#thefoolatyourside

it is another rushed game project and i feel its gonna be another swsh situation, where in order to get the full game you’re gonna have to get dlc for a combined sum of like 200$ and its gonna be buggy and still lacking ease of use features that are associated with other large titles on the switch.

there’s like. too little info beyond “hey we’re doing the things people wanted us to do for a new console generation of pokemon” and it’s really lackluster compared to even ported titles on the switch like.

i cannot emphasize enough how disastrous sword and shield were/are and how the mishandling of multiplayer and trading has obliterated trust with the Pokemon company. can’t even blame gamefreak when they’re expected to pump out a title yearly, they are in constant crunch.

i wish they would give up yearly releases like this and just finally make a pokemon mmorpg, then they could piece out content and regions as expansions, and people would have a base game with a storyline and the ability to trade and battle.

ALRIGHT SO

Basic background info: My superhero campaign takes places in the post-apocalypse, the word is honestly in a pretty decent place to live by the time of the campaign itself but society as we know it perished when the world went to hell in a big war back in the 2060′s.

Now that we have that out of the way.

Lord Mhundi is a priest and superhuman from before the war, having lived through it and into the time of the campaign thanks to her immortality. What she lacks in physical prowess, she makes up in her healing abilities and resourcefulness. See, she has the ability to cure any wound, even death, but she also has the ability to take her healing back, re-afflicting the person with the same sounds she cured - any life she gives she can just as easily take away. She uses these powers to resurrect people, and then essentially blackmail them into working for her in exchange for their continued existence. 

Mhundi views herself as a missionary and a saint who is trying to mend the broken world left behind by the great war, regardless of whether or not it wants her help. She actually abhors what she sees as violence, instead of trying to sway people to her side through her words. 

Peaches is one of the people who works for her and has the member of her faction with the most prominence as an antagonist in the campaign thus far. She’s a brawler with the power of Ki Manipulation, allowing her to perform Dragon Ball Z-type shit. She’s incredibly skilled at combat and has given the entire party an incredibly tough fight on her own both times she was encountered.

The thing is though, she’s not an evil person. She bears no ill will and doesn’t care about Mhundi’s goals at all. She was resurrected from death by her and is thus dependant on her to live. The whole ‘supervillain’ thing is nothing more than a 9-5 job for her where she just gets told to punch a fewpeople and then goes home.

In fact, she actually views the party with a great deal of respect and managed to get on pretty good terms with them. That being said, she’s still working for the other team, and her friendship with the party comes with the knowledge that there’s going to be a point where she’s going to be asked to kill them.

On the other side of the coin, most of the characters who have been in the limelight haven’t grown as much either; Daisy is still much the same as she had been before freshman and Abbey, despite all the advice given to him from confident around him, he still has to put it in practice or basically ‘change’. Growth tends to be a slow agonising process. I tend to prefer it like this rather than a character doing this amazing 180 degree swap.

I gotta admit I’ve been having trouble really giving your ask an answer that nails everything here. I feel what’s been said about Taeshi is a bit presumptuous; David’s still being included in most of the recent chapters where I feel it could be possible to even replace him with Mike at this stage. Could’ve happened in Fair Game, given us some of that PauloxMike and MikexDaisy conflict. So I feel that there is still some significance in including David instead of what would save chapters if BCB was being urgently wrapped up. I have faith in Taeshi’s writing ability; BCB’s still going and the story has evolved as the years pass. There’s always a chance since Abbey’s arcs appear to be more or less complete for more ground could be reached with both Sue and David given Lucy and Paulo are in the spotlight. 

oh heck yes, it’s great to hear about someone else who gets along with their brother!! i also constantly hear about how siblings don’t get along, though i’ve been seeing bits of Good Sibling representation in various forms of media more recently. it is Heartwarming....