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legitimatesatanspawn · 1 year

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Pokemon Mainline Game Plot Summaries, Written from 3 am to 4:30 am:

Cutting off for Scarlet Violet spoilers and the whole thing got rather long.

Considering the plots I can only imagine what insanity they'll spit out next.

Kid fights the Yakuza who are trying to capture a newly born god.

Guess what, yakuza didn't die out. Kid 2 fights a foreign invasion of yakuza creepin in on his/her country and then goes to beat up the other country for not doing a good job.

Two different groups of enviromental terrorists plan to mess up the country (if not the planet) by drying out or rising the water levels. Also there's a meteor hurdling towards the planet so good luck with that.

Hypocritical Jerk says "emotions and free will are dumb we should all be the same (read: just like me)" so he finds a way to torture minor gods to create chains to bind the gods of creation to his will. His attempts piss off Literal Pokemon Lucifer.

Pokemon PETA with their figurehead Green-haired Player Character Wannabee Rival are here to say that Pokemon should be free and are willing to go Deus Vult on you over it. Turns out they mean your Pokemon should be free because the higher ups want to be the only people with Pokemon.

Sequel series has Pokemon PETA branch off into two opposing groups. The Bigger Jerk Side plan to resurrect the dead god-dragon by fusing the living fragments from the previous game to its corpse.

Local Flashy Idiot decides to murder the planet because he hates how everyone else looks unfabulous. This will be achieved with an ancient kill-sat tower that killed the region before because an ancient king had it made to resurrect his dead beloved Pokemon.

Global enviromental betterment organization is helping out NotHawaii. A bunch of random thugs are messing things up. Turns out the leader of the later is salty about not being able to be a gym leader while the leader of the good guy side is psychotic and tried to make her children into perfect hosts for extradimensional pokemon and merges herself with a giant murder jellyfish.

See 8 but now postgame includes fighting every other boss from the previous games from realities where they won and have gone on a Supervillain Dimensional Invasion scheme.

Ancient kings murdered an eldritch spacemonster. Its blood has leaked through the ground and creates hellspots where Pokemon turn into warped versions of themselves. There's a prophecy/calculations that the thing will wake up some day and a CEO who's trying to help the region wants to murder it harder but early so it can't cause trouble… and to save the energy crisis I guess. The Evil Team are actually a bunch of rowdy groupies. Also the princes have stupid hair and made things worse because they wanted glory.

Isekai into Meiji Era Island Nation where the local organization is sending people out into genuine terrifying life-threatening danger to study Pokemon and grok whats in each area even though the locals can explain stuff. Also there's this thing with what apparently is Pokemon God's blessing being showered down on the pokemon revered as living gods by the locals. Turns out some Absolute Idiot decided to break time aND IT turns out to be Plot 4 but its someone who may be the last survivor of a doomed civilization who either wants to murder or wants to Be Pokemon God and has made a pact with Lucifer to ruin God's day.

Traditional school easter egg hunt goes off the chains because the local Professors apparently broke time. There's three paths you can take for the plot at your leisure before stopping the time break: gym fight, perfect sandwich resource gathOH GOD THE BOSS FIGHTS, and anti-bully bullies whose teachers quit to get away from the nonsense.

#pokemon #pokemon lore #4 am rambles #plot summary #explaining the plot to a friend #and it just spiraled #pokemon red and blue #pokemon gold and silver #pokemon ruby and sapphire #pokemon black and white #pokemon black 2 and white 2 #pokemon x and y #pokemon sun and moon #pokemon ultra sun and moon #pokemon sword and shield #pokemon legends arceus #pokemon scarlet and violet #it just keeps getting worse

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janwixler · 1 year

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okay, we all know that Andrew met Aaron and the others at the age of 16-17ish. A real long time later after being at several shitty foster homes.

but for Aaron his family was just there right? and most importantly, Nicky was there. I find it kinda cute sometimes how Nicky looks for shield from Andrew with Aaron. he's all like, 'Aaron, help me, your brother might possibly kill me.' and Aaron is like, 'if you don't stop your cringe behavior, I might be the first one to do that.'

like they knew each other way before they knew Andrew. I like to think how Nicky used all kinds of tricks to make a young grumpy Aaron while his parents were arguing with Tilda. Played video games or board games with him and Nicky gossiping whatever happened in his school.

not to mention Andrew too found Nicky to be the most reliable cousin/family member ever. He felt himself around him in a weird way. Honorary mention of Andrew actually nearly killed some homophobic men for Nicky.

Nicky isn't perfect, but he just wants his family to be happy and include him as a part of their happiness.

#4 am rambles #wanted to get this thought out #nicky hemmick #i hate you #but i also dont #aftg

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raindroprelude72 · 1 year

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Hearts fade as time crumbles

#random #boredom #deep thinking #does this make sense #4 am rambles #ramblings #one liner #musings #deep words #oof ouch

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solipsismbyproxy · 1 year

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Ranking persona 5 royal confidants - II: Priestess

Part of my ongoing project to rank the Persona 5 confidants. To quickly recap, the three things I think are most important in a good confidant are a solid overarching story, a deeper exploration of the confidant's motives and personality traits, and a meaningful role for the protagonist to play and help change the confidant.

(As a quick note I'm skipping 0 and 1 (Igor and Morgana) since they're essentially just story checks and don't really fit into the social link structure in a normal sense.)

So, let's get into the Confidant for the Priestess Arcana, Makoto!

As a recap, Makoto's confidant revolves around a couple themes: links 1-2 are about her desire to learn more about normal activities to feel closer to other students her age - she invites you out to help teach her about new places so she doesn't feel awkward visiting them alone. 3-5 revolve around her talking to and eventually making a new friend, Eiko. Initially, you help her grill Eiko on why she is working at a shady cafe, then later, you talk with Makoto about her new friend and how their conflicting personalities change Makoto's goals (she becomes less sure that the standard honor-studenty path is right for her.) 6-10 are about her helping Eiko get away from a creep named Tsukasa. You are initially her double date to get a chance to meet him - in later links, you give advice on how to handle him and help Makoto confront him. The link begins and ends with conversations about Makoto's late father, who was a police chief investigating seedy gangs in Shinjuku. It's pretty heavily implied he was killed in a gang assassination by one of his targets, maybe even whatever group Tsukasa belongs to (his MO of luring in girls and pushing them to do sex work to pay off a fake debt is the same as the one Makoto's dad investigated, and this parallel is brought up by Makoto herself multiple times.) Makoto uses this incident to firm her belief that she wants to be a police chief in the footsteps of her father.

I love Makoto as a character, which is why it pains me to say I thought this confidant sucked. Maybe the most glaring reason why is that this is barely a story about Makoto herself. Throughout the story, we're told that it is pretty routine for Makoto to constantly check up on the students and making sure their actions are aboveboard. It feels like the main outcome of the social link is that you're saving Eiko from her life being ruined, not doing anything for Makoto. Maybe the main counterexample is her decision in rank 10 to become a police chief, but it's questionable that these events would have any major impact on that decision either way. It's basically already the path she is on given her honor student trajectory and her admiration for her dad from the start. To me, it just doesn't feel believable that she could take any other path even if the events with Eiko didn't happen. Further, the ending is incredibly anti-climactic. You essentially call it a day at running Tsukasa off from Eiko and getting her to commit to her studies. When the buildup of the confidant suggests that Tsukasa was, at least symbolically, the type of criminal responsible for her father's death, Makoto letting him off with a slap and a warning to stay away from one (1) of his victims is just...underwhelming? No change of hearts, no escalation, just a "stay away from Eiko!!" This feels like a complete letdown of any real tension - sure, you achieve a minor victory and saving your classmate/friends life from ruin is good, don't get me wrong, but letting Tsukasa get away and repeat his scam just does not give a sense of closure (and its basically all but confirmed he's grooming other victims simultaneously with Eiko!) This feels like a major loose end and one that directly contrasts with Makoto's desire to get justice.

Largely because the focus is shifted so far away from Makoto, we also really don't get to see any new aspects of her character in this confidant. The main things that are conveyed about her by this link are, IMO,

Makoto is sheltered and not very in touch with her peers

Makoto has a strong sense of justice and wants to protect her classmates at Shujin as part of her role as SC president

Makoto looks up to her father a lot

Makoto is hot tempered and quick to act when she sees injustice, even at risk to her own life

You know where we saw all these traits before? The entire Kanoshiro arc! That arc was set in motion by her feeling like a burden after her father died, feeling the need to do something about Shujin students getting scammed, and doing something rash that put her personally in a lot of danger. This arc basically feels like a diet version of that where, instead of neutralizing the threat and/or changing their heart, Makoto claims the smallest victory as enough and gives up. And since it functions as a diet version of that arc, at best this link feels like Makoto is wading completely in place from start to finish besides making a new friend. Her exposure to her peers' culture basically tops out at playing one (1) video game at an arcade, she gains the resolve to take...the most natural path forward for her anyways as an honor student in a family of cops, and she doesn't even make any significant progress towards neutering the gangs who very likely killed her father. It feels essentially like there's no character development at all.

On to the final piece of the puzzle - protagonist involvement. Unfortunately, the social link fails here too. At basically every turn, Joker is just an extra body there because Makoto doesn't want to balone. Half of the social link setups are: 1&2-I want someone to go with me to new places (excusable, I suppose) 3-I need you to help me grill this girl and act as a witness 6-I need you to act as my double date so I can meet Tsukasa 9-I need you to get evidence and help me confront Tsukasa. Does it matter who you are besides a second body? A little, obviously you do have some input and you help her pick the right path forward with Eiko. But overall, it really feels like your involvement is justified as a helper filling in so it isn't just Makoto. This confidant is maybe the one that most makes you feel like a spectator to the events, and it really diminishes the link to me. Here's an (admittedly silly) test of protagonist involvement - could Ryuji have filled in for Joker in this link? I think for basically every rank, the answer is an easy yes.

Overall, I was really disappointed with Makoto's Confidant. It trapped the player as a pure spectator in Makoto solving someone else's problem, in the same way we already saw her doing so in the main character. I learned nothing about Makoto, felt no bond to her, and didn't feel like my progressing the social link changed anything in any way. I would rate this confidant overall as a 2/10, with its only redeeming quality being that it is cute to see Makoto try out the arcade and make a new friend. This is easily a bottom 5 confidant for me, and possibly even a bottom 2, and it depresses me because I like Makoto as a character way more than any of the other confidants she's competing with on that list.

Here are two scattered ideas on ways to improve Makoto's social link:

Make the endgoal of the link the investigation/shutting down of the gang that employs Tsukasa. You can easily condense some of the earlier links to squish the current rank 9 to rank 8, and make a rank 9 that does this - either gated behind Mementos or through real world police work. This gives proper closure to the Tsukasa stuff, gives a more compelling arc for Makoto (she appreciates both the difficulty and the rewards of investigating criminals) and can even tie into some sense of avenging her father by taking down one of the gangs he was after. By shifting stuff around, you can give Joker a larger role by having him advise Makoto on how to handle the situation, and by participating in the Mementos quest or the actual investigation work. Queen gets a chance to show off her tactical brilliance and maybe her decisiveness can even pay off here instead of working against her all the time (imagine how cool it'd be if she caught the gang leader fleeing through a motorcycle pursuit!!)

Refocus the social link on working through and assuaging Makoto's guilt about Kamoshida. This is obviously a big plot point for her character in the main game that I feel isn't addressed particularly well in either the social link or the game, and it is something that upsets her. Working through this with her and helping her both change the system and deal with her own guilt would be a good way for Joker to make a serious, thoughtful, emotional impact. We also get to explore a pretty big part of Makoto's character, and get a sense of progress for her. One big downside to this idea is that this is complicated by the principal's death, and it feels really bad to have a main cast member's link be gated behind a date to complete or to have this sort of plot be completely independent of the principal (maybe it would only be unlocked after the principal dies? Could help) Either way, that's getting too much into the weeds but I think this is a much more obvious place for Makoto to progress as a character and heal from her past than the current plot.

Let me know if you have thoughts on either of these solutions, or anything I said above! I'll be back soon with a dive into The Empress, which will take a much different tone from this one :)

#persona 5 #persona 5 royal #makoto niijima #persona 5 makoto #social links #confidant #4 am rambles #persona series #why'd they do makoto like that :(#P5r confidant rankings

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silvermizuki · 1 year

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I would KILL for some melatonin gummies rn

#WHY THE FUCK AM I AWAKE #help #hush silv #4 am rambles

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nonaonann · 9 months

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Not gonna lie, it's so funny when you say something about yourself/what you're going to do, and your friend is like, "oh yeah, I know," or, "yeah, I figured," or, "I can see you doing that," etc.

This, THIS HAS RANGE PEOPLE. I've gotten this response from saying, "I haven't slept," from saying, "I'm going to use this spoon to scoop out your eyeballs," from saying, "I'm probably aroace by the way," and SO MUCH MORE.

#this was about me. but this is so applicable to those (<- emphasis on that word) characters #rambles #4 am rambles #4 am ramblings #aroace

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iwasjustdrinking · 1 year

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Hello 4 am, it’s me again

#4 am rambles

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henwoof · 11 months

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I have so many BNHA theories that I’ve yet to discuss… generally I don’t share these bc they’ve prolly already been said and also I don’t really interact with others past posting art and liking things so I’m nervous to try something new… but it’s almost 4am and 4am is the chaos hour so I must. Here are three that are on my mind. (All Might’s Muscular form, Todoroki isn’t a conspiracy theorist, does Izuku actually have green hair??)

All Might’s muscular form: Ok, so I’ve def seen ppl joke it’s his secret quirk that he didn’t know about, but he’s definitely quirkless before… plus, the form is a newer thing/ since the organ-yeeting fight, Teen Might is shown to constantly be muscular. So Small Might must be his real physical form. He explained it like sucking his gut in, and that worked to subdue me for a while, bc, you know, suspension of disbelief and it has comedic effect, but at this point in the manga, I can say that everything this seems purposeful and narrators are unreliable. So how does he transform?? It’s none of the past user’s quirks. I have reached the conclusion that void reality bending was in effect in outside-the-void. Firsty, and least obviously: he emits smoke when deflating, which is kinda similar to the smoke in void covering Izuku, and Vestige Might, this is a stretch. Secondly, and most obviously: the void let’s ppl return to their past forms. Izuku turns into his kid-self in the void and then back to teen-self. So does Tenko/Tomura. It’s also connected to emotions- it would make sense for All Might to gain his heroic form when trying to be heroic in void logic. I can’t explain why the void logic would effect reality, or the time limit; this one comes with the stipulation that if the time limit was consistent before he passed on the quirk and only started decreasing then, then it still would make sense, it just wouldn’t if it was decreasing before he passed OFA.

Todoroki isn’t a conspiracy theorist: A lot of ppl do crack headcannons of Shoto being a conspiracy theorist for assuming Izuku was All Might’s love child. I honestly enjoy this headcannon, but even outside of it, I see ppl dismissing the scene as a joke due to the absurdity, which it’s supposed to be seen as. But it was a completely logical assumption on Todoroki’s side. He was watching Midoriya early on and the way he talked about All Might and the way they consistently interacted, and shared similar quirks. He saw the pressure Midoriya put on himself because of All Might. What Shoto really was asking Midoriya when he asked if he was All Might’s love child was if Midoriya was in the same situation as him (a child forced to carry their parent’s legacy). The fact that he saw himself and Endeavor in Izuku and All Might is… I’m not sure. Anyhow, I find this accusation to be pretty dark, not just the joke it’s presented as.

Does Midoriya actually have green hair??: lighthearted after the last one lol. he’s consistently described as plain with freckles. Curly green hair is not plain at all. Black hair is. Anyhow, lots of shows have characters with black hair have their hair colored blue for contrast or smthn. Additionally, it’s only the highlights, so it could just be a trick of the light. Does anyone remember horikoshi actually confirming his hair to be green? My final piece of evidence is that horikoshi colors izuku’s hair inconsistently. Sometimes it’s highlights are green, others cyan/turquoise, I’ve even seen green and yellow. Clearly, he wasn’t quirkless but his quirk slowly changes color over time. Of course, in the anime it’s green; but they’ve already gotten Touya’s hair wrong once, and again— maybe it’s just for contrast or smthn but is meant to be read as black…. I don’t really believe this one but also it’s funny so should be cannon

#bnha fan theories #is that not a tag? what’s the tag I’m supposed to use??#bnha theory #there’s the tag #todoroki shoto #small might #all might #conspiracy theorist todoroki shoto #Midoriya’s hair #midoriya izuku #I always think I’m spelling his name wrong with the i and y but nope #Midoriya’s hair is a color changing anomaly #also headcannon of Eri being a victim of DFO bc it makes as much sense as Izuku #I didn’t include that one bc I want to sleep #maybe not as much sense but enough #4 am rambles

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