True, a toll isn't usually extracted in a gate like this, but they had more or less conquered the town. It was their gate now. The gate was there so people can cross the field without running into wild Pokemon. It was still a service. They did not build it, but they owned it for the time they had it. This might not be a good example, but North America was populated by the Natives at first. Then foreigners drove them into reserves and took over the land. Then they charged immigrants that came later, like the Chinese, "head tax" for living in this land. It was only near Y2K that the tax got removed. Both money are charged for using a land that the current owners did not own at first. Both are used for the owners' survival. A country needs money to stay alive. TR needs money to stay alive. The people using the land need it. It's a survival thing. It's the desire to expand and prosper. It's not evil by itself.
Hey, Silver did punch/kick/throw the player in the same game. TR had the same potential. They just couldn't because the player had their Pokemon ready most of the times. When Silver hit the player, the player didn't have his or her pokemon yet. In the gate, the player was caught by surprise and wouldn't have the time to get the pokemon and TR there didn't know that the player is strong at pokemon battle. They could've decked the player in the face because they wouldn't know they'd have their ass handed to them once the player gets his or her hands on a pokemon. Yet they didn't.
Firearm? My pokemon can spit fire for no extra charge, but bullets cost money. Firearms aren't efficient in that world. And do your guns make baby guns that grow into big guns by themselves? No. Pokemon do. They need long-lasting, low maintenance weapons. Therefore, Pokemon and whips and maybe rocket launchers. It's more economically efficient. I suppose high-ups might have firearms, but grunts might not get such privilege. Equipping all these grunts with guns and constantly provide ammunition cost money. Make them equip themselves with wild beasts and have them earn their own food money is cheap and highly profitable. And the high-ups are pretty honourable, thankfully for the protagonist, so even if they do have guns they won't use it on a kid.
Giovanni? Like I said before, I suspect he saw a son in Red and wanted to play fair with him. Red was special to him. In HGSS, in the Celebi event, at first he wanted to ignore the protagonist and just go back to TR, but then he saw the protagonist's face and said something like "your eyes... just like him..." before doing the same fair bet again. If the protagonist didn't remind him of Red, maybe he would shoot him/her if pressed too much. But it didn't go that far.
Because of how all this happened, I can affirm that gameverse TR are Lawful Evil. They are evil, but they have standards rules that the decided to follow, no matter the consequence. The TR you see is more of a Chaotic Evil or Neutral Evil, mostly Neutral Evil. While they bear the same names, they do not have the same alignments. Yes, I can see that you see the game TR as incompetent for not having a plan B, but keep in mind that they have never run into trouble before the player came around, so they didn't have any mistake to learn from. In Pokemon Special, nearly all gym leaders, some with their personal armies, who are not already TR are actively fighting against TR, so they had a lot to learn in order to stay alive and powerful and more ruthless. The kinder/less competent grunts just cannot survive in that world as a TR, so all that are left are at least Neutral Evil.
Good, because I'm getting a claustrophobia fatigue and it's getting less effective... A movie with its entire story indoors is just 3 hours long. Because of decompression, your fic is already giving me the impression of something longer than that and it's lessening the ambience-feel. Others might get the fatigue later or sooner than me, but from my pacing if you don't show other colours by Act V it's going to be feel-less.
Edit: I'll trust you on that one and at least wait till the end of this fic to give a final judgment (as in, a final rating of the strengths and weakness of the writing). Notes: (Sorry, Freudian Slip because of mid-sentence idea change.)
Hey, Silver did punch/kick/throw the player in the same game. TR had the same potential. They just couldn't because the player had their Pokemon ready most of the times. When Silver hit the player, the player didn't have his or her pokemon yet. In the gate, the player was caught by surprise and wouldn't have the time to get the pokemon and TR there didn't know that the player is strong at pokemon battle. They could've decked the player in the face because they wouldn't know they'd have their ass handed to them once the player gets his or her hands on a pokemon. Yet they didn't.
Firearm? My pokemon can spit fire for no extra charge, but bullets cost money. Firearms aren't efficient in that world. And do your guns make baby guns that grow into big guns by themselves? No. Pokemon do. They need long-lasting, low maintenance weapons. Therefore, Pokemon and whips and maybe rocket launchers. It's more economically efficient. I suppose high-ups might have firearms, but grunts might not get such privilege. Equipping all these grunts with guns and constantly provide ammunition cost money. Make them equip themselves with wild beasts and have them earn their own food money is cheap and highly profitable. And the high-ups are pretty honourable, thankfully for the protagonist, so even if they do have guns they won't use it on a kid.
Giovanni? Like I said before, I suspect he saw a son in Red and wanted to play fair with him. Red was special to him. In HGSS, in the Celebi event, at first he wanted to ignore the protagonist and just go back to TR, but then he saw the protagonist's face and said something like "your eyes... just like him..." before doing the same fair bet again. If the protagonist didn't remind him of Red, maybe he would shoot him/her if pressed too much. But it didn't go that far.
Because of how all this happened, I can affirm that gameverse TR are Lawful Evil. They are evil, but they have standards rules that the decided to follow, no matter the consequence. The TR you see is more of a Chaotic Evil or Neutral Evil, mostly Neutral Evil. While they bear the same names, they do not have the same alignments. Yes, I can see that you see the game TR as incompetent for not having a plan B, but keep in mind that they have never run into trouble before the player came around, so they didn't have any mistake to learn from. In Pokemon Special, nearly all gym leaders, some with their personal armies, who are not already TR are actively fighting against TR, so they had a lot to learn in order to stay alive and powerful and more ruthless. The kinder/less competent grunts just cannot survive in that world as a TR, so all that are left are at least Neutral Evil.
Good, because I'm getting a claustrophobia fatigue and it's getting less effective... A movie with its entire story indoors is just 3 hours long. Because of decompression, your fic is already giving me the impression of something longer than that and it's lessening the ambience-feel. Others might get the fatigue later or sooner than me, but from my pacing if you don't show other colours by Act V it's going to be feel-less.
Edit: I'll trust you on that one and at least wait till the end of this fic to give a final judgment (as in, a final rating of the strengths and weakness of the writing).
Notes: (Sorry, Freudian Slip because of mid-sentence idea change.)
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