🌋 Solarcanic ﮩ٨ﮩ٨ـ

19, He/They, Trans guy, Pokemon blog. all Maxie I like Maxie

[solarcanic]

New pinned...

My pronouns.cc for more about me + links to my other socials

A Pinterest board with all the f2u stuff I make (Stamps, PFP masks, wallpapers, userbars, etc) to keep it organized

Uhh idk. Maxie. What else do I put in my pinned...

[banhbeotim]

matsubusasaammaaaaa -explodes-

glad he gets to live a normal(ish) life in a different timeline (╥╥)

[ariadosage]

Scenario : Maxie trying to take Cyrus on a date and they end up exploring Mt chimney. Maxie keeps rambling about his knowledge on volcanic activity and rocks meanwhile Cyrus ( being from sinnoh ) isn't taking the heat well and is melting into a murky sinister puddle on the floor.

[shrinkydinnk]

With my previous reblog where I mentioned my thoughts on Cyrus' ending in generations, I'm gonna continue talking about that kind of thing here instead of dumping it in the tags of a unrelated post. However I want to focus on the platinum ending of his storyline as I think there's different ways to view it. I'd like to give my own thoughts on it.

I've always seen Cyrus' choice to stay in the distortion world instead of choosing to follow the Dawn/Lucas and Cynthia back home as something dome out of sheer rage and defiance. His dialogue leading up to his choice focuses on how enraged he is (albeit the Japanese version gets across how angry he is a little better with the type of language he uses). Arguably his failure comes from his lack of preparation and cockiness towards whatever could stand in his way.

In the Spear Pillar cutscene we see him have a bit of a power trip, his arrogant nature fully shines through. He speaks of how Dialga and Palkias powers are all his to control. "I command that you unleash your power for me..." and "You will do my bidding! I will have your abilities as mine! With the power I wield, I will create an entirely new world!" are two quotes that get across how he sees himself as near unstoppable. He WILL "command" and they WILL do his "bidding". Throughout the entire game we are shown how Cyrus has this whole high and mighty view of himself, he believes he knows what's right for the world and that everyone else is inncorect, he's going to do what's right and free everyone from their "weak and incomplete human spirit". I really think that line of thinking shows the most here.

Things take a bit of a turn once Giratina appears before him as a threatening shadow rising from the ground. He dismisses it's presence as a "rash and foolish effort". Personally, I believe Cyrus is afraid but is overcompensating by trying to flex how unstoppable he is as he is the one who has the power to create a new world. When Giratina snatche him up he proclaims "I, Cyrus, won't have any more interferererererere...!". The usage of "I" before a name implies importance. It's like he wants to imply Giratina is nothing but a spec before him, trying to hinder the birth off his perfect new universe. I also see the whole "interfererererere...!" thing as a shout of fear as Giratina snatches him away, but it could also be from the distortion of noise,muc like how the scenery at spear pillar bends and twists with Giratina's appearance.

Now, back to his distortion world dialogue, Cyrus' anger feels very directed towards anyone but himself. His power fantasy around fixing the wrongs of the universe just got dragged away from him by you.

"I won't accept this! This can't be! Not after all the sacrifices we've made to get this far! What of my new world?! Of my new galaxy?! Was this all a dream to be swept away by your reality?!", I particularly enjoy this line of dialogue when you defeat him for the final time. His dreams were sweapt away by YOUR reality. Not by Giratina, but YOU. He's quick to direct his rage towards someone who, for most of the game, he has not seen as a genuine threat. In any attempt to stop him in the past, he appears unbothered. You've always been too late. But now its about you. Cyrus' dismissal of anything that could pose a threat to him has truly come back to bite him in the ass, however he will not say that he is at fault for such an oversight.

Contrary to what generations implies, I'd say Cyrus actively dislike the distortion world. He describes it as "bizzare" and later says, "What compels you to protect the two worlds?". It gives the impression Cyrus doesn't view the distortion world as anything close to his new world and wishes for it to be destroyed and recreated, much like the world he is from. As a place, it's inherently chaotic and nonsensical, Cyrus values understanding his surroundings and (attempts) to appear logical and level headed. With how he chooses to describe his new world, Cyrus wants it to be a place of order, unlike the current world that is riddled with uncertainties of the human spirit.

I'd like to think his main motivation for siding inside the distortion world being absolute anger. As an action, it's "spiritful". A perfect display of how Cyrus is nowhere near as lacking in spirit as he wishes to appear. His own rage kinda screws him over, it's arguably harder to execute his goals in somewhere so nonsensical and isolated, but in the moment he'd much rather refuse to appear defeated and go back to the very world he sought to destroy. Something something his emotions were his own downfall.

[pokemonarchive]

Team Magma Hideout (2014) - Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Concept Art © Pokémon / Nintendo / Creatures / GAME FREAK

[ariadosage]

found all these and decided to translate them. may not be the best but archies bio kinda surprised me

"Dangerous individual" yeah right 😭😭

[ariadosage]

Dearest Maxie fans please send me any headcanon you have for the man. Can be anything I just wanna hear what y'all got :)

[solarcanic]

:D

This is gonna be a ramble!!!!! Yay

Okay so. Mundane stuff first. More of a common headcanon but I think he has a huge sweet tooth. Lava cookies for him. Also, I think he enjoyed a lot of arcade games growing up, though he had to play them sparingly because I CANNOT HOLD BACK BACK STORY HEADCANONS okay. I think he grew up in poverty which is why he can seem very resource focused (land = farmland, housing, metals for materials and innovation = good for humanity), and he sees it largely as scarce because he grew up within scarcity. He wants everyone to have an equal chance to live a stable life, though at first, he's willing for that to be at an unreasonable + unethical disadvantage to Pokemon & nature, until he gets redeemed.

I also think his past as a researcher mentioned in Pokemon Masters was at Sea Mauville, and that was the "past team" deal with Archie. I've talked a lot about that before, so it'd probs be a bit annoying for anyone who's seen my other posts or rambles about it, but I think it makes a lot of sense. For brevity's sake, I'd recommend you check out the location in ORAS, or the bulbapedia page on it, as it has a lot of details on the place.

I think that can also be where Maxie's sense of debt came from, because I usually interpret him as feeling indebted to humanity, and feeling the moral obligation to serve and better it, like if he doesn't, he's doing something wrong.

More of a random detail (I'm writing this stream of consciousness oops), with him becoming a teacher in PokeMas, I think he kind of always wanted to be one in some ways. A lot of his dialogue in Omega Ruby uses very teacher or classroom-like words and phrases.

I also headcanon he has OCD, which there are a ton of good points for, but Lightsen made a really good post on that sorta thing so I'd just reccommend you look at that. It's very in depth

Also, this is taking from the Pokemon R•S manga, but I like to think he really likes pudding in ORAS, too ^^

More of a typology thing, but many people type Maxie as an Enneagram 1, but given his pride, I think E2 suits him more personally... Or, if I were to go based on more headcanons of mine, E9. In any case, I think he's too willing to do what he sees as incorrect things for his end goal, to really be an E1. But that's only if anyone reading this also likes typology

I also think he's more dramatic than people give him credit for. In Japanese, he uses the terms "Wagana wa" for "I am", instead of "Watashi wa." It's a really outdated and old way of saying it, usually associated in modern day usage with basically cringe teenagers (chuunibyou) in media. Though, in Maxie's case, I think its meant to give him an old timey and kind of dramatic flare. He's very expressive in his animations, and uses a lot of fancy, verbose words, and I may be wrong, but his sentence structures in English sound kind of play-like or Shakespearean in nature (minus the whole thou thing, the way the words are). He uses a lot of "Oh!!! How (adjective)!!" And especially in the Cave of Origin scene, he sounds like he's narrating a scene like that. It's a really clever way of getting across the same vibe as Maxie's speech in Japanese, in English, I think. Which is that he's meant to be pretty expressive, and dramatic, and a lot of a show off. He even falls to his knees in the Alpha Sapphire CoO scene... He didn't even battle dawg it was his pokemon!!! Loser!!!!

I enjoy him

[shrinkydinnk]

Things

[ppsychosoid]

Have this goofy ass shitpost

[shrinkydinnk]

Low poly Cyrus

Bonus animation. First one I've ever made so it's a little rough

[winter-soystice]

woe be upon ye behold just one(1) of my rarest of pairs lmao

[gattskinart]

Man crashing down like a miniature sun

og sketchbook version

[lightsen]

Why is it so hard to upload video to tumblr? WIP of latest maxie art, If you'd like to watch me art live, i do it on twitch, under the name Lightsen

[dizzymudskipper]

Goobers

[chimeiru]

Whoa ok Maxie calm down……..

[tsuyh-56]

anyway, heres some art of them

[solarcanic]

I think he needs it