#pringle/shinx

[cozybells]

they are bonding

[softstarryblanket]

When Cebolla tells him Dusknoir will be visiting Treasure Town, Pringle wants to show that he's become strong, scary even, that he won't be taking any shit the man is planning in that wicked head of his. Maybe he wants to impress him a little bit, too. no, he doesn't. what. But then the day Pringle so anxiously awaited arrives and Dusknoir's like "Who are you?? oh, right, the shinx."

Dusknoir came back to better his relationships in the past, but this one luxray is making it very difficult by constantly antagonizing him. Apparently, Pringle took Dusknoir's betrayal particularly bad. How inconvenient! As much as they got along before, it's not like there was any special treatment. Why is he taking it so personal?

[hostile-heros]

You two have been through a lot, and after everything, I'm sure you're physically and emotionally exhausted. It would probably be good to eat something and then get some rest.

The two ended up spending time relaxing. Pumpkin showing him stuff around xeir room, other plushies, some notebooks of drawings, but they ended up just watching Pokétube on their TV. Until the current video they were watching finished and Pumpkin got up to select another one.

PUMPKIN: "What does Twitter spell worse: Pringles or trampoline... That sounds like a good video. What do you think Connor?"

Xey turn around just to hear faint snoring.

PUMPKIN: "Oh... You're asleep."

The Shinx doesn't blame him. It's been a stressful day and to their awareness, Connor woke up with amnesia and doesn't remember a lot of stuff so he must be stressed and worried about that. No wonder he's ended up asleep.

They end up walking over to them and deciding that if Connor sleeps there his neck is gonna hella hurt in the morning. So xey bend over and proceed to lift him up with relative ease, only troubling a bit to make sure to try and not wake up xeir sleeping friend.

They wander over to their bed where they kick away the blankets before placing Connor down and covering him up with blankets. There! Now he'll have a good sleep!

They go back to watching videos with the music down lower as to not awaken the monkey, but half way through they hear commotion on the other side of the house...

PUMPKIN: "Oh. Mum n' Dad must be home."

Xey get up from where they were watching and travel out of the room to go meet their parents and tell them about the good news of friendship.

[decibelcoatl]

Welp, looks like Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Which, of course, means that people are gonna end up shipping EVERYTHING. Doesn’t matter which fandom you’re in, if you see two characters of one series together, you just wanna ship ‘em like CRAZY!

Honestly, I used to be that way. I was an avid supporter of a good handful of Pokémon ships: AdvanceShipping, PearlShipping, NegaiShipping, AmourShipping, AlolaShipping...yep, definitely a good handful (even though my most preferred ship is Amour, fight me)

More under the cut.

Back in PMD-E, I was all over shipping. For a while, I shipped Zola and Ashtar, turning them into a couple. But when I started work on Event 3, my brain decided “Nope, fuck that. Let’s give these two some proper dates.” So, I did. I shipped two ships like crazy (one of them a little too crazy). Zola was paired up with a Shinx, and Ashtar with a Shiny Luxio. For a time, everything seemed perfect, and I would dream up these fantasies of them. It was the best way I could keep Zola and Ashtar together without them actually being together.

But as the years went by, I began to ship a little less. I became more picky on which OC of mine I should ship and who should stay a single Pringle. Slowly but surely, my shipping trash vibe began to diminish.  Ciela and Roderick, even in their Pokémon forms, were written as childhood friends, never to be shipped as a couple. Yang and Lucina, both being girls, already had their own path of romance laid out before them (I shipped Yachigo platonically, but I also shipped Selina...for a personal reason). I already had plans for Emily when the time would come for her to be shipped, while Otulissa was never meant to be shipped at all. And, of course, Zolashtar was never really meant to be canon (I already made a post about it a long time ago, but I think I deleted it while I was clearing out my old PMD-E blog, so...yeah).

Nowadays, I’m a tad more strict on who to ship and who not to ship when it comes to my OC’s. The very characters I worked my blood, sweat and tears off of, whose personalities I poured my heart and soul into. But I still have plenty of OTP’s: Zolanther, Yachigo, Ashneon and Selina, to name a few. I never lost interest in them, and I don’t plan on doing so anytime soon, even if I will never, ever draw smut. I even have a few ships planned for my future Pokémon story, Seeking Tranquility, but that’s a really big spoiler, so...yeah.

I dunno if I’ll be in any sort of mood to draw any ships under my belt this year, but I would like at least one thing for Valentine’s Day: a cute pic of my Torracat Pokésona cuddling up with Mandernoone (a certain someone’s Linoone Pokésona). That is all.

[cozybells]

I'm replaying eos. you know how it is

[cozybells]

sometimes you just need to remember this line from partner

[cozybells]

staying small for convenience (<- he wants to be held)

[cozybells]

@heropartnerweek Day 1 - Shiny

For two people that come from a dark future they are pretty luminous. Pringle wonders if Cebolla was also like that as a human.

[cozybells]

visual representation of my brain

remember how I said I was anxious af during the whole darkrai arc? well of course I have to make hero suffer too, like they haven't had enough.

there's so much Pringle... my baby. he played tough around Dusknoir for a while but... there was so much to work out.

[cozybells]

when I started this pmd journey no one told me I was gonna get so attached to my teams AAARRRGH

so many thoughts... I will leave some of them in case anyone is curious 👉👈

so at first my eos hero was just the character i played as, i wasn't expecting them to be so important for the plot (first pmd game yeah), he's like his own guy so i'm legally changing their name to Cebolla hehe

Pringle takes the offensive in battle while Cebolla has more of a support/annoyer role, so they're usually the one carrying the bags while Pringle tries to keep objects out of the way for agility.

Pringle used to paint his paws with black, waterproof paint, he had to paint and wash them everyday. after Cebolla disappeared, Pringle was just way too tired and unmotivated so he stopped painting them altogether (which just made him feel worse oof). he started using longer lasting dye eventually.

Pringle got pretty close to Dusknoir at first, but Dusknoir started avoiding being alone with him after he discovered who Cebolla was. it took a long time for Pringle to understand why. Cebolla on the other hand clicked with Grovyle instantly and wished they could've spent more time together (future trio does return to visit eventually tho... for my peace of mind).

[cozybells]

this fucks me up

[softstarryblanket]

Okay but 😭 😭 the copium from Pringle and them speedrunning an evolution to come across as having their shit together/being stronger than Dusknoir. Only for the ghost to barely recognize him at first. Oughh Cozy you are KILLING me with your little electric lion cub. (I still remember ur artpiece of them fitting Dusk’s palm and melttt)

heheheh I'm glad you like them! seriously Pringle did all of that to show he was above it all like dude... COME ON. he liked being a luxio so much too </3 losing the idgaf war. Pringle says he doesn't trust in Dusknoir's supposed "good intentions" but he does. he's just SO MAD because how dare this guy come back now, after how cruel he was, and then not even have the decency to think of Pringle beyond "the sidekick carrying the relic stone". ok MAYBE Pringle is taking it a bit too personal, but doesn't he have the right to after everything?

Cebolla doesn't really have a problem with Dusknoir. They can't fit a grudge in that tiny body! he just tries to be there for his friend and keep the peace within the group. but...they see it first hand now, in Pringle, how much it can hurt to be met with indifference by someone you cared deeply about. did they make Grovyle feel like that, too? or did he just move on?

also Dusknoir holding Pringle on his palm 😭😭 good yet ephemeral times... since we're talking about this, as soon as Dusknoir found out about Cebolla having the dimensional scream, he decided "Hm. I'm not letting this guy get near me again." which—made maintaining the friendly facade a bit tricky; physical touch is very important to Cebolla. Dusknoir had to make up an excuse for why he now had a problem with it, which included dropping it with Pringle too. sad!

[cozybells]

@heropartnerweek Day 2 - Flowers

Gracideas for you, because I'm grateful that you exist.

[cozybells]

my little guys..........................

[cozybells]

@heropartnerweek Day 7 - Previous prompt (evolution)

Pringle has reached his full potential as the beast he always was! big guy!

[softstarryblanket]

occasionally thinking about what you said regarding what pringle made himself to be when dusknoir came back and the part about how dusknoir is neutral and uncaring he is to the change still gets me, but it's also the complete do-over that pringle must've done to ensure that dusknoir won't dare to double cross him and cebola ever again. a complete rewrite to a personality, writing over all the flaws to ensure that nothing else will persist.

an erasure of one's former self, for just a moment.

because with the pursuit fueled by the need to ensure that he is no longer what dusknoir saw him as, i cannot imagine that there was not a moment where pringle must've saw that ghost of himself straying behind his back, and just wondering what that had meant. digging a grave out for himself, and dumping that part in there momentarily just for intimidation, warnings, and just the slight bit of impression. because if the fear that would've scrawled out of dusknoir were anything to suffice, just the slightest bit of respect could be said the same, wouldn't it? if having to silence and muffle that former self to ensure you won't reveal just how utterly terrified you were when it had all happened and for you to reveal that deep down, you are still that kid, forever stuck out like a loose, flickering lightbulb, then so be it.

and then dusknoir brushes him aside. barely pays any mind. why should he? pringle proved himself to be a nuisance that is too hellbent on trying to play intimidator in the face of someone who has seen it all, done it all, got his hands more dirtied and stained than pringle could ever fathom he could in his lifetime, and now he is forced to look at that grave, and finally acknowledge the purpose of that ghost. all this time, chasing after a bleak goal to strike sense and a forwarn for someone who doesn't care, overdoing it all when it ended up never mattering and never amounting to a sum, and what does pringle have to show for it now? what does he have to show for it when it means nothing anymore? was that rewrite fun? was it enjoyable? did you get that thumbs up from your disgraceful excuse of an idol, or was that eye roll you got from him when you tried to be anything but a slighty larger kitty enough to serve as that pat-on-the-back for you? it's a lot of things, basically. but i cannot imagine how he felt when he realized all of this was fruitless and pointless, and that now he only has his own self to look at that shattered imagery.

(mostly spitballed through all of this so i could be very much wrong, but what i wanna say is: i like pringle and cebola 🦗👍)

oghhhhh you always get it sinnoh... yk even after future trio are gone, Pringle's so Frustrated. like, how many times does he have to learn this lesson? to focus on what he wants and believes and not what others might think?

because really, how much of this change was to intimidate Dusknoir and how much was to impress him? even an attack would have been better than indifference. now it's obvious that his rash decision to evolve was unnecessary. not that he doesn't like being a luxray, it's just the reason why he evolved that hurts. now he's left irritable and embarrassed.

it takes some time for Pringle to admit that he still admires Dusknoir—at least the image he had back then. the Dusknoir that seemed brave and strong. Pringle wanted that confidence, his vast knowledge, his presence... he still does.

ask anyone in town though and they'd tell you Pringle has all of those things already, but he still feels like that trembling shinx. scared and guillable. add to that the gender envy! his voice isn't quite deep enough, his mane doesn't stand as tall...ough