#Pokémon GSC

[pohutukosplay]

Pōhutukaryl Cosplay as Lanturn Pokémon

photoshoot with Cassa's Creative Shots SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium July 18 2024

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[thebladeblaster]

What if the gym leaders had Digimon part 1?

For the sake of my sanity I only picked the stage their Digimon would be at when you battle them. You know giving them Digimon makes it infinitely easier for them to hold back against challenger since they can just have their Digimon revert to weaker form.

[invisiblemelonmoose]

Thinking about Kris being a lonely kid who grew up in her home town without any friends. The only other child she knew was the professor's son who was at least 5 years younger than her and the first friend she made started off as some asshole thief that shoved her to the ground and called her names.

Even as she traveled and met all sorts of people, she never really made any strong connections or even knew how to small talk enough to keep up a conversation besides a few tips about pokémon locations, battle rematches, or the occasional gossip spoken at her (trainer calls).

She was a good, tho very awkward, kid who liked helping people out (running errands for both professors, taking letters for others, helping sick and hurt pokémon) , learning about pokémon, and battling. She was better at forming bonds and making friends with animals, significantly more than humans that when people asked her to watch over their pokémon for them, the pokémon didn't want to go back to their original humans on various occasions (the spearow mail carrier, the protected shuckle).

A legendary beast saw the purity of her heart and sought to test her out as a trainer. It saw how deeply she loved and cared for pokémon (happiness mechanic) and needed to know more.

Her rival learned to care about his pokémon through evaluating his actions and comparing them to hers and realizing his lack of compassion and care, to treat them as teammates rather than tools. Both are still very awkward around people but not around their pokémon and not with each other. They would meet up from time to time; she'd see him improve and resume training after another loss (Indigo Plateau rematch and Dragon's Den training).

Sometimes while battling, she would dress as a boy because she felt like she wasn't taken seriously as a girl (outfit changes in link cable battles and trades).

She reminded people of another great trainer who was known for his kindness and love of battling, saw how his family and friends missed him (Green/Blue, Sabrina, Copycat, Red's mom). When she does find him, she earns herself the battle of a lifetime.

Her mom worries about her and buys her gifts as an incentive to stop by home from time to time (room decorations and money saving). Even if she stops by and adds more decore by trading with new people (mystery gift) she's never home for very long.

Another legeendary is drawn to her by a mysterious gift presentes to her (mobile adapter and gs ball event).

She takes on the challenge of the new Battle Tower and seeks to potentially become the top battler there (first battle tower introduced).

As most people never played Crystal, I feel like few people remember her as she was and it bums me out because she was such a sweet and special kid. She's usually just tacked on to the HGSS trio as an afterthought

[7threquiem]

doodle

[segasister]

… So which Pokémon is most likely to say the Fuck word if they had the capacity to say more than just their name? Let's find out!

[cb-andy]

Was digging through old art when I found this old Johto Starter redesign I made with the Ice > Ground > Steel > Ice type triangle. Still laughing at Feraligatr caveman having a face of ice teeth and still choosing to hit things with a club, very cool of him.

[thatghostgal]

I BEAT RED ON MY SECOND ATTEMPT WOOOOOOOOOOO

Final team, in order from highest level to lowest:

-Bogmire the Haunter

-Teddy the Snorlax

-Geo the Graveler

-Wiz the Misdreavus

-Riptide the Gyarados

-Mary the Pidgeotto

[pohutukosplay]

Pōhutukaryl Cosplay as Lanturn Pokémon

photoshoot with Cassa's Creative Shots SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium July 18 2024

buy me a Ko-Fi?

[thebladeblaster]

The Johto gang’s Digimon

[invisiblemelonmoose]

What if, for shits and giggles but also because it could totally make sense in a way, I headcanoned that Gold/Hibiki/Ethan is Kris's older brother a la Ken from the beta?

Unlike, Red and beta!Blue/Leaf who were always conceived of as two separate kids who were friends in concept art/promo materials, Gold and Kris are never depicted as interacting in game canon and are the only protag pair to not do so. It isn't until Masters that we see them interacting and Master's version of "canon" is easily arguable.

If Kris's older brother is running around having his own pokemon adventure, of course she'd never really run into him unless they were at home at the same time.

[pkmnprideflags]

So I accidentally went down a rabbit hole and am now really bothered by the question: when was Celebi's design finalized?

In the SpaceWorld '99 demo (August 17, 1999) Celebi has an almost unrecognizable design:

We know from interviews that Hironobu Yoshida was hired to design several random Pokémon that still needed fixing, including Celebi. We have builds from September 29, September 30, and October 6, but I never see anyone talking about them, and I have neither the technology nor the computer knowledge to delve into them myself. I'd love to know if Celebi has its final design by those builds, or if it took even longer.

Celebi's final GSC design (made by November 1999) is a little different from the design we know now, though:

(In order: official art of Celebi by Ken Sugimori, made sometime around the release of Gold & Silver; Celebi's front sprite from Silver & Crystal; and Celebi's current official Sugimori art, which I can't find an exact creation date for.)

Original!Celebi has some very different shades of green going on, and its arms have a different shape. I understand how this old design became known on this website as "the onion fairy." But its sprites give it a much more vibrant green color. Sometime later, its design goes back to the muted tones, but uses much darker shades, so its face and arms no longer look white. The "bump" on its arms is also lessened a bit, making them look more human-ish.

I'm unsure when these changes were put into place, exactly. This Sugimori art made for Crystal in 2000 has the OG colors & arm shapes, so the changes weren't immediate. But by the fourth movie (released July 2001, definitely animated well before that), Celebi's palette has shifted to something almost exactly like its current design:

Its face/body tone is still a bit brighter than what we know now, but it's the right hue, and its arm shape has been adjusted quite a lot.

So, I just wonder: were these changes made by Sugimori himself after the release of Crystal? Or did the anime team make these choices, and the game designers just adapted? I don't know, I'm not a poké-historian. Celebi isn't unique in this regard; a lot of Pokémon have changed designs subtly over the years, sometimes because of the anime. I'm just curious in Celebi's case because it's such a sought-after Pokémon.

[bubblegumsunshine333]

I'll finally have to upgrade my setup, my monitor is only 640x480.

Mozilla? Chrome? Step aside, browser warriors.

We've found the winner.

[artsy-arlequin]

It's pokémon gold and silver's birthday today! Love to the pokémon game with the bright colours and my favourite starter

[ameliethegardivoir]

[custom-content-collection]

Pichu

[invisiblemelonmoose]

Not to mention how his character arc is most apparent in his crobat, who evolves through maxed friendship, a mechanic introduced through this gen.

karens “strong pokemon weak pokemon” quote is such a great piece of storytelling for the player, silver and lances dynamic it really sucks its become a giant joke and now no one can appreciate what it actually adds to the story of johto arghhh