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Your pictures of Joe Wildwest can't hide from me.

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🎃🌙Happy Halloween 2024🌙🎃

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w.i.p

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN >:)

Have this totally normal not fucked up at all dinaurian family!

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(the broccoli man runs in sprinting, wearing fluffy cat paws)

hello happy hallowed weenier or whatever you kids celebrate nowadays.

I just wanted to say that I-

(he boops zesty across the face and runs off! HAPPY HALLOWEEN AND GOOD HUNTING!)

-the broccoli man(chaotic evil)🥦

>:O

ONE OF THESE DAYS, YOU MOBILE VEGETABLE

I WILL GET YOU

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It's a BareBones Brigade Halloween!

I'm sad that I don't have something new to post for this year's leadup to halloween, but this is an illustration from last year that's still very close to my heart. Everyone on Caliosteo is here celebrating together, the patrol team, the former commanders of the BB Brigade, and even Joe Wildwest himself. What's more, it seems they all decided to collaborate and dress up with some BB Brigade flare (maybe it reminds them all of the good old days).

I remember working tirelessly on this one for a near month, and it was honestly a really fun project in hindsight that I wish I could replicate. I have the distinct memory of staying up all the way until Halloween morning making sure that it was perfect, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

Since the image is a bit widely cropped and not the most "mobile friendly," here are some close-ups on the batches of characters scattered around Ribular Isle. Dina and Rupert sticking close together (as usual), Cole lashing out at Lester after finding out that he stole some of his hair dye (as usual), and Pauleen's Amargo acting snarky, Todd getting himself into trouble (as usual).

Here are also some WIPs from this one. This was the beginning of the phase where I started refining my sketch lining rather than doing a whole separate layer of lineart on top of an original sketch. It's honestly super satisfying, and I recommend anyone who likes drawing to try it out!

As for the lighting, when I do a shading layer I like to change everything underneath to be a solid white, it makes it easier for me to create realistic lighting in a 3D sense, almost as if I'm forming the shape of a sculpture. Plus, when it comes out like this before adding in color everyone here looks like a ghost >< (how appropriate)

One more thing, I made these little pfp icons to go with the Halloween vibe, also making one for Kris (one of the characters from my own Fossil Fighters sequel story). All of their last names are purely headcannons of mine, but there's still a bit of meaning behind all of them.

Being that I'm half Greek, I've always seen Dino and Dina as being short for Κωνσταντίνος and Κωνσταντίνα respectively (also because that happens to be my Greek name, where Dean comes from ><) so I think it makes sense to give them a Greek last name that may or may not also connect to something in my own story.

As for Rupert (still going with my own headcannons), both he and Kris originally hail from Bockland, a European-based Fossil Park that's just as big as Vivosaur Island/Caliosteo. Both of them act so posh and well-mannered, and I'd love to come up with a reason for imagining Rupert with a slight British accent. Kris's story comes a good 9 years after the events of the first 2 games, but she shares a lot in common with Rupert back when he was her age, much more than just being from Bockland.

Thanks if you read this far. I'm both happy and sad to be able to share and talk about this illustration again. If there's anyone here on Tumblr seeing this for the first time, then I'm very happy I can share with you.

I hope you all have a happy week leading up to Halloween night!

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(The Narrator anxiously ducks through the alleyways of Cranial City, taking glances at the town square as he goes. He really shouldn't be here right now, mostly for his safety, but someone had to keep an eye on the idiot before he did something stupid-

Nevermind, he already went off the deep end in terms of digging his own grave. Gulping as he peaked out from behind one of the shops nearest to the square, The Narrator questioned his life choices. In the center of the Square laid the tattered remains of the dummy the Broccoli Man made, clearly having not fooled Joe even for a second. Luckily, the idiot didn't even have time to pull out his Vivosaur, so he still has that... probably.)

The Broccoli Man finally went and did it, he's started trying to fight Joe. Very poorly, mind you, but still fighting nonetheless... I mean, he did say he had a plan, but I didn't expect him to just... I don't know, Go for it.

(The Narrator scurries out from his hiding spot, rolling to camp out behind one of the thick potted palms decorating the sandstone cobble square. He slowly leans his head out of his cover, holding his smilo plush above the bricks so it can look as well.)

Joe seems to be winning, or at least he has the upper hand. I almost feel bad for the guy, being hunted down like that. Almost being the key word here, because he willingly started what appears to be a loony tunes chase scene with an insane man.

(True to form, The Broccoli man was running around in circles, seemingly turning at random to avoid the gnashing fangs and grabbing hands aimed at him. Likely, what he was trying to do was tire Joe out a little to look for an opportunity to strike, but all he was managing to do was fluster the both of them. He tries stopping for a minute to catch his breath, but was quickly dissuaded by several of his florets being cleaved off by a near miss with Joe's claws, leading him to shriek and start the cycle anew.)

Welp, at least he has the agility to back up his stupidity... lot of good that would do him if he didn't... wait. Wait wait wait. Wait wait WAIT WAIT-

(The Narrator tries scrambling out of the way as the Broccoli Man notices his presence, suddenly doubling his efforts to run now that he has a target in sight. Just as Joe starts on a collision course with the both of them, the Broccoli Man leaps onto The Narrator's shoulders, latching onto his head with leafy fingers)

GRRREEETINGS!!

it is I....

The Broccoli Man!!! But I don't think we have enough time for the introduction, Please Start Running!!!

(oh shit- ok, he's doing this now he guesses- Not wanting to lose his life to the rampaging cowboy behind him, The Narrator makes the wise choice of hitting the bricks, which is kind of hard with the added weight.)

Alright! Hello everyone! I know right now might be a bad time to talk, but I just got a great idea!! Unfortunately, I cannot say what that idea is, due to our current company, but I'm SURE this one will work! You just (yank.) gotta (Yank.) book it! (YANK YANK.)

(The Broccoli Man had taken to steering The Narrator by yanking his poor, illustrious, soft hair like the R*mmy from R*tat*uille, only marginally less successfully as the Narrator is 90% sure he's just ripping out his hair instead of- WILL HE STOP RIPPING OUT HIS HAIR?? HE'S TRYING HIS ABSOLUTE BEST HERE!)

Well it's not my fault you're so bad at dodging, So suck it up Buttercup, and MOVE THOSE HAM HOCKS ALREADY!! I'm tryna drive!

(The Audacity- The Broccoli man kicks into The Narrator's back like a cowboy trying to spur on a horse, nearly knocking the poor guy over as he turns his attention back to Joe. Now, Joe really wasn't a happy camper at this point, but of course the Broccoli Man had to make it worse. First he starts with a raspberry, before starting to sing mockingly as he pulls the Narrator away from another grab attempt.

Now to be fair, anyone would loose their Igno-damned mind in this situation, but it was especially effective on the already crazed cowboy. Being A), Just out of reach from grabbing the vegetableform pest due to a sudden intervention of a human with longer legs, and B), watching it taunt you from its spinal throne, going as far as to smack its stem in lieu of a butt.)

Alrighty! Now all that's left to do is... Um... I'm actually not sure, but I'm sure I'll figure something out... but we should probably hurry up, because I don't think he quite likes being meddled with-

(The Broccoli Man leaned all his weight to the right, dragging his 'noble steed' with him and out of the way of a particularly forceful lunge. He was trying to think on his feet, or on his leaves, but at this point The Narrator just wants to go back to his cave.

After what seemed like ages of the Broccoli Man randomly jerking his head in random directions, the vegetable led them into a random alleyway, kicking off the back of The Narrator and sending him careening into a pile of cardboard boxes.

Luckily for The Narrator, Joe seems more inclined to run down a certain pesky vegetable like a trackstar than to take his ire out on some random guy... well, Mostly some random guy. It's kind of hard to see from his perspective, but The Broccoli Man seems to be running like a mad man through random corridors, trying to gain some distance. A very admirable endeavor in his current situation.

The second he gets even a fraction of a breather, he reaches into his florets and pulls out a shiny green poker chip. He throws it as hard as he can into the air before rolling out of the way of an incoming slash from the Crazed Cowboy. He tries rolling again to dodge the second, only to bump his head against a wall. A Dead End.

Joe stops in his tracks, slumping his shoulders a little as he exhaled. Dagnabbit this took longer than he expected, but finally, Finally, he had this Pain-in-the-Keister, No-Good, Gnawin' Varmint of a Vegetable pinned down.

He winds up, taking a step forward as the Broccoli Man tries to regain his bearings. He swings, fist ignited in a baneful violet flame. He indulges in the sound of his attack slamming into the... Squiro that just fell in between them...

Joe pauses for a moment, only to absorb the fact that he just landed a full force punch on a trembling Squiro that very clearly has a Karmic Aura prepared, going off the way it was glowing. He only gets one single step backwards before he's blown completely out of the alleyway and into an opposing wall, falling with a groan.

Both the Broccoli Man and his vivosaur are frozen, shaking like windchimes in a hurricane. He gets up slowly, inching forward to nudge Joe with his foot as he holds his little Squiro close. No response. He pokes him again, slowly moving to the exit as he does so. Still nothing.)

HA! FOOL! YOU SHOULD'VE HEEDED MY WARNING! FEAR THE BROCCOLI!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!

(As fast as he can, The Broccoli Man makes his way to Wildwest Tower, now fully free to ransack it as he pleases... probably... I swear to Igno, one of these days I'm going to put him in a baking dish and have a nice broccoli casserole.)

-the broccoli man (chaotic evil)🥦

HAHAHAHAHA GET YOUR ASS BLASTED JOE!

That vegetable is EXTREMELY lucky he had that Squiro ready to counter, otherwise I don't think he would have gotten out of there alive! He better be fast though, Joe doesn't stay down for long, and he'll wake up even angrier than he was before!

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Ok well a certain someone did in fact find out. Guess when you slice a child's arms multiple times and nearly crush her in a death grip to keep her still, she ends up screaming so loud the corrupted man who has surprise adopted her will spawn in behind you to beat your ass.

(He snuck up to Billy while Billy was threatening to go for a sobbing Dina's face next. The staff leaders said absolutely nothing and watched with both horror and slight satisfaction as Joe dislocated Billy's arm, freeing Dina. Heracles followed Joe and fucked up the Raja. The staff leaders took Dina in the chaos and tried to flee before they could witness the ensuing bloodbath or have Joe's ire directed towards them.)

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Continuing the tradition of kids in this series getting deadly weapons pulled on them.

A little update to the corrupted joe au, because a certain someone couldn't handle getting his Saturday morning cartoon villain plot to steal rare fossils thwarted by some random kid. This time, however, he wants revenge on the staff leaders, too.

He actually snuck back onto the island a while ago, waiting for the opportunity to strike. Now he found his chance, so he kidnaps Dina, and intends to use that very sharp knife he found on her so he can make her and the distraught staff leaders suffer. He even has his vivosaurs as backup incase anyone tries anything.

If a certain someone finds out about this, he isn't going to be very happy....

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Everyone shut up I got another self-ship AU-

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I watched a movie and ended up liking it a lot so that means I gotta make a self-ship AU again.

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Dina, Dino, Todd, Pauleen, Rupert, and Joe Wildwest vivosaur teams and headcanon vivosaur names:

Dina- -Teffla: Fang -Lugmos: Dave -Compso: Bitey -V-Raptor: Killer -O-Raptor Fiend: Brutus -Red Angato: Claw -Zanth: Destructor -Dimorph Ace: Punchy

Dino- -T-Rex Lord: King -Paki: Buddy -Giga Raja: Sebastian -Blue Toba: Akane -Red Tsintao: Pepper -Ryden: Raiden -Purple Hopter: Gerard

Todd- -Barbaros: Percy -Parium: Silver -Edapho: Fruit Roll-Up -Blue Seismo: Ranger -Blue Stego: Ramune -Yellow Allo: Beans -Green Spinax: Warhead -Purple Goyle: Grape Kool-Aid

Pauleen- -Omias: Amalthea -Saichan: Salsa -U-Raptor: Baker -Yellow Amargo: Goldie -Green Saichan: Fern -Purple T Rex: Monster -Plesio: Leviathan -Synthos: Moose

Rupert- -Mapo King: Helena -Tanstro: Loki -Archaeo: Queenie -Yellow Shoni: Sune -Green Krona: Kronos -Yellow Mapo: Midas -Red Mapo: Beelzebub

Joe Wildwest- -Ptera: Denver -Bulgon: Goliad -Heracles: Davey -Blue Ptera: Colt -Green Seidon: Hurricane -Yellow Argento: Diamondback -Berto: Monarch

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commission for @captainmvf!! joe wildwest blast

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More anthro ZZ doodles, this time he's got another alternate form that's a little more convenient for everyday life.

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HI!

I headcanon that vivosaurs CAN age and die, but these things only really happen when they are outside of their medals! Dino medals keep vivosaurs basically frozen in time, immune to aging and mostly immune to damage. The medals themselves are very hard to destroy. Even outside their medals vivosaurs are very hard to kill, and their lifespans are beyond that of their extinct counterparts.

Revival technology is modified from the stone sleep tech the dinaurians made. You can't just chuck a recently dead vivosaur into the machine and revive it. The remains need to be fossilized first. Even if sometime in the distant future a fossilized vivosaur is revived, you might just have a brand new creature on your hands. Zombiesaurs are seemingly ZZ exclusive and Joe refuses to disclose how Boneysaurs come to be.

People have tried to create baby super evolvers this way. The results are tragic. Miraculous fossils have absorbed a ton of energy from the earth, and that energy transforms vivosaurs into their super evolved states. This energy is extremely potent, and the bodies of baby vivosaurs are just not strong enough to handle it. When exposed to miraculous fossils, baby vivosaurs always die. Only adult vivosaurs can handle the energy and transform.

Baby vivosaurs are awesome and epic and everyone would want one. However the only realistic method of obtaining baby vivosaurs is to revive them, as the revival process renders adult vivosaurs completely sterile. Cleaning is easier said than done because their fossils are both very rare and very fragile. If you are lucky enough to receive a fossil egg, and you are able to successfully clean it, then you'll have the pleasure of hatching your own baby vivosaur and raising it from a newborn to an adult.

The thing is, very rarely, some vivosaurs that are revived are NOT sterile and are capable of breeding. Any baby vivosaurs that arise from the rare breeding adults tend to be accidental. No one really expects their supposedly sterile rainbow dinosaur to become a parent! Fighters who find that their vivosaur has procreated are advised to turn the offspring in to the Fighter's Association so that trained experts can properly care for and research the babies.

What makes things tricky is that some breeding vivosaurs do not need mates to reproduce. A lot of reptilian vivosaurs can reproduce via parthenogenesis and make little clones of themselves. The most famous case was a Tophis that had multiple litters throughout its life, none of them having another parent. The young snakes were all given away to researchers for study.

To make matters even more complicated, different species of vivosaurs can create hybrid offspring together. Different from Amelia's hybrid experiments, these hybrid vivosaurs are born and not made. Not just any two vivosaurs can successfully create hybrids though. A Dunkle isn't creating babies with a Mammoth. The two parents have to be, evolutionarily speaking, rather closely related. A T-Rex and a Tarbo for example can hybridize readily. So can Nychus and V-Raptor. Smilo and Machai are known to produce very cute cubs. All recorded hybrids are sterile, but otherwise aren't noted to have any major health issues.

It should be noted that vivosaurs will court each other, regardless of any ability to reproduce. It's not uncommon for two fighters to find their vivosaurs have become a mated pair. There is some correlation between vivosaur species that can successfully hybridize with one another and vivosaur species that become mates with one another. However, vivosaurs will readily bond and partner up with species that are entirely different to them. It's all based on individual preference.

Vivosaur parental capabilities tend to be dependent on the species itself, and are seen as very similar to theorized reproductive strategies of their extinct counterparts.

No super evolvers have been known to be able to reproduce. They are not very common and it's speculated that the super revival process may have removed any reproductive ability they once had. A baby Teffla would be very cute, though.

Boneysaurs and Zombiesaurs cannot reproduce.

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Touched up my fanmade Breme super evolver, Breme Duke, now with stats! In case it's too hard to see in the pic, stats and additional info have been written down in text form too. Do note I still have no idea how to properly balance a vivosaur, especially a super evolver, but the Duke is meant to provide support to its team while not being useless by itself.

BREME DUKE

Type: Fire

Proper Name: Bradycneme Duke

Length: 10.1 m - 33 ft. (large)

Class: Mid-Range

Stats:

Crit Rate: 37٪

77 Attack

30 Defense

46 Accuracy

29 Speed

Support Effects (Ally AZ):

+20% Attack

-30% Defense

+35% Accuracy

-15% Speed

Skills:

Draining Fangs

102 Damage, 110 FP

Steals LP equal to amount of damage

[Breme Duke lunges forward, arms outspread, before closing in a deadly "hug" and viciously biting the target with glowing fangs.]

Sanguine Malice

130 Damage, 136 FP

Inflicts Gold Poison, 90% success rate

[Breme Duke's claws glow with a flaming crimson aura, and then it attacks. First, it slices the target with both its front and hind claws, then it smacks them with its tail.]

Duke's Onslaught

175 Damage, 185 FP

Steals 230 FP, success rate 90%

[Breme Duke rushes in to bite the target, does a backflip, spews fireballs from its mouth, and then summons fire pillars from the ground that move in a row towards the target]

Rallying Cry

30 FP

Clears all status effects on a chosen ally vivosaur.

Vampiric Overlord (Team Skill)

254 Damage, 260 FP

[Breme Duke summons a mini Blood Moon, and from it, mini Bremes made of red fire shoot out all over the place]

Ability: FP Absorb (absorbs 15% of FP)

Description: Breme Duke's assortment of thieving skills alongside Gold Poison and Rallying Cry ensure that any opponents are rendered helpless while teammates thrive.

Fossilary: Obtained by using a Gold Fossil on a Breme. This extremely intelligent vivosaur is known to control and care for packs of regular Breme when rogue.

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