#softstarryblanket

Cozy the day you get into look outside is the day I will click my heels with joy HELLOOOO.

36. Do you remember your first Pokémon team? If yes, which one was it?

Not sure if I do remember my first Pokemon team - I think the first two games I played were Fire Red and Emerald, and I remember I had Charmander and Torchic as my respective starters for those games! Forgot what the rest of the roster looked like though :(

But if it's any compensation, I can pull up the team I used for Ultra Sun!

5. now that’s a hard one, but I’m actually leaning towards super with the Dark Matter. I feel like they kind of took the idea of the Bittercold from gates and improved upon it. At the time I didn’t really care for the main villain being a conceptual entity vs an actual individual, but in time the idea’s grown on me. The way they characterized the Dark Matter is really interesting—in the end, it’s not an innately malevolent being, but rather a normal part of life that can be dealt with, even if it will inevitably return. Can really feel the parallels with real life, and how, even though one may have emotions they don’t care for, they are a part of being alive, and ultimately need to be accepted in order to be managed. 

this is really funny to me because I was, in fact, bopping to the Hamilton soundtrack at 5 AM while drawing that piece haha

I do appreciate this a ton though aaaaaaaaasjdgjdjf

9. Does your hero ever recover their memory?

(I answered this question for RT here!)

For Explorers, Silent unfortunately never gets his memory back ;;;

Maybe he gets fragments occasionally, such as lingering flashes of the Dimensional Scream, but he never regains them in full. From a character perspective, it's something that he really doesn't like to think about, as lingering on the thought gives the feeling that he's missing a large part of who he is.

From a narrative perspective though, I think the dynamic between Hero and Grovyle is a lot more tragic if Hero isn't able to remember him at all :') I can imagine a parallel of the scene where Grovyle is talking to Partner except he's trying to talk with Hero - two individuals who knew each other to the degree of partners, but are complete strangers now. Except Grovyle can see parts of the person he knew, pieces of the personality he learned, remnants of the bond they shared. And Hero just... can't remember anything.