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thesilvercondor · 1 year

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^^ custom Frontier Ball, based off art by Tom Higgins on etsy. (at least, I haven’t been able to find this pokeball design on any canon sources/merch. it uses the canon HBF logo tho)

Recipe:

-a deep desire for official merch of the battle frontier (it no exist :( )

-one of those little plastic premier balls you get from the pokemon-figurine vending machines

-several coats of glue (paint doesn’t stick to plastic)

-paint markers (regular paint should work too)

Unfortunately the blue is starting to come off/fade (its been a few months), so maybe I should invest in a top coat. idk how paint works.

[4 extra pics (making-of and post-fade) under the cut]

Making-of:

(lining was just done with a fine-liner, but it might have looked better if i skipped that and stuck to a pencil outline. also, i only put glue under the blue and black bits, bc the white turns a bit grey if you put glue on top. that might be because i was using a shitty glue though.)

Post-fade photoshoot:

(its closer to the canon blue now, so i don’t mind the fade too much. might need to go over it again eventually tho, cos the fade’s a bit uneven)

#hoenn battle frontier #pokemon #custom pokeball #this was the first time i touched paint in years so im pretty happy with the results lmao #but yeah there's only one layer of black. and it does NOT come off. why is the colour black so incredibly goated.

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battlep1ke · 8 months

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I love the frontier brains, also I bought this for about 60 dollars and I’m so happy

#pokemon #battle frontier #frontier brain #hoenn battle frontier #i love these silly guys #scott pokemon #dome ace tucker #pike queen lucy #salon maiden anabel #manga #pokemon manga #silly #i love pokemon #pokémon emerald #Palace Maven Spenser #anabel pokemon

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pokemon-npcs · 6 months

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#that's great buddy :D #pokemon npcs #trainer class: triathlete #RSE #hoenn #pokémon emerald #battle facilities #battle factory #...#I'm just gonna say #battle frontier

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dinoserious · 2 months

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sketches of a special little guy

#ash ketchum #pikachu #pokemon #sketch #rare human art... anime no less #scrolling thru his bulbapedia gallery and just going ''oh so cutes ^_^'' at intervals bc he is. hes so cutes #hoenn/battle frontier arc design bc thats where we (me n my sister) are on our watch

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voidvinn · 6 months

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i’m so normal about him i swear

#pyramid king brandon #registeel #pokémon fanart #battle frontier #pokeani #hoenn #pokemon

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sec0ndheaven · 3 months

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Wanted to try drawing this handsome fella again. Every time I draw him he ends up looking increasingly disgruntled and aggressive... He's a bit grumpy at times but he's a gentle giant <3

#Factory head Noland #Noland pokemon #pokemon art #frontier brain #battle frontier #My art #hoenn region #pokemon emerald #pokemon #I LOVE drawing him as a big musclebear... He's strong but also a bit chubby it's my favorite thing ever

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indigoblog · 2 years

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three jynx and a baby

#magician outfits!#pokemon #team rocket #jessie #james #battle frontier #hoenn #anipoke #anime #pokeani #musashi #kojiro #rocketshipping #fanart

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littleeyesofpallas · 2 months

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[Kanto] [Johto] [Hoenn] [Sinnoh] [Unova] [Kalos] [Alola] [Galar] [Hisui] [Champs] [Paldea] [Paldea2] [Paldea3] [Teams] [Misc.]

Ya know who else I've totally neglected in this series of posts? The Battle Frontier bosses.

Anabel's name is LILA[リラ] from Lilac, hence her color scheme. That one's super straight forward.

Spencer's name was UKON[ウコン] from ukon[鬱金] the name for tumeric, a type of ginger root that is very popular traditional chinese medicine.

Noland's name was DATURA[ダツラ] from the genus of poisonous flowers in the Nightshade family, as well as other such charming common names as Devil's Trumpet, Hell's Bells, and Devil's Weed. They are all not only extremely poisonous but psychoactive

Brandon's name was JINDAI[ジンダイ] a neat pun as the common Japanese name of this cactus, jindai[神代], means "god time" as in "age of the gods/myth" in other words, "ancient," which of course lends to his role as Ruins Maniac/Pyramid King.

Tucker's name is HEATH[ヒース] which funny enough means he shares a namesake with Erika, and with Heath, aka HEATHER, Briar's ancestor that wrote the violet/scarlet book.

Greta's name is KOGOMI[コゴミ] from kogomi[屈] the Japanese name for the fiddlehead fern, used in cooking. They have a super distinctive curled shape which is where she gets her hair.

and then Lucy's name is AZAMI[アザミ] as in Azami[薊]: "thistle," appropriate for her prickly demeanor.

Technically I already did Darach's once, but I'll go over it again here. His name is KOKURAN[コクラン] as in kokuran[黒蘭], lit. "Black Orchid" and as a play on that Caitlin is actually named Cattleya[カトレア] from the Catelleya genus of orchids. His ancestor Anthe was named Sharon[シャロン] in reference to the Rose of Sharon, which is actually a common name of a few unrelated flowers, including the national flower of South Korea. (Oddly she seems to bear absolutely no relation to the Orchid theme between Kokuran and Cattleya. )

Argenta's original name was KEITO[ケイト] from keitou[鶏頭] the Japanese name for the Silver Cockscomb, which has very obvious color associations that lend to her design. Also the Silver Cockscomb's scientific name is the Celosia argenta, which is where they got her English name.

Palmer's name is KURUTSUGU[クロツグ] after kurutsugu[桄榔] the Kaong Sugar palm

Thorton's name was NEJIKI[ネジキ] from nejiki[捩木] the Japanese name of the Anyaar/Angeri(Lyonia ovalifolia). They have thee adorable little white bell flowers.

and finally for this batch, it's Dahlia who was in fact just named DAHLIA[ダリア]. For the image i picked a yellow Spider Dahlia specifically since it seemed to match her color scheme and hair

Oh and just to round out this little batch of extras, Barry's name is actually JUN[ジュン] from Junichi Masuda, game director of the core Pokemon series. It's a play on Gary's name being SHIGERU[シゲル], after Shigeru Miyamoto. But sadly it has nothing to do with his dad's name.

While I'm here...

Cheryl's name was MOMI[モミ] from momi[籾] which is a word that refers to unhulled rice specifically. Unrelated to her ancestor Wasabi's name.

Marley's name is MAI[マイ] from mai[米], which is just the word for "Rice" as a food staple, so depending on context it can implicitly mean when hulled, because the alternative would be momi, but it does also generally to the crop and even the food industry. (Ironically Mai in Hisui was actually named YONE[ヨネ] which is an alternate reading of the same kanji for "rice" [米], yet they named her Mai in English, Marley's actual Japanese name...)

Go figure, Buck's name is in fact BAKU[バク] and it's the Japanese word baku[麦] for Wheat or Barley. By sheer coincidence it is how Japanese phoneticizes "Buck" but it does not actually refer to Buck Wheat. Also he has nothing to do with his brother, nor their ancestor's names.

Mira's name is MIRU[ミル] from "Millet." It's also where her little hairtie design comes from.

and finally, Riley's name is GEN[ゲン] from genmai[玄米] the name for brown rice, which is a kind of earthier more nutritious rice.

So oddly, there is a concept in Chinese agriculture and cooking called Wu Gu[五穀]: "The Five Grains" that refers to the 5 staple crops of Chinese agriculture dating back to ancient times, and several far et cultures have their own variations on this... but despite the obvious grain theming the 5 stat specialist trainers don't actually match any specific version of the 5 Grains?? It definitely feels like that was the intended reference, yet it sort of falls apart in the specifics... maybe just a disagreement on what made fora good name or not?

Oh and as for a few other oddball ancestors...

Sabi, Mai, and Zisu I've all technically covered before in one form or another but the quick overview is that Sabi was named WASABI[ワサビ], YONE we mentioned above, and Zisu was named PERILLA[ペリーラ], after the same type of redleaf mint that Flint, aka OBA[オーバ], was named after.

Pesselle's name is KINE[キネ] from kine[杵]: "(mortar &)pestel" which is both a cute play on Millet and on her role as head of the medical division and the grinding of medicinal herbs.

and Riley's ancestor Rye is actually named HAKU[ハク] as in haku[白]"white"but sensibly a reference to hakumai[白米]:"White rice" in parallel to Gen's gen[玄] also reading literally as "Black/Dark" when referring to "brown rice."

#pokemon #pokemeta i guess #pokemon emerald #pokemon dppt #pokemon hgss #pokemon legends arceus #hisui #sinnoh #hoenn #johto #battle frontier

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cheswirls · 13 days

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looking @ old fic i started when i was 14/15 is so funny bc im realizing once again why i never mark fics as abandoned even if its been literal years since i've touched them. specifically i was checking docs for stuff i started and either did or didn't post to ffn.

and its like. nothing is bad??? like i can see where my outside-the-box ideal of fic writing comes from. not just fics but writing in general, i'm p sure. even if it's a total cliche plot setup, there are details on each that rly make it stand out like oh yeahhhhhh i did have this great idea once upon a time.

funny too bc was it executed well in prose??? no absolutely not i wrote like shit when i was 15. would i revive an idea one day and revise it to be less cliche or cringy while still keeping the stand-out elements??? yea maybe. i might. everything i'm currently working on that i started from 2021 up to now still holds my supreme interest, but like i'm not gonna say never.

esp since i write fic first and foremost for my own need and specifically what i like to read, it makes it impossible to consider an idea i've thought extensively about "not worth writing anymore". anyway not making this too long i jus found everything interesting to consider

#writing #this fic i pulled up from JUNE 2014 crazy was the old chosenshi au i was trying to write for a friend #i dont ship blue/silver and never will and thats prolly why i never finished it #but i do still like!! the idea of rocket!blue raised w silver and breaking free of tr while running the hoenn branch #no idea how i remembered bc it wasnt in the plot pts on the doc but she was gonna get sent to the battle frontier #to nab jirachi and have encounters w frontier brains and change her mind at the end of it all #hell i could go back and not make it ship fic at all - have silver be a little one-sided obsessed or #even jus like.. attached to blue as a rivalry like as a way to show her up at every turn #another fic around the same time was the old pokespe hs au where i changed all the dexholder's names for some reason #i have no idea where i was in reading spe bc i put lyra in for some reason and had the sinnoh trio even tho i never read past v2 of dp #idk if it was more gameverse or what but its so funny looking @ the ship list n seeing i had gold paired w black #bc i had manga!ss and manga!ferriswheel so was it rly speverse or was i projecting????#actually i think black was supposed to die and gold was gonna go thru this whole thing abt grieving #looking at the ship list so funny bc i never shipped gold/crys or entourageshi #and clearly i did not know the superiority of pmshi if i threw lyra in jus for silver #god but i do love (most!) of the alt names i gave them #would absolutely fuck up the ship list if i ever redid it tho #also have perfectworld tho im sure i have the most recent rewrite on pen and paper somewhere #that one i also gave up bc the idea i had for flare!sycamore was cringe along with #every time i went back to work on it enough time passed that i thought my writing sucked #i rewrote that damn thing so many times but oooooooo i still love the idea #as long as i changed the cringe parts to smth better i could still rock w most of these #that fic rly had everything... psychic!korrina. leaf/serena. sycamore hacking the secret to mega evo. lys/syc that ends in failure #bc of the ending line i will never forget > only in a perfect world could you and i be together. destined and doomed from the start #im rambling n im boutta run outta tags gimme a sec

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madredhattie · 7 months

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Since Unova is based on NYC where the metro is a PVP enabled zone my proposal is that the Battle Subway got its start as a sanctioned line of the subway system where people could have pokemon battles without endangering other passengers. The fact that it became a Battle Facility was basically the Unovan government going 'this might as well happen' and endorsing it.

#pokemon #i actually have more non-joke ideas about the battle subway #namely that it does predate ingo and emmet being in charge #but it was like #on the level of johto's battle tower in terms of prestige vs hoenn's battle frontier #it wasn't until the submas twins took charge that the battle subway became a world-class battle facility

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thesilvercondor · 1 year

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