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Drew something for Gene to wish him a happy birthday ♥︎ Hope you enjoy!

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THANK YOU!!! I love the expression and color on this piece a lot, it's so pretty... (it's literally so clean/smooth and he looks so kind......) 😭😭😭😳😳😳

He's 11 years old now... if you know anyone that's in 5th grade or below he's literally older than they are now good lort

#submission #darkclouds-rainsounds #generic protagonist #one day gene in-comic will catch up.... he's Still in december 2022. nine years old smh can't be a trainer yet (joking) (he's a 34 year old #(with a mortgage) #the queue for jordan's was set too early and this one was set too late but they both made it on the 23rd..... whe w

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The card says:

Lyric: We heard you dont like a big fuss on your birthday BUT! Haru and I use birthdays as a way to celebrate the person you are, rather than where you came from! You're a pretty special dude, and you deserve to hear that more! Heres to another year, bud! We'll make sure its a good one.

Wander: Daisies seemed appropriate, theyre the birth flower for april. I'm not good at this sort of thing, but in all honesty, you're incredible, and we're lucky to be able to consider you a friend. You have a lot of people that love you, Gene.

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[ID: Digital painting of a pink box with a letter taped to the top of it sitting on a wooden table. In the second panel, their contents are on the table: a cream-colored card with signatures from Lyric and Haruko and daisies taped inside, and a slice of decadent chocolate cake with cherries on top and white frosting in the middle.]

(shhhhh ignore that this is from last year :'D)

#submission #jordemme #generic protagonist #others' ocs #wander #oops this was queued a bit early

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query: what’s the lore behind your name?

it's a joke I made with my partner about an OC's name -- but that OC is spoilers for a webcomic we want to make someday 😂😭😭😭

#oceandi answers #anonymous

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(doing double OC sunday next week since I missed this week -- I spent pretty much the whole day redoing my blog/links to make it more reader-friendly for people without tumblr accounts and/or tumblr mobile)

#oceandi speaks #delete later #oc sunday

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So, uh, for some reason when I looked at all the generic protagonist stuff by @oceandiagonale and saw team ultra flare, by brain just kept screaming "OK BUT WHAT WOULD THEIR BATTLE MUSIC SOUND LIKE THO"

So I made this... I tried lol

I STRONGLY RECOMMEND HEADPHONES CUZ OF THE BASS

#reblog #sorry sdfsdf I found this again as I've been changing all my blog links to go on my actual blog and I Finally managed to download it #for my playlist and I was so glad about it.... #novanexusart

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POV you're running a Unovan food truck in Sinnoh and you shoot your shot with a crinkly little dude

(bonus professor rowan doodle)

#oceandi arts #generic protagonist #the aRRRc #professor rowan #POV #noodle the typhlosion #floatzel #cw eye contact #it's friday somewhere I can post this JKFHSDKJF #it's a direct lead-in to the next actual update sdkjfksjdhf

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I did this follow-up the same day as the original doodle I just didn't want to caption it and didn't know when a good time to post it was (if ever KJFHDSJKFDS)

LISTEN IVE MADE THIS JOKE SO MANY TIMES IN MY HEAD NOW...

#oceandi reblogs #generic protagonist #cw swearing #swearing #suggestive text #(??????? just in case ig) #it's relevant - ish today I'll use it as an excuse to get it out of my drafts FSDKFJHSDKJF #side note: this was done on stream before I noticed that lysandre is a descendant of AZ's brother lol

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a series of AZ moments

#oceandi arts #generic protagonist #AZ #volo #floette #lysandre #diantha #professor sycamore

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May I propose Nemona's intense enthusiasm as a way to come to view battling and Pokemon as something that's done for the joy of it instead of as a means to an end? She's extremely strong and one of the best trainers in Paldea, and she fights that PC a lot, but it's not to Test Her Skills. It's because she wants desperately to share her love of battling in the hopes that the protagonist will also see why she loves it. And for a protagonist who just views battles as their duty, it would only be a more intense desire to help them experience battling as something more, I think.

Or: older student's secret mission to fix her underclassman's baked in burnout

@kriss-watches-stuff 🤔🤔🤔

very in character for nemona! knowing what we do about Spare, it'll probably take a while for that mission to take effect -- but she's such a determined character, I don't think she'll be too discouraged by a lack of progress?

#oceandi answers #kidotix #kriss-watches-stuff #spare protagonist #others' ocs #oc sunday #(follow up) #nemona

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Seeing Spare call tomatoless marinera (is that seriously a thing?) "POG" got me cackling. I can only imagine Spare being like an awkward grandma trying to get slang at first. "Wow this situation is, um, skibity sigma bad? You're cringing, what did I get wrong? Penny what are you- No! No hacking their bank accounts! We've talked about this: use your words not your tech!"

YEAH IT ACTUALLY IS A THING!! my sister has a tomato allergy (nightshades. man.) and she tried some earlier this week (which is why it was on my mind) -- it's hard to replicate the taste of tomatoes, but apparently it comes pretty close? it's like, beets and carrots and flavoring and such

(Gene sympathizes with the struggles of learning slang, doubly so since the older Grunts - and he by proxy - are currently experiencing the horrors of not understanding The Youth despite some of them still being very online.)

#oceandi answers #kriss-watches-stuff #spare protagonist #others' ocs #oc sunday #(follow-up)

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Zephyr doesn't have much of a father figure really, they were revived by the creation trio and Arceus so they tend to take care of them, not in a really fatherly way, it's more like: 'We brought you here to save the world, but we will help you only if necessary'.

And it doesn't help much that Arceus either refuses to answer their questions about their past lives or gives them very vague answers.

Zephyr, along with the protagonists and rivals: I have no father figure... I'M the father figure.

They doesn't resent Arceus as such, but they would like them to tell them a little about what their previous life was like or if someone they knew in that life is still alive (Unfortunately, the answer is no).

man, I know they're taking care of the normal game MCs and they're basically besties with Lysandre but I hope they at least get some nice coworkers at some point skjdfjskdf

(more importantly, are you going to play through Pokemon ZA as them? I hope we get some more information soon because. relevant.... 👀)

#oceandi answers #zephyr #haxoruki #others' ocs #oc sunday #that's it for OC sunday this week! next week is bladeedge and chimerathekid

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So, for Spare the storylines had different impacts. Arven got her to like humans more because of his willingness to take on great risks to help his pokemon heal. That and he started to help her understand cooking and food more as he came to understand that her reluctance to eat stuff is a result of fear and uncertainty. With Penny and Team Star, she learned not to judge a book by its cover, and since she wasn't dealing with any sort of actual evil team, no serious violence happened. She also empathized with Penny's desire to stop the bullies and oppose injustice, but the idea of unintentional consequences...also like Penny Spare isn't good with people, so they vibe on that. Nemona... was there. She was powerful and skilled and was a good fight...but ultimately it didn't matter, Spare was already a champion by that point and fulfilling one of her primary purposes.

Then we get to the whole robot professor who has highly limited free will and has to follow plans of its creator, even if it came to disagree with them and considered it a catastrophe. Even though it wanted to stop the time machine, it couldn't, and even though it asked Spare to stop it, the robot also acknowledged that it would be forced to try and stop her. This was the big existential crisis because it got Spare to question how much free will she actually has, or if she has her own "Paradise Protection Protocol" that could be switched on. She confessed her status as artificial and her fears about what that could mean to Penny as, out of all of her friends, she was the one Spare considered the best at working out the logic of it and how to test this sort of stuff. After a small freak out, Penny agrees to help Spare figure out just how human she really is (the answer is 100%, they just didn't know it yet).

the hard part is figuring out how to test for humanity -- is it genetic? behavioral? are they just trying to see if Spare can go directly against what Arceus wants? they're going to have a hard time figuring that all out at first 😔

though frankly there's nothing quite as human as going through an emo phase when you're 12-13. Middle school years are sufferingggggg

#oceandi answers #spare protagonist #kriss-watches-stuff #miriam #others' ocs #oc sunday #I HAVE to assume penny gave her that shirt there's no way she didn't #long post

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The bit about Volo not knowing about Social Media made me realize that Spare doesn't know either.

Plumeria: What do you mean she doesn't know? Aren't you her girlfriend and a giant tech need?

Penny: I am not introducing someone who just recently decided that human beings have value to influencers and irony poisoned meme performances.

*in background*

Spare, talking to Skulls Grunts: Well, I suppose the walrein would be more surprising, but what does that have to do with vanilla extract?

the only memes the Skull Kids are allowed to tell her are a couple of the day-of-the-week ones (Tuesday again no problem, Sparkle on It's Wednesday, and Out of Touch Thursday) since those are pretty uplifting ones, and maybe some old classics like Rick Rolling and All Star that have been around for everrrrrrrr. and even then they're on thin ice.

#oceandi answers #spare protagonist #penny pokemon #team skull #others' ocs #oc sunday

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Sooo...recently it has been very heavily implied that Penny's father is Peony, which would make Rose her uncle. Which would make her taking her girlfriend, Spare, to a family party even more awkward than normal for various reasons.

"Spare, this is my Uncle-"

"Rose, Ex-Chairman of the Pokemon League of Gallar."

"...of course you already know who he is. Anyway, please don't attack him. Uncle Rose, this is my girlfriend Spare DelRosa, a champion rank of Paldea and Ex-Hero of Arceus."

"...Ex?"

"Dad is an asshole so I quit. Still waiting on child support for Mom, the bum."

okay, I finally looked up where people were pulling that from and whoops, I should probably play the . team star backstory and mochi madness things sometime huh. 😳

anyways this is incredible tbh, can't believe Spare's not only following the Protagonist tradition of dating a former "villain" but also adding onto that by having one of them be her girlfriend's uncle FKJDSHFKJDS

(also this sent me down a thought rabbithole. Is Rose still allowed to stay in Galar? Did he get a trial even though Interpol/The United Regions Court doesn't have jurisdiction over stopping villains? Who decided his sentence? I'm so sorry I'm derailing this and rambling about Rose but it made me think a lot 😳)

I like the Star Trek concept of "jail" only being used as a last resort for people who are currently a danger to people around them and only as a temporary measure while working out some other supports, since the current prison systems all over the real world suck in unique and horrifying ways. But more importantly, I never ever saw that as a viable sentence for any of the villains anyways -- not even Lysandre, so certainly not Rose.

(................jury's still out on Ghetsis, but he's allowed to just wander around Pasio without much fuss so I guess he's fine too as long as someone's keeping an eye on him.)

More importantly, Gene was there to vouch for Rose's honesty about wanting to make it up to Galar. He definitely got community service, but what KIND? And were Archie and Maxie precedent, or did they even get a trial? None of the villains BEFORE them did, and Rose was the first one AFTER them to let himself be "caught."

When Guz first finds out that Archie and Maxie are undermining Lysandre, he says that Gene was happy that they stepped up to do environmental work, which means that the League was the organization taking responsibility for them, NOT Interpol.

But there's never any mention of paperwork regarding them, so I'm pretty sure Steven was just keeping an eye on them from there on out (especially since he was invited to their wedding later).

By the time Rose does his thing (checks watch) 6 years later, there ARE forms for each kind of incident. I'm pretty sure Gene wrote those himself.

So here's my thought: the League was still the organization that "caught" Rose. They were the ones that pressed criminal charges against him, mainly to set a precedent for future incidents (at Rose's request), and he met the same fate as Rose does in the Pieces AU: working in Hoenn as a scientist with Archie and Maxie's team on their environmental project. (Unfortunately, those two are too busy with Ultra Flare to be there much atm.)

After a while, he's able to go back to Galar to work on the energy crisis (with non-League personnel in the Villain Cleanup Division keeping an eye over his shoulder just in case and generally keeping him away from Leon so as not to distress him).

All that to say, yeah. Canon encounter.

#oceandi answers #oceandi arts #chairman rose #penny pokemon #spare protagonist #generic protagonist

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So one of the things I decided on with Violet was that Spare can not talk to the future paradox pokemon. This is because 1) it adds to how bad the situation is when Arceus hero can't talk to pokemon, and 2) language evolves over time, and they are far enough removed from the present that they're incomprehensible.

Also, this is during the time when everyone thought that Spare could only talk to normal types, so they didn't get why her not understanding these new pokemon was freaking her out so much. That just means that they aren't normal type right? She should be used to not understanding most pokemon.

As for why Arceus doesn't give Spare the ability to speak with the paradox pokemon: they're the problem and talking to them won't solve anything, so why bother with a language patch?

Honestly, I've been thinking about Pokemon languages a lot too -- especially since I got this one ask from @do-not-go-gently-42:

and like, I wonder if the issue isn't even so much that their languages evolved over time (see: Fossil Pokemon, which presumably the protags can talk to as they're a constant throughout the Unown "base code" of Pokemon worlds) as the whole, "They might not even be real" thing (which gamefreak really did nothing with at the end there huh. Except making the player character complicit in some alternate timeline/universe's Arven's parent neglecting him. SMH)

Anyways it could just be me being stubborn, but as someone who's subscribed to the "No, ancient Pokemon were NOT all Rock-types, it's just the revival process that does that to them" school of thought, I absolutely REFUSE to believe in a world where Pokemon all become robots (even if they're not all Steel-types).

No, the Paradox Pokemon are purely a work of fiction that came directly out of Dr. Turo's very own head, and frankly, you think THAT guy knows how to talk to any Pokemon??? He doesn't even know how to talk to his own son! There's no way he knows enough about Pokemon language to create creatures that have one of their own.

That said, I think that the Paradox Pokemon will learn normal Pokemon languages over time from living in Area Zero, surrounded by similar beings to themselves. Eventually Spare (and Gene lol) will probably be able to understand them as well as they understand UBs (not perfectly, but well enough to get the point across).

(Not that it helps Spare during the events of the game though, RIP)

#oceandi answers #kriss-watches-stuff #do-not-go-gently-42 #spare protagonist #others' ocs #oc sunday #worldbuilding #long post #pokemon sv spoilers

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Your Masters post got me thinking about Spare. Since she is a champion rank she would get an invite, so I was thinking about what mon she would use. At first, I was thinking Meowscarada since that was her starter. But then my brain went "but that's not her ace, that's not the main glue of the team".

And I went "Okay fine she uses her female heracross Jewel then, but for her Sygna Suite-"

"Durandal the Iron Valiant." my brain says.

"....summer festival-"

"You know she'd take garganacle."

"Yeah, and Halloween would be Absol ... Christmas?"

"Frosmoth."

"Damn it!"

"And the legendary variant would be the goldfish." my brain concludes.

"...special anniversary costume?" I ask in desperation.

"Yeah, you could use it there." my brain relents.

(I am so sorry, Briar. You're such a cool starter, but you didn't wind up being that important to the team.)

Why not as her Trainer Lodge Pokemon? The one you get from maxxing out her friendship level? It makes sense there (like how Sycamore usually just has Xerneas and now Gogoat I guess but his Lodge Partner is Bulbasaur). 🤔🤔🤔

Alternative idea: Palentine's Day? There could be an event where Meowscarada is using Flower Trick to make "fireworks" that turn into roses 🤔🤔🤔

#oceandi answers #spare protagonist #kriss-watches-stuff #others' ocs #oc sunday

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(previous images: a transparent png of Snom, and Guzma with a word bubble going up to the first post)

pssssst. hey buddy. wanna buy a bug

guy on the street corner looking like he's about to sell you drugs but instead he opens his trenchcoat and pulls one of these bad boys out

#reblog #oceandi arts #guzma #snom #joltik