#I’M SORRY I just. Gladion’s my favorite Pokemon character like Ever 😭

[shima-draws]

I WAS BEING SILLY BUT THEY ACTUALLY GAVE HIM AN ALT. THEY FINALLY FREED HIM FROM THE BASEMENT. WE ARE SO BACK BABY!!!!!

[gladionfan]

PLEASEEEE forgive me if im not doing this right. i really mean it when i tell you that i dont know what im doing hahaha

i’m so sorry i read this and then without thinking immediately went on a gladion rant . FORGIVE ME. i get excited he is my favorite guy.

HI!!! im so happy a couple of you like my analysis because i care so much about this guy. i also need to push him down the stairs. having an album of animators work is so real. i especially like the one that confirms gladion is a naturally talented skater it makes me laugh. i’ll have to look up the account because i have the artist saved but can’t name him off the top of my head!

the shot of him in the snow is i think from “a night of a thousand poses” or “full force pose at the sleepover”. i’m guessing because it’s been awhile but usually when my friends send me a gladion screenshot i can tell them the episode and scene correctly. i believe the context is lillie feels unloved by lusamine and while burnet comforts her there’s a cut to lusamine in her office and it’s one of the tiny pictures on the wall! their first family photo is there too.

i like to think of him as a short person because he has the vibe and also because i think hau and lillie get taller and i think this would annoy him.

random fun fact which i think is entertaining; gladion doesn’t appear in person till episode 27, but some people count his appearance in the episode where lillie first hatches her vulpix, since he was in the little family photo on her desk. he’s only visible for like 5 seconds the whole episode though lol

gladion is really important to me in a lot of ways i think. started writing why but i can’t or i’ll go on a 300000 word tangent. it’s been 8 years now and every year i celebrate his birthday. i have the kind of love for gladion where i’ll be sitting struggling to finish my computer science work and the gladion in my head will tell me that failure is necessary for success and that even when things are lonely in hard i have to keep trying and i, alone in my empty room, shake my head and think “wow gladion… you’re so right”. gladion is a recurring character in my brain. for 2 years (this youtuber must hate me) i have visited his pokemon masters voice notes video. i emailed dena about his sygna suit to the point where i stopped because i felt bad for bothering the team. his sygna suit made me unable to function for several days. i have his poster. i have his anime appearances documented and should probably lend help to the wiki but i’ve been stalling. i got into mbti for 4 days in order to type gladion then changed lillie’s profile pic and his on pdb then left. i love lillie and mohn by default. i love lusamine as a character i have complicated feelings about her. ok i accidentally went on a tangent anyway. just anyone who knows me knows i love him.

i love talking about gladion merchandise!!!! i own a couple of his pins, his deck box, his poster, some stickers, and am trying to get my hands on everything else but as a student it’s kinda hard 😭 especially when you don’t live in japan and have to pay overseas shipping. the aether family had a merch line a long time ago! but the merch is kinda rare and hard to get your hands on [leans in cupping my mouth with a hand like i’m telling a secret] i’m usually a crazy person and don’t tell people about all his merchandise because i’m convinced i will somehow single-handedly raise the prices but gladion would tell me gatekeeping is wrong so here’s what gladion got in the aether family line.

THIS art! card sleeves! deck box! his deck box is cool i love it. poster! dialogue stickers! normal sticker! acrylic stand!

sticker! hand towel for some reason. imagine you’re crying and i shuffle in my bag and you’re like “ohh. they’re handing me a handkerchief” and you look at it . No. it’s gladion and silvady

the sticker art got a clear file also and it’s also on his deck box. he’s in this awesome card sleeve, probably my favorite sleeve pokemon has ever made, upside down. oh both of these artworks are can badges also

here is another can badge that he got! so sicko mode.: he got several postcards!

and there’s my personal favorite of his paper theater. it’s sooooo coolllllll. ok sorry for yapping. he has a lot of cards also but this post is too long and my phones laggginnhgg. oh he also got those little deck box separators which are pretty cool! and silvally has at least 3 figures :) which i count as gladion merchandise. i might be missing one but i can think of 3!

OH AND HE HAS A TOTE BAG! AND A NOTEBOOK! tote bag is pretty rare though

some of my thoughts on gladion’s design :) and gladion because my friends are always being forced to listen to my essays and i journey through the mountains explaining his lore to whoever will listen