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I like the idea of Red being like Tony Hawk in the pokèmon world. He's just a dude. Super famous and talented at what he does. But you could not pick him out on a street. You might think he looks familiar but he'd have to tell you why.
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everyone reblog this!!
Genuine hot take
My hero academia would have been a better story if Izuku was Quirkless the whole way through and utilised his knowledge of quirks on how to navigate being a hero. While the story more accurately explored the themes of discrimination and the corrupt nature of heros within its setting
But my hero academia would not have been anywhere near as successful if it did.
Yet another Scottish Hike. A View from Ben Lomond.
(this story will continue tomorrow.)
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That's the end! I hope you enjoyed this mini-series. :]
I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.
Going for a wee hike in the Highlands
Making Izuku Worse, But BETTER
*walks in* *drops post* *explains nothing* *leaves*
So, a while ago, I made a post talking about how, among (many, many) other things wrong with how Izuku was developed over the story, that his fundamental character was just... slowly and systematically chipped away by Hori, until his unique personality was gone, and all that was left is a shell of a shonen protagonist.
Well. I'm here today to tell you that... fuck. I can do that shit better than Hori did.
Here's my revolutionary idea: lean into it. See, while he's growing in a bad direction, while as a person he's getting worse in a lot of ways, that isn't bad, as, like, character development, or as part of a story.
So. The thing is, while Izuku changes, it's never really... acknowledged in the story. (This is, of course, a different part of his problem, that while he changes throughout the story, by and by large his improvement, how far he's come, and what he's done, is never acknowledged; in fact, he's actively criticized for not doing everything perfectly, because of course.) Because Izuku is, over all, improving, that means he never gets validation for his work... but, flipping it, with this? He never gets it pointed out that he's doing worse.
And it doesn't even need to be a person, is the thing; you can have it never directly told to Izuku, but shown to us, the viewers, in story, and that's fine, as long as it's acknowledged.
So, the first thing I'd do, to make this whole idea work right is... actually spend more time on Izuku's quirks as a character. He's smart, curious, enthusiastic, mildly obsessed with Quirks, and look! Here he has a Quirk. There's no possible way to work with that, right?
Start there. Show, at the very least, one panel scenes of Izuku... geeking out. Experimenting. Being Izuku, basiclly, and scatter them every once and awhile in the story. Maybe have him suggest something to someone else, show that person's improvement under his guidance (and, you know, have Izuku interact with other human beings... as a human being. Yet another problem Hori has with Izuku; as far as we can tell from what we are shown, he is strangers with his entire damn class, even though the story has tried to push the vibe that he is, in fact, friends with all of them. And don't get me started on his mother, who barely even exists...).
It doesn't have to be big, is the thing, or elaborate, it just has to be there, to help firmly establish these characteristics in our minds as readers. And that's important, because that means it'll be noticeable when it stops.
Ideally, I'd think it'd be best to do this post-Kamino, because it's such a big thing that Izuku having a radical change in response makes sense. All Might's gone, the mantle is his now... no pressure, right? And, in the same way the foundational aspects were set up, it can start small: those few scattered panels? They're gone.
*ratchet sound effect*
It's not something pointed out or anything, they're just... gone. Maybe replace them with more training, maybe not, but we don't see Izuku spending his free time being Izuku anymore, and that's it. It stays at that new normal for awhile.
Then the stress kicks up a gear; conveniently, after Kamino we have... *sigh*. I can't believe I'm saying this, but conveniently, we have Sir Nighteye. And the thing is? Sir Nighteye is an asshole; he's perfect for just.... bringing the stress up just an extra notch. And here's where more work has to be put in to sell this idea, not just showing less happy Izuku, but showing more upset Izuku, showing how things are getting to him, not just in the moment, but consistently, even when nothing is actually happening to him at that exact point in time. A scene of Izuku... head in his hands, maybe. Training, and pushing farther than he should, and maybe there's something bleeding. Not a lot, not yet, but the cracks should be showing at this point.
*ratchet sound effect*
For the purposes of this, we'll assume that by and by large the story is happening as usual, so Mirio loses his Quirk, and there's that guilt, hitting Izuku like a truck.
*ratchet sound effect*
Show those stress scenes just a little more now, work in some conversations with Mirio where he acts happy, but the second he walks away everything crashes down on him; you don't even need to have anyone saying anything, just the visual of his smile vanishing in an instant will carry it.
Because if I'm writing this I'd want her to be a character, show Izuku's mom slowly growing worried as they meet (with her actually being more of a character at all before hand; show her growing happier and less burdened as Izuku improves before all of this, only now they see each other less and less, and every time he seems less happy than he was before, grimmer).
After that, just let things bake for awhile; nothing really changes, Izuku is just more miserable, and people are slowly starting to notice that he's acting different now, even if they don't really understand why...
And then Joint Training. Fun fact: canonly, the Vestiges, as introduced to us? Are assholes; which, honestly, isn't that surprising, because just about everyone is an asshole to Izuku! Stress Factor 5975 that is never really acknowledged in story: some asshole yelling at Izuku for instantly failing at his Quirk because he had no idea how to even use it, much less that it was even there, much less that it would happen in the middle of a fucking training exercise.
*ratchet noise*
And then, important moment here, have someone.... All Might, Ochako, whoever, notice that Izuku is getting a new Quirk (...or developing a new facet of his Quirk, or however that was explained to everyone), but he isn't enthusiastic about it. There's no brainstorming, no experimenting... this thing that should have been a source of joy is just.... there. At worst, it is actively causing him stress. And it this obvious difference that is ringing some warning bells in people's minds.
*ratchet noise*
So, all this time, along with all the story points that are supposed to be happening, from Kamino on I've been slowly weaving together a new one: Izuku increasingly barely holding his shit together in the face of his clusterfuck of a life. Then the War Arc kicks in, and that's where the pay off for all this slow build, because here's where everything goes to shit.
War Arc hits Izuku like a train, and leaves him wrecked in the aftermath, absolutely destroyed... which, organically, leads into the Dark Deku arc, only here, we actually do it better.
Here, him going 'rogue', is an organic evolution of various things that have been going on for probably years now, Izuku slowly depriving himself of all things that gave him joy, in favor of training for his Mission, TM, this Grand Purpose that was thrust upon him.
Here, his classmates going to save him makes more sense because we've seen them interact, we've seen their growing concern over how he's been changing.
All of these things happen, and come together for this moment where the story finally admits what it's been dancing around all this time: Izuku is not OK. And at last, finally, starts to actually resolve it.
I got to Kratos mentioning Calliope and you can definitely tell they're setting up for her return. They actually brought up Kratos giving up ever being with her to save Helios (which was something I hoped Kratos and Helios would discuss) and him agonizing over her everyday until Faye and Atreus helped him move on.
"I hope she has found peace in Elysium." Kratos, her last scene was her so dejected she no longer plays her flute. She's alone without her father and her mother. Her note in God of War 3 is:
"The fires! The people screaming! I was so scared. Why didn't Father protect us? The Judges say I have to go now to Elysium and that it will be nice there. I miss my family."
She's a daughter of Kratos, it's a family tradition at this point to escape the afterlife. She's so coming back.
having a mutual who’s a good artist literally feels like beyonce saw me at a supermarket and decided to make me her best friend
Did I daydream this, or was there a website for writers with like. A ridiculous quantity of descriptive aid. Like I remember clicking on " inside a cinema " or something like that. Then, BAM. Here's a list of smell and sounds. I can't remember it for the life of me, but if someone else can, help a bitch out <3
I FOUND IT BITCHES
This is going to save me so much trouble in the future.
And so we have the final results of the Let's Make A Shonen poll! Some of the voting was close right to the last second, others had a single option dominate for the whole week
Congratulations, you've collectively create a premise about a fresh recruit discovering that the magic powers wielded by the military elite actually come from enslaving powerful magical creatures into small stones, where they are imprisoned, fully sentient, to be exploited. Discovering this leads to the protagonist defecting, stealing the latest-created magic stone on the way out, who then becomes their partner and source of their powers.
During the escape, the protagonist is confronted by an organization labelled a terrorist group by the government due to their repeated thefts of the magic stones, who help them escape but in the process one of these resistance members is killed and their own stone reclaimed by the military.
This leads to the first major arc, where the resistance attempts to steal the stone back, unwilling to leave the creature inside behind, even though this is assuredly a trap.
I joke around a lot about how I would pay So Much Money for a Pokemon: Eevee Version where the entire selling point is finally giving us an eeveelution for all 18 types and also some dual-types.
And then I saw this:
And I am no longer joking.
With 171 potential combinations, it is entirely feasible to make a Pokemon game centered around Eevee.
Why? Because Eevee deserves it. And because we have had an egregious dearth of new Eeevee content since Sylveon dropped.
Here’s my pitch:
The region you live in is an island where Eevee basically became the endemic dominant organism. (If Gamefreak really wants to fuck around and find out, they could play around with real-life evolutionary theory concepts. They’ve used recent games to teach kids about stuff like environmentalism and conservation and energy/power production, so why not?)
The Pokemon Professor in the game will be a distant relative of, idk, Professor Rowan or Professor Sycamore, who decided that studying Pokemon evolution is too broad and decided to focus on what really matters: Eevee and Eevee-Associated Phenomena.
The player is tasked with filling out the Eeveedex.
The gym leaders still specialize in particular types, but they still only use Eeveelutions, of course. A fire-type leader can have Flareon as their signature ‘mon, sure, but for the rest of their team it’ll be dual fire types. Which might actually add to the difficulty level, especially if you get some weird type combos like fire/grass, because then you can’t just walk in and annihilate their entire team with a single not-overleveled water type unless it’s got some appropriate moves.
The Elite Four follows the same trend but with trickier type combos. The Champion has a six-Pokemon team full of the most seemingly contradictory type combos, like fire/water and normal/ghost. And lots of unexpected movesets, like the absolute badass that is Cynthia.
In the post-game Professor Oak will show up to give you the National Dex and you can have access to other ‘mons, as a treat, but until then? You get Eevee and its various -eons. It’s Eevee’s time to shine, which means Eevee and -eons only.
(I might make one (1) exception. There can be That One Fisherman with an entire team of Magikarp, if Gamefreak insists on carrying on that trope. Or he could just have a team of six Vaporeon that only know Splash. I’m willing to compromise.)
@inprogresspokemon
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An “Eevee Island” spin off would be fun. I’m a far way from all 171, but maybe someday!
Pokemon Heritage Post
The pain is more incredibly annoying than unbearable
I can bear it but come on
Yeah chronic pain gets frustrating
Your daily dose of cat memes
I do in fact need everything to be okay
can he sit on your dash for a minute?? he'll be very polite :]
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Pokemon Variants Zine VOLUME 2 is ready for pre-order!
Zines will go into production next week, and start shipping June 8th!
The zine will be a perfect bound, 43 pages long, with 38 Pokemon covered and over 110 unique variations (maybe even more) drawn by 9 extremely talented fans of Pokemon! The contributing artists are: *drumroll* shattered-earth • finnichang • chiouart • glowingraptor (alexis + justin) • mayuiki-art • mightier • ameru • corycat90
Everyone is really excited to bring you this book and hope you will enjoy it! You can order the book alone for $20 or choose from various bundles:
SUPER BUNDLE - $25
Zine
1 Random Postcard
1 Random Vinyl Sticker
HYPER BUNDLE - $35
Zine
2 Random Postcards
2 Random Vinyl Stickers
1 Random Doubled sided Clear Acrylic Charm
MAX BUNDLE - $50
Zine
Full 4 Postcard Set
Full 6 Vinyl Sticker Set
Both Doubled sided Clear Acrylic Charms
This is the ONLY opportunity to get these bundled items, once they sell out they’re gone as they’re single edition productions. We hope they will go stunningly with your new zine, and they also make really neat gifts people will absolutely not be able to find any where else :)
As always, signal boosts and feedback are mega appreciated!! <3
