'Til just recently I don't think I'd mentioned Horizons anywhere, simply because the show wasn't doing too much for me. It had its moments, but mostly...I need Team Rocket and loads of other people from throughout Ashime. x'-} That won't change 'til those folks reappear, even if for a single still frame. H'weverrrr. As of ep 136, I have begun to find HZ finally beginning to occupy my mind more. Taking up residence--living there rent-free, if you will. Did not expect that to happen. Must've been the conclusion of the Laquium plot, which I edited a bit about into the July post. Has GoT taught me to hold off at least a bit on getting invested in things? ;p Idk, "Stellar Finale" was not perfect--but, at least HZ probably has a little over a year to go, in which to easily make all as it should be. Which is what's also needed re: Ashime (i.e., the entire show prior to HZ.) It's all so easy. How do things keep ending with this "aw c'mon now, you're so close, we just need THIS--" It's def to keep you hanging on for the inevitable return. ;b So, anyhoo. We don't get "Wonders Ahead" until Pokemon Day? Whaaaa--it was just this year's! Oy.
Well in the meantime I'm doing this apparently. Yeah, that fairly sums up all the significant humans.
Um. Lessee, shipwise ('cause everything always comes to that, and nothing keeps ya going like 24/7/365 visions of characters doing things you feel little to no urge to do yourself...!)
Noting that personally I only enjoy pairings I can see plausibly being/becoming canon. It's more popular lately for people to do whatever crazy shit they want and canon be damned, but I just can't see a point in that. Not fun for me. ^^ Don't generally love multishipping either (though there are certainly characters without one clear soulmate, and/or whom I would like with multiple partners and can't decide.)
So possibly:
--Roy/Liko. ~ #likoroy | I suppose? Sure why not.
--Friede/Orla. ~ #orlafriede #friedorla | Yeah, I can dig it.
--Wyatt/Perrin ~ #perryatt #wyerrin | Felt that.
--Hamber/Diana ~ #hamana #dianber | Cute.
And then the best people, the 3 duos!
It's tempting to ship them, of course. But I'm not sure.
--Sidian/Coral (#coridian) feels the least likely of the 3. Could be cute and possible. They just seem the least shippable, couple-like, or of a "please do not separate" matched set. But I don't reject the idea. They're a fun odd couple at any rate. Coral is like an unhinged, loose cannon, agent-of-chaos Pinkie Pie. And Sid, kinda comes off as being over shit. xD - #obsidiots
--Zirc/Onia (#zirconia! =p) is in the middle. The Amethio-worshiping kawaiiness/cat-video lover and Nidothing/Iono (uggghhh) lover could be that kind of an item. Saw a little comic where they tried to adopt Thio. *tehee* Again though, I wish their names were more, uh, name-like... Zirc I can accept due to Zerk the Pocket-Puppy Dobie at least being a precedent for that odd one. But no matter where you put the C, 'zirconia' just isn't a word that cleverly divides into two names. Butch, Cassidy, Jessie, and James were a ridiculously perfect quartet. "Attila and Hun" was a stretch. So are Annie and Oakley, considering Oakley is infinitely more suitable as their surname, because it IS a surname, but then Annie is...Annie Oakley. xD Hun could be like, short for "Honey," but evidently he wasn't supposed to be a woman even in English and it was a translation error. I figured it would've been an attempt to keep consistent with the other m/f pairs (even though they surely wouldn't all be the same), and because the writers thought his bishonen-ness might read to Anglophones as a girl anyhow. But no, he's just...a dude called Hun. 8-| And I'm, a dudette who's way off-topic now.
--Indi/Rubina (#rubindi or #indybella as I've seen) Oh, those two are for sure. Like if they ain't married yet, they will be soon. The whole color+pokemon-coordination/sharing thing they've got going on is actual almost sickeningly sweet couple behavior. ^p~ Names blend all right too. Headcanoning that Indi is short for Indiana, cuz what else would it be; his parents are big Indiana Jones fans. (Though I wonder about Indy from Bluey. Sounds like a nickname on her too, but for what? India is sometimes used as a human name, but doesn't really seem like an Australian kid's--even one with a hippie mum. Guess anything's possible though.) And then Rubella sounds pretty, but is unfortunately a virus, so kinda glad that was altered slightly (then again, Prunella Deegan's sister is Rubella too. xD)
Omglol. Just saw Rubindi doing the Sasa Lele meme--except it might go more like this:
Somebody else: Sasa Lele...?
Rubina: You idiot, it says "sale, sale."
Indi: Sasa Lele...?
Rubina: Yes babe! It's sasa lele!
And then--
Indi: Laga Dyga.
Spinel: It's Lady Gaga.
Rubina: Yeah dumbass, it's Lady Gaga. *thinks* I thought it was Laga Dyga...
Another great piece=Spinel+Umbreon as Jay Bush & Duke (former's apron reading "don't ask me for the secret family recipe"+latter's "I have seen the face of God and it was weeping" XD)
From youngest to oldest is probably approx/roughly C/S, R/I, Z/O.
(Just saw a pic of them with a comment reading "Fuck USSR." So that's it then. They're Russian.)
Coral could be maybe ~18-21-ish, Sid & Ruby & Indi a little bit older, Zirc & Onia maybe 30s. Spinel I guess late 20s.
At the start, what was everybody else? Liko: 10-12 or so? Roy & Dot & the other kids similar, Navie younger. (Can't wait to find out whether that's pronounced Navy or Na'vi...) Figured they'd be around the same as Ash & co. The adult RVTs aside from Ludlow are probably 20s-40s-ish. Amethio's supposed to be a teen, so gotta be 16-19; seemed at least 18.
So yeah, HZ, give us more of these fab folks, YO!
Predictions for how we'll next see the Explorer group:
Well Coral, Sid, Onia, Zirc, and Amethio have already shown up in more or less unsurprising ways. Spinel we really should eventually see working on making amends with Umbreon. Indi & Rubina...could pop up anywhere honestly. It seemed implied that they probably did try to help the defeated Spinel to some extent, but having realized that their faith in him had in fact been misplaced after all, there was only so much they could do and he had to meet his fate. It's still sweet that they didn't just flee and abandon him though. So we oughta see them, like...practicing mega-evolution with their Salamence and her Scolipede or something like that. Pretty open possibilities. 'With You' would be a fitting theme for them. (Also they should kiss. They should all kiss. There should be more kissing in general.) Hamber & Diana should have fun, could likewise be seen again at any point(s.) x-3 Wyatt & Perrin too for that matter. Chalce, well she's back to teaching wherever she lives; might get another glimpse of her.
With the exception of the OG Big 3 (Pokeshipping, Rocketshipping, Neoshipping), I'm not the biggest fan of the "[word(s)]shipping" convention. Majority of those require explanation. Nah, make it as clear as possible which two people it is, and preferably not too much of an awkward mouthful/handful.
Titling game is weaksauce now. "The Catcher in the Sky" is probably the best one so far, and one of the few that even stand out. At least some of the rest do kinda sum up which ep it was, I guess.
Say what you will about 4Kids though--with them gone, the voices and overall dubbing took a nosedive from which they've never recovered.
As to other HZ names...I feel like I wasn't too keen on too many. Spinel sorta feels like his surname, but it's hard to tell. 8/ I refuse not to use a long E in Amethio. Which isn't a bad name either way tbh, but what would you call him for short? Meth? xD Thio? Likely that, yeah. Actually I already did. Gideon is much better than Gibeon, but whatever. Hamber amuses me as he's a hand-haired hamburger man. Chalce I'm gonna assume is her surname. Friede as well. Murdock, Ludlow could go either way. Probably given. Bet Ludlow is at least. Rystal pmo, like what did the C ever do to you? And "Lucca" ticked me all the way off. Should be pronouncing it Lucka, spelt like that. But anyway I only like LUCA for boys, and weirdly this is the second female one in Pkmn. (The Suzanne Vega song was I think written from a young man's pov.) Dot's gotta be short for Dorothy, always is. Sidian sounds okay til you consider that it's just another word with a letter or two shaved off, but at least it shortens to Sid. WAY more characters need to take a page outta Wyatt's book and actually have a goddamn full name. Occasionally it can be tough to even tell whether someone's name would be the first or last. But anyhoo. Now to keep keeping up with the weekly episode summaries on Bulbapedia I reckon...
