Gonna be so real I do not have the patience to Do All That ARG Stuff Right Now (plus it looks like I have to play Fire Red and Leaf Green for the 18 billionth time), but when I have the energy, it looks really fun! And there's 3 New
ranting a bit about venamelia. tumblr deleted the better version of this post for some reason, so i apologize if it's scatterbrained or my arguments arent as good as before.
this covers spoilers in paragon chapter16/v14. please only read if you completed it!
venam and melia are no doubt characters that can stand pretty proudly on their own, but i think its undeniable that their relationship with eachother is a huge part of their character as well.
one of the reasons i see thrown around for not liking them is how "abrupt their relationship feels" which i disagree with; its been hinted at all the way back in terajuma (and before if you squint) and even moreso in previous versions of the game. but i don't like that argument specifically because of chapter twelve, relevantly titled "remember, i love you."
.this part is also why I'm going to debunk the apparent argument against them of "their age gap is weird, so you can't ship them!" not only do i think the story blatantly proves this is false on multiple occasions, one of which being that they Do canonically date, it is very weird to me you are trying to turn the only canonically sapphic ship in the main story predatory.
continuing with chapter 12, venam's confession to melia (being on her mind As she was turned to stone, a fate she Knew had no real cure) is the title of the chapter.
one of melia's main motivations during the bad future segment is the fact that she couldn't abandon venam, wanting to save her at "any cost necessary" and chasing any sort of answer related to her petrification at all. she wanted to return to her time, For Venam.
i'm unable to get a screenshot of this, but i do think it is also worth mentioning that melia's reaction to lavender's phonecall with this information directly parallels venam's reaction to melia's death in the early game; they mentally shut down, and try to go on with ther lives like it never happened.
i just really don't think you read the story correctly if you believe with all your heart these two don't have any chemistry. particularly a lot of venam's dialogue during the terajuma arc stands out to me, especially the dialogue when melia's stopped before the summit after defeating eli and sharon.
melia's words after kania rips the archetype after her stick out to me as well; she apologized to Venam specifically, and nobody else. subconsciously, they're always on eachother's mind. melia's the reason venam's inspired to grow as a person; venam's the reason melia's drive to seek a better future was ignited in the first place.
....so, basically, i'm really not a fan of how people act with these two. they're very obviously meant to be a couple at the most, and paired characters at the least, and i feel as though erasing that part of them would be erasing and misunderstanding a big part of them.
and as a bonus, here's some misc dialogue I'm very fond of c:
thank you for reading this far! please appreciate these two as much as i do..
"Remember that I love you both, alright?"
Can you tell I really love this part of this quest? Honestly, we got to know Nancy for like a few minutes and I already love her :'D
Like, all the hc between her and the sibs is just....orz
having anti role models is a beautiful thing. it's not easy to live up to someone else's behavior but it is easy to lasso yourself into behaving right when you realize you're reminding yourself of the worst person youve ever met in your entire life
Ash canonically having aura powers is one of the funniest things any anime has ever done because he just... doesn't care
Like, for any other anime this would be the moment the plot truly kicks up. You know, having your main character find out that he has superpowers and stuff, plus the whole Jedi stuff. But Ash just straight up doesn't care, it's like having Ben Tennyson find the Omnitrix and be like "that's cool and all but I wanted to be a professional soccer player"
It’s even funnier when you consider the fact that Ash is the strongest aura user ever shown in the anime…
…to the point where a Pokémon that reads aura mistakes him for a long dead aura guardian based on vibes alone. Note that Ash is ten years old and has had no prior training.
Assuming that aura can change with time and effort, just like every other human trait, this means that some random ass child is just as strong as a legendary aura guardian despite barely even knowing what aura is outside of the Pokémon move Aura Sphere.
And that's not even the extent of it. In the rare moments that Ash remembers he's a fucking energybender, he has done the following:
Transferred his power to help Sir Aaron's Lucario heal a dying Mew's symbiotic rock tree. (And by extension, Mew itself.)
Astral project and see through the eyes of Pokémon. (This has happened several times. Just check the Aura page on Bulbapedia.)
Use a keystone to locate its matching mega stone. It's never fully explained why this works outside of "stupid magic bullshit".
See and interact with a dead boy* without even knowing he's dead, to the point where he can fucking project his own senses onto the kid's soul so that he can vicariously pet the fluffy mouse creature. The same thing actually happened in XY.
Telepathically communicate with his Lucario during a battle and discuss what move it should use next.
There's also this fan theory that the strange ripples that sometimes appear around Ash in Pokémon Journeys are aura waves being generated by his excitement, but it's not confirmed and it might just be a stylistic choice.
This isn't even the extent of what aura can do in the anime. It's just the stuff that Ash instinctively knows how to do without training. Please, I implore you, check out the Bulbapedia page on aura right now. This shit's crazy.
It's also shown that the bond phenomenon is linked to aura, but aura isn't outright confirmed to be the catalyst.
If he did decide to get some proper training, he could become the strongest aura user ever. And he’s just fucking around on a Pokémon journey.
*Of course, the whole "speak with the dead" thing could be explained by the fact that Ash has been a ghost possessing his own corpse since Episode 23 of Indigo League, but it's explained in-universe as Ash using aura to help Sunny pet Pikachu, so interpret that how you will.
TLDR: Pokémon lore is batshit insane and Ash Ketchum is a magical zombie Jedi that can see ghosts and he canonically doesn't give a fuck. I love you, Pokémon. Never change.
Note: I was originally going to completely dissect aura and its place in Pokémon lore, but decided against it for the sake of OP's mental health. Will post a full essay on aura and the history of aura when I get around to it.
i do appreciate that they made blue be the only one to have talksprites just itd be clearer that hes Black (harder to show with fullbody sprite limitations) and i double-like that they like. made it fit in very seamlessly while also thematizing how much darkners (or maybe just plantners) appearance is dictated by their own view of themselves. like. he can be the shoes he can be mr butterfly and sometimes he prefers the face. like thats a rly good way of doing it imo
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