Elementman-Novapoke
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Okay, I must admit, Team Skull have got me very excited for SuMo. Their designs, music, motif - we're scaling it away from the armageddon of the more recent villains to more visceral, real world-y villainy. You could say that there are certain aspects to their design or characterisation that are problematic - they do seem to be utilising certain stereotypes / clichés / tropes - but that's an argument I'm willing to overlook for now.
(Your Boy) Guzma in particular has piqued my attention. It seems that he was rejected as a Trial Captain applicant - alongside Kukui... I may get back to this later. So it'd make sense for Team Skull to wreak havoc and try to mess up the trials (potentially problematic because 'teenage delinquents disrespecting tradition'). If Guzma can't be a trial captain, why should anyone else, right?
But this made me think. Haven't one of the rumours - possibly even the Chinese one that seems to be gaining momentum? - mention that there's no traditional gyms, but that we create the league ourselves? Doesn't this almost mean that we're sort of siding with Team Skull? If we were to create a league, we'd be going against Alola's tradition, wouldn't we? Perhaps Team Skull are trying to undermine / destroy tradition, but we are accepting tradition, but then bringing it to 'modern day'? There could even be a prophecy or something that someone great - a 'champion' (idk) - would bring about the end of the Trial Challenge. (Your Boy) Guzma, who seems to be delightfully arrogant, would see that as himself, and so he tries to dismantle it antagonistically, whereas the main character completes all the trials (perhaps the first to do so? Or are the Trial Captains said to have completed this themselves...?), becomes number 1, and then the trials become redundant? Perhaps as someone new to the region, it'd make sense for the playable character to be the one to introduce a more traditional league? Idk - I'm tired and rambling.
Kukui: I'm of the belief that we'll be getting a Trial Captain - or something similar - for each Pokémon type. I made a lengthy post somewhere else on this thread before. I could now see it as there being 16 Trial Captains (although not necessarily 4 per island), plus (Your Boy) Guzma and Kukui. (Your Boy) Guzma could be Poison or Bug, I guess. Kukui...? Goodness knows. It would give him a little more purpose, though. After all, he's our Prof, but he doesn't give us our Starter? He researches moves... Z moves... linked to Trials...?
I'm thinking out loud.
(Your Boy) Guzma in particular has piqued my attention. It seems that he was rejected as a Trial Captain applicant - alongside Kukui... I may get back to this later. So it'd make sense for Team Skull to wreak havoc and try to mess up the trials (potentially problematic because 'teenage delinquents disrespecting tradition'). If Guzma can't be a trial captain, why should anyone else, right?
But this made me think. Haven't one of the rumours - possibly even the Chinese one that seems to be gaining momentum? - mention that there's no traditional gyms, but that we create the league ourselves? Doesn't this almost mean that we're sort of siding with Team Skull? If we were to create a league, we'd be going against Alola's tradition, wouldn't we? Perhaps Team Skull are trying to undermine / destroy tradition, but we are accepting tradition, but then bringing it to 'modern day'? There could even be a prophecy or something that someone great - a 'champion' (idk) - would bring about the end of the Trial Challenge. (Your Boy) Guzma, who seems to be delightfully arrogant, would see that as himself, and so he tries to dismantle it antagonistically, whereas the main character completes all the trials (perhaps the first to do so? Or are the Trial Captains said to have completed this themselves...?), becomes number 1, and then the trials become redundant? Perhaps as someone new to the region, it'd make sense for the playable character to be the one to introduce a more traditional league? Idk - I'm tired and rambling.
Kukui: I'm of the belief that we'll be getting a Trial Captain - or something similar - for each Pokémon type. I made a lengthy post somewhere else on this thread before. I could now see it as there being 16 Trial Captains (although not necessarily 4 per island), plus (Your Boy) Guzma and Kukui. (Your Boy) Guzma could be Poison or Bug, I guess. Kukui...? Goodness knows. It would give him a little more purpose, though. After all, he's our Prof, but he doesn't give us our Starter? He researches moves... Z moves... linked to Trials...?
I'm thinking out loud.
