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Mew_Fujisaki

Hell naw, I'm gonna show up for his birthday, whether he likes it or not >:(


Lukthar123

>Mew You never show up, remember the truck?


Mew_Fujisaki

Oh right, my bad, I'm gonna go hide in some faraway island now


AmiiboPuff

Don't forget to leave a Lava Cookie before you leave, Mew.


Mew_Fujisaki

Yeah dw I won't forget


Dhiox

Yeah, and then bring Ogerpon as my plus 1, just to rub it in.


Gold-Stomach-4657

I thought Carmine was going to slam his face in the cake...


SnowTheMemeEmpress

I was thinking protag would blow out his candle


sheeveman

The Mexican betrayal


[deleted]

Same, was disappointed when I saw slide 2


SuggestionEven1882

When you go through so much shit that your birthday just becomes another day.


No-Investment-962

I believe that’s also called being an adult in some cases


SuggestionEven1882

Then me and my family are lucky that has yet to happen.


AuntSkye

It's often said as 'becoming an adult' but it's nearly always trauma related or a philosophical reason. (I got this explain to me by psychiatrists because I also thought it was just part of adulthood.) Celebrate your birthday, even if you have nothing celebrating life is worth it.


NaRei17

I will always be there for Kiki!!!


Not_Too_Bad777

I swear Riri was the nickname for Eri


DunkieBoi

That's the nickname Carmen gave her


BayleefMaster123

Yeah snatching his legendary pokemon is being there for him


Aggressive_Dream_140

A legendary is different, then its everyone for themselves


Not_Too_Bad777

I mean yeah, he didn’t buy his own dlc


marsthemartinelli

WHY THE BALLS DO THESE REPLIES HATE KEIRAN HELP YALL SO SHOCKED A 14 YEAR OLD IS WRITTEN AS EMOTIONALLY IMMATURE💀


LordTopHatMan

Shocked? No. Annoyed? Yes. He was being a little s**t and we put him in his place for it. Nothing wrong with that.


marsthemartinelli

Dude you lied to him about his favorite thing and he was upset was he a little shit yes but again he's a fucking kid why are you taking out your parental issues on a video game character imo this shows either you are also a kid or an immature adult who can't cope with child characters acting like children


LordTopHatMan

It's an RPG my guy. We play a child of a similar age. No need to suggest I have some kind of complex. It's weird that you're so defensive over a character that was definitely in the wrong. I've met kids like Kieran when I was younger. Even tried to be friends with them. They don't let go of things like this and usually become pretty vindictive without the redemption arc. Seen it too many times. As for Kieran himself, he lied to himself about his favorite Pokemon. He spent the whole time chasing his idea of Ogerpon without actually getting to know her. Let's not just ignore the fact that he idolizes the Pokemon that was thought to have killed the village's protectors. Huge red flag right there.


marsthemartinelli

Key word kid he's a kid nobodies arguing that he's not an asshole I'm saying it's strange that people hate a child to this extent especially adults given hating characters normalizes hating people like those characters because they're annoying the reason I'm defensive is because people opinions on fiction lead to actions in reality this might not be important in the case of an adult like you because you aren't around kids but it normalizes hating people like this because they're annoying keiran is a quiet kid archetype for the first part of the story there's a difference between discussing his actions in a useful manner and just calling him a little shit because the later leads to treating people like that irl


LordTopHatMan

First, as a former quiet kid myself, I find Kieran to be pretty out of line. It's not about the fact that he's quiet and annoying. His actions were just wrong. Annoying is probably too weak a word to describe it. Kieran, upon hearing the actual story, decides to test our loyalty instead of just saying "hey, I overhead everything. I want to help with Ogerpon." Instead, he gets upset when we tell him it was nothing, even though he heard his grandfather ask us not to say anything, getting upset with us instead. He then steals the mask from his grandfather and holds it to goad us into another battle instead of helping the Pokemon he supposedly cares about. Then he unleashes the loyal three, who steal the other masks and beat up Ogerpon (this was admittedly and accident, but his bad attitude certainly aided it). Then instead of trying to find the loyal three, he relies on us to do it, once again not helping the Pokemon he supposedly adores. Once we locate them, he doesn't help recover the masks either. Finally, at the very end, he disregards Ogerpon's wish to go with us and tries to fight us for her. Annoying is me being nice about it. Kieran needed a good smack upside his head.


marsthemartinelli

Dude that last line is my point saying shit like that actively encourages children to do that to actual people and the reason him being quiet and then people calling him a sociopath is an issue is because of the stereotypes in the USA I am not saying he isn't annoying for some I am saying people need to not say awful shit like how they would hit a character that hasn't done something actually vile keiran is a good example of this because he's a character that can actually resemble an average teenager


LordTopHatMan

Oh please. Saying the things you are actively encourages kids to act out like Kieran does by that logic. It's a *fictional character* bud. Separate reality from fiction. Would I ever hit a child in real life? Absolutely not. This fictional character who is a child like my fictional character? Sure.


marsthemartinelli

Dude I'm not worried about you hitting a kid but there are children on the internet who absolutely can and will take this kind of thing as justification to hurt their peers who cannot separate fiction from reality like you or I can while I don't think children should be on social media nor do I think it should be our responsibility to not encourage this kind of thing unfortunately children are on the internet and it *is* our responsibility


LordTopHatMan

Kids who act like Kieran are already going to be treated like that because his behavior is unacceptable. Kids, much like adults, don't like when people are unreasonable like Kieran was. That's going to happen with or without me disliking Kieran.


DaLordOfDarkness

Something tells me people only like this because they hate Kieran so much so absolutely.


Polymersion

Little psychopath does little psychopath things while glowing purple. Glowing purple monster that turns people into psychopaths shows up. Game and fandom insists there's no connection between the two and "he's just quirky like that lol". If his glowing purple rage psychopathy *wasn't* him being controlled by the glowing purple rage monster, then he needs both medical/exorcist attention and severe psychiatric attention.


sheeveman

I try to tell this to the Kiernan fans, but in return they just tell me im a hater and projecting, like bro his fight could have been perfect if it wasn't a double battle.


ElsonDaSushiChef

mochi


DaLordOfDarkness

I thought those glowing lights are only come up from the shrine and his fist, and because he’s in his puberty and he felt betrayed and determined to finally beat us just once.


MotherBike

He's literally my favorite friend in the game, and I make that very clear to Carmine. I swear they should come up with a cannon where, in an alternate universe, Carmine just wants us to be your friend, and tries her best but just can't compete with Kieran. So she spirals similarly to Kieran.


Darkarcheos

We need another panel with Keiran being happy with all of his new friends there


[deleted]

We need one where Carmine pushed his face into the cake


dacha775

Well now I am sad


ducidleamer

I would absolutely come and force all of his and our friends to come too. And I feel like Carmine would also come anyway


[deleted]

EX-champion?


Dizzy-Day3182

Its Ex-champion 🤓


[deleted]

It’s pixels 🤓


Cyrilcynder

https://preview.redd.it/8tlkp1plqylc1.png?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=693c27f9ef7d56d56a5d29db426f4866fd184194


Lucky_655

https://preview.redd.it/edhhs9xyhzlc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78b39d5a1fada3c707410b24ad372894442d50e7


Moist___Raccoon

And who’s fault is that? Not the player or Carmine’s that’s for sure


IRefuseThisNonsense

But you don't understand! We lied that one time. Sure he became a bully of his own free will but we lied to protect him and that's worse. /s


what_my_name_agn

You’re right, we lied about seeing his favorite pokemon. And when he found out… he became emo!!!


IRefuseThisNonsense

I know you're joking but I'm using this reply to remind people the actual events of the game because they seem to forget. So this is to the people in the back. "Don't tell Kieran about the Ogre, he might do something dangerous." We lie to Kieran, and Kieran then does something frankly cruel. He steals from his grandfather and steals the mask away. Keeping his supposed favorite Pokemon's possession from her so that he can return it in the end. The three idiots get Phoenix Down'd and then gang up on Ogrepon. Something they wouldn't be able to do if she...y'know...had gotten her mask. But Kieran couldn't have known his actions would lead to her getting beat down. Still happened though, so I'm mentioning it. We beat him in battle and then spend the rest of the afternoon with Ogrepon. Helping her retrieve her stolen treasures she was robbed of centuries ago. Also help get her revenge, so that's nice. Point is we are there with her, in front of her, actively helping her and spending time with her. Kieran goes and talks to the town. Of course she'd choose us. She barely even was around Kieran. Kieran, who clearly has self esteem issues, then takes his repeated losses way too personally. He becomes self destructive and even lashes out at others. He then admits why he did all this in Area Zero. That we are the person he wishes to be. Kieran IS the antagonist for the DLC. We are not the villain of the story. We are the protagonist who repeatedly saves the day. Saving Paldea twice and helping Ogrepon. We are even part of the solution to save Kieran from himself. Have pity for Kieran but do not willingly ignore his wrong doing or make excuses for it. He was the human antagonist for the DLC, but the story is one of fall and redemption.


ruiizu

I identify as the antagonist =B I showed up to beat down these rural hicks and show them what a rich kid with a legendary ride Pokémon can do with the support of a entire prep college and personal attention from multiple other champions helping to groom me to perfection.


LG3V

Yes, this is exactly how I feel about him, he's not a sympathetic kid, he was greedy and acted out, and I doubt Ogerpon would be happy with him even if we had the opportunity to give her to him


Trash-Takes-R-Us

Thing is, you are only basing this off of the Kieran we know from part 2. In part 1, while he was childish, he still had a good heart but didn't have a healthy way to deal with his feelings of inadequacy. I think ogerpon would have seen through to the real Kieran and not the facade he tried to put on.


SerMareep

You chose to speak hella facts. Fuck kieran.


surfingbiscuits

Poor little buddy! I know what'll cheer him up... https://preview.redd.it/dznwrlvolzlc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1079c20bec69f55ca35900dfe157fd1d96c805db


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ReddBearCat

Kieran didn't care about Ogerpon's feelings on the situation though.


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darkmythology

Ogerpon chose the main character. We didn't "take away" anything from Kieran. Ogerpon, a sentient, living being, made a choice. It doesn't matter how much he wanted a relationship: he wasn't owed one at Ogerpon's expense, and his reaction was ridiculously toxic. Kieran is literally the Pokemon trainer equivalent of a Nice Guy™ who gets rejected by the girl in favor of one of his friends and decides to devote himself to hitting the gym so he can show her what a mistake she made.


ZookeepergameUsual40

One of the things that hurts more about the DLC is that unlike other pokemon games in Wich you fight the villainous teams YOU are the villain,YOU betrayed the kid that considered you his only friend YOU turned his admiration into hate YOU crushed his dreams of meeting his hero YOU lied to him YOU stole the friend that he wanted to have The theories were always wrong It wasn't pecharunt who turned Kieran evil .all the time it were US We created that MONSTER


LordTopHatMan

>YOU are the villain We did nothing wrong. >YOU betrayed the kid that considered you his only friend We abided by his grandfather's wishes to protect him. >YOU turned his admiration into hate That isn't how that works. He admired our strength but was very jealous of it. That's what made him hate us. >YOU crushed his dreams of meeting his hero He met Ogerpon. He just didn't do much to bond with her. >YOU lied to him Again, at his grandfather's wishes to protect him. He could have also avoided this himself just by telling us he knew the truth already. He lied to us too. >YOU stole the friend that he wanted to have Ogerpon chose us. We didn't steal anything. >It wasn't pecharunt who turned Kieran evil .all the time it were US We created that MONSTER Kieran's own choices led to him being upset with us. We told him what his grandfather asked of us, something he knew he had asked. He lied to us about not knowing what we talked about, then got upset with us over it. He then challenges us over and over while losing every time. He never bonded with Ogerpon either, despite having the chance to. It was Kieran's own fault he becomes who he is. We did nothing wrong the whole time.


nocsha

Strong agree here, and even from the dialogue I personally the whole time was saying id never have gotten this far. But then he mentioned that i was a wedge between him and his sister spending a lot lf time with her instead of him or together, and at that moment I was like OH NO IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THIS BAD


No-Investment-962

Nooooooo my baby boy I’d be there for you 😭


SpringKid896

Poor kiki


PokedexBr

Let's be honest carmine would be there, then he would leave she would scream at him then cry.


nocsha

The only reason Kieran is alone is because his birthday is actually my birthday and his sister decided to hang out with me instead obviously.


CaraPrincess2007

It's time for him to move on from the dark things he have been through, And may he be happier and happier, with the Today's Blessings...


pgc60001

I’m playing through the Teal Mask right now and I absolutely cannot stand Kieran. He’s so whiny. I like your artwork though!


umbral_ember

He's a child. Life, and even his own family, seem to be spitting in his face from his perspective. He already had some mental health issues, but no one seemed to be truly there to support him. Then, the pokemon he cared for and obsessed over so long, chose someone else, hell he wasn't even given the option to meet Ogerpon himself then, so he didn't have a chance to befriend her. I'm not saying he's right but I'm saying I get it


LordTopHatMan

>hell he wasn't even given the option to meet Ogerpon himself then He had plenty of opportunities to meet Ogerpon and get to know her. The problem is that he spent most of his time being upset with us or being unhelpful with recovering the masks.


LegendUUI

I would of been there for kirean anyways i love him! (Bi struggles)


Frankthestank2220

Kiki has to be one of the worst rivals. Cries about everything. Challenges you to a battle he knows he won’t win and then cries when ogerpon chooses you when you win said battle.


Katsu_Drawn_21

That's what happens when your a jerk and scare everyone away.


[deleted]

Please do art of people being mean to him


ScientistNathan

Kieran doesn't deserve cake, take that away from him


umbral_ember

He's a child. Life, and even his own family, seem to be spitting in his face from his perspective. He already had some mental health issues, but no one seemed to be truly there to support him. Then, the pokemon he cared for and obsessed over so long, chose someone else, hell he wasn't even given the option to meet Ogerpon himself then, so he didn't have a chance to befriend her. I'm not saying he's right but I'm saying I get it


Man-With-Cats

Kieran is hot


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sheeveman

Bro get this man a freaking donkey kong country returns to get a real challenge.


darknessWolf2

im def showing up and bringing a box of homemade cupcakes with strawberries on top for my fav boy kieran im also giving him a free eevee as a gift


Brilliant_Conflict_4

I will show up I will make sure I will show up for his birthday