Hugamari
This idea had a lot of potential. I like the idea of a Grass type trainer becoming a militant vegan eco-terrorist, a la Poison Ivy. That said… your execution was pretty poor, especially since you spend more than half the entry putting plants down as ugly, heartless monsters. If you’re all about the Grass type, shouldn’t you be celebrating plants rather than demonizing them?
DevonDreams
Ooh, my favorite type! Let’s see what you’ve come up with for this one.
*five minutes later*
WHYYY SCRAFTY WHYYYYYYYY
*five hours of crying later*
So… on the positive side, I thoroughly enjoyed the story you told, and I thought the songs you picked perfectly set the mood, especially the last one by Bon Iver. On the negative side, the Pokemon’s Fighting typing seemed more… incidental than anything. The idea of a feral Fighting type is interesting, but you don’t really expand upon what it means to be a Fighting type beyond “he was violent so he became an outcast."
MusicLoverDude
One thing I really like about this entry is its… surprising accuracy. True, Fire has four resistances, but its three weaknesses (Water, Rock and Ground) are as common as common can be, which is why Fire types tend to be below average defensively. Furthermore, Will-o-Wisp and Sunny Day are the only Fire-type status moves, so you’re right when you say that they don’t have a lot of “defensive moves”. Either you’re just as much of a Pokemonster as I am, or you really went out of your way to do research for this trinity. Either way, props.
I guess my only complaint is that I didn’t love your first song choice. I don’t think a four-on-the-floor club banger gels well with the Fire type, conceptually. Maybe that’s just me, though.
Kxvk
Shouldn’t the opening paragraph say, “All of them are unique”?
But it’s a solid entry otherwise. Not only did you demonstrate the diversity of the Fairy type within the context of Pokemon, but you connected them to the various different interpretations of the Fair Folk around the world. Not gonna lie, though… I was a little disappointed that you didn’t get into the mischievous, troublemaking side of fairy folklore. That, and if your thesis is that no two fairies are the same, maybe your song trinity could have used a little more diversity.
that G.U.Y.
Okay, as soon as your story began, I knew the Pokemonster in me was going to love this… and I did.
- “The Sign” is a surprisingly fitting theme for the Unown, though I never would have thought to pair the two together before.
- NOT KUNG FU FIGHTING
- And we wrap it all up with a chillingly tranquil theme for the legendary Cresselia. Bravo.
Overall, a vast improvement over your last entry. Keep it up!
Xedretinz Lododnz
Okay, I hate to nitpick, but Meowth isn’t a Dark type. The new Alolan Meowth is a Dark type, but Team Rocket’s Meowth is from the Kanto region, and is thus a Normal type.
What I find interesting about your entry is that your introduction was about Pokemon, but the rest of your entry wasn’t. Instead, your intro just laid out what it means to be a Dark type, so that we’d understand how it relates to the story. And it works surprisingly well, because Dark types are “combat pragmatists” who use dishonest tactics to get ahead, and that’s exactly what our friend Luke did in order to achieve success as a musician.
That said, your story was… kind of confusing. The second part of the story implies that fame corrupted Luke, but the first part implies that his fame was the product of some demonic ritual that took place before he became famous. Like, I get why you wanted to leave things ambiguous, but you have to give us something to go on. Otherwise, it just seems like Luke became evil because the plot told him to.
Kingie
Here we have an entry completely unrelated to the Pokemon mythos, that instead analyzes the Ground type from a more conceptual perspective. And for what it is, it works… mostly. I’m not sure how “Wonderwall” relates to such a bleak, pessimistic conception of Ground, unless you’re trying to say that the song is garbage... in which case, save it for the Flop Trinity.
jpow
Ooh, a scientific entry! I can’t say that I was expecting that from any of you. I almost felt like I was watching an educational program on the Discovery Channel. My only complaint is that your prose was a little too… formal. I know you were going for the whole “academic” angle, but maybe your descriptions could have been more poetic? Though I guess I should evaluate your entry based on what it is, rather than on what I wanted it to be.
fireaero
And just when I was recovering from Devon’s entry, I got another tragic entry.
(I mean “tragic” in a good way, to clarify!)
The connection to the Steel type seems to be more symbolic than anything else, but you pulled it off really well. From what I can gather, Steel is supposed to represent emotional coldness and distance, demonstrated here by a jaded teen who became that way because of a neglectful estranged father. All I can say is I hope this didn’t come from personal experience, and if it did… I’m truly sorry. I’m here if you need to talk.
Rian.
Wow, you know, I thought that I wouldn’t see another entry as blatantly phoned in as Nikokai’s entry last round, but I was immediately proven wrong. Not only did you fail to give even a single line of description for any of the songs, but you clearly didn’t put any effort into your song choices either. All you did was pick three pop girl songs that happen to share the same title as the type you chose.
Oh, I’m sorry, am I missing something? Do the songs connect to the Ghost type on some other level, beyond their titles?
Prove it. Connect them to your type via an analysis, or a story, or a monologue, or a poem.
Anything. God damn it,
anything. You’re dealing with one of the most fascinating parts of the Pokemon mythos here. The ominous atmosphere of Lavender Town? The heart wrenching climb up Pokemon Tower? Does none of that mean anything to you?
And it doesn’t even have to be connected to the Pokemon storyline because
you’re doing a trinity about ghosts.
Ghosts. Restless spirits doomed to wander the earth for eternity, horrifying all who come across them. There are a million different books, movies, games, folktales and urban legends you could have taken inspiration from, and yet you gave us this.
swiftie13
Hmm… I don’t think I’ve ever seen a trinity that took three songs from the same album. Granted, I can’t call it a bad idea, as it’s certainly original, and all three of your songs convey the general aura of the Ice type, especially the last one. Also, I really need to get into Joni Mitchell.
Witch Privilege
As an A:TLA fan, I can say that you provided us with a very effective and accurate summary of Katara’s character. Your song choices were also quite effective, particularly the last one (I didn’t know Sia had the power to sound so dangerous on record!). On top of that, you went out of your way to connect her character back to the traits of Water as an element: namely, how it can be both a force of healing and a force to be reckoned with.
Temporal
but the song choices were 100% fire type.
Thank you judges for the kind words.