Chairman Rose
Feb. 17th, 2020 08:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI did a deep dive into the Pokémon SwSh fandom and found two disturbing things.
First, people apparently want to fuck the monkey. The less said about this the better.
Second, Chairman Rose is commonly depicted as either someone who forces gym leaders to have sex with him for sponsorship deals or a gross and slimy “does charity work at orphanages solely for the purpose of grooming young children” pedophile.
Aside from some spicy art on Pixiv that was posted shortly after the games were released on what are clearly fetish accounts (and god bless them, I am not judging), I cannot for the life of me figure out why this is.
I don’t think I’m reading too much into the games (or “villain apologizing,” or whatever) when I say that Rose comes off as a dumb jock who somehow managed to get rich because people like him. If I were to read into the games a bit, I would say that Rose comes off as a dumb jock who somehow managed to get rich because the sports-related charity work he does serves as a charismatic public face for his corporation, which has been allowed to become a monopolistic conglomerate because the socialist utopia of the Pokémon universe apparently has no legal structures in place to prevent this from happening (which we know because it keeps happening).
Rose spends most of the game radiating doofus dad energy only to become stupidly obsessed with a stupid plan that he stupidly carries out at a stupidly inappropriate time. Really, Rose is right there with Archie and Maxie on Team Pokémon Villains Doing Stupid Things For Stupid Reasons.
Rose isn’t a creep; he’s a sweet man who means well but has too much money and, despite being obviously brilliant, is kind of dumb.
I feel like there’s more to the character, but I’m not going to write paragraphs of meta about a pokémon villain who thinks it’s a good idea to walk around in public in white Crocs.
As an aside, I think it’s really cool that Haruko Ichikawa (the artist who draws one of my favorite manga, Land of the Lustrous) created Rose’s character design. Ichikawa is also responsible for the gorgeous design of Rose’s collaborator Oleanawhich might explain why I want her to step on me.
First, people apparently want to fuck the monkey. The less said about this the better.
Second, Chairman Rose is commonly depicted as either someone who forces gym leaders to have sex with him for sponsorship deals or a gross and slimy “does charity work at orphanages solely for the purpose of grooming young children” pedophile.
Aside from some spicy art on Pixiv that was posted shortly after the games were released on what are clearly fetish accounts (and god bless them, I am not judging), I cannot for the life of me figure out why this is.
I don’t think I’m reading too much into the games (or “villain apologizing,” or whatever) when I say that Rose comes off as a dumb jock who somehow managed to get rich because people like him. If I were to read into the games a bit, I would say that Rose comes off as a dumb jock who somehow managed to get rich because the sports-related charity work he does serves as a charismatic public face for his corporation, which has been allowed to become a monopolistic conglomerate because the socialist utopia of the Pokémon universe apparently has no legal structures in place to prevent this from happening (which we know because it keeps happening).
Rose spends most of the game radiating doofus dad energy only to become stupidly obsessed with a stupid plan that he stupidly carries out at a stupidly inappropriate time. Really, Rose is right there with Archie and Maxie on Team Pokémon Villains Doing Stupid Things For Stupid Reasons.
Rose isn’t a creep; he’s a sweet man who means well but has too much money and, despite being obviously brilliant, is kind of dumb.
I feel like there’s more to the character, but I’m not going to write paragraphs of meta about a pokémon villain who thinks it’s a good idea to walk around in public in white Crocs.
As an aside, I think it’s really cool that Haruko Ichikawa (the artist who draws one of my favorite manga, Land of the Lustrous) created Rose’s character design. Ichikawa is also responsible for the gorgeous design of Rose’s collaborator Oleana
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Date: 2020-02-17 06:14 pm (UTC)Also do we get a discount or something if Oleana steps on us at the same time?