Do You Ever Think About (Pokemon Edition)
Do you ever think about Red, atop Mount Silver, keeping himself away from everyone he knows and loves except for his Pokemon, forever trying to keep getting stronger because of the terror that Mewtwo incited in him? About Blue, stuck watching his friend and rival shut himself away and work himself into the ground to face a threat no one but him knows about?
Do you ever think about Ethan, the Rainbow Wing in his pocket, chasing the sun and Ho-oh, not knowing what the tugging feeling in his chest is? About Lyra, clinging to the Silver Wing, seeking the darkest depths of the ocean, looking for the Guardian of the Seas, yet not knowing what she's searching for in the end?
Do you ever think about Brendan, heat building under his skin, fire erupting in his mind whenever he touches May, a sudden awareness of where every landmass begins and ends? Do you ever think about May, constantly moving, the ground beneath her making her feel restless, the air feeling to dry when she flies, eventually seeking sanctuary in the ocean, refusing to set foot on land unless she has to? Do you ever think about Wally, always searching for a higher place to be, always aware of the oxygen and how much of it there is, always looking upwards and towards that green in the sky, always longing for it but unable to reach it?
Do you ever think about Lucas, aware of every single second that passes by, a clock in his head that's never off, something that he can't ignore or brush off that he has to get used to, never late to anything anymore? Do you ever think about Dawn, newfound spacial awareness making her know the exact sizes of everything around her, an overwhelming new sense that she can't do anything about except try to adjust to? Do you ever think about the one that went into the Distortion World and fell in love with it, in love with all of its oddities and different gravity and time and shape and doesn't want to come home to the world that now feels so unfamiliar to them?
Do you ever think about Hilbert, unable to lie, always calling out other people for their untruths, driving away so many friends and making so many enemies because of it? Do you ever think about Hilda, trapped forever chasing an ideal that she knows will likely never come true but still always searching for it?
Do you ever think about Calem, wandering eternally, like AZ, searching for Yveltal to finally put an end to his life because it's stretched on for far too long? Do you ever think about Serena, cursed to die far too young and leeching the life energy out of everyone and everything around her in an unconscious attempt to prolong her painful life?
Do you ever think about Elio, rising and falling with the sun, reaching upwards for that child that he knew for so little time, oddities surrounding him from the extended time he's spent in and out of Ultra Wormholes? Do you ever think about Selene, living a nocturnal life, away from everyone she loves, always awake when they're asleep and asleep when they waken?
Do you ever think about Victor, gripping the Rusted Sword in his hands as he fails to fall asleep thanks to the faint pink glow around him from being so close to Eternamax Eternatus? Do you ever think about Gloria, staring at the Rusted Shield, remembering those moments when she and Hop came oh-so-close to death, all for a madman's fear of what would happen centuries from now?
Do you ever think of Rei/Akari, trapped in a time far from their home, not knowing what to do so that they can be happy, torn between their new life forged in Hisui and all of the friends they've made, and the future that holds their true home, where everyone they used to know resides?
Do you ever think of Florian, terrified of what the future holds after seeing all the dangerous and hostile Paradox Pokemon from way forward in time, even knowing that he'll never live to experience them? Do you ever think of Juliana, rushing ahead as much as possible, always looking forward and never turning back, trying to erase the thoughts of what could have happened in Area Zero from her mind?
Do you ever think about the children that these main characters are? The children who are standing between Legendaries who could unravel the weft of the universe itself and the world? The ten-year-olds who are the only reason why everyone isn't dead and gone?
Do you ever think about the children who are pushed into these situations and don't get thanked for it because that's the way the plot goes?
Okay but I fucking love the idea of the player characters getting influenced by the legendaries. Like it was something meant to be, that they were always just a little off, but the closer they come to their journey, the closer the day comes where they meet their legend, they get just more and more off? They're quiet, they don't speak often, or at all, because they feel a disconnect of sorts, from others. Yet, in the end, when they meet, they find a strange kinship in that strange connection, that shared weirdness.
