10h c111 ZtheH
Let's go Scarlet!

5/16 c1 pjack32
same here Dio. The site was down a while ago so idk what's up

5/7 c13 Temporal King
Bonny took that well but I can tell she’ll be watching Scarlet from now on, I agree with Bonny that it was unessacary but again the girl pulled a knife and tried to stab her, it’s like Scarlet is tight roping the balance of morality. Although I don’t know if Dusk or May will take this well, Dusk is timid enough as is and May already went through an abusive trainer, to knowing a killer is her masters lover might be enough to break faith even if Scarlet means them no harm and even then what’s to say she won’t just snap and lose control? Good point I feel one of Max’s lover’s will point out.

I hope Scarlet improves, I really do. It’s only been 2 days in story since she revealed the truth so obviously things won’t improve over night, her killing that girl clearly shows she has a long way to go. Scarlet doing what she did in her victims tent...yeeeaaaah, might’ve been a little too far. And for as intelligent as she is she can sure be stupid. Flinging over all that...stuff, DNA evidence all over the place meaning her beloved could get in massive amounts of trouble if the body is found.

But onto more positive things Bonny learned Jump Kick, good move. Personally though I would go for Ice Punch, Drain Punch, Cosmic Power and Protect, that’s what my Lopunny know’s and it’s pretty effective.

5/7 c11 Temporal King
I do wished Max did say something about the innocents Scarlet killed, like that should’ve been a huge thing to over come. The people who abused and tortured her was one thing, but innocent people, children included? Trust should’ve been fractured.

Heck assuming that this is a OC region maybe Scariet’s the reason why trainers aren’t much of a thing, that the violence of the crime was so disturbing that it lead to an immediate pulling of the metaphorical trigger for increasing the age that dramatically.

Kids in the middle of their journey were forced to stop, many Pokemon were forced to be relocated to natural habitats because of a over saturation of Pokémon the professors just couldn’t take care of, kids no longer interacting with Pokémon the way they used to it, heavy rules regarding Human/Pokemon interactions for kids like which Pokémon parents are and aren’t allowed to have. Yeah I’ve noticed that there dosent seem to be many trainers or even kids in this region interacting with Pokémon and there might be a reason for that. Heck maybe that might’ve played a factor in his home town being so nasty, if I was a kid who was forcefully stopped on my journey and made to give up Pokémon I’d probably hold a grudge too and if I got far I’d probably wouldn’t be able to have it in me to restart from scratch.

Not to mention he watched a kid get tortured and murdered in cold blood by his lover, it’s hard enough for some to watch kids in movies go through stuff like this, like the Hunger Game’s for example as people weren’t the fondest of watching kids kill each other, that was a hard one to stomach for some people, but it’s very unlikely Max would be 100% after witnessing her stoop to the low of those that wronged her.

Now don’t get me wrong, accepting her and still wanting to be with her shows true love, maybe it was twisted fate their paths crossed. I feel that even though his trust in her should be damaged it isn’t beyond repair, it will just take some time before things can go back to normal between them. Maybe he could’ve hugged her and swear he will fix her, he will heal her, he will help her, show her the good of the world, Pokemon and humanity. He might not be the fondest of his own species as well but Max knows not everyone is like this but Scarlet has never had that opportunity, she never had that chance until Max came around.

As for Bonny, well that certainly happened. Love made her evolve, which means Return will be stupidly powerful. Yeah Return is such a great move, one if the best Normal type moves in the game. And with it’s a slight personality change, flirtatious, VERY flirtatious.

Scarlet’s version of training as well was very very clever, it reminded me of Dragonball Z where Goku trained in gravity chamber while traveling to Namek and we all know how very effective that training was.

Bonny got her man, I knew Scarlet was gonna be fine with it, I mean she was fine with it when she was a Buneary so why would she have an issue now? Guess she was too used to being Alpha Female, although as time go’s on I feel that might not mean much if anyth8ng aside from getting the ok to join the harem. You know now that I think about it I wonder if any human girls will join.

Regardless the 2nd member of Max’s family has joined, although I wonder how far they are going to push the “human’s can’t make Pokémon pregnant” thing, that’s twice now that’s been brought up. Sounds let foreshadowing if you ask me.

Onto more.

4/28 c10 Temporal King
Uh...ahem. I...need a moment.

(Five minutes later)

Ok, so this is the first time I’ve seen truly dark stuff in a fic and boy you didn’t hold back. I said it before in a earlier review that Scarlet and Max just hasn’t been exposed to enough positivity but in Scarlets case I was WAAAY off the mark on that one. She literally has had little to no positivity with Pokémon and absolutely zero positivity with humans, absolutely none. That explains why she hates humans with a passion and even her own species, she’s a broken Gardevoir who’s empathy has been nearly destroyed 100% until Max came around.

Honestly, it’s hard to blame her behavior, even against an innocent, when she dosent know the concept of mercy and probably still dosent. Now granted that dosent make her absolved towards what she did to that Charmeleon and his trainer. If anything I feel Max should’ve put the foot down on that one. Yes she was traumatized, yes she was in pain but she could’ve easily knocked him out and just went away, she was clearly able to deduce an accurate age and clearly he didn’t look like any of the people who abused her and he wouldn’t of been able to scratch her let alone catch her. The people at the Complex and the Hunter’s were one thing and it was justified, but a innocent kid? Pretty sure Scarlet had some inkling of trainers. Wasn’t she exposed to trainer battles before everything went dark? Heck pretty sure she would’ve been given some context about trainers even during captivity.

And even then the Charmeleion didn’t look abused and even stood up for its trainer before dying. My guess is that pure survival instincts combined with trauma, fear and hate clouded her senses badly, she didn’t stop and think and only acted, even if she knew what Pokeballs were, and honestly I think she should’ve given how many years passed. The idea of a cages might just be a trigger point that break any control of her own actions, instincts, fear and hate takes over first and even after the deed was done she can’t feel empathy or regret. So damaged and broken she was that her empathy and compassion were near nonexistent. Hence why she felt empty, void. She just existed, no personality, no morality, no soul or anything like that, just pure will to survive, hatred and wanting to be left alone.

The more she is exposed to the good of humanity, her own kind and Pokemon in general as well as learn of compassion, empathy etc etc I have a feeling that rush of regret and realization of what she did to that innocent will hit her like an ACME anvil. The worst thing that will hit her is realization she was no better than the people who tortured her.

As for the tribe that outcasted her and the parents who abandoned her. I question suicide for the Gallade, I think it would’ve been better if he either ran away or was depressed to the point of Scarlet’s mother looking after him, like a broken soul. Maybe he could’ve felt regret about trying to kill his child but wasn’t able to express it because he was emotionally gone and Scarlets mother could’ve mis-interpreted that as why he was the way he was.

But a Gallade committing suicide? Well maybe if he did it as a honor thing I could buy it and Gardevoir could’ve been living alone in slight insanity, being rejected by her tribe, her mate dead and her thinking of being the creator of an “abomination”. Could also explain the lack of remorse.

Even if the Gallade was alive seeing him basically have no reaction or even motion would just be a waste of Scarlet’s effort. Her father was already suffering and can’t take care of himself. That’s enough for her.

However I think this would’ve been more satisfying if this was done in the tribe. Like maybe show off her immense power and how outclassed every Gallade and Gardevoir is to the point if nobody daring to step forward to challenge the Red Gardevoir. After killing her mother she could’ve used telepathy on every member of her tribe and tell them that she is a “abomination”, their creation, a creation born out of hate and cruelty the world has given her. She didn’t come into the world a monster, the world made her into one. She killed dozens of humane and dozens of Pokémon and nobody in the tribe could so much as scratch her and every single being that wronged her has met a gruesome end, now there is nothing left.

She could’ve left her mothers body in the middle of the tribe and nobody daring to say a thing. Watching the monster they created walk away, the ultimate karma.

Although one could argue leaving her alive would’ve been a worse punishment. Beaten, broken, crippled and humiliated in front of the tribe by the child she threw away, she did create a monster but it wasn’t Scarlet to be blamed. And the worst punishment of them all? Scarlet could’ve transferred her memories and experience to her mother so she could live everything her daughter went through, starting with the day they tried to drown her. So she knows what it’s like.

Just imagine that, Scarlet’s mother laying on the ground, her body broken and crippled to the point of true paralysis in her legs and her mind locked in on itself, watching, seeing and feeling every experience she felt the day they threw her in the river. The worst punishment isn’t death, it’s living her life in pain both physically and mentally until she naturally died.

Maybe she could’ve approached a petrified tribe elder or leader and said she could kill them all, every last one of them, Kirlia and Ralts included. But she won’t if they do one thing for her. Give her mother to the human’s, they will keep her alive and take care of her. Therefore ensuring her punishment continued. Maybe down the line Max could’ve met Scarlet’s mother and see her in a wheelchair in a catatonic state at a Pokémon sanctuary where Pokémon cannot survive in the wild but also cannot be trained Pokémon or even pets due to injury or some other reason, the memories of her daughters trauma mixed with the beat down she got still replaying in her mind.

I’m not sure if Max would ask Scarlet to end it and wipe her memories, like maybe Scarlet could’ve largely cooled off by that point.

And you know, morbid as it sounds, I wonder if Scarlet would consider going back to that complex to loot it for her new family. Assuming the complex is hidden and nobody has found it there should be nothing in there but broken room’s, bones and clothes that stuck to the bones. She didn’t destroy the entire complex so maybe there could’ve been Pokémon food that hasn’t expired, money hidden, trainer equipment hidden or even information of shady people they could turn over to the league or police.

After all for some people going back to the site of great trauma allow’s people to gain closure and acceptance. I’ve seen videos and shows were people would go back to where it all began for them or where great trauma accrued and they would reflect and gain closure of their past.

Little oversight here as well but the humans called Scarlet by her name, Max was the one who named her if I recall correctly.

Well...guess Scarlet hit her low point, at this point there is nowhere to go but up. I truly hope Max can show her that just because she had a truly horrific beginning dosent mean she has to have miserable end. Her story truly began the day Max found her...no, the day Max rescued her. And I hope she can encounter those of her species that are more welcoming and accepting, I really do.

4/28 c8 Temporal King
You really went all out with the Pokémon diet, one would think a human like Pokémon like Gardevoir would be omnivorous, guess they have a very strict and little negotiable diet.

Mawhile, another waifu-mon. But I had a feeling eventually we were gonna get one of these type of capture’s, a rescue Pokémon. I really hate trainer who neglect their Pokémon and abuse them. The anime never really went into how bad abuse can get for a creature as emotional and psychological damage is far far far for long lasting. I know this personally, it’s not fun to witness.

But at the very least Mawhile, now known as May, is in better and safer hands and I wonder how long it will be until she falls in love with her new trainer. I wonder if we’ll see her old trainer again but with a change of heart. Scarlet might think bad humans can’t change and while she isn’t entirely wrong in some cases, it’s possible that some people just need that jolt to their systems to snap their behavior into proper place.

Onto more :)

4/20 c7 Temporal King
I wonder what made Dusk so timid, was she abused by a female human? Or does she take comfort in males in general? Or was she bullied by female Pokémon? Not entirely sure why she is so shy, but at least she is staring to overcome it. Although that confession, not sure if it was legit or just love between trainer and human...for now, pretty sure nothings gonna happen until she evolves into Braxien and chances are she’ll stay a Braxien.

You know I’m starting to get that Scarlet is gonna be one tough cookies to accept that not all humans are bad. One would think she’d take a little pride in being called beautiful and having a person fawn over her looks but this was one moment where pride didn’t show. Max and Scarlet grew up in a nasty town filled with nasty people and so far they’ve experienced nothing but good people since they got together.

I hope as they continue they experience more positivity from people and start changing their outlook on the world. Max isn’t as bad but Scarlet is gonna need a lot of work.