Out of all the music for pokemon rivals, none can compare to the duo of Klara and Avery. I aint just talkin bout how good i think they sound (they are super nice) im talkin bout how best they represent them.
Klara and Avery are characters with a lot of similarities, which makes sense as they are version exclusives. Each character puts on a facade, however is truly ruled by the type they specialize in. Klara pretends shes a cutesy, innocent, naive girl whose just happens to be a prodigy in pokemon. In reality, the poison type she specializes in is closer to who she truly is. Shes a toxic, vindictive, nasty, jealous bitch who gets so mad at your strength she cheats to bring you down. Avery pretends hes a classy, fanciful, formal yet strong pokemon trainer, but the psychic type is him inside. Hes truly zany, cocky, a ditz, and has more than a few screws loose. He gets so crazed over you beating him and ends up misinterpreting that as a threat, causing him to cheat.
These character traits are violently visible in their encounter and battle themes. Klara's encounter theme starts of cutesy and innocent, but quickly derails into a wild mess. Youve got harsh guitars and frantic piano slides with a synth i can only describe as goopy. Only a few hints of the original, cutesy instrumentation can still be found. During her battle theme when she becomes the most toxic and wants to knock you down as far as possible, the cutesy music is gone. Harsh brass enters the song at seemingly random places as the song becomes even more frantic. The goopy synth becomes even goopier and the song feels like its trying its hardest to leak inside you and rip you apart like poison.
Avery's encounter theme is quite similar in structure. The themes starts with a baroque, formal-sounding intro but quickly falls apart as well. Weird synths come in as they start flowing in and out between speakers. These sounds mimic the sound of a rotating object around the listener, what could be compared to spiraling. It sounds disorienting and like spiraling into madness, with only a bit of the formality still in the instrumentation. When hes at his loosest and craziest, aka when his battle theme plays, the baroque is gone just like the cutesy sounds in Klara's theme. The synths get weirder, the music more wild, and the percussion, the thing that gives music structure, is absent. Sounds constantly bounce between speakers making an even more disorienting effect than his encounter theme. It truly sounds like youre spiraling, like the psychic type is known for.
These are criminally underrated characters and i can understand why. Not only are they limited to dlc, but dont do much after the main story completes besides beginning off-screen character growth and are also limited to a single game version. This doesnt mean they are bad characters though. Their music is probably the best way anyone could compose a characters personality into music and i dont want this to go unnoticed and unappreciated.
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