#cubone myth

[prof-peach]

I live near a psychic forest, so I've never seen a maroak before, is it true that the skull they wear is their mothers? Are maroak baby kangaskhan that weren't so lucky, or are they their own species and that skull thing is just a myth..

It's kind of true. Cubone and Marowak are their own species, but are within the same family group as Charizard genetically, hence their lenience towards fire tying in Alola. Almost all Cubone are born with two skulls, one in their body, and one that is outside, technically it is fused to them upon hatching, and slowly comes loose, detaches, and becomes a removable item, rather than a part of them. This process takes several months. In the wild, Cubone trade, win, and scavenge for more interesting helmet skulls. A victor in battle may claim the skull of another as a prize, forcing a trade for it. If they find a deceased pokemon with a skull that is particularly impressive or decorative, they may try to get that one, usually burying them in secret locations to decompose naturally, returning for the clean skull later on. Cubone Will also inherit skulls of elders, should they be worthy, or related to them. The idea that all of them have their mothers skull, though morbid, isn't untrue. Many hold family in high regards, and so to inherit moms skull is a very proud yet sad moment for Cubone. They do however have clutches of 2-4 eggs normally, so its often the oldest, strongest, or wisest to receive that special item. The rest are left to find their own skulls with varying importance to them. Upon evolution the skull helmet they have will become part of them, re-fusing, they cannot come off until the pokemon perishes and its reduced to near nothing. This practice does allow for some mighty cool looking Marowak, some with Druddigon skulls, Nidoking, Haxorus, even Sharpedo have been seen, though very rarely. Their skulls as a Cubone dictate the shapes they take on as Marowak. Fascinating stuff. Maybe one day you'll get a chance to meet some, they're super fun pokemon, Greys first official mon was a Cubone, Harley, still part of the family, has several skulls he's won or gained through various means, each with its own purpose.

They value them highly, and it's an honour to wear the skull of your fallen loved on in their communities.

[draftingteacups]

The only thing that appear on my mind about the Halloween event is “man wouldn’t it be fun to have the whole ‘Cubone’s mom’s ghost scene from let’s go eevee/pikachu’ during this?”

(Anyways this is my excuse to bring out one of my favorite scenes from that game into this lol)

Oh heck yes, I would love that in here 🤣 just the thought of everyone thinking that the spirit of Cubone's mom is a myth; imagine the Magicam Monsters try to take the offerings to one of the Ghost Types because they were Berries and the Ghost type of their choosing would chase them out for taking their food

I can also see the scene from LGP/LGE being done to those who really screwed up and this happening:

TWST Boys: "Wow, that's quite devious of you to make something that scary Prefect!"

Soni hits them with the hard truth, "Nah, it's true. It's said to have the skull of its dead mom on its face. Although there's evidence saying that it forms naturally. Basically, the Egg from the shell is absorbed and forms the skull-"

TWST Boys: "Wait, go back and tell us that last bit-!"

Soni: "Oh yeah, Team Rocket tried to pull this crap when they were bigger when I was younger and there was a Pokemon Spirit that was running rampant. Turns out it was a Marowak that'd been-"

TWST Boys: "We get it! Why is it so sad?!" (T.T) "So it's real?!"

Soni: "Do you expect me to lie about these things??"

[irritatedandroid]

The Fire Burns Bright

A Personal Essay From an Alolan Marowak -Jasper (@irritatedandroid, @irritatedDroid)

Summary: Below the cut, this is a personal essay written by Jasper on his experiences with being an Alolan Marowak fictherian and fictionkind. Personal experience, discussion of awakening, shifts, instincts, animality, culture and spirituality are elaborated on alongside a critical view on community narratives and boundaries.

CWs: In-depth look on death, personal experiences with death

   I find there isn’t enough discussion on the fact that nonhumanity can be approached from multiple different angles and axis, instead treated like a hard binary of animality vs humanity - or if you’re lucky, a two-way spectrum. I’m someone who is nonhuman through and through, but the way in which I can experience being “other” from humanity can shift wildly. A strong sense of animality is brought on when shifted towards my Alolan Marowak fictotype - enough that I tend to strongly identify with the word fictherian. Though that sense of animality is its own thing, and is a wholly separate scale from the nonhumanity I experience when shifted towards my android kintype. But the experiences drawn from being an android could fill an essay of their own. We’re here to discuss the Marowak.

   Both very not human, both very “other”, but a wholly different view upon what it means to be human and not human respectively. And I suspect the scale my Marowak self experiences may be different as well from the scale any given earthen animal may experience. Similar enough to where therianthrope discussion rings loud mental bells of familiarity and understanding, but still something else worth acknowledging. After all, how many earthen animal therianthropes feel the raw instinct of fire breath? Were-dragons however may understand that one well. And yet that animality is not something to be ignored or to set aside entirely even if the axis runs at a slightly off angle in comparison.

   My name is Jasper, and some of you might know me, I’ve been around the community for a couple of years. Some folks even remember the internal grapple with identity and understanding that I had when I started being unable to deny I am an Alolan Marowak. The moment when the Alolan Marowak design was teased, and I had pointed out the familiarity as well as the typing before it was actually shown. There was a moment then when experiences and vague, blurry memories I’d held onto quietly for years without the priority of digging in deeper - as I was already busy with questioning and understanding my android kintype - became an absolute priority of mine to understand further.

   I often half-joke about how my “awakening” as discussed in nonhuman communities was completely rocky, as it was. It was less a solid awakening, and more multiple years of slowly accepting and embracing aspects of my life that had always been present, which I had denied either to ease my own responsibility to myself or to appease others. Folks in the community may recall seeing me step into denial, and to substitute in any possible reptilian, fire-based creature I could in order to try and understand the experiences. Because how could I be a Pokemon? I’d been critical of fictionkin while diving into the community, something which when looking back was likely a compensation for already having been something odd and to be met with criticism - the android. I ran through a number of species when questioning: everything from earthen lizards, to draconic entities, to the elemental spirits of salamanders.

   There were multiple aspects absolutely vital to communicating what I was experiencing, those being a) instinct-driven and wild, reptilian, and b) inherently connected to the elements of fire and spirit. My thoughts could be as unflattering as a scavenger’s instinct, growing frustrated at any leftover food or uncleaned-up animal remains (which sure made living in a populated city interesting, with abandoned scraps of food everywhere and the leftovers of unfortunate urban creatures who tried their luck at crossing Yonge Street), or curious to try and make a meal for myself out of the live insects I keep to feed to my own little old leopard gecko, Saleen. Yes, she was named after a car. No, that is not important. Having her around does however provide an up close frame of reference to draw out my own lizard drives. In terms of food instincts, raw eggs are absolutely another tempter of mine, as my carnivorous scavenger self would have been ecstatic to see a nest of unattended eggs to make a meal of. As I’ve learned due to that raw eggs absolutely suck, please cook them. It’s much better that way. But embarrassing nonhumanity stories will always be embarrassing.

   Some of us Marowak - especially the males like myself - could become quite territorial. And that territorial feeling is something I’ve had to settle in my mind over life. Nowadays it’s decently well integrated, but it does now and then try my patience especially when it comes to setting out what is for me and what belongs strictly to me. Renting a small apartment in a populated city, once again, does definitely force you to keep the “this land is mine and it belongs to me, so screw off before you chase off my dinner” thoughts in check. A bit of human humbling for an animal’s self thought. I’ve of course needed to remind myself a number of times that the tourists in the train station on my way to work, while annoying, won’t manage to chase off the Tim Hortons I’ll be eating on my break.

   But in the wild frontier of the Pokemon world, predator and prey dynamics were absolutely important to know and understand - and those dynamics reach beyond game mechanics such as elemental types and abilities. Even as a carnivore, scavenger and troublesome predator that I was when I reached the age of a full-grown Marowak, I still was in a dangerous spot on the food chain. The worst predators I’ve had to deal with while working to survive in my ecosystems were other Fire types, intriguingly. Even as a small Ground type Cubone. The fact that Cubones wear the skull of their lost mothers was something I am familiar with, my own having been taken down by a Charizard. This natural order of predation is both a major part of my animalistic experiences as a Marowak, but also did tie into my more sophisticated or spiritually-focused aspects that stemmed from my Pokemon identity and lifetime.

   All of this lead to an animality-focused time in figuring out what I was, to the point where when I was in denial of the possibility of being a Pokemon, I identified myself as a theriomythic, fire-oriented reptile. And the animality definitely tends to lead the discussion upon how I live and experience being an Alolan Marowak. I sometimes joke that you could strip that side of my life down to the bare essentials and I’d be a lizard hanging out by a campfire. Though it certainly isn’t every aspect of me, as the Marowak.

   At times I think on the term theriomythic, and how it could be extremely valuable in describing more than just “animal but from myth”, but to also communicate experiencing the self on a spectrum of animality and mythicality. In my case this spectrum is very much there, and the aspects of experience that make up me as the Marowak are scattered along it. All aspects are important to me and how I live as myself, as well as how I understand my own fictional animality and nonhumanity.

   The Marowak, despite being a wild animal in how I recall and experience my species, do have a displayed aspect of culture and even spirituality. Setting aside the fictional wildness of being able to summon up fire at will to defend one’s turf, we’re shown to be able to interact comfortably with each other when it comes time for rituals, such as fire dancing at the sun rise and to mourn the lost. Mourning the lost is a large part of how one can experience being the Marowak as well, as it’s a pretty integral part of the species’ canon lore, starting from when we’re little baby Cubones. For those unfamiliar with Pokemon lore, a Cubone wears the skull of its dead mother Marowak. Adorning bones in a sort of ritual to mourn is something that I can’t say I’ve seen an earthen animal do. If you have then please do let me know, because it interests me a lot. But all I can say about it in my own drives and thoughts is that it’s just what we do, it’s cultural. To cite the Pokedex, “MAROWAK is the evolved form of a CUBONE that has overcome its sadness at the loss of its mother and grown tough. This POKéMON’s tempered and hardened spirit is not easily broken” (Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire, 2002).

   The donning and weaponizing of bones is both symbolic and an act of mourning, but also an example of tool using similar to some of our world’s apes. The Pokedex talks of this vaguely, stating “It has been seen pounding boulders with the bone it carries in order to tap out messages to others” (Pokemon Gold, 1999). The various Pokedex entries theorize on where the bone clubs come from, some entries mentioning a graveyard specifically for Marowak existing in the world, where Cubone and Marowak get their bones. Some entries state this like fact, such as Pokemon Crystal, meanwhile others bring up this as a rumour, such as Pokemon Silver. In my experience, it’s a rumour. I’ve not seen a Marowak graveyard, my bone club first came from my mother. But the main referenced use of the bone club is as a weapon, and also as a method of overcoming grief and turning to viciousness. “It is small and was originally very weak. Its temperament turned ferocious when it began using bones.” (Pokemon X, 2013). In my case, the symbolic use of them is as a tool of war, transforming grief into a vicious will to fight on and survive. Due to this, I hold bones and particularly skulls as a sacred object and have my small collection of skulls I keep as comfort objects. With time, having a large femur bone similar in shape is a life goal.

   Though it does then get taken a step further, when peering in through the eyes of an Alolan variant Marowak. A spirituality that incorporates the dead and lost is brought in and becomes an extra step of important, crediting the Ghost type aspect alongside the Fire. Newer Pokedex entries focused on specifically this variant states “The bones it possesses were once its mother’s. Its mother’s regrets have become like a vengeful spirit protecting this Pokémon” (Pokemon Sun, 2016) and “It has transformed the spirit of its dear departed mother into flames, and tonight it will once again dance in mourning of others of its kind” (Pokemon Let’s Go, 2018). Spiritual awareness is very much accepted to be something that the Alolan Marowak possess and engage with openly, even building monuments to the lost as stated in the Generation 7 Pokedex entry: “Its custom is to mourn its lost companions. Mounds of dirt by the side of the road mark the graves of the Marowak” (Pokemon Moon, 2016).

   Culturally there is a lot to the Marowak’s experience, comparing and including both Alolan and Kantonian variants of the species. The species as I remember are mostly solitary but I do recall clan dynamics and groups especially among the Alolan variant. These groups were less for survival and more for the purpose of those ritual gatherings, mentioned above. At times I was very foreign to these clans, being a Kanto-born Cubone evolved in Alola (a fact supported in canon and proven in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon via the ability to evolve a Kanto Marowak in Ultra Space). Behaviorally and culturally there are differences between Kanto and Alolan Marowak, brought on by how each looks at their situation differently. While an Alolan Marowak processes mourning in a more spiritual way, a Kanto Marowak becomes hardened by anger. “A MAROWAK is the evolved form of a CUBONE that has grown tough by overcoming the grief of losing its mother. Its tempered and hardened spirit is not easily broken,” (Pokemon Emerald, 2004). Because of this there was a separation between myself and the local Marowak that reinforced my solitary nature, and also influenced my introverted and almost outright nomadic nature in my current life and self. The fire dance under the sunrise was one known in canon. These rituals and dances are a custom humans in canon have taken notice to, and can even speculate the reasoning for. “This Pokémon sets the bone it holds on fire and dances through the night as a way to mourn its fallen allies” (Pokemon Sword, 2019). The fact that that cultural dynamic prevailed even through the difficulty of communicating is something that may be surprising, but a number of nonhumans know well that body language and tone of animal vocalizations can go a long way in communicating

   Ignoring these experiences would be a step towards cutting down and denying important experiences that affect me as a fictherian and as a Marowak. There’s important parts of how I experience being this Pokemon that are heavily grounded in a context of a mystical world where visibly potent acts of fantasy are possible unlike the world we are living in here. Some of these aspects can be emulated in more subtle ways through exploration of spirituality, religion and the occult. To dive deeper into that, I used to identify as Pagan, however now I practice what is called chaos magic. Chaos magic is a magical practice that developed in England in the 1960’s, working off of Austin Osman Spare’s occult practice and ideas. Chaos magic gave me an approach and freedom to incorporate what I know and remember as an Alolan Marowak into my every-day spirituality. Tailoring my spiritual beliefs and practices to focus on working with the element of fire, with spirits and the energy of death, bones, and to the very fabric of fiction crossing over into reality was extremely important as an avenue for me to explore the way my fictotype affects me in the modern day, and in the human body. This practice also gave me a bit of freedom to accept working with an entity from my source - Giratina - as a patron deity in pagan circles, which ultimately proved to be extremely valuable in exploring my own Pokemon identity. Practices like energy work, meditation, spirit work and visualization hit close to satisfying that need to be delved into the magical world we see in animation. And yet, even in these more sophisticated and fantastical experiences lie links back to the animality and to an inherent disconnect to humanity.

   One thing I always enjoy in therianthrope and non-humanoid otherkin discussions is an openness to discuss the instincts that are ugly, disturbing or outside of what one’s human morals would ever agree with in this life and time. And in a lot of cases these instincts and memories can become a lot more “ugly” than a scavenger’s drive to eat carcasses or the awareness and cynical eye needed to survive in a completely wild world. At times, a wild creature can have defense mechanisms or behaviors that to our human minds would seem outright malicious. And Pokemon, even in the whimsical canon, are no exception to that. Once again I’ll drag up a few Pokedex entries - as honestly the Pokedex is a wonderful thing for exploring the deeper aspects of a wild Pokemon - to illustrate my point. “When it beats opponents with its bone, the cursed flames spread to them. No amount of water will stop those flames from burning,” (Pokemon Ultra Moon, 2017) and “The cursed flames that light up the bone carried by this Pokémon are said to cause both mental and physical pain that will never fade” (Pokemon Shield, 2019).

   Yes, even the fun and magical world of Pokemon is no stranger to wild animals who inflict effects upon others that seem absolutely awful, and in some cases cruel. But, that’s survival in the animal kingdom, or in this case the Pokemon kingdom. It can be surprising to some that a person who’s fictotype hails from the fun and upbeat franchise that defined a number of childhoods may be hardened to the need to survive in a natural world. The things I know I had done to creatures who my childhood Pokemon fan self would have only wanted to hug, at least at a baseline mental state. In a shift, that’s a different story after all.

   But ultimately, this blend of experiences causes an interesting time in exploring myself within the general nonhuman community as it can be quite split up. Certain narratives of individual communities I can’t find myself fitting into, or find myself sitting in between. I settle into spaces focused on everything from therianthropy, to mythical otherkinity, and to fictionkinity, though there’s narratives and cultural aspects in every separated community that either are foreign to me or that I might confront as they expect clear-cut boxes between them which individuals can fit into. In therianthrope communities I’ve been one to criticize the expectation of a solid line between human and animal experiences, or in general animal vs non-animal with regards to forcing a further divide from the otherkin community. I’ve also been involved in discussion criticizing therian community narratives such as a shifting focus and the model of integration. The model of integration is interesting to me, as I experienced it in a way that I was unaware of at the time, particularly with my android kintype. My android kintype is almost fully integrated into me - I barely shift at all at least mentally. However my Marowak fictotype provides less integration, and my mental shifting will be a lot more noticeable against my baseline self. At times it can be as stark as appearing like a different person, or more accurately like a wild animal. But ultimately the differences in the closeness of each kintype draws up issues for me with the integration model, as well as having found it normalized a severe mental health issue I had with my traumagenic plurality at the time of “least integration”.

   The therianthrope community is far from the only community with narratives that put a barrier between me and relating, especially as members of each community push for further separation between individual branches of nonhuman experience and identity. I have trouble relating to humanoids when heavily shifted towards my Marowak self, and that puts a bit of a barrier between myself and the otherkin community’s more humanoid side - such as elven, fae, divine, angelic, etc. - as well as the fictionkin community’s focus on humanoid or completely story-driven fictionkind. I have no use for prioritized experiences within the fictionkin community such as finding canon-mates and creating aesthetics. Even in some Pokemon fictionkin specific communities I find I cannot relate often. My experience with my “Pokemanity” is heavily wild and animal-based as I was never caught, socialized with a human, or trained. In no way shape or form is my Pokemanity adjusted to interaction with humans, nor is it something that is settled down or subdued for human consumption unlike what my source was created for.

   In both otherkin, therian and even fictionkin communities there is a push towards prioritizing the narrative of a solid awakening. That’s one more focus in the communities that I struggle with, as like I said before, mine was a process of accepting bits of myself which spanned multiple years. Every part of me that is nonhuman has always been present within my life, though for almost two decades muted heavily.

   To draw back into my spiritual practice here, consider a practice known as shadow work. Shadow work is a practice that hybridizes spirituality and psychology, and describes the process of becoming aware of one’s shadow (the id, shadow archetype, or shadow aspect drawn from Carl Jung’s psychology) and working to integrate it into oneself by accepting the repressed parts of oneself that are pushed back and merged into the shadow. The shadow can be known as the unknown dark side of the personality, and I theorize that more nonhumans have undesirable aspects of their nonhumanity pushed onto their shadow than they might think they do, like I had done to my own Pokemanity for a number of years. In my case, I was slightly forced to tear into and meet my shadow aspects of my nonhumanity due to the fact that even upon immediately breaking into nonhuman communities, the specifics of what I was were already viewed with hostility and disbelief. In a way, it strengthened me. But with my shadow opened wide and not much held back, I can be a bit of a fire-starter in spaces where I speak my mind whether others want to hear it or not. And part of that is directly confronting the forced separation of animal vs non-animal, or the arbitrary ideas of what is a human experience and what is not.

   I can only best put forward my experience as a Pokemon through in-depth discussion, which I find tends to come across better in spaces where the experience of being by-and-large a feral animal is allowed without restraint. Ultimately a space I will thrive in most and be most open about my experiences and life as someone who is spiritually and psychologically an Alolan Marowak is one where I can discuss both my animality, my experience with fiction, my spiritual practice and the combination of these things that seem to be pushed into separate boxes. The Marowak serves a lot to my sense of self and to my life, and has psychological affects on me as well. It’s been a part of me that has fought through and survived when my life hit a rocky start early on, witnessing the death of my brother in childhood, and having loss and grief be present all around as I grew. The Marowak is both an inherent part and vital context in my life, as well as a symbol of my own endurance.

   Through it all, the fire burns bright.

Citations

Marowak POKÉDEX: Stats, MOVES, evolution & locations. (n.d.). Retrieved April 23, 2021, from https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/marowak

Chryssides, George D. (2012). Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements (2 ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-8108-6194-7.

Jung, C.G. 1938. "Psychology and Religion." In Psychology and Religion: West and East, Collected Works of C.G. Jung 11. p. 131

Roberts, Gwilym Wyn, and Andrew Machon. 2015. Appreciative Healthcare Practice: A guide to compassionate, person-centred care. M&K. ISBN 1907830936. p. 71.

[adventures-on-foster-island]

How to care for your Kantonian Cubone or Marowak

A popular ground type, Cubone and Marowak have a lot of mythconceptions surrounding their nature and care, so today I'm going to set the record straight.

The Pokedex entries on this evolutionary line are extremely outdated and contain a lot of information that the scientific community has known to be false for quite some time. Cubone and Marowak are a highly social species with tribal cultures that date back centuries. These reptilian Pokemon wear the skulls of their respected ancestors, and communicate using rhythms and other sounds to share stories of their history. The myth about Cubone wearing the skull of their dead mother came about because one scientist just happened to find one whose skull helmet did belong to the Pokemon’s mother who had passed, but this isn’t common. The skulls most Cubone wear belong to their ancestors, as a way to remember those who came before them. Cubone and Marowak have a strong sense of community and often become depressed when taken from their families, which is why Cubone are so often depicted as crying. In the wild, Marowak don’t typically leave their homes to start a new tribe until at least a year after they’ve evolved, and may get homesick if taken too early. Strong trainer - Pokemon bonds can happen with young Cubone if the Cubone was actually an orphan, and if the trainer can actually provide the proper care.

As reptiles, who mostly inhabit desert like climates, your Cubone will need a heat lamp and a heat pad in different places to regulate its body temperature. If you live outside of Cubone’s natural habitat, make sure you have a room dedicated to them with plenty of rough rocks to rub off shed skin and sharpen claws as well as warm spots. Because they are accustomed to an arid climate, you may need to invest in a dehumidifier if there is lots of rain in your area. Some ground types are prone to growing a slimy algae if they can’t dry out all the way. Despite needing dry living conditions, your Cubone or Marowak will still need access to fresh drinking water. You may not see them drink very often, but when they do, they might sit there for half an hour sipping until they are full. They only need bathing if they get really dirty or injured, but if you do have to bathe them, make sure to use warm, distilled water, a soft cloth, and only ground-type safe soap if necessary. Cubone are omnivores, preferring to hunt bug-types and eat desert grasses in the wild, however will generally be okay to just eat ground-type food until they evolve. They also enjoy berries; offer them a few kinds to find out what their favorite is.

When you first meet your Cubone or Marowak buddy, you will need to show compassionate dominance. Their tribes have ranks, and your new partner needs to learn to respect you, but it never will if it feels you don’t care for it. Take lots of time to spend with just your new buddy, even if you have other Pokemon. Show your Cubone or Marowak that you are in charge because you take care of them. Communicate with them with the help of a Porygon, Rotom, or psychic Pokemon to show them you really care to bond with them. Once you feel comfortable, start introducing your other Pokemon. This will curb any dominance fighting amongst your team members, as they respect you more than their need to be on top.

Upon evolving into Marowak, your buddy may not be as cuddly as you are used to for a little while. Try to respect their space, as culturally evolution is a big deal to their species. Marowak need time to hunt and be independent, so take them somewhere every few days where they are free to hunt wild bug types and smaller Pokemon for a few hours. It could be a good time to let your other team members out to exercise as well. On top of the hunt, provide your Marowak with high protein ground type food, and supplement every other day with fruits, vegetables, boiled eggs (shells on for calcium), and cooked meats.

For enrichment, both members of this line enjoy target practice. Set them up some targets at various heights and distances around your yard or a park or gym and let them throw their bone club until they tire themselves out. Cubone and Marowak also both enjoy team activities like battles and sports, although they may try to boss your other team members around. Give everyone a role, and things should be alright.

[magicalfxgirl]

LO Characters as Pokemon Trainers: Primordial Gods/Titans

We reach the end with the finale with the remaining titans in LO. This includes; Helios, Nyx, Prometheus, Metis and Styx. No Leto as she is in a different blog and the other titans appeared in the previous entry. This is it. Side note Prometheus entry is based on greek myth. Let's begin with the one person Zeus never dared to cross, Nyx.

Nyx: the premordial goddess of night

Nyx the premordial goddess of night, mother of Hypno and Thanatos. Nyx team is based around darkness and death. Darkria nicknamed Night has been by her side for longer than anyone can remember. Nyx like Darkrai are not evil, yet are feared by others. Its pokemon Saphire pokedex entry state "It can lull people to sleep and make them dream. It is active during nights of the new moon." Thus a perfect fit for goddess of night and mother of the god of sleep. Hydriegon and Glararian Moltres nicknamed Strife take after her brutal nature and those of her children. As some myths indicate that is the mother of Eris (goddess of Strife) and the Erinyes (the furies). Her Hypno a gift from her son Hypnos, while her Dusknoir was a gift from her son Thanatos. Murkcrow is eyes and ears in Olympus. Her Mawhile, Chomp is adored by Nyx due to its cunning nature. Thanatos does not like Chomp as the pokemon likes to sneak up and bite him.

Styx: goddess of the underworld River Styx

Styx is literally a river, but sense she still appears in LO, I thought she deserved her own pokemon team. It also should be noted that she "the spirit (diamon)personification of hatred (stygos)( theoi.com). Styx is filled with souls and her pokemon team is made up of almost entirely of ghost types. Marshadow is her ace and represent her more vicious nature. Her Cubone is sadly trying to find its mom among the spirits. Styx took pity on the pokemon and decieded to care for it. Along with all cubone, despite them avoiding water due to being to week to it. Yamask are also sacred to her due to the fact its pokedex states "Each of them carries a mask that used to be its face when it was human. Sometimes they look at it and cry." Phantump pokedex Y entry states "According to old tales, these Pokémon are stumps possessed by the spirits of children who died while lost in the forest." Need I say more. Her remaining pokemon include Glararian Corsola and Polteageist.

Metis: Titan-goddess of good counsel, planning, cunning and wisdom

Metis poor and her team have been trapped since Zeus ate them. Before you ask yes she tried to use Teleport to get out and it never worked. Her ace is Reshiram as the pokemon "helps those who want to build a world of truth". Her team also contains the Lake Guardians: Mesprit (The Emotion Pokemon), Uxie (The Knowledge Pokemon) and Azelf (The Willpower Pokemon). All three being aspects needed to be a wise person. Metis' Latias telepathic ability helps Metis comunicate with her daughter Athena and give advice to Zeus. Although Zeus just claims he did it all himself, but no one believes him. Latias ruby pokedex entries states "Latias is highly sensitive to the emotions of people" while its saphire entry states "Latias is highly intelligent and capable of understanding human speech." Making it perfect for the mother of the goddess Athena. Rumors has it Metis and her Pokemon team taught Athena everything she knows while Athena was child inside of Zeus. Cutiefly was the pokemon that she was pokemon she was tricked into tranforming into by Zeus. He then ate her along with the poor Cutiefly she used as reference and the rest of her pokemon team. None of Metis' team have managed to escape to Zeus on either. So they now provided her company in her tragic fate.

Helios: The God of the Sun

Helios team is filled with pokemon related to sun which means Solrock makes its third appearance. His ace is Solgaleo the personification of the literal sun. Helioptile is literally named after the sun, while Espeon is refered Sun Pokemon. The two also evolve due to the sun as Helioptile evolves into Heliolisk with a Sun Stone. Eevee evolves into a Espeon through level up with high friendship during the day. He also has ponyta and a Blaziken. Astreas has noted that despite is serly nature, Helios loves his pokemon dearly. His anger is partly due to no longer be able to play with them, like he did in the past. Helios used to have a Volcorona, but gave it Prometheus. As he wanted to annoy Zeus by supporting someone who went against him.

Prometheus: Titan god of forethought and crafty counsel, Creator of Mankind

Prometheus's pokemon team was considered lost until Heracles freed them and their master. His ace is Deoxysis as it is the DNA pokemon and Prometheus was the creator of Mankind. Two other pokemon that reference Prometheus creation of mankind include Mew (the first Pokemon) and Reuniclus. Moltres is was born from the flame that Prometheus gave to humans. Volcorona and Gigantamax Coalossal are reference to how Prometheus saved the humans by giving them fire. As both pokemon having pokedex entries where they helped save people. Volcorona's pokedex entries indicates " When volcanic ash darkened the atmosphere, it is said that Volcarona's fire provided a replacement for the sun." Coalossal pokedex entry mentions that "When Galar was hit by a harsh cold wave, this Pokémon served as a giant heating stove and saved many lives." His Volcorona was a gift from Helios. Although he still confused that Helios gave him a gift as the two are not friends.

Wow I did it. This blog series has been a blast to do and I hope you enjoyed it.

[nerdpokemonheadcanons]

If a cubone is taken in by a different pokemon from a young age, would it wear the skull of that parent once they pass? Or are Marowak too protective of their young to just leave them alone like that

The skull is a helmet made of carapace. It’s not actually the skull of a Marowak, that’s just a myth

[victoryroadburnout]

the urban legend of the cubone wearing the skull of its mother is a grim myth, but ultimately an oversimplification of what is actually complex defensive behavior. the marowak naturally develops a bony plating, shedding it seasonally. as its juvenile form does not grow any armor of its own, its parent will save some pieces of its own shedding for its child, often the large and intact piece of its 'helmet’. the cubone will then wear these pieces until their own plating starts coming in.

however, marowak raises its children as a single parent; should something happen to the mother, the child will be left alone with only her skull to remember her by. these days, this is more likely to happen due to trainers capturing one or the other, rather than an untimely death.

[pkmn-conspiracies]

cubone and marowak's "skulls" are actually just keratinous growths which act as a helmet, shielding their eyes from the harsh sandstorms their habitats are known for and protecting them from potential predators. the belief that these growths were the skulls of a dead mother originate in kantonese legend. although the exact myth has been lost to time, the idea still persists widely throughout kantonese popular culture, especially in cion/lavendar town.

[pokebiologist]

So how do the skulls on Cubone actually work? Because I know full well that his mother isn't dead, my Marowak is right in front of me as I write this and she's perfectly fine.

That’s a good observation! Cubone skulls are actually rarely their parent’s, but it isn’t unheard of for them to have originally belonged to a more ancient relative. 

Cubone’s actual cranial bones are very soft when they hatch, likely due to a nutritional deficit that comes with living in resource-poor deserts. Found skulls serve as very handy protective exoskeletons, especially because they can be found relatively easily in that environment. Bone is a very durable and lightweight material, especially compared to rocks or metals which could overheat or weigh the Cubone down. The standard choice is a skull belonging to a long-gone Marowak (after all, the skull of a recently-dead organism is not clean enough for a newborn to wear), but individuals have been found with Tauros and Sandslash skulls. 

Typically, Marowak parents search out skulls for their offspring before the Eggs hatch, and they do not invest much in the way of parenting otherwise. This practice is where the myth originally came from.

-Thea

[the-trans-dragon]

Favorite Pokémon myths, in no particular order:

Voltorb is a Gastly who tried to haunt a pokeball and got stuck

Cubone is the same species as Kangaskhan

Ditto is a failed attempt to clone Mew

Venomoth and Butterfree should be swapped as final evolutions of their families

[aquillis-main]

PMD Fanfiction Concept Pt.1

Greetings Aquillis ^^

First I would like to speak out my gratitude that I’m allowed to send you my ideas for an PMD idea, right now those are only bits and pieces ^^,,,

I think I will start explain the story as good as possible, chronological. ~~~~

The story does not, as usual start of with a human waking up into the world where Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is set, but rather I would say that is has been some time by now The human here I would say turned into a Cubone, whilst their partner is a Charmander. With a few exceptions (Like their name and a few memories here and there) they can not remember their previous human life. By now they have, more or less settled in their new life, but of course want to know how or why they got turned into a Pokemon and of course have the wish to perhaps return to their old life. Meanwhile they and their partner have formed a rescue team and help the Pokemon who need help. It’s rather calm for the “big calamity” has yet to appear. For now If my memory serves me right they work for a guild. the name for now would be “Delphox guild” given that the Leader is a Delphox who years ago was a human herself before she got turned into a Pokemon and later established or took over the guild.

It’s a rather quite, or normal day to say when the rescue team of the Cubone and the Charmander get a call for help. Unusual not only that the dungeon seems to have appeared out of thin air due of an sinkhole but also because no one really knows what Pokemon was shouting for help, before they, the to be rescued Pokemon delved more and more into the dungeon because the aggressive Pokemon in the dungeon began to attack them. Anyways the pokemon duo decides to rescue them. It’s not an really hard dungeon but rather strange, more ruin like than as if it was a natural cave. When they reach the last floor/level where the lost/ to be rescued Pokemon is presumed they are for a moment speechless…for the Pokemon who has turned the back at them (not out of any ill meaning but rather because they are looking at the murals) are not a Pokemon at all, but rather a human in flesh and blood.

When they, the human turn around and see the duo of..well Pokemons she is very certain just talked, she begins to scream and so do the other two. The Cubone because a human, not turned into a Pokemon is present, her partner because there is a human that just…is there despite being told over and over again they are just a myth (I mean they do believe their Partner, really, but seeing a human, a real human just standing there is quite something) And the human because well, two speaking Pokemon are unusual…very unusual.

Patrizia Ballmacher/Fangmacher enters the scene (a work in progress name) a young woman, and head of a company that is/was specified in some Pokemon articles given that she is from a family that since generations manufactured Pokeballs (first in the old fashioned way with Apricorns and then later the more modern variants via machines) And that’s pretty much all she can remember. All she remembers is waking up here near the newly appeared dungeon and feeling as if she was struck by a thunderbolt She’s a person who has quite…the character, do not get me wrong she is grateful for her rescue but, well she’s, lets just say not very gentle, perhaps a bit brutalized due of the young age she had to take over a company. Oh and along the way she found this weird staff, that for now she uses as a cane and this weird looking crystal/shard but she has no idea what this exactly is but she has the feeling that time will tell. Well, and then they go to the village because honestly, with those aggressive Pokemon around and no other possibilities what else can you do, also it’s getting dark and maybe the guilt can help with this strange phenomena. For the time being Patrizia is allowed to stay in the town, because again there is no other option for now, and whilst she can’t really be part of a rescue team she helps round here and there in the town and guild because it’s (even for her) only fair to help around if you stay here for…who knows long.

Of course the inhabitants and the rescue teams are a bit well skeptical of Patrizia, it does not help that whilst she knows the name of the Pokemon, she says them in her native language, and no one really here knows the name she is using and Patrizia, quite harsh as she is does not bother to learn the usually used names.

(Patrizia comes from a Pokemon region that is based on Germany/Austria/Switzerland/Lichtenstein and I like to think there they use the germane names for the Pokemon whilst understandable in the World where PMD plays they use the English names. So of course when Patrizia calls a Cyndaquil a “Feurigel” no one really knows if she know called the Cyndaquill…well Cynderquill or might have just said something rude. Some names sound similar and a few exceptions ( like Pikachu) the same. In that case I dare to say is that Patrizia is too stubborn to learn the commonly used names. Around the time Patrizia arrives the occurrences of “bad things” happening start to grow and Patrizias personality does not really well help in making the Pokemon of the town and some of the rescue teams not suspicious about her. (“Who knows maybe she is some sort of evil magician”) and more and more new ruins/caves/dungeons appear. Whilst the crystal has been given in the care of the guild master Patrizia still kept the staff/cane and given that she and the Cubone had the feeling/dream that in one of the newest natural excavated dungeons is “something” they both decided that this might be in connection with Patrizias appearance. After the usual events they reach the top, with another shard…and other…humans.

Professor Ross and “The Overseer” enter the scene:

< From here on it will be not as detailed given that well, it’s just concepts for now but I’ll explain them as good as possible >

Professor Ross and the Overseer both work for the same Villain here, the “Director” who seeks all the shard for complete an artifact he is searching for. But unlike the Overseer , Professor Ross did not join voluntary, whilst he was asked if he would like to join a no was not accepted as an answer and so he got abducted. Professor Ross, given that he is (of course) a Pokemon Professor his job was to “investigate and research” the Pokemon for the Director so that he, the Director could estimate the dangers of this “World and the inhabitants” for the Directors advantage he was able to recruit some powerful psychic and ghost Pokemons who their homes got destroyed due of an natural catastrophe and who now hold a grudge against the Delphox guild for they blame them partly for not aiding them when they needed help.

Well, everything goes good and well for the “Overseer” who lets a strong angry Pokemon loose on the Rescue Team and Patricia, but in the whole confusion looses sight of Professor Ross and the shard she was supposed to bring the Director.

With the strong Pokemon defeated and Professor Ross revealing himself to the rescue team (after the Overseer vanished because the aggressive Pokemon became a danger to her as well) they return to the town and the guild, telling of this new revealed dangers. Now I unfortunately have only some bits and pieces (My apologize ^^,,,) - Professor Ross is definitive friendlier which makes him more likable to the Village and the inhabitants. - Ross reveals what he knows, which isn’t much, but the humans appeared trough a machine and are there for a while now, at least he believes that this operation is going on for a while now.

- <insert Pokemon getting more and more suspicious about Rebecca here>

- Meanwhile the Director is not pleased with the Overseers “loss” with the shard more important than that Ross got freed. The “Architect/Pilot” enters the scene who meanwhile has collected some shards for the Director.

- The motives of both the Architect and the Overseer are revealed over time. The Overseer once the “Director” is no longer in need for them and leaves them to die in a dungeon with the Overseers Lucario assistant who aided the Overseer, who is sick.

- The overseers motivation to find the artifact for the director as it’s explain was because of a heart illness she has been born with and they could never really get the job they wanted due of not being allowed to do professions that could lead to stress or exhaustion due of their heart chamber as a doctor told her being “as weak as paper” and her having to take each day their heart medicine.

- Whilst the medicine helps the illness is in a long term fatal, and it’s assumed the Overseer, who is quite young has around two decades to live. - The “Director” offered her that if she works for him he could “extend” her life. But now that deal is broken.

- Now being lost in the dungeon and abandoned and their assistant injured as well as the last medicine bottle with the heart serum shattered on the ground she does not have much hope.

That is until Patricia finds her (who got lost/separated from the rescue team after a cave in caused by an (due of the Architect enraged) Groudon caused the whole Dungeon to shift and look completely different than it did moments ago. The Overseer is at first reluctant to do anything and so is Patrizia who is not really keen of the Overseer herself given that she is working for the Director. But well, given that moping around isn’t going to help them (I can imagine that the Lucario that aided the Overseer is giving them both a “speech” because of how childish both might act) for a while that works but given that it has been “a while” since the Overseer has taken her medicine her energy is fading and her condition is getting worse Patrizia decides that it’s the best to give her, her “escape orb” she had gotten by the Charmander previously and hands it over to the Overseer, even if in the village/guild there might not be a medicine for her hearth, the chances of survival are bigger there than in the dungeon they are currently in. Patrizia meanwhile decides to stay behind, either way finding the exit or to find her friends the Rescue Team. Before the Overseer and the Lucario are teleported out the Overseer gives Patrizia one of the shards found in this Dungeon, whilst the Director took one from the Overseer, he was not aware that there was a second Shard in this Dungeon and so the Overseer had kept it until now. Fortunately Patrizia finds the Rescue team, yet they still have to face the angered Groudon. After an intense fight the legendary Pokemon is calmed and they can leave this ruin/dungeon behind as well.

To the Luck of the Overseer, the same plant her heart medicine/serum is made does exist in this world which means she is saved….and jailed for the time being given that she worked with the Director and enraged countless of Pokemon and put others into dangers. Whilst the Guild and the Pokemon of the town are not so cruel as to put her into a cell and they do allow her to move in the town around BUT only on daytime and under supervision. The Overseer and the Lucario accept, it’s after all better than to have been left in the Dungeon to die. And that’s it for now, I of course have more to tell, which are again only concepts and some snippets here and there but unfortunately I do not have the time to tell them right now to you Aquillis, I wish I could write everything into one submission, I really do but time moves so fast (I really thought I would manage to write everything in time, my apologizes ^^,,, Furthermore I would like to apologize for any writing/spelling and or grammatical mist aces I’ve made in my writing, I hope my writing and what I wanted to express is understandable ^^,,,) With friendly greetings The Bowlerhatwearer

The Reply:

This is so cool and amazing! I can’t wait to see more of your work Bowler! I’ve always thought of the concept of the Human turning into Pokemon thing to be interesting, and I always wondered what happened if it didn’t happen in the games in general. This is such an interesting concept to me, and I can’t wait to see more!

[pokeprofjacaranda]

It is not uncommon for baby Cubone to be adopted by other Pokemon. The myth that Cubone wears the skull of its dead mother comes from the peculiar habit wild Marowak have of abandoning their children as soon as they are able to walk and see. Just recently, in fact, my boyfriend and I saw a pod of Bulbasaur with an adopted Cubone running with them.

[zagubionywilk]

USE THIS WEBSITE TO GENERATE YOUR MUSE’S POKEMON TEAM.

usually this is a meme but fuck that,  i’m stealing this from one of my other blogs so i guess i’m re   -   tagging myself.    anyway,    i’ve been lagging on writing up geralt’s pokemon au  /  team for awhile so    . .    lo and behold here we go we did it boys.  the   au itself   is effectively a side step version of his    modern au    but,    you know,    pokemon.    tl;dr:    geralt’s been alive since 1925 and wandering around doing witchery stuff as usual for people with his pokemon in tow helping him out and assisting him whenever he needs assistance getting rid of  monsters.    there comes a time where the wolf becomes worn out and  semi  -  retires   on his corvo bianco ranch as he occasionally goes out to help folks,    again with his pokemon in tow,    when necessary.    pokemon ages  ??   who knows and cares,  leave me and his pals alone   --------    now,  time to meet the team:

geralt’s pokemon partner    and    first pokemon is his mudsdale,    roach    with the moveset:  double kick,    heavy slam,    high horsepower and stomp.    he’s had her since she was itty bitty and a mudbray when he survived his trials at kaer morhen.    initially he had taken a shine to her prior to the trials and she to him    ;    always excited and trotting around the boy when he came to look over her.    geralt humored her always,  after surviving he and roach never really were apart when it came to going out of the stone walls of kaer morhen,    the little pokemon protective of its partner that she had come to trust.    once the wolf had left the school’s walls years later,  his little horse had become large and intimidating    ;    still gentle to him even though her temper had surged with her evolution.    as they went on in the world,    as the years went by,   they still stuck together through everything    ---    ever closer.    roach is hugely protective of her witcher and will    stomp you to death with her hooves    if you so much as threaten him.

tsareena,    nickname    petal    with the moveset:    stomp,    high jump kick,    power whip and solar beam.     all in all,    petal wouldn’t leave geralt alone.    one of the very last pokemon he gained on his team recently,    petal ran into geralt when she was her previous evolution,  steenee    -----    all due to the fact her little home had come under the attention of some humans.    a litwick had been causing a bit of a stir for them,    having sucked a few people’s life forms to dust which led humans to go searching for the pokemon to try and get rid of it.    geralt had been passing through and,    well,    ended up saving petal indirectly.    she was enamored and thankful for this friendly    (    yet kinda scary    !!    )    man who helped her and just   . .   followed him.    geralt’s heart couldn’t keep ignoring her for long and thus let her stick around,   the little pokemon doing her best to impress him and doing so    ;  leveling herself as she did and eventually,    when she gained stomp,  she evolved into tsarenna.    she’s a tomboyish little thing with an attitude now but never ungrateful for the help given to her.    she’ll also stomp you to death with her leetle feet.    during hunts she’s usually quick to assist.

absol,    nickname    sol    with the moveset:    dark pulse,    bite,    night slash and taunt.  geralt’s second pokemon was sol,    an absol he had found during one of the heavier winters in the kaedwin mountains.    she was wounded after a human had harmed it in one of its descents down the mountain to warn of impending disaster.    geralt had come across her in the snow,   bleeding out from the injury and managed to calm her down enough to get her out of the cold.    the disaster had been an avalanche,    no one getting hurt barring the man that had left the pokemon to die in the snow.    alas,    she survived.    in the small cave out of the heavy storm,  roach,    sol and geralt rode it out.    the wolf making sure the absol would survive her wounds with the resources he did have on hand and once it was over the dark pokemon stuck by his side.    with the myth that the pokemon brings disaster    ---    there’s a minor irony of it sticking around the witcher,    becoming his partner    ;    as both are detested and both are feared because of what and who they are.    sol detests fighting lest she can help it,    as it does hurt her to strain herself.  geralt doesn’t use her much on hunts but does bring her along    (    or she just trails behind anyway    ). 

sylveon,    nickname    bow    with the moveset:    disarming voice,    moonblast,    quick attack and psych up.    another one of the recent ones,    however a relatively long lasting one as well.    bow was given to geralt as a   thank you   from dandelion,  initially as an eevee.    the small thing took a shine to geralt and geralt took a shine to the little pokemon who enjoyed his space as well as sol’s.    he wasn’t a fan of staying in his pokeball whenever geralt was    uncomfortable    with a situation or when the wolf was highly upset over something.    effectively the eevee became a sort of    .  .    comfort pokemon for geralt.  when it came down to evolving,    geralt wanted to try for an  umbreon    but got bamboozled when bow evolved into a    sylveon    due to amount of friendship and love bow had for his trainer.    she likes to sit on geralt’s shoulder,    gently holding on with her ribbons that do well to settle him down if he’s ever overwhelmed or upset,    thus being the resident comfort pokemon if anything goes awry.    he’s equally protective of geralt and the friends he has,    rather bouncy and excitable as well.    his presence itself stumps humans and their assumption that witcher’s don’t feel    .  .    considering the required affection and loving on needed for sylveon to    .  .    be.

zebstrika,    nickname    z    (    yes how original     )    with the moveset:    wild charge,    discharge,    thrash and shockwave.    mad.    just    .  .    mad.    z doesn’t like humans very much,    only putting up with those that geralt is close to but irritable enough to stomp and make it known that it doesn’t want many near him.    z found geralt first,    or rather     roach    found the pokemon first,    leading geralt to the zebstrika when upon roaming had found him caught in a man    -    made trap.    after nearly an hour and a half of calming z down and with some assistance from roach just    snorting    and stomping in frustration   . .    geralt was able to get close enough to remove the trap.    z,    at first,    ran off,    only to follow them from a safe distance through the forest before coming to steal a few of the apples geralt had in saddlebags overnight.   begrudging thanks became true once geralt had gained the zebstrika’s trust.    not entirely    “    tame    “    z will still lash out sometimes if unsure of a situation but    will    come to geralt’s aid when its required    .  .   and for pets.

mightyena,    nickname    wulf    with the moveset:    suckerpunch,    crunch,    scary face and bite.    wulf was geralt’s third pokemon he gained,    having gained its trust over a period of a year after its habitat had been uprooted.     initially wary of geralt she came to trust him mostly by how geralt would bring it food when it couldn’t find any due to the uprooted home it came from.    she grew attached and after a time began to follow him out whenever he left.    with geralt’s experience wulf became loyal and ready to defend and fight when needed.  she’s cozy to be within and outside her pokeball but,    unsurprisingly,  has a grand ol time outside of it    ;    being chaotic and tomboyish. 

+   a cubone.    they’re new.    geralt found it while it was crying and it just pretty much  also  won’t leave him alone now.    it doesn’t fight.  just hangs out and is a cute nuisance.  its name is    buttercup.

[thenightling]

A tale of two Dreamings

It occurred to me that some Sandman fans are confused because they don’t realize there are actually two versions of The Dreaming spin-off  and no one really talks about the first version...

The first version of The Dreaming ran from 1996 until 2002. That’s the version by Caitlin R. Kiernan where Cain gets banished by Judge Gallows (but it doesn’t last). The Corinthian gains and loses a boyfriend.  

And Matthew “permanently” dies after accidentally getting shot by Lucien (but it’s “okay” because Daniel makes Lucien forget it was his fault, right after giving a speech about how important memories are!)   Matthew gets replaced with a white raven after what feels like a cheap knock-off of The Wake.  Also Goldie gets new Cubone-from-Pokemon knock-off backstory.

Nuala goes back under the glamour as a form of “empowerment,” (because conforming to what your culture forced on you is now empowering!)  Lucien and Nuala end up lovers because they’re both pining for dead people and decide to settle for reach other.  (Isn’t that nice????) There’s a freakin’ civil war in The Dreaming and Daniel’s reason for not intervening is he “didn’t want there to be any martyrs.”    A serial killer’s henchperson (a trans woman named Echo) becomes the “new” Corinthian for a while and is just this obnoxious dark sue and just plain awful representation.  And while Echo is the Corinthian the actual Corinthian gets banished to Earth as a human to “humble him” (because that is totally what Dream of The Endless would do!).  He gets taken back to The Dreaming and restored to his Nightmare role shortly after his lover was killed.  

The House of Mystery explodes…  Twice!  (Technically three times.)

It took digs at people who liked the original House of Mystery anthology comics and gave Cain and Abel sister wives where Cain was jealous because Abel had married Cain’s twin and Cain wanted to be married to his own twin.  

   And Mervyn Pumpkinhead gets mistaken as a God by one of some white collar humans he’s been exploiting for dream labor.  And he accidentally caused a man to attempt suicide and end up with brain damage and is oblivious that he did it. ��It’s just awful.  

This version ran for sixty issues.

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Then there’s the new version of The Dreaming.  This one started in 2018 and ignores the 1996 to 2002 version. (Thank God!)

It’s technically The Dreaming Volume 2 but they’re not calling it that because DC is utterly ignoring the first version of The Dreaming.  

Matthew’s still the raven, there’s no sign of the white raven.  Echo is not mentioned at all.  Nuala is NOT back under the glamour.  And Lucien and Nuala are not lovers.   This is the one where Lucien has just died but I don’t think he’s going to stay dead based on the preview art for the next story arc (which I think starts in April.)  

This version of The Dreaming had a version of Judge Gallows too but thankfully he was written out by issue 6.

This version of The Dreaming is about to get a new writer and artist so I live in hope it’ll get better…

This version is currently at issue 18.  

Current plot:  It starts with an annoyingly long and drawn out story where Mervyn wants to “make The Dreaming Great again” so he unleashes Judge Gallows, but only after Lucien uncreates some of his friends on the steps of the castle with “I did warn you.”  

Judge Gallows and Merv pen up the new refugee creatures called Blanks or as Merv calls them “Soggies.” (meant to be  a racial slur allegory).    They’re clearly meant to be seen as in the wrong until later we learn they are constructs of the AI known as Wan (more on that later), which completely undermines the intended message. 

Eventually Judge Gallows gets replaced by an AI called WAN or Wan. The A.I. was used to Hack the Dreaming and doesn’t even know it was created by this Steve Jobs-type who wanted to rid the world of fear and superstition by destroying cultural mythology and controlling dreams.  Turned out he was inspired after an encounter with a night hag that turns out to be Dora, the new original character with wing-ears. (Dun dun dun!)

Daniel Hall falls in love with Ivy (Rose Walker’s daughter so… technically his own great niece…)   Ivy gets controlled by occultists who were working with the Steve Jobs-knock-off and she gives Daniel a geas tattoo of a dream catcher combined with a solomonic figure to bind him.  

The occultists almost succeed in destroying Daniel and Ivy ODs (ending up brain dead).   Daniel runs away with Ivy’s unconscious body and probably her dreaming self but not before warning Not-Steve-Jobs what his plan will do if he succeeds.   Realizing he was wrong Not-Steve Jobs (the character’s name is Hyperion Keeter, by the way) tries to set things right but it’s too late.  His own people, who want to take over Dreams and destroy myth and superstition, turn on him.

Abel gets coxed into killing Cain and now Cain is haunting a computer system in the waking world.

Eventually Dora finds Hyperion and learns what’s going on and why and she gets tricked by disembodied Cain into shutting off Hyperion’s life support system (he was dying anyway).   Also I think Simon (the writer) doesn’t quite grasp that Cain usually only kills Abel.  He keeps portraying him like a stab-happy muppet. 

Abel gouges out his own eyes and while blind somehow spoons out Matthew’s tiny raven eyes and replaces them with his own so Matthew can see what’s really going on and so Wan can’t read Matthew’s thoughts (because that’s how psychic links work now!).   Abel’s own eyes grow back and Matthew how has hideous, bulging bloodshot human eyes hanging out of his head. It’s totally WTF.  

After a long, slow, drawn out plot of Lucien’s mind deteriorating the rest of The Dreaming folk give him a burial because he wants to die.  He seems to have been “re-absorbed” into The Dreaming but he’s still aware as a separate being in a dark void and Death just came to him.

Simon DOES know the ravens used to be human / are human souls and weren’t originally part of The Dreaming, right?!   He seems to know Lucien was a raven but doesn’t know what the ravens are.  

Here’s some art from the new artist and writing team taking over The Dreaming around April. I live in hope it gets better.

[mudbray-propaganda]

Ground-Type Pokemon Asks

inspired by @jolteonpropaganda 's electric type ask meme...

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SANDSLASH- what pokemon looks like it'd be the most scary in real life?

NIDOQUEEN- what type of person do you look up to?

NIDOKING- have you had any frustrating moments playing pokemon?

DUGTRIO- do your friends play pokemon with you? what do you do together?

GOLEM- do you prefer defensive of offensive pokemon?

ONIX- how tall are you?

CUBONE- what is your favorite item in pokemon?

RHYHORN- what pokemon would you want to ride on?

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QUAGSIRE- what pokemon do you think you could be friends with?

GLISCOR- favorite pokemon added onto an evolution line?

SWINUB- what are your favorite smells?

PHANPY- do you prefer the 3d models of pokemon, or traditional sprites?

LARVITAR- do you think you could grow to do something great?

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SWAMPERT- what pokemon did you dislike at first, but grew to love?

NINCADA- what are your favorite sounds?

NUMEL- think of a fakemon idea, and share it with us!

TRAPINCH- do you like biology documentaries?

WHISHCASH- is there a pokemon that makes you feel nostalgic?

BALTOY- what are your favorite environments in the pokemon series?

GROUDON- what is your favorite kind of weather?

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TORTERRA- do you know any cool myths or wivestales?

WORMADAM- what is your sense of fashion like?

GASTRODON- favorite type of pokemon variation? (form, mega evos, etc)

GABITE- do you have any hobbies or colections?

HIPPOWDON- what are your favorite foods and drinks?

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DRILLBUR- what is your favorite type of trainer to fight?

SEISMITOAD- how high do you normally turn up the volume?

KROKOROK- if a pokemon team had to resemble its trainer, what would your team be?

STUNFISK- best experience battling with a "weak" pokemon?

GOLURK- what odd move compatibilities are your favorite?

LANDORUS- have you ever broken up a fight?

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DIGGERSBY- what pokemon's skill or features do you wish you had?

ZYGARDE- do you watch the pokemon movies?

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MUDBRAY- do you eat any odd foods or food combos?

MUDSDALE- how have you grown emotionally, lately?

SANDYGHAST- what's your ideal vacation?

[misses-celeste]

okay don’t @ me but, mini-headcanons I have for Pokemon cause nastoliga!

- Homosexuality is common in many pokemon as well, this is extremely relevant in one gender only pokemon such a Tauros, who take in orphaned equestrian pokemon like Ponyta, Blitzle, even taking pity on a lonely cubone and letting it tag along until it matures.

- Trainers can actually donate their pokemon’s eggs to professes or small children in need of a companion.

- Shiny pokemon replace possibility of melanism or albinism, which is very rare and sought after my the richer of people.  But their numbers dwindle due to predators being able to see such bright patterning.

- Eevee’s often are born in large clutches with much older eeveelutions to look over them, seeing as they are quite the rambunctious as babies.

- Mew will very often sneak into a trainer’s party for a bit without the trainer noticing, due to it being alone a lot.

- Smeargle trainers will stage large get togethers with lots of paint and a big blank wall, in which both trainer and pokemon paint and have fun all around.\

- Mightyena aren’t that extensively mean in fact, it;s mostly a very large front for when a Mightyena has trusted either pokemon or trainer enough, it will become much more playful and turns their snappy attitude to protectiveness.

- Flygon’s are very competitive with Charizards due to a very long pokemon talk debate about how much a volcano and desert was the others territory.  Both flying pokemon never have seen eye too eye after that.

- Liepard’s show affection to those close to them by finding things they deem pretty such as feathers, stones, flowers.  They never do it directly though and instead will leave it where the trainer sleeps or leave it beside them as they sleep.  Not really the cruel pokemon everyone thinks they are.

- Audino are very often taken by powerful pokemon to be a healer but due its generally sweet and understand demeanor, the pokemon lets the Audino go after awhile.

- Zoroarks actually have packs though its uncommon for them to be in one place all together they are inside the same territory none the less.

- Florges’s are very territorial with every pokemon.  It doesn’t matter why they are there, this is their land gosh darn it!

- Noiverns created the myth of wyverns, it wasn’t until they saw it was just a bat pokemon did towns people stop leaving huge offerings at the mouth of it’s cave.

- Incineroars and Decidueye both have a long standing hatred for the other, it is unknown why actually.

- Bewaers are very protective of their young, so if you see a Stuffle and no Bewears, you are screwed.

- Zeraora often will be rised in the wild by other cat pokemon such as Liepards, Purugly, Pyroars even!

Very sorry if these are perfectly accrute, I just wanted to get them out before I fell alseep!