ALSO IVE BEEN MEANING TO ASK THIS!! BUT!!
I’ve noticed Twig’s tail flame changes color- Is it emotion based? Or purely for aesthetic reasons? Either way, it’s a fun detail and I love her design as a whole.,,,,
Short answer: Yes! It is emotion based, and thanks so much for liking my little litzard’s design!
Long answer: Oh man do I ever have a tangent to go off on.
Originally, I couldn’t decide what color I wanted Twig’s tail flame to be. The Pokédex states that charmeleons will spew blue-white fire when excitedly going after opponents, which I thought about making her tail flame, but I just couldn’t commit to one color. It was a struggle and I was starting to decide to just give up and give her a standard yellow-ish orange flame… but then I remembered @modmad, the creator of a webcomic that has greatly influenced my creativity throughout the years, and a major character in said webcomic, RGB.
RGB is a man with a television set for a head and a color bar for a mouth, and the colors are constantly bleeding off of his screen. Already a neat design, but here’s the kicker: all those colors mean something. Yellow is fear, cyan is sadness, green is happiness, magenta is curiosity, and red is anger.
This character can only emote so much using his “face”, but Modmad hacked the system and basically made an emotion percentage bar which people can use to judge what exactly RGB is feeling at any given time. It’s pretty simple to grasp what his main emotion is based on which color is bleeding the most, but it gets super fun to dig into the implications of any other colors that are bleeding as well.
It’s similar for Twig, though I’ve only recently outlined the complete meanings of her tail flames and haven’t drawn them in action very much! You may have noticed that her tail flame’s color tend to lean towards a magenta / fuchsia when she’s having unpleasant flashbacks. That’s because that shade of fire indicates fear!
I really didn’t have too much of a personal guide to the flame colors before now— my guiding principles were “fuchsia = scared beyond all belief, neon colors = stressed / excited, softer colors = chill / tired”, but with this handy dandy lil chart I recently made, I’ll be able to be a lot more consistent going forward :>
Thanks for being interested in this little detail! I didn’t think anyone would notice, so it’s super fun to get to talk about it in-depth! Enjoy a happy lil etymology geek Twig admiring a dictionary Celebi gifted her as my thanks :>
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(Not stopping my Palestine posting, just doing it more on Twitter)
Smoliv but different breeds based many different kinds of olives. Who do you want in your garden(or team)? (Do not repost only reblog)
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Was in a heavy Drawing Drought last month after graduating college took up my entire autumn so I decided to try one of those Pokemon Breeds/Varieties charts to get myself out. I had tried to do this once as a kid and couldn't finish even one Roselia so I'm taking this as an absolute win.
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An update for our request charizard! when you see this lady on the fixed post, it means y'all can request away!
Her name is Furnace by the way
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Tumblr crashed so i have no idea if my half typed message sent or not. But i used to have a really pretty rattata named Pastel (she was a bit lighter than she should have been for some reason.) and no one expected much from such a basic pokemon but they can learn a lot of TMS! She knew Captivate, Blizzard, Thunder Wave, and Hidden Power. It made for interesting shows 🥰
Underestimating any Pokemon is a mistake honesty. Some might not have the 'stats' to hold well in competitive battle, but all that matters on the show stage is your determination to put on a good show! I've seen people use magikarps in performances and genuinely those are some of the most impressive acts I've seen.
I can imagine a lot just from that moveset, and yeah, I bet that made for an interesting show from what I can imagine!
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This Week’s Theme is “Autumn Colors Part 2!” (Tuesday, October 4- Tuesday, October 11)
Tuesday: Red
Wednesday: Orange
Thursday: Yellow
Friday: Gold/Brown
Saturday: Dark Green
Sunday: Black
Monday: Mystery
Next Week’s Theme is “Autumn Colors Part 2”!
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today on "how can I combine my interests": variations of volcarona based on stellar classification!
actual stars are classified based on their spectral characteristics and temperature/color from hottest (bluest) to coldest (reddest) with a strangely ordered letter system: O, B, A, F, G, K, M... why not do the same for this stellar moth?
some other info:
o-type volcarona are incredibly rare and are considered "shiny" pokemon
m-type volcarona can come in the largest variety of sizes from large enough to easily carry a person to about the size of a cat
k-type volcarona are the most common, with the higher temperature ones becoming increasingly more rare (and m is about as rare as g)
while there could be b- and a-type volcarona between o and f, the latter two are so rare that there's no reason to split the categories up further
alder's volcarona is the g-type one shown here, and the m-type one belongs to cyrus in my au
the pupa/cocoon stage is too short relative to the other two stanges to be considered its own separate evolutionary stage like other similar bug type pokemon
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