#New is the name of my Darkrai btw

[riraro489]

"Wherever you go, I shall follow. Let me emphasize it: wherever!"

@heropartnerweek Day 3: Friends | Villains | Promise

I really love how Darkrai goes from sick, twisted, evil bastard to "I'll never leave your side no matter what". I love New so much <3

[chisatowo]

Screaming and crying as I give up my pmd randomizer save with a dialga and celebi as my starters because I forgot to change the settings from default and I'm not puting myself through that

[sirenspells]

Summary of that one actually developed plot in my Omori Pokemon AU

I’ve been meaning to make a post like this for a while. My Omori Pokemon AU is a mostly general and plotless AU, just for fun, with the exception of this one plot that is kind of meant to parallel OMORI’s main plot. I’m just going to summarize it, as I highly doubt I’ll get a fic out for it or draw much of it anytime soon. Some context for this AU before I start infodumping to you guys

The main characters live in Sinnoh, Twinleaf Town specifically, which effectively replaces Faraway Town here

At this point in the story, Mari has her Espurr, named Mewo, and her Ralts, and Sunny just has his Absol. The rest of the characters’ pokemon don’t really matter, but I imagine they all still have just their first

With that, here’s the entire plot, putting under a cut cause it’ll be long:

Stuff plays out much like canon up until a certain point. Mari and Sunny were planning on performing a recital together, Mari pressures him, Sunny doesn’t feel he’s good enough, etc. Like canon, Sunny throws his violin down the stairs, him and Mari argue, and Sunny pushes her. But here, their pokemon are all there to witness it (Basil is not here btw), and Mewo is able to use her psychic powers just in time to stop Mari from falling.

Sunny, horrified at what he almost just did, runs out of the house, and Mari goes after him. Sunny runs all the way out to Lake Verity, and Mari catches up to him there. While Mari is trying to talk to Sunny about what had just happened, she notices Sunny looking horrified at something behind her. Mari also turns around to see it, looking upon a shadowy pokemon with a single blue eye staring right at them.

The pokemon suddenly starts charging an attack, seeming to be aiming for Mari, but right as the attack fires, Sunny jumps in the way and takes the blow, falling unconscious as a result. The pokemon flees, and Mari tries desperately to wake up Sunny, but to no avail. Mewo, Ralts, and Absol arrive at the scene, but it’s too late for them to do anything but witness Mari crying over Sunny’s body.

Mari carries Sunny’s body back to Twinleaf, and relays the news of what happened to everybody. Sunny is taken to the hospital, where, no matter how much they try, no one is able to wake him up. Notably, Sunny appears to be suffering in his sleep, groaning, lightly thrashing about, and mumbling fearful things (remember Eldritch’s son in the Sinnoh games? Yeah, like that).

Mari is asked about the pokemon she saw by the lake, but none of the adults around her recognize a pokemon of that description. Except for Basil’s grandmother. Away from everyone else, Basil’s grandma tells Mari and the other main characters that the pokemon that attacked Sunny was likely Darkrai, a mythical pokemon known for giving its victims horrible and sometimes, in the case of Sunny, never-ending nightmares. She also tells them of how the feathers of the legendary pokemon Cresselia are said to be the only thing that can wake people up from these endless nightmares.

Hearing this, Mari decides that she wants to travel to Fullmoon Island to retrieve one of Cresselia’s feathers and save her little brother. When she brings up this idea to their parents, however, they disapprove of this plan, with their father especially being against it. Reasons include that they don’t truly believe Darkrai exists and therefore believe that Mari would be making this journey for nothing, but also that Mari’s rather young for making such a journey.

Mari mulls over this for a few days, and becomes increasingly frustrated as no improvements on Sunny’s condition are made. So she decides that she’s going to leave for Fullmoon Island anyway, planning to sneak out in the middle of the night without telling anyone. This includes not even telling her friends, as much as it pains her to keep such a secret from her closest friends and even her boyfriend, but she wants to be absolutely sure that the plan won’t get out to her parents before she leaves. She, of course, takes her two pokemon with her, and Sunny’s Absol also decides to go with her, wanting to do whatever he can to help his trainer.

The night Mari leaves, she leaves little notes by her friends’ windows, as well as her own window for her parents to find, that explain where she went. And with that, Mari and her pokemon leave for Fullmoon Island.

Now let’s head over to Sunny, who is having a hell of a time right now. He has been trapped in horrifying nightmares for what feels like days now, and I imagine these nightmares are much like Black Space, being distorted areas of Sunny’s memory, filled with weird and terrifying monsters out to get him. Sunny is desperate to escape, missing his friends and especially his sister, but there doesn’t appear to be any way out.

Something finally changes one day, however, as when Sunny is once again being heckled by weird nightmare creatures, someone gets in front of Sunny and fights them off. This mystery person, who looks like a monochrome Sunny, introduces himself as Omori, and reassures Sunny that he is not there to attack him, but rather, to protect him. Sunny is wary of him at first, as everything in this world has been out to get him, but finally relents and allows Omori to stay with him as they wander the nightmare, with Omori destroying any nightmare creatures they come across that try and frighten Sunny.

Sunny had not at all been aware that he was actually dreaming until Omori told him, and unfortunately Omori can not help him in waking up, but he hopes that just staying by Sunny is enough. Also, Omori has to occasionally leave the dream entirely, for reasons that he doesn’t elaborate to Sunny, and which Sunny finds weird cause he was under the impression that Omori was part of the nightmare like everything else.

Still, Omori stays with Sunny often, and the two of them start to become friends as time goes on, with Sunny even becoming comfortable enough to tell Omori about his life back home, and about his friends, sister, and pokemon. Despite their growing closeness, Omori still doesn’t reveal much about himself, and Sunny highly suspects that Omori’s hiding something from him. For one, the fact that Omori can and does occasionally just leave the nightmare, but also that Omori appears to use pokemon attacks when defending Sunny, and whenever Sunny asks questions about what exactly Omori is, he either answers with something vague or manages to dodge the question entirely.

Finally, Sunny demands that Omori tell him what he is, no more vagueness, no more dodging. Omori is reluctant, but finally, he tells Sunny everything.

Omori reveals that he is actually Darkrai, the very Darkrai that had trapped Sunny in his nightmares in the first place. He explains that on that night, he had only been at Lake Verity as a small break from his monotonous life on Newmoon Island, and hadn’t really expected to run into any humans there, let alone be seen by them. When Omori had attempted to “attack” Mari, he had only wanted to put her to sleep, and then flee before his nightmare powers, that he can’t control, kicked in. With this, Mari would have woken up later just fine. However, Sunny jumping in the way at the last second shocked Omori to the point that he froze up, long enough for Sunny to get afflicted by his nightmare powers.

Omori felt extremely guilty for doing this to Sunny, and so he decided that the best way to make it up to him was to directly enter Sunny’s nightmare and try to provide comfort as best he could. The reason Omori occasionally leaves is that he does have to physically travel to Twinleaf Town in order to enter Sunny’s dreams, and he only does so during the day to try to have as little people as possible be asleep and fall victim to his nightmares. So when night falls, he has to leave.

Omori expects that this revelation will cause Sunny to hate him, or fear him, and waits for Sunny to react negatively…but to his surprise, Sunny instead reacts by hugging Omori. Sunny tells Omori that despite all of that, he still wants to be Omori’s friend, and he knows that Omori must be a good person if he went out of his way to help Sunny after what he’d done to him.

This revelation actually makes Sunny and Omori grow ever closer. Sunny understands Omori better, and enjoys asking him questions about what it’s like to be a pokemon that’s lived as long as he has. And Omori, for the first time in the thousands of years he’s been around, actually has someone he can call a friend, and someone that he can talk to about his life and his lonely existence isolating himself on Newmoon Island. Sunny makes a promise to Omori, that one day, when he’s old enough to travel, he’ll go all the way to Newmoon Island to visit Omori in the real world.

Now let’s get back to Mari. She’s finally made it all the way to Fullmoon Island, and of all things she’d expected to see once she made her way to the island’s center, Cresselia herself was certainly not one of them. Cresselia is able to speak to Mari using telepathy, and Cresselia explains that she appeared to Mari because she could sense her pure heart and good intentions. Mari explains to Cresselia her reasoning for making this journey, and Cresselia is more than happy to give Mari a Lunar Feather to save Sunny.

Cresselia offers to take Mari back to Twinleaf Town, and after Mari agrees, Cresselia uses her psychic powers to make Mari fly alongside her as they travel back to Twinleaf Town. The two of them land on the roof of the hospital that Sunny is staying at as the sun has made its way into the sky. Mari thanks Cresselia for all that she’s done, and Cresselia is about to leave…until she senses a dark presence near the hospital. She recognizes it as Darkrai, and feels that she must directly enter Sunny’s dream in order to fend Darkrai off. Mari insists on going with her, and so her and Cresselia enter the nightmare together.

In the nightmare, Sunny and Omori are just hanging out as they usually do when they hear what sounds like Mari calling out to Sunny. The two are wary at first, as there have been times where normal-sounding voices have actually turned out to be nightmares, but when Omori sees Mari, he confirms that she is the real Mari, not something imitating her.

Hearing this, Sunny runs over to Mari, and finally the two siblings are reunited, tightly embracing each other and giving each other tearful apologies. Cresselia catches up to them and expresses relief that the two of them are okay, but then notices Omori standing some distance away from them. Immediately recognizing him as Darkrai, Cresselia fires a Moonblast at him, sending him flying into a nearby wall.

Mari and Sunny are shocked, and Sunny runs over to Omori to make sure that he’s okay. Because Omori sustained damage, the illusion over his body fades away, exposing his true form, and Mari realizes that Sunny is defending the pokemon that had caused them all this trouble.

Cresselia tries to warn Sunny that “Omori” is dangerous and cannot be trusted because he is actually Darkrai, and Sunny reveals that yes, he’d already known about Omori’s true nature, and explains to them everything that Omori had told him and that Omori is not malicious and was only trying to help Sunny. This comes as a shock to Mari and Cresselia, especially the latter, as she’d been under the impression for years that Darkrai was downright evil, and that all the nightmares he’d given people were on purpose.

Omori decides that now it is finally time for him to leave, and so he and Sunny exchange goodbyes before Omori disappears, leaving the nightmare and returning to Newmoon Island. Cresselia and Mari let Sunny know that he’ll finally be waking up soon, which he’s happy about. Mari and Cresselia leave the nightmare, Cresselia flies back to Fullmoon Island, and Mari enters the hospital from the rooftop.

When Mari enters Sunny’s room, all of her friends and her parents are there around Sunny’s hospital bed. When they notice Mari enter, they all rush over to her, relieved that she’s okay, but also admonishing her for leaving so suddenly without telling anyone. Mari apologizes, and then approaches Sunny’s hospital bed, and gently places the Lunar Feather on his chest. The feather glows, and then Sunny wakes up!

After everyone expresses their relief that Sunny is okay, him and Mari explain everything that had happened on the night of the recital, and everyone forgives them. Mari and Sunny also apologize to each other, Mari for pressuring Sunny so much, and Sunny for breaking the violin and almost pushing Mari down the stairs. And Sunny also thanks Mari for saving him :)

AND THATS IT. YEAHHHH. I will say there is kind of another part of this plot I’ve thought up, where Sunny does uphold his promise to Omori and travels to Newmoon Island four years later to see him again, bringing all his friends with him. Which means at some point he does tell the rest of his friends about Omori. But besides that that does it for this little piece of my omori pokemon au. If you actually read all this then hi I really appreciate it :)

[rmegars]

completed on 8/5/2023

character's name is Yuánshǔ (yuanshu's fine) (I don't use the tone mark things out of laziness sometimes lmao)

additional info about her and the drawing below

so this was painful lmao

so basically I was working on a request for a friend whose character is best described as if the wing gundam zero from endless waltz and shiny darkrai had a baby but then I sat there and realized something

"oh" "I can't draw gundam for shit dude"

which is fine and dandy so I decided to just take a break and try drawing something else which leads to an OC I've had on my mind way too much and I sat there like

"hey! she's just an anthropomorphic fox" "how hard can this be?"

then art block fucking killed me and it deadass felt like I forgot how to draw

whoops!!!!!!

but I managed to drag this out after mentally shaking myself in a VC with friends and erasing and redrawing shit fifty different times needed to remind myself that it did not have to be good it just had to be SOMETHING

and now here we are

yuanshu is a fox spirit, aka a kitsune or a huli jing (they're basically the same thing) she was created to protect a dying kingdom on the lunar plane, but then some events happened that led to her being instated as the kingdom's new ruler some of those events that led up to that moment costed her ability to feel emotion / sentiment. she essentially slowly removed aspects of herself that were deemed "impure" by the previous ruler, and over the years and eventually centuries, she became an embodiment of her desire / duty to protect her people. however, to some, she was seen as no more than a weapon or a machine.

or, well, that's how it was in the past. things got better when she met someone, but then things got way worse at some point, leading to her "death" and banishment into oblivion. in this image, this is where nothing went to shit yet

yuánshǔ is heavily based off of junko from touhou project, especially my variant / AU of her for a friend's RP setting. much of yuan shu's current personality and background is pulled from this alternate version of junko, as seen here.

anyone off of twitter or on discord likely saw this character before, as seen in a comic I haven't posted here (yet)

I mostly wound up making yuánshǔ cuz I felt like I was horribly butchering taaran (ponzoan, actually) junko's character lmao I was probably the only person who cared and people have said that I did fine, but. still

like yeah it's an AU, things should be different, but if you make things too different you can't really recognize the fact that the alternate version of this specific character is still supposed to depict this specific character so at that point it felt less like an alternate version of junko and more like. a new character parading around in a junko skin suit. and a white dress. so, yeah, I sat there like "well might as well make her an oc now" except since this is a rp setting, having junko suddenly use a new name and be a whole ass actual furry would be. awkward. and inconsistent.

then again I don't think anyone would've cared about that either lmao it's mostly just me maybe I'm just too prissy about it lmao

(junko isn't the only one I fucked up btw, there's also kaguya and hecatia. maybe someone else too) (so I'll. probably be making characters based off of them too)

[brongusthearcanist]

I got my first group of friends in 4th grade. At the end of that year, the center of our friend group was gonna move states and we were never going to see him again. This was also before online gaming so that wasn't even an option. This kid Owen, and my other friend Harry were probably the closest, and it hit Harry the hardest. What made it even more emotional is Owen traded Harry some of his most coveted Pokemon. One of them being a shiny (which btw most people thought were fake because no one had ever seen one in their game, and people didn't really believe the people who had). He also traded his Darkrai, a Celeby, and his favorite starter Empoleon. It was Owens goodbye, he wanted to leave something behind for him. And every time Harry scrolled across one of them in his P.C. you could see the light leave his eyes and he remembered his lost friend. He transferred them to each new game every time a new one came out, just in case Owen ever came back to visit. A couple years ago, over 15 years later, Harry got to return them to Owen in person. But Owen didn't want to leave Harry with no Pokemon to remember him so this time they traded each other the best shiny each of them had ever bred, and named them after themselves before trading. I have been stomped by this Owen Empoleon many times. I never knew what Harry traded him until 2 years later when I was free battling online (can't remember which game), and the person I'm battling throws out a Shiny Infernape named Harry. It sweeped my team with an egg move, which was basically confirming that I had indeed got randomly matched with Owen. It is strange how a game series with the worst online on the planet can actually bring you together sometimes.

[cafe-enchante]

Which version of the Sinnoh remakes do you plan to get and what starter will you choose? I'm going with my OG chimchar. Does make me wonder what pokemon the cast of Cafe Enchante would have, any ideas?

Both plus Legends XD (I am a responsible adult with no kids).

I'll probably go with Turtwig in Diamond and Piplup in Pearl. Those were my starters in the originals (I went with Turtwig in Platinum btw). I was never a big fan of Chimchar or Infernape XD sorry, but it's cool that you like it! (Depending on some other stuff I'll probably end up with Cyndaquil or Rowlet in Legend)

As for the Cafe Enchante cast... hmm...

(Honestly I'm terrible with these)

Misyr I could see favoring Ghost and Dark types overall, and have an Impidimp, Gengar, and Sableye on his team. Maybe. He's also one of the ones I see with the highest chance of having a mythical/legendary (specifically Darkrai)

Ignis would of course have Fire and Fighting types with maybe an ice type here or there. He would definately have an Arcanine for instance.

Il is a bit harder tbh. Flying types are a must so he would probably have some really pretty birds of course like Altaria, maybe even a Togekiss. He'd also be completely oblivious to why everyone is freaking out over him having something like Ho-Oh and Reshiram.

Canus would definately have an Aegislash. Overall I think he would favor Steel and Grass types but he'd also be very protective of his mons (which would translate to his Aegislash) so his other pokemon would be pretty weak/low leveled like a Sunflora, Hoppip, and Phantump.

Rindo is a fairly practical guy who spends most of his time working. His job is also very dangerous that would require very bulky pokemon that can hit like trucks. So I think he would probably favor ground types like Gliscor, Quagsire, and he would probably have a Gabite he has been trying to evolve but it wont just to dick with him.

Kariya would obviously favor ice type pokemon since they would take comfort around it naturally being colder around him. I could see him having a Glaceon and Cubchoo.

Solitus would a legendary. Probably Lugia to be a pair with Il and he would only have the one until he became Mikado's assistant and would be issued some sort of pokemon to help him, most likely a Porygon. He would probably get a Kyurem or Zekrom mid Il's route because Drama (with God having the third dragon for extra Drama)

Epilogi has a Ludicolo. I have no idea why, but that immediately sucker punched me in the face and wont leave so I think he would have one. In general though I think he would have very happy pokemon and ones known for having boisterous or goofy personalities.

Titania is the queen of Medio and would favor Fairy Types. Obviously this means she would have a Florges and Xerneas. I think she would also have something like a Shaymin.

Vennia would probably favor poison types and bug types a lot. He would have a few that 'blend in' with the grass and fairies of Medio, but you know his goals. Things like Vileplume, Roserade, probably has a Vespiqueen.

Mikado is a bit hard to because I flip flop with Kuu being either an Alolan Vulpix or a Zorua. Either way it is all he has because he gave his only other pokemon (Porygon) to Solitus.

Asmodeus favors dragon types and has a Hydreigon. That said, he surprisingly has a lot of really weak pokemon under him as well that he boasts about and claims they are powerful minions such as sunkern, wishmur, gulpin, ect. If you ask about it he will say they impressed him with their tenacity but you can tell he is lying.

Noah has a Giratina. It is pretty much the only thing that can survive and even he isnt sure how but it works. A Hoopa will pop in and out but never stays long and usually dumps a bunch of his ash somewhere.

Kotone would have some cute pokemon like Eevee and maybe a starter pokemon (not sure which but I could see her with a Chikorita or Sobble) and something you think is cute and weak until it evolves and wrecks you like a goomy, munchlax, or togepi. Ignis gave her a Spheal she named Kororo.

She also probably inherited her grandfather's Absol. It doesn't really do anything but lay on a bed near the counter but she remembers her grandpa telling her he got it because some neighborhood kids were throwing rocks at it without realizing it was trying to warn them about a tree that was about to crack and fall over. It gave him heads up if someone who came through the gate was bad news so he always said it earned it's keep for multiple lifetimes with that alone.

It is really old and needs help getting up the stairs now.