#a woman scorned but make it a rightfully pissed ghost fox witch? dare i say one of the best things my brain has ever cooked up

[atlasrainerot]

🌟wanted to try & get back into making fakemon after like 6 years🌟

so I thought of Meowscarada, Delphox, & Primarina (my 3 fav starter lines) being the starters of a Unova Legends game & so here are the rough draft designs + concepts I came up with:

they’re all based on different regions + time periods of the US (which Unova is supposed to be based on)

Meowscarada’s inspo is the modern southern US (specifically Louisiana, more specifically New Orleans) & its design + lore is heavily based on New Orleans’ celebration of Mardi Gras (which is already a design inspo for regular Meowscarada, but I brought it to the forefront here); it’s a grass/fairy type since fairy is by far the type most commonly associated with food (& y’know, “Fat Tuesday”), so it’s basically a well-intentioned, literal, party animal that probably helped the old Unovans with their festivities 🍃🦋

Delphox’s inspo is the colonial era eastern US (specifically Massachusetts, more specifically Salem) & its design + lore is heavily based on the Salem witch trials; it’s a fire/ghost type since it’s made up of the scorned spirits of the victims of the trials (I don’t really know what the Pokemon universe’s equivalent of the witch trials would be, maybe people were accused of being ghost Pokemon or maybe even Zoroarks(?), so it’s, hypothetically, very hostile & dangerous, but if raised lovingly from a Fennekin, it could be quite docile & trusting 🔥🪦

Primarina’s inspo is the early 20th century western US (specifically California, more specifically Hollywood) & its design + lore is heavily based on early 1900s Hollywood actresses & stardom; it’s a water/psychic type since it’s supposedly ‘ahead of the times,’ (but it was definitely an omen for the modern Unovan entertainment industry), so it’s, in summation, a Hollywood darling mermaid seal with magical psychic powers (this is Pokemon, after all) that was likely simultaneously both loved by & intimidating to the people of its time 🌊🔮

I would love to flesh out these designs & concepts more, but is what i’ve got for now sksk~ ✨