#glistenshipping

[seadolph]

a pair of bffs! gal pals! Sinnoh's fiercely determined Veilstone City and Snowpoint City Gym Leaders, Maylene and Candice!

[hupla222]

Complete Sinnoh Quartet

Behold this lovely art of my four Sinnoh fan children that I had done by @xabi0407. You should really check them out as they have done plenty of other really cool fan children for a variety of different pairings.

As for these four, you all have met Dusk and Feijoa before (the top two) and if you haven't you can check out this post. But you have yet to be introduced to properly to the bottom two. Meet Velvet and Ophilus! As always if you have questions feel free to ask! I promise I don't bite lol.

Velvet: This pouty little one is the child of Saturn and Jupiter, now know as Sean and Felicity. As she is two years older than Dusk, she sees herself as the superior trainer, especially since her Skorupi has the advantage over Dusk's Azuril. She is quite a brat in personality, seeing herself as better than everyone else due to be the daughter of one of the richest CEOs in the region. Velvet also hates Feijoa more than anyone, seeing her as less than human. Despite all her fussing and talk, she may be more troubled than she seems if she's willing to summon Darkrai...

Ophilus: This wannabe magician is being raised by Candice and Maylene, but is biologically the son of Candice and Buck. His bio parents have no relationship beyond Buck helping Maylene and Candice have a child. Ophilus is a show off to the extreme, wanting everyone to know just how great he and his partners are. He thinks he's some kind of master hustler but he really isn't. His team consists of a gaggle of oddballs like him, including his ace: a very laggy, sort of buggy, Porygon. Despite how he may come off, he is quite kind hearted and is one of the few people to be totally okay with Feijoa. It seems Dusk may have a soft soft spot for him...

I realize I forgot to give ages to Dusk and Feijoa so let me age all four now. Dusk is 10, Feijoa is 15, Velvet is 12, and Ophilus is 11.

[pillotalkin]

It's Pokemon Day, so I'm finally getting around to posting this PokeExchange 2023 (@secretstantler) piece I did for Flufferdoodle (AO3) on here as well!

The prompt was about Maylene trying to tough out the Snowpoint City cold like Candice can, even though she Really Really can't... After reading that, I wondered if Candice might carry that jacket around her waist around for something other than fashion, and this comic is what came out!

[pkmnomegaverse]

The fool in me is looking at the “leaked ages” and trying to decide how many I want to adapt. Combo of I do like to use beta content, afterall! And most really do line up pretty well with my thoughts on the characters. Even the ones I’m scratching my head at, when I really look at the character, I can see it if I just tilt my head a bit. The ones that are pretty much impossible to adapt tho would be Trevor, Shauna, and Clemont (leaks say they’re 10, 12, 12 for ref). Most perplexed by this one since then say Tierno is 16, True reason Calem picks him to pursue. Only one close to his age! Even tho the same leeks say he and Serena are 14 (the bridge in the age gap of the friend group. Although the document these ages are from mention another girl who would have been part of the friend group. The cut friend. Since this is from an early early draft).

The Striaton Bros would be sooooooo baaaaaaaad the implications there are bleak (leaks say 14). But Ghetsis would (I say this, as I don’t already have it as a thing where Ghetsis is pursuing Cress once he’s 14. It’s already bleak). Although they are off the table as well purely because I really do like the Striaton Bros=Shadow Triad hc too much and that aspect works better if they’re older. Closer to N’s age. But pretty much anyone else is fair game since I kinda dislike coming up with ages anyway for a lot of the side cast. As I Do Not Care. Hell, there’s still quite a few characters I never pegged down an age for even though I’ve had this blog for years since I care that little. So sure, why not use a lot of it when it doesn’t directly contradict things. Or at least use them as a reference. Makes my job easier.

Now on to the NOTES FOR MYSELF section since some of the implications of the ages were funny to me, so making notes for future me to reread.

- Marlon as 30. Like it doesn’t even matter if I change Cress’s age or not, he’s still like a decade younger than this guy. Here I was thinking that was the one guy Cress is hooking up with who’s closer in age to him, but alas. Cress only likes older men confirmed. Ghetsis did too much of a number on him. Thus I feel I gotta use this one to continue that theme. - Maylene as 10. This one still seems a tad young but when I replayed the game recently, I noticed a random townie NPC has a line of dialogue that implies she’s pretty close to the protag’s age. So would have personally pegged her closer to 12 but the 10 is not actually surprising given that. Knew she had to be younger than Candice but didn’t realize it was quite that big of a gap. Since Candice as 16 tracks (can’t believe both these two and Trevor/Tierno were a duo of a 10 year old and a 16 year old as besties). This one I’ll need to debate a bit, but sure, whatever, not like I have either Dawn or Lucas making sensible choices regarding the ages of the people they’re getting with. The theme of Sinnoh.

- Ethan, Lyra, Dawn, and Lucas as 12. I will use any excuse I can to age up the protags so yeah, gonna add a year. Don’t even have to second guess this one.

- Cynthia as 28. A bit older than I expected. The Celestica genes already making her look young! But the point here is I’ve considered how Cyllene is perhaps the same age as Cyrus (27). It seems like that would maybe be a parallel with those two? No real reason to assume they’re not roughly the same age. So by that reasoning, would it not track that Volo is around Cynthia’s age. Thus 28? I truly have no idea how old that man is, since is he hella old due to the Celestica maybe immortal thing? Or is he legit somewhere in his 20s. Was leaning towards lower/mid 20s but it’s not like VoloRei isn’t dicey and problematic regardless so might as well just go all in on a wider age gap. Doesn’t make sense to base his age around that plot point alone. So sure, later 20s it is. He needs some time to put his plan in motion anyway. Inversely though, a fair amount of characters don’t actually seem to match the ages of their descendants. Obviously with the ambiguously aged adults looking characters it’s really hard to tell. But Kamado seems to be younger than Rowan so perhaps in that sense, Volo is not meant to be Cynthia age (basically he’s either 28 or very much not 28, vs off by only a little bit).

- Caitlin as 17 in Gen 4 while Darach is 25. Past me was almost spot on here with their age gap (had it as 7 years vs 8) but also had both a bit younger (was running Caitlin as 14 in DPP since I see that number thrown around a lot for her). But sure, probably should age her up to make that whole thing slightly less dicey. Also to better match the next point. Caitlin is noted as being mid 20s in BW which there’s roughly a 5 year gap between Gen 2/4 and BW for me. Which puts her at…22. Not mid 20s, but whatever, close enough. Can’t win em all and I’m pretty locked in on the timeline of when games happen. Moving any of those dominoes a lot of other things which aren’t worth changing on a whim.

- Diantha as 20 and Malva as 33. Not actually a problematic age gap since unlike my numerous other examples, as least the younger one isn't a teen. But I thought it was funny just how much of an age gap this gives them when originally I had assumed they would be pretty close in age. I just can't escape the villain of hero/villain ships being notably older than the hero.

[pkmnshipweek]

happy day 1 of pokemon ship week!

today's prompts are confession and vacation!

[knighthero17]

Glistenshipping week is officially happening! Any sort of media is allowed to participate (except anything nsfw). The prompts are not mandatory and you can post any artwork you wish to. Just use the hashtags below if you do post something. #GlistenshippingWeek #MaylenexCandice

[lopa124]

So... Valentine's Day huh?

Good

[kwoomochi]

Maylene struggling with the snowpoint temperature

[volkshore]

sinnoh league instagram series: volkner & flint

[mythgirlimagines]

If I had a nickle for every time I shipped two gym leaders that have a type advantage/disadvantage with each other I'd have two nickles, which isn't a lot but it's weird that its happened twice(my ships are Glistenshipping[Candice x Maylene] and Airplaneshipping[Elesa x Skyla] btw) ~ Wolf

Lol

[sugarpokemongirl]

More OTPs?!

Yeah, those weren’t ALL of my Pokémon OTPs...Wanna see a bit more???

OriginShipping—Steven x Wallace

AlphaFemaleShipping—Shelly x Courtney

GlistenShipping—Candice x Maylene

SinfulShipping—Jupiter x Mars

Cynthia x Diantha—[I couldn’t find a ship name. If anyone could be so kind, could you please comment on what it is?]

AirplaneShipping—Skyla x Elesa

BoutiqueShipping—Y (Yvonne [Serena] ) x Shauna

MoonLilyShipping—Moon (Selene) x Lillie

CuteBonesShipping—Hau x Gladion

GothGFShipping—Shirudomiria (Shield [Gloria] ) x Marnie

CheeryFairyShipping—Hop x Bede

AquaHeartShipping—Nessa x Sonia

TrueRivalShipping—Leon x Raihan

[seadolph]

something something glistenshipping crumbs this palentine's day?

[hupla222]

Sinnoh Quartet - Teams

Just figured I go ahead and put these here as I made team for each of my Sinnoh fan children. I can go more in depth with them if anyone asks but for now just enjoy! In order the teams are for Dusk, Feijoa, Velvet, and Ophilus. That little egg icon just indicates an empty slot.

[laughing-moonlight]

Maylene: If I was a gardener, I’d put our tulips together

Candice, blushing: Awww

Flint: C’mon Volk, why can’t we be like that?

Volkner: If I was a gardener, you’d be my hoe

Flint: Oh yeah, that’s why

[pkmnomegaverse]

Fankidtober Day 30: North

Maylene and Candice’s daughter. She was not who I rolled today but no more designing new kids this month, too tired.  Plus been wanting to try drawing North again.

[stunfiskz]

maylene visits her gf at her gym but apparently doesn’t know what the fuck a jacket is