#warden mai

[derpycatsu]

i am still really abnormal and irregular about this game btw. if you even care

decided to draw more headcanony things too :-D first drawing is based on reincarnation apple by pinocchiop because i had it on repeat for over a week LOLOL

[maxaroniiiii]

new au in my head wont leave me alone

[saphirune]

✨ diamond clan ✨

[macaroonkitti]

PLA replay means I have an excuse to post these

Irida redesign here btw :)

[nell0-0]

What happens back in Hisui when the clan leaders end up in Pasio? 

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“Now,” Arezu began whistfully, “Not to pit two exquisite Ladies against each other, but - if they had to fight, who do you think would win between Lady Lilligant and Lady Sneasler?”

“Sneasler,” Ingo replied instantly.

There was a hot second of stunned silence.

“No hesitation, huh,” Mai noted.

“I am basing myself purely on typing,” the man began explaining as he briefly stopped carving the second wooden spoon he would give as a traditional wedding gift to Palina and Iscan: “If both had been pure Fighting it would have been a perfectly fair fight, but Lilligant has the disadvantage of being part Grass, which Poison happens to be supereffective against.”

“That’s why your Tangela hates me,” Melli commented.

“She does not,” Ingo replied.

“Why does she suffocate me then?”

“I have told you already, her hugs are not an attempt at your life, she is simply made out of a mass of vines which can sometimes result in hazardous situations despite her best intentions.”

“Is there someone Lady Lilligant could take on?” Arezu distracted them.

Ingo turned to her without missing a beat: “Avalugg, Basculegion, and possibly Kleavor, though it would be a very tight match.”

“No she could not take on Lord Avalugg!” Gaeric blurted out.

“He is doubly weak to Fighting and his Rock type would not do him many favors against Grass,” the other man replied, shattering his hopes in one fell swoop.

“But he’s-!” the warden fumbled on his words for a moment, waving his arms vehemently to find a comprehensible enough way to explain himself before having to resort to just: “Big!”

“Fair argument!” Ingo admitted. “But typing wise, he’d be done for. It’s a very unfortunate pair, mostly on account of neither type covering the other’s weaknesses. He would similarly lose against Sneasler, Arcanine, Basculegion, Electrode, Kleavor, and... No, that should be it, I believe. Ursaluna would would put up a valuable effort, but wouldn't survive the Ice. My condolences, Miss Calaba.”

The woman didn’t even move from where she napped, just gave him an ok.

Melli laughed at the disheartened Gaeric.

Mai smacked him to get him to stop.

“He’d be good against Braviary,” Sabi predicted.

That got her a gentle pat on her head, away from the braids she was getting done: “Indeed,” Ingo nodded, “Flying is weak to both Ice and Rock. He’d also fare pretty badly against Kleavor - Bugs are awful for Psychic types.”

“But he’d be good against Sneasler?”

“Oh, he’d decimate her. Both of his types are supereffective against her. Wyrdeer too, she’d have no chance against him. For more information on how weak Poison is to Psychic please refer to Melli and his many defeats at the spoons of Alakazam.” and he ducked to evade a halfhearted slap. “Also Ursaluna! Ground is another powerful weakness of the vitriolic type. Congratulations, Miss Calaba.”

She gave him a thumbs up and continued not caring.

Palina hummed, struggling for a moment with Sabi’s green hair as she tried to untangle a knot: “How’d my young Lord do?” she asked with genuine curiousity: “He hasn’t been mentioned much, has he?”

“Fire type seldom has trouble in matchups, so he’d be fairly fortunate in a fight against most of his fellow Nobles...” the expert mumbled: “Lilligant, Kleavor, Avalugg as I’ve mentioned, Electrode - Ursaluna would asphalt him, though. Together with Basculegion they are his worst enemies. In a fight, of course, I’m well aware they’re on excellent terms.”

Iscan waved a little to reassure him: “The Lord isn’t a big fighter anyways, he probably wouldn’t do too well.”

“Oh, he’d be quite good actually! Plenty of the Nobles would be in trouble against his Water and Ghost combination, he’s rather fiersome! Electrode is the only one to be a total threat to him - those two are probably the ones to look out for the most. Terrific typings, the both of them.”

His sleeve was tugged to take him out of his musings: Lian twisted his mouth at him to properly figure out how to express his question, looking particularly pissed as he side-eyed what Ingo refused to look at but knew was probably a very smug Diamond warden with a burning desire to bury the guy alive, which would have severely worsened not just inter-clan relationships but also the fairly relaxed gathering they were having.

“So - this is all just, theories, right,” the kid began.

“Yes, based on types.”

Lian hummed deeply, pressing his mouth flat, and a fairly well-known feeling he could only denominate as Oh No took over Ingo as he dreaded the question.

“So you could tell who would win between Almighty Palkia and Dialga?”

Now that was something not to be touched with a 25 and a half foot pole, as evidenced by the other Pearl wardens shooting a glare at Lian and most of their Diamond counterparts paling notably.

Ingo, bless his heart, completely lost the religious implications somewhere in the cogs of his battle-analitycal machine churning in his brain.

“That would require an actual battle to be determined, actually!” he answered without missing a beat: “Both of them are Dragon types, meaning they have at the same time a massive advantage and disadvantage on one another, so effectively the chance at one prevailing over the other just based on that is rendered null, and since their secondary typings of Steel and Water are completely neutral to one another, a fight between the two of them would end up being rather balanced. It would also probably be an incredible spectacle with a very high chance of completely tearing reality as we know it apart according to professor Laventon’s studies, so it would be best for them and the rest of the world to remain on good terms and never have the chance to settle the score between them if they had any to settle.”

The young warden mumbled an agreement.

Not the way anybody expected a bomb like that to be defused.

But oh thank fuck it worked!

“What about the third one?” Iscan asked meekly. “The worm?”

Ingo buffered for a second: “Dragon-Ghost,” he recalled. “Same exact situation as the other two. No certain prevailing, and we should hope not to find out.”

“Ghost is good against Ghost, right?” Palina intervened.

The man nodded. A funny thought striked him: “With enough determination, it could be taken down by Basculegion. And by Avalugg as well.”

Gaeric cheered at his Lord’s good honor being restored.

[kirutan]

Melli Week Day 04: Childhood

"To be fair, using that branch to try and pull me out of the bog was a good idea." "Natrually, while I had yet to awake to my potential, I knew I couldn't leave you in that predicament. Especially since you went out of your way to try and get my ball back." "Yeah, too bad that Croagunk lobbed that Mud Shot and you ended up in the bog with me. Good thing Mai heard you crying so loudly or we would've been stuck there longer." "She was so mad at us." "Hahahah! Yeah, she scolded us all the way back to the settlement. " "I never did get my ball back."

[edgy-girlboss]

Adaman: Make friends, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.

Iscan: PUT IT OUT, PUT IT OUT!

Melli: IT’S TOO BIG TO SMOTHER! GET THE ANTI-FLAMETHROWER!

Mai: IT’S CALLED A FIRE EXTINGUISHER YOU-

[glass shatters, something explodes, Mai screams]

Adaman: Don’t listen to them. Don’t.

[idoguwu]

Pokémon Legends Arceus doodles

part 1?

[warden-melli]

AGREED WITH UR TAGS. their friendship and relationship is so interesting because there's like. a LOT to it i think. i think its interesting in showing irida's flaws as a leader until she's able to learn a bit more about it and how to forge her own path but palina's response is also very interesting and it kinda makes me wonder about her response to the events, not just irida's pleading for her to train growlithe but to irida becoming the leader. and also like, what happens after they make up, that kind of thing.

some people interpret it as them just never getting along again, but i do like to think they eventually make up again, despite palina giving her a bit of tough love during the player's second visit to firespit island and the whole heatran thing. also irida seems like she wants to be on good terms with them again, so i do think they make up again, but just thinking about their friendship with one another (and how someone in the pearl clan suggests that due to irida having a dead mother when she was young, palina is someone she's very close to) is like. very interesting and i like it. sorry for the wall of text i have many thoughts about All Things Irida

Agreed their friendship is so interesting and I just keep thinking about it. I agree that Irida had a lot to learn about being a leader at the start of the game (as did Adaman), but even so I feel like Palina was a bit unfair to Irida, and I personally feel like their conflict is based on jealousy over Irida being selected as leader over Palina, and also Irida not wanting to accept that the nature of their relationship has changed as opposed to Irida’s shortcomings as leader

Like, we know that the two used to be super close, with Irida considering Palina to be an older sister that she clearly looked up to. We also know that the two competed to be leader of their clan, and that Irida was ultimately the one selected to be leader

I do understand Palina’s disappointment. It has to hurt to try really hard, but fail to achieve a position that you really, really wanted. Especially if you lost to somebody younger that you, and who you served as a mentor figure for. It may also hurt more after the incident with Lord Arcanine sr, as the trauma of the event may may have made her feel like she also failed in her duties as warden. I think it’s evident that Palina despite scolding Irida for acting as if their positions haven’t changed, still sees Irida as her little sister first, and doesn’t truly respect her as leader

I keep coming back to this dialogue - It really makes me think that this may have been a deciding factor in why Irida was selected as leader over Palina, and she’s clearly still very upset and bitter about it

I don’t like how quick Palina was to embarrass Irida in front of both the player and Iscan, especially after Irida challenged her by attempting to lay down boundaries as leader. Palina claims to know and accept that Irida is the leader, yet scolding her in front of everyone like she’s a child isn’t a good way to show it. I also get that she doesn’t want to be called that nickname anymore, but I don’t think Irida is doing it maliciously at all. It genuinely seems to be a force of habit, but even still Palina has requested she stop, so she really does need to work on that. In saying that though, I don’t think that Palina rejects the use of that nickname because she genuinely doesn’t like it anymore, but as a way to push Irida away, and to reestablish their relationship as a purely business one as a way of coping with her failure to become leader. I think Irida is confused, and having trouble coming to terms with the fact that things have changed between them after becoming leader, and she’s stressed and just wants her big sister.

I also keep thinking about how much this differs from Adaman’s relationship with his older sister figure, and of how opposite these two’s relationship is compared to Irida and Palina’s.

Mai (as seen in this offical art) happily teaches Adaman to play the flute (despite him being absolutely awful at it - another direct opposite of Irida), and throughout the story happily performs tasks for him, and advising him without question. This contrasts Irida and Palina’s relationship where Palina is the one less talented with the flute, and who pushes back against Irida’s requests (growlithe), and who sees any requests for guidance as a personal failure as leader.

I could keep talking, and there’s so so much more to the relationship, and feud between these two, but I really think the biggest conflict between them isn’t the direction, or lack of experience of Irida’s leadership, but the fact that Irida is leader and Palina is not. Another important factor I didn’t even touch on was Palina and Iscan’s relationship, one forced to be kept secret due to the two Clans feud, and how Irida’s position as leader of that Clan may further complicate their relationship

The saddest part of all of this to me however is it’s kind of implied that Irida had no great ambition of becoming leader, and it can be interpreted that she may have only competed to be leader because Palina was doing it, or because the two share a love for their people that may have been encouraged by Palina in Irida in the first place

Despite Palina’s concerns about Irida’s leadership, Irida is is nothing but loyal and defensive of Palina. Even with Palina’s behaviour and her reputation as warden plummeting due to refusing to train Growlithe, and no matter what people may say about her, Irida only ever speaks highly, lovingly and respectfully of her, even when Palina doesn’t extend the same grace

Despite their feud (which feels mostly one sided to me) their relationship started from a genuine place of friendship, so I truly would like to believe that the two of them could work through their issues and one day become friends, sisters, again.

Sorry for my own wall of text but my respect for Irida incurable and I have so so many thoughts about the girl ;.;

[hehe-hoho-ohno]

Sabi makes a "flying machine." Kind of.

Edit: reblog of the post about the audio (it's from Bagpuss)

[sirassban]

Been drawing the wardens (+Irida and Adaman), any ideas on any interesting interactions I can draw?

[cha0tic-n1ghtmar3]

I heard they gave us more poll options

It still only gives me 10

[monsoon-of-art]

more of these two, who should never be in the same room ever

[hupla222]

Fish Boy Headcanons

What's this. A post from me that's not about Horizons. It about that other thing I maybe mentioned once or twice. That thing no one seems to talk about anymore. How strange.

Anyway I love Legends Arceus and the characters in it so I tend to think about it a lot. And I'm bored so I wanted to write down all of the headcanons I have about my favorite character Iscan aka Fish Boy. Buckle up, I have a lot of them. Roughly the bullets points follow the order of: personality, backstory, relationships, and other assorted information.

He is around 25-26 years old and is the oldest of the Diamond Clan wardens.

He is a medium, giving him the ability to see and communicate with the dead, including ghost Pokémon. He's usually too terrified to use these abilities. Only Adaman knows he has these powers.

He is highly superstitious, more so than the other characters, but he is still quite knowledgeable. Sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference between genuine advice and superstitious nonsense.

He has a habit of saying random, mildly terrifying things without elaborating. Adaman joking calls him disturbingly cryptic.

He never hated the Pearl Clan. He was more afraid of them than anything else. He really doesn't like the Ginko Guild though

He is Diamond Clan by blood but was not born within the settlement, spending the first 8 years of his life traveling. His parents had abandoned the clan before he was born to join the Ginko Guild.

Being born outside the clan, his faith isn't as strong as the others. He still believes in a higher power of course, he's simply not entirely convince it only controls time.

When he was four his parents were killed by Dusclops, leaving him in the care of his older sister Ichthia, who is 10 years older than he is

Ichthia is a horrible, abusive person who takes her anger out on her little brother, often telling him he's to blame for their parents' deaths. He would run away after a particularly bad incident at age 8

He ends up at the Diamond Settlement and is taken in by an older woman named Caram. She is unmarried and has no kids of her own. She's the clan healer and can be snarky at times but she truly love her son.

The Clan is suspicious of him, but they aren't going to send a small child back into the wilds. They would grow to accept him despite some remaining wary due to his strange behavior.

He became a warden at age 14 after getting into a fight with the previous warden. Many see his warden status as a mistake but the Lord Basculegion is a strange one anyway

Speaking of, him of the Lord have a sort of father / son relationship with the Lord often referring to him as Child.

He did not get away from the storm the killed the Lord Arcanine unscathed. He has a bite wound on his right arm from where the little Growlithe tried to hang on.

He is very close with Adaman, being practically brothers and each others best friend, much like Irida and Palina except these two never had a falling out.

Adaman knows him better than anyone else. Even Palina doesn't know the full story of his past.

He and Mai have a strange relationship where he feels he has to walk on eggshells around her due to not returning her feelings. She is far from mad at him however.

He and Arezu barely interact. Honestly I find it hard to imagine them interacting aside from her being annoyed at his antics and him finding her a little overwhelming.

Melli often tries to help Iscan with his confidence although he rarely takes the younger man's advice, but they get along just fine.

Sabi is an orphan just like Iscan and thus they have formed a close bond, with her affectionately calling him Uncle. He's the closest thing to a guardian she has.

After the events of the game he becomes quite good friends with Laventon. The professor is very interested in not only his ability to distinguish Pokémon cries but also his extensive knowledge about ghosts.

I think it does without saying but him and Palina love each other very much, although he often doubts if he's good enough for her.

Even after the clans have stopped their fighting he is still afraid of Irida.

When he was young and Mai was too busy he was tasked with babysitting Adaman and Melli. They only sorta respected his authority until that time the escaped the settlement

He really can't stand the snow

He hides in his hood when he gets too overwhelmed

He had a terrible stutter when he was younger and while he's very much improved, it still comes out whenever he is particularly nervous or frustrated.

He unintentionally scares people all the time

He may be short, but he's quite strong. He's one of the worst people to get angry

He had long hair when he was young but shaved it when his hairline started receding

He doesn't eat meat and especially doesn't eat fish

He rarely visits home, much to Adaman's dismay. Although his bond with Sabi has brought him back more frequently

He's pretty good at playing his flute but is usually too shy to play in front of others

His partner is an Aipom that he hatched from an egg. She's mischievous but cares for him greatly. He doesn't like the thought of battling with her.