Talk:Everything Dies/@comment-7706473-20130911203438/@comment-7706473-20130917094937

Guilty as charged. I want plenty of nice flower and bug pokemon, but ones that are too beautiful make my eyes hurt. Pokemon like Gloom and Parasect, hmn~ That's the ideal, right there. Don't worry though, I'm not a hypocrite - I just... I just..!

Thanks for the random musical interlude, Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. You're always right there when I need you!... So, my midnight sensabilities aside, let's talk story. I actually spoke poorly - I got your intent with the father leaving, and just loved that only the son was horrified; because everyone else expected it from the beginning. It was, as you say - his fate.

It *is* really hard to express horror like this, though, which is why I like it so very much. If we want to get in the nitty-gritty pokeverse mechanics, Everstones seem fairly uncommon, and that'd be a conscious choice on behalf of the trainer... And how many trainers turn down evolutions? (Well, unless the pre-evolutions are really cute, and paras *is* but in-game, I can't see it happening very often...)

So you have a culture of sacrifice for no real reason besides the battling of others, at the will of others - and just a quiet sense of inevitability. I think that kind of horror is VERY relatable in this day and age. Resignation is fear, or perhaps the point when you no longer fear anything. Or perhaps I'm just weird in that I find this the most frightening line in the pasta: "It was almost as if my body had become light in its purity." Either way, I like it. A lot.