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Jaiden

Jaiden Dittfach

• Animal Motif: There are references to birds in some of her videos; as shown by her pet conure, Ari. In her Pokémon videos, she's shown to possess bird-themed pokemon. In some videos; you can see 3 small bird tattoos on her right forearm.
• Big Sister Bully: Downplayed. She's admitted to using Jax as her scapegoat during their childhood but nothing too mean happened. Jaiden appears to have somehow played this role before Jax was even born since home videos of Lynn heavily pregnant with him had Jaiden force Hugo to film her stuffed crab instead.
• Born Unlucky:
  • In her Pokémon videos, Jaiden tends to get horribly bad luck, be it getting absolutely terrible encounters in her Soul Link compared to Jacob, or getting dealt with nonstop Critical Hits, the latter actually causing her Platinum Nuzlocke to end in failure in real life before she even reached Cynthia.
  • Alpharad told a story on how, while gambling in Vegas, he deliberately went against her advice to bet on black for the roulette wheel, as he knew just how unlucky she is. However, this one time, her guess was correct, resulting in Alpharad losing $500.
• Character Development:
  • She starts off very socially awkward, being soft-spoken and her animations quite simplistic and straight to the point. After coming out about her depression and eating disorder, she's noticeably louder, snarkier and her animation includes more visual jokes.
  • She's had an It's All About Me streak when she was a child, most of which she seems to have gotten over.
• Color Motif: Her avatars, banners and profile pictures prominently feature the color purple. Her VTuber model even sports purple eyes on top of the expected purple clothes.
• Despair Event Horizon: She did actually cross it after the events of VidCon 2016, and ended up believing that her life no longer has any purpose, with the only reason she still goes on to this day being sheer willpower.
• Failed a Spot Check: Jaiden deliberately refuses to get Ari's gender checked and it eventually causes a brief panic when Jaiden not only finds some bird eggs but also finds out that Ari and Tofu may have been secretly hooking up by pecking a hole in a drawer to make a nest for themselves. However, it's unclear if Ari was inseminating the eggs or was trying to make a nest as well in the drawer.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: In her own words, Jaiden loves "plushies, stuffed animals, whatever you call them"[1]. According to Jacob, she's got two whole rooms worth of plushies and is still gunning for more. Of course, getting a sponsored gift of plushes of every gen 5 Pokémon didn't help either...
• Hand Seals: Done by Jaiden once to defeat Stormterror the dragon.
• The Ingenue: She's basically an excitable, incredibly naive child in the body of a nerdy adult who really likes animations and video games. Not that it's a bad thing, in fact, it's what makes her endearing.
• It's All About Me: Mostly when she was a kid. There's a common theme through retellings of her childhood where young Jaiden seems to enjoy constantly hogging the spotlight.
• Nice Girl: She appears to have the awkward and anxious young adult persona, but has shown to be a nice and loving person.
• Place of Power: She appears to have been a master of Feng Shui as a kid, as she had found a chair that managed to give her good luck whenever she sat in it. Although, she doesn't have that chair anymore as an adult, so it wasn't able to bless her with good luck again when she attempted her Cooking Mama speedrun.
• Stepford Smiler: For a time, she struggled with severe depression and an eating disorder, but she still tried to present herself as happy. This infamously includes her now-incredibly uncomfortable-to-watch VidCon 2016 video.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Being a self-admitted nerd, Jaiden primarily shows lots of interest in conventionally boyish activities, including video games and anime, but she does have some traditionally girlish interests, such as a kawaisa-influenced art style and an obsession with animals.
• Virtuous Vegetarianism: She's vegan, with the timeline of events having some notable shifts. At first, she was nominated to do the 7 Day Vegan Challenge by James, but she went into the challenge with an optimistic mindset, putting her Animal Lover nature to good use and finding compromises that produce similar-tasting experiences to if she was eating standard, animal-made foods. She started latching onto the vegan lifestyle, but this started to become problematic when she developed her eating disorder, which caused her to intensely regulate what she ate. Following her recovery, though, she still stuck to veganism, keeping the same optimistic mindset from the challenge and being content with her choices.
• Vocal Evolution: In 2017, her voice was a higher pitch and softer. In the later years, her voice has become slightly deeper.

Jaiden's Parents

Lynn & Hugo Dittfach

Hugo (L) and Lynn (R)

• Bumbling Dad: Hugo has a tendency of being very accident-prone.
  • In "Winter & My Traumatic Skiing Trip", Hugo unknowingly takes the wrong ski lift, which ends up stranding him and his kids at the mountain's peak. This mistake of his ends up causing Jax to accidentally tumble down the mountain starfish-positioned, screaming his head off on the way down.
  • In "What my trip to Japan was like", when trying to navigate the airport, Jaiden, Lynn, and Jax end up losing Hugo for a good half an hour. Jaiden later admits that he (and Jax) really only cared about the food in Japan while she and Lynn were fully taking in the culture. Most tellingly, Hugo feebly attempts to find a local who can speak English, making himself look like a fool in the process.
  • In "My Childhood Obsession with Animals", he ends up being easily startled by Jaiden making a Dynamic Entry to ask if they can get a dog, causing Hugo to double back and fall on his back, and he gives into his urges to get Jaiden a dog just so she can shut up, getting her Scruffy for her 7th birthday.
• Eek, a Mouse!!: Lynn has a fear of rodents, with her explanation being that she finds their tails weird.
• Exact Words: They use this against Jaiden when she thought that she could force her parents to get her one by writing it on her Christmas wishlist by giving her a computer mouse.
• Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife: Hugo often tends to get himself into trouble, gives into demands too easily, and overall can be rather absentminded with how he tries to approach situations, whereas Lynn is much stricter, adamant that her children adhere to formalities, and overall tends to be no-nonsense with a hint of being a Deadpan Snarker every once in a blue moon.
• The Gadfly: Lynn loves to remind Jaiden of her lisp she had as a child whenever they eat pasta for dinner.^note Pathta with no thauthe...
• Open-Minded Parents: Both of Jaiden's parents are more than happy to help support her YouTube career, being proud that she's made such a big name for herself.
• Papa Wolf: Both of Jaiden's parents have a downplayed protective streak over her, as when she lands in Arizona to spend Christmas with them while she has hives, the two of them start panicking, with Lynn frantically asking her how she got hives and if she's okay, while Hugo profusely sweats.
• Parental Hypocrisy: Lynn would often scold Jaiden for responding with "What?" instead of "Pardon?". Jaiden points out that she's not exactly practicing what she preaches since she herself often responds with "HUH?". To her credit, she gradually stopped bothering Jaiden about this after being mocked her for doing so.
• Pushover Parent: Hugo is much more weak-willed than Lynn, with him getting Jaiden her pet dog Scruffy in "My Childhood Obsession with Animals" just so she could stop pestering him, while Lynn is ashamed of him for giving in so easily.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Even with her openly supporting Jaiden's YouTube career, Lynn also takes the opportunity to bolster her ego through it, flaunting the fact that she's Jaiden's mom to her fans at conventions.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Both are designed to just be older versions of Jaiden and her brother Jax with black hair instead of brown.
• What You Are in the Dark: For most of Jaiden's life, Lynn was firmly against getting her any animals besides fish, including denying her a yellow-naped amazon parrot, but against all odds, Lynn ended up growing infatuated with Ari. Not that Ari reciprocates.

Jaxon

Jaxon "Jax" Dittfach

• Affectionate Nickname: The affectionate part is downplayed, but Jaiden calls him Jax.
• Big Little Brother: "What my trip to Japan was like" depicts him as taller than his older sister Jaiden.
• Dressed to Plunder: His personal channel, Jax Films, has a very distinct Pirate motif to it, with his Tagline being, "Exploring the Seven Seas."
• Flat Character: He's yet to do anything substantial other than being there.
• I Can't Dance: In "What my trip to Japan was like", he and Jaiden play DANCERUSH STARDOM together at a Sega arcade, and he's shown to be a terrible dancer. This causes him to cover his face and laugh in embarrassment, while Jaiden collapses onto the floor in laughter.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Averted. In the first videos involving him, Jaiden refers to him by his first name, though by now he's just called Jax.
• Satellite Character: Almost every appearance he's made in videos has him interact with other people and almost never do things by himself. The most he's done by himself was accidentally tumble off the peak of a mountain in "Winter & My Traumatic Skiing Trip".
• Vague Age: He's younger than Jaiden (23 years old) but the age difference has not been stated. "7 Day Vegan Challenge, baby (solves all yo' problems)", posted in 2016, shows him in his presumed late teens. Her childhood videos show him to be around 4 or 5 years her junior.

Ari

Ari

• Ambiguous Gender: Though Jaiden defaults to male pronouns, she admits at one point that she doesn't actually know if Ari's male or female; the only way to know for sure with conures is a blood test. Jaiden considered the possibility that Ari may have been the one to lay his and Tofu's eggs, but this was quickly debunked when Jaiden checked Tofu's cloaca. Since female birds can lay eggs without the aid of a male and Jaiden abjectly refused to let the eggs hatch, the ambiguity still remains.
• Bird-Poop Gag: Sometimes, this joke is used as a visual gag in Ari-focused videos. Also, an entire segment of a video was focused on this; specifically about Ari's habit of pooping as soon as he's let out of his cage in the morning.
• Breakout Character: Arguably one of the main things that people often associate with Jaiden is Ari, who went from being a cute pet to essentially Jaiden's sidekick. He proved to be so popular, that for one, he appears alongside Jaiden in her card for TheOdd1sOut's game Cafe Chaos.
• A Day in the Limelight: There are several videos that are specifically about Ari.
• A Dog Named "Cat": Ari's name actually means "Eagle" in Nordic languages and "Lion" in Hebrew.
• Enmity with an Object: Ari has a tendency to dislike random objects, such as nail files and hair products. Also, when Jaiden fills up his water.
• Jealous Pet: He's really bonded to Jaiden and tends to see other people as competition for her love.
• Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Jaiden was never really concerned if Ari was male or female and discussed how you only confirm a birds gender through a DNA test. With that being said, Jaiden revealed that one of her birds had started laying eggs and wasn't sure if Ari is the father or the mother (until Jaiden checked their cloacas and confirmed Tofu was the one who laid the eggs) because birds can lay unfertilized eggs without the male to inseminate them. Jaiden has no intention of checking whether or not the eggs were inseminated by Ari and plans to just freeze them before they develop into a fetus.
• No Indoor Voice: Justified, since he's a parrot.
• Official Couple: Unexpectedly with Tofu, Jaiden's second bird, with whom he fathered(?) a clutch of eggs that Jaiden immediately disposed of.
• Polly Wants a Microphone: Averted, Ari can't talk.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: A tiny green-cheeked conure who acts like a little toddler.
• Shrinking Violet: Except for Jaiden and Jaxon, he doesn't like interacting with humans.
• Smarter Than You Look: While he can come off as immature and obnoxious, he's actually quite clever, as Jaiden found out the hard way after he and Tofu managed to secretly dig a hole in the back of a set of drawers for them to use as a nest.
• Spoiled Brat: Jaiden even calls him "the embodiment of a toddler".
• Used to Be More Social: When he was younger, he was fonder of getting attention from humans.

Pokémon Ruby Nuzlocke Team

Teriyaki the Torchic—>Combusken—>Blaziken

• Action Girl: She's a female, and she's a sucker for fighting.
• Blood Knight: Ever since she was a Torchic, she had a penchant for getting into battles, and showed no remorse for how many Pokémon she killed.
• The Extremist Was Right: Jaiden calls her out for how many Zigzagoons she killed, but it turns out that she had every right to, since one ends up killing Corn.
• The Hero: She was Jaiden's Starter Pokémon, and ended up being the one to defeat Steven Stone.
• A Pig Named "Porkchop": The Torchic line is based on chickens, and she's named after teriyaki chicken.
• Playing with Fire: Downplayed. She may be part Fire-type, but she rarely uses any Fire-type moves, and is more prone to using Fighting-type moves, per her secondary type.
• Sole Survivor: She and Ari are the only ones who survive the Nuzlocke.
• We Used to Be Friends: Gary used to be Jaiden's Pokémon before he defected to Steven Stone's side, making the fight against him all the more personal for Teriyaki.

Corn the Seedot—>Nuzleaf

• Achilles' Heel: Bug-type moves. He ultimately dies to a Zigzagoon's Pin Missile, of all things.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Ends up taking it upon himself to save Zipzapzop from Winona's Altaria from beyond the grave.
• Glass Cannon: He hits like a truck, but ended up leaning toward the edge of death three times; dying on the third.
• Replacement Goldfish: Ends up replacing Onion the Breloom as Jaiden's Grass-type Pokémon after Onion dies to Norman's second Slaking.
• Undignified Death: While Jaiden was Level Grinding, he was killed by a Pin Missile from a Zigzagoon.

Ari the Taillow—>Swellow

• Cuteness Proximity: Jaiden smothers him with affection when he evolves, only for him to peck her in the eye.
• Doppelgänger Spin: Frequently uses Double Team to avoid being killed. Almost every time, it works.
• Mooning: Introduces himself to Jaiden by showing her his anus.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. Jaiden named him after her own pet conure, Ari, because his PokéDex entry says he's "aggressive and screams when hungry."
• Sole Survivor: He and Teriyaki are the only ones who survive the Nuzlocke.
• We Named the Monkey "Jack": He's named after Ari, Jaiden's pet conure.

Onion the Shroomish—>Breloom

• Carnivore Confusion: After his death, when Jaiden says someone's just chopping onions, Norman's second Slaking is seen chopping him in half, revealing an onion layer inside of him.
• Cerebus Syndrome: His death is what signifies that the Nuzlocke is starting to take a serious turn.
• Shut Up, Kirk!: Outside the Mauville Gym, Wally tries to show Jaiden how powerful he's become, but Onion shuts him up by using Bullet Seed.

Hush Child the Whismur

• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Is forgotten about after their death.

• Sacrificial Lamb: They were used for a safe switch in into an opposing Meditite using High Jump Kick.

Chomps the Mawile

• Born Unlucky: He dies to a critical hit Thunder Shock from a Magnemite.

• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Is forgotten about after his death.

• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Chomps looks feminine but is a male.

• We Hardly Knew Ye: Was killed while training for Wattson's Gym.

Squidward the Tentacool—>Tentacruel

• All-Natural Fire Extinguisher: A variation. After Zipzapzop gets scorched by Tate's Solrock, Squidward sprays him with his own water.
• Born Unlucky: He ends up being killed by Maxie's Crobat due to its Wing Attack getting a low roll on the first hit, and a high roll on the second hit.
• Non-Indicative Name: He's a jellyfish, but he's named Squidward, who is an octopus.
• Perverted Sniffing: He was given his name because Jaiden intensely sniffed the back of his head.

Chad the Machop—>Machoke

• Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Accidentally knocks out a Wailmer with just one punch.
• Gender-Blender Name: Jaiden names her "Chad" even though she's a female.
  Jaiden: What? You're a female? (beat) DID I STUTTER?
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She acts like a standard girl most of the time, but when it comes to battling, she's shown to be a lot more fierce than she initially lets on.
• Gonky Femme: As a Machoke, Chad looks like a muscular man, but is drawn with feminine mannerisms and accessories such as a flower behind her ear or a mourning veil.
• Monster in the Ice: How she dies. She tries punching Glacia's Walrein, but it ends up using Blizzard in retaliation, causing Chad to freeze into an ice block starting from her hand.
• Samus Is a Girl: Having a bodybuilder design, Jaiden names her a stereotypically manly name, and only then realizes that she's a female.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: When Jaiden first finds her, she's wearing a flower on her head, and she points to it when Jaiden assumes she's male.

Gary the Anorith—>Armaldo

• Always Someone Better: What provokes him to leave Jaiden and become Steven Stone's Pokémon, as Sin the Dusclops was outshining him in every way possible.
• Face–Heel Turn: He evolves into an Armaldo off-screen and ends up joining Steven Stone's team, wanting revenge for being sacked from the team.
• Final Boss: He's the last Pokémon who Steven Stone sends out, with Blubby and Teriyaki teaming up to take him out.
• Odd Name Out: Gary is the only one who wasn't named by Jaiden, instead asking her friend for a name suggestion.
• Out of Focus: Despite being on the team a lot after being resurrected from the Claw Fossil, Jaiden pays him very little attention, which comes back to bite her later.

Sperky the Electrike—>Manectric

• 11th-Hour Ranger: Jaiden only uses him following the Lilycove Gym battle, with it being the second-to-last Gym.
• Replacement Goldfish: Ends up replacing Zipzapzop the Magneton as Jaiden's Electric-type Pokémon after Zipzapzop dies to Tate's Solrock.
• Sacrificial Lion: Ends up dying so that Blubby can finish off Steven Stone's Metagross.

Zipzapzop the Magnemite—>Magneton

• Chekhov's Gunman: When Jaiden starts training Zipzapzop, she makes a huge rant about the sheer number of Marills she had to kill in order to get Zipzapzop up to par with the rest of the party. While she doesn't explain this (and might not have even realized it at the time), it was the HP EVs from those Marills that gave Zipzapzop enough HP to later just barely tank that quadruple-effective Earthquake with only 2 HP to spare.
• The Dying Walk: When Tate's Solrock melts Zipzapzop with Flamethrower, Zipzapzop weakly floats over to Jaiden until collapsing, before Squidward sprays him like a fire extinguisher.
• Heroic Sacrifice: How Zipzapzop dies, pushing Sin out of the way of Tate's Solrock using Flamethrower.
• Lightning Bruiser: Becomes this after killing 80+ Marills and having his HP EVs be raised up by a significant amount.
• Sacrificial Lion: Subverted. Jaiden was sure that he was going to die from Winona's Altaria using Earthquake, but he lives with 2 HP thanks to a combination of the HP EVs from the Marills he fought and Corn saving him from beyond the grave.
• Taking the Bullet: He pushes Sin out of the way of Flamethrower from Tate's Solrock, which causes him to melt and die.

Sin the Duskull—>Dusclops

• Dark Is Not Evil: He's a Ghost-type who likes to hide in the shadows, but he's more than willing to team up with both Zipzapzop and Squidward.
• Monster in the Ice: How Sin dies. After attempting to avenge Chad being killed by Glacia's Walrein, he dies the same way, only this time through Sheer Cold instead of Blizzard.
• Shut Up, Kirk!: On Victory Road, Wally tries one last time to show Jaiden how powerful he's become, but Sin shuts him up by using Shadow Ball.
• Stunned Silence: Is absolutely taken aback when he sees Zipzapzop dying for his sake.

Blubby the Spheal—>Sealeo—>Walrein

• 11th-Hour Ranger: Blubby is the last Pokémon that Jaiden catches, finding her after beating the Lilycove Gym and grinding levels for Sperky.
• All Animals Are Dogs: Despite Walrein being the equivalent of a walrus, Blubby acts a lot like a house dog, panting and wagging her fin like a tail.
• Girls with Moustaches: She's a female, but because Walrein is design after a walrus, Blubby appears to have a moustache.
• Mighty Glacier: Being an Ice-type aside, she can hit real hard and has tons of Defense, but her Speed leaves a lot to be desired.
• Replacement Goldfish: Ends up replacing Squidward the Tentacruel as Jaiden's Water-type Pokémon after Squidward dies to Maxie's Crobat.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After losing Chad and Sin to Glacia, Blubby decimates Drake's team like it was nothing.
• Sacrificial Lion: When Gary comes back for revenge, Blubby is only able to take two hits from him before going down, weakening him enough for Teriyaki to come in and finish the job.
• Warm-Hearted Walrus: She's the Pokémon equivalent of a walrus and one of Jaiden's most loyal members, always having a goofy smile on her face when in Jaiden's presence.

Pokémon Platinum Nuzlocke Team

Turt the Turtwig—>Grotle—>Torterra

• Gone Horribly Right: Jaiden attempts to catch a Gible in Wayward Cave, but Turt accidentally kills it by getting a Critical Hit with Bite. Even after catching Flakes later down the line, she still hasn't let it go, and Turt still feels guilty over it.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: When he was a Turtwig, Jaiden would constantly use him like a hammer to defeat her opponents.
• Kill It with Fire: In the Distortion Timeline, Turt is killed by Fire specialist Flint alongside Shrimp and See.
• Sole Survivor: In the Champion Timeline, he, See, Flakes, Kronk, and Milk are the only starring party members who survive.

Kronk the Zubat—>Golbat—>Crobat

• Gender-Blender Name: She's a female, but she's named after Kronk from The Emperor's New Groove.
• Sole Survivor: In the Distortion Timeline, she and Milk are the only two starring party members who don't die. She also survives in the Champion Timeline

Puppy the Magikarp—>Gyarados

• All Animals Are Dogs: Much like Blubby, she pants and wags her fin like a tail.
• Fluffy the Terrible: She's an enormous, serpentine-like Gyarados, but has the name "Puppy".
• Gentle Giant: She's incredibly lean and tall, but also amicable and loyal.
• Meaningful Name: Her name is Puppy, and she acts like a dog trying to earn Jaiden's affection.
• Taking You with Me: She's killed by a Staraptor on Victory Road using Brave Bird, who proceeds to die from recoil damage.

Failure the Shinx

• Alas, Poor Scrappy: In-Universe. Jaiden is frustrated with finding him instead of a Shellos outside the Valley Windworks, but when using him as death fodder in the Snowpoint Gym, she does feel guilty for having him die to heal up Squoop.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Jaiden switches him in during the fight against Candice to heal up Squoop, which results in his imminent death.

Dwayne the Onix

• Almighty Janitor: He was a filler catch inside the Oreburgh Mines, but when fighting Mars in the Valley Windworks, he manages to tank her Purugly, which earns Jaiden's respect to the point of keeping him alive.
• Named After Somebody Famous: It's implied that he was named after Dwane "The Rock" Johnson.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Subverted. Jaiden planned to use him as death fodder to heal up Turt and Kronk, but he managed to survive Mars' Purugly, which still allowed Jaiden to heal the others up while still keeping him alive.
• Sole Survivor: While not as notable as the others, he did survive the Nuzlocke in both timelines. Though he was in the PC for most of the run.

Big Boy the Bronzor

• Born Unlucky: He has Heatproof, which negates his weakness to Fire-type moves, but gets killed by a Critical Hit from a wild Ponyta's Flame Wheel.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He appears to be forgotten about after his death.
• Non-Indicative Name: Bronzors are incredibly small Pokémon, yet he has the name Big Boy. Jaiden wanted to evolve him into a Bronzong, but he died before she could get the chance.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He's killed not long after he's first used in the Eterna Gym by a Ponyta.

Colgate the Togepi—>Togetic—>Togekiss

• 11th-Hour Ranger: Jaiden gets his Egg from Cynthia just after defeating Jupiter in Eterna City, but she never uses him on the team until the Elite Four.
• Defiant Stone Throw: In the Champion Timeline, Colgate is killed by a Critical Hit from Cynthia's Garchomp, visualized through being hit with a rock.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: In the Distortion Timeline, Colgate is killed by Stone Edge from Aaron's Heracross.

Devito the Ralts—>Kirlia

• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He appears to be forgotten about after his death.
• Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: Jaiden covers Devito's eyes when the two encounter the Lovey-Dovey Couple kissing each other.
  Jaiden: And that's why I hate love.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: He looks very feminine, but is a male and named after Danny DeVito.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He's killed by a Lovey-Dovey Couple's Buizel using Pursuit in Hearthome City, the same place in which he was first found.

Milk the Eevee—>Jolteon

• Born Unlucky: He has a reputation of missing his Thunders over and over despite having 70% accuracy, but this gets turned on its head when he hits Cyrus' Gyarados with Thunder on the first try in the Distortion World.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: He's incredibly powerful, but has a tendency to doze off and miss his Thunders repeatedly.
• Sole Survivor: In the Distortion Timeline, he and Kronk are the only two starring party members who don't die. He also survives in the Champion Timeline
• Those Two Guys: Starting in Veilstone HQ, he shares this role with Shrimp.

Shrimp the Scyther—>Scizor

• Action Girl: She's female, and ends up being the one to see the most action during the Team Galactic arc.
• Kill It with Fire:
  • In the Distortion Timeline, Shrimp is killed by Flint alongside Turt and See.
  • In the Champion Timeline, Shrimp is killed by Flamethrower from Cynthia's Garchomp.
• Neck Lift: Has a tendency of lifting Team Galactic Admins by the throat following Squoop's death.
  Jaiden: FIGHT!
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: She hits Cynthia's Garchomp with a flurry of punches when using Bullet Punch.
• Replacement Goldfish: Ends up replacing Devito the Kirlia after Devito dies to a Lovey-Dovey Couple's Buizel.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Squoop is killed by a Team Galactic Scientist, Shrimp starts beating up the Galactic Admins senselessly.
• Those Two Guys: Starting in Veilstone HQ, she shares this role with Milk.

Squoop the Shellos—>Gastrodon

• Gonk: Is much uglier as a Shellos, to the point of drooling and having fat lips when shoved in the camera of the Jubilife TV reporters.
• Making a Splash: His favorite method of attack is to use Surf and wash away an opponent's team, which makes Byron a joke.
• Parental Favoritism: Jaiden flat-out says that despite the fact that people shouldn't have a favorite child, Squoop is her favorite child, to the point of showing him off on Jubilife TV.
• Undignified Death: He's killed by a Team Galactic Scientist's Porygon2, which comes out of the blue for Jaiden.

LOL the Quagsire

• Life Drain: How she dies. At the top of Mount Coronet, Jupiter's Golbat uses Giga Drain, which is 4x effective on LOL, killing her in one shot.
• Replacement Goldfish: Ends up replacing Squoop the Gastrodon as Jaiden's Water/Ground-type Pokémon after Squoop dies to a Team Galactic Scientist's Porygon2.

Oops the Wooper—>Quagsire

• Almighty Janitor: She was caught by mistake while searching for a Yanma in the Safari Zone, but ends up becoming one of Jaiden's most powerful Pokémon by the end game.
• Born Unlucky: Not only is she one of the unfortunate Pokémon in the Elite Four team to be killed in both timelines, she is killed by a Critical Hit against the very foe she was supposed to kill.
• Sacrificial Lion: In the Champion Timeline, Oops is killed by a Critical Hit from Cynthia's Garchomp while trying to set up a combo of Yawn and Ice Beam.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Becomes the new Quagsire on Jaiden's team after LOL is killed by Jupiter's Golbat.

See the Magnemite—>Magneton—>Magnezone

• 11th-Hour Ranger: He was caught by Jaiden midway through the game, but was never evolved or even used until the Elite Four.
• Call-Back: Jaiden catches See the exact same way she caught Zipzapzop, by attracting him with a magnet.
• Kill It with Fire: In the Distortion Timeline, See is killed by Flint alongside Turt and Shrimp.
• Sole Survivor: In the Champion Timeline, he, Turt, Flakes, Kronk, and Milk are the only starring party members who survive.

Flakes the Gabite—>Garchomp

• 11th-Hour Ranger: Jaiden catches him on Victory Road, lampshading how she could've caught a Gible in Wayward Cave, had Turt not landed a Critical Hit back then.
• Chekhov's Gunman: invokedSimilarly to Zipzapzop in the Pokémon Ruby Nuzlocke, Flakes manages to outspeed Cynthia's Garchomp, when it seemed like he should've been outsped by it, but unlike in the Ruby Nuzlocke, where Jaiden doesn't consider the possibility of increased HP EVs from grinding Marills, she realizes that grinding Ponytas likely contributed to increased Speed EVs.
• Mirror Boss: invokedIn the Champion Timeline, Flakes goes toe-to-toe with Cynthia's Garchomp, and winds up the victor thanks to increased Speed EVs.
• Sole Survivor: In the Champion Timeline, he, Turt, See, Kronk, and Milk are the only starring party members who survive.

Pokémon SoulSilver Nuzlocke Team

Franklin the Mankey—>Primeape

• Failed a Spot Check: Jaiden doesn't pay attention to an Ambipom using Screech on Franklin to lower his defenses, leading to him getting killed by Double Hit.
• The Hero: Of the Team Rocket arc. After scaling up the entirety of the Goldenrod Radio Tower, Franklin is the one who delivers the finishing blow to Archer.
• Iconic Item: Flowers, seemingly the same kind that Chad was picking back in Ruby, as Jaiden is shown in a flashback making a flower crown for him. His grave is also given a single flower in commemoration.
• The Leader: Is viewed as the de facto leader of Jaiden's team, providing much of the backbone.
• My New Gift Is Lame: Whereas Jacob is presented with either a Torterra, Tentacruel, or Ludicolo as his Starter, Jaiden is presented with Wynaut, Mankey, and Ariados. She picks Mankey because it's the least-bad option.
• We Named the Monkey "Jack": He's named after Franklin, since Jacob's Starter is a Torterra.

Micheal the Sandslash

• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Subverted. During the fight against Lance, Plapp takes out his Sandslash, which causes Jaiden to remember and miss Micheal.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Jaiden intended to name him "Michael", but both she and Jacob misspell it, landing on "Micheal".
• Sacrificial Lamb: How he dies. When realizing that only Plapp could stand a chance against Chuck's Froslass and needs to be healed up, Jaiden sends out Micheal as death fodder, and he dies to a Critical Hit from Froslass' Ominous Wind.

B'Drodo the Totodile—>Croconaw

• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: B'Drodo did end up evolving into a Croconaw, but this is only seen through a Flying Face during Jaiden's switching proposition.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Jaiden offers to switch out B'Drodo with Plapp, so that Jacob exchanges his Beedrill for a Flaaffy, to which he agrees on, and B'Drodo is never used again.

Plapp the Piplup—>Prinplup—>Empoleon

• Dragon Ascendant: After Franklin is killed by a Kimono Girl's Ambipom, Plapp steps up to be the new leader of Jaiden's team.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: How he dies. He Surfs Lance's Bastiodon, but this gives Bastiodon the prime opportunity to counter with Metal Burst, killing Plapp instantly.
• Victory by Endurance: How Plapp won most of his battles as a Prinplup, with Jaiden heal-stalling until the opponents inevitably go down, particularly against Morty's Lugia and Chuck's Froslass.

Dilydoo the Cradily

• Almighty Janitor: He was originally meant to be used as death fodder, but ends up being The Hero who manages to defeat Lance, and even manages to defeat Lance's Palkia on his own.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Initially, Jaiden never gave Dilydoo a chance, seeing him as death fodder that she accidentally never used, but upon bringing him into the Elite Four, he kills Lance's Palkia and defeats his Azumarill, securing Jaiden the win.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: After Jaiden realizes that she's almost boned against Lance's Palkia, she sends out Dilydoo out of desperation, and via endurance, he knocks out Palkia on his own.
• Foil: To Gary the Armaldo. With Cradily and Armaldo being the Hoenn Fossil Pokémon, Gary was the Final Boss of the Ruby Nuzlocke after defecting from Jaiden's team to Steven Stone's team, whereas Dilydoo was the one who defeated Lance in the SoulSilver Nuzlocke and crowned Jaiden as Champion.
• The Hero: The one who ultimately defeats Lance and crowns Jaiden as Champion.
• Sole Survivor: He and Barel are the only two starring party members to survive the Nuzlocke.
• Wimp Fight: His fight against Lance's Azumarill lasts 10 minutes, with the two futilely slapping each other.

Obamatar the Abomasnow

• Collateral Damage: How he dies. Jacob doesn't pay attention to his fight against a Team Rocket Grunt because he's eating a chicken sandwich, causing his Pupitar to die to a Golem's Earthquake, which takes Obamatar with it.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His Snow Warning ability causes Chuck's Froslass to activate her Snow Cloak ability, causing her to become twice as hard to hit.
• "Take That!" Kiss: Receives one from Chuck's Froslass, causing him to turn around in confusion.

Shuckie the Mewtwo

• 11th-Hour Ranger: Initially gets boxed because Jacob's Victreebel is the same type as his Torterra, but is eventually brought on to fight the Elite Four following the death of Darphel.
• Olympus Mons: Is the first one Jaiden receives after Jacob had already encountered a whole bunch to that point.
• The Worf Effect: How he dies. Jaiden sends him out to deal with Lance's Palkia because the rest of her team is ill-prepared for it, but it dies turn 1 to a Critical Hit from Spacial Rend.

Darphel the Charmeleon—>Charizard

• The Big Guy: Jaiden treats him as her signature Flier, as well as being a vital asset in the Team Rocket HQ.
• Counter-Attack: How he dies. Jan's Hitmontop uses Counter against Darphel's Fly, taking him out in a single hit.
• Impromptu Campfire Cookout: He uses his Flamethrower to roast marshmallows for Jaiden, Jacob, and Jacob's Donphan.
• Tempting Fate: Jaiden tells Jan, who had been a pushover up until that point, that, "This is your last chance to kill one of our Pokémon, Jan." He kills Darphel.

Barel the Nidoran♀—>Nidorina—>Nidoqueen

• Behemoth Battle: Gets into one with Lance's Snorlax, who keeps spamming Giga Impact. Barel wins, but not by much.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Plapp is killed by Lance's Bastiodon, Barel comes out and kills Bastiodon using Revenge, with murder in her eyes.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Lance sends out his Azumarill, Barel looks visibly scared by it, only to then run away and let Dilydoo do the work.
• The Smurfette Principle: She ends up being the only female Pokémon on Jaiden's SoulSilver team, compared to a third of her Ruby team being girls, and half of her Platinum team being girls.
• Sole Survivor: She and Dilydoo are the only two starring party members to survive the Nuzlocke.

Dodei the Entei

• 11th-Hour Ranger: As soon as Jaiden and Jacob are preparing to go to Victory Road, Dodei bursts out of the water in New Bark Town, and Jaiden catches him in a Master Ball.
• Collateral Damage: How he dies. Karen's Machamp uses Cross Chop on Jacob's Dodrio, and combined with its No Guard ability and a Critical Hit, Dodrio is killed, which takes Dodei with it.
• Olympus Mons: Is the second and final one Jaiden receives after Shuckie the Mewtwo.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He's caught right before fighting the Elite Four, and once getting to the Elite Four, he's the first of Jaiden's Pokémon to be killed on her final team. His gravestone even says, "That was quick".

Dungeons & Dragons Characters

Zoot

A Dragonborn who accompanies Paul, Tholomew, and Luap on their personal journies. Played by Jaiden.

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• Acid Attack: Their primary method of attack is Acid Splash, which they fire as a Breath Weapon from their mouth.
• Armed with Pepper Spray: Their go-to physical weapon is Mace, a bottle of pepper spray.
• Breath Weapon: All blasts of Acid Splash are fired from their mouth.
• Draconic Humanoid: Being a Dragonborn, they're draconic in nature with a very humanlike body.
• Emotion Bomb: Casting Depression causes Zoot to lock Mark into a state of complete despair.
• Nominal Hero: It's made clear that Zoot has no heroic aspirations, and is mainly just along for the ride.
• Shapeshifting Seducer: By using Disguise Self, they're able to transform themself into Mark's ex-wife, Ella, to get close to him.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: They're able to speak to animals by using a spell that's needlessly destructive in the process. Oddly, this spell doesn't work on Goblins.
  • Goblins aren't classified as animals in D&D but as humanoid monsters which is why it doesn't work.

Paul

The assistant manager at Ye Olde Mart o' Wal, who's looking to take out his upper manager, Mark, to allow for upward mobility. Played by Alpharad.

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• Aerith and Bob: In a world filled with people whose names are fictitious-sounding, his name is just... Paul.
• Badass Normal: Unlike Zoot and Tholomew, he doesn't have any magical abilities, but he's an absolute master with a greataxe, even after it's peeled in half.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Manages to defeat Mark and is able to reunite with his long lost son.
• Everyone Has Standards: He's the only one who's appalled by Zoot playing with Mark's emotions just so they can get a cheap shot on him.
• Expy: Of Larry from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.
• The Generic Guy: He's the most basic person out of all the party members, which makes him stick out in a High Fantasy setting. His animated look is even pretty blatantly based on fellow so-generic-it's-hilarious guy Larry.
• Iron Butt-Monkey: Besides Luap, Paul takes the brunt of the slapstick through the session, with him getting pepper sprayed, turned into a zebra, and stabbed in the leg by the Peeler. Despite this, he keeps getting back up and never complains.
• Only Sane Man: He comes off as this, to the point of being the only one who doesn't laugh at Zoot toying with Mark's emotions to hit him with acid.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
  Paul: Looks like the manager position just opened up.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: He's the only one of the group who's able to communicate with Goblins.
• The Stoic: He rarely ever changes his expression from a dull, uninterested grimace. Even getting pepper sprayed or transformed into a zebra doesn't shake him. And according to Slimecicle, this also extended to Jacob, who was so in-character during the whole session, Slime was legitimately worried he wasn't having fun (he was; he's just too good at acting).
• Token Human: While Zoot is a Dragonborn and Tholomew is a Tabaxi, Paul is the only party member who's explicitly human.

Tholomew

A paranoid Tabaxi who believes they're stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, and looks to take out their neighbor, Thompson, to free themself. Played by Ranboo.

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• Big Good: While the session is from Zoot's perspective, they're the de facto leader of the group who unites them under a root cause.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Played for laughs. They appear to be friendly enough, but the ending all but implies that they mistreated Mark Thompson for petty, disproportionate slights whilst acting like the victim themself.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Temporarily, thanks to the clay crown attaching itself to their head. They're freed when Paul knocks the crown off their head.
• Cat Folk: As Tabaxi are humanoid, sentient cats, they're this by default.
• Combat Medic: In addition to their fighting capabilities, they're also the group's designated healer, healing up Luap after he's taken a beating in trying to get the wand.
• Felony Misdemeanor: Their reasons for hating Thompson essentially amount to this.
  Tholomew: This is for everything! The low tax return, the restraining order; for moving in next to me! YOU'RE MY PERSONAL HELL!
• Malicious Slander: They're stated to have spread multiple false rumors about Thompson, which led to his wife divorcing him.
• Musical Assassin: They use a pair of bongos and a bagpipe as their means of attack, using them to cast Shockwave.
• The Paranoiac: Their defining personality trait is that they're a Nervous Wreck, constantly believing Thompson is out to get them, and being overly observant of everyone and everything around them.
• Self-Serving Memory: Nothing they say about Thompson is true; they're all fabrications so they can have an excuse to take him out.

Luap/Paul Jr.

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Paul Jr.

A human who was cursed into becoming a sheep, and joins the group in the hopes of turning back into a human.

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• Accidental Misnaming: His name is Luap, but Zoot keeps mispronouncing it as "Lop".
• The Chew Toy: He's battered and bruised while trying to get his hands on the wand to turn him back.
• Luke, You Are My Father: He's actually Paul's missing son, Paul Jr., which the former doesn't know about until he's transformed back.
• Sdrawkcab Name: Luap isn't his actual name; it's spelt backwards to obfuscate the fact that he's Paul Jr.
• Team Pet: He shares this role with Paul Jr., before ultimately taking it after Paul Jr. disappears from the plot.
• Youthful Freckles: As Paul Jr., he has freckles on his face to denote the fact that he's 6 years old.

Paul Jr.

Zoot's pet turtle who was named by Paul.

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• Advice Backfire: They try to have Zoot guess "turtle" as the answer to the Riddle Door's riddle, even when Paul and Tholomew have already determined that the answer is "worm".
• Replacement Goldfish: Turns out Paul isn't a Giver of Lame Names; they're named Paul Jr. in memoriam of Paul's missing son.
• Team Pet: Originally shared this role with Luap, before disappearing from the story altogether.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: After the fight with the clay monsters, Paul Jr. unceremoniously disappears from the plot.

Mark Thompson

Tholomew's neighbor and the manager of Ye Olde Mart o' Wal, who's become a Dark Mage to exact revenge on Tholomew for ruining his life.

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• And I Must Scream: Implied — his ultimate fate is to be turned into a worm and placed in a jar by Paul, and the wand disintigrating after the adventure's done makes it unlikely for him to be changed back. His reaction to Paul firing him implies that he still retains his human mind in this form, though it's unclear if he can still talk or not.
• Bald of Evil: His hair is noticeably thinning, and he's the main villain of the story.
• Big Bad: Being Paul and Tholomew's Arch-Enemy and being the final obstacle of the session, he serves the role of the villain.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Despite remembering everything about his beef with Tholomew, he doesn't understand what he did that caused Paul to antagonize him.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: What keeps him from being an Anti-Villain despite all Tholomew did to him is that he horribly mismanages Ye Olde Mart o' Wal, which caused Paul's life to be even more miserable than it already is.
• Fat Bastard: He's got a pronounced beer belly, and is the Big Bad.
• Forced Transformation: He's ultimately defeated by Tholomew using the wand to transform him into a worm.
• If I Can't Have You…: Says this near-verbatim about the wand after Zoot uses Acid Splash on him.
• Invisibility: He's able to cast Invisibility to make him impossible to spot.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: Downplayed as he doesn't actually die, but he transforms into a worm (implicitly with his identity and memories intact, given his reaction to Paul firing him) in the middle of asking "Would you still let me be your manager, even if I was a-"
• Tragic Villain: Tholomew spreading false rumors about him due to their rampant paranoia caused his wife and child to leave him, which turned him into the corrupt manager he is now. Zoot disguising themself as Ella nearly causes him to have a change of heart.
• Two Aliases, One Character: Paul knows him by his first name, Mark, while Tholomew knows him by his last name, Thompson. The two people they're searching for turn out to be the same guy.

The Dungeon Master

The god of the world who leaves fate up to the roll of a d20. Played by Slimecicle.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: Even he found Zoot toying with Mark's emotions to Acid Splash him to be hilarious.
• Game Master: Being the Dungeon Master, he's naturally the one overseeing the world created in the game.
• The Gods Must Be Lazy: Despite being the god of the world, he doesn't cause any sort of divine intervention beyond controlling fate via a d20.
• The Maker: He's described as being essentially the god of the world seen in the game.
• Slime Girl: A rare male example. He's depicted as a green slime creature taking a humanoid shape. Obviously a pun on Slimecicle's moniker.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He's rather irrelevant to the plot, but everything that happens in the game is by his command and the rolling of his d20.

Guests

Jordan Comeaux (ThePivotsXXD) & Kelsey (AntiDarkHeart)

Jordan (L) and Kelsey (R)

• Accidental Misnaming: When setting up Ari's birthday party, Jaiden accidentally refers to Kelsey as "Gelsey", with her on-screen name being changed to reflect it.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: Invoked with Kelsey. She goes by any pronouns, so her design in Jaiden's videos is intentionally made androgynous.
• Animal Lovers: Not as pronounced as Jaiden, but they, too, own a conure named Baby Jim, who ended up becoming Ari's best friend.
• Best Friends: The two of them are Jaiden's best friends and directly appear the most in stories out of all her friends.
• Bizarre Taste in Food: Her experience with Baby Jim has apparently caused Kelsey to be a taster of bird food, as she's willing to try out a piece of Ari's bird cake. ...She doesn't like it.
• Creator Cameo: Jordan is one of Jaiden's animators, so whenever he appears in a video, he qualifies as such.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: Kelsey is somewhat accident-prone, as shown by her accidentally causing bag of confetti to explode from trying to gently open it, and not knowing how to properly blow a party blower.
• I Have Many Names: Kelsey also goes by the name of Chase, but Jaiden always refers to her by the name Kelsey.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Inverted. Jordan is the much more bombastic of the two, with Kelsey being more reserved and analytical.
• Those Two Guys: Jordan and Kelsey are almost never seen without one another in stories.

James Rallison (TheOdd1sOut)

• Art Shift: Any animation of James done on Jaiden's channel is specifically drawn in his art style, which is similar to hers, but not exact.
• Cold Ham: Compared to his own channel, where he's a full-blown Large Ham, he makes his trademark over-the-top quips in a much more relaxed tone.
• Deadpan Snarker: Not necessarily to Jaiden herself, but has a tendency of MSTing her old childhood videos.
• Seinfeldian Conversations: Most of his conversations with Jaiden are very low-key and tangential.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He had nominated Jaiden for the 7 Day Vegan Challenge and offered to help her come up with strategies, which led to Jaiden fully embracing veganism after the fact.

Carson King (CallMeCarson)

• Dissonant Serenity: Being set on fire doesn't do anything to keep him from running away from oncoming arrows.
  Jaiden: You're on fire.
  Carson: Don't talk about it.
• The Main Characters Do Everything: Their collab was meant to help Jaiden beat Minecraft, but Carson did almost all of the heavy lifting, which Jaiden lampshades repeatedly. Her trophy at the end of the video spells it out perfectly.
  I BEAT MINECRAFT

  but Carson did all the work
• "Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: He claims that "Careful" is his middle name. ...Which isn't true in the slightest.
• No Sense of Direction: Until Jaiden found it by complete accident, Carson got completely lost searching for the Warped Forest.
• Put on a Bus to Hell: Following some real-life scandals, Carson was phased out of Jaiden's videos, and their collab was delisted.invoked
• That Came Out Wrong: Carson tries to keep Jaiden from falling into a lava pit, suggesting she should go cook something. He immediately realizes the implications of what he just said, but when Jaiden suggests a reckless plan and he calls her out on it, she says that she's gonna go cook something.
• Trickster Mentor: He offered to help Jaiden beat Minecraft, but in true Carson fashion, he also took the opportunity to mess with her; notably by shoving her into a ravine.
  Carson: It was an accident.

Jacob Rabon IV (Alpharad)

• Adaptational Nice Guy: Jacob is nowhere near as much of an Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist as he is on his own channel, usually being a good friend to Jaiden who happens to be a bit reckless.
• Ascended Extra: Went from a semi-recurring cameo in a few of Jaiden's videos, to the deuteragonist of the SoulLink Nuzlocke video, to her real-life roommate.
• Black Hole Sue: Played for Laughs. Jacob's Born Lucky status is represented through everyone in Johto (besides Jaiden) bending over backwards for him, be it Professor Elm showing favoritism for him with the starter selection, a security guard handing him an Olympus Mon in the form of Regigigas, Chuck handing him a lollipop before going to town on Jaiden, his various Legendary captures immediately growing attached to him, Lance giving him regal attire when he becomes Champion, so on and so forth. Any misfortune that happens to Jacob is his own fault (ex. accidentally killing three Pokémon in a row or being distracted by a chicken sandwich) rather than fate taking the piss out of him. Lampshaded by Jaiden multiple times.invoked
  Jaiden: Jacob had no trouble at all, because he's Jacob.
• Born Lucky: Carrying over from his own channel, Jacob has a tendency to get extremely lucky, especially when compared to Jaiden. Of note, he caught a grand total of five Olympus Mons, had three fully-evolved Pokémon as starter choices, and got much easier randomized boss fights.
• Butt-Monkey: By the end of Mario But I'm Blindfolded, Jacob is left mentally exhausted from guiding Jaiden around haplessly all day.
  Jaiden: I had a great time playing my favorite video game. Did you have fun?
  Jacob: ...
• Collateral Damage: With the exception of Obamatar and Dodei, all his Pokémon that die in the SoulLink Nuzlocke do so because their counterparts on Jaiden's team perished.
• Crossdresser: Just like on his own channel, Jacob has a tendency of crossdressing. Here, he dresses himself as Lyra, the female Player Character from HeartGold & SoulSilver.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Jacob is rather infamously reckless in Pokémon on his own channel, and this resulted in him killing five very good encounters and directly led to Obamatar the Pupitar's death. Come the Champion fight however, and he managed to power through a very powerful gauntlet of Pokémon (as well as a Ledian and Plusle) with a team consisting of just four Com Mons. Without losing any of them, and all in the time it took Jaiden to defeat three Pokemon, no less.
• Irony: Out of the five Olympus Mons Jacob caught, he got to use none of them while Jaiden brought two to the Elite Four. Better yet, his own Elite Four team consisted of primarily Com Mons.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Jaiden refers to him as her "best buddy" in the video where they went to Japan and it certainly shows in their interactions throughout the video.
• Running Gag: Jacob finding far, far better encounters than Jaiden... which he then accidentally kills.
• The Snack Is More Interesting: Deconstructed. Jacob doesn't pay attention to his fight in the Goldenrod Radio Tower because he's busy eating a chicken sandwich, which causes Obamatar, his Pupitar, to get killed by a Golem's Earthquake, resulting in Jaiden's Abomasnow getting killed, too. The gravestone says it all.
  Sorry I got distracted by chicken sandwich, friend :(
• Spanner in the Works: When Jaiden was speedrunning Rhythm Heaven, Jordan and Kelsey offered to mute themselves to let her focus, only for Jacob to join the Discord call completely unannounced and nearly cost Jaiden the run by inadvertently distracting her.

Jan (Pokémon Challenges)

• Actually Pretty Funny: Jan's reaction to being depicted as The Rival was a combination of laughter and being flattered.
• Adaptational Jerkass: On his own channel, Jan at his worst only really veers into Insufferable Genius territory. Jan as the rival to Jaiden and Jacob is depicted as far more cruel and petty, going as far as to kill one of their Pokémon himself.
  Jan: ...Why am I so mean?
• Affectionate Parody: Jan, who had been making critiques of their Nuzlockes, provided the name for the rival in the SoulLink Nuzlocke, with Jaiden making it clear that she had no intention of offending him with it. Jan himself reacted to the video later and found it Actually Pretty Funny (with his one quibble being that Jaiden mispronounced his name, which Jaiden apologized for in the comments of his reaction).
• The Dreaded: Was chosen as the rival in the SoulLink video specifically because both Jaiden and Jacob were on the receiving end of his critiques in the past. The two spend the entire remainder of the video fearing his wrath any time they make a mistake.
• Foil: To Jacob. While Jacob is happy to coast by on his Born Lucky status and falls on the "performer" side of the Technician Versus Performer dichotomy, Jan prefers to challenge himself as much as possible and is very much a "technician". The two have gone on to become self proclaimed rivals and give each other advice on how to become better Nuzlockers and YouTubers respectively. Hilariously, these differences cause him, Jaiden, and Jacob to shuffle roles during his SoulLink with Jaiden where she coasted through White 2, Jan suffered through an extra hard ROM Hack of Black 2, and Jacob didn't participate but was feared for his inevitable mocking reaction.
• Paper Tiger: Jaiden and Jacob are absolutely scared of Jan wiping out their entire team, especially in the Burned Tower where he has a Mew, but he ends up being a pushover in every battle they face him in. Subverted in his last appearance, where he manages to kill their Charizard-Donphan pair.
• Rage Breaking Point: After Jaiden taunts him one too many times, one of his eyes flashes open in sheer rage before he kills her Charizard.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: A couple times in his IRL caricature, but averted with his rival design.
• Team Rocket Wins: Despite him losing every fight he has with Jaiden and Jacob, Jan does manage to get one small victory by knocking out their Darphels with Counter, which, fittingly enough, Jan in his reaction mentions is one of the scariest moves to encounter in a Nuzlocke.

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