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name: “gemini”
barons: lumiose’s savant, the genius trainer, lumiose’s luckiest (only to team mz)
age: 18
pronouns: she/her
game: pokemon legends z-a
occupation: pokemon trainer
basic personality: cheerful, energetic, a bit ditzy, puts other’s needs before her own
charm points: permanent dark circles, freckles on her nose
basic backstory: grew up in a VERY small town that had no trainers active in it, was told she had to start paying rent to live with her parents when she turned 18, took her earnings as a part-time grocery store clerk and delivery driver and moved to lumiose with no idea what she was going to do, and the plot of legends z-a is currently playing out
common pokemon in team: meganium, absol, lucario
talents: naturally charismatic, lucky
hobbies: yoga, shopping, putting together new outfits
likes: playing with fashion, croissant curry, coffee, taking care of pokemon
indeed, despite being a pokemon trainer in the most competitive type of pokemon battling, gemini actually hates battling. she doesn’t hate pokemon, not at all. in fact, she loves any chance she gets to brush, pet, play with, and otherwise take care of pokemon. but she’s a pokemon trainer who hates battling. why?
put simply, she’s utter dogshit. but to put it a bit more complexly, she’s dogshit at making up actual strategies and knowing what types are good against what… but this is counterbalanced by being insanely, borderline inhumanly lucky. every single battle she has won, she’s won because she’s gotten lucky, every single time. either by choosing the right pokemon on accident, switching out her pokemon at just the right moment, or just setting up the moves of her pokemon to perfectly counter her opponent she’s just about to face, luck has always been on her side.
but that’s all it is - luck. when it comes to actually strategizing, remembering what moves are weak to which type, all the different types of pokeballs at her disposal, or god forbid having to think before she throws out a move? forget it, she’s hopeless. it’s not an innate talent - if it was, you’d think she’d remember typing weaknesses beyond fire->grass->water. it is sheer, dumb luck she hasn’t lost a single battle.
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Botw is such an interesting take on post apocalypse, because it isn't really dystopian. It is a wound healed over, a world that has forgotten the end of itself, and in that, has begun anew. Grandparents whisper their nightmares into the wind, and smile at their kin. The garrisons that remain are sodden ashes in the dirt, a burial ground, and the most fertile soil for miles. You do not know the past that your body remembers. You do not know the voices that linger, and yet you follow. You follow, because the world has forgotten you, and you have nothing that is yours to remember.
genuinely i can and Will talk about nintendo’s love of the post-apocalypse and how trying to go back to how it was before the apocalypse is fruitless, even when the world improves it will never go back to what it was ALL DAY. splatoon 2 octo expansion and splatoon 3 base game story mode are prime examples of these themes, but i think pokopia has a far more somber look on things due to the fact that the pokemon don’t know they can’t change it. it’s not like commander tartar who sees the inklings and octolings as a failed follow-up to humans, nor like mr grizz wanting to literally change everyone’s dna so mammals can rule again like how he remembered. pokemon in pokopia DO want the humans back, but because they just suddenly woke up in a ruined world without their trainers, without their friends, and think by restoring their homes, the humans will come back to them.
and it’s like, even if they do come back, how long has it been since the rockets launched? decades, at the very least. is ditto-trainer’s partner even still alive? are any of the pokemon’s partners still alive? do they even remember them? even if the humans return, there’s no way that the world will ever be as it was. and pokopia says… that’s okay. yes, we should mourn, but we should also rebuild, work together, be friends with each other and help make the world a better place again.
i have no idea why it’s such a consistent theme for nintendo games (and clearly it’s not super intentional since i assume K-T did a lot of the writing with oversight from game freak), but god is it interesting to explore it.
i also think it’s really good for people unfamiliar with the region, like me! i see these massive buildings and structures, and run around the place thinking, “what type of stuff was happening here? i wonder what this was used for?”, and while you do get hints (like finding the s.s. anne music on the ship), they really do leave a lot of it up to your imagination.
god i wish we were still in an era where rumors about video games would spread like wildfire and be unconfirmed for years. i would 100% start the rumor that if you re-start pokopia enough times you can get a shiny ditto.
somebody dropped off a ditto that they caught thinking it was another pokemon and asked us to release it for them, which we did. happens all the time. what doesn't happen all the time is it leaves behind a dittolet for us that nobody notices until an hour later, but theres a first time for everything
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