#pokemon delta episode

[l48yr1nth]

zinnia doodles i love zinnia zinnia is so cool she is wonderful and perfect hello zinnia it is very nice to see you zinnia hey hi zinnia hello wow its zinnia

[steel--fairy]

i do love the delta episode for the lore it gives but also....it really does have boring game play. the button mashing bros are right for once.

like, did i really need to go to the mossdeep space center again? this could've been an email, steven

[regallibellbright]

Due to the timing of our respective illnesses (Bro got his two weeks before me and was therefore recovered; I got it right when ScarVio came out,) and then me focusing primarily on writing at the moment, Bro finished Pokemon Scarlet while I’m still pretty early on. But he plays primarily on the TV, and this means I was downstairs at a critical moment a few weeks ago:

Bro: Oh, yeah, and there’s a time machine.

Me: Naturally.

AI Sada: *Reveals that the time machine was catching Pokemon and bringing them back to the future*

Bro, laughing: But it only works on Pokeballs.

I laugh as well for a moment, and then

Me: Wait. Wait shit that’s a callback to the fucking Time Machine cross-generational trade thing in GSC. THIS IS A CANONICALLY-CONSISTENT TRAIT OF POKEMON TIME MACHINES, OH MY GOD.

And then we were both amused and impressed with AI Sada and her Sans Undertale eyes and her dropping Master Balls off the top of a skyscraper-like time machine.

But uh. Yeah. It may genuinely not be a case of the Professors’ overspecific obsession with past/future Pokemon or whatever? Manmade time machines in Pokemon may ONLY be able to transport Pokeballs. Or at least all known examples are. Which is only two of them, but I still feel like it’s worth mentioning that it happened twice.

Furthermore if I had a nickel for every time Gamefreak took a mechanic related to trading from a past generation that was no longer relevant due to the changing technology involved and made it a major dramatic plot point in a later game, I would ALSO have two nickels, with the Link Cable from Delta Episode. This one’s slightly less ridiculous, in that the Link Cable’s a reference to an actual real-world accessory to the Gameboy systems and also in the process maybe-unintentionally implies that every individual cartridge of Pokemon is its own distinct iteration of the multiverse, while ACTIVELY AND CONSCIOUSLY IMPLYING that every generation of Pokemon is a multiverse and the Gen III universe and RSE exist separately from the Gen VI universe and ORAS, but I would argue it’s also a far deeper cut. We didn’t have a time capsule in Gen IV, because we didn’t need it, we just had the Park. The Link Cable existed for the first three generations of Pokemon and multiple other games, people are more likely to be familiar with that than the fact that Gen II canonically had time travel but only really for Pokemon.

[agentc0rn]

"I was finally able to bring everything to an end. I thank you for that. I think I'll spend some time now trying to find out if it's also possible to forge a new beginning for something once lost. Until we meet again."

[parasolladyansy]

Hold up. Childhood friend Rayqauza? I mean cool, but I feel like I'm missing something?

Lol, so Ikrit’s home region is Hoenn, & while we started his timeline with Sapphire, it was more like Emerald. 🐉☁️

He has a similar close relationship with Rayquaza as Ansy does Reshiram. It’s that closeness that helped him work together with them to bust the meteoroid containing Deoxys years later as an adult (he was dating Ansy at the time, taking her to visit his home region - then the Delta Episode happened lol).

*For more context, this is what the Asker was asking about lol:

[mamasplat]

All I do is shitpost. All I draw is shitpost. The moment that photo showed up in my dms you should’ve known what I was gonna do.

Extra:

Fucked up the angle of Courtney’s wrist guard but i genuinely cannot be bothered.

[punjab-official]

unearthing this meme I made back in November

[sunshowersart]

How tall I headcanon some of my favorite Pokémon squads to be! :) (As adults)

I use these as references when I draw them together :3

[lorekeeper-backset]

Man, you can tell how few people played the Delta Episode because so many people have told me they thought Zinnia was my OC.

Nope, she's real.

[leavingautumn13]

delta episode blues

[i have commissions open now]

[whaleaddict13]

Perhaps the delta episode could also be referred to as “The Zinniad”

[lightoutage]

I've had Alpha Sapphire for six years, but because i was a bit of a dumb child i gave up on Wallace's gym challenge, and never finished it.

Today, i beat the Elite Four and Champion.

[steel--fairy]

Steven: My plan is to send the meteor to another universe with the link cable.

Zinnia: Are you alright with constructive criticism? I don't want to sound mean.

Steven: No, go ahead, I want to hear it.

Zinnia: Your plan fucking sucks.

Steven: That's not constructive criticism.

[articskele]

Made a gif of Mega Ray's Dragon Ascent bc kid me thought it was the coolest thing EVER :D

[bellamyroselia]

Was having some random Pokemon-related thoughts, then I thought "You know, it would be super funny if Zinnia was Drayton's mother" and now I fucking can't stop thinking of it.

Would make a funny headcanon or AU if nothing else

[ask-team-spectrum]

whats up with the deoxys colors? Am J right to assume that’s what they are, boss?

“But if you want I have old photos back when I was a teenager when I dyed my hair green because I really liked ludicolo, it was super cringey.”

“Pa are you going to eat anything?”

“Nah, I rather keep focused on the moment.”