#hannahtoadthetoad

[pkmn-monochrome]

[sparklingdemon]

interesting how cody seemed very negative towards 'the hacker' when they were the same person. self hatred is part of it, but strange they would do that when they knew the hacker was them, and that could've come out at any point. did they just bank too hard on setting themselves up as the victim/ saw it as a better chance to ensure survival in the moment?

i think the self hate definitely played a big part in it. cody always knew what they did to red/leaf was a horrible mistake (not that they're sorry for it, moreso that they know they shouldn't have done it in the first place). cody has beaten themself up over that mistake for years (and charizard has, too.) but yes, once they had decided to themself that they couldn't tell the truth, they were willing to lean into the narrative that they were merely an AI that was the indirect victim of hacker cody's actions. but that's the thing that was always odd about them - despite their criticisms of the hacker in some aspects, they always said things in the hacker's defense when people criticized their actions. they always said things like "it was just a mistake," "anyone else would have done the same thing," "i don't believe any player deserves to die for their actions." despite being the hacker's alleged "victim", they were always justifying the hacker's actions, just to soften the blow in case the truth ever did come out..

[pkmn-monochrome]

[The APRIL FOOLS event has concluded.]

[pkmn-monochrome]

[sparklingdemon]

i know it was just a silly joke but i love venusaur so much he was really well written. if pikachu is toxic positivity, blastoise is toxic sadness and charizard is toxic anger, venusaur is toxic apathy.

yesss you got it! that’s exactly what emotion i intended for them to represent!

i remember teasing that idea a bit, when someone asked cody what emotion venusaur would represent if they were in the game, and cody apathetically replied, “don’t know, don’t care.”

venusaur wasn’t supposed to exist, so they don’t represent hacker!cody’s emotions like the other three. they represent an absence of emotion, a lack of care towards the suffering they cause.

venasaur was created by an anonymous hacker out of sheer apathy, wanting to create a venusaur ghost just for the pure sake of it being included, with no further thought or care being put into it, and no care into how it would affect cody.

apathy’s the perfect emotion for it, because it represents how a lot of players felt about creating a copy of cody in the first place…

[sparklingdemon]

nice blog very cool very swag i like it

LMFAOOOO

[pkmn-monochrome]

[sparklingdemon]

do you make cody's songs yourself?? cuz those are really good, do u like play flute IRL or is there a program u use to do it?

usually, yes! i have a real ocarina that i used for most of cody's older pokeflute posts.

but recently, since i don't live alone, i haven't been able to find a good time to sit down and record my playing without someone in the background causing audio disturbance. and since i needed to get those asks out quick, i unfortunately had to use an alternative that's less authentic for cody's more recent pokeflute posts. i've been using FL studio for those, so if they sound a bit different from cody's older posts, that's the reason!