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Welp, I made a sideblog for the fgo x pkmn au, here. It's going to be updated every Friday at around this time. So please enjoy.

Pokemon Headcanon #1

Young trainers from Kanto, Johto,Hoenn, and Sinnoh often run into trouble thanks to increased age laws in other regions.

Some quick examples:

When a 12-year old trainer from Vermilion city tries to buy his favorite brand of cigarettes from a gas station in Paldea, they are very much annoyed when the clerk says they're to young.

Ash was VERY pissed when he found out that by Unovan standards, he WAS a kid.

Delia got weird looks while on vacation in Alola when she said she's Ash's mom. (There either impressed she looks that good, or slightly judgemental)

A soon to be trainer from Sinnoh just moved to Galar and is angry when he realizes he can't go on his journey for another five years

I can't think of anymore but this was just nagging at the back of my head

One really neat little detail in Breath of the Wild I don't see get talked about that much is that Ancient Arrows are one of the only four things that can damage Dark Beast Ganon, alongside the Bow of Light, Twilight Bow, and energy beams from the Master Sword, the latter three of which are all sacred magical weapons.

It has the really interesting implication that either the ancient technology is divine in origin or created in emulation of divine power, either of which would make sense seeing as the ancient Sheikah are characterized as being very devout worshipers of Hylia.

It's entirely possible that the warping allowed by the Sheikah Slate was either inspired by or works using the same principles as that golden light thing that Zelda uses to transport Link off of the Divine Beasts after killing the Blights, and to move him to Hyrule Field for the fight against Dark beast. Both cause Link to turn into light and fly up into the air before rematerializing at the destination, even if it's not quite the same.

TotK adding Recall, a power that very likely originates with Hylia (and simultaneously heavily implying that Hylia is a goddess of Time, presumably the one mentioned in Majora's Mask), also puts Stasis in something of a new light. They're both color-coded as yellow, and Stasis basically does just freeze something in time. Stasis is likely an attempt by the ancient Sheikah to recreate the very power of the goddess herself.

The fact that a few characters refer to the Divine Beasts as being the guardian deities of their respective peoples (and indeed the very name "Divine Beasts") may be very literal, they might actually be artificial deities. Not major gods like Hylia, just lesser ones like Malanya and the Great fairies, but still.

I just think it has a lot of interesting implications.

ooooh the wisdom of 3 AM has just inspired me with a very cool and sad explanation for something in TotK, I'll try to phrase it as spoiler-neutral as possible just in case it breaches containment or tumblr's formatting borks again

so of course if you do the complete geoglyphs quest quickly enough you find out very early that [SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS], and despite having many, many opportunities to tell his friends and allies this information at many relevant points, Link never does. It's never even a dialogue option, even after you get near the end of the game and it becomes very, very obvious.

Mechanically it's a gameplay/story integration thing to make sure the player isn't locked out of major events and questlines just by doing things out of order. Narratively, Link is enough of a blank slate that this decision on his part is interestingly jarring, and makes us wonder why we don't even have the option to get the other heroes up to speed.

There are a number of fascinating internal reasons he might do this - guilt, grief, denial, angsty lonerism - but a very simple factor just occurred to me.

Nearly everyone he has the opportunity to tell this information to is a selfless heroic type who is very worried about not having enough power to beat Ganondorf and save the world, and is willing to do anything to succeed. He's seen the type. He IS that type. He knows how that headspace works.

And he knows from nearly minute one that they're all about to get secret stones.

He has a really good reason not to give them any ideas.

there's something funny about the fact that out of all the personalities, KALI'S the doting one

Kali/Durga: it’s Jinako bullying hours

Wrong it’s actually

Parvati/Durga: jinako get a job

Kali: HEADPAT? CAN I GIVE A LITTLE HUG? LITTE KISS? WHY ARE YOU RUNNING