GOD god can we just talk about the second pokemon mystery dungeon game because a child’s game doesnt have a RIGHT to go as hARD as it did. warning for massive pokemon mystery dungeon explorers of time/sky/darkness spoilers here but
can you imagine. you wake up on a beach and all you have is your name and the knowledge that once you were human - but now, inexplicably, you are a pokemon. and you meet someone, your partner, and they immediately become friends with you. and over a long span of time, you grow to love each other as dearest friends. you give them so much courage theyre full to bursting with it, this once shy and terrified thing who couldnt stand up to schoolyard bullies, but theyve jumped into quicksand pits and straight into bone-crushing waterfalls for you on no guarantee but your hunches. they would do anything for you. and youd do anything for them, this person who found you alone and with nothing to your name, and theyve made your life so bright and wonderful and meaningful, theyre kind and silly and sweet and so so brave despite their fear.
and the two of you are betrayed by someone you trusted. dusknoir was a mentor, a teacher, a true hero, and he tricks you and uses you and drags you into a future where time has literally stopped, where there is no sun or light and all life is barely hanging on in a miserable fading existence and he tries to murder you violently. you learn that grovyle - the worst of villains, the most evil, the person you were told was trying to cause this apocalypse - is trying to save it, and dusknoir (your hero, he saved you-) is trying to make sure it does happen, that the future remains unchanged.
and you learn that once, grovyle loved you. because you were from this future too. because he was your best friend. and he looks at you and immediately his rough and harsh personality fades because he knows who you are and even if you have no idea, he knows. and he looks at you, and your partner, and has to know that hes been replaced, and by someone so much brighter, from a world with a sun and with life and hope, and he knows youre happier and better off. and you dont remember a damn thing.
you make it back to the past, where you still have a chance to save the world, with celebi’s help - celebi, who tells you earnestly shes tired of living in this cruel, dark, unhappy future. that she will devote her whole life to seeing it fixed.
grovyle is so full of love but he cant stay - he talks to your partner, and they discuss how much they love you, how much they care, and grovyle splits off. you and your partner have one mission and he has another. you come to your guild with an unbelievable story and they believe it and help you out of love, and grovyle travels alone. finally, when youre both ready, you return, cross the sea of time itself, and before you can stop the destruction of time itself -
dusknoir finds you. breaks it to you. if you and grovyle and your partner stop the end of the world, everyone from the future - celebi and dusknoir, you and grovyle, you will all cease to exist. youre from a world that wont exist anymore. once, as a human, you and grovyle agreed to this. you had nothing to lose. celebi meant it when she said she was tired. when she said shed give her whole life to stop this apocalypse. and your partner isnt there to hear it. but grovyle says - you have something to lose now. your best friend. and you might be dead - but your partner, someone who gave you a light and a hope grovyle never could, theyre going to remember. and theyre going to be alone, and youll never come back. that if you follow through with this, you will die.
and you nod, firmly, because you have to save the world, no matter the cost, but your heart is breaking, and your partner comes back just in time to see grovyle sacrifice himself, drag dusknoir back to the future that will soon end, just to give you two time to save the world. “though the parting hurts, the rest is in your hands.”
your partner is heartbroken but determined. because they know grovyle loved you and will miss you but you have to save the world. and that you and your partner, they say, will make a better future that grovyle can be happy in. you know better. grovyle didnt mean his parting hurt (though it did), he meant yours and your partners. because you - and grovyle - dont get any kind of happy future.
and then you dont tell your partner. you climb temporal tower and you defeat dialga and then your partner watches you fade away into light, terrified and desperately calling to you, but you dont come back. and after a long wait, alone, your partner takes the long, long journey home.
like GOD what the FUCK pokemon i played this when i was like TEN do you KNOW how much this affected me
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