Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Are Darker Than You Thought 

I have ran with head cannon from near the start of my anime journey that the games keep enforcing; the manga supports; and the anime hints at. Now it truly is darker than most think. Now I am not going to cover any one series or game but use general staples that led to my belief in the "True history of the Pokemon world" and the region I created that rests at the core of that history "Zuto Ura" (spelling might be off a bit; my notes are scattered so this is from current thoughts not my notes). 1) Repeat people. It struck me as odd that every Jenny and Joy are mostly the same. It struck me even odder realizing that as needs arose more repeat people would show. Oddest yet Jenny and Joys of the past look the same as the currents in a region if its a matter of Oaks time or similar. My explanation leads into my next point. POKEMON BREED/FARM THEM. 2) Pokemon leaders. There are a significant number of manipulators that are pokemon; even so there are a lot that mention human control in some fashion or that they prey on children and fools in some fashion. Clearly there are controllers out there like Celibi and other temporal agents that can mask there actions using mankinds false impressions of superiority. My theory is that they made humanity stunted and bizarre as they are in the technical sense; forcing the tech to advance in ways that favor pokemon in the long run. Everyone has mansions or lives in nice places with NO HOMELESS... quite sus really. If you can't find the slums then the slums will find you as a society. Hence all the Team Skulls and Team Stars out there along side Team Galatics and Team Flares. 3) The world is to Stanford Wives. Which leads to the main reason I think the pokemon world as a whole hides this great darkness of "in your face" oppression like this. Literally every region has a clean and clone feel despite the environmental differences. Name one region where Job markets or poverty is a thing at all... that's right you can't; every person has a place and every family is middle class at worst. You can look at Jessie/James/Meowth backstory and see the possibility of things being rough on the rejected... but JJM all 3 CHOSE that path of rejection. They chose to work outside there own molds and was punished by society for seeking that freedom of choice. Only those seeking that freedom suffer in Pokemon. "N" for instances was an unwanted bridge between species that the poke-overlords arranged for failure to get rid of. Theres more if you want; but for now I will describe the region I made Its basis is the super continent Pangea/Mu/Atlantis type of places. Its size is roughly 4 times that of Asia. Its shores have one safe route to reach and only if the Captin of the ship is approved and all non-pokemon on it are accounted for and approved. Planes only go missing to reappear 7 days later in a random port elsewhere everyone as they were those 7 days ago. Only by boat can you reach and only if allowed. The land it self is of every type of course but mostly plains and grasslands for leagues. The sheer vastness of the land always knocks newcomers stupid in awe... you just feel it; and at about that time you realize the Mt. Everest sized HILLS and that your not seeing a horizon but rather mountains so immense that they swallow the entire horizon like oceans can. The peaks are literally to high to see (Think red line in One Piece). In this most ancient land you find that some humans have pokemon move potential because of that's how close the bonds to pokemon are here. I do not mean stuff like draco meteor where literal meteors are summoned; but rather Giga impact and other moves that are martial rather than material. Some moves like Fire breath can be replicated with tools but still. My point being is these gyms the trainers fight also so the team is KO'ed by the trainer falling also. There is ZERO ball limit for your party and some gyms even do 64 vs 64 challenges... at once. The Mt's hide the truth tho. Inside that ring is a land of noon time light and otherwise eternal twilight; except for the false sun and moon that are legendaries in disguise (evolved forms of Sun and Moon Legendaries in fact). In that place are gangs of pokemon that are bandits or towns folk and most humans are owned by some pokemon. In all of that reign 2 positions of human power respected by pokemon as equals. The PokePriestess (Shinto like Japanese temple types) and the Lead Professor... tho he teaches little. Those posts are PR purposed only and can't change laws or anything. Peace keepers in other words. If you want to know more just ask.

thank you for this my man...though im sure you dont need me to say it but here it is anyway....i'll let you know if it helps with my goal of being a vmodel streamer/editor/creator....im wishing for big things from this

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None of the other teams are empathetic so yes

@@arand0mguy team yell kinda

They were never bullies just misunderstood

@@madnessarcade7447 nah team yell was just annoying,marnie got all the development and piers got...something? He only gets development in weird ways

@@arand0mguy skull

You summed it up well - Arven and Penny's struggles were easily among the most compelling in the series in my opinion.

Not even a broken man, a kid. He's still a teenager. I feel that makes it even worse

That's mainly cause being a Champion isn't the point of Scarlet and Violet It's stopping the Time machine in Area ZERO You need to beat all 3 Lines cause your three friends are needed to actually get to The last part of Area Zero

@@shelbybayer200 no shit Sherlock

None of the three lead-up stories are about us. Sure, we play a role and help, but none of them are ours. And in two of them, the respective treasures are revealed at the end. Not so in Victory Road. It makes pretty clear from the very beginning that we are Nemona's treasure, someone who can not only keep her pace but challenge and defeat her. The biggest issue in that regard is that none of the Gyms have any sort of scaling. Minimum Levels are nice and well, but there should also be room above. Dynamic teams, if you will. Because of this, Nemona and her excitement fall flat since it's exceedingly easy to out-level everything. But the core of us being her treasure(d friend) is still there and extremely important to The Way Home.

I can relate to this heavily.

He and Larry are two of my favorite adults in the games.

Something a lot of schools tend to ignore.

I haven't stopped thinking about this comment since I read it. The implication that Mela specifically might've faced harrassment from adults because she was a beautiful teenage girl makes my stomach churn. Disgusting, and certainly explains the extreme fashion choices she adopted in order to protect herself. (For clarity, I LOVE her design, and it is known that punks and specifically punk girls and women reject traditional beauty standards and adopt aesthetics that look off-putting and unapproachable on purpose.)

School can be rough haha. It seems like things generally improve a lot with the change to university. :) I thought it was a nice idea for a storyline, too!

Yes indeed. :)

Middle school is definitely a weird time in life haha.

@@charusharu very true

ah yes, fuck middle school. And I too was a victim of bullying.

@@minermole101 You guys have still grown up to be good people though, I am sure of it.

@@juliusnovachrono4370 thankfully yes

Penny's theme is awesome!

To make things worse, there are still schools that have staff that don’t care about such problems just like the academy back then. I know of a kid going through such problems.

Giovanni: I will conquer the world and make money with the power of Pokémon! Archer: I will revive the glory of Team Rocket so that Giovanni will return! Maxie: I will save the Pokémon of the world by expanding the land! Archie: I will make a better world for Pokémon by returning everything to the oceans! Cyrus: Emotions are evil; spirit is pointless; I shall create a new world void of such folly! Ghetsis: Pokémon are tools, fit for only MY use! N: I just want a world where Pokémon can be free... Lysandre: This world is polluted; I shall restore it to its unspoiled splendor and reset everything to zero! Guzma: I am undefeated; NO ONE is better than me! Lusamine: Children must listen to their parents; ungrateful children are not worthy of protection or affection! Rose: The world will be destroyed when its energy runs out; I will prevent that at ALL costs! Penny: My friends and I were bullied and just wanted to fit in at school.

Yeah, it's great to see a team's backstory like this!

Haha that sums it up so well. :)

Yeah, they did a nice job with the story. :)

I agree. The story for SV is amazing.

If only Scarlet/Violet didn't have so many glitches, errors, and bugs in them.

Glad you enjoyed the video! And thank you to your Meowscarada for OHKOing the like button lol.

Paldea isn’t one of my better regions, but I didn’t need a video to tell me this is a top tier story for the mainline entries. Heck, this even applies to part 1 of the dlc. Kieran and Arven are both among the best characters in the mainline titles to have appeared since N.

Glad to hear you also got some good insights out of the games! Indeed - let's stay true to ourselves, have fun and smile. :)

I keep seeing you everywhere

Yeah. It’s actually a thing most people criticizing that Star storyline don’t realize. That’s actually a thing.

I guess that’s fair. In some ways, only hearing about the bullying from one side shows as much as either actually seeing it happen, but I do feel like the story would have been stronger if we saw at least undertones from other characters or random NPCs that supported the Team Star story.

Perhaps they did it that way to avoid any pushback on depictions of bullying - hard to say. I agree that it would have been good to see more of the actual bullying that kicked their story into motion.

I dont care about star fall street for this entire reason. Tell (even though they barely told anything) dont show is so bad. It's really hard to sympathize when you see nothing at all.

@@sadgirlhours4088 I mean, it did happen a year or two ago. They removed the bullies, and the complacent staff who turned a blind eye.

Yeah, it was a good one!

That's how to do it - get so good you become untouchable. 😎

Great examples! For Gen 8 - perhaps seeing Rose's intend to do the greater good for the region warped into a sinister vision? I'd have to take a moment to think about good Gen 8 moments as well haha.

Arven's storyline just went too far in terms of a sad storyline.

Arven's storyline would be the darkest honestly. his father/mother is dead, we don't know about his other parent though. then his hopes were lifted up when he saw the AI version of them, only to find out his parents were dead after OVER TEN YEARS, then proceeds to watch the AI Turo/Sada leave. my guy got his heart broken twice! and the fact that he thought his parents neglected him after all those years, and his childhood Pokémon friend almost died too. and even after all that, he decided that he wanted to find more about his parents, because he realized he never payed attention to their lives either. even though he's just a character in a game, i GENUINELY feel bad for him

​@@_Zixen_ his parents are both sada and turo.

@@bloodbadger5332 yes, but depending on the game you have, the other one is also dead (or left) AI sada and turo aren't in the same game, of course, so the characters change depending on which game you've got. for example, in scarlet, Arvens father could have just left him at a young age/passed away, while same goes in Violet

I really thought that Clive was Clavells twin💀

Mid? Someone's being overly generous

@@danito20 maybe but apparently they are the worst team.

@@RetroLiminal99444 they're delusional if they think Team Star is worse than Team Yell

@@cucumbermainline fax. Despite team Skull not really being evil at least they actually did something, team yell were just annoying. But Team Star is actually how you do non evil teams but just complex.

Ain't no way you're gonna put team skull in comparison to yell 💀💀 Yell is a wet fart of an ""evil"" team dont mention them next to the BOIS

That would be great if the DLC fleshed out some of these bits!

That would be nice to see. :)

@@charusharu also giacomo run for the president of the school student council

It is a more desirable outcome.

Yeah, I guess they played the "this is so obvious it's funny angle" but it would have been nice if there was actually a big twist lol. Thanks! It's nice to be back.

The single way they could have saved the plot twist of penny was if they basically didn't make her say in the first lines that she likes hacking, and sending you the rewards via some Pokemon like her eeveelutions instead of coming to reward you herself

A sad tale indeed. ;-;

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I plan to touch on each of them, but since you asked, this video digs into The Way Home with a focus on Professor Sada: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-agnH8fC90tc.html Hope you enjoy it!

Pretty much lol

I would also like to add this, but if Team Star is basednof the Cassiopeia Constellation, are we, the player based of the Orion Constellation, aka the hunter?!

She's a gem.💎

It's funny how we end up hitting it off with different people. One of my best friends and I also had a poor opinion of each other back when we first met and ended up becoming close.

Alas, Eri; she kicks major butt, but you still wanna protect her.

She is definitely the respectable oneesan of the group. :)

Regarding your favourite RU-vidrs' perspective, I suppose the central narrative in SW/SH is a bit tighter and more focused, but like you, I thought that S/V's story hit harder for exploring the bitters of everday life . :)

That is also a very deep kind of darkness lol.

You check out the postgame side story with Penny? That’s more or less what ends up happening.

Thanks, Animesrk!