#pokemon fan story

[hopestarstudios]

A happy trainer, a goofy villain and a remorseful mother talking to their younger selves.

OC's in order Maicy, Bud (Maicy's partner pokemon), Liam, and Molly (Maicy's mom)

[faulyter]

typhlosion after the leak

[kaydavault]

more pokemon screenshot redraws (kinda!!)

[gearoxbutabox]

LITTLE STUPID KIDS THAT LIKE COLLECTING LITTLE STUPID MONSTERS (AND GHOSTS)

[runawaycarouselhorse]

What made both her sacrifice for her team mates’ happiness in Pocket Monsters (2019)/Pokemon Journeys episode 95 and the fact that she thought this would be her end more poignant for me is that being completely alone is what Musashi hates the most. She lost her (single) mother as a child and was never adopted, going from foster home to foster home... ;_;

After many failures (like being unable to graduate from a school meant to train literal Pokemon Nurses, because she couldn’t do what Chansey do, despite studying hard and being adept at skills like bandaging…) and having her heart broken and being disappointed (she let a boy she loved go alone so she can pursue idol dreams with some friends, who all made it… without her, so she lost a possible love for an impossible dream)…

She couldn’t bond with her partners and left them to be injured, just to save herself, during her training days at Team Rocket. She’d become selfish and self-preserving… in the Japanese version, the others called her “shinigami Musashi” according to Yamato (Cassidy), likening her to a reaper of souls… but James refused to run away, sick of living a life where he ran away from all his problems. He��d sacrifice himself for her and Meowth’s safety, getting badly injured and nearly missing their final exam, hospitalized. The first time they uttered the beginning of their motto was when she believed she was all alone again, much like in this scene… the Rockets in the Japanese version repeat the last thing someone else says as if to answer a question (the “nanda kanda to kikare tara” = “if you ask us about this or that” is mostly filler that could be substituted with anything else.)

Musashi (Jessie): (dejectedly, as she walks away alone as the final exam begins, even being questioned by Nyasu/Meowth where she’s going): Is this all that there is…?

Kojiro (James): (answering while leaning posed against a tree, covered in bandages, but they were only wrapped over his clothes so he could whip them off dramatically) If you ask us 'if this is all that there is,' our answer will be the universe’s compassion!

She’s so moved, she turns away to wipe her tears. “A team mate who won’t run away…”

I think that’s the first time they ever see her cry.

Jessie desperately wants family, belonging, that’s why she falls in love so quickly, she wants a family more than anything—James had everything material growing up, but not love… Musashi had near to nothing material growing up, BUT she had her mother’s love… until she lost her very, very early. They contrast each other! They’re soul mates, eternal partners, whether you ship them or not. Meowth, too, was orphaned as a kitten, never even named, and an outcast his whole life. He's also always falling in love easily, seeking a home... the trio should never be separated, they are each other’s sought-for home.

I think the falling snow in this scene, where she runs off in tears, after wearing a brave smile and telling James it’s okay to stay with Cassidy, is a very deliberate choice, as Jessie loves snow. One of her few happy memories of her depressing childhood is being made treats made of snow to eat. She unknowingly lost her mother in the snowy Andes mountains, seeking Mew, put into foster care, while Miyamoto tried to make money to give her a better life... glittering snow and sparkling tears…

For Meowth too, she lets him go. She just wants everyone to have their chance at love.

So, her believing she’ll end up dying alone, as she’s always feared, Musashi here laments her luck, but also has a beautiful little dream of her friends saving her.

Once again, similarly to the break-up episode of DP, she was the one who calmly and gently encouraged James to pursue a possible love. She also broke Dustox’s pokeball, in tears, not wanting her to make the same mistake she did, giving up on an attainable love for an unattainable goal (and, indeed, Jessie did not win the Grand Festival, despite her skill at Pokemon Contests… she made the right decision for Dustox’s happiness.)

Jessie loves her friends. Sure, she’s caustic, rude, temperamental, bitter, and self-absorbed, but she prioritizes love and their happiness. She doesn’t want them to be alone and abandoned the way she felt as a kid. She loves them so much so, she’s satisfied to die alone and suffer her worst fear if it meant they get to be happy. That’s self-sacrifice.

She doesn’t resent them one bit, saying it’s a nice dream when she thinks she’s imagined them saving her life… she thought it was her mind comforting her before her death, accepting her fate, rather than realizing it’s effectively a premonition of what will be reality… and when she realizes?! She initially reproaches them, looking mad, because she thought they abandoned their happiness for her! But no, things didn’t work out… this is where they’re meant to be: by each other’s side.

James also knows how much marriage means to her, even though he’s so traumatized by it, the word “fiance” triggers literal flashbacks for him and he climbed up a tree to get away from a teenaged girl who called him that. Yet, in XY episode 63, where she fell for Dr. White...

Kojiro: (with head down, eyes shadowed) If Musashi (Jessie) wants to pursue her happiness as a woman, shouldn't we give her our blessing?

Nyasu also had his misfortunes in love... they sympathize and empathize.

"Let's show her we're men and leave without saying anything..."

As Kojiro runs away, he sheds tears, wishing her happiness and bidding her farewell, silently. The scenes in these two episodes are clear parallels.

But in the end (including the final episodes, as rushed as that plotline was although I still loved Wobbuffet acting exactly like a troubled child of parents going through a messy divorce), they’ll always realize their happiness is by each other’s side as a trio.

"Sometimes you get good pulls, sometimes you get bad ones. Sometimes they're good, even if you think they're bad. Sometimes they're bad, even if you think they're good."

[plutonious]

thinking about my stupid twin dragons au. I think it’s good

[anime-grimmy-art]

It's the baby daughter!!!

I recently got an update on a commission I'm getting of the kids, so they've been on my mind.

For those who don't know these characters - Botan is a fanchild of the OCxCanon ship of Daki and Volo! The Pokemon brainrot was so strong back then I even went to next gen lmao.

She's so much fun to draw, I just had to finally do her design justice. And with that, I mean draw her with her parents, her younger sibling and her "rival".

I love all of them so much TToTT

[ratwithhands]

I had this AU archived off my accounts for a few years, but I'm thinking about it a lot more these days so I'm digging it up for sketches.

This is Kudari from Codebreaker, functionally the starting antagonist for the story when Emmet accidentally collides with him and takes parts of his body.

For a little debrief, the main idea of Codebreaker is that Emmet discovers that he exists in a false reality, and that there is a parallel plane where all of the instructions for his reality exist. He finds his way to this plane by accident after walking back from another lonely day at work, and is hellbent on learning how to manipulate it in the hopes that he can recover Ingo with that knowledge. Kudari is his own set of instructions, who he partly dismantles, allowing him to actually interact with the code. This leaves a hollowed out shell that starts trying to find his own way to get his body back from Emmet.

I'd been thinking about the Beta Submas leaks which lead me to sketching him again. Here's the first rough warmup sketch I did with a fight between him and Emmet.

From there I just started reworking his old design to be worse 💀

Let me know if you guys want more of this freak, he's honestly really fun to sketch.

[sakitenyoyo]

A Kieran and Pecharunt outfit design for Pokemon Masters that I drew back in December/January! THEY ARE MADE FOR EACH OTHER!!

I do think that it looks much more like a summer holiday alt outfit instead of a Sygna Suit... But I was just very inspired by the tale of Momotaros so I wanted to make my Kieran x Pecharunt fit have a samurai look!

I did redesign the outfit about a month later just to give it more detail and pecharunt shape language. Me and my indecisiveness go brrr. At least I like the new version a lot more in terms of design (so when am i gonna draw the new design digitally? probably NEVER lmao)

[magicalmyu]

would you guys still love me if i wrote an analysis on how hop becoming sonia's assistant was actually the best possible outcome for him despite everyone insisting that his dreams were destroyed and that he just became a professor because he had nothing else to do and oh so saaaaaaaaad

and like i talk about how hop becoming a professor was foreshadowed from the very beginning. and how despite everyone saying he is like sonia because he lost in the gym challenge and had to settle for becoming a professor instead when on the contrary its actually the opposite. and how people don't realize how hop's "dream" wasn't really his calling but a result of the pressure to become like his brother. how instead of trying to surpass leon or even reach his level he has the chance to make a name for himself in his own field. how for a region like galar so focused on battling as a major sport its very interesting and kind of poetic how the main rival diverges from that and becomes a scientist instead.

yk something like that

[creatively-cosmic]

Perhaps in another lifetime, things could have been different.

[thatone-churro]

NEMONA THEY COULD NEVER MAKE ME HATE YOU-

nothing new happened i just feel like she gets left behind compared to the other rivals

[tizz-does-art]

I did another Mew/Two related art for Artfight, and it's brought ahead a design update for Spectr! :>

When I first made Spectrum, I kept them extremely simple; basically just a base-canon Mewtwo with a slightly darker palette. Their only defining trait as an "original" character was their goopy void tail. Take some new inspirations from the Hybrid/Fusion Twos of pokemon-ash-aus and the gorgeous designs of Phlurrii Mews, had me adding a liiiiittle more going on for the wee spook Spec. So updated Spectr has some faded stripes, gradients, and Pumpkaboo-ish features!

Lore wise, they're just a mysterious little glitch baby clinging to what they have to keep them 'solid'. In this case, a shiny Pumpkaboo was their first source of comfort in the physical world, so their body adapted features around it. As they grow more adjusted to brave this big frightening world, their form may come to change even more!

[miblue]

More fav jokes from @lily-orchard pokemon video.

It's good stuff to fill up my inktober pages lol

[alelathedragon]

Had the erdge to draw my only Crackship

It has been a hot second sense ive drawn them lmao

[applesjuice]

Hi!

Your new part was awesome!!!!

Now, I have a lil' question!

I saw to you got some idea from the leaks °_°. I do wonder what you got in mind!

Btw, just in case. The...uh... act that Typhlosion did was horribly mistranslated.

Typlosion did nothing wrong! Akari's Typhlosion weeps at the accusations!

But I've been wanting to include Looker and the International Police for a later part, but also I've been kind of determined to get Nihilego in there somehow because it's one of my favorite pokemon lol. (A dark part of me wants Carmine in her mental breakdown era to mistake Nihilego for her dead brother, kind of like that pokemon anime episode where Mohn was living with Nihilego thinking it was Lily)

But the leak in particular that I found interesting was this one.

Arceus plate fragments in Silvally Disc's. It speaks a lot for what the Aether Foundation was researching and makes it so easy to tie Sun and Moon into PLA considering the plates appear within rifts.

I've been wondering where I should take Juliana since I have plans for all the other characters, but this little tidbit right here pretty much let me take a little plot I have in mind for Lying in Sunshine a bit further. 😉