#ace pokemon unbound

[refrigeratedboombursts]

I feel like we as a fandom(three people and the linoone who got a lobotomy) don't talk enough about how fucked up it is that Log essentially groomed the player into an ideal champion and someone who could run his errands without question.

Every time they try to say no, he brings up Aros, and even promises to bring him back only after the player completes the wormhole quest.

Not to mention, he's dismissive of Ace and Melony and doesn't seem to understand Ace's need for closure.

Also considering the fact that, aside from the girl’s grandfather, he's the only other adult man in Frozen Heights and, due to his connection with Aros’ family, was likely the closest thing the Player has to a positive male role model(I use the word positive rather loosely, but whatever).

TL;DR: Log is a crusty bitch.

[gzeidraws]

Commission for @faleve of their trainer Falco, and Ace from Pokemon Unbound (Thank you !!)

[faleve]

Hello :3c I commissioned @crystaleyesd to draw Ace in Ouji Fashion. He's wearing Nostalgic Time Travel set by Alice and the Pirates! 🩶

Context is that F!Protag brought M!Protag and the rivals to a fancy party. Ace had to wear some fancy outfit, and he hated it. Especially the cravat. :3c

[unboundedfates]

Hi! This blog isn’t dead! I got distracted! Anyways, I drew the two MCs for this blog!

Enter the Borrius Champion and her rival!

For my complete sanity, I will be referring to Ace as Atlas because there’s also Ace Trappola and I don’t want to fight my way around that.

Atlas will for the most part be in Yuu’s role. Yes I gave him both Aggron and Haxorus because I couldn’t remember if he had one or the other. He also deserves that sixth Pokémon anyways to balance Jane out.

I have mentioned in one of my posts either here or on my main blog, that since I do not know Atlas’ last name, but do know Professor Log is technically his legal guardian for the moment, his last name will also be Log for convenience sake.

[starrysmiling]

hc names!

about time i talked about them, so... we stumbled upon this tweet a long time ago and, knowing that francis and fresia have jp names, decided to commit to the bit. while deciding on them all, we ended up accidentally setting down a seasonal theme, so we committed to that bit too!

fern, shimoyuki hanata (霜雪ハナタ)

the word 霜雪 is read as ソウセツ sousetsu, comprised of the kanji 霜 shimo, meaning frost, and 雪 yuki, meaning snow, but we've appropriated it as a surname. very fitting, hm? we've kept hanata as it is in the tweet. we think it's cute to keep the pun. also, yukihana means snowflake and i think that is very fucking neat.

jax, natsubane koujaku (夏羽黄雀)

夏羽 natsubane is a word that is read as is, and means summer plumage. it's literally the kanji 夏 natsu, meaning summer, with 羽 hane, meaning feather. in hs au, jax uses the name hane in games he plays as a character name, which leads to fern's first nickname for him, 羽さん hane-san. 黄雀 koujaku is a type of sparrow, which is a bird we associate with him. he prefers people calling him コウ kou if they're close enough to be on a first-name basis, which is what he gets fern to call him after knowing each other for a while. the cherry on top is that jaku sounds a bit like jax. haha you literally can't fit more bird references into this guy.

fresia, yukimine tokiha (雪嶺トキハ)

雪嶺 as a word is read セツレイ setsurei, and is actually one of the surnames i came up with when brainstorming a name for fern. i think it's really fucking banger, like. it literally means snow-capped peak. she lives in a place called frozen heights. it's fucking perfect. we've also kept tokiha from the tweet as well!

ace, umezaka ace (梅坂エース) and melony, umezaka melony (梅坂メロニー)

the symbolism i wanted for ace and melony wasn't as clear, because i did want their names to be a bit representative of spring. we went for 梅坂 umezaka from 梅 ume, meaning plum, and 坂 saka, for hill. plum blossoms are in bloom during spring, after all. the other thing with this name is that 梅 is in the word for rainy season, 梅雨 tsuyu, which happens in tropical areas (such as their home region hoenn!) that said, because ace isn't from borrius, we've kept ace as his name in katakana. similarly, melony's name is just her name in katakana, メロニー! fresia calls him エー助 e-suke as a joke sometimes. 助 is a common male name ending and um. yes! it's how we've localised her acey-boy nickname.

and as an extra... jax's fake identity from bodyguard au, which isn't even in canonverse but i think is important to go over anyway to complete the seasons:

wren, shuusou yuu (秋霜ユウ)

wren's name was chosen before jax even meets fern. log doesn't tell jax the name of aros' son before he sends him on the mission, so the surprise he gets when he realises the 霜 sou in his name, is the same kanji as shimo in fern's name shimoyuki. we wanted to complete the seasonal theme, and wren's clothes are pretty damn orange, so we went with 秋 shuu for autumn. the origins of ユウ yuu are 友 like in 友情 (yuujou, meaning friendship), 勇 and 雄 like in 勇者 (yuusha) or 英雄 (eiyuu), both meaning hero. also, ユウ looks kinda like コウ, right?

this (super old) name chart too for reference!

[lemonitenite]

Eh I was expecting grass, not too bad ig

Took that gym leader quiz that's going around.

Thank the gods a type I actually use. I was worried I'd get Water or Grass or, gods forbid, Normal (I could not handle the idea of specializing in the same type as Norman). If I had a gym, it'd just be me and the challenger. No challenges, no puzzles, no nothing. Me vs. Them. And when it looks like I'm down to my last Pokemon... I step into the ring.

[fangaminghell]

Lmao Maddy ( my Pokemon Unbound protag) just standing there awkwardly as Ace and Prof. Log battle. She just wanna go home man.....

[kbt-expressway]

Ace for the character bingo?

Literally my favorite character in the game. I think he needs therapy (affectionate).

[trans-squim]

yeah i ship jax, ace, and the player character together.

[incorrect-pokemon-rom-hacks]

Ace: Can you say something? Please?

MC:

Ace: Come on, you’re still doing this? Really? It’s been hours!

MC, sliding a paper over to him:

Ace: I AM NOT ASKING JAX IF HE’LL UN-JINX YOU FIRST

[the-breloominati]

anyways I think I posted about this before but like.. I feel like the main series pokemon ganes have balancing issues or something??

cause like if you look at mega evolution, in X and Y you're guaranteed at least 2 mega stones before the elite 4 I think (1 for the kanto starter and the other's the lucarionite; correct me if I'm wrong, its been a while gdjgdjdj), and in ORAS not only do you get the mega stone for your starter (and I'm pretty sure thats only after fortree city), I think you also get latios/latias as well as groudon/kyogre (and I'm pretty sure you get the orb too) if you caught it and like.. you can pretty much just steamroll through everything I think? like yeah stuff like that shouldn't be necessary for regular old trainer battles, but the remaining gym leaders and the elite four would probably be pushovers without any self-imposed restrictions (nuzlocke rules, not using healing items in battle (or at all), no megas, etc.)

like what I said in a post before (I'm prettyvsure at least), swords dance shouldn't be necessary, but it should at least be somewhat useful while playing through the game normally yknow?

and the other thing is the opposing trainers hardly ever switch out their pokemon?? like in Pokemon Unbound (at least on the "difficult" difficulty) if I used leech seed or hypnosis on someone's pokemon (usually battling a gym leader or in an important evil team fight) I could generally expect them to switch out at some point or another, and when I was battling the normal-type gym leader I had him switching out almost constantly

but as far as I know in the official pokemon games, unless they have a move like u-turn or volt switch or something, people (mostly gym leaders/the elite four I think) would only switch out once or twice?

and I know thats probably not the best indicator, but looking at entry hazards and stuff? in the official games they're really only good for breaking sturdy, if at all

so I guess what I'm getting at here is that pokemon should probably have difficulty settings so it doesn't have to be self-imposed as often (but not grindy of course, that's just tedious)

also exp share options (single-pokemon, full party, capped full party)

oh and before I forget, single-use items are also basically useless in the main story of the official games (except for certain berries I guess, but for some of them it just might not be worth the effort)

in radical red and unbound (maybe in blazing emerald as well? I'm not sure) single-use items arent used up after important battles, and I think it would be really neat if that was a feature in the official games (along with difficulty settings ofc)

[diwatya]

i'm replaying pokemon unbound and oh my gods so many has changed since i last played this so long long ago. (i say long ago but it's just around last year lmao) anyway the mc upgraded sprites look so good, im more biased to the fem sprites bc they're so pretty and hot i might redraw my pokemon oc,,,

also, UPGRADED JAX?? REWRITTEN STORYLINE AND DIALOGUE?? it's like a newly published edition of a book, so good, all the things i didn't vibe with in the old one (to be honest there isn't much i didnt vibe with, just average problems with pokemon rom games) are all fixed up as far as i know. im yet to battle the crater town gym but i just miss playing this game. i think i played it in august too.

anyway, I DIDN'T REALISE JAX WAS WHITE??? i always thought he was brown, maybe because of the colouring, i always drew him as brown, so when i saw him guarding his house i went "WHY ARE YOU WHITE". hilarious but im still keeping my headcanon.

also ace, i guess the name of the rival, is still snobby. i guess you'd be snobby too to someone who's named exactly like you. both the rival and my mc is named ace so that's gon be fun. while i like ace i really like his dad better, marlon my beloved.

also seeing the new fanbase bc of v2 and i wish they were around when i first played it and got obsessed.

[gzeidraws]

Commission for @aohane-dream of Francis, Fresia, Jax, and Ace from Pokemon Unbound! Thank you so much🤗!!

[faleve]

I like Pokemon Unbound, but I also really enjoyed Collective Unconscious. There also is no context why Ace is in Rainstorm City, I just thought it'd be a cool idea. :3c

I commissioned @brenni-murasaki for this piece. Please commission them if you like retro style art! 💜

[unboundedfates]

Here, have this unfinished doodle of what was my thought to have the three Unbound characters in the same dorm. Despite not being lined, Aklove looks pretty good.

Jane, Atlas (I know his canon name is Ace, but do we really need two of the same person), and Aklove.

[starrysmiling]

unbound characterisation notes

recently i've been thinking about how to explain (how i see) the main unbound characters to others in a concise way because there's... a lot i always want to say and i guess i condensed it into some of the most important traits i see in them? the protags are basically home-brewed ocs at this point! might as well put it here because i advertise my fics here anyway, which do require basic understanding of fern, if not the whole gang:

fern (male protag): easily switching from cool and aloof to humble and polite, he constantly adjusts his outward persona with sharp observation skills, which also help hone his instinctual battle style. underneath, he is loyal to a fault and cares far more than he seems to look, though he absolutely refuses to admit it.

fresia (female protag): natural moodmaker with a cheerful disposition, quick wits, and the knowledge and skill to back it up. her dream is to be a pokemon research professor, even though she's a troublemaker who likes to find ways to get away with pranks.

jax: gentle extrovert with charming looks, a heart of gold, and a burning drive to become the best person he can. he wears his heart on his sleeve and loves with his entirety, but don't be decieved, because behind his infectious smile, he's memorised hundreds of self-made battle strategies.

ace: while easily the loudest and most headstrong, he isn't the best at delicate communication and keeping his short fuse dry, letting the raw strength of his pokemon do the talking for him. stubborn and determined, he is someone who achieves whatever he sets out to do in his own personal style, no matter what it takes.

and a relationship chart, because i really enjoy how they interact with each other!