sync stones can't do?

Now that Paulo's taken Hoopa and gone full villain, I think it's about time that Lear comes back and completes his character arc by being the voice of reason for Paulo the same way Cheren was for him. They foreshadowed it way back in the PML arc, and with how many things finally got paid off in this chapter, I think I trust the writers to pay that off too.

[arche0ps]

Annual reminder I take commissions :]

[coldslaws]

there's this one scene in the villain arc (johto) where paulo starts asking silver really weird questions and I think if paulo was even slightly less subtle about why he was asking it would have ended differently