#im so normal abt villain iris

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So yeah, Villain Iris and Team Plasma

GOD I listen to the song you said felt like Iris and N. You are so true it IS them. N telling Iris that she’s making a mistake by siding with the enemy

But Iris is sick of all the hate she’s getting from the people of Unova who don’t believe she’s good enough. She just wants to prove everyone wrong by showing how strong she truly is, even though drastic ways. But lmao yeah she’s just doing what the people of Unova did to her, treating them the same way they treated her

Imagine she found the location of Ghetsis temporary hide out and she just, girlbosses her way inside. Taking down grunts until she reaches the room where Ghetsis is trying to make a run for it, thinking the Government or some organization found his ass. But he’s still being cautious cause the damn Champion of Unova is there with her Haxorus. He makes a snide comment about how there’s finally a champion that takes initiative, the public must be happy with her

But she just, calls her Pokémon back to his pokeball and sits in a chair across from Ghetsis. Getting straight to the point about why she’s there, saying she wants to make a deal with him

She will give him private information about the Unova League, will fight for him should the time ever come, AND she reminds him about how she is the Hero of Fate and she can control Kyurem and it’s power, all of that in exchange for the power and control that comes with Team Plasma

She wants to become an equal to Ghetsis, she wants to be a leader of Team Plasma. She’s confident that with her help Team Plasma will rule over Unova. She’ll make sure the same mistake doesn’t happen again

(They both know the other would backstab them if given the chance, but they’re willing to work together for the time being)

OUGHDKCBDBDNS RIGHT IT FITS THEM SO MUCH IM CJXNDBDN

God pls I'm so normal abt them (foams in the mouth)

This is gon be longer than the other ask bet bc I'm trash for the Unova peeps so I have more feelings abt this and abt them and just jcmdbfkd

OUGGHHHH IRIS USING THE HERO OF FATE THING JCMCNFMCNCMDBCMDBFNCNDNGGOING FUCKING INSANE OVER THAT OUGHFJBCMDDHMDBDMD

But also Iris just girlbossing her way to Ghetsis' office, what an icon😭🤣

Anyways omf but like hdmdbdj

Yknow while Ghetsis knows to not challenge the Champion, he wants her to know she's outnumbered still despite taking out the grunts guarding his office. So while talking to her he subtly taps his cane twice on the floor, calling forth the Shadow Triad. But it's been a minute, then a few more, he couldn't feel their presence, couldn't feel them within the room. He gritted his teeth, then he looked at Iris, she was smiling at him, shaking her head. She pulls out a black and bloodied bandana from her pocket, waving it around.

"you were looking for them weren't you?" She laughed at the way he tried to hide his surprise. She saw his grip on his cane getting tighter, and she drawled out, "they were weak. Then again, what did I expect from Plasma, anyways?" And she went on how it was just a pathetic organization, run by a pathetic man, and his equally pathetic sages and mercenaries. But, w her help, it won't have to be a sorry excuse for an organization anymore. Not like it was in the first place, she knew Plasma would be in a much better situation in her hands than on Ghetsis'. And god ofc, Ghetsis also wanted that power, and ofc he'd give her the benefit of a doubt of her being one of Plasma's leaders, especially since she has Kyurem too, and while he failed the first and second times, he's not gonna fail a third time. As they say, third time's the charm.

But then again, bad things come in threes.

The plan was going well. They first froze over Icirrus, as it was a frozen wasteland anyways, Dragonspiral Tower has been destroyed, not like it has any use for them anyways. Everyone was running, screaming for help, Brycen wasn't around as Gym Leader anymore, so the folks ran and got help from the strongest trainers in the city, hoping it would be enough to buy them time to call Brycen, or even better, their Champion. Iris merely watched them from the frigate, Ghetsis right besides her, he was monologuing really, she didn't listen, he was quite boring.

And when Icirrus was nothing more than a frozen graveyard, they left, just as Brycen finally arrived, what welcomed him were the frozen corpses of the people he once protected.

Next was Mistralton. Skyla had put up a fight, but unfortunately Flying types were weak to Ice. W her Braviary, they tried flying towards the frigate, a newfound rage in her eyes as the rest of her gym trainers were helping the people of Mistralton from the grunts. Just as she was close to getting to the frigate, a Hydreigon came in, stopping her. And ofc, she thought it was Ghetsis' Hydreigon, she knows he has one, so she and her Braviary tried attacking it. Just as she was about to win, a beam of ice hit her and Braviary, making them fall from the sky. Braviary was quick to recover, flying beneath Skyla just in time to save her from a gruesome death. And as the two looked up, the frigate went on the direction of Driftveil. Skyla looked around Mistralton, they couldn't save a lot of people and Pokémon, and god she felt like shit. She ended up calling Clay, warning him of Plasma, and after the call, she's there trying to help those who survived the brunt of Plasma's ice.

Ofc, it didn't surprise Iris in the slightest that Driftveil was prepared. And she knows by now that Clay also informed the rest of the League. Oh, what a hassle. But, as much as he put up a fight, Ground types were also weak to Ice. Iris just let Kyurem have his fun, she thinks he deserves it for all the hard work. She watches Clay along w his gym trainers and the trainers from the PWT try and stop Kyurem, but failing miserably. Kyurem howled and used Glaciate, Fire specialists and those w Fire types tried to counter it w Flamethrower and Heat Wave and Flare Blitz, crashing to the ice, hoping it'd melt, praying to Arceus it's enough. But it wasn't.

Watching them struggle, Iris actually laughed. Those people insulted her for being weak, but look who's the weak one now. Ghetsis wasn't around, but she knows what he was going to do. And man was it so predictable. She hears his footsteps behind her, no doubt to backstab her. Just as he was about to, he grunted, as he was suddenly held down to the ground. Iris finally turned to him, the Shadow Triad was pinning him to the deck, two were grabbing his arms, the other one has his hand the back of Ghetsis' neck, forcing him to look up to Iris. Ofc that caught him off guard. He thought they were dead.

Iris just laughed at him, then she looked at the mercenary in the middle, "you were right, he really fell for it," she said, pulling out the same bandana, throwing it in front of him.

Ghetsis struggled within their grasps, calling them traitors, but they said that Iris offered them a better deal, smth Ghetsis himself didn't offer them. The former boss of Plasma tried to fight back, to call out his own Pokémon, but none came out of their pokeball, refusing to do his bidding. Ghetsis looked up at Iris, a puff of smoke leaving her lips as she laughed, the cold was really getting to all of them. Her eyes were bright, almost glowing, she looked as if bored. Then w a smile, she said, "kill him."

And for once in his life, Ghetsis finally knew what fear felt like

#your h o n o u r #im so normal abt villain iris #shes just soooo BCMXBDMBCMDBXMXBDNDNDMD #OUGH #like the mental image of iris having kyurem is already dope as it is #but villain iris w kyurem??? #yas queen💅 #kill those haters✨ #just cjdmfbmdnd #ougghhhh lowkey wanna draw iris as plasma's boss now tho for fucking real😭😭 #its such a good mental image cndndndn #villain champions au #an ask and an answer #jerseyk112 #villain iris au

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ok here are some of my Actual s2 thoughts (voltron spoilers below)

so back when i first watched s1 i guess i wasn’t totally 100% into it?? i dont remember if i ever really talked abt it on here but i remember being a little confused and trying to figure out why it was so popular bc i honestly didn’t think it was that great but idk i must’ve warmed up to it at some point between then and now bc i was way more into it this time around aaaaa

i rly did like s2 better than s1 tho??? idk maybe it’s just bc it’s new so it’s the hype of new content & everything but dang overall i do feel like i enjoyed it more

i rly like the art style and especially the animation style like this is probably just me coming to this show straight from lolirock but like... while lolirock has a really appealing art style im honestly not a fan of the type of animation they use so it felt really nice to come back to like. hand-drawn stuff idk just! voltron is a v visually appealing show in all aspects god bless

everyone is still super trans wow i can’t believe every character is trans

tbh i love shiro? but it’s weird bc i actually think he’s rly boring when it comes to his “leadership” kind of characteristics but like also he suffers a lot and gets a lot of the plot-heavy development and normally i might be annoyed by that but im just...... so weak

also speakin of shiro there was a lot of shiro/keith this season and like..... ok im gonna be honest i dont rly ship them or anything like at all im not too keen on the two of them that way but this person i follow has this au where they’re brothers and imagining them that way made me enjoy their scenes like 100% more so like Good Shit (but tbh keith saying “you’re like a brother to me” or was it maybe “father” i can’t remember but either way that line killed me pls i want them to have a rly strong platonic bond i want shiro to feel rly protective of keith and i want keith to feel safer around shiro aaaaa i love it so much)

pidge starting to adopt altean terms and phrases fucking killed me dude like with the time vocabulary n shit, even the others started picking it up a little bit it’s So Fucking Good im so happy aaaaaAA

i still love keith and lance i hope they never calm down w/ each other and keep fighting forever bye (like rewatching s1 when lance is like “yOU AGAIN” and keith is like “who are u” hfhdgd gOD that was so GOOD)

a lot of the character development was rly good but tbh im a little disappointed by the lack thereof when it came to lance and hunk like ?? at this point they’re still treated like the Joke Characters for the most part, i mean lance did have his one little moment of glory in that one episode but i would really love to see like. an actual full character arc w/ him. and i know hunk did have some stuff in s1 w/ like the balmerans & shae but this season it felt like he was just kinda pushed aside and i mean the same could be said of pidge, who did have a lot of story in s1 but barely anything in s2, so maybe i’m just being a little impatient lol i mean. if u take a step back and lay it all out, s1 focused on shiro, pidge, allura, and a little bit of hunk, and then s2 focused on shiro and keith, so maybe s3 (idk if it’s even confirmed yet but like hypothetically) will focus on lance and hunk more? and probably shiro again tbh  i mean it doesn’t really feel like anything’s been set up to go into a lance or hunk arc, but at the same time there wasn’t really any setup for keith’s whole s2 thing in s1 either, so there’s still the possibility that it could all happen in s3 but like. with the way s2 went and the unanswered questions it left about keith i can see s3 being very keith-centric, not to mention all the reminders we got about pidge’s whole family issue this season, so s3 will probably focus on that a lot too idk i mean at the end of the day they are pretty short seasons, it makes sense that they can only focus on a select few characters at a time, so i feel like at this point it makes sense to just sit back and wait to see what happens, & then if hunk and lance are still kind of shoved aside w/ nary even a mere setup then wtf actually

not to keep running w/ the negativity & criticisms but honestly what i really love in a show is complex characters written realistically and w/ voltron i feel like it /almost/ delivers but not really? like, not to bring up lolirock again but that show has fairly one-dimensional characters who are written relying more on their character type than anything with a ton of depth; the protagonists are Good and the antagonists are Evil; auriana is the goofball, talia is the responsible one, iris is the main character or the “pure good” one, mephisto is the clumsy villain, praxina is the irritable villain- like it’s all just very straightforward (most of the time). i feel like voltron is a little more complex with its characters than lolirock, but in the end it still kind of sticks to the same method of characterization; it’s definitely not as cookie-cutter, but each character does have one or two characteristics that blatantly stick out and make them.... i dont know, really predictable? like you Know that every time a girl shows up lance is gonna hit on her, and every time there’s some cool technology pidge is gonna fawn over it and every time there’s food hunk is gonna say some shit about being hungry, and keith and lance argue a lot and shiro gets the team’s shit together because he’s the Leader and it’s just like basically, with voltron it feels very “telling” rather than “showing” with most things, and besides manifesting in the story it shows in the way the characters are written, too. in most situations, the characters’ reactions are written based more on those few main characteristics they’ve been given than more realistic reactions to their current situation, and maybe that’s a little confusing but i’ll try to clarify actually im sorry but i just completely lost my train of thought and i can’t get it back, it’s currently coming up on 1am and im incredibly tired right now so i’m gonna have to cut this short but like. basically, the characters in voltron kind of have their main characteristics and it’s fine to have things like that bc it helps define characters but the way the writers use them feels a lot like those hogwarts house sorting quizzes that are like “what’s your favorite animal? a) lion b) snake c) raven d) badger” like it tends to be relatively straightforward and predictable in a bad way, and a lot of that execution has to do with the storytelling style the show has overall

ok ANYWAY let’s say something more positive now: the soundtrack to this show is absolutely phenomenal tbh i remember thinking this last time too, just the general sound it has, it feels like an homage to the older series and acts as a subtle way to bring that kind of aesthetic into it and i rly like it (i mean i’ve never seen the old show so idk what kind of aesthetic it has but u know what i mean. the kind of “old video tape sound” kind of thing. u know the game oxenfree, which has a similar music aesthetic. god idk how to explain this i hope u know what i’m trying to say. i rly like voltron’s soundtrack)

like i didnt mean to go on this big rant all “here’s everything i didn’t like abt voltron what a Bad Show” bc i actually really like it a lot!! the fact that im picking it apart like this is actually a good sign that i like it bc if i dont care abt something i won’t put in the effort, u know? if i don’t like it then i won’t be all “here’s what i hope to see from this show in the future” right

anyway it’s fuckin 1am bye, i love voltron goodnight

#retag later #voltron blogging #voltron spoilers /

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Another concept to add to this

With Drayden dying and how it caused an uproar in Unova, the League was temporarily closed, and the Elite Four decided to stay w Iris too.

What they didn't really expect was for the other champions to be there as well.

Caitlin was happy to see Cynthia again tho, the two were catching up w each other at least, while the rest of the E4 were talking w the other champions, asking where Iris was and why they were here. Cynthia said they're here for some sort of moral support, as Iris was part of them now, and since she's the youngest Champion, they want to look out for her and make sure she was alright. After all, being a child and losing a family so dear to you, that'll mess a kid up. The E4 were happy to hear that tho, that despite Iris still being a somewhat new champion, the Champions themselves saw her as an equal and was making sure she's okay.

Marshall did ask again where Iris was tho, and it's Geeta who tells them that she's upstairs in her room w Diantha and Lance, seems only those two can get through her atm.

And yeah, w Iris and Dia and Lance, they're w her in her room, w Dia telling Iris that her Elite Four are downstairs, asking abt her. And Iris was just so scared, she's fucking terrified at what they'll do to them, so she begs and pleads for them to not hurt her Elite Four too. Ofc, they never would, Diantha told her, rubbing soothing circles on her back, they always tried looking out for her too, and the Champions appreciated that. And Iris could somewhat sigh in relief at that, but damn that fear was still there yknow. And hey, she can't always keep them waiting, but she's just not ready to face them yet.

And Lance is there, going on how he'll tell the others that you're still resting, I'm sure they'll understand you can't talk to them yet. But before he leaves, he takes off his cape, placing it on Iris' own shoulders, it was a bit too big on her, almost covering her entire body, and Lance kneeled before her, hands on her shoulders as he adjusted the cape, telling her you're a Champion. A Dragon Master. You should be stronger than this, I believe in you. And he left, also leaving in Iris' hands were the burden of both Champion and Dragon Master.

Diantha just smiles at that tho, he really cares about you, darling, and nuzzles Iris lovingly, kissing the top of her head, and you mean a lot to us too.

But Iris just couldn't think straight yet, everything's happening so suddenly, and now feeling how heavy Lance's cape is, is this really the burden of a Champion? Or is this the weight of Lance's, and even the other Champions', sins being placed on to her shoulders, especially since she's one of them now. Maybe it is. Maybe.. maybe it's them passing down the torch to her.

#im so normal abt iris w lance's cape fr (foams in thr mouth) its a cool mental image #GOD CNDMCBMDND #the want... to draw it vnmdnfmdndmdn #its like those kids wearing their dad's clothes or smth yknow #but w iris she honestly doesnt wanna wear that cape #it reeks of blood and death and sin and hate and she fucking loathes it #and she hates how it somewhat gave her comfort too #just chmxbck #UR HONOUR CNDMNCMXNCMXN #villain champions au #pokemon champions