Felt like posting this wip, decided to get on making some thumbnails for an animatic idea I’ve had for a WHILE now and the new volume has given me even more ideas >:3 So here’s one! I should figure out how to draw tears through walls n stuff for this lmao
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as much as im celebrating the Full Realization that yes, qbbh is recovering rn (he's on such an upswing!!), i am fully expecting there to be a downswing, and im expecting it to hit HARD.
the other day bbh made a very interesting comment- paraphrased: "it's easier when you have no attachments."
in context, he was talking about the bagi-cellbit situation and the hardship of attachments starting to conflict because of gaining so many of them, and trying to figure out what to do about cellbit (especially in regards to the feds and the eggs)
but it just. it Felt a Little Off. like maybe. foreshadowing. because he has so, so many attachments, and they keep causing him pain. how long has it been since he's last seen skeppy. how long has it been since he's seen the eggs. forever. now cellbit... qbbh is full of So Much Love and it keeps hurting him and, while he has recently swung away from hurting himself because his loved ones would be upset by it, what if he just... swung a little too far. and has a brief period of trying to drop those attachments entirely
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me: hmm when these dc cartoons get watered down and more Kiddy and less cinematic I’m gonna miss the darker storytelling…
Justice League circa early 2000s: hey so if the League ever takes over the planet Superman is gonna lobotomize all the extra evil villains and the earth will be under a dictatorship where it’s ok everyone is safe now (but not really) ya know that Classic Cliche plot for 10 year olds
me:
JL: also there’s this guy who can psychologically torture them in their dreams. Also there’s this caveman guy who can live forever but instead of improving humanity or something he just straight up becomes a Nazi. it ends with Superbat. (the part when superman hugs batman) Also
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it's nice that we're getting anything i guess, but, i'm gonna be what may come off as a little petty and whiny here; it'd be cool if either iteration of the gen 9 anime so far was actually about gen 9's characters instead of using them as cameos to promote original stories we have no investment in yet
it's like, i dunno, like the bait and switch with sonic appearing in wreck it ralph ads, except if wreck it ralph existing meant there would never be a sonic movie, and if you were invested in those characters and recognized they weren't generic platformer mascots, sucks for you, nobody cares
maybe they're just giving the DLC space to do its thing with them first (if they do anything at all...) but idk, i was cautiously optimistic about nemona in horizons, only for her to be a character of the day that the episode wasn't about, and pretty excited by "gen 9 prequel anime" only to find out it's going to be like, four short stories about OCs who have quick brushes with them. these are like the lacroix hint of what an anime about the game could've been like and you're left to imagine the rest yourself
i shouldn't be that surprised if the gen 8 anime reduced hero of galar hop to a character of the day with a level 5 wooloo in order to let the galaxy revolve around ash battling his brother because epic charizards, but man. what if it wasn't like that that now that ash is gone.
we haven't seen penny and team star at all because they're the hardest to talk about without bringing up the trauma of school bullying and the fear of being yourself at school when you're way too young to be dealing with all that drama responsibly. she's still learning to love and forgive herself and feel wanted.
arven's story is about, like, being a latchkey kid to a self-absorbed parent, being unsure how to feel about repairing the relationship or how seriously to take them saying they love him, and struggling to make friends due to misdirected resentment toward people he's jealous of for having apparently normal families and the stubborn self-reliance he was forced into. he's still trying to process things, find himself, and let people in.
nemona is supposed to have been a directionless lonely and depressed kid who hated being called gifted when everything was hard for her, until she met the player character and gained a peer who understood and appreciated she was a little different and she didn't have to mask her true self to have friends anymore. she's happy for now, but may still be under a little too much pressure to be perfect at the expense of her own personality, and probably won't deal well with being abandoned.
as much as they resonate with adults and are a little darker than usual pokemon fare, they're also smaller scale and realer. they are all stories that are explicitly about and meant to be relatable to kids going to school! y'know, your audience! you don't need to paint over them with 3-4 new characters and new stories every time like there was nothing there, or something shameful you need to sanitize and cover up! you can just use the game the way it is!
this got a little more heated than i intended, i just feel a little ridiculous waiting anxiously for loose scraps of a sign that this story isn't over and in the trash already and nemona's life-changing attachment to the player character isn't going to go totally ignored, as we are bombarded with what is supposed to be followup material that almost all seems eager to talk about literally anything else like they think the main story was a mistake they need to run away from
now, i'm not one to complain about original stories being told, but this was already a story that had room to grow. imagine a world where the gen 9 anime was actually about nemona, arven, penny, and the friend who brought them together. or what their lives were like before that friend came along. every episode. that would get me to watch the anime again and whatever movie came out for it. ask yourself why we don't have that, or even the traditional, like, 1-2 characters tagging along with the MCs per region thing that would leave us knowing them better than we know some irl friends
how was starting over with 100% original characters and new lore that might conflict hard with the upcoming DLC the safer bet? why is a 44 minute miniseries specifically for fans of the game making up OCs for them to get invested in and scrambling to tell their stories as quickly as possible before throwing them in the trash instead of being about the damn game?
sigh. i shouldn't get invested in a series that's about selling monster plushies just because it had one story that stuck with me
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I think it would be extremely funny if Dream time travel to 1689 (idk father time got drunk or something, I'm in the svsss fandom do you expect me to find actual world-building instead of saying "it's airplane fault"?) because, like Hob just experienced the WORST years of his life meanwhile Dream is like : "wtf is happening" but also "this is my friend, this is my labrador sunshine, this is the guy who waited for me when 99,99999% of my realm thought I abandoned them, what do you mean I shouldn't change the past? Fuck that, I'm gonna pet my labrador sunshine every Thursday like I did the past years in the futur. Watch me. "
Hob would be SO confuse because, he stinks !? (arguably, for dream every animal will stink no matter what so who care) He is poor!? He can't even get a job!? He is pathetic!? People despise him!? He is stupid, he got caught in bad situation so many fucking time!? He is SO far away from the glory of 1589 that his friend ignored, he is worst than 1389 and yet?!!? His stranger like him now!? He meets him often!?! Actually ask him if he would accept help or just need someone to be there!?!? He HUGS him EVEN IF HE STINKS!?!?!
Meanwhile the whole Dreaming wonder if their king just fell on his head and magically got +2 billion years of maturity and + 10 000 points in flirting capacity (what do you mean *HE* /ASKED/ and LISTEN to his new crush's point of views!? DID YOU HEAR THAT HE SAID THANK YOU TO LUCIENNE!?!)
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