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Legendary Pokemon to humans: I am the embodiment of nature that you can neither control not predict. I will wreck your shit and your entire team's shit in no seconds flat if you don't show up prepared. Prove your worth to me and I might join you on your journey and lend you my strength.

Legendary Pokemon to other Pokemon: Omigosh hiiii :3 Sorry 'bout all that lightning and stuff. I was feelin' cranky. But we can be friends now!

#painfully accurate #pokopia

asha-mage

I think a big part of the reason Pokopia is hitting so hard for so many people is that we have had an absolute glut of post apocalyptic media that take the "humans are the monsters/disease/problem" angle. Even the most well meaning solar-punk I can think of often have this undercurrent of 'humanity's nature is inherently short sighted and exploitive and they must constantly be kept in check to protect the environment' which slides very quickly into 'the world would be better off without humans in it to complicate and threaten things'.

But Pokopia fully does not do that. The world is lonely without humans and lesser for humanity's absence. So much of the game is about how Pokemon miss humans and are struggling to make sense of a world without us, how the ecosystem is just as hurt by our absence as any other species, and how the things we left behind, even in ruins and burned shells, are often beautiful and strange and helpful to the Pokemon who find them.

Pokemon have always been this allegory for the natural world- back to the original idea of the games inspired by children who caught bugs and kept ant farms- and thus the relationship between Pokemon and humans becomes this allegory for the relationship between nature and humans. And Pokopia looks you dead in the eye and says "the world would be poorer without humans, and if we all vanished tomorrow the echoes of who we are and the things we did would still ring out for eons uncountable. We would be missed and mourned and searched for and the wound of our absence would be deeply felt on this earth for the rest of its turning. The actions of a few greedy short sighted humans will never change that."

And that. That hits.

#bruh #i agree 10/10 no notes #pokopia #pokemon

seyumei

I can finally show this! :D This was my full illustration for @pkmn30annivzine ! My piece was based off one of the ending scenes from Pokemon Black/White where best Pokeboy N says his goodbye. I always wanted to do proper N fanart for the longest time, so I'm happy I finally got the opportunity to do so!

The zine is still having leftover sales until May 18th, link to it is here!: https://wechoseyouzine.bigcartel.com/ I recently got my own bundle and everything was super nice, with a lot of nice tributes to many Pokemon games across the board (not just the mainlines!) so def recommend! <3

#n harmonia #n pokemon #pokemon