BubblegumRebel
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Vote for Paula here!
Okay, as seems to be the standard protocol for character support threads, I'm gonna assume that everyone who enters this thread has the exact same question on their minds:
Well, to make it short:
Paula is one of the 4 protagonists featured in the 1995 Nintendo cult classic JRPG Earthbound. The first character to join Ness in his journey, she possesses psychic powers such as PSI Fire, PSI Freeze, and PSI Thunder that she uses to help defeat the various enemies found in the game. Also, she carries a frying pan around just in case her PP is too low to use her powers.
To make it long:
Paula lives in Twoson, the 2nd town (HA HA, TWO? GET IT?) visited in Earthbound . After being kidnapped to be worshiped as an icon of Happy Happyism, she uses her telepathy to contact Ness and asks for him to rescue her. When you free her, she gives you the Franklin Badge, and joins your team. Throughout the game, she proves to be an important character in the plot, being the one to call upon both Jeff and Poo, and also leads the player to find out about the Evil Mani Mani statue, an essential item to the plot. In the final battle against Giygas, she is key to defeating him, with the player having to use her unique "Pray" ability 9 times to destroy him and restore peace to the world.
"Why should she become DLC and why should I care?"
1. Earthbound is one of Nintendo's most unique series, mixing lighthearted colorful visuals, cleverly dumb humor, and sometimes bleak cynicism into what's become one of the most coveted games of it's genre, despite it's initial lukewarm reception. While it doesn't have the sales or public recognition that would usually justify more than 1-2 Smash reps, I believe it's spot as one of Nintendo's most admired hidden gems makes it worthy of at least one more character.
2. The series seems to finally be getting acknowledgement from Nintendo, with Earthbound being released to the Wii U Virtual Console in 2013, them poking fun at the fans who beg for a Mother 3 localization during a skit at E3 2014, Earthbound: Beginnings being released to the Wii U Virtual Console last week, and Lucas recently being released as Smash DLC. In the case that Mother 3 does get localized and released soon (next year is the 10th anniversary of it's release in Japan), Nintendo might consider releasing another character from the series as a DLC fighter, depending on how many fighters we get overall. While the Masked Man (a character important to the plot of Mother 3) could have a better chance of getting released, he's more story/spoiler-sensitive imo. Ninten would essentially be a Ness clone, and would probably serve well as an alt costume for him. Jeff is already an assist trophy, and while Poo has potential to be a mixed fighter, as both a sword fighter and a user of magic, he's not relevant enough (at least compared to the other choices). Porky is the last potential Mother series fighter, and while he does have a ton of potential, I could see it being awkward to implement him as a fighter, as his spider mech bed is essential to his powers, but very awkward to have in a fighting game such as Smash. idk.
3. She'd be a very unique fighter on Smash 4's roster. She'd be a feminine female child, 3 things that are all somewhat underrepresented in Smash (not that the game needs to become a huge pink flowery estrogen fest for it to be fair, but it's nice to have options, y'know).
4. Despite being another PSI user, she could have a unique moveset due to Ness stealing all of her powers ddd;. She could use PSI Lifeup, PSI Shield, a unique version of PSI Fire (like a flamethrower perhaps) or PSI Thunder (does less damage but temporarily stuns enemies), and have Pray as her final smash, with her opening a large circular zone (similar to Luigi's final smash in Brawl), and a random effect happening (enemies fall asleep and Paula's % goes down to 0, the fighters explode and get launched off stage, etc.)
To be added!
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