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Chapter 63 of Nobody Can Help You:
HERE
I'm gonna take a couple weeks off after this chapter. Then when I start updating again I'll be carrying on until the end of book one, which should be Chapter 79, possibly 80 depending on how things spread out. Once I'm done with book one I'll be working on some other, shorter stories before I start book two. Moving house is a lot of work.
Mike being behind the upside-down makes so much sense to me because of what it would say about his character. Like, let's go back to s2, we get a description of PTSD from Owen's, and Mike fits it to a T. The Wheelers do nothing about it and let the wounds fester. This is bad. We know this is bad.
Mike's emotional health is constantly going unchecked, and revealing his emotions are tied to the Upside-down would send a strong message about invisibility and how even if you believe someone should be okay, it doesn't mean that's the truth. You never have a clue what someone is going through, and the show sets this up nicely by having an entire scene in s3 dedicated to dismissing Mike's feelings despite them being entirely valid...and then the reason for his anger, the spying, becomes a tool against them.
Mike being behind everything would force the characters to acknowledge his emotional state and the things that they wilfully ignored. It also gives the show a reason to show viewers exactly what's going on in Mike's head as well as an explanation for why they couldn't or wouldn't do so earlier.
IT ONLY TOOK 120 CHAPTERS BUT PROGRESS IS PROGRESS FOLKS
???: Well, we’ll be damned… been too long since we’ve seen new fellers round these parts… and no doubt they’re headed for the control room. That’s a fair bit of gumption… we should keep an eye on em.
Chapter 52
new chapter! delayed a bit because my family was visiting and then I had a work trip, but I got it done.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
While it is interesting to bemoan the lack of filler for a chance...
...I'm not sure if that makes for a good conversation about pacing.
See, I often want to just a show based less on what it could be if XYZ external factors were different like how many episode per season.
Can they convey the stories they wish to tell within 26 episodes per season or 13 episode per season? 10 can seem pretty tight and is becoming the norm.
There's also how some shows seem keen to, rightfully, assume that their show will be lucky to make two seasons. Thus there will likely be a sense that a plotline that could've been delegated for a future season but too many are aware of how companies are allergic to paying taxes like "peasents.
Even so.
While we can take Streaming to task for not giving show even the bare minimum of thirteen episodes, what I care about it how well the creative teams manage with the hand they are dealt with.
Can this "eight hour movie" pace itself well?
Can it feel like a chapter book where its it real page-turner?
Does it know what ideas are important to keep?
Can it give itself time for the characters to just be before the next big plot beat?
Can it juggle characterization with plot progression? A lot of stories are actually more about a character's decisions than just things that happen to them.
I get that good pacing is something terribly hard to judge when pacing itself is only noticeable when it's bad, when it jars you out of the immersion of storytelling. But I feel like if we want to appreciate storytelling better, I think we need to actively be more conscious about these sort of things.
What were the professors like before this transformation overcame them?
The professors were once very kind and compassionate people. They created us so that they may spend more time with their loved ones... their son, Arven. They were once stable. Loving. They wanted to build a paradise for humans and Pokémon, as well as their boy.
I... still have their memories. Of Arven. He was so tiny in my... their hands. Prehaps. I feel the emotions of these memories. How... so very happy they were.
I've never experienced such happiness for myself. I wish... I could meet Arven. Maybe then... I'd feel that joy as they did.
But... it's simply not meant to be.
It's my purpose to care for the professors. And protect the people of Paldea.
The professors have become too lost. Too far gone. They seek not the betterment of humanity. Only revenge on those that they've precieved to have wronged them. If they're allowed to escape...
They will harm people. They will hurt people. I... cannot let that happen. I'm sorry, creators...
[Warning! Damage to Area Zero seal detected.]
[Lab emergency door integrity 50%]
I'm so sorry...
Seeing as Vaati’s here at last it’s time to get his introductions around!
While Vio doesn’t talk about him much, Vaati talks about Vio as if he’s a pet of his. He is shorter than Vio by around 4 inches but that doesn’t stop him from being a menace to others. Taking great joy in seeing fear shown to him
He likes jewelry a lot but finds it inconvenient at the same time so he keeps it minimal. And out of pettiness he altered the wishing cap into being a circlet that way he can act like it’s a crown instead. Afterall he sees himself as king of the world in his own eyes.
Along with that he seems to have some sort of fascination with Red.
Like most Vaati’s he has his other forms, though he just uses a few of them to be lazy for the most part.
