re-using my Twitter caption: Experimental piece. I needed to recapture how fun it was to main Braixen in Pokken. Before this, I hadn't drawn Braixen since around 2019-ish 🦊✨️
Do you ever wonder about the social relations between regions in Pokémon?
Like, obviously there’s the big ones that the mainline Pokémon games are set in, Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Alola, Galar and now Paldea, but those aren’t the only regions that exist in the Pokémon world.
Beyond that, of the ones that have people living in them, there’s Orre, the setting of the Pokémon Colosseum games, Fiore, Almia and Oblivia, the settings of the Pokémon Ranger games, Ferrum, the setting for Pokkén Tournament, and Pasio, the setting of Pokémon Masters EX. There are other settings in spin-off games, but they’re either exclusively populated by Pokémon or a city in an unspecified region.
Specifically I was thinking of Fiore, Almia and Oblivia, the settings of the Pokémon Ranger games, when making this post.
They’re all places where Pokeballs aren’t commonly used and there is no Pokémon League in their nations. How does that affect how they interact with the rest of the world?
Given how Kukui talks about setting up the Pokémon League in Sun/Moon, it seems like having a Pokémon League is seen as a sign of joining the civilized world and entering the modern age, even if that’s a fairly reductive viewpoint, it seems like that’s how Alola is viewed, as an oddball traditionalist culture for not embracing the League system.
So, how are the Ranger regions viewed in universe, then? As strange outliers? As weirdo hippy cultures? Podunk nowheresvilles not worth having a League in? How do they think of the regular Pokémon regions in Fiore/Almia/Oblivia? As bullies on the national stage due to the outsized influence of the Pokémon League? Barbaric weirdo cultures?
Glenn: We made it to Kalos. I'm hoping to document my discoveries as I go, but knowing the risks, I may go off the radar at times. Saphi's gone to stay with my mum and brother whilst I head to Reflection Cave. I've got all the supplies I may need...I just hope it'll all be worth it.