Donmin

This is a real thing btw, and i dont feel like explaining it, so heres a copy of the Donmin lore:

## how to get the Donmin in Pikmin 1 guide (real)

First you have to use the lock on technology for Pikmin 1 and 2 on the Gamecube to play both games as one. then you have to put the Gameboy Player on the Gamecube and put Hey Pikmin in the cartridge slot and put a flat head screwdriver into the extension port 2 and connect a Gamecube LAN adapter and connect a second Gamecube and put a blue ray of Transformer 4: Age of Extinction in the disc drive and turn it on.

Once all the previous steps you can unlock oreo bot and use him to go to the secret 31st day and get the 31st ship part to unlock Louie so you can go to the Formidable Oak and get the Richard Nixmin so you can get to the 7th area called Shmoogle Boogle on day 32. There the day is never ending and you can find the Bonmin and play ultra spicy story mode and play Pikmin 1+2 as one game after killing 17 Beady Long Legs and King Bulblaxs in shmoogle boogle.

After beating Pikmin 1+2 you can start a new save on Pikmin 1 and you should see Sora are your character icon. This means you've been doing everything right because you can now get Mikmin instead of Red Pikmin. Now You can make it to the Puffstool like normal and get the Sponge-oin to get Spongemin. Now you need to quit to menu and if you see twilight sparkle you need to start a new game and you'll have done it, you will spawn in N'sanity beach and get the brown onion for the Donmin.

## Donmin

About fifteen years ago, when I was 12 years old, I was at my local gamestop looking for this awesome game my brother told me about. “You gotta get this game, you’ll love it,” he said. That’s my brother, always chasing the next gaming high. Pikmin, he called it. He had been playing it in college at the time. I would have to dust off our gamecube to play it, but I digress. I scaled every wall at gamestop and could not find it anywhere. It looked like they weren’t selling gamecube games anymore, just line after line of shovelware Wii titles. I went up to the cashier. He was a large bearded man, eyes red from the inhalation of a joint he surely smoked during his break.

“Can I help you, kid,” he asked in a raspy voice. I told him I was looking for a game called Pikmin. His eyes widened and he turned pale like a ghost. “Sorry we’re closing, please come back another time.” he began frantically running up to the open sign to take it down. I checked my cheap digital watch I got for my birthday last year. It was only 4pm. Gamestop usually doesn’t close until 8pm in my area. “Hey” I exclaimed, “You don’t close for another four hours! What gives?” The man, his back facing me as he laid his hand on the open sign, exhaled as he lowered his head. Look, I can’t withhold our last used copy of Pikmin 1 from you. My boss would kill me, but there’s something… wrong with it.” his voice quivered while an expression of fear once again washed over him. I felt annoyed because my brother has messed with me like this before. Haunted game cartridges, Ben Drowned, all that nonsense. I didn’t believe a word of it, and I was certain he was playing a prank on me. If only I had taken his advice. Maybe I’d actually be able to sleep at night.

“Just give me the copy,” I pried, impatiently. He looked down, almost afraid to make eye contact. “Fine,” he said, “but whatever happens to you isn’t my fault.”

He stepped into the back room to retrieve the copy of Pikmin 1. He was in there for what felt like an hour. I had almost given up and gone home when he creeped out of the room with a strange pure white case. I figured that the original case was lost and that this was simply a cheap replacement.

“The disc is inside,” he said in a somber tone. “Finally,” I said, exasperated. I wish I had been kinder knowing that he was trying to protect me. As I walked out the door of Gamestop, I heard the man mumble something under his breath. It almost sounded like… “Donmin?” I figured I had just misheard him. I turned around to take one last look at the gamestop and make sure he wasn’t talking to me, but all I saw were the sad red eyes of that employee as he put up the closed sign.

Once I got home, I finally opened the pure white case to take a look at the disc for Pikmin 1. It had no writing on it, only “Pikmin” in poor handwriting with a Sharpie. The strategy guide was inside too, and it looked a little strange. I had seen what Pikmin looked like before, and I had always thought that they had pupils, but every character in the guide, from the pikmin to the bulborbs, completely lacked pupils. I had this uneasy feeling, that despite having those soulless eyes, that they were… staring at me. I shrugged it off.

When I got home I immediately went to our basement to take our gamecube out of storage. I was so blinded by excitement that I didn’t even notice the gamecube title screen not playing as the logo for Pikmin appeared on screen. It was strange that the game had loaded this quickly, especially strange that the console was dead silent, as if it wasn’t reading the disc at all.

I pressed A as instructed, and swear, for a fraction of a second, the Pikmin logo deformed into different letters. I couldn’t read it fast enough, but I was certain that the first two letters were replaced by a “D” and an “O.” Strangely enough, there was already a save file with 31 days on it. I didn't want to see any spoilers, but figured that this was just because of my brother’s memory card. Looking back on it, though, my brother’s memory card was at college with him. He took that thing everywhere with him, and I can’t believe I missed such a crucial detail at the time.

Even so, the game started out like normal. Olimar was flying in the SS Dolphin as an orange meteor struck the ship and sent him barreling towards a strange planet. Nothing was out of the ordinary yet, at least I thought so at the time. I recently watched a playthrough of Pikmin 1 and couldn’t believe how much was different. The meteor wasn’t orange, and Olimar actually introduces himself. When I played it, the text pop up was always the same message Olimar wrote: “I shouldn’t be here…” I had thought it was an inside joke by the developers, but clearly there were more sinister forces at work. The first onion at the impact site was yellow. It was supposedly usually red, but how could I have known? Either way, I managed to get enough Pikmin to carry the main engine back to the Dolphin. Something was off the whole time, though. The Pikmin sounded like they were crying no matter what I made them do. Even when I didn’t even give them orders, they could only muster a melancholy whimper, as if great suffering had occurred.

At the end of the first day, I was met with that same message by Olimar: “I shouldn’t be here.” It was getting late now. I was certain that my mom had gone to bed, and my only source of light in my basement was the TV screen. On the menu, there was a new area made available to explore, called “The Forest of Despair.” It was the only place I could land, so I figured “what’s the worst that could happen?” If only I had known what awaited me.

Upon landing, I was easily able to knock the first wall down, but when I killed the first dwarf bulborb, instead of dropping a pellet, it dropped an orange onion. I was excited at the time because I only had one Pikmin type thus far. I sent them to carry it back to base when it suddenly sprouted legs like the yellow onion, killing all the pikmin carrying it. I was irked to have lost my entire army, but the excitement of an all new pikmin type was enough to keep me playing.

After spawning its legs, the onion ejected a single orange pikmin and a strange metal object along with it. I walked up to the sprout, but the moment I pulled it out of the ground, it began violently beating Olimar. Blood spilled everywhere and I could hear Olimar screaming “I shouldn’t have come here! I shouldn’t have come here! Now a bloody pulp on the ground, I could hear a faint breathing emanating from the bludgeoned captain. The strange Orange Pikmin lifted him up, displaying an infinity pikmin count above olimar’s head. Its strength was incredible. Suddenly, Olimar began screaming, “SPARE ME! SPARE ME!” The orange pikmin ignored his pleas as it dragged the kicking and screaming Captain towards its onion. “NOOOOO,” Olimar screamed, as the onion sucked the poor captain into its innards. I stared as mesmerized as I was terrified. Then… the orange pikmin turned to look straight at me. Olimar’s journal notification popped up before me to say one short phrase:

“You’ve incurred the wrath of the Donmin… Jonathan”

It… knew… my… name…

I unplugged the gamecube as fast as possible, but the orange power light was still on, so I unplugged the tv, yet that message remained onscreen clear as day. I ran upstairs screaming and crying to my mom’s room. I’m not sure if she caught a single coherent word in my tearful ramblings, but she comforted me nonetheless. I didn’t sleep at all that night. All I could think of was the unforgettable stare of that orange pikmin. I’ve changed my name since then in hopes that the Donmin can’t track me.

The next day, my mom took me to gamestop to return the game, but it was closed. There was a police officer nearby asking questions to a gamestop employee. My mom walked up to him and asked him what had happened. The officer took off his hat before he spoke.” An employee here committed suicide, slit his own throat with pieces of a broken disc that we still haven’t pieced together yet. It’s the darndest thing,” he said. “before slitting his throat, he had carved this word into his arm… Donmin. We can’t make heads or tails of it.” I almost couldn’t breathe in that moment. To think I was so rude to him the day before. Could I be next? I should have broken that disc into a thousand little pieces, but I was too afraid to. I sold it on eBay years ago and somebody bought it almost instantly. Whoever the buyer was… I’m begging you… destroy it. Throw that cursed disc into an incinerator. Don’t make the same mistake I did.

> **Don’t incur the Donmin’s wrath.**
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