O Savior of Hoenn, name one hero who was happy / Sear your name into history, hurricane girl | Personals DNI. I want nothing to do with the wider fandom
Hoenn is inherently ableist to some extent no matter what you do. Like yeah every now and then the public transport shuts down bc of flooding or earthquakes. Heatstroke is a constant threat. Drowning too if you’re unlucky enough to swim into the Sailor’s Abattoir. Massive sections of routes cannot be made handicap accessible because they are just jungle swamp. And oh boy is the desert difficult enough for those who are able bodied.
May sacked the Alolan guy working on the ride pokemon initiative. His priorities just didn’t mesh with her people’s needs. A Hoennian ride Pokemon must be both intelligent and independent enough to completely ignore its client’s orders in certain situations because the alternative is a lot of dead kids. They must be powerful enough to pulls themselves out of ocean currents capable of sinking ships. What you end up with are far less personable Pokemon who behave more akin to an employee on the clock than someone who wants to be your friend. Which doesn’t appeal to tourists. Like… It’s been a work in progress for years at this point.
( The people responsible for training them were hired off the Battle Frontier crew and it shows. )
Part of May’s distain for Galarian trainers comes from having to fish the occasional dead one out of the river during monsoon season. Like their whole stadium system just doesn’t teach kids to adapt to the wide range of conditions a normal league should. There’s a sense of safe ritual there with rules most Leagues would never bother with. It makes them predictable and when pushed complettely out of their depth, they flounder. They panic and become dangers to themselves and everyone in their vicinity.
A lot of the reason May thinks she is smarter than you is because she probably is. This bitch is a legit genius who knows she is one. In some ways it breeds arrogance and a callous disregard for those she deems lesser than her. But like… She can back it up. This is someone who can teach herself to read chinese because a translation she found in the archives made no sense.
May is generally kept away from the more delicate case of diplomacy outside of a few odd cases. There are societies out there that would laugh in Wallace’s face because they do not respect men in leadership positions at all. There are also more militaristic ones that would precieve the other two as weak. ( Or any number of cultural norms because they’re out there. ) That’s when you send in May.
Devon was keeping people in debt slavery long before Sea Mauville. Including smth like 10% of the population of one minor region. Sea Mauville only ever came about because they saw the tides turning against their existing buisness ventures.
Like dear god was May horrified by the sheer extent of their evil. And she still hasn’t gotten to the bottom of this barrel of shit. Her little blackmail project has loosened the noose around their victim’s necks but this is the kind of thing that takes decades to tear down.
If May lures you into the Hoennian jungle to kill you, nobody will ever hear of you again. Your GPS will cease to function. Her tracks will cover themselves behind her. Your flesh will become food for the Shroomish and your blood will water the trees. As far as the search parties know, you wandered off the route and simply vanished.
Because the land loves her in a way it will never love you.
The kind of trainer May is? Someone who can drag the weakest Pokemon to hell and back if they have her iron will. At the same time she has no faith in anyone who can crumble under pressure. She is all too willing to remove the chaff aka anyone lacking in conviction, relegating them to reserve status.
My hand has taken a month to heal bc it was super gnarly. And it happened late at night when public transit sucks balls so i never got stitches for it. Like as bad as it is IT WAS WAY WORSE
rule #1 of being a child soldier is to have fun and be yourself
rule #2 of being a child soldier is to feel enough overwhelming guilt to make those who made you one choke on it endlessly as if you are prometheus and they are your eagle
rule #3 of being a child soldier is to stare into the void until it stares back
rule #7 seven is to always have a homoerotic character foil
