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[kuruk22]

I've been thinking long and hard about it, and after much consideration and careful rumination, I'd have to say that my favorite character from Pokémon's Generation V is Bianca.

I would bombard you with pictures of Bianca being her lovable self, but I don't have very many. I need to remedy this.

Oddly enough, I was sure that I wouldn't like Bianca

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Re: long-winded comment

[kuruk22]

Still, I think your argument about Zekrom/Reshiram (or possibly Kyurem, depending what route the third installment embarks) choosing to appear is a bit fallacious. I believe it's true - if the dragon didn't want to appear, it wouldn't. However, what made the dragon want to appear was Touya/Touko. It was because of his/her willingness to fight for what he/she felt was right and stood up to N and his dragon without one him/herself that Zekrom/Reshiram deemed Touya/Touko worthy of a bond. In essence, I believe that if Touya/Touko hadn't proven themselves, the dragon wouldn't have had the opportunity to choose him/her. It's circular reasoning, I know, but it was 50/50. Touya/Touko and Zekrom/Reshiram(/Kyurem?).

I really dislike the term "evil..." In fact, I think I may have been unclear about Ghetsis myself.

I don't feel like he's "evil," and I agree that he's more of a middle ground. The fact is that I don't believe that people want to take over the world for no reason. Let's revisit an example you brought up earlier - Hitler. This is all circumstantial, as it very well could have been that Hitler really was a self-interested bastard that led Germany and its citizens into ruin because he wanted to benefit from it as long as he could regardless of the fact that its devastation.
In fact, I tend to think that way about people like Hitler and Stalin. Hitler's (stated, at least) reasoning for the atrocities he committed was making Germany great again. He wanted to bring glory to his people and his nation. His methods were - there's really no word to describe them, but he had a way of justifying it to himself. I really don't believe that people "embrace evil." They have their justifications for engaging in things that are morally wrong, thus suggesting that they do this to circumvent feeling guilty or being stopped by people who are in check of their morals.

I find it hard to believe that Ghetsis would want to take over the world just because he thinks he's the best human around. Maybe it's just that compulsion of mine again, but I truly believe that he had to have a better reason for his decades-long mission (and even longer, if you subscribe to the theory that N was born for the express purpose of bringing Ghetsis's goals to fruition). If it was just because he thought himself to be the perfect human being, than that would suggest he's delusional. I'm currently developing my Ghetsis headcanon on a kink meme fill I'm writing, and I'm leaning toward a mental condition. That's the only way I can justify his grand mission and the extreme measures he took to bring it about, at least.

Agree 100% about Ghetsis's behavior toward N being normal and the last outburst being made out of freaking out/anger at his plans failing. I don't think he abused him at all, and I tend to see child-investment as understandable as well, and while Ghetsis takes it to a new extreme, I can still see his reasoning. Whether or not he loves N is a different story, not to mention that if he had brought his plans to fruition and succeeded in taking single-handed control of the world, there would come a time where N would become an obstacle. Either N would figure out Ghetsis was lying all along or Ghetsis would refuse to give up his pokémon when N asked him to. What Ghetsis would have done at that point is - in my opinion - the true testament to what exactly he feels for his alleged son. N's and Ghetsis's agendas only overlap so much...