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The Lament of Falling Stars
Game Freak & Shota Kageyama Lyrics
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@GameBreaker1055
For those wondering.
Apparently Aster was the lorekeeper before Zinnia. That was confirmed in an interview.
Zinnia was not chosen to be the lorekeeper, because she does not have the ability to befriend Rayaquaza, she just took over the job after Aster's death. Aster had that ability and was a chosen lorekeeper.
That is also why she likes the player so much, as you have the ability just like Aster did.
In the Manga (not game canon, but interesting take on the whole thing), Aster was killed in a battle against the Devon Corp who captured Rayaquaza to turn it into a weapon against the meteor.
Zinnia's cloak also belonged to Aster originally in that version and Zinnia took it, as it was the only thing left of her former friend as even her body had apperantly been burned to ashes.
She suffered a total breakdown and took over the role as lorekeeper despite missing backup from the Draconoids due to her missing the special ability.
This version, while not canon for the games, explains the state of he cloak as Zinnia retrieved it already torched.
@danielplain4904
It really annoys me how people rag on Zinnia, and the Delta Episode as a whole. Other than the fact that the final battle was kinda silly and one-sided, I believe it was a very well thought out episode, and Zinnia was a really deep and interesting character, with a storyline I would have thought a bit heavy and feel-y for a Pokemon game (not that I'm complaining).
And the people that say "well sometimes she seems like she knows exactly what she is doing and must be super smart, but then she swings around like a crazy ape in battle, what a stupid character". To those people I say: have you perchance heard of the phrase "there is a fine line between genius and insanity"? The two aren't mutually exclusive, and nothing could be truer in the case of Zinnia.
She hinged her entire plan on one of the primal Pokemon causing chaos to force Rayquaza to awaken, at which point she would Mega Evolve it and fly off into space, destroying the meteroid she knew was going to hit the planet long before anyone had known it had changed course. Not to mention, she knew she would die in the process, and this is what she wanted, to reunite with her darling Aster in the stars. Failing that, when the player steps in and stops Groudon/Kyogre, she hatches a new plan, single handedly stops the one hope to save the planet at Mossdeep, and continues on her merry way to summon Rayquaza, leaving her the planet's only hope for survival.
All the while through the Delta episode she plays little mind games with the character, asking them to question their beliefs, and ask themselves do they really know what they think they know, and do they believe what they know to be absolutely true? Is there more to the story than what the player (or Steven or Cozmo or anyone else) actually knows? She challenges the player to really introspect. (I mean how real life can we get here?) Even near the end, when she is talking about how she looks to the stars so her tears never fall, and she asks the player if he/she knows what she means (I of course said yes, as I have experienced the numbing pain myself)... this is SUPER heavy dialogue for what is supposed to be a kid's game.
Her plan was completely and utterly insane, right? But did it work? YES, her plan was genius, and insane, at the same time. But it didn't all go exactly the way she planned it. She wasn't the chosen one after all, and is left to watch from the sidelines as the player reaps the fruits of her labor and save the planet, as her position of Lorekeeper and successor of the Draconid people becomes FORMER Lorekeeper and successor. And after all is said and done, and the world is safe, she is left to ponder how she will now move on and begin her life anew. Obviously trying to put her grand plans into practice would have taken her mind away from the heartache she feels for the loss of Aster. Now that its all over, she comes right back to where she started: a young woman with no real place in the world and immense pain in her heart. She has to try and now find a way to let it go, and be at peace with herself. She leaves the letter for the player to tell them that this is what she is going to try and do and she moves forward - into the unknown. As someone who has been through this sort of pain before, I feel for her, I really do.
I mean, seriously, how is Zinnia NOT a brilliant character? She is one of the best, if not THE best developed character in the entire game series, even with such a short amount of time. Compare that to Steven, who has all the depth and personality of a piece of wood with a face drawn on it...
@pinkduskstone1543
+Daniel Plain Yes! Amen to that! Zinnia is the best character! It's a shame that there are people who hate on her and write her off as annoying, stupid, creepy, and/or selfish. Zinnia is cute, funny, awesome, and interesting, especially when she gives the best lines throughout the Delta Episode. Her plan, while seemingly Farfetch'd, worked Onix-pectedly and Delibird new facets to the Pokémon lore! (puns intended)
I so agree with you on the part about Zinnia being suicidal. She was willing to give her life to save everyone and die doing so while reuniting with the original Aster. Even more so in that while the player has the Magma/Aqua Suit, Zinnia had no such protection from the vacuum of space. If the part about Aster being Zinnia's daughter was true, then that adds even more sad points because of having a child at a young age only to lose her so soon puts her in a depression along with having to live up to her responsibilities as Lorekeeper of the Draconids. No wonder Zinnia is not as happy as she appears to be.
Zinnia was the only person other than the player who actually does something about the meteoroid instead of just standing around acting grumpy. She was trying to save every universe and life while also coping with the death of her daughter. Yeah, she mocks people and does questionable things, but she cares about what's right and respects the player, the Draconids, their god Rayquaza, Aster, her Pokémon, and everyone in the other universes. Steven, however, is cool with having millions of people and Pokémon die to stop a meteor without knowing about the dire consequences that go with it, and he's still loved for that?! The irony of science versus religion at the end was brilliant, especially when tying with truths versus ideals. Zinnia's answer of summoning her god Rayquaza to save everyone turned out to be true, while Steven's scientific solution was only an ideal.
After a lot of research and thinking about Zinnia's motivations and why she was so concerned about the alternate Hoenn, I realized that she had done the largest scale breaking of the fourth wall ever, providing so many in-universe explanations as to why certain aspects about Pokémon that we take for granted happen. For one, every single version is now canon. The past Hoenn is connected to the current one, along with the Fire Red/Leaf Green Kanto, Sinnoh, Heart Gold/Soul Silver Johto, Unova, and Kalos, providing an explanation why we are able to trade and transfer between different games and isn't just a marketing ploy to make people buy one game for the price of two. Hoopa's activity of transporting Legendaries from the past (hence the classic renditions instead of a modern remix) even supports this. The fact that one can't transfer from the Gen 1 and Gen 2 games is because they are in their own separate dimension, and because the internal battery of the games are dying, that means that world and their people and Pokémon are dying as well. Fridge Horror sets in when the Devon Corporation's Infinity Energy is made from Pokémon life energy and has the power to transfer objects forward or backward in the time-space continuum, and that it's using Gen 1 and Gen 2 lives as fuel. Zinnia considers letting the meteoroid come to the current Hoenn as a necessary sacrifice and letting past Hoenn get destroyed as an unnecessary sacrifice, knowing about the Butterfree effect (get it?) and how changes to the past can affect the future. As Spock once said, "the needs of many outweigh the needs of the few."
It's sad that she never gets a happy ending, and that there are people who are ungrateful jerks believing that Zinnia risks everything just to see Rayquaza like an immature fangirl, and that she had no proof of the alternate universe when they had it this whole time. And they have the gall to call her an idiot when she respects them, opens her feelings to them, and gives them the Lorekeeper title like a true friend would. These people aren't looking at the big picture and, in Zinnia's words, need some imagination. Emma from X/Y was a good character as well, but Zinnia's actions affected the entire Pokémon series, not just one location, and that's what helped her make for the best character in the series. And Steven is just a silver-haired pretty boy with no regard to Pokémon life other than his own.
@sunnivavoid5099
The flower, Aster's meaning
"The September birth flower. This fall-blooming herb with daisy-like flowers stands for Wisdom, Faith, and Valor. Named after the Greek word for "Star" due to its blooms resembling a star, Asters symbolize love, wisdom, faith, and color. The Aster flower blooms in pink, red, white, lilac and mauve. This flower became a symbol of love when in Greek mythology it was placed on the altars for the gods. So now, when you send a bouquet featuring this vibrant bloom, the message of "Take Care Of Yourself For Me" is implied. It conveys deep emotional love and affection for someone."
The flower, Zinnia's meaning
"Thinking of an absent friend or thoughts of a friend. Specific colors have different meanings too, such as magenta ones represent lasting affection, scarlet zinnias symbolize constancy, white blooms mean goodness, and yellow speak of daily remembrance of good memories. "
@modmort781
"Ever since I was a little girl, I have always turned my eyes up to the sky. When I was so full of uncertainty that I felt my heart might be crushed by it... When I was so grief-stricken and alone I thought my heart might break of it... I turned and looked up there... so that my tears would never, ever fall. What about you? Have you ever had to do something like that?"
@dendinovrisya7159
This break our hearts 😢😢😢😢
@Gangsta_Playz
It's a Pokémon quote, but it this feels the Intro line to an Ace Combat game
@BryceTheobald-vm1rj
I have...
@limeslime711
…yes. I suppose, at some point, we all do.
@GameBreaker1055
For those wondering.
Apparently Aster was the lorekeeper before Zinnia. That was confirmed in an interview.
Zinnia was not chosen to be the lorekeeper, because she does not have the ability to befriend Rayaquaza, she just took over the job after Aster's death. Aster had that ability and was a chosen lorekeeper.
That is also why she likes the player so much, as you have the ability just like Aster did.
In the Manga (not game canon, but interesting take on the whole thing), Aster was killed in a battle against the Devon Corp who captured Rayaquaza to turn it into a weapon against the meteor.
Zinnia's cloak also belonged to Aster originally in that version and Zinnia took it, as it was the only thing left of her former friend as even her body had apperantly been burned to ashes.
She suffered a total breakdown and took over the role as lorekeeper despite missing backup from the Draconoids due to her missing the special ability.
This version, while not canon for the games, explains the state of he cloak as Zinnia retrieved it already torched.
@eonflutehza131
Wait, aster was a person? This whole time I thought aster was the nickname of the whismur thats always with her
@GameBreaker1055
@Eon Flute HZA It is implied by some of her dialogue that she has lost someone very dear to her named Aster.
This leads to the assumption that she later named whismur after that person.
@eonflutehza131
@Gabre wow. I can't believe I never caught that. I've never replayed the game after my first playthrough so I never noticed, man that makes me love zinnia that much more
@AlexanderXion
God. . . I really sorry for Zinnia for that