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Serpentine-fxrtune sideblog. Devoted to the first anime I ever watched- Bakugan. She/Her.

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Reminder (also specifically made to be pinned)

EDIT: Please read this linked post first! It’s important!

My askbox is open. Want a headcanon? Sure. Want my opinion on a headcanon? Go wild. Screams into the void? I may be a little confused, but sure!

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Any ideas why Masquerade wore a breastplate? Confused me so much as a kid and no books or media ever called it out

I imagine it was used as padding, like that used in ~80s jackets that had super wide, exaggerated shoulders.

The broader shoulders are less like Alice's natural build, and is essentially a very understated but easy way to make Masquerade look even further away from, in fact, being Alice. It could, additionally, mimic a more muscular build for the same purpose.

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do you have a favorite bakugan from the reboot

For reasons along the lines of Champions of Vestroia, I have a particular soft spot for Barbetra.

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Leonidas’ existence continues to prove that you can take a little negative energy sprinkle powder and make an all new person. But the games are non canon...

Kind of, but not quite. The souls aren't given the negative energy ball Hal-G creates in the intro sequence, nor a sprinkle later on. More accurately, it appears they're resonating to its existence out of a combined, restless fury, culminating in one death dragon.

Leonidas was not given any negative energy by an outside source (unless you count Vladitor sacrificing himself to revive Leonidas, at which point theoretically he does, but it doesn't change him), nor was the doom dimension, beyond the natural amount an attributed bakugan appears to naturally have (unconfirmedly appears to be stronger within the ventus-subterra-darkus triad.)

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shun: *throws all his bakugan off the ventus arena when you fight him* also shun: “if leonidas even looks toward evil, I’ll be there to stop him”

He's speaking as if the games work as the anime do. He can get power drained real easy in my experience.

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ohh the bakugan video games what console do you have it on?

I have my copy on the wii for both of the games with console options.

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Bakugan took one look at Pokémon and said “Oh, we can do that but are monsters will be in balls from the start”

Iirc, in episode 11 BB (at least in English,) Marucho mentions Ventus is weak to Aquos as the reason why he should fight Shun instead of Runo.

In Bakugan (videogame), aquos and ventus have no correlation. Instead, aquos and pyrus are less effective on eachother's stages (more effective on home stage,) and the same is true of ventus and subterra.

In DoTC, a game that has a functioning weakness-strength system that isn't dependent on stage, Aquos is instead weak to Ventus, dealing less damage against them and taking more damage from them.

What I'm getting at is they also removed the fire-water-grass effectiveness system, but they love to make it exist.

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ah yes, shadow realm, american censorship was the real antagonist

Death: easy to understand what the end result is, morbid, a definite end

Shadow Realm: mysteriously vague, what even does it entail other than being a realm of shadows, unclear if it is the end or not wouldn't you like to know Weatherboy

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Big question; does Shun have ninja throwing stars??

Probably in reserve; Shuriken need a lot of spin when thrown, unlike his regular kunai, after all. Most situations he finds himself throwing some form of sharp, bladed metal tend to be precision shots, which are harder to perform with objects that need spin.

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another card game hell you say? what this time?

The cousin of the doom dimension, the shadow realm.

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What if Naga got sucked into the Infinity Core instead of the Silent Core?

Whilst I do think Vestroia would fuse in the same way it did with the Naga'd Silent Core, and some bakugan would go beserk all the same, this does change things. Monumentally, in some cases.

For one, it throws the Silent Core to Earth instead, and theoretically makes Masquerade either a protagonist, or a well intentioned antagonist (unclear if the doom card, which sends bakugan to the doom dimension to grow Hydranoid's/Naga's power, would be used by him.)

(Very theoretically this would lead to an "Everyone except Masquerade have doom cards, and it's treated like if ygo dm gave everyone millenium items to play shadow games with. Also casuals don't really use them" situation, which frightens me.)

This change would also cause Joe's death, because the inverse (the infinity core is thrown to Earth) is what healed him of his illness.

It additionally means that whoever has Wavern can theoretically use her to brainwash people (the Silent Core's powers lie within control after all.) This generally (it could be Dan only because of Drago, but that doesn't mean much when Wavern isn't pyrus) means the Battle Brawlers; a 14 year old, a 13 year old (the one I least trust with the power of mind control), three 12 year olds, and an 11 year old.

TlDr; it kills Joe, and potentially makes everyone else have a time only matched by whatever the hell early ygo villains were having. Masquerade probably changes alignment, and there's a potential protagonist change now that I think about it.

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any head cannons on the white ones (naga and waverns species)

I took this to mean the attribute category, rather than the species (since they appear to be Dragonoid off-shoots.)

The white ones, ashen ones, attributeless, what have you, are the bakugan equivalent of sun-bleached. They do have an attribute leaning, but they don't look the part at all.

Any white ones pre Dragonoid Core got absorbed into Vestroia (the planet.) This does not prevent them from appearing mid botched evolution though.

Their forms are generally weak, and have a rough time evolving because they're prone to just. exploding.

Some bakugan call them ghosts. It's also considered bad luck to meet a white one as a result, because the most infamous was directly related to the doom dimension.

Very easily influenced by Trap Bakugan, given their capability to change the attribute of their allies. Some are weaker than Trap Bakugan in terms of G Power.

Some white ones get absorbed by their closest friends, on purpose no less. Typically they act as an addition to the G Power pool a bakugan has, or even to strengthen their friend's senses.

There has been at least one human who absorbed a white one. This was not on purpose, and occurred during Naga's invasion of Earth. The effects haven't been noted just yet, mostly because the human in question is doing their damndest to hide it.

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if the mote doesn’t get absorbed masq grabs the sledgehammer then chase is it around

Sledgehammer really only works if they're already a mask.

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what would happen if a mote grabbed onto alice when masq was off her face

It either gets absorbed by Masq, or it just bounces off.

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Alice clearly keeps Masq in one of those invisible cartoon pocketsTM But I do remember in EP39 when Alice vanished the mask went with her, so maybe there linked in a way

(Answer uses context as discussed with Negative Energy Motes. Sorry if this wasn't to do with that.)

I'm not surprised it disappears with her, given it is assumedly a parasite. It's attached in a roundabout way.

The Bakugan Invisible Pockets really can just hold entire other people, huh.

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Do what Naga says Masquerade or be smashed with a sledgehammer

Thankfully he's too strong (more specific: the urge to keep the mask is too strong) for Alice to manage that.

That won't stop others, though.

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so how does one destroy a mote the first that comes to mind is positive energy but what about destroying the mask itself

Dropping it works, depending on the material.

If the mote's control is weak enough, you'll be able to smash it with a hammer. Motes with more control do actively make their host take care of the mask, ensuring it's not damaged (beyond damages mid battle, of course. It's harder to prevent that.)

Shattering the mask makes the mote either hibernate (large piece of the mask is still intact), or inert (shattered into tiny pieces). Putting a hibernating mote back together wakes it up, whereas an inert mote stays inert - you can wear it, and appear completely different, but you won't be controlled into being someone completely different.

Healing someone using an influx of positive energy, a la Wavern healing Joe, doesn't exactly destroy the mote, as much as detach it from the "healed" host and forces it to hibernate. If the mote was later transferred to another viable host, it'd wake up again and continue as before, albeit with someone else.

It's also very unlikely for a "healed" host to get a new mote; the remaining positive energy is too much (until it fully dissipates, of course.)