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You're looking for... a boy... named Soudo...
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Worker from Pokémon Sword and Shield
#...sorry#pokemon#pokemon sword and shield#pokemon trainer#trainer npc#fanart#galar#pokemon worker#anime#cartoon
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I love when pokemon games use a character’s team to tell us more about them.
Take Ghetsis from black and white 2 for example. Did you know that his Hydreigon can use the move frustration at maximum power? frustration is a move that gets more powerful the more a pokemon dislikes their trainer, which means that Ghetsis’ Hydreigon literally hates him.
Did you know that his Hydreigon is also a whole ten levels below when the pokemon would normally evolve? While this isn’t uncommon for NPC’s in pokemon games, you could make the argument that this specific instance of it suggests that Ghetsis somehow forced his pokemon to evolve earlier than it ever would have naturally, which isn’t exactly out of character for him.
I’m not even done with Ghetsis and his affront towards nature yet lmao. Did you also know that his Hydreigon is specifically designed to counter N’s team? Y’know, his own foster son.
It has dragon pulse for his legendary
Fire blast for his Vanillux and Klingklang
And focus blast for Carracosta, Zoroark and Archeops
He also has a Cofagrigus who can nullify the legendary’s ability with his mummy ability.
It’s very likely that no matter the outcome of N’s battle with us, Ghetsis was always going to turn on his son to take the dragon for himself. And looking at his team I could believe he would succeed.
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Let's look at a slightly more recent example.
In pokemon sword and shield, chairman Rose actually does some preparations before waking up Eternatus, specifically it seems that he did some research into Eternatus’ typing (Poison/Dragon) and designed his team to counter it. He brought a full team of steel types to fight it, which are not only immune to poison but also heavily resist dragon as well. With everything he knew, it really was one of the smartest choices he could have made.
But if he was so prepared then how did Eternatus wipe the floor with him so quickly? Surely he could have easily defeated the legendary and capture it himself right?
Well there was one thing Rose didn’t take into account when designing his team. One thing he couldn’t have possibly known, even with his extensive research into the creature.
Eternatus knows flame thrower.
He brought nothing but steel types.
He never stood a chance.
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Here's all the player character cameos from After Epochs!
#project voltage#hatsune miku#vocaloid#trainer red#trainer selene#trainer dawn#trainer hilbert#trainer serena#trainer ethan#trainer may#trainer brendan#pokemon frlg#pokemon lets go#pokemon hgss#pokemon ruby and sapphire#pokemon dppt#pokemon black and white#pokemon xy#pokemon sun and moon#pokemon sword and shield#pokemon scarlet and violet
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meeting ur heroes
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I have so many thoughts on these guys. Pokemon lore in the brain rn
#i wanted to draw blue and raihan but there is 2 many Situations i can think of rn#pokemon#trainer red#pokemon leon#champion leon#pokemon fanart#pokemon sword and shield#pokemon swsh#pokemon red#mine#reds not even small btw i just think leon n raihan are like. 6'4
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What kind of saber is baxia anyway?
I love my bloodthirsty princess of a cursed blade, and in my heart of hearts i am nothing but a sword nerd, so i've been extremely fascinated by Baxia and how we know frustratingly little about what she actually looks like!
I mean, look at bichen, right?
Bichen in the donghua:
Bichen in the drama:
They're clearly not exactly the same. The scabbards are different, and the guards have a different shape. But these are recognizably different iterations on one theme, right? Thin jian with a white grip silver guard, light blue tassel and silver mounting accents on the scabbard.
Now this is baxia in the donghua:
And baxia in the drama:
????????
THAT'S A COMPLTELY DIFFERENT WEAPON
it doesn't stop there either, the audio drama is kind enough to give us ANOTHER COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BAXIA
pretty! But how is that he same sword??
And when we go back to the novel, we get very little information on her appearance other than the fact that her blade is tinted red with all the blood she's absorbed. Which none of these designs incorporate.
This is not a dig on the designs itself, they're all quite gorgeous in their own right and i'm going to spend a while discussing all of them! Because isn't it fascinating how, since we know little about novel baxia beyond "saber" all of these designs ended up so different? What kinds of sabers are these, anyway?
So, a chinese aber, aka a "dao" (刀) just means a sword that has only one cutting side. As opposed to a jian, which has two.
You can see how that leaves a LOT of room for variaton.
I've actually seen some people get confused because Huaisang's saber in the untsmed is thin and quite straight, making it superficially resemble the jian more than drama!baxia, but it is still clearly a saber!
See? only one cutting blade!
This, to me looks a lot like a tang dynasty hengdao
credit to this blog for providing his image and being a great source for all this going forward.
TANGENT: during all this I found out the english wikipedia page for dao is WRONG! Ths is what they about the tang hengdao!
So that sounds like the hengdao was called that during the sui dynasty, but then, after that, started being called a peidao, right?
WRONG
I LOOKED AT THE SOURCE THEY USED AND IT SAYS THIS:
IT WAS CALLED THE PEIDOU UNTIL THE SUI DYNASTY, AT WHICH POINT IT WAS CALLED A HENGDAO. Which would carry over to the Tang dynasty. This was the source wikipedia linked! and it says something else than they say it does!
Anyone know how to edit a wikipedia article?
ANYWAY
BACK TO BAXIA
Since we're already at the drama, let's look at drama baxia: She's also straight! the general term for straight-backed saber is Zhibeidao, but that's a modern collector's term, and doesn't really say anything about which historical kind of saber baxia could be based on. Another meta i found on the drama nie sabers already went on some detail here.
I'm gonna expand on that a little: The kinds of historical straight-backed sabers we see resemble the hengdao a lot more than they do baxia. They don't go to their point as harsly as she does (she's basically a cleaver!) and they're all way skinnier.
No, my personal theory is that instead of being based on any kind of historical sword, drama!baxia is based on a Nandao.
I mean, come on, look at it!
Baxia!
The Nandao... isn't actually a historical sword. It was invented for Wushu forms. There's a really fascinating article about its conception, but that's why the swords in the images look a little thin and flimsy. Wushu swords are very flexible and light, they're dance props, not weapons to fight with. There are actual steel versions of Nandao, but they're recreations of the prop, not the other way around.
So That's one way in which Baxia differes from the Nandao: she's actually a real weapon. The other is that, as you can see above, the nandao has an S-shaped guard. Baxia doesn't. She's also much more elaborately decorated, of course. Because she's a princess.
Now: audio drama baxia!
This is much easier. with that flare at the tip?
Oh baby that's a niuweidao, all the way!
There are more sabers with that kind of curved handle, but the broad tip is really charcteristic of the niuweidao. The Niuweidao is also incredibly poplar in modern media, often portrayed as a historical sword, but it originated i nthe 19th century! And it was actually never used by the military!
That's right, the Niuweidao was pretty much exclusively a civilian weapon! That makes its use here anachronistic, but so is the nandao, and considering that the origin story of the Nie is that they use Dao intead of Jian because their ancestors were butchers, portraying them with a weapon historically reserved for rebels and common people instead of the imperial military is actually very on theme!
Finally, Donghua/Manhua baxia. These two designs are so similar I'm going to treat them as one and the same for now.
Unlike both previous baxias, The long handle makes it clear this baxia is a two-handed weapon, though Nie Mingjue is absolutely strong enough to wield her with one hand anyway. Normal rules don't count for cultivators.
Now, this is where things get tricky, because there are a lot of words for long two-handed sabers. And a lot of them are interchangable! This youtube video about the zhanmadao, one of the possible sabers this baxia could be based on, goes a little into just how confusing this can get. This kind of blade WAS actually in military use for many centuries, making it the most historically accurate of all the baxias. But because of that it also has several names and all of those names can also refer to different kinds of blades depending on what century we're in.
So here's our options: i'm going to dismiss the wodao and miandao, because these were explicitly based on japanese sword design, and as we can see manhua baxia has that very broad tip, so that won't work
(Example of a wodao. According to my sources Miaodao is really just the modern common term for the wodao, and the changdao, and certain kinds of zhanmadao... do you see how quickly this gets confusing?)
Next option: Zhanmadao.
Zhanmadao stands for "horse chopping saber" so... yeah they were anti-cavalry weapons. meant to be able to cut the legs and/or necks of horses. That definitely sounds like a weapon Nie Mingjue would wield. But if you watched that youtube video i linked above, you'll know the standardized Qing dinasty Zhanmadao looked very different from earlier versions. It was inspired by the japanese odachi, and more resembles the miandao than its ealrier heftier counteprarts.
Earlier Ming dynasty Zhanmadao on the other hand were... basically polearms. the great ming military blog spot, another wonderful source, says these are essentially a kind of podao/pudao (朴刀) which looked like this
Now that blade looks a lot like baxia, but the handle is honestly too long. Donghua!baxia straddles the line between sword an polearm a little, but while zhanmadao have been used to refer to both long-handled swords and polerarms, this was undeniably a polearm, not a sword.
If you want to know what researching this was like, I found a picture of this blade on pinterest-- labeled as a "two-handed scimitar"-- and the comment section was filled with people arguing about whether this was a Pudao, Wudao, Zhanmadao, Dadao, Guandao, or a japanese Nagita.
So... that's how it was going. This has kept me up until 2 AM multiple times.
However! Thanks to this article on the great ming military blog I found out there have historically been pudao blades with shorter handles!
Specifically, Ming dynasty military writer Cheng Ziyi created a modified version of the pudao to work with the Dan Fao Fa Xuan technixues-- aka technqiues for a two-handed saber, which would alter heavily influence Miaodao swordmanship-- thereby, as the article points out, essentially merging the cleaver-polearm type Zhanmadao with the later two-handed japanese-inspired design.
This is the illustration for the Wu Bei Yao Lue (武備要略) a Ming dynasty military manual
This blade shape in the illustration doesn't match Baxia exactly, but since it's a lengthened Pudao-like blade and we've seen above that those can match Donghua Baxia's shape, i'm gonna say that calling Baxia a Zhanmadao with a two-handed grip isn't all that innacurate!
However, because all of these terms are so intertwined, there are a dozen other things you could call her that would be about equally correct.
To show that, here's a lightning round of other potential Baxia candidates:
Dadao (大刀)
Which are generally one-handed and too short. However!
Another youtube video i found of someone training with a Zhanmadao that resembles baxia a little also calls it a "shuangshoudai dao" (雙手带 刀) shuangshou means two-handed, and while 雙手带 seems to refer to a longer handled weapon, when looking for a shuangshou dao or shuangshou dadao (双手大刀) we find a lot more baxia-resembling blades like here and here
I also found that, while the cleaver-like Dadao is strictly a product of the 20th centuy, since dadao just means big sword or big knife, it has been used to refer to loads of different weapons! Some people could've called the zhanmadao and pudao "dadao" during the Ming dynasty as well.
Another potential baxia candidate that mandarin mansion classifies as similar to the later dadao (though longer, as seen in the illustration below) is the "Kuanren Piandao"
Which piqued my interest because this diagram classifying different tpye of Dao:
Claims that a Kuanrenbiandao (diferent spelling, same sword) is the same as a modern day Zhanmadao.
(So once again, all of these terms are interchangable)
Another opton Is the Chuanmeidao/Chuanweidao (船尾刀) below you can see a diagram, based on the Qing dynasty green standard army regulation, of blades all officially classified as types of "pudao"
The top middle is the Kuanren Piandao, and bottom left is the Chuanweidao.
Both of these have a lot of baxia-like qualities.
So there you go! live action baxia is based on a Nandao, audio drama baxia is based on a Niuweidao, and Manhua/donghua baxia is some kind of two-handed Zhanmadao/Pudao/Dadao depending on how you want to look at it.
I'm honestly surprised no one has made the creative decision to portray Baxia as a Jiuhuandao, aka 9 ringed broadsword yet.
I mean look at it! Incredibly imposing. Would make for a great Baxia imo. (@ upcoming mdzs manga and mobile game: take notes!)
#mdzs#mdzs meta#nie mingjue#baxia#cql#the untamed#long post#I HAVE SO MANY TABS OPEN. FEEL MY SUFFERING#I understand that asking a gigantic region with thousands of years of rich history and many different subcultures#to have one standard naming convention is basically impossible#But could they do it anyway? for me? 🥺#i also want to buy one of these... so bad#or even just a plastic trainer so i can practice the techniques#but i know that once i start buying swords i'm not gonna stop until my money runs out#Being a sword nerd is a very dangerous not phyisically but for your wallet
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forgot to put it here 😨
#digital art#art#original character#oc#digital artwork#oc artwork#original character art#pokemon#pokemon oc#pokemon original character#pokemon fanfiction#pokemon trainer#pokemon trainer oc#pokemon character#bede#gym leader bede#trainer bede#bede swsh#pokemon bede#bede pkmn#bede pokemon#rival bede#dempu/cogs stuff#shiro denwa (xylo)#galar region#galar#pokemon sword#pokemon swsh#pokemon sword and shield#oc x canon
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Posting this now before I forget and it stays in my gallery forever <3
#pokemon#pokemon sword#pokemon shield#galar#trainer victor#rival hop#rival bede#rival marnie#trainer gloria#I love this card its one of my favorites#my art
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Imagine... Two onions.
One for the sauce... One for the borgir...
#pokemon#pokemon scarlet and violet#pokemon sword and shield#pkmn#my art#fanart#doodle#pkmn art#pokemon kieran#pokemon allister#he looks like a fucking red onion#one for the white sauce one for the borgir#gym leader allister#rival kieran#trainer kieran
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Found Family
Try as it might, the Paradise Protection Protocol could not compute what it had done incorrectly, endlessly recalculating in its creator’s stead.
A hastily drawn comic for my Trainer Clavell AU, where Clavell takes up MC’s spot, finding Koraidon and Miraidon, and adventure’s around Paldea as Clive (for Nemona + Penny’s route) and Clavell (titan hunting with Arven). To sort of make the Arven route possible, I pretend Clavell was there for him and the two are quite close, though Arven probs still struggles to call him dad.
Anyway! This comic is just exploring how the expedition in Area Zero could go. The kids sneak up on Clavell, who absolutely doesn’t want them entering the lab. Probably leaving Koraidon and Miraidon behind to guard them as he investigates. Anyway, regardless of those details, Clavell gets into quite a bit of trouble. I mostly just wanted to explore Clavell + Arven’s relations with Sada + Turo and each other haha. Sort of lost the plot ish half way and decided to make it scrappy looking, oops.
Enjoy regardless! Clavell probably lives. Probably.
#clavell#director clavell#pokemon clavell#professor turo#professor sada#arve#pokemon arven#pokemon scarlet violet#pokemon scarlet#pokemon violet#pokemon scarlet violet spoilers#as to why there's only one paradox pokemon#because sword#also laziness#welp#pokemon comics#pokemon fanart#trainer clavell au#comics#clavell x sada x turo#clavell/sada/turo#zerotrioshipping#don't mind me making up shit to ship these three nerds together#sdlfjknsdf#sorry
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Piers n Marnie (n Morpeko)
I was looking through my old art 🥹 this was from so long ago but still holds up 🥹🥹🥹 I gotta draw more pokemon grrrrrr
#art#drawing#pokemon#pokemon sword and shield#pokemon marnie#pokemon piers#I still need to play swsh but like the trainers designs are already so powerful I don’t think I need to play to understand their appeal 🥹🥹🥹#marnie my beloved#pkmn
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…This isn’t a spoiler anymore, is it? >_>;
#pokemon#pokemon scarlet and violet#pokemon penny#team star penny#trainer penny#penny pokemon#peony pokemon#trainer peony#meme post#you are my dad#boogie woogie woogie#video post#my art#lol what#i spent way too long on this#pokemon sword and shield#shitpost#pokemon peony
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Cauliflower Boy I love you! part 16: A golden opportunity (1/3)
It’s time for some character development baby 🫶🫶 New character showing up 🫢🫢
Cover | first part | previous part | next part
#pokemon#pokemon swsh#pokemon sword and shield#pokemon switch#bederia#pokemon gloria#pokemon bede#bede x gloria#gloria x bede#rival bede#dressedinpinkshipping#btyu#bede#gloria swsh#trainer gloria#gloria
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Happy Pride month! 😁🏳️🌈 The PMEX Photo Maker has been quite excellent for creating shipping pics, so here's a bunch for y'all!
#royallectureshipping#gothgfshipping#hardenshipping#perfectworldshipping#airplaneshipping#ignitionshipping#originshipping#subordinateshipping#pokemon masters#pokemas#pokemon shipping#happy pride 🌈#lgbt#trainer hilda#rival nemona#aqua leader archie#magma leader maxie#pokemon piers#lysandre#professor sycamore#champion steven#steven stone#gym leader wallace#gym leader erika#gym leader jasmine#pokemon hgss#pokemon oras#pokemon xy#pokemon sword and shield#pokemon swsh
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