#life-of-kalos

[sinnohsiblings]

(Life-of-kalos Faun @ Abbadon) Faun looks over the other legend, seemingly pondering something. "You... I feel like I've seen you before?" She squints at him "Mmmmmm...? No, I got nothing." With a shrug she continues. "Anyway, you have quite a lovely wife I must say. What was it that drew you to her and she to you?"

Abbadon could feel his anger boil over for just a moment as his fighting plate was worked up into a frenzy seeing the woman who had assaulted him in his own damn house. But rearing back his temper he cleared his throat while processing her question. His wife? Well, that's a question he'd be happy to answer!

Abbadon: "If you have ever looked at my wife or spoken to her seriously, you'd see why I love her. She risked her own life when she first met me to shield me from that murderous mountain. She is as brave as she is giving. She stands so strongly by her principles. It's her most admirable and infuriating quality, but it's also why I adore her so much."

Abbadon: "I, of course, can't speak for my wife. I'm certain she has a completely different reason for what drew her to me than I think she might. So that is honestly something you'd need to ask her yourself."

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artwork of faun kicking the fuck out of abbadon done by @life-of-kalos found for the gala here

[watchful-lady-of-shadows]

(From @life-of-kalos ??? @ osseth) "You say your world has 'beasts' who can travel space and time? As far as I'm concerned, don't most universes have a Dialga and Palkia that do just that? But perhaps you are referring to different beings than those gods."

"Ah, yes, you are correct. In most realms it is only Dialga and Palkia with this ability. In addition to those two, however, my home realm has many creatures with the ability to traverse both space and time, albeit to a limited degree."

"I believe in other places they are called Ultra Beasts. A certain sect of these beasts are more powerful then others, and use their powers to travel through the many interconnected dimensions that make up the whole of my home realm. This is because these beasts are the offspring of those with the Divine Epithet of ‘Deified’."

"As an example, I will use two of the more common ultra beasts across realms. Hopefully you will recognize their names."

"For us, the species of Solagelo and Lunala all originate from two who are more powerful then all others. My realm has no major legends such as Rayquaza or Lugia, and as such these Deified Beasts fill this role instead. Solgaleo guards the sun, truth, and hearth. Lunala watches over the moon, ideals, and travel."

"They help in maintaining the realm within these domains, and so when they made their creations to aid in these duties, those creations were incredibly powerful in turn."

"Each species who are offspring of these Deified Beasts have a unique home realm, and will travel to and fro as they please by crossing time and space. This means that me and my siblings must be diligent in our duties to ensure that these 'paths' used by ultra beast populations remain clear and connected to our overworld. Any disruption would be disastrous."

"This is how my realm works, strange as it may be to others. I would not have it any other way."

[askturnipdeerling]

( @life-of-kalos Solgaleo @ Abraham) "Hey! looking GOOD old man! I bet you were a raging partier back in your day. Shreddin' up the dance floor with your sick moves! Man what I wouldn't give to see that ahahaha! Hey hey, don't worry. I won't ask such a fragile old guy like you to show them off now! Let's do something even better, yeah? Like, hmm I don't know... OH! Let's get everyone here and play a HUGE game of hide-and-seek tag! I'll help you out of course. Don't want you running around gettin hurt or anythin.. Hmmm. How about I carry you? Man this'll be amazing! I just gotta find a microphone or somethin to get everyone's attention.."

[lightofunova]

( Life-of-kalos Zeke @ Reshi) The Yveltal caught a glimpse of beauty in passing and stopped to do a double take. If anyone was deserving of the bouquet he brought, it was her. Before approaching, Zeke straightened his outfit and put on his game face. A few gentle strides brought him to Reshi where he took note of all the details he could. She seemed a gentle soul and looked to be nervous so he knew a strong approach may intimidate her.

"Pardon me ma'am." He gently tapped her shoulder, pulling her attention to him. As she turned he could clearly tell just who she was. The God of truth. This was going to be trickier than he originally thought, but that just made him all the more interested.

"Truth be told, I couldn't help but be drawn to a beauty such as yourself. You see, I brought this bouquet of flowers with the intention of giving it to someone that caught my eye." He held the flowers out to her, carefully placing them in her hands. "While it is true you did just that, I find myself growing more curious as to who this beauty might be. Could I perhaps steal you away even just for a while?"

Reshi had been sat against the wall for awhile, watching the other legendaries mingle in their sparkling gowns and best suits. Everyone looked stunning and they all seemed to be enjoying one another’s company, so why was it she was the one left alone?

Sighing inwardly, she had decided it would be best to make an attempt to converse with someone. Pushing off the wall she began to stride through the glittering room, attempting to find anyone to catch her eye. Perhaps a drink would help her loosen-

“Pardon me ma’am.”

A voice caught her eye, as well as a gentle tap on her shoulder. Turning to face the owner, she was surprised to come face to face with bright blue eyes, and swaths of reds and greys. She hadn’t met too many legendaries in her own world, however it wasn’t hard to discern he was one himself. From the gold accessories, to the expensive looking jacket, it was easy to tell he had high quality tastes.

It was what he told her that had caught her off guard.

She was the one he decided to give the bouquet to? Out of all the lavish legends here he had placed the flowers gently in her shaky hands. Staring into the flowers, the goddess found herself dumbfounded. Resh could discern no lies in his words, and yet she still felt guarded, nervous as to how to respond.

The pink that rose to her pale cheeks was hard to deny, matching the soft hues of the petals. She knew the goddess of love had been prowling the event, but she thought she had carefully avoided her! So, why now was her hart racing so quickly?!

“I…Well I…” nervous laughter spaced between broken syllables eventually formed into something cohesive. “I’m Reshi, what’s your name stranger?”

@life-of-kalos

[front-facing-pokemon]

[agentc0rn]

Exploring

[superbellsubways]

[trainerethan]

Red with flat affect but he's actually very affectionate and easily excited about things. He just doesn't emote. As kids it throws green off at first bc he doesn't like being ignored and thinks red is ignoring him/doesn't gaf. He's super rejection sensitive so gets upset but red manages to explain that he's not he just. Looks like this. As adults green finds it's cute rather than being upset by it.

[galar-abortion-clinic]

Hes having a really bad day, you guys

[sinnohsiblings]

( Life-of-kalos lady yveltal @ Zephyr) "Oh my, it seems you've already had too many and the party has only begun." She chuckles as she sits down next to Zephyr. "What do you say we go get something to eat? It'll help you sober up some. You don't want to get blackout drunk so soon."

Zephyr: "Don't worry about it! I am still very much sober. I do apologize if I may be conducting myself in a way that would make a lord of death concerned. An embarrassing level of unprofessionalism on my case!"

Zephyr appears to be having a hard time making/keeping direct eye contact with the Yveltal.

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[ask-sarah-and-co]

(Life-of-kalos female yveltal @ Jasper) "My my, how curious it is to see another of our kind. I am curious as to how your world perceives the God of destruction? I cannot say mine is all too well." She pauses a moment before realizing how rude she's been. "Ah, pardon my manners. I suppose I got caught up in my thoughts before even a proper greeting. I do hope you're enjoying the Gala."

Ah do not worry, I would be glad to answer any questions.

In my world, Yveltal are feared but not loathed. We are often prayed to when a mortal wishes for a peaceful death, or when they want to see someone close who has passed away. We often receive many blessings during the yearly prayers.

There are many myths in Kanto and Johto about us Yveltal leading mortals to a gate and into the distortion world. I find those, among others, quite interesting compared to the truth…

Anyways, I am quite enjoying this gala. I have not met this many legendary pokemon in my lifetime, ‘tis a new experience for me. What about you? I do hope you are enjoying yourself as well.

@life-of-kalos

[h-ellllo]

imma stick this here

A very hastily drawn idea I had for a few days :D

warning, spoilers for season 12 and depictions of violence

ehe

no words version down here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

[askleaderscrest]

Morris: There's just something about me that attracts you legendaries, isn't there? Can you even actually die?

@the-feral-one

Welcome to the pokeask blog hunger games

Bellow, you will find the 24 contestants have been divided into pairs of 12 teams in hopes of being that last one standing in this brutal (and fake) fight to the death!

Tags and info will be under the cut ✂️

District 1: Oakwen from @flying-type-teacher and Rimi from @ask-the-shiny-pokemons

District 2: Vespa from @askvekpa and Perceus from @poniquest

District 3: Kanna from @perish-song and Parisa from @sinnohsiblings

District 4: Jet from @symphonies-of-silver and Zipporah from @the-last-of-alto-mare

District 5: Monarch from @the-sleepysiren and Zantzu from @ask-suicune

District 6: Wo from @the-feral-one and Morris from @askleaderscrest

District 7: Faun from @life-of-kalos (here) and Reshi from @lightofunova

District 8: Singularity from @singularity-and-co and Kyurem from @askthehoenngods

District 9: Roshi from @lustrous-dawn and Deo from @askdeoxys

District 10: Diane from @ask-diane and Abigail from @office-pokemons

District 11: Riddle from @ask-meowscarada and Altair from @starintheday

District 12: Matthew from @greedentstripes and Begonia from @ask-imaginary-dreamers

There were a small handful of those who submitted characters but we're included because of the limit. I apologize if you didn't get in but hopefully I'll do another later on so keep an eye out in the future!

Now for info;

Tag anything that has to do with this #pokeaskhungergames2024 and feel free to @ me too! You can draw/write/rp/ect for this if you'd like but honestly no pressure! I just think it's funny to see how it goes haha you can just sit back and watch if you want.

I will have a queue for the progression to post every 2 days. (If you do not want to be tagged every time just let me know) Day 1 will be posted on Sunday 03/31

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

[fiilemade]

// hi hello tiny thing but in my heart, Seres has the vocal training to sound like both singers here <3

[lenientravesty]

on one of my last wonder trades for pokemon x before the 3ds shutdown someone sent me a level 100 garchomp hatched in 2014

that was someones baby. he's in a luxury ball. he's ev trained. he's had pokerus. they loved this thing. i was traded a level 1 gible named JetPiranha. that's his brother now. i'm going to lose my mind.

[kalosian-woods]

unhinged thoughts on southern kalos?

You have enabled my brainrot, anon, now get ready for the rant of a lifetime mwhahahaha!!! >:D

But seriously, this is such a fun question/ask. Ever since I heard about the ever-forbidden Southern Kalos I just wanted to get it into the AU heh... probably the way how I stopped seeing this as just a 'rewrite' and more 'alt universe'. It didn't help things when I saw this one tumblr post talking about how those episodes where the gang where going to so many towns in XYZ could be in Southern Kalos, like YES that's such a great idea!!

This might get long, so posting this under a read more :P

I've been scratching my head about what can Southern Kalos have as a destination a lot ngl. We know thanks to Sawyer's badges (that we actually see) that there are at least 3 other Gyms in Kalos beyond the main ones- Fire, Water and Flying.

(Don’t get me started on the order of his last ones. Why did you go to Anistar only to backtrack to Valerie again before running down the other side of Kalos for the Iceberg Badge?? Is Sawyer okay?? /lh)

To be fair, two of these are already taken up as Elite 4 Types, as well as these just plain being references to Hoenn (the 4th, 6th and 8th Gyms there), but it really got me thinking. Kalos does have a really big culture centered around Sky Battles, and even reading up about France there's this well-known strong wind near the south of it (called the Mistral lol, which apprently means master wind). What if there were Gyms down there? We can't really judge the distance considering how almost no one apart from Ash are getting the badges in order in Kalos (Alain's last badge being from Shalour, hopefully Trevor had more than one badge by the end of S2 considering his latest known one was the Bug Badge, and I have no idea what Tierno was doing), so it's plausible that these Gyms could be in Southern Kalos.

I mean, let's look at the map from the beta designs of Kalos:

(easiest one to look at for me heh)

The big blue dots are cities and the green ones are towns, with purple (with yellow borders) being significant buildings/artifical and purple (with purple borders) being significant places/natural. Those two islands were going to be, from left to right, Mirage Island and the Battle Facility (presumably Battle Maison). The town that follows Kiloude seems to be a port, and the two leftmost purple on purple dots are assumed to be 'outdoor dungeons' (e.g. forests) while the northmost and southmost ones are 'indoor dungeons' (e.g. caves). I know it would make more sense to have a 'Water' Type Gym over at the port, but hear me out:

Let's have the Flying Type Gym over there instead.

Look at the geography. Lots of winds can come through the sea or the land/I hope they are mountains, and especially since there is Mirage Island (that pops in and out of existance... thanks Hoopa :p) the winds can be pretty unpredictable there. The city can be Water themed considering how close it is to the coast, and at the furthest reaches could be Fire-typed. I’ve heard about the caves being where the Mythical mons could be, like Volcanion, so having the Water and Fire places being next to each other would be pretty cool imo.

But what would the purpose of the Gyms be, if most people go through the main 8 instead?

This is what I posit: these Gyms are training/lower level Gyms, as holdovers from the past in an area where people aren’t so inclined to battle. I mean, we’ve seen the Kalos League—only 64 people showed up, and we already know quite a few of them (and how overpowered they are). I’d like to think that Southern Kalos, and to an extent the whole of Kalos, are extremely used to peace. Their Legendaries are asleep and are alike to Mythicals in their infrequent encounters, the war was 3000 years ago and Mega Evolution is just now becoming more wide-spread and well-known. There’s this subtle theme in XY with what path you want to take your life in: passively, living by, surviving no matter the costs, or willing to be active and making a change. Lysandre proclaims that the world is leading towards a worse tomorrow and that not everyone can continue to live the way they are now— Serena has been seen by her mother as the continuation of the Rhyhorn racing legacy— In the games the Rival Trio have different views on their futures (Shauna wanting to collect memories, Trevor wanting to explore Pokémon and their potentials/differences, Tierno just wanting to have a good time dancing with his Pokémon). Clemont in the anime (I mean what does he have in the games tbh NO HATE btw) has been stuck without an outside view until Ash came along and changed his worldview, Ash is faced with being one of the few strongest and most active people around and facing the consequences of it.

In a world where people and Pokémon live in harmony, where nothing has changed, what would you do? The same thing day in and day out, probably. Following your parents footsteps or just slightly veering off into your own life, eking out a living until you die. Life and death and maintaining order, always. While Northern Kalos is more hectic and running around with new devices, new fashion, new crazes, I feel like there would be a much more calm yet almost aimless (is that the right word??) structure to Southern Kalos. Tbf Vaniville is also pretty south overall, so it would work well I think heh. While even Shalour has started to embrace the future, Southern Kalos would probably stick to what has been proven by time to work best, and so Gyms wouldn’t be so much as to gain a badge but to be prepared for outside. They probably do have Badges but for most it would just be a sign that they can handle Pokémon rather than using it for the League. Not very well-known unless you take the side roads, which may be what Sawyer was doing heh.

(I think in that way of living passively/actively, both sides of Kalos have their own brand of passivity— with north living busy but quickly tiring lives while south being peaceful but a little empty and removed. Man I wish I could explain this better but hopefully you get the point.)

(Yes, I am still workshopping on it but I've Got Thoughts and this really helped me direct some of it outwards. Seriously, feel free to add whatever ideas you want to this heh, I like seeing things from a different point of view.)

More misc ideas ig:

In the actual AU itself I really want the main gang to go to Southern Kalos and just get hit by the totally different vibes lol. Tossing up between after the Lumiose Gym Battle/5th Badge so they get some time off after that arc buildup or after Wulfric. Definitely around there for me.

There will be other characters who go there (it’s not a journey if you don’t travel to some random place) but it’s going to be a ride for sure for everyone involved :P

Mega Evolution will be kept to particular families there I feel like, and people will be pretty friendly but also wary at the same time. Lots of nature and agriculture but also signs of technology and civilisation taking its toll on the land.

Have some sort of idea for the not-really Gym Leaders (going to have to make a name to explain their job heh)?? I think I actually wanted Fire to be Ground instead (to match the secondary typings of the Legendaries with the Gyms) but we'll see. Especially since the furtherest town is surrounded by five locations, so it can symbolise how the ground is connected to all things *wink wink hey Zygarde*

Yes I'm moving the gadget festival here and no one can change my mind

Also c'mon free space for Showcases!! For Ash to battle beyond the Gyms and random people he finds!! For Clemont to see beyond Prism Tower!! For Bonnie to do Bonnie-like stuff!! There are so many possibilities here and we can take those here!!

This has bascially been one big brain fart but just understand that you gave me a good thought today, especially with all of the stress lol. Might revisit this post for more thoughts when I'm less bogged down. But also:

Southern Kalos Real In Anime?? (Not Clickbait) (But seriously whyyyyyy did we miss out on it???)