I don’t know if anyone has yet brought up the Copperajah in the room yet, but…..thoughts on Archie/Team Aqua?
Archie... It's far easier for me to sum up my feelings on his team than the man himself. The team is a bunch of idiot pirates, as I have mentioned before, who just want to goof off.
Archie himself is smart. The only reason Team Aqua is of any threat is because Archie is a smart man enabling and directing the force of hundreds of idiots. It's a genius play, but it is a pain in the rear for us. I don't know if Archie really intends to drown everyone in the world and raise the tides, or if he is just playing a large scale game for the thrill of it.
There is another factor in my particular feelings on Archie. There is a nobility to him that his crew sorely lacks. I remember sitting in on the calls between him and my dad, and it was like watching a cartoon character, but then, something interesting happened.
He was in the base causing all sorts of havoc, as he had a tendency to do back in the day, and while he and my dad were battling and yelling at each other, I went to the waters edge (There is a sort of docking port in the base where the water is quite deep.) which I had been told explicitly not to do. There were cute pokémon, wailmers and sharpedo, and I wanted to see if the sharpedo really had sharp skin like I had read about (They do). Of course I over-reached to try to pat one on the nose, and of course I fell in. The sharpedo weren't attacking, but they were definitely curious. I don't think they meant any harm in biting me, they just don't have hands to poke at me with, you know?
Either way, I was a stupid child who didn't listen, and I can't swim, but moments later someone else jumps into the water and shoves all the pokémon off of me, and pulls me out of the water, back onto land. It was Archie, much to everyone's surprise, but he saved me, and just, deposits me in my dads arms, sopping wet.
He was completely serious in that moment, no character or anything, no funny pirate man. He's a complex character to be sure, and I don't think I hate him or anything. I think I would say that I respect him, no more and no less than that. I assume my father has a very similar opinion. He was fervently thanking him after pulling me out of the water. He did also slug Archie dead in the nose after that one time his grunts kidnapped me from school. So perhaps on second though, my dad's opinion may just break even, I'm not sure.
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Unrelated note, but I love that terminology, the copperajah in the room, because it makes me think of copperajah. Absolutely terrifying pokémon, but so beautiful. Nature is fickle.
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Team Leaders (/assorted main villains) version! Obligatory Penny and Piers are only counted because they're the leaders of the "antagonist" teams, tho they're not really villains themselves.
Cyrus generally gets about 3hrs of sleep a week on average, when he actually does sleep, he could sleep thru the end of the world. It makes a road trip with all these other idiots bearable.
Colress mostly doing the "Are we there yet?" to piss Ghetsis off. He stops after they leave Ghetsis stranded.
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Archie must have had some fake sharpedo then- everyone knows sharpedo are smooth in every direction.
I'm not sure what this means. Sharpedo are renown for their rough skin. It's to the point that it can do damage during pokémon battles. I think this may be a 'troll' comment.
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