Pokespe PleaBargainShipping thoughts are happening but I have to sleep soon, alas
I really wish they’d gotten to interact more in the manga’s actual story, even just in a general capacity. Like, I think it would have been really interesting if Looker was the Interpol agent in charge of tracking Colress specifically
Their banter, what little we have of it, is already more entertaining than anything Lack-Two could produce (I’m mixed on how I feel about him still, he’s just kinda….gary stu…). Looker actually tried to challenge Colress’s beliefs and tried to change them, whereas Lack-Two literally only reaffirmed them
I think Looker might have been able to make progress on getting Colress to turncoat sooner (or at least consider it) if he’d just been locked in on that objective from the start, but maybe that’s just wishful thinking. Colress wouldn’t see him as much of a threat, so he’d probably hear Looker out for a lot longer, though he’d still need tangible proof of his hypothesis before he made any decisions
I’ve also just been imagining that scene in the final volume where Colress gets knocked off of Genesect and starts falling, but instead of using Klinklang to stop his fall, he gets caught by Looker who in this scenario was not blown out of the sky and is still around for some reason
A literal “caught you!” moment
