#beta kyurem

[icestardragonhc]

Beta! Kyurem

[turbo-blaze]

nahhh not the original dragon back for lacunosa town

[deebyfeeby]

Beta Kyurem

[darkdragon768]

Beta Kyurem my beloved

[luxysena]

Kyurem (Beta version) + Kyurem + Slight Zekrom/Reshiram inspo

Set Price: €40,-

+ Will include a Wingless png version

Ko-fi link in pinned post to claim!

[jadeazora]

More early versions of Pokemon. The top two are meant to be Kyurem, followed by the Timburr line! The thing with the antennae is meant to be Meloetta, tho I think the rest barring that cut dog thing next to Zebstrika are recognizable enough.

[hasellia]

I wonder how much of this story is being held onto for Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem origin story. It at least explains why Kyurem's stone was called "the God stone" in the B/W internal files.

This is apparenly the beta, if not actual, cosmology/creation myth lore for Pokemon as per the gigaleak that just happened. Wild.

[parasolladyansy]

The White Dragon

“In ancient history, when one seeking Truth appears, so does Reshiram. Reshiram faces them, testing their mind & strength. Once the test is complete, & Reshiram recognizes the human as a Hero, they bestow knowledge & wisdom upon them, & bear their fangs towards any who mean to harm them. Reshiram thus watches over the Hero similar to a loving parent. However, if the Hero’s eyes ever become clouded with greed, wealth & power corrupting their good heart, Reshiram will turn the Hero’s country into a land of flames, then leave their side forever…”

-adapted from the beta leak

A combination of things led to this - feeling a little stuck on the DxP page I’m on, the beta leaks, already thinking about the possible next story in Unova whenever we get BW remakes / sequels, & the reappearance of a song that took over my life when I was younger that also involved a white dragon: “Sóra” (Escaflowne the Movie). 🪽

At face value, Reshiram is an odd match for Ansy; Fire / Dragon, their Electric counterpart Zekrom would be a much better fit for a rain user, & representing an absolute while Ansy is a very strong believer of balance.

Putting aside their Pokedex entry that says “when Reshiram's tail flares, the heat energy moves the atmosphere and changes the world's weather” (heat being a key ingredient to clouds, turning water to vapor), I feel like maybe it was mostly because Ansy saw the truth that balance is what’s needed - whether it’s Truths & Ideals, or both living together with Pokemon & respecting their space. That’s why N lost all those years ago - he was unbalanced, largely thanks to Ghetsis’ methods for raising him to be the Hero of Ideals involving rejecting Truth over Ideal to pursue a fantasy (at least in Ansy’s timeline)

Going into Kyurem’s leak (btw, if you read the Pokedex or look into the Mystery Dungeon games, it seems most if not all these leaks about the Tao trio are actually canon), Kyruem can see the future. I wonder if maybe that was the reason for splitting of the Original Dragon, where the first Twin Heroes fought with each other over Truth & Ideals - what if the elder twin argued they had to follow the Truth of the predicted future while the younger fiercely held on to an Idealistic alternative?

Or, even more tragically…what if it was a self-fulfilling prophecy, the Original Dragon predicting the Twins would fight, & they would break in two, leaving Kyurem as their empty shell?

Then there’s the mystery of how this Original Dragon fell from the sky as a meteor in ancient times, the Giant Chasm being the falling site (filled with meteorite Pokémon like Solrock & Lunatone). Were they pulled here by the future they saw?

TLDR: I really like lore 📖

[holiday-n-express]

allegedly a leaked beta version of kyurem

what a cool design, i wonder if they were thinking along the lines of the original dragon, or if this was solely just kyurem. iirc kyurem was its own thing in bw, but got retconned in bw2 to be part of reshiram and zekrom (from the OG dragon).

[shining-kommo-o]

Beta Kyurem

[icestardragonhc]

The Plasma Fregatte is even more Kyurem shaped than I anticipated. I'm in tears

[cosmozerk]

Beta lads

Out of the many things from the leaks, Beta Hilbert and Kyurem stood out to me, so here ya go~

[pkmnlegendary]

Beta kyurem is so pretty!!

[darkdragon768]

Fucking had enough of it. Disabled reblogs on the zelda eow horse post. It's annoying the fuck out of me that it is STILL getting attention.

THE GAME IS ALREADY OUT WHY ARE YOU STILL LIKING AND REBLOGGING IT!?!

[ashitomarisu]

This was meant to be Beta Kyurem?

[jadeazora]

Big batch of beta BW sprites part 2! I like the colors used for Snivy, Purrloin, and Whirlipede more than their finalized designs.

Unfinished sprites for Black and White Kyurem, tho White looks more complete.

Beta sprites for Grimsley, Burgh, and Iris. Grimsley used to be a blonde.

The UFO from the Invaders series used to be Beheeyem-themed rather than more Cascoon-shaped.

An early build of the Hoenn Battle Frontier! I count five attractions, the Battle Factory and Battle Palace haven't been added yet.

Sinnoh Frontier Brains! Thornton had better hair, and they apparently used recolored versions of Mars, Saturn, and Candice's sprites at some point before they had the finalized sprites.

Early models for XY. Testing with the fire effects on Moltres?

The XY models were desaturated from the beta to the completed game.

Design doc on translating the 2D art to 3D, and the Swanna model with measurements.