Brainrot Central

But Pokopia fully does not do that. The world is lonely without humans and lesser for humanity's absence. So much of the game is about how Pokemon miss humans and are struggling to make sense of a world without us, how the ecosystem is just as hurt by our absence as any other species, and how the things we left behind, even in ruins and burned shells, are often beautiful and strange and helpful to the Pokemon who find them.

Pokemon have always been this allegory for the natural world- back to the original idea of the games inspired by children who caught bugs and kept ant farms- and thus the relationship between Pokemon and humans becomes this allegory for the relationship between nature and humans. And Pokopia looks you dead in the eye and says "the world would be poorer without humans, and if we all vanished tomorrow the echoes of who we are and the things we did would still ring out for eons uncountable. We would be missed and mourned and searched for and the wound of our absence would be deeply felt on this earth for the rest of its turning. The actions of a few greedy short sighted humans will never change that."

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“i genuinely don’t know why my brain just goes blank when i look at you. i think i’m going a little crazy.”

the little laugh or smile a character a does in utter disbelief because character b is just so endearing and sigh

one character going “so this is really awkward cause i know i told you i wasn’t looking for love but then i kinda fell in love and i would love it if you’d take me”

“can i love you?”

“i just… adore you.”

character a noticing character b is sleepy while driving and being like “hey i can take over for you”

the classic “no i’m not in love with character a, yes thinking about hurting them makes me want to throw myself into ongoing traffic, no it doesn’t make sense to me either”

their love interest fell asleep and your main character has a blanket so they give it to them

confessions when one character thinks the other is sleeping

they kiss for the first time and one character just steps back and is like “um ok. yeah that’s not a normal kiss i def love u”

character not being able to even fathom or come close to understanding how someone can dislike such a beautiful ray of sunshine and oh yeah ok…. they’re def in love

characters who’ve been married for years falling in love all over again

exes to lovers

“i think i love you…?” “….. think?” “let’s just say a ninety-nine percent chance.” “i’ll take it.”

that moment where your character just… looks. just looks at their love interest for more than five seconds and doesn’t understand why or how this earth can exist and the sun and moon exist and the sky can be an eternal source of happiness and yet this person right here can bring so much more warmth and comfort to them with just a single glance

note confessions because yes written confessions in letters are superior

“i got you a gift. i hope you like it.” and character who receives the gift tries not to mention that any gift would mean more than the stars in the sky as long as it was from them

I’ve gotten a few anonymous asks about how I changed my 3DS’s region to get different Vivillon patterns, so I thought I’d make a quick post about it. 

Update: shinysporkle and an anon mentioned that you don’t have to format your 3DS, just change the region in the settings and restart your game. I’d tried this before it didn’t work, but I’ve tried it again and it’s working. So thank you, shinysporkle and anon for pointing this out. 

I’ve edited the guide accordingly. 

Before I start, I must stress: Please use a copy of X and Y that doesn’t have any data you wish to keep! 

Go into your 3DS’ System Settings and choose Other Settings >Profile > Region Settings.

Set your region to the region that corresponds to the pattern you wish to obtain. Here’s an excellent spreadsheet that shows the regions and patterns. 

Restart your copy of X or Y. At the start screen, press Up, X and B to reset your save file. 

Play through as normal. I suggest catching a few Scatterbug to check that the pattern is the right one. 

I usually catch a bunch of Scatterbug and use Pokébank to transfer them to my main game. 

Notes:

I’m not sure what happens to the 3DS eShop when you change your region, so may be best to change it back before accessing the eShop. 

It’d also be super awesome if you didn’t do this trick just to exploit people on the GTS for rare Pokémon. I do this so I can trade rarer patterns to my friends or on the GTS in exchange for another Vivillon so it gives people a chance of getting the harder to find patterns.