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cherrytree-irl · 1 year ago

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lore masterpost

i made this list because i like making lists. enjoy

so, here's some stuff that's important and/or could get mentioned again in the future:

Known side characters:

Vernon Kirsche: Sylvan's father, who lives in Lacunosa Town. He's judgemental and old-fashioned, but he cares deeply for his son.

Azalea Rosewood: Sylvan's mother. She left Lacunosa Town after an argument with Vernon when Sylvan was eight years old. For years, nobody except Laelia (see below) knew where she was. She's now known to live in Galar.

Oliver Kirsche: Sylvan's older half brother. He moved out shortly after Azalea left, breaking contact with the rest of the family for fifteen years. He currently lives in Anistar City, Kalos and runs @blackout-rotomblr under the alias "Amarena."

Laelia Rosewood: Sylvan's younger half sister. Azalea took Laelia with her to Galar when she left. She was three years old at the time. She owns the blog @rover-on-rotomblr and is Rover's caretaker.

Willow Rosewood: Sylvan's youngest sister, who lives in Galar with Azalea and Laelia. She was born after Azalea left Unova, so Sylvan didn't know she existed for a while.

Aurelia Bonney: Sylvan's former rival and ex-girlfriend. She and Sylvan broke up due to poor communication. She lives in Castelia City and is Bailey the Espeon's original trainer.

Linnet: A Latias who took the form of a human child and sought Sylvan and N's help when something important was stolen from her. She's smaller and weaker than others of her species.

Latios: Linnet's brother who is almost always by her side. He currently chooses not to use a nickname.

Raivo Merari: N's former coworker. He hated N for his past with Team Plasma, and repeatedly attempted to sabotage N and get him fired from his job. He was arrested after what he did to Luigi (See below).

Luigi: A Hydreigon who was brought to the shelter N works for when she was a Deino. Raivo stole her from the shelter and tried to frame N for the theft. When that didn't work, he forced Luigi to evolve twice in a very brief time period and then got her to attack N.

some other people have been mentioned but if they're not listed here either they're not really relevant or I Forgor 💀

now for links to posts:

Sylvan's hypothetical role in the games

Previous post part 2

Sylvan's relationship with his father

About Sylvan's ex-girlfriend

About Zekrom

Sylvan's family photo

About Sylvan's brother

Doesn't every girl want to be a boy?

Sylvan's childhood

Sylvan meets Sage

Azalea leaves

Sylvan's search history

Sylvan's favorites

Sylvan plans to visit home

Petting guide for Sylvan's Pokémon

Sylvan visits his dad, part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Vernon's knowledge of Team Plasma

Sylvan's thoughts on battling

Linnet shows up

Sylvan communicates with Linnet

About Linnet's family

Linnet reflects

What.

Retrieving Linnet's Soul Dew

How Sylvan and N met

There's an egg now

The egg

The bond between siblings

Sylvan fears Murkrow

Idele hatches

Sylvan's secret crush

The cycle of roller skating

Sylvan likes Unova

He also likes Sinnoh

About the Lacunosa legend

N needs glasses

Sylvan thinks about his siblings

Sylvan will have no father-in-law

About animals

N's infamy 1

N's infamy 2

This is what Linnet looks like

Sylvan knows this from experience

Club Piplup

N gets his glasses

Euler and Lucky

Sylvan and math

Sylvan doesn't want kids

N's regrets

Oliver wants to see Sylvan

Oliver's good side

Oliver thinks about disease

Sylvan and Oliver reunite

How N asked out Sylvan

Sylvan's favorite season

The worst kind of social gathering

The Orchid

Rosewood?

Mother's Day

Wet

Laelia's whereabouts

Sylvan discovers Laelia

How Sylvan met his Pokémon

Sylvan and N ramble about their jobs

Sylvan and N get spotted in public

Oliver shows up

Idele is weird

Vernon is weird

The Kangaskhan Incident

Claustrophobia and Ferris wheels

Sylvan reunites with Laelia and Azalea, part 1

part 2

part 3

This post is basically a recap of the previous 3

Sylvan proposes

N meets Azalea and also some other stuff happens

Azalea gets a grip

Group photo

N announces the engagement

Sylvan's nerves

Sylvan and forgiveness

Luigi shows up

N is totally not afraid of this Deino. Absolutely.

Luigi likes her name

Luigi is ready

This post is relevant

Luigi is stolen

N gets blamed

A lead on Luigi

Luigi attacks N...

...And it gets in the news

N loses his job

N's thoughts on why he was fired

Idele's first battle

Sylvan's romance drama

About Multiversal Ghetsises

About the Animals™ franchise

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kades-rp-lore-hell · 2 months ago

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are you ready for a long-ass tangent? good, because i've decided it's time for me to tell you sylvan's entire development history as a character.

so, first and foremost, sylvan was not originally made to be a roleplay blog character. his original and primary purpose is to be a self insert guy i can draw kissing and/or hanging out with characters i like.

the character that eventually became sylvan was made... about 5 years ago, i think. maybe. and he was originally made to be a sword and shield self insert. he had a different design, though i never drew it. i made it in gacha life or something and lost the screenshot.

that's usually how i start designing characters. i open up gacha life and/or picrew and start dicking around until i end up with something i like that i can mess with more when i eventually draw the character. which i never did with galarian sylvan. his name was originally oliver, by the way.

anyway, from memory, i think he looked something like this.

do excuse the Slop, 'tis but a quick doodle.

i don't think i ever worked out much of a backstory for galarian sylvan. i didn't think about him for very long. he was kind of just... the sword and shield protagonist.

personality wise, i remember him being a guy who didn't talk very much, even when commanding his pokemon in battle. he was a very good battler, though. good enough to become champion. this is not a trait that stuck around.

anyway, galarian sylvan faded into the back of my mind eventually... until i played pokemon black. (cool kade fact: for some reason i played pokemon black and then pokemon white 2??? i don't know why i did that. it's not really relevant to this story.)

and i was like. hoo boy. i want to make a self insert guy i can draw kissing N. and THEN i was like wait a minute. don't i already have a pokemon guy i can recycle. i would kind of have to rework everything but idk i have a face and name to start with i guess.

but what do i make him wear. i contemplated this for a very long time. outfit design is not my strong suit. so i focused on backstory first.

in my first idea for his backstory, he was a team plasma member. he wasn't a normal grunt but i don't remember what was special about him. i didn't keep this idea for very long and don't remember most of the details, but whatever i had cooking i eventually decided "messed with canon too much."

so i tried something else. his second backstory is... closer to what he have now, but still some pretty notable differences.

so, he lived in lacunosa town, with parents who argued frequently and eventually split, his mom leaving after a big fight.

but sylvan (who was still called oliver by the way.) had something else going on. you see, he had this problem where he kept encountering legendary and mythical pokemon. like, at least once a year i think, some legendary pokemon, presumably including ones who aren't even unovan, would show up and just stare at him or something and then leave.

except one time he encountered a legendary pokemon who didn't just stare at him and leave. i think it was supposed to be either kyurem or one of the swords of justice. doesn't really matter. whoever it was became aggressive and attempted to attack him. pretty sure he got out uninjured.

and then, depending on which iteration of this backstory was currently in my head, he either left lacunosa town of his own accord or was sort of... exiled, i guess. either way, he thought of himself as dangerous to be around.

and then. uhhhhh. my memory of this backstory gets a lot fuzzier after that. i have a very vague little timeline i wrote out in the back of one of my sketchbooks at some point. apparently this version of sylvan had two exes? an ex girlfriend and an ex boyfriend. i only remember this version of him having an ex boyfriend and I don't remember what the ex girlfriend contributed to the story.

so, what i THINK happened next is that he moved to sinnoh with his boyfriend. but over time sylvan became very possessive over his boyfriend, who freaked out and abandoned him. or something like that. sylvan, unable to pay for the place they were living, proceeds to fuck off into the woods or some shit and live there.

so he lives in the woods for a little while. at this point he had grown to fear/hate humans and disown the title of human. and then one day he comes across an injured pokemon who he begrudgingly decides should be taken to the pokemon center.

on his way there he sees zekrom flying overhead and he thinks "oh god not this shit again." this leads into sylvan encountering N, and i don't remember many details beyond that, i don't think i thought about it much. i do remember that sylvan was afraid to fall in love with N because he worried that he would get all freaky possesive on him like he did with his ex.

pretty sure the "sylvan is weirdly yandere-adjacent" thing is one of the first things i got rid of in this backstory, lol. though he does still have a bit of a possessive/jealous streak, it's been toned down a whollleee lot. to the point where it hasn't even really come up on the roleplay blog i don't think. though there was a mmm event i was planning to do where it was a lot more appearent, but i ended up not doing it because i Didn't Want To.

ANYWAY. there isn't exactly any given point where the backstory i just described to you became the backstory he has now. just... over time, stuff got removed or changed or swapped out until we got here.

...but let's circle back to his clothing now, eh? because this whole time, i knew i didn't want his original outfit, but had no fuckin clue what he should wear now.

until i remembered this one time, a long time ago, before i even made galarian sylvan, i participated in an ask game on tumblr. someone made a post that was like "send me an ask with a character you like and i'll assign them an outfit from my pinterest board." so i gave them a character, and they gave me this:

ohoho, it's all coming together. i thought, "i can put these clothes on a character." and i did! i also used tiktok at the time, and i thought about a tiktok i had seen recently where someone talked about why they liked the pokemon cherrim. and i was like. "what if i give my guy a cherrim." and i did!and a cherry blossom theming to boot.

unfortunately, i still have the first drawing i ever did of sylvan's current design. which means unfortunately i will be showing it to you. this was made in the summer of 2022, i think.

i went through a few different eye shapes for him before i landed on how they look now. here are very quick doodles of two of his previous eye shapes:

fun fact he wasn't originally meant to have a deerling. i looked at deerling and was like "oh i could give him that— wait they aren't always pink. meh, i'll give him something else." and then i changed my mind at some point and I don't really remember why.

over time his eye shape kind of slowly morphed from the second one in that image to his current eye shape. here's an old picture where he's kind of in that process:

pretty sure most of the colors used in his design were color picked from pokemon he either had or was supposed to have at some point. though i couldn't tell you which ones are which, and some of them might have been color picked and then shifted slightly.

i think... if i were to remake his party today... it would be mostly the same, but he'd have a munna instead of a deerling. i mean, look at munna. that is a sylvan pokemon if there has ever been a sylvan pokemon.

and he did originally have a munna, in addition to the deerling and everyone else and also a shiny audino. but a little while after i made the roleplay blog, i retconned the munna and audino out of existence because i didn't do anything with them and wanted less characters to keep track of. a few months later i would finalize N's team for the blog and add his trainer card to the pinned, giving me six new pokemon to keep track of. whatever, me.

but if i redid his team now i'd replace sage with a munna because it fits him better, i like that he doesn't have a full party because he doesn't battle, and i like that all of his pokemon are from different regions. because he's been to many different regions. i guess giving him multiple unovan pokemon works because even though he's been to so many places he's still a unovan at heart, but idk.

if you ever wondered about sylvan's Triangles™ (his necklace and belt buckle), those are there because i like latias and latios. and i wanted to give my self insert something related to that. so, two little triangles in the color of mega latias and latios. yay.

anyway, his visual design has stayed mostly the same since this drawing. his hair has been simplified a bit though.

i don't remember at what point i gave him siblings. they just showed up in my brain at some point. i think that was after i changed sylvan's name to sylvan though, so let's talk about that.

so, as i've mentioned, sylvan was originally named oliver. at some point i decided that name didn't suit him. so i started looking for new names. it took a while, but there's not much of an interesting story to tell about it. it was just a lot of me browsing name websites.

i really liked florian, but that was taken by the male scarlet and violet protagonist. i was soooooo pissed about that.

briefly considered viorel, which would have been a funny name to pick since it's an anagram of oliver. but it didn't really suit him either. even less than oliver in fact.

anyway, eventually i ended up at sylven. that's not a typo. the issue here was that i did think the name fit his vibes, but i didn't actually like the name very much at first. i quickly learned that it had an alternate spelling, sylvan, which i liked the look of a little more.

so i was like. fuck it, sure. he's sylvan now. does he need a last name? i'll give him a last name. let's just throw the word cherry into google translate. yeaaaah, kirsche, that'll do. the name sylvan has grown on me quite a bit since, actually.

uhhh. OH, right, i was gonna talk about his family a little. there's not a lot to say about their development, i don't think. but they have gone through a few name changes themselves.

sylvan's mom went from holly to azalea

sylvan's dad doesn't necessarily have an old name that was ever canon, but he didn't have an Official™ name for a while. when i first made him in the sims i just hit the random button for a while until it gave me mason. it didn't fit the theme the rest of the family had but it was a fine placeholder name. eventually i gave him vernon.

sylvan's older brother was always oliver i think. for the funny.

sylvan's older younger sister (sister who is younger than sylvan but older than his other sister) went from poppy, to lilac after i realized poppy was taken, to laelia.

sylvan's youngest sister was fern for quite a while, before i noticed that all sylvan's family had names that were six letters long. so i gave her willow to fit that.

i THINK that's all my words finally. unless i think of more things to say later. if you read all this... why.

#character: sylvan kirsche

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