>>52558309idk mabosstiff was just injured, it wasn’t like he was getting on his years. it makes perfect sense to try and treat him than letting him die painfully. unless you want to change the story so that mabosstiff was not only injured but also reaching the end of his natural lifespan, but then it opens a new can of worms about euthanasia that gamefreak will 100% never touch with a ten foot pole
still i do think it would be a much more emotional yet still simple story if mabosstiff still died in the end, but we get to see the dog trying to push arven to make some actual friends in (you) and raidon (maybe even nemona and penny) throughout the titans storyline because it knows it can’t be there for its master much longer. and arven manages to get over it because (you) and raidon were there for him at the end of it all
like, the fact that arven fails to find the legendary treasure cure for mabosstiff, but ends up with newfound companions in the end would actually smash the ‘the true treasure was the friends we made along the way’ theme so hard i’m surprised the story didn’t go down this route
