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happy pride month from your local organization of very trustworthy people
#pokemon#pkmn#rainbow rocket#rr supersymmetry#my art#rocket boss giovanni#flare boss lysandre#magma leader maxie#ghetsis harmonia#galactic boss cyrus#aqua leader archie#lusamine#chairman rose#colress
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Team RR Campfire
And if you’re wondering where Cyrus is
He’s currently avoiding literally everyone
#shitty little comic to get back into comic making#spanned from my family sitting around a campfire and everytime we’d get smoke in our faces my mom would go ‘smoke follows beauty’#AND I WAS LIKE OHHH!!! IDEA!!!#anyway Ghetsis is still alive much to everyone’s dismay /j#it’s not Ghetsis’s first rodeo#I have a headcanon that Lys tries to poison at least one member of Team RR every month#Maxie dubbed the most beautiful by the fire#the Cy piece is kinda experimental#don’t know if I really like it but the colors were fun :3#need to draw these freaks more >:-]#team rainbow rocket#lysandre pokemon#cyrus pokemon#lusamine pokemon#ghetsis pokemon#giovanni pokemon#chairman rose#rainbowpufflez art tag
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Cue the obligatory beach day episode!
I miss summer, give me back my 30 degrees celsius.
It's always very fun for me to imagine villians doing silly, fun and mundane stuff. You know, almost like they're just people too.
Cyrus is a Pokevillian that some of my closest friends love very much and I thought it would be entertaining to picture Cyrus and Ghetsis just trying to get along.
They're so different but so are me and my friends. I think they would vibe. Special thanks to @mierulii for always being there for me in the last 6 years. You're an amazing friend and I couldn't have made it this far without you. I hope we can go to the beach together one day <3
#art#pokemon#digital art#fanart#artists on tumblr#ghetsis#cyrus#pokevillian#team plasma#team galactic#team rainbow rocket#team rr#dakrai#kyurem#pokemon masters
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not that anyone's asking BUT my hot take on giovanni is he should be retired rn. not from like a "the pokemon company should stop talking about him" (weeeeelll that's sort of part of it but. hear me out) kind of way BUT in a. he should LITERALLY not be doing team rocket shit in ANY canon universe anymore. and it would be TOTALLY in-character of him to do so if the medias still using him characterized him the way he should be. welcome to my ted talk let me explain myself
FULL DISCLOSURE: i like giovanni. like, a not normal amount i fear. all of that opening sounds like i don't but i totally feel stupid emotions about this guy. anyways:
GEN 1. gen 1 games are like... NOT known for their compelling dialogue. and in cases like archie and maxie in gen 3 getting remakes in gen 6, their characterization and dialogue gets (kind of subjectively but i feel this is a popular opinion anyways) Much Better. i think that goes for a Lot of stuff where they give old guys new dialogue in spin offs (gestures at masters ex which i think is Great for making characters Actually Interesting)
but i feel like with giovanni there's been a DOWNGRADE in character since his appearance because he no longer Progresses.
i WILL say masters ex does Some Work to try and make him Deeper than just "I'm Evil for the sake of Being Evil grahgghh 😈" but it's like. overshadowed by All The Other Stuff.
plus he IS rainbow rocket giovanni in masters and i'm like OBSESSEDDD with team rainbow rocket. but i also don't think it should. Exist. I'M GLAD IT DOES but i find it out of character for giovanni to do At All. I CAN EXPLAIN I PROMISE.
team rocket's goals as an organization are and always have been: make money via stealing or otherwise exploiting pokémon. that's all it NEEDED to be. because it was gen 1 and no one needed to be ripping apart the universe yet.
giovanni himself sees pokemon as a means to an end. that much has stayed consistent in all of his appearances. but what CHANGES things in what happens when he LOSES for the FINAL TIME in r/b/y:
I WILL DEDICATE MY LIFE TO THE STUDY OF POKEMON. that's like CRAZY sort of redemption. and you Could argue against me to say "well have you considered he was lying" and i Have but i think it's SO much cooler if he was being legit. if he was so Changed by losing So Many Times to a little boy who just cared So Much for his pokémon that he needed to experience that for himself.
I mentioned in my previous giovanni post that pokémon origins has characterized giovanni "right" and THAT'S because via continuously fighting red and seeing his passion for battling as well as his love of pokémon firsthand, giovanni rediscovers his lost passion for pokémon that he had when HE was younger, and he sees HIMSELF in who red is and decides to disband team rocket after their gym battle so he can turn his life around. i HIGHLY recommend watching episode 3 of origins if you haven't seen it. it's freaking Marvelous.
ANYWAYS. THIS is the characterization of giovanni i support the MOST because it's not terribly complicated but still has nice depth to his character that you could read into.
BUT if we're going by this characterization of him, he should. NOT BE DOING TEAM ROCKET STUFF NOW! he SHOULD have been retired storywise by game freak after that and retired job-wise. studying pokémon and touching grass.
but THEN. gen 2 happens. (... well, gen 2 and the first gens 1/2 remakes.)
gen 2 introduces the concept of "let's bring giovanni back". which i wouldn't complain about if giovanni wasn't ALSO trying to get back. WHY. WE ESTABLISHED IN THE FIRST GAME HE'S DONE. and gen 2 didn't DIRECTLY SAY giovanni was up to come back (as far as i'm aware, i did NOT play gsc, someone correct me if i'm wrong). but when frlg released, they Changed dialogue from the original to FIT this idea:
NOW "studying pokemon" has become "training". there IS no character development for him here, he JUST wants to get stronger to be a Better mob boss. and this is supported by the celebi time travel event where he's ABOUT to rejoin team rocket before you beat him
the big problem with this (and any giovanni dialogue in the time travel event) for me is that it frames everything that happened to him in gen 1 as "giovanni wasn't a good enough mob boss then but now that he's had some time to Train he's ready to be a Better Mob Boss" WRONG! THAT WAS NEVER THE ISSUE!! part of the pros of team rocket at its peak was that giovanni was Unknown to most and could direct operations in the shadows AND he could keep his business as a gym leader because NO ONE KNEW. but now EVERYONE knows and team rocket can LITERALLY NEVER REACH THAT PEAK AGAIN. the ONLY CORRECT thing to do in this situation is Disband and Do Other Shit (cough cough study pokémon and touch grass cough cough)
this seems obvious to me that this desire to keep dragging him back into things is the games way of being like "woaahh!! callback time!!" and then later down the line "woaaahh!! nostalgia time!!!" (because they wouldn't have retconned that final gen 1 dialogue if it wasn't) and while i can Appreciate it to a degree (because i am Not Immune to getting STUPID EXCITED when old blorbos show up) i think continuing to make giovanni show up to Be Evil isn't the way to go about it. or at LEAST not canon timeline giovanni.
and the gen 1/2 remakes for ME is like... the beginning of the issue, but as we've gotten Further Away from gen 1 in time, the more i feel they stray from where he ended in the original in favor of making him More Blandly Evil. he feels constrained to one-liners about how the worlds an EVIL PLACE and he's just playing the game or whatever alpha sigma shit he's on in the masters trainer lodge
rainbow rocket is kind of CRAZY to me because they take this mob boss who likes exploiting pokemon and scientists for money and they make him start. opening interdimensional bad ending au wormholes to take over the world with aliens. (also having him willing to share the power with all the other evil bosses, some who have in their universes Successfully taken over the world??? heeeellll no. not even my proposed toned down characterization of this guy would be cool with that realistically.) it all just seems to be Way Beyond what team rocket SHOULD be doing. they're The Mafia. making The Mafia open wormholes is CRAZY. but giovanni HAS to be the main guy because. Nostalgia.
idk how much sense i make when i say this but when you make team rocket less cunning and less focused on doing their work in the shadows and running their shady operations stealthily. you get. a more ambitious team skull. and there's nothing WRONG with team skull but it's NOT WHAT TEAM ROCKET IS SUPPOSED TO BE. they've got more of a reputation than that but modern depictions of giovanni and the organization as a whole water him down to "i love Causing Problems" and less "i love Good Business"
whatever. giovanni in modern depictions MAKES SENSE if you followed along the slow regression of his character in real time. but i feel like if you look where he is now and look where he Ended in r/b/y you have like. Two Different Characters. and i think having a redeemed or even kind-of-half-redeemed giovanni could be SO much more interesting in showing up again than having him be Generally Evil
AND IT'S NOT LIKE THAT REALLY POSES ISSUES FOR MASTERS EX. cyrus is half-reformed WITHIN the story. archie and maxie too (although they were already kind of like that). lysandre HAS an evil moment but he DOESN'T DIE like he does in canon and THEN he's FINE. he still "runs" team flare but he's NOT LONGER A THREAT TO THE PROTAGONISTS
what i think COULD'VE been cool in some hypothetical scenario is have giovanni come back for cameos but Not as team rocket's leader. have him Turn Down the rocket admin radio broadcast. hell, having him come back to help the player Stop Them if he feels particularly annoyed. LET THAT MAN GO ON VACATION. WHATEVER. there's SO MUCH you can do with him the way cameos are done for the Other non-evil characters and there are options where you could Still battle him as a Test Of Strength but THERE'S JUST. SO MUCH WRONG WITH HIM STILL BEING OVERTLY EVIL.
i understand keeping giovanni evil for nostalgia. i Get it i PROMISE i do. i just think it makes him a weaker character, and the companies sacrifice character development for sales. but if you wanted to have a bad guy who was JUST BAD and would CONTINUE to be bad if given the chance,
GHETSIS IS. RIGHT THERE.
that's the end of that for me i think. i'm SO down to discuss or debate this take for fun. i just think giovanni should retire and pet his cat because it's funny.
#pokemon#pkmn#giovanni#rocket boss giovanni#team rocket#long post#this is all just fun for me if you have any serious grievances. you're in the wrong place#as prev mentioned i like modern giovanni depictions well enough and i LOVE team rr#but i think we have more than enough 'insanely evil man to a sometimes comical degree' with ghetsis#but like i said i'm down to discuss#i have a rant on why pokespe cyrus is the only cyrus depiction that matters on standby if anyone wants to hear that. also he's autistic
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recruitment.
it would be REALLY AWESOME if we got some new people :))
unfortunately we are MINORS ONLY (under 18!)
#pokemon#pokevillains#magma leader maxie#aqua leader archie#galactic boss cyrus#rainbow rocket#team rainbow rocket#flare leader lysandre#plasma leader ghetsis#ghetsis harmonia gropius#natural harmonia gropius#n pokemon#lusamine#guzma#volo#cool#advertisement#discord#rrhq discord#discord server#rr#team rocket#team magma#team aqua#team galactic#team plasma#team flare#team skull#aether foundation#macro cosmos
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we need a ridonculous race duo who literally joined the show just so they could play pokemon go all across the world
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#y'know idk why I never thought about that#RR's mistake was not making actual fodder characters who existed for a joke#like I'm imaging these two stopping because- omg there's a regional pokemon we don't have! gotta catch it#total drama#total drama ridonculous race#coralpilled
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First day of Inktober, y'all!
Day one: ZOMBIE!
He's out for braaaaains! Naw, just kidding! He's probably looking for the newest video game or sum'n. (Also, the arrow's a prop!) Thanks to @flowerveil02 for the border design!
No border version
I literally love him so much!!!!
#pokemon reborn#zom talks#reborn: rainbow#drink water and get plenty of sleep!#rrr blake#blake whitaker#vee and zom inktober#inktober challenge#inktober#art challenge#halloween#happy halloween!#i love him so much and i don't know why#specifically the rr redesign i've made for him bcuz he has a lot more story and motive#squish him now
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So, what IS Pokemon Reborn: Rainbow?
I'm glad you asked, anon! I'll put the answer simple above the cut and explain it in better detail below. Me and @nommyzommy will have a deep dive about Reborn: Rainbow in a later post.
WARNING: THIS IS A VERY LONG POST! You can just stick to the summary if you're not in the mood to read an excerpt as long as the bible!!
Put simply:
Reborn: Rainbow (from here forth called RR in this post) is an AU that combines elements of the white and black routes. It also contains original characters and events, including PULSEs, storyline, and even two entire cities with their own geography!
In detail:
RR mixes our favorite elements from both routes and changes some of them a little more to our preferences. It also allows us more screentime for our favorite characters that were kinda overshadowed or just straight-up put on a bus during the game :P Like Florinia, Serra, and more.
It also has new PULSEs and lore for Eve and the subsect of Team Meteor that creates them. And new lore for Team Meteor in general. Lots of the Alcantaras' history and influence is central to the fanfic.
Now, to begin on the characters: We made new characters (that we'll begin posting soon) and new arcs and designs for our favs! (Those are the RRr designs you've been seeing across our posts.) A lot more characters get to know each other, and the theme of the fanfic is a little bit more,, positive? More friendly? I just like games that are more optimistic! :)
And we've made new plot points and storyline! Like great news for Heather, the deforestation of a lot of the region's routes, and the recurrence of characters that were supposedly gone forever... *cough cough, the Belrose parents and Zina Vanhanen*
We've even made brand new cities and geography for them, too!! (Again, we'll touch up on these in a later post with finished maps and fixed details. Like the Jade Jungle is supposed to be bigger, etc.) First is Aquamarine City on Turquoise Island!
The Turquoise Islands have a tropical climate and are located in the Azurine Lake just under Reborn City. The island and city, Aquamarine City, are largely based on Florida and California. It and Coral Ward are conneceted by a large bridge that crosses the Azurine Lake. The surrounding geography includes jungles, beaches, coves, and mountains! It also has a string of small uninhabited islands called the Scallop Isands and a world-renowned tourist attraction called Draconite Isle, which features a dangerous temple that reportedly withholds treasures!
Second is Flinthearth Town!
The climate in the Flint Forest is humid temperate with hot summers and cold winters. Being located just south of Spinel Town, the area and town draw inspiration mostly from Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, and Texas. Many trains connect it to other territories of the region, including Spinel. The geography of the area is comprised of forests, mountains, lakes, and terraces. Their greatest attractions are the annual Flinthearth Fair (mirroring the Lincoln County Fair among other county fairs) and the abandoned (and reportedly haunted!) Alabaster Castle!
Shout out to @nommyzommy for her wonderful artwork on the maps! Expect to see refined future references for the areas on her page!
Thank you so so so much for asking!!! We'll begin posting about RR more in future updates! It makes me so happy to answer questions like this! And sorry for the longass post :P
Thanks for the ask, and stay groovy! <3
#pokemon reborn#stay groovy#vee talks#art reqs open#flowerveil02#art req#<3#thanks for the ask!#serra voclain#reborn: rainbow#nommyzommy#too many tags!!!!#heather molinar#monty belrose#carol belrose#RR maps#RR landscapes#zina vanhanen#florinia sevilla#evelyn seijaya#i love getting to talk about our fanfic!!!#sorry this was so long#:P#hope you enjoyed!!!
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(blasts you with my psychic beams) (blasts you with my psychic beams) (blasts you with my psychic beams) (blasts you with
#my art#rr retribution au#pkmn#pokemon#team rocket#giovanni#rocket boss giovanni#team rainbow rocket#made this a few weeks ago and then promptly forgor abt it#i like to think about him
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Secret santa gift for the ACS discord
Its always a pleasure to draw drunk gio an cyrus at the RR christmas partyÂ
#pokemon#team rr#Lysandre#ghetsis#archie#cyrus#giovanni#maxie#uff right on time to get ready for dinner
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another monday means another colress, but this time with cyrus and some words to go with it
(read it here)
#pokemon#galactic boss cyrus#colress#accretionshipping#rr supersymmetry#bgen#my art#my writing#2023#adding a writing tag feels weird but here we are i guess#weekly colress
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I played through the newest yaoi arc in Pokemas
#KABU AND LARRY WAS NOT ON MY 2024 BINGO LIST#Pokemas said Happy Pride Month#and then instead of doing anything with their copious amounts of other gay ships went:#‘what if we shipped two of the randomest old men’#and I’m eating it up okay#we all know me tho#Bo and his old man yaoi 😔 /j#still working on the Team RR small comic just needed a break from digital art#the sleeping doodle is based off a fanfic about them called ‘Plain and Simple’ on AO3 :3#I don’t personally ship Jacq and Volo#but I thought it would be funnie since yknow silly toxic ships /pos#larry pokemon#kabu pokemon#professor sycamore#jacq pokemon#idk what Kabu/Larry or Jacq/Volo’s ship names are 😔#rainbowpufflez art tag
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LAST REPOST FR but anyway. fun ideas featuring RR!Guzma who happens to be. the team’s guard dog? completely fucked up by nihilego’s toxins.
based on this tomb raider animation <3
idk i think hes neat
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More art fight shenanigans
just some more artfight attacks for the day!
may characters and who they belong to:
penny design is by me
Supersymmetry! Archie, Lusamine, and Lysandre: @cyborb
Kalgoji design: @kaliido-s
PULT!Iris: @irlkisukeurahara
#artfight#my artwork#pokemon pult#Pokemon Unown Legends Tale#champion iris#Godzilla#rr supersymmetry#Not my au#pokemon#kaijumorpha au
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Penny: the others are under my protection
#.submissions#not rr#penny#penny pokemon#team star penny#pokemon#incorrect pokemon#pokemon scarlet#pokemon violet#pokemon scarvi
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