#hanamusa au related

[yamujiburo]

everyones' favorite (ex) team rocket member

[yamujiburo]

As someone who has created a freshly adored shipping content as of late (thank you, btw), why do you think so many people love seeing domestic affection in fanart like this? Why do you think Hanamusa gained the traction that it did? Ik I’m basically asking “why do people ship,” but I thought you’d have an interesting perspective as a prolific artist in the genre atm!

im not sure! i think it's just such a tried and true dynamic for starters. a sweet small/angry tall, opposites attract situation. both characters also have like,,, "the right amount of baggage" for one to help the other out with in sweet ways. jessie growing up a poor, orphan with no one to keep her in check and delia being lonely and having all the people in her life leave her for one reason or another.

it's great that they're both incredibly strong women in their own right but make up for each other's weaknesses. jessie has more growing to do between the two of them (obviously) but delia can also learn a thing or two, namely allowing herself to fall in love again without fearing abandonment.

i think domestic fanfics/aus in general are also fun in particular when the source material isn't that. it allows us to see characters in a light that we normally wouldn't and makes it a little more "relatable"

the fun part about hanamusa for me was also the prospect of jessie being ash's stepmom LOL

[yamujiburo]

I'm not sure it's ok to ask these questions because they are not directly related to Hanamusa, so I apologise if it's too random, please feel free to ignore it, but as someone who absolutely fell hard with Andeshipping mainly thanks to your amazing art and headcanons, I wonder in regards to possibility of Miyamoto being alive and reuniting with Jessie, what is the status of Andeshipping in Hanamusa AU? Is Madame Boss dead or just retired? What is the lore of Miyamoto's return - why did it took her so long to come back from her mission? Where was she all that time? Did Madame Boss knew of Miyamoto's whereabouts at all? Did she blame herself for sending Miyamoto to such dangerous mission?

Always okay! I take any asks always~

Since Madame Boss and Miyamoto's story is so far in the past, it's usually consistent in all my AUs! Madame Boss is not alive, as implied in The Birth of Mewtwo, by the time the first movie happens.

The Birth of Mewtwo also implies that Miyamoto is alive and STILL searching for Mew well into Jessie's adulthood. Miyamoto throughout the drama uses Jessie's age to keep track of time and in Japanese, she uses a very specific term that leads me to believe Jessie is around 25. I think it's the last check in with her, so she truly was just running around the mountains for 20 years until present day. In my head, she FINALLY finds Mew again but finds her attempts to catch Mew are futile and comes to the brutal conclusion that she'll never catch Mew and has left her daughter for YEARS for no reason. So she spends all her time searching for Jessie again.

Miyamoto was MIA for so long that I think Madame Boss just assumed she'd died. After Giovanni took over, I imagine his team went out and found the tapes and recordings that Miyamoto had left, but Madame Boss never got to hear them or see them.

And this deviates from the drama a bit but I hc that Giovanni told the story a little differently or didn't know the whole truth. We never hear Madame Boss tell Miyamoto to go find Mew, Miyamoto puts it upon herself to do so. I imagine, Madame Boss tries to get her to stay

[yamujiburo]

No bc why is Hanamusa so yummy? Like if I could take your art and this ship and make it into a food I would eat it like there is no tomorrow. Also I love how Ash is just SO against it in the beginning It's SOOOO funny. I honestly need to see more of that because I can't get enough of it. Just this whole AU is so well thought out and so amazingly drawn. I love it so much. They're dynamic just fits so perfectly and I can't get enough of it. And the little fun fact about the comics being related to real experiences with your GF is sooo cute!! You guys are pretty much Hanamusa it's self and I'm so for it!! You truly have done such an amazing job with this AU and everything about it that I am just in awe at how wonderful you made this to be. Keep up the good work!!

Thank you so much!! 💞💞💞

I really appreciate and I have a lot of fun doing these lil comics~

[cyberwulf]

I voted "Jessie and Delia relationship" because that's the closest answer when I think about what appeals to me most, taking everything into account.

I started writing fics inspired by these comics back in March, but before then I started work on Strange Arrangements, a James/Oak fic wherein the boys get together initially because their exes are engaged to each other. So the first thing that attracts me to Hanamusashipping is how it affects the other characters. Even if you're not a Rocket- or Eldershipper, Hanamusa creates a split - a small one - in our TRio. They no longer live all together, they're not together 24/7. There's great potential for angst there, if you want it, and I'm exploring that in my own AU. Then, depending on how involved you think Professor Oak was as a father/grandfather-figure/male role model to Ash growing up, there's potential for friction between him and Jessie as Ash's step-mom. Or maybe just some disapproval on his end over Delia's choice of partner. Of course, angst is not the only thing you can get out of this - James and Meowth form their own relationships with Delia and Ash and Professor Oak. I really like the idea of Meowth having the prof or Delia as a boss and getting spoiled with praise and pets, something he always craved from Giovanni but never got.

Then, as I wrote Hanamusa myself in my own AU, I started to think about how the ship changes Jessie. Not just physically, although mom bod!Jessie is adorable. We've seen flashbacks of Jessie as a young girl and a teenager. We know she wasn't always mean and nasty. We've had glimpses into what made her that way - being mocked by the other kids because she couldn't afford the cool pencilcase that was all the rage, and only had one pencil anyway. Being told right out of the gate that going to nursing school wasn't an option. Going to Chansey nursing school only for everyone to be horrible to her. And we see how she relates to James and Meowth - the TRio bicker and argue constantly, they hurt each other and gloss over it because they're a team and have no-one else. Delia's gentle and big-hearted and she expects a proper apology if you hurt her feelings. Jessie has to change how she behaves, not just with Delia but with Ash too. That could also make her re-examine how she talks to and treats James and Meowth, something I've explored and will be exploring more in Strange Arrangements.

Finally, while I was writing An End and A Beginning, the trade fic for @yamujiburo, I got thinking about Delia. And how Jessie would never leave her. Jessie's wanted stability and domesticity for a long time. Delia's role in the show is to pack Ash's backpack before each adventure and send him off with a kiss and a wave and an admonishment to change his underwear (and considering he slept in the same grotty cargo pants he wore all through Diamond and Pearl, on Dawn's mother's nice clean bedclothes, I doubt he's doing that). But her (ex?) husband is gone - we've never seen him. Per some versions of canon, her father took off too. Ash keeps leaving, but that's forgivable. He's a child, you have to let them fly the next. Jessie'd never leave. Jessie loves the people she loves fiercely and whole-heartedly. It's why she left James and Meowth behind when it looked like they were happy with Cassidy and Butch. It's why she left Doctor Dreamy to bail James and Meowth out of a jam. It's why she went up that mountain to rescue James from the shiny Metagross. It's why she stamped on Dustox's Pokéball and told her to go with the male Dustox. It's why she screamed for Arbok to run while she and James fought that poacher's Pokémon with their bare hands. It's why she threw her last quarter into the stadium so the islanders would think Meowth had learned Payday. In Jessie, Delia has someone who's There. Ride or die, that's how she rolls.

It's a hell of a ship. A fantastic source of inspiration to me, and just really fun to think about.

[mars-da-volcanic-elemental]

@a-captions-blog if you have the spoons to describe this art-that would be great! Please and Thank you so much!

everyones' favorite (ex) team rocket member