No.3302
Making a new thread due to the confusion caused by the title in the other one!
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>>147Questions if you want to answer them:
>Favorite Pokemon boy(s)?>Favorite game/region?>Favorite male protagonist?>First Pokemon ship?>Current Pokemon ship(s)?>Do you ship the Pokemon themselves? No.3303
>Favorite Pokemon boy(s)?
Bill is my all time favorite! Picking one from each other region though I'd choose: Bugsy, Maxie, Looker, Colress, Clemont, Nanu, and Avery. Haven't played SV yet, but my Pokeani choice would be James.
>Favorite game/region?
Favorite game is FRLG rare good remake and I like the expanded content added like the Sevii Islands. I think Kanto might honestly be my favorite region as well from a purely layout/gameplay perspective, but ignoring that Hoenn the best aesthetically with the tropical beach vibes.
>Favorite male protagonist?
Red or Hilbert, both are cute and work equally well when interpreted young or old.
>First Pokemon ship?
Probably Red/Blue? I'm almost positive it was my first brush with Pokemon yaoi but I don't know if I ever earnestly "shipped" them or if was more me being a young ravenous yaoiholic.
>Current Pokemon ship(s)?
I ship best boy Bill with Surge because of Pokespecial characterization. I like Nanu x Guzma because of police/hoodlum dynamic. Colress/Ghetsis might as well be canonical evil boyfriend as far as my delusions are concerned. And recently I've been rewatching the anime and my interest is peaked on James/Brock since they have a lot of similarities and seem to get along on the sideline while everyone else is bickering.
>Do you ship the Pokemon themselves?
I've written fics of it before as practice, but I'm not super invested in any of them as a character besides maybe Mewtwo. I'd be curious in checking out mystery dugeon human/pokemon where MC has a crisis over falling in love with partner who is non-human. But in most iterations of the franchise they just come off as magic dogs and not shippable characters.
No.3367
>>3365I remember as a kid thinking these two had homo vibes, calling each other, Flint calling Volkner "my guy" and trying to fix his depression made me squee
No.3370
>>3367They are defintley THE Dppt ship which is funny becausw you'd think Flint's design would be offputting to most people. Agree though I've always seen the bond especially since it's goofball/sad sack.
No.3377
>>3376Damn that third image is lewd/cute as fuck
No.3435
>>3376There's a couple of new fics for these two on ao3.
It's really nice to see another person who appreciates Cyrus, he's an interesting character. He didn't get much in terms of shipping fuel from either USUM or Masters but he did get quite a lot to unpack.
>>3302>Favorite Pokemon boy(s)?Cyrus, N, Grimsley, Guzma, Nanu, Larry
>Favorite game/region?PMD Blue
>Favorite male protagonist?Hilbert
>First Pokemon ship?It might have been originshipping
>Current Pokemon ship(s)?The Larry and Kabu event jumped me, especially the way they were advertised as middle aged opposites but just went to dinner and an onsen. The fanworks about it have been surprisingly sweet. On the other hand, I've been getting into hardenshipping. Happy 8 year anniversary to this official tweet and the cards they chose.
No.3475
>>3473Aw, PreciousMetalShipping is so good though…
Silver should be bred and filled with cum No.3476
>>3475I like it well enough [spoiler] but I like the seme uke positions to be reversed unless we're going by the manga where Silver is taking it up the ass from everyone everywhere[/spoiler]
No.3480
>>3475All the male rivals except Blue and Hau are total ules tbh.
No.3485
>>3484>Haven't played the switch games but Hop is a brocon right? Probably bottomsHe absolutely is, total brocon who probably lets his big bro and his Charizard fuck him.
>No idea for HauMysterious tan boy you meet while visiting an island? He 100% "teaches you the island culture" when you first meet him.
No.3487
>>3486Agree, Victor wrecks him. Impressive just how many bottoms Pokemon produces.
No.3489
>>3484If Avery also counts as a rival, he's also 100% a bratty uke. I wish there was more of him with the male protag, age gap is too good…
>N is seme except with his dadHave to disagree with you on this one nona, I think top!Touya is cute. This ship can go either way really.
Rei as a rival is also 100% uke. He bottoms even to Akari.
>>3488I think the only answer can be your favourite one. It's all in your heart.
No.3664
>>3663Longest lasting MC ship. Probably helps that N is complicated by Pokemon standards.
No.3665
>>3664I’d argue that’s Reguri, but second place works for me!
No.3666
>>3665RedGreen is technically longer lasting but more people seem heavily invested in TouyaN. If Red and Green hadn't had a cameo in SM there wouldn't even be much competition.
No.3668
>>3667>GreenIsn’t he also a tsundere?
>BarryYes
>NAt first seems unlikely but…
No.3691
>>3689It's funny that they've started catering to the old man fucker market ever since Nanu got popular in Gen 7 (or maybe even Sycamore in Gen 6 but he's a middle aged man)
Definitely not complaining about AZ's glow-up. I also agree that the MC is a bit boring, I think he's cute but let down by his bland outfit, I thought PLA MCs were much more distinctive and interesting. Hopefully there will be some good clothing options, and I'm definitely taking that fedora off asap.
I like the rivals more than the MCs, but everyone does look like a total zoomer.
Since the setting seems to be around 12 years since XY, I wonder if we're going to get bishie Clemont?
No.3693
>>3691What's the source of 12 years? I've seen that and 50 thrown around a lot.
If they want to keep the old man train going I'd love to see an older Siebold. Looker's office was in the trailer so I'm sure he'll show up but it'd be cool if they gave him ankther assistant of some sort.
No.3694
>>369312 years is the gap between XY's release and ZA's release. We also know that Emma is probably going to be in the game because we saw Looker's office and her Espurr photo in the trailer. It would also line up better with the 'XX Years' that Ingo was in Hisui and put him somewhere the range of late 30s to 40s.
>older SieboldI'd love to see that too, as well as older Calem. People are theorizing that Calem/Serena might be the current Champions.
>>3692He looks like he’s going to bed
With MC-kun, clearly
No.3695
>>3692Mastersex has you covered, the sluttiest alt in the game is picrel and they can't make any of the girls too skimpy due to family friendly image.
Also the shop has booty shorts for the male MC in Legends Arceus. Not sure about other gens.
No.3696
>>3694>He looks like he’s going to bed>With MC-kun, clearlyGod I wish you could have Urbain if you play as the boy MC but all signs are pointing to the rival being the opposite of your mc’s sex. Not that it’ll stop me from shipping them.
>>3695I keep trying to play mastersex but I get filtered hard by the mobile/gacha mechanic aspect of the game. Nice to know that Legends Arceus has that choice. One of these days I’ll play it.
No.3717
>>3698Yeah I agree with you nonna, Nanu probably just got popular and then they realised they could cash in on the ojisan fucker market. (Although I know Drayden had his own fanbase in Gen 5 but it was mostly with the bara crowd)
Guzma/Nanu is such a good ship, I wish there was more of it…
No.3719
>>3717>Although I know Drayden had his own fanbase in Gen 5 but it was mostly with the bara crowdInteresting, I don't remember him even interacting with another male character, but I can't deny his design is pretty cool. Honestly Pokemon in general does a really good job of capturing all male archetypes and have only gotten better at it in recent gens.
>Guzma/Nanu is such a good ship, I wish there was more of it…Same it's such an interesting spin on the cop/gangster dynamic, but almost all the fanworks are in JP I'd kill for just one translated doujin.
No.3875
>>3665RedGreen really cuts to the core of what's been lacking in modern Pokemon entries and that's the strong throughline with you and your rival. It doesn't need to be super complicated, but a lot of the games where they give you an entourage of rivals and companion characters just dilutes the impact a single character could have. Not that it can't be done well, BW balances it. It's just no one cares about the XY friend group or Hau compares to Lillie. Usually one character eats the others development.
Also picrel, do we count Ash/Gary as falling under the RedGreen umbrella?
No.3876
>>3875I deeply agree with this. I'd go so far as to say that Silver perfected this formula, as he was given an entire character arc.
Sword & Shield almost got us to this with Bede, but he was drowned out by the annoying-ass amount of other characters. I've had it with supportive bro-type characters, I do not like them. They are boring and there's nothing compelling about them, especially when the game touts them as 'your destined rival'.
Ash/Gary definitely counts to some extent, I'd say. At least in Pokemon Yellow.
No.3882
>>3876SWSH was frustrating because Hop feels more like a rival for his brother not the player. He'd work better as a side character not the main rival. The Bianca not the Cheren if that makes sense.
Silver is great! Though since he hasn't come back in later entries he doesn't have the same development Blue has. It would be cool if for Z-A we get some returning characters who aren't from XY.
No.3885
>>3882Bianca is underrated as a rival, I like her more than Tcheren. Hop can only dream of being likable like her. Hau was also Hop but better already.
No.3889
>>3888What did you think of Avery?
Bede is definitely the better rival in SWSH and the fact that they took the angry bastard and offset him with being a Fairy-type trainer is funny.
No.3891
>>3889I’ve never played the dlc so I don’t know about Avery. I agree that I love the contrast between Bede’s personality and his pokemon type. I will say his fairy typing definitely contributed to my enjoyment of him being a rival because I tend to play with mostly fairy type pokemon (and before fairy was introduced I was a psychic type player) so him stealing my character’s thunder and the fairy type gym made me view him as even more of a proper rival than Hop.
>>3890Yeah the only time I remember Marnie is when I’m reminded of Team Yell. She’s probably the most forgettable rival in SWSH. I honestly wonder if Gamefreak had more planned for her and Team Yell because even her rival battles weren’t interesting. I think I remember reading somewhere about the game being rushed after a certain part where it’s obvious they didn’t have as much time to flesh certain things out.
No.3898
>>3894He deserves to be bullied and has a face made to be bruised, but given he's a single game character it makes sense. Honestly the fact that SWSH had game-exclusive trainers was a terrible idea and I long for the day they publish a single game for a gen. I feel the legends games are moving us there.