Alola Forms don't make sense.
Exeggutor they focus upon, prod and poke in the classroom, solely because its mutation is the single example of logic in the olid morass.
It's become an unwieldy coconut tree, but excessive heat kills plants quicker than provoking a growth spurt.
Plus it's gone from Grass and Psychic to Grass and Dragon.
Why?
It's based on the dragon tree.
How is that applicable to the situation?
Why would Exeggutor's body, sensing the sweltering surroundings, think to itself:
This calls for a type change. I know: Dragon!
It would only be of use if, as in real life, dragons always breathe fire, thus possess supreme resistance to avoid auto-immolation.
Except that in this world, dragons aren't Fire Pokémon, thus it is pointless.
The sun nurtured its secret Dragon powers.
By 'secret' you mean nonexistent before the Seventh Generation.
Not much point in having 'hidden talents' if they're usable only in a specific point on the globe.
I could take it that Exeggutor's brain boiled like the egg it once was, with Psychic abilities atrophied...
Eh? You mean Alola both destroys and creates magic minds?
It's because of its diet.
But for the fact that Raichu now has them instead.
What, those special floating berries no one else ever consumed?
What really helps is natural endurance, something to aid a Pokémon's survival in the Alola climate.
The most obvious ploy would be for all of 'em to transform into Fire-types. No element is better equipped to thriving there.
How is flying through the air, levitating on his own tail, a response to the tropics?
How does this combat horrible conditions?
If you've got an inferno in yer innards a little excess warmth from the outside won't prove too taxing.
But no:
It goes to a hot country, for which it is suited, and its method of adaption is to develop a weakness instead!
Oh, but it probably lives in the snowy mountains.
You mean a Fire Pokémon, on arrival, decides the best thing is to deeply inconvenience itself by scaling the local peak, risking freezing to death, just waiting for blessed alteration?
Vulpix in Alola becomes Ice!
How did the first example there know it'd happen?
Come on Vulpix! Time to evolve! I spent me life savings on a Fire Stone! Oh...
And Ninetales is a Fairy, as if that boosts its chances.
What part of a suffocating island chain encourages the flourishing of more ethereal qualities?
Maybe if Ice, it cools yer down. The heliocentric Hell hole is taking its toll on the rest, but you exude chilly relief.
Why is it still furry then? Those tails are burden enough.
The other category with an inbuilt sturdiness is probably Ground. A habitat of molten earth and arid wastelands render one accustomed to baking beneath unforgiving weather.
Marowak had the right idea, following my advice and turning Fire, but he lost Ground in the process.
How is that an improvement?
Sandshrew and Sandslash converted to Ice and Steel, both of which melt in flames!
Why would sand on floor, in the trees, in the air even, blown to town by beach-skimming sirocco winds, wear away the Ground in him?
Absurdly, as a Ghost, seems the evolution rites are now so traumatic to a Cubone it dies on the way.
What kind of madness is this?
That's nice, innit? Kick 'im when he's down!
Diglett's sprouted a few comb-over strands and Dugtrio grows a full mane.
Of course it does. Everyone knows hair follicles are stimulated into overdrive by sweating.
Yeah, ones it didn't have in the first place.
And whilst Exeggutor's extra height is the feasible result...
Geodude and its evolutions not only lose their protective Ground type in favour of redundunt Electric, they all have jumbo eyebrows and hairy heads, arms and top lips.
That's the iron filings attracted to his new magnetic aura.
Rattata and Raticate sport moustaches whilst being fried in the fur by a heat-absorbing black coat.
Apparently the sensible thing to do when faced with burning skies is give oneself greater susceptibility to its draining effects.
Good job, now it's worse off.
What's the other aspect of this equatorial location?
The blinding, omnipresent light.
Well Rattata and Raticate, exposed to the sheer incandescent force, naturally bowed to convention to become Dark, the obvious reaction.
That's how you survive the furnace of Alola.
It might do. Perhaps changing to Dark is like a tan. Your body protects itself with it to limit the damage of the sun's rays.
Of course it is, and they kindly arranged themselves in limited amounts as manly additions, rather than coat him in a thousand spikes all over like a sea urchin.
Absolute blackness is bound to block out much of the harm.
And the facial hair? What assistance is that providing? And what of everyone else?
Grimer and Muk also went Dark, which is what happens should you leave the gloomy, nocturnal, poisonous factorial pit of Gringey City for the fresh air and clean beaches of Alola.
New shades of sludge are down to all the interesting variety of refuse it consumes.
What, a load of scotch pancakes?
Oh-oh! I knew arrogant Alola held a supreme fondness for praising itself, but now they've the nerve to claim better junk than us!
Yeah, it ain't just enchanted fruit, Alola is so orsum even its trash is superior to ours, since it produces coloured effects.
Either that or locals use a lot of industrial-strength synthetic dyes, more than they choose to let on.
Reminds me of the Good Old Days in the North when children would play by the canal, fall in, and come out blue, and no one thought anything of it at the time.
One wonders why every living thing isn't Ice and Dark, give that these types apparently work wonders for the host.
At least Rattata, Grimer etc. kept their original types.
Meowth and Persian were so consumed by the miasma of overflowing darkness they stopped being Normal altogether.
That's right, and the crushing gravitational weight of those wormholes bursting out all over squeezed their heads until permanently disfigured.
Anyone else recall that Meowths are naturally quadrupedal, being cats, and that our Meowth achieved his rear-legged stance only from a year's worth of strain, beatings, failure and agony?
Yet Alola Meowth gets it handed to him effort-free, with the achievements of ours diminished in the process.
Here we are then: a land of simmering sultry pressure causes foreign Pokémon to become Ice (cold, hard, unfeeling), whilst its constantly illuminated and long days made 'em Dark (crafty, self-serving, evil).
And so hirsute, like they're desperate for disguise, however much they suffer in the process.
After all, when incest is not only legal, but obligatory, what won't you condone?
Did we complain? No, because we were glad of what we had then. Not like kids today.
What exactly lurks beyond the superficial, ever-grinning, unblinking façade of Alola?
Something's gotta be going on behind the plastic smiles to encourage such a bizarre trend.
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Bad Arguments
Mary I
Injustice!
Within five years Mary lost Calais, failed to beget an heir and tainted Catholicism forever with her own hardline zealotry.
Within five DECADES Elizabeth stabilized the Church, won a legendary naval victory and inspired the flowering of art, music and literature that defined her glorious reign.
On came the founding of America and England restored: from the bankrupted, ridiculed outcast into a wealthy, budding superpower; its queen venerated as a legend and a goddess in her own lifetime.
In other words: The Golden Age.
But despite tenures of the exact same length and equally impressive achievements, somehow only Elizabeth got the the big ol' fancy memorial.
It's an Injustice man!
Ain't it the truth? It must be that Wicked Protestant Propaganda to blame.
Well, technically, they're side-by-side under Westminster Abbey, but the victim narrative don't wanna hear that.
Let's pretend both rest inside the tomb, where one coffin atop the other, and Mary at the bottom, since she, y'know, died first, is a deliberate insult.
Yeah. Obviously once Elizabeth died they should've dug Mary up, stuck her dripping old corpse on the sideboard, then slung it back in the hole all jumbled up and falling apart, BUT in pride of place and above That Bitch, which is The Important Thing.
That's what a True Humanitarian would've done, not like dirty Protestant scum leaving her in peace.
So there's poor Mary, crushed beneath Elizabeth (fat bitch), mighty legacy reduced to a paltry plaque whilst the barren crone stews in gaudy myth-making.
After all she did for us, man!
Praising success is just so vulgar, doncha know. REAL intellectuals worship failure.
Yet Mary was buried with a respectful Catholic service, meaning Elizabeth honoured her sister's beliefs despite knowing she'd never be granted the same.
Not when predeceasing Mary means getting dumped in a mass grave amongst Anne's bones, but it's downright unforgivable Elizabeth didn't do more.
A Deesunt Yoomun Been would've thrown herself on that funeral pyre. BUT OH NO!!! Bitch was just cold inside.
Most Bad Arguments for Mary exist as snide attacks on Elizabeth, but it's James's 'fault' here for commissioning twin tombs for her and Mary Stuart, thereby honouring both his spiritual and biological mothers.
Eevul Protestants erasing Catholics AGAIN!
I never hear any moaning that a foreign, deposed monarch is revered in England far and above one of its own anointed queens.
Yeah...but Mary Stuart's Catholic and tried to kill Elizabeth, so she's cool.
But what about all the Wicked Protestant Propaganda stirring up HATE for these gentle Papist innocents?
Clearly the only possible reason Bloody Mary's been snubbed is this all-powerful cult of heaving nutters blinding the masses to Her Truth.
So it really was nice of 'em, NOT desecrating Mary Stuart's tomb, or indeed all the resting places of previous Catholic kings.
Ooooh, but it's coming brother. Any day now.
Yeah, but joke's on them.
Bastards are so busy keeping a good woman down they don't even make a fuss of Edward VI, the first of the filthy breed to get his mitts on the crown, even when he very much would've been their hero if he'd just grown up and burnt everyone.
He so would I tells thee!
It's like short reigns get overlooked or something.
And I'd be careful slinging blame about considering Mary never moved Katherine of Aragon to more exalted ground.
Obviously the only explanation is she hated her guts and was well jel, not because running the country took precedent.
Nah, Elizabeth's should do that too, whilst her own mother's still stuffed in an arrow chest under a chapel floor.
Seems to me that Mary fans are never bloody happy.
One minute they're moaning about her 'erasure' and all these chancers taking credit for the very orsum stuff she did.
Yet bring up the Three Hundred, and it's non-stop complaining about her getting remembered TOO MUCH and anyway yer doin' it wrong.
Whaddya want from me here, love?
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