Very cute. MC x Rival Yuri is always top tier with Pokemon imo
Aquwin
Mar 1, 2025 12:56AM
Someone pointed out that these two are the same person just different hair colors and now I can't unsee it
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FluffyCow
Mar 1, 2025 1:00AM
^I've seen a fair amount of people dismissing the ship by calling it selfcest, and I'm like it's whatever. They're different characters, the artist just wanted to basically do a color swap for the MC and Rival.
Plus I've shipped actual selfcest and adjacent ships before, so that wouldn't even stop me here anyways lmao
Zexalfan
Mar 1, 2025 2:23AM
yeah even if Taunie is just a custumized mc, she is still her own original character.
I am really hoping you can still meet her as the FeMc, I am sureit sounds silly, but the game locking you in a f/m pair kinda lowered my excitement over playing it...
FluffyCow
Mar 1, 2025 2:43AM
^I don't think that sounds silly at all. I dislike locks, especially gender locks, and a lack of options. I want to be a cute girl with a cute girl rival, and let people that want to be a cute guy with a cute guy rival enjoy that as well. Let everyone enjoy playing as who they want with the rival that they want. Options are good in my opinion, and gender locks such as this feel very hetero-normative to me, which I'm not a fan of.
FoxPaw
Mar 1, 2025 2:52AM
^ Based on the trailer footage we got, it's my speculation that it will be gender locked, unfortunately. None of the footage showing MC and rival are ever same sex. Here's hoping I'm pleasantly surprised, but I doubt it.
FluffyCow
Mar 1, 2025 3:08AM
^I missed some information when I first saw the trailer, but later I saw on Twitter that there's text on top of the scene in the trailer that confirms it. So we are unfortunately gender locked in this situation, and knowing that is part of where my venting is coming from with my previous comment.
Omega Deuse
Mar 2, 2025 11:17AM
Yeah. Nintendo had gotten more up tight about making people play their games the way they picture them being played. I think the intro to Violet really encapsulates that mentality, what with the settings option to skip cutscenes that doesn't actually skip cutscenes and arbitrarily locking your ability to run until your halfway down the trail to Nemona's house.
Also, it's hard for me to get excited about Legends AZ, since it looks like a lot of its going to be a step back from Arceus and Nintendo's forays into patent trolling make the entire thing more off-putting.
FluffyCow Feb 28, 2025 10:15PM
Very cute. MC x Rival Yuri is always top tier with Pokemon imo
Aquwin Mar 1, 2025 12:56AM
Someone pointed out that these two are the same person just different hair colors and now I can't unsee it
last edited at Mar 1, 2025 12:57AM
FluffyCow Mar 1, 2025 1:00AM
^I've seen a fair amount of people dismissing the ship by calling it selfcest, and I'm like it's whatever. They're different characters, the artist just wanted to basically do a color swap for the MC and Rival.
Plus I've shipped actual selfcest and adjacent ships before, so that wouldn't even stop me here anyways lmao
Zexalfan Mar 1, 2025 2:23AM
yeah even if Taunie is just a custumized mc, she is still her own original character.
I am really hoping you can still meet her as the FeMc, I am sureit sounds silly, but the game locking you in a f/m pair kinda lowered my excitement over playing it...
FluffyCow Mar 1, 2025 2:43AM
^I don't think that sounds silly at all. I dislike locks, especially gender locks, and a lack of options. I want to be a cute girl with a cute girl rival, and let people that want to be a cute guy with a cute guy rival enjoy that as well. Let everyone enjoy playing as who they want with the rival that they want. Options are good in my opinion, and gender locks such as this feel very hetero-normative to me, which I'm not a fan of.
FoxPaw Mar 1, 2025 2:52AM
^ Based on the trailer footage we got, it's my speculation that it will be gender locked, unfortunately. None of the footage showing MC and rival are ever same sex. Here's hoping I'm pleasantly surprised, but I doubt it.
FluffyCow Mar 1, 2025 3:08AM
^I missed some information when I first saw the trailer, but later I saw on Twitter that there's text on top of the scene in the trailer that confirms it. So we are unfortunately gender locked in this situation, and knowing that is part of where my venting is coming from with my previous comment.
Omega Deuse Mar 2, 2025 11:17AM
Yeah. Nintendo had gotten more up tight about making people play their games the way they picture them being played. I think the intro to Violet really encapsulates that mentality, what with the settings option to skip cutscenes that doesn't actually skip cutscenes and arbitrarily locking your ability to run until your halfway down the trail to Nemona's house.
Also, it's hard for me to get excited about Legends AZ, since it looks like a lot of its going to be a step back from Arceus and Nintendo's forays into patent trolling make the entire thing more off-putting.