#pokedex entomology project

[vii-spider]

because i am a gigantic entomology nerd, i've gone in and sorted every arthropod-inspired pokemon by what order their inspirations are in. but that made me realize... there are a lot of insect orders that don't have a pokemon representing them- at least, in the official games. so, fuck it! i'm starting a project where i make fakemon for every taxonomic insect order that pokemon hasn't done!

(i'll be tagging this with #pokedex entomology project for anyone who wants to keep up or follow along themselves!)

starting us off is raphidioptera, aka snakeflies!

Grubble (Bug/Rock) hatches from eggs laid on stony riverbeds. it hollows out pebbles with its hard, strong mandibles and wears them to protect it from birds and other bug pokemon

when it's time to evolve, a grubble will burrow into a large rock and become Castalys (Bug/Rock). what it lacks in mobility, it more than makes up for in defenses. it's sturdy enough to tank an earthquake, and its jaws can dish out a mean crunch

eventually, a castalys will break out of its stone shell, emerging as a Raphidrake (Bug/Dragon). it may look strange and unwieldy, but its sturdy grip and winding neck make it more than easy for raphidrake to catch its prey. ancient legends say there was once a raphidrake that was so gluttonous, it grew to the size of a wailord- before it became such a problem that a local hero had to slay it in battle

their names come from grub + rubble, castle + chrysalis, and raphidioptera + drake. grubble is based on snakefly larvae. castalys is based on insect pupae and castles- the two are rock type because snakeflies often lay their eggs in rocky crevices. raphidrake is based on adult snakeflies, as well as actual snakes. it's also a slight pun on "wyrm"/"worm", with its neck looking a lot like an annelid

[les8ean]

i would like to know about you r ocs ::::)

!!!!!!

ok well rn i’ve specifically been hyperfocusing on all of their pokemon teams so *cracks knuckles* get ready anon you’re about to very much regret messaging me about my OCs lol 

also HEADS UP uuhh CW for self-harm, abuse, blood. some of these OCs were made when i was in really bad mental places and i tend to use OCs to cope and i project onto them and stuff

also i’ve been working on cards of what pokemon they have and i only have 6 of them done so far so i’m just gonna post those ones for now

Trainer: Alliya Interests: gardening, plants, flowers, aliens, cryptids, ghostsMain Partner: FlygonTeam and how she met them:Flygon; Poppy;  ♂; dug into Alliya’s garden as a trapinchElygem; Iris; ♀; found while Alliya was UFO watchingGourgeist; Pumpkin; ♀; caught as a pumpkaboo while Alliya was trick or treatingInkay; Zinnia; ♂;  - haven’t figured out yet - Frillish; Primrose; ♀; Alliya heard the pokedex entry for frillish and was like “that’s the tightest shit i’ve ever heard” and immediately went out to catch oneSunflora; Sunflower; ♀; Alliya was checking the sunflowers she’d planted when suddenly one smiled at her

Trainer: AlyrenInterests: medicine, restoration magic (Alyren is one of my TES OCs, she’s an altmer), testing the limits of magic, reading, breaking down altmer societies cultural fuckiness and relentless purge of anything/anyone imperfect with her bare hands (She’s a hulkynd so she’s not exactly the biggest fan of….. most altmer)Main Partner: XatuTeam and how she met them:Xatu; Xerxes; ♂; Alyren found him as a natu with a broken wing when she was first learning restoration magic as a child, and she pushed herself to learn so she could heal himFroslass; Freda; ♀; - haven’t figured out yet -Grumpig; Galenos; ♂; - haven’t figured out yet -Lapras; Lorie;♀; - haven’t figured out yet -Morelull; Mercurio; ♂;  - haven’t figured out yet - Cincinno; Cadence; ♀; Alyren never really kept the tidiest study, and one day she went back to her room to find she’d left the window open and a wild mincinno had come in and was cleaning everything up

Trainer: AmariInterests: listen Amari is basically a feral wild wolf child who was raised by wolves so her main interest is probably “survive” and “protect the pack”Main Partner: MighteyenaTeam and how she met them: they’re not even really her team it’s just the group of pokemon she spends the most time with in the area she lives with her pack of pooch/mighteyena’s

Trainer: CorvoInterests: medicine, entomology, helping others, personally beating the shit out of homophobes and shitty abusive parents, puzzles, flowers (though she’s not a very good gardener)Main Partner: BibarelTeam and how she met them:Bibarel; Pudge (yes, that Pudge); ♀; Corvo had…….. a really bad childhood and would often run off into the woods behind her house to get away from her abusive mother. one day while she was in the woods, crying and scratching at her wrists, a bidoof came up to her with an oran berry for her.Golisopod; Princess; ♀; Corvo found her as a wimpod being chased by a flock of murkrowsTogetic; Angel; ♂; Given as an egg to Corvo from her cousin as a gift for getting into pokemon nursing schoolBreloom; Mush; ♂; - haven’t figured out yet -Leavanny; Fae; ♀; - haven’t figured out yet -

Trainer: E-K (a nickname, he prefers to use it over his real name)Interests: studying pokemon, travelling the world, making terrible jokes, playing guitar, helping those in need, boxing, making friends (it sounds corny but honestly that’s his favourite part of travelling, is all the people he gets to meet)Main Partner: CrobatTeam and how he met them: (*cracks knuckles* here we go boys, this is the one i have the most details on)Crobat; Clover; ♀; E-K was often left to his own devices as a child, both his parents being very busy with work, so he would spend a lot of his time exploring outside of town. just outside of town was a cave with a lot of zu/gol/crobats. E-K spent a lot of time in that cave, befriending the bats, to the point that they would snuggle up to him when he walked into the cave, and taking notes on their behaviour and what they ate and stuff. One day he went in to see all the bats worried and huddled around one spot, fussing over something. E-K wanted to know what was wrong, so he made his way into the middle, to find a newly hatched shiny zubat. It was smaller than most baby zubats, and couldn’t seem to get up, and was struggling to breath. E-K knew the poor thing was sick, and quickly bundled it into his arms and ran to the pokemon center, followed by the entire colony of concerned zu/gol/crobats (dw, it was nighttime). they got to the pokemon center and E-K desperately asked the nurses for help (the nurses meanwhile were freaking out about this kid running in with a fucking cloud of bats behind him). they took the sick zubat and E-K and the other wild bats waited outside. the next morning the nurses came out to find him sleeping, with the bats wrapping their wings around him to keep him warm, and E-Ks jacket put around the bats. the nurses gave E-K the healthy baby zubat and asked if he was a trainer. E-K wasn’t a trainer at the time, but decided to become a trainer and travel the world a few months later, taking his new best friend with himRaticate; Scraps; ♂; the first town E-K and Clover reached on their journey was Vermilion City (E-K grew up in Cerulean). While there, E-K saw a huge group of kids running around the docks, chasing something. when he asked, they said someone had spotted a shiny rattata running around, so they were all trying to catch it. E-K thought it sounded exciting, but didn’t have any pokeballs yet so he decided to leave the hunting to everyone else. Plus, he already had a shiny zubat and thought it would be unfair to have another shiny pokemon.Later that night, he set up camp in the abandoned construction site (you know the spot, that one fucking spot in vermilion where they’re always supposedly “preparing the area for building”. there’s a spot like that in the city i live in. it’s been empty and “Preparing” for over 15 years) and was having some dinner with Clover (sandwiches he bought from the pokemart). as he getting ready to go to bed, he heard some clattering from a nearby trash can, and he watched as a scruffy looking black and brown rattata climbed out of it, looking scared and gnawing on an old chip packet, obviously hungry. E-K grabbed some food Clover hadn’t eaten and chucked it towards the Rattata. The Rattata quickly ate the food, and nervously looked towards E-K for more. it was obviously scared of people, after being chased all day. E-K kept offering the Rattata food and coercing it over to him, until it finally came close enough for him to get a good look at. he saw that it had a wound on one of it’s legs, and after some time spent convincing the rattata he wasn’t going to hurt it, he picked it up and took it to the pokemon center. the nurses at the pokemon center fixed it up, and explained to him that it wasn’t a shiny, but an alolan Rattata. they theorized that it had gotten onto a ship that had come to Kanto from Alola. ok it’s been like 2 days since i got this ask now and it’s gotten way longer than i was expecting so i’m just gonna stop now

thank you for asking me aboutmy OCs anon 

[vii-spider]

back at it with the ento brainrot, this time two really basal orders! archaeognatha (bristletails) and zygentoma (silverfish, firebrats)

Bristail (Ground) lives on rocky shorelines and uses its tail to sweep sand away. why does it do that? simple, it needs to eat metal to evolve!

Pestalot (Ground/Steel) have a steel-hard exoskeleton gained from consuming so much metal. though they're tough as hell, they aren't very strong offensively, so their protective nature makes them much more of a nuisance than a threat

their names come from bristle + tail and pest + lancelot. bristail is based on jumping bristletails, with a tail stylized to look like an archaeology brush. pestalot is based on silverfish and knights. its antennae are not only a reference to the plumes on knights' helmets, but are also based on moths', since both insects are known household pests

[vii-spider]

btw uhhh my apologies for not posting like literally anything for a week lmao, i've been working on a personal project a lot and anything i've drawn that WASN'T made for that is stuff i'd never post on my main, let alone on tumblr at all

will probably get back to the pokedex entomology project sometime soonish, since i have an idea for archaeognatha and zygentoma, but don't count on it lol