THEY'RE ALL FRIENDS

why she ourple?

Live laugh paldea friend group

nemona autism is canon to anipoke . Nature is healing my friends

The thing about mean rivals is that like there's kinda a reason we stop having them the second the plots started getting world-ending in scope and that's because you do not have time to deal with some whiny asshole who you've beaten over and over again's shit when a space chinchilla is about to suffocate everyone in the region

Like if they're a dick to you the entire way through they quickly become all bark and no bite because narratively they're going to keep losing to you, and again progressively destroying the ego of a small child is second to whatever this year's eldritch abomination is (and if they went so far as to help the eldritch abomination it raises questions about why they're friendly enough to battle you in the post game).

So like. It's simpler if they're just nice? And have arcs where the fact that they keep losing to you is the point? Your rival isn't the final boss anymore you don't have to build up to finally being able to defeat them for good (except not really) (I guess Hau in USUM arguably but LBR the final boss is Ultra Necrozma)

Like I guess I get annoyed when people don't acknowledge there's a point to how the rivals have been handled since gen 3. You don't have to like it per se but there's a reason the rivals are like this and it's not just the devs don't want to upset little kids.

The fact that the adults care about your safety on the other hand...

Uh? She's a good listener? Possible continuation of this

I haven't played Scarlet/Violet myself but I love Nemona so much. She just wants a competent battle partner for once. She has a DVD screensaver in place of a brain. She's a socially awkward dummy (affectionate) who doesn't know how to properly bond with people. She sees someone cool who she wants to befriend and immediately just imprints on them. She picks the weaker starter because she wants to go easy on you (not just because she doesn't understand type advantages or something). She builds her teams around the person she's battling. She's very obviously neurodivergent. She's so relatable to me. She's one of the only characters I've been genuinely attached to since gen 5. I care her so much

things i’m super curious about regarding the original Japanese text of Pokémon Scarlet Violet

- the fact that Arven has a very unique way of speaking where he uses the -chan honorific a lot, for expected things like addressing Mabosstiff (”wan-chan” [”wan” referring to a dog’s bark]) but also for things like referring to the Titans and even the Herba Mystica (”spice-chan”) and even in more abstract ways or using it to modify descriptors (describing a bad situation with the phrase “yabai-chan,” scolding you if you agree to his request without actually knowing what it is while using the phrase “yes-chan” [”What kind of little maniac says yes to something without even knowing what they’re agreeing to?!”]) and if it’s meant to tie into characterization, both in his love of cute things (Floette phone case) but also in his need to try and take control of things (going to Area Zero alone to try and reach the Professor) and act more mature/older/independent than he actually is (talking very casually about skipping school all the time) which pretty obviously stems from being without a guardian for so long

-what the original version of Nemona’s “fruitful battle” thing was

Waltz 🕊️❌

“rumor has it you can win big money if you go challenge that little rich girl in Cabo Poco to a battle… you gotta win, though. That’s the hard part”

people who hate on nemona because she's "too yandere" and "doesn't take a no for an answer" make me wonder if they actually payed attention to her dialogues or only read those joke comics about her being obsessed with the player and always craving violence and said "yeah this is her personality now". or just hate women.

scarnemo angst </3

Man I can't read Japanese but if the book do not tell me, Nemona and the protag are young love then I don't know why was this made.

hey man the new kid’s momdad seems a little sus aka: youre god and u isekai’d ur favorite little blorbo a few too many times and ppl are catching onto your tomfoolery

addition: bringing back your favorite blorbo for the dozenth time