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intergalacticfloralexplorers · 7 months

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Intermission 2! The crew is at the Awakening Woods now!

-Alph and Olimar go into a cave to try to find purple and white candy pop buds, Charlie and Brittany are surveying the area with the Hocotate ship giving them a tour, and Louie is trying to figure out a nice thing he can do for Olimar as a way of saying thanks.

-These three events happen at the same time, progressing with asks to each character. Story wise, a bit more development to Charlie's conflict. Rigol grieves over Vio much to other pikmins confusion and with the help of Astur, they end up discovering a ancient mural. Louie finds a secret garden where the Snagret Hole is (thanks to Blue!), and O and A are unsuccessful finding any candy pop buds (odd…)

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Event 3: Part 1

-the next day, the crew wake up to find the Drake landed back on the Awakening Woods. The ship alerts the crew that Louie has gone off early, but left some wildflowers on the table for some odd reason.

(The small batch of flowers include: periwinkle, clover, lavender, dandelion flowers, etc.)

-Olimar is led by a blue pikmin (Blue, the reincarnation of Ne, holder of the strange flower) to the secret garden where Louie is.

-The koppaites, not worried at all, decide to just take the day to explore the area some more.

-The Hoco Ship stays behind, claiming he’s not feeling like himself, which the crew is semi confused about, but just brushes it off simply thinking it's just Rusty being…rusty.

- before this however, the asks were bound to have people telling Alph to smell one of the flowers, insisting he must even if he is allergic (lol). Alph reluctantly agrees and smells a lavender. A very dramatic pause later, he comedically sneezes and begins to question the askers before being hit with a memory.

-A memory of Alph with D(ead) by his side as they watch over his body in a white room. Then another memory (from A’s perspective) where Character D(?) is reaching towards him, telling him to smell the flower. (The Landing Event from the beginning!)

-Alph snaps back to reality by Charlie, who right behind him is D. Watching. Looming.

-He blinks and D is gone.

-Charlie asks again if Alph is alright. Alph responds that he is fine, and the two head out along with Brit outside.

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((Again, two events occur at the same time before coming together so I’ll go over them one at a time!))

-Alph tells Brit he would like to speak with Charlie alone, so she reluctantly agrees and feins recalling a fruit she forgot to retrieve.

- C and A walk around the woods, stopping to battle a few fiery blowhogs. Charlie would have been happily answering a few asks before Alph gains the courage to ask about D.

-Alph begins to question Charlie about who D is (along with asks pushing questions too), C finally breaks and yells that he has no idea if D was even real or not. We learn that he believes he just…imagined them during his lonely solo missions.

-Alph is left dejected, C puts a hand on his shoulder and tells him to not bring up D again.

-But then C spots someone behind Alph

-the tall, bleeding transparent figure of D.

-C stumbles back in shock, Alph asks if Charlie is alright. C bumps into a red pikmin(Astur) carrying a bomb rock, causing the pik to stumble, nearly dropping the bomb but manages to not drop it.

- But Astur ends up right inline of a blow hogs fire

-C and A look in horror as the bomb detonates.

-Olimar is worried as he is led by several pikmin (including Blue and a rock Pikmin, Magnolia) to the Snagret Hole. The little group begin to travel past the cave deeper into the log. Olimar is astonished to find a full garden inside.

-The garden would’ve looked similar to a rest area, but with a variety of flowers, big and small. A tiny pond with a small river would be in the center, lined with rocks also varying in size. Spectralids and flutterbies are seen fluttering around.

-Olimar is amazed, marveling at how such a cave exists while the outdoors is getting cold. (Awakening woods here would have been fall themed to match the games changing its season every game. Pik 1 was summer, Pik 2 was spring.)

-He is startled by Louie suddenly appearing by his side. O learns that L sent the Blue to lead him to the garden. So they chill here for a while, Oli doodling and taking notes while talking with Lou and answering asks.

- Lou asks if Oli is ok after…well…everything. O has certainly been through…a lot. Bad luck seems to follow this poor guy wherever he goes.

-Olimar tells Lou not to worry about him, O claims he’s gotten quite used to the troubles the Pikmin planet throws at him, which makes moments like these all the more special.

-The two sit in silence, being present in the moment.

-Lou slightly shifts closer to Oli, his hand inching closer to his hand

-Oli notices Lou shifting around, and asks if he has anything to tell him. Lou is noticeably very very nervous, slightly stammering as he reaches behind himself about to pull something out before…

-BOOM!

-The two hear an explosion in the distance. Oli gets up to investigate the outside, Louie is visibly (slightly comedicly) frustrated at the interruption. The Hoco Ship comms the two alerting that 1, Charlie is down and 2…THE FOREST IS ON FIRE!

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Event 3: Part 2

-Alph wakes up with a very heavy weight ontop of him. (It’s Charlie, milliseconds before the bomb blew, he shielded Alph and promptly got knocked out from the explosion.)

-A manages to push C off and is left momentarily dazed, wondering what just happened. Brit runs to his side, having heard the loud explosion.

-The explosion caused the surrounding area to set on fire. Brit comms the Ship to teleport Charlie back to the Drake, but her koppad isn’t working (neither is Alph’s…weird)

-So A+B use the few pikmin they have left to carry C back to the ship as the fire continues spreading…

-meanwhile, Olimar commands Louie to collect wayward pikmin(not in the fire) and bring them back to their onion. O goes to the Drake to bring out some reds but notices a gathering of pikmin around the onion. Confused, he attempts to whistle them over.

-Ontop of the Onion is a yellow pikmin(Rigol) seemingly speaking to the crowd. They and a majority of pikmin(notably blues, yellows, and winged) look to Olimar with blank eyes. These pikmin return inside the onion. A majority of Rock and Red pikmin listen to Olimar’s whistle, with only a few handful of blue, yellow, and winged following.

-The onion then proceeds to fly up into the air, and split in half!

-The first onion lands back on the ground(Red and Gray, we’ll refer to this one as…the onion), while the other onion flies to the direction of the fire(blue,yellow,pink, we’ll call this one the Tri onion)

-Olimar is left stunned

-The HOCOSHIP exits from the Drake, telling Oli she’s lost track of ABC’s signals in the fire. Olimar regains focus, and takes a small squad of red pikmin into the inferno. The Ship refuses to let him go into the flames(too dangerous, it's not worth the risk, etc) but Olimar goes in anyway.

-JUST as Oli goes into the fire, the Koppaites return to the base. Rusty’s about to express their relief but Brit interrupts, annoyed that he didn’t receive their distress signals. The ship immediately defends herself, saying he didn’t even receive ANY notifications.

-Louie arrives at the base, having retrieved several wayward Pikmin. He asks where Olimar is.

-A and B are left shocked as The Ship remembers.

-“Wait. If you three are here, and Louie is here as well…Olimar-Olimar went into the fire to look for…”

-A comedic pause between the crew, before Louie bolts directly into the flames

-The ship commands A and B to prepare for liftoff while he retrieves O and L

-Alph protests, wanting to help but Brit says something like uh, “dude we just got OUT of the fire. Let’s not go back there.” (I’m great at dialogue I know /sarc)

-A then asks, “but… what about the fire?” B hesitates before saying “well, there’s not much we can do about it…nature will naturally ease the flames.” Then adds, “who knows, maybe it’ll be good for the forest.”

-Alph agrees, and A and B both return inside the Drake

-We cut to Olimar calling for the Koppaites but to no avail. He hears a Pikmin cry nearby. He discovers a lone red pikmin cowering in a hole, a wound on their forehead. (Later, they are known as Clover)

-He gently helps them out of the hole and calms the little pikmin in his arms. The red pikmin in his squad appear to be pleased with their captain.

-The HOCOSHIP is flying above the forest fire, trying to detect his crew mates through the flames. They spot the Tri Onion from far away, dunking itself in a lake. Rusty is puzzled by that, but focuses back on her mission.

- Rusty finally manages to contact Oli, pinpointing his location and briefly comms Oli to yell at him. (“You idiot! Why would you do such a selfless, reckless act?! Now Louie is looking for you too!”)

-Olimar immediately began to focus on finding Louie, the ship following him from above the forest.

-We cut to Louie, who’s also looking for Oli. L is coughing and holding his chest. The smoke from the forest fire seems to be affecting him to a much greater extent than the others. (Must be a bug in his oxygen filter…)

-he then spots something glowing red in the distance. L begins to walk towards it, thinking it’s Olimar

- But as he gets closer, Louie freezes.

-It’s the Smoky Progg.

-Louie runs the opposite way, trying to get away but ends up collapsing. His coughing is getting worse, and his nose appears to be bleeding. The Progg slowly approaches L.

- Louie is terrified, thinking that this was the end…

-*CRACK*

-They both look up. A large tree branch is falling.

- The branch lands between the two, creating a wall between them.

-The Progg turns away, disappearing in the flames

-L is left frozen, wide eyed.

- He hears Oli calling for him, and spots his red antenna light. They both reunite, Olimar expressing his relief while lightly scolding Louie.

-Then Oli whistles behind Lou, red pikmin begin to climb down the tree the branch fell out of. It’s revealed O was the one to save L!

-The ship comes down to teleport the two(and the squad of reds!) into his cargo, and flies back to Drake.

-We see the Tri onion hovering above the forest, spreading a light water mist that slowly dispels the flames.

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#floral au #story2 #so many questions and yet so few answered…storywise I mean XD #You can imagine how beautiful the garden scene wouldve been but MAN it would be a doozy to create along with the forest fire 😭#HOOOO boy this part of the story has been in my head for years! I’m finally glad to share the plans with you guys #maybe one day I’ll draw a couple of these moments…maybe one day…#hope you enjoy! Stay tuned for the next part because the next part…that one has to be one of my favorites :)

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intergalacticfloralexplorers · 8 months

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Intergalactic Floral Explorers AU:

*Story 1: After the events of Pikmin 3, Captain Olimar along with the Koppaite crew and the Hocotate Research Pod return to PNF-404 to rescue Louie, who was left behind. Nothing could have prepared the explorers for where(and how) they encounter him…*

CW: Blood, gore, severe injury, panic attacks, body horror, glitchy images/eye strain

((Contains old artwork (how old? About 3 years as of now :))

((This story also contains the #Freight!Collab. An event where @hocotate-freight-company characters enter this universe! This event could be considered canon to the story))

((Story 1 was completed before the release of Pikmin 3 Deluxe))

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*Story 2: An entire year after the journey to rescue Louie, the interplanetary explorers return to Pnf-404 to resume research on the mysteries of the planet and its inhabitants…*

CW: Blood, gore, violence, vomiting, body horror, illness, severe injury, (Pikmin) deaths, eye strain/glitchy images

(The illustrated/askblog parts for Story 2 do not have the CW listed above, things got darker the farther into the story…)

(As mentioned the prologue and half of event 1 is complete with illustrations, however the ask blog was discontinued near the release date of Pikmin 4. The rest of Story 2 will be written as brief summary posts of the original plans for the askblog/story.)

((New information revealed in Pikmin 4 will not affect what has already been written for the AU, even if it goes against the new canon.))

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To read from all the way at the beginning…just scroll down really really fast to the beginning of the blog :’) or search #story1 on this blog and scroll all the way down (still trying to figure that out! Thanks for the patience)

To read from the beginning of Story 2 click here!

click here! if you’re a returning follower to continue the full story

Character descriptions for Story 2/ The whole AU in general click here!

Pikmin/Creature descriptions here!

#floral au #intergalactic floral explorers #pikmin au #This post might edited in the future #Phew it’s about time I made an official post like this :D #feel free to ask ME (not the characters anymore…) if you have any questions about the AU

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intergalacticfloralexplorers · 9 months

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Intergalactic Floral Explorers AU: The Full Story Event 2: Part 1

- Alph wants to get on good terms with Louie after the incident. He knows a bit of the damage Lou has done to him and his crew mates and wants everyone to get along so one day he opts to travel with Louie around the Tropical Wilds, very very much to Brits dismay.

- Al attempts to make small talk with Lou! …It does not go well.

-Meanwhile Brit, Char and Oli are exploring the area. Brit is worried about Alphie being alone with Lou. Oli reassures Brit, telling her that Lou isn’t that bad as he seems. Brit doesn’t believe him, but nods anyway. Charlie adds that if anything occurs, they’ll be notified via their koppads!

- aaannndddd comedic cut to Alph and Louie getting into trouble. (i never decided whether the enemy will be either a returning one or an original one)

-it’s a mini boss fight! A and L working together as best they can to defeat the enemy, Vio (a winged pikmin) ending up sacrificing themselves by dealing the final blow

-(literally! by feeding it a bomb rock :’)

-Alph and Lou got minor injuries, but enough to alert the ship and the rest of the crew. Brit runs back to A and L, who have arrived at the landing site with the corpse and treasure(s) and starts fussing over Alph much to his annoyance. The day ends and the crew return to the ship for the night.

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Event 2: Part 2

-Later that evening, Brit corners Lou and begins to question him. The ship overhears and scolds Brit for her aggression. Brit and the Ship begin to fight, Charlie interjects (more calmly than Brit but still stern) wanting answers from Louie too. Louie is quiet, avoiding eye contact. Alph tries to get any sort of opinion out but Brit ignores him.

-She turns to Olimar, who was watching this whole thing go down and asks why he’s even ok with Louie still being here. Oli hesitates, which only fuels Brit’s belief that L shouldn’t be here. Long story short, B calls Louie a monster and that's when Olimar finally snaps.

-He angrily (rightfully so) scolds the crew for this behavior and tells them to go to their respective rooms for a breather. The crew, shocked by Olimar's sudden anger, comply. Brit is slowly realizing what she's done because both Alph and Louie are gone. The ship quietly alerts that Louie is in the cargo hold, and Alph is in the Koppaites room. Olimar tells Brit to rethink her actions before he goes to the cargo.

((the following two conversations happen at the same time, but for simplicity i'll explain them separately))

-Olimar finds Louie sitting near the Drakes window, coincidently (and *coughs* intentionally) by the same window the end of the first Act ended all that time ago…

-he sits next to Lou, asking if he’s ok. After a bit of silence(O expected this) begins to talk about the stars outside. He points out several constellations and begins a bit of small talk about his family. After some more quiet Lou asks what Olimar's favorite constellation is, Olimar happily replies.

-Olimar takes this as a sign to ask if Louie wants to talk about anything, like what happened earlier,(Lou shakes his head, muttering how he’s used to being yelled at) and he expresses that he would like to know more about Lou’s time with the wraith.

-Lou becomes visibly uncomfortable, with an unreadable expression. Oli sighs, thinking that maybe he has to wait another day to get closure, but Louie pulls out his Koppad.

-Olimar is surprised, but does not say a word as Lou begins to type a note. He patiently waits for sometime before Louie slowly hands him his koppad.

-We finally are able to read what happened before the crew reached the oak. Louie, after being left behind, has nowhere else to go. He is forced to hide in the oak. He is bitter after being left behind, and the Plasm uses his vulnerability to take over him while he was asleep. He claims he had no control over his actions, it was all the wraiths doing, using him to capture Olimar again. Lou also writes how he would sometimes hear the plasm…speak to him.

-Well…obviously it's half the truth. Olimar knows its half the truth, for this still leaves so many more questions unanswered. Saving those questions for another day, he expresses his gratitude for Louie being able to confess, and Oli tells him he doesn’t blame Lou one bit for what occured with the Plasm. He then asks if Lou would like to type anything else. Lou takes back his koppad and shakes his head no.

-Oli notes that Louie looks more relaxed now, and offers to cook something to eat before turning in for the night. Lou quietly jokes about olimar offering to cook, for last time he nearly set the Hocotate ship on fire. Olimar for a moment is stunned, before bursting out laughing.

-the two can be heard heading to the kitchen as we cut to Charlie and The ship, who both heard them exit the room. (C and the ship were at the head of the Drake this whole time, leaving the others to sort out their feelings.)

-The ship semi jokes to Charlie if he has anything to vent about. Charlie pauses for a moment, glancing at his rubber duck floating around the Drake, before smiling and says something like, “The great hero Captain Charlie has no secrets to share!”. The ship looks at him funny before saying “WELL I CERTAINLY DO, FOR ONE-“

-Rusty continues rambling as Charlie walks to the Kop’s room

- Alph is laying on his sleeping bag when Brit finds him. Sitting on her own sleeping bag, an awkward silence follows before Brit apologizes to Alph. -She explains that, ever since he nearly died, she never forgave Lou for working alongside the Wraith. And how she has also never forgiven herself for not being able to save Alph in time. Brit never wanted A to get hurt ever again, so she became overprotective, which began to strain their friendship.

-Alph, now with more understanding, forgives her but expresses that it wasn’t her nor Louie's fault. And that the dangers on the planet are sometimes uncontrollable. Bad things can happen, and sometimes they are not in your control and that's ok.

-They hug, Brit promising to be nicer to Lou and stop being so overprotective of A. Alph is content, but out of the corner of his eye, he catches a glimpse of D looming in the distance. His stomach begins to hurt, which causes Brit to worry. Alph dismisses the pain since it's kind of normal for him, and Brit jokingly scolds herself for already going against her promise.

-They both laugh and prepare to get some sleep as Charlie walks in, noting that they both seem to have sorted things out.

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#Floral AU #A part of me is a little thankful I don’t need to draw this out because writing the dialogue would have been a NIGHTMARE/lh #I do plan on making small doodles to convey how exactly the scenes would look visually but that’s for another day…#Again if you have any questions about the story don’t be afraid to ask!#But so far so good story wise huh? :)#story2

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intergalacticfloralexplorers · 9 months

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The Leading Piks and Creatures of PNF-404

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#intergalactic floral explorers #floral au

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intergalacticfloralexplorers · 9 months

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Character Descriptions

cw: minor blood and slight eye strain

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#intergalactic floral explorers #floral au #When I decided to continue this AU I tried to keep their characters as close to their canon personalities as possible with minor tweaks #I hope I did them justice! And I hope to continue staying close to canon with future drawings. AU or not :]#(Btw shoutouts to the pikipedia website for inspiring a majority of the descriptions!)

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intergalacticfloralexplorers · 9 months

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Intergalactic Floral Explorers AU: The Full Story

-The rest of Event 1 and first intermission-

Event 1(cont.):

-After Brittany gathers some pikmin from the onion (which only contained blues, rocks ,and winged pikmin) she would encounter a bomb wall. The bomb wall blocks the section to where the ‘courage reactor’ was originally found, which is also where Olimar is. Olimar and Brit realize this, and at this point the ship contacts them. Olimar attempts to contact Louie and Brittany contacts Alph.

- Cut to Alph waking up on top of the snowman, having no memory of how the ship crashed. He finds the yellow onion and some yellow pikmin digging up bomb rocks. After calling them over, he walks in the direction where the Fiery Bulblax is and lo and behold, Charlie is being attacked by it. A yellow pikmin (Rigol) saves him by throwing a bomb rock at the Bulblax. Charlie was over there because he was retrieving Alph’s koppad (C’s broke during the crash) and after getting it back, A and C retrieve the call from Brittany.

- A and C are on their way to their location, Brit tells Oli and the ship the good news (Oli was unable to contact Louie) and so they opt to wait. The ship is making minor repairs to the Drake at this same time too. But then the Smoky Progg appears behind a distracted Olimar, killing 2 red pikmin. Olimar flees holding the last remaining red pikmin, Brit comms Alph and Charlie to hurry!

- The Progg corners Olimar, and Oli braces himself for a fight, but then Louie comes seemingly out of nowhere and strikes one of its eyes with his butcher knife.

-The Progg flees, O and L stare at each other awkwardly for a moment before Olimar begins to express his relief, for Louie is ok, and also concern, for Louie’s nose is bleeding. Lou tells him he’s fine, and the nosebleed was from the crash and that it's nothing.

- Distant explosions are heard, A B and C have destroyed the wall. O and L reunite with the koppaites just before dusk, and they head back into the Drake, ending the day.

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An “Intermission” period would occur to answer asks, explore characters and areas, introduce the leading piks, Blue returns to our universe, etc. y'know, a little break before the story continues :]

#floral au #…hi #been a bit huh?#Pikmin 4 releases soon…so I’ve decided this askblog will discontinue #and will instead become a side log for the Floral AU!#I will be writing out to the best of my ability what I had planned with the askblog #The next event will be published around august #and character profiles will be published shortly after this post!#My sincere apologies for being unable to continue the askblog #If you have any questions comments or concerns please don’t be afraid to ask me!#To those who supported this blog ever since the beginning…thank you. thank you for everything<3 #I hope you look forward to reading the rest of the story🌼#story2

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