#pmd text posts

[lizavet]

Made a slight whoopsie and misread dates, Hero and Partner week ain't till next month. So instead of continuing to post the short stories a month early, im just gonna give ya'll this and pretend this didn't happen :P

[084392]

shaymin pmd2 partner......

[sincerely-sofie]

(Sprite sources)

[acti-nerdington]

[scribz-ag24]

i saw some posts about grovyle and dusknoir and possession and it got out of hand.

[cybers-sillyzone]

i'm starting to hyperfixate on pmd again but my 3ds is broken so i made more psmd text posts while i wait for a new one

[oneluckydragon]

Thinking about how these two met. Get adopted, idiot.

More human!Echo.

[aurumorre]

The fact that the Relic Fragment is both what brings the PMD2 hero/partner together & what eventually tears them apart... man

[mysteryampharos]

imagine having to desperately hold out for a rescue team to go into a mystery dungeon and save you from the feral pokemon that lurk only to see that your rescuers are a pair of kids who are half your age and yet are capable of squaring up agaisnt god. whose children are these. have they even gone to school. Do they Know what school is

[lizavet]

had to be done

(Sprites as always comes from the amazing PMD Sprite Repository)

[084392]

talking about GTI the way ppl talk about pmd2 o7 (read: at all)

[sincerely-sofie]

[acti-nerdington]

Imagining a scenario in which a post-dark crater, amnesiac Darkrai ends up inadvertently adopting a Manaphy and Ogerpon and takes care of them while simultaneously trying to remember who he is.

Resources are from https://sprites.pmdcollab.org/

[aquapede]

something tells me you're not coming, guess i'm truly doomed

[cybers-sillyzone]

i made more

[oneluckydragon]

"What do you remember of being human, Echo?" The question is out of the blue and unexpected. But Sora offers a patient smile and tilts her head in curiosity, just enough that one of her ears flops over. It's endearing, if anything.

But Echo wishes she hadn't asked.

"Not much. Distinct memories are cloudy." A tired tone says softly, a pained recollection in her eyes and an acrid haze in her soul that endures, endures, and endures, "But I remember the discomfort more than anything. My body always did feel wrong back then. Misshapen. Condensed. Like it was too small for everything buried underneath, and that ache went so deeply some days that it would make my skin crawl. I hated that part the most."

At that, Sora's expression falls. She looks inexplicably sad, as if she'd hoped for a different response, a gentler one despite knowing the harsh truth about the dark future and the struggles Echo must have suffered. "But you had Grovyle, right? I'm sure he took care of you."

"He did, Sora, of course he did." A sigh, a flick of an ear and claws clenched tightly into the churned earth pressed under her paws. "I doubt I deserved his attention, though. I was too busy being angry at the world to give any care back."

In my lore, Echo does not look fully human during their time in the dark future. Since they were Darkrai before becoming human, and as a result of Palkia's reckless shattering of the Dimensional Portal which distorted both time and space, Echo's transformation was broken and accidental. They ended up looking pretty messed up and definitely (not) human. A lot of their characteristics as Darkrai carried over but rather morphed into something else.

And Grovyle, growing up in a world where humans have been extinct for longer than any living pokémon has been alive, has no concept of what a "true" human looks like. The only thing he knows is descriptions of humans from glyphs and texts in old ruins. Thus, he mistakes Echo for an actual human. And Echo, not knowing what a human looks like themselves due to amnesia, accepts this identification with nothing better to use.