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my celebi and grovyle playlists are done, and dusknoir’s has been updated, as well! they’re short, around 13 songs each, but i worked hard on putting them together. enjoy listening (if you want!)

dusknoir playlist

celebi playlist

grovyle playlist

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Art by かもなべ

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quick thing as a happy birthday to the only game ever

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@SBHD118 Grovyle steals the time gear!

#!!! #grovyle

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quick thing as a happy birthday to the only game ever

#Dusknoir’s little blush!!! #aiftCJTAICKYFA

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A few recent pokemon drawings (*＾▽＾)／

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braixen & litten

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another old drawing i forgot to post here ｡(*^▽^*)ゞ

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Day 24 - Favorite Psychic Type 

 OH YES, AN EXCUSE TO DRAW DARKRAI 

 ISAY, eh, I like Cresselia :)… PD: How, I’m already in day 24! I thought I was in day 21 or something like that. I assure you I’ll finish this thing, for the sake of the other drawings xd!  But… I hope my mental health is able to do so, lol.  If anything goes wrong I’ll just draw Darkrais for the resting days :)))

#Cresselia #Darkrai

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Hope

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October is the best month to draw ghost pokemon ╰(*´︶`*)╯

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Munchlax & Cherubi

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Oh! I’ve read that one too and currently following it. It’s definitely up there on my list of favorites.

I’m excited to get started on it! I’ll definitely keep your offer in mind as I develop the story 👀

PMD post explorers of Sky Fanfic and AU brainstorming

Feat, Darkrai primarily but the Future Trio also

Because I want to write a pmd fic about Darkrai and I can’t make up my mind how I want to go about it :/

Premise 1. Five to fifteen years post-game, Darkrai wakens in the future he tried to destroy with no memory of his past intentions. He is found by the Player and their Partner, who, once they realize he has amnesia, decide to give him a chance. As Darkrai slowly recovers who is and who he was, he must find redemption in a time and place where the consequences of his actions are still felt and the Pokémon he hurt are alive to remember it.

Premise 2. The classic; Darkrai gets sent into the past, and either takes the place of the player, the partner pokemon, or joins the duo on their quest to join the explorers guild. Eventually redeeming himself by thwarting his own plan to paralyze the planet. Usually has amnesia but not always.

Premise 3. Instead of the past, Darkrai ends up exactly where no one wants him to be; the dark future he created. Here, the story could have a couple of variants each with their own branching possibilities:

3A. Darkrai meets Grovyle and the Player. At this point in time neither Grovyle or the Player know he is responsible for the planet’s paralysis. No one is aware of this.

- If Darkrai has Amnesia, he is persuaded to help them on their quest.

- If he doesn’t have Amnesia, he stays with them in the hope of sabotaging their efforts.

3B. Darkrai is found by Dusknoir and the sableyes. Depending on your headcanon, Dusknoir may or may recognize him.

- If Darkrai hired Dusknoir through Dialga via manipulation to stop Grovyle and the player, Dusknoir will only view him as a potential ally or recruit for Primal Dialga.

- If Darkrai and Dusknoir have spoken directly to each other in the past, Dusknoir will recognize him, and depending on their past interactions, will either take him under his wing in the hopes that Darkrai will prove as useful an ally as he was when they first met, or take him before Primal Dialga directly. How will Primal Dialga react to the Pokémon who directly caused his insanity? Will some part of him recognize Darkrai? It’s an interesting scenario.

3C. Trapped in the dark future with no memory of how he got there, or that this had been his intention for the world to begin with, Darkrai finds a lost Duskull and begrudgingly adopts him.

Optionally, 3C may also take place in Premise 1 and 2; through a journey of redemption of some sort, Darkrai ends up adopting a member of the future trio, who is a child in the present he finds himself in

Additional notes:

I want to explore the time gears in greater detail. Why were they hidden in caves throughout the continent instead of kept at the summit of Temporal Tower? Did Dialga deliberately hide them, aware that someone was threatening the stability of the tower? Or where they placed in those places to circumvent a different disaster in the distant past, one not caused by Darkrai? Or did Darkrai himself scatter the time gears, and tricked their respective guardians into keeping their locations a secret?

I also want to explore Darkrai’s motivation. His plan in greater depth. It was a bit lacking post game and that’s one of the biggest reason I want to write about him rn

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First of all, thank you so much for the feedback I’ve been dying to get these thoughts out of my system!

You make an excellent point about premise 3. I can make the argument for why it’s accessible/possible, but thinking on it more, it does take something away from the emotional impact of the finale arc to do so. It also feels a little redundant. I hesitated on premise 2 and 3 because both sort of lean into the kind of narrative that repeats the main story- I definitely get the appeal of that, and why it’s a popular trope. I would be lying if I said I didn’t eat those kinds of stories right up! But they can also feel predictable. And like you said, I’m not sure what could be done differently with premise 2 that hasn’t been done before. I have a solid idea of what I want to focus on, but I’d have to think about it carefully to make it interesting if I went with premise 2.

The main draw of premise 3 was having Darkrai interact with Grovyle and company, something I don’t see all that often. Out of all the characters in the game, the future trio, and the pokemon of the future are the most affected by Darkrai’s actions. After thinking about it, it makes more sense to explore what I’d like to focus on in a Fixed Future setting. Your thoughts on the pros of that idea are getting me hyped about the idea! I’ve also felt similarly! I like to think that something about Dialga’s madness and the frozen nature of that timeline prevented Arceus from intervening earlier and it’s only after Dialga calmed in the present and the future (and temporal tower prevented from collapsing) that he was able to intervene. Your thoughts on Palkia make a lot of sense! its a fantastic explanation for why Darkrai ends up in the fixed future rather than sometime in the present. 

Thank you again for the feedback!

PMD post explorers of Sky Fanfic and AU brainstorming

Feat, Darkrai primarily but the Future Trio also

Because I want to write a pmd fic about Darkrai and I can’t make up my mind how I want to go about it :/

Premise 1. Five to fifteen years post-game, Darkrai wakens in the future he tried to destroy with no memory of his past intentions. He is found by the Player and their Partner, who, once they realize he has amnesia, decide to give him a chance. As Darkrai slowly recovers who is and who he was, he must find redemption in a time and place where the consequences of his actions are still felt and the Pokémon he hurt are alive to remember it.

Premise 2. The classic; Darkrai gets sent into the past, and either takes the place of the player, the partner pokemon, or joins the duo on their quest to join the explorers guild. Eventually redeeming himself by thwarting his own plan to paralyze the planet. Usually has amnesia but not always.

Premise 3. Instead of the past, Darkrai ends up exactly where no one wants him to be; the dark future he created. Here, the story could have a couple of variants each with their own branching possibilities:

3A. Darkrai meets Grovyle and the Player. At this point in time neither Grovyle or the Player know he is responsible for the planet’s paralysis. No one is aware of this.

- If Darkrai has Amnesia, he is persuaded to help them on their quest.

- If he doesn’t have Amnesia, he stays with them in the hope of sabotaging their efforts.

3B. Darkrai is found by Dusknoir and the sableyes. Depending on your headcanon, Dusknoir may or may recognize him.

- If Darkrai hired Dusknoir through Dialga via manipulation to stop Grovyle and the player, Dusknoir will only view him as a potential ally or recruit for Primal Dialga.

- If Darkrai and Dusknoir have spoken directly to each other in the past, Dusknoir will recognize him, and depending on their past interactions, will either take him under his wing in the hopes that Darkrai will prove as useful an ally as he was when they first met, or take him before Primal Dialga directly. How will Primal Dialga react to the Pokémon who directly caused his insanity? Will some part of him recognize Darkrai? It’s an interesting scenario.

3C. Trapped in the dark future with no memory of how he got there, or that this had been his intention for the world to begin with, Darkrai finds a lost Duskull and begrudgingly adopts him.

Optionally, 3C may also take place in Premise 1 and 2; through a journey of redemption of some sort, Darkrai ends up adopting a member of the future trio, who is a child in the present he finds himself in

Additional notes:

I want to explore the time gears in greater detail. Why were they hidden in caves throughout the continent instead of kept at the summit of Temporal Tower? Did Dialga deliberately hide them, aware that someone was threatening the stability of the tower? Or where they placed in those places to circumvent a different disaster in the distant past, one not caused by Darkrai? Or did Darkrai himself scatter the time gears, and tricked their respective guardians into keeping their locations a secret?

I also want to explore Darkrai’s motivation. His plan in greater depth. It was a bit lacking post game and that’s one of the biggest reason I want to write about him rn

#long post

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Sorry for reblog/like spam, but you have good tastes :>

No sorries, I take reblog/like spam as a compliment! Thank you so much, I’m happy you like the stuff I collected!