

Even if all they got was "vague feelings of tenderness and longing", they still got something. If a person decides to learn the reason behind the art that is one thing, but to require all people who consume media to learn the lore behind every song, every piece of art, for it to be meaningful to them is ridiculous, unrealistic, and unfair. The artist's issue may be very important and valid, but in the face of individual interpretation, it ranks lower. if it conveys an idea/thought/feeling, it doesn't matter what, and it comforts someone, encourages someone, causes change, or reminds someone to improve themselves, it does not matter what the artist had in mind. Maybe that same old man finds comfort that problems like this are getting some representation and maybe no one else will experience what his daughter did? Maybe 4/10 people actually pick up on what the artist was trying to convey? In the end, does it matter? Art in and of itself is meant to transmit ideas, thoughts and feelings to other people. Maybe a young trans woman sees in this painting another young trans woman struggling with the expectations of the world, her identity, and relates to that, finds meaning in it, and uses that to get them through a hard time? Or an old man sees in the painting a vision of his own daughter, a poc, wrestling with the difficulties of being in an all white high school. The artist may have this in mind, but the audience might not. Kinda stereotypical highschool dog blood drama type stuff, but the artist painted it with the thought that this was a visual of how hard being a woman in this society is (body shaming, discrimination, whatever, it's valid). The artist painted a scene of a young lady surrounded by laughing people. So I saw this post going around about white people decontextualizing poc music and art, specifically about race and I thought something was odd.like isn't art supposed to be a personal experience? Like sure the artist could make a song with a specific theme, but if it spoke to you in another way and you had no clue nor the time/effort to care what the songwriter meant with it, does it even matter? Take for example, a painting. I’m Hyunjin very thankful and he’s thankful for Stays as well. And last but not least we have Shaymin, a big Cutie and the thankful Pokémon. She makes people dream great things and is the only one to be able to save others from Darkrais Nightmares. Then we have Cresselia, who is the opposite of Darkrai. He stays away from people since he can’t control his power and doesn’t want to cause people to be trapped in nightmares (some pokémon lore is really dark), which reminds me of Hyunjin who stays away a bit to not hurt anyone. He looks like one in the spin off games, but he isn’t. We have the nightmare Pokémon Darkrai, which isn’t a bad guy at all. We also got 3 mythical Pokémon, with great myths behind them.

Okay, I’m sorry, I’ll try to be more serious again.

We got to know how the Pokémon world was created, how every life was created and so on. We were introduced into the God of Pokémon, Arceus (and before someone says he’s a bad God for being able to be caught by a 10 year old, you can’t catch him if you don’t cheat.) and the creation trio. Why am I still talking about Furret? Well, the other reason why I think it fits Hyunjin is the lore! Gen 4 might be the Generation with the most lore we ever got. It's likely not going to be some huge, monumental difference, but it hopefully will make a second playthrough feel noticeably different and give the reader more insight into certain things. For example, they might sense certain inklings of things that allude to later plot points earlier than someone who is more cooperative and might learn more social backstory elements. But as that stat increase, Nishiko will become more physically perceptive to certain details about the world around them, but in material ways rather than social ways. As a slight example, if the reader pushes Nishiko to become aggressive, their 'Psycho' stat will increase, which can lead to them having even more aggressive choices later, which further increase that stat. Even something like picking 'the BAD' choices is something I want to not just feel like, say, Undertale's infamous 'genocide run' but rather something that is an expression of anger at the world around the main character, which even has some specific benefits - because people don't just become jerks because they like to feel bad, but because it serves them in some beneficial way.
