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disbarment era... yeah

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since it's canon that carmine is curious about others' love lives ( based on her clubroom convo with arven, ) i just know she'd pester the fuck out of kieran in regards to how they feel about florian. if her little sibling's going to have a more active love life than her, then the least they can do is let her in on all the juicy details.

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Kieran after realizing that sending an Applin to a partner is a sign of wanting to be in a relationship: Oh God, oh fuck, oh God, oh fuck, oh God, oh fuck, oH GOD, OH FUCK-

Kieran was stressin' over nothing!!!

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but he looked darn cute, don'tcha think?

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a look into the healing properties of ▆▆▆'s power

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...some notes from the "White Book"! Will you read it? >Yes

when I started this second comic, it was primarily to address these plot beats GameFreak left in their writing of the Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Epilogue that I found to be "immersion-breaking":

why didn't the protag tell anyone about Kieran? (my answer: they had to keep it a secret)

why did the protag travel from Kitakami to trigger the epilogue, then fly back to Paldea real quick before going back barely a week later? (I can't justify it for GameFreak lol so for me there are two protags and one of them was already in Kitakami, while the other got the call from Arven.)

I know in game this was done from a gameplay perspective, but it's fun to imagine an intricate story and reasoning for all this :] With this, my version of events can still play out in the games themselves without being too au-y. (It's even in-line with my previous pkmn art, which I'm semi-particular about.)

Of course, it was also to give my version of Florian and Juliana as well as Nemona some form of closure. I wasn't planning on healing them, but a kind comment from someone led me to this little brief passion project. Although the characters aren't mine, they seem to have taken hold of me anyway, driving me to finish telling their story.

Making this was what I call "wish-fulfillment" art. It has shippy elements, a bunch of specific exposition a nerd like me would care about, JP text for a character raised in fictional rural Japan that I'm aware not many would enjoy as I do? Or, idk. It's fanservice for me alone, and it was extremely fulfilling to draw, which is what matters. Believe it or not, it's been a while since I've been unapologetically able to enjoy drawing like this.

Basically, I blacked out and boom. These silly guys took over my life. I enjoyed it. I hope you guys do too.

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at least you are trying and are kind

"...thank you, treasured friends!"

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Kieran must discuss with the apple council about trading!!!!

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an explanation of the side effects of the Terastal phenomenon

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kieran

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the only thing i want from the dlc

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The Teal Mask in a nutshell

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Kieran post battle with mc

(I wanted to draw Kieran angst and some perspective practice sort of)

Note: DON’T HAVE A BREAKDOWN AGAINST A HYDRAPPLE WITH THE ABILITY SUPERSWEET SYURP YOU’LL GET ALL STICKY YOU DAMN BOZO!!!!!

(Really messy sketch since my table gonna die lol)

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<- So basically, I've got a boyfriend and an ex now, right?

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WATCH IT, KIERAN! THIS LITTLE LADY'S GOT MOVES!

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Giving him the choccy milk and reassurance he deserves

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