jessie from pokemon is such an upsetting character bc her life has been a failure since the very beginning
she is a broken person
unlike for james, who could quit at any time and return to a comfortable life, for jessie, team rocket is everything she has.
she lived in poverty, with a mother who was a criminal, and they were so poor they ate snow
her mother disappeared, looking for mew. there was never a mention of jessie having a father
she wanted to be an actress, and decided to take that route instead of going with a boy she loved, but she ended up losing both as her audition didn’t go through
she wanted to be a nurse, but failed
and now she keeps failing trying to catch that god damned pikachu
as much as i like dawn i almost want jessie to win all the ribbons because she fucking deserves to be happy and she deserves those victories and she deserves a friend like james
*wipes a tear* u go girl
this post is good except for one tiny detail, and that’s that james cannot just “quit at any time and return to a comfortable life”
james’ family has riches and luxury, yes, but his parents are neglectful & uncaring and have engaged him to an abuser. they refuse to let him live in the lap of luxury unless he marries her and spends his whole life miserable.
everything about jessie and james is, from where i’m standing, intended to be opposite. james is a soft-spoken boy from a family that knows wealth but not love. jessie is a headstrong and outspoken girl from a family that knows love but is dirt poor.
the thing they have in common is that neither of them found happiness until they found each other (and meowth, of course) i know this post is about jessie, and trust me–she fucking deserves it–but you can praise her like the queen she is without making it sound like her partner has it easy. neither of them could live the lives that were handed to them with a smile on their face, and they’re both amazingly strong people for continuing to work hard every day, even if it is as antagonists.
I cant believe there is finally an analysis on team rocket im so proud
this… this is really modern art. this is a level 1 shiny dialga in an event ball is on the gts and the only thing this person wants in exchange for it? a… male… ditto.
once, on my copy of X, probably like 5 years ago, i wonder traded away a much beloved, level 100 shiny mewtwo named Biohazard. In return, i recieved a level 1 Giratina, named Dave, knowing only the moves Scary Face and a low-power dragon type move. I was so stunned and pleased by my new friend that I vowed to raise him from level 1 all the way to 100, but shortly afterward i misplaced my copy of the game and lost him. Fast-forward to the present, after cleaning my old backpack out i discover my old copy of X, and delightedly bring my old friends into my copy of Moon, including Dave. Literally as I am doing this, I hear my little brother yell ‘holy shit its HIM’ and come running up the stairs. He opens the door and shows me that he had, in fact, just wonder-traded away a baby starter and had recieved Biohazard, the original boy. Five years later. He hadnt been released, or altered in the slightest, except for the countless ribbons he now proudly wore. I am now raising Dave, who is level 25, alongside my trusty old friend, Biohazard.
I have both X and Y and I occasionally like to use Y to breed and Wonder Trade starters from previous generations that can be harder to get in those games. For several months I had 3 freshly hatched level 1 totodiles sitting in my PC that I would occasionally look at and smile over because I happened to like their names.
Anyways one day I was in the mood to trade and decided it was finally time to give them to someone new who would hopefully show them lots of love. I forget the other two’s names, but I remembered my favorite one was a male I had named Delios. So I traded them away, hoping they would be happy in their new homes.
Cut to about an hour or so later I had run out of Pokemon to trade on my Y game so I switched to my X. I connected to the internet before getting distracted by something on my computer, but then I noticed something pop up on my DS, which was none other than a trade request. I knew it was just another person wanting to show off their Pokemon like usual but I was in a good mood so I decided to humor them and maybe give them something nice if they were willing to trade.
I was right about them wanting to show off, and the first couple of Pokemon they brought up were nothing special. But then they decided to show off a level 1 male totodile named Delios.
Keep in mind I was on a different cartridge with a different character and they had no way of knowing it was still me. But still they had felt happy enough with their brand new totodile that they had wanted to proudly show him off. Shortly after that they ended the trade.
I never got Delios back, not that I wanted to, but it made my day to see that one of my favorite babies went to such a loving home.
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