#wallace cup

[alteansky]

My comfort arc <3

[winstrates]

Headcanon that May never seriously considered that Drew might have a crush on her until the Wallace Cup.

People had brought it up to her before, but she always dismissed it. They were just seeing red roses and immediately thinking romance. And that was silly! She knew the roses weren't for Beautifly, but obviously they weren't like, actually romantic. It was just their Weird Rival Thing.

But then she's at the Wallace Cup and chatting with Dawn about her rivals. And after rambling about Drew for a while, Dawn is like "wow, it sounds like this guy has a huge crush on you!"

May is shocked. Because she never brought up the roses to Dawn, so... why would she think that? Unless... hold on a minute.... unless???

[scraftyisthebest]

I am thinking about how Dawn has competed in all sorts of contests in various regions, including Hoenn, Unova, and Johto.

When she left after her BW guest appearance she went to Johto to compete in the Wallace Cup and supposedly competed in Contests all over there.

And when you consider she's already close with Lyra, I often wonder if those two met again and travelled together during Dawn's time in that region. Lyra and Dawn very quickly struck up a friendship during Lyra's short time as a guest character in Diamond and Pearl, and I can imagine they crossed paths again and stuck together during their time.

Dawn, Lyra, and Khoury travelling group in Johto at some point, which we never got to see, but I just know it probably happened and that it was an awesome adventure.

(Side note: I also imagine Lyra watching the Masters 8 and Ash vs Leon and seeing Dawn in the stands, being totally supportive of her being there to cheer him on in person).

[godeateralex]

We Create A Wallace Cup Sequel: Feat. Espy JuJu

Alex and Richard of the Anime Egotists are joined by @EspyJuju for their own Wallace Cup!The boys loved the original Wallace Cup so much, that they want a se...

We are joined by Espy JuJu to talk about what we’d like in a Wallace Cup sequel! Considering how popular this arc was, we decided it needed some love! Come listen to us talk about some of the most lovable Pokémon coordinators...and also Drew!

[brainyxbat]

A Wallace Cup outfit for Baker!Venus, inspired by JN105! It was hard getting the skirt to the right shape, though it still isn’t, but I’m proud of how it turned out! 😊

Full outfit:

[futaba-town]

they want the cake...

[stage-on]

so let’s talk about this wallace cup thing a repost, purely for organization’s sake.

subject of discourse: who should have won: may or dawn?

disclaimer: now i’m gonna go ahead and acknowledge that we as RPers obviously have our biases for our characters. but what i CAN say is that i didn’t warm up to may until WELL after i watched DP and tbh i’ve held this opinion for some time. believe me or not--i’m going to go through this step-by-step.

what i want to do, to make this as simple as possible, is address the most common arguments (and also maybe some off the dash lol) i see for Dawn’s victory and tell you why they’re bologna.

everything under the cut cause it is LONG.

Exhibit A: Their Parents.

it is REALLY easy to say “well dawn’s mom was a coordinator” and bam. we’re done. but i want to challenge you to not... do that. let’s look at may first.

may is the daughter of a gym leader and a ???? housewife i guess. one would assume that she naturally loves training and is damn good at it. but, not only was she not allowed to watch gym battles (which is why she and max were so excited to watch ash’s battle), but she turned out to be literally afraid of pokemon and only left the house to get away from them. she then ends up falling in love with coordinating because she sees that pokemon can be beautiful, graceful, and fun.

now dawn. dawn is the daughter of a top coordinator, and we know nothing about her dad. she looks up to her mother to the extent that she worried a lot about living up to her legacy, but not so much that it overly crippled her. it’s heavily implied that dawn didn’t actually spend much time training with her mom. johanna really emphasizes dawn’s need to learn on her own--we in fact hardly see her give advice even as she’s on her journey. dawn doesn’t break away from the “family tradition” per se, but over the course of her journey she worries less about living up to “mom” and more about being the best “her” she can be.

the important takeaway here is that these stories have a core theme in common: that your parents do not define YOU. and as such, this argument doesn’t really work. it in fact defeats the purpose of their entire arcs, and, even on a technical level it’s pretty flimsy for reasons i pointed out above.

Exhibit B: Glaceon was a brand new evolution.

honestly there’s not much to say here um. charizard beating aerodactyl. ursula with her flareon & vaporeon appeal. Kkngler in the pokemon league. Swellow to win that tournament. Pignite to beat Shamus.

not only is winning via recent evolution a common pokemon trope, but the very concept is that if you understand your pokémon well, you can easily adapt to this change and succeed.

if you need further proof, just consider when the opposite was the case. ash was so used to winning after evolutions that when turtwig evolved, he got overconfident and misused him because he didn’t consider how his body had changed. So in that case a lack of understanding hurt him.

but given that may explicitly wanted a glaceon, i highly doubt she lacked that understanding of what she was getting into. this is just a really flimsy excuse at best.

Exhibit C: Literally any nitpicking about the battle itself.

you guys. the characters aren’t real. the writers decide how the battle goes. the writers make these choices. and if you felt at all upset when ash lost the kalos league? then you understand.

Exhibit D: Dawn needed a win.

ah, yes. my personal favorite. (which is to say I hate hearing this and from this point forward will demand 10 USD from everyone who says it to me.) first, a reminder: may was participating in the wallace cup because she needed a win herself. this was a high-stakes battle for BOTH of them so honestly I’d LOVE to end the counterargument here but I have more.

the thing is, guys, yes. dawn needed a win. but there’s no reason, at all, plot-wise, that that win needed to be against may.

a better thing to do would have been to give her an opportunity to conquer someone like zoey; someone in her realm of rivals, who is a challenge for her, but who could easily bounce back from a loss.

“But ky, what about the wallace cup??? how would you change it?? wouldn’t may still lose?????”

actually, no. we can do one of two things with the wallace cup:

a) push it earlier. maybe even allow more cameos. this could possibly even be the start of dawn’s temporary downfall rather than the end, which would be interesting because she would write off that loss at first. well it WAS may. no big deal. can’t be mad about losing to someone so nice and experienced. and to paraphrase geoff, it would give sort of a parallel. this is what dawn could become. woulda been nice.

b) push it later. let dawn have her win, and put the wallace cup closer to the grand festival. it could be a BIG DEAL around the world because the wallace cup is considered like a “warm up” for all the festivals and one of the LAST opportunities to get a ribbon. competition is FIERCE. only the best make it through. dawn’s loss is far enough away from her past ones that rather than take it hard, she becomes DETERMINED to train up for the grand festival. woulda been nice.

And lastly, (Exhibit E): I want to address the issue of skill/talent.

may simply showed more growth in a shorter period of time than dawn did. that’s a fact. whether dawn had more experience with her mom or not, she still loved pokemon. was around them. had a sense of what she was doing.

but may went from being afraid to even pick her starter to competing in a grand festival on her first try (this included conquering cheating in that season at least twice). she then went on to travel more regions, become more seasoned and no--i don’t want to discredit dawn at ALL. but it says something about your talent and skill to be able to grow so fast, and may should only have kept going up and up. it doesn’t make sense that dawn would have surpassed her having only started her journey.

and like... is it so bad? to let your old character shine? what’s the point of bringing them back if not to celebrate them?

obviously people are still going to disagree with me. but i think it was a HUGE disservice to may’s character for her to lose. like, if they were going to do her wrong, then just. don’t bring her back.

and that wraps up my hopefully-not-too emotional opinion about the wallace cup results, feel free to like, reblog, reply, whatever you like !

[celestial-heroes]

Wallace Cup Event Starter

I know this is bit of a surprise, but Sun’s going to compete in the Wallace Cup. So for the next few weeks he’s not really going to be available to RP in Alola unless it’s from an already existing thread or any verse that isn’t Shining Moon (My main verse). He’s going to be using a different team for this. I’ll be updating the his team list so you guys can see just what new Pokemon Sun has. Most of his team was recently given to him while one of them was his Pokemon for years now. 

So because of this if anyone from the Wallace Cup event wants to rp with Sun they have full permission to. Just Like/Reblog this post and I’ll get right to making a starter. 

(Moon’s going to still be in Alola though, mostly since she’s champion and a faller. She has to stay in Alola in case something bad happens.)