one day i'm gonna get to make CROSSNIQ GOLD, CROSSNIQ FINAL, CROSSNIQ NXT, etc and tell the greatest "a bunch of kids band together because of their collectible game and save mankind" storyline ever penned
themes include:
climate change, utopia as a concept, forgiveness, the bonding of play breaking down our existential barriers, the collective debt of human suffering, cosmic horror, neoliberal complacency, choosing a flawed existence in order to love
even a team rocket jessie expy character has a story arc of going to cute comic relief -> disillusioned identity crisis -> detached and lethal villain tool dissociating from her grief -> bittersweet face turn, to show that some people in the face of a neoliberal crisis can be redeemed (while others in the story serve as cold reminders that not everybody can, and who's who comes down to a mix of conviction and sheer chance). it's got the good stuff
