#neo swords

[goddess-of-eyes]

I feel like the Neo Swords don't get enough credit. Like sure they're not as drastically different as the Legendary Beasts are but I feel like there's so many subtle details about them that people haven't noticed yet.

Let's start off with Iron Crown's Scarlet dex entry.

>It resembles a mysterious object introduced in a paranormal magazine as a cutting-edge weapon shaped like a Cobalion.

Let's think about the context of that for a second. Of that wording. A weapon shaped like a Cobalion. Now, why would anybody build a robo-Cobalion in the first place? What purpose would it serve?

Well, let's take a look at Iron Crown's Base Stat Total and compare it to Cobalion's!

Iron Crown has a slightly higher base stat total than Cobalion does, but take a look at how different some of their stats are. Iron Crown is a VERY strong special attacker, with a special attack of 122. Then compare that to Cobalion's special defense. It's their weakest stat at 72.

Take their typings into consideration too. Iron Crown is Steel/Psychic, while Cobalion is Steel/Fighting. What are fighting type Pokemon weak to? Psychic types.

You could probably brush this off as a coincidence, but I fully believe that this was intentional. Let's compare Iron Leaves' Base Stats and Virizion's Base Stats as well real quick.

Once again, we've got a huge difference in stat distribution. Iron Leaves? Very strong physical attacker. Virizion's lowest stat? Physical defense. Iron Leaves' physical attack has almost twice as many points as Virizion's physical defense.

So coupled with the fact that not only do the Neo Swords have a higher base stat total than the Swords of Justice, but they all seem to exceed in places where the Swords of Justice falter, not just in stats, but also in type matchups.

Iron Crown and Iron Leaves were built to kill and replace Virizion and Cobalion. By taking advantage of the strengths that the Swords of Justice lacked, they could bring them down from just how much stronger and more powerful they are, having the higher up in advantages in every single way.

But things get a bit different when we look at Iron Boulder and Terrakion.

In contrast to Iron Crown and Iron Leaves, Iron Boulder doesn't outclass Terrakion in any stats other than special defense and speed. Sure, it can move faster than Terrakion, but Terrakion isn't much of a special attacker anyway and it's still much bulkier and stronger than Iron Boulder.

Not only that, but it could still reasonably go toe to toe with Iron Boulder. Sure, fighting types are weak to psychic types, but Iron Boulder is still a rock type, and rock types are weak to fighting types. So, what gives? Why do Iron Crown and Iron Leaves take advantage of Cobalion and Virizion's weaknesses while Iron Boulder doesn't?

Let's refer to Scarlet's dex entry on Iron Boulder.

>It resembles a Pokémon described in a dubious magazine as a Terrakion that had been modified by an evil organization.

And therein lies the difference. It's not a robot made to take down Terrakion, it IS Terrakion.

When you compare them side by side it's clear they had to take a few liberties to get Iron Boulder to be as fast as it is. Terrakion is much bulkier while Iron Boulder has more of an armored shell thing going on with its body. Its structural integrity probably leaves much to be desired, but perhaps the idea is you wouldn't need to worry about it getting hit when it's too agile to get hit in the first place.

Iron Leaves and Iron Crown were built to kill Virizion and Cobalion, and then when those two were gone, they likely had to weaken Terrakion so they could bring it back to be modified, since Iron Leaves and Iron Crown all outclass Terrakion in terms of stats and typing, leaving Terrakion with no advantages at all.

Living beings tend to make mistakes, lapses in judgement. Often times, it might be critical, and in the heat of the moment, one might slip up, miss something, leading to justice not being served as it should be.

The Swords of Justice cut themselves off from humanity after the war ended, hid themselves away after realizing how much of a burden people were to Pokemon, and the harm they could bring. Even in the years past, they still refused to believe humans and Pokemon could co-exist, attacking anyone who drew near for the longest time. A stubborn mindset, a flawed one, the fault of the mind. A machine would have no sense of selfishness.

Why waste time with human error when a machine is less likely to make mistakes, if at all? Surely, a machine must have a better understanding of justice, of righteousness than a living being. Thousands of calculations per minute to determine the best possible outcome, the best course of action. A machine would be a far better protector than the Swords of Justice ever could be.

Right?

#pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon violet #paradox pokemon #swords of justice #Neo Swords #Virizion #Cobalion #Terrakion #Iron Crown #Iron Leaves #iron Boulder #pokemon theory

[fierykitten2]

I hope when the Proto Beasts and Neo Swords finally get Dream World artwork, they get additional artwork of the trios together just like their modern-day counterparts (with Leaves in the middle of the Neo Swords one. Wake can stay in the middle of the Proto Beast one)

I hope Bolt’s images make it look as cute as Raikou’s solo one does (I’ll be honest, Raging Bolt and Raikou are my least favourites of the Legendaries with Paradox counterparts and the Paradox Legendaries themselves. I do think Bolt has the potential to be cute though)

#proto beasts #neo swords #suicune #virizion #entei #terrakion #raikou #cobalion #walking wake #iron leaves #gouging fire #iron boulder #raging bolt #iron crown #legendary beasts #swords of justice

[humbledoodles]

Ruby is out for BLOOD-

#rwby #rwby fanart #ruby rose rwby #penny polendina #if you squint #BUFF RUBY #rwby spoilers #myartstyle #art #rwby vol 9 #rwby vol 9? #Ruby finds one of Penny’s swords #and uses it to beat the shit outta Neo #Neo don’t stand a chance #nuts and dolts #kinda???

[t4t-dazai]

im really curious if bram is actually. tied to something so that he won't be pulled down with the sword. did aya tie him to the building. please tell me she did it would be so embarassing if she didnt 😭😭

#imagine youre trying to pull out a sword out of a guy with a 20kg table but you realize you havent tied that guy to anything besides table #so that guy falls down along with the table #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #neo: chit chat #bsd spoilers #bsd ch 109 #bsd 109 #bsd aya #bsd bram

[quayrund]

"Battle of Didgori" monument, Georgia

#nephilim #sword #georgia #battle #medieval #neo medieval #core #art #photography #design #white #fashion #black #painting #illustration #portrait #light #knight #berserk #lily chou chou #meadowcore #hopecore

[sangiez-ng]

More Sneo doodles from a few months ago!

Yeah I love this guy a lot

#deltarune #spamton #spamton neo #deltarune chapter 2 #i am going to draw more of him #ignore the sword i was just drawing random shit

[chilchucks-timbs]

What do you think of the sequel of twewy then? You talk a lot about the original but I'm interested in your opinion of the second part because I saw a few fans disappointed :o

OKAY. Omg.

So first of all? Soundtrack? SLAPS. We won. We won with the sequel soundtrack. I actually prefer some of the new remixes to the original!

The artwork? Stuck to the original style. Can’t complain at all. The new designs? PEAK. They’re so cool. There’s new shopkeepers- who look AWESOME- who have LORE. We can access NPC LORE. I read about one who is married to one of the players? Catch me eating popcorn at that story.

Shout out to the sprites you get when you’re feeding your party members? They’re so cute. In original TWEWY we just had a voice telling us if they liked it after I’ve fed them. NOW we get to know via their face going 🤢 or 🥺 BEFORE they eat so I can give them something they definelty like! and I think that’s fun and funky fresh.

Gameplay? Fantastic. Absolutely brilliant. - the original game had a switch port and honestly? I really think they should’ve done better with the controls. What worked and was beautiful for the ds- felt very clunky on the switch. Especially when playing console? I mean what in the Wii controller buLLSHIT. I need my attacks ACCURATE and on tv that’s very very hard. My friend managed it but? Maybe I just need to get good LSLGFSPALDL. But NEO twewy? beautiful. Perfect. Great for the switch. no complaints on the new battle system.

The story:

edit: THE HUMOUR IS THERE. I FORGOR. I forgot how fucking funny it is. The amount of screenshots I have? Hilarious. Not any like quotable moments like there is in the original game. But there’s so much silly billy shit going on. Bunch of CLOWNS I swear.

Its messaging is not driven home as much as the original twewy is. Like my friend had to explain to me what they were doing because it’s very very subtle. The characters are changing but only just a little. -unlike the first game which, like? At the end of the game? These guys are CLEARLY not the same people who entered the game!! These are Zuko ATLA level transformations!!!: whereas Neo twewy game says? Hey. Your actions are kinda sucky bro. Ever thought about changing up your style? Like it’s THERE. But it’s clearly not the CORE of the game like the first one. And that’s where it falls flat FOR ME. I LOVE and ADORE character development and it’s just not the focus of NEO twewy. But that doesn’t mean I hated the game. I just don’t prefer it over the original.

What NEO twewy DOES focus on is world building which. I think they’ve made some super cool and interesting choices. Even if I, and many Joshua kiryu fans don’t agree with them. 💛 we just straight up ignore the new lore because we don’t like it- the one around Joshua anyway. They bring in some new reapers and some new plot line surrounding shinjuku. That’s fine. That’s fun. But. Joshua? MY MAN? No square enix, you don’t know my blorbo of 10 years better than me :))

So. In conclusion. I was not DISAPPOINTED. I just think they lost the core of what twewy meant to people for the sake of focusing on the new details theyve added. I think rindo and fret and nagi deserved better development.

ALSO IDK HOW I FEEL ABOUT TEAMS? I MISS PARTNERS. LIKE TEAMS IS FINE I GUESS BUT. PARTNER WAS SPECIAL.

Okokok real conclusion is that I was not disappointed. I had fun. I loved a lot about this game. But the original hit home so hard, and the sequel was just a good game.

#lmao #twewy #neo twewy #the sword talks #asks #thank you for your ask btw 😭 #I love talking about twewy

[goldensunset]

there are games that i enjoy playing more and there are games i enjoy thinking about more. sometimes the overall story and themes and blorbos are delightful but actually playing it is a little annoying so i just rotate it in my mind instead. sometimes i get absolutely sucked into the gameplay and the world and the experience for dozens or hundreds of hours and i enjoy listening to the soundtrack but it has little to no lasting impact on me as a person bc something in the story just failed to hit and that’s ok. both are good both are beloved. obviously the ideal piece of media is one i both enjoy actively consuming and thinking about but my mindset is that if a piece of media has any single good thing in it it’s a good piece of media. give me literally anything to work with and i’ll extract joy out of it. i’ve literally never played a game i didn’t like btw

#first category includes games like skyward sword and og twewy #for the record i do love both of those games even as actual games i enjoy a diverse variety of gameplay styles #but compared to some other stuff i’ve played yeah it’s not my absolute favorite #but the THEEEEEMES. the stories of those games give me brainworms #the kh mobile games fall into this category (<- has never played them per se but knows enough about em) #(in terms of gameplay i mean) #(also it is true that watching 6 hours of cutscenes isn’t always appealing) #second category is like. hyrule warriors age of calamity and tears of the kingdom #i bet you’re surprised to hear me put those in the same place #neither of them had the best writing in my humblest opinion but MAN did i enjoy playing both of those sooooo much #i got so sucked in they’re both really fun. in completely different ways lol #this is not to say i didn’t get driven crazy by totk’s story but just compared to other games maybe not as much #and that’s ok!! #oh also neo twewy is in this category. they kinda dropped the ball on the writing (even though i do have blorbos from that game) #but it is a really fun and cool game #botw does both things for me. beloved fav game #most perfect piece of media in existence #every pokémon game i’ve played has done both for me #well idk platinum didn’t have a Blorbo so it loses story appeal to me. but it makes me smile a lot i enjoyed playing it #even if it doesn’t like Live In My Brain like the others #i uh. can’t rank most of the kh games bc i haven’t played most of em 🫠 #someday… #twilight princess is hmmmm ok so like the gameplay and music and world experience were PHENOMENAL #midna HARD CARRIED the story is the thing. i didn’t generally like the writing but she alone makes up for it. #in my view it still deserves to be docked points for that but like they did pop off nonetheless #peach rambles #this is the reason i have so much joy in my life btw #it’s because i simultaneously have a very critical eye and i have the ability to put into words exactly what i do and don’t like #AND i have the ability to turn off that part of my brain and optimistically embrace everything in good faith #i give everything the benefit of the doubt and focus on the good

[dailydccomics]

that’s how you celebrate the new year Batman Beyond: Neo-Year #6

#terry mcginnis #batman #dc comics #batman beyond #jokerz #sword of gotham #dc #batman beyond neo year

[xx-angelfreak-xx]

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#y2kcore #gothic #fantasy #cover art #2000s aesthetic #draincore #2000s nostalgia #2000s #drain #y2k style #y2k #y2k aesthetic #neo y2k #cyber y2k #knight #sword #goth aesthetic #frutiger aero #magic #dark aesthetic #dark art #3d art #webcore #webpunk #low poly #video games #dark core gothique #goth #fantasy art #fantasy aesthetic

[lesbianneopolitan]

Do you think Neo ever though about adding some sort of gun to hush?

Nope, she's never been interested, in CANON and in my own AU

Girl likes it classic with the fencing knowledge

Like she literally had the chance to design her own weapon (in Roman Holiday) but she designed it without a gun because she wasn't interested in that LMAO

And I totally support her for it, the woman's a sword lesbian to me

#Ask #canon but also #headcanon #about the sword lesbian I GUESS #either way it's still funny that in a world filled with weapons that are also guns #Neo NOT having a weapon that is also a gun is really girlboss of her #you know she's deadly when she doesn't need a gun to win and fight #no need of using Dust #just her skills- her parasword and her Semblance if needed

[katkalis-the-fanartist]

Uh oh the girls are fighting-

#my mettaton and ghirahim dont get along #i wasnt there when people drew these two together so im super late but IM HERE NOW #mettaton #ghirahim #tloz #undertale #mettaton ex #mettaton neo #the legend of zelda #skyward sword #my art #fan art #doodles

[fierykitten2]

I’m sure Crown’ll absolutely sweep and Boulder will do really badly but hey I might as well

Reblog for sample size

#iron leaves #iron boulder #iron crown #neo swords #polls

[arcadebroke]

#@theavtist #theavtist #Neo Soho #style #fashion #design #face mask #girl with sword #futuristic #cyberpunk #techwear #color

[comicsiswild]

Batman Beyond: Neo Year (2022) #4

#Batman Beyond #Neo Year #Terry McGinnis #DC Comics #Sword of Gotham

[strqyr]

so like... where is little though. last confirmed sighting was when ruby was making the parfait. we get a little scream when the jabber charges them but then nothing. Where Are They

disappeared into ruby's hood would be my guess. they've done that couple times already, and they are ruby's guide and friend so i don't see the two of them getting separated... yet, at least.

#rwby #rwby9 #rwby spoilers #little #anon #ask.strqyr #look if neo kidnaps ruby then she gets to deal with little as well #little to the rescue #they already stole the jade doll / penny's sword for ruby #they're in this for a long run #neo's greatest weakness: beings smaller than her