Interesting that Weavile seems much more emotive now. I wonder whether that was just a facade, or whether something about being "KO'd" broke whatever had a hold over him earlier. (Was possessing him, maybe?)
Yeah, I've been wondering about that too since the blank expressions they had earlier, and that mysterious 4th Pokemon to also point signs to a mind controller fleeing. Something definitely seems off with how they act and coordinate together.
Then again, if mind control or possession was involved, I do wonder if Weavile'd be a bit more disorientated or confused after we struck our powerful blow... could have been as simple as him underestimating us and not thinking his invincibility spell could be broken, and now he's panicking since death is a real possibility. If Team Prism thinks we can't kill them, that might work in our favor if we have to fight Druddigon and Marshstomp at some point...
I'm not interested in going the full evil murder option here (and I'm guessing you aren't, either)
You guess correctly, I'm generally not into genocide routes on the first attempt
and it would close off some interesting story possibilities if we just kill him right here. I'm personally split 50/50 between the interrogating him and the claim options. Restraining and interrogating him might be our best shot at learning more about the Prism Knights - they claim to need to eliminate us, but is that actually their true goal? What is their connection with the other knights? How are they borderline invincible to everyone but Cobble? Where do they recognize us from, before we got transformed?
Using a Pokeball to contain him is a clever idea, he probably won't be able to stop it now in his weakened state - though the mechanics of a human capturing a sentient PMD Pokemon might get a bit wild. I wonder if he'd be able to backstab us as soon as he comes out, or if the Pokeball tiself can place restrictions on what we can do if Lenora manages to catch him?
But yeah, I'm also definitely quite intrigued about what the claim option is for too! It sounds so... dominant, for lack of a better word. That's a really cool idea with Necrozma, where Weavile would "die", but only in the sense that it would really be a part of ourselves re-merging. Alternatively, if Weavile really was being mind controlled, I wonder if "claim" allows us to sort of impose our own will on Weavile and "kill" him by overwriting his will with our own? That could be pretty scary, especially if that's what Weavile's been under up to now. We could be facing an opponent with the same ability as us...
I'm personally very undecided on how to proceed here, but if you're leaning towards interrogating Weavile, I'm totally onboard with that. Threatening Weavile until we learn about what happened to Millie would be a solid start, and then I'll add in a Telepathy with perhaps a few of those questions from above and see how Weavile responds.
And after all, if "Claim" is some kind of powerful ability that's lying latent within us, I have a feeling this won't be the last time it comes up, and it may very well not be our only chance to activate it either. But we probably will only get one chance to talk to Weavile like this...
Going to be very
on the next chapter!
