Choice one makes it seem like it's you telling your jealous boyfriend that this person is "just a friend, so there's no reason to worry". The second choice makes it seem like you're nervously going "yea.... he's just my friend" when you know full well you have a crush on him. Just saying.
Also here's screenshots from my brother's account who ships his Mc(Callum) with Kieran. Comparing reactions:
Uhhh Animal Crossing, AOT 2, Disney Dreamlight Valley, lots of pokemon games...😂
All of Penny's lines were hilarious 😂
Not Arven flexing on Kieran 😭 I'm surprised Penny or Nemona didn't argue with him about who was my best friend
I had to stop and laugh because what is this chicken dance 🤣
Fun fact, besides MC and Kieran, Nurse Joy is the only one who didn't do the dance. She was vibing the whole time lol
Me running away from my problems
Kitakami vacation 2024 with the gang (I was having too much fun here)
AS YOU SHOULD OGERPON! YOU TELL EM!
Since when did this become the Kieran and MC show? 😂 Honestly, Kieran deserved a moment to be the hero after everything he's been through
I get that event was all about Pecharunt BUT I WANTED MORE INTERACTIONS WITH THIS GROUP!!! I DIDNT WANT THE "a few days later" TITLE CARD OR THEM TELLING US WHAT HAPPENED 😭
I got an angsty idea for a Kieran possession scenario
Instead of Koraidon/Miraidon protecting Kieran from terapagos, the player character does instead and gets critically injured. After the whole terapagos debacle Kieran visits PC in the ER and Kieran uses pecharunt’s power to fulfill his desire not to get stronger like originally intended but to save PC but can you really live on borrowed time? For a while everything is fine with Kieran trying to fight control of his mind until the second trip to Kitakami with the area zero gang in the epilogue. After the gang get possessed, PC is adamant on capturing pecharunt to free their friends with Kieran trying to prevent them as he doesn’t want to lose them again and tells them but doesn’t know what else to do to solve the crisis with PC having to decide either to capture pecharunt and the possibility of the wish wearing off and dying or to accept pecharunt being free to do whatever and live but the gang is still possessed. Or to find a third option… but miracles don’t exist right?
I might expand on this once the epilogue actually comes out and can see how pecharunt’s powers work and if what I have in mind can actually work out or if I have to slightly alter canon so yeah
Tl;dr instead of Kieran getting possessed from wanting power, it’s a selfless reason and for atonement for his past actions
Edit: Oh yeah I also forgot to add that in this scenario, Kieran is fighting the possession the entire time during the mochi mayhem epilogue and nearly gives in a few times because of the stress of the situation so that’s fun :)
Seven days left…
Update: here’s more information about this potential au/scenario https://www.tumblr.com/asleepygremlin/739511085750796288/seven-days-left
Thoughts on/during Mochi Mayhem? I'm curious. Especially towards the... memetic dance scene(s).
I LOVED IT!!!!
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet really put me in the "I wanna be a kid doing stupid dumb goofy things with my friends" vibes and Mochi Mayhem really delivered! everyone coming over to the player's house and hanging out at the start and the whole finding the remote mini quest at the community center really got to me. We're just a couple of kids doing kid things!!
Also the fact that Arven says Clicker like an old man means so much to me. We really are siblings.
SPEAKING OF ARVEN
He knocked it out of the PARK during Mochi Mayhem being just??? So funny??? Like, he's so pushy about being the player's one and only Best Friend
And he's so agro at Kieran over it to the point of ending the epilogue apologizing for it... But Kieran didn't even notice because he's so use to his sister being agro at him like that???
Also the fact that he has just enough control while mind controlled by Pecharunt to be embarrassed by the stupid dance dskgjdfjgjdfh Hysterical
There's a lot of other really silly moments that got to me very personally, like how much everyone calls out Nemona for being entirely too much, or just the implication that the three of them were hanging out without me, implying they've all become friends as well really gets to me
I don't like the paid DLC direction Nintendo is going in, but this is the best Pokemon Game post DS Era in my opinion, even if with the DLC it's more than double the price of a DS era Pokemon game with about the same amount of content...
But yeah! I really liked the Epilogue! I had a great time, I loved seeing everyone getting to have a fun time and being silly, I ADORE Pecharunt to no end, and am super happy to have Kieran back in the club room finally!