>>54306827it’s just that people who set out to write dark pokemon stories are just teenagers that fumble the delivery hilariously. adult themes can work but it needs to be written better than
unbound, where you barely give a fuck about the characters and the evil team
reborn, where every character is a special snowflake and every line dialogue sounds like it was written by a brooding emo 13 year old that thinks waxing poetic is “good writing”
insurgence, where you get constant tonal whiplash and “death and cults” mainly exists because it’s “cool” which was probably the mentality the writer had
my gold standard for grim dark stories is something like LISA the Painful which includes death, cursing, a cult, trauma, abuse, drug addiction, etc but it isn’t “edgy”
