LP Milestones and Oddities

Introduced in Snakewood -


 (Jack)
*(reverse ‡1)(reverse ‡2)(reverse †)(†1) / (†2 and ‡)

(also alpha was here but he's out, so ‡)

*1: Rubus was never actually in Snakewood, nor did I even think him up when I was actually doing it - he appeared in Chapter 7 of Dark Rising 2, but he was mentioned in Chapter 31.

†1: Ivory's a ghost, so she did die during the course of the story. Kinda cheating, but I'll still count it.

†2: Senex was not only killed on screen, but he was also forced out of the team beforehand.

Reverse †: Menti was originally a zombie before Chapter 31 happened. You can thank Mani for bringing her back to full-life.

Reverse ‡1 and 2: While I didn't show it off in the LP proper, Krusha and Cherry did come back - and they evolved on top of that.

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Introduced in Dark Rising -

(Monica)

(‡1)(‡2)(‡3)(‡4)(‡5)(‡6)(*)

‡1, 2, 5, 6: Stayed with Monica's mom to keep her safe. Unlike simply not being brought along for Dark Rising 2, they're staying with her for good.

‡3 & 4: Sheol just... left. Nobody knows where he's gone. Amaterasu on the other hand left to preserve the "balance" or something.

*: Mani was never offically on the team but she counts as part of Monica's crew.

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Army of Darkmons:

(†1)(†2)
(All †)

†1: Darugis, aka. Alberich, is merely sealed away in the game canon of Dark Rising 2. That's bullshit, so we decided to kill him off proper.

†2: Loki living is what's actually supposed to happen at the end of DR2. However, since I want to end it at 2 and not slog through the third game (god forbid), he bites it there.

†3 -> 19: We slaughtered through these guys in the LP. Also, due to Darugis being the person who created the Darkmons, the remaining ones will fade away when he bites it too. 

* Chapter 1 (Intro) - 2

Victims: A zombie kid and his Boilbasaur.

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* Chapter 2 (We're Going Places) - 17

Victims: We slaughter a bunch of zombie trainers, including the Levitating Legless Corpse and the infamous moment where Alice seduces a headless Houndour to re-death. There was also a guy that died of poison and another NPC that got chomped by the horde offscreen.

Mr. Briney got turned into a zombie too, so there he goes. I also count the lady that had her legs chopped off.

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* Chapter 3 (An Ace Takes Flight) - 23

Victims: More zombies, except there's also the Demon Corpses and the evil severed heads. Eye-Eye will never stop being terrifying to me.

There was a Hiker that had been hollowed out and that's just plain disgusting. The infamous moment for me here is the Pikachu head on a pike. Like jesus christ, that's morbid.

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* Chapter 4 (Pride and Pestilence) - 21

Victims: Gleis had already killed four zombies before we reach him. Then there was that weird moment where a demon snail uses a guy's body for a shell or something, I dunno.

It doesn't explicitly say it, but there were two demons and their Anoriths that Gleis summons. I like to imagine we straight up brutalized them back into hell.

Elise the Cut Man's daughter disintegrates, so that's fun. We also get to kill three of Pestilence's Pokemon. Then there was a dead guy who we steal a Magikarp from.

There was an especially disgusting bit where a man had his brains scooped out, so I'd rather move on please.

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* Chapter 3.5 (Gameshark Fun) - 0

Victims: Nobody, thankfully. We were about to be on the receiving end of it if we stayed to fight the level 58 Zombie Scizor, though.

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* Chapter 5 (The Dragon King) - 2

Victims: Two of King Meteor's Dragon servants, if only because of how hard Ambes hit them with Ice Punch.

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* Chapter 6 (Seaside Trouble) - 4

Victims: Screw Kingmadio, we poisoned it to death. There were also the victims of the Former Chefs and that one Hombone Bellamine blasted into nothing after her Calm Mind boost.

(The Chefs run away, so I don't count them.)

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* Chapter 7 (Nobody Expects the Hoenn Inquisition) - 12

Victims: We bury a pair of zombies and four of their Pokemon to save a guy. There was a corpse in Mauville that had his head filled with sand or something, and then there were at least five fatalities when Chloe showed up (two zombies, two zombie pokemon and one Chef)

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* Chapter 8 (A Traitor Among Our Ranks) - 1

Victims: Poor Wilfred didn't deserve this.

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* Chapter 9 (Tomorrow is Mine) - 5

Victims: Another pair of zombies and their annoying Substitute+Leech Seed strategy. There was also a severed head.

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* Chapter 10 (The Art of Lunacy) - 0

Victims: Nothing physical, but my sanity definitely died.

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* Chapter 11 (Into the Rabbit Hole) - 0

Victims: There was a lot of fighting, but none of it was really life-threatening. Mostly because it was with normal people and not zombies.

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* Chapter 12 (Famine's Desert) - 8

Victims: Backstory death for the Broken Heart lady. Ace chopped up a Troll's Pineco and there was also the guy that was slowly dying before we met him.

We also wasted the Pokemon of some frost demons that got in the way.

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* Chapter 13 (His Worthiness) - 0

Victims: Nobody got murdered this episode! Hurray.

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* Chapter 14 (The Horseman of War) - 17

Victims: Zangol decapitates a Chef the instant the chapter starts. We get to mow down a crowd of zombies and Eye-Eyes in Route 113 - cathartic.

We also get to waste all of Alicia's Pokemon, but the Horsemen themselves just get teleported back to hell. Lame.

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* Chapter ?? (Season of the Jack) - 3

Victims: Sure, it may be the Halloween Special and completely non-canon to the actual series, but there's still dead old men.

The guy in the cemetery that's like "I must kill you demon!!" still cracks me up, especially when he goes "AAAAAAA". It's simultaneously disturbing and funny to see the playable character straight up eat him.

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* Chapter 15 (Psychic Dragon Egg?) - 11

Victims: There was an apocalyptic log where at least three guys were killed in Usher's Submarine... fun. Aside from that, a whole lot of zombie killing.

(I count Gorelaxes as two-in-one due to the actual Snorlax and the Chef that bursts out of its chest)

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* Chapter 16 (Nonstop Battle Drama) - 10

Victims: Another zombie massacre, although I should mention the Battle Zombies don't really go down with their Pokemon counterparts.

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* Chapter 17 (Rage Awakened) - 5

Victims: There was one Battle Zombie that slipped on his fluids and broke his head, while the other two deaths were a severed head and the ghost lady that gave us the Dispell Toke. (Some say Reggie is still taking a hit of it to this day.)

Also - Juno is a Shuppet that originally used to be an Absol, so I have to add her even if she is on our team. The same thing for Menti because she was a normal Marill before she got zombified.

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* Chapter 18 (Witch Hunt) - 24

Victims: Every single witch and their Pokemon in the route gets burned down thanks to Jeanne and the guys. Also, Winona was explicitly said to have died off-screen.

That sucks.

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* Chapter 19 (Like A Roaring Flame) - 5

Victims: We put zombie Winona and her Pokemon down for good.

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* Chapter 20 (Madness Unleashed) - 13

Victims: We fight a man who became a Lost Soul in the Madio Caves, but the real majesty of this chapter is the guy with A Monster. The sick bastard sewed together eleven Pokemon into a Frankenstein-esque creature.

The extra death was when Jeanne and Bellamine actually killed A Monster, although that's putting it out of its misery more than anything.

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* Chapter 21 (Dragon King's Blessing) - 5

Victims: Tones gets killed by God (Arceus?) when he talks shit about His drinking skills. 

Dragon Hun and Dragon Visigoth eat like four guys (two Footmen, two zombies) while you're fighting Chloe. That's pretty brutal.

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* Chapter 22 (The Dark One) - 20

Victims: A lot of the ones in here are the zombies you fight on the way to Senex. I was about to include Asimov, but then I remembered he doesn't actually die at all.

There was a fat guy corpse... Wonderful.

Three of the Elite Four were killed off screen and I don't like it, no sir.

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* Chapter 23 (On Top of The World) - 4

Victims: There was a Lost Soul lady and an old woman who gives us an actual Broken Heart. In terms of fighting, Ballin eats a Radiorange and we get to poison another Kingmadio.

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* Chapter 24 (Sewer of My Dreams) - 5

Victims: There were three Lost Souls stuck in the Lilycove Sewers. We get captured in the Necropolis, but we still beat up the guard despite him having level 100 zombie Pokemon.

I'll always be proud of that, by the way.

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* Chapter 25 (Jack and the Mirror of Fate) - 0

Victims: None. The fights in this one were strictly sport, so no real bloodshed happened.

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* Chapter 26 (Forget, Let Them Forget) - 13

Victims: We break into Norman's ruined gym and take out everybody inside, including a zombified Norman and his Pokemon.

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* Chapter 27 (The Mine of Madness) - 2

Victims: Jack reveals what Esau is a reference to, shattering him. Rayquaza is revealed to have been killed off screen... which still gives me a migraine.

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* Chapter 28 (A Comedy of Errors) - 16

Victims: We storm the Necropolis and sweep through the army inside. At least one of these is a wild encounter zombie. (I also count the severed heads held by the Headslingers)

The only other death in here is Ivory... sure, she's on our side, but she gave her life to save Shine and Spark. That's the most noble sacrifice you could make as an older sister.

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* Chapter 29 (Breaking Point) - 21 + ??

Victims: One final round of zombie killing action complete with the crew totaling Senex's team. The Hoenn region gets destroyed at one point, but everyone comes back instantly, so... I don't think I can count that.

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* Chapter 30 - Finale (To Greener Pastures) - 2

Victims: A cute little Shinx eats a Blitzle in Fort Draco's day care... meanwhile, we summon Turmur just to destroy it.

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* Chapter 31 (Heir of Darkness) - 15 - 1

Victims: Two Darkmons get wasted at the start of the chapter, but Darugis creates two more that wind up squashing five zombies on the overworld. Gleis, Senex's zombie Pokemon and the Darkmons get taken out by Jack's Crew, but it's Darugis that winds up dusting Senex for good.

I'm subtracting one because Mani brings Menti back to life, so yay.

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Snakewood Total: 286! 

Series total so far: 286

Hot damn Snakewood was violent. 

[Gilt]

* Chapter 1 (God Given Right) - 1

Victims: Poor Pikachu's head.

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* Chapter 2 + 2.5 (Fragile Border / No Mercy) - 0 / 1

Victims: While there were no deaths in the real chapter proper, Sigurd still dies in 2.5. I swear that chapter got harder and harder to read the more I grew to like him.

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* Chapter 3 (Jaws of a Scorched Earth) - 0

Victims: I gotta admit, Dark Rising 1 is easily the tamest of the entire saga. A lot of these chapters will have no deaths at all, which I guess is fine.

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* Chapter 4 (Scalding Passion) - 1

Victims: Sigurd popped a Drifloon with his sharp nails, the little devil.

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* Chapter 5 (Watered Down Expectations) - 0

Victims: As much as I want to put fatalities down for Sathala draining the life out of Typhoon's Pokemon, she wouldn't be that savage.

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* Chapter 6 (Fight or Die) - 0

Victims: The title's misleading because there was no dying. I want a refund.

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* Chapter 7 (Grinding My Gears) - 0

Victims: Nothing on this one either.

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* Chapter 8 (Made in Heaven) - 0

Victims: No deaths, but this is the start of the dreaded Rival Battle Simulator.

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* Chapter 9 (Bad Company) - 0

Victims: Pokemon isn't normally a deathmatch series and this proves it.

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* Chapter 10 (Rage Awakened - Second Act) - 1

Victims: V dies for the first time, hallelujah.

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* Chapter 11 (Sleeping Beast) - 0

Victims: God, the Kyurem thing still pisses me off.

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* Chapter 12 (Kid Trouble) - 0

Victims: Should we count Danny Aiello? He's a real life person that DRG shoved in for no good reason, so maybe not.

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* Chapter 13 (Despair and then Hope) - 0

Victims: My sides died when I saw Wrath for the first time. Does that count?

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* Chapter 14-1 (Debauchery) - -1

Victims: God damn it, V came back to life.

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* Chapter 14-2 (Phantom King) - 2

Victims: Candelabra was originally a Quilava known as Candela that drowned in a flood. It's not a death that happened right now, per se, but I'm still counting it.

We also get to slice apart the ugly Blazard thing that Light had.

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* Chapter 15 (The Hero and the Demon) - 1

Victims: We finally get to kill V's Golurk. He was an interesting character while he lasted.

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* Chapter 16 (Hatred Made Flesh) - 17

Victims: We kill every single member of the Sins' Pokemon excluding the legendaries they have. Adrian is dead, making him the first real human casualty in Dark Rising at least.

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DR1 Total: 23 

Series total so far: 309!

I find it interesting that the second LP is the most restrained in terms of the death count, because that's nearly a twelfth of what Snakewood had.

* Chapter 1 (Dawn of the New World) - 0

Victims: Nothing to really kick off Dark Rising 2, but trust me that it'll get there in a bit.

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* Chapter 2 (Your Thieving Heart) - 2

Victims: Jeanne atomizes a Sewaddle and Buneary (that were clearly evil) just so I can show off how ridiculous Drought Ninetales is.

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* Chapter 3 (Vile Omen) - 2

Victims: The first (sequential) Darkmon casualty! It's also the only time we get to see an Evil Rattata, funnily enough.

Quote was originally a Shinx that died when he was crushed under faulty factory equipment.

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* Chapter 4 (Stone Cold) - 0

Victims: Fuckin' "Killer B or Killer Queen". I apologize for being a crusty Jojo fan.

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* Chapter 5 (Looming Evil) - 1

Victims: ... Shedinja's weird, okay?

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* Chapter 6 (Wretched Hive) - 1

Victims: The first Fake Wave gets cut down by Sigurd.

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* Chapter 7 (Enemy Retreating) - 11

Victims: A Fake Ignell and another Wave pop up just to get swamped. Sigurd shatters an Evil Jeanne and tag-teams with Signe to take down a super-bulky Evil Lumis.

V (and his children) die for real, thank god! Ghetsis gets offed and Giovanni straight up commits suicide because... I don't know. He also had a fake Corin that was no match for the real one.

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* Chapter 8 (Freezing Karma) - 3

Victims: Siegfried demonstrates Triple Soul on a poor Ferrothorn while some guys get claimed by the Arctic Mirage.

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* Chapter 9 (Companions) - 0

Victims: There was the bit with Brandon and his Regis where you can clearly see Sigurd slicing Regirock in half... but they are like golem things. Plus, this is one of those fights where he would totally be holding back to not kill someone.

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* Chapter 10 (Wrath of the Demon King) - 5

Victims: The second real fight with Darugis and it ends with us triumphing over him and five of his best Darkmons... but he himself didn't die. Damn it.

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* Chapter 11 (Revelations) - 1

Victims: The Buried Alive kid vanishes or something, I don't fuckin' know.

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* Chapter 12 (Road to Dusk) - 7

Victims: Mason's Pokemon get offed by the Crew respectively while he commits suicide in Darugis's name.

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* Chapter 13 (Pitch Black Heart) - 20

Victims: We wipe out the last of Darugis's army, but he manages to sweep Monica's team.

Special highlights include Ambes overcoming his evil clone and Bellamine landing a final blow on Darugis (that doesn't last, but holy hell it was impressive).

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* Chapter 14 - Good Ending Finale (Fallen Brothers) - 4

Victims: Monica fuses with her Pokemon to land the killing blow on Darugis/Alberich and his final two Darkmons. Loki drops his Arceus disguise to mess things up, but Sigurd doesn't have any of it and cuts him down.

Normally that would be the ending of the LP canon, but...

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* Chapter 14-2 - Bad Ending Finale (Crumbling Hope) - 6 

Victims: In the "Sigurd is dead" timeline, Loki disguises himself as Arceus and "kills" Alberich while disposing the other five Pokemon he had. Loki successfully drains Monica's life force and kills her.

... I prefer the other ending.

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DR2 Total: 63 

Series total so far: 372!

Dark Rising 2 was definitely more intense than 1 in terms of the death count, but nothing can match Snakewood in sheer numbers.

* Chapter 1 (Post Mortem) - 7

Victims: A little girl, at least two random guys, a zombified nurse Joy and her Spritzee and, apparently, Zygarde offscreen.

I also count the lady who gives you Carbink because she's doing it because she wants to die rich.

* Chapter 2 (The Wastes) - 28

Victims: There were a lot of zombies to cut down, including the zombie Snorlax towards the end. There were also four dead cops.

Then we have Vincent and Katherine (+ their Pokemon) who basically throw themselves into the Noah the human meat grinder.

* Chapter 3 (Misery Carnival) - 47

Victims: Well fuck. Granny mentions that her and her Pokemon ate 29 people before we came along. At that point, Noah blasting her into hell is justice.

Then there's a few more zombies... and we also get to kill Joel's sister Ellie and her Pokemon.

This has the most deaths out of any individual chapter in the entire saga, which is just mind-blowing to me.

* Chapter 4 (Destruction of Patience) - 15

Victims: Some zombies and wild Pokemon.

* Chapter 5 (Breaking the Rules) - 22 - 1

Victims: More zombies, but this time Sludge and his Pokemon bite it too. There were also the victims of the Pied Piper. I was going to count Joel before the Zygarde Twins went and revived him.

Reika is a Snorunt that used a Dawn Stone to evolve into a Froslass, so I'm counting that.

* Chapter 6 (Defying the Infinite Darkness) - 4 - 8

Victims: The Fake Ignell, Kyogre and Loki get dusted off. The reason we have eight revivals is because technically, Noah and his Pokemon did die in the first match with Loki... but then a combination of the Jewel of Life, the Zygarde Twins' power and sheer determination brings them back.

Monica is also brought back from the dead thanks to Mani and Ragnarok's help. c:

DR2 Total: 114 

Grand total: 486!!

Nearly five hundred deaths. That's crazy.

Order Destroyed, despite its super short run, was packed with dead people left and right. Even Snakewood took a break from the killing every now and then, jeez.

#1: Snakewood Chapter 1: Alicia's Sneasel

#2: Snakewood Chapter 3: Alicia's Sneasel again

#3: Snakewood Chapter 12: Alicia's Sneasel

#4: Snakewood Chapter 14: Alicia's Weavile

#5: Snakewood Chapter 20: Some film student's Weavile

#6: Snakewood Chapter 23: Some guy's Weavile

#7: Also Snakewood Chapter 23: Glacia's Weavile

#8: Snakewood Chapter 25: A Monk's Weavile

#9: DR1 Chapter 5: Kayo's Sneasel

#10: DR1 chapter 9: Kayo's Weavile

#11: DR1 Chapter 12: Kayo's Weavile

#12: DR2 Chapter 1: Cyrus's Sneasel

#13: DR2 Chapter 7: Cyrus's Weavile

#14: DR2 Chapter 8: We get Linoura (aka. the obligatory good one)

#15: DR2 Chapter 12: Kayo's Weavile

#16: Order Destroyed Chapter 5: A random Weavile