#pokémon player characters
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
102 notes
·
View notes
Text
‘the children yearn for the mines’ is a little too real to me bc when i was a kid and my older siblings were trying to get me into pokémon i really never cared to try playing. BUT. i was obsessed with the underground mining minigame in dppt. i used to beg my sister to let me take a turn playing and set it up for me bc i didn’t know how to so i could go mine for gems nonstop until i cleared that entire cave section of glittering wall spots which always made me so sad bc i was having such a great time. i didn’t even understand the significance of what i was doing but 7 year old me was high off of it
#years and years later when i actually played platinum myself and it hit me like OH this is the game with the mining thing!!!#you have no idea how happy i was#…and also sad. it made me kinda heartsick bc in my childhood nostalgia dreams#my brother and sister used to play online together and do capture the flag#and their little minigame battles in the underground with their cool secret bases were so fun to watch#like that was back when the wifi connection was working and the games were alive and relevant#but i came back to it far far too late. when it was a mere relic and i was alone with no other players#still. hearing the music again brought a smile to my face#pokémon#dppt#i am once again rambling about my very special relationship to sinnoh#i didn’t play pokémon as a kid but also yes i did it was part of my childhood. like without really knowing much about it#the lil character sprites. hearthome city theme#the contests#the crunchy sound of the map opening#and the incomprehensible map itself#the bike and surf music#empoleon and staravia’s cries as they went to use surf and fly#truly. being a younger sibling watching your older sibling play has such an impact on you#it’s all nostalgic to me too i just didn’t know the full context of it myself back then#couple all this with the weird feeling of having played pokémon legends arceus as my first own game#and THEN going and finally checking out dppt#it was like double nostalgia. two different half-nostakgia experiences#just. agh i make fun of gen 4 for a lot of things but it is fundamentally my heart isn’t it#i also literally am incapable of talking about it for more than 5 minutes without bringing pla into it lol#pokeposting
36 notes
·
View notes
Text
more silly little drawings.
#pokémon#pokemon#pokemon sv#the indigo disk#kaelus tag 🏷️#melodia core#the teal mask#kieran#rival kieran#player character#pokemon kieran#my art#oc#original character#original pokemon character#kieran pokémon#trainer kieran#pokemon scarlet#pokemon violet#pokemon scarlet and violet#character sheet#pokemon indigo disk#pokemon teal mask#art#digital art#sketch
39 notes
·
View notes
Text
I love the Sun and Moon games with all my heart, all the characters and Pokémon and locations are so lovely I absolutely adore all of them!
#I legitimately cried the first time I finished Sun#thoughts that’s because I thought the credits rolling meant the whole game would start over and I’d lose all my Pokémon lol#I’d never played a DS game before I didn’t know how it worked#Hau and Lillie are such good characters#the one in the centre is me lol that’s how I customized the player character#also Solgaleo is such a good legendary#Nebby for the win#Pokémon#alola#alolan pokemon#solgaleo#Hau#hau pokemon#lillie#lillie pokemon#alolan region#pokemon gen 7#pokémon sun and moon#sun and moon#pokémon sm#Pokémon Sun#ultra sun and ultra moon#ultra sun#legendary pokemon#working on this piece made me so nostalgic
89 notes
·
View notes
Text
JuliMona fans GET UP!!!!!!
Literally, we can't let the closest to canon couple lose to an entirely fan crafted thing!!! I dont hate the other ship, but the two have literally never even interacted in the series. Compared to JuliMona who have the game, the music video and other stuff! COME ON SHEEPLE!
#JuliMona#pokemon scarlet and violet#pokemon scarvi#pkmn scvi#nemona#pkmn nemona#gen 9#pokemon gen 9#NemoJuli#NemoLiana#pokemon nemona#pokémon scarlet#pokemon violet#scarlet and violet#pkmn scarvi#pokemon rivals#pokemon protagonist#player character
9 notes
·
View notes
Text
While I'm still riding the Xenoblade X hyperfixation, let me just use it to talk gender identity some more.
Between deciding on my current Cross design back during last December and where I am now (i.e. feeling that I'm probably a Woman But A Bit To The Side), I initially did have the plan of just switch between the male design and the female one. But even though I kept those two looking as close to each other as possible, there was always something that I didn't quite like about the male one on a very basic level, and something that I just couldn't put my finger on, let alone fix. Somewhere down the line, I decided to also make myself smaller builds for both, as an alternative to switch to. So, "Young Boy" instead of "Boy", and "Girl" instead of "Woman". For the female Cross, that worked out well enough, and I still have the design I came up with for that saved in-game, even if I have taken no screenshots. But with the male Cross? For the life of me, I could not put together a design that I even remotely liked. Absolutely nothing felt right, even though on principle, I guess I preferred the younger looking face over my actual "main" male Cross (which even then, I almost never used). In the end, I just gave up that whole design process entirely. I guess that only really serves to show that I'm really not off in my current self-perception. . .
#shut up cal you fool#shut up lucia you fool#you know though thinking about it#I'm also starting to feel like I start to get why it's X in particular that made me come to these realizations#cause sure I played other games with custom characters before#like Pokémon FE or Splatoon#but in Pokémon games with customization you play kids who aren't really gendered as much#heck in sv you can outright make them gnc#so nothing that really makes me think about self image that much#because by the time that xy came out I was already an adult#and I never really felt that personally represented by the player in Pokémon#so I just played the male characters#and in FE as nice as it is to customize robin and corrin#at the end of the day that system is still REALLY rigid#and doesn't allow for much self-expression#and when I did make my sprite edits for a custom robin. well#I wonder why I felt the need to make a genderswap one#and with splatoon I guess I started to saunter vaguely womanwards as soon as octolings entered the picture#in 1 I was still fine with playing the male inkling and I just continued that for 2#but in X meanwhile you can actually design your avatar more freely#and can be an actual. y'know. adult#which in turn I guess just really played into the difficulty I always had picturing myself as an adult man#so. yeah.
7 notes
·
View notes
Text
A preview of my piece for Trainersona: Summer Edition @smitukey
Super excited to be a part of this project and to see it all come together soon!
(Commission info here | MapleStickerShop)
#my art#TrainsersonaSummerEdition#Trainersona: Summer Edition#oc#zine#zine work#preview#Pokémon#legends arcues#zorua#hisuian zorua#shiny zorua#shiny hisuian zorua#trainersona#player character#self insert#self portait
5 notes
·
View notes
Text
Some days I wish more people actually played Pokemon for the plot so there's incentive to improve on the plot's weak points
#this is just musings but I was thinking about how legends Arceus was like#the only time I felt emotion about a player character outside of them being me#if that makes sense#in a main series game hello explorers of sky#but yeah like the protagonists are such non-characters#I do think it's a flaw that people look at hop and Keiran and go 'why am I doing this I don't even want to be champion'#like other aspects are very strong! scarlet and Violet had such strong plots and for 2/3rds of the main plot line the protagonist did not#need to be there!#like it could have been any strong trainer#when Pokémon's story is good it tends to be because OTHER CHARACTERS have good arcs that are facilitated by the player beating other#trainers when necessary for them#why am I doing the gym challenge? idk? I'm supposed to if#I'm having trouble articulating what I want because I'm tired but I'd like to start with giving the player character a clear motivation#like akari/rei have it very simple: wanna go home#got amnesia#a side of solve the mystery#like that's all stuff you can get from the set up#and then it's never really resolved#so they're just like in limbo#but aside from that#why does the player want to be champion other than that's the thing you do#when you have a Pokémon and are playing a main series game
6 notes
·
View notes
Text
The Player characters, redesigned
The girl is Lily, the boy is Colm and the third option is Alex who is nonbinary.
They will be 11 years old at the start of the game and 12-13 by the end
If you choose Lily, Colm will be your older brother by two years (3rd-4th Year) and Alex your younger sibling.
If you choose Colm, Lily will be your older sister (3rd-4th Year) by two years and Alex your younger sibling.
If you choose Alex, both Colm and Lily will be your older siblings (3rd-4th Years).
Each will have a plethora of dialogue options that would change depending on previous choices.
To really change things from the typical Pokemon gameplay formula, I imagine there to be nine different personality types the character can choose from, all based on the Alignments from Dungeons and Dragons.
The ending would change a bit depending on your options.
#pokémon#magia region#harry potter#crossover#pokémon charm#pokémon curse#player character#nonbinary#the background is from Hogwarts legacy
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
Pokémon Headcanon Thread #2
(thread one) (twitter)
#pokemon#pokemon headcanon#i know in my heart that if pokemon were real I'd be a basic bitch who doesn't nickname them#i'd be lazy as fuck about it i'd be like 'he already has a name'#anyway i like thinking about how it is that Pokémon training requres work and fitness even though you are just yelling things at a dog#also why the player character in the games is always fucked up really strong. its because every pokemon obeys them without question haha
34 notes
·
View notes
Text
So I recently got a hold of a copy of Pokemon Legends Arceus AND been playing the ttg Pokemon Legends of Sinnoh on Tabletop Simulator and needless to say I have some outfit design thoughts about the two games...
I'm just saying if Arceus speaks like some kind of fake Old English their 'chosen one' might as well look the part. Although I do like the diamond clan's little hoodies.
(first outfit inspired by the Diamond Clan of Legends Arceus but with Dialga colours, second outfit was me looking at Volo's handmade Arceus outfit and saying "I could do better".)
#spoondoodles#pokemon#pkmn#pokemon legends arceus#pokemon legends of sinnoh#pla#legends arceus#pokemon fanart#pokemon self insert#pokemon oc#pokemon dialga#pokemon palkia#pokemon arceus#self insert#self insert oc#trainer sona#pokémon#pkmn pla#volo's outfit did well to really prove how far he'd gone in his delusion but t b h it looks cold as hell on top of that mountain top#that boy needs sleeves. also i just like suit jackets with epaulets and fun boots. i think it mirrors arceus' neck design better too.#anyway that arceus sketch is the origin of my icon so i thought i might as well post it along with. the mug says 'arceus'#the dialga sketches are directly related to the ttg i was playing with friends forever ago that i really enjoyed.#pulled the player archetype 'dialga acolyte' and then proceeded to get no dialga blessings the entire game lmaoooo#so i imagined my little character is a brat and dialga is not much better to explain their tulmultous relationship haha. little bit of fun.#sorry about the blur on some of these tumblr is nixing the quality of some of my art and idk why.
4 notes
·
View notes
Photo
Eureka: noun; used to express triumph
My ORAS champion character!
#pokemon#pokémon#art#myart#My characters#I mean her design is basically just the ORAS female player model#but I did that thing where you take your blank slate character#and aggressively headcanon a personality for them#case in point:#Eureka#trainer prodigy with such strong will that her pokemon either faint by themselves under the pressure#or grow quickly enough to outpace the entire region#portrayed here with her strongest pokemon Banzai (starter)#Amora (caught alongside Wallys whose name is Bell)#and Felix (gift from a Kalosian relative)#Favourite pieces
15 notes
·
View notes
Text
i made this post before but what’s up with paldeans and destroying the environment. the player character hops on a plane to travel between spain japan and new york whenever they feel like it to run minor errands. the area zero team went into an ancient crater and found this otherworldly paradise and started building a bunch of giant research stations. the professors thought it would be cool to use a huge machine to either bring the dinosaurs back or summon a bunch of murderous robots and let them loose upon the world. the league is using cryptocurrency. geeta please something has to be done
#the theme of pokémon scarlet and violet isn’t about following dreams or time shenanigans or overcoming isolation or any of that#it’s about how a select few people considered among the elite are permitted to participate in rampant ecological destruction smh#you see it’s addressed time and time again in the dlc how unfair it is that the player character gets to have literally everything in life#in this essay i will#pokémon#sv#pokemon#scarlet and violet#pokémon scarlet and violet#pokemon scarlet and violet#LOL#pokeposting
62 notes
·
View notes
Text
In my hypothetical Pokémon game, Pokemon Charm and Curse, these two are the default appearances of the Player characters.
I named them after a set of twins from By the Grace of the Gods.
There’s supposed to be a non-binary third option called Chris too, I just haven’t gotten around to drawing them yet.
Their robes are grey because they haven’t been Sorted yet.
I think they’d be the first official redhead Players of the series, but you’d be able to change that if you wanted to of course.
Like in most Pokemon games, you’d start out as an eleven-year-old child, but the game(s) is supposed to take you through all seven years at New Hogwarts so unlike in most Pokemon games, you’ll be able to watch your character grow up.
#Pokémon#hypothetical#pokemom charm#Pokémon curse#player character#harry potter crossover#my made-up game
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
My hot take is that Poppy being in the elite four doesn’t mean anything in particular. We’ve had young gym leaders before I think she’s just really good at battles.
#pokemon#I’m not opposed to there being something wild there#but like#I don’t like when ppl use the fact that poppy is little as like#evidence for Geeta being evil#it’s Pokémon. most of the players characters are 10#I don’t think it’s that deep#I do think it would be fun if they did something there#but then like#i don’t think they will#elite four poppy
12 notes
·
View notes
Text
I’m not saying there aren’t visual glitches, performance issues, or weird bugs in Scarlet/Violet and that Gamefreak should’ve had more time on it
But it’s REALLY obvious that half of y’all just pirated it and aren’t playing a legitimate copy because half of the “”glitches”” you guys are posting are not showing up on the Switch/physical versions and the game is playable (still some performance problems, but it’s playable)
Like, I understand trying out the game to see if you like it, but please understand that if you’re playing on your PC instead of a Switch it’s
1. not going to run the same as a Switch (duh. And because of how they’re built every PC is going to run it differently. Some may run it better than a Switch, but most will run it worse.)
2. that rom dumps (ESPECIALLY rom dumps from new games that haven’t been thoroughly tested on emulators) are not perfect copies and that they can and will have flaws not present in the official release
That’s why there are still OLDER GEN games that cannot run on a PC with emulators, but you don’t see people complaining about Bioshock or Ratchet and Clank being unplayable because their desktop can’t push the games past 10 fps
So if you’re complaining about Scarlet and Violet being unplayable, maybe mention the fact you’re playing a PIRATED COPY on your PC and don’t diss on the people who bought the game and are enjoying it
#pokemon#pokémon scarlet#pokémon violet#sv#the lag frame rate drops and backwards wall jumps are in the game#along with some visual glitches and cutscene markers they forgot to hide#but my sister has been playing it nonstop since release and those are the only issues I’ve seen#I’m going to see if I can clip through the walls/map when I start my copy#but you’re player character is not going to suddenly enlarge and have noodle limbs climbing onto the lizard#some of y’all are acting like this is your first pirated game#anyone who pirates games knows that they are like this#the legit version of SV run like a pirated game on an emulator would#so imagine how a pirated version runs#the answer is not well#and don’t come into my dms saying I don’t understand pirating games#bitch I played BOTW on my pc for two years#every game gets fucked by emulators even switch games that run faster on your pc#there aren’t any exceptions to this#if you bought a copy and can’t stand it that’s fine#but people who didn’t buy it who are going around and complaining#are actual morons
18 notes
·
View notes