by Hokuto » Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:42 am
I apologize for claiming and not writing; I'll get back to you soon-ish. (Edit: here it is.)
I am currently hopelessly obsessed with this big stupid project where I connected the Generation 8 Pokémon games with an emergent meta narrative involving the canon estimate of (up to) 5% of humans having some level of psychic powers and ethically questionable amounts of time travel. It makes sense in context, I swear. Also Scarlet/Violet and the Splatoon series because my sanity has fully gone down the drain. Last year, I read about Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion on a whim, accidentally spoiled So Many Things to myself, and couldn't ignore the parallels between the New Friend from the Sky (the Pokémon Legends: Arceus protagonist) and Agent 8 (the Octo Expansion protagonist). As one does, I put my New Friend from the Sky's soul into an Agent 8. This needs a LOT of context to make sense.
In the meantime, I took the "flop around and find out" approach to my other Agents, because if my Agent 8 was going to be a distinct character(s), the 3s and 4 deserved to be their own too. I can't say any of them are fully fleshed out, but I know a few things about them and I want to learn more. (The big mystery is my OG 3 because I never legally played the first Splatoon. Currently, they're based on an OC from an entirely different fandom.) I won't have any tangible children, so the characters I create are the next best thing. I have a Daytime arc with the Octo Expansion good ending and a Primetime arc with the bad ending (which creates another path to the Splatoon 3 bad ending). The focus is Daytime because that's the one I played, but given that timeline jumping is both a major plot point in the overarching narrative and the thing that ties everything together, I have to acknowledge it the same way I have to acknowledge the existence of my Pokémon Dark Star continuity.
Anyway, everything I described up there? A minor part of that larger narrative. The Sploons make up a quarter of it, if I'm feeling generous. That Dark Star thing I mentioned makes up maybe another third. (I would have to play Pokémon Sword and Violet, which I don't have, in order to fully explore that continuity.) The main course is Shining Star, which I (thank Arceus) am almost done with. I just need to finish Pokémon Scarlet's DLC stuff and pray that Pokémon Z doesn't do anything interesting with its Old Save Bonuses. (Framing them as "Past Lives" with the fortune teller in Scarlet and Violet was what prolonged this mess in the first place.)
With sincere apologies to both you and the person I'm attempting to explain this to offline, Hokuto
Second edit: I think it's the concept of personal canon I'm losing it over. Persona 5 Royal is next.
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Hokuto on Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:13 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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