#POOR OLIMAR

[schmabbald]

poor olimar. he's not even a full inch tall and he's been sent to the Horrible Alien Death Planet so many times and it's still unclear wether he got to see his family in-between these journeys

#okay. definitely between pikmin two and three he got to finally see his family again. but the gap between one and two? #'hey there guy whos been struggling to survive on an alien planet for a month!' #'yeah so.... erm... you know that alien planet you almost died on?' #'yeahhh... well... you kinda have to go back. sorry. no you do not have time to see your wife and kids or sit down or shower or eat or-' #and then he gets paired with the absolute degenerate (affectionate) that is louie and instantly thrown back into that death trap #like. hes 1.9cm/0.75in tall please let him have nice things #and i am saying all of this with pretty limited knowledge #....he got to see his family after pikmin two right? he got to rest? he got to go a minute without being in mortal peril right? #i know he was in mortal peril again in the third game but he seems to have come back to earth On Purpose that time #granted everything went awfully wrong again but he and louie seemed fine for the first few minutes? #then olimar gets yoinky sploinkied by the magma wraith and louie robs three peoples food supply (albeit in self defense) but. details #why cant olimar have nice things #oh yeah i dont know what happened in the fourth game. i think its a soft reboot of the story? and if we consider that to be the case then- #POOR OLIMAR #poor little guy. hes not even 2cm tall and he has encountered such hardships

[mariomoved]

@rocket-mxn CANT EVEN REACH THE BUTTONS?????? UNFAIR ASF ★ replied!

nintendo, make even smaller joy-cons challenge???

#* ( 🍄 ) 𝗜𝗡 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗥. — ❝ let's a go! ❞ #rocketmxn #POOR OLIMAR #joycons are already so little #and this is coming from a guy with SMALL HANDS DVFGH

[kelpermoosee]

If Pikmin could survive on Hocotate, I legitimately think Olimar would be willing to cause a invasive species issue just to bring them home

#krillerfiller #biology is probably a big special interest for olimar so he would be clearly aware of the consequences. he just doesn’t care #pikmin #pikmin fandom #pikmin fanart #captain olimar #olimar #olimar pikmin #pikmin olimar #louie pikmin #Louie #pikmin louie #nintendo fandom #nintendo #nintendo fanart #pikmin 2 #pikmin comic #poor Louie…victim to Olimar’s dad jokes

[phantomrose96]

In theory I'd like to cut down in my online-ness but it's actually genuinely kinda hard in cases when I have the whole day free.

Like today I played tennis with friends for an hour, went to a cafe with them for breakfast, spent some time on bike trails, called my mom for an hour, cleaned my kitchen & took out the trash, shopped for groceries, went for a run, and all that was STILL only like. half the day. The other half was pissed away on internet and video games.

I think I kinda get why historically I'm supposed to have like 7 kids by now.

#in completely totally unrelated news guess whos started Pikmin 3 #I did all of Olimar's side story early (bc I love him) and by god someone help this poor unfortnate man #chrissy speaks

[sqwdkllr]

LMFAO????? WHATTHE FUCK

#poor guy always getting put through the horrors i guess #captain olimar #pikmin 4 #pikmin

[sirwow]

More Wraiths Call thinking character wise,.

#pikmin #pikmin fanart #pikmin 5 concept #pikmin wraiths call #pikmin louie #pikmin olimar #captain olimar #pikmin alph #pikmin brittany #pikmin charlie #pikmin president #Terry on his way to take a poor taxi driver to hell to see his dad

[dragonkeeper19600]

In Pikmin 2, if you keep playing for long enough after rescuing Louie and getting every treasure, Olimar’s wife starts to get a little desperate.

#Pikmin #Pikmin 2 #Olimar’s wife #captain Olimar #this poor woman is so thirsty #’get back here and screw my brains out!’

[chr0n0mage]

Ain't no way he's not the most traumatized man ever after his stay in the pikmin planet holy shit

#pikmin #captain olimar #olimar pikmin #he's absolutely tortured #poor salaryman guy

[hugsohugs]

olimar's role in the removed mario & luigi starbeans cafe cameo is so funny. names mario after himself, steals his drink, calls luigi ugly, straight up attacks him, and then (presumably) just. leaves. menace to society

#poor luigi lmao #pikmin #olimar #huso smashes buttons

[thewhitefox3]

Context!!

Before this, Olimar and his wife got into a big fight, Olimar went to Louie’s overnight to calm down

Warning! The story hints on Oli being in a, well, not healthy relationship

#captain olimar #louie #olimar pikmin #louie pikmin #angst #my poor Olimar

[maideninorange]

Me: "Let's check my statistics on AO3 tonight! Because it's late and I'm bored."

Huh?

How?!

This is my first time ever getting to a hundred kudos on a fic...I didn't think I'd get twenty, least of all a hundred.

So uh...Thanks, you guys! I'm not a regular to Pikmin as a fandom beyond a mere reader outside my occasional ideas, so it's nice to see! I still think this number is completely insane, but it makes me happy all the same!

I wish I had more to say here but... it's late. I'm tired. I just wanted to say thanks. I'm pretty proud of this one as a writer!

#she speaks (musings) #pikmin #pikmin fanfiction #mission accomplished younger me #not bad for something I wrote in like three days #it was pretty fun to torment poor Olimar lol #fun fact: I wrote this before I even saw any demo footage for Pikmin 4 #so no Pikmin 4 influence here #I just felt inspired to write a bad end fic to celebrate its release with no prior knowledge #(I still find the whole thing pretty funny) #so yeah #thanks guys #I was not expecting this at all lol #(I knew Pikmin fics had a bit of a bigger readership than I was used to) #(but woah...) #(madness to me I tell ya) #(Madness) #(ah well) #(I'm glad so many people enjoyed it) #(I liked reading the comments on this one lol)

[kof-xiii]

the plasma wraith gave me nightmares as a kid lol

🫂🫂🫂🫂

ITSS SOOOOOOO FREAKY BROOOO I CANNOT BLAME U YOUNGER ME WOULD BE SO FUCKED UP FROM THAT, oh man, it was kinda cute for a while until it decided to fucking engulf olimar and everything turned into a chase scene

#el-mail #pls like GET ME TF OUT OF HEREE #and i keep accidentally whistling everyone altogether and dropping olimar bc my planning skills shut off and im just on flight or fight #mode running my ass away until it fucking gets the poor guy

[sukugo]

ok so i had this very interesting dream(s?) today

it was kinda like if i were "scrolling on tumblr" but also not, as in each post was smth that was happening? idk, well whatever, the important thing were the actual posts. there were 3 main ones.

post 1 was a kid ben solo clinging to luke, ben with cute pleading eyes and luke being uhhhhh help.....supposedly it was a drawing by someone

post 2. art by the same person as above, but this time it was anadinluke with anakin squished between dinluke in their laps, luke sitting behind him and din in front

and post 3. the most important. it was basically olimar!anakin where anakin's pikmin are in a corner super worried watching as obi-wan does something to anakin (I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT HE WAS DOING! was it fucking him?? idk!!! i don't really think so) all the while anakin is complaining really bad. he's in pain? idk the thing is anakin doesn’t want him to do it and he's thrashing horribly while obi-wan grips his face HARD and doesn't let him move. and supposedly whatever obi-wan is doing is necessary for anakin to participate in a tournament (smash tournament perhaps?) and obi-wan won't have anakin NOT participate. he will force anakin to participate which is why he's doing this (bc they're rivals? idk exactly) (or it was something about obi-wan being the organizer of the event, not sure)

#yeah that was the dream(s) #it was so interesting and when i woke up i was like. what . where am i what is life. felt like i had slept for a long long time #BUT ALSO LET'S TALK ABOUT OLIMAR ANAKIN #SO CUTE IN HIS LIL ASTRONAUT CLOTHES AND WITH HIS PIKMIN FOLLOWING HIM AROUND #and the poor lil pikmin tho 😭😭 #they were all huddled together all 😥 while watching anakin #sw #obikin #f.txt

[ssserf]

i love how shitty Olimar and Louie's space suits are. Canonically they're cheap and nasty because their boss sucks and the more we see of other in-universe uniforms, the more we really witness that.

The Koppaites from 3, the rescue corps, all walking around in sleek outfits while our boys are looking like expired custard dollops. Poor guys.

#rambles #pikmin #captain olimar

[fullmoonfireball]

anyways, a proper happy new year to you all, now that more of you are probably awake!

while the obvious joke of this comic translates fine, there is a secondary joke that doesn't- and it's right in the title of the original.

hatsuyume (lit. "first dream") is the first dream one has in the new year- usually on the night of January 1st, since the night of December 31st is often passed without sleeping, hence why this is the January 2nd comic. traditionally, this dream is said to predict your luck for the coming year. there's a few particular subjects that are especially lucky to dream about, but I think it's pretty safe to say Olimar's experiencing quite the opposite here. poor guy.

#Rambles Into The Void #Vesper's Translations #Pikmin

[phantomrose96]

Oh okay so I have a Pikmin theory.

So for starters: Pikmin 1->2->3 are chronological. Pikmin 4 is a sort of AU of Pikmin 1, precedented on Olimar not making it off PNF-404 alive (sort of a bad-end of Pikmin 1, but also with various other AU differences).

This leads me to wonder... is Pikmin 4->2->3 arguably a canon sequence of events? Cuz either the differences between 1 and 4 have knocked canon off course, and as such 4 will never lead to 2 and 3. Or you can string them together in a way that makes 4->2->3 a plausible canonical chain.

The biggest thing that stands out to me is Louie. In 1->2->3, no one was ever sent to rescue Olimar in 1, and the second he arrives home in 2 his boss informs him that Louie was attacked ("attacked") by a space rabbit that ate the precious cargo of golden pikpik carrots, launching the company into massive debt (and he forces Olimar back to PNF-404 to treasure hunt to pay off the debt.) It's later revealed Louie was never attacked, and he ate the cargo himself.

In 4, LOUIE is sent to rescue Olimar. (He never does. He completely gives up because he forgot what Olimar looks like, and then becomes the biggest pain in your ass after YOU rescue Olimar, because Louie starts taking hostages and running from you insisting he never wants to leave PNF-404 for... some unclear reason?)

This feels like it could break 4->2->3 as a plausible canon, considering Louie is not home on Hocotate to eat his whole cargo (fucker). But I realized something.

Pikmin 4 starts more or less around when Olimar's life support runs out and he dies. You get his SOS signal not long at all before this happens. And TBH, it's probably a good additional in-game month in 4 before you actually rescue Olimar and encounter Louie. In a good-end run of Pikmin 1, Olimar needs to repair his ship and escape PNF-404 before his life support runs out. So in short: Louie fucks up the cargo sometime prior to Olimar's life support running out, and Pikmin 4 is set after his life support runs out. (Technically, they changed the amount of time his life support lasts between 1 and 4, but I figure that was to trim down Olimar's Tale in 4 and not actually for a canon reason).

My point being, Pikmin 4 being largely set after Olimar's life support runs out means Louie had plenty of time to fuck up the pikpik carrot cargo.

Then there's the fact that in Pikmin 4, Louie is desperate to STAY on PNF-404 for reasons he refuses to ever explain. Maybe, because, ya know, he's waiting for the other shoe to drop. He knows he's responsible for plunging Hocotate Freight into what was essentially $10 million of debt. Louie doesn't want to be charged with $10 million worth of theft. And without Olimar bringing home the bottle cap, there's no plan for repaying that debt.

Louie maybe wants to stay on PNF-404 because he's not going the fuck to jail.

All this to say: I think 4->2->3 is actually a completely reasonable canon sequence, if you figure the "Louie lost (ate) the $10 million of golden pikpik carrots" happens in the background, right at the start of Pikmin 4 before Olimar's life support has run out. Olimar's SOS comes through, and President, desperate for his only competent employee back to help fix this, sends Louie to PNF-404 on a rescue mission. On PNF-404, Louie figures himself a fugitive who'd rather spend his days cooking bulborbs than ever return home to Hocotate to potentially face the music of his "this was definitely a felony" crime, and so he kicks and screams and fights to stay on PNF-404...

...And you drag him home anyway, along with poor rescued Olimar who's died and come back to life... just in time for their boss to be like "YOU idiots, go get me out of debt! Go back to PNF-404"

#chrissy talks pikmin #pikmin #pikmin 4 #pikmin 1 #pikmin 2