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leaf📕⚡️ @crestofmiracles.bsky.social · Mar 27

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leaf📕⚡️ @crestofmiracles.bsky.social · 4h

when ruby and sapphire are supposed to be dual protagonists and her Entire arc is about her becoming stronger to protect her loved on was and then you mostly sideline her during the fight it’s just like bruhhh

leaf📕⚡️ @crestofmiracles.bsky.social · 4h

and 2. i don’t blame ruby for the aircar incident (only relatively recently did i learn the passcode was goroawase for sapphire’s name. fuck.) and i loveeee the “true beauty lies in the heart” scene so so much but.

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leaf📕⚡️ @crestofmiracles.bsky.social · 4h

for sapphire it’s

1. i do hesitate to say this because pksp is very good at having its female characters feel distinct enough from each other, but the whole “yeah i like girly things!!!” feels like it was written as a cop out

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leaf📕⚡️ @crestofmiracles.bsky.social · 4h

for ruby, it’s mostly about [GESTURING] everything about his relationship with his father. it’s soooo fucking bad lmao

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leaf📕⚡️ @crestofmiracles.bsky.social · 4h

the gist of what i mean by this is. i love this arc very dearly, and there’s well, beauty, in how selfless ruby and sapphire were in wanting to reinvent themselves after their trauma from the salamence incident. for a work so much about gender it doesn’t seem all too interested in subverting it

leaf📕⚡️ @crestofmiracles.bsky.social · 13h

the ruby and sapphire arc of pokespe says a lot about gender. i’m not sure exactly What it’s saying but it’s saying a lot about it