#silphe

[shlubbyart]

I remembered I have more than two Splatoon OCs.

Have you met Silphe before? Now you have! :>

[macabrecabra]

Did art fight and saw so many pokemon OCs...and realized for how much I LOVE pokemon, never had any of my own really...so I made some. Then I wrote a story. Then I built a whole worldsetting.

So enjoy the "End of the Line" pokemon setting that is now born... starting with my favorite trio of ghost pokemon! The Silph bros are known more publicly in connection to the powerful Silph Corporation, but also operate a powerful black market mafia under the table.

More under the tab if you are interested in my character ramblings!

GEN SILPH (Gengar) He is all about image. In the public eye, he is a well liked, always smiling, corporate prodigy and the face of Silph Co. Well respected and always known for handling PR and all the social trappings of an elite status well. Behind closed doors though, he is also running an extensive mafia operation with his fingers on the pulse of Saffron-Lavender City. He may seem nice and upbeat, but when he is ticked, he can show a very cold, very calculative, and very sadistic side as he is not above getting his hands dirty if people are messing up on the perfect persona he controls. Not a pokemon to cross as he will smile and shake your hand while having a gun behind his back. There are very few whom he trusts, as he is known to let his paranoia sometimes get the best of him when it feels like the control he's carefully built into an empire seems threatened even a little bit. Every move is calculated. Every chaos a delicate pull of the strings. Just remember to always trust in Silph Co for your every need!

Design Note: All the Silph bros wear suits because they are classy, but each has a design. For Gen, I was all corporate. Sleek cut, formfitting, Dark colors, and of course, classy tie. The kind of guy without a hair out of place. Also glasses felt fitting for someone that probably has to squint at computers...also makes him look more smart. GHAST SILPH (Ghastly)

The youngest brother of the Silph brothers, Ghast is a bit goofy and doesn't really tend to take things too seriously, but also never one to disappoint his older brothers whom he adores. He really wants to live up to expectations and has since stepped up to being the main leader of the mafia, second only to Gen, but really he just does what Gen says and doesn't ask questions. He really just wants to make his brothers proud, and feels the pressure to live up to Hauts' legacy.

Ghast can come off as dismissive towards others at times, but it comes from his desire to appear just as strong as his brothers when it comes to the dealings of the world. They are super besties with their personal gang of "bad brats" as he calls them, sometimes to the point of trying to step in and keep them out of trouble.

Should be note that Ghast is transgender. What their deadname is, no one knows. They don't much care for being misgendered as there has, and always has been, three Silph brothers, and don't you forget it!

Design Note: I felt that Ghast was the flashy type with bright eyesore suits and sort of a lounge lizard, impractical sort of suit, hence no pockets to be found. The single button suit felt more like going to a party than corporate, which fit Ghast more in my head. Also had to give Ghast unruly hair to mimic the gas around Ghastly.... Ghast's wears a hat to try and control it.

HAUTS SILPH (Haunter) (Alsos one of the main characters of the story!)

There was no doubt that Hauts was how made the Nightshade Mafia a force to be reckoned with. He was smart like his older brother, but also wasn't afraid to be reckless and unrelenting when it came to his goals. He was the muscle that could get any job done, one way or another. Known as a wildcard, laid-back, unpredictable, yet suave, Hauts was a criminal prince and was an important part of keeping the Nightshade Mafia running well....most of the time. His recklessness and disregard for Gen's orders often put him at odds with his brothers.

Hauts felt it more a difference of opinion, but nothing too crazy as at the end of the day, he cared very deeply about his brothers and everything he did would never put everything in danger. Gen didn't see it that way and shot his brother with intent to murder and remove something that was starting to make him paranoid about his control of things.

By all accounts, Hauts should be dead, face blasted open and body dumped in the woods, but he was found by a local pikachu from a nearby village and managed to find his health again. He's hung up his old life though, not interested in revenge, not interested in going back into that world. His guns are hung up to live a peaceful life as a bartender in Veridian Village, at least, until life comes knocking and he might have to pick up his old life again... Design notes: He is very much looking to copy the style of a 1920's ganster, hence the older style to his suit and wears an open jacket to match his more laid-back attitude. Also was one to always make sure you knew he was armed when in company. His hat was fun as it is clear it is blown off and there history and sentiment to it. He's had that torn up hat a long time and is intent on keeping it that way.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[articunochick]

When I open my mouth to reply that I am enjoying the Pokémon Scarlet / Violet DLC

[dev-archeops]

ordered a bootleg Pokédex off temuk cuz ive heard they’re fun to jailbreak and oh my god this thing is such a mess

highlights include:

- it gets typings wrong constantly. according to it, charizard is dragon/fire. luxray is electric/dark. zigzagoon is normal/normal???

- who’s that pokemon feature can’t identify shit. pointed it at pip, my pidove, and it guessed rookidee. i literally live in unova and this thing has a gps all it needed to do was make the easiest assumption possible

- it then ID’d my friend’s pawmot as marill. genuinely baffling

- all its dex entries are like completely wrong??? it just makes stuff up??? guess the species for this entry: “[redacted] can be used for many purposes, but most popular is to flavor a delicious broth. Pair it with some noodles for an incredible meal!”

- im sure it goes without saying but all the buttons feel like crap and the screen’s viewing angle is terrible. and the glare oh my god there is no way you could reliably use this thing in the field.

- the species was foongus btw. you know. a poison type.

don’t think im gonna get much mileage out of hacking it just cuz its such a piece of junk but honestly for the price it was worth seeing just how garbage it is. there’s a reason official dexes are subsidized by the government and given to trainers for free! they actually work.

[pc-box-ghost]

Fun Pokégear fact!

Silph Co. began developing the first very model of Pokégear in 1996.

Originally, Pokégear was meant to have an integrated Pokédex. However, due to technological limitations at the time, the Pokégear's hardware did not allow enough storage space or memory to store a complete Pokédex's worth of data, while keeping its functionality as a phone.

The original design faced several other major problems, such as the tendency for the battery to overheat, sometimes causing the CPU to quite literally melt. This idea was scrapped, and the very first design for Pokégear never saw the light of day.

The first publicly available Pokégear model was released in 1998, and did not have these issues. Due to rapid technological advancements, it would have been able to contain an integrated Pokédex. Despite this, Silph Co. had abandoned the idea entirely, and instead adapted a radio card specifically for their newest gadget.

[yaaadooon]

always headcanon'd (and i think its canon in pokespe) that gym leader/e4 are part time jobs for most people in those positions and they have like. other jobs they go to.

but they are always on call in case there is a challenger and the league usually works with their other employers to make sure they can do this other gig (and usually employers are cool with it. especially businesses/universities because hey, free advertising!)

red's offered a position as an e4 member when he comes back from alola, the fourth member right below lance

but red also works at silph co. as a systems analyst he's under a weird contract with the league and silph that's a little annoying (understatement)

the league mandates that red uses pikachu because that's what people wanna see and battle so he defaults to electric types as his specialty. this KINDA works with his tech bro image that he accidentally conjured up because he is often getting to the league in his work clothes (and hey, the tech bro fleecy vest is comfier than a suit).

its fine really. its fine. its fine.

silph also mandates that he uses porygon. but the contract doesn't say which porygon, so he uses porygon-z with electric tera type (kanto is ALWAYS on the cutting edge of battling of course they jumped on tera orbs as soon as they could.) as a part of his team.

his e4 team is pikachu, magnezone, electivire, ampharos and porygon-z (e4 can only use up to 5 pokemon.)

[realpokemon]

im from unova and my johtonian friends keep talking about making pokeballs from apricorns?? that sounds pretty cool because fuck silph co and their pokeball pricing but i dont know if i can do it here :((

yeah its a pretty forgotten craft because its just not very efficient, but it can be a really cool personal touch for your pokémon. only issue is that modern PCs dont align right so you cant store pokémon in the PC (which is an iffy debate). i think there are youtube tutorials up about it.

[leecario]

BLINDFOLDED POKEMON YELLOW SPEEDRUN 

6:47:00

I DID IT!!!

[shadlay]

Request from @seagull-laugh of Rouge and Shadow playing Pokemon together. Rouge is leading the way, he's never played before.

[aqqleshiqqing-archive]

i just had the wildest thought. so steven stone's devon corporation is known for developing new pokeball models and GAMEverse jaide probably uses the timer and repeat ball (and they're probs also her favorites) and you know how I mentioned that jaide would travel cross region to both find new pokemon and battle gyms for her practice but never really partakes in the e4 and champion. however I think she would make the effort to meet steven because HOLY SHIT sir. I am a big fucking fan of your products can I buy the newest running shoes Please. Can I have 10 stocks of your timer balls. thank you

[shlubbyart]

Suit-Nami & Friends popularity results

[chamomilepetaldance]

...What would be a good replacement for teleport pads...?

[thekuraning]

fic writing asks : 17 and 27, 28?

hope you’re doing well!! I’m just about to finally catch up with the latest chapter of moving on in a maelstrom (I haven’t checked my ao3 inbox for updates in a hot minute!!), thank you as ever for writing!

WASABI THANK YOU FOR SENDING im hanging in there i hope youre doing good too <3 and i hope you enjoy the latest chapter grelhbqughoeiqg

:') i talk a lot gomen

17. talk about your writing and editing process

so i'm definitely not the kind of person who sits down and outlines their story and all the plot points or does a ton of planning (kind of a bad habit probably!!) and mostly my fics comes from some broad concepts or ideas, vibes, or any sort of vivid scene I imagine up while im daydreaming on the way to work, and then I just kind of run with it. Actually I think from all the fics I've actually tried to follow an outline for in the past, only one has gotten past a handful of chapters (that would be Turning Point, which is shockingly complete!)

And like the scenes or vibes or ideas aren't always related to major plot points or anything either, they're just character moments and either a) do not need backstory to explain the situation, so they get to be a oneshot, or b) are VERY PARTICULAR about the backstory of the Scene and then they end up a full-fledged novella/novel/epic.

So like for example, I started on Maelstrom fic for a very specific scene with a very specific character--and you might expect it to be related to the main villain! Except I didn't even have a design for him until the day I sat down to write chapter 5 (which came to me in a caffeine-fueled fever dream) and wasn't even sure what his NEXT ability would be until chapter 8. Yeah he's the main antagonist. But this entire fic. This entire damn fic. Is a stepping stone. To a scene where Yuri is going insane under house arrest and Barnaby goes to visit him. And it's the funniest fucking thing in my head. Like I want to be so clear this is just an elaborate slide puzzle to a one-paragraph gag and I have no idea if the set-up is even worth it. But then once I get started writing things kind of start to fall into place like dominoes because I spend a lot of time overthinking the world building and the canon orz

Anyways as for editing uhhhh well!!! You have probably noticed!! I have SO MANY TYPOS IN MY CHAPTERS!!! My cat hears me say so many swears after chapters are posted :( I tend to be like constantly reading and rereading and editing... the first half of a chapter. The further I go the more excited I get to post! And the less I end up reading. So uhhh yeah if anyone ever goes back to read any fic I've ever posted EVER and you're like huh I don't remember that or huh I thought it was different yeah. yeah it was. I edited it 3 months later when I reread part and realized I had 15 typos, non-sequitors, and the worst sentence composition known to man OTL

27. your favorite part of the writing process

getting experimental with it! :') i like fucking around with imagery and description and pacing to try and see what kind of vibes i can squeeze out of something. actually i forget how long ago it was but i think my buddy isleofair sent an ask once where I went on a rant about what makes a slow burn a slow burn and ever since then I've REALLY wanted to try and write a slow burn that diagetically takes place in like. one or two hours. i have no idea how it would work but i think it would be really fun to try.

otherwise i think my favorite thing is like world building but through the little background details, like trying to squish in regional dialects or brands or in-universe entertainment franchises. I was really fucking proud of myself for Barnaby's Gatorade ad reel and his promotional coffee in Maelstrom lmfaooo or like getting so fucky with Proton's slang in my pokemon fics. Still trying to figure out how to write an entire oneshot about no one understanding what he means when he says "freezycaff."

28. your least favorite part of the writing process

>:( what do you MEAN I have to have a coherent plot!!! What do you MEAN I should probably plan to avoid plotholes!!! What do you MEAN i have to write through writer's block or take breaks when I burn out creatively!!!!! NO STOPPING ONLY VIBES ONLY GOOFS AND GAFFS!!! ONLY FICS!!!

On a more serious note. My least favorite part really is since I don't do a lot of planning beforehand :( sometimes all I got be them vibes, and getting from point a to point b can be like pulling teeth if I'm not like. manic. A lot of times I feel like I have a big picture with a lot of missing little pieces, and sometrimes I just can't figure out a satisfying way to get over it. Then the perma-hiatus hammer comes out UmU RIP in pepperonis dead fics from 2018.

Thank u again for sending!! <3

[inaris-pokemon-world]

⭕🎲

Porygon is a species of Pokémon made by Silph Co. decades in the past. This is an irrefutable fact, and Silph is quick to quash rumors otherwise. Every Porygon comes embedded with copy protection, after all!

The Porygon roaming in the wild MUST be released from trainers.

The depictions of Porygon from the ancient north MUST be fabricated.

No one can know the truth.

[oneefin]

this puzzle called natural order (link), written by level 51 for the silph puzzle hunt, is just a really cool xl meta crossword

it solves really nice without googling a bunch of stuff, with plenty of tricky clues to ponder, and the hidden extraction mechanic ties everything together really well (even if the vast majority of people will have to google for it lol)

it's the sort of puzzle that seems like it deserves an online solver, rather than just "copy to clipboard" and then you solve it in a google sheet. i put up with it as a puzzle hunter, but i've seen other crossword enthusiasts bounce off of puzzles if don't have a solver or like a .puz file attached