Amethyst

This is my small weekend quest. In various forms or another, I've recently realized that I haven't seen any Disney movies since I was about 12. That's probably not true, but it's close enough an estimate that I'm willing to say it. So begins my quest: Rewatch all the old disney classics... and a few nonclassics. Because why the hell not? And why the hell not? Write down my random thoughts on all of them too. Makes for discussion. Or something. Cinderella is first on the list, seeing as my old high school is adpating a stage version of it. I have it [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgTwrns4qD8"]Here on youtube if you want to watch along.[/url] First thing that comes up is some goofy old tone of music with a log with a color scheme that makes me want to puke. We're off to a great start! How did they not lose the 8 year old audience in the opening credits alone? A story book! I don't remember the movie opening with a storybook... "Here in a stately chateau..." I though this was a kids show? Why does the bird have a nightcap? There are just so many things wrong with that... And the other one has ... what do you call the head-towel thing? How was this okay with me as kid? "If you tell a wish, it won't come true." I forgot that's where that was from... WHY DO ALL OF THESE BIRDS HAVE CLOTHES? Oh, that one's naked. Scandalous punk. ...Even the mice have shirts. No pants though. I guess Disney just didn't wanna animate mouse crotches. Can't say I blame them. She's ballroom dancing with a pillow. I understand she's been abused and whatever, but I think this girl needs some serious psychiatric help. Oh. They animated panties for all these girl mice though. Call me a perv for noticing, but one angle kinda make it obvious. I wonder how the animator behind that felt... "What's up Jack?" "Just drawn undeerwear on mice." ...Oh, so Cinderella made all the clothes. Definitely needs therapy. Or maybe just a friend (who's a therapist). I think Jack the mouse said the cat's name was Lucifer? I approve. But he looks like a Skuntank. And acts like one too. I'm naming my next (first) Skuntank Lucifer. Clearly Cinderella's not the only mentally disturbed one here. Poor doggy Bruno. All twitchedy on the floor. So I never realized the parallel here. Cinderella says she'll never give up her dreams, but then tells Bruno the dog to give up on his... Hrm... She's playing the role of the oppressor and the opressed. Ah, the mice getting the corn... For some reason the corn Cinderella puts out that the mice steal.. is my acid test (lasting impression) of the entire film. Why? Who knows. Instead of risking Jack's life, they should just eat Gus. Problem solved. Jack kicks the cat into his bowl of milk, but um, FALCOM MOUSE KICK kicked Lucifer up... But Lucifer's face went... down, into the bowl. Momentum failure. Gus's gluttony will be his downfall... He can't let go of all that corn to save his life, literally. So that is... In turn fulfilling Lucifer's gluttony? Lots of hypocrasy in parallels here. I suspect it's making a social commentary on the favored class of the era. Bells ring calling Cinderella, and she just mumbes "coming" as if they can hear her two floors up? >.>; But! She does so balancing a plate on her head as she goes up the stairs? Go her. Pro balance is pro. Hm... I didn't not notice her drop a slipper on the step before.. Parallel to at the palace later. But she accidentally saved Gus' life doing so... Who does she save with dropping the glass slipper? Herself? What does this symbolize? Why aren't I better at analysis? Angry king made a ridiculous mess of the castle. Fantastic. He doesn't seem like a bad guy in spite of the anger... But.. doesn't anyone care about the Crown that flew out the window? ...Not only does the King crawl on the table, he like, belly flops across it... what the hell? I mean I get the over dramatic comicism for kids, but... It's a bit ridiculous even if you ask me. I'm with Lucifer on how bad the sisters are doing with the song though... Ow ow ow ow ow... Props to their actresses for sucking so well. And props to Cinderella for generally kicking their asses without any effort what so ever. True to Disney Princess fashion, of course. Trippy bubbles too. What the fuck did Anastasia do to that poor defenseless flute... That woodwind did nothing to deserve such abuse... D: "What have we discussed, girls? Self Control above all else?" *knock knock* "WHAT?!" Yeah. Definite controlled rage there. Nice goin', stepmom. By the way, where is daddy in all this? And what happened to her mom? Missing links, missing links everywhere! ...That's beside the point. More hypocrasy. Hm. So she has only a few hours to do a ridiculous amount of chores (Nice going, Gus) and the first thing she does is twirl around in her tower (why does she live in the tower anyway, and why was there a mousetrap up there? I don't expect the rest of her family should have been so bothered to put one up in her quarters) and kill a bunch of time. Silly child. Again, she just says "I'm coming" instead of calling back so they can HEAR her. No wonder they keep yelling... So all the animals make her dress for her. "Leave the sewin' to the women!" says one mouse. Leave it to Disney to include sexism even in their anthropomorophosized characters... Butt-scootin' cat! Oh come on, why bother picking up the pearls from that neckalce? It's as good as broken... And I'm pretty sure Gus's tail grows in length... Wow, the mice sew in and out of the dress blind? I'd love to see that one screw up wherein the inner mouse doesn't duck in time, and the needle pierces his head and he falls into the bottom of the dress, bleeding to death, stuck on the pin forever....... Maybe I'm the one who needs help. But damn do those animals know how to work. ...why don't they do chores with Cinderella? Wow, the carriage is here and the sisters are dressed in basically a tanktop and dress. How... classless. Gus is special ed. Poor kid. Okay, NOW the sisters are in proper dresses. With rumps bigger than camel humps... And so the sisters tear her dress apart in from of an increasinly red background, and trot out with their rears flying around with more bounce than you see in an opening of Baywatch. Nice Disney. That's another one that must have been awkward to animate. "Ass! Ass everywhere!" So Fairy God Mother appears... And Cinderella's never met her before? She cries on a bench and then this old woman materializes her and the bench and not only does she not NOTICE at first, but then she starts talking to this crazy old lady saying she's looking for a MAGIC WAND and not only believes her (she talks to animals and ballroom dances with pillows (practice for the actual ball? How convenient. But I wonder who taught her?)) but even FIGURES OUT that she's a Fairy Godmother! Oh, that MUST be it? Happens all the time, you know. Hey, Miss Fairy Godmother, where have you been the rest of her life? I'm sure this isn't the first time miss Step Mom has been a royal jerkhead. Just everything is wrong with this. Bring my back to the Grimm brothers wherein it was her mother's grave, and the spirit of her real mom that answered her wish. Bring me back to lentils, and wishes and me watching too much Sondheim! So she starts charming a pumpkin with her Salak da lamaka helik da lamaka bippity boppity boo and some random chorus joins in out of nowhere. She's not even saying the magic words; this is not even a song; I'm not even sure what to think. Well, I like how the Mice have no problem at all with being turned into horses (no problem adjusting either)... How does the real horse feel about being so out-classed? Also, way to go Disney, enforcing the idea that looks are everything. Get the fuck out of my culture. OUT. Then again, it's not as if Cinderella isn't nice, but it's not as if that matters to our prospective prince. He doesn't care. As long as she's hawt, dawg. If she's bitch then screw, she can be the evil queen. Maleficent anyone? I also like how the Fairy Godmother inspects the shade of Cinderella's eyes when creating a WHITE dress. No problems with white here, white's a bro, don't get me wrong, but uh. Eye color? Doesn't so much matter on white. Oh, here we get to the dream theme again. This whole sequence is "a dream come true" presumably because Cinderella never gave up on her dreams? But she still told Bruno to... And look, Bruno is a footman now! Still serving under Cinderella. The moral of the story is... If you want your dreams to come true, crush other peoples'? Holy- they actually formally introduce EVERY girl to the prince. Poor prince. Poor girls. So much competition. Fortunately the sisters look absurd. Also... Monocles are now Yo-yos. Baller. Okay So Cinderella is dancing by her self in the middle of the ball. Freak. But the prince goes for it. He must be into the odd-ball types. And that's all it took to win the prince. Show up late, look lost, meander around and start dancing by yourself. The king says "when the boy proposes." Jumping the gun aren't we a bit, Kingy? The lyrics say "So this is love" Quite a song considering the two have not yet SPOKEN A SINGLE WORD TO EACH OTHER. But they certainly have danced quite a ways off the ground. Forever and ever. And the cock-block clock begins to chime just before the first kiss... (on the first date? Cinderella's easy) ...And apparently she is so dense as to not realize that she was dancing with the prince? Given the spectacle everyone made, how could she not? Did the thought never even cross her mind? Oh Right She's blonde. And the pumpkin is trampled by the horses. Poor pumpkin! He served well! Hm. How do the slippers not evaporate anyway? Metaphorical.. She left a slipper on the stairs in a rush, both times, and both times, it accidentally saved her. Is it a comment on haste? I... don't know. Hm. Any thoughts? No one cares. I know. Shut up. Quite honestly I'll be surprised if anyone bothered to read all this. That king is just a little -too- obsessed with Grandchildren. It's kinda creepy.. The king hust shoved a ton of cigars in the Grand Duke's mouth out of nowhere... I like how offscreen anywhere is infinite stock of anything. The Grand Duke and King both end up sitting in the chandelier due to their trampoline-hell of a bed (and what the hell was that.) and the King realizes Eureka on the Glass Slipper, so he proceeds to cut them down. I don't care how he lands. In physics applied to disney movies, that slipper would be dust. Idiot. Trampoline bed suddenly gives out. Walt Disney does not know the meaning of the word physics The stepmother has some crazy intense eyes though. They glow in the (Randomly appearing) dark. I suspect she may be a cat. Lucifer's mother perhaps. It would make sense. She could be hiding her cat ears in her ridiclous hair. The ones we're able to see are obviously decoys. Mice also have x-ray eyesight to see keys through pockets. It's their superpower. The sight-gimmick with the slipper fitting on Anastia is kinda... lame... But go mice people. Haul that key! Only about 500 more stairs to go before the tower?! Where are your mouse holes now?! I feel sorry for these mice. They're working so hard to get Cinderella free... Only for her to leave them forever. T_T Mice stock forks! And candles.... An army of birds and mice cannot stop Lucifer..... So we call on Bruno! Here we go! Suddenly Cinderellas dreams are dependent on those of the ones she crushed before! But lo and behold, Bruno will do it without hesitancy [s]because he's a dog[/s] [s]because it's Disney[/s] ... why again? Because the theme to this movie is contorted. Or... that you have to accept the dreams of even those under you to truly realize your own? Hm. Meanwhile Druzella, what a name, struggles to fit the shoe on herself. Grim brothers version: The sisters thought, once she's married, she'd never need to walk. So what's one toe, or a heel? One step sister cuts off her toes to make the shoe fit. The prince nearly takes her as a wife, when he notices the blood in the shoe. He takes her back tries the other sister The second sister cuts off her heel! Oops. Same mistake. Oh well~ Cinderella then gets the bloody shoe. Guess they cleaned it up for Disney. Can see why, but it's a much less powerful ending as far as punishing crooked desperation. Furthermore, Cinderella has RIDICULOUSLY tiny feet. What the hell Size three, children's... (Only children don't wear high heels [s](Unless I raise them[/s] (We hope (Much less glass ones (We hope?)))) Suddenly, Bruno charges at Lucifer, who jumps striaght out the tower window and falls to his death! Well, we don't actually see him land, and since cats always land on all fours he's probably fine. But for drama's sake, I'm pretending he fell to his death. Damn Skuntank. Cinderella escapes! The evil step mother's plans have been foiled! The Grand Duke calls the footman with the slipper (haha get it, slipper? foot man? oh disney. oh bloody loldisney) to try the slipper on Cinderella But the step mother trips him, breaking the slipper once and for all! Its magical miracle karma has worn off! Its shattered into a thousand pieces! And everyone who has half a soul really wants to FALCON PAWNCH the Stepmothers' lights out right about now. Thirty seconds later, a wedding scene. These people waste no time. Watch, I bet the baby will be here in less than a week. That's how impatient the King is. And frame out with the random pointless story book. The brothers would be ashamed. Personally, I wanna know if Bruno was content with devouring Lucifer a top the tower. Screw Cinderella, what about the dog? Even the horse got a happy ending, getting to lead all the royal steeds. And the mice never see Cinderella again after all his hard work! Lucifer probably lives after all his foul deeds! And the sisters keep all their body parts attached. Shame. Classics... Well, one of many anyway. It's three in the morning, I'm posting this without any editing whatsoever. If you have a problem with that, too bad. Actually, I'll be impressed if anyone bothered to read my random incoherency. I'm going to sleep, dang it. [s]I want my blood soaked slipper ending[/s] Bah.

Champions to the Reborn League register their new addition for taking on the X-League in this topic. Simply copy and paste the following code into a response, fill it out, and submit. Your trainer card will updated for the X-League shortly. Your seventh team member can be legendary, though it does not have to be. [code][quote] [b]Seventh Pokemon[/b]: Shiny/Not Shiny Move 1 Move 2 Move 3 Move 4[/quote][/code] Or for a full restart: [code][quote] [b]First Pokemon[/b]: Shiny/Not Shiny Move 1 Move 2 Move 3 Move 4 [b]Second Pokemon[/b]: Shiny/Not Shiny Move 1 Move 2 Move 3 Move 4 [b]Third Pokemon[/b]: Shiny/Not Shiny Move 1 Move 2 Move 3 Move 4 [b]Fourth Pokemon[/b]: Shiny/Not Shiny Move 1 Move 2 Move 3 Move 4 [b]Fifth Pokemon[/b]: Shiny/Not Shiny Move 1 Move 2 Move 3 Move 4 [b]Sixth Pokemon[/b]: Shiny/Not Shiny Move 1 Move 2 Move 3 Move 4 [b]Seventh Pokemon[/b]: Shiny/Not Shiny Move 1 Move 2 Move 3 Move 4 [b]Trainer Card Colors[/b] (Silver, Gold, Black, Or White + Any Color) Trainer Sprite (Can be found anywhere provided it's standard size)[/quote][/code] Note only the seventh can be legendary.

So 1v1 was tried and fell through. I guess we'll do a rainbow tournament next after all! [/random revival]

Reborn Theme has been Updated.

Water Wall (Vaporeon) (F) @ Leftovers Trait: Hydration EVs: 4 HP / 252 Def / 252 SDef Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk) - Rest - Acid Armor - Boil Over/Surf - Baton Pass/Toxic Obviously meant for Rain. Vaporeon already has a ridiculous amount of health, but the given EVs will bring up its defenses to levels to match. Special defense is maxed allowing you to tank hits, even most Super Effective ones, like a boss, while Acid Armor will give you plenty of defense to go along with your free recovery of 400+ HP. With Acid Armor, you can often times switch into most phsyical sweepers and set up/rest before they can KO you. Enemy physical set up is next to harmless (crits excepted) if you come in before they power up (and even then you're usually safe if it's just a single boost. The only Dragon Dancer that might give this trouble is Haxorus), and if that wasn't enough, throw on the potential burn from Boil Over to half their attack- They won't be doing much of anything, even if they do get to +6. Baton Pass is preferred over Toxic if you're using Boil Over due to status redundancy. Baton Passing a +6, or even +2 boost to one of your bulkier teammates makes them into something to be feared (not to mention a probably painless switch given Vaporeon's lackluster speed)

Ikaru stole my idea so I had to 1-up him. [img]http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/3974/birthdayrodaku.png[/img]

I'm sorry to hear that, but I do understand. Unfortunately, there's not a -whole- lot I can do about... people on the other half of the world. Sometime in the future mayhaps. Hopefully you'll at least stick around the forums?

Reregistry for a mystery person. [quote][b]Politoed[/b]: Not Shiny Boil Over Protect Toxic Perish Song [b]Erfuun[/b]: Not Shiny Leech Seed Substitute Encore Hurricane [b]Sharpedo[/b]: Not Shiny Aqua Jet Earthquake Ice Fang Crunch [b]Vaporeon[/b]: Not Shiny Acid Armor Rest Boil Over Baton Pass [b]Kingdra[/b]: Not Shiny Substitute Dragon Dance Waterfall Outrage [b]Espeon[/b]: Not Shiny Wish Calm Mind Psychic Hidden Power (Fighting) [b]Trainer Card Colors[/b]- Leave it to me.[/quote]

...Might wanna check that link. If I may ask, why was he banned? I'm only curious because he was the one who brought the idea of affiliating with Mysidia in the first place.

Happy birthday! And let's also forget our loyal member coefemedgem, who is apparently turning 33 today! Happy birthday to the both of you.

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This wholeGeo thing... It's funny because it's not funny. And never has been.

[quote name='N8theGr8' post='10654' date='Feb 7 2011, 01:42 PM']To be honest, I'm really finding it too coincidental that AmethystStorm, the master of rain, only starts to complain about Smogon once his rain is in jeopardy[/quote] I could pretty easily swap out one member of my team even if this did go through. I'm not one of the swift-swim spammers. But that's not the point. In truth, you're right- it's not coincidence. I'm just now really looking into all of this because Geo drew the subject to my attention [i]because[/i] of the Swift Swim thing, and his knowing my affection for rain. I'd never really looked into the discussion on Smogon before [s]and thank god[/s] because it was not called to my attention. But believe what you will. However, this is not what this topic is about. Carry on.

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There's one line I really like from Bullet's massive text wall up there: [quote name='Bullet' post='10636' date='Feb 6 2011, 09:28 PM']If other team strategies can flourish with the presence of this "overpowered" strategy, it must not be too overpowered.[/quote] And as far as I know, there's nothing like that around. Here's the bottom line for me, I guess: This is Pokemon. This is motherfucking Pokemon. Six year olds play this. It's one thing to go into depth on the logistics of winning battles what with damage calculations because those have firm roots in pure data. But when we get to arguing the philosophical logistics and come across questions that go in the same circles as the big five of [i]legitimate[/i] philosophical debate, and pretty soon we start asking ourselves what is the meaning of playing Pokemon competitively- then I think we have a problem. Or Smogon does anyway. Bullet's right, in splitting away and creating our own set of rules and such we are no different than Smogon in that we have our own metagame. How we will differ is in not going overboard with this and treating it like WW3 is going to occur if everything isn't perfectly calculated. It's a game. We'll take out what absolutely needs to be taken out for it to be fun, like games are supposed to be. And we'll shoot anyone who tries to derive that statement in ways contrary to its intention.

Angel wings? Hell yes.

Reviewing the pages around the mess hall of argument known as Smogon, I see a recurring notion of "creating an ideal metagame." I'm curious about just what this means. I'm just going to go based on their recent actions- and great, ban inconsistent for it's evasion. The luckhax factor is whatever, and it kinda creates a whatever sort of battle. When we get into the combination of Drizzle and Swift Swim, I have a problem with this. And before any of you go off saying it's just because I'm a rainfag, which, guilty as charged- that's not the reason. In all honestly, I'd have just as much of a problem as if they decided to ban Sandstream with Sand Rush or Clorophyll and Drought. I really don't want this to be a debate about Drizzle/Swift Swim. Rather, my issue is with the way in which they're banning these things, and why. The why is this... concept of an Ideal Metagame that I see people are saying popped up at the end of gen 4. I've never really cared much for Smogon, to be honest- so I wasn't around when this idea was conceived. Therefore, I may have some misconceptions about it; correct me if so. From what I observe from the current discussion though, it seems Swift Swim teams (not just rain teams, but specifically swift swim) are a higher threat because they have decent stats combined with a STAB power-boost combined with great multitude along with their variety that allows for them to have such good synergy. In short, it's basically everything you could want in a team. However, counters exist. In a typical setting, countering this is accounts for the increase in usage of those counters, which warrant counter-counters, and thus the metagame itself is created. Counters exist, and their creative usage and discovery is what will take the growth of the metagame itself to its next phase. A hypothetical extension of this growth: The counters become commonplace enough that such a team is practically no longer viable. It falls out of use. Suddenly people begin to notice that you don't see Swift Swim teams so much anymore, and the counters begin to fall out of use. Later on down the road, some guy says, "You know, these counters aren't used so much anymore. I think a swift swim team might do pretty good." They use one. People see its working and try to use theirs more too, but other people already know how to counter it from before- and while the strategy may regain some of its former popularity, it will not see the same usage as it did before. That is what a metagame [b]is[/b]. In a sense, it's just Rock-Paper-Scissors, trying to find what works best at a given time in the trends of the competitive environment. Smogon here diverges from this. Smogon has the banning-doors open- It's something okay to do now- because the new generation has started, and we've suddenly developed a practice of throwing random Pokemon up to OU at the end of Gen 4. They are continuing this practice as a precedent enabled by the fact that it is a new generation with a metagame obviously lacking in refinement. But as I see it, this is a permanent and unnecessary solution to a temporary problem- and many more problems like this will continue to arise so long as Smogon feels that it is perfectly okay to continue the trend of looking at bans as a solution to everything. If Swift Swim goes, then they'll take a shot at whatever the next trend is- Sandstream + Sand Throw, I'd guess. And after that, who knows, maybe Clorophyll. And they can keep knocking off strategies calling them broken, just going to the next trend to the next for as long as they decide to consider the metagame in an unfinished state. There are really two possibilities. Either they figure this out and stop seeing banning everything as the solution soon, or they don't, and this practice continues until they reach their ideal metagame. In the former case, it is a matter of time, and how much time passes between when they consider the metagame passable is the sole thing that will dictate what and how many pokemon, abilities, etc become banned. In the latter case, we have to look forward to the hypothetical Ideal Metagame. The way I see this, if the next strongest and next strongest strategies to the end, or at least to the point where the difference is unnoticeable. The approximation of that hypothetical point is a highly controlled environment wherein restrictions are placed so heavily that everything is equal- with no more advantage over the rest of the metagame than any other pokemon or strategy (because then it would just be banned if it was better, you see?). This means in choosing your team it is again a Rock-Paper-Scissors effect, but among the stagnant teleological idealism instead of in trends over time. Personally speaking, I would rather not grind everything out the game just to be locked into the same old same old until the next release from GameFreak- no matter how balanced or idealistic it may be. Now I understand that this is an extreme scenario. But this is the path that they are beginning to walk down. I will not have Reborn walk that path with them. We have already created our own tiers long before they have even begun to, and now we are organizing our own strategies and sets based of of those. To my knowledge, also, nobody has declared Smogon the official end-all authority nor do they have the right to believe themselves that. Therefore, I'm saying this now- Reborn will no longer be following their logistics. If anyone has a problem with that, let's hear about it. [/random thoughts]

Belitoed Politoed (M) @ Salac Berry Trait: Drizzle EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - Substitute - Waterfall - Belly Drum - Earthquake This is perhaps one of if not the only viable ways to use Politoed as an all-out sweeper. A Belly Drum Set, however, will turn it into a sucide lead- which if you won't need it again is great. But that means you should not expect this to win any weather-wars. For this reason it tends to work well against unsuspecting and enemy rain teams, but other weather teams will walk all over you if it goes down. Sub on the first turn, hope they didn't attack- most enemy Politoed like to try a toxic, hypnosis (which, with your maxed speed, your sub should basically always block) or will run away. In any of those cases, you're golden. Drum on the second turn- your Salac will activate bringing you to 393 speed. Unfortunately, this means a max-speed Jolteon can still have its way with you (Hidden Power type depending!) but the risk is usually worth it. Earthquake and Waterfall makes an excellent attacking combo resisted only by grass types and a few dragons, in which case your rain boosted +6 waterfall does have a chance of flinch for you to continue on your merry way even if it doesn't OHKO.

Stallitoed Politoed (F) @ Leftovers Trait: Drizzle EVs: 252 HP / 140 Def / 116 SDef Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk) - Boil Over - Perish Song - Protect - Toxic/Hypnosis/Encore Despite the name, this set is not meant to stall anything out by itself, but instead take hits like a boss as it switches in and out in a weather war. Boil Over is preferred, given the chance of burning, weakening a physical attacker's advantage over Politoed's lower defense. Perish Song is an evil way to end an opponent's final Pokemon if it happens to be a staller that's giving you trouble- or to force out a set up. The fourth move is up to preference. Hypnosis' mild accuracy should be off-putting though, while a well-predicted Encore can get a jump on early set up (Cloyster, anyone?) or set-up leads. However, Toxic is preferred as rotect exists to afford you an extra turn of leftovers while still letting the poison (or burn or perish song) take its toll- it also will let you completely evade a Ninetales' Solar Beam the turn after you switch into it. Where's your sunlight now?

Not trying to give you a hard time about it, just bringing it to your attention. I do appreciate you taking the time and energy to write up something for everyone.

Nu-uh. Just Alternate Formes.

...You might wanna take a second look at your EVs on this.

I say there's nothing obscene about attention-whorism in the least. And why should there be? I'm addicted to change, and stagnancy is the enemy of change. Therefore I will eliminate it. And there really is no other way to clear stagnant water but to increase the river's flow. All there is to it, really. I'm just doing what I must.

'Cuz I'm a whore. Duhhh.

Sounds like a plan. Let's see. Gardevoir and Lopunny will be the new mascots.