#pmd headcannon

[scribz-ag24]

sth sth dusknoir clinging beyond expectation to grovyle. cant believe thats a line in the game

[calmcraggyarea]

tbh there should be blood in pmd But only in gti during kyerum desert scene

[lilbit-o-sunshine]

My headcannon was that the faux face dusknoir has going on with his torso was just for intimidation purposes, and he, being the gripper (cough reaper cough) pokemon, "ate" by absorbing the life force of things (so he could literally "eat" a leaf if he so wanted and it would just wither.) Most plant matter carries a residual "life force" in it that the Duskull line can consume. So basically when dusknoir eats cooked food, it kinda just vanishes into thin air, and when he eats like an oran berry or something he gains the effects that berry would give, and then the berry just wilts into grimey food ahhdhdhd

I also saw his "mouth" as more of a "pocket" of sorts. If he were a normal reaper like the rest of species he'd store recently passed souls there to bring them to the afterlife. A sort of "safe room" but for souls so they don't accidentally get stuck possessing an object or get eaten by another ghost type or something.

In Dusknoir's case though I think he probably served as a messenger to Dialga before the world ended and then received cpr. Because the pokedex states that Dusknoir (the species) can also act like messengers to other worlds. I imagine that Dusknoir and Dialga would communicate using Dusknoir's antenna before the tower fell, and once Dialga lost his mind Dusknoir had to like, turn his antenna off so Dialga wouldn't drive him mad too.

I totally didn't forget the orginal ask was about kissing, no sir.

If Dusknoir ever got engaged, would his S.O. kiss him right below his eye, or on the big belly mouth?

After having pondered this PMD shipping equivalent of the "if a dog wore pants" meme, and considering what I would personally want the answer to be, I can say that the answer is neither.

His mouth isn't really a mouth— it's more like a... I dunno how to say this. It's like a Russian nesting doll situation? But without any other dolls inside? He's entirely hollow, and his "mouth" is only really used for emoting, building energy for attacks, carrying items on occasion— and in rare cases that he's never lived personally— containing errant souls of the dead on a pilgrimage to where they can rest without disturbing others or being disturbed. From a dusknoir's perspective, it'd be like being kissed on the back of your head— and in terms of emotional significance it's honestly more comparable to someone kissing your bag. Like. "Aw, thanks I guess... But why?"

The below-the-eye option is understandable, but it's still not what he'd do himself. As a whole, dusknoirs (along with other, truly mouthless pokemon) often express affection by gently pressing their foreheads together with the one they're being affectionate with. It's not a direct analogue to a kiss, but there's enough cultural parallels for it to be seen as "close enough" by outsiders.

[anonspiceart]

This part was super fun to do!! I like to headcannon that Gill recognized Tsunami's royal wing patterns just before he died bc that's Fun and Heartbreaking c': Audio got cc'd, so replacement audio only for the official upload. I can upload it here without consequence, though. Remind me to do that some time

SCRIPT: Gill gets pinned down from above by Tsunami. He creaks his head around to look at her. Show Tsunami’s royal patterns in blurry vision. Show one of Gills eyes, now wide and pupils small. Just as Tsunami’s talons jerk to the side, cut to black before she snaps his neck.

Replacement audio: Chasm Cave - PMD explorers of sky OST Outro Audio: Dark Hill - PMD explorers of sky Designs: Sandyish

[ask-obt]

This is more for Woo but out of curiosity what is your lore for every Legendary/Mythical Pokemon so far? (Headcannon that because Mews have the DNA of every single Pokemon that should they have offspring with another species their babies will automatically be the species of said Mews mate. The only way to get a Mew is if one or more Mews have offspring.)

// considering there are quite literally 99 legendary (or legendary adjacent pokemon, like mythicals and ultra beasts), that's a lot of headcanons for one ask! but I can toss a few OBT legendary things out there - most mythicals can have multiple members of their species, they just have low breeding rates - some legendaries in OBT are implied to not exist at all outside of stories! or at the very least, they aren't as powerful as the stories would have you believe if they do exist (meloetta has a sort of "prince and the pauper" type of story surrounding it) - type: null doesn't exist in OBT's current time, instead using a helmet breaking ceremony as a sort of coming-of-age tradition for individuals - some minor legendaries, like mythicals, can populate the world of OBT casually. the legendary birds come to mind, as does heatran and the kubfu line. - I like to think the treasures of ruin are somewhere out there. maybe someday I'd make an original PMD story where they show up, the idea behind them is just so fun and I love chi-yu sososososo much - believe it or not, some legendaries have outlived their specific niche in world creation type stuff! even if xerneas exploded life would find a way to survive, and reshiram won't breathe down your neck if you're caught lying. who knows, maybe some legendaries are gone entirely...? ;3c - ultra beasts probably exist somewhere in the universe, but they don't populate OBT's world. - legendaries don't exist in a pantheon in OBT's world. some might know each other, but they don't hang out in a special legendary-only club. most probably prefer to keep to themselves

[silvers-starrway]

Hi! I was reading about your OCs and I'm curious what "PMD explorers of sky" is and how it inspired you (please don't hesitate to go into detail, I'm genuinely curious!) I think the story you came up with for your OCs is very interesting and fits well into the Sonic universe! And your designs are so nice too!! Very clean and neat but far away from boring!! I hope you're having a great day!

AH! First of all thank you so much for the compliments they mean so much!!

Hehe there will be spoilers ahead for PMD:EoS in this ramble so I'll give a short non-spoilery overview here in case there are people that still want to play that game blind. You, a human, get turned into a pokemon and suffer memory loss. With your partner (who finds you washed up at the beach) you join and adventuring guild and start to go on all kinds of adventures some of which have to do with the Time Gears getting stolen which is causing time to stop in those areas and causing other pokemon to become more aggressive.

Now onto the specific details that inspired the story and here there will be spoilers. In PMD:EoS you meet Grovyle, he's from the future and at first you think he's the bad guy since he's stealing all of the Time Gears and all that. Then there's a reveal that he wasn't doing it maliciously! Turns out he's from a ruined future (reminding me of a certain hedgehog) and he needs to gather the Time Gears to stop the Tower of Time from collapsing since Dialga, the ruler of time, is going a little primal himself.

The big inspiration here is from Grovyle and Dialga. Thinking about what if Silver filled in not juts Grovyle's role in the story but also Dialga's.

In my headcannon he's been traveling through time so much his being has kind of detached itself from the whole time stream, this means he's able to time travel relatively pain free BUT it means he's stuck in this cycle of having to watch his future continuously change. Silver can never really have anything in his future.

So when three random mobians happen to pull him back to the past that's something new! It's different and at first he's not quite sure what to do with that information but he's excited to be back in the past where his friends might be. As the story progresses though it becomes clear that the cycle is just repeating itself. In PMD:EoS Primal Dialga, in the ruined future, is dead set on keeping it that way. In a similar vein, Silver realizes that if he just wields the power of the Time Shards a certain way he too can stop time and essentially live in the frozen past. He wouldn't have to move anymore, wouldn't have to keep reliving his future getting destroyed.

I just really want a story that breaks Silver down to his lowest point, where the most optimistic character of the cast has a single moment of doubt that spirals uncontrollably. Luckily his friends will be there to help him but... there's also a bad end to this where everyone gets frozen in time and he ends up truly and utterly alone forever.

Anyways!! Hope this wasn't too long of a ramble I have a lot of thoughts about Silver as a character. My OCs basically function as a way to explore some other aspects of the world since you have one who has no powers, another with new uncontrollable powers and another who was born with powers but none of them really get up to wild adventures. I'm also just being a little self indulgent with using my OCs hehe.

Hope you have a nice day too!! Thank you so much for the ask!!

[gooseberry-jelly]

was doodling a PMD sona on a whim and accidentally uncorked my old obsession with the explorers games

I ended up compiling all of my headcannons about the PMD world into what’s basically an au (though mostly centered around the explorers story because I’ve played that game through countless times as opposed to just once for the others). this includes: (spoilers for the explorers games)

the PMD world being the world of the mainline games, but thousand of years in the future after humans pissed off the gods (legendaries) and got smote (explains presence of man-made pokemon like porygon, etc).

humans do still exist, but in tiny, isolated communities with basically no technology. apricorns went extinct long ago, so they can’t catch pokemon, and tbh they’re extremely frightened of them (think legends arceus but More). that said, there’s enough of them to supply the odd protagonist and to occasionally convince baby mons that they saw a monster in the woods.

related, memory of humans has survived by oral tradition. they usually feature as monsters/boogeymen or serve as a cautionary tale.

the (explorers) Hero is very possibly the last human alive in the dark future. they grew up together with grovyle.

pokemon from different regions/later generations exist on different continents (which I think is almost canon from super, but I’m not sure). they can travel, but it’s rare among mons that don’t have wings/a migration pattern.

darkrai’s influence is what creates the dungeons. mons inside are stuck in a trancelike state due to his nightmares, so they can’t be reasoned with unless you happen to knock the sense back into them (allowing recruitment).

staying in dungeons for too long can lead to losing oneself in the nightmare. this is how the pokemon that populate dungeons originally got there.

darkrai liked the nightmares that resulted from human society (hello man-made horrors) so he is quietly influencing mon society to make the same mistakes. (he has already unleashed capitalism 😔)

there is a type-based musical instrument for every type, forged from arceus’ own plates. I have ideas for a whole postgame arc about them, but I won’t get into it here.

and finally, my favorite:

darkrai gets turned into an alolan ratatta when the dimensional hole shatters around him. he washes up a couple hundred years before the game’s present, gets frozen by froslass, and thaws out alongside scisor. the Hero doesn’t like this rat’s vibe, but he legitimately has amnesia, and they can’t prove anything. ��

wow that got long. anyway I think I’d be a rowlett

[lovepmd]

So I have a headcannon regarding Shiny Pokemon in the PMD world. I headcannon that Shiny Pokemon in the PMD world are treated with high regard. due to their unique color and rarity, Pokemon often treat them as celebrities or anything with high standards.

Because of this some Shiny Pokemon are spoiled, while others don't matter if they're Shiny or not. They're still ordinary Pokemon with a different color in the end.

yes absolutely

i think it would be so interesting to think about and look at

[yveltalreal]

3.) does the anime effect your headcanons? what about the spin off games? do you like to ignore them, take everything, or a mix of both?

:3c

the anime and spinoffs affect them to a degree, yeah!! i havent watched a lot of the anime (ALTHOUGH I AM GOING THROUGH WITH FRIENDS RN!!)/dont remember a lot and i havent played a lot of the spinoffs but i do take them into consideration and they fuel my headcannons a bit! some spinoffs that are more dubiously canon im a bit more iffy with like masters since i dont wanna think about the implications of all those sync pairs and stuff, but others like the rangers games are absolutely canon for how i run things!

the mystery dungeon games are like what i imagine in a seperate but related reality as well so while i dont play with them on this blog since none of them are pmd characters, i could never foresake my beloved pmd.

[psmdisvalid]

@kindlerbrody requested a headcannon!

Im here to deliver!

No Word Version~:

Time Taken: 2 Weeks!

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Notes?: HOLY FUCK THIS TOOK FOREVER BUT IM KINDA PROUD OF IT??? Anyways i hope you guys like it!!! Took me fuckin forvever

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[stompstump-peak]

WAIT ESPEON AND UMBREON AREN'T CANONICALLY SIBLINGS!? i've played through the whole game at least three times and i feel like my world has just been upended wtf, I could've sworn they were...

THEY AREN'T!!! i was shocked when i found out but yeah there's nothing in the game that specifically says they're siblings

ik people interpret their relationship differently (i've seen dating, just research partners, and siblings) so ig it's one of those pmd things that everyone has a different idea of.

[shaykai]

Pokemon explorers of time headcannons.

Grovyle gets almost no sleep, falling asleep later, and waking up pretty early in the morning, due to the fear that something bad, like dusknoir, might pop up.

After the main game, dusknoir, grovyle, and celebi all become friends and make an expedition team of their own.

Dusknoir will use hypnosis, or other sleep inducing things, to help grovyle get a reasonable amount a sleep.

Celebi likes to sing.

Dusknoir and grovyle will get in random fights, trading sarcastic comments back and forth.

Celebi can actually fight really well, but usually ends up playing the damsel in distress, usually just for amusement, watching grovyle be the knight n such.

Whenever anyone has nightmares, dusknoir will use dream eater.

Whenever celebi gets really excited, she let's out a high pitched squeal.

Grovyle makes smoke bombs out of a random assortment of herbs n stuff.

Sableye are scattered around towns and always give the group a warm welcoming whenever seen.

Prior to turning on them, partner was dusknoir's favorite out of the duo. Due to his optimistic tendencies.

Grovyle, celebi, and dusknoir's favorite time of the day are dawn, they all enjoy watching the sunrise, and for the first couple of them, celebi was ecstatic.

On a different topic- chatot is super self conscious.

Wigglytuff tries to help him through any troubles he has, and in a way, is chatot's comfort zone.

This is one of the many reasons chatot tries to please or help wigglytuff in anyway he can, in a way he feels indebted.

Even though he acts fairly childish, wigglytuff can be serious, all though he tries not to, as to lighten the mood.

Crogunk and chimecho are friends.

Azelf, Mesprit, and Uxie, are all friends with the guild and the time trio.

Every year, probably during winter, the guild hosts a party of sorts, where basically any and all close friends are welcome, and anyone who just needs a place to go during it.

Partner still randomly gets startled whenever seeing grovyle or dusknoir, but tend to be more calm if you're there with them.

Bidoff has a pretty heavy southern accent.

Bidoff and sunflora hang out a lot and are fairly close.

There are 'special missions' that the guild has, where chatot will send guildmembers off to collect perfect apples.

Skuntank comes back later after the main game to apologize, and tries to help you and partner out a little.

Pmd explorers of time and pmd team red/blue take place around the same time, with pmd red/blue set a little before pmd explorers of time. (Pokemon super mystery dungeon comes after that by a few years)

There are two heroes, (you) in one universe, no hero in the universe where grovyle, celebi, and dusknoir are all still alive. Partner is actually older than the time trio, (going by normal time, if you go by the normal game, by the time we see them the time trio are all adults.)

And that's it, for now anyways. This was requested by @sisterlillybug , and I wanted to apologize really quick for this being different, and for the fact that this was very time trio heavy.

I'm sorry they're my favorite..

Anywho hope this worked, I'll do more of these if people want.

[pokemon-experiments]

(Daylight Caverns was settled by a guild called Daylight Guild. These original founders lied to their children as they had wanted to keep the crystal in the caverns secret. So over the few generations they had been there the guild had been forgotten about)

[team-ion]

Ok last message for tonight because it's 5 am but I really do think it's funny that my brain latched onto this fic so hard. I grew up with PMD and have loved it since I was 8, but it's Warped Skies in particular that really occupies my mind. I think Warped Skies feels like what PMD taken much further could be, complexity-wise, since even being such a well-written game it has to appeal to 8 year olds before it does near-18 year olds. Autism makes your brain have funny priorities I guess lmao but I'm glad for it.

I do have to wonder, did you ever think you would go so far with this fic? I'm like 80% sure you made an AN at some point around the Scout reveal about your direction with Scout changing because you saw a comment mentioning Meowth is partner-exclusive in Sky, but I might also be insane or dumb because I checked the first 80 chapters, saw nothing, and also spoiled myself about chimecho being Actually evil since I never made it to chapter 80 :(

I think it is absolute madman behavior that you've written over a million words in this fic and you're actively retrospectively rewriting and refining it. I'm happy for it though. I remember there being some plot threads that felt a bit disjointed that feel a lot more cohesive in this version and I'm really enjoying the new but familiar experience of reading it.

I've gotta stop writing essays in your comments section and your askbox goddamn

-codacheetah

Ah no, you got that spoiler? Oof. That’s probably one of the hardest twists of the story, haha. That was fun to see people’s reactions.

Naaah. I could NEVER have imagined how big the story got or how far I’d go with it. I initially imagined just two arcs and some interesting commentary of how knowing the future doesn’t necessarily mean you can benefit from that, especially when you’re knowledge begins to change things.

You are right, though. I did mention that in an authors note SOMEWHERE. First chapter, he was ‘the human’ and went to the Dark Future and all. That review made me think and I had the crazy idea of ‘What if he wasn’t and the human was still there?’ which quickly moved into ‘Okay, he’s still from the Dark Future. Aha! I can use my headcannon that Dusknoir was part of the Planetary Investigation Team here, hahahaha!’ Ideas just slammed into me like boulders.

I wrote a million words! That means I can do it again with ease~ haha, or maybe not ease but I’ve actually had a surprising amount of fun with the rewrite! I hate editing but it hasn’t felt so much like editing and I actually enjoy reading my own writing in some parts, I used to reread Chapter 51 a lot, heh.

I know I’ve said it before, but I’ll ramble again. The story by and large will be the same as the original, but I know there are parts that could be done better and I would think at points as I’d reread or just think about the story how I might do something different. It gives me the chance to do that. Some changes are minor, some are a bit bigger like with the new Chapter 20 but still mostly ultimated the same.

We’ll see if I can keep to the road and not go off track, hah! Always fun to hear from you, you rest well!

[nebulousboops]

The journalists but pokemon The original intent was that they're a PMD team, but I forgot to add anything PMD related during the sketch so they're just pokemon now

Explanations for all of my choices under the cut

I just chose a luxio for Clive because it's the evolved form of the pokemon I associate most with Luke, shinx.

Emmy is a lucario because I wanted a fighting type, and I like lucario, so it stuck. Also shiny lucario is yellow.

Carmine is an aggron because I wanted a pokemon that had a fairly high defense and also looked kind of intimidating, so aggron was perfect. Also something I wanna point out, I made Carmine's horns intentionally short compared to a normal aggron, because an aggron's horn length is supposed to tell their age. So basically, the implication is that, while he's still the same age as everyone else, he's like level 50-something because of his habit of getting into really bad situations, and it just power-levels him.

It also just so happens that my choices also worked out for my headcannons for their heights, with Clive being the shortest, Carmine being the tallest, and Emmy being somewhere in the middle, albeit exaggerated.

[eeveelution-appreciation]

U've mentioned about Pokemon shippings. Well, mine would be Shinx and Eevee. Back when I first play EoS, I got Shinx as hero. Then I just pick Eevee just to see how it goes. Turns out, it is a perfect match. I always headcannon that after Dialga's battle, the hero would kiss his partner just before vanished. Then at the end where the hero reappear at the beach. The partner finally confesses to hero. It's so sweet. BTW, Eevee's name was Mia. In the future, I would do a fanfiction about them ^^

...adorable... *gets flashbacks to how many times diagala made us faint* I love that shipping as well however I don’t have good memories of them together in PMD....still love them though