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Mel1965 — Why does every rival have to be like Blue?

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Published: 2017-12-06 23:54:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 639; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 0
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Seriously...why should Hau have to act as snarky as Blue? Why does Tierno have to act like Silver? Why should Barry or Bianca act like jerks? If every rival in every Pokemon game acted just like Blue or Silver, then it would quickly get boring. Each rival has his or her own personality. Tierno loves to dance-he doesn't need call you a "loser" like Blue would of. Hau is pretty cheerful and laid back-it would ruin his character if he was an ass-hole like Silver was. Hugh was on a mission to find his sister's stolen purrloin..Bianca was a ditz who was trying to become stronger....every rival has different personalities.  Not every rival needs to act like jerks towards you.

I made this stamp because I got sick of people saying that every single rival of every Pokemon game should be like Blue or Silver. I may be an old-schooler, but even I get sick and tired of nostalgia-blinded people bashing good rivals like Hau, Calem, Dawn,May, Cheren,etc. Just because a rival has a pokemon weaker than yours doesn't make them bad or lame rivals.  The same goes for rivals who are not jerks or smart asses towards you. Learn to appreciate Tierno's cool dance moves. Learn to appreciate Hau's laid-back personality..learn to appreciate Bianca's quest to become stronger. I found Blue to be annoying-he always went out of his way to make you WANT to avoid being seen with him. Blue was just some one-dimensional character that had no character development(unlike Koga, Prof. Oak and Misty,who all had personalities). Silver was somewhat better, and I understood his bitterness and actaully felt sorry for him.
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Comments: 7

katamariluv [2019-07-27 04:13:02 +0000 UTC]

I support your view, moreso after an exchange with this jerk: www.deviantart.com/comments/1/…

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DaBair [2017-12-27 01:23:10 +0000 UTC]

I agree with this. Rivals don't always have to be jerks.

What I find annoying about Hau is not him being laid-back, but him being overly happy (especially him jumping up and down in delight). It's because I find people IRL who are like that annoying. I mostly stayed true to the games when portraying Hau in my fanfic, except in my fanfics he doesn't jump up and down when he's excited like he does in the games. Other than that, I kept him laid-back and cheerful. I felt the 6th gen rivals were a bit underdeveloped, so I expanded on their personalities. (I even made Shauna and Tierno the beta couple in my fanfics - the main couple being Calem and Serena.)

For the region I'm making, I have two rivals. One of them actually is a jerk rival, although I made the jerk rival female since female jerk rivals haven't been done before in the games. She's pretty similar to Silver. The other rival is friendly and they are the player character who isn't picked (meaning that if you choose the boy, both rivals will be girls).

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El-Drago-800 [2017-12-18 11:18:53 +0000 UTC]

Hau is such a chill guy he makes me feel like the asshole rival.

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MatLPlays [2017-12-07 06:33:18 +0000 UTC]

Nostalgia-blinded...... I love how you said it like that. It's a great way to describe a LOT of "gamers" out there.

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Mel1965 In reply to MatLPlays [2017-12-07 16:04:23 +0000 UTC]

2 of the most annoying types of gamers out there: The modern day purists who lose their shit if someone doesn't like modern day games, and the nostalgia purists who can't shut the fuck up about Gen. 1 pokemon or classic Spyro. I like classic sonic's design, but I hate how the classic Eggman looks: A  red/yellow bowling ball with arms,legs and a head slapped on.  I hate modern Sonic's design(it looks like his arms and legs got caught in a medival stretching device), but I think modern Eggman's design was done nicely;hwe actaully looks like a human being now,and not a bowling ball with arms and legs. If you like modern Sonic's design,then I'm okay with that. If you like  classic Spyro's design, then I'm okay with that.  I'm NOT okay with people bashing others for liking modern Spyro or Pokemon Gen 5 or 6(the gens that are the Scrappy-Doos of the pokemon games-they get too much undeserved hate.), or people bashing others just for hating modern Sonic's design or hating the Alola region.

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MatLPlays In reply to Mel1965 [2017-12-07 19:34:44 +0000 UTC]

exactly

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NickyVendetta [2017-12-07 02:34:50 +0000 UTC]

THIS!

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