Preface

10.1 Pasio’s getting a school now, according to the new event They brought in my man giacomo Sure lets run a school on the island, I wanna see where this goes Now draw them getting an education ‘ 9.30 I think if masters had pvp the amount of salt generated would be enough to fuel like a small country because like gacha powercreep started giving the feh yugioh weapon descriptions because outside of like my visual visceral reaction to the arc suits i actually looked at the descriptions Does masters have pvp? Idk. As a single player game my incentive should be either story events or rolling but like i only want select characters who dont get spotlights or reruns often so im stuck not wanting to play or progress very much. Which isn’t good, because if this game were to die within like, the year, I haven’t really caught up. I wish my phone account didnt have stuff id rather have on the tablet but what was i thinking having dual accounts…. 9.29 I think a lot of why gen 1 was like that is uh.... when you try to write out a gen 1 adaption, how do you handle actual gen 1 content and not just the FRLG revision? Well my headcanon is literally that kanto is just unhinged compared to other regions. Like in terms of the capsule Mon stuff and like the whips, and like team rocket, and like, a possible war theory, and the overindustrialization, and the abundance of poison types, and how unhinged the anime was for the indigo league. Gen 1 kanto was definitely the area of like “they just established how things were going and how weird it is” and the anime also gave off the vibes of “yeah let’s just give jerk children dogs that can shoot flamethrowers and see what happens” like there was zero responsibility no one had any idea what was going on there was a literal mob that overtook multiple towns and people were on phone calls and sending letters like “yeah team rocket’s doing some shady stuff and killing pokemon and attacking people, you know, the usual” 9:26 datamine is out No ghost sheet My one friend that enjoys shauntal might be pleased but they hate gacha games so probably not I kinda wish lodge units weren’t tied to like a single unit because some units get alts but no you have to get like the one specific unit come on. I’m thinking about dragalia lost again since I was posting about it and like I completely doubt Pokémon masters will have an end of service anytime soon but like maybe it’ll be like pocket camp where they make an offline version with events and stuff like they did with X dive More mobile games need to be properly preserved instead of companies just deleting them and the player’s money. Also kinda funny how Kris was like “I didn’t know johto had a battle frontier” I’m thinking she might’ve gotten Hoopa ringed from a different timeline 9/25 I only showed up to do the masters day pull. Dang, Sygna Suit Kris looks real nice but I’d probably never be able to summon her So regular kris showed up instead Also I really thought they’d bring back Neo champion Red as a rerun because he was just standing there like a menace. Chill. Its’ almost datamine time Me crossing my fingers: Larry, Larry, Larry Maybe a Halloween unit I’m imagining my dream unit I saw in a vision like months ago with someone just wearing a sheet over their heads with the eye holes It would be so infuriating 9.22 This one will make more sense once I have the cohost recreation page up where I start talking about my “protag portrayal take” thing where I consider how celebrity culture works in the pokemon world and how it would affect protags. More or less that’s kind of a running theme with me these days… Sorry I’m just thinking about Red again in terms of Masters and what I’ve seen of him so far where if I wasn’t a Red fan beforehand based on like other stories and like in terms of Reds Masters Red is sitting in mid tier at his best and low tier at his worst and I think the problem is that some of Red’s things/actual kanto feats have been split up between all the various kanto protagonists between Leaf, Chase, and Elaine so the only thing they can really work with is “Red, the cool guy who lived on Mt. Silver and is the strongest ever (tm)” instead of like my “Red, the cool guy who lived on Mt. Silver and is the strongest ever but is also a kid who does some silly stuff sometimes.” I believe that a character can be slightly more entertaining when the impression and reputation of the character doesn’t match up to their actions. If Red was humbled where it’s like the daigo party happened to him so his rep tanked but also he was like the wazzler and obliterating everyone who tried touching MVC2 I would be more entertained. I don’t want him to have a big reputation and be super praised, I just want him to be an unexpected terror to the populace of Pasio. He should be the kind of guy who looks at you when a bus is rolling and then the bus passes and he’s gone. It’s another contradiction up here. I think Red should’ve obviously had his whole child prodigy thing that led to him leaving, but I also think the world should’ve immediately hopped onto the next child prodigy instead of like immortalizing him as like the living legend title from BW2 which pretty much cemented him as “red, so mysterious, no one knows a thing about him. Also there’s his rival we know literally everything about that guy.” Sorry, all I’ve got are FGC analogies and Sonic Pokémon could be like the FGC where like a single person can show up and destroy the regulars Mt Silver Evo Moment 37. Pokémon’s Bigfoot but he’ll beat you up if you look too long. In terms of like personality it seems like any “nice” traits he had also got tossed out in terms of making him like I said last time “always on the grind 24/7” becuase like why was his copycat event taken away and given to leaf. Like canonically within GSC/HGSS proper it’s always been Red who gave her the doll but in Masters itself with lobby dialogue, it’s Leaf. Because Leaf as a character in Masters kind of just… exists…. Honestly I feel like if you really wanted Red and Leaf to be more distinct then make it so that Leaf is the one doing all the Sevii island event stuff and red keeps all his gen 1 stuff because Sevii island proper is entirely skippable in FRLG until postgame because if it’s skipped than it IS the postgame. And since pokemon literally has a canon multiverse you’d think they’d take advantage of that to have more whacky weird AU stuff in terms of the game created to sell as many characters as possible. Unfortunately because masters has to exist in the vacuum of the character’s most marketable form and story we are never going to see the oppurtunity of like a character who gets burnout. Leaf is always going to be the cute one, Blue/Green will always be second fiddle, Red will always be the best and flawless and any potential for flaws gets snuffed out by “oh, that red!”, Ethan will never quite beat him, and uhhhh… the undefeatable champion Leon will remain the undefeatable champion Leon and we will not know what it would be like for him to live like post SWSH where he is not that. (Note: I know he has a battle tower alt in the game. I don’t know the dialogue. But the single event I played with him pre note taking method where he walked out of the ocean is probably proof enough that he’s been mostly static.) I still think it would be immensely funny to have an arc suit given to Larry even though I already know it’s going to the most marketable characters. Or in general, instead of doing what they did with those abysmal rates and in general everyone got an arc costume and completely destroy the metagame. This is why I am an ideas guy and not a game developer aside from being crap at coding. By the way, DeNA codeveloped fire emblem heroes so I now know exactly what to expect when dealing with this sort of thing. 9/18 So what’s up with Masters in terms of luma 3ds (the phone account) I'll only use her for days out events because my phone battery is absolutely trashed main story will continue on scouts account like I said, I pretty much did the events for anniversary and dipped for a bit But now Lear’s got a new alt, so I came back! I’m losing my damn mind at the Reddit post of that one guy editing Pokemon to be old Why does young Nanu look like the guy from Dan VS Lear's new pokemon: It’s the gimmighoul! Okay what else Idk lol Pasio is a real region now too, so I can filter out characters if they ever get Pasio day out stories …the Pasio day out stories are literally just the main game. Aye, fair enough. My favorite part of this is basically since I haven’t cleared main story I’m seeing post character development Lear and then immediately going back to pre character development Lear where he’s going to be like “ screw you” in terms of coins you need 999 coins for the tickets no thanks. lears goal is a thousand bonds like a thousand cranes our job as the player is to be the photographers you ever think about how the pasio player canonically has a solgaleo becuse of legendary adventures no anyways rosa is the tourism ambassador of pasio actually this entire event just turned into the "let's all share embarrassing stories about lear in front of his face" Red has his lapras!! Yayyyy Now give him back Espeon Hypothetical lodge Red means he’s going to spend the entire time probably doing nothing but ellipses I wonder what his topics will be even when lear wins he still takes an L because Red was like "gg! good job" this is the kind of photo you'd get just before they're announcing the game's shutdown or something Now: I have to do the exact thing with Scout where I do chapter catch up I already did the recap so I’m not doing that Give me a few weeks and I’ll get it done 9.13 Do you think they’ll give masters Kieran either a. Terapagos B. Pecharunt C. Shiny ogerpon Or just like an inceneroar for the lols The offscreen masters dump session (September onwards) Lately since my phone’s been acting up for masters I’ve been considering switching accounts. Or maybe laying off the screenshots, pretty sure majority of my phone photos are now just pokemon stuff. I’ve got a photo for this! Nemona on Pasio 50/50 shot of red just showing up and blowing up the whole place Nemona I like her, she just likes battling. She is… super tall though, what the heck. Bede really just got dragged into this though Actually animated battles through masters seems like a thing they save only for things like these events Confirmed Kantrio beatdown They got the sygna suits. I like Nemona and the concept of her being friends with Blue because her pawmot’s hair looks like his No it doesnt Orange i redid ancient visitor as well for the screencap section but not the full event, only the relevant paradox stuff like i said, its a selective cut. When I think of Naranja I think of Pokemon Naranja, that ancient fangame on the orange islands Also, what’s with nemona’s arm band, is it like a wrist brace or something? A champion that is a prodigy and then mostly bored out of their mind is a factor for Nemona based on what little I know for SV, but thankfully she’s a happy person and not like actively using her champion pokemon and powers to like, cause havoc. Like Green/Blue (rival) being there is also an interesting parallel because he had an equal, Nemona didn’t until the player arrived and it was her NG+. there's an interesting thing about anabel in that she's never interacted with any of the battle frontier guys or I haven't gotten to a relevant event where they bring that "hey, she kinda looks like one of our coworkers" nemona's shoes vaguely remind me of sora kingdom hearts anyways color me surprised when i found out arven isn't the sonic VA and it's just a guy that sounded like him to me Researcher and Seeker and i did the event with jacq and volo what knowledge do i have of PLA anyways hisuian zorua ingo is there akari may not be dawn rei may not be lucas god intervened and said "go find pokemon" the terminal montage video where Volo was voiced by Zero's VA the dodge roll exists baggin is that literally it based on this masters event i feel like you could walk jacq into a fairy circle without him asking if you're nice enough to him I feel like this Jacque guy would fall for a cyberscam I’m looking through the dialogue and do you think pokemon would ever go back to using dated lingo like that one time a trainer spoke in leetspeak Like I think a pokemon game saying skibidi rizz would cause a thousand people to frenzy and veins popping I think in terms of characters that are dangerously close to release dates of actual terms, the LGPE kids are in that range of getting scammed on Roblox.

8/29 No good summons today. I have not been this exhausted by a single person in MONTHS. I’ve had extreme burnout the whole morning and I can’t bring myself to play this game because I feel like my cynical attitude will make this game the target of extreme unwarranted disdain today. A large part of complaints primarily come from me disliking that a large chunk of the mobile game industry is full of games i feel would be better if they were not slot machines and filled with godawful rates but unfortunately that is the way the game industry is.

Ash exists in Masters but since I never did the event I will never have him and he seemed to be a one and done collab thing where the company in charge has been making sure he’s been scrubbed out ever since It’s kinda sad if you didn’t get him and liked his character too

Animal crossing pocket camp is announcing end of service but coming back as an offline playable app which gives me hope that more Nintendo mobile games will be like that if they do die instead of being outright vaporized from existence Then again pokemas is a joint project so it could go the dragalia lost way but I hope not; that’d be a waste.

In terms of gameplay pokemon is purely mechanics and the Amie bonus is just also a mechanical thing but in terms of story and especially in this game its friendship and bonds and unless you the player are actively making up stories for the pokemon then there’s not much to work with Do you nickname every pokemon you come across?

Interregional interactions are pretty cool, gotta hand that to masters because that's like the part I enjoy as a crossover that has a story like Subspace or Project X Zone or fighting game stories that have crossover stories that aren't just "woah these guys showed up, that's weird, wanna fight?" . The anniversary artwork showed Red hanging out with Hilda and Nemona buying them ice cream and stuff. Red’s characterization in this one piece of artwork is very cute. He’s not an edge lord nor an anxiety guy, he’s just a guy. He’s a nice guy, he’s kind, curious, he’s just stoic based on his game depiction and none of my headcanons. He’s a little polite, he’s just a chill guy, he’s got no social problems whatsoever, he’s obliterating my headcanons and I’m happy for him. But the masters depiction is goddamn boring otherwise like the entire foundation of the game exists because Lear got mad he got beat in a fight and Red doesn’t even give a shit and in the Neo champions conversation somehow Red trouncing a bunch of kids actually worked better as a lesson than whatever Leaf and BlueGreen were doing like ???? Whatever.
And the game makes me have second hand cringe sometimes because of my research and like every event red shows up in it’s like “it’s red! He’s the coolest! Right!” And I am like “yeah he is but keep it down, you’re scaring the pokemon away”

8/28 The anniversary section I woke up at like 2 am and played for an hour and then passed out again and woke up again because I went to take a nap at 8 PM the day before (as in, 8/27_ and passed out for the rest of the night

Freebie Lillie event

Yo Gladion is dripped out Is this just a “let’s show off all the alts!” Event??? Iono Stream. Hey it’s red and friends Vs Cynthia and the champions wow… I don’t think I’ve ever hit level of apathy in a while Oh they can just whip out arc suits on command huh now, I better stay in the lobby or I’m finished!!

Lillie said “I wish this day could last forever” so Lunala found the literal day Pokemon Why doesn’t Lillie call them Nebby Wait why was red even here for like any reason Obligatory quota. I didn’t feel like doing anything else so I just max leveled my entire crew to 100 So I got Morty to get some 5 star tickets for my 1 summon and I got her

Potential girl! (affectionate) The lounge I have on this alt is ridiculous because it’s all older men (I wish I had Kabu but my interest in masters only spikes randomly) The guy lance attacked with a hyper beam once is also on Pasio Wait I was not paying attention at all to lounge stuff whatsoever you’re telling me if I keep raising friendship I get more free things??? Ahhh, I thought this was just a side thing I could ignore but I guess I need to grind this too
So does leaf just like smelling stuff in this game because that’s like the third line of dialogue I’ve seen mentioning that You’re a little weirder in a direction I was not expecting. Fascinating. The weird girl headcanon lives!

Rambling again: you see when i used to fancast leaf with aoi yuuki as the VA i explicitly thought "leaf is a shadow fan" because of the time frame during sonic forces when aoi yuuki voiced sticks and was playing a demo and yelled out "SHADOW" so if she did ever evolve eevee it would be umbreon ignoring that Gary/Shigeru also has umbreon
They changed the way her bag looks in this game, it’s no longer the huge circular bag and it’s more of like a little strap on purse type of bag Return the duffel bag
Also the trainer at the forefront of the lodge changes depending on who has the highest affection level (its Morty). It’s 3 am, I haven’t slept, I do my main 10 ticket summon and I get Lear Clearly today is a day of L’s

It’s clearly not a difficult game story wise like if I just spent a day playing it I’d probably have everything done already and I’m gonna have a lot of free time this week since everyone is going on vacation but me because they decided the tail end of summer was the best time to go and neither invited me so I might as well finish up the site and get through this ASAP
Hey I’m back in the lounge and they gave leaf’s huge bag to Dawn Wait was it a huge bag in artwork ever or just the sprites Nope it’s a purse even in the sprites I appear to be having a confusion ray effect They kept in the pokeball detail for the model

Heeeyyyy guess who just found out there’s a favorites button I must’ve accidentally clicked and that’s why Roxanne was hard locked It was a nice run I feel like I’ve learned more about her than I ever wanted to, but that’s enough Let me see new characters. Bye. It’s 4 am am I just not gonna sleep til my stamina comes back BED.

okay but did siebold really nearly boil his clauncher or did i misread a line of dialogue like how i thought there was a line where green (rival) managed to keep up with his pidgeot which mind you moves at mach 2 speed (2120 km/h or 1534.54 mph) and i was like "yeah he can just do that" with no questions whatsoever okay confirmed that he did nearly cook it as a clawlitzer.

Anniversary Side Section (ASS)

The new masters anniversary units have been revealed accidentally with a leak! It’s Cynthia, Lance, and Steven! In special Arceus outfits! It looks… I felt nothing whatsoever. Am I supposed to be excited for this or something? Really is just a popularity contest for units I guess. Marketability and shit. I really looked at that and 0 reaction whatsoever. Thank god that the opinion of that seems to be unanimous when I checked the pokemas r*ddit even though that place is the spot where I was like “you guys talk about the meta???” There might be a new Lillie! Confirmed real!

I’m going to be honest, I don’t care. Yeah I think I might really just be in it only for the characters I care about, doing Sygna Suit Cynthia’s day out gave me like 0 incentive to want to explore her character any further. Cynthia is like the normal basic girl pick ever and like to me she has negative rizz and the harder she’s pushed the less I am going to personally care.

arceus be like “where are my plates” Super Cynthia:


not her fault though she's basically like the only woman they can pick who isn't 1: a child or teenager, 2: a nobody from a battle facility (optional and therefore casuals would not know about them) and 3:not a joke battle champion like later gens and actually difficult if you don't prep beforehand .the undella town joke has run it's course though
Not a cynthia exclusive problem of my dismissal, I can't think of much for Lance or Steven either because it's been years since I played AS or looked at games Lance.
This is basically extreme power creep and I was alright with the seasonal costumes and stuff but these designs are not doing it for me either, it’s like designed to be anti bait for me as much as possible
Wait this definitely means that they’re gonna have a superpowered Red Arceus Charizard shilling moment
Ughhhhh I like red but not masters red there are other protags that also have feats too that’s absurd and I know it’s gonna be him because marketability and shit

And this is funny coming from me since I want Alolan Red and Green in the game but not as damn costumes, I want their actual adult selves in the game and if they’re just the model of the teenage versions wearing their clothes I’d just delete the game and the lore cut would only have what I had played up to that point . I hope that it’s not like that.

You would think there would be like slightly better stuff for some characters especially when they get alts for like: here's what they would do in this scenario, here's an microscopic look to this character who has 2 sentences of dialogue in the entire franchise somehow and even then you still get stuff like “I’m hanging out with Wulfric because he decided letting an Avalugg loose was a good idea and now we’re stuck here” I really can’t imagine what it would be like to be a masters only player and the only pieces of characterization you get is if someone at the dev team remembers that these characters exist outside of like one event where they need a themed trainer

Pokemon canon is akin to two children playing imaginary fight scenes in their mind where they can say anything and it will be canon. Twitch plays pokemon? Sure, canon. That nuzlocke run you failed? Canon. The TCG games? canon. Rumble? Canon.
forums for pokemon masters are not for me because they're actually talking about the metagame and unit speculation and shit and I'm here like "what the fig is a sync grid” Forums are also funny though because it’s years of the exact same points being brought up in a circular nature and some members have been on there for a decade And then you’ll see names where it’s like “I followed you on tumblr!” Some people don’t change their names at all.
Ancient Visitor

Why is Nemona all stanced up Also, these guys are teenagers?
Anyways, what the heck is a paradox pokemon Time travel? Not Imagination? Parallel timelines. Ultra beasts? Dimensions? Their only verified source is a “dude trust me” scenario
So the pokemon came across time and space Isn’t that what they always say for pokemon that came from different generations through transfers There was a pokedex app You’re telling me its just this guy writing entries now It might be from a magazine, IDK
Geeta does not look like she’s from the pokemon franchise whatsoever I know it’s a thing of different artists and art styles now but hooo she looks like a collab character Volo was also there He can teleport
Oh, so are looker and anabel here to compare paradox pokemon to ultra beasts No It’s to bring up the fact that anabel is still amnesiac and working for the international police Have the battle frontier members that are on Pasio ever interacted with her
Idk the heck
I really feel like the paldea gang are actually friends even though I’ve never played Paldea, like these are some guys I could see having stupid conversations about dumb shit Oh no, they’re talking about jobs. Reminding me of my life. Why did Volo become a merchant? He forgor 💀 The sinister scheming Volo who is up to his old tricks again What is nemona’s future? She doesn’t know, but as long as she gets to battle she’ll be happy Nemona loves battling She’s like Goku

Oak Nidorino event

Everytime the opening of Pokemon RGB is recreated with nidorino vs Gengar i go “it’s the thing!” Oak doesn’t evolve his pokemon for research purposes Also if that is same one it’s old as hell Maybe Pokémon are immortal or just have super long lifespans.

Neo champions event (Galar)

It’s kind of weird how the word champion has been completely diluted the further you go with main games and Masters because now they’re throwing out champion titles like they’re participation trophies to try and say “good job!” This is definitely because you are a character with good personality traits and not because we want to make more money using the more popular characters in new costumes with meta breaking traits! (That’s what it is, always has been.) not falling for that. Like if I was a trainer in universe I’d definitely be like “this looks like nepotism ngl”

Veevee!

Penny is a nice character, but her hair color drives me nuts. Can the blue be like black or something. Also, I like how Hugh and Bianca literally don’t even have eevee but they just hung out anyways.

(Note: What was I even talking about here) No you can't have mystery dungeon interacting with mainline because the concept of a world where human civilization has died off and pokemon can talk and shit and still have to deal with world ending crises is morbid at best and philosophically dangerous at worst because if they can still be caught in pokeballs in spite of having human intelligence what does that even mean. I really just ramble about whatever huh...
8/14 (mini session) Does being in the lodge affect chances of showing up in center? I kicked everyone out but Rosa to hypothesize If she shows up anyways then I’ll just put everyone back in.

1. I’ve seen red pop up more than I’ve seen Rosa. 2. Some I’ve kicked out have shown up. 3. Going to put Iono in the lobby and see if there is an effect 4. Roxanne is STILL hard locked, this doesn’t happen on my alt at all. 5. It’s bizarre seeing Red by himself and doing emotes and shit when most of the time he’s with the other kanto trainers 6. Rosa spawned into the lobby, confirmed that lodge bearings don’t affect lobby spawns Dumping everyone back in


Evolving Roxanne to see if there is an effect Now I have to look at Probopass everytime I login Regret
Is there a way to set a favorite unit in this game or something There is But it’s not very effective…
Need to find out how to unlock the sync grid (I want to make blue disgustingly OP)
So legendary days out are just copy pasted versions of the legendary event but like… why?
Have Leaf and Professor oak ever interacted within masters? The fact that the rivalry of Red and his rival is most emphasized and Leaf was also there seems to be a thing that is consistent. Leaf probably has a bonus since she’s from Kanto and Pallet Town but idk. I don’t have a Leaf to check. I checked Bulbapedia No, he only mentions her in a single line during the neo champions arc. Weird!
This isn’t even a pokemon exclusive thing to just completely ignore protagonists over the other and pokemon was kind of notoriously bad for this for years outside of the anime featuring a playable girl and they were usually shoved into contests (and if you liked the boy protags closest you got was maybe ash wearing their clothes) until like only recently where it's like "oh yeah... we should market more protagonists for anniversary stuff...". Definitely started with Serena, I think, so uh, good job, Serena. (then again it's been like a whole decade thinking about this, maybe there was more stuff back then but I just never paid attention to it the way I do now.)

Basically if your name wasn't Red, and you weren't in the anime, the only other depiction during that timeframe was usually the games or Special. That was it. Maybe some merchandise.

In a lot of RPGs, usually even if there is a male or female choice outside of like maybe official art, the male protagonist is usually the canonical or promoted pick. Or like in games where there's a perfectly good pick for a girl pick option like Zelda and then the director is like "nah". Just look at P3 fans going feral with mods for their female protag or how Gudako (girl) is normally treated as the joke option for FGO animated content. Hakuno from Fate Extra got an entire anime season, Hakunon (girl) only showed up to die at the start of the series. Djeeta had to be DLC for the fighting game of granblue when she's literally the other player avatar. Took until Smash Ultimate for Leaf to be an alt costume. Fire Emblem's had this issue too with male avatars in promo material but everyone liking the female character's more design wise but thankfully they've let up with that I think. IDK.
I’ve never felt brain cells die faster than when I watched a guy play FE engage and heard the opening going like: emblem, engage! 💍💍Bond of hope unite us! 🤞🤞Love unites 💕❤️and will guide us! 🗣️🗣️And the heroes from the pages slipping out from their ages!! 🔥🔥
Alear, you’re the fire emblem
the greatest writing of all time.

I feel bad for Leaf, I said potential girl as a joke (because I was watching a lot of JJK) but it really does feel like in this game based on her dialogue she's just here like "I was here too! I love Eevee! " (I do too, but that's not the point.) Benched for years on end, got a fan design in alola but never showed up, I thought she was the alternate universe equivalent of Red (so she'd never show up unless shennagins because during the Alola hype train when they talked about that I thought maybe she'd be a bonus boss or something (the mod battles with Leaf there didn't help either because they also used the fan designs) , but at least she's not a spinoff protag because those guys basically gather dust in a corner lol. I think I even drew her once during the Alola hype thing.


If the quality drops for images on the other page it’s because I use an image compressor to get them below 5 MB. I hope it’s still readable?

More hangout notes.
Everything about details to trainers given out in Pasio is canon until they get to Pasio. So someone mentioning a past event is canon, but if it happened in Pasio then it’s not canon. So everything that happens in story mode is not canon, but the characterization is. Stuff like the Neo champions and certain pairings if they’re Pasio specific are not mainline “canon”, but they are pokemon masters canon. This is an incredibly stupid statement and this is why having a canon multiverse with alternate timeline multiverses is a headache. This is very funny coming from someone who used to be into Kirby lore and also listened to Sonic lore where they said “everything is canon.” So therefore, to make this less headache inducing for myself, everything is canon so therefore nothing is.

I’ve never really given much thought to NPCs in battle and their relationships beforehand, like something like Whitney’s Milktank never got much of a story or character within the game itself, right? It’s interesting because beforehand I didn’t really think “oh that’s a gym leader and their signature pokemon”, they mostly had like a few sentences at best and just sat in their gym for the rest of the game until I’d say like gen 5 where they could be spotted doing other things or gen 4 HGSS where they had their phone call rematches and the rest of them had to work with whatever the anime did or Pokespe or any other manga like how the golden boys gave Falkner an Articuno or maybe some official artwork where Whitney played baseball with an Aipom and Pokemas wants you to see the characters more as people instead of just being yet another pokemon battle. So you can spend money on them.

Riley said that aura are like “vibes”. I’m suspecting that it might just be the pokemon version of like anime power level terms or maybe the power of the sun like in Jojo. It’s like you know like Aether from FFXIV where it’s the life force of everything. It’s like Mana… yeah not gonna lie this just sounds like another term for magic , they already have psychic powers. Apparently the main character’s is completely blank, which makes sense, because they’re not really much of a person as much as a representative avatar for the person behind the screen, which is why everyone has to be neutral or praise towards them and assume “you must love pokemon, right?” I do, but that’s not the point.

Thorton is short for Throckmorton. I just made that up. The power of friendship in fact is a thing that can be weaponized within the Pokémon world. In game lore versus gameplay status basically means that pokemon Amie is the most broken thing in the world.
Nate really really wants to be my double battle partner. The suit maker is a guy huh… They’re trying to do that thing in Sycamore’s plot episode about Lysandere and the resource problem and my solution is probably too far for a pokemon game since my solution would be to abolish capatalism Sycamore is the one who wrote a message in Couriway town… is that the one where it’s like “meet me at the usual place?” I think Sycamore and Lysandere also had a bad breakup. Isn’t this just a copy paste of the legendary adventure episode? I feel like I’ve seen all this before. RIP Lysanderoth
HE’S NOT A LARPER KNIGHT? Furries exist in the pokemon universe with hard confirmation on people wanting to become pokemon
You know, if I existed in pokemas and Gloria wanted to fight me with a legendary I would not. Kahili loves golf but also snuggling next to her pokemon, but it pecked her like a woodpecker because she fell asleep in its mouth. …alola sure does have a lot of interesting people. Lusamine really just happened to dress up coincidentally as the roach which is so funny to me. People used to seriously theorize characters to ultra beasts based on the dex leak but the only one in the end was Lillie.
I need to get my alt account to catch up to my main at chapter 7 and then I will continue playing on my main and not just do hangouts. But also I need to make this not super image heavy, so instead of using every screenshot I’m just gonna use only screenshots of dialogue I found interesting (probably just the kanto trainers then.)

This covers GAMEPLAY thoughts only. If you want the days out or the actual story supercut then they're on seperate pages. I had been playing on/off again but only really thought to myself "hey maybe I could get more characterization for certain characters by playing the gacha instead of going "my headcanons..."" I have Sync Suit Green/Blue on my JP account so naturally I had to get Red I have Green/Blue and Red on my ENG account so I get sync suit Leaf to make up for it Note: this was before I randomly yolo summoned base leaf on my alt
Said I’d do this, recall? I’ll make a page for it too once I have enough photos. In total, main story has 30 chapters, villain arc has 10, legendary adventures is its own thing with 8 chapters, and mysterious stone story is still going. My main priority is the main story and its lore for pokemon, not so much characters outside of a few. I don’t know how this gameplay works. I am just hitting things.

The story so far is basically just “okay everyone, let’s get people for the tournament! That Lear’s a real shithead.” He kind of reminds me of like, the Digimon emperor from 02. Apparently canonically Red beat up Lear (in a battle) and Lear got so mad he wanted a salty run back but Red so far hasn’t given a single shit and is too busy doing jackshit on the island, showing up to troll his rival, and beating everyone up like a chaotic force of nature. So you know, typical Red behavior. Maybe what I’m looking for is in the events or villain arc or something. I haven’t seen anything yet but I might rewatch earlier ones after I get further in or since I’m only on chapter 7 I could spare a few rewatches or use my other account to refresh and see if there’s anything noteworthy. I’ll likely just end up summarizing every chapter as I go. I mostly spent session 1 doing “day with” stories on my ENG and JP account with characters I had btwn accounts. The game doesn’t really expect you to know who everyone is so it’s more or less just like you’re a newbie trainer and everyone wants to be on your team because… gacha game. Honestly this is more or less just a game where you’re getting their phone numbers for the tournament.

At the end of Lt.surge’s day out you blow up. In the JP dub he has English phrases. I had no clue how the Evo shards worked until I saw it was in the same side area thing. I am now forcibly hanging out with Will because his bird saw us have a future together. Dude really said “I need you”, take me out to lunch first man. Jasmine has the phrase of “Clang!” Also, she polishes her pokemon to be all shiny and stuff.
Noland fist fought his Pinsir. Brendan has dad problems. It’s so bizzare seeing a normal Brendan and his dad relationship after recently reading the Pokespe RS chapter where Norman fights his son with dramatic lightning and rain and then is like "you could've just TOLD me you were leaving, I am in support of you doing contests and stuff and I will love you even if you are different but you should've called your mom" and then it turns out his son is straight and then Norman also dies. He comes back though.
Brawly taught his pokemon to surf. Everyone really likes raising the protagonist, huh, like I am the unbreakable fighting spirit calm cool collected person and meanwhile I’m like “thanks I guess.” Oh, Brawly and Bruno are interacting, which is cool. (Thinking about the RS chapter again where Brawly was buddies with Bruno. Turns out that him and Bruno have trained together in game but no clue when that’s said unless it was NPC dialogue or rematch exclusive. ) he said bodacious.
Ran out of evolution stones for Hoenn though, tried getting more at the shop and left confused. That’s a lot of random junk to parse through…. I guess I’ll have to return to people who need evolutions later. I’ll label those with the filter.

Somehow the red leaf siblings thing got even more rooted into my brain as leaf is basically with red at all times and my headcanon is twins but the pokemas interpretation reads to me like a younger sister hanging out with her older brother and being semi-jealous of all his feats while she says “I’m gonna catch up!” She is the potential girl (deragatory) of Kanto, if and when but never is. (others following this logic would be yellow pokespe since she hasn't done anything noteworthy since emerald and Koharu of Journeys based on what little I know about her.) Girl, you need a rival or mayhaps an enemy that is not green or red. I would’ve suggested Misty but she is hanging out with Brock so uh, Erika. And her personality which I previously mentioned in the headcanons page as me not knowing it because I didn’t want to play another gacha game.
Well, she is nice. Anything else? She likes pokemon. It kinda looks like she does the hat brim thing red does or maybe I just screenshotted at the wrong time.
I also looked at some of her hangout events. She uh. Really likes flower picking. It’s kinda funny that I wrote life’s a gift in like 2022 but somehow managed to align lea’s logic with leaf’s logic on evolving eevee (but my in game logic was that I couldn’t figure out what to evolve eevee into since I had no need for Flareon by the time I got to e4 so I took advantage of the fact eevee wouldn’t be able to be hit by Agatha’s ghost types.) I looked at her lodge pairing stuff and it’s mostly harmless personality traits I could add where her best 10 point things are like, adventure, flowers, nature, bustling places, bags, sporty clothes, fame checkers, love for pokemon, grass and normal types, there’s a mention of misty, and …pewter crunchies? Apparently in the lodge conversation in other translations Blue/Green/Rival mentions that Leaf was seen sniffing her pokemon. I guess grass pokemon smell pretty nice. Zero comment on the Blue/Leaf/Green/Unused Girl debacle because I feel like Masters is implying they’re the same girl but not giving her the same name which raises more questions than it answers.

I’m being fairly neutral on this to be honest. I mean, follow my child logic for the red leaf sibling thing for a minute. First game was emerald, Brendan and May were established as both players and also simultaneously existed at the same time no matter what gender you picked in a story role.



Therefore, in my mind, all the player characters existed at the same time and had to have some level of connection and this was not contradicted when my next game was Diamond, and then Black, which also featured the other protag in a role even if it was minor. So when I bought leafgreen and opened the manual which you can see on the manual page, I thought “oh, these two kids are siblings, because they kind of look similar.” The idea kind of died in my head when I was online and saw that people didn’t really think the same way as me but it kinda resurfaced in my mind during my headcanon brainstorming session. I think the chronological order of things must’ve been my siblings hand me down VHS tapes with some anime episodes, hand me down Emerald, Best Buy leafgreen, and then Pokespe Yellow which meant I had the most confusing interaction of Red as the character and concept because the next time I had any pokemon related content was brawl, which had Red labeled as Pokemon Trainer, so it must’ve been pretty weird but there’s no shot I’m remembering it right since I was 7… maybe it’s in a diary entry somewhere. But I also stopped keeping diaries after my sibling started reading them out loud to snitch on me, which might be a contributing factor to my trust issues. Doesn’t stop me from now venting online i guess lol. It won't be the case for everything I write though and it's definitely not the case for like canon interactions but I'm probably reading it with the wrong lens. If I write about them though, I'll specify which particular headcanon I'm going with (usually if there's a particular guy named Fire, then chances are that I'm going with the siblings thing. Yeah, sorry, I have a seperate headcanon where there are two distinct versions of Red in spite of the fact they're the same person. It started through a timeline thing and then kinda turned into it's own thing.)

Personally I think the concept of a pokemon protag who has a sibling is interesting, but only rangers 2 has ever done that

Unfortunately this runs the issue of “I need to make sure that I mention every single time which AU I’m going with if my headcanon siblings are siblings in it or not because I use the names of characters interchangeably between the Red and Fire and Blue and Leaf designs and the headcanon doesn’t apply to every single fic I write and if I don’t specify there will be problems for ME keeping track of who’s who”

This runs another issue of something like cross canon where I have to specify in my notes like “That’s Origins Red talking to Y2K Leaf, if she calls him Fire she has to explain that and Leaf doesn’t exist in the files verse since she’s Blue but Origins Red hasn’t met Blue yet” and my notes are full of stuff like that because the multiverse is a confusing concept by itself and I only make it worse for myself.

Hey, check this out. In Japanese Fire Red and Leaf Green you have a famicom instead of a NES.



Writing oak has been difficult for me in some areas because he’s a quirked up grandpa in the anime, a neglectful grandfather in gen 1 depending on how you read it, and most fics and fangames tend to swing moral pendulums of “he’s the best!” Or “he’s the worst and sucks so bad.” So the hanging out with Oak episode where he just finds mew is kinda crazy. He seems to be more of the quirked up grandpa type in this game. I really wish there was a back button in this game so I don’t have to rewatch entire bits of dialogue if I see something I accidentally press over. FGO let’s you reread messages with the log…
Green was just hanging out casually with Agatha which also ties into my other theory that Oak and Agatha divorced/had a terrible break up but Agatha still hangs out with her grandkids. I still think it’s kinda messed up that people started referring to Green as the phantom champion after losing to Red, like, way to rub salt into the wound. He didn’t even last long enough to be registered in the hall of fame unless thats a fanon thing I picked up again.

They really do NOT want you saying starter pokemon, the amount of times I’ve seen partner is kinda crazy. I like how sync pairs and partners sounds like a serious thing but in JP they’re just called buddies and sync suits are called costumes…. I also read through the new UB event and Elio and Selene also carry sibling energy to me. I think they need to not have player characters have hair colors that are so similar to each other and/or let them exist in the story proper so that way people don’t go crazy with their headcanons like I did for Leaf. Oh well, guess that’s what happens when you basically neglect characters for years and then bring them back into a Gacha game. The event also seems to hard confirm to me that USUM is the canon one because there’s no way that they’d be like “UBs can be our friends” after witnessing Lusamine attempt to harm them by fusing with Nihilego.

Also did the Arven N event. Is that roger Craig smith as arven or just a guy who sounds like his sonic You know arven is right to be terrified, some dude just brought out a whole lightning dragon. N has zero sense of social skills whatsoever which you know, makes sense because of the plot of BW but boy howdy is it awkward to watch but then it just gets funny as hell when he starts getting chased down Sometimes I think about that old concept art of N because he’s got a lot of those. Yo, Hilbert is a short king.

They do have reruns but in a seperate spot…? Weird? Okay. No event compendium though… that sucks. I wonder how often reruns happen.
Basically the whole time my amount of work for pokemasters lore is probably just taking screenshots of dialogue and cropping and going "Green (Rival/Blue) I love you so much you are incredible don't let the haters get you down. Hi red." Whenever he says something. The summon rates are so bad I feel like I’m going to have to look at people’s YouTube videos for other outfits and units to see if there’s anything interesting. I still want a Bill unit in the game. Quite frankly my dream Pokemas would probably be a bunch of impossible picks like , Spinoff guys (ranger characters, conquest characters, anyone from pokemon duel, mangas) or joke units like Lord Helix but they’d never go for that kind of acknowledgement of fan content lest they open up a bizzare Pandora’s box. And deep cuts like that are unnecessary when they’d make far less money when you could just shove a more popular character into another costume.